I am creating a new OPEN THREAD to post information and opinions about the current crisis in the eastern Ukraine and between the USA and Russia. This OPEN THREAD now supersedes all previous ones.
Let’s try to concentrate our info here. Thank you
Andrei
At the UNSC:
Kremlin Calls Out US Claims of Attack & False Flag Operations as Escalating Crisis
US State Sec. Anthony Blinken has claimed Russia is ready to invade “in the coming days” while speaking at the UN Security Council.
Blinken also said that an invite to talks has been sent to Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to meet in Europe next week – which could lead to a summit. He added that Washington will be gladly proven wrong if there’s no aggression from Russia.
It followed a report stating that President Joe Biden had information of Russia conducting a false flag operation.
The Kremlin has called the Biden Admin’s allegations an escalation.
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Please be aware that there is a large cyber effort at shutting down ALL Russian voices and professionals and ALL reasonable journalists. My +- 200 twitter feeds from Russian professionals – they are all not loading. Even the telegram feeds are not loading.
Can’t speak for Telegram, but it seems there are more people having Twitter problems.
Some of my feeds are coming back up now.
But if my normal twitter, used for a bit of technical stuff works fine, but just the non-public list with all the Russian feeds don’t load, since hours, but the other non-public lists on other countries load fine, and the Russian Foreign Ministry site is still down, it does not look like ‘twitter problems’ – people have those daily, and we have downdetector to check those.
A quote from your site: “President Putin has turned down a parliamentary appeal to recognize the DPR and LPR in another attempt to demonstrate to the West his desire to comply with the Minsk accords and maintain the peace.”
Sorry, I don’t understand this. The Minsk accords are a dead letter and the US/NATO appear hellbent on creating a false flag followed by war. Putin’s decision to turn down recognition of the Donbass republics is wishful thinking, in my opinion. Making the Donbass part of Russia could have stopped what appears to be an impending attack by the UAF.
The game is to win, if Putin is forced to fight (if Russia is attacked for example, he will) but they want to dismantle the west without firing a shot, that is why he always plays the long game, and always will.
Some westerners find this very frustrating because they are used to impulsive idiots who constantly make fools of themselves. The only reason it hasn’t been so obvious up until recently is because Russia, China et al never used to call them out on it.
They referred to them as colleagues and partners no matter how silly the behavior, we are in a new phase now, the gloves are not off, but the fingers have moved down from the tips.
Sorry, even Putin has described what has been happening in Donbass as “genocide”. What doesn’t he act?
After 8 years of shelling, sniping, assassinations, sabotage, it is not “impulsive” to demand an end to this ceaseless murder. The long game works only if international law is respected by the majority of nations, and clearly the West is now all about its “rules-based order” — their rules, their orders, everyone follow them or else.
As I said before, the Minsk accords are a dead letter. The EU is not going to do anything other than obey the US dictates. Trying to stick by the Minsk Accords is a hopeless endeavor in the face of absolutely corrupt liars who have no respect of any law or agreement. Perhaps even recognition of the DPK and LPK would not come too late now to prevent a UAF attack. but I think that has a much better chance of putting a halt to aggression that clinging to the Minsk accords.
I agree that the Minsk agreements are essentially dead, that is true.
I don’t think official recognition of the DPK/LPK would have done much, best case nothing. I don’t think it would have done much to alleviate the situation.
The US will not suddenly start adhering to international law, they have openly flaunted it for quite some time.
I believe that this is why Putin decided not go ahead with official recognition, because he knew it would accomplish nothing positive.
Everything the Russians do is decisive, Georgia, Crimea, Syria, all very successful, very well timed and planned.
I have no doubt that whatever happens next will happen with similar precision.
We shall see.
I agree with Putin. It Is better that the Minsk accords are the dead ones, and not us. The west have nukes … Sorry (for the genocide et al)!!
Dear Andrei. Hagia Sofia Is built with the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem. And In psalm 5 and Ezekiel 8 it is confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that the direction of prayer for the Ortodox community is the temple in Jerusalem.
So I encourage you all to turn back to your ortodox direction of prayer! When Hagia Sofia is returned to you (God willing) you will do it automatically anyway, so why wait?
May God almighty bless you all!
Yes, we Traditional Muslims have prophecies that Constantinople will be liberated by a righteous Muslim Leader (Imam Al Mehdi, may Allah, Mighty and Majestic, be pleased with him), which means current Turkish rulers are not Islamically legitimate. And we can see how Recep Erdogan’s family gained from ‘blood oil’ in Iraq and Syria…and the corruption that Turkish regime and army spread in Syria, then Armenia, and now in Ukraine.
Then the new Righteous Muslim Leader (Imam Al Mehdi, may Allah Mighty and Majestic be pleased with him) will rightfully return Hagia Sophia to the Orthodox Christian Community, God-Willing!
The wrong s of imposter Muslim Caliphate of past, under Zionist influence, will finally be righted. God-Willing.
Actually, it appears it will be the RF who liberate Constantinople and thus regulate traffic in and out of the Black Sea.
The OSCE declared that 500 artillery shells have been fired in one day.
Russian journos confirm fire along the full LOC
That sounds and looks a lot like an escalation to me: an escalation of Kiev’s unlawful and reckless attacks against the Donbass.
Indeed, a escalation that is being painted by that dumbass Blinken & brain dead moron Truss as a ‘Russian false flag’ Oh my life is anyone that stupid! OFC Not they know they are lying scumbags…..
So, the country that Russia is going to invade gets a call from presumably VPP, (in the eyes of Blinken/Truss) asking them to carry out shelling of the Dombass, so that Russia can justify it’s invasion….. Right….
If OSCE says “shells were fired”, it means Kievan Ukie shells. If the Donbass militias fired shells, they would say “fired Russian shells” …
If Ukraine is not a NATO member why is Biden and Stoltenberg threatening Russia with “consequences” and involving US military?
@Mistral
The Zionest want Ukraine as their home land and they Control UkSA and England and europe slaves.
Thank you
TOM 123
pathological insanity.
I’m waiting for the nazi Azov loons to scub the swastikas off their soviet era tanks and cause a ‘provication’. They’ve probably been ordered to go now after some reluctance from the comedian. No doubt the comedian has been told these fascists will either go east on a jolly, or they will go west and have the last laugh at your expense.
https://francais.rt.com/international/95883-ambassadeur-adjoint-americain-expulse-russie
The expulsion was merely a tit for tat. The US State Department took the unusual step of refusing to renew the visas of many Russian diplomats, including a diplomat with about the same stature as the one whom Russia is expelling. So, it’s tit for tat. Behind Washington’s refusal to renew visas is, as I understand it but I could be wrong, is that the US wants to be allowed to once again hire Russians to work in their embassy and consulates. But I think the Russians did that as a previous tit for tat, responding to a moderately long and quite serious list of provocations by Washington. As I understand it, the seizure of properties used by the Russian Foreign MInistry, such as a vacation home, violates the Vienna Convention. Attempting to violate the Vienna Convention is nothing new for the US.
There was the case of a CIA agent who killed in cold blood two young Pakistanis working for Pakistan Army intelligence. The Agent was on his way to a meeting of the PTT (the Pakistan branch of Al-Qaeda), and the Pakistani intelligence agency wanted to show that they knew what the CIA guy was up to, and to show their displeasure. So two very young men, about 19 years old, very openly followed the big black SUV in urban traffic. They were unarmed because they had no bullets for their one pistol. After a while, the CIA agent noticed them, got annoyed, stopped the SUV and made a satellite phone call which took 45 minutes. That gave him official CIA approval to shoot the two lads, which he did without exchanging any words and, according to eyewitnesses, without the two lads even bringing out the empty pistol. The CIA agent was arrested and the US tried to BS the Pakistan government with “diplomatic immunity”. But like so many things the US tries, it failed to get the details right. Turns out the killer was accredited not to the embassy, but to a consulate, which does not give diplomatic immunity for murder. He was imprisoned in Pakistan for many months. Finally, the US government paid about $2 million in compensation to the families of the two victims, and I would guess additional stuff under the table. The agent was allowed to leave. A few years later, this agent was living in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA, and he got into an argument over a parking spot in a strip mall in the US. Talk about a worthless thing to fight over ! He attacked the other guy, an ordinary citizen in his fifties and easy prey for a CIA trained agent, and the agent broke the man’s back. Again, the CIA agent never suffered any consequences even though, as we all know, the US doesn’t have an embassy in the US.
That zio agent name is Raymond Dave’s was very much in the Pakistani news at that time
So, Russia tricks US into believing Russia was about to attack on a certain date and time, so US puts off their false flag in expectation of actual attack, which fails to materialize. So, now the US is scrambling back to its false flag attack scenarios before the Olympics are over, after having been played so capably? Am I imagining this?
Unless it makes war somewhere, the collective West has no hope to come out from its self made multifaced crisis. Additionally, team Biden is hellbent to score better results in the upcoming mid-term elections by being look strong. And at this point in time, there is no othe ripe place than Ukraine to wage war. Even if Russia refrains from attacking the Ukranian forces, the West will compellingly force her to counterattack by provoking from Donesk, Syria, or Russia proper.
Given the proven miscalculations and herd mentality of Western politicians, a simple provocation may ignite a wider theater of war which ultimately may change the security architecture of Europe for the foreseeable decades. Innocents perish, empire collapses, West becomes Waste, ….
BoJo has decided to sit in a UK aircraft to scare Putin
https://i.postimg.cc/GpJghvxC/Screenshot-from-2022-02-17-12-22-59.png
Blinken has gone totally fullcrazy at the UNSC. If somebody can get the text of this rant at the UNSC please post it here, thank you
I hope the Russians put the clown straight at the UN.
The text, if you are still fishing, can be found here:
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-on-russias-threat-to-peace-and-security-at-the-un-security-council/
The best part of Blinken’s speech is the flash back to Colin Powell’s.
Why should we trust him this time?
Because this time around he is trying to prevent a war instead of selling one!!
An imaginary war, according to Zelensky & Reznikov. You just can’t make this stuff up!
Apparently satellite pictures show Russians “inching closer to the Ukrainian border” and “stocking up on blood”. The blood can be seen clearly in the satellite pics. The Russians are inching because that is the top speed of their gear, and they have been inching along for weeks now!
The economist (Rothschild – Agnelli) just published this stupid thing.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/02/19/whether-he-invades-ukraine-or-backs-down-putin-has-harmed-russia
These evil people do not hide their hatred towards Putin.
“If You Hate a Person, You are Defeated by them”
Confucius
Hating a person indicates a deep relationship. It might be an expression of jealousy or a lack of our own self-worth.
@Jorge L Borges
The hate toward president Putin has various ramifications.
1- he is not a pedophile. Has president Putin been one, he would have had a better chance to be listened to.
2-president Putin has not fallen into the trap of attaching Ukraine, which means a huge loss for the MIC. This is an unforgivable sin!
3-the political union of president Putin with France, Germany and Italy is not working in favor of the American hegemony in EU.
There will be a false flag and a substantial attack on Donbass, and I pray it may be repelled without visible Russia intervention. US/UK need an exorcism..
Yes, perfect. Hate is an appropriate word. Darkness hates light. Light disturbs darkness. Excuse the words, but these leading pedophiles and Satanists in the West are determined to carry out their madness and irresponsibility.
4. There was a very spot-on conclusion which used to appear here previously: ’When Russia has strong, perspicacious leaders such as Stalin and Putin, the West and what passes for its leadership in particular can be seen for the garbage which it is’. That pretty much sums it up.
Putin holds up a mirror in front of the Collective West and it seems to be quite a painful experience.
In regard to your query Saker,
Sputnik has a live update thread on what is going on what is going on today:
https://sputniknews.com/20220217/ukrainian-armed-forces-fire-mortar-shells-grenades-on-4-lpr-localities-1093099627.html
and live feed of the UNSC – no text though. Will keep an eye out.
Whatever Russia is doing must be happening with Chinese approval. The key question is thus:
Has China approved a Russian invasion of Ukraine?
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Also see my comment on the embassy moves and LDNR recognition in the previous thread.
Petri Krohn
“Whatever Russia is doing must be happening with Chinese approval”.
Are you sure about this ? Since when does Russia need Chinese approval for anything ?
Russia does not seek China’ approval & does not need it. China does offer its full support, & that is welcome. Russia & China are genuine partners, & informal allies, they do not seek approval from one another for anything, they coordinate their actions, very very carefully.
Close friendship works on trust. Trust that whatever the other person did, they had a good reason for.
Between close friends, one does not ask for approval. One may ask for council, but never for approval.
And should one ask for help, the other will provide. Not because it is right. But because a friend asked. That is enough.
This is antithetical to the american cultural concepts, especially for non-personal relations. So do not feel bad it makes no sense to you that countries can operate on such a basis.
Blinken at the UN: https://youtu.be/YbXZBQaNuUM
Truly a “Powell moment”!
He only needed the vial of powder.
Generally Russia stands accused of:
Somewhere along the line they’re going to attack the innocent Ukraine and he listed creative ways of how they are going to do it.
He listed everything diplomatically that Russia has already done since Putin’s Munich speech without saying they’ve done it .. that is what they should do … is his schtick.
And then he asks Russia to enter into diplomacy and agree to the council that they will not attack Ukraine – that is such a ballsy move … Get out of our way Russia .. your security guarantees are worth nothing to us.
It is a repeat of all of the old mantras … weapons of mass destruction, gassing his own people and so on. It is just a repeat. I guess Russia is ready.
But the words that do not pass his lips, is the two republics and the violence there as we saw overnight. The words that do pass his lips, and gave the game away, are ‘rules based international order’.
Like Pompeo said .. They have full courses in lying, stealing and cheating and it is glory of the American experiment.
We are in dangerous waters with this repeat of an old old playbook.
Not available in your country when connected to Canada. Connected to the US of Arrogance and it works.
“Powell moment” soon to be followed by a “Suez moment”.
The rhetoric is intensifying.
As Biden said-“the next few days…”
This morning we have the following reported in RT.
“Top Ukrainian official slams Western media
Ukraine is losing billions from Western “hysteria,” a leading Zelensky ally claims”
https://www.rt.com/russia/549596-ukraine-losing-billions-western-hysteria/
Part of the above:
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“The politician (David Arakhamia) claimed that Ukraine has become a platform for a new European security agreement, but said that the publication of allegations about an incoming Russian invasion is costing the country “two to three billion dollars every month.”
“We can’t borrow in foreign markets because we have simply insane rates,” he explained. “Many exporters are turning us down. We consider every day to be a loss for the economy, and then we share this information with our partners through the Foreign Ministry, because they must understand it. When somebody decides to move their embassy to Lviv, they should understand, that this sort of news costs the Ukrainian economy several hundred million dollars.”
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…etc.
Whether “Ukrainians” realize it or not, “Ukraine” has become a US-paid mercenary-nation. The US “employs” this mercenary nation and has provided their employee with a lot of printed-out-of-thin-air USD and weapons so that their employees can perform their mandatory task. In this case that mandatory task is to attack the Donbass to an intensity that will provoke Russia to use military force on “Ukrainian territory”, which will lead to we-already-know-what sanctions punishment.
“One foot over the border” constituting an “invasion” has already been replaced by “one Russian bullet or Russian missile that lands on Urkainian territory”. No need to quibble over semantics. Russia invaded.
But what happens when an employer’s mercenary does not do what it is told to do? How does the employer force its employee to do what it is told to do? The answer is everything we see happening right now — part of which is what David Arakhamia describes in the article. “Ukraine” will either do exactly what it is told to do by its employer or, essetially, starve to death.
How long can those in “Ukraine” who do not want to suffer war hold out against those who see war as their one and only route to economic prosperity within “the west”? Mr. Potato Head & Co. and their disgusting vassals tell us 24/7 — “in the coming days”, “war is imminent”, etc.
this is what it means to sell your soul to the devil. Ukraine has sold itself to the devil, and now it’s too late to complain about the curse, the losses and the small print in the contract!
I am sure those in Donetsk and Lugansk regions will help people in west Ukraine, kick the mercenary neo-nazi gang out and take back their nation from the paws of the empire.
Is there any way Russia could stop a false flag event? Or at least reduce it’s impact? Seeing as they have adequate intelligence services, I would imagine that their electronic warfare systems could play a significant role in disabling any coverage of said event from reaching the necessary global audience.
Is there any way Russia could stop a false flag event? Or at least reduce it’s impact?
Depends where it takes place.
The Chinese rep to the UNSC openly called the USA as liars and their policies irresponsible.
We hope to get a transcript soon.
Here is a ZH article on Blinken’s “Powell Moment”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blinken-lays-out-russian-false-flag-chemical-attack-claims-dramatic-un-security-council
BTW – ZH is now a “Russian agent” too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-weve-done-it-we-pissed-cia
Could any one explain why Putin can over ride the Duma vote with over 95 % in favor Ukraine republic be
part of Russia ,I though the new constitution was to give the Duma more power and the executive branch less ?
What is the use of voting if it does not count ?
Thank You
Tom 123
The situation is both fluid and following a long term strategy. The vote may be part of the strategy, or it might be tangential to. As with everything, there is no need, nor point to rushing to judgement. I very much doubt this is a case of the vote being ignored, but rather a case of you watching a chess player contemplating the board and assuming nothing is happening. All the action is occurring between the two ears. Patience.
The power to decide is with the President. This is national security-foreign policy not where to put the water fountains in the park.
More power to parliament means more opportunities for wealthy forces of subversion to corrupt. When a power with a vested interest in Russia’s destruction wields an official military budget close to 1 trillion dollars a year, keeping in mind that this includes dotations to spy agencies and other agents of the hybrid war, their corruption power is overwhelming. The following documentary, which broaches the issue of Putin’s real power, has become a classic: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/?text=путин%2C%20которого%20никто%20не%20знает&path=wizard&parent-reqid=1645129020418820-9098804845428967713-man1-1029-80c-man-l7-balancer-8080-BAL-2129&wiz_type=vital&filmId=11871773335142204359
Twitter and Wassap are having quite a delay.
today my messages got between 30 m and one hour later.
this point they are being monitored and/or censured.
dunno about telegram that I do not use much…
No problems with Telegram here in Kiev today
Could any one explain why Putin can over ride the Duma vote with over 95 % in favor Ukraine republic be
part of Russia ,I though the new constitution was to give the Duma more power and the executive branch less ?
What is the use of voting if it does not count ?
Thank You
Tom 123
Because he is the head of the Executive Branch?
Andrei
The Duma resolution requests that President Putin recognize them, they didn’t legislate that he do so. Here is a TASS article (in English) that discusses this: https://tass.com/world/1403617 . The key part …
For his part, Head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots and one of the authors of the document Leonid Kalashnikov (KPRF) pointed out that the appeal itself did not mean recognizing the republics. “Recognition or non-recognition is implemented by the president and this is solely his competence,” the lawmaker stressed.
Kalashhnikov, that is one bad ass last name!
Meanwhile, in Japan, parrots speak:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220217/p2a/00m/0in/002000c
And in China the other side is presented:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202202/17/WS620d8477a310cdd39bc870a4.html
India is under US pressure to toe the line:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/india-under-pressure-to-take-stand-in-us-russia-spat-over-ukraine/articleshow/89642649.cms
This “Russia is about to invade Ukraine” nonsense may go on a very long time. The question is: Who benefits and how?
One thing I can think of is it’s designed to wear everybody down. Therefore maybe we shouldn’t react to every gyration.
@Anton G,
I fully agree. I posted the above link because those news sites may be unfamiliar to several viewers and also illustrate the effects and thrust of US ‘diplomacy’.
I was glad to see India remaining non aligned, but fully expected to see Japan where it is.
Cheers!
I read in russiandefence.net that the Russian Embassy is burning documents,
Shelling in the entire frontline, but specially hard in the Bakhmutka Area (one of the expected main Axes of penetration)
Some of the People that post there are ussually quite well informed. I think Auslander also write there from time to time. You have to separate grain from Straw as ussual…
Not to speak about the Hysteria of MSM and Ukie Gov, that haven’t calm a little, but the contrary.
Either you mean russiadefence.net or the site you mean is blocked. This said, I haven’t seen anything in the way of recent news there.
For those who used to read @theragex on twitter it is suspended but there is an Instagram account.
Latest news:
Russia has expelled US deputy ambassador and US is moving troops from Germany to Bulgaria for joint exercises.
Hal Turner has a LOT of updates on what seems to be happening there on the ground and had a very interesting observation at the end. which was along the lines of “we are getting all this reporting of what is happenign on the ground and shots being fired but NO reports of any deaths on either side. Is this theater? Normally in fighting there are wounded and dead. This is looking slightly suspicious?”
here is the link to all the updates: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-explodes-into-battle-both-sides-engaging
The Anglo-Zionist banksters desperately need a big war to dissolve/washout the unpayable debts in Western banking system, because they have reached a dead end with QEs now that inflation is rising and central banks don’t have anything in their toolkit.
yea. God help us!
Yes. This is the war that Hillary was to wage when she was fully expected to be coronated in 2016.
The imminent collapse of the western petrodollar system and the digitally printed funny money that’s kiting the US centered empire, from government deficits to the stolen social security trust fund, is vaporizing fast. The pandemic response (lockdowns, small business destruction, fake money fed right into Wall Street usual suspects) obscured the beginning of the real collapse from the populus. That is all unravelling fast. So the war they need to reset the financial system (and steal the debts that went into their Wall Street & city of London & MIC coffers– nice gig, taking the same wealth twice) is on, to strip We The People and with any luck (in their demonic eyes) strip the Russian people of their wealth and resources. And with the latter, they feel they can choke China by controlling Russian resources.
This is their end game that has become apparent to me through years of observation. That is not to say they will succeed. Pride (and hubris) cometh before the fall. Russia and the East seem quite aware of how to use their opponent’s weight against them.
Deep state hubris is unlimited. Global trillionaire appetite insatiable. This is what the world is dealing with. May justice prevail.
I have been lax in my life but at this moment my Orthodox Christian upbringing has kicked in and has me praying for mercy for the Russian people and the real “we the people” of the United States. I pray the predators get their comeuppance with minimal loss of innocent life.
Well stated, all of it. Yes, this is the war to which Hillary was tasked. Trump gave the world five more years to prepare. Now, here we are.
What does it mean to be a billionaire when wealth is counted in Dollars, and a loaf of bread costs three trillion Dollars due to Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation? Would US-based oligarchs actually be able to operate their one hundred million dollar luxury jet airplanes safely anywhere on the planet? Would they even be able to find maintenance and replacement parts? Who would guard the golf courses and the yacht clubs? Or will they live out the rest of their lives like the Morlocks of H.G. Well’s “The Time Machine” story?
If the AngloZionists are unable to co-opt Russia and China into war, and if global peace prevails, then the Empire will likely turn its wrath inward, against the American people, in an attempt to reconfigure the old dead market (i.e. jive, corruption and swindle) economy into some evil twisted plantation, with the goals to 1) protect their own asses and real estate assets, and 2) to sell the services of the plantation to other countries, such as dismantling consumer appliances for scrape metals; growing tobacco, cotton and grains; prostitution; broadcasted gladiatorial games; and maybe some software QA. No other country will bother interfering, preferring to sit back and watch the Americans stew in the gravy boiling inside the colossal cooking pot that they all helped forge. As Dmitry Orlov wisely predicted, the Trump border wall will be keeping people in, not out, of the former USA. Eventually, the tech-med-mil-agra oligarchs will try to warm up and make nice with The Bear and The Dragon that they once tried to weaken and kill, hoping to re-establish relations so that they can sell their evil wares. The Dragon never forgets, nor forgives. But what of The Bear?
Andrei,
here is Blinken’s transcript:
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/sec-of-state-antony-blinken-addresses-russia-ukraine-crisis-un-speech-transcript
Bridge over troubled water just appeared and gives Russia access to Ukraine.
Unfriendly site.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44319/pontoon-bridge-appears-in-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-that-could-give-russia-unique-access-to-ukraine
Opinion:
And all this to save that witch, Clinton and her criminal network gang from front page (and possibly legal) accountability?
And ZH are reporting Chrystia Freeland’s Canada have blocked banking there.
I know people in Canada but cannot verify atm.
Signs look ominous all round.
Normal banking, atms, regular transaction, still working so far, but as for large cash withdrawals, the time to do that was back in November.
Cheers M
Re: Canada – IF you’re a freedom trucker protester, they will freeze your accounts (via spooky surveillance)
Anyway, Canada now is a huge cyberwarfare battlefield with people attacking bank sites now in retaliation.
Things will get worse in the future.
An attack on the Donbass is an attack on Russia.
Should just one life be lost in Donbass, even if it’s a heart attack from shelling then everything near the front line all the way to Kiev is levelled.
Further, all US bases/systems in Poland and Romania are levelled.
Anything less is submission.
Should Donbass suffer heavy losses, including civilians, then every US bases in Central & Western Europe is levelled.
This and any other Western European Asset which may be used against Russia including ships.
Putin has bent over backwards and like his statement regarding NATO being on Russia’s porch, he can’t bend any further. Appeasement is futile. The loss of Europe is America’s red-line.
Unless America comes back with –
1) Immediate cessation of mass propaganda hysteria (psychological war)
2) Immediate withdrawal of sanctions threat (Economic War)
3) Immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Eastern Europe/Europe (War)
WTFUD, I would add that Russia should act aggressively in Syria. Declare a no fly zone. Give the USA 48 hours to leave their bases in Syria. Clear Idlib of terrorists using electromagnetic warfare. Also, every time Israel bombs Damascus, Syria should bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Agreed! Should Israel bomb Syria, gone is your Iron Dome.
The accusations made by Blinken that Russia will invade any time; are a deliberate tactic to allow Ukrainian attacks on the Donbas, knowing that Russia will not take any action for fear of proving Blinken right.
Media blackout prevents any challenge to Western narrative.
Regarding the Russian demand that the US withdraw its forces, what do Russians usually mean by “Central Europe”? Would that include Germany?
They mean falling back to pre-1997 deployment.
They might still want to include Germany because they don’t want IRBM’s to be stationed there.
New information from the LDNR: the Ukronazis are using the UR-77 mine clearing vehicle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UR-77_Meterorit
This would be typically done before a ground attack.
UPDATE: in the town of Nikolaevka 7 buildings were destroyed.
Looks like there is more: http://voicesevas.ru/ – Your Russian is better than mine, so perhaps you like to use all these updates. This page was good in 2014/15 – I guess it’s reliable now too.
Kind regards
Gunnar
The narrative in Danish news outlets is that the pro Russian forces are trying to provoke a response from the Ukrainians. The “rebels” have allegedly hit a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska.
Lugansk People’s Republic claims that this was a Ukrainian false-flag attack. The kindergarten was hit by direct fire from a tank gun. The shell went right through the thick brick wall. The wall in question is facing east, not south, were the front line is.
There is a LNR map on this Finnish language site edited in Lugansk.
https://mvlehti.net/2022/02/17/ukrainan-joukot-suorittivat-valehyokkayksen-false-flag-iskun-tulittamalla-paivakotia-luganskissa/
Did a casual search, I think this is the Google Maps coordinates for that school:
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6739147,39.4512778,475m/data=!3m1!1e3
Let’s see. A kindergarten was hit and the media was there to take pictures immediately and the “news” went all over the world on the Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda.
Yep, looks like a false flag to me.
With the latest chain of events, It is obvious that zioanzis will proceed with their stupid plan to start a war.
It is “Dr. Strangelove” moment and there are plenty of Merkwürdigliebe among US high command itchy to blast everything into oblivion.
Civilian of the Imperial Empire here. I fully support the right of self-determination for the people of the self-proclaimed LPR/DPR (having little understanding of a complex situation, other than what I gather here). Question: what is Zelensky’s intent? Meaning, is he a puppet of NATO and wishes to take back the LPR/DPR by force? Or does he wish to resolve the situation independently of both Russia & NATO? It almost seems that his own government is split, and I wonder if the pro-NATO element is attempting to force his hand.
The latest from Sergey Lavrov:
This entire situation is not developing here in Russia but in the minds and media of the West, above all the United States and Great Britain. And, of course, Mr Stoltenberg is actively contributing to these developments, so all the questions about how to deal with the so-called escalation should be addressed to them.
Big news: the ESTONIAN foreign intelligence service (yes! yes!) announces that according to its “source” Russia will attack the Ukraine “in the 2nd half of February”.
What insight!
What originality!
Good to know what these worldclass pros think :-)
via rt
UK admits
The former MI6 chief then went on to say that he thinks the Western intelligence briefings “are not gems from deeply sensitive agent reporting. What has been released, the idea that Putin might want to dislodge [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky and replace him with a puppet government, or that he’s going to contrive a pretext for Russian intervention in the east of Ukraine, these are based on a growing understanding, an analysis of Putin, rather than deep, secret intelligence reports.
“And I think wrapping them up as intelligence and adding a few juicy names to the reporting just gives some good stories for the media, and helps push back against the narrative,” he continued. “It’s a skillful use of information and analysis to turn the tables on Putin and his own ability to dominate the airwaves.”
Feel free to decimate this, but my “guess” is essentially the Kosovo-ization of Ukraine wherein the Axis of Kindness has a new unrecognized “country” with its capital in Lvov.
-Western govs have already all moved there. Their closest “allies” are the Nazis, not the average Ukrainians.
-They love splitting up great nations and creating opportunities for further domestic tension to keep potential great countries down. Yugoslavia, USSR/Russian Empire, Korea, China, Germany/Austria, Ireland. That is a broad swathe, each of a different magnitude and global importance, but a consistent trend.
-Russia/China will not allow the Lvov Banderastan to take a place in the UN; but the US may also not recognize whatever arises in Kiev and there could be a similar situation as to what took place with China and who had the UN seat. Or, Kiev is Ukraine and Lvov is Pristina – a useless observer that the US parades around at every chance.
-I can’t tell where Ze will end up. He seems like he will stay in Kiev, since he was never really accepted by the Nazis or the US and because his whole winning platform was on good relations with Russia. Maybe him in Kiev & the Chocolate Tsar in Lvov (will his chocolate factories still operate in Russia, though?); or somebody much worse.
-Russia will not “invade” but rather keep the new Kievan State as a protectorate, possible member of the Union State. This still does not solve the problem of NATO & weaponry on the borders, though, and the lines go right back to 1939. I am sure that those who play chess against those who play checkers have a preferred outcome that will catch me off guard.
-US can sell this disavowal of Country 404 domestically to people who know literally zero about Russia and still believe that the economy is “in tatters,” since most will never learn that the UN Habitat just named Moscow as the world’s #1 quality of life and #1 developed infrastructure among Megacities. So the sanctions myth will work just fine. The “global fallout” from the “sanctions” that has already been announced will of course explain away the already existing inflation and continued upward transition of wealth.
Also:
-I expect a last ditch coup effort by the Nazis against Ze. I think there is something to Israel having been one of the first countries to urge its citizens (and maybe just all Jews, right?) to evacuate. I don’t buy into the Mossad caricature, but nonetheless they have capable intel and would certainly be privy to something being planned like this by the Azov/Praviy Sektor types. Of course, their statement was “in case of Russian invasion” because they have to play the side of the Empire.
-I find it interesting that Russian media (TASS) have so far not been reporting on the firing at the line of contact in the LDNR. If you wanted to justify an invasion, wouldn’t you put that on the front page? Hmmmmm…. Also, all the Russian talk shows are not preparing the people for war, in fact doing the opposite. Of course, the general US’ian would say something like “WeLL tHeY dOn’T hAvE tO mAnUfAcTuRe cOnSeNt BeCauSe POOTIN iS a DiKTaTERR.” Those that know, can see clearly that there is no intention, but there is preparation in case the need should unfortunately arise.
-CNN “explainer” page is worth following to get the official US line. So on there you can see that the OSCE violations mostly take place by Russian-backed separatists and that they shot down their own kindergarten. Also that Russia needs to comply with Minsk despite not being a party to it (they even sort of admit this and just expect that the readership is too dense and filled with blind Russophobia to notice)
Anyway, those are my sophomoric readings of events.
Sorry, but there is absolutely NOTHING “sophomoric” about your reading of the situation.
I think that you are possibly very close to the truth!
Thank you
Andrei
Well thank you. That is certainly good to hear. Living and working in Zone A has me feeling like I’m out of my mind most of the time. So even though all of the above is clear as day to me, it’s hard to even trust myself (THAT is the true nature of so-called “totalitarianism” – self censorship!) Moreover, I’m in no way a military analyst, just a historian of Russia & Europe who is also a political junkie.
I also forgot to add that the ridiculous Unity Day appeared to me as a weird ploy by Ze to be able to say “No! Look! I wanted to keep the Ukraine together! I didn’t want Galicia to be severed into a Banderastan!”
“-I find it interesting that Russian media (TASS) have so far not been reporting on the firing at the line of contact in the LDNR”
They actually are. See my updates below.
That is interesting! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
English TASS 3 of the Top 5 trending news stories are about Ukraine. Russian TASS the top 5 are: Russia’s response to the US response, figure skater Sherbakova, MID full text of the reply to the US, Zakharova’s explanation on expulsion of US “diplomat”, and, this one is salacious, “Two passengers on the Moscow Metro beat up two police officers.” So, the Russian-speaking population couldn’t give two shits about what’s going on in 404. They are looking at big picture items in international relations between Russia and the US.
And those Ukraine stories are not at the top of the Russian page. So the point still stands that Russian media isn’t pushing this *domestically* which would theoretically be needed to gain/manufacture consent for engaging in military action. I feel like I’ve even seen some western “experts” talk about how “state media” is preparing people for war LMAO. Most of these “experts” are the most unremarkable people ever who don’t even speak Russian, and, in the words of the late great Stephen F Cohen, “in no other field aside from Russian studies do people hate their subject matter so much.”
In your list of “splitting up great nations” you missed an important one: India / Pakistan.
They created an “anti-India” to stop it becoming too powerful.
The drums of war, from the West, are getting louder by the minutes, I wonder what Russians soldiers are doing at the meantime… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYlOebjUdk0
Question for all & sundry:
The collective west’s abandonment of Eastern 404 is:
1) A piece of extraordinarily flagrant cowardice
2) A cunning plan to trap Russia into seizing 404 (in whole or in part) and thereby fobbing it off on them
3) A cunning plan to just split Ukraine up (reasoning not completely clear to me, right now)
4) A desperate ploy by a lot of useless dimwits to lighten a sinking ship
5) All of the above
Feel free to come up with clever, funny, and/or insane alternatives.
Cheers!
It looks to me that “russian invasion” is late because US did not find anyone in Ukraine to start attack on Donbass (and the rest) and to force Russia to act. Zelensky is not that stupid and unknown for me is how well he controls generals who would be the only one capable of starting large offensive against Donbass. I think, as soon as US find someone for this job, “russia invasion” will start. But, not sooner then that!
LPR People’s Militia says Zelensky directly ordered escalation of Donbass conflict
https://tass.com/world/1405263
Quote:
“The ongoing aggravation of the situation is connected with [Vladimir] Zelensky’s visit to the zone of the so-called Joint Forces Operation (Kiev’s military operation in Donbass – TASS). After his departure, the shelling of the republics’ territory began along the entire front line. Therefore, the President of Ukraine personally gave instructions to escalate the conflict,” head of the People’s Militia Yan Leshchenko said in a statement published on Thursday on the department’s telegram channel.
On Wednesday, Zelensky arrived on a working visit to Mariupol, where he addressed the military and security forces to mark Ukraine’s ‘Unity Day’ and stated that Ukraine is not afraid of its enemies and intends to defend itself. In addition, the Ukrainian leader, according to media reports, held a meeting with foreign ambassadors in the city. On Thursday, Zelensky set off on a boat across the Sea of Azov to the zone of military operations in Donbass.
On Thursday morning, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics reported heavy shelling by Ukrainian security forces, including the use of heavy weapons. The republics noted that the situation on the line of contact has escalated dramatically.
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To demonstrate how morally bankrupt America is, here are a couple of revealing issues:
The first is that the America media has been praising the military training of Ukrainian civilians (like the elderly postergirl for the Ukrainian “Resistance,” 79-year-old Valentyna Konstantynovska)–while scrupulously avoiding any mention that neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion are the ones doing this training.
NBC’s Richard Engel promotes Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/16/ukra-f16.html
And now even supposed “antiwar” outfits like the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (the people ones that publish the Doomsday Clock) are pushing for an American escalation against Russia.
With Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating US Aggression Against Russia
https://blackagendareport.com/its-doomsday-clock-100-seconds-midnight-bulletin-atomic-scientists-calls-escalating-us-aggression
Bottom line: Most institutions of the American Empire are part of the war machine–from the media to many so-called antiwar groups.
First Russian military convoys arriving at their permanent bases after massive drills
https://tass.com/defense/1405527
Of course, as in all militaries, some new forces will rotate in to the training areas, which the West will state are “reinforcements for the invasion of Ukraine.”
We saw this happen last year when 10,000 troops came in, then left, to be replaced by 3,000 other troops.
You can’t win that game as long as the West controls the media narrative. Perhaps Russia should offer an all-expenses-paid invitation to every western alternative media (the MSM won’t accept anyway) to come visit the training facilities and see for themselves how it works.
OSCE registered almost 10,000 ceasefire violations in Donbass this year
https://tass.com/world/1405555
Ukies gonna start running out of ammo. :-)
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According to the authorities of the self-proclaimed eastern Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, 12 populated areas on their territory were attacked with the use of various types of arms, including large-caliber weaponry, on Wednesday alone.
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Is it possible that this entire exercise is really aimed at the Western populations and not Russia? The western Press is screaming about Cyberattacks & there have been numerous preparations for this, also including WEF-sponsored exercises, Media preparation, etc. Well executed Cyberattacks are generally impossible to trace & repudiate, especially in the short-term. Could the Ukraine really be a nothing-burger & the real point of this is just to initiate another “state of emergency” via War for the West? A covert attack of the West on itself via an attack which Russia can’t repudiate seems a plausible scenario here, since there will be no military victory in the Ukraine & Russia is also not motivated to attack. Stock market wobbling, rampant inflation, supply-chain issues, Trucker convoys, fading pandemic, rising populism……?
It has been reported that the UK’s recent 10 day military exercise had to be cut short at 8 days because the army ran out of bullets.
The ONLY weapon in the UK arsenal is the LIE.
As exemplified by Liz don’t Trust me.
An attack will happen because the U.S minions like Australia have their scripts and are declaration it as a fait-accompli.
This is how the propaganda now works, -its how the Wuhan flu took off- tell people how to think continuously until they think correctly.
This is Orwells nightmare come true, and its not in places like Russia but in so called “democracies. “
The game is simple drag this out as long as possible(Russia). Deadline after deadline for Russian invasion is missed. Make the West, NATO, USA look as foolish as possible because of said missed deadlines
News direct from Kiev>
I would like to tell you that Wednesday was pretty strange for Ukrainian people. First of all the banks in Ukraine were experiencing some issues and something like cyber-attack. Along with that, the people who were scared by the current situation connected with Russian aggression ran to the banks to withdraw the funds from the debit cards as they were very afraid that the banks will stop working or become bankrupt and then, like it was already 10-15 years ago, the citizens of Ukraine will be simply left without money, and will be fooled. Along with that we had numerous black-outs that have totally spoilt my days and the day of thousands of people here. But the most ridiculous thing for Ukraine was to suddenly decide to celebrate on the 16th of February “Unity Day of Ukraine”. Believe me, the majority of Ukrainians were wondering why suddenly our president decided to celebrate the holiday like that, taking into account all the unrest that takes place on the borders of Ukraine. We were wondering why in the majority of the big cities all over Ukraine, the parades were suddenly organized. What should we celebrate? What kind of Unity Day can we have this very moment? And today we got the news that a small village in Lugansk region (it is called Stanitsa Luganskaya) was bombarded and one of the bombs got into the kindergarten. Fortunately, nobody was killed but two teachers got a contusion. So, I am sorry but I could not omit this topic as within these days too many weird and disturbing events took place here. I have the feeling that the situation in Ukraine can be compared with the situation at the Olympic games (I am talking about Kamila Valieva – an outstanding young figure skater whose talent is literally shocking for anyone in the world of sport. The scandal around her (doping issue which is definitely not something that was truthful or logical) simply tore all the emotional and physical power from this young girl. She was treated rudely, cruelly and after extreme pressure within several days the girl could not stand it anymore and she could not even skate the way she usually skates. I felt extremely sad for her as she did deserve being on the pedestal! She is a genius figure skater. The politics is interfering the sequence of events, the games of the people who are ruling the countries, influence the ones who have been devoting all their life to sports and who do deserve being treated with respect and admiration. Yes, maybe it is a very weak comparison but I am simply trying to say that the games of the politicians and their desire to disturb the peace of the population, in order to satisfy the ambitions of those for whom war or threats to start a war are just part of a plan to destroy stability in the world.
Unity Day was meant for the west to sympathize with Kiev’s fascists and play the victim card. But to those who know the truth, we are back in 1933.
I have hear some commenters saying that asassination of Zelensky will be the false flag to blame on Russia.
This has the advantage for the Empire to get rid of Ze who seems to be straying.
This could explain the move to Lvov and removal of US/UKNATO soldiers from UKraine.