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Well known nickname for our national print media rag for decades is “the mop & pail”, to those who wonder how much true news is in it.
China will cut armed forces by 300,000, president says after massive military parade
Moments after inspecting a gleaming new arsenal that includes giant nuclear-capable missiles, China’s President offered an olive branch to the world and said he will cut the country’s sprawling armed forces by 300,000.
“We Chinese love peace,” Xi Jinping said Thursday, at a military parade that capped months of preparation and wall-to-wall military-themed propaganda on state media. “No matter how much stronger it may become, China will never seek hegemony or expansion. It will never inflict its past suffering on any other nation.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-will-cut-armed-forces-by-300000-president-says-after-massive-military-parade/article26202947/
Can anyone confirm/disprove that ISIS has taken over a key oilfield in the vicinity of Palmyra?
It is also now public that the US has asked Greece to close its airspace for Russian flights to Syria. I seriously doubt whether Greece has the balls to keep saying no.
Greece? Vichy-like government.
Sad that the people don’t tear down the whole tyrannical structure that desecrates the national pride and reputation.
The sad reality is that a majority of Greeks still believe that abandoning the western alliance will doom the country.
Of course there is an element of truth in this, since neither Russia, nor China seem awfully interested in taking over Greece. It’s better for them to keep Greece subsidized by the EU rather than by them. Greece is indeed a bankrupt country (as are several other Euro-land states, only to a lesser degree) and has an extremely limited room for an independent foreign policy.
Only if the people were prepared for a serious struggle against the western powers could we then have a sovereign government in Greece. I think we are a few good years before that ever has any chance of happening.
SouthFront at its wittiest. Absolutely hysterical stuff about Ukies and their leaders. Up to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-rZmZOJ-a0
Blockes gibe )
SouthFront at its Best ;)
(and with the only really authentic speaker – the best)
If it wasn’t so sad one could laugh about it.
Only a short time ago everything was still so good …..
Kiev, November 7, 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naXFLDUJvH8&index=5&list=PLCF0465D3FB5872BF
Could someone explain what happened to the blogger known as Col. Cassad?
After days of defending the purge of DNR leadership, they have now turned taken to running articles by liberal journalists praising Vladislav Surkov’s efforts to destroy the DNR and marginalize patriotic forces within Russian society and government.
Read, for example, this article at Cassad which originally published at forbes.ru by staunchly anti-Russian columnist Konstantin Haase.
http://cassad.net/politika/analitika/17430-vybor-surkova-zachem-kreml-opyat-menyaet-doneckoe-nachalstvo.html
http://www.forbes.ru/mneniya-column/vertikal/298849-vybor-surkova-zachem-kreml-opyat-menyaet-donetskoe-nachalstvo
The article also appeared, without Hasse’s byline, at the Voice of Sebastapol site:
http://voicesevas.ru/news/16606-vybor-surkova-zachem-kreml-opyat-menyaet-doneckoe-nachalstvo.html
Col Cassad is merely publishing info. Grist for the mill.
Konstantin Gaaze’s article is totally horseshit.
Putin at Minsk 2 did not get bad news from the Military operations at Debaltcevo. That is fantasy spun by Gaaze and Forbes.ru. Putin never left to make or take phone calls. Porky did. He was the only one who left the room to get his marching orders.
All this stuff of Surkov is always floating when there is no fighting. The situation is so calm Motorola has been in Rostov on vacation with wife and baby.
Nothing this guy writes is true. Nothing. Zakharchenko and the political guys Pushilin and Purgin were all on the same page for the entirety of Minsk 2 and the Working Group meetings. This is housekeeping, not a change.
Surkov’s role is mostly to liaison with Arkmetov. If orders were coming from Moscow to Zakharchenko, they would be through military or GRU liaison, not Surkov.
Moaning about Mariupol in the article tells the whole story. This was fed from Strelkov’s PR machine, into Forbes, and now posted as one of many stories to explain what needs little explanation. It is the same crap from Strelkov all the time. Disconnected from reality.
The idea that another facelift is needed to deal with the Ukraine is nonsense.
You send Denis Pushilin and you send a marshmallow. He heads the Parliament which has no power.
Besides, Ukie side will never sit with the militia. And it is mandated that the militia must be in the talks, not politicians or Surkov.
Read the Minsk 2 steps.
Ask yourself this. Who would be the commander of the army (militia) if not Zakharchenko?
He has Russian special services as his body guards 24/7. That should tell you everything.
Also, find me a photo of Surkov near any militia, ever. He floats into Donbass when it is calm and when he needs to do business with the oligarch.
His entire portfolio is to keep the oligarch in line and make Minsk 2 work to crack the Junta.
You think Putin wants Minsk 2 to solve the junta’s problems? To leave fascists in charge in Kiev?
Minsk 2 is to cause the eventual downfall of Porky and the junta, to create so much chaos for Ukraine that Germany gives up and the EU turns away and the US can’t control events and NATO goes back to its barracks.
Cassad merely ran this to show what psy-op media stuff is used, and maybe to placate someone on his flanks. He’s not happy. His whole operation depends on a shooting war. You think he will have much readership if a frozen conflict results?
So, in place of combat we get this tripe from the summer patriots and sunshine soldiers of the Internet, picked up by the fifth columnists for Putin bashing.
Article claiming that steel companies with owned by Ukrainian oligarchs and far-right militiamen continue to sell steel made in Eastern Ukraine and DNR to Russian companies and government agencies. While factories in the DNR could have sold the steel directly to Russia– saving money for Russia, providing income for DNR residents, and depriving Ukraine of tax revenue and hard currency- Moscow blocked this, insisting that the steel products be sold through a maze of oligarch, Banderist, and Surkov-linked companies.
The article also alleged that Surkov, who allegedly has family and business ties to Ukraine, was responsible for the September 2014 decision to order the militias to abandon the nearly-captured city of Mariupol — even if that meant taking casualties to do so.
http://cont.ws/post/118470
Stelkov from Russia Insider:
http://russia-insider.com/en/military/hero-donbas-massive-offensive-buildup-kiev-attack-coming-strelkov/ri9515
Most people trying to comprehend the situation in Donbass have not understood the Minsk 2 agreement and are bewildered that a ceasefire is not instantly enforced and tranquility is not the environment in East Ukraine.
Read Joaquin Flores’s article from immediately after the signing. He lays out what the agreement is intended for and expectations. 6 months later you have perspective but not a better analytical approach.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-beautiful-truth-about-minsk-ii.html
The Strelkov sideshow for one year, the delusion that the militia could take any city it wants, the notion that there is a sellout in process, are mind-numbing stupidities.
Go to basic numbers and see what Putin had to work with.
2.5 million Russian speakers in Donbss. 30,000 men of all ages up to 65 or so showed up to fight.
2-3000 have died, equal number or more have been injured. Half the people have left for Russia or elsewhere in Ukraine or Europe.
Thus, volunteers from Russia had to been added to the fighting force. Probably a few thousand at most. Generally, the brunt is borne by the militia. They did not have one significant military leader of rank among them. Thus, the real military planning of strategy, defenses and tactics, as well as logistics is done for them by Russian regular military Generals and Lt. Colonels.
The local politics was corrupt by criminal gangs and oligarch strife.
The war broke the economy, so Russia has helped rebuild it . They use the ruble for currency. They are sustained by Russian electricity, water, gas, medical and food convoys.
If you think Strelkov would have held the Donbass and won 6 inches of turf after he got to Donetsk, you are on happy gas.
The militia has heroes. They have fought bravely, defended the people courageously and won some historic battles.
Unless they can turn some large Ukie units to join them, they are going nowhere.
If the Ukies can endanger the Donbass with defeat, then the Russians will do whatever their Generals say must be done to save the Donbass.
If a large attack is launched, then the militia may be given the means to take more turf, Mariupol, and some northern towns and villages abandoned by Strelkov, some say prematurely.
Maybe the US will overestimate and send the Ukies in a wider war, even testing Crimean defenses.
All that means is the Ukies will be delivered a total destruction. Putin told Merkel that one more big round of Ukie fighting and he would destroy them. She convinced Porky to live up to the ceasefire. It’s generally been working well for a week or so. He’s six months behind on the Minsk 2 schedule.
His dilemma is if he sticks to the Minsk 2, he will be overthrown by the nazis.
If he wages the war the nazis want him to, he will lose his army and be overthrown.
Obviously, Merkel has assured him that he won’t be overthrown. But reality is, either way, he loses his job if not his life.
Hey, he and the junta and the oligarchs have stolen several billions already. Running Ukraine is like an IMF/EU/US ATM. The money comes pouring out and no one cares if you steal it. He has doubled his wealth in less than two years. He likes the job. The problem is the shelf life is over.
He’s going to go. It makes sense for him to resign soon.
The Donbass will remain in limbo until the nazis are driven out of Kiev. That could be a year or two. It was a mess internally before all this started. There was little to work with. Understanding the reality of what was will allow a better analysis of what is.
re: refugees from UNZ
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/refugee-crisis-where-are-all-these-people-coming-from-and-why/