[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'That will be the least of our worries': Biden administration is mocked for updating its nuclear attack guidelines to include SOCIAL DISTANCING and mask wearing as Russia readies its missiles after Ukraine invasion
The Biden administration's instructions for nuclear explosions tells Americans to 'continue to practice social distancing'
Guidelines tell Americans to remain six feet apart and wearing a mask when sheltering in place in the event of nuclear attack
It is not immediately clear when this guidance was included in the nuclear explosion page but it was last updated on Friday, February 25, 2022
The revelations of the guidance comes after Vladimir Putin escalated tensions
with the West on Sunday by ordering Russian nuclear forces be put on high alert
[BBC] BP is to offload its 19.75% stake in Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft after Russia's "act of aggression in Ukraine".
The oil giant had come under pressure from the UK government to make the move since Thursday's invasion.
It has held the shareholding in the Russian company since 2013.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney has resigned "with immediate effect" from the Rosneft board, as has fellow BP-nominated director Bob Dudley.
Rosneft said thirty years of successful cooperation had been ruined and blamed BP's decision on "unprecedented political pressure", according to reports from Russian news agencies.
Mr Looney had been on the Rosneft board since 2020, alongside its chairman Igor Sechin, who is a close friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
[BBC] The UK government has stressed that British troops will not be sent to fight on the ground. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Ukraine would instead be supported to "fight every street with every piece of equipment we can get to them".
She said the UK government was "doing all it can" to support Ukraine with defensive weapons on the ground and with "far more severe sanctions" against Russia, to stop Putin from funding his "war machine".
"We are seeing a huge united effort, across the G7, across our allies, to challenge Vladimir Putin," she said. "Because this is Putin's war. This is pre-fabricated, pre-ordained aggression to try and subvert a sovereign democracy.
"We simply cannot allow him to succeed."
The foreign secretary said she feared the invasion of Ukraine would be a "bloody and long-running conflict" - with consequences felt far beyond Ukraine itself.
She said the UK "will need to do more [and] spend more" - citing the unprecedented sanctions announced by the government earlier this week, and Saturday's decision by the EU, US and their allies to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift.
"The aim is to degrade the Russian economy - to stop the money Putin has used to fund his war machine," she said.
She said the UK government had compiled a "hit list" of Russian billionaires and said there would be a "rolling programme of sanctions" against individual oligarchs.
"We will be targeting oligarchs' private jets, we will be targeting their properties, we will be targeting other possessions that they have - and there will be nowhere to hide," said Ms Truss.
Ms Truss acknowledged that there was likely to be an "economic cost" to the UK "in terms of access to oil and gas markets" - and a likely rise in the cost of living, with the conflict expected to drive energy and fuel prices even higher.
[FOX] Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Sunday condemned the move by western countries to allow Russian energy transactions to continue on the international SWIFT banking system, even as they issued harsh sanctions on other transactions.
"I will not be diplomatic. Some countries are trying to leave loopholes, exclude a number of banks so they can apply some measures with their left hands and continue to trade with Russia with their right hands," Kuleba said.
"Stop doing this now. Stop trading with the blood of Ukrainian men women and children. This is not a metaphor but the reality of what you are doing," Kuleba continued. "History will judge you and your names will forever remain in history books as names of traitors to humanity. There are examples of such names in the 20th century. I am confident you do not want to add your names."
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For the record, just before Napoleon entered Moscow the mayor released all the criminals from the jails. They in turn provided the model for BLM by torching the city. From the figurative to the literal, scorched earth.
[MAIL] Vladimir Putin's closest advisers appeared perturbed when he dropped his bombshell about readying nuclear weapons yesterday.
The expressions of army general Valery Gerasimov and defence minister Sergey Shoygu were caught on camera as the Russian president put his atomic arsenal on stand-by.
A senior US defence official said last night Putin's step is 'potentially putting in play forces that if there's a miscalculation could make things much, much more dangerous'.
#2
...I have a VERY bad feeling about this. The Russians created the concept of the 'Potemkin (FILL IN THE BLANK)', and it ALWAYS comes around to bite them in the ass. If the military has been telling Putin that everything's fine, and it's not, they've got two options - defeat or doubling down.
And defeat is not acceptable to the Russians.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
02/28/2022 10:22 Comments ||
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/\ I know it sounds a bit out bizarre, but if a desperate Putin decides the Ukraine is actually part of Russia, he could decide to use small, tactical nukes on a city to bring it into submission. The ultimate "double down."
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/28/2022 11:49 Comments ||
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#11
You never know what crazy Americans might do. Best not to push them too far.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/28/2022 12:24 Comments ||
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#12
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02/28/2022 13:17 Comments ||
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#13
Your president could stop this war now. Trump would have ensured it never started, but even now, if you had Trump as president, he would force Zelensky to accept partition and force Putin - with the threat of a nuclear strike - to pull back to the Novorossiya territories he now controls.
Only the US president can force peace now and pull the world back from the brink.
#16
Now even Chinese state-owned media makes more sense than idiot western propaganda mouthpieces - Biden's absence from the peace talks is making everything even worse. Does the US actually WANT chaos?
@HuXijin_GT on Twitter 3;40am Feb 28
In Russia-Ukraine talks, US/West will be lingering specter in the room. I am worried US/West don't wish to see a reconciliation now. They are more interested in plunging Russia into severe difficulty using sanctions, leading to widespread anti-war movement and shaking Putin govt.
This is the Nuland-Neocon insane school of diplomacy at work again. Create chaos which will cause a "revolution" that will lead to democracy and rainbows and transgender rights and George Floyd murals.
#18
Has your leadership gone insane?
Russia is a nuclear power. This is an existential issue for Russia. Putin couldn't care less about your sanctions. He doesn't care about human life. His forces will not be defeated in Ukraine - all your pathetic keyboard cheerleading will not alter any of these facts.
In Serbia you bombed the Serbian side to rubble to force a peace agreement at Dayton.
Why do you think Putin will not do exactly as the US and NATO did in Serbia in order to force terms on Zelensky?
Is this just a game for you? Aren't you embarrassed to see Chinese state media commenters like #HuSays (@HuXijin_GT) making more strategic sense now than all your media propagandists and posturing chicken hawk senators?
Why isn't your leader pushing for peace now? Is he actually brain dead?
Who is running your government now?
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02/28/2022 14:30 Comments ||
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#19
Yes, Ivan... er ...Andy; our leader is brain dead. There's no telling what he'll do next. If Pooty-poot sets off a nuke, Joe Dementia might just zap all of Asia. Personally, I wouldn't screw around with him. He's just too unpredictable.
#21
Sorry, Team Brandon is busy saucing out appropriate covid protocols for bomb shelters and half the Air Force is out for 8 week child leave. We'll get back with you after the lid and SOTU poll numbers are digested but we promise you, the best political thinkers are on it.
#23
/\ All of this Russian mischief is well beyond the cognitive abilities of Branden or his staff. They are simply attempting to avoid stepping on a turd as the process and Euro-drama unfolds.
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/28/2022 18:06 Comments ||
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#27
Has your leadership gone insane?
Joe Biden was a fool in the prime of his life and now he is a feeble old fool who suffers from cognitive decline or dementia or whatever you speculate it might be. Sorry, but he is not up to the job. Would it be too much to ask if, for once in the history or our two great nations, the Russian would step up and be the better man? Or has Vlad lost his mind as well?
Maybe only God can save us now. Or maybe we are all doomed just because of two mad men.
OK, I just watched the video at the Daily Mail site in which Putin says NATO nations are threatening him so that he must put his nuclear deterrence on high alert.
That is pure bullshit. We will not be the first to use nuclear weapons and Putin has just forfeited all of the sympathy that many of us had for him. Many of us now believe that Putin has been in power for much too long now and it is time for some patriotic Russian who is in a more stable state of mind to take the helm.
But I think I see another problem. As I watched the video and read the subtitles I realized that, compared to the time it took me to read the subtitles, it was taking Putin a long time to say what he was saying in Russian. I would read the subtitle and then wait and wait and wait for the next subtitle. Believe me, I'm not a speed reader.
Ask yourself, compared to the number of syllables in the English language subtitles, how many syllables does the Russian language take to say the same thing?
The problem may be that your language is too cumbersome and it takes an extraordinary length of time to express your thoughts. I can't help wondering if, when you have to actually think in Russian, does it takes as long to think as it does to speak? This must be extremely difficult for you. My sympathy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/28/2022 18:31 Comments ||
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#28
This is an existential issue for Russia.
That's stupid.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 22:09 Comments ||
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#29
The Russians aren't in the "briar patch," you stupid fucks.
The UKRAINIANS are.
My close friend's parents' neighborhood was shelled today. You've seen pictures of the funeral of the civilians killed.
These are neighbors of her parents. We straddle both sides. -- she and her friends, my friends, our in-laws, cousins .. we cut across three countries, Russia and Ukraine and Belarus.
None of us wants this war to last. We all want peace.
You and your hysterical propaganda rags want this to continue -- which means that there will only be thousands of corpses. Not yours. OURS. OUR RELATIVES AND OUR FRIENDS.
It's not a fucking spectator sport for us like it is for you.
The Ukrainians are about to be slaughtered. And you assholes joke about "trolls."
Fuck you. You don't have the faintest idea what war means Fuck you sick bastards
Posted by: Bill Untervehr7873 ||
02/28/2022 23:00 Comments ||
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#30
Enjoy your new poverty Russian keyboard warrior. It is only the beginning.
#31
You and your hysterical propaganda rags want this to continue -- which means that there will only be thousands of corpses. Not yours. OURS. OUR RELATIVES AND OUR FRIENDS.
#32
War is Hell. We get it, truly. Why did Russia go charging beyond the Donbas without telling the first wave of soldiers that what they were engaged in was not merely a training exercise?
We do hope that some of you stick around after this is over for less emotion-fraught discussions on our mutual enemies in Syria and other interesting topics.
#33
Go there yourselves and fight, you sick bastards
Gloating over innocent people's slaughter
Fuck you little cowards
Posted by: Herb Snaith3120 ||
02/28/2022 23:21 Comments ||
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#34
Just checking, but are y'all saying we're responsible for Putin's actions? Because he seems to be the one with the army and the bombs and the artillery right now.
"The Bayraktar TB2 is a Turkish medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations. It is manufactured by the Turkish company Baykar Defence, primarily for the Turkish Armed Forces." Wikipedia
#7
Russian commanders must be lying to their troops
Apparently this thing started with the troops being told it was only a training exercise — repeated videos show their shock at be yelled at for invading by the populace.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Timur Kondratiev
[REGNUM] In 2014, a coup d'état took place in Ukraine with the support of Western countries, after which the Kyiv junta sent national battalions and armed forces to the Donbass, the inhabitants of which refused to support the new government. The war between Kyiv and the Donbass lasted eight years, Ukrainian punishers regularly shelled the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics from heavy weapons, during the punitive operation more than a thousand civilians were killed, including women, children, and the elderly.
#3
Not fiction: here are facts about your brave UA comrades fighting for a free and independent Nazi Ukraine, the Totenkopf-brandishing Waffen-SS worshippers who are linked to Nazi groups all over the world.
The Misanthropic Division is a world-wide neo-Nazi network, which in 2014 emerged in Ukraine, some of whose members fought as mercenaries against pro-Russian separatists in the war in Donbass. The Misanthropic division is closely linked to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, now part of Ukraine's National Guard. It fights for the independence of Ukraine - both from Russia and the European Union - with the goal of establishing a Nazi state.12
Amnesty International accuses them of serious human rights violations. The division maintains networks in Europe, USA, Canada, South America and Australia, which are also used to train and recruit fighters.3
Its members are considered racist and prone to violence. Among other things, they glorify National Socialism and the Waffen-SS. The Misanthropic Division is using a logo that is inspired by the Totenkopf (death's head) symbol that was one of the most readily recognized symbols of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS).
#6
In the West the phrase is "making a mountain out of a mole hill". There are no 'good guys' when its all about power and has been for 4700 years of records.
#7
I always find the idea of Slavs as neo-Nazis amusing. Real Nazis considered Slavs as deserving of genocide as Jews, just that they had to conquer beyond Germany’s original borders to get started on the project.
Which means the Azov ones are really merely plain vanilla white supremacists in fancy dress with secret handshakes. The question I have for our Russian visitors is whether Azov cadres went to Russia for the usual white supremacist paramilitary training that so many other white supremacists and neo-Nazis have gotten in recent decades — as of two years ago the Russian Imperial Movement ran the Partizan military camp just outside St Petersburg, for instance.
#8
Last I checked, Kyiv is not in any of the regions that are dominated by Russians, that supposedly broke away. The Russian troops are no where near the areas they're supposedly going into Ukraine to protect.
The invasion isn't focused on protecting ethnic Russians -- it's about conquest.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 8:01 Comments ||
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Just why are the Russian propagandists getting so much air time in this world?
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/28/2022 8:24 Comments ||
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Just why are the Russian propagandists getting so much air time in this world?
Not everything is a lie, so not everything is the truth.
I sent around video of Ukrainian militia crucifying someone seven years ago. Several on this forum saw the video, the same as I.
I have personal testimonials of Russian writers and militiamen whose family members suffered murder and mayhem at the hands of the Ukrainians.
No, you don't get a pass because you fail to remember, but are keen on reminding.
#12
Badanov, I am reminded of a phrase we Americans have heard from Russia and their useful idiots for decades: Maybe you should ask why they hate you so much.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 9:04 Comments ||
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Badanov, I am reminded of a phrase we Americans have heard from Russia and their useful idiots for decades: Maybe you should ask why they hate you so much.
Non sequitur on your part, which is your style of debate.
#15
I wasn't trying to debate. I have no doubt they've done horrible things. But Putin doesn't seem to be interested in punishing them so much as building his empire.
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02/28/2022 11:22 Comments ||
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Not fiction: here are facts about your brave UA comrades fighting for a free and independent Nazi Ukraine, the Totenkopf-brandishing Waffen-SS worshippers who are linked to Nazi groups all over the world.
After living with Stalin, who could blame them?
Face it, communism sucks and now Putin's little oligarchy sucks. Nobody wants any part of it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/28/2022 11:40 Comments ||
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There are two sides to every argument: the side that is taking the same line as the power elite, mainstream media and pro-regime propagandists.
Then there is the truth. You think you're going to get the truth from pro-war propaganda sources?
#18
Yeah, if this is all about poor, oppressed ethnic Russians in Donbass then why are Russian troops laying siege to Kiev?
I though Putin was justified when he took Crimea. That was never a part of Ukraine. But now he's has gone far enough and then some. He's made his point. Take Donbass if you must. Call it a great victory if that will save your face, and leave the rest of Ukraine alone.
Every country has a few racist red necks who like to play army. Even Russia has skin heads. Polite society will have nothing to do with them. How many of these misfits do you suppose there really are in Ukraine which has a Jewish president? Russia is great and strong and has nukes, right? So why are you so concerned about a handful of Ukrainian knuckleheads who can't even get jobs or girl friends?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/28/2022 12:12 Comments ||
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Then there is the truth. You think you're going to get the truth from pro-war propaganda sources?
You got your American corporate media propaganda and you got your Kremlin propaganda. If you believe either one of them you are a fool.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/28/2022 12:16 Comments ||
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#20
Why can't you Germans and the rest of the world's Nazis stay the fuck out?
Here is reality: in Odessa on May 2014, Ukrainian Nazis slaughtered over 100 civilians -- burned them alive, shot them as they were trying to escape a burning building the Nazis set in fire, hacked them to pieces in the streets.
THIS IS FACT. There is extensive eyewitness evidence in the form of horrifying videos and photos of this barbarism. They're easily found -- search for photos Odessa fire massacre. They're authentic.
They document the same sort of barbarism that Nazis brought upon millions in Ukraine, and Russia and all across Europe.
Believe whatever makes you feel better but STOP DENYING THESE FACTS.
And German Nazi-deniers need to stay the fuck out. Haven't you done enough damage to the world already?
#21
Nice of Russia to send one of its Hitler YouthPutin Puppets to spew propaganda trying to mask the war crimes of Russia with "whatabout-isms" of questionable veracity and provenance.
There are none without sin in this - but the Russians are the far greater ones by committing an overt act of war including war crimes against civilins as evidenced by independent video online, free of the spin of the various news agencies.
Lets start with a simple one: you can now try to provide justification for that armored vehicle that deliberately drove into and over an elderly person in a private vehicle that was simply attempting to drive away from the area.
Here's your clue: there is no excuse for it, any more than the allegation you make. Show incontrovertible evidence, not just your unsubstantiated one-sided anecdotes and deliberately slanted language designed to inflame rather than inform, also while omitting the crimes committed by the separatists as well.
And why is Russia using a notorious Chechen unit to do their dirty work? Evidence is there in the 56 vehicles and dead Chechen General that were attempting to hunt down President Zelensky.
There are no clean hands here, and what you seem to not understand is the things you describe, even if partially true, do not absolve Russia of being very much in the wrong in this full-scale invasion, on a far large and far worse level.
(hint: you're using one of the favorite tools of fascists and propagandists, its a fallacious argumentation technique called "tu quoque")
#22
MAY 9, 2014
Videos and Photos of the Odessan Massacre
BY ERIC ZUESSE
For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians has been filmed by many people from many different angles and perspectives while it was happening, and is documented in extraordinary detail in “real time,” the perpetrators having no fear of any negative consequences from their endeavor, and even cheering and celebrating the tortures and deaths as they
Background: On May 2nd, the Ukrainian Government in Kiev, located in the west, ordered local governments in the country’s east to take over the buildings that were being occupied by Russian-speaking Ukrainians who didn’t recognize the legitimacy of that newly installed and U.S.-supported Ukrainian government. There was violence in many cities, one being Odessa, where Russian-speaking Ukrainians were taken into the Trade Unions Building (viewed as leftist by the conservative political parties) and were massacred by burning, gunshots, and other means.
This video from George Eliason, an American living in Ukraine, shows the Trade Unions Building starting to be firebombed; then at 2:28 a big firebomb is blasted into the building and there are cheers, but by the end of the video the flames are strong and the sky can hardly be seen because of the dense smoke from the burning building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOfLxp896I&feature=youtu.be
The next video shows the firebombs (Molotov cocktails) being thrown into the Odessa Trade Unions Building, and occupants escaping to the roof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9AMjLBIliw – t=10
This next, very brief, video shows the burning building from the street, with someone (who is identified on other videos as “Mykola”) firing a gun in the direction of the burning building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnu0vteNto
This next video shows a crowd of anti Russian-speaking men from the neo-Nazi Pravy Sector (or “Right Sector,” paramilitary racist anti-Russian nationalist Ukrainian party) herding Russian-speaking Ukrainians into the burning building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLukZZoTh8 – t=114
This video from Eliason shows members of Pravy Sector throwing stones and firing rifles into the building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6rGl8N0gDU&feature=youtu.be
This brief video from Eliason shows people jumping out of windows from the burning building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgvkndn_vU&feature=youtu.be
This video from Eliason shows people with clubs beating to death to finish off several people who had just jumped from the windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgvkndn_vU&feature=youtu.be
This brief (2:06) video, which was uploaded to youtube on 6 May 2014,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKK3vUVvio&feature=youtu.be
shows an Odessan who is in a street-crowd right after the massacres had occurred on May 2nd, and he’s being asked questions about what had happened. A passerby with a cellphone recorded this brief interview, and the questions came from members of the crowd, who wanted his account.
Here’s a transcript of the video’s printed subscript’s English translation, retaining its typos exactly as they were shown in the film-clip (except that the curse-words aren’t shown letter-for-letter):
Those who were collecting the bodies said: we were walking on the dead bodies … [How many people got killed there?] If we take the whole day, 116. … They are burying them secretly.
They were collecting the bodies and finished off the wounded. [Did they poison them with some gas?] Not only with gas. They used stan granades, guns, traumatic guns, pump-action rifles. They chased the people into the building and finished them there. Two guys were clubbed to death with sticks. Is it normal? Is it a f–king united country?
They burned a woman with two children alive. In the first floor this woman and two children were killed. …
And the Media called us … I’m sorry but I will talk [to the media]! The Ukrainian [Kiev] Media call us terrorists. But the Right Sector [a Western-oriented neo-Nazi party, prominent in the new Kiev government], the wankers, chased us up to the roof of the builing. They threw Molotov Cocktails at us and cried ‘Death to enemies’. To what enemies [he asked them]? And then they cried [out in support of] ‘United Ukraine’. [He replied] F–k the United Ukraine. F–k this countrry [the newly installed government in Kiev]. [How all this was going chronologically?] Chronologically? They came … [Were there any children killed?] There were many children, women and old people murdered. They finished off the wounded. With headshots. They jumped on their heads. The police couldn’t do anything, they only cordoned off the building. The police tried to come up, a grenade burst among them, and they jumped on the dead bodies. [Where are the rest of the bodies?] The rest of the bodies are six kilometers from Odessa. We need to go there and take them. [unclear question] My name is Vania. [He turns to go.]
This news report by Eliason,
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Odessa–the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html
includes photos from the event while it was happening, and also links to videos.
Among the still photos in it are these
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/Odessa–the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html
showing (as he titles them) “Pregant woman strangled with cord,” “Torture- Gasoline poured over his head,” and “Rape and torture victim.”
This next item is a picture of the burning building, and a list of the first 36 identified corpses:
http://www.unian.net/politics/914899-stali-izvestnyi-imena-36-pogibshih-v-stolknoveniyah-v-odesse.html
This group of photos includes both the photo of the strangled pregnant woman and the video recorded from the ground below while she was screaming for help:
http://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html
The following 59-second video taken right before the operation shows local Odessa police forces en-masse refusing to participate in it, dropping their shields and walking off, instead of following their instructions from the central government in Kiev:
http://users.livejournal.com/_devol_/882549.html
The Ukrainian title right below that video translates as “Part of the Odessa Police refused to stand in the cordon.”
Next is a photo of two Right Sector girls smiling into the camera while carrying Molotov cocktails to the building to join in the massacre:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203476189495505&set=a.4248624383967.167315.1536441281&type=1&theater
The following 9-minute video was taken by a Right Sector person wandering through the wrecked burnt-out building on the night of May 2nd after the job was done, to inspect the corpses and record with pride and satisfaction the results of a day’s work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9_z6Cdf3g
The last two mentioned items are linked to on May 2nd, the very day of the events, at this informative blogpost:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/05/ukraine-imf-lose-the-east-and-get-more-money/comments/page/2/
where the 9-minute video is described thusly: “The people either suffocated to death or/and were beaten to death. The fascists are searching the corpses for their identification and names and contacts of their friends … apparently to put them on the list of further fascist terror.” Wallets are taken, etc., for that investigative purpose. So, the victims’ families might now also be in danger.
Also linked-to there is a photo of a coterie of about 6 girls pouring from a gasoline can into beer-bottles to make the Molotov cocktails. They looked like a group of friends simply enjoying a street-party:
http://www.politnavigator.net/opublikovany-snimki-ulybayushhikhsya-aktivistok-gotovyashhikh-koktejjli-molotova-v-odesse-foto.html
Here is the ultimate group of videos:
http://scgnews.com/odessa-massacre-evidence-the-mainstream-media-wont-show-you-warning-disturbing-footage
Here are key parts translated from the transcript of the lengthiest video there:
0.43-47 “Let us burn those motherf–kers right in the building, f–king faggots”
1.08 Everything around is already burning. Injured people are lying on the ground.
1.18 1.20 Maidan activist Mykola is running and shooting at people, who are trying to escape from the window.
5.40-5.50 attackers throw more fire to the window and then are shouting “GOAL!!!”
6.25 – 7.13 Mykola … is shooting at people who are trying to catch air and are seen from the window.
8.10 Maidan activists are telling each other to go to the backyard, because people are trying to escape from there
8.26 Crowd is shouting “They are escaping! Run to the backyard!”
14.15 People, who are still alive are shouting “Police, you have been bought as scums and all of you will go to prison afterwards!”
14.41 Man from the window is shouting “Citizens of Odessa city, rise up!”
16.40 People start to jump from the window. 2, 3, 4 dead bodies. [Not shown, but only mentioned in the conversation.]
21.00 Still alive girls are shouting from the second and third floor.
23.00 Burning man has fallen from the window. Crowd is happy.
And here are still-shots of the burnt corpses:
http://fishki.net/anti/1266149-zhertvy-odessy-dom-profsojuzov.html?mode=profile:396961:posts
You are sitting at your keyboards cheering on the slaughter as if you were at a football match. And your imbecilic leaders' foolish actions are plunging the world into chaos. Disgusting.
Go back to your daily lives and stop making this horrific situation even worse.
#25
Speaking only for myself: The commenters saying America is some kind of failure and unreliable partner if we won't spill the last drop of American kids' blood and spend the last zinc penny of American treasure in a fight that is not ours, all y'all can go f*ck yerselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/28/2022 12:51 Comments ||
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#26
The "Odessa Massacre" bloody shirt Russians love to wave around started started as a soccer hooligan style faceoff (stick, stones). It turned deadly when a Russian dickhead began shooting into Ukrainian side and killed 2 and wounded more.
#27
I'm old enough to remember the Kuwaiti ambassador admitting he lied about Iraqi soldiers killing babies in the hospital with the explanation that he'd do whatever it took to free his country.
I've seen the same people, sometimes dead, sometimes wounded, sometimes as ambulance drivers in Palestine propaganda.
I don't trust anything if I don't know the witness or they don't have good video from multiple angles showing an event.
Like climate denial and COVID denial, raycizm denial and Gen. Pinochet denial, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/28/2022 13:06 Comments ||
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#30
Do read Sōrös' own words if you want to understand just wtf this is all about instead of going bwaahaa the humanity! It is not America's fight. Only a fool would interfere on behalf of Europe in this.
Soros funded Euromaidan 'protesters' through the International Renaissance Foundation. He supported the anti-Russkie propaganda, and egged on Ukraine to join join join the EU. It's all the globalists, people. Gobbling up sovereignty by selling supranationalism to weak flunky leaders, getting the US, utter fools to fight to consolidate everything and everyone and make the whole world 'sanctionable', then engineering all that power into hands like Biden or Kamala's. So that when the time comes no society is protected by strong nationalist leaders and everything and everyone can be coerced.
This battle is not of one asshole trying to prove a point or save lost glory. It's about two paradigms of Nationhood. A flunky leadership under a supranation protected and policed by NATO, and a militarized sovereign State that will protect its sphere of influence at any cost.
Everything else is noise created by the media, and when all media and all organizations reach consesus on cancelling something, forgive me if I don't start nodding my head. Recent history has taught me to be exceeding skeptical about their labels and explanations.
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I was willing to be sympathetic to Russia until last night, American time, when I read that President Putin ordered Russia’s nuclear forces to step up to combat readiness.
What humanity is there in Russia dropping nuclear bombs?
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Re #7: TW, I am continually amazed at the breath of your knowledge and the level of detail. Please tell me you're not actually a seven member, cigar-smoking, CIA team.
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Make no mistake, there are hundreds possibly thousands of brilliant people at the analytic (Klingon worker bee) levels. They read the same Open Source stuff we read. They draft the same hypotheticals we draft. They 'live stream' the same CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, AP, Rueters, networks news we do. Possibly 95% or of what is out there is UNCLAS. The analysts simply connect the dots and answer the "so foking wat" questions. The stories, assessments, and finished products get hijacked and politicized to fit popular narratives at the Director's staff level.
#39
Obviously, these are the points the Russian apologists have been ordered to use. They are showing up everywhere, the little fascists.
And unless there are many of you assigned here, which I doubt, please stick to one name instead of a new one with every post.
And you still haven't answered the question: what is the justification for a full war, and the observed war crimes by the Russian forces, and now the attacks and deaths of civilians? Hmm, bubby? I noticed you haven't dared to take that on. You bootlickers never have the spine or brains to deviate too much from the directed script. You are amusing calling for "humanity" when you are defending the ones being inhumane.
Andrey Chervonets is a Russian military blogger:
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on the border with Belarus will still start, but will not start today, as expected, but tomorrow morning
The map from the Ukrainian railways gives a certain idea of the operational situation in the country
North direction
There is not much news from here. In Kiev, the RF Armed Forces advanced in the area of Gostomel and Bucha. By evening, Bucha was in the hands of the RF Armed Forces. The assault on Kyiv was not undertaken.
In the city itself, the left bank is a zone of relative calm. Adjusted for current conditions. There were several explosions in Troyeschina of unknown origin, there are isolated cases of looting and shooting.
A positive role is played by the fact that local crazy people have a minimum of weapons on their hands. What can not be said about the Right Bank and especially Obolon. The right bank is all the most interesting in the north-west of the capital. Apparently, the concentration of forces of the Russian Armed Forces continued there during the day.
Central direction
In Kharkov and the suburbs continue to clean up. Kharkov Mayor Terekhov explained to people in the subway that it is necessary to negotiate with the newly arrived authorities so that neither the city nor the people suffer.
There is information that from the national battalions people change into civilian clothes, sit down with ordinary people in the basement, and when there are sweeps, they threaten people and say "be quiet."
Fighting near Sumy and Chernigov.
Kupyansk is completely taken. Warehouses in Balakliya exploded all night. Fights - during the day. Columns of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation go to Izyum .
Donetsk front
The army of the LPR came to Severodonetsk . An offensive is underway in the north of the LPR. They have been in Severodonetsk since the war began.
In the DPR - great successes. Mariupol surrounded - fighting on the near approaches. Russian troops march from Berdyansk to Mangush.
North of Mariupol, the DPR army reached Volnovakha and surrounded it during the day. Also they have been there since the start of the war.
The Mariupol-Volnovakha highway was cut.
Mariupol is almost cut off. The RF Armed Forces are coming from Berdyansk.
The capture of Granite and the encirclement of Volnovakha, coupled with the situation in Mariupol, gives reason to assert that by February 27, the unified defense system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction had actually begun to disintegrate.
The army of the DPR shows itself well when breaking through the layered defense, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been building for eight years. They're still militia.
Liberated City of Schastye. A city dweller talks about how people lived under the occupation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who and from where shelled Shchastya in the last week before the liberation
Southern Direction
In Zaporozhye , the RF Armed Forces passed Tokmak yesterday and are approaching Zaporozhye from the south and southeast with significant forces. Several settlements were taken south of Zaporozhye, part of the group passed Zaporozhye, heading to the northeast. One of the goals of the grouping is access to the rear communications of the AFU grouping in the Donbass.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrating troops near Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk.
Near Nikolaev - the situation without significant changes. History
in Odessa . Yesterday, in the chat of one ZhK, they spent half a day rushing around with marks on hatches, picking up recordings from cameras (which do not cover the area where hatches are located), arguing whether it is necessary to inform the SBU or just paint over; then swore to paint over or fall asleep. As a result, the SBU reported, and painted over, and fell asleep. I don't understand it either
And in the evening, the engineer responsible for building up the street where the hatches were painted and covered with gravel came to read the chat. It turned out that he and his assistant drew crosses on the hatches for something. It would all be funny if it weren't so sad. Psychosis is a terrible thing, it is useless to appeal to the minds of these people now.
From Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Situation for February 27th
1. Fighting continues in Kharkov. There are losses on both sides. An air defense regiment surrendered near Kharkov - under 500 prisoners.
2. In Kyiv, the RF Armed Forces are advancing near Gostomel and Bucha. Fights are underway for Irpin. Fighting continues in the Vasilkovo area. The area of control is expanding to the west of the city. Explosions are periodically heard in Kyiv. The police on the left bank fled.
3. Kupyansk is completely taken, local authorities are assisting. Warehouses in Balakliya exploded all night. The fighting continued in the evening and at night.
4. The LPR army went to Severodonetsk. Today, in fact, the battles for the city begin. Fighting for Volnovakha began in the DPR. Mariupol is almost cut off. The RF Armed Forces are coming from Berdyansk.
5. In Zaporozhye, the Russian Armed Forces passed Tokmak yesterday and are approaching Zaporozhye from the south and southeast.
6. In Ukraine, they began to release criminals (including Onishchenko and Semenchenko) and distribute weapons to them. Also began deliveries of weapons from NATO countries.
7 Russia's relations with the West are flying to the point of absolute zero. The world is changing online every day.
8. Zelensky refused to negotiate on the demands of the Russian Federation.
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Country to western tabloid press spam, David P Goldman of AsiaTimes reports that their western military intel sources' info is that Russians are taking their time and preparing to encircle Kiev and other cities
NEW YORK – Russian forces are driving the Ukraine army into pockets of envelopment, well-informed European military sources told Asia Times.
“The Russians are in no hurry,” a European military intelligence analyst wrote in a text message. “They will engage and drive the Ukrainians into several pockets. Then they will ask them to talk or kill them. It’s a time-honored tactic.”
There are three major Russian encirclement maneuvers presently in progress, the intelligence source added. The first is in the south, with troops moving to the west of Mariupol, the largest city in the breakaway Donbass region whose independence Russia recognized last week.
Russian columns are moving north on the west side of the 70-kilometer highway that connects Mariupol and Mykolaivka. In Donbass, Russian forces are bypassing heavily entrenched Ukrainians on the so-called Line of Control, threatening the Ukrainian fortifications from the rear.
Kiev is already encircled, its mayor told the Associated Press late on February 27: “Mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if there were plans to evacuate civilians if Russian troops managed to take Kiev,” the AP reported. “We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he finally said. “Right now we are encircled.”
Google Maps shows that roads close to the capital on the west side of the Dnieper River are closed, presumably by Russian columns pushing south from Belarus.
Russia appears to be trying to minimize casualties—a potential political liability for Putin—and avoiding frontal assaults on entrenched Ukrainian positions or urban warfare in Ukraine’s major cities.
Instead, the Russian Army is fighting a war of position, with the aim of cutting off Ukraine’s best units from resupply and forcing a negotiated settlement on Moscow’s terms.
The Russian Army knows the terrain and tactics well. During the Second World War, Ukraine was the setting for history’s biggest battles of encirclement.
The German envelopment of Russia’s Southwestern Front in the First Battle of Kiev in 1941 resulted in over 700,000 Russian casualties.
In 1943, the Soviet First Ukrainian front attempted to envelop and annihilate the German Army Group South. Although this failed – as did the Germans’ attempt at a counter-envelopment – Russian forces retook the city of Kiev and left German forces exhausted.
#2
Yes, keep burning through your reserves, resources and stockpiles. Keep tripping over yourselves showing how less than competent your military executes its mission. It's been so badly done I'd suspect the Biden White House planned it. Notice the Chinese are sitting this out. Didn't even join your master in vetoing the UN resolution. You don't think Beijing knows the vast resources that lay just north of them. Put a brave face on it.
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The Russian Army knows the terrain and tactics well. During the Second World War, Ukraine was the setting for history’s biggest battles of encirclement.
Maybe they shouldn't have sent 90-year-olds to war?
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Fish in a barrel!
WHERE are the A10s!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Blasts heard in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the country's second biggest city of Kharkiv on Monday morning
Satellite images show a large deployment of Russian ground troops moving in the direction of the capital
The Kyiv convoy, which is comprised of hundreds of military vehicles, extends more than 3.25 miles
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says people cannot evacuate from the capital city as all roads are blocked
Volunteers, among them a former Miss Ukraine, have taken up arms in defense against Russian forces
UKRAINE WAR LATEST, AT A GLANCE
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko warns the West's sanctions on Russia are pushing the Kremlin into WWIII
The EU has unveiled a new package of sanctions against Putin's regime, closing off its airspace to all Russian planes and banning Kremlin propaganda outlets Russia Today and Sputnik
Kyiv and Moscow will hold peace talks at the border with Belarus, Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed
The Ukrainian President's office said the two delegations will meet 'without preconditions' near the Pripyat River, to the north of Chernobyl
Putin orders forces operating Russia's nuclear deterrent to be on alert amid simmering tensions with the West
U.S. blasts Putin's nuclear order as 'unacceptable' and says war crimes tribunal isn't off the table
Putin's desperate troops adopt 'siege tactics' after being driven out of Kharkiv by resistance fighters
Ukraine's defence ministry claims Russian death toll stands at 4,300
Ukraine's health ministry said on Sunday that 352 civilians, including 14 children, had been killed since the beginning of Russia's invasion
At least 200,000 people have fled Ukraine to three countries, with 150,000 said to have crossed into Poland alone
Ukraine's defence ministry today appealed for foreigners to come forward to join its armed forces and fight back Putin's army
US and EU have agreed to curtail Russia's use of SWIFT messaging system, which is vital to for global financial transactions
Iskander missiles were launched from Belarus to Ukraine
Russia acknowledged it had lost troops for the first time today, but did not give a number
BP announces it is ditching its controversial 20 per cent stake in the Russian energy group Rosneft 'with immediate effect
The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President Vladimir Patin’s ongoing invasion of the country, with Kadyrov sharing video footage which purports to show Chehen fighters replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag at a captured military facility.
Kadyrov has boasted he could amass a 70,000-strong force to send to Ukraine at a rally of a reported 12,000 fighters in Chechnya’s regional capital of Grozny, and the Western press has been alive with lurid if weakly-evidenced reports of Kadyrov’s fearsome Kadyrovtsy “hunters” — notorious for alleged human rights violations including kidnapping and torture — have already been deployed to eliminate Ukrainian officials marked for death by the Kremlin.
The “Azov fighters” of the National Guard of Ukraine who have filmed themselves smearing bullets intended for “the Kadyrov orcs” with pig fat — which Muslims consider fundamentally unclean — are almost equally notorious, being former paramilitaries of the Azov Battalion, a volunteer militia with strong neo-Nazi links which was only integrated into the Ukrainian military proper in 2014.
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Sunday night - Kiev's mayor says evacuation not possible since his city is now completely surrounded:
In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, after a grueling night of Russian attacks on the outskirts of the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if there were plans to evacuate civilians if Russian troops managed to take Kyiv.
“We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he finally said, speaking in English. “All ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.”
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Ah, the Azov fighters: fascism's finest. And you guys pretend that Ukraine isn't full of neo-Nazis. Do you work for Fakebook?
In a statement to The Intercept, Facebook spokesperson Erica Sackin confirmed the decision to allow previously-banned Azov but declined to answer questions about why the 180-degree switch to the new policy.
Azov’s formal Facebook ban began in 2019, and the regiment, along with several associated individuals like Biletsky, were designated under the company’s prohibition against hate groups, subject to its harshest “Tier 1” restrictions that bar users from engaging in “praise, support, or representation” of blacklisted entities across the company’s platforms.
Facebook’s previously secret roster of banned groups and persons, published by The Intercept last year, categorized the Azov Battalion alongside the likes of the Islamic State and the Ku Klux Klan, all Tier 1 groups because of their propensity for “serious offline harms” and “violence against civilians.” Indeed, a 2016 report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Azov soldiers had raped and tortured civilians during Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
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..you understand you can seat all the existing Klan in one high school stadium bleachers. There are so few that the race mongers in our country have to make up hoax racist events to get attention trying to keep the story alive. We'll see how 'kinder and gentler' your Chechens are that you are importing.
One wonders if the usual American suspects — like Anthony Fauci, MD — worked with Russian labs as well.... It seems in character, somehow, and goodness knows the Russians have serious experience on the subject.
[TheBulletin] The Russian invasion of Ukraine may put at risk a network of US-linked labs in Ukraine that work with dangerous pathogens, said Robert Pope, the director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, a 30-year-old Defense Department program that has helped secure the former Soviet Union’s weapons of mass destruction and redirect former bioweapons facilities and scientists toward peaceful endeavors.
The pathogens with which the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program labs work are generally kept frozen, so they can’t replicate and become infectious. The risk the pathogens pose would increase if a building lost power and suffered damage. "If you lose the electrical power, the pathogens in the freezers warm up," he said. "If the ventilation system is damaged, or the building itself is damaged, and these now ambient-temperature pathogens are able to escape the facility, then they can be potentially infectious in the region around the facility."
Although Russian officials and media have misrepresented the US-supported labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in disinformation campaigns, Pope doesn’t believe the Russians will deliberately aim weapons at the labs during the invasion. Disinformation is information they don't want you to know and that harms their interests.
"I think the Russians know enough about the kinds of pathogens that are stored in biological research laboratories that I don’t think they would deliberately target a laboratory," Pope said. "But what I do have concerns about is that they would ... be accidentally damaged during this Russian invasion."
The invasion could also provide fodder for new disinformation narratives around the labs, Pope feared. The Russians, he said, "could potentially go to one of these facilities and fabricate something that they call evidence of nefarious activity at the facility." In other words, collect damning evidence of the work being done there. Read between the lines.
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So full of shit. They've been lying to you about everything, for years. About their work on Wuhan and their bioweapons work in dozens of countries around the globe.
In the last 24 hours, all "Defense Threat Reduction Office" PDF files from the embassy website (https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/) were removed without any explanation.
Fortunately, all of the documents detailing contracts related to the bioweapons labs run by the US were archived by internet sleuths:
#2
ISTR after the USSR fell, one of the initiatives was to keep funding Soviet labs so the knowledge didn't go elsewhere. Are these labs the legacy of that policy?
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 11:26 Comments ||
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if Taiwan has mined the strait with hard to detect mines which can detect unfriendly ships, China has a far more difficult invasion task than Russia did in the Ukraine
i don't know the capability of Taiwan's mines; probably Chine has more knowledge than I do but also probably not enough to be confident
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02/28/2022 16:24 Comments ||
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Mines with virus-like spikes that can penetrate Chinese ships and infect them with the Wuhan flu.
#1
hopefully china is watching.
Suddenly cut off entirely from the world... that's what would happen if they invaded Taiwan despite all the payments they've made.
#3
Tough talk. China has its own alternative to SWIFT. Plus four trillion in reserves. Plus a line of medium to large countries eager to be rid of US dollar blackmail and happy to have access to a rival currency.
Get ready for de-dollarisation - now it's a re prospect in the near term, with America's sedentary warriors egging on stupid US officials.
America, shooting itself in the balls and deliberately bringing about the decline of the dollar: How did your country become so stupid?
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@ #2 - When the poop hits the fan with China, will Americans (with a nudge from gov't and the MSM) boycott Chinese goods and pharmaceuticals (just above everything)? Will those stores be boycotted? (Rhetorical question as it won't happen.)
[BBC] Germany has just witnessed a truly historic day. Chancellor Olaf Scholz only came to power in December, but within 24 hours he has transformed modern Germany's foreign policy.
During an emergency parliamentary session on Ukraine on Sunday, Chancellor Scholz announced an additional $113bn (£84bn) for the German army.
There was an audible ripple of shock in parliament. Some MPs clapped, some booed, others looked stunned.
Undeterred, Mr Scholz went on to announce drastic measures that would have been unthinkable a week ago, including a constitutional commitment to Nato's military spending target of 2% of GDP - and he confirmed that Germany would be sending weapons direct to Ukraine.
Within a few days Vladimir Putin has managed to do what Nato allies have spent years trying to achieve: a massive increase of military spending in Germany.
This is arguably one of the biggest shifts ever seen in Germany's post-war foreign policy.
Old political certainties about peacekeeping are being ditched in Germany. Left-wing politicians and many voters are unhappy with higher spending on weapons.
But since the invasion there has been a dawning realisation here that, if successful in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin may not stop there.
So the political mainstream accepts that Germany needs to spend more on its military: to defend Nato allies, but also to defend itself. Suddenly Ukraine feels very near to Berlin.
Finland and Sweden have brushed off warnings from neighbouring Russia that their possible joining of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... would trigger "serious military-political consequences" from Moscow for the two countries.
A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday voiced concern about what it described as efforts by the United States and some of its allies to "drag" Finland and Sweden into NATO and warned that Moscow would be forced to take retaliatory measures if they join the alliance.
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The Waffen SS has thousands of fanboys in the Azov Battalion. Maybe the Germans can ship them some surplus Totenkopf gear to go with their rape and murder manuals
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@tw
As you can imagine I'm not exactly a fan of the current Red-Green government (with a bit of free democratic balance).
But it was the green foreign minister, who held her own against this lying sack of shit Lavrov and who struck a sober tone.
And Scholz did finally see the light, too. Yes, this is a histotical watershed for Germany.
NATO was on the ropes. Putin is making it strong again.
I wonder how the powers that be in Moscow see this fact.
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02/28/2022 8:31 Comments ||
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Taking notice how many NATO countries are now sending weapons. Instead of allowing the sinews of the rope to unwind, it appears Putin has caused them to tighten. Insti had an unverified rumor that the FFL is allowing Ukrainians 'home leave'.
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Since the MiG 29s rely on ground control radar for air to air intercepts - which no longer exists - this is effectively supplying more targets to the Russians and eliminating valuable trained pilots. Not a shrewd move
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^ Interoperability and standardization of weaponry making transfers and support that much more capable
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Russia has apparently given up trying to rush in and reduce civilian casualties. This is one of many reports about the Russians just bombarding civilian areas around Ukraine now.
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All Pooty had to do was hold his water for another 10 years and at the rate the EU's military capabilities were atrophying, he could have had the whole shooting match for the asking.
In mid-Feb. and just prior to The U/R war starting. U.S. officials finally admitted that Russian state-backed hackers have been had gained access to a number of key U.S. defense contractors over the last 2 years.
It is clear Russia's Cyberware Command obtained a large collection of US national security data on weapon development projects and readiness information. Many other, not discussed, cyber/data control items and issues.
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The second-order effects of this Biden face plant are that Russian military technology will accelerate, the Chinese alternative to SWIFT will rapidly accelerate, and at least half a dozen nations will rush to join the nuclear club.
And America is certain now to have hyperinflation and economic stagnation at the same time. The dollar will eventually go the way of sterling after 1918 - just one currency among many.
No almighty dollar means no more US stick. No nation will allow itself to be vulnerable to US financial blackmail. Sanctions will become an empty ridiculous threat.
All of these consequences are 100 times more important to the world and America's position in it than anything that will happen in Ukraine. Together they mean that the US world order is finished.
And the US is bringing all this on itself. For what?
For whom? Zelensky? Hunter Biden?
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