This is your open thread for today

The revival of Christian faith In Russia cannot sit well with this gang:

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/does-israel-permit-freedom-of-worship/

Does anybody knows who is behind this General SVR? 5th columnist? CIA or SBU?
Today all western media relying on his messages on telegram about Putin and Ukraine.
https://www.nau.ch/politik/international/ukraine-krieg-putin-soll-krebs-op-verschoben-haben-66167990

Ukraine is still winning and Russia losing in the media. All those who say so never learned from the previous great crisis – the Covid crisis – that the demon of hysteria rose up together with the virus starting on the same day the virus became known. I hope you know this (not trying to compete with Martyanov). May they learn about “bias”, “hysteria”, “lack of critical thinking”, “missing the other side of this story”, “professionalism”, “repentance”, etc., after Russia defeats Ukraine in this war.

The brave NaziNotNaziNaziBecauseLookZelenskyIsAJew in Azovstal say that even if they run out of food they will still resist because they will… catch birds… Birds? Down there underground? Maybe bats. Anyway this is most likely BS emitted by ‘Elensky:

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/final-showdown-azovstal-firefights-breakout-azov-fighters-emerge-steel-plant

Just stumbled upon the ‘what type of moron flys a Ukrainian flag’ story cross linked to a US run of the mill, reader supported web site…… what next, Andrei and Andrei live on Tucker Carlson.
That be so cool……

Cheers M

There is a meme/poster being circulated about social media quoting Fidel Castro in Spanish which I take with a pinch of salt regarding its authenticity that says ” The next war will be fought in Europe between Russia and Fascism disguised as Democracy.” While I don’t dispute the veracity of these words, I have found absolutely no sources for them as well, at least not in the English language. This brings me to a story circulated around the globe sometime in 2012, including by our pro-western Indian presstitutes, which accused Castro of using Ex-Nazis of the German extreme right to procure small arms from Bulgaria and to train his men in 1962. The story, which was invariably planted by some US spook agency, as the story originated there, quoted Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)—the German foreign intelligence agency, whose founder himself was Nazi Lieutenant-General Reinhard Gehlen, who surrendered to the US and turned into a CIA collaborator and anti-soviet propagandist post-WW2. Furthermore, with Bulgaria being firmly entrenched in the eastern block in those days, Castro hardly needed the services of West German Nazis to buy arms from them.
Belonging to a long tradition of western countries spewing unsubstantiated dirt and venom, disguised as news, against their enemies both current and those well past their prime, (Castro retired from politics in 2008), the story was in the same mould as many others published earlier during the 60s and 70s by the western media, similarly accusing Egypt and Syria of harbouring ex-Nazis. All the while conveniently ignoring Operation Paperclip which was the largest operation for rehabilitating Nazis and bringing them to the US. And the fact that the entire West German bureaucratic apparatus, law enforcement and the judiciary were saturated with ex-Nazis ( if there is such a thing), and even those who escaped to South America like Borman and Mengel lived there under the protection of the local Fascist Dictators who were all in one way or another planted or supported by the United States.

More on Codieu, the Canadian general, now truly retired

Meth Labs and Opiates are America’s diet. However, rather than trying to reverse its decay, sort its own internal problems, America on life-support, wants to shimmy with the best pound for pound military technical country ever while selling their dope to Zelensky dance troupes.

The Ding-A-Ling Brothers Barnum And Biden Circus

https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-ding-ling-brothers-barnum-and-biden.html

There is no chance of survival: General Patrushev told three main secrets
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Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview what will happen to Ukraine and Russia and why the West expects an inglorious end. A few days before him, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on this topic in an interview with Channel One. Thus, the course of President Vladimir Putin to liberate Russia from Western dictate and economic slavery is gaining momentum and is acquiring interesting details. Read about them below.

When a statesman of such caliber as Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, gives a programmatic interview at the time of the global crisis, which was spurred by the events around Ukraine, this is done for a reason. There can be nothing accidental in it, and it is worthy of studying it with a magnifying glass. The interview with General of the Army Patrushev, who enjoys the full confidence of President Vladimir Putin, sheds light on what awaits Russia and the world, how the Ukrainian crisis will end. The last topic, although private, is currently the most relevant. Therefore, Patrushev’s first answer to the question asked by Rossiyskaya Gazeta about what he thinks about the US plans to defeat Russia in the Second Cold War is dedicated to her. Very revealing
Why Ukraine should disappear?

In an attempt to suppress Russia, – Patrushev emphasized, – the Americans, using their proteges in Kyiv, decided to create an antipode of our country, cynically choosing Ukraine for this, trying to divide an essentially single people. Finding no positive basis to win Ukrainians over to its side, Washington, long before the 2014 coup d’état, instilled in Ukrainians the exclusivity of their nation and hatred for everything Russian. However, history teaches that hatred can never become a reliable factor in national unity. If anything today unites the peoples living in Ukraine, it is only the fear of the atrocities of the nationalist battalions. Therefore, the result of the policy of the West and the Kyiv regime under its control can only be the disintegration of Ukraine into several states.

From this quote at the very beginning of the interview, it is clearly seen that Russia’s minimum program is “the disintegration of Ukraine into several states.” Moscow has said this before or hinted at it, but this is the first time this has been done so abruptly and at such a level. It was, in particular, about the creation of Novorossia, Little Russia – in the orbit of the “Russian World”, a separate state in Western Ukraine, in the foreseeable future unfriendly to Russia, about very small formations in the form of new regional “people’s republics”. Patrushev’s clear statement on this point speaks to several important points in Russian politics. First, Ukraine is categorically unacceptable to Moscow within its current borders, even minus the Donbass, because they give rise to misplaced geopolitical ambitions heavily fueled by the West. Secondly, the dismantling of Ukraine will be achieved through denazification, because it, so different, is united only by the “atrocities of the Nazi battalions.” Answering another question, Patrushev explained why Ukraine must be liquidated without fail:

The special military operation has specific goals, the achievement of which depends not only on the well-being, but on the lives of millions of people, saving the population of the LPR and DPR from the genocide that Ukrainian neo-Nazis have been doing for 8 years. At one time, Hitler’s fascism dreamed of destroying the entire Russian population, and today its followers, according to Hitler’s precepts, are blasphemously trying to do this with the hands of the Slavs. Russia will not let this happen. Speaking of denazification, our goal is to destroy the foothold of neo-Nazism created by the efforts of the West at our borders. The need for demilitarization is due to the fact that Ukraine, saturated with weapons, poses a threat to Russia, including from the point of view of the development and use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

That is, and thirdly, for Moscow, an irresponsible country, oversaturated with weapons, imprisoned by the West for a war with Russia, is completely unacceptable at its side.
Are the goals of the special operation “far-fetched”?

In response to the question whether the United States could really orchestrate such provocations in Ukraine, Patrushev was merciless:

You are talking about a country whose elite is not capable of appreciating other people’s lives. Americans are used to walking on scorched earth. Ever since the Second World War, entire cities have been wiped off the face of the earth by bombings, including nuclear ones. They flooded the Vietnamese jungle with poison, bombed the Serbs with radioactive munitions, burned the Iraqis alive with white phosphorus, and helped the terrorists poison the Syrians with chlorine. I do not think that the lives of Ukrainians are of concern to the United States, which has repeatedly proved its aggressive anti-human nature. As history shows, NATO has also never been a defensive alliance, but only an offensive one.

Thus, it becomes obvious that the disaggregation of Ukraine alone is not enough for Moscow. None of its main components should continue to be a springboard for neo-Nazism and a breeding ground for all kinds of security threats, which the West skillfully uses to weaken Russia. So the goals of the Russian special operation in Ukraine are not at all “far-fetched” – they are completely real, have existential significance for Russia.
The United States destroys Europe and not only Ukraine:

Patrushev showed by the example of other countries, primarily European ones, what would happen if Washington succeeded in drawing its line on Ukraine:

Europe is facing a deep economic and political crisis for their countries. Rising inflation and declining living standards are already affecting the wallets and moods of Europeans. In addition, large-scale migration adds new challenges to old security threats like drug trafficking and transnational crime. Almost five million Ukrainian migrants have already arrived in Europe. In the near future, their number will grow to ten million. The majority of Ukrainians who came to the West believe that Europeans should support and provide for them, and when they are forced to work, they begin to rebel.

But that’s not all. As the de facto head of the Russian intelligence community, Patrushev knows well what he is talking about: “Representatives of the criminal community who escaped from Ukraine will try to occupy niches that are profitable for them, to put local criminal groups under control, which will undoubtedly be accompanied by a complication of the criminogenic situation in Europe. Such a widespread business as the sale of orphans taken out of Ukraine for subsequent illegal adoption in Europe will also receive a “new breath”. The West is already faced with the revival of the shadow market for the purchase of human organs from the socially vulnerable segments of the population of Ukraine for underground transplantation operations for European patients.” In addition, according to him, “only a tenth of the refugees from Ukraine have been vaccinated against coronavirus infection, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, rubella and measles. European countries, according to the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, are threatened not only by Ukraine:

Against the backdrop of anti-Russian sanctions, the world is gradually plunging into an unprecedented food crisis. Tens of millions of people in Africa or the Middle East, through the fault of the West, will be on the verge of starvation. To survive, they will rush to Europe. I’m not sure that Europe will survive the crisis. Political institutions, supranational associations, economy, culture, traditions can become a thing of the past.” Patrushev warned that “Europe will still bite its elbows, and America will be freed from its main geopolitical fear – the political and economic union of Russia and Europe.

The West made a bet on Nazism

Patrushev revealed a frightening phenomenon that Tsargrad has been writing about for a long time – the nazification of Europe with the involvement of Nazis from Ukraine: “Europe is already facing the activation of officially prohibited manifestations of fascism and neo-Nazism, as, together with migrants from Ukraine, criminals fed by Bandera with neo-Nazi views are fleeing from inevitable criminal prosecution . This will lead to a revival of Nazi ideas in Europe, to manifestations that not so long ago were considered impossible. The growth of ultra-right sentiments, fueled by tens of thousands of trained and combat-experienced Ukrainian radicals, who have already found a common language with Hitler’s European fans, is not ruled out.

According to Patrushev, fascism and Nazism have long been an instrument of the Anglo-Saxons in order to establish their dominance in the world, the West not only “does not see” them when it is beneficial for it, but also actively contributes, when necessary, to building up their power, as, for example, in the case with Hitler’s Germany, and Bandera’s Ukraine.

America has long divided the whole world into vassals and enemies. In the United States, from childhood, people are driven into their heads that America is a shining city on a hill, and the rest of humanity is just a testing ground for experiments and a resource appendage. Four hundred years ago, immigrants from England robbed and killed Indians because they considered them uncivilized savages. Now all this has been replaced by democratization and human rights rhetoric and piracy continues on a global scale. The American elites remember how the United States managed to become a superpower after two world wars, and now they do not want to accept the fact that the American global empire is in its death throes, – said the secretary of the Russian Security Council.

Why will Russia defend originality and traditional values?

Answering the question whether the collapse of the American-centric world is a reality, Patrushev answered in the affirmative, adding that in these conditions Russia “needs to live and build an optimal course of action”, which provides for “every possible defense of its sovereignty, firm upholding of national interests, cultural and spiritual identity, traditional values ​​and historical memory”. Only this will help us “remain ourselves, be honest with our ancestors, preserve the individual, society and the state.” The Europeans, Patrushev stated with regret, made a different choice, meaning that “Europe and European civilization have no future.”

The Secretary of the Security Council announced the sovereignization of the national financial system, the means of payment of which “should have intrinsic value and price stability, without being tied to the dollar.” He announced the development of a project to create a “two-circuit monetary and financial system”, which means that the ruble should be backed by both gold and a group of goods that are currency values, which will bring its rate in line with real purchasing power parity. Patrushev is convinced that “the most important condition for ensuring the economic security of Russia is reliance on the country’s internal potential, the structural restructuring of the national economy on a modern technological basis.”

The tasks and priorities have been set absolutely correctly, and we will continue to implement them. Another thing is that it is necessary to significantly tighten the discipline of their implementation, including among the relevant departments, he added.

And other tasks

Here are a few more directions outlined by Patrushev for the development of Russia in the face of confrontation with the West:

– expanding the range of domestic high-tech products;

– science becomes the leading productive force, one of the locomotives of the country’s development;

– reorientation to the Asian, African and Latin American markets;

– building up cooperation with the BRICS and SCO countries, uniting about three and a half billion people;

– upholding traditional spiritual and moral values, reforming the system of education and enlightenment with the return of the historically justified advantages of the national school. In particular, the development of the applied application of fundamental sciences, “it is necessary to pay more attention to the development of logical thinking, to form stable knowledge and the ability to make independent decisions, and not just put crosses in tests.”

In conclusion, Patrushev called the key to “guaranteed successful development of Russia” “the development of personal intellectual and spiritual qualities,” since “properly brought up, comprehensively educated, physically and morally healthy children who know and understand the history and culture of their homeland” – this is wealth and the future of Russia. And it’s not just words. And the statement that the fight against the West is not a currently fashionable campaign, situationally caused by the ugly behavior of the former “partners”, but a long-term development strategy for a country that has turned its back on the West, which has become toxic, hovering over the abyss for its own good.
So what?

In the dry residue we have the following. Patrushev’s interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, as well as the extensive, similar in content interview of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Channel One on about the same topic, which appeared a few days ago, speak of a change in Russia’s course, the very fact of which leaves Ukraine no chance. As well as the West, by the way, to win the war of attrition with Russia, which has finally decided to break with its vile “world order”. There is no way back. Russia expects prosperity ahead, the West – a phenomenal collapse. With what we can congratulate each other.
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https://inforuss.info/shansov-na-vyzhivanie-net-general-patrushev-rasskazal-tri-glavnyh-sekreta/

Just saw this on TeElse?
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NATO has activated its Response Force and has created a new battle group in Romania.

Is this part of the NATO exercises in the area or is this something else?

https://t.me/azmilitary11/3715

It is now becoming increasingly clear that thr ‘West’ (USA UK EU and Canada) have well and truly created a monster in Zelensky and his Team. Today Ukraine’s Foreign Minister called Olaf Schulz an offended liverwurst’ clearly forgetting that not so many weeks ago they completely refused for him to go to Kiev for a meeting. That same FM has also said the only Treaty the Ukraine will sign with Russia is total capitulation on the Russian side. Zelensky complained bitterly that Gutteres should have visited him in Kiev first before meeting with President Putin. Zelensky has defended the Azov Battalions, he supports Mayors in various regions to kill and massacre Ukranians who are pro-Russian (Nikolaev is an example). No trial, no justice, no detention, just shoot them. He consistently refuses requests from his Battalions and Senior Officers to surrender in utterly hopeless situations. He has refused to engage with the Humanitarian Corridors. The list is endless. He has no demanded that the USA pay the Ukraine 7bn Euros a month to pay the salaries of the Civil Service and other services and an extortionate amount of money for the supply of military arms. I dare say a lot of it is lining the pockets of himself and his Team. He has no interest at all in the Ukraine or the Ukrainian people, just himself. Lavrov said in his recent interview that Zelenksy will continue to request arms and money from the West because without it he’s finished in the Ukraine. If Putin had insulted Schulz in that manner my goodness, we would never hear the end of it from which now, there is no going back. The West has created the worse monster imaginable and now they are unable to control it because to do so would cause them to lose serious face over the completely hysterical reaction at the outset of this. There is not one Statesmen in the West that even matches President Putin. There must be one President out there (apart from Orban) that is willing to speak out and try to negotiate a settlement. Russia’s demands are not unreasonable. That the West is willing to destroy their economies, the livelihood of its citizens and their infrastructure for the sake of supporting the Nazi Government in the Ukraine is quite frankly, unbelievable given that many of those countries were occupied by German Troops in WW11. The USA Government is now so desperate it is well and truly out of control. They are now talking about putting missiles in Japan with which to attack China. They have threatened Nicaragua because they do not like the result of the elections there and so it goes on. On the plus side, the dollar took a bit of a nosedive against the Rouble today. Russia seems to me to have perfect, absolutely perfect timing to their strategies. Today President Putin signed an Act that has frozen US$ 500bn held in Russia which caused the dollar to drop. Just when the USA are going to send US$billions of pounds to the Ukraine in military equipment with the USA economy in tatters, this has had a real impact. I daresay the UK will be next. I also note that the UN Security Council is going to convene an urgent meeting to discuss the Ukraine. There are reports that the Russian Allied Forces have significantly ramped up air and land attacks around many areas in the Ukraine not just the Donbass. It’s all beautifully timed. The West financially is in a mess now because of their ridiculous Sanctions. Now, is there another intelligent Statesman in the West who is willing to stand up for what is right and negotiate what needs to be negotiated. I can only think of Orban. I’m not sure about Erdogan but I think he is genuinely intent on trying to achieve some breakthrough in negotiations. He’s doing, all around, a good job I think given the competing interests around him. I want to give him credit where it’s due. I just wonder when the EU is going to come to its senses. It is quite obvious Von der Leyen is a serious visceral Russophobe which is really preventing her from being objective and impartial. When you think that before this, only a couple of months before this, with the release of the Panama/Pandora Papers showing that the Ukraine Government is probably the most corrupt in Europe if not the world and there were real concerns mounting about the Nazis in Government and the Azov’s troops actions against civilians to now when the West is now actively supporting the Nazis and the needless and senseless obliteration of the UAF Armed forces it beggars belief. Putin seems to be the only one who is thinking clearly, strategically and rationally.

Goldprice.com says 1gr of gold today is $59.95. 5k rubles (aka 1gr of gold) exchanges for $73.14 (from xe.com). This means that whoever buys physical gold on western markets and sells it to Russia can earn $13.19!?! That is 22% profit right there! Would this put a pressure on physical gold price correction in western markets? I cannot see how it will not. There should be even greater de-coupling between paper and physical gold price.

Open thread so I’m gonna say my faith is still strong and even stronger in Russia being the new light of the world for righteousness, respect, honor, God fearing, equity, and self respect. And true freedom and rights.
America has failed and her light is dimming. The remainder of the west also the light only is a flicker of waht maybe was long ago.
Russia surly is not perfect but there’s evidence of those good righteous qualities stated above and as one the great time says there is no other or something to tnat point. Yes I truly believe Russia is the new light of the world, the country the world will be bless of God by.
Sadly America everyday becomes even more wicked and depraved. Just today on npr the programming was focused on the lgbt candidates in office and those running for office this coming election cycle. We as a nation now it’s clear and should be viable to all, America now is the cursed nation. Only my humble opinion, God only knows and is the one who holds our fate in His hand. But looking arou d it does not look promising to think that the blessing of God is upon our nation.
For those who don’t know yet do so e self searching, research, and see the evil of the jewish people among us and ruling over so much of our lives. Reject that thought and fear of anti semitism. It’s propoganda. Remember tney will always tell us what happened to them but not why. Look and see, tbey are the ones satan is working through to destroy so much good and righteousness in this world.
Muslims, muslim friends, yes I call you friends becuase of all the ones I’ve known and be true ds with you are honorable and respectful peoples. Very much respect your faith and commitment to God. I will trust God will to be done in the eternity issue of salvation. So many of my fellow Christians always say God will save the jews when Christ returns. Well I believe Christ will save many upon return many will then know truth and Lord will ing believe.
And to you Christians who bow down and worship the jews, please pray and open your eyes and hearts, we Christians by Cbrist are chosen. Yes isreal is imporatant but ask yourself where Christ or Paul the Apostle or John ever said about isreal and blessing the jews ignoring their treachery.
God bless us all. Continue praying for mother Russia and President Putin. I am not Russian but I am in spirit.
GLORY to God Glory to Russia Glory to a new world light amen

I thought Biden would be better than Trump on foreign policy or more responsible. I couldn’t think it would be this much worse. Not sure how Trump might have reacted to the two Russian proposals. It’s hard to believe that he would have taken things as far as Biden has (maybe he would have been like the last to jump on board). Would he have said to Putin in private, “This is genius”?

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has urged the EU to make key decisions by a qualified majority, rather than seeking unanimous consent of its member states. Draghi said that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, the EU must learn to work more robustly and effectively. “The geopolitical situation is undergoing rapid and profound change. We have to move, and move as quickly as possible,” Draghi told the European Parliament on Tuesday.

Well hopefully this will split Croatia Hungary and anyone else who has courage away from EU….otherwise majority consensus might lead to more direct conflict with Russia…..?

There are several clouds in European energy transition project.

China’s CATL, one of the majors in the battery space, recently reported a drop in its first-quarter profit because of higher production costs. What this suggests is that the company has so far absorbed the cost increases caused by tightening raw material supply but how long it would continue to do this is an open question.

Meanwhile, the CEO of Rivian, the Amazon-backed EV startup, warned of a battery shortage in the EV space. And it was a grave warning: “Put very simply, all the world’s cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years,” RJ Scaringe said, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. “Meaning, 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist.”

One would think that at least with wind and solar, the supply chains are there and well developed. That may be the case; however, the metals needed to feed into these supply chains are in problematic supply, especially in Europe.

Like fossil fuels, Europe has little local mining production, so it is heavily dependent on imports. To make matters a lot more complicated for it, its main supplier of aluminum, nickel, and zinc is Russia. Almost all of the lithium and rare earths used in Europe are also sourced from abroad.

“The global energy transition is progressing faster than the mining project pipeline, with copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and rare earths all at risk of a disruptive demand pull between now and 2035,” said the authors of a study from Belgian KU Leuven University that warned Europe was facing a shortage of all the main ingredients of the energy transition.

This message could not be any clearer. The West has been warned continually. They continue, sadly and unwisely, to play with fire

https://t.me/azmilitary11/3738

Diesel prices hit yet another new record on Wednesday at $5.43 per gallon, now some $1.2 more than a gallon of gasoline, according to AAA.

While high prices at that pump for gasoline have somewhat leveled off, diesel continues to steadily rise, causing an increase in prices of consumer goods because it fuels the trucks that transport an estimated 70% of consumer goods freighted in the United States.

With diesel prices now up more than 75% from the year-ago average, Syracuse University supply chain expert Professor Patrick Penfield told New York’s WGRZ that there is usually a “correlation”.

“Every 10% that fuel prices go up there’s a point three percent increase in inflation. So that’s what consumers are going to see – you’re gonna keep seeing prices go up,” Professor Penfield said.