[YouTube] Throughout history, the United States has faced deadly enemies from across the globe. But today, our biggest enemies lie within our own country, enemies determined to tear our very country apart with ugly passions and irreconcilable conflicts. Legendary conservative firebrand David Horowitz argues that America's fundamental principles are under attack, and the progressive left will do anything to see those principles revoked and replaced with their own radical agenda.
In The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America, best-selling author David Horowitz presents a harrowing account of our internal enemies and battles, including the leaders of the Women's March, the Senate Judiciary Committee's brutal treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination, and the Southern Poverty Law Center's "watch list". In each case, these enemies of freedom suppress anyone whose views don't align with their far-left agenda.
The progressive assault on America is not unlike the attempts of other totalitarian movements around the globe, warns Horowitz. What should be different, he adds, is our response as American citizens and patriots.
[PJMedia] If there’s a terrible dystopian idea out there, it seems Microsoft founder Bill Gates is always sure to fund it. The latest insanity in which he’s investing is a project to chop down and then bury millions of acres’ worth of trees. Supposedly, this will help save the Earth from climate change.
MIT Technology Review reported that Kodama Systems had raised around $6.6 million, a hefty sum, from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, billionaire Bill Gates’s climate fund. Trees will be cut down in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and buried in Nevada for this "stealth effort," which Kodama characterizes as "biomass burial." The Epoch Times posted a video clip on August 30 explaining Kodama’s plan to cut down and bury trees on millions of acres and how Gates is involved if you want a less credulous account than what MIT Technology Review provided. Yale researchers and payment company Stripe are also reportedly involved in funding or supporting the plan.
The first irony about this plan is that climate alarmists have spent many years hysterically insisting that no brush thinning or logging can occur, to the point where forests turned into tinderboxes just waiting for massive wildfires to happen. Yet now suddenly trees are "fire hazards," and logging isn’t bad for the environment. It’s the only thing that can save us?
But the second point is that none of this wood will be used for anything. We know the globe isn’t warming but rather cooling and that the fearmongering about emissions and climate change has been just empty words founded on unscientific ideology for more than 50 years.
We don’t need to freak out about carbon emissions. The people at the top like Gates know that; they remember how many years they’ve been proved wrong in their predictions. They also keep flying private jets and buying beachfront mansions (like Gates’s San Diego palatial estate), showing how little they believe their own propaganda. So what is the real motivation here?
MIT Technology Review presents the theory that burying trees that have absorbed carbon dioxide will keep the carbon safely underground instead of damaging the climate. What MIT did not explain is that all living things, including humans, are carbon-based life forms (we need carbon to survive). But MIT did admit there are "many unknowns" about this idea of chopping down and burying trees, meaning that we really don’t know what the end results will be. Very reassuring, yes?
The claim for people who support this plan is that once they get rid of excess trees, the remaining trees can be more healthy. First of all, I don’t trust anything these people say, since climate alarmists have been proven blatant liars again and again. Are they "thinning out" forests or devastating them?
Second, trees turn carbon into oxygen, which of course is necessary for humans to breathe. We know that Bill Gates has advocated for a massive reduction of the global population before. How do we know this new plan isn’t intended to harm humans? It certainly won’t help humans, since the wood is all going to be buried and the trees will no longer be able to convert carbon into oxygen.
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I think our country is headed towards a course correction for the better. I am hopeful that Gates, Soros and Oprah, along with other bad folks will suffer misfortune in the process. That is my hope. There is no rational basis for it, but it would be nice to see the end of Bill’s funding of our destruction.
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Haven’t these climate wack-a-doodles been planting 3 to 10 trees for every one cut down for years to fight climate change. Isn’t that one way corporations can get zero carbon ratings (by planting trees)?
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I'm reminded of the episode where planetary colonists in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adopted leaves as their new currency and then deforested the planet to control the value of the currency.
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MIT Technology Review presents the theory that burying trees that have absorbed carbon dioxide will keep the carbon safely underground instead of damaging the climate.
To keep the carbon sequestered for a long time (vs turning it into worm and microbe food), you first have to turn it into charcoal. That is terribly polluting in its own right. Can't imagine CARB allowing it (w/o a few well greased, politically connected palms).
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Is it just me, or all these billionaires might be (a very select class) of idiot savants - no sense outside of narrow field of making money?
Gates, Soros, now Musk is suing ADL for crashing Twitter (ADL coudn't crash a grocery store).
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Tell Bill Gates he can cut down and bury as many trees as he wants as long as they are his trees on his land and he uses only an Axe and a shovel. Have at it.
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If we bury enough trees long enough, they will eventually turn into coal. Then, when civilization finally reboots itself after all this green nonsense, they can burn the coal for cheap energy.
I swear, all these people going on about using trees and 'biomass' to capture CO2 makes me think I was the only one awake in 5th grade science when we learned about the Carbon Cycle.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Elena Karaeva
[RIA] Every summer week began either with victorious reports from our strategic adversaries ("putting the squeeze on Russia on the battlefield, forcing her to surrender"), or with the promise of new military assistance to Kyiv. In the first autumn week, they decided to combine: the announcement of the deliveries that the United States will make will go, as in the grocery order in the days of ona, with a load.
With the statement that this is just the triumph that everyone was waiting for, it happened. Or is about to happen. In short, you need to push just a little more, and "the Russian defense will collapse." As usual, our strategic adversaries look alternately in the mirror, then in the water and broadcast only their wishes. varying degrees of aggressiveness. To intimidate us, apparently.
So, the long-awaited Abrams are going to Ukraine , and, as some mysterious source of the Reuters agency stated , "charges with depleted uranium may also be attached to them."
But it is not exactly.
But what is absolutely obvious is that neither the meeting in Ramstein, where fifty countries gathered, nor the supply of first light, then medium, and now even heavy weapons can in no way change the situation on the very "battlefield" where we are going to "win" all the time that the NWO is going on.
The reason is simple (for us) and terribly offensive (for them).
We turned out to be faster, more accurate, more coordinated, more coherent, we, as NATO found out, have not lost a single skill from the art of winning. All traditions are in place. All the intellectual abilities and reflection so necessary in military affairs are not squandered or lost. Discipline, without which the army cannot live, is at the proper level.
In the meantime, while Russia was building its armed forces - not without difficulty, not without difficulties - NATO armies were doing everything they wanted, except for their direct business. They introduced inclusiveness, tolerance, as well as quotas for the presence of minorities. What all this endless "pride parade" in the barracks and at the training grounds has to do with combat readiness, not a single NATO general knows today. How this affects morale is also unknown. But on the other hand, it is known that these same officers, who fit into the current framework of political correctness, are today preparing the contingent of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Do not forget that the myth of the "invincible armada of NATO" and the reality that just rushes like a good dough for dough are different categories. Much to say everything. But the pictures of the flight from the countries where the US has brought its satellites are much more eloquent than the tales of couch warriors in the Western media. The joy of democratization and the deployment of garrisons of brave warriors cost the American budget thirteen trillion dollars in twenty years. But we will not count other people's money.
We would rather say that the design features of the Abrams tanks are such that they need to constantly pour fuel into them (while you are introducing inclusiveness in the army, there is no time to think about improving engines for tanks), the engine is constantly heated and therefore ideally visible from a satellite, and even a simple drone it can be discovered. That is, the Americans supply large targets for Russian pilots, Russian tankers and Russian gunners.
The same fate, apparently, is in store for the F-16 , which, according to the retired US military, but who have held significant positions, are "shoot down."
Our concern is to know that NATO will fight us as long as the American printing press will work. This is how much dollar emission as a ration the US military-industrial complex can swallow, so much our strategic opponents will try to "defeat" us on the battlefield. But the emission and the economy with finances, even if they get very tense, will not be able to break our spirit anyway, but simply to organize the production of ammunition in order to replenish the arsenals. Europe , which is united and all of itself an Atlantic ally, will not be able to even more so. Unlike the United States, it does not have its own raw materials, and in terms of energy resources, it is just a kept woman. Which, however, pays for them not in kind, but in money.
Shells with depleted uranium (if this information is officially confirmed) is both a provocation and a new round of confrontation. This is a game of nerves - more precisely, a war of nerves. But here, however, the Westerners themselves admit that they have already squandered it. You can treat Bild as a media as you like, but the surprise of both Scholz and Macron that the Russian leader never mentioned sanctions (and even more so about their “lifting”) when talking to them is called a collective loss. faces. The two top leaders of the two main countries in the EU showed their insides - and without hesitation. In Russian, this can be called a shame. Or fluff. And even if the servile press tells that this is a "victorious zilch", it will not cease to be a loss and defeat.
Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN) by Aleksandr Tikhonov
[RedStar] Unsuccessful assaults on our defensive lines without the support of armored vehicles lead to huge losses in the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At a briefing last Friday, the results of hostilities for the week were summed up. During this time, as a result of the effective actions of our troops in all directions, the enemy nowhere had any success in trying to move forward. At the same time, wherever Ukrainian formations launched attacks, they suffered very heavy losses in manpower and equipment. In the Kupyansk direction, the tactical position of the units of the Western Group of Forces has been improved by capturing enemy strongholds and key heights.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to compensate for the failed actions on land with terrorist attacks on our facilities using air and sea drones.
The duty forces destroy them before approaching the assigned targets. And our high-precision long-range weapons always confirm their performance characteristics by hitting targets deep behind enemy lines.
The situation on the line of contact at the time of preparing the material for publication over the past two days has not changed significantly. All attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled. Our troops in the Donetsk direction have improved their position along the front line.
On September 1, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation summed up the results of military operations during a special military operation in the period from August 25 to September 1.
During this time, the official representative of the Russian military department, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that our Armed Forces delivered five group strikes with long-range air and sea-based high-precision weapons at enemy command posts, radio and electronic intelligence centers, its port infrastructure facilities, storage areas ammunition and Western weapons, as well as airfields.
As a result of the strikes, the control of the strategic radio interference system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was disrupted, workshops for assembling unmanned boats used by the Kiev regime for terrorist acts, air defense systems, multiple launch rocket systems, armored vehicles, as well as Western-made aircraft weapons were destroyed.
As for the situation on the line of contact, during the week the most difficult and tense situation developed in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the armed forces of Ukraine made 44 unsuccessful attempts to attack the positions of our units.
“In order to step up efforts to break through the defense of our troops, one of the last formations of the strategic reserve, the 71st Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is being transferred to this direction,” said an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry.
As a result of the selfless and competent actions of the military personnel of the Zaporozhye group of troops, all enemy attacks were repelled. During the week, more than 960 Ukrainian soldiers, 24 armored combat vehicles of various modifications, 28 vehicles and 45 field artillery pieces were destroyed.
The high loss of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the so-called counter-offensive is due to the effective defeat of Ukrainian armored vehicles by our troops on the distant approaches. This leads to the fact that the command of the formations of the armed forces of Ukraine purposefully throws personnel without cover into the "meat" assaults. Ukrainian soldiers are being driven forward, they are trying on foot to overcome the mine-explosive barriers installed by our sappers ... With all the ensuing, deplorable consequences for them.
During the week, Russian troops repelled 36 attacks in the Donetsk direction, during which the enemy lost up to 2,385 Ukrainian servicemen, 30 tanks and other armored vehicles, 75 vehicles and 21 field artillery pieces.
In the South Donetsk direction, the most fierce battles were fought south of the village of Staromayorskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic. As a result of clear control, well-coordinated actions of units of Russian groupings of troops in cooperation with aviation and artillery, all enemy offensive plans were thwarted. All attacks were repulsed by a complex fire defeat, courageous actions of the units of the Vostok group of troops.
“The total losses of the enemy for the week amounted to 1,025 Ukrainian servicemen, 13 armored combat vehicles, 26 vehicles, and 26 field artillery pieces,” Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov listed.
In the Donetsk direction, numerous attempts by units of the Ukrainian grouping of troops "Soledar" to break through the Russian defenses in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka and Maloiliinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic ended in failure. During the week, Russian troops repulsed 36 attacks, during which the enemy lost up to 2,385 Ukrainian servicemen, 30 tanks and other armored vehicles, 75 vehicles and 21 field artillery pieces.
In the Kupyansk direction, the tactical position of the units of the Western Group of Forces has been improved by capturing enemy strongholds and key heights. Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant damage. Enemy losses for the week amounted to 470 Ukrainian servicemen, 22 armored combat vehicles, 21 vehicles, and 18 field artillery pieces.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the "Center" grouping of troops successfully repelled 14 enemy attacks during the week. Enemy losses during the week amounted to 540 Ukrainian servicemen, 22 armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles and 10 field artillery pieces.
In the Kherson direction, the main efforts were concentrated on the fire destruction of enemy manpower, counter-battery combat, the search for and destruction of sabotage and reconnaissance groups, and the prohibition of enemy landings on the islands. According to the testimonies of the captured servicemen of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade, most of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to carry out the tasks of forcing the Dnieper, fearing imminent death from Russian fire. In this direction, the enemy lost up to 230 Ukrainian servicemen, 31 vehicles and 19 field artillery guns in a week.
The Black Sea Fleet has established constant monitoring of the situation by all types of reconnaissance in the Black Sea. On August 29-30, this allowed the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet to thwart an attempt to land a detachment of special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the coast of Crimea to commit terrorist acts. Naval aircraft destroyed four military boats and up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense systems shot down four combat aircraft and one helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force during the week.
During the week, air defense and electronic warfare systems intercepted 35 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, six JDAM guided bombs, five US-made HARM anti-radar missiles, as well as the Neptune anti-ship missile and the S-200 anti-aircraft guided missile converted into a strike version. In addition, 281 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed, including one Tu-141 Strizh jet, as well as 29 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs in the western regions of the Russian Federation.
As of September 2, in the Zaporozhye direction, units of our group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire repelled four attacks by assault detachments of the 47th, 65th Mechanized, 46th Airmobile, 82nd Air Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 15th Brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the villages of Rabotino and Verbove, Zaporozhye region. During the day, up to 115 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, two M777 artillery systems and a US-made M119 gun, two howitzers: 152m Msta-B and 152mm D-20 were destroyed. In addition, in the area of the village of Charivne, Zaporozhye region, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar was hit.
In the Yuzhno-Donets direction, units of the Vostok group of troops, in cooperation with army aviation and artillery, inflicted fire damage on the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Ugledar in the DPR. An ammunition depot of the 117th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the urban-type settlement of Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region.
“Enemy losses amounted to over 105 military personnel, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, six vehicles, two self-propelled artillery mounts: Akatsiya and Gvozdika, as well as two howitzers: 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30,” the lieutenant general listed Igor Konashenkov.
In the Donetsk direction, our troops actively improved the position along the front line in the area of the village of Kleshcheevka of the DPR.
Units of the "Southern" group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled five attacks by assault groups of the 129th and 241st Territorial Defense Brigades in the area of the city of Artyomovsk of the DPR, as well as three attacks by units of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Marinka, DPR.
– Over 250 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, four armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, a combat vehicle of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mounts, two 152mm D-20 and one 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed , as well as the US-made M119 gun, - said the official representative of the Russian military department.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Group of Forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, inflicted a comprehensive fire defeat on the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade near the village of Kislovka, Kharkov region. Enemy losses amounted to up to 40 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, the US-made M777 artillery system, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, the coordinated actions of units of the "Center" group of troops, strikes by army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems during the day repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 5th brigade of the National Guard and the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka of the DPR and Chervonaya Dibrova LPR. In addition, units of the 63rd and 67th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by fire in the areas of the village of Torskoye DPR and the village of Kuzmino LPR. Over 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
Over 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two vehicles and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in the Kherson direction as a result of fire damage. In addition, a field ammunition depot of the 106th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the village of Tyaginka, Kherson region, and an unmanned aerial vehicle command post was hit near the village of Otradokamenka in the same region.
Crews of operational-tactical and army aviation, crews of missile troops and artillery of our troops' groupings hit the manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 108 districts. Two command and observation posts of units of the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit near the village of Dyleevka in the DPR. The communication center of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the city of Avdiivka in the DPR.
Air defense systems intercepted two HIMARS rockets and a US-made HARM anti-radar missile. In addition, 25 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed during the day in the areas of the settlements of Trudovskoe, Kodema and Klinovoe DPR, Pshenichnoe, Ocheretovatoe and Tarasovka in the Zaporozhye region, as well as Tavolzhanka in the Khar'kov region.
Yesterday's briefing, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense began with a report on the infliction of the Russian Aerospace Forces on Sunday night by unmanned aerial vehicles on fuel storage facilities used to supply military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the port of Reni in the Odessa region.
“The target of the strike has been achieved, all assigned objects have been hit,” he said.
As for the situation on the line of contact as of September 3, it was again characterized by the effective repulsion of enemy attacks in various directions.
So, in the Donetsk direction, units of the "Southern" group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled four attacks by assault groups of the 4th brigade of the National Guard, the 5th assault, the 77th Airmobile and the 30th Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Artyomovsk, Dubovo-Vasilevka and Zaliznyanskoye DPR, as well as two attacks by the 110th Mechanized and 79th Air Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the village of Vesyoloye and the urban-type settlement of Staromikhaylovka DPR.
“During the fighting in this direction, up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, an M777 artillery system made in the United States, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, as well as 152mm Msta-B and 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed,” he listed the losses enemy Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of our group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery, repelled three attacks by assault detachments of the 47th Mechanized and 82nd Air Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye region in a day. Assault, army aviation and heavy flamethrower systems to the west of Verbovoye defeated accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Enemy losses amounted to over 130 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, three M777 artillery systems and three M119 howitzers made in the USA, as well as three 122mm D-30 guns.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovka, Chervona Krinitsa and Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region, three field depots of ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the "Western" group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire repelled three counterattacks of the 32nd and 43rd Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Sergeevka of the LPR. In the areas of the settlements of Sverdlovka and Sergeevka of the LPR, Dvurechnaya, Berestovoye and Budarki of the Kharkov region, enemy manpower and equipment were defeated.
During the day, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two vehicles, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, and a US-made M777 artillery system were destroyed.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the "Center" group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 5th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine and the 12th Special Forces Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka DPR and Kuzmino LPR.
In the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka and Torsk DPR, Kuzmino and Chervonaya Dibrova LPR, accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the 21st, 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated. Up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, and an unmanned aerial vehicle control center near the village of Chervonaya Dibrova of the LPR were destroyed.
In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces, in cooperation with army aviation and artillery, defeated accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the 38th and 36th Brigades of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Shevchenko, DPR and Levadne, Zaporozhye region.
“More than 125 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two vehicles have been destroyed,” said the official representative of the Russian military department.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of air strikes and Russian artillery fire, the enemy's losses amounted to 60 servicemen, a tank and five vehicles. Two ammunition depots and an unmanned aerial vehicle control center were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Vyshetarasovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Dneprovskoye in the Kherson region.
Crews of operational-tactical and army aviation, crews of missile troops and artillery of our troops groupings inflicted defeat on enemy manpower and military equipment in 119 districts.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Bekarovka, Zaporozhye region.
Air defense systems intercepted five HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, as well as a US-made JDAM guided aerial bomb. In addition, 34 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed and suppressed by means of electronic warfare in the areas of the settlements of Berestovoye, Novobakhmutovka, Paraskoviyivka, Novomikhailovka and Golmovsky DPR, Peremozhnoye, Chubarevka, Novoye and Ocheretovatoye of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimirovka, Zolotarevka, Belogorovka, Shepilovka and Nikolaevka of the LPR.
Unable to achieve success on the battlefield, the Kiev regime is trying to compensate for its failed “counteroffensive” with terrorist attacks in Russian regions using drones. However, even here the APU does not succeed.
When the last issue of Krasnaya Zvezda was already in print, information was received that on August 31, at about 20.00, another enemy attempt to carry out a terrorist attack of an aircraft-type UAV on objects in the Russian Federation was suppressed. The Ukrainian UAV was destroyed over the Bryansk region by means of air defense on duty.
On September 1, air defense forces on duty intercepted several aircraft-type enemy drones over the Belgorod Region. It happened around 7.30, then around 21.15 and around 23.00.
On September 2, also over the territory of the Belgorod region, two Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted first in the morning, and then (at about 12.45 and around 15.00) another aircraft-type drone was destroyed.
The Kiev regime continues its attempts to disable the Crimean bridge, not hiding its aspirations to destroy this unique engineering structure, which has become a symbol of the return of Crimea to Russia. Naturally, these attempts are approved by the overseas masters of the current Ukrainian leadership. Or maybe they initiate them.
Be that as it may, the Crimean Bridge needs serious protection. It was created and worked on September 1 and 2.
The first day of autumn was coming to an end (it was about 11:15 p.m. on the clock) when the Kiev regime attempted to launch a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge with a semi-submersible unmanned boat. However, the Ukrainian naval drone was timely detected and destroyed in the Black Sea.
Less than three hours later, at 2.10 on September 2, the Kiev regime again tried to strike at the Crimean bridge. And again - a semi-submersible crewless boat. The second Ukrainian naval drone repeated the fate of the first - it was also destroyed at sea.
The third Ukrainian semi-submersible unmanned boat, which the enemy also sent to carry out the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, was destroyed on the same night, at about 2.20.
As Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov summed up at yesterday's briefing, since the beginning of the special military operation, 467 enemy aircraft, 247 helicopters, 6352 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11,634 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,147 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems have been destroyed. fire, 6197 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 12,660 units of special military vehicles.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Stanislav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] After Pope Francis, in an address to young Russian Catholics, urged them to remember great Russia and the great Russian emperors Peter I and Catherine II, some of our country's neighbors predictably got excited. It even turned out to be not so much in Ukraine as in Poland and Lithuania.
Warsaw and Vilnius emphasized the "denunciation" of Francis and the Vatican in sympathy for Russian imperialism. As Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda stated, “ The Pope is the authority of faith, but this does not automatically mean that he is the authority of history. Sometimes, perhaps, the history of Russia or the history of our region, our continent from Argentina may look a little different.”
Behind this there was a hint that suddenly an unusual pope was elected in the Vatican, who is not a European and therefore not as familiar with the history of the continent as the former Italian, French pontiffs, not to mention the Polish Pope John Paul II. Although some Polish experts at the same time openly stated that the Archbishop of Buenos Aires did not deviate much in his "anti-Western rhetoric" from his Krakow predecessor.
According to the former Dominican priest, now Polish philosopher Tadeusz Bartoszcz, "the popes took the side of Russia as early as the 18th century, they supported the division of Poland, so there is a long tradition here." And the current course of Francis is largely the legacy of the Polish Pope John Paul II, who “raised the banner of the fight against the West as a “civilization of death.”
All this further confused the situation, since it was no longer possible to explain the position of the Vatican on Russia by some kind of misunderstanding of the "Argentine Pope" Francis of European realities. So far, the pontiff himself, who went on a visit to Mongolia, has not put an end to this story.
In his speech in Ulaanbaatar, he praised the traditions of religious freedom in the Asian country, noting that such tolerance existed even during the period of the Mongol Empire's vast expansion to most of the world. In its heyday it extended as far west as Hungary and remains the largest continental land empire in world history.
“The fact that the Mongol Empire over the centuries was able to cover such distant and diverse lands testifies to the amazing ability of your ancestors to recognize the outstanding qualities of the peoples who inhabited its vast territory and put their qualities at the service of common development, this model should be appreciated and proposed anew nowadays,” Francis said, addressing Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.
The pontiff thus formulated the main geopolitical principle of the Holy See - an orientation towards empires as guardians of interethnic integration and religious tolerance. In this, Pope Francis, by the way, agreed with the Russian Orthodox Church, which evaluates the period of domination of the Mongol Empire in Rus' primarily by the fact that the invaders showed respect for Orthodoxy, without touching the traditional faith and its institutions.
It should be said that for the Church, the empire is in principle a mother structure. Christianity appeared at a time when numerous peoples and tribes, embraced by civilization, were united into a single conglomerate thanks to Rome. During the heyday and power of the Roman Empire, Christian preachers had the opportunity to preach from Syria to Spain, staying in a common cultural and linguistic space.
The Church, emerging from the imperial font, retained gratitude for this form of political organization. Moreover, for many centuries Catholic bishops and priests did not encounter the phenomenon of nationalism, which led to the emergence of nation-states.
Until the very beginning of the 20th century, when the collapsed Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian empires became the breeding ground on which numerous newly-minted countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics grew, the Holy See preferred to focus on Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg as centers of power and power. Therefore, in what some publicists rightly reproach the Vatican, the popes were ready to support the division of the “revolutionary” Commonwealth rather than send their blessing to the Polish rebels.
Today, the Holy See is also guided by the imperial vision in relation to Ukraine. He shows respect and sympathy for the Ukrainian people, guided by humanitarian considerations. As during the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the New World, Catholic monks advocated the observance of the rights of local Indians. But from the point of view of state building, the Vatican is skeptical about the prospects of the national project of the same Kyiv, and not only it.
The post-Soviet experience of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe showed the Holy See that nationalistic tendencies and intolerance towards a foreigner remain a way for the political elites of these states to retain power. Empires, even former ones, take a different approach, guided by the task of keeping various cultures, ethnic groups and confessions in a single space.
Russia in this context repeats the patterns characteristic of it during the time of the emperors Peter I and Catherine II mentioned by Pope Francis. Although both of them had a hand in curbing the Ukrainian liberty, at that time-the Zaporozhye Cossacks, both the first and second rulers successfully integrated the same Ukrainians into the imperial space, giving them the opportunity to occupy high and responsible positions and work for the common good of the whole country.
The common good, inclusiveness is a principle that the Vatican understands well and tries to implement in all areas. This is especially true for the pontificate of Pope Francis, whose speeches are permeated with the idea of involving all strata of the population in social, political and economic activities, despite the unloved head of the Catholic Church of the "garbage culture".
It is difficult for modern Lithuania and Ukraine, whose civilizational thinking only began to take shape after the late 1980s, to understand the logic of the Holy See as an institution rooted in history. But the Vatican knows that Marshal Jacques d'Etampes of France was right when he said that God is always on the side of the big battalions. Therefore, the popes will be on the side of Peter I, Catherine II and Genghis Khan, no matter what anyone thinks about this.
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[RT] The return of Donald Trump to the White House could spell the end for US military aid to Ukraine, leaving a divided Europe to foot Kiev’s bills and ultimately ending the NATO pact, academic Phillips Payson O’Brien
...an American historian and professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland who writes regularly for The Atlantic on the subject of the war in Ukraine...
claimed in The Atlantic on Saturday.
Opposition to arming Ukraine is now the position of Trump’s supporter base, who O’Brien estimated account for three quarters of the Republican Party’s electorate. Trump has repeatedly vowed to use military aid as leverage to force Ukraine into peace talks with Russia "within 24 hours" of his inauguration, while his two nearest competitors for the GOP’s nomination — Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy — have also discussed restricting support for Kiev.
Of the three potential candidates, Ramaswamy has gone the furthest, suggesting that the US recognize Russia’s territorial claims in Ukraine in exchange for Moscow distancing itself from Beijing.
"If Trump or one of his imitators wins the presidency in November 2024, Europe could find itself faced with a new American administration that will halt all support for Ukraine," O’Brien warned.
In this scenario, he continued, European nations would be unable to make up for the loss of US military aid, resulting in a military defeat for Ukraine. With the US out of the picture, Europe would be divided on the issue too, he added, with the Eastern and Baltic nations eager but unable to keep the arms flowing to Kiev, and Western nations like France and Germany more likely to seek peace with Russia.
"The result could be a legacy of bitterness and distrust at best, and a permanent fracturing of European cooperation at worst," he stated.
A fervent supporter of Ukraine, O’Brien argued that European countries need to increase military production immediately to prepare for this possibility. However, with the Eurozone entering recession in the first three months of 2023 and industrial production down in Germany, European states are unlikely to be able to sustain the Ukrainian military on their own.
O’Brien’s predictions are based on the assumption that Ukraine will still be able to fight by 2025. According to Russian figures, Kiev lost 43,000 men in the first two months of its ongoing counteroffensive, without managing to penetrate the multiple layers of trenches and fortifications laid by Russia along the entire Kherson-Donetsk front line.
Before the operation began in early June, multiple Western media reports suggested that continued US and NATO military aid to Kiev depended on the success of the offensive. Now, almost three months in, the counteroffensive is widely regarded as a failure.
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Anyone willing to wager hard currency (no Rubles or Yuan please) on that bet?
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^Rubles - backed by natural resources; and Yuan - backed by added value, are hard currencies. On the other hand, with the death of petrodollar and unrestrained printing presses...
[YouTube] Dr Jordan Peterson discusses his home country of Canada, which the professor believes has been taken over by Left-wing authoritarians and predatory psychopaths.
Listen to this bonus episode of Off Script hosted by The Telegraph's Steven Edginton.
Jordan Peterson on The decline and fall of Canada
Why does the situation appear particularly grim, here in Maple Leaf Country? We were, for most of my country’s history, miraculously and thankfully dull: our constitution, ensconced safely under British authority until 1982, enshrined "peace, order and good government" as the most basic principles of our dominion. This was not the clarion call ringing out to rally our good friends south of the border, who aimed at the much more dramatic and libertarian "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It was good enough, however, to produce a reliable, safe, secure and free state, conservative in the classic small-c sense, with institutions both predictable and honest, and an economy both productive and generous.
That all started to change in the 1980s. Our dashing prime minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau — father of the current Prime Minister, our current clown prince — was searching desperately for a legacy and for a solution to the chronic problem posed by the Quebec separatists, who were genuinely threatening the integrity of the country. Quebec was the last feudal country in the West: extremely traditional and dominated by a very small, tight, essentially hereditary elite right until the end of the 1950s. Quebec dumped all that in a few short years in a fit of 1960’s freedom, also dropping its birth and marriage rate with exceptional rapidity (both are now among the lowest in the world) and abandoning the Catholic church in favour of a crude nationalism and a more-or-less socialist utopia favoured by those who pushed to also tear apart the country.
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.
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[RT] The return of Donald Trump to the White House could spell the end for US military aid to Ukraine, leaving a divided Europe to foot Kiev’s bills and ultimately ending the NATO pact, academic 
