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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims operations against SDF in Deir ez-Zor


On Saturday, the newly appointed Minister of Health, Othman Abdel-Jalil held the outgoing Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) “fully responsible for the assaults and kidnappings, that the ministers of the new government were subjected to during the last few days.”

He also accused Dbaiba of working to intimidate ministers, and disrupt the political scene, stressing that this would not distract the new government from moving forward in assuming its duties. He noted that it would remain steadfast in its goal of implementing the necessary reforms, to eliminate rampant corruption in the country.

These remarks came during a meeting with the Parliament-backed PM, Fathi Bashagha in Tobruk. They discussed upcoming strategies and procedures that will be followed, during the coming period.

During the meeting, Abdel-Jalil assured the nation that the new government “will start its work from Tripoli as soon as possible,” and said that, “we will not allow the division of the country.”

He also pledged to work, in cooperation with the PM, to advance the democratic process in Libya, and hold Presidential and Parliamentary elections soon. This comes as part of the roadmap set out by the Parliament, and the High Council of State (HCS)

The Minister added that they will work to fully implement a comprehensive health insurance program for all citizens. He also highlighted his intention to eliminate the administrative and financial corruption in the healthcare sector. As well as provide training programs to enhance the efficiency of those employed in all hospitals nationwide.

On Thursday, former Libyan Interior Minister, Fathi Bashagha was sworn in as the country’s new Prime Minister during a session at the Libyan Parliament, in the eastern city of Tobruk.

Bashagha took his oath of office on Thursday after his government emerged from a confidence vote on Tuesday. 92 of the 101 lawmakers in attendance approved the decision, in a live broadcast from the city of Tobruk.

Libya has been unable to hold elections since its disputed legislative vote in 2014. This caused the country to split between rival administrations, on either side of the country.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Expert Sivkov estimated losses among Russian troops in Ukraine at 0.1%
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[VOENNOEDELO] The expert also answered questions about the slow advance of the Russian army.

Russia continues to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine. Military expert, analyst and captain of the first rank in the reserve Konstantin Sivkov expressed his opinion on the effectiveness of the Russian military special operation. He estimated the losses among the fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at one tenth of a percent. The expert's words are quoted by the SM-News news agency .

According to Sivkov, losses among Russian military personnel in Ukraine are within 0.1%.
(150,000 x 0.1)/100(for the percent) =150, if I didn’t miss a step. I assume that doesn’t include prisoners of war. What about the dead Chechen special forces and the Wagner Group assassins?
At the same time, critical losses were recorded only once, when the Ukrainian military defeated a convoy of a sabotage and reconnaissance group of logistic support. Similar cases did not recur during the entire operation.

The expert also answered questions about the slow advance of the Russian army. He recalled that the personnel needed to rest, since the advancement into the interior of the territory and the fighting were physically hard for the soldiers. Also, units need to promptly supply fuel and ammunition. Such moments, although they slow down the offensive, are planned and necessary.

Recall that on February 21, Russia recognized the sovereignty of the LDNR. This was done after Ukraine again began intensive shelling of settlements in Donbass. The leadership of the republics decided to evacuate civilians to neighboring regions of Russia and requested emergency assistance from Moscow. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. It should be noted that the war in Donbass has been going on for 8 years. It began after the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new government that came to power after the coup in Kyiv.

Earlier, political scientist Kedmi estimated the pace of the special operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These are not the Russians of 1940-45.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I wonder what color the sky is on his planet...


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/06/2022 9:32 Comments || Top||


90 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to the DPR
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] During the special operation in Ukraine, 90 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to the fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin , deputy head of the department, said on March 5.

According to Basurin, 90 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "voluntarily laid down their arms" , and six are now in a medical facility for treatment. The representative of the DPR called on the rest of the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms.

Recall, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on March 5, the DPR troops advanced seven kilometers during a special operation.

Ukrainian Nazis bombard Donbass with Tochka-U tactical missiles
[REGNUM] Air defense systems of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past day intercepted and destroyed four Tochka-U tactical missiles launched by Ukrainian militants, the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR reports on March 5.

It was noted that the remains of downed missiles fell in residential areas of four cities of the Donetsk People's Republic.

“DPR NM air defense systems destroyed four missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system, the remnants of which fell in residential areas of the settlements of Ilovaisk, Amvrosievka and Donetsk,” the official website of the People’s Militia of the DPR reports.

In addition, over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis shelled 17 settlements of the republic, using multiple launch rocket systems, as well as mortars and artillery with a caliber of up to 152 mm inclusive.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have a concern. Volodymyr Zelensky and his first name sounds and looks so much like Lord Voldemort' Just saying.
Posted by: Dale || 03/06/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Did Lord Voldemort' do stand-up comedy as well?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Zman discusses the significance of our leaders talking about "Lord Voldemort..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  No but Voldemort had offshore accounts and was a tool of corrupt billionaires

#FuckZelensky
#FuckPutin
#FJB
#FuckNeocons
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The nut of ZMan's argument here:

These are people who lack all meaning in life. The reason they all swarmed to the Ukraine stuff is that it allowed them to experience what they imagine is normal human emotion and community spirit. Their conjured image of the brave Ukrainians taking up arms against the aggressor reflects their own lack of purpose. Many Americans have been reduced to the bug-man existence of consuming product but the Cloud People are the pinnacle of the bug-man lifestyle.

This is why they are so fond of using analogies drawn from comic book movies and children’s books. You will notice that the people comparing Putin to Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter movies are childless. They did not pick up the reference from watching the shows with their kids. They are the primary consumers of this material. This fantasy material has become folklore for people who lack the cultural structure that provides an adult frame of reference to understand the world.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Yes. Exactly. Andrew Bacevich said much the same thing about the neocons who sat at home cheering on our disaster in Iraq, where Bacevich's son died in Cheney and W's pointless war.

#FuckNeocons
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm no Bacevich fan. One gets the impression that if his son had come home alive and gotten a posting at the Pentagon, Andrew would be all-in with the neocon agenda.

That's my impression, anyway, FWIW...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Never read any Harry Potter or saw any movies. I'm just not interested in books or movies geared toward 6, 7, and 8 year olds. I prefer things that make me think.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/06/2022 20:16 Comments || Top||

#9  HP: It was THE THING back when my kids were young. I read the Potter books to be able to push my children to read books and we would have a common link. It worked. The movies came later, and we enjoyed them together
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 20:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Mr. Wife picked up a copy at the airport on his way back from somewhere when it first came out, because all his colleagues were raving about it. He never enjoyed children’s lit, even as a child, so passed it on to me to add to my personal collection. A lot of the older books now designated for children were in fact originally written for adults, a fact I’ve always found heartening given some of the crap written intentionally for children over the past century. The trailing daughters picked through my books as well as acquiring their own once they became fluent readers; they enjoyed Harry Potter, and it connected them to American culture after spending their early years abroad (where the children were also reading Harry Potter). The parents of td#1’s best friend at the time forbad the child to read that black magic stuff, which let me have some useful conversations with the tds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 21:31 Comments || Top||


It didn't work for Klinger either
[ConservativeUS] Ukraine: Transgender Woman Weeps As Authorities Classify Them As ‘Men’ Who Must Stay Behind And Fight.

Transgender women in Ukraine say they are “completely trapped” and “frightened for their life” since their passports list them as “guys” rather than “women.”

Because all of their identification cards say “male” and reference their “previous masculine names,” two Ukrainian trans women claim they can’t leave the country or even safely travel through it.

Human rights organizations have encouraged some trans persons to “forget their ID” in order to leave Ukraine. According to trans activists, “hundreds” of trans individuals in Ukraine are in “severe danger” and feel “totally alone” as a result of this situation.

One trans woman expressed her fear of being caught while attempting to leave Ukraine and being compelled to join the Ukrainian army “as a male” – especially because authorities are preventing men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving.

Another trans lady in Ukraine is afraid to leave her home for fear of being attacked by transphobes. In her neighborhood, she’s the only one remaining.

One trans man has just a “female” ID despite having transitioned over six years ago and living as a man in Ukraine since then.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I don't have a problem with how anyone wants to dress, or which of however many hundreds of genders they want to identify with, or whatever pronouns they prefer.

I truly don't. You do you, live and be well.

But it's telling that for starters the folks mentioned here in TFA seem to be putting their personal considerations ahead of their nation's survival...not to mention that if/when the Russians come, their cultural attitude is that people like him/her are perverts who will be told, both mentally and physically, that they are not worthy of respect or kindness.

I understand the fear here, I truly do. But just as a thought experiment, what would happen if the world saw trans men and women picking up rifles to defend their homes?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/06/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks for the visual, Mike. While I have an enormous tolerance for eccentricity the tranny community rejects tolerance. They want to be applauded and cheered, and whatever you do, don't be the first one to stop applauding.

I am afraid I also subscribe to the concept, old and hidebound though it may be that an individual who cannot/will not reconcile themselves to physical reality is delusional. And though I feel they should be approached with compassion, the social order ought not be over turned for their delusions. That and in the name of all that's Holy nobody should be distributing weapons to people with obvious mental and emotional issues.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/06/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  While I have an enormous tolerance for eccentricity the tranny community rejects tolerance. They want to be applauded and cheered, and whatever you do, don't be the first one to stop applauding.

It's all about the gummint and corporations coercing you to validate the select lifestyle choices of others. It's not anywhere near the ideal of "live and let live."

And never mind that the US gummint and corps still suck up to nations and cultures that still belive in hanging, burning, stoning, imprisoning and enslaving the people they will toss you out of you job over if you say the wrong thing or fail to say the right thing often enough.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't disagree Murcek, but I also think there is a very distinctly totalitarian fist demanding the populace at large loudly proclaim that which is so demonstrably and eternally false. Homey won't play that game.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/06/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Integrity means not participating in the lie. Compassion means not being cruel or ruthless, but not abandoning your own world view. As the gay community gained political power, their intolerance has become legion.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2022 18:47 Comments || Top||

#6  NOW: "Not just tolerate! Celebrate!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 19:32 Comments || Top||


Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty suspends operations in Russia
[JPost] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) announced early Sunday morning that it is suspending operations in Russia after local tax authorities initiated bankruptcy proceedings against the news agency's Russian entity and authorities intensified pressure against independent media.

The news agency stated that a years-long pressure campaign has targeted RFE/RL. The news agency opened its Moscow bureau in 1992 at the invitation of then president Boris Yeltsin.

The bankruptcy proceedings come after Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor issued 1,040 violations against RFE/RL because the news agency failed to accompany all of its Russian-language content with a state-mandated warning that the agency is a "foreign agent." The violations have resulted in fines of over $13.4 million.

On Saturday, Russia's communications watchdog restricted access to RFE/RL and several other foreign news organizations' websites for spreading what it called false information. A law recently signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin imposes a jail term of up to 15 years for people who intentionally spread "fake" information about Russia's armed forces.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Iraq
Along with other family members, wanted terrorist captured in Fallujah


Shafaq News/ A person wanted by the Iraqi security forces for connections to the extremist group of ISIS has been reportedly arrested in the east of al-Anbar, western Iraq.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that wanted terrorist who left Saladin under the radar was seeking to rent a house in Fallujah using a fake ID.

The arrestee, who is wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism, was captured along with other members of his family after thorough surveillance.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Afghanistan
Explosion kills three, wounded 20 worshipers in Paktia province
[Khaama] Local officials of the southeastern Paktia province said that a bomb explosion at the gate of a mosque in Dand Patna district killed three worshipers and wounded more than 20 more.

The blast took place in the Kharoti residence of the district after hundreds of people were coming out of the mosque finishing the Friday prayer.

Local residents say that those wounded have been dispatched to local hospitals in Samkani district and to the provincial hospital in the capital Gardiz while those in serious condition were sent to Kabul.

The motive behind the blast is not disclosed yet nor has someone claimed responsibility for the incident.

Head of information and culture directorate Khaliqyar Ahmadzai told reporters that they have started investigations about the explosion.

It is the first bomb blast in the southeastern Paktia province following the Taliban takeover in August last year.
Mosques are Sunni. Majlises (if I spelt that right) are Shiite, because they aren’t allowed to use the same Arabic word for their place of worship — it would somehow pollute it in majority Sunni eyes were a Shiite to do so.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Did You Know Green Bay's Election Was Run by Michael Spitzer Rubenstein From A Hotel Room?
[Emerald Robinson @ Substack] There are so many newsworthy details contained in the just-released Wisconsin Special Counsel Report on the 2020 Election that it’s hard to know where to begin. Every American citizen should read this report because it explains how the election was stolen by Democrats. That alone makes it worthwhile.

Let’s start with this story:

The OSC learned that all machines in Green Bay were ESS machines and were connected to a secret, hidden Wi-Fi access point at the Grand Hyatt hotel, which was the location used by the City of Green Bay on the day of the 2020 Presidential election. The OSC discovered the Wi-Fi, machines, and ballots were controlled by a single individual who was not a government employee but an agent of a special interest group operating in Wisconsin.


Wow. So one guy hidden at the Grand Hyatt Hotel controlled Green Bay’s election from his room? What is that guy’s name? According to the report: his name is Michael Spitzer Rubenstein. Why was a lawyer from Brooklyn in control of an election in Wisconsin?

Related: Mr. Rubenstein’s Linked-In page with a long list of Democratic activism jobs dating back to Barack Obama’s 2007-8 campaign.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Nothing to see here, go about your Trumpist business, Conspiracy-mongers!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ...yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Twice in one week GRB makes the news!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/06/2022 22:33 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Suspected Al-Shabaab militants arrested near Kenya-Somalia border
[Garowe] Police in Kenya are interrogating two men suspected to be al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
members, in the latest significant development which bolsters the fight against the al-Qaeda linked group which dominates large swathes of rural Somalia.

According to the police, the two men were arrested during a security operation in Garissa County which is in the northeastern part of the country. A top regional official confirmed the arrest of the Death Eaters.

Garissa County Commissioner Boaz Cherutich said the police recovered three firearms, 98 bullets, and five magazines following a sting operation conducted in Modika area in the outskirts of Garissa town on Wednesday night.

The bigwig said the two suspects will be arraigned in court once investigations are complete and warned that the government will not relent in its efforts to rid the area of illegal gangs marauding with firearms.

Kenya has been an al-Shabaab hotbed, especially for the last seven years, with the forces of Evil often targeting the capital Nairobi and northeastern parts. Kenya Defense Forces have been operating in Somalia since 2011.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11147 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia Claims Ukraine SBU Shot Down Own Negotiator Over Suspected treason
[REPUBLICWORLD] According to Moscow, Ukraine's SBU shot down its negotiator during an arrest attempt after the state intelligence suspected him of leaking information.

In a massive claim, Russia on Saturday alleged that Ukraine had killed one of its own negotiators due to suspected 'treason'. According to Moscow, Ukraine's Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot down its negotiator Denis Kireev during an arrest attempt. The state intelligence suspected him of leaking information pertaining to the negotiation process to the Russian side.

"SBU kills a member of Ukrainian negotiations team suspected of treason. According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, the man was killed during an arrest attempt. Strong evidence" that he was leaking information to Russia," The Kyiv Independent reported.

Notably, Denis Kireev was present during the first round of Russia-Ukraine talks in Belarus where he was last photographed. An official statement from the Ukraine side is awaited. The development, if proven to be true, could have significant repercussions and send a strong message amid the negotiation process.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed the death of one of the negotiators with Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] A member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia, Denis Kireev, died in the course of a special task. This was announced on March 5 by the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

It is specified that in the course of performing a special task, three intelligence officers who were employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine were killed. These are Dolya Alexey Ivanovich, Chibineev Valery Viktorovich, Kireev Denis Borisovich. The department noted that the dead were "professionals dedicated to their work" who "died defending Ukraine."

In turn, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Dubinsky claimed that Kireev was killed while being detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on suspicion of treason.

Recall that Deni Kireev was a member of the delegation of negotiators from Ukraine in the Gomel region on February 28, 2022.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...did you get the rumor that the Ukraine has been getting inside info, "the call is coming from within the house".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  "I do support the Russian Military Intervention in Ukraine in order to demilitarize and neutralize the effects of 2014's CIA coup d'état."
Posted by: Javirt Cromomble6853 || 03/06/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/03/05/sbu-kills-member-of-ukrainian-delegation-at-talks-with-russia-kyreyev-on-suspicion-of-treason/
Posted by: Javirt Cromomble6853 || 03/06/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  "It's a shame that both sides can't lose".
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/06/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. I'd like for Ukraine to be a non-issue for the next conservative US president (yeah, I know.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Ukraine is a Texas-sized backwater circling around what Putin wants to be his new Soviet State. Let's pray he doesn't succeed in dragging them in.
Posted by: jpal || 03/06/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Now Ukraine's Little Big Man is screaming that we're "Evil!" and "Weaklings!!" because we won't create an NFZ for him.

Which would be a declaration of war. On a nuclear-armed country run by a madman.

Stay the fuck out of this insanity. Not our circus

#FuckZelensky
#FuckPutin
#FJB
#FuckNeocons
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  yawn. America's eeeeevil no matter what it does or doesn't do. Once you absorb that, your life as an American becomes more stress free.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#9  My weekend grilling contributes to gerbil worming. Oh, I actually have stuff to grill. Evil. Evil. Evil. I own too many shoes (wearing a 10 year old pair of New Balance trainers right now) I actually have the nerve to set my AC at 78 degrees. I'm baaaad to da bone, don't lose any sleep over any of it, tovarich...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Does no one else remember Russia's militias inside the Ukraine shooting down a passenger jet?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 14:12 Comments || Top||

#11  I always thought at the time of the putsch, Zelensky could have done a bit more than open his palms and say 'I don't even know what's happening... whuh hunhh?'

Remember the Sondland fiasco, quid pro quo? I mean he did say there was none, but his exact words were 'I did not speak with US President Trump in those terms: you give me this, I give you that'. He never came out in actual support or negate what Sondland was saying. Did he?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||

#12  Here’s what a search of the Rantburg archives yields on Mr, Sondland, Dron. Have at it!
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 21:36 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Oil Pipelines Attacked in Libya


ibya’s Sirte Oil and Gas Company announced that criminal groups had attacked crude oil and gas pipelines, belonging to the company. This led to the loss of 1,600 barrels per day of oil, and the closing of several wells to fix the damage.

The company said in a statement on Friday that its, “properties and production lines in various locations and fields are still subjected to systematic tampering and deliberate corruption.”

“The company’s oil and gas transmission lines in the South Zaltan and Al-Lahib fields were attacked, resulting in the loss of more than 1,600 barrels of crude oil,” the statement explained.

“About four kilometers of pipelines were stolen from well 52-C on Thursday. The criminals also tried to steal the 4-inch gas lifting line, and deliberately punctured it from four points in order to empty it of its gas content,” the statement added.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Dagestani charged with nexus with terror organization
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A criminal case has been initiated against a resident of Izberbash, suspected of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and an illegal armed group. Investigators believe that the suspect in 2016 provided medical care and looked after wounded members of a terrorist organization as a nurse. 

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan opened a criminal case against a 20-year-old resident of the city of Izberbash, suspected of committing crimes under part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization) and part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in an illegal armed formation ).  

According to part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, participation in the activities of a terrorist organization threatens up to twenty years in prison, and according to part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, participation in an illegal armed formation is punishable by imprisonment for up to fifteen years.

The case was initiated based on the materials of the FSB of Russia for Dagestan, the Investigative Department of the Sledkom of the Russian Federation for Dagestan writes today on its website.

According to the investigation, the suspect, knowing from the media and from the Internet that the international organization "Islamic State" 
...if only all our reports from that part of the world so helpfully mentioned the banned terror organization that caused the reported individual to be arrested/killed/put on trial/convicted by the authorities...
was recognized as a terrorist organization and its activities were banned on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, took part in its activities in 2016 , as well as in the activities of an illegal armed group, provided medical assistance and looked after wounded members of a terrorist organization as a nurse.

Investigators are establishing the whereabouts of the suspect, the investigation of the criminal case is ongoing, the department informed.

At the end of 2016, while in the city of Raqqa in Syria, the suspect looked after the wounded members of the Sabri group as a nurse.
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF denies connection with a drone fell in Aleppo


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied on Saturday that it had to do with a homemade drone that crashed north of the town of Qabasin in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

Social networking sites published pictures of a homemade drone, which they said it had crashed north of the town of Qabasin, and claimed that it belonged to SDF.

“These photos and new are fake. They are just a play that the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation resort to as a way to prove obedience to the occupation officers,” said Farhad Shami, director of the media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on his Facebook page.

Shami indicated that these media outlets will continue to spread this “fake news” to cover up the “recruitment of mercenaries” to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

On Friday, the Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria said that the Turkish army and intelligence held more than one meeting with leaders of Turkish-backed opposition factions in the areas of Azaz and Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and asked them to recruit members to transport them to Ukraine.

Reporting by Adnan Hamo

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Village in Manbij hit with thermal missiles by Turkish forces


MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – The village of al-Jat in the northern countryside of the city of Manbij in northern Syria, was hit with thermal missiles by the Turkish forces bombed on Saturday evening.

“The Turkish forces stationed in the village of Qiratiya, northeast of Manbij, bombed the village of al-Jat with two thermal missiles,” a military source told North Press.

No material damage or casualties were caused, as the missiles fell in farmland, the sources added.

On Wednesday, the Turkish forces bombed the villages of al-Tokhar al-Kabir and Aoun al-Dadat with mortar shells, and no material or human losses were recorded.

” More than 25 Turkish shells hit the villages of the front lines,” the media center of the Manbij Military Council said on Tuesday.

Turkey has recently escalated its bombardment of the villages of Manbij, especially those located on the line separating the Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed opposition factions.

Reporting by Saddam al-Hassan

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Sources of Power
The bigger picture. Hattip lotp.
[AmericaGreatness] Geopolitica is fueled by thriving economies as well as military strength, and the West has neutered itself.
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#1  Meanwhile, China is ramping up its use of coal for energy production, and has announced its intent to purchase 100 million tons of coal from Russia

Brilliant. Pushing Russia and China together.

But haven't we always been at war with Eastasia?

#FuckNeocons
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ..no, Eastasia has always been at war with us - Comintern.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3  "Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum in Davos has said he wants to reduce the world population to a billion people. And the first people to go will be the whites.." Blackrock , George Soros , Biden , swamp and coordinated world leader placement(Bill Gates, Macron, Trudeau) too numerous to mention here. It appears to myself that what Putin has done has dramatically set them all back unexpectedly. Tremendous funding resource to DNC (10 million)and Clinton with Hunter Biden being a useful tool. Should Putin be his own man being increasingly bonded with China we have a competitive new world order being borne.
Posted by: Dale || 03/06/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  "Tremendous funding resource" being Ukraine. Slipped by me. Trying be be concise and less of a bloviator.
Posted by: Dale || 03/06/2022 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ If urban areas can be packed full and become high-priority nuclear conflict targets, Schwab's numbers could eventually be reached. But perhaps that is the plan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Brilliant. Pushing Russia and China together.

Uh, Russia and China have had a de facto alliance for the last twenty-five years. And they've turned countries in _this_ hemisphere into satellite states. The US left has sleptwalked itself into the "neocon war" it says it hates by ignoring that, in addition to all the self-neutering we've done over the last thirty years.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/06/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ agree totally, Thing
Apologies for my mistake on the other thread. No hard feelings
-NFS
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 14:11 Comments || Top||

#8  If all the "neocon bastards" fell down open manholes tomorrow Russia and China would still be at low-grade war with is, or in proxy wars with us, or killing us via war-thats-not-really war like the Covid virus.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/06/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||

#9  agree totally, Thing
Apologies for my mistake on the other thread. No hard feelings
-NFS


Go read The Prince and Discourses on Livy as penance and sin no more.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/06/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Did, during me wayward youth.

Explains why I like Mearsheimer and Michael Anton I guess
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||

#11  It has not escaped me how the large metropolitan areas have become more and more dominated by our rapidly transformative Marxist left in the last few years. Increasingly these hive cities have taken on the dystopian feel of science fiction, no private transport, vertical living in small units, heavily engineered social credit schemes, and loaded with public assistance at the expense of the surrounding communities and the federal government. The Green Revolution seeks to drive most of us into the hive, where control and social engineering will deliver a presumed "workers paradise of equity and shared values as world citizens". Once the stuff of fantasy, Covi9, a stolen election and now Pootie have accelerated the pace geometrically. The price of gasoline in sleepy little Gardnerville, NV just went up $.40 in three dasys, to $4.19 at ARCO. Wallyworld had a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing for $7.98 and bread now tops $4.35. This is unsustanable, and every single thing that people depend on for basics at home comes by truck! Couple that with the looming fertilizer shortages for the impending planting season, and we are facing a massive recessionary Sh*t Sandwich this spring and summer. And Biden's brain trust has decided that the fix is a new Iranian oil source, and possible opening of Venezuela as alternatives, two more enemies to be fed by the American people struggling to get by. YJCMTSU!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2022 16:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Gardnerville, NV just went up $.40 in three dasys, to $4.19 at ARCO

by the turnoff to Kingsbury Grade? That's still cheaper than San Diego prices (yeah, Newsome!)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 16:46 Comments || Top||

#13  That's the one Frank.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mutual shelling continues between government and opposition in the northwest


DLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, several places in the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed exchange of shelling between Turkish-backed opposition factions and the government forces.

From Jurin camp, the government targeted the town of al-Ziyara, the village of al-Sarmania and the outskirts of the town of al-Enkawi in the Ghab Plain, west of Hama, with heavy artillery and missiles, opposition military sources told North Press.

The opposition factions’ sites in the villages and towns of Kansafra, al-Fatira, Sufuhn, al-Ruwaiha and outskirts of al-Bara, in the Zawiya Mountain area, south of Idlib, were hit similarly hit by the government forces, the sources said. Meanwhile, al-Fatah al-Mubin Operations Room announced that it had bombed the government forces’ sites in the villages of al-Malajah and al-Dar al-Kabira in Zawiya Mountain, with mortar shells.

The areas of northwest Syria are included in the de-escalation agreement signed between Russia and Turkey in March 2020, but the region witnesses almost daily military escalation and mutual bombing between the two sides of the conflict.

Reporting by Bara’ al-Shami

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India-Pakistan
Pak drone fired at by BSF
[OneIndia] The Border Security Force (BSF) shot up a suspected Pak drone along the International Border (IB) here on Saturday, officials said as a massive search operation was launched to ensure no weapons or narcotics were dropped by it, PTI reported.

A BSF spokesperson said alert troops of the force fired at the suspected flying object when it entered the general area of Arnia around 4.10 am.

"The humming sound of a suspected drone was heard in the morning at 4:10 am by alert troops of the BSF in the general area of Arnia. The troops fired towards the direction of the sound," the spokesperson said.

He said the area was cordoned off with the help of police, and a joint search operation was underway.

The officials said BSF troops fired around 18 rounds within a span of 10 minutes after picking up the movement of the drone.

This comes 10 days after police recovered a huge consignment of arms and ammunition dropped by the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and its offshoot, The Resistance® Front, by a drone in the same area in R S Pura sector.

The seizure on February 24 included a pistol with two magazines and 70 rounds, three detonators, three remote-controlled IEDs, three bottles of explosives, one bundle of cortex wire, two-timer IEDs and six grenades.

In the past one year, security forces have shot down two drones and seized their payloads, including rifles, improvised bombs (IEDs), sticky bombs and narcotics, in Jammu region.
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#1  one bundle of cortex wire, two-timer IEDs and six grenades

Cortex wire is especially ghastly since it contains cerebral tissue. But two-timer IEDs are the worst. You never know where their loyalties lie.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Sticky bomb too
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ yeah that too.

I can only imagine this poor flying beast of burden carting around all this shit for the mullahs. It's a chinese commercial photography drone. Been seen twice now.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine destroys bridge connecting the Odessa region with Transnistria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the railway bridge connecting the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic with the Odessa region of Ukraine. This was reported on March 4 by residents of the villages of Pervomaisk and Kuchurgan, located on the border along the Kuchurgan River.

Recall that since February 24, the Russian Armed Forces have been conducting a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine are resisting the Russian Armed Forces, and are also systematically destroying the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine itself in order to create a humanitarian catastrophe in this country.

A large number of Ukrainian citizens are fleeing the country, but the national battalions are deliberately disrupting the organization of humanitarian corridors in order to use civilians as human shields.

In addition to part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they undermine road and railway bridges, thereby trying to prevent the advance of Russian troops.

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Africa North
Female judges take seat on State Council’s benches for 1st time in Egypt’s history
[AlAhram] A total of 98 women that were sworn in as judges at the State Council last year will assume work at the judicial body on Saturday for the first time in Egypt’s history.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Military summary of the LDNR. The situation on the line of contact on March 5 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:34 Another civilian was wounded in the DPR.

23:30 Since the beginning of the special operation, the people's militia of the LPR has liberated 58 settlements - LPR MFA

22:16 On Saturday, the DPR evacuated 84 people from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area, 21 of them were children, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic reported.

22:06 In Melitopol, residents begin to turn in weapons for a reward.

22:03 The commander of the military unit 08806 of the Guard, Colonel Vladimir Zhoga, is awarded the title of Hero of the DPRposthumously- Decree of Denis Pushilin.

21:50 Pushilin spoke about the situation in the Donbass: the DPR and LPR military gnaw out every meter of land.

21:30 Another party of nationalists passed denazification today in Volnovakha. Each flag from a military uniform is a destroyed fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

21:20 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on Solovyov Live said that the ring around Mariupol is narrowing.

21:14 Ukrainian troops fired at Dokuchaevsk, including prohibited mines with a caliber of 120 mm.

20:54 The RF Armed Forces are inflicting powerful blows on the positions of the Nazis in the Kramatorsk region. Airfield strike.

20:05 Not a single civilian could get out of Mariupol and Volnovakha along the security corridors, the nationalist battalions took advantage of the “silence mode” to strengthen their positions - the Russian Defense Ministry.

19:17 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, occupied six settlements in the Volnovakha direction over the current day, 31 armored fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Basurin were captured.

19:10 The representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process reported that as a result of the mortar shelling of the settlement. Donetsk, 5 residential buildings were damaged.

19:40 As a result of the shelling, Kalinin's hospital in Donetsk was damaged. There is no glazing, part of the hospital is de-energized.

18:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fled from Talakovka, shooting the civilian population.

18:26 In Berdyansk, the civilian population receives humanitarian aid from the armed forces of the Russian Federation. People lined up for humanitarian aid in a queue, dozens of people gathered on the street.

17:54 School No. 116, located in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address st. Samara, 1.

17:50 In Mariupol, local residents insistently demand that the Ukrainian invaders remove the Grad MLRS away from residential buildings - where the installation arrived to hide behind a human shield.

17:38 Official statement from the International Red Cross on the situation with the evacuation from Volnovakha and Mariupol: there will be no evacuation today.

17:21 According to media reports, a civilian was wounded in Horlivka due to the shelling of the VFU.

17.20 Shelling of the LPR settlement Popasnaya - Pervomaisk: artillery gun 152mm (15 rounds)

17:20 VFU fired 4 mines with a caliber of 120 mm. according to n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk, settlement, Trudovskoy mine.

17:06 As a result of the shelling, the infrastructure of the Ekos utility company located at the address: Yasinovataya, st. Gorky 36. There were no casualties.

17:01 On the territory of the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant, Azov* militants (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) and members of the territorial defense forcibly hold workers in place.

16:37 Ukrainian social networks report that local authorities refused to take civilians out of Mariupol. At the same time, they confirm that the Russians wanted to liberate the city from all the inhabitants, and then cover the entire settlement with carpet bombing, completely destroying all the positions and heavy equipment of Azov * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) inside the city. In fact, it would have been certain death for the Nazis.

16:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired 4 mines with a caliber of 120 mm.

15:40 Shelling of VFU settlement Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): 6 mines fired in 120 mm caliber.

15:30 17 people, including children, were able to escape from Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor - Eduard Basurin.

15:12 It is reported that Andrey Kosyak, an observer of the JCCC of the LPR, captured by Ukrainian terrorists, has been released. He was kept in the pre-trial detention center in Starobelsk, which was recently released by the Russian Armed Forces.

14:53 According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, artillery fire from Mariupol was opened on Russian positions at 10.08, and continuous fire was fired from Volnovakha from 10.11 to 10.21, a residential building was blown up in Mariupol at 10.39, up to 200 people could be under the rubble, in including old people and children.

14:30 In total, three families got out of Mariupol, these people did not hear about any humanitarian corridor. The Kiev authorities did not notify anyone. They came out under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Moreover, the nationalists mined roads and blew up bridges.

14:27 n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Wide Beam: fired 6 mines in 120 mm caliber.

13:55 Meanwhile, queues of people lined up in Mariupol ready to evacuate. People have been unable to leave the city for an hour and a half, as Ukrainian nationalists have blocked humanitarian corridors.

13:49 On the initiative of the local authorities, intimidated by the Nazis, the evacuation of the civilian population of Mariupol was disrupted.

13:45 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Katerinovka to the area of ​​N. p. Pervomaisk: 120mm mortar (10 min), 82mm mortar (6 min).

13:06 The nationalists refused to provide a humanitarian corridor to the residents of Mariupol.

13:00 VFU began shelling the village. Trudovsky.

12:56 The Azov* militants set off an explosive device in Mariupol on Meotida Boulevard, under the rubble in the basement, up to 200 people, including Pushilin's children. This information has been officially confirmed.

12:40 Shelling of VFU settlement Novotroitskoye - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: 2 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.

12:30 Not a single person has left Mariupol along the gum corridor. ButauthoritiesThe DPR forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are ready to accept people and do everything for this.

11:48 A shell hit in the residential area "Komsomolets", Gorlovka. As a result of shelling at the addresses: st. 60 years of the USSR, 61, 63 glazing, double-glazed windows are damaged. The data is being specified. Emergency personnel are on the scene.

11:04 The military of the NM of the LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, reached the line of Boguslavka - Telmahovka - Kalinovka. Units of the NM DPR advanced 27 km overnight. Taken under control - Novogrigorievka, Novonikolaevka, Vishnevatoe, Volnoye, Listvyanka and Antonovka.

11:00 According to the information of the JCCC, as a result of the shelling from the side of the VFU, the settlement Golmovsky in the area of ​​the Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, three civilians were wounded in 1970, 1984, 1993.

10:11 The DPR forces continue to tighten the ring around Mariupol, the militants of Azov and Aidar (prohibited terrorist organizations in the Russian Federation) that have entered the city are firing from positions equipped in schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals and kindergartens.

10:10 Russian forces over the past day took control of the settlements of Priobrazhenka, Komsomolskoye, Zagornoye, Dorozhnyanka, Reshetilovskoye, Konstantinovka, Shevchenko, Chubarevka, Proletarskoye and Lyubimovka.

10:07 DPR forces advanced 27 km overnight, Novogrigorovka, Novonikolaevka, Vishnevatoe, Volnoe, Listvyanka and Antonovka were taken under control, LPR forces, with fire support from Russian forces, continued to reach the Boguslavka-Telmahovka-Kalinovka line.

10:05 The military of the DPR is squeezing the ring around Mariupol, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

09:10 Shelling of the settlement Zaitsevo - n.p. Golmovsky: fired 2 mines with a caliber of 82 mm.

09:10 AFU shelled the settlement Sands - Donetsk: 2 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.

9:00 Shelling of the settlement was recorded. Novotroitskoye - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber.

8:30 As a result of the night shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk from the side of the VFU, a shell arrived on the street. Stepanenko, 26a - glazing was damaged in an apartment building, the head of Donetsk, Kulemzin, said.

8:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces are hitting Donetsk with artillery: 10 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired at the northern outskirts – SCK

03.00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 3 attacks were recorded on 2 settlements of the LPR.

0:58 According to preliminary information, as a result of shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk at the address st. Friendship, 82 recorded damage to the gas pipeline and power lines.
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#1  Remember Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is an Israeli Jew which means he hooked directly with the Rothschild Banking Cartel. You know, the guys congress sold the USA central bank to on Dec 23, 1913. You know, the banking cartel that has started most of Earth’s wars since the battle of Waterloo in the early 1800’s. The guys that are responsible for the deaths of at least 130 million people since the start of WWI. That is the reason ET aliens won’t have anything to do with we humans. For example the Cenos ETs from Proxima b have found a way to cure nearly all diseases.

I am glad Putin got rid of Zelenskyy. Putin also kicked the Rothschilds out of Russia unlike our corrupt Uncle Sam that welcomed them into our country!
Posted by: Javirt Cromomble6853 || 03/06/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  the banking cartel that has started most of Earth’s wars

I heard they took out the dinosaurs too. Mother*bleep*ers!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/06/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  re #1: I understand completely. My 80 year old wife is also a Jew and is also hooked directly with the Rothschild Banking Cartel. Despite that advantage she still has to spend her time tutorong children so that she can afford to drive her 18 year old car on those extranvagant shopping trips she takes to buy things like groceries and medicines.

You might want to take advantage of some of those medicines yourself; those medicines that you can get from the Cenos ETs when they're taking a break from hunting down the Jews.

You might also want to take a break from typing; typing that greenish-brownish-yellowish drivel that tends to run down the front of your clothes after it has erupted from that sinful scar you refer to as your mouth.

I feel much better now, thank you.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/06/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Also remember - If not for banks, nobody would be in prison for bank robbery...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  How much interest is the Rothschild Banking Cartel paying on long term savings these days? Asking for a shiksa friend.
Posted by: jpal || 03/06/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Zelensky is a little thief and a tool for a Ukrainian billionaire named Igor Kolomoisky. Zelensky and his family's offshore shell games in the B.V. Islands were outed in the Panama Papers

Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has railed against politicians hiding wealth offshore but failed to disclose links to BVI firm

#FuckZelensky
#FuckPutin
#FJB
#FuckNeocons
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 - *snort!*
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Zelensky didn't invade Russia, Unfortunate One, and it's not Putin's job to police corruption in the Ukraine -- especially as he wallows in it in Russia.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Where was Putin when he could have busted up the gain of function experiments?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#10  It's rather amusing how many russian trolls we have. I can picture them, huddled under bridges, snorting their bath salts and their dirty hands indignantly typing furiously on their Chromebooks as they pollute our threads and acting like monkey's flinging poo. Course, I imagine they do fling poo anyway. And at the end of the day they all line up to collect their bag of bread crusts and a packet of pencil shavings they call cigarettes along with a tiny bottle of bottom shelf 'vodka' that's more likely snake squeezings.

*Cracks the whip* Dance monkeys! DANCE!
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/06/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Yeah keep deluding yourselves. Like you did with all the COVID bullshit. You're just painting us into a corner the way they did with the vaccine that's actually worse than the disease.

Just like with COVID, when the truth destroys the official narrative, all the willing puppets creep forward and try to deny reality and shut down dissent with name-calling. "Muh Anti-vaxxer!" "Muh Russian troll!" "Muh Racist!"

#FuckLiars
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ they were very occasional until the Ukraine thing. The stakes are obviously high for their paymasters.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 12:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Zelensky didn't invade Russia,

So? Why is this any of our business? What interest do we have in that country that is worth risking WWIII over?

Putin's a nasty piece of work, a war criminal. So what. Why get involved and risk blowing ourselves up? For what?
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#14  ^ Wait. A. Minute. Did you just turn 180 degrees there?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:20 Comments || Top||

#15  "Tell zem vat zey want to hear, tovarich. Different from five minuteskies ago, no bother..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:21 Comments || Top||

#16  Wait. A. Minute. Did you just turn 180 degrees there?

No. You're just so marinated in neocon bullshit and propaganda you can't recognize reality. You hear what you want to hear.

You think anyone criticizing the neocons' stupidity and warmongering must be pro-Putin. Wrong.

This is exactly what happened in 2003, except the region in question is none of our fucking business and this time we really can cause WWIII... if these assholes aren't stopped
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm as anti-neocon as it gets. So that argument (if that's what you think it is) ain't cutting any ice with me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#18  No Fortunate Son, you are mistaking Russian agent eruptions for the beliefs of Rantburg regulars. Try going back into the archives a week or two to get a better baseline if you want your posts to be more effective.

Unless you like being mocked, of course, in which case please do carry on as you’ve been.

Separately, because I always wonder about such things: did you choose that nym because you have no sons, because your son(s) is struggling, or because you feel cheated by Life?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#19  Fortunate Son is a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. John Fogerty was a vehement anti-US involvement in Viet Nam figure. I suspect that's the provenance, though this guy seems to want us to be involved in this war by screeching about how we should not be involved in this war.

That's the impression I get, anyway. I could be wrong. It's been known to happen.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#20  I thought it was Creedence Clearwater reference
Posted by: Beavis || 03/06/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#21  As Ron Kovic as it gets...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||

#22  For the record, in hindsight I'd probably be anti Vietnam War now too. It was the template for Iraq II and Afghanistan and it was a bad tape to keep playing back for our people's involvement.

But I'd probably not have been an anti-war hippie at the time. Older, wiser. Or something, anyway...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#23  "Zelensky is corrupt" is not an argument against US involvement. Neither is "Putin is a tyrant" an argument for.

I don't want the US involved, but I have my doubts that Putin will stop until there's a world war. He and his mouthpieces have been tossing around threats like they're confetti; he hasn't even bothered hiding his aggressive intents.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||

#24  Zelensky wants us to save his bacon. Nope. Not our fire.
He is urging Miss Lindsey and other neocons in Washington to declare war on Russia. No fucking way. His problem is not our problem.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#25  Sitting across town while someone else commits a murder does not make me an accessory to murder.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#26  There really are two issues:

a. What steps can be taken to assist the Ukrainian people, both fleeing refugees and those left in contact with the agressors ?

b. What steps can be taken (permanent steps) to deal with Russians now and over the long-term ?

BTW, sitting down with the Russians in Vienna to discuss an "Obama 2.0 Iranian deal" or buying crude oil from the bastids fits none of the above.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#27  Am I obligated to help my fellow man hang himself in the shower? Am I a bad person if I can't personally bring on Heaven on Earth?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||

#28  Thank you, gentlemen, for the nym explanation. I was a little too young at the time for such things, and never caught up.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians decry world's ‘double standards' on Russia-Ukraine war
[JPost] The bleating from the cheap seats: "Looook at Meeeee!"
The Palestinian leaders’ main argument is that the international community is being hypocritical and racist by being more sympathetic towards the Ukrainians because of their color, religion and race. and NOT being general assholes
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  yeah, the Ukraine military is not lobbing missiles at civilian targets in Russia, not suicide bombing restaurants in Russia, not torturing captives

how dare they
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/06/2022 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't seem to recall Ukrainian school books saying Russia belongs to them (Kiev Ukraine?). I believe Putin position is the same as yours, their neighbor belongs to them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ the Bear has an excellent memory. It was what he was told many years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Thumper Dark Lord of the Hatfields1435 || 03/06/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Gee...I wonder what changed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, Paleo-dudes. We're a bit busy at the moment. And truth be told, we never really cared about Paleostein except as a way to annoy the Juice.
Sincerely, The World
Posted by: SteveS || 03/06/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Dear Paleos. We/I don't LIKE you. Whine more, I don't care.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/06/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Sort of like blacks finding out trans is the new black.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Cry me a river, you chump Palestinians.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Update for the violin picture...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#11  LOL. Almost didn't notice the face on the violin!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Russia not to worry.
Posted by: Dale || 03/06/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Paleostinians?

Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 13:50 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Why a dishonest Pakistan remains in the Grey List for terror financing
[OneIndia] Pakistain has once again been retained in the Grey List by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The country was told that it needed to do more in probing and prosecuting big shots and commanders of the UN designated terrorist groups for terror financing.

Pakistain has repeatedly failed to act against its proxies such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
. Pakistain also has failed to act against the many members of this outfit and has only made symbolic arrests of the chiefs of these groups when the heat is raised on it.

Several holy warriors of both the above mentioned groups involved in attacks such as the one in Mumbai and Pulwama are walking around scot free. Operatives such as Sajid Mir who have played a crucial role in the Mumbai 26/11 attacks do not exist under Pakistain's radar. Islamabad in fact till date denies the existence of this person.

The FATF in a statement said the FATF encourages Pakistain to continue to make progress to address, as soon as possible, the one remaining item by continuing to demonstrate that investigations and prosecutions target big shots and commanders of UN-designated terrorist groups.

Pakistain should continue to work to address the one remaining item in its 2021 action plan by demonstrating a positive and sustained trend of pursuing complex investigations and prosecutions.

In 2020, Pakistain had sought to wriggle out of the Grey List and had imposed financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including 26/11 Mumbai attack criminal mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
T-72 VS Javelin Missile (video)
[YouTube] In recent months Russian T-72B3M and some older T-72B variants have been seen with a new, special "sun visor" bolted to their turrets to prevent strikes from top-attack munitions, particularly the American FGM-148 Javelin antitank guided missile. Despite appearing to be relatively inexpensive this could grant the T-72 or any tank ever for that matter the ability to defend itself from attacks coming in at a very high angle without requiring expensive hard-kill active protection systems.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Second hand marketing and ignorant shilling for American junk
Cut the fucking parasites in our government 90% and decimated the 50% that are left trow their families on the streets for the damage that they caused to us fk them!
Posted by: Ichnusa aka baafod || 03/06/2022 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Authentic Frontier Gibberish.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd like to speak to the manager. The quality of trolls on this board has fallen off dramatically!
Posted by: Nero || 03/06/2022 0:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought the Russians would have been happier if we were shipping the Ukranians junk weapons that didn't work.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/06/2022 1:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Despite appearing to be relatively inexpensive this could grant the T-72 or any tank ever for that matter the ability to defend itself from attacks coming in at a very high angle without requiring expensive hard-kill active protection systems.

...To quote one Mr. L. Skywalker, "Impressive... Every word in that sentence was wrong."

Spoilers, lad: they don't work. Not one tiny little bit.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/06/2022 3:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Just before the war began, the Ukrainians set up derelict armored vehicle with a steel roof cage and fired a Javelin at it. It the warhead sliced through the cage, the turret top and out the side.

There is one theory that detonating the warhead 1-1.5 meters from the tank actually increases penetration because the plasma jet is better formed when it reaches the hull.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/06/2022 3:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Thereis one theory that detonating the warhead 1-1.5 meters from the tank actually increases penetration because the plasma jet is better formed when it reaches the hull.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 03:43


...That is actually true - in fact, some AT missiles have a probe at the nose to set this effect up quite nicely. That feature has kind of faded with improvements in warhead design, or the two-warhead solution JAVELIN uses, but it can still be found quite readily.

One thing I've noticed - and I will cheerfully admit to error here - is I've not seen a lot of pics of destroyed Russian tanks with reactive armor. This was supposed to be the Last Word in tank defense at the time, but turned out to only be really useful for older tanks (think M48/60, T-55/62). Improvements in armor tech pretty much bypassed it for anything except use in urban combat, and two-warhead weapons like JAVELIN pretty much make it pointless.

I had one individual some years ago expound on how RA would make the A-10s gun useless. When he was done, an A-10 pilot smiled, looked at him and said, "Yeah, it'll likely stop the first three or four rounds. It's the hundred or so right behind it that he's gotta worry about."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/06/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#8  ...like.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ I never met an Infantryman who did not hold the A-10 in the highest regard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#10  As for the troll who suggested our weapons were junk, add this from 1945
(https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/is-the-russias-military-starting-to-fall-apart-in-ukraine/)

On Saturday alone, the Ukrainian military shot down eight Russian manned and unmanned aircraft. More specifically, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed one Su-30SM Flanker multirole fighter jet, one Su-34 Fullback strike jet, two Su-25 attack jets, two Mi-24/35 attack helicopters, one Mi-8 transport helicopter, and one Orlan-10 unmanned aerial system.

According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, in the ten days of war, the Ukrainian military has shot down 44 Russian fighter, attack, and transport aircraft and 44 helicopters. And U.S. defense officials assess that the Ukrainian Air Force can still conduct sorties and maintains overall air superiority.
American-provide FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft Man-Portable, Air Defense Missile Systems (MANPADS) have played an important role in ensuring that Russian aircraft don’t operate freely over Ukraine.



Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Only reason you fly where Stingers are known to be present is you have been ordered to. Call me when some Russ planes start landing at NATO bases.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#12  When are you guys going to stop being pr agents for Russia? is this the US right now, a Russian agency?
Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 03/06/2022 16:22 Comments || Top||

#13  No we're just retired investors, living on a pension, trying to makea little money in the markets
Posted by: Kojo Spolush7239 || 03/06/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#14  To #7
I knew a marine who's lav-25 could be equipped with Era blocks. He preferred not to use them because they were heavy and slowed their vehicle down.
Posted by: Cleting Closh2157 || 03/06/2022 20:34 Comments || Top||

#15  RE #10: Ukrainians released that 300 Javelin shots have been taken so far. 280 destroyed vehicles. The new Javelins from the Baltics and US should be filtering to the combat units soon.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/06/2022 22:01 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
In Ukraine. The situation on the morning of 03/05/22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Commentary by Russian blogger Andrey Chervonets

[Chervonec] The main goals of the Russian army at the moment

- the main efforts are focused on the encirclement of Kyiv and Kharkov

- Access to the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, creation of a land corridor to the Crimea

- Creation of a bridgehead for movement to Odessa

Now in more detail. so

Southern and Donetsk direction
The Russian Armed Forces advanced yesterday to the city of Voznesensk, which is 80 km northwest of Nikolaev, and entrenched themselves in the settlement of Rakovo, adjacent to Voznesensk. Nearby, in the village of Andreichikovo, a Russian landed, occupied this settlement, gaining a foothold on the western bank of the Southern Bug River.

Nikolaev is blocked. Most likely, if the offensive is not stopped by a temporary truce, the city will be gradually cleared, and the main strike group will go to Odessa. So far, there are no active operations in Odessa and the region - negotiations are underway and the weather is waiting for the landing of amphibious assault forces in the Odessa area. At the moment, landing ships are experiencing bad weather just to the west of Crimea.

Mariupol is blocked and slowly cleared. So far, concentrations and strongholds of the National Battalion are being identified, which are then precisely and effectively destroyed. Today, a silence regime will be established in Mariupol from 10.00 to 17.00 Moscow time, the evacuation of civilians will begin from 12.00.

After the blockade of Mariupol, the troops launched an offensive to the north-west and occupied Pologi, the city of 20 thousand people is an important road junction - 88 km along the highway to Zaporozhye in the west, 17 km from the north - Wild Field, to the east the road to the DPR.

Fighting in Volnovakha.
The city is 3/4 under the DPR army. In the rest of the city, the militants of the national battalion "Donbass" have settled down, they are resisting because they do not count on mercy, but they do not stand on ceremony with them.

In the future, we can expect:
- the advance of the RF Armed Forces towards Zaporozhye, Gulyai Polya and Pavlograd.

- a counter offensive by a Russian group from Balakley.

If successful, a group of a dozen brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is concentrated in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, will be cut off from the rest of Ukraine. The main forces of the Ukrainian army are located here near Kramatorsk, Slavyansk in the DPR and Lysichansk, Severodnetsk in the LPR.

Central direction
Along Chernihiv and Sumy is nothing new.

Kharkov. Now there are battles for the small town of Dergachi, numbering 20 thousand inhabitants, which is a few kilometers northwest of Kharkov .. As soon as the town can be taken, Kharkov finds itself in a complete tactical environment.

I repeat.: the Russian grouping from the Balakleya region hangs from the north, practically from the rear over the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, concentrated in the Dobass

Kyiv
From here it is already possible to develop an offensive to the south and cover the capital from the west, but so far relatively quietly. It is not yet clear whether this was caused by the regrouping of Russian forces or negotiations with the Ukrainian side.

Two rounds of negotiations took place, with a third round just around the corner. Kyiv’s negotiators seem to keep promising to take on some kind of framework obligations, but in their traditions, they endlessly delay this moment (it is possible that later they will refuse promises, explaining that they were misunderstood.

Ukrainian TG channels report that the third round of negotiations should bring a truce to Ukraine, and in the next few hours the Parliament will vote behind closed doors documents that will allow de-escalation to begin.

All bills are adopted classified as secret, which is justified by the military situation in the country. At the meeting with the Russian delegation, pasochnye agreements were concluded, which should be ratified by Ukraine. We'll see how this all plays out.

In my personal opinion, anything can be accepted in the Ukrainian parliament. As well as OT to accept back quickly.

Kyiv's goal is to drag out the negotiations and a possible truce as much as possible, and then, as we have seen more than once, simply refuse to fulfill the agreements, arguing that they interpret these agreements in a completely different way and contrary to what is written.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a piece that basically says that the north of Kiev convoy is holding itself hostage by its own incompetence

Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/06/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  When you're running low on body bags the best thing to do is lie low and wait for reinforcements.
Posted by: jpal || 03/06/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Very interesting, Lord Garth.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 22:16 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China to raise defense spending by 7.1% to $229 billion
[AlAhram] China on Saturday announced a 7.1% increase in defense spending in 2022 to $229 billion, continuing years of robust spending on its increasingly powerful military that is challenging the U.S. armed forces' dominance in the Indo-Pacific region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Keep in mind they have more purchasing power than we do. And their shipbuilding industry actually seems to work.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/06/2022 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ...well, they burn fewer ships at dock than we do. That is something.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  An in a very large part funded by US CONSUMERS.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/06/2022 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Everybody's increasing their defense spending all of a sudden. Wonder why?
Posted by: jpal || 03/06/2022 10:51 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims operations against SDF in Deir ez-Zor


DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, ISIS, through media close to it, claimed two operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the town of al-Busayrah, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.

ISIS close Amaq News Agency published a statement in which it said that ISIS militants attacked a military checkpoint of SDF with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the entrance to the village of Mashikh, west of al- Busayrah.

The attack damaged the SDF checkpoint, while ISIS militants withdrew, according to Amaq.

The statement was followed by another one, in which ISIS claimed it had stormed the house of a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces and shot him , which led to his injury, while the militants of the organization fled.

Recently, the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has witnessed the increase in cases of killing of SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal dignitaries and civilians.

Two days ago, unidentified gunmen stormed an SDF members’ house in the town of Abu Hamam in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and shot him dead with a silencer pistol.

Reporting by Omar Abdulrahman

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


#2  An interesting link, No Fortunate Son. ISIS isn’t likely to gain much traction in that part of the world, nor does it seem likely to me that the war itself will spread beyond Ukrainian battlefields — though my opinion os worth what you just paid for it. But goodness knows there are plenty of ISIS sympathizers among the Moslem colonists recently arrived in the West, who may respond to this particular nudge as they did not do to previous ones, being generally content with general boyish harassment of the natives to show them their place in the new order.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 23:04 Comments || Top||

#3  What is happening today, the direct bloody war between the Orthodox crusaders – Russia and Ukraine – is but one example of God’s punishment for them

They're right, in a way. This can be seen as God's punishment for the Woke crusaders of America and Europe, who bear the ultimate blame for this crisis.

As Mearsheimer makes clear was our many foolish liberal internationalists, later dubbed Woke, administrations arrogant and unholy drive to push NATO and its Woke wickedness right up to the edge of Russia's capital that caused this.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 23:21 Comments || Top||


Iraq
PMF thwarts an ISIS attack in Saladin


Shafaq News/ A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) engaged with a group of ISIS militants near Makhoul hills, northern Saladin, a security source revealed on Saturday morning.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from the 51st brigade's second regiment of the PMF identified a group of ISIS militants approaching the "Fertilizers" area near the Makhoul hills, a hotspot of extremist Islamist groups.

The force, according to the source, opened fire towards the ISIS group, forcing it to retreat.

"The terrorist group was plotting an attack on the PMF forces stationed near Makhoul, but surveillance foiled their intentions," he said.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Afghanistan
5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh
[Tolo] Religion of Peace™
Five members of a family were beheaded by unknown individuals in Anjil district in the western province of Herat, officials said—while two young girls have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the northern province of Balkh.

The officials in Herat said that the victims included three children, one man and one woman. According to the officials, the incident took place on Friday night in Surma village of Anjil district in Herat.

"Five corpses were brought into the hospital, which included children aged four, six and eight. A 20-year old woman and an old man," said Mohammad Aref Jalali, head of the provincial hospital.

"Five of them were martyred by unidentified individuals. Five of them from one family," said Abdul Sabor, a relative.

Also, two young girls from Sholdera district of Balkh were found killed in Balkh's capital Mazar-e-Sharif.

The motive behind the incident is uncertain, the local officials said, saying an investigation is underway to arrest the perpetrators.

"Two young girls were killed in Balkh. The two girls were taken by unidentified gunmen from Sholdara district to the Mazar-e-Sharif city. They were killed by these individuals," said Asif Waziri, commander of the provincial security department. "We are in contact with the families of the girls."

According to Waziri, one of the girls was shot and killed and another one of them was apparently choked.

Family members of the two girls declined to comment. The residents called for the perpetrators to be held accountable.

"Those who commit such crimes should be arrested immediately and brought to justice," said Rafiullah, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Earlier, there had been rumors that several civil society activists have been killed by the security forces in Balkh, but the provincial security department denied it.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's almost as dangerous as Chicago or Baltimore.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary March 5 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:17 Our source from the office in Kyiv reports that the OP and the SBU understand that the “loss” of control over Mariupol and Kharkov will undermine morale and possibly launch the domino principle among other cities in the country. Therefore, the case of humanitarian corridors for civilians will be delayed as much as possible, thereby gaining time.

18:50 Poroshenko and Turchynov left Kyiv and are now at a checkpoint near Ivano-Frankivsk. Far from the line of contact.

18:41 Russian servicemen took control of the military base of the armed forces of Ukraine near the village of Radensk, Kherson region.

18:23 The Ukrainian military destroyed the spillway of the dam through the Seversky Donets in the village. Old Saltov in the Volchansky district of the Kharkov region to slow down the advance of the Russian army to Kharkov.

18:17 The Armed Forces of Ukraine leave the military base in Kherson. In the meantime, the stubborn teroboronists, who are given weapons by the Kyiv authorities, continue to smash settlements and kill civilians.

Moreover, as we have repeatedly warned, the war party is hatching plans not only for the physical elimination of people, but also for the organization of a humanitarian catastrophe for those whom it holds hostage. We have documents confirming the above.

This is a plan for mining bridges on the Kakhovka reservoir. Further comments are superfluous. And those who are still drowning for Zelya and the Nazis should once again think carefully about who the enemy really is.

18:12 The Ukrainian Armed Forces, at gunpoint, do not allow people to be evacuated from the settlement. Irpin. People are standing near the bridge, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves blew up.

18:10 Ukrainian nationalists are going to kill nine citizens of Iraq held in Sumy, blaming the Russian military for this, sources in the Russian power structures told RIA Novosti.

18:09 At the base of neo-Nazis near Mariupol, they found a military tunic with a British patch and a chevron of the UN peacekeeping forces.

18:06 All Indian citizens taken hostage near Kharkov have been evacuated, the embassy reported. Who held them hostage is clear without explanation.

17:43 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the headquarters of the VFU in the Sumy region.

17:39 Soon Kyiv will be completely ours - Kadyrov

17:20 Residents of the Kharkiv region, who managed to escape to the Belgorod region, are told that Ukrainian nationalists do not let refugees out. At the same time, they had no problems on the territory controlled by Russian troops. People were let through everywhere, they were even escorted by border guards.

17:10 The base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kherson came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

17:09 Pravoseckihidbombs in children's toys and first-aid kits: on the basis of militants of the right sector * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation), a huge amount of materials for making bombs that could be remotely controlled were found.

They hid them in children's toys and first aid kits to kill civilians and children. In addition, a Turkish flag and photographs of foreign mercenaries were found at the base.

17:03 This photo demonstrates the uncontrolled distribution of weapons to everyone in Ukraine. The Kiev authorities are making children and women into human shields, behind which they will hide, instead of providing assistance and evacuation to safe places.

16:56 If the leadership of Ukraine continues to do what they are doing, this will call into question the future of Ukrainian statehood, and this will be entirely their responsibility," Vladimir Putin.

16:52 The provocation failed: a sabotage group of SBU special forces was captured near Melitopol. They intended to carry out a series of terrorist attacks against the civilian population in the city and pass it off as the actions of the Russian military. The saboteurs found weapons and explosives with them. A clear example of fascism against its own people.

16:19 The Russian Federation will consider any attempts by other countries to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in hostilities.

15:57 The Russian Armed Forces continue to distribute humanitarian aid to the residents of Melitopol.

15:33 The RF Armed Forces are working on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense units at the Pervomaisk-Yuzhnoukrainsk-Voznesensk line. Now one of the main tasks is to cut off the northern entrance to Voznesensk, through which reinforcements are being transferred to the settlement.

15:28 Media reports that there is a strong explosion in Kyiv.

15:19 The armed formations of Ukraine began to use civilian transport to move. Cars are taken under territorial defense. Mostly they take roomy foreign cars. Information came from the southern suburbs of Kharkov - Vasishchevo and Khoroshevo.

15:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the bridge on Stary Saltov (Kharkiv) so that people could not leave the city towards Russia.

14:58 The Russian military captured the Ukrainian military base near Kherson - dozens of abandoned Ukrainian tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, tankers. 4,500 tons of ammunition left in the warehouses when the garrison of 3-4,000 people fled. Most of the equipment is in good condition, the Russian military is loading it and taking it to safe ranges, where it will be decided what to do with it next.

14:56 Russian Defense Ministry: nationalist battalions continue to hold hostage about 5,000 foreigners as human shields, including: up to 1,500 students from India in Kharkiv, up to 200 citizens of Jordan, 40 citizens of Egypt, 15 citizens of Vietnam . There are 576 Indian citizens, 159 Tanzanian citizens, 121 Chinese citizens, 100 Ghanaian students, 60 Egyptian citizens, 45 Jordanian citizens, 16 Pakistani students, 15 Tunisian citizens and 14 Zambian citizens in Sumy. This is the largest foreign hostage-taking by terrorists in the history of the world.

14:25 Residents of the city of Irpin began evacuation. Recall that today Russia announced a day of silence from 10 am so that civilians can leave the war zones.

13:27 SBU liquidated a member of the negotiating group of Ukraine Denis Kireev. He was suspected of treason. Kireev was killed during the arrest. This was reported by the people's deputy Dubinsky and the sources of the Observer. We are waiting for official confirmation.

13:14 "Kill everyone, take everything away." Such words were written by the fighters of the nationalist battalion "Azov" on the fences of the inhabitants of the village of Berdyansk.

13:08 In addition to the national battalion "Donbass" and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign mercenaries are fighting against the NM DPR in Volnovakha. This unit is the Georgian Legion. In its composition, 60 militants from Georgia arrived in Volnovakha. 15 of them have already been eliminated by the fighters of the Sparta battalion.

13:06 The nationalists refused to provide a humanitarian corridor to the residents of Mariupol.

13:04 Information from local residents: “Russians are standing in the vicinity of Nikolaev, it’s quiet in the city itself today.”

12:56 The Azov* militants set off an explosive device in Mariupol on Meotida Boulevard, under the rubble in the basement, up to 200 people, including Pushilin's children. This information has been officially confirmed.

12:30 Not a single person has left Mariupol along the gum corridor. But authorities The DPR forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are ready to accept people and do everything for this.

12:13 In Kharkiv, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense continue to use Northern Saltovka as a fortified area.

12:10 In Voznesensk, they report on the landing of Russian troops from four helicopters in the village of Yastrebinovo.

12:08 Official information about the evacuation from Mariupol.

Start today March 5 at 11:00.

The route will be:

▪️Mariupol ▪️Nikolskoye ▪️Rozivka ▪️Pologi ▪️Orekhov ▪️Zaporozhye

Evacuation will take place from three places by municipal buses:

— SC "Ilyichevets" (pr. Nakhimov, 53)

– Drama Theater (Teatralnaya Square, 1)

– Kalmiusskaya regional administration – (pr. Metallurgov, 193)

It will also be possible to drive along the route by personal transport, it is forbidden to deviate from it.

The evacuation will take place within a few days.

11:54 Local residents publish a video from the Kherson region, the village of Gladovka. They say that during the retreat, the National Battalions committed hits on residential buildings: “Here lies a man, he was torn to pieces” ... At the moment, Gladovka has come under the control of the Russian forces.

11:53 In Voznesensk, they report on the landing of Russian troops from 4 helicopters in the village of Yastrebinovo.

11:51 In Bucha, Kyiv region, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing from residential houses. Spotters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing from residential buildings, using them as shelter and a foothold.

11:46 Temporary migrants from Ukraine begin "nightmare» Moldovan civilians speaking Russian to them. And then they dragged their "glade".

11:44 RaHDit hackers published an interesting document: I inform you that NATO is not expected to provide real military assistance to Ukraine.

As of March 4, 2022, more than 40% of the territory of Ukraine is controlled by units of the Russian Armed Forces. The civilian population continues to hastily leave the territory of Ukraine. Conflicts escalated between the Azov battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Nationalist Battalion is completely out of control. Over 75% of the military potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been destroyed.

11:30 APU rammed a minibus with children from the orphanage. This happened at the moment when orphans were evacuated from the Nikolaev orphanage "Red Sun". It is reported that four children with severe injuries, they are in intensive care.

11:25 Slovakia will not transfer its planes to Ukraine - the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic Martina Koval-Kakashchikova.

11:23 Fighters of the national battalion "Azov *" set off an explosive device in Mariupol on Meotida Boulevard. There are about 200 people under the rubble in the basement, including children, Pushilin said.

11:22 The Ukrainian gum corridor from Mariupol to Zaporozhye is extremely unsafe, there are nationalist battalions there, Denis Pushilin said.

11:19 The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that in certain quarters of Mariupol, a sweep is already being carried out by units of the NM DPR.

11:11 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the locations of the 72nd Ombre, the 1129th missile regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Gayok military airfield in the village of Gayok. Belaya Tserkov south of Kyiv.

11:09 Russian television is already broadcasting on the territory still occupied by Kiev. Photo from the village of Nikolskoye northwest of Mariupol.

11:06 According to media reports, the sounds of explosions are heard in Bila Tserkva, south of Kyiv. There are many military facilities in the city: the 72nd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1129th missile regiment are based there. Also in the village there is a military airfield Gayok.

10:12 Directly with Mariupol trouble. People are practically without information, and in the local chat, local "patriots" intimidate people and urge "not to believe the Russians." The situation is to cry. All attempts to speak with explanations are immediately blocked.

10:11 Destroyed 66 aircraft on the ground and 16 in the air, 708 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 74 multiple rocket launchers, 261 field artillery and mortars, 56 drones.

10:09 In total, during the operation, 2037 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were hit, including 71 command and control centers and communication centers, 98 air defense systems S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa, 61 radar stations.

10:02 An ammunition depot in a military unit in Zhytomyr, where Javelin and NLOW were stored, was destroyed by a long-range precision weapon.

9:47 Eyewitness information from social networks: Kyiv region, Zhytomyr direction. People report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "beat at random." Everyone is in basements. Arrivals to courtyards and houses from Kyiv.

9:38 In Ochakovo, Mykolaiv region, the military was destroyed warehouses of the APU.

9:22 Today, from 10 a.m. Moscow time, the Russian side declares a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha. — Ministry of Defense of Russia.

9:12 At night, a blow was struck on military unit No. 3005, located on 22/1 Seminarskaya Street in Kharkiv. The 5th separate brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine was based there.

8:53 Thriving in Mariupolmarauding. And this is done mainly by nationalists dressed in civilian clothes. They don't want to run away empty-handed. Looted shopping center "Port City" in Mariupol.

7:48 Residents of Kharkiv reported explosions on the territory of a military unit on Klochkovskaya Street. Apparently, we are talking about the territory of the National University of the Air Force.

4:17 In Kharkiv, the RF Armed Forces are working on the positions of nationalists in the area of ​​Kholodnaya Gora. In the industrial area near the Transsvyaz plant, there is an APU battery. Dikanevskie treatment plants are nearby, an extremely important facility.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a lot of narrative but in fact the Russian attack offenses barely gained anything on March 5
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/06/2022 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  If I could wave a magic wand and send a hellfire missile into Putin, I would. There's a special place in hell for the bastard.

But that's not going to happen. We fucked up Iraq by butting in, we trashed the place and got spanked and now Iran's riding high. Now we're making the same mistake and we're risking nuclear war.

Yes, Putin is a shit. Pure evil. But our interests dictate that we need to stay out of this.

Let Soros and Klaus Schwann and Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar fight if they want to -- maybe Amy can send the Ukrainians some killer combs.

But this ain't our circus. Stay the fuck out.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 4:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Lots of Nazis arriving in Munich these days. Many are only 2 years old. Some are Jewish.

Can't be careful enough.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/06/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  That hag Klobuhar's personality alone might give the Russians a tough time.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Is there ANY information of worth in this crap?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  badanov is presenting Ukrainian and Russian claims side by side, Rob, so we can together tease out the facts of the matter. This also allows our Russian visitors to see what Motherland claims the world is seeing beyond their boiler room.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#7  But is there any information content to it?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 16:15 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Sure, you just have to separate the signal from the noise. Doing so is left as an exercise for the Reader.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/06/2022 16:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Rob - Ukraine and Russia are both trying to spin stories/facts to their benefit as you know. I would if I were them. (I'd hire better St. Pete Trolls as these are too apparent. Quantity =/= Quality), but all you can do is post both and see where the "facts" deviate. Fog O' War and all that.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 16:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah... been doing just that...

This is less signal to more noise than I think is worth repeating.

Like this:

They hid them in children's toys and first aid kits to kill civilians and children.

Soviet practice in Afghanistan, from what I recall.

The provocation failed: a sabotage group of SBU special forces was captured near Melitopol. They intended to carry out a series of terrorist attacks against the civilian population in the city and pass it off as the actions of the Russian military.

Wasn't that how Putin created the casus belli for Chechnya?

Anyone who has been paying attention knows this is garbage; if any of it has happened, it's the Russians getting back what they started.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/06/2022 19:50 Comments || Top||

#11  My main go-to Russian language Ukrainian site has been blocked. By whom is irrelevant.

My sole remaining Ukrainian site has been updating, unbeknownst me to. The balance should improve, greatly, if korrespondent.net is brought back online.

Readers here, as always, are free to post countervailing articles.

I post what I can find in Russian mainly, but also in Ukrainian. I won't post information from western news sources because frankly they are a buncha blithering idiots when it comes to eastern Europe.

Six years of reporting on this war before the invasion has taught me that.
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 20:15 Comments || Top||

#12  You're doing fine, Bad. Thanks for your effort!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 20:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Try UkrInform
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/06/2022 21:01 Comments || Top||

#14  I find this stuff helpful, badanov. It is good to have a variety of channels to sift through. Thanks!

Signal vs Noise is always a problem. If you are into those 'book' things, something that helped me see through the noise was reading Robert Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. It lays out a handful of techniques that salesmen, telemarketers, advertisers, government, and the media use to persuade people to like, buy, act, and think in a particular way. It is a short book, but I found it eye-opening. Once you see the techniques in play, you will never look at the world in the same way.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/06/2022 21:45 Comments || Top||

#15  Ref #11: I won't post information from western news sources because frankly they are a buncha blithering idiots when it comes to eastern Europe.

Or much of anywhere or anything else.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2022 21:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian fighters are recruited to be sent to Ukraine


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, news about the recruitment of Syrian fighters to go to Ukraine to take part in the fight for either side have been emerged.

On February 26, 2022, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for people around the world to join the fight against Russia, saying, “all citizens of the world, friends of Ukraine, peace and democracy, anyone who wants to join the defense of Ukraine, Europe and the world can come and fight side by side with the Ukrainians against the Russian war criminals.”

Regarding the issue of the joining of the foreigners, especially Syrians, to the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Syrians for Truth and Justice organization (STJ) interviewed two sources from Rif Dimashq governorate and curbed doubt with certainty.

The first source was a fighter registered his name with the Syrian government’s security services to travel to Ukraine and fight alongside the Russian forces.

“I heard, by sheer coincidence, that names of those willing to fight in Ukraine are being registered. The registration was mediated by the reconciliation official in the area where I live,” the source who abstained from disclosing his name told the STJ.

“I approached the reconciliation official and asked him to help me register my name. He did. The man communicated with an assistant surgeon in the Air Force Intelligence Branch in Harasta city, Rif Dimashq,” he added.

The source pointed out that this process was done by a “Russian security company” and the priority is for the fighters who fought under Russian officers or within the ranks of the Division 25 of the Syrian government forces.

The second source, as the STJ reported, was an official in one of the local reconciliation committees in an area in Rif Dimashq who said:

“I was at the Air Force Intelligence Branch to help a number of wanted persons surrender themselves and obtain a pardon in return. There, one officer started talking in front me, saying that they will prepare lists with the names of fighters who have sufficient combat experience. These fighters will be subjected to a small-scale training by Russian officers in preparation for sending them to Russia and transporting them to fight in Ukraine with the Russian side.”

As for Turkey’s intention to send fighters to Ukraine similar to what it had previously done in Libya, fighters are already being registered to be sent to Ukraine, through initiatives led by some faction commanders or individuals, but not by the Turkish state itself, according to the STJ.

The STJ interviewed a first-class officer from one of the SNA factions where he refuted the allegations that the Turkish intelligence service had held extensive meetings with the SNA commanders regarding the deployment of fighters to Ukraine.

In an exclusive statement to North Press, the STJ CEO, Bassam al-Ahmad said, “Of course, members of the Turkish-backed factions in Syria are registering their names to partake the war in Ukraine, but the situation in Ukraine is different from that in Libya or Armenia, so that Turkey is still apprehensive.”

“Although they are called ‘National Army’, but those factions are mere mercenaries, so they are ready to go,” he added.

Reporting by Jwan Shkaki

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I sort of like this policy of sending chechens, syrians, mercs as frontline fodder. Whether Vlad loses or wins.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Blacklisted Sarajudin Haqqani appears for first time

[Khaama] feeling cocky with all the eyeballs on Ukraine...
Leader of Haqqani network
...the most dangerous of the Talib factions, specializing in jacket wallahs, kidnapping Westerners for ransom, assassinating Afghan high officials, and big, showy attacks. Also, under contract to their Pakistan ISI paymasters, attacking Indian infrastructure and construction projects in Afghanistan. The clan territory is in Afghanistan’s eastern mountains, but they most recently left behind their base in Miram Shah, North Waziristan...
and acting Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Sarajudin Haqqani appeared to media for the first time during a graduation ceremony of police in Kabul on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Sarajudin Haqqani is still wanted by the FBI accused him of terror attacks.
They’re offering $10 million just for information that would lead to his arrest.
Though he had meetings with foreign diplomats and local officials across Afghanistan, his photo did not appear on media and his face was shown blurred.

Chief spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid said that his photo can be made public now.

In the graduation ceremony, 377 police officers-males and females- were given documents after completion of their bachelor’s degree.

Meanwhile, national police were also given uniforms for the first time.

Earlier, people would complain about the Taliban affiliates wandering around the cities without donning a specific uniform. Terror groups and thieves robbed people and houses impersonating the Taliban.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11136 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine Museums Desperately Working To Preserve Priceless Hunter Biden Paintings
[Babylon Bee] KYIV, UKRAINE—As shells have begun exploding in the heart of Kyiv, museums have rushed to protect their most prized, valuable pieces: the original artwork of once-in-a-generation talent Hunter Biden.

"The Louvre may have Van Gogh and the Mona Lisa, but here we have Coke On Coke by Hunter Biden," said museum owner Ivan Rostyslav. "I will never forget when he sold us this piece, he said to me, 'Ivan, I don't know how I got here or where my pants are but can you get me to the airport?' Ha! What an artist he is!"

According to sources, most of the paintings were initially purchased for the Burisma boardroom with the tacit understanding that then-Vice President Joe Biden would look out for Ukraine. Museum owners waged huge bidding wars to acquire the pieces, knowing that beyond the remarkable art, each painting came with the assurance that the United States would have their back.

"We were lucky to get our hands on Hooked By Hookers, it's quite a popular piece," said curator Viktor Dankevych as he took the piece down for safe storage in a bomb shelter. "But more importantly, we know it means that President Biden will take care of Ukraine in our time of need. I hear the planes overhead, the air raid sirens, I do not panic. I know the United States will come to help."

At publishing time, sources say all of the Biden paintings have been sold on eBay to Taiwan.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Should Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Donald Trump, and Lindsey Graham been assassinated?
Posted by: Javirt Cromomble6853 || 03/06/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||



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