What the United States and Great Britain are currently engaged in is classic war propaganda.
Such activity is banned under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted on December 16, 1966, by UN General Assembly Resolution 2200A (XXI). The first paragraph in Article 20 stipulates: “Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”
What could be clearer? Still, maintaining a free hand has always been the main guiding principle for Washington and London.
While agreeing to be bound by the Covenant, the United States adopted the following reservation: “Article 20 does not authorise or require legislation or other action by the United States that would restrict the right of free speech and association protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
The British government has issued a similar reservation: “The Government of the United Kingdom interpret article 20 consistently with the rights conferred by articles 19 and 21 of the Covenant and having legislated in matters of practical concern in the interests of public order (ordre public) reserve the right not to introduce any further legislation. The United Kingdom also reserve a similar right in regard to each of its dependent territories.”
To give you a bit of context, the Covenant was adopted at the height of the Cold War with the objective of not only protecting human rights, but also making sure that humanity stepped back from the abyss towards which NATO’s military rhetoric was pushing it at that time. The Soviet Union, and later the Russian Federation, as well as dozens of other countries around the world understood the danger of war propaganda and voluntarily renounced this dangerous practice. However, both Washington and London refused to give up their ability to set a burning match to the wick.
What we are witnessing right now is the propaganda of war at its finest. They use aggressive rhetoric to cover up arms supplies to Ukraine, send military instructors there, hold NATO military exercises near Russian borders and have Western countries build their offensive combined-arms infrastructure.
For more than half a century, the United States and Great Britain have had this tool up their sleeves. It is now that they have decided to pull it out and are now swinging it like a stick by sustaining a manageable hysteria and influencing public opinion in their countries through media holdings like CNN and Bloomberg, as well as the British tabloids.
Everything is ready for Washington to press the Peregruzka button invented by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who thought that it stood for “reset,” while the actual meaning was “overcharge.”
She made another comment, which is brutal_
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 “Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating the pretext for an invasion,” US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/us-intelligence-russia-false-flag/index.html).
The world knows who lies all the time. Those who have forgotten how Washington fabricates pretexts for invasions should watch the address US Secretary of State Colin Powell made at the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003. He said the following in that ill-famed address (https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=ru/S/PV.4701):
“The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction pose to the world.
<…> (holding up a vial) Less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envelope shut down the United States Senate in the fall of 2001. This forced several hundred people to undergo emergency medical treatment and killed two postal workers just from an amount just about this quantity that was inside of an envelope.
<…> This is evidence, not conjecture. This is true. This is all well-documented.
<…> There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction.”
Colin Powell later admitted on several occasions that when he was addressing the UN Security Council the US President had already made the decision to invade Iraq, and that he regrets (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/colin-powell-u-n-speech-was-a-great-intelligence-failure/) that many of the data presented at the Security Council were false. Barely a year later, in 2004, he stated (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18890-2004Sep13.html) in Congress that they would hardly find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq , which he claimed existed when he held up a vial to prove it. Incidentally, Mr Powell said (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/colin-powell-u-n-speech-was-a-great-intelligence-failure/) that his address and the “well-documented evidence,” which had been compiled at the US National Security Council (Jake Sullivan is a member of that body now) was “totally inadequate.” He knew (https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Politics/story?id=1105979) very well that such mistakes are never forgotten. He said, “It’s a blot. I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record.”
In a report (https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-DUELFERREPORT) published in September 2004, 1,400 international experts led by Charles Duelfer, Special Advisor to the CIA Director on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, ended the farce. They concluded that no remotely substantial amounts of WMD had been found in Iraq.
And lastly, I would recommend that Mr Sullivan watch that address (https://youtu.be/BjRZdyVxg-w) in his native language.
American politicians have lied, are lying and will continue lying, fabricating pretexts for attacks on peaceful civilians around the world. This is a fact. I would like to warn the US establishment against dirtying their conscience once again, but I am not sure that they have a conscience.
China’s Actions
#China is closely following the situation in #Ukraine and the Chinese diplomatic mission in Ukraine is working normally: Chinese FM said on whether China will evacuate its embassy in Kiev. pic.twitter.com/mZGiBqwN5b
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) February 14, 2022
In addition, China is not only focusing on the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are clearly aware of the danger and this is their response. They are not hiding the fact that these military exercises are a result of provocations from the US and its allies.
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force units across all five theater commands recently conducted simultaneous exercises after the PLA Navy held concurrent drills in three major sea regions in a similar manner, in a move that displayed the Chinese military’s high level of combat preparedness facing military provocations from the US and its allies, analysts said on Sunday. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252135.shtml
Posted by Amarynth
There is a Chinese inspiring movie: The Battle of Changjin.
You will find it in Youtube. (2H53M).
At that time China had no sophisticated military technology but already lots of excellent brave soldiers.
Good to watch while Putin makes his next move.
Cheers from France
I strongly recommend “The Battle at Lake Changjin”, which I watched recently online. It is very long for a movie but quite gripping, and you will not be tempted to take a break. I could compare it with the 1956 film of “War and Peace”, which ran 30 minutes longer (208 to 178 minutes).
While obviously written and acted from the Chinese point of view, it contains no more exaggeration or distortion than most Hollywood war films – maybe rather less. The basic facts are, as far as I know, exactly correct. Some of the battle scenes have been “bigged up” with bullets and cannon fire flying everywhere; in one American air raid the sky seems full of planes flying around at terrifying speed. Perhaps the best way to think of such exaggerations is that they show you the events as experienced by Chinese soldiers.
The thing that impressed me most was that, although I thought I knew the history of the period fairly well, this film added a dimension or two to that knowledge. Instead of the faceless communist hordes pouring across the border and launching senseless, mindless “human wave” attacks on the brave Americans, we see distinct individuals with unique personalities and friendships, performing feats of bravery and endurance in defence of their country.
I saw a strong parallel with the German invasion of the USSR in 1941. Like the Germans, the Americans had apparently superior technology, but lost their advantage because of the extreme cold, snow and ice. They monitored all radio signals, but were thwarted because the Chinese – like the Soviets – used messengers, flags and semaphore signals instead. And like the Germans, they arrogantly underestimated their enemies whom they thought backward and, therefore, stupid.
I can’t remember seeing a war movie that I enjoyed more, although some parts are harrowing.
Mario Medjeral, there will be no false flag,as you say the next move must come from Russia and it will be “technical and military”.
Everything else is just a distraction.
“Death and Glory in Changde” – There was Stalingrad, and there was also Changde. Chinese soldiers encircled and severely mauled a Japanese army. https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Changde
“Escape from Huang Shi” – an excellent movie based on historical events.
In response to “Article 20 does not authorise [sic] or require legislation or other action by the United States that would restrict the right of free speech and association protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”, some may note that there is no Constitutional protection of “crying fire in a crowded theater”, nor of conspiracy to make war or any other crime. Yes, there is no legal way to prohibit the speech itself, no prior restraint, but it is in fact punishable after the fact. That such crime is almost never prosecuted in the US suggests, to some, that the US in many instances, does not follow its own law. This, in logic, suggests that the US administration itself favors both the pro-war propaganda and war itself. Evidence in actual actions of the US administrations, particularly after 1787, may be seen as proof. Further evidence after 1945 is even more compelling…Korea and all the rest. In the end this characteristic reflects, and the administrations become isolated from the people and war-making processes come to dominate the State, which then knows nothing but war, and, in turn, the State makes war on its people. As, some say, we see.
Re: “Further evidence after 1945 is even more compelling”
https://www.liberationnews.org/ramsey-clark/
Ramsey Clarke, United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, said:
▪︎ “The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”
▪︎ “How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].”
▪︎ “There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.” [Abu Ghraib was the rule, if one knows of US prisons..]
▪︎ “People who don’t cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go” [elder retirement / nursing homes, separate from alms houses, were invented in New England and spread to other industrialized cities. Fortunately this concept remains foreign to most non-western cultures]
▪︎ “The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them”
▪︎ “Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy”
—-
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙎 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙” © RT comment.
UN article 2200 A (XXI): “Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”
Well how about this one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-denmark-military-deal-affects-danish-national-sovereignty
The Danish Government is to abdicate Denmark’s military sovereignty, by allowing US troops to occupy all of its territory, using local military bases, allocating new equipment, and carrying out all type of activity deemed necessary by the US, without any authorization or any prior notice to the Danish authorities.
The only limit to US activities is the installation of nuclear weapons on Danish soil, which remains prohibited. The deal is an abdication of the command of the Danish military forces, which will be at the service of US troops, as a relevant role is not established for the Danish forces.
This agreement is an insulting to all Danes.The Danish population is against the proposal and wants its own defense capabilities improved to be able to face any threat to Danish territory.
The Cheerleaders for this proposal are
Mette Frederiksen, the Danish Social Democratic Party.
Jacob Ellemann Jensen. the Danish Liberal Party Venstre.
Søren Pape: the Danish Conservative Party.
If the proposal is ever voted through the Danish parliament, every member voting for the motion will be prosecuted for HIGH TREASON.
And if US troops do enter Danish territory without being scrambled by NATO article 5, they will be prone to liquidation and sabotage by Danish freedom Fighters, just like German NAZI troops were during their occupation of Denmark in 1945.
If this proposal becomes reality, it will be the second time “Danish” Political Parties with relation to Fascism in Europe, are laying the land open to foreign occupation. In 1945 they send Danish troops home from the military Barracks and their border posts, the day before the NAZIs sailed directly into Copenhagen harbor.
Fucking Traitors.
The US wants Greenland. The Danes are being romanced to give it up.
This would change the entire Arctic region regarding control of NSR and instantly making it a war zone instead of a trade route.
The Hegemon is long from dead.
Yes I know that the US wants Greenland to get access to the Arctic Region.
Even Trump tried to Buy it. And back then the answer war a resounding NO.
Even though Greenland is part of the Danish Commonwealth, Today Greenland has it own Government.
There is only one Greenlandic Politician (CIA Agent?) who are positive regarding US Bases in Greenland.
And the Government in Copenhagen cant solely decide whether Greenland should be occupied by US Forces.
On the other hand the Taxpayers in the Danish mainland has payed for almost a century to the development of Greenland, and Today the Danes feels connected to the people of Greenland.
Denmark – Greenland is working to develop the Arctic via the Arctic Council, in cooperation with the other Nordic Nations, Russia, and Canada.
I see the new proposal either: – As blackmail by the US government – A propaganda dud – or High Treason by Fascist “Danish” politicians.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected the appeals of the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union against the decision of the disciplinary committee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to lift the temporary suspension of figure skater Kamila Valieva. Thus, the 15-year-old athlete will be able to compete in individual competitions at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
https://tass.ru/sport/13700681
However, there will be no medal ceremony for the event she has won, and her team wound. And if she wins the singles events, there will be no medal ceremony for her.
So, they know she is innocent, they know she will win (if she can get her head clear of all the crap thrown at her, the pressure, the shaming, the lies, the manipulations of the entire experience).
And they still will take months to decide about her positive test result, which they are “investigating”.
Clearly, the science defies their intention.
How does one test show dope surrounded by all her other tests before and after that one test?
And why does that banned drug in such a tiny amount matter any way?
Her performance in Beijing was drug free and she was the best ever.
Her performances in other competitions in January and December were drug-free and she dominated.
Logic tells you that she doesn’t use the banned drug. She is a victim not a culprit.
But the Russophobia is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
They will torture Kamila Valieva for months, maybe all year long, in order to break her and ruin her career.
Otherwise, she will be the Queen of skating for a decade.
Good luck and God bless you, Kamila. The world sends you prayers for your competition tomorrow.
This is not over by any means. They still can find her culpable and take the gold from her.
They still can blame the ROC, the trainer, someone close to the team, her doctor, any of 145 million Russians, President Putin, anyone they decide to blame. It’s their choice and that’s why they’ll take months to decide.
https://lenta.ru/news/2022/02/14/camiladoping/
What does that have to do with la Zakharova’s report and China’s actions?
You’re clearly off topic.
Lone Wolf
The attack on Russia is an attack on Beijing Olympics, Lame Wolf.
This is hybrid warfare against both Russia and China.
No medal ceremonies? You think China wants no medal ceremonies, especially for its partner, ally Russia?
Try to think before you attack.
One, I’m not about to take some lame ass comment lightly. Two, you run your comments and stay off mine.
Just because you can’t connect the dots, the rest of us here will carry on while you roam the woods alone.
Concur 100%, this is a crime planned well in advance, probably before the test was done I think in December. All of us knew they would pull something against the Russ athletes and of course it would be against the most innocent, they’re preferred victims, innocent children.
I am not attacking you; I am pointing out to an obvious fact. Your post belong in the open thread, not here. If you are feeling attacked, you are ready to join the Ukronazis and their war hysteria.
While others are chastised for not pointing on topic, you believe you are self-entitled to post any comments on subjects galore where they do not belong, and the only one who connect the dots is you.
We all know is hybrid warfare, the point of having a subject to comment on, is to be able to dissect a complex reality into digestible bits. You can always move to the Unz Review, where they comment about missiles and porn on a post about nutrition.
Your name-calling and put-downs only show your butthurt ego can stoop as low as you can get when you are caught in a violation of the rules everybody else is called to respect.
Have a nice day.
Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf – please respect the site rules and moderation policy. Your whole comment is just personal. Also, you are not a moderator or the Saker so please refrain from making comments about the site rules and admonishing others. Thanks. Mod.
Calm down Lone Wolf. Larchmonter445 is actually following up on this for all of us. Here is his post, which is now a little old. /the-olympic-war-against-russian-athletes/
He is also been here for many many years, and I would suggest not to mess with him. Kinda because you will lose lol.
OK, all calm down now.
Can everyone stop going off-topic and getting personal. Thx. This discussion is closed. Mod.
The International Olympic committee has 101 members, 45 honorary members and 1 “honour member”. That “honour member’s” name? Henry Kissinger.
Yes, this is hybrid warfare, aimed at Russia and peripherally at China.
An excellent reminder. This war has many fronts.
Every Olympics since 2008 at least has been systematically “destroyed” by the vicious lies of the “west”, with huge influence of the Canadians in WADA and McLaren -I remember the “hole in the wall” drug sample accusations and so many other successful attempts to ensure Russia never had its deserved athletic achievements recognised. In many cases , years laterthe truth came out, but was never given the publicity of the original lies.
Larchmonter445> Agree, it’s quite clear that the girl is the victim of a crime, and that the accuser agency is the criminal. The principle of “The Norwood Builder” (Conan Doyle) tells the logic. When the bloody thumb-print was not there, and then it was, it became obvious that the accused was innocent and the accuser guilty.
Sherlock literally smoked the guilty party out of hiding. It is particularly odious to attempt to use an innocent girl this way, and also really stupid – since the attempt actually point to the “perp”.
She’s one classy lady!
Best! P
For a country where the majority are wholly dependent on all sorts of opioids to blot out the nightmare of their day-to-day exceptionalism, few give a crap.
The Americans tainted The Olympics (any sport they touch turns toxic ) a long time ago, it’s supposed to be for Amateurs, and yet you have basketball players who’ve signed $50 million professional contracts participating. Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay, Hundreds are at it using the very best sugar dope provided by medical science laboratories across the US and have been for years. IOC, OSCE, F1, UN, JCPOA, IAEA, CIA,NSA, all fall under One Banner, corrupt to the core. Now you’ve got men who were not able to compete against men, competing with women. Disband all Alphabet Agencies and you’ll rip control of the Plantation from America.
Regarding Sherlock, The League of Red Headed Gentleman –
An aristocrat & gang plan to rob the gold in the vaults of a private London bank. Holmes , Inspector Lestrade and Watson finalise their trap.
Holmes – His grandfather was a Royal Duke, he himself went to Eton & Oxford.
Watson, bring the gun!
It’s guns, big guns you need when dealing with these Blue Bloods Gangs.
The best Sherlock Holmes I ever saw was produced in Russia. It starred Igor Petrenko, Andrey Panin and Mihail Boyarskiy.
It seems especially petulant to decide to not hold a medal ceremony should Kamila place in the individual competition. She will likely win gold and they know it. In fact, Russia will likely sweep the medals in women’s figure skating. No one is in the same league as the Russian girls.
The only real competition in women’s skating is between the Russian girls themselves. On a good day, Alexandra Trusova could take gold. She is known as the “Queen of Quads” though Kamila has the honor of landing the first one at the Olympics. Also, Anna Scherbakova is no slouch and all are heads and shoulders above the rest of the competition.
The competition starts tomorrow and continues on Thursday. Watch for a Russian sweep!!!
To me, this has always been the intent of the actions against Russia in sport. Look at the punishment. No Russia flag. No Russia team or uniforms. And, if this Russian wins, no medal ceremony.
The fascists have known the nationalist power of the Olympics since Berlin 1936. One need only watch NBC’s coverage to understand that they know and use that power in the same way today. And the ‘punishments’ against Russia are designed to try to ensure that Russia does not have access to that same power.
At times, living in America, it seems as if the country is ruled by high-schoolers who think that if they can pull off something like this they can win, win I say, win. Meanwhile, they never let the kids who can design stuff like hypersonic missiles into their cool-kids club…. who wants to hang out with nerds, who needs them? Not the cool-kids while they create their brilliant plans to show they are superior over Biffy and her gang and thus establish for the entire high-school to see that they are the truly exceptional children.
Russia will be attacked at every opportunity. Sport, energy, businessmen, private individuals, tourists, media outlets, trade, politicians, everything, even the Russian vaccine. Including a 15 year old girl. All fair game for smears, attacks, and increasingly improbable false flags by the spook agencies. Russia needs to realise it is dealing with an implacable, hate filled enemy not open to any negotiation, and react accordingly. Russia needs to stop reacting proportionately. It needs to respond totally disproportionately. It needs to take the battle to them, impose some real pain and teach Uncle Sam a lesson with a long overdue good hard kick in the balls.
Russia understands all the drooling nonsense of the West fair and square. Regards it correctly as confirmation that its policy decisions hurt real badly right where they should. I mean, imagine Russia letting the Ukronazis and the US have Crimea and ask yourself about the effect that would have on the rabid take on all things Russian.
@anon
It maybe that Putin is waiting until the Olympics is over , A three point attack on the West at the same time,
Russia China and Iran and company maybe in the wind , Would this be a good way to proceed any thought’s
from anyone. These veiling will never stop ,the world will have peace only when they are removed.
Thank you
Tom 123
It’s a shame most in the Western world will never catch on to what is really going on. Kamila is a national treasure. These games the West play are disgusting. It’s beyond cowardice, but straight perversion and evil. They’ve planted seeds of evil and destruction all over the planet. This can’t go on for ever. What is going on is they are flaunting power that most international institutions are in their control. They’ve accumulated them due to the results of the World Wars. They have now come full circle and use them in a very bad way to coerce, manipulate, and destroy to maintain hegemony. Disgraceful.
A beautiful 15 year old girl who worked all her childhood for a dream. No problem, lets steam roll her. Working people in Canada dare challenge authoritarian rules? destroy them. Russia dare want security guarantees? Thanks Maria Zakharova for a proper answer.
We must assume the test was a “false positive”. That happens with any test from time to time.
It would help though if some medical people who administer these tests would elaborate.
And then we have the attempted shunning of Eileen Gu here in the U.S. Fortunately, the shunning is not working to well because Miss Gu is simply too much over the top.
Since when did sports, especially Olympic sports, have to get tangled with world politics and war? I prefer to just see young people do their best, and leave the rest out of it.
Exactly. I watched Gu win the gold. Amazing young woman.
If she has stayed an American athlete, she would be the new Wonder Woman.
Instead, she’s branded a tool of the Chicoms, a traitor (called by some dumbass Americans).
Part of the great Yellow Peril. They will haunt her at Stanford University.
She’s a free American who has chosen to be dual citizen. Seems like the essence of what I call Freedom, guaranteed by the Constitution (which barely is alive, on a respirator with empty IV drips.)
The hypocrisy of some American patriots is manifest.
Yes, and the irony of it all is she is more of a “double agent” than anything else. She is bringing America to China, and also some China to America. That is something both Americans and Chinese should all be proud of. She is going turn both the Chinese and U.S.A. governments on their heads. But that is probably what the U.S.A. establishment in particular is so afraid of. (I think the Chinese are just all too happy to see some fresh air.)
I don’t even buy that story anymore. The timing, the fact they publicized before conclusion of an investigation, interrupting her preparations for performance. There is too much repeated behavior by Western organizations of these provocations. I must not assume they are in the business of truth. They are known by the fruit of their actions. They’ve been sitting on that since Dec. 25.
Politics has definitely ruined the sports. The US had athletes being utterly racist towards Russian athletes at previous Olympics. I feel bad for Eileen Gu. She did well! Similar nonsense. US had no problems with tons of foreign nationals that came to the US and competed under the US flag. God forbid you do that in reverse. You can love two places. You can have one that makes up who you are and the place where you live. Its her choice. Nations give citizenships just for the Olympics. That’s a whole other topic.
Hybrid warfare at its “finest.” So sad that sports is no longer a refuge from politics. 😰
While I understand many Chinese people poured their heart & soul into making the 2022 Beijing Olympics into a special event, the Chinese government should have known the 5 Eyes have zero shame in continuing their hybrid war at the Olympics. It would have been dissapointing, but Covid19 provided a perfect excuse to cancel, or postpone Olympics.
The latest rumours from a supposed Chinese doctor (ie the one Tucker Carlson uses to bash “evil CCP”) is Xi Jinping has ordered the Olympics to spread a virus more lethal than Covid19. This narrative’s purpose:
*Continue to accuse China of being responsible for starting the pandemic
*Imply that Chinese people are genetically incapable of competing/fighting against western people both physically, & intellectually
*Create causus belli to use nuclear weapons against China
Considering the corruption of the various sports governing bodies are based in NATO countries, it is doubtful Zone B can help reform them; therefore Zone B should withdraw from them.
https://www.rt.com/sport/549316-usada-wada-valieva-/
Check that out. What a vile, filthy being. The jealousy and inability to keep their own athletes clean, which they have a great problem with, is just embarrassing to watch. You can see why jealousy is a sin!!! It is so easy to hate this idiot.
I guess when one gives up culture, they allow themselves to behave uncultured.
Lets hope the athletes still get to enjoy the competitions, meeting new people, and the sights and sounds of the Olympics. They make their families and countrymen proud.
This is just another hybrid attack. And he really shows the source of this animosity
Our local Flot has sailed three days ago. Units from Pacific and Baltic Flots are now in Black Sea and in base in Sevastopol and Novorosyssk. More are in transit. Local units were, until three days ago, training like mad 24/7, noise reduction regulations be damned. All that ceased when the Flot sailed out of our and Novorosyssk harbors, now there is nothing but ominous silence. One should know what it means when the entire Flot sails out of harbor and stays at sea.
All is calm in our village, citizens are not panic buying, no one is rushing hither and yon but many are like us, quietly stocking up. With two of our children needing a special diet, one ‘old with arthritis’, one ‘young nuclear power plant on four legs and growing like a weed’, we have stocked up heavily for them. Their food comes from Mainland as does the food for the other two. For me and VCO, we’re good.
I have no idea if this crisis will abate. Mother will not take one step back, in reality she can’t. The collective west has been screaming about ‘Russian invasion’ since roughly early morning 24 February 2014. That was about the time that our Russian Spring of 23 February 2014 finally sank in to their somewhat empty brain buckets and they figured out they would never have American Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol. That’s what this is all about, the fact that we rose up and said ‘oh hell no’ after the American sponsored and paid orcs took Kiev. Everything else is window dressing along with the tantrums of a spoiled child who did not get the toy it desired. Problem is this spoiled child is heavily armed, dangerous and arrogant to a textbook description of same, ergo they are not only dangerous but unpredictable.
As the saying goes, pray for peace and prepare for war.
Auslander
Auslander, I took great pleasure from reading your comment, thank you. Your children will grow up in a far saner world dominated by China and Russia.
Auslander, dear friend,
The path to peace is prepared for war. Russia is talking about mutual security for Russia and Europe. The West refuses to discuss their own security.
Somehow they think threatening Russia with missiles is preparing themselves for war. Not only is that pathetic thinking, but it prepares them to receive a war that will destroy themselves. The West parades around like it can take on Russia.
What seems to be clear is the West knows only they can start the war.
And I don’t see how Biden and the Dems calculate that a war will benefit him and themselves.
The American public is 80% against a war with Russia.
The recent report castigating the Biden team for the debacle of the Afghan withdrawal, retreat, rout, and screwup at the airport and the drone strike killing 10 innocent civilians is powerful salt on his wounds.
Does he want an even larger catastrophic mistake?
Joe can yell over the telephone and then they can spin it. They know in the Oval Office they are holding a losing hand.
Kenny Rogers said: “It’s time to fold it.”
Larchmonter, my closest friend and dear comrade,
You and I have been in this fight together for years now and we generally agree on who can, or will, do what, with which and to whom.
I think that deep in the bowels of Foggy Bottom and Five Points they know the score and they know if they push Mother too far the result will be significant parts of Command and Control in what is known, of the moment, as ‘EU’ will suffer catastrophically. Mother’s missiles have pinpoint accuracy and any hardstand that can take any weapon system will be scorched as will the C&C systems controlling same. Period. This alone will panic EU and EU has no viable ‘retaliation’ systems under their control. Not a one. SehSha? Politicians there seem to be having a collective cranial cavity shut down moment.
Will SehSha suffer? Depends on how stupud she gets. Baring a nuke exchange what may come to pass on Continental US, in selected areas, is destruction of choke point bridges and local water and sewage systems. Think about it. Philly or NYC or Atlanta or Miami suddenly have no water and no operative waste water system. What will happen to the incredibly spoiled locals? They went to bed nice and secure and after a couple of distant thumps and bumps in the dead of night, in the morning their kitchen faucet spews nothing but gurgling noise. They flush the toilet after their morning voiding and nothing happens. They hop in the car and dash down to the local McNasties or Dunkin’ and they don’t work, no water, no waste water system ergo no instant breakfast and coffee that they are too lazy to fix themselves.
Choke point bridges being downed means instant food and fuel shortages. SehSha works on the three day time system, nothing is stocked locally to any extent, all food, fuel and other supply is brought in on a ‘first out first in’ system, ergo two or three days stock is all they have on hand if that. How long do you think it will be before the denizens of Inner City begin to fan out looking for food, water and fuel? Who of any of them know how to construct a field expedient latrine? Who of any of them have so much as a pint of petrol stored for the car? Who of any of them know where to dig a shallow hole to obtain water (hint: dig the water hole uphill and as far as possible from the dump hole). 0.01% if that.
I do hope none of this happens, I have a very few remaining friends in SehSha and Germany and I don’t wish them anything but the best. But, dammit, leave us to hell alone! We have nothing you individually could possibly want but if your political masters keep pushing they will find out what happened to France and Germany. You want polite young men in green in your capitols? Keep on playing your games and that’s exactly what you will get, just like Paris and Berlin. For you, it ain’t worth the cost.
Auslander
Auslander, comrade and friend,
The psychosis in the West is profound and goes bottom to top. They believe their own lies.
Will they see their own predictable doom?
We see Lavrov has an opening he wants to exploit. Putin is giving him time to talk the West down from the edge of abyss. So, we will have many weeks ahead for the talented FM staffs to render mutual security understandings that all can accept.
Sometimes, the mentally disadvantaged need rescuing even if they intend to do you harm.
The Russians have long histories and skills aplenty to deal with the power drunk, deranged and dangerous miscreants who seem to abound in their neighborhood.
Plan B military-technical is now headed up by Lavrov. Meanwhile, Shoigu will create new military pressures to keep the Pressure Campaign going.
The last people who want war are the Russians. You live there at ground zero on the Black Sea and know far better than I how Peace is what is prayed for first. Victory is left to the Generals and Admirals.
Larchmonter, my long time comrade in arms,
We can only hope and pray for peace but we are indeed, both personally and patriotically, prepared for war. Do we want war? Hell no. Will we fight if we have to? Hell yes, even VCO and me at our ages.
We put our complete trust in VVP and his team. If anyone can get SehSha to step back from the abyss it is Lavrov and his group of extraordinarily talented and trained diplomats. Our hope is SehSha sees the balance of reason and diplomacy. If not, they will speak to General of the Armies Shoigu and his talented, well trained and intensely patriotic ‘team’…who if forced to fight will show no mercy. That is one thing SehSha and ‘EU’ don’t understand, if it does come to war Army Rossiya will not stop until they have bases in Greenland and everywhere in between. At that point it will simply be a matter of time as SehSha withers on the vine and is reduced to nuisance value of drooling bluster that no one will listen to.
Auslander
I live a mile from the gates of the largest naval base in San Diego. No need to stock up, I will be vaporized instantly . Still surface ships in the harbor.
I feel your pain, John. We’ve just under a klick from the north side harbor quays where the major units of Fleet are comfortably tied up. About a click west of us is a somewhat large Specialist Base and the main entrance to Belbek Aerodrome is about 7 klicks to our direct north. Just about all our combat ships are not in harbor but lots of trash haulers tied up on both sides of harbor. If the kaka hits the whirling blades we’re gonna find out real fast how good our S series of air defense systems are. That, my friend, is a test we can do without very nicely.
Auslander
It is very weird watching the 60s version of On the Beach. A patrol from the submarine goes walking thru a very dead San Diego. Very sobering. Auslander’s books are very good.
@Larchmonter445
Biden and the others are just actors the really controllers live in other parts of the world they have no country, , counties to them are just pawns on the chess board in my research ,Consider this WW1 and,WW2 was controlled by England the plan was (1) get rid of the kings , Royal’s etc (prior to ww1 ) (2) for Germany and Russia to destroy each other ( it did not work out that way, Russia was still in the way .)
America would rise and be the new mercenary military, control by England .England and the Vatican has controlled American since the 1861 ( the USA is a corporation fake country ), (3) Consider this America has had It’s run and gutted out Their plan may be ?
To have USA and Russia to destroy each other ,just like their plan for WW2 two great powers Germany and
Russia this time two great powers USA and Russia.The fake money system can not go on for ever and they
need a War to cover it up also cov did not work to reduce the world population, a Nuck war.
I hope I’am wrong.
Tom 123
We are all clear that starting a war on the basis of lies is quintessentially evil and entirely distinct from the use of propaganda to boost morale in wartime.
Deliberately starting a war is a war crime, whether it starts with invasion of the land or invasion of the mind.
Those involved need to know and understand that they are guilty of crimes against humanity, and there will be a day of reckoning, one way or another.
Unfortunately, committing war crimes is something of a US tradition.
https://russia-insider.com/en/history/us-atrocities-korean-war-chem-and-bio-weapons-mass-civilian-bombing-and-execution/ri23685
“Unfortunately, committing war crimes is something of a US tradition”.
A huge understatement. In fact, it has been the main occupation and raison d’etre of the US federal government ever since Thomas Jefferson ceased to be president.
Yes, and the unasked but extremely interesting question is, precisely when, what day, did the Policy of chemical and biological warfare of the guilty State end?
If, as is proved, the Policy existed, then what day did it stop? So far that question is unanswered…which seems to imply some rather unpleasant and illegal Policies actually continue…then too, naturally, some may regard the flooding of US cities with dope as chemical warfare against the People of the US…
G2mil has quite a bit on this, which seems to be Policy…and run to benefit certain families at the cost of ruin of millions.
see also “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” (McCoy)
Inter alia also see Jeffery Kaye @ medium, Old fellas has the best collection of documentary proofs that I know of.
Like a drug addicted 5 decade old serial offender, only the complete cold turkey by way of firing squad will suffice.
Apparently an emergency session of Ukraine’s national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, scheduled for Feb 14 has been canceled due to most MP having left the country.
jiri, you need to have sources for this statement.
Amarynth, here is a source it’s at the end of the article, one of the updates:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-nato-has-decided-to-deploy-an-air-police-mission-as-147-800-russian-troops-deployed-around-ukraine
Margie, really, this is not a source. In fact I took a quick look. Sorry, but it is BS. Some alt media guy pretending he knows something.
Just in general, I see more and more irresponsible comments. Not only do these waste time, (like my time now and others), they also create war propaganda, which we do not need.
Let me pass on some education from The Saker (years ago, and he has probably long forgotten). I must have been pulling together some research or something and I thought I had it taped. Solid sources solidly presented .. and the question was, Do we Go with this or Do we Wait. I’ll never forget — We Wait, he said — scan the environment. Double check, triple check. That is why we don’t post unconfirmed reports from unconfirmed sources.
So, if I can do it, so can you all.
Always ask that question .. Do I go with this or do I wait?
It’s Valentine’s Day…. where in Ukraine are you taking the Mrs for a nice quiet dinner…..
Cheers M
I’m waiting patiently on Putin waiting patiently for responses from individual EU States.
Best find out which vassals are too far hitched to America’s intricate financial web of indebtedness and which ones, like Argentina, are trying to free themselves (country) from the demonic forces of darkness.
The Germans are still shell shocked, heavily compromised since 1944 onwards and thus are incapable of Leadership. That fake constipated cows like Baerbock can detrimentally influence proceedings is a huge tell that only Russia can save the EU from itself.
One hopes there is something to this. The poster has shown over several years that he has great insight into how the DC “swamp” operates:
“It’s Official – White House Ukraine Crisis is Manufactured – Pelosi Says if Russia Doesn’t Invade Ukraine, It Proves Strength and Brilliance of Joe Biden Policy”
See: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/13/its-official-white-house-ukraine-crisis-is-manufactured-pelosi-says-if-russia-doesnt-invade-ukraine-it-proves-strength-and-brilliance-of-joe-biden-policy/
There was a provocation yesterday.
An F-35 opened fire on an SU-30SM, and he was forced to return fire with EW countermeasures.
https://youtu.be/zFkcYM6thyU
Pale Spider, for such a statement you need to have ironclad sources. Not some guy with a youtube channel.
Do you have such sources?
The “real” article is from here, published on 09.12.2021 17:16: https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/149835-su_30_f_35/
Youtube video is propaganda, you are correct.
2+2= certainly not 5.
OMG! it gets worse. Pravda is not a source.
I would suggest everyone ignore this supposed news. There are about between 2 and 4 daily attempts at incursion into the Russian airspace. This is just blowing smoke.
WW III will be very short. An F35 will open fire in the wrong place and time and EW will bring it down.
Yeah, videos spliced together from archives and not of a specific event. No officials comments or sources. A youtube channel with Microsoft Sam voice. Surprising that your BS meter did explode. These channels and type videos pop up when there is any political drama.
The Youtuber used video that was captured during the incident when Italian Air Force flew up to a Russia grouping in the Baltic. These “news” sources aren’t the best either since they are just aggregate, but immediately show the youtuber to be full of nonsense. These were the first 2 sites that appeared just by a simple Google search.
https://eurasiantimes.com/watch-russian-su-30-fighter-forces-f-35-stealth-jets-to-retreat-in-their-first-ever-encounter/
https://theaviationist.com/2021/06/09/russian-su-30sm-itaf-f-35/
I am sure the F35 was so invisible to the Russian VKS, that they were totally surprised. /s
Though in all seriousness, they appear to have Luneburg lenses attached for the occasion. Knowing they were intercepting a Russian flight.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Radar-Reflectors.jpg
And if you want to geek out about the Luneburg lens,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo38PeJtRT8
These events are happening with more frequency as NATO pushes to Russia’s borders. It has become an irritant and is a prime example of why US needs to take Russia’s security demands seriously as they’re the one’s who keep pushing the limits. I am sure US would enjoy being intercepted just outside the Chesapeake Bay, upon the international zone, by Russia fighters. It isn’t practical for that to occur, but it takes no genius to understand America’s response.
We agree that Russia doesn’t want to invade Ukraine, of course, but what is the geopolitical objetive of deploying massive forces and advanced military technology in Kaliningrad or Bielorussia? I know, it is to counter NATO forces or send a strong message, but I would like to read a more detailed analysis, for instance, how a possible war scenario will unfold on the baltic front.
Some information here /why-did-russia-deploy-so-many-forces-against-nato/
In June and Sept it was to send a message to the Ukies who were ready to attack Donbass.
Then it became the focus of the Pressure Campaign to force talks related to the three main demands i the Ultimatums of Dec.
Quite simply, a use of show of force to get what security demands Russia has front and center.
The US has deflected it in the media into an impending, immediate, almost right now, invasion threat.
It also forced the US to put their answers in writing.
This exposed the US and NATO as rejecting diplomacy and treaties as solutions to security issues.
Larchmonter, you’ll love this one. I have never and never will imbibe hallucinatory chemicals or flora but if I did, I’d want some of whatever this gentleman is smoking.
https://ria.ru/20220214/trebovaniya-1772692213.html
BERLIN, February 14 – RIA Novosti. Part of Russia’s security requirements, including those on weapons and NATO troops in Ukraine, can be accepted with similar steps by Moscow in Kaliningrad, the head of the Munich Security Conference, German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, said at a briefing in Berlin.
“Part of the Russian demands is that there (in Ukraine-ed.) there should be no Western troops, nuclear weapons or other missiles. In the Russia-NATO Founding Act of 1997, it is written in relation to new NATO members that neither significant forces nor nuclear systems are located. I do not find it particularly difficult to signal to the Russian side that we, of course, do not want to treat Ukraine differently than those countries of Eastern Europe that have become members of NATO, … a country that is not a member of NATO such as Ukraine,” Ischinger said.
He added that in this case “the Russian side should be ready to take on appropriate obligations, for example, on such topics as Kaliningrad and so on, this is a wide field.”
Apparently the good Ischinger has forgotten that Kaliningrad is Sovereign Russian Territory. Mother’s retort should be ‘Sure, we’ll cut back in Kaliningrad the same time you remove all your troops from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Where do they get these fools?
Auslander
Bojo seems to be going on a grand tour of allies mainly Poland and Baltics perhaps to whip up fervour even more hysterical …
UK COBRA meeting discussing severe costs etc …saying Germany is letting the side down… meanwhile Scholz is meeting Putin tomorrow re “security agreements “says he values Helsinki Agreement re a country’s choice of alliances etc above all(no mention of OSCE conditions and previous signatories that Russia has set a dead line on for replies)..extensive talks etc . The emphasis is on ” Russia moving its troops” out of the Donbass(presumably to let Ukrops regain the territory unheeded as previously Ukr wanted control of all its borders to isolate and control before going through if any talks with “separatists”….. Duma on Tuesday to consider status of LNR DPR independance….no further developments re Ukraine seeking clarification over via Vienna process ….calling for a meeting that way?
Is it possible for you to name a source for your information so that we can determine the amount of spin and obfuscation which might be involved?
I was in the shops (uk) on Sunday, and there was a pile of different newspapers full of headlines beating the drums of war. Sunday papers usually sell out by late afternoon, but literally, no one was buying the b.s.
Johnson exemplifies the awful truth about British public schools. If you send an idiot to Eton, what comes out is an idiot who can spout Latin and Greek.
Not sure of this is linked to Bojo’s current activities:
Article claims that EU states will create a Security Council and have reached out to Brexit Britain (Bojo) to lead it.
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/881/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/881/pub/881/page/3/article/273420
Interesting word “security council” considering an actual UN Security Council already exists..the West seemingly loves to create sub-structures that bypass the UN, Russia and China..
Cannot believe Macron would do that…only Poland and weak Baltics. Czech…..Slovakia? Perhaps there are signs……southern EU could split from northern states? Spain Porgugal Italy…Austria and Hungary….but where the Adriatics Greece Macedonia Slovenia Montenegro and ilk feel happy maybe still reliant on Nato?
Just endless scouring todays and yesterdays internet and tv news in UK media…..sputnik..rt..etc
Bits and pieces plus independant journos.
“China is closely following the situation in Ukraine and the Chinese diplomatic mission in Ukraine is working normally: Chinese FM said on whether China will evacuate its embassy in Kiev.”
I remember the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia back in the 90’s, and I think this is China’s way of telling NATO: “dare ya”
I hope it is clear to a majority of Ukrainians that the US/UK meddling is the primary source of the problem and distrust the anglos.
If this is true – and I think it might be with the fact that zelensky is now openly decrying the western war propaganda and insisting no invasion is coming – then Russia has effectively stolen the ball from the anglos.
In the Putin/Xi statement at the Olympics, they highlighted AUKUS as yet another example of Anglo imperialism, like NATO.
I think this is key. Not only is it like nato in that it is created in an Anglo-imperial logic, but unlike NATO, there are no non-Anglo members. It’s the Anglo wolf pack all by itself, unable to hide its naked imperialistic goals behind its vassals (‘multiculturalism’) like in NATO.
By prosecuting AUKUS for its aggressive, two-faced, imperialistic goals, they can also prosecute nato and also the entire imperial forging policy concept on the west, writ large.
SCO caught AZE with its pants down.
Ukraine is clearly stating:
“Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO and the European Union remain an absolute priority, a spokesman for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday. The country’s Foreign Ministry took it a step further, saying its security would be guaranteed by Ukraine’s immediate admission to the US-dominated alliance.”
One of Russia’s key security demands is that Ukraine can never join the NATO military alliance. Ukraine is showing a middle finger to Russia? Ukraine signed the Minsk agreement and never followed through on it in the last seven years. Will it follow through on Minsk II or III?
Russia still thinks it can pursue a diplomatic approach?
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-reaffirms-desire-to-join-nato-after-envoy-comments/a-60768298
Fascinating article – I had no idea on the 1966 law.
But all this hype – is it confirmation that there’ll be a false flag by NATO/US/UK on the sixteenth?
While my trust in the Western media has been steadily eroding for over a decade now, this past month or so has seen it come to a total end. It is just a farce at this point.
How the doping charges are working to tear down Kamila’s psychological balance. 7 hours of sitting through a hearing yesterday. Not practicing and resting. Accused, isolated, chased by the media.
“Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva said that she was emotionally tired because of the situation at the Beijing Olympics around her doping test.”
“These days were very difficult for me, and I don’t seem to have enough emotions. I mean, I’m happy, but I’m already emotionally tired. Therefore, tears of happiness, probably, and a small chagrin. But at the same time, I am certainly happy to be at the Olympic Games and try to represent our country. And I will hope that I will tune in as much as possible and show my results,”the athlete said on Channel One.”
“I sat for seven hours (at the CAS hearing), we had one break for 20 minutes. And I sat and watched. It was very difficult. This is probably one of the stages that I have to go through, “RIA Novosti quotes Valievaas saying.”
https://vz.ru/news/2022/2/14/1143619.html
Kamila should know that the free World is holding her hand.
The Free World very obviously excludes the USA and it’s subject States.
Russians have got to stop pulling their punches at some point. The longer you leave it the better equiped the enemy will be. Russia has a big advantage and trying to negotiate with the US is a fools errand, even if they agreed to anything it means nothing to them, signed on paper or not and there is nothing to say that subsequent administrations wouldn’t renege on agreements anyway, as they have done before. The US and the UK are bad faith actors. They are also cowards as this current concocted crisis has shown, Russia needs to keep them on the edge, get them to make mistakes, maximum pressure, push the advanatge, ruthlessly, and dont be afraid to engage these tired old fools. US military is massively low morale, poorly equipped in modern terms and its hardware is no match for Russias. Dont waste the moment pining for decency from an enemy who are insane with hatred. These people don’t want your freindship and in all honesty they don’t deserve it, stop looking for approval from people who you shouldn’t even respect. Putin is a master strategist so I hope he has something up his sleeve because this avenue has backfired thus far.
I read the Russo-Sino Strategic Joint statement today (from Feb 4th) what a vision for a future world! How could you not pine for it, this is where Russian future belongs, the West are not capable of such vision or such clarity, but they will not allow it to happen without confrontation, so, when do you want it … now you have the advatage or later when you do not?
удачи!
@ amarynth on February 14, 2022 · at 11:41 am EST/EDT
“Calm down Lone Wolf. Larchmonter445 is actually following up on this for all of us. Here is his post, which is now a little old. /the-olympic-war-against-russian-athletes/
He is also been here for many many years, and I would suggest not to mess with him. Kinda because you will lose lol.
OK, all calm down now”
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Amarynth, your “suggestion” is not such, it is more of a threat.
If Larchmonter445 has “been here for many many years,” he should know better, and what you are doing by allowing him to violate the rules designed by The Saker, is aiding and abetting. Justifying his violation as a follow-up to his post “for all of us” is more like a cover up, which only makes the rule breaking worse. Furthermore, you are justifying his name-calling and putdowns as if being here for many years allows him to treat others without respect.
I was not “messing” with him, his post, the third one from the top, was in clear dissonance with the subject. I have read the rules and regulations, staying on topic is one of them, and if anyone because of seniority, or whatever role they play with the Saker blog, assumes they can break the rules, then why bother in having any? First rule of management is not to issue rules you cannot, or you are not willing to, enforce.
Wonder what you meant by “I would lose.” Are you implying I will be banned for upholding the rules of the site? That would be in serious contradiction with the sense of justice and the principles I have witnessed so far on this site. On this one, you are not aligned with the spirit of the Saker blog. You are off.
Lone Wolf
Note: after this exchange of pleasantries, I want a full stop on this exchange. I ask you to comply with my request.
Andrei
The propaganda here in Australia has been unrelenting, Russia will invade Ukraine non stop. it is so overboard equal or better than the Nov 2020 vote, the jan 6 invasion of congress. Well these 3 items were all produced and directed by same crew i would imagine.
the western media very needs to reflect at some stage.
Powell’s speech mentions the anthrax mails, whose source has never been identified. But who else had motivation if not the fear-mongers building up anti-Iraqi hysteria?