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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
Sunday, February 25, 2024 5:49 PM
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Quote: Avdeevka Denouement: Russian Momentum Turning Point A lot of revealing things have come to light in the continuing coverage of the Avdeevka denouement. For the first time, the U.S. mouthpiece was forced to acknowledge Russia is having success: http://stream.mux.com/MERZySxu01XJGdmW5d3bTiZl7e78G9uryfXK3Kp02I11E.m3u8 This was followed by a series of MSM articles that blew the lid on some of the true losses incurred by the AFU at the final collapse. The ... WaPo article begins with: KYIV — Ukraine failed to safely evacuate all its troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka during its disorderly retreat last weekend, despite claims from its new top military commander that the move was designed to save lives and avoid encirclement by the advancing Russians. But the most shocking report came from NYTimes which stated that soldiers close to the action confirmed upwards of 850-1000 AFU were captured during the chaotic retreats. So why is this so shocking? Beyond the simple admission of such a huge amount of captures in merely a day or two, the most profound thing is that it confirms Russian figures, which I reported last time. I wrote that Russian sources said at least 500+ had been captured, and pro-UA accounts had scoffed at this number. Thus, if this proves that Russian estimates of captures were accurate, it means Russia’s other even more critical figures are likely accurate as well—for instance, about total AFU losses in Avdeevka. Shoigu gave the figure as 2,400 casualties just in the final two days of the collapse: And as for Russia? Shoigu reported the final capture of Avdeevka happened with “minimal losses” on the Russian side: Some would laugh at the disparity—but as I said, NYTimes already grudgingly proved Russia is giving accurate figures. For anyone who’s been watching the many ‘clean up’ videos that have streamed out post-liberation, you’ve likely seen the mountains of AFU corpses being cleared by Russian forces. ... Ultimately, MediaZona has Russia averaging something like 200 weekly dead across the entire war since early October, when the Avdeevka offensive began.
Quote: [But] the remarkable thing is that the losses for Ukraine appeared to be so grave, that it seems to have set off a downward spiral of panic and collapse. Figures all across the pro-UA side are now ringing alarm bells. For instance, White House spokesman Sabrina Singh said that if aid is not given soon, Ukraine will have to start choosing “which cities they can or can’t defend”:
Quote: The auto-translation messes up a little at the end, but he essentially states that “Russia is rotating troops back and forth everywhere, from Avdeevka, Kupyansk, Rabotino, etc.”:
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Quote: CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms On Sunday The New York Times published an explosive and very belated full admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine wartime decision-making
Quote: but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago. Among the biggest revelations is that the program was established a decade ago
Quote: and spans three different American presidents. The Times says the CIA program to modernize Ukraine's intelligence services has "transformed" the former Soviet state and its capabilities into "Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today." This has included the agency having secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers spanning back to just after the 2014 Maidan coup events, as well constructing a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border—work which began eight years ago.
Quote: These intelligence bases, from which Russian commanders' communications can be swept up and Russian spy satellites monitored, are being used launch and track cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory. This means that with the disclosure of the longtime "closely guarded secret" the world just got a big step closer to WW3, given it means the CIA is largely responsible for the effectiveness of the recent spate of attacks which have included direct drone hits on key oil refineries and energy infrastructure.
Quote: "Without them [the CIA and elite commandoes it's trained], there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them," according to Ivan Bakanov, former head of the SBU, which is Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency. A main source of the NYT revelations —disclosures which might come as no surprise to those never willing to so easily swallow the mainstream 'official' narrative of events —is identified as a top intelligence commander named Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy.
Quote: Clearly, Kiev and Washington now want world to know of the deep intelligence relationship they tried to conceal for over the past decade. It is perhaps a kind of warning to Moscow at a moment Ukraine's forces are in retreat: the US is fighting hand in glove with the Ukrainians. And yet the revelations contained in the NY Times report also confirm what President Putin has precisely accused Washington of all along. While the lengthy NYT report is full of fresh revelations and confirmation of just how deeply the CIA has always been involved in Ukraine, below are seven of the biggest contained in the story... Description of secret spy bunker The report contains a surprisingly detailed description of one of the 'secret' underground command centers established by the CIA near the Russian border... location undisclosed of course: "Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov. The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military. There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA." Elite commando force Within two years after the 2014 West-backed coup in Ukraine, the CIA had set up a training program for elite Ukrainian operatives: "Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.) And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence." Ukraine transformed into an "intelligence-gathering hub" The US intelligence network in Ukraine (which is tantamount to NATO intelligence network too) has in reality been more extensive than pretty much all prior media speculation has envisioned. Ukraine has long been a massive "intelligence gathering hub" for Washington and its partners: "In more than 200 interviews, current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe described a partnership that nearly foundered from mutual distrust before it steadily expanded, turning Ukraine into an intelligence-gathering hub that intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kyiv, Ukraine, could initially handle. Many of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence and matters of sensitive diplomacy. Now these intelligence networks are more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk: If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kyiv, the CIA may have to scale back.
Quote: Huge NYT admission that Putin was basically right Below is a hugely ironic excerpt from the Times report. The section begins by noting that Putin has repeatedly blamed the US-NATO for expanding its military and intelligence infrastructure into Ukraine. Not only had this precisely been going on for the past decade, as is now being admitted, but was presented by the Kremlin as a key cause of the Russian invasion of Feb.24, 2022. Putin and his officials were adamant on the eve of the invasion that NATO was militarizing Ukraine. The Times appears to now fully admit that, yes - this was actually the case: "Putin has long blamed Western intelligence agencies for manipulating Kyiv and sowing anti-Russia sentiment in Ukraine. Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow. ...U.S. officials were often reluctant to fully engage, fearing that Ukrainian officials could not be trusted, and worrying about provoking the Kremlin. Yet a tight circle of Ukrainian intelligence officials assiduously courted the CIA and gradually made themselves vital to the Americans. In 2015, Gen. Valeriy Kondratiuk, then Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, arrived at a meeting with the CIA’s deputy station chief and without warning handed over a stack of top-secret files. 2014 Coup ... and Crimea The report indirectly references this very critical period which set Ukraine and Russian on their tragic collision course: "With violence escalating, an unmarked U.S. government plane touched down at an airport in Kyiv carrying John Brennan, then the director of the CIA. He told Nalyvaichenko that the CIA was interested in developing a relationship but only at a pace the agency was comfortable with, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials. To the CIA, the unknown question was how long Nalyvaichenko and the pro-Western government would be around. The CIA had been burned before in Ukraine. ...The result was a delicate balancing act. The CIA was supposed to strengthen Ukraine’s intelligence agencies without provoking the Russians. The red lines were never precisely clear, which created a persistent tension in the partnership." Operation Goldfish Money and advanced tech given by the CIA has allowed the Ukrainians to establish eavesdropping operations far beyond what they would otherwise be capable of. All the while, elite commando teams were being trained by the CIA in European cities as part of a program called 'Operation Goldfish'. The NYT reporting includes a bit of a 'boast' of the Ukrainians now being able to hack into Russian military networks: " In the bunker, Dvoretskiy pointed to communications equipment and large computer servers, some of which were financed by the CIA. He said his teams were using the base to hack into the Russian military’s secure communications networks. “This is the thing that breaks into satellites and decodes secret conversations,” Dvoretskiy told a Times journalist on a tour, adding that they were hacking into spy satellites from China and Belarus, too. ...The CIA began sending equipment in 2016, after the pivotal meeting at Scattergood, Dvoretskiy said, providing encrypted radios and devices for intercepting secret enemy communications. A stunning admission: "Tiptoeing Around Trump" Among the most interesting and curious moments of the NYT report is a description of the CIA program's expanse under the Trump administration. The report suggests that the true scope may have even been hidden from Trump.
Quote: The Russian hawks in his administration quietly did the 'dirty work', we are told: "The election of Trump in November 2016 put the Ukrainians and their CIA partners on edge. Trump praised Putin and dismissed Russia’s role in election interference. He was suspicious of Ukraine and later tried to pressure its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to investigate his Democratic rival, Biden, resulting in Trump’s first impeachment." The report then emphasizes, "But whatever Trump said and did, his administration often went in the other direction. This is because Trump had put Russia hawks in key positions, including Mike Pompeo as CIA director and John Bolton as national security adviser." And further, "They visited Kyiv to underline their full support for the secret partnership, which expanded to include more specialized training programs and the building of additional secret bases." Given the attempt to place Trump in a negative light (he had to be 'tiptoed around'...), it will be interesting to see how he and his campaign respond to the report. But more consequential will be the reaction of Putin and the Kremlin in the coming days.
Quote: Google & Meta function as extensions of the US Intelligence Community. With Jacqueline Lopour, Google's Head of Trust & Safety, and Aaron Berman, Meta's Head of Elections Content/Misinformation Policy, both being career CIA officers, it underscores the CIA's substantial control over online censorship.… "Why are career CIA officers like Jacqueline Lopour & Nick Rossmann, who both have a history of spreading misinformation & promoting the RussiaGate conspiracy theory, now in senior roles in Trust & Safety at Google, deciding what is misinformation & overseeing content moderation? The cumulative number of former Intelligence Community personnel hired by Meta & Google since 2018 is staggering. Before 2018, there were only a handful. Here are the combined hires by both companies: CIA-36 FBI-68 NSA-44 DHS/CISA-68 State Dept-86 DOD-121" Why would Google specifically choose these six senior executives to attend an @ISF_OSAC event in DC? Everyone in this picture, alongside former CIA Director Robert Gates, is a current senior executive at Google & a former career CIA officer, except for the attorney from Perkins Coie (2nd from the left):
Monday, February 26, 2024 6:30 AM
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Quote: but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago. Among the biggest revelations is that the program was established a decade ago These intelligence bases, from which Russian commanders' communications can be swept up and Russian spy satellites monitored, are being used launch and track cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory. This means that with the disclosure of the longtime "closely guarded secret" the world just got a big step closer to WW3, given it means the CIA is largely responsible for the effectiveness of the recent spate of attacks which have included direct drone hits on key oil refineries and energy infrastructure.
Quote: ... [T]he revelations contained in the NY Times report also confirm what President Putin has precisely accused Washington of all along. ... Putin was basically right Below is a hugely ironic excerpt from the Times report. The section begins by noting that Putin has repeatedly blamed the US-NATO for expanding its military and intelligence infrastructure into Ukraine. Not only had this precisely been going on for the past decade, as is now being admitted, but was presented by the Kremlin as a key cause of the Russian invasion of Feb.24, 2022. Putin and his officials were adamant on the eve of the invasion that NATO was militarizing Ukraine. The Times appears to now fully admit that, yes - this was actually the case: "Putin has long blamed Western intelligence agencies for manipulating Kyiv and sowing anti-Russia sentiment in Ukraine. Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow. ... Operation Goldfish Money and advanced tech given by the CIA has allowed the Ukrainians to establish eavesdropping operations far beyond what they would otherwise be capable of. ... " In the bunker, Dvoretskiy pointed to communications equipment and large computer servers, some of which were financed by the CIA. He said his teams were using the base to hack into the Russian military’s secure communications networks. “This is the thing that breaks into satellites and decodes secret conversations,” Dvoretskiy told a Times journalist on a tour, adding that they were hacking into spy satellites from China and Belarus, too. ...The CIA began sending equipment in 2016, after the pivotal meeting at Scattergood, Dvoretskiy said, providing encrypted radios and devices for intercepting secret enemy communications. A stunning admission: "Tiptoeing Around Trump" Among the most interesting and curious moments of the NYT report is a description of the CIA program's expanse under the Trump administration. The report suggests that the true scope may have even been hidden from Trump.
Monday, February 26, 2024 9:22 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The CIA directly interfered with our election results. So it appears our foreign policy, our President, and our media are controlled by the CIA. I imagine our Congresspeople are too. What did Chuck Schumer say? The CIA has "six way from Sunday" to get at people who go against them? And, how would he know?? I don't understand the purpose of these revelations. The only thing I can figure is that Vicki Nuland, Burns et al are laying their cards on the table because they desperately need that $60billion. Not to carry on the fight to 2025, but to get the hell out. Because, despite their dirty tricks against Russia, pressure and even dirty tricks against our presumed allies (WHO blew up Nordstream, again?), CONSTANT gaslighting and censoring of us Americans ... Russia is POUNDING UKRAINE INTO THE GROUND. THINGS ARE FALLING APART AROUND THEM. Their control over our media, Trump, the economic situation at home and the military situation abroad (and not just in Ukraine) is unraveling. And all of those fancy bunkers filled with fancy equipment and "eyes only" info on sources and methods, and highly trained Russian-speaking spies are about to be overrun or bombed out of existance. If they are willing to let this particular cat out of the bag, they must be butt-puckeringly desperate. And I wonder, of course, what else they have to hide, because I'm sure this isn't their only game. So, what will Russia do? What will The House? What will Trump? And what will the American people?
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why did Ukraine's CIA-trained spy guy, Budanov, claim Navalny died of natural causes? To distract from the fact that Navalny was murdered. By his wife. That explanation makes sense: Navalny was no longer useful to the USA as a possible Putin replacement/ regime-changer. However, he WAS useful as a perpetual victim (claiming to have been poisoned more than once) and, ultimately, martyr. The timing of his death was convenient distraction from the fall of Avdeevka, and happened just a couple of days after his wife visited. (,Which she hadn't done in over a year.,) So the CIA gets its timely distraction, Putin gets the blame, the prisoner swap is scuttled, Yulia Navalnya gets $10million (j/k) and crowned as his successor, and everyone in the western deep state is congratulating themselves on another successful assassination. :thumbsup:
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 4:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why did Ukraine's CIA-trained spy guy, Budanov, claim Navalny died of natural causes? To distract from the fact that Navalny was murdered. By his wife. That explanation makes sense: Navalny was no longer useful to the USA as a possible Putin replacement/ regime-changer. However, he WAS useful as a perpetual victim (claiming to have been poisoned more than once) and, ultimately, martyr. The timing of his death was convenient distraction from the fall of Avdeevka, and happened just a couple of days after his wife visited. (Which she hadn't done in over a year.,) So the CIA gets its timely distraction, Putin gets the blame, the prisoner swap is scuttled, Yulia Navalnya gets $10million (j/k) and crowned as his successor, and everyone in the western deep state is congratulating themselves on another successful assassination. :thumbsup: SECO D: Wowie! Signym, you are a lying sack of shit.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 5:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The rest is my own supposition. But methinks thou doth protest too much. Too plausible?
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The rest is my own supposition. But methinks thou doth protest too much. Too plausible? SECOND: Signym, you are so full of shit that it is coming out of your nose, literally, not figuratively:
Quote: David Petraeus and the fall of a general 23 April 2015 Former US General David Petraeus, one of the most senior US military commanders of the post-9/11 era, has been sentenced to two years of probation for leaking classified material to his mistress. The seeds of his downfall were sown in 2012 when he resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after acknowledging an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell. Prosecutors said that while Ms Broadwell was researching a book about him in 2011, Petraeus gave her eight binders of classified material.
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Quote:Moscow Reacts To Macron Proposing European Boots On The Ground In Ukraine Tuesday, Feb 27, 2024 - 08:20 AM French President Emmanuel Macron is now openly discussing the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians, which would without doubt trigger WW3 between major nuclear powers. His jingoistic words came just at the end of a summit held in Paris in support of Ukraine, which involved 20 mainly European leaders. He said of efforts to arm the Ukrainians with more advanced weapons, "people used to say give them just sleeping bags and helmets." But he emphasized that now "Nothing should be ruled out."
Quote: He admitted there is as yet "no consensus" on sending Western troops Ukraine but he laid out that "We will do anything we can to prevent Russia from winning this war." Macron warned in his remarks, "There is a change in Russia’s stance. It is striving to take on further territory and it has its eyes not just on Ukraine but on many other countries as well, so Russia is presenting a greater danger."
Quote: "We’re at a critical moment in this conflict that requires us to take the initiative," Macron said while also unveiling a new European coalition which is to provide Kiev with medium-range and long-range missiles. President Putin and top Kremlin officials have repeatedly rejected the charge that Russia is seeking to wage an expansionist war in Europe and in other former Soviet satellite states.
Quote: According to CNN, "Macron had told reporters at a news conference that while he and the other 21 European leaders present did not agree on deploying military personnel, the prospect was discussed openly." However, Germany, the UK, Poland and others have rejected the possibility of deploying troops, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - who was among those present - later emphasizing that participants were "unanimous" in being set against it. The statement out of the UK prime minister's office was interesting, given it admits the "small number of personnel" already on the ground in Ukraine: Britain is not planning a "large-scale deployment of troops" in Ukraine, Prime Minister Sunak’s press secretary said. "Other than a small number of personnel who are in the country supporting the Ukrainian armed forces, we have no plans for a large-scale deployment," he was quoted as saying by Reuters. Germany's Scholtz tried to caution, "What was agreed among ourselves and with each other from the very beginning also applies to the future, namely that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European countries or NATO states."
Quote: Zakharova pointed out in this regard that just a month ago, the top French diplomat had denied that Paris was involved in recruiting mercenaries for the Kiev regime, slamming direct evidence as "crude Russian propaganda." Referencing an infamous French SS division from WW2, Zakharova further quipped: "Emmanuel, have you decided to form a Charlemagne deux (two) division to defend [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s bunker?" But Moscow also warned of major direct conflict with the West. According to more from the Kremlin response: "The very fact of discussing the possibility of sending certain contingents to Ukraine from Nato countries is a very important new element…in that case, we would need to talk not about the probability, but about the inevitability (of a direct conflict)." But the Kremlin wasn't the only one to provide a sarcastic critique of Macron's words. This was the tone even among some allies. For example Germany’s deputy chancellor Robert Habeck called out France for not doing much heavy lifting on transferring weapons to Kiev compared to other in the alliance. "I’m pleased that France is thinking about how to increase its support for Ukraine, but if I could give it a word of advice — supply more weapons," Habeck said Tuesday. And yet President Macron wants to 'talk tough' and issue maximalist threats of direct action. All of this comes as Ukraine is in retreat, following Russia's capture of the eastern city of Avdiivka. Several other smaller towns and cities have also fallen, with Ukraine's front lines in disarray. This has resulted in several days of what might be called empty threats being issued from the West, as it sits helplessly while watching Russian forces advance.
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Quote: "Americans Are Being Lied To About Ukraine" - Tucker Carlson Reflects On Putin, Zelensky, Navalny & Nuclear War Carlson explained that the West's escalation of the conflict long ago into a full-blown proxy war has not only resulted in more needless Ukrainian deaths, but it has been devastating for the United States. "I reject the whole premise of the war in Ukraine from the American perspective," Carlson told Fridman. "There’s a war going on that is wrecking the US economy in a way and at a scale that people do not understand."
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Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Fuck Ukraine. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:Originally posted by second: Republicans used to back Ukraine. Then came middle fingers in Alabama. By Danielle Paquette | February 29, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/29/ukraine-support-alabama-political-divide/ HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In the early days, long before Russia’s war entered its third year, drivers honked and smiled when Natalia Reznick stood by the roadside holding her handmade sign: “Support Ukraine.” Then one afternoon in November (2023), a man lowered his truck window and flipped her off. She might have dismissed that as a fluke if, a few weeks later, another man hadn’t approached her booth in a Trader Joe’s parking lot and asked, “Haven’t we given you enough money?” “The hostility shocked me,” recalled Reznick, 44, whose late father was Ukrainian. “I felt it then — the shift.” She had been trying to collect a couple hundred dollars for food and medicine — food and medicine! Yet somewhere along the way, even a stay-at-home mom’s little charity effort outside a northern Alabama grocery store became mired in another American culture clash. To many Republicans here and across the country, “Support Ukraine” is now a liberal cause —
Quote: a costly diversion from more pressing domestic issues, such as securing the southern border. Some think European allies should bear the responsibility for stopping Vladimir Putin’s takeover,
Quote:casting Kyiv’s potential ruin as not America’s problem. Others suspect aid funds might be landing in the wrong pockets. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) claimed this month, without evidence,
Quote: The Pentagon spent $62.3 billion in 2022 on Ukraine for weapons, ammunition, training, logistics, supplies, salaries and stipends, according to the Joint Strategic Oversight Plan for Ukraine Response report. Inspectors general for several agencies released the report in January. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development spent $46 billion for activities ranging from border security to basic government services such as utilities, hospitals, schools and firefighting. Other government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, spent another $5 billion. The report noted the difficulty U.S. agencies had accounting for the billions spent.
Quote: that U.S. tax dollars meant to help Ukrainian forces have vanished in an “enormous theft.” Then he slammed Ukraine as “one of the most blatantly, notoriously corrupt places in the world.”
Quote: Ukraine climbs global corruption ranking: Country's current position revealed Albania, Argentina, Belarus, Gambia, Ethiopia, and Zambia are one point ahead of Ukraine, scoring 37.
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Quote: Pentagon Chief: If Ukraine Is Defeated, NATO Will Be At War With Russia Thursday, Feb 29, 2024 - 07:45 PM This is the single most important, dangerous and highly revealing statement from a top defense official in the West in a long time... It also demonstrates the precarious urgency of the moment and the huge stakes going into the November US election. The world truly stands on the precipice of a nuclear nightmare with the following fresh assertion of Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who said before Congress on Thursday: "If Ukraine falls, I really believe that NATO will be in a fight with Russia," Austin stated. What's more is that this came the very day that Russian President Vladimir Putin warned things could easily spiral toward nuclear war in the scenario that NATO sends troops to Ukraine. According to the fuller context of the Pentagon chief's statements, he emphasized that more Washington funding is crucial for Ukraine in order to prevent a situation where "one country can redraw its neighbors’ boundaries and illegitimately take over its sovereign territory." "We know that if Putin is successful here, he will not stop. He will continue to take more aggressive actions in the region ... Blah blah blah What is even more alarming about this statement is that everyone now knows that Ukraine forces are in retreat at this very moment...
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Quote:Originally posted by second: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned on Thursday that NATO will be drawn into war if Ukraine is defeated by invading Russian forces. https://www.newsweek.com/nato-will-drawn-war-russia-if-ukraine-loses-lloyd-austin-1874913
Friday, March 1, 2024 12:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The Duran did a good job of explaining why the EC wants to keep project Ukraine going, according to Tom Luongo: Eurobonds. Background: The European Commission (EC) is an UNELECTED bureaucracy wanting to govern all of the EU nations, superceding each nation's trade, cultural, legal, agricultural, economic, military, financial, judicial, and foreign policies. Ursula van der Leyen (van der Crazy) and Brussels bureaucrats have been hankering for that centralized power for a long time. The one thing they DON'T have is the power to levy taxes on insitutions and individuals within the EU. They're trying get around that is by issuing "Eurobonds" ... Drats, busy. More later.
Friday, March 1, 2024 1:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: And why this urgent urgency for $$$$. THE WAR IS LOST, DOOD. Throwing more $$$ at Ukraine isn't gonna help them, or us. It's just one last (corrupt) payday. Gotta throw $$ at your bought and paid for oligarchs, CIA assets, MIC colleagues, Eurocrats, and bankers. Right?
Friday, March 1, 2024 3:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND Modern Banzai Charge: Russian Troops Pile Onto Vehicles, Speed Toward Ukrainian Lines ... And Die. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/26/modern-banzai-russian-troops-pile-onto-vehicles-speed-toward-ukrainian-lines--and-die-but-the-tactic-is-helping-russia-advance/?sh=3626e4c6b5ef
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by SECOND Modern Banzai Charge: Russian Troops Pile Onto Vehicles, Speed Toward Ukrainian Lines ... And Die. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/26/modern-banzai-russian-troops-pile-onto-vehicles-speed-toward-ukrainian-lines--and-die-but-the-tactic-is-helping-russia-advance/?sh=3626e4c6b5ef I HAVE SEEN NO SUCH THING ON MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL, WHICH POSTS EVERY CONCEIVABLE CLAIM TO, AND VIDEOS OF, ANY SORT OF UKRAINIAN "VICTORY". Simplicius is also good at linking to original sources/videos. If this happened more than a couple of times, I'd know. Stop posting bullshit. Liar.
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Quote:Originally posted by SECOND Modern Banzai Charge: Russian Troops Pile Onto Vehicles, Speed Toward Ukrainian Lines ... And Die. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/26/modern-banzai-russian-troops-pile-onto-vehicles-speed-toward-ukrainian-lines--and-die-but-the-tactic-is-helping-russia-advance/?sh=3626e4c6b5ef I HAVE SEEN NO SUCH THING ON MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL, WHICH POSTS EVERY CONCEIVABLE CLAIM TO, AND VIDEOS OF, ANY SORT OF UKRAINIAN "VICTORY". Simplicius is also good at linking to original sources/videos. If this happened more than a couple of times, I'd know. Stop posting bullshit. Liar. SECOND: Yevgeny Prigozhin was assassinated over the Russian Army's meat grinder tactics. https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90436
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