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  8. “The US, using the Ukrainian crisis, managed to sever economic relations between Europe and Russia and eliminate its economic competitors. They solve their economic problems at the expense of other countries. And to make sure Europe could not receive gas from Russia, the Nord Streams were blown up,” Patrushev asserted. The US has demonstrated a similar pattern in other regions as well, the security chief suggested, stating that Washington’s efforts to link the Ukrainian crisis to the new escalation in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas were an example of such behavior. Moreover, the US itself has largely provoked the new crisis in the region, the official asserted. “They act in exactly the same way in Ukraine, where they provoked a coup d’etat, condoned the growth of neo-Nazi ideology, turned Ukraine into a testbed for military-biological experiments, turned a blind eye to the killings of civilians in Donbass, and prepared for military action against our country,” Patrushev told the council. Now, he added, “representatives of NATO countries are already openly saying that Russia prevented them from approaching its borders, and the Ukrainians are an instrument for the West to contain Russia.” At the same time, the double standard and belligerent actions of the US – and the collective West that it leads – have severely damaged their own credibility, which is now effectively “exhausted,” he said. - RT If the US stops funding Ukraine, Russia will win the ongoing conflict between the two countries, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, making the case for $44 billion more in military and other aid to the government in Kiev. “I can guarantee that, without our support, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will be successful,” Austin told the senators. “If we pull the rug out from under them now, Putin will only get stronger and he will be successful in doing what he wants to do.” - RT TRANSLATION: Got to give corrupt Ukraine more money for laundering into my corrupt MIC Raytheon account, the cost in lives be damned!
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  25. MILITARY TUBE TODAY-The Russian Armed Forces took initiative control at the Kursk site, taking the overwhelmed Ukrainian and NATO troops, a large number of which were captured increasingly becoming prisoners of war. In 48 hours on August 13-14, 2024, Russian military correspondents documented, several enemy groups becoming Russian captures on the border, but here some infographic images are not shown. Although some on the Russian side were also taken hostage and killed, this senseless operation, culminating in an ambush of Kiev troops by infantry, drones, or aircraft. They opened a new direction where Russian troops had a greater advantage was a boon for Russian troops, despite the temporary victory of Ukrainian media. It always starts like this in all battles, even if Western mercenaries fight side by side with Ukrainians against Russia. Footage of Ukrainian troops serving in the 80th Air Assault Brigade, captured near the village of Ulanok by the 382nd Battalion of the 810th Brigade, or rather one of the battalions consisting of mobilized Russian fighters. In addition to an assault team of five Ukrainian soldiers who were captured, Russian soldiers also seized important equipment and a ridge in the area. One of the leaders is a suspect in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee regarding the attack on Russian territory. According to the detainees, Zelensky sacrificed some of the most capable and experienced Ukrainian troops for the Kursk campaign. A new wave of Ukrainian prisoners and liquidation operations, and destruction continue under the leadership of the Russian Special Forces and the Chechen Akhmat troops, on the border. Another Ukrainian detachment that was captured, stated that they had been in the region for only a day, capturing them very quickly in the first days of the operation. They were lucky not to meet Wagner fighters, because the Musicians had warned that they did not plan to take prisoners. A group of the detainees added about their desire to fight the Kiev regime, because throwing these people into the fire, like them were worthless. According to reports for August 13 only in 24 hours in Kursk, the Russian Armed Forces have eliminated up to 420 Ukrainian personnel in NATO operations. According to the latest reports from the battlefield in Kursk, 120 French soldiers, 180 Polish soldiers, and dozens of British, Estonian and other foreign soldiers from NATO countries, have been identified. It seems that the entire operation was prepared abroad. It was a NATO operation from the start, analysts note. - Military Tube Today
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  29. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Finally, Russian harsh retaliation has come! This morning, August 26, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive thunderous strike across Ukraine with high-precision weapons against critical energy infrastructure that ensures the operation of the complex, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said. According to preliminary estimates, more than 60 missiles and 100 drones were used in the strike on the map of Ukraine territory for two hours. Russia has long since stopped carrying out missile and drone strikes, which were so massive and dense in many cities - in some places they are already rumbling again. There is almost no air defense work in the attack area, and it seems that most of the air defense has been withdrawn to the borders of the Kursk region. Videos are circulating on the Internet filmed by local residents, at least one missile arriving at the Kiev hydroelectric power station. According to initial reports from Ukrainian media, the explosion caused severe damage to the engine room and on the road leading to the dam of the power plant. Earlier, authorities reported that traffic along the dam in both directions was blocked at least until lunchtime. Emergency power outages began after the strike. According to the analysis, the attack was only a warning and pressure on Kiev officials, if Russia really wanted to destroy it completely, they would have used Khinzal missile or at least 4 cruise missiles. If successful, this would have flooded one of the largest cities in Europe permanently. According to preliminary estimates at the moment, several explosions were heard in Kiev including at Zhuliany Airport, and at least 10 regions were targeted. The water supply in Zhitomir has been completely stopped after a strike at an electricity distribution station. The Usatovo substation, an important electricity distribution center in the Odessa region, was burned down – four arrivals were recorded and thick smoke was seen rising, causing a power outage. In addition, at least 30 trucks were burned down as a result of shooting at a motor transport company near Odessa. Many regions of Ukraine are experiencing widespread power outages, railway infrastructure is down, and water supplies are also cut off. The list of targets will be long, and there is no rush to conclusions!
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  44. So let us review some crucial facts: Ukraine is suffering devastating military casualties and does not have a trained reserve force it can send to the battlefield. Ukraine lacks a viable fixed wing combat air capability. Ukraine lacks a stockpile of tanks, vehicles, artillery, artillery shells. Ukraine does not have secure training facilities/bases on its own territory and must rely on other NATO countries to provide training. (This means the training is limited and not standardized.) Ukraine’s counter-offensive, which was supposed to breach Russia’s Surovikin defense lines, has failed and Ukraine lacks the combat power to escalate attacks. Russia, by contrast, has ample numbers of trained troop reserves, artillery ammunition, artillery (mobile and fixed), cruise missiles, drones, more than a thousand fixed wing combat aircraft, attack helicopters, and massive air defense systems. Russia is self-sufficient in critical natural resources required to supply its defense industries. Russia is no longer dependent on the West for trade and its economy is growing in-spite of Western economic sanctions. Many Western analysts insist that the situation unfolding in Ukraine is a stalemate and postulate that the war with Russia will drag on for years to come. Nonsense. Given the facts outlined above, the advantages fall entirely into the Russian side of the ledger. Ukraine does not enjoy a single advantage over Russia at this stage. In my view, it is unlikely that the Russian/Ukrainian war will produce a stalemate. - Sonar21
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  48. I recall my boss at State Counter Terrorism — retired USMC Colonel Dick Gannon — saying, “You can’t fix stupid.” The U.S. and U.K. airstrikes on Yemen are absolutely stupid and is likely to ignite a spiral of violence that will leave Americans and Brits dead. The cable news shows absolutely love this story. They get to show video footage of F-18s zooming off the deck of a carrier and pictures of boiling clouds of black smoke risking above the cities of Sana’a and Al-Hudaydah (see above). But what does this accomplish? From a military standpoint it is unlikely that these bombings destroyed or damaged any Houthi rocket/drone/missile warehouses. Why? Because Antony Blinken briefed the leaders of Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on the U.S. plan to hit Yemen. What are the odds that at least one senior person in the know passed that info along to folks in Yemen? I put it at 100%. So what? That gave Yemen time to disperse its assets or hide them in a secure location. I wonder if Shakespeare had Joe Biden in mind when he penned this observation in Macbeth: Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” This bombing is unlikely to achieve any meaningful degrading of Yemeni missile and drone capabilities, but it will rally more of the global Arab and muslim street to the side of the Houthis. It also raises the risk that the Houthis, who up until now had only targeted ships linked to Israel, will expand targets to include U.S. and U.K. vessels. Important to remember that the U.S. and U.K. ships can only spend a limited time in the Red Sea before they have to set sail for a port, such as Dubai, where the destroyers can replace the empty VLS missile tubes. Keep your eye on USCENTCOM — the U.S. miitary element responsible for military operations in the Middle East. CENTCOM normally conducts regular exercises for its own forces and with the forces of friendly nations. If the exercises currently on the calendar are executed then that is a signal that the CENTCOM commander does not expect much fallout from these strikes. However, if CENTCOM moves to cancel exercises then that signals the U.S. military is buckling up for an extended conflict. And that raises a more serious and significant question — how does the U.S. sustain naval combat operations when it is already running low on inventories of missiles? There also is an interesting legal question about the legitimacy of Biden ordering this strike. It does not fall under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (aka AUMF) issued in 2001 in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. Although Donald Trump as President designated the Houthis as a terror group, which could be argued falls under the 2001 AUMF, Joe Biden de-listed the Houtis. Therefore, under what legal authority did Biden commit and act of war against Yemen without Congressional approval? There are several members of the President’s own party raising hell about this tonight. - Sonar21
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  54. Macron’s “Democracy”: Rules for Thee, Not for Me French President Emmanuel Macron’s house of cards continues to crumble as Prime Minister Michel Barnier becomes the first PM since 1962 to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament. With 331 votes, well above the required 288... the National Assembly united across the political spectrum to oust Barnier. The left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) and the right-wing National Rally (RN), normally fierce rivals, found common cause against Macron’s increasingly autocratic minority government. Marine Le Pen, leader of the RN, made her position crystal clear: “We made the choice to protect the French people. There was no other solution.” Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the NPF declared the no-confidence vote “inevitable”and called for Macron’s resignation, bluntly warning: “Even with a Barnier every three months, Macron will not last three years.” But Macron, ever the arrogant globalist puppet, has ruled out resigning. This is the same Macron who lectures Russia, China, Iran, and even Georgia on the "sanctity of democracy" and "respecting the will of the people." Yet in his own backyard, the will of the French people and their representatives is treated as a nuisance, not a mandate. The Breaking Point: The crisis erupted over Barnier’s draconian social security budget, proposing €40 billion in spending cuts and €20 billion in tax hikes. RN called the budget a slap in the face to ordinary French citizens, while the NPF accused the cabinet of betraying its pact with the electorate. Macron’s refusal to listen to his people has turned France into a powder keg, with thousands protesting in the streets. Macron’s rejection of democratic accountability echoes the arrogance of Louis XVI, whose obliviousness to the people's demands lit the fuse for revolution. The Fifth Republic, born from the ashes of political instability in 1958, now teeters under Macron’s hubris, reminiscent of the systemic collapses that doomed previous regimes. The cracks in the foundation of French governance are widening, and history offers no comfort to those who ignore its lessons. Macron, along with his fellow “rules-based order” lackeys in Germany, the UK, and the US, dares to lecture the world on democracy while ignoring the fundamental principle of consent of the governed. When Western elites speak of democracy, they mean control. When they speak of the “rules,” they mean rules for others, never for themselves. Macron’s crisis doesn’t just jeopardize France, it shakes the EU’s fragile core. As the bloc struggles with mounting economic and political divisions, this instability in its second-largest economy highlights the West’s inability to lead by example. Europe’s self-styled moral superiority erodes further, while the multipolar world takes note and prepares alternatives. France’s constitutional rules prevent another election for a year, leaving Macron scrambling to appoint a new puppet prime minister. But the damage is done. Macron’s government is a hollow shell, propped up by hypocrisy and arrogance. The Fifth Republic has endured 150 no-confidence votes since 1958, but Macron may very well go down as the man who shattered its credibility entirely. The rules-based order isn’t just failing, it’s imploding under the weight of its own lies. Keep lecturing, Macron. The world sees you for what you are: a globalist marionette clinging to power while your master's empire burns. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  77. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Last night, the Ukrainian military needed to deliver reinforcements to its troops in the Kursk border region, and wanted to move stealthily at night, but the Mil Mi-28 Night Hunter of the Russian Army Aviation stopped them from doing so, the Russian Defense Ministry released the helicopter combat duty today on August 21, 2024. Night vision and IR devices, allow to effectively attack targets day and night. With guided anti-tank missiles fired and used during sorties, the Mi-28 worked against Kiev's military reserves, burning down targets as shown in the footage. Kiev was badly hit even before their personnel did their job, even in one action the Russian attack helicopters would turn fantasy into the worst nightmare! The crews of Russian helicopters are tireless! The Mi-28 all-weather anti-armor attack helicopter, continuously carry out unstoppable air strikes, especially in recent days, which forced Ukraine together with its Western partners, to suffer heavy losses on the border. Daily targeted strikes on Ukrainian personnel and materiel concentrated on the border, and aircraft return to base after using aviation weapons. As reported by the Russian Marines yesterday on August 20, Ukrainian personnel and Western armored hardware columns were destroyed near Korenevo. Allegedly, dozens of vehicles including two Stryker and one Kozak armored personnel carriers, one Canadian-made Roshel SARV armored fighting vehicle, one Cougar mine-resistant vehicle, and one HMMWV armored vehicle were destroyed or damaged in one helicopter action, several Ukrainian servicemen from the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade were captured. In Kursk, which was led by Western units to cross the Russian border zone earlier this month, flight crews on helicopters mainly "Ka-52", "Mi-28" and "Mi-35", daily support servicemen by conducting strikes on manpower, armored and motorized convoys of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian Aerospace Forces also carry out missions involving search and rescue teams including fire support groups and paramedics, evacuation and transportation of pilots to military health facilities.
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  88. Military vehicle repair base of Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka was blown up by the bomb of Russian Air Force. FAB-500 bomb equipped with UMPK kit, hit and destroyed a repair base in Donetsk region in Artemovsk direction, and 10 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. - Military Tube Daily Update for the conflict in Ukraine for October 2, 2023 - Ukraine’s offensive is now at the 4 month mark, exhausting its potential and failing to achieve any of its objectives; - The Western media admits that Russia has actually gained more territory this year including during the Ukrainian offensive despite being on the defensive; - Russia continues degrading a variety of Ukrainian military capabilities the West cannot sufficiently replace while maintaining pressure along the line of contact; - Both the Russian economy and its military industrial base are admittedly growing while Ukraine and its Western sponsors exhaust their stockpiles, lacking the ability to renew them; - The New Atlas using all Western Sources DO IT LIKE SALT BAE in right pic as Russian Grad ("Hail") multiple rocket launchers decide to sprinkle some seasoning on Ukrainian army positions, reducing Kiev army to dust as blasts and smoke fill air. Hope Ukrainian soldiers enjoy their meal - it's only the appetizer 'cause there's plenty more rockets to spare. - Intel Report Driven to "despair" due to heavy losses in the confrontation with Russian forces, the elite 47th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was forced to withdraw from Rabotino on Zaporozhye front. The army's refusal was due to increasing casualties in a difficult combat mission under a strong Russian offensive, supported by ground attacks and aviation.- Military Tube Today "TO STOP FUNDING UKRAINE IS DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAIWAN" according to dead-eyed warmonger Lindsey Graham who claims if Ukraine beats Russia, then China’s less likely to "invade" Taiwan. Bold of him to wear pin of US and Ukrainian flags when he's so happy that Ukrainians are dying in droves... - Intel Report Russian Army's 'BALATON TACTICS' Completely Paralyzed Ukrainian Army Near RABOTINO┃ This Is The END 'Time is our greatest enemy'. 'Time is playing against us'. These are the words that not only independent Ukrainian experts but also retired Western officers began to pronounce more and more often. For four months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been unable to break through the defense line of the Russian army and achieve at least scanty strategic successes. - BORZZIKMAN
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  106. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian troops dropped leaflets calling for the surrender of Ukrainian troops, who are still entrenched in Novoukrainka in the South Donetsk direction west of Ugledar. The Russian Defense Ministry released footage yesterday, September 23, 2024, showing a UAV team from the artillery reconnaissance unit of the Vostok Group of Forces of the Pacific Fleet Marine Brigade, dropping about 100-150 leaflets with special QR codes on the positions of Zelensky's troops. Using drones, each leaflet dropped contained a call to immediately abandon their weapons, giving the enemy the opportunity to surrender on the battlefield, and instructions on how to do so, before their positions are powerfully storming! A leaflet can sometimes have the same effect as a projectile! After that, three other soldiers from the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, took advantage of the Russian leaflets after dropped, and they decided to abandon their positions near Novoukrainka. One of the prisoners, Alexander, even advised everyone in other positions to surrender. They treat us normally here, they promised that there will be an exchange soon and they will exchange us,” Alexander added. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian troops who did not heed Alexander’s advice are facing a terrible fate under Russian shelling. Today, September 24, new glide bombs by Su-34 bomber, pounded their deployment points on the flank of the front line between Novoukrainka and Ugledar. Objective control data on the breakthrough by Russian units in this section, they have occupied a bridgehead on Kashlagach River, and advanced 4 kilometers deep into the town of Ugledar. The main goal was to quickly cut off the last Ukrainian logistics that were trapped, and now the entire town, under heavy fire from Russian MLRS, is likely to force the remaining soldiers, to leave the town before the final assault. The two-year battle for Ugledar, is likely to end with a victory for the Russian troops!
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  108. The decision to throw these specialists into the trenches signals more than just manpower shortages—it’s the death knell of Ukraine’s capacity to sustain itself as a viable military player. If the specialists who once repaired helicopters and aircraft are now clutching rifles in mud-soaked trenches, who’s left to keep what remains of Ukraine’s military equipment operational? The symbolism here is rich: a country whose leaders sold their people on promises of NATO-backed strength is now so depleted that it’s cannibalizing its own critical workforce. What comes next? If highly skilled specialists are no longer exempt, the ripple effect will soon extend to every other sector. Doctors? Engineers? Scientists? The machinery of Ukrainian society is being ground into dust, sacrificed at the altar of a war that Kiev has already lost. And all the while, its Western patrons grow increasingly indifferent, their attention shifting to other theaters of geopolitical drama. The message is clear: Ukraine has been wrung dry, and now it' literally to the last Ukranian. For Russia, this is yet another vindication of its strategy. The strikes targeting Ukraine’s military-industrial capacity are achieving exactly what they were designed to do—systematically dismantling Kiev’s ability to wage war while exposing the hollowness of its Western-backed promises. The conscription of specialists is not a sign of resilience; it’s a glaring red flag that the system is collapsing. The question is no longer if but when Ukraine’s unsustainable mobilization policies will push the nation beyond the breaking point. - TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  142. At the end of the day, there’s only one side from whom we’re seeing massive cemeteries being tracked from space due to their size, and daily urgent calls for more body bags, coffins, graves, crematoriums, etc. Also, from one of the ABC articles, we’re told that American mercenaries in the AFU have reported their units taking 85% casualties: On the surface it very much appears a stalemate, but looking past the smokescreens we can see one side is clinging for survival while the other merely bides its time and gets stronger by the day. Russia will continue pressing in the north, and there’s a fair chance they can recover most, if not all, of the territory east of the Oskol river by the end of this year. The latest breaking updates show that they’re beginning to surround Sinkovka, and some reports even claim all AFU units have fled the town and retreated: Likewise, some will hyperfocus on some irrelevant “drone strike” which was shot down and nullified but ignore that Russia strikes just blew away a major mercenary/foreign advisor gathering in Chernigov. “The Ukrainians will never win the war, they will never regain all the lost territories," and this feeling is starting to make its way not only on a technical level, but also on a political level. - Summary from Combat Analysis Channel with mutliple sources referenced from both East and West that can no longer ignore the truth on the battlefield. We are witnessing military malpractice by the West on a grand scale. Did the NATO planners really believe the propaganda nonsense that portrayed the Russian military as a decrepit, doddering army of incompetents? If so, the West is now learning a very hard lesson and now must come to grips with the fact that NATO’s delusional calculation that Ukraine could shatter the Russian military is a complete bust. - Sonar21 "APPARENTLY HE OVERDOSED" says Russian FM spokeswoman about Cocainesky's idiotic statement "Will exchange Belgorod (pre-war West Russia for Ukraine's NATO membership". Not only all the signs are there, his begging also perfectly resembles those inflicted with an addiction. - Intel Report No matter, these jets will be cannon fodder when up against the multi-layered Russian Air Defenses! Half of the F-16s that the Netherlands and Denmark promise to Ukraine are unairworthy.- Intel Report
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  145. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – On November 24, 2024, drone footage of the battlefield showed the entry of a Russian armored column after artillery preparation and the operation of attack aircraft, carrying out a strategic storming, completely encircling Ukrainian troops taking up positions in the settlement of Ilyinka, located south of the city of Kurakhovo. The armor of the landing assault unit of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Division, using BMP-2M and T-72 "Supermangal" reinforced to combat drones, carried out a series of heavy shelling of the enemy's strategic points. The rapid advance of the armored column met with strong resistance, but the armored column held out well and without losses. The Ukrainian side was targeted unexpectedly from the north of the settlement along the Mokrye Yaly River, to their positions west of the settlement. Here, the Ukrainian troops were caught in a "fire trap", and quickly their defense collapsed due to the coordinated maneuver of the Russian assault units. Then after the operation of the armored column, "Supermangal" was seen sending assault troops to enemy support positions, Ukrainian troops hiding in the ruins of buildings and underground dugouts. The scale of the soldiers' engineering work is impressive - the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to make any effort to delay the rapid Russian advance. The brave Russian assault troops, consisting of only a few men, quickly took the suspected points, went through the buildings one by one, where the Ukrainian troops might still be, and cleared them. Meanwhile, two other assault troops approached the Ukrainian trenches under enemy fire. However, in the end they managed to break through the enemy's defenses and quickly capture their important trenches. Then, Ilyinka was cleared efficiently on the same day, as the Ukrainians were unable to hold their positions. On the same day, several Ukrainian sources reported that Russian troops had taken Ilyinka and Romanovka. Meanwhile, the battle continued for Yelizavetivka the next to the river, which was almost completely under Russian control, as reported by Russian military correspondents. Kiev's troops reportedly retreated to avoid encirclement, forcing the Ukrainian command to hastily withdraw the remaining units that managed to escape during the Russian armored assault, which advanced 2 kilometers from the north along the Mokrye Yaly River
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  168. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Finally, the most intense clashes erupted in western Aleppo on Friday, November 29, after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) together with the Russian Armed Forces, fought the rebels from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group together with the Turkish-controlled Syrian National Army (SNA). The rebels used the method of sending evacuation orders to everyone in western Aleppo. The group claimed to have taken control of several towns and villages in what the Syrian army called the 'largest offensive since 2020', which began an attack on Syrian largest city, Aleppo. Now, the main battle areas stretch from the west and southwest of Aleppo, east of Idlib, southeast of Idlib to the vicinity of Saraqib. Since this morning, the rebel forces have launched a large-scale coordinated attack on these areas. The fighting was reported to have taken place inside Aleppo - confirmed by Ahmad Ali, a pro-Assad Syrian military journalist. The Syrian Arab Army immediately took decisive action, eradicating the rebels who came from various countries, which is a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty. New footage shows Assad's forces deploying various types of artillery with heavy fire, relentlessly pounding their groups' positions in the western countryside of Aleppo. In addition to the artillery work, Russian warplanes are now bombarding western and southwestern Aleppo on a large scale, continuing the bombardment to destroy the rebel positions. After enemy positions suffered heavy losses in caves and human shields, killing dozens of rebels, they tried to hold some positions, but some points were retaken by the Syrian Arab Army until reinforcements arrived. Since last night, Russian warplanes have been destroying the rebel headquarters in the so-called "Joint Forces" near the town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo. This was their gathering point, which was coordinating the attack efforts for the next day. But the heavy airstrikes destroyed the place as in the footage, killing dozens of rebels and their supporters, the pro-Syrian government channel reported. The Syrian Arab Army reported that one rebel of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham named "Ibrahim Khaled Dibo" was killed in western Aleppo today, and his strange clothing featured the ISIS flag on the emblem of his group's elements. Noteworthy! Moscow is determined to restore the constitutional order of Syrian government in Aleppo region as soon as possible!
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  170. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Finally! The Russian Defense Ministry officially announced the liberation of Selidovo, which was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces yesterday, on October 29, 2024. Today October 30, the Defense Ministry also published a new video, about how the city of Selidovo was liberated, this large city in Donetsk, was deep in enemy territory, but now Russian troops have advanced into its streets without hindrance. And what is gratifying, these areas appeared with very minimal damage to infrastructure. It's time for the Ukrainian flag to be lowered, and the banner of victory to be raised all over the city, including the hoisting of the Russian flag at Korotchenko Mine, which was liberated as in the footage. This is another important milestone in the current collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the capture of Selidovo as a reality that has already happened! How the Russian military liberated the city, how it happened quickly! Russian assault detachments from the 15th and 30th Motorized Rifle Brigades of the Central Group of Forces, entered the city under the cover of an armored group. They took up key positions on commanding heights on the outskirts, entered the tree line in their area of responsibility and eliminated the enemy with the support of reinforcements. At the same time, UAV crews attacked Kiev's infantry and military materiel. Thus, the assault detachments advanced. As a result, the soldiers of the Central Group of Forces took key positions to dominate the heights on the outskirts of the city, so that the assault troops managed to wipe out Selidovo from Ukrainian formations. Ukraine lost up to 515 soldiers, one armored personnel carrier, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. It's not about the city was taken very quickly by the standards of the war, but Selidovo is really considered a symbol of the helplessness of Zelensky together with the Western collective to stop the Russian military machine, although they tried to do it. It is worth understanding how difficult the situation was for Kiev when Russian troops had liberated such a key city as Selidovo, and even the sweeping of the northwestern part of the city continued until the Central Group of Forces continued to advance towards Pokrovsk.
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  172. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Important update on September 27, 2024, the noose was strengthened around Ugledar by Russian forces, and has begun a massive unprecedented offensive, capturing half of the city, which was a stronghold for Ukrainian forces for two years. Video shows one of the Ugledar Mines successfully captured by Russian troops with the assault on the city continuing. Before the massive assault, Russian scouts wisely dropped campaign leaflets by drone in the western part of Ugledar, calling for the surrender of Zelensky's troops from the units of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, which was ordered to hold the city while he is still in the United States. At this time, for Zelensky's troops, the situation on the front is critical, the small mining town in the Donetsk region is surrounded, all entrances and exits are under Russian fire control. Ugledar, which is half surrounded is in half a cauldron, making some of the rest of the men from the 72nd Ukrainian Brigade, try to escape in Ugledar, but eventually a group of prisoners of war were forced to surrender. At first they tried to attack the Russian tank formation from Buryatia near Vodyanoye village in order to escape from Ugledar, but failed. All roads to Ugledar were cut off, their resistance was useless. Dozens of them eventually had only one chance to return home alive! The command of the Russian troops contacted the Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender, or be blocked in Ugledar! They were supposed to surrender because Russia did not ask twice. As a result, Russia showered Ugledar with incendiary ammunition, fired from BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher systems at night. Some Western sources, citing their contacts in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, claim that Ugledar is completely surrounded. The video was recorded by the Ukrainian military themselves, who complained about the "difficult conditions" under the magnesium rain. In addition, Russian drones raided Ukrainian troops still entrenched in the city buildings. This was the last chance for the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade to retreat, and was rapidly closing. It is strongly suspected that in a few days Ugledar will fall!
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  195. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Strong footage of a powerful assault by the Airborne Assault Battalion of the 40th Guards Kamchatka Marine Brigade, shows the landing of stormtroopers on the front line, threatening the cauldron of the Armed Forces of Ukraine group in the town of Ugledar south of Donetsk. The Russian military correspondent shared the video on September 21, 2024, showing how the Russian assault force in an armored vehicle, successfully landed, attacked Zelensky's men, and occupied their stronghold. The thrilling assault was not without the work of scouts, where previously the Supercam unmanned aerial vehicle of the Pacific Fleet Marine Brigade, detected enemy positions, and the military equipment they were hiding. The Supercam UAV is used for in-depth reconnaissance, flying up to 70 kilometers into the enemy's rear, is almost silent and its integrated camera is the best in its class. The personnel and weapons found were destroyed on the same day, then the stormtroopers entered the next day. The Russian channel showed on the map the direction of the attack, after forcing Kashlagach River, the Kamchatka Marine Brigade continued to advance, and expanded the bridgehead west of Ugledar. The group of about 8 stormtroopers, in addition to driver, continued to bypass the Ukrainian defenses, hitting with shot after shot from close range directly in the enemy trenches, and without losses on the Russian side. They also attacked with FPV drones, eliminating Kiev personnel, and burning their equipment. As a result of the successful landing, the Marines occupied an important stronghold near Ugledar, which threatened to encircle the town. This meant that the town would soon be squeezed, the prospect of holding positions in such conditions was not encouraging for the Ukrainian troops still entrenched there. On the same day on the Ugledar cauldron, video footage was published of the breakthrough, where Kashlagach River and the advance to Novoukrainka began. More than 20 square kilometers of territory were liberated by Russian stormtroopers from the tank formations of the Vostok group from Buryatia, after fighting at the recently liberated Prechistovka. The ranks of Ukrainian soldiers wavered, about 12 men from the 58th Infantry Brigade, who valued life more than the Nationalist ideals, laid down their weapons, and raised their hands in repose. The surviving tank crew prisoners, lucky for the time being, spoke in a video published by Buryatia stormtroopers.
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  198. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The Russian military swept away the Ukrainian drone at its launch site before it could even carry out its task in a place on the Kharkov direction. The Russian Defense Ministry released footage on September 5, 2024, showing soldiers of the Sever Group of Forces of the Russian Northern Group observing the activity of kamikaze drone operators during reconnaissance operations near a settlement in the region, and foreshadowing bad days for the Ukrainian UAV team's positions! It is worth noting! The attack by the Kiev regime's armed formations in the Kursk region did not affect the pace of advancement of the Sever Group of Forces' task area in Kharkov. Their work will continue until the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine are confirmed to be finished. The artillery of the Sever Group of Forces continues to conduct attacks on their enemy. Further, data on the position of targets at the tree line is transmitted to the artillery crew for further firing. The crew of the Giatsint-B towed artillery is engaged in counter-battery warfare, inflicting fire damage on the enemy drone's hardware and personnel. The real-time objective control footage obtained by the unmanned aerial vehicle made it possible to confirm that the UAV launch site was hit at several points. The Ukrainian drone team did not reappear after a short period of artillery fire. On the same day in the same direction, the soldiers of the Sever Group of Forces decided to inflict damage on the Ukrainian armor. During reconnaissance, they discovered the movement of one tank, which took a closed firing position prepared for the “advance”. After analyzing the information obtained, the “Lancet” ammunition took over for the task. As a result of the direct hit of the Lancet, the Ukrainian tank was destroyed by fire. And, this is what happened every day on the battlefield, in Kharkov and throughout the front line.
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  213. Ukrainians face fierce fighting, tough terrain and dug-in Russian resistance - NATO Chief Stoltenberg. Says all above factors have impacted "pace of progress", adds that "wars are hard to predict." (Whatever happened to Ukrainians being successful and all that) NATO Chief finishes by saying that bloc is "closely following" events in Belarus and has seen "some preparations" for hosting Wagner forces. Ukes attack. Russians resist and counterattack. Ukraine should not expect too much from NATO summit in Vilnius (11-12 July) - Polish Secretary of State for European Policy Szynkowski vel Senk. Everyone is asking themselves whether there will be any promises to Ukraine about NATO. There are some countries that are determined enthusiasts, such as Poland, and there are those that keep their distance. We need to wait for the moment when it will be possible to work out a final decision, we should not have too much hope today - Szynkowski vel Senk. ◾Russian forces strike Ukrainian army and foreign mercenary deployment areas with high-precision weapons, causing significant damage to Kiev army reserve forces; ◾Ukrainian forces suffer 285 casualties in Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) as Russian troops repel 9 Kiev army counterattacks in region; ◾Russian troops destroy Ukrainian Gvozdika ("Carnation") self-propelled howitzer and kill or wound up to 130 Ukrainian soldiers in Kherson region (ex-Ukraine); ◾Ukrainian forces sustain casualties of up to 165 soldiers in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions (ex-Ukraine), also losing 3 armored vehicles including US-supplied Stryker armored personnel carrier. ◾Russian air defenses shoot down 4 UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles, 2 Ukrainian Su-25 jets and 4 rockets from US-supplied HIMARS multiple launcher systems. ⚔SITREP⚔JULY 5
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  236. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - A massive storming by the Russian Armed Forces on the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 coal mine northeast of Ugledar has put Ukrainian forces in a very difficult situation. A large video released by Russian military correspondent, on September 14, 2024, shows Russian assault troops launching a fierce assault on the mine structures, and entering the area around the mine, where Zelensky’s troops had been hiding for a long time trying to defend Ugledar. However, this time the enemy troops appear to be completely surrounded by artillery and bombing attacks, and a large explosion occurred in one of the buildings of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 Mine, located west of Vodyane, which was recently liberated by Russian fighters. The assault on the extreme mine, where fighting continued after the Russian assault troops landed, would be a death sentence for the fall of Ugledar. Epic footage shows artillery preparation, and then a mechanized attack with the entry of two Russian armored groups into the mine area to destroy the enemy. The armored groups, consisting of armored vehicles and motorized rifle units, entered from two sides at once, from the north and from the south, pinning down the Ukrainian positions. After a massive artillery barrage on enemy positions, the armored vehicles broke into the complex while firing and deploying troops. Soon after four more armored vehicles arrived to disembark, one of them was hit by an explosive device during the advance, but with almost no losses. The advance of their comrades did not stop, and it is likely that the landing force landed there while continuing to press the Ukrainian positions. As a result of the successful assault, the Russian Armed Forces managed to gain a foothold in the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 Mine, and currently control at least half of its territory, about 2 km north of Ugledar. So far, the battle for the mine is still ongoing, but it seems that the last stronghold of the Ukrainian troops here, one of the key locations for the liberation of the town of Ugledar itself, will soon be taken and cleared by Russian units.
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  237. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - A group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were surprised by a sudden attack of Russian Lancet ammunition on the front of their armored column on their way to enter one of the settlements in the Kursk region. An Ukrainian soldier captured live footage of the impact of Russian drone flash strike, in a video of the clash that took place on August 11, but some of the footage was only recently posted around August 26, 2024. The intense footage shows a large armored column of Ukrainian Paratroopers, and trying to break through Cherkassky Porechny under fire from Russian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian soldiers were annoyed that the Lancet drone managed to penetrate the armor of a T-64BV tank of their comrades, even though they had tried to shoot the Lancet in the air with small arms. The tank initially tried to keep working, then caught fire. However after the attack, the Ukrainians rushed to protect the surrounding area. Things then got worse for the Ukrainian or NATO armored column, and the Lancet kamikaze drone flew into another armored vehicle in their column, as shown in a part of video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on August 11. Several vehicles of Kiev troops, such as T-80 tank, were completely burned out with a huge explosion, and then completely destroyed. So far, until August 27, the next Ukraine-NATO armored vehicles are burning out on the good highway of the Kursk region. For more than a week, Russian soldiers have been repelling the attacks of Ukraine, which is defending its presence on Russian land, attacking waves of Ukrainian infantry and another equipment. In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry statement said that Russian army units attacked Ukrainian army armored personnel carriers detected at the Kursk border, with Lancet kamikaze UAV. Lancet drones continue to be a nightmare for Ukrainian forces, as Kiev’s cannon fodder crews try hard to hide their armored personnel carriers in the trees, completely unaware that Russian forces know exactly where they are. The armored vehicles’ march during the Western-backed offensive turned into a shooting battle for Russian forces. Real-time data confirms, that the vehicles are burning.
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  253. The BRICS 2024 summit kicked off as the big highlight of the week. There are an endless amount of things to be said from a variety of different analytical perspectives, but we’ll just mention a few of the salient points that stick out most for now. Firstly, the obvious is simply the optics of the event. Russia and Putin were supposed to be ‘isolated’ and here they are hosting the world’s top leaders on a grand stage: Note how even the simple optics of the event differ from the more ‘corporate structured’ UN, with its one-at-a-time tribune speech on stage meant to present the leadership of each country in a Western unitary model. The BRICS meeting on the other hand visually represents a roundtable of equals amongst all, which sends a powerful message for the future of global multipolarity and cooperation. That’s not to mention it was chosen for a symbolic date, as Putin explains here, with the original founding UN Charter being signed on October 24, 1945: It is clear the organizers of the BRICS summit foresee this pivotal time as being an epochal shift in the global world order similar in weight to that of the UN founding. What is meant by simple optics? For example, BRICS has sent a message of strength and solidarity, as well as giving legitimacy to a variety of countries, issues, and leaders which do not get it on the Western-ruled world ‘stage’. Putin himself appeared to directly address BRICS Development Bank (NDB) chairman Dilma Rousseff in very politely saying “let’s speed things up” by noting that the longer these transitions to a multipolar model take, the more dangers it poses, and the longer the global south has to live in slavery to the Western financial system: unlike the US-led United Nations, and other Western organs like the G7, the BRICS is foundationally designed to take everyone’s interests into account rather than being solely one hegemon’s private bully pulpit and centrally planned authority in one: Putin was also asked about Trump’s claim that he once told Putin he would strike Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin replied that this is merely the effect of election season and that such statements should not be taken seriously. He then gave a dressing down to BBC’s chief pest Steve Rosenberg: All the North Korean ‘panic’ stories from the Western press mill suggested it was a big ‘top secret’ operation with only ‘clever’ Western satellite intel able to bust Putin’s putative smuggling of the DPRK troops under the cover of night. On the other hand, a huge contradiction in the narrative: a stream of videos taken openly by Russian troops in full view of their commanders has emerged that purport to show DPRK troops in eastern Russian bases. If it was a big top secret operation like they pretend, then why are the troops openly being filmed? Overall, the key takeaway from the BRICS summit can be the following. Look closely at some of the scenes presented: India and China after having just negotiated a settlement to their border conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan hashing out their disputes, other “ostracized” members of the world community being greeted with open arms, no leering judgmental supremacism, condescending sermonizing and pompous pontificating like so often seen by the West at their global institutions, from the EU to the UN, etc The BRICS’ strongest achievement is sending a message of acceptance, compromise, openness, civility, and cooperation—the true definition of anti-illiberal qualities, the same the West so adamantly claims it champions. There was a kind of contagious energy that was palpable in the air: an alternate vision for a world led by sovereign grownups, not the small-minded, nervous little elitist compradors and pushy apparatchiks, the likes seen dotting the halls of the West’s equivalent institutions. In short, a breath of fresh air and maturity. This to me is the strongest message the BRICS sends. Even despite not achieving any major concrete advancements quite yet, it still was a symbolically significant set of optics for the entire developing world and global south to witness, which will only flower in the years to come as the wane of the West sets in. - Simplicius
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  260. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian troops have taken control of the entire Grodovka on the Pokrovsk direction, which is a fairly large settlement in terms of area, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on October 7, 2024. This section of the front in the Donetsk region is the area of responsibility of the "Center" Group of Forces, and due to their decisive actions, the offensive of the Kiev troops was repulsed even amidst the loud noise of Zelensky's "Victory Plan" together with Western partners. One by one, the territories fell into the hands of the Russian Armed Forces at a rapid pace, capturing the last part of Grodovka, key point between the Donetsk front towards Pokrovsk. During the day, the Russian assault forces advanced, capturing the last part of the Grodovka area still under Ukrainian control, and cleared it. They stormed the Ukrainian fortifications defended it with machine guns, firing at the Russians with heavy machine guns during fierce fighting. The Ukrainians also made ten counterattack attempts, which were defended by about two hundred soldiers remaining in the settlement, but all enemy attacks were repulsed. In a day, fighters of the Russian group inflicted damage on several enemy motorized infantry and paratrooper brigades, losses in manpower amounted to hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded. Russian fighters also destroyed various Ukrainian-NATO equipment, including the last armored vehicle in Grodovka, the American Bradley. The Center Group's drone recorded the movement of the vehicle, the first FPV drone made a devastating strike, after which the crew inside it abandoned their armored vehicle. The second hit the roof, and the third hit right inside the vehicle. The success of the fiery actions of the Russian military was noted not only in the Grodovka sector of the front, but also in almost all other sectors. While the Ukrainian-Western units were forced to take more advantageous positions at the moment. Therefore, the Russian command will try to take advantage of the opportunities presented before the autumn thaw restricts maneuver and the enemy comes to his senses. Generally, these prerequisites are strong enough to indicate that the Russian military is on the verge of a major breakthrough and attempts to launch a new offensive are underway, this month is expected to be hot!
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  272. Trump named Fox News host, Pete Hegseth, as his nominee for Secretary of Defense. Wow!! Hegseth, apart from having served in the Army, has no experience managing a gargantuan bureaucracy like the Department of Defense. What the hell is Trump thinking? I think it is simple — he is installing loyalists in key positions who are not compromised by or beholden to the military industrial complex or the defense lobbyists in DC. I know one of those lobbyists (we used to be neighbors) and I guarantee you he is livid tonight. Trump is sending the Deep State an unmistakable message — I will be running the show. Hegseth also is not a creature of one of the many Washington “think tanks,” which are funded in large measure by the military industrial complex and the Zionist lobby. Trump did not select Hegseth because the former Army officer has a great plan for reforming the bloated, corrupt U.S. defense complex. He chose him because Hegseth is expected to follow orders and do what Trump wants. Trump also named former Congressman and former Director of National Intelligence (aka DNI), John Ratcliffe, as the nominee to head up the CIA. That is an excellent choice in my view. Ratcliffe is a straight shooter and not a self-seeker aspiring to be President, like Mike Pompeo. By virtue of his previous stint as the DNI , Ratcliffe knows where some of the bodies are buried at CIA and will play a key role in releasing the JFK files. While I’m willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, I stand by my belief that if Trump takes the US to war in Iran or China, he will destroy his Presidency, and possibly the nation. My advice, let’s wait-and-see what Trump does his first week in office. At that point, if I am wrong, I will take the drubbing I deserve. Until then, keep your powder dry. Trump is trying to do something with the bloated US Government that has never been attempted, at least until now. - sonar21
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  274. WHICH GENIUS DID THIS? Kiev regime shoots itself in the foot by attacking the Crimean bridge for the second time. Image shows there are now no vessels off the coast of Ukraine. The Grain Deal is finished, the Port of Odessa, South Ukraine, is smashed - it looks as though Ukraine has lost the use and access to the Black Sea entirely, with undoubtedly grave strategic and economic repercussions to come. Overnight strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on Nikolaev and Odessa (South Ukraine) destroyed fuel storage facilities with a total volume of about 70k tons, supply was used to fuel the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Russian Ministry of Defense. Unmanned water drones were also being stored in Odessa. I’ll leave you with Aleksandr Dugin’s thought-provoking statement regarding the Kerch Bridge attack: Alexander Dugin: "About a new attack on the Crimean bridge. Notice the rabid stubbornness of the enemy. This is a distinguishing feature of the Malorossians. But now it looks ominous. They started shelling Donetsk in 2014 and do not stop for a day. They attacked the territory of the old Russian regions - Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk - and continue to. They began to kill Russians with terrorist attacks, and they do it again and again. They attacked nuclear facilities, and they do it again and again. The same with the Crimean bridge, as long as Ukraine exists with its gone mad population and manic regime, it is simply foolish and irresponsible to think that anything in its behaviour will change. We are dealing with a completely insane, extremely aggressive, deranged enemy. And behind him is the West. Rabies has no cure."
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  285. Firstly, understand that reports came literally a week before the start of the Avdeevka operation that the famed Ukrainian 47th brigade had been “removed” or pulled back from the Zaporozhye front because it was so heavily destroyed and faced mutiny from within, as much of the fighters refused to go on assault any further. So, why is all that important? Because we have a new video from a female medic from the 47th who plainly states that their casualties are the most horrific they’ve ever been, since the start of the conflict: “We lost more in a few hours than in the past 4 months.” Russian aviation and artillery continue to work on enemy lines. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are growing: according to sources, during a week of active fighting, the number of killed members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine alone exceeded 1 thousand people and 60 pieces of equipment. Why is everyone so excited about a Dniepr crossing. It's basically DDay but the allies have No logistics.- Simplicius Didn't take Russia long to figure out the ATACMS! Two ATACMS missiles were listed among projectiles fired by Ukrainian forces, which Russian troops apparently managed to stop in the past 24 hours. The others included an S-200 rocket modified to attack ground targets, two HARM anti-radiation missiles, and two rockets fired by HIMARS multiple launch systems. - RT Russian Defense Minister Shoigu said on Tuesday that the current situation in the combat zone suggests that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing strength and “panicking.” He cited a substantial take down of aviation potential to back up his assertion. Shoigu claimed that his forces downed 24 Ukrainian military planes in just five days, crediting “new weapons systems” for the achievement. - RT
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  292. PUTIN READY TO COMPROMISE, BUT NOT AT COST OF RUSSIAN INTERESTS: He gives an epic history lesson, in his typical, knowledgeable style: Let us recall the 19th century. After the so-called Crimean War in 1855-1856, when a number of restrictions were imposed on Russia. Many people in the West wrote & said that Russia should react to some injustices in the world... "Russia does not notice, it is isolated," all this was blamed on Russia. At that time, the Chancellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a dispatch to all our diplomatic representatives in Europe, where it was written how to react to such statements. There were famous words there: "Russia does not get angry, Russia concentrates." And gradually, as Russia concentrated, it regained all its rights in the Black Sea, strengthened itself, and so on & so forth. Some historians call the Crimean War the "Zero" World War (because of many parties involved.) Then there was the First World War & the Second World War. In this "Zero" World War (for Crimea), almost all European countries took part in the war against Russia. In spite of this, the situation then changed its appearance. There was a period of the First World War, when the countries that fought against us turned out to be allies. The fact is that everything changes - only the interests of Russia and its people remain unchanged. If we see that the situation is changing in such a way that there are opportunities & prospects to build relations with other countries, we are ready for this. The question is not about us, but about them. And never in violation of the interests of the Russian Federation. We went through a period in modern history, when our previous generations of politicians, in my opinion, went to the destruction of our own country in the hope that Russia would become part of the so-called "civilized world." And this civilized world only needed this, because as soon as Russia's potential shrank, it weakened & they began to finish it off. Instead of making it an equal partner & participant of this civilized world. Unfortunately, this is how the world works, at least today. If we are going to build relations with someone, we will build them only on the basis of the interests of the Russian state. We are ready to look for these compromises, but without harming our interests - Putin.  Clearly, this is not his, or Russia's first rodeo! Putin First @IntelRepublic
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  306. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - During a reconnaissance mission in the Kursk region, Russian servicemen from the Sever unit of the Northern Group of Forces, grinding the Armed Forces of Ukraine with their notoriously dangerous attack UAV, eliminated fortifications, personnel, and NATO vehicles that they were transporting towards the Russian border. In just a few days, the drones of Sever Group have completed their task, at the peril and great cost to Kiev, which continues to decline in the region after the successful counter-operation of the Russian troops. Today, on the video of September 19, 2024, Sever Group detected a US Stryker armored personnel carrier, driven by Ukrainian soldiers near the settlement of Obody on the territory of Ukraine itself. After analyzing the reconnaissance, Stryker, which decided to leave for Kursk, was completely destroyed by a direct hit of Orion drone. On December 18, a group of Ukrainian soldiers took up positions and camouflaged themselves in a row of trees, trying to attack the Russians. Unbeknownst to them, on the contrary, the Sever Group attack UAV plunged there, and eliminated them with several hits. The drone appeared to be dropping mini-bombs, repeating this over and over again, to make sure that the enemy positions were completely eliminated. In addition, another unrecoverable NATO infantry fighting vehicle, whose name was not mentioned in the report, was targeted by the drone during reconnaissance by Sever Group soldiers in the border zone. A special drone, known as FPV, destroyed the vehicle with a precision strike. The Ukrainian crew did not appear to have gotten out of their vehicle after the fire caused by the encounter with the Russian drone. Video from the previous day, September 17, showed that the Sever Group reconnaissance drone operators observed an interesting scene. They detected Ukrainian armored fighting vehicle moving towards the temporary deployment area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area. The detected vehicle was immediately destroyed by a 'bird' attack, FPV drone. Shrapnel from the ammunition smoked other vehicle that were parked nearby. The Russian Defense Ministry said on September 19, about the repelling of Ukrainian invasion on the Kursk region of Russia that the Sever Group carried out offensive actions, causing heavy damage and losses to Ukrainian brigades.
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  311. One new report even states that Ukraine’s attempted mobilization failed massively, with only 13% of goals reached: Logic dictates that such escalatory tactics would not be seen if it weren’t for a vast shortfall in recruited bodies. Also, recall the numerous videos we’ve seen recently where actual Ukrainian officers, officials, etc., openly vocalize these issues and state that they’re simply “running out of men.” There wouldn’t be such dire shortages of men, entire officer corps wiped out, if it wasn’t for the fact that Ukraine has in fact suffered hundreds of thousands of losses or more. when 63% of 20-30 million people know someone close who died in the war, that seems to speak of ungodly losses. Russia’s losses continue to be minor. For instance, one big recent revelation came by way of MediaZona, which revealed that the so-called “heavy losses” in Avdeevka were just as I had thought—completely made up. In fact, you can see the October losses for Russia are literally the lowest of the entire war: - Simplicius [As Russia moves forwards in some areas, the West backs off and continues to make futile and empty gestures. It is a retreat which the West is trying, and failing badly, to convince its populations that it is winning. How soon before there is nowhere left to retreat to? When that time arrives, the West will still be issuing threats and thinking they have the divine right to dictate the conditions for their own surrender. Such is the situation in 'Wonderland', where the psychotic and deranged 'Queen of Hearts', Ursula von de Leyen, thinks she will always be in control.] Russia’s unexpected resilience in the face of the unprecedented Western sanctions pressure has caught the US and its allies off guard, the nation’s first deputy prime minister, Andrey Belousov, said on Sunday. Moscow has achieved true economic sovereignty and demonstrated its ability to pursue independent policy and defend national interests despite any external pressure, he added. “The West was shocked that Russia stood fast in the face of sanctions,” he said at a major ‘Russia’ exhibition that opened in Moscow over the weekend. “We were foretold of a catastrophe comparable to the 1990s,” he said. - RT
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  319. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian Air Defense Forces brilliantly shot down 45 Ukrainian UAV in a large-scale night raid, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, on August 21, 2024. From Moscow to Murmansk, Ukrainian drones tried to attack targets in western Russia over the past 24 hours. The first explosions were heard in Podolsk at about 3 am, after which residents of the city heard loud sounds every 15-20 minutes. Unfortunately, all 45 kamikaze drones that tried to attack Russian cities that night were destroyed! In total, 11 were shot down over the Moscow region, another 23 were destroyed over the Bryansk region, 6 over the Belgorod region, 3 over Kalushka, and 2 over the Kursk region, the Defense Ministry detailed. But in a slightly interesting development, a Ukrainian drone carrying explosives was shot down during the day by air defenses near the closed military settlement of Vysoky in the Murmansk region. It is about 1800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and is located in the Arctic Circle. A UAV or rather an Aeroprakt A-22 aircraft, converted into a UAV with a longer range. According to preliminary data, the target was the Olenya airfield from which the Russian strategic bomber took off, but failed. So far, Murmansk airfield has been operating as usual after the restriction of airspace. Meanwhile, according to the Head of Ukrainian Intelligence, Kyrulo Budanov, said that in total about 50 drones were used that day, attacking the signal intelligence center, carrying out attacks on the Ostafyevo airport in Moscow, and the Millerovo airbase in the Rostov region, but without reporting the results!
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  336. The AFU troops in Avdeevka speak of vast Russian firepower superiority and the constant ability to rotate fresh troops. It may wield a cudgel rather than the hoped-for scalpel here, but Russia simply has far too many resources and fresh troops and they are inexorably inching forward. Russia continues to badly degrade Ukraine’s air defense. An Iris-T was recently hit as well as a slew of Osas, Strelas and Buks. The air defense situation is getting critical for Ukraine, with even airforce spokesman Yuri Ignat reportedly claiming their ammo could begin to run dry within the next couple weeks. I already highlighted last time how their latest report showed 0% interception rate for most Russian missiles in the last strike. Russia senses Ukraine’s AD has been attritioned to such a point that small scale air assault landings could actually stand a chance of being carried out. This can be used in critical areas to land a company behind the lines in coordination with an offensive assault on a highly entrenched sector—like Ugledar, Avdeevka, and places of this nature. The air assaults would bypass all the minefields hampering advances today, instantly nullifying one of the top three major issues. This is one of those ‘dynamic’ elements that has been largely missing thus far. Nothing has been going well for Ukraine on the international front. The entire leadership is currently attending Davos, and it’s already being called a ‘bust’ with no real answers for Zelensky. There have only been some ‘symbolic’ photo-ops with the world’s shadow elite. And the situation at home continues to worsen. The Verkhovna Rada is still hung up on the mobilization, with an increasing number of elites openly denouncing Zelensky. Ex-Rada Deputy and Aidar deputy commander Mosiychuk has had enough of the corruption and goes for the jugular in outright telling Zelensky and his team to “shoot [themselves]”: The US and NATO in the meantime continue to suffer humiliations. The British minesweeper HMS Chiddingfold collided with the HMS Bangor in Bahrain: While an F-35 was destroyed by an incompetent mechanic: Russian ballistic missiles struck a NATO mercenary base in Kharkov, reportedly killing up to 60 French mercenaries: The massive US base at Ain al-Assad in Iraq underwent a large attack from Iranian-backed forces. Once more we saw the total failure of the Patriot missile systems, which were seen shooting in number to the sky: This is the US’s second largest base in Iraq, well protected with all the most advanced air defense networks—and they could not stop a minor rocket attack. Yet we’re supposed to believe that downgraded and older versions of Patriots (Pac-2s, etc.) in Ukraine are stopping Russian hypersonic Kinzhals with 100% ratios? The propaganda is just exposing itself. - Simplicius
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  382. In short, Russia’s 2024 South Donetsk offensive has thus far succeeded in driving the AFU out of its frontline strongpoints which it had defended doggedly since the beginning of the war: Ugledar, Krasnogorivka, and Avdiivka have fallen, and Toretsk (the northernmost of these fortresses) is contested with Russian control over half of the city. The two cities that formerly acted as vital rear area hubs for the AFU (Pokrovsk and Kurakhove) are in the rear no longer, and have become frontline cities. Kurakhove in particular is likely to fall in the coming weeks. The Russians are, in a word, poised to complete their victory in Southern Donetsk. It is important not to understate the operational and strategic significance of this. In the simplest terms, this will be a significant advancement towards Russia’s explicit war aims of capturing the Donbas oblasts (putting Russia in control of some 70% of Donetsk and 90%+ of Lugansk). Nevertheless, we do clearly see the Russian army making significant progress towards its goals. It will be able to write off much of the southeastern sector of front, with the AFU evicted from their powerful chain of prewar fortresses around the city of Donetsk. These losses raise an uncomfortable question for Ukraine: if they could not successfully defend in Avdiivka, Ugledar, and Krasnogorivka, with their long built-up defenses and powerful backfields, where exactly is their defense supposed to stabilize? We must also ask another salient question then: on the precipice of losing South Donetsk, with a full 100 kilometers of front unraveling, why are many of Ukraine’s best brigades loitering 350 kilometers away in Kursk Oblast? In more abstract strategic terms, however, Kursk has been a disaster for Kiev. Within the expansive reach of Kiev’s self-declared war aims, including the phantasmagorical return of Crimea and Donetsk, it has never been quite clear how these operations are correlated. Russia, in contrast, has pursued its war aims with consistent clarity and a great reluctance to take risks and allow its energies to dissipate. Moscow wants, at an absolute minimum, to consolidate control over the Donbas and the land bridge to Crimea, while trashing the Ukrainian state and neutering its military potential. - Big Serge Thought
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  441. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Important updates summarized until October 24, 2024, finally the Motorized Rifle Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces managed to clear the recently liberated Olgovka, showing the streets littered with dead Ukrainians, and destroyed equipment everywhere. Olgovka, previously a major stronghold, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine barricaded themselves, dug in on the northwestern side of the Kursk region which was invaded by Kiev. The village was disputed for two months, with repeated attacks from both sides. However, recently the Ukrainian defenses collapsed quickly, and were forced to withdraw from the area through the forest belt behind the village, which has now been completely cleared. Now, the Russian and air force flags are flying over Olgovka during the BRICS period! The October 24, clip by the Russian military correspondent shows that Russian troops have taken back full control of Olgovka. There is no dispute about this, and it is the only significant movement on the front lines inside Russia in the past week. The motorized riflemen showed the village streets, which were literally littered with many dead, believed to be from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, lying everywhere, destroyed by Russian troops during the liberation of the village. In addition, the clip showed the collection of trophies and dumping of scrap metal on the streets and lanes of the village after the enemy forces were driven out. It was littered with piles of burned tanks, NATO armored vehicles, and other Ukrainian troops equipment, destroyed during their adventure. Zelensky's troops escape from Olgovka under fire was not entirely successful. Russian drone pilots and artillery worked together to ambush the fleeing infantry troops, and set their vehicles on fire as in the footage that likely took place on October 19-21. An Ukrainian BRM-1K was damaged with its protective cage under fire from live ammunition, likely hit by an RPG at close range, forcing the surviving Ukrainian elements of one squad to scramble to the tree line. The abandoned vehicle was later found by Russian soldiers. A Canadian Roshel Senator MRAP armored vehicle, also became a trophy from Olgovka after being attacked by drone. As Ukrainian troops raced away from advancing Russian forces in Kursk, another Roshel Senator ran out of fuel, left the vehicle to the Russians, and raced back to the border with caution.
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  450. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The 82nd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, recently transferred to the Kursk region from Donbass, hoped to storm the settlement of Malaya Loknya, which is still in the gray zone. But Russian military correspondents shared footage on August 27, 2024, showing what the assault group was aiming for here while hoping to record a victory video, instead they themselves handed over the baton to Russian soldiers from the 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 92nd Assault Brigade. Ukrainian forces continue to transfer reserves in an attempt to seize the designated bridgehead in the settlement, but have suffered serious losses, and more of them were taken prisoner with a little red armband style. Confident of victory, the 82nd Assault Brigade of Ukraine brought their rags to Malaya Loknya. But the fate was different, the soldiers were captured while their comrades were killed on the land of Kursk. The footage now shows the 92nd Assault Brigade of Russia, taking the flag as a trophy, due to making a mistake trying to attack Russian positions. Finally, after the prisoners of war made the right choice, they were all interrogated directly and told the same questions over and over again. They were very angry, complaining that the commanders who sent them to Kursk, had been living comfortably in Ukraine while their comrades were killed. It is worth noting! On August 6, Ukraine with the help of NATO-US, attacked the Russian region of Kursk and now claimed the occupation of about 1200 square kilometers. However, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken prisoner by Russia. According to the latest reports, Russia has transferred more than 30 thousand soldiers and a large number of weapons and artillery from other reserves here. Its task is to provide them with everything they need," Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said at the Coordination Council Meeting on military security issues today on August 28.
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  451. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Early this morning on August 18, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces assault troops began the main phase of their attacks on the mining town of “Toretsk”, or the Ukrainian name “Dzerzhinsk”, after making new advances from several points. Since yesterday, a Russian combat command post has been showing video from there, documenting the destruction of a Hummer vehicle, burning in the attack. A Russian soldier opened small arms fire on the Ukrainian crew, wiping out the remaining luck of the passengers who might still be alive. NATO vehicles used Russia as a springboard to destroy Zelensky’s troops, clearing most of Pivnichny. Toretsk lost its last Ukrainian defensive position to the west to Russian positions. This is due in no small part to the capabilities of Russian soldiers, who have taken over the Artem mine tailings on the outskirts of the town. Now, the Shtorm assault unit of the 1st Slavia Brigade is raising a flag on a strategically important height, and will increase the range of its FPV drones by installing a repeater there, while at the same time reducing the range of Ukrainian drones. For the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Toretsk, since yesterday it started with a run. As a result of the use of leaflets dropped by Russian drones, all military personnel units mobilized by Kiev and suffering heavy losses, decided to collectively lay down their arms and save their lives. It seems that the situation in Ukraine is about to change rapidly, with the simultaneous entry of Russian troops from three directions, marking the beginning of the ongoing fierce battle inside the city. According to reports, Russian assault units are breaking through with armored vehicles, infantry attacks, supported by artillery, are carried out in groups of 3 men. This attack seems to be costing many lives, and equipment is scarce for Ukraine, forcing soldiers from Brigade 53, to personally announce an online fundraising to get the EW systems they need. But the Kiev regime insists on focusing its attention on Kursk, and asking its Western allies to remove “obstacles” as “the course of the war demands.”
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  465. No General with half a brain will tell their adversary where he is going to attack. Which means, I suppose, the Ukrainian Generals were brainless. They launched the offensive as advertised and were soundly defeated by the Russian military. So what are the Ukrainians and their NATO allies yammering about now? A much anticipated Russian offensive once the muddy season in Ukraine ends. It is worth noting that the Russians, like a good poker player, is not revealing their hand and keeping mum on what they plan to do come summer. I do not think the West is paying attention to what Russia is doing now. It is moving steadily forward in the Donbass driving the Ukrainians back towards the Dnieper River. Yet, Ukraine’s top general, Syrsky, is insisting that his army is pushing the Russians back. Russia’s premiere war correspondent, Marat Khairullin, offers a different take. One of Marat’s key observations is a less pithy version of the aphorism, “don’t change horses in mid-stream.” He writes, “And here the question arises: if the situation is developing steadily in our favor and is improving progressively, then is there any point in changing something?” In other words, Russia’s current grinding strategy, which has added the extensive use of glide bombs on Ukrainian defensive position and taking out thermal and hydroelectric power plants along the Dnieper River, may not require an offensive. If Russia decides to take out most of the bridges over the Dnieper River in the coming weeks then the Ukrainian forces east of the river will face a logistics nightmare. Russia would be in a position to compel their surrender or force all Ukrainian troops to try to escape to the West bank of the Dnieper. Russia may not need to mount a major offensive. It can simply keep doing what it is doing and achieve victory without risking Russian casualties. - Sonar21
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  467. One thing the new Virage image appears to reveal is that Russia does have good patrolling flights over the Black Sea west of Crimea. This appears to confirm recent reports that Mig-31s shot down a Neptune missile barrage at an impressively long range, 40-80km from the shore. That means Mig-31s, with their famously powerful radars, as well as potentially A-50 AWACs are in fact patrolling the sea in that region. Over the past several days huge strikes on both Belgorod and Crimea were totally repelled by a virtually flawless AD performance. I remark on it deliberately because Ukraine champions the one or two occasional penetrations, like with the ship last month (which I contend stronger than ever was not actually a missile strike), but completely ignore the 95% of other times when Russian AD proves flawless. The attacks over the past few days were noted for their saturation ferocity and some reports claimed that Russia’s upgraded Pantsir-SM systems may have been used in the Belgorod region to down an entire barrage of Czech Vampire MLRS rockets. Literature has shown Russia’s latest Pantsir upgrades have much better radars, more resistant to noise and clutter, more tuned to detect smaller drones, etc. In short: the past week has seen exemplary work where Russian AD has stopped every single barrage of vaunted UA weaponry, but you won’t hear that from Zelensky’s press. In fact what we did hear from his side is Ukraine’s own AD has been badly depleted. The US is scrambling to find more Patriot missiles and Russia’s latest attack days ago was the first that Ukrainian officials actually began to admit how few of the missiles they shot down: And evidence continues to pour out about large enterprises destroyed: Russia is causing massive damage to Ukrainian defense enterprises which includes the personnel. The report from the Kiev Artem plant states the “entire shift” of 50 people was wiped out by two Kinzhals: Ukrainian ex-general Krivonos says some of Ukraine’s most significant enterprises have been totally destroyed: A new report from FT corroborates Russia’s increasing dominance in the EW spectrum: Then there were the stark revelations that America’s premier strategic deterrence weapons, the Minutemen III missiles, are so old that the “drawings don’t even exist anymore”: Not to mention there are no living technicians who even understand the missiles. Doh. This shock revelation comes only two months after the US’s latest Minutemen test spectacularly failed: As if that wasn’t bad enough, we had a major revelation from Ukrainian soldiers that the reason none of their Abrams are on the front is because they don’t work. Recall the recent reports of the highly sensitive Abrams, which need their filters changed every hour. But they took it a step further and actually showed a damning video of their Abrams gun all janky, its stabilizers completely shot. At the 0:30 second mark you can see the gun shakin’-n’rattlin’: Color me shocked. NATO weapons have really lived up to ‘expectations’. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Germany hit out with its own bombshell that mysterious “drones” have been flying over the country for a year, spying on their bases—and the kicker: Germany apparently is not able to do anything about it! None of the newfangled NATO weaponry, the high tech sensors, etc., can repel the drones at all. From Bild: A prominent AFU radioelectronics designer also reported that he himself witnessed a Russian FPV using autonomous targeting already, and in thermal mode to boot: We’ve long discussed the Lancet is being made capable of this, but as of yet not FPVs—which is what sets this report apart. Of the 200 thousand professional military personnel who were in Kiev in February 2022, almost all were killed or injured. This was stated by the commander of the NATO training mission Marlov, who has been leading the EU training command in Ukraine in Germany for 14 months. "Of the 200,000 professional soldiers available in February 2022, the vast majority has so far fallen or wounded. The vast majority of soldiers of the Armed Forces at the forefront today — civilians or, at best, reservists, "he explained. Well, what can you say? - Simplicius
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  545. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian stormtroopers of the Tsentr Group of Forces moved into the city and drove out Ukrainian troops, leading to the liberation of the city of Novogrodovka on September 8, on the Pokrovsk direction. The Russian Defense Ministry released detailed footage on September 30, 2024, showing first-person view of small groups conducting urban combat, which is still held by the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Due to strong fire support from artillery and constant reconnaissance by drones, the soldiers were able to move quickly and occupy enemy positions with minimal friction. However, the interaction between the various units was persistent, combing the hiding places of the troops fighting for Zelensky, one by one in building after building. However, all this was preceded by powerful artillery fire and under the blows of FVP drones, which accurately destroyed and suppressed enemy firepower. As seen in the video frames, BM-21 Grad MLRS worked well and accurately against the troops of the 25th Airborne Brigade, digging at least some of the hiding places in the industrial zone of the Novogrodovskaya Mine No.2, including garbage heaps. As a result, something happened there, the remaining battalions of the brigade, which had split into several groups, were mostly eliminated, and retreated from the city, trying to break away from the advancing Russian assault troops. This allowed the stormtroopers to quickly clearing the city streets. The enemy troops could no longer hide in the basements and they were driven out of the settlement, as a soldier with the call sign "Sever" said during the assault. The persistent efforts of the Russian assault troops, coupled with skillful leadership and effective use of forces and resources, led to a successful mission, completing the task of completely capturing Novogrodovka in Donetsk region. Since then, the local population has maintained good relations with the Russian soldiers, with former Ukrainian Army soldiers switching sides during the fighting. A resident of Novogrodovka told a Russian war correspondent about the forced evacuation carried out by the Ukrainian authorities. "Ukrainian authorities are separating families with children!" He also mentioned "Angels" - this is a Ukrainian volunteer group, which tries to bring as many children as possible to the Ukrainian side.
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  566. Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen and global reporter, died this week in a Kharkov prison eight months after he was arrested for the crime of speaking the truth about what was happening in Ukraine. Under Secretary of State Vickie Nuland, despised Gonzalo, as did Zelensky. People from around the world, who had been informed by Gonzalo’s reports, interviews and articles asked their governments to assist. None apparently did, and most certainly his own government – the one led by Dark Brandon and the Democrats and the war-loving, truth-hating Republicans – did absolutely nothing. What we do know, and may learn from Gonzalo’s death at the hands of the Joe Biden administration and their puppet dictator in Kiev, is that rule of law and the duties of the state to its citizens that one might presume from a casual reading of the US Constitution, is dead, dry, decayed, decrepit, and damned to hell. Biden and his executive state murdered Gonzalo Lira – it intended to silence him forever, it refused to demand his release (billions and billions to Zelensky were never enough). Zelensky and Netanyahu share the stage as unhinged, deranged recipients of billions of US taxpayer dollars, no strings attached ever. It’s the way our foreign policy works, send money, look into crystal balls, murmur and huddle, and hope for more war, more murder, more chaos as the United States runs out its own clock. Gonzalo’s death at the hands of Dark Brandon’s State Department and our best Ukraine ally is an echo of what goes on wherever the US government has influence. Many journalists and others who simply write and speak their truth have been exiled, punished, imprisoned, denied the ability to speak, write or communicate or to monetize their communicative and investigative work – simply because the US government does not like truth, free association, or freedom in general. Our president exists in a revolving disassociate fugue, surrounded by sociopaths. The world they live in, as we saw with the recent episode of “Who’s Running the Pentagon?” is one where self-centeredness has evolved into uniformed narcissism – where every government employee stares admiringly into their reflections all day long, and become annoyed and angry if anyone suggests they have a responsibility to serve the nation. The US government, indeed the state itself, is most definitely not yet broken, and it is causing the kind of damage that will send us all to hell. Each of us must take time, every day, to renew our war against the state, in spirit, academically, economically, in our lives and communities, and separate ourselves from it. We must do so ourselves, and help others to do so, in whatever ways they can. Only in this way can we honor the dead that our government has already murdered, in our name and with our money. RIP, Gonzalo. - LewRockwell
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  618. First, much credit is due to both Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin for having agreed to speak to each other – or rather President Putin speaking to Tucker, as it was a lesson in Russian history and Russian culture and Russian soul, that President Putin gave not only to Tucker, but to the rest of the western world, most of whom have no clue what Russia is, and what makes Russia tick. Tucker shared his reflections straight after his interview with Putin… “You’d have to be crazy to think that Russia will give up Crimea.” “You’d have to be an idiot to think that Russia is an expansionist power; it’s already huge and doesn’t need more territory.” “You’d have to be an idiot to think that Russia could roll tanks into Vienna; there’s no evidence of such intentions.” “We are ruled by lunatics”— referring to the US leadership’s desire for regime change in Russia. For all those who still believe in the mainstream’s vilification of Vladmir Putin, but are ever-more doubtful and would like to know the truth, President Putin tells an extraordinary story of reality about Russia, the country’s history, all the way back to the 8th century, laying out very clearly that not only eastern but also western Ukraine – Kiev – is historically a part of Russia. Despite being showered with western insults and sanctions for years non-stop, President Putin used not one word of insult against western leaders. To the contrary, when asked by Tucker, how Putin’s counterparts reacted to his approaches, conversations, or suggestions for negotiations, on Ukraine, for example, Putin said he would not comment, and the good journalist, who Tucker Carlson is, might better ask directly at the source. - LewRockwell
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  620. The point is to highlight that the trend in European politics does appear to be slowly veering away from many deepstate/establishment positions and initiatives, so while this is a rough generalization, it would appear likely that many of these NATO dreams will face increasing friction and opposition in the future, with their likelihood of coming to fruition going down each passing year. The problem is, the ruling elite of Ukraine have no choice but to double down because if the conflict is frozen, then much of their dirty laundry will come to light, including—most catastrophically for them—the scale of losses and destruction to Ukrainian society, something they’ll never live down. They’ll be torn to shreds, which includes Zelensky, and likely imprisoned if not worse. So they’re forced to take their bets with going ‘all the way’. The entire Kherson front, for instance, is a hoax on the Ukrainian side. There is zero chance for substantive breakthroughs or real “bridgeheads” there as logistics are simply not feasible. Simply put, the AFU is doing nothing more than dying en masse in Khrynki. Rumor has it the average AFU lifespan is under two days on the left bank “bridgehead”. Russian Ministry of Defense has raised another important military satellite to the cosmos from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, ever increasing their space ISR capabilities. - Simplicius HOW AMERICA LIES TO THE WORLD explained by Hungarian PM who sees right through Washington’s tricks and states any country that abuses moral "values" to hide their own interests destroys chance of meaningful dialogue between states. One of the Americans’ strengths is their ability to present what is really an American interest as a universal value - Orban. Hungarian leader's already taken clear stance on slimy EU chiefs, urging countrymen to "not dance to their tune". - Intel Report
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  635. As cliche as it sounds, things are turning dire for Ukraine—at least for this current phase of things. Zelensky finally openly confessed his intention to purge not only Zaluzhny and his assistants, but a lot of other staff in what is essentially a ‘great reset’ of the Ukrainian leadership: Immediately after that, Ukrainian Deputy Yevhen Shevchenko reported that, according to his information, Zaluzhny has already internally accepted the position of ambassador to the UK: As the above article states, if this is true, it means Zaluzhny would effectively be ‘shipped out to the farm’ to be placed under close watch in the UK, and as far away from Ukraine as possible to keep Zelensky protected. There’s no word on how true any of this is, but rumor had it that the US had already earmarked Budanov for Zaluzhny’s position, which is why Budanov was flown on his high-profile tour of Washington DC late last year: it is said the planners and controllers—i.e. Nuland and co.—were likely using the opportunity to introduce Budanov around town to all the new shot-callers he’ll soon be taking orders from. Likewise it was to put his face front and center in the beltway and sell him as the next replacement. What’s most eye-opening about these events is that Avdeevka happens to be suddenly crumbling, just in time for these reversals. It suggests the non-coincidental nature of the proceedings; i.e. Zelensky may suddenly be pulling the plug on Avdeevka to time its fall with the crescendo of anti-Zaluzhny machinations in order to throw him under the bus by blaming Avdeevka’s fall on him, and using that as the final impetus to announce his dismissal. The fact is, Biden’s Ukrainian aid is still held up and seems no closer to fruition. Yesterday, the administration announced the new revised bill and it was met with immediate furor by House Republicans: But what can Zelensky change in the frontline calculus of the war by simply rearranging the figureheads? On that note let’s turn to Avdeevka. As I said, very ‘coincidentally’ the city appears to be totally collapsing. Only days ago I reported major breaches and now there have been even larger ones, as AFU lines collapse entirely. Everyone is in a panic, including dozens of Ukrainian accounts: What happened first was Russian forces collapsed the entire area of the “northern shore” of that lagoon / sand quarry: That’s a massive area that just fell apart in a single day. And the area just under that lagoon/quarry is known as ‘Little Terrikon’ (mini Slag Heap) and is said to be the tallest height of the whole outlying area, which means it’s a highly strategic point Russian forces captured: But that wasn’t even the half of it. Russian forces continued to push both southeast past the quarry and west into the city proper: But as can be seen above, the distance from where Russian troops were geolocated to the western-most border of Avdeevka is as little as 500m, by some accountings. This means that Ukrainian forces are in danger of now being entirely cut off from their supply routes, which means Avdeevka is on paper almost finished. Lastly, some in Ukraine have attempted to downplay Avdeevka’s coming fall, as usual, but the stats tell the true story. Ukraine is said to have sent dozens of its most elite battalions to try and hold off Russia’s advances: a long-awaited new episode of Zvezda’s military show came out showcasing the brand new Russian 2S40 ‘Phlox’ combined 120mm mortar and artillery system currently being rolled out to the front in test batches. This is a unique system that’s able to fire both 120mm mortars and howitzer shells, giving it great versatility. Its mobility is likewise demonstrated here, where they show the record fast deployment time from park to fire-readiness in under 30 seconds (the French Caesar is said to take 60 seconds minimum): The automated system even showcases its rare MRSI (Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact) mode. This is a mode only the most advanced modern howitzers are capable of replicating where several shots are fired via different computer-calculated trajectories in order to land on target at the same time in one deadly barrage: Lastly, to end on an inspiring note, when Putin declared 2024 to be the Year of the Family a hearth was lit, to be symbolically passed around the country as a spread of ‘love and fidelity’. Here is a video showcasing this program to promote traditional and family values all across the vastness of Russia: - Simplicius
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  681. The US is pursuing a “deeply hostile” nuclear policy while attempting “to lecture” Russia and China, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, warned on Thursday. His comments came after the US acting assistant secretary of defense for space policy, Vipin Narang, said that Washington finds itself “in nothing short of a new nuclear age,” adding that it must “prepare for a world where constraints on nuclear weapons arsenals disappear entirely.” Antonov condemned the speech as “innuendos about Russia’s allegedly irresponsible behavior in the nuclear sphere,” adding that this type of rhetoric does little to contribute to “improving the situation in the sphere of strategic security.” Washington is “once again trying to teach” Russia and China the “right behavior,” the diplomat added. “Otherwise, they threaten the advent of a new ‘nuclear age’ in which the United States will not be able to restrain the growth of its own nuclear arsenal.” The US also continues to “pump” Ukraine with more and more weapons amid the conflict with Russia, including fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Antonov stated, describing the policy as “deeply hostile.” It will not be possible to achieve cooperation with Moscow while attempting to inflict a “strategic defeat” against it, the envoy warned. Antonov also accused Washington of “silencing the inconvenient truth about the more than two decades of US strikes against the entire architecture of international arms control.” - RT
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  682. The breaking news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea today (Friday, 26 Jan.) underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory” beyond hoping that the mere presence of US warships would intimidate them into surrendering. In other words, it was the kind of doomed operation that, had cooler (i.e. non-political) Pentagon heads prevailed, would never in a million years have been launched. There was simply no possibility of success and 100 percent probability of failure. In short, it was not our fight. Until Biden made it our fight. On January 11th, Biden announced that he was ordering the US military to launch airstrikes against Yemen, but very soon it became clear that far from being intimidated into surrender, Biden’s move was just what the Houthis wanted: a David’s slingshot chance at Goliath. As it turns out, the Bidens were a Goliath intent on sacrificing the US standing in the world, military deterrence, US economy, and even US servicemembers in its blind support of Israel. Yesterday, the US Navy attempted to escort two Maersk tankers – the Maersk Detroit and the Maersk Chesapeake – through the Red Sea loaded with weapons for Israel. This after nine rounds of US airstrikes on the Houthis. The US show of force backfired into an unprecedented and “Black Hawk Down” kind of moment where after several missiles were launched the Maersk lines reversed course followed by the US Naval warships. It was a massive defeat for the notion of US military superiority – but don’t hold your breath for it to be reported in the mainstream media. Even the most comatose US Members and Senators are starting to wake up to the fact that Joe Biden – who seems unable to even speak English – is taking the country to war without any authorization. Attacks against Biden’s forces in Iraq, Syria, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean will escalate. And he is backed into a corner. What’s next? - LewRockwell
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  697. Moscow has conducted a drone attack on an oil depot used to supply Kiev’s army in Odessa Region near the Romanian border, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the Russian Air Force conducted a group UAV strike on facilities used to refuel Ukrainian military vehicles in the port of Reni, located on the left bank of the Danube River. “The objective of the strike was achieved. All designated targets have been hit,” the Defense Ministry said.MOD officials also said Russia had taken out two Ukrainian ammunition depots and a drone command center in southeastern Dnepropetrovsk Region and a Kiev-controlled part of Kherson Region, again using UAV strikes. As Russian artillery strikes Kiev's point of temporary soldiers deployment, obliterating it following huge explosions, leaving it devoured within apocalyptic massive smoke in Kherson region (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 2 MT-12 Rapira ("Rapier") anti-tank gun, unloading massive shells on Ukrainian units south of Donetsk region, where up to 425 Ukrainian soldiers ended up either dead or mangled. More than 130 cannon fodder suffer the same fate in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) - drone control point destroyed Lugansk (ex-Ukraine), military fuel storage facility successfully hit in Odessa, South Ukraine, MiG-29 fighter jet and 34 drones shot down. - Intel Report Kiev's regime shells Belgorod region (pre-war Russia) 47 times, at least 7 terror drone attacks. UPDATE: Ukrainian drone shot down by Russian air defenses. - Intel Report Explosion rocks Ukrainian-controlled part of Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine). - Intel Report Kiev's regime shells Kherson region (ex-Ukraine) about 105 times in the past 24 hours. - Intel Report School and residential building damaged by Kiev's regime shelling of Kievsky district of Donetsk city, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). - Intel Report
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  706. The biggest news is that yesterday, May 18th, the Ukrainian new mobilization strictures officially and finally went into effect. This has resulted in a flood of videos showing deserted streets, with claims that men are now in hiding like never before. Additionally, Ukrainian truckers even staged a mass protest, blocking roads. It will be not only ‘interesting’ to see where this goes and how successful it is, but in fact this will be one of the critical bellwethers for Ukraine as a whole In short: Zelensky is desperate to use any excuse in escalating the war and inviting NATO into it. He knows the only way he can stop Russia is by embroiling the U.S. into the conflict, and he can do that by repeatedly pushing red lines against Russia in order to force Russia to react against NATO. But there is little chance it will work, as NATO has thus far demonstrated surprising risk aversion to the prospect of facing off with Russia. Meanwhile, Estonian PM Kaja Kallas says another one of the quietest parts aloud—Russia should be entirely broken up: it shows the type of craven, feckless, unprincipled and totally amoral puppets at the top of the West’s pyramid of rulership. There are no principles, only arrant hypocrisy and lies. Meanwhile, Russia’s hit on Lvov is now seen to have wiped out a major gas facility: Satellite images appeared which reportedly show the extent to which NATO is being demilitarized by the Ukrainian conflict. A large armor storage site in Italy has been nearly emptied out of various things like M113s, M109Ls, etc.: By the latest maps, Volchansk appears something like 40-50% taken, with Russian forces said to have begun crossing the Vovcha river which runs through its center: A Russian video demonstrating why the fortifications were such failures—Lancet drones kept blowing up all the Ukrainian trench-building equipment in the north: And the most demonstrative one of all—Ukrainian workers complain that Russian Lancets took out all their trench diggers: - Simplicius
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  709. The message of NATO’s foreign policy is simple, “War first. Talk later.” Facts on the ground don’t matter. Budget deficits don’t matter. Plunging public support for Ukraine doesn’t matter. All that matters is what these people want. In the same week where the French and Russian Defense Ministers had a frank conversation about Ukraine, the attack in Moscow on civilians, and how quickly Russia will vaporize French troops sent into the fighting, we’re treated to the complete abandonment of all diplomatic pretense. It’s been so long here in the US where we’ve had a Secretary of State who wasn’t hell bent on a war with Russia, Iran, or China (or all three consecutively and concurrently) we’ve forgotten what having diplomats looks like. I mean think about it. Antony Blinken’s sad dog-eye technique makes you wistful for the days of Condoleeza Rice’s angry diversity hire routine. Blinken is only competent in the role of anti-diplomat. And why he’s worse than Rice or even shudder Hillary Clinton, is that he’s not even consistent. One week looking for an off-ramp after the terror attack in Moscow. This week mouthing words about Ukraine joining NATO knowing that that’s the road to a US war with Russia. They all understand that this is a race against a political and economic clock in the West that is quickly counting down to zero. All Russia has to do is keep grinding out territorial gains in Ukraine, Iran to not over-react to Israel’s provocations, and China to ignore the yapping over tariffs and Taiwan. And all the Americans who are tired of this have to do is keep the money spigot to NATO and Ukraine closed off as much as is politically possible. - LewRockwell
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  721. Thus, Avdiivka unfolded along a pattern that is now becoming very familiar, and indicates the emerging Russian preference for assaulting cities, at least of this mid-sized fortress variety. Once again the operation focused in its preliminary phase on flaring out Russian control over the flanks, beginning with the large mechanized assault in early November which secured positions on the railway line to the north of the city. Again (as in the case of Bakhmut and Lysychansk-Severodonetsk) there was an expectation among some that Russia would attempt to encircle the city, but this still does not look feasible in the current operating environment under the nexus of fires and ISR. Instead, positions on the flank allowed the Russians to launch concentric attacks into the city, entering on multiple axes that compressed the Ukrainian defenders into a tight interior position, where Russian fire could be heavily concentrated. The question now becomes fairly simple: if Ukraine failed to attack successfully over the summer, if they could not defend Bakhmut, and if they cannot defend in Avdiivka, is there anywhere that they can find a battlefield success? The dam is leaking. Can Ukraine plug it before it collapses? Overall, the broad operational situation suggests that Russia is developing offensive momentum across the entire theater. This will have deleterious effects on Ukrainian combat power by preventing rotation, reconstitution, and lateral troop redeployment, while sucking in the dwindling Ukrainian reserves. The Russo-Ukrainian War is one of industrial attrition. Despite a variety of theories about this or that game changing weapon, clever maneuver scheme, or superior western training, the reality of this war for the last 18 months has been one of grinding and laborious industrial war, battering through fixed defenses in a maelstrom of concrete, steel, and high explosives. The central problem for Ukraine is fairly simple: Russian force generation is reaching the liftoff point, which will interminably shift combat power in Russia’s favor. The upshot of all this is essentially that, even if the European production surge occurs on schedule, there’s at least a 3-1 advantage (potentially 5-1) in Russian artillery fire that’s baked into the calculus of this war, occurring alongside a substantial western acknowledged ramp up in Russian production of strike systems like cruise missiles, Geran drones, Lancets, and glide bombs of both greater power and greater range. A recent publication from the Royal United Services Institute noted that Russia can deliver 1,500 tanks (both new build and retrofitted depot stocks) and 3,000 armored vehicles per year - the report also notes that Russian stocks of Iskander and Kalibr missiles have grown significantly over the last year. Given that Russian casualties are obviously far below the phantasmagorical hundreds of thousands suggested by western Media and Ukrainian propogandists, it has become clear that Russia is generating more force over time. Estonian intelligence estimated that Russia can properly train, equip, and deploy roughly 130,000 additional troops every six months, which is more than adequate to overcome current loss rates. As if to emphasize the point, RUSI notes that the Russian grouping of forces in Ukraine (that is, only those forces deployed in theater at the moment) rose from 360,000 to 470,000 over the last year. So, Russian force generation is growing over time, and not simply regenerating losses. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are increasingly undermanned, with understrength brigades asked to perform increasingly heavy lift. We know that Ukrainian reserves are running low. This was clearly demonstrated in Avdiivka, when the AFU scrambled brigades from other fronts (like the 47th Mechanized) that had been fighting all summer, indicating that there was a lack of adequate strategic reserves, and then throwing in the elite 3rd Assault Brigade in the closing days of the battle to try and stem the bleeding. Meanwhile, formations like the 110th Mechanized, which had been fighting in Avdiivka for months, were essentially burned off entirely because they could not be rotated out. Russia conducts regular troop rotations, while Ukrainian forces remain on the line due to the lack of replacements. So, here we are. The current Theory of Ukrainian Victory is exhausted, intending as it did to leverage western ISR, training, and surplus equipment to deliver disproportionate casualties on Russia. I rather think, however, that Jünger’s metaphysical “titan of suffering” is not so metaphysical at all. It rather refers to a mundane power of the Russian state, namely its excellence and willingness across the centuries to mobilize huge numbers of men and material for war, at the expense of other social goals. War with Russia sucks. It means mass casualties, cold trenches, scarred earth, and long nights of shelling. The Ukrainians have coped with this as well as anyone (because they are themselves quasi-Russian, however much they deny it), but it is an awful thing to trade shells for years on end. The Russian power of suffering is to willingly fight wars that devolve into bat fights, knowing they have a bigger bat. The window of strategic opportunity has closed for Ukraine, and now opens wide for Russia. The earth opens wide for the dead. - Big Serge Thought
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  734. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Footage circulating on social media on September 8, 2024, shows another wave of damaged and destroyed armored columns, samples of which are scattered on the side of the road in a settlement in the Kursk region. Reportedly, the video was recorded with a GoPro camera by an Ukrainian soldier who was killed on Russian soil, showing an armored column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Tolstoy Lug, most of which is identified as belonging to NATO. A group of Ukrainian soldiers appear confused, not knowing what to do next. However, they recorded most of the consequences, which means their equipment was destroyed by artillery or airstrikes of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said “The convulsions and suffering of the Kiev regime are obvious to everyone against the backdrop of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region”. It was apparently the worst day for Ukraine in Kursk, where NATO material was dumped for scrap. The video frames fully capture all the armor, among which samples were destroyed in the settlement area, and some Ukrainian soldiers are seen trying to save some of the armor that is still in good condition. At least some of these equipment such as 1 Canadian Senator Roshel, 2 Cougar MRAP, 2 Humvee, and 3 other armored vehicles, are difficult to identify. Meanwhile, in another video recorded by Russian reconnaissance group on the road in the Tolstoy Lug settlement, there are 2 Cougar MRAP, and 1 unidentified vehicle burned out. Some of them are functional and have become trophies, which will be reused against the Ukrainian invasion and the Western collective. It seems that the advance of Ukrainian armored vehicles to the position, probably not under the protection of electronic warfare. Of course they lost armor, only the difference is that NATO replenished it even though it was exhausting and reaping losses in Kursk since early August. Since the start of hostilities, Ukrainian losses amount to more than 11,220 soldiers, 87 tanks, 42 infantry fighting vehicles, 74 armored personnel carriers, 624 armored fighting vehicles, 361 motorized vehicles, 84 artillery pieces, 24 MLRS launchers including 7 US-made M142 HIMARS systems and 5 US-made M270 MLRS systems, 8 SAM launchers, 2 transport-loader vehicles, 21 electronic warfare and 7 anti-battery radars, 2 air defense radars, 8 engineering vehicles including 2 anti-obstacle vehicles and 1 UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on September 8.
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  749. Ukraine is not keeping up with Russian recruitment whatsoever, as numbers for the new ‘mobilization’ continue to look dire. Even police from cities like Kharkov have reportedly been thinned out and sent to the front: Not only do the AFU tankmen say the Abrams isn’t properly armored for modern combat, they speak of its various breakdowns and inability to withstand the terrain. MSM reports that the U.S. stopped even sending the Excalibur guided artillery round because it has performed so dismally, continually jammed by Russian EW This leaves the Russian Krasnopol as king of the battlefield, which continues not only performing daily, but whose use has vastly increased. Just in the past few days alone we’ve seen footage of Abrams, M109s, and other high profile Western systems all taken out with the Krasnopol. Now the West is increasingly worried about Russia’s unparalleled industrial achievements. Zelensky admits they have “no long range 155mm” rounds at all: So much for that NATO artillery superiority. the actual truth entirely revolves around needing to escalate the conflict to save the AFU, which is collapsing. It has nothing to do with hitting Russian supply lines which are way out of reach anyway, and everything to do with the escalation creep of triggering Russia’s red lines and slowly wedging NATO into the conflict. In the meantime, the U.S. empire continues to go down in a flaming wreck before our eyes: The U.S. Empire has never looked so utterly exhausted, defeated, and bereft of any redeeming moral standing or leadership qualities as it does now: The optics have never been worse—it is truly an Empire in total terminal decline, its entrails strewn across the globe for all to see. - Simplicius
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  773. Northern Europe has long been portrayed as the safest, the cleanest, and the most advanced in the world, yet, like America, they are experiencing crime like they have never seen before: Power struggles between Swedish mafia clans make the Scandinavian country one of the most violent in Europe… Mob-style killings shock Netherlands into fighting descent into ‘narco state’ as journalists and lawyers under protection are murdered in the streets. Often, the targets of the gang members whose hitmen are as young as 14, hit the wrong mark and kill innocent civilians. Odd these headlines don’t make it into the MSM world of utopia. Tourism is part of the factor, the other is the creation of an alternate reality. A reality of make believe and cherry blossoms disguising the black tarnish of bombs. Because a lie told over and over becomes a ‘reality’ within the frame of the teller and the tellees. This is how History is created and it is how the present dystopia is white-washed. “War is coming – prepare” ~ is the constant warning coming from Germany’s Scholz. Would that War be a Middle East War or a Russian War – or Both? Infecting Europe. Israel just bombed an Iranian embassy inside Damascus. Killing Iranian nationalists. The CIA/NATO bombed Moscow killing 140 civilians. Estonia just announced that every NATO member already have troops in Ukraine. And Mike Johnson just declared that the bankrupt US will be sending Ukraine $61 billion – in the form of loans and stolen Russian Assets! This smells like Rothschild 1918 when he ordered the assassination of Nicholas II and proceeded to steal all his Assets including diamonds, bank accounts, jewels, and property. There are UN Protocols in place regarding the ability of states to freeze assets as a form of sanctioning. Freezing does not mean the assets now belong to the country initiating the freeze. If they take the assets or the income from the assets – that is theft. In order for the US to invoke the freeze, they must identify themselves as an ‘injured party’. Using terms such as ‘global security’ – does NOT fall under that Protocol. Once the US admits it is an injured party, it must prove how it is injured – in the instance of Ukraine, they entire economy was built on criminal activity – therefore an ‘injured party’ could be held to the standards of a CRIMINAL. More importantly, in order to establish a freeze, the US and EU are required to go through the procedures of the UN Security Council and not merely act in a unilateral way. All of these freezing actions on Russia are completely illegal according to International Law. The entire point of Sanctions is to blackmail the country into submission. The entire Middle East is looking at this very closely and with much distrust. Israel is operating outside of the UN bombing other countries to supposedly target “Hamas”. While murdering 35,000 civilians in the process. The US has intervened in a war in Ukraine for which it is no party. By so doing, the US is acting illegally. NATO is engaged in Ukraine although Ukraine is not a party of NATO – therefore also guilty of criminally violating UN International Law. When looking for answers, it is necessary to understand The Motive. While the classic motives have been depopulation and money – there is more this time. They have been identified and outed. They can’t move forward. China knows. Africa knows. Russia knows. The Middle East knows. Anonymity gave them leverage. 70% of the federal budget is going toward illegals. They have bled Americans dry. Spending will collapse. And their $$$$$$ stand to drop precipitously if the continuance of alternate currencies are utilized. They have been defeated again. And for now, this is their only solution – to seek vengeance pulling every country down with them. - LewRockwell
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  793. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The FAB-3000 glide bomb attack on the Volchansk Aggregate Plant, confirms the statements about a trap carefully prepared for Ukrainian troops in the industrial zone of Kharkov region. In videos released by Russian military correspondents on September 28, 2024, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a powerful strike by the crews of Su-34 fighter-bomber, destroying the remains of the plant, following reports of the presence of formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and began to consolidate there! This is terrible! Some days ago the Russian units withdrew from the plant in order to lure the enemy in, and now they militarized it with the most powerful bombs, which directly destroyed the hull of the plant, It is difficult to know how many were eliminated, especially the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who entered the trap. The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) headed by Kyrylo Budanov, reported this week that it had captured the Aggregation Plant in Volchansk with GUR special forces. The department said in a statement that the last of the 30 buildings at the plant had been liberated today, which had been occupied by Russian troops since July 30. At the same time, the department called the information about the close fighting at the Aggregate Plant somewhat exaggerated, which was previously considered an important strategic facility, in order to advance after capturing these strongholds. While the Russian side did not comment on the defeat. Thus, its capture resulted in the GUR special forces not only losing control, which was completely surrounded. The latest footage on September 29, shows several trophies captured by Russian Volunteer fighters during the multi-day battle at the Volchansk Aggregate Plant! As usual, Ukrainian domestic war correspondents claim that the Russian garrison fought to the last, and managed to retreat. Only those who surrendered or were taken prisoner managed to escape, the rest were destroyed. On the contrary, Ukraine lost a lot of personnel - another tragedy that was simply necessary for the sake of a one-day media victory
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  826. I continue to believe that the assumptions about Russia’s alleged failure is ignoring the contravening narrative: The Russian economy is robust and healthy despite Western sanctions. Russia’s political influence in the world is growing, not shrinking. BRICS is a case in point. Russia is inflicting enormous casualties on Ukraine’s military and decimating infrastructure critical to the Ukrainian military campaign. Russia’s defense industry has ramped up to levels of production that the West cannot match. Russia’s seemingly unlimited access to natural resources, energy and rare earth minerals strengthens Russia’s military position in the world. Russia enjoys a massive technological advantage over NATO in terms of electronic warfare, air defense systems, mine laying vehicles and hypersonic missiles. Russian leaders and their people genuinely believe they face an existential threat from the West. Ukraine is totally dependent on the West to provide money and weapons to continue to fight. - Sonar 21 UKRAINE’S ZOMBIE ARMY: Ukrainians riddled with HIV, mental disorders, hemorrhagic conditions, tuberculosis now FIT for military service as Kiev’s so desperate for scraping barrel that it's just lowered bar even more on its standards for cannon fodder. With number of dead personnel, as exclusively revealed by Intel Republic, running into hundreds of 1000s and most healthy Ukrainian soldier in pic above, Kiev’s Western-backed junta wants to fight to the last Ukrainian. Pretty soon, they'll be calling up deceased as well as diseased to fight given their grave overcrowding problem! Almost Walking Dead - Intel Report
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  849. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo. Who would know that in only a few weeks the whole of Europe would be at war, leading to the deaths of millions. Are we facing a similar escalation of events today? In a little over five weeks from the Sarajevo assassination, all the European combatants had embarked on the most destructive war in all history. It came out of nowhere and was to last over four years. Central to the escalation was one nation — Germany. Central to the current Middle East crisis is one nation — The United States. The escalation into a new world war could have further to go than previously, with nuclear weapons in the armouries of most of the combatants. Surely, it would be complacent to think that they will remain as an unused umbrella, never to be deployed. But we can see how developments considered only one step at a time can take us to a very dark place. Bearing in mind that the US uses NATO to prevent having to call up her own citizens and that the UK Government when asked by the US to jump merely asks how high, then perhaps this call to arms should be taken seriously as an indication that the intelligence services believe that events are leading towards a third world war. Putin and Xi are well-versed in war tactics. Russia has a history of letting its enemies extend themselves beyond their support lines (cf. Napoleon, Hitler) and China has the wisdom of Sun Tzu on warfare. Some Sun Tzu pearls: “All warfare is based on deception”, “Hold out baits to entice the enemy” (Houthis, Hezbollah ect.), “If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.” Doesn’t this last one just describe the US’s political class? Apart from its military build-up so eloquently forewarned by Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands, in 1914 Germany declared its European wars from a position of relative financial strength. Today, America has a fiat dollar, a debt to GDP ratio of about 125%, and is mired in a deepening debt trap. It is simply not in a position to embark on an open-ended commitment to support Israel in a war against Iran. US economic prospects are already dire, with the only growth being in the US budget deficit. Strip out a budget deficit likely to be $3 trillion this fiscal year, add in the consequences for currency debasement and you can see that the US economy is not only in trouble, but markets faces further dilution of the dollar’s purchasing power and therefore rising interest rates and bond yields Other than a degeneration into a nuclear conflict, this leaves us with only one possible outcome: the US backs off in this stupendous game of chicken and seeks some sort of face-saving exit from Ukraine. For Russia and Iran, it will be the ultimate victory. The dollar’s hegemony will be compromised, so will continue to decline in its value anyway, but at a less catastrophic rate than in a full-on conflict. Either way, holding credit as opposed to real money without counterparty risk will be the mistake commonly made, and when the wider population begins to understand that this is so, there will be insufficient gold to meet the likely demand at any price. - LewRockwell
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  875. LONDON — The prosecution for the U.S., which is seeking to deny Julian Assange’s appeal of an extradition order, begun by the Trump administration and embraced by the Biden administration, grounded its arguments on Wednesday in the dubious affidavits filed by a U.S. federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, Gordon Kromberg. The charges articulated by Kromberg — often false — to make the case for extradition did not fly with the two High Court judges, Jeremy Johnson and Dame Victoria Sharp, who are overseeing Julian’s final appeal in the British courts. The prosecuting attorneys, under questioning from the judges, were knocked off balance when challenged about the veracity of several of the claims which Kromberg made in support of the indictment against Julian. By the end of the day, it seemed likely that, probably by April, since requested written briefs have to be turned into the judges in March, the two judges will permit an appeal on at least a few of the points. This will, conveniently for the Biden administration — which I expect does not want to take on the contentious issue of extraditing Julian while fueling the genocide in Gaza — mean that any extradition would occur after the election. The CIA usually gets what it wants. But for the near future I expect Julian to continue to rot in HM Prison Belmarsh, where he has been imprisoned for nearly five years as he deteriorates physically and psychologically. This slow motion execution is intentional. It is hard to call any court ruling, other than the dropping of the charges against him, a victory, but the longer he stays out of U.S. hands, the more hope he has of regaining his freedom for carrying out the most important investigative journalism of our generation. - LewRockwell
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  879. The question needs to be asked: Why does Ukraine deserve any support? We're talking about one of the most corrupt countries, if not the most, in the world, a playground for the financing of any form of scandalous activity, the mother-of-all money launderers in that regard. I shed no tears for such reprobates whose leadership has no problem killing innocents at its whim which is how this war started in the first place! The Russians had quite enough of that moral rot, and, per my observations, geopolitically, so has the sane world who are saying NO to Ukraine very loudly in their policies geared to promoting the common good, not destroying it! The headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Berislav, located on the right bank of the Dnieper in Kherson region, was blown to pieces by FAB-500 attack. FAB-500M62 flying bomb, which was upgraded to a glide bomb with high accuracy, hit the building flat to the ground. Ukraine complained that this bomb was difficult to shoot down. - Military Tube Today Update on the conflict in Ukraine for September 18, 2023 all from WESTERN Sources - Ukrainian offensive operations remain stagnant along the line of contact with Russian counterattacks overturning what superficial progress they do make; - The Western media citing US and other NATO member state officials admits Ukrainian forces lacked the proper training to conduct a successful offensive; - As Western sources begin admitting to Ukraine's catastrophic losses in men and materiel, they also admit Russian losses are near all time lows; - The collective West also acknowledges that the amount of ammunition and weapons Ukraine requires is beyond the West’s ability to provide both in the short and intermediate future; - In order to provide such levels of material support, the West would need to significantly mobilize its population, industry, and military, a prospect that isn’t even being seriously considered let alone planned; -The New Atlas
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  935. The fact that this motorized regiment without much heavy gear was used is revealing. It confirms reports that Russia is no where close to introducing its “main force” into the region, which can come much later after Russia has tested the Ukrainian defenses, revealed their positions via recon-by-fire, and then softened them up with air strikes. Ukrainian military sources report that not only does Russia possibly have a much larger force it intends to introduce later, but another one is gathering in Sumy region as well: Well, almost exactly two months later, it looks like things are bearing fruit. I believe the current action is both multi-stage and longer term. That means you won’t see a flash-in-the-pan blitzkrieg or thunder-run, but rather a very methodical introduction of forces from the north at key points like turning the screws on a vise. Russia will likely see how Ukraine reacts to the Kharkov incursion, watch where it deploys its reserves, and act accordingly, with potential Sumy and/or Chernigov contingents to come in much later. Remember: the objectives right now are to degrade and destroy the AFU manpower, not to “capture territory”—that will all come as a natural secondary byproduct of its own. In the meantime, Russia is slowly degrading the logistics in the region: The northern incursion is in fact a pinning operation for now, but that’s not all it is. It’s part of the grand boa constrictor or ‘death by a thousand cuts’ strategy I’ve been describing for over a year now, and more resources will be poured constantly onto it until the trickle develops into a deluge. After that, it will be a fully formed front in its own right and Ukraine will have major problems choosing where to send reserves. In the meantime, the Avdeevka-Ocheretino axis is deteriorating fast, which is precisely why Russia decided to “turn the screws” some more: And by the way, today new gains were made on the Kupyansk front toward the town Pishchane, which reinforces the idea that soon this front may get more activated in accordance with the northern breach. Despite advance warning and accurate intel, Ukraine can do nothing about the events that are soon to come. This is a chess match and a numbers game; you can “know” full well the constrictor is tightening over your chest, but there will be little you can do about it. Ukraine will lack the means to respond to the constant swell of Russian troops and armaments on every single frontline, which will only stretch longer and longer as Russia potentially introduces new breaches into Sumy, Chernigov, and perhaps even elsewhere—some Russian channels are still trading rumors of a potential push from Belarus into Kiev region as eventual part of the now initiated cascade. Recall all the quotes from Ukrainian officers I recently posted wherein they admitted they don’t have the mobility to match Russian ‘whack-a-mole’ tactics. Russia can transfer units from one region to another and mesmerize the AFU with the ‘thousand cuts’ from every angle, and Ukraine simply doesn’t have the logistical infrastructure to keep up plugging each hole. The longer the front stretches, the worse this issue becomes. - Simplicius
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  940. ROLLING UP ON Ukrainian positions to drop off fresh cannon fodder but it doesn’t quite go to plan for this Kiev MRAP as Russian forces immediately make sure it get added to scrap pile with direct hit (00:41), all while Ukrainian army makes 4 failed attacks and loses over 1,230 troops in Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) over past week. Ukrainian forces also attempt 39 futile attacks in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) since Monday, taking over 845 casualties and saying goodbye to 27 tanks including UK-supplied Challenger 2 ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 8 Medics of the ‘elite’ 47th (Ukrainian) brigade go on to admit that their casualties have run into four figures: It becomes so clear now how decades of Western propaganda had built up their equipment with fraudulent, unearned accolades and distinctions. Now, in the first true test against a real foe, the lies all come crashing down. For now, Ukraine will continue to bleed for the gallery while the Russian war machine finishes calmly strapping on its armor in preparation for the killing blow. - Simplicius Russian soldier with the callsign Casper saves 5 comrades. Having spotted a kamikaze drone headed in their direction, he acted swiftly using body armor as a shield. Everyone survived - Casper is now recovering in hospital from injuries, and will return to the frontline. - Intel Report NATO ADMITS IT’S INFERIOR AND BACKWARD: NATO states’ top military expert makes stunning confession that “NATO tactics are not validated in the modern threat environment” of Russia. Dr Jack Watling (above right) adds US army “makes a mess of things” even in basic drills, let alone in training Ukraine. Truth comes out. - Intel Report
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  962. WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC FOOTAGE TERRORISTS BUTCHER CIVILIANS COWERING IN FEAR as gut-wrenching vid on right shows armed men murdering multiple people trying to escape at point-blank range at Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow, amid reports that over 50 people have been injured. Roof of City Hall reportedly collapses amid uncontrollable inferno in left vid as terror attack hits Russian capital - developing situation. UPDATE: 5 terrorists stormed Crocus and killed at least 14. - Intel Republic TERRORISTS KILL INNOCENTS AT CLOSE RANGE in right vid as gun spark from automatic rifles seen before armed men with backpacks slaughter civilians hiding from them. Left vid shows bodies of dead and injured littered at entrance of Crocus music venue while unverified reports say over 40 KILLED and 100 injured as dozens of ambulances rush to scene. U.S, weeks after issuing strange terror attack warning for Americans in Russia, says following "horrifying" scene of shooting. - Intel Republic RUSSIAN SPEC FORCES STORM BUILDING WHERE TERRORISTS HOLED UP: armed police personnel seen in above vids securing area around terror-hit Crocus Hall amid reports that anti-terror forces are storming music venue. Number of injured and dead continues to grow as all public events cancelled in Moscow. UPDATE: over 140 people wounded. - Intel Republic MOSCOW SLAMS WASHINGTON, SAYS U.S. SHOULD HAVE TRANSFERRED INFO ON TERROR ATTACK that it put out in warning weeks before today's brutal bloodbath at music venue in Russian capital. Shopping center in St. Petersburg also evacuated in left vid due to unknown reason. On what basis do officials in Washington draw any conclusions about anyone's innocence in the midst of a tragedy? If United States has or had reliable information in this regard, then it must be immediately transferred to the Russian side - Russian FM Spokeswoman Zakharova. Horrific scenes continue to emerge from Crocus as ambulances line up street, bodies lay on roadside covered in white cloth while police detain 1 suspect. UPDATE: 40 killed, 100 injured - official info. - Intel Republic WASHINGTON CONTRADICTS ITSELF - John "I hate peace" Kirby panics when reporter grills him about claim of "not having advanced knowledge above" about horrific terrorist attack in Moscow, despite issuing warning to U.S. citizens in Moscow just 14 days ago that describes exact situation at Crocus music venue bloodbath. Yeah... Uh I..I don't think that was related to this specific attack - US National Security Spox Kirby. Any other planned terror you'd like to disclose then, Kirby? - Intel Republic "DEATH FOR DEATH" - TOP RUSSIAN OFFICIAL'S WARNING TO UKRAINE: Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev warns Ukraine after sickening terror attack in Moscow, says top Ukrainian officials will be "mercilessly destroyed" if terrorist trail leads to Kiev. If it's established that these are terrorists of Kiev regime, it is impossible to deal with them and their ideological inspirers differently. All of them must be found and mercilessly destroyed as terrorists. Including officials of the state that committed such atrocity - Furious Medvedev. Condolences pouring in from around world including Western countries. - Intel Republic
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  971. NO TIME WASTED - Russia is fighting with new weapons that didn't exist at the start of the Special Operation. Having just completed all necessary trials, the 2S43 Malva ("Mallow") is now on the battlefield. It's key innovation is the wheeled chassis, which makes the Malva more mobile than the existing MSTA-S self-propelled howitzer. Similar to a US HIMARS - its technical characteristics are quite impressive; with a firing range of 24.5km, and a rate of fire of up to 7 rounds per minute, it is operated by a crew of 5, and can carry a total of 30 rounds. Malva marks a significant advancement in the capabilities of Russian artillery systems - improved mobility, lighter weight, and cost-effective operation. - Intel Report A Russian military force specializing in using first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones to hunt down Ukrainian armored vehicles claims to have successfully engaged three German-made Leopard battle tanks in just two days. - RT Well said, President Putin, full support for you from many in America fed up with the moral rot of their government! The West is fomenting religious hatred and intolerance to “divide and conquer” the world, to maintain a “new world order” that amounts to dominance and colonialism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Meeting with leaders of Russia’s religious communities at the Kremlin, Putin addressed the current conflict in the Middle East and warned that “Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and Russophobia” were being used as weapons against a multipolar world. - RT Sergey Rakhmanin, who sits on the parliamentary Committee for Security, Defense and Intelligence, painted a bleak picture of the Ukrainian mobilization system in an interview with the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper on Wednesday. The program is suffering from apathy among recruits, red tape, structural problems and corruption, according to his description. - RT Slovakia’s new prime minster, Robert Fico, has pledged to end military support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, and to push for an immediate cessation of hostilities. He also vowed not to back further sanctions on Moscow if they end up harming his country. Speaking at a meeting of the parliamentary committee for European affairs on Thursday, Fico stated that “as prime minister, I will support zero military aid to Ukraine,” explaining that the position of his government is that “the immediate cessation of military operations is the best solution we have for Ukraine.” - RT
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  988. Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, has accused Ukrainian forces of hitting a children’s hospital with an air defense missile, declaring that if a Russian missile had struck the building, “there would be nothing left.” In an address to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Dr. Vladimir Zhovnir, the director of Kiev’s Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, accused Russia of deliberately striking the facility on Monday. Two people died and scores were injured in the blast, Zhovnir claimed, calling the incident “not just a war crime, [but] far beyond the limit of humanity.” “Does Mr. Zhovnir understand that if it was a Russian missile, there would be nothing left of the building?” Nebenzia responded. “Children and adults would have died rather than been injured.” Nebenzia explained that Russian forces targeted the Artemov missile plant in Kiev on Monday, and that “this target was hit.” “Since the plant is located approximately 2km from the children’s hospital, there is every reason to believe that the Ukrainian air defense missile that hit it was intended for a Russian missile that hit the plant,” he stated, adding that “this tragedy could have been avoided if the Ukrainian Armed Forces had not deployed air defense in residential areas.” The Russian Defense Ministry has also explicitly denied striking the hospital. In an official statement on Monday, the ministry said that “photos and video footage from Kiev clearly confirm” that the building was hit by a falling “Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city.” - RT
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  994. Yep, things are going just swell with Israel’s War Cabinet. Looks like the same lack of professionalism demonstrated by the Israeli military in Gaza is spilling over into the political chambers. All of this comes on the heels of another Haaretz report on the investigation into the murder of three Israeli hostages by the Israeli military. That report is a stunner. Here are the lowlights: The military investigation concludes that the soldiers and senior commanders operating in the area were not informed of a building found two days before the incident on which the words ‘Help, 3 hostages’ and ‘SOS’ were painted. The soldier who shot the three Israeli hostages Samer al-Talalka, Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz confirmed that he saw them carrying a white cloth, but did not have time to “make sense” of the situation. Other soldiers opened fire at Haim and killed him, in violation of an explicit order which, they say, they “did not fully understand,” after their commander called on the hostage to emerge from the building he had run into. At 9:49, two soldiers noticed Haim moving and opened fire, in spite of their commander’s order. The hostage was killed instantly. The investigation determined that the order to hold fire was heard clearly, but the soldiers claimed that they hadn’t understood the order, thinking it was a temporary order, meant to enable them to listen and ensure there was no enemy fire in the area. It was further argued that soldiers were not sure about the rules of engagement, especially with regard to unarmed men, even though the IDF is operating in a densely populated area, calling on Hamas fighters to surrender. Ponder that for a moment. Soldiers are given a “cease fire” order but only considered it a temporary suggestion. And they were not “sure” about the Rules of Engagement (ROE). The hostages were unarmed. They had their shirts off and it could be clearly seen they were not wearing a bomb belt. This incident confirms that Israeli soldiers have standing Rules of Engagement to shoot unarmed persons. - Sonar21
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  1001. Heavy shelling in multiple directions simultaneously by paratroopers of Russian Armed Forces on the north flank of Artemovsk. Direct fire from the Grad MLRS and BMD-2K-AU assault vehicles surprised the Ukrainian troops positions, who were driven from their positions with heavy losses. - Military Tube Today Russian assault troops are now coordinating FPV-kamikaze drone launches on the fly to eliminate enemies in trenches right in front of them. In case you don’t quite grasp the significance of it right away, another way of describing it would be that they’ve basically gotten to the incredible level of dexterity and coordination as to use the drones like hand grenades. I.e. as they’re actively assaulting a trench, dugout, or fortification, in the midst of the firefight they throw a drone into the air and eliminate the enemy right in front of them. The level of dexterity and training this requires to do under the intense pressure of an active firefight cannot be understated. Famed Austrian Colonel Reisner has finally had enough. Showing uncharacteristic anger he states that either the West must go “all in” and push everything into Ukraine, or sue for peace—it’s over. Confirming this, the Economist’s new piece yesterday finally announces the Ukrainian counteroffensive as officially over: - Simplicius PREGNANT WOMAN FORCED TO FRONTLINES? Kiev's sending pregnant women straight to frontlines vid above shows as shocked Russian troops ask "what are you doing here pregnant!?" Ukraine launched massive campaign to enlist women into army as country’s desperate measures result in FIRST ever case of surrender of pregnant female Ukrainian soldier. - Intel Report
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  1018. The dollar’s stranglehold on global finance is fraying, and Russia’s proposal could be the nail in the coffin. And here’s the kicker: the U.S. and its allies, so adept at weaponizing the dollar, now find themselves cornered. Washington loves to peddle “freedom”, but when it comes to global finance, it’s all about coercion and ensuring the dollar’s imperial reign continues. Russia and BRICS? They’ve read the room. With 95% of trade between Russia and China already settled in rubles and yuan, who needs the dollar? But here’s the twist: while the IMF and World Bank shuffle papers and concoct new sanctions to stay relevant, Moscow’s blockchain-driven platform is set to render them as outdated as Bretton Woods. IMF? Meet irrelevance. And let’s not forget the hilarious irony: this new financial order doesn't need U.S. banks, U.S. infrastructure, or U.S. approval. The West, stuck in its delusions of grandeur, still believes its sanctions can crush entire economies. But Russia’s “new system” just laughs at that: sanctions? What sanctions? The rules of the game are changing, and the U.S. is just realizing it’s not holding the cards anymore. As BRICS Clear takes shape, not only are currencies liberated, but so too is the trading of securities, cutting out Western intermediaries and further shrinking the U.S. role in global financial flows. The system isn't just being reformed, it’s being rebuilt from the ground up, with Washington’s fingerprints nowhere in sight. And as for the Western financial elite? Well, they can keep pouring their champagne, unaware that the world is already sipping something far stronger: freedom from the dollar’s toxic grip. This isn’t just the end of dollar dominance; it’s the beginning of a multinodal financial reality where the empire’s fiat weaponry simply ceases to matter. - Gerry Nolan, Intel Republic - forwarded from The Islander
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  1028. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Urgent analysis on November 6, 2024, Russian Armed Forces are advancing and advancing on the Kurakhovo direction, moving very quickly towards the town from the south near Trudove, with additional reports that Stepanivka has been liberated up to 2 km along the northern shore of Kurakhovo Reservoir. Russian soldiers installed the battle flag of their unit on a residential building, confirming full control over the settlement. Between Kurakhovo and Trudove, there are several another settlements where Ukrainian troops who claimed to have stood firm there are now starting to fall into a new cauldron! Ukrainian troops would most likely have avoided this difficult situation if they had carried out a large-scale withdrawal. It seems that Russian troops are continuing to deploy their offensive capabilities to form a depression in the direction of Donetsk, breaking through Ukrainian defenses near Trudove. The BMP squad of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade with armored forces maneuvered, landing in an area between the west of the settlement and 3.5 km south of Kostiantynopolske. Here, the fighting takes place in the forest belt where the assault units take and consolidate in the tree line, capturing several positions. The Russian forces are again outmaneuvering and cutting off supplies to the Ukrainian units in a worsening operational crisis, with less than 4 kilometers left to reach the Kostiantynopolske point with the advance very fast and getting tighter every day. At the same time, Zelensky's defenders from the 79th Brigade, who claim to have held out for more than two years in Kurakhovo, appear to be short of equipment to stop the Russians, and are seeking donations. They are in need of Mavic 3T drones with thermal cameras, a vital support to help them get spies at night, and to bolster their defenses, which are under threat in the Kurakhovo circle.
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  1030. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - A group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were surprised by a sudden attack of Russian Lancet ammunition on the front of their armored column on their way to enter one of the settlements in the Kursk region. An Ukrainian soldier captured live footage of the impact of Russian drone flash strike, in a video of the clash that took place on August 11, but some of the footage was only recently posted around August 26, 2024. The intense footage shows a large armored column of Ukrainian Paratroopers, and trying to break through Cherkassky Porechny under fire from Russian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian soldiers were annoyed that the Lancet drone managed to penetrate the armor of a T-64BV tank of their comrades, even though they had tried to shoot the Lancet in the air with small arms. The tank initially tried to keep working, then caught fire. However after the attack, the Ukrainians rushed to protect the surrounding area. Things then got worse for the Ukrainian or NATO armored column, and the Lancet kamikaze drone flew into another armored vehicle in their column, as shown in a part of video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on August 11. Several vehicles of Kiev troops, such as T-80 tank, were completely burned out with a huge explosion, and then completely destroyed. So far, until August 27, the next Ukraine-NATO armored vehicles are burning out on the good highway of the Kursk region. For more than a week, Russian soldiers have been repelling the attacks of Ukraine, which is defending its presence on Russian land, attacking waves of Ukrainian infantry and another equipment. In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry statement said that Russian army units attacked Ukrainian army armored personnel carriers detected at the Kursk border, with Lancet kamikaze UAV. Lancet drones continue to be a nightmare for Ukrainian forces, as Kiev’s cannon fodder crews try hard to hide their armored personnel carriers in the trees, completely unaware that Russian forces know exactly where they are. The armored vehicles’ march during the Western-backed offensive turned into a shooting battle for Russian forces. Real-time data confirms, that the vehicles are burning.
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  1035. Polish Mercenaries Began To Flee 'LIMAN' against the Background Of The Approach Of The Russian Army. Compared with other sections of the front, the Krasny-Liman direction was less mentioned in the reports of war correspondents and military departments on both sides. This is largely because the situation in the Krasny-Liman direction is not developing as dynamically and intensively as in other sectors of the front. However, this does not mean that the Krasny-Liman direction of the front has completely suspended the dynamics of hostilities. The decrease in military clashes there is more like the calm before the storm. - BORZZIKMAN "THERE'S A HUGE GAP where Zelensky's brain should be between goals and the actual state of affairs in Ukraine" - says the President of the US Council on Foreign Affairs, Richard Haase. "The idea that Ukraine is going to liberate by military means all the lands that are occupied by Russia, approximately 20% of its territory, is laudable - but this won't happen" - he continues. Zelensky! Please place brain BACK inside cranium - United States officials who specialize in WAR are telling you to forget any kind of liberation fantasies. - Intel Report The flow of US-made artillery ammunition to Ukraine has dwindled by “more than 30%” amid Washington’s scramble to assist Israel in its fight against Hamas, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official. The network’s source pointed out that the main problem was with deliveries of NATO-standard 155mm artillery shells, which he said accounted for “about 60-70% of Ukraine’s overall supply.” He also expressed serious concern that the gridlock in the US Congress could mean that the flow of arms to Ukraine will start to dry up. “We’re in big trouble… basic munitions are not coming,” the official said, warning that if the situation is allowed to deteriorate further, Ukraine risks losing its position on the battlefield “at a very high price.” - RT Ukraine has lost over 13,700 troops and approximately 1,800 tanks and other heavy weaponry so far this month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu relayed on Tuesday during a ministerial meeting. Russian forces have been actively thwarting Kiev’s attempts to breach their defensive lines and continue to reduce Ukraine’s military capacity, the senior official said. He claimed that Ukrainian soldiers were surrendering in droves after realizing the futility of their counteroffensive. The Russian minister issued his last assessment of Ukrainian casualties in late October, when he said they had surpassed 90,000 since the start of Kiev’s ill-fated counteroffensive in early July. During this week’s meeting, Shoigu described the cost paid by Ukrainian soldiers in the conflict as “colossal.” - RT
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  1050. It finally happened—our questions on Russia and Putin’s resoluteness have been answered. After a nearly two-month hiatus of major long-range strikes on energy infrastructure, Russia struck back again last night with what’s again being called one of the largest strikes of the war, which not only reportedly utilized a fleet of 16 Tu-95s, but according to some sources even a wing of Tu-160s for the first time. Virtually every missile in Russia’s arsenal was said to be fired: ▪Kh-101 ▪Caliber ▪Kh-32/22 ▪Oniks ▪Iskander ▪Kinzhal ▪Zircon (apparently 2 were fired on targets at Kiev) Energy substations were hit all over the country. Kh-101s are here seen hitting Rivne Nuclear Power Plant’s substation area: Bloomberg reports that generation at Ukrainian nuclear facilities was cut back by 40-90%, with only 2 out of 9 total reactors operating at full power: Now, as if timed to stave off the morale depletion of the coming ‘dark winter’, Biden is reportedly set to announce the removal of long-range strikes restrictions on Ukraine’s ATACMS: This announcement was reportedly immediately followed by France and Britain authorizing use of Storm Shadow/Scalp missiles on Russian territory as well. As we’ve discussed here many times, politically neutered and ideologically paralyzed Europe can do nothing without its master first giving the go ahead or signaling support. The announcement comes just as ATACMS stocks have been depleted, with several articles over the past month or so noting this. The same goes for Storm Shadow/Scalp: Remember: for the Storm Shadows to be fired “deep” into Russian territory, the F-16s—or whatever platform carrying them—would have to get almost right up to the Russian border, and risk almost certain shoot down by Russian patrol craft, long range AD, etc. The same goes for ATACMS—everyone just assumes it can hit max distance into Voronezh, but to do that the ATACMS would have to be right on the border. They learned the hard way what happens when they try that, as a slew of HIMARS trucks were destroyed not far from the border in the Kursk fiasco. With stockpiles for both ATACMS, Storm Shadows, and even future-potential Taurus missiles scraping the bottom of the barrel, it’s not expected they could make any real mark. German state TV complains from Kiev: - The Russians advance every day in many places - Ukrainian soldiers run away - Ukrainian soldiers commit suicide The situation is really bad at the front. It gets back to what we talked about last time: Trump loves to have his cake and eat it too. He would love to profit from both sides of the equation by satisfying Ukraine with arms so he doesn’t “look like a big loser” or betrayer, while at the same time, courting Russia for concessions and an armistice. But such “two-chair” tactics won’t work for now-hardline and maximalist Russia, and so the only question which remains is will Trump be angered once his ego is hurt by Putin’s snub, and thus try to ‘strongman’ himself into some escalation to upstage Russia? Or will he smartly concede the floor to Russia’s advantages and realize WWIII is not worth it for his grand capitalist revival dreams? - Simplicius
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  1059. There has been a multifold increase in the production of weapons and ammunition in Russia since the outbreak of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in 2022, the head of the defense conglomerate Rostec has said. "Compared to 2022, the production and refurbishment of tanks at our factories increased by three-and-a-half times, and of lightly armored vehicles by three times,” the Rostec chief said. The manufacture of self-propelled artillery pieces has increased tenfold, while 14 times more towed guns are being produced, and the production of multiple rocket launch systems (MLRS) has doubled. The output of ammunition rounds for tanks and infantry fighting vehicles increased by 900%, artillery shells by 600%, and munitions for MLRS by 800%. Three times as many unguided rockets for heavy flamethrower systems are being produced, Chemezov said. According to the Rostec chief, new types of equipment have also been introduced during the conflict, such as TOS-2 heavy flamethrower systems, which are capable of firing munitions with thermobaric warheads and are “widely used in the area of the military operation.” Zemledeliye remote mine-laying systems are also being produced, as well as Krasnopol guided shells, Kub loitering munitions, and guided missiles for UAVs. Rostec is also working with JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV) to equip standard aviation bombs with gliding modules and guidance systems, he said. The Washington Post reported in March that the use of glide bombs, which can travel long distances and have high precision, has “dramatically boosted” the effectiveness of the Russian Air Force. The Independent wrote last month that those munitions had been “changing the face” of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. - RT
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  1060. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Strong footage of a powerful assault by the Airborne Assault Battalion of the 40th Guards Kamchatka Marine Brigade, shows the landing of stormtroopers on the front line, threatening the cauldron of the Armed Forces of Ukraine group in the town of Ugledar south of Donetsk. The Russian military correspondent shared the video on September 21, 2024, showing how the Russian assault force in an armored vehicle, successfully landed, attacked Zelensky's men, and occupied their stronghold. The thrilling assault was not without the work of scouts, where previously the Supercam unmanned aerial vehicle of the Pacific Fleet Marine Brigade, detected enemy positions, and the military equipment they were hiding. The Supercam UAV is used for in-depth reconnaissance, flying up to 70 kilometers into the enemy's rear, is almost silent and its integrated camera is the best in its class. The personnel and weapons found were destroyed on the same day, then the stormtroopers entered the next day. The Russian channel showed on the map the direction of the attack, after forcing Kashlagach River, the Kamchatka Marine Brigade continued to advance, and expanded the bridgehead west of Ugledar. The group of about 8 stormtroopers, in addition to driver, continued to bypass the Ukrainian defenses, hitting with shot after shot from close range directly in the enemy trenches, and without losses on the Russian side. They also attacked with FPV drones, eliminating Kiev personnel, and burning their equipment. As a result of the successful landing, the Marines occupied an important stronghold near Ugledar, which threatened to encircle the town. This meant that the town would soon be squeezed, the prospect of holding positions in such conditions was not encouraging for the Ukrainian troops still entrenched there. On the same day on the Ugledar cauldron, video footage was published of the breakthrough, where Kashlagach River and the advance to Novoukrainka began. More than 20 square kilometers of territory were liberated by Russian stormtroopers from the tank formations of the Vostok group from Buryatia, after fighting at the recently liberated Prechistovka. The ranks of Ukrainian soldiers wavered, about 12 men from the 58th Infantry Brigade, who valued life more than the Nationalist ideals, laid down their weapons, and raised their hands in repose. The surviving tank crew prisoners, lucky for the time being, spoke in a video published by Buryatia stormtroopers.
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  1082. Let me start with some disturbing and stunning news out of Ukraine, courtesy of Russia’s Ministry of Defense. Ukraine has lost more than 700,000 personnel (i.e., KIA, WIA and AWOL) in the last six months: ▪ Over the past six months, the monthly sanitary and irreplaceable losses of AFU manpower have consistently amounted to about 50,000 people and more (January 2025 – 51960 people, December 2024 – 48470 people, November 2024 – 60805 people, etc.). ▪ At the same time, the number of new recruits in the AFU training centers, even taking into account the “activation” of TCCs throughout Ukraine, has been barely reaching 30,000 people per month for about half a year, who are sent to the line of contact without proper training, which leads to a reduction in the number of AFU personnel. ▪ According to official data, about 100,000 Ukrainian military personnel have left their military units unauthorized and gone on the run. Ukraine’s military is literally bleeding to death. These are unsustainable losses. Making matters worse is the political chaos unfolding in Kiev. A criminal case alleging corruption has been opened on Ukraine’s Defense Minister Umerov while Ukraine’s SBU has opened a criminal case against Kirill Budanov, Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Budanov is being investigated after media reports appeared detailing his warning to members of the RADA that if peace talks do not begin soon Ukraine will not survive the summer. Looks like it is a crime to tell the truth in Ukraine. - sonar21
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  1086. "WE ALL BURN DOWN HERE": Ukrainian cannon fodder experience hell first-hand after a crew of four armored vehicles decided to go suicidal by trying to deliver a bunch of cannon fodder to the frontlines through Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut), Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) as D-30 howitzer tear all enemy's vehicles to shreds after a barrage of 122mm shells, with one vehicle trying to provide cover for Ukrainian soldiers (00:43) failing miserably, goes up in flames with troops laying wasted beside it while remaining forces flee defeated, leaving their wounded and killed behind. - Intel Report ◾ Russian forces repel 8 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), more than 295 Ukrainian soldiers between killed and injured. ◾ More than 165 Ukrainian cannon fodder mangled in Kupyansk, Kharkov, East Ukraine. ◾3 Ukrainian attacks thwarted, temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries hit in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), armored vehicles destroyed (see video). ◾4 ammo depots destroyed in Donetsk, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions. ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 10 Criminal Kiev regime shells Petrovsky, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine) with four 155 mm widely-banned cluster shells. Ukrainian forces also fire cluster shells at Gorlovka (DPR). - Intel Report Smoke rises following fragments from Ukrainian terror drone crashing in park area of Moscow hospital. Moscow Mayor Sobyanin says an attempt of a Ukrainian drone attack on the city thwarted by air defenses - No damages or injuries reported. - Intel Report
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  1103. With world attention riveted on Israel battling fiercely to repel attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, little notice is being paid to the setbacks Ukraine is suffering at the hands of Russia forces. Not only does Ukraine face a significant reduction in Western military aid in the coming months, but Ukrainian forces are being pushed back steadily towards the Dnieper River. Here is the latest report from Russian military correspondent Marat Khairullin Against the backdrop of growing pressure on the Ukies in the North, Russian troops continue to intensify in more and more new sectors of the front. Today we need to pay attention to the same Vremevsky ledge, where a month ago the Ukrops pretended to fall asleep, after they announced the virtual capture of Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. After the Ukrainians drowned about 20 thousand of their troops in blood here, they deployed four brigades to the area tyring stabilize the front line, hold the bridgehead and prevent Russian troops from advancing. However, Russian forces conducted a flanking maneuver on the left yesterday (Saturday) from the the village of Marfopol towards the village of Chervonoye, breaking through the first line of defense of the Ukrainians. At the same time, strong pressure from Russian troops began to the right of the Vremevsky salient in the Ugledar area – in the direction of the village of Prechistovka. Obviously, the goal of the advance was a maneuver to cut the most important Ukrainian road in this section — i.e., Gulyai Pole – Uspenovka – Velikaya Novoselovka-Prechistovka-Ugledar. The fighting is taking place on a wide front of more than 50 kilometers. The most powerful group of the enemy sits here, although it has thinned out significantly recently. It was believed, according to our estimates, that about 60 thousand Ukrainians (about 15 brigades) held the defense here. However, about 20 thousand of them were transferred over the last two months to the Northern Front to stop our “offensive” there. And now we see a serious increase in our activity on the flanks of this significantly weakened group. It is obvious that Russian troops continue to overload the Ukies along the entire length of the front. Let me remind you that in the northern direction the front has also expanded over the past 24 hours, where ours are actively increasing pressure on the Ukrops. To the left of Kislovka, Russians took Kotlyarovka and reached the most important highway N-026. To the right, Russian soldiers approached Ivanovka. The active pressure of Russian troops is here at a front of about 8 kilometers. To the south, our troops entered Makeevka at these hours, and at the same time the movement of our troops began towards the village of Nevskoye. The active front here has expanded to more than 10 kilometers. And these are just two new directions on this front. The width of the front where we apply pressure is very important, since the Ukrainians’ only method of maintaining defensive stability is to fill the position with fresh meat. They have no other methods. They definitely can’t add more firepower – all the remaining mobile missile and artillery brigades (the same wheeled self-propelled guns that we hunted all summer) are already heavily deployed. The only thing left to patch up the holes is human reserves. To the south there is also an active advance on the Donetsk front – in the area of ​​Avdeevka, advance both from Krasnogorovka and Kamenka, and from Opytnoye and Vodyanoye. In total, the Russians chewed off more than a dozen more strongholds. Active work is underway near Pervomaisky, Staromikhailovka, Marinka – in a word, Ukrainian forces are being leaned upon to the fullest. It is obvious that we are beginning to choke them seriously. - Sonar21
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  1124. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - More than 50% of Toretsk is already under the control of Russian forces, and assault units are advancing amidst the ongoing fighting, liberating blocks of the city, which were defended by Ukrainian Nazi troops from the Azov Battalion and the Enei Battalion of the Lyut Brigade. This was confirmed by the Leader of the Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, in a video on October 13, 2024, when he personally assessed the situation in Dzerzhinsk, which had been renamed Toretsk. One of the commanders of the assault units that liberated the city with the call sign "Ostap" from the 132nd Brigade, spoke about this in a conversation with Pushilin, that presented the soldiers with watches during the visit. “Soon the old name will be officially returned,” Pushilin said! Near the Central District, heavy clashes continue and clearings in high-rise buildings and on the streets of the city are underway, although near the Residential District, there is a slight calm. The moment when the Ukrainian drone observed the Russian Orthodox soldiers praying, showing these people standing on the honorable side during the storming of the buildings of Toretsk. Due to the support of artillery and air force, which attacked Ukrainian firing positions and ammunition depots, while the Russian assault troops fought from house to house, continuing with significant changes to liberate half of the city. The footage shows the intensity of the fighting in the working positions of the Ukrainian assault units, which are being hampered by heavy fire from the Russian troops. They even show signs of almost surrendering the city, due to the lack of reinforcements and heavy equipment. The Eastern District of Toretsk, is almost under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian soldiers filmed the aftermath of the fighting in the area, in other reports that Ukraine controls about 30% of the city. Sources say that the Ukrainian military acted according to known practice, that is, withdrawing some of its units again and the remnants of the Ukrainian nationalist troops were forced to flee the city, which is expected to soon change its old name, Dzerzhinsk!
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  1131. OVER 130 KILLED, 100S INJURED AS IDF EXECUTES ANOTHER HORRIFIC MASSACRE in Israeli-designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi area, West of Gaza's Khan Younis - lifeless bodies of civilians strewn across battered neighborhood as Israeli jets pummel displaced refugees' tents with nine 1/2 ton missiles, leaving civilians to dig through massive crater for their loved ones. Demonic IDF waits for emergency workers to arrive in ambulances to pick up survivors, strikes and murders them as well (watch moment of deliberate targeting in top right), leaving scores of first aiders killed and injured. 100s more feared dead under the rubble with no one to save them, while hospitals struggle to cope with numbers of casualties following one of the biggest massacres since outbreak of war genocide. - Intel Republic CAR TURNS TO CASKET as Israeli drone strikes murder two elderly civilians in their car while they were collecting water from a well near South Lebanon's Khardali road. Tel Aviv committing war crimes in 3 countries and still getting pats on back and full support of "civilized" West, instead of sanctions, that Russia gets the brunt of for defending its people. - Intel Republic Israel COMMITS ANOTHER BLOODBATH, while blood hasn't dried from earlier massacre - "They bombed us as we prayed", cries horror-struck old man, as he staggers through trail of civilians' mutilated bodies, torn to shreds and disemboweled by Israeli brutal missile strikes on Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. At least 15 murdered while praying in ruins of a mosque "Most moral army in the world" destroyed in a previous war crime. - Intel Republic I WISH I DIED, NOT YOU - heart-shattering words from young Palestinian girl as she grieves her dead brother, who scarified himself to shield father holding her. Overwhelming numbers of bloodied white sheets line up morgue preparing to be put to final rest in top right footage (unless IDF digs them up again), as Gazans mourn victims of Israel's Al-Mawasi massacre, which left 100s of civilians between killed and injured. Watch MASSIVE size of blast and apocalyptical smoke (middle right) of one of 9 strikes where Israel reportedly deployed U.S-made MK84 bombs (bottom right) weighing 2,000 pound (900KG) each to commit genocidal bloodbath. - Intel Republic
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  1144. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Russian forces have made new progress by taken another group of Ukrainian soldiers including British mercenaries, who were captured around Sudzha while fighting for Kiev in Kursk region. The Russian military channel released footage on November 24, 2024, showing an Ukrainian soldier who did not surrender being eliminated on the spot by Russian soldiers, he was carrying civilian clothes and some another unusual equipment. Furthermore, his fellow Ukrainian soldiers, also consisting of 12 soldiers at a strong point in the northwestern part of Plekhovo, south of Sudzha. The Russian military reported by the interrogation that the prisoners shot at civilian and military vehicles, mined the highway in their operations mainly at night. They were specially trained for urban combat in Britain as per their confession. This once again proves the direct involvement of Britain in the war against Russia. James Scott Rhys Anderson a captured British soldier, as a signalman who identified himself and was wearing green military gear, has appeared online. The 22-year-old soldier who served in the British Army from 2019-2023, along with his comrades from Ukrainian Foreign Legion, decided to go and earn money on the Kiev side after experiencing personal hardships. He traveled to Ukraine via Krakow, Poland, entering through the Medyk checkpoint, and he was part of the fierce battles at Kursk, where Ukrainian forces were defending their newly acquired territory. James was lucky to survive, captured at Plekhovo strongpoint in the fighting, which is unlikely to have paid him several months of wages from Kiev. So far, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports that 141 British mercenaries have been killed during the Ukrainian conflict. Sources report that Russian forces are advancing towards Plekhovo. There is another forest to the east of Plekhovo, which is under Ukrainian control, which could be used to fire on advancing Russian forces. This means that Russian forces are likely to surround this forest, before taking over the settlement.
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  1167. Be careful about saying that the aid for the Ukes is coming ASAP. This report says otherwise! The most talked about of course is the headway being made for the Ukrainian aid bill, which is set to be voted on in both the House and Senate this weekend and early next week, owing to Speaker Mike Johnson’s eye-opening U-turn. The U-turn was in fact so ‘sudden’ as to imply sinister developments behind the scyenes—perhaps kompromat waving, threats, and the like. From an alleged CIA/NSA whistleblower: You can see below how drastically his tone has changed into an uncharacteristically histrionic one: This comes after he suddenly proclaimed himself a “wartime speaker”, which was echoed ominously by other congressmen: However, while the pro-Ukrainian crowd rejoices, it’s not clear what real benefit the aid would bring, should it pass. For instance, days ago the provisions of the alleged bill had leaked which apparently showed the vast majority of the $48B Ukrainian aid going to various American DOD scams: If there’s any accuracy to the above, it appears that when you take away the civil funds to the Ukrainian government, and the DOD’s own beak-wetting double-dip, all that’s really left for Ukrainian ‘weapons’ is about $14B or less. And in fact Johnson appears to confirm this when he says that he changed the bill so that 80% of it now Certainly that’s still a fairly significant amount of money, all things considered, but it doesn’t even begin to address the much bigger issue of there not being any arms left to spend that money on. That’s not to mention the fact that Western ammo factories continue to mysteriously go up in smoke these past two weeks: As an aside, for every such occasional blow that Ukraine delivers, Russia gives back at least 4 or 5 big ones. In the past week alone we’ve had several major successful strikes, such as on the Ukrainian base in Dnipro, with several Mig-29s and S-300 systems destroyed: So, clearly, whatever minor successes Ukraine has, Russia continues vastly out-attritioning them. - Simplicius
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  1169. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - In just one day, several Ukrainian air defense systems most of which were supplied by NATO, were reduced to dust after the arrival of Russian missile packages, the Russian Defense Ministry summarized and released footage on August 17, 2024. In the first episode, the crew of the Ukrainian air defense system moves the S-125 Pechora-2D to Ryabina in the Sumy region. It is unclear where Ukraine got the rare system that modernized by Poland, but there is a complete launch system here. The S-125 was intended to counter Russian aircraft, but the Russian Su-34 tactical bomber was more powerful and dealt a crushing blow. It was a very precise hit by the Kh-35 guided missile, which destroyed the military hardware. In the same region, the German-made IRIS-T air defense system vehicle, at a prepared combat position in the area of the Sennoye settlement, as well detected by Russian UAV operator. The video shows the destruction of the system, after the reconnaissance drone called the crew of the Iskander-M operational tactical missile system to launch an attack. Objective control data confirm the involvement of IRIS-T and Ukrainian personnel servicing the combat vehicles of the complex. The hardware, with the aim of shooting down aircraft carrying out strikes on deep locations, is now facing a very bad day. In the Dnepropetrovsk region, Russian reconnaissance units discovered the positions of the American Patriot air defense system battalion near Lyubomovka. Iskander-M missiles once again did their job, launching a strike on the discovered positions. As a result, each system consisting of two Patriot SAM launchers and one AN/MPQ-65 radar station was destroyed. Meanwhile, another Patriot system was hit by cluster submunitions from Iskander missiles near Zhelobok, the distance to the front line is about 130 km. The zone of special military operations has changed dramatically, Ukraine and the Western countries have suffered billions of dollars in losses, having lost a large number of air defense systems, and will not be able to restore their combat capability after these losses in the near future. - Military Tube Today
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  1171. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Finally, Russian harsh retaliation has come! This morning, August 26, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive thunderous strike across Ukraine with high-precision weapons against critical energy infrastructure that ensures the operation of the complex, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said. According to preliminary estimates, more than 60 missiles and 100 drones were used in the strike on the map of Ukraine territory for two hours. Russia has long since stopped carrying out missile and drone strikes, which were so massive and dense in many cities - in some places they are already rumbling again. There is almost no air defense work in the attack area, and it seems that most of the air defense has been withdrawn to the borders of the Kursk region. Videos are circulating on the Internet filmed by local residents, at least one missile arriving at the Kiev hydroelectric power station. According to initial reports from Ukrainian media, the explosion caused severe damage to the engine room and on the road leading to the dam of the power plant. Earlier, authorities reported that traffic along the dam in both directions was blocked at least until lunchtime. Emergency power outages began after the strike. According to the analysis, the attack was only a warning and pressure on Kiev officials, if Russia really wanted to destroy it completely, they would have used Khinzal missile or at least 4 cruise missiles. If successful, this would have flooded one of the largest cities in Europe permanently. According to preliminary estimates at the moment, several explosions were heard in Kiev including at Zhuliany Airport, and at least 10 regions were targeted. The water supply in Zhitomir has been completely stopped after a strike at an electricity distribution station. The Usatovo substation, an important electricity distribution center in the Odessa region, was burned down – four arrivals were recorded and thick smoke was seen rising, causing a power outage. In addition, at least 30 trucks were burned down as a result of shooting at a motor transport company near Odessa. Many regions of Ukraine are experiencing widespread power outages, railway infrastructure is down, and water supplies are also cut off. The list of targets will be long, and there is no rush to conclusions!
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  1176. Julian Assange may soon be extradited to the United States, where he will face prosecution that could end in his imprisonment for life. He is in fact a hero, who should be honored rather than punished. American foreign policy is based on the pursuit of global hegemony and to achieve this goal, our “leaders” engage in torture and murder. Assange brought these crimes to public attention through his publication of the “WikiLeaks” documents he got from Bradley Manning. Because of this, the American government, now headed by brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers, wants to destroy him. In what follows, I’ll explain the facts of the case and why they are important and detail the persecution of Assange. Julian exposed what the U.S. empire seeks to airbrush out of history. The WikiLeaks documents also showed how the US military and the CIA manipulate the banking and financial system. WikiLeaks’ recent tweets on the subject drew attention to a single section of the 248-page-long document, titled “Financial Instrument of U.S. National Power and Unconventional Warfare.” This section of the manual goes on to note that these financial weapons can be used by the U.S. military to create “financial incentives or disincentives to persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to modify their behavior at the theater strategic, operational, and tactical levels” and that such unconventional warfare campaigns are highly coordinated with the State Department and the Intelligence Community in determining “which elements of the human terrain in UWOA [Unconventional Warfare Operations Area] are most susceptible to financial engagement.” Furthermore, the manual states that the U.S. military “understand[s] that properly integrated manipulation of economic power can and should be a component of UW,” meaning that these weapons are a regular feature of unconventional warfare campaigns waged by the United States.” In an April 2017 speech, Donald Trump’s new CIA Director Mike Pompeo said “WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service and has encouraged its followers to find jobs at the CIA in order to obtain intelligence. The CIA was so angered by Wikileaks that its director, Mike Pompeo, plotted to kill him. Philip Giraldi gives us the inside story: Moscow. Pompeo himself reportedly favored what is referred to as a “rendition,” which would consist of breaking into the Ecuadorian Embassy, kidnapping Assange, and flying him clandestinely to the U.S. for trial. Others in the national security team favored killing Assange rather than going through the complexity of kidnapping and removing him.” Fortunately, the plot failed. But now it looks like Assange will be shipped to the US, where this ill man, who suffered a stroke in a British jail, faces a dire fate. Let’s do everything we can to prevent this and to honor this true American hero. - LewRockwell
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  1192. Trump named Fox News host, Pete Hegseth, as his nominee for Secretary of Defense. Wow!! Hegseth, apart from having served in the Army, has no experience managing a gargantuan bureaucracy like the Department of Defense. What the hell is Trump thinking? I think it is simple — he is installing loyalists in key positions who are not compromised by or beholden to the military industrial complex or the defense lobbyists in DC. I know one of those lobbyists (we used to be neighbors) and I guarantee you he is livid tonight. Trump is sending the Deep State an unmistakable message — I will be running the show. Hegseth also is not a creature of one of the many Washington “think tanks,” which are funded in large measure by the military industrial complex and the Zionist lobby. Trump did not select Hegseth because the former Army officer has a great plan for reforming the bloated, corrupt U.S. defense complex. He chose him because Hegseth is expected to follow orders and do what Trump wants. Trump also named former Congressman and former Director of National Intelligence (aka DNI), John Ratcliffe, as the nominee to head up the CIA. That is an excellent choice in my view. Ratcliffe is a straight shooter and not a self-seeker aspiring to be President, like Mike Pompeo. By virtue of his previous stint as the DNI , Ratcliffe knows where some of the bodies are buried at CIA and will play a key role in releasing the JFK files. While I’m willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, I stand by my belief that if Trump takes the US to war in Iran or China, he will destroy his Presidency, and possibly the nation. My advice, let’s wait-and-see what Trump does his first week in office. At that point, if I am wrong, I will take the drubbing I deserve. Until then, keep your powder dry. Trump is trying to do something with the bloated US Government that has never been attempted, at least until now. - sonar21
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  1215. One can hardly believe it anymore. The West has dropped all pretense of their sacred cow of ‘democracy’, used for generations as an instrument of moral superiority with which to browbeat the rest of the world. As the West finally unravels, we are witness to a veritable string of shocking perversions of the so-called ‘democratic’ process. The short-term obsessed West considers the various CIA-sponsored subversions of the democratic processes as “winning”: but have these people given any thought to what precedent they’re setting? They are burning their foundations, lighting their entire house on fire. In the hopes of smoking out a few ostensible ‘wasps’ they now stand to destroy their entire order within a generation. The perception of the West’s miserable ‘Rules Based Order’ will never be repaired after this—the rest of the free world is watching and learning precisely how ‘Rule of Law’ hews to principle; the West will never regain their trust, and its institutions will forever carry the stench and stain of political interference and hidden hatred for true democracy—which has always been a token byword meant to excuse the Western order’s imperialistic overreach. In short: they don’t have the time to construct elaborate myths and schemes any longer, instead forced to merely act on instinct to save their foundering empire. But in doing so, they have hastened its decline by revealing just how illiberal and despotic it has been all this time. This is the same process which saw the US presidency become totally coopted by a handful of powerful globalist agents working in the State Department and Cabinet, who essentially began to outright run the presidency, controlling all direct information flow to him in and out. This political order is not just a sick man of Europe, but the veritable sick man of the world, coughing up his infectious spume onto all nearby. This is the cynical twilight of the West, which has chosen terror, oppression, and political manipulation against its own citizens as a way of coping with the slow loss of its imperial entitlements. It’s only inevitable that the rising tide of anti-establishment political parties continue to sweep this canker away. But before this happens for good, Europe will likely see a destabilizing political paralysis for several years, as a kind of final death throes of the globalist holdouts and political hacks like Starmer, Macron, Scholz, and co., whose only jobs will be to delay the fall as long as possible. - Simplicius
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  1217. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Again and again, that Kiev officials were brought to their knees in despair after another strategically important city on Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainsk, was completely under the control of Russian Army on September 17, 2024. Footage shared by Russian military correspondent, Rudenko, shows two Russian soldiers planting Soviet Union flag on top of the building, which now fully controls Ukrainsk Mine, while lowering the Blue and Yellow flag from its pole. Ukrainian troops were unable to hold Ukrainsk, located in Donetsk region, as a result, their defenses broke, and they gained momentum to retreat without permission to their strongholds to the West rather than face the great risk of being attacked by Russian assault troops. The takeover of Ukrainsk which Kiev did not comment on, came after 2 weeks of fierce fighting, which was completely cleared by The 114th Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian troops had advanced from the eastern outskirts of the town on September 3, and by then, the defenses here were held by The 25th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But, they came under heavy fire in waves from Russian assault troops, who set their positions ablaze in buildings and in defensive trenches. Artillery and drone fire worked in this regard, their positions were surrounded by a pincer movement that tightened the pressure on the town, describing the situation as “very complicated.” Afterwards, the remnants of The 25th Brigade were pushed straight back and hastily withdrawn, heading outside Ukrainsk. The capture of Ukrainsk underlined Russian steady advance, and no doubt Kiev retaliated with desperate attacks on Russian military infrastructure, diverting attention from the latest defeats on the battlefield. It is an artillery ammunition depot that was hit, and the massive explosion was truly devastating, on Wednesday night in Toropets in Tver region, which is about 500km from the country’s border. However, the facility reportedly held ammunition such as 122mm Grad MLRS, and not anything too expensive like high-end cruise missiles or guided munitions, so in theory it was a negligible hit. By doing so, Russian forces could place more artillery beyond the reach of Ukrainian defenses, potentially setting the stage for a new assault on Pokrovsky.
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  1220. Despite the presence of multiple potential witnesses inside Beeri before ZAKA arrived to collect dead bodies, independent testimony corroborating Landau’s claim has yet to surface. Further, there are no recorded deaths of siblings around the age of 6 to 8 in Beeri on October 7. Any record of a young child killed in the manner Landau described is similarly nonexistent, as are photos of the murdered family he described. In fact, the only siblings anywhere close to this age range who died in the community on that day—12-year-old twins Liel and Yanai Hetrzroni—were killed by Israeli tank shelling. Landau’s story – and by extension, Blinken’s testimony before the Senate – therefore appears to have been spun out of whole cloth; a cynical fabrication intended to dramatize the supposed barbarism of Hamas in order to widen the political space for Israel’s rampage in the Gaza Strip. As this investigation will demonstrate, Landau’s tale was merely one of many tall tales concocted by a small circle of dubious characters who have managed to shape the official narrative of October 7 in Western media. Though Israeli officials played a central role in Tel Aviv’s misinformation campaign surrounding the events of October 7— falsely claiming, for instance, that the bodies of dead Jewish babies were found dangling from a laundry line in one kibbutz—the most inflammatory allegations have emerged from a collection of ultra-Orthodox volunteer organizations such as ZAKA. Though ZAKA specializes “in body collection and disposal,” the group has no coronary credentials and is staffed by droves of poorly trained volunteers. Then there is this admission by the clueless Lt. Col. Golan Vach. He says he saw one headless baby in the house that his tanks fired on. I say clueless because he is unwilling to acknowledge the fact that it was his tanks, not Hamas, that killed all of the people and decapitated the baby in that house. - Sonar21
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  1223. There also is no good explanation why a band of Tajiks were hightailing it for the Ukrainian border. At a minimum that shows a belief that they would find safe haven if they could get across the border. They certainly did not behave like diehard jihadist warriors eager to sacrifice themselves and go to Paradise and cash in the reward of 72 virgins. I think the Islamic terrorism claim is a red herring and designed to shift attention away from the other indicators that some in the West, at a minimum, had foreknowledge of this attack. How else to explain the March 7 warning by US Embassy Moscow for American citizens to steer clear of event, such as concerts? And then, as I wrote yesterday, the US State Department was quick to issue a claim exonerating Ukraine for any role in the attack. The fires were still raging at the Crocus facility. That means only one thing — the State Department had intelligence indicating who carried out the attack. But the U.S. apparently did not share that with its Russian counterparts. That lapse alone is simply going to stoke more suspicion in Moscow about Western involvement. But we already know one thing for sure — that the West has been involved with facilitating a series of terrorist attacks against Russians since the start of the special military operation. What else do you call the artillery and missile strikes on Russian civilians in the Donbass,] and in Belgorod, with munitions that were supplied by the United States and other major NATO countries? At a minimum, that makes western powers an accessory to an act of terror. it is also important to note the President Joe Biden has said nothing, and has made no contact with Vladimir Putin to express sorrow or empathy. Quite a contrast with Biden’s actions in the wake of the news that Alexey Navalny, a political opponent of Vladimir Putin, had died. Biden was quick to express his fake grief for the death of Navalny. It is also clear from President Putin’s demeanor during his speech today that Russia will retaliate against those responsible for this attack. The one thing I know for certain is that this attack is going to strengthen the will of President Putin, the Russian general staff, and Russia’s intelligence service to put an end to NATO meddling in Ukraine, and the ability of NATO proxies to attack the Russian people. Whoever approved this badly miscalculated and will pay a terrible, but well deserved, price. - Sonar21
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  1242. Ukraine is losing population through emigration. Its industrial based is being steadily whittled away by Russian missiles and bombs. And its army is suffering catastrophic casualties and there is no solution on the horizon for replacing those loses with trained troops. But it is not just Ukraine. NATO also is being weakened. None of its previous supplies of tanks, M777s, Himars, ATGMs and Bradley fighting vehicles have worked as hoped. Those are being destroyed on a regular basis and there are dwindling supplies in Western warehouses. I am confident that nobody in a position of power in Russia trusts the United States or NATO to deal honestly. Russia realizes that the West is scrambling to buy time to figure out a way to re-arm Ukraine and train up a new army. Why would Russia entertain such a crazy proposal? The Western fantasy that what is unfolding in Ukraine is a “stalemate.” Others in the Pentagon fail to understand the Russian strategy underlying the Special Military Operation — i.e., attrit the Ukrainian military to the point that it can no longer fight: There are two ways Ukraine “can prevail” — No Way and No Way in Hell. Ain’t going to happen. The West no longer has the ability or the will to flood Ukraine with modern weapon systems and tanks. More importantly, Ukraine does not have the trained troops required to operate those weapons even if they could be provided. Russia is no longer fighting this war alone. It has the backing of China and many nations in the Global South. America’s economic dominance is being carved up and our foreign policy influence is in tatters. Previous allies, like Saudi Arabia, have turned their back on America. The Saudis have re-established diplomatic relations with Iran, welcomed Syria back into the Arab league, ended the American-backed war in Yemen and is working with Russia to counter America’s feckless attempt to put a cap on oil prices. Like the Titanic, America’s foolish venture to fracture Russia is sinking. They only thing left to do is find a lifeboat and pray that we don’t drown. - Sonar21 Ukrainian Armed Forces attempt to attack Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut, Donetsk Republic, ex-Ukraine) taken by Wagner PMC in May. Russia's artillery pummels positions with precision strikes. - Intel Report Crimea has emerged as the most targeted region in Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strike attempts over the past 24 hours, according to the ministry of defense. In the early hours on Sunday, a total of four Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted over the peninsula, the statement said. On Sunday evening, Kiev’s forces launched three more drones in two attacks in about an hour, it said, adding that all of them were shot down. At least 2 civilians wounded in Kiev regime rocket strike on Donetsk Administration building, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). Vid above shows aftermath of Kiev’s latest war crime, with blown-out windows and rubble strewn across ground – minor damage to Administration building reported after attack. - Intel Report PEST CONTROL: Need a Ukrainian armored vehicle removed? All it takes is single call to Russian chopper and it’ll send missile to make sure armor's gone for good, while Kiev army depot storing UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles goes up in flames after overnight Russian strike. - Intel Report Ukrainian forces attempt 6 attacks on Russian positions in Donetsk with all assaults ending in failure and Kiev army losing up to 225 troops, while Ukrainian ammo depot in Donetsk Republic meets fiery end after Russian strikes. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 17
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  1267. A brief analysis today on Macron’s historic appeal disguised as a casual TV interview: And here are some of the more pronounced excerpts: “We have only one objective, Russia cannot win this war.” “Because if they win, the lives of French would change permanently…our existence is at stake…we have already suffered the consequences of this war in our daily life, our hospitals suffer dysfunction because of the Russian aggression…” Reiterating: “This war is existential for Europe and France.” Zelensky on the other hand publicly declared that the French army should come to Ukraine for the ostensible purpose of training AFU on its own land: As all of this was going on, a video of the call with Putin from just before the start of the SMO In reality, it shows nothing but weakness, insecurity, and overcompensation on his part; not to mention revealing that Putin tried his hardest to reason with the totally ideologically unreasonable West. Macron casually told a private group at the Elysée recently that he will soon be forced to send troops to Odessa: Can it get any clearer? In short, it’s absolutely apocalyptic for NATO to lose Odessa. But here’s the problem: all of NATO combined without the U.S. Army cannot defeat Russia. Yes, even bogged down in Ukraine—Russia has now raised an entirely new army group of over 500k men which is enough to take out all of NATO by itself Two significant things to remember: only a few NATO states are barking, many others have openly declared no troop involvement, Italy and Germany amongst them. And the other big thing no one has brought up: NATO’s infamous Article 5 specifies that mutual defense doctrine is only triggered if NATO troops are attacked on NATO territory. Can you guess what that means for French troops being hit in Odessa? That means Macron is walking a very fine line—if he can’t get a coalition to back him in this new drive, he’ll be an emperor with no clothes as French troops would be left alone to face potential Russian strikes, to which they would have no answer whatsoever, and would be wiped out. Taurus presents a totally different type of strategic threat if used against Russia. From the Russian standpoint, if a Taurus were to be launched into Russian territory, Russia would have no choice but to treat it as a potential nuclear first strike attack from NATO, given that Moscow is less than 500km from Ukrainian territory and there is no way to determine if the missile is nuclear-armed during its inbound flight. Lastly, it’s very interesting that today, right after Macron’s brawny televised theatrics, Russia struck none other than….Odessa with a huge masterful blow that reportedly wiped out many important people, and has even the Ukrainian side openly wailing from the soul: the strike was a direct warning from Putin: “Your baguette-battalion will not be safe in Odessa, little emperor.” - Simplicius
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  1282. I received the following query from Sputnik on Saturday: Britain has proposed sending a NATO expeditionary corps to Ukraine. London also allegedly suggested establishing a no-fly zone over Kiev-controlled territory and did not rule out strikes on “strategic infrastructure facilities in Russia’s northern regions”. After that, according to the British plan, NATO forces would create a “buffer zone” within the occupied positions, including the border with Belarus and the territory around Kiev, and the released Ukrainian army forces should withdraw to the Special operation zone. We would be happy if you could comment on this matter. Please, see my questions below: 1. How do you assess this decision and do you think it is realistic? Should we take it seriously (or is this an attempt to appease Zelensky)? 2. June 2023 Putin already said that Russia is considering the creation of a buffer (sanitary) zone in Ukraine “to solve the problem of shelling of Russian territories.” Is NATO trying to seize the initiative and why won’t they succeed? This is a fantastical delusion on the part of the Brits and has no foundation in reality. But, just because the Brits are insane does not mean Russia can ignore them. It is a serious proposal. But the British Army is a hollowed out shell. It is one fifth the size of the force rescued from Dunkirk in World War II. The British Army is a toothless, bedraggled poodle. Can’t even deliver a serious bark, much less a bite. Yes, NATO is desperate to prevent Russia from securing all territory to the east of the Dneiper River. Up to this point the NATO countries have enabled the criminal activities of Ukraine and have not suffered any consequences. I believe they interpret Russia’s failure to respond as a sign of weakness. They confuse patience with ignorance. Given the growing turmoil in Kiev as the fight for control between President Zelensky and General Zaluzhny heats up, the Russians appear content to continue their attrition strategy as they systematically dismantle the Ukrainian Army. Russia, however, is enjoying an unexpected benefit — NATO also is being de-militarized. - Sonar21
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  1286. Update on Israeli military operations in Gaza and growing regional conflict... - Israeli military operations have exceeded in duration, scale, scope, death, and destruction, previous incursions into Gaza in 2008-2009 and 2014; - Israel is pacing its military operations, making this longer-term campaign possible in terms of arms and ammunition; - Israeli losses continue to mount, however the true nature of the fighting is difficult to discern; - Militants in Gaza have published inconclusive footage of attacks on Israeli armored vehicles failing to show the full aftermath and whether or not the vehicles were even hit at all, damaged, or destroyed; - Without more information about the nature of the fighting, it is difficult to draw conclusions about how sustainable Israeli military operations are and thus what outcome may emerge; - Israeli leadership indicates that following the operation there will be some sort of open-ended “security presence” in Gaza (de facto occupation); - The conflict continues undermining stability in the region, threatening trade through the Red Sea, with Israeli strikes continuing to target Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Syria, thus creating potential pretexts for a wider conflict against either or even against Iran; - Just like the US proxy war in Ukraine, despite ambitions toward triggering a wider conflict in the Middle East or creating a pretext for war with Iran, the US may fail there as well; - Ultimately, Israel’s current actions may only accelerate rather than prevent the collapse of the US-led “order” in the region and precipitate the emergence of an Israel led by interests committed to a two-state solution and co-existence with its neighbors; - The New Atlas
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  1288. Pay Attention to what Putin says! During the special military operation we are liberating Russian territory. How do you feel about Western countries helping our enemy? Vladimir Putin: The point is not that they are helping our enemy. They are our enemy. They are solving their own problems with their hands. That is what it is all about. This has been the case for centuries, unfortunately, and continues to be the case today. Ukraine itself is not our enemy whereas those who want to destroy Russian statehood and to achieve, as they say, a strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield, are mainly in the West, but still, there are different people there. There are people who sympathise with us and who are with us at heart. But there are the elites who think the existence of Russia (at least in its current state and size) is unacceptable. They want to disintegrate it. As a matter of fact, you are young people, some have read about this, perhaps: they do not hide it. They speak and write about this publicly, and have been doing it for decades, if we are talking about contemporary history. For decades, they have simply been writing frankly about it: divide Russia into five parts, one is too much. I can talk about this till morning, but it is obvious. Therefore, they have been nurturing the Kiev regime for quite a long time, precisely to create this conflict. Unfortunately for us, they have achieved this: they started this conflict and are trying to achieve their objective, namely the task of fighting Russia, with the help of Ukrainians. You probably see on the battlefield that they are gradually losing their zest. When a projectile flies, it is difficult to understand whether they are losing it or not, but in general you probably know that the situation on the battlefield is changing. This is despite the fact that the entire “civilised” West is fighting us. - Sonar21
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  1289. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – More soldiers fighting for Ukraine are fleeing faster especially from the Kursk border in an attempt to avoid Russian encirclement, or on another front. Just today on November 26, 2024, footage by Russian soldier's GoPro lens shows evidence, Ukrainian squad trying to escape and an armored vehicle abandoned at a location for unknown reasons. Russian soldiers approach and inspect the vehicle, where the driver and passengers have disappeared, which is likely to follow the forest belt because it is not according to plan. Inside the vehicle are some stolen equipment from civilians in Kursk, they left behind a washing machine, fan, kettle, keyboard and other devices, according to Russian military reports and as shown in the footage. The fact that on the same day, Ukrainian soldiers tried to escape from Kursk faster than bullets and missiles, despite pro-Ukrainian media continuing to report progress by recycling old videos pretending that Ukraine is still effective, it does not help! Three another Ukrainian soldiers fled, deciding to leave their positions on foot. The arrival of Russian artillery at their positions with puffs of smoke, became the main reason to save themselves from further encirclement! This is the result of Ukrainian attempts to infiltrate Kursk, which is constantly under ambush by the landlords, Russian forces. On November 23, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Special Forces of the Crimean Paratroopers, carried out a prepared ambush on Ukrainian armored assault group in Sudzha district. One British Mastiff vehicle for the breakthrough was overturned by the attack and liquidated about 20 enemy soldiers. Russian soldiers also took home a trophy, a Western-made Mastiff! It is known that Ukrainian soldiers are starting to pay a high price for Kiev's proxy war with the Western collective. They tend to fail to carry out combat actions in groups, are killed, wounded, abandoned, captured, and those who escaped are likely to survive. Kursk is a disaster for Kiev, they must immediately retreat or they need long-range missiles to cover their lack of troops.
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  1304. The Obamas’ faces say more than a thousand words ever could, haunted, almost resigned. These are not expressions of two political titans confidently championing “democracy.” No, these are the faces of insiders who know the script better than anyone, sensing that the next act might end in a reckoning beyond their control. With the November 5th election inches away, the show goes on, all circus, no bread. But perhaps, just perhaps, even they can sense that the ground beneath their feet is shifting, and that the Global Majority, fortified by BRICS and the Kazan firewalls, is watching bemused, the American spectacle from a distance, immune to its theatrics. For all the sound and fury, this election is a dead-end play for the Global Majority. American power games have lost their bite; the world has moved on. Yet here in the heart of the fading empire, it's a different story. To the American Deep State, this isn’t just another cycle of choosing between red and blue. They know they've tried every trick in the book, from Russiagate to two impeachments, a circus of indictments, and still, the man they tried to banish is marching back with more vigor than ever. It’s a script that’s spun wildly out of control, even for those who wrote it. What do the Obamas know that we don’t? The irony is palpable. The same Obamas who once championed neoliberal “progress” and sold the world on the virtues of Western democracy now wear the strained faces of those who know the emperor has no clothes. Both sides of this election, Kamala’s slurred-nonsensical platitudes and Trump’s theatrical bombast, are puppets in a machine that can no longer deliver on the promise of control. The “choice” on November 5th is merely between two faces of a crumbling empire. If looks could kill, the Obamas’ expressions would be the harbingers of the end. - Gerry Nolans - The Islander News for Intel Republic
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  1316. Allies went their separate ways and MAERSK again has suspended all passage through the Red Sea now “indefinitely”, after feigning a stiff upper lip earlier, hoping the problem would go away. This represents an unprecedented loss of prestige for the Empire. The Mideast—let alone the whole world—is shifting drastically. As of yesterday, January 1st, 2024, BRICS officially inaugurates 5 new members: Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. On top of that, Russia chairs the BRICS presidency this year, and has already outlined intentions to speed up some of the key initiatives. Things just keep getting darker for the now-isolated West. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Israel’s war is not going swimmingly at all. We’ve been witness to countless new videos showing Merkavas, Namers, and everything in between getting blown away. There have been continued leaks from the Israeli side pointing to mounting casualties being far higher than reported. The most powerful airforce in the entire Mideast is going against a tiny and shabby force without even a single anti-air capability to speak of—and what is the result? This flies in the face of beliefs that NATO’s putatively superior ‘airforce’ would instantly translate into some type of battlefield victory against Russia—that’s simply not how war works, particularly not in an age where manufacturing in the West has declined to the point where precision systems cannot possibly be built in large enough numbers to sustain a long-endurance campaign against a real peer-level threat. Meanwhile, things continue to go poorly—or outright collapse—for Ukraine. In the last report I had conveyed how much of their Western equipment no longer works; Ukrainian soldiers themselves complained that Western artillery systems are not built for war, their barrels have all worn out, etc. This extends to Abrams tanks, which were said to be useless as their filters clog up within minutes of fighting, forcing mechanics to constantly change them to prevent the engine suddenly dying. Now we have new confirmation from German MP Sebastian Schafer that very few of the delivered Leopards even function anymore, as they’ve all “worn out” and Ukraine has no way to repair them: So Ukraine’s most authoritative source on the matter says they’re incapable of taking out Mach 3+ missiles, but somehow they get a 10/10 100% kill ratio on a 12,000km/h Mach ~11 missile. Doesn’t add up, does it? Either way, Rada Deputies like the one below are beginning to clarify the type of military production warehouses that were hit in last night’s strikes: Not to mention ex-Aidar deputy commander Mosiychuk likewise admitted that Zelensky’s authorities are hiding the fact that Kiev’s major military enterprises of Artem and Luch Design Bureau were destroyed with huge casualties to the personnel: - Simplicius
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  1322. Below is all from Western Sources with refs and maps supplied for proof. Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 31, 2023: - The Western media is trying to spin Ukrainian gains within the security or “gray zone” ahead of Russia’s first of several defense lines as a “turning point” in the offensive; - Ukraine’s offensive potential has been exhausted with the West struggling to find arms and ammunition to replace Ukrainian losses; - The West is even struggling to pull together large numbers of antiquated and inappropriate equipment like the post-WW2 Leopard 1 tank; - Meanwhile Ukraine continues conducting drone strikes in Russia, achieving questionable PR value and little else; - A recent Ukrainian drone strike on an airport hosting Il-76 strategic airlift aircraft damaged 2. To put that in context, Russia operates over 100 of these aircraft and has production capacity to build up to 12 annually; - Ukraine’s sponsors are unable to sustain the conflict “for as long as it takes,” and only for as long as they have arms and ammunition to supply Ukraine in sufficient quantities; While Ukraine achieved one quarterly strike with moderate damage against assets that don’t even have any bearing on the SMO, Russia in the same span of time has devastated the AFU’s actual military targets. Last night Kiev was struck a devastating blow with missiles and drones. After watching the heroism of Russian troops in Ukraine, you really think the US army would stand a chance? And this was before the army turned snowflake in the modern era—imagine how bad it is now. The extent of the Lying NATO Rot in Ukraine in unbounded, as the same number of Generals and enlistees reported killed by accidents occured right after Massive Russian Missile Strikes which was widely reported in recent news!
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  1326. Zelensky Circus Comes to Town for One Last Encore Ultimately, Zelensky’s visit is all about Biden attempting to make one last effort to guilt trip the Republicans into ending the deadlock before the deadline. The plan was for Zelensky to address the most thorny criticisms of Ukraine in a closed session, in order to reassure Congress. For instance, the issue of corruption was chief amongst them. Zelensky’s purpose was to convince them Ukraine is not as corrupt as they all know it to be. Zelensky and the leadership have just gone through a veritable gauntlet of meetings with the top globalist venture-vultures, likely for the very purpose above, to begin negotiations of selling off more Ukrainian assets—and Ukraine itself—in order to bankroll next year’s coming disastrous deficits. The U.S. is scrambling generals directly to the ground to hatch out some emergency plan to allow Ukraine to last out the next few months. Logically, the only way such urgent shakeups make sense is that the U.S. is counting on a high probability that all funding will in fact be cut, and that Ukraine needs a completely new set of emergency strategies to survive what will likely be a brutally disproportionate onslaught from Russia over the next season. There have been some hints from Ukrainian sources related to this. For instance, a Ukrainian artillery officer callsign Artie Greene told Arestovich days ago that due to recent Russian pressure, AFU forces may have to abandon everything on the east side of the Zherebets river and possibly even the Oskil, which would effectively give up Kupyansk and everything east of it, as well as potentially Krasny Liman: So as part of Ukraine’s plans going forward into next year, they intend to create ‘surprising’ new symbolic victories, including “very daring ones”—a full admission that their entire program consists of merely performative token triumphs for global media consumption. Thus, we’re put on notice to expect some new ‘clever’ terrorist attacks in the coming months, which will have no effect on the calculus on the ground. - Simplicius
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  1331. The Russian military has destroyed two Ukrainian Soviet-era Uragan multiple rocket launchers, footage that emerged online on Saturday shows. The launchers were parked near a local mall located on the northwestern outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. Infrared drone footage circulating on social media shows an Uragan launcher and a pickup truck parked overnight near the Planeta Mall with a group of people seen near the vehicles. The second Uragan joined the group shortly thereafter. The launchers were apparently set to be transported on two large flatbed trucks seen nearby. However, the vehicles ended up being hit by a high-precision munition, presumably a Russian-made Iskander tactical ballistic missile. The launchers were set aflame by the strike, with one of them suffering a major secondary detonation, which heavily damaged the Planeta Mall. The moment of the detonation was captured on video by onlookers living in residential buildings nearby. The local authorities acknowledged the strike, while local police released photos from the scene and condemned Russia’s “daily strikes” on the region. The police carefully avoided showing any evidence that the strike actually targeted the two rocket launchers, showing instead the damage inflicted on the mall and other structures. Ukrainian forces have throughout the conflict frequently made use of shopping malls, civilian warehouses, and other similar facilities for military purposes. Kiev’s forces have also routinely used Uragan launchers, as well as other multiple rocket launchers, including Czech-supplied Vampire systems, to indiscriminately shell Russia’s border regions, including the city of Belgorod. The Ukrainian military ramped up such strikes following its botched attempt to break through the border in mid-March. - RT
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  1332. Things have gone from bad to worse for Ukraine. Zelensky is again traveling the globe in an attempt to form some type of international consensus for ending the conflict. After half a year of deliberately obfuscating propaganda about Russia “desperately” chasing a ceasefire, it has emerged clearer than ever that it is in fact Ukraine desperate to browbeat allies into forcing Russia into an armistice. In reality, Russia has now signaled more strongly than ever that there is nothing to negotiate about presently. Ukrainian ex-general Sergei Krivonos again stunned many with his unfiltered appraisal of the situation. “Only a miracle can save Ukraine at this point.” Another pro-UA commentator claims to have recently returned from the front reports the war is effectively over: The echoes of Ugledar’s fall continue to haunt the AFU in more ways than one. The debacle of the 72nd Brigade’s collapse is only just now being pieced together and understood in full, with articles like the following clarifying the suicide of one of the battalion commanders: Meanwhile, videos have begun to appear of family members’ pleas toward their missing servicemen. Here a daughter of a soldier from Ukraine’s 152nd says hundreds are missing in the Pokrovsk direction: Russian Army Begins Breakthrough on Kursk Front: Powerful Assault on Lyubimovka and Attack on Zeleny Shlyakh to Cut Off Ukrainian Armed Forces Group Today our armored groups unexpectedly attacked and broke through the enemy's defenses in the Kursk border area. About 30 units of Russian equipment are storming the village of Lyubimovka, wrote media officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Alex". Russian troops managed to advance and are now consolidating, the fighting continues. Ukrainian intelligence officer and battalion commander named Yaroslavsky states unequivocally: "Let the partners not be offended that Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems are the best in the world." - Simplicius
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  1363. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Following the failure of the Zelensky regime-ordered offensive operation in Kursk over the weekend, another offensive south of Berdin has turned into a “kamikaze” attack, now turning into a graveyard filled with NATO equipment and the bodies soldiers of Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Special Forces “Akhmat” have released their 5-minute footage on January 7, 2025, showing the interception of enemy armored vehicles by their FPV drones from the “Aida” Group during the Ukrainian “big offensive” south of the settlement. The Russian fiber-optic cable-guided FPV drone strike on enemy equipment, which attempted to carry out some kind of attack in the area, which clearly welcomed the forced military action, destroyed the convoy of vehicles during the “Kursk safari” attempt. Kursk has become the largest graveyard for Western military vehicles in the field of science, not a day goes by without dozens of them being destroyed by Russian troops. The soldiers documented many another scenes of destruction by Russian drone strikes on enemy convoys, leaving expensive NATO equipment behind and causing terrible consequences for them! A $4.9 million British Challenger tank was destroyed by an FPV drone that cost no more than $10,000. The cost was unmatched, and the results showed Russian superiority in using low-cost technology with high efficiency. The surviving Ukrainian tank crew was seen fleeing the scene. A Russian soldier also documented the targeting of an American Stryker vehicle. The armored vehicle was destroyed and then abandoned with eight Ukrainian servicemen’s bodies near it. The operation turned out to be a dismal failure, as the Russian army treated the Ukrainian armored vehicles as if they were targets in a shooting practice with details supported by evidence. Russian Spetsnaz drone operators destroyed the Ukrainian mine-clearing vehicle. They didn’t stop there, as their drones immediately detected the Ukrainian armored convoy and destroyed it. The scene revealed utter devastation among Zelensky’s troops. Furthermore, Russian drone operators cheered as they watched the Ukrainian T-72 tank being blown into the air and were very happy about this achievement. Despite this, several surviving enemy tank crews attempted to flee, and one crew member, who was slightly burned, apparently rushed to the surrounding area to find water to put out the fire. In a desperate adventure, Zelensky launched a military operation on Russian territory, in a last-ditch effort to achieve success on the ground, but it turned out to be a disaster. The Kiev regime wasted equipment and human lives to speed up the process. Even as their troops tried to evacuate their wounded comrades, Russian drones relentlessly monitored and pursued them. Ukrainian troops tried to break through the Kursk defenses with armored vehicles and combat vehicles, but Russian troops were well prepared, destroying most of them quickly and accurately, causing heavy losses for Ukraine.
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  1368. Footage shows damage blazing destruction to building of terrorist Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Dnepropetrovsk, Central Ukraine following Russia's missile strike. -Intel Report The Russian Defense Ministry has reported intense combat across the frontlines as Kiev continues its counteroffensive Ukrainian troops have suffered heavy casualties as they continue their counteroffensive across the front line, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday. Over the past 24 hours, Kiev’s forces have lost hundreds of military personnel and multiple Western-supplied armor pieces, including German-made Leopard 2 tanks and French-made AMX-10 wheeled fighting vehicles, the military said in its daily briefing. Intense combat continued near the village of Rabotino in Zaporozhye Region, where a major battle had occurred the previous day, the military noted. The Ukrainian forces lost up to 180 servicemen and three Leopard 2 tanks, failing to dislodge the Russian forces from their positions, they added. The Kiev forces also lost two AMX-10s in the Rabotino area. Separately, unverified footage online showed a damaged truck of the same type captured in the Russian city of Mariupol. No official information about the trophy was immediately available. In the Lugansk People’s Republic, Russian forces continued their offensive effort near the town of Krasny Liman, advancing between 1.5km and 3km deep into Ukrainian positions at various locations. A total of 90 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled and towed howitzers, as well as other hardware were destroyed in the area, according to the Russian military. The Ukrainian military launched its long-heralded counteroffensive in early June, but have so far failed to achieve any tangible results, instead sustaining heavy casualties in personnel and Western-supplied equipment.
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  1376. Remember when the narrative was that it was Russia totally reliant on Western-supplied parts in its weaponry? Here an American general literally admits the entire U.S. military structure would collapse in a day if China issued an embargo against them: If we were in a war with China and it stopped providing parts, we wouldn't be able to build the planes and weapons we needed,' he said. A startling report released earlier this year revealed Chinese firms have a stranglehold across 12 critical technologies that are vital to US national security, including nuclear modernization, hypersonic and space technologies. The study, which was carried out by defense software firm Govini, delivered a damning indictment on the American armaments industry. 'U.S. domestic production capacity is a shriveled shadow of its former self,' 'Crucial categories of industry for U.S. national defense are no longer built in any of the 50 states.' How the tides have turned. It seems the West is slowly coming to its awakening moment: it stands no chance in a long term conflict against the manufacturing powerhouse of the Russia-China-North Korea-Iran bloc. In the meantime, Russia continues to build up its military potential and asymmetrically respond to the West’s aggression. On top of that, Putin has now announced that Russia may resume manufacturing medium range ballistic missiles—precisely the kinds banned by the previous INF treaty which the U.S. abrogated: Russia has now stated the West is in danger of having its ties officially downgraded in their entirety by Russia: As many know, Russia moves very slowly—slow to saddle, fast to ride, as the mot goes—but when it does, it moves with heavy, enduring consequence. As I said, all the while, Russia is building up its resources and offensive potential. Unlike the West’s own dismal showing and inability to translate platitudes into action, Russia is sticking to its plans and promises: Russian missiles wiped out another officer’s billet in Kharkov, killing at least 15 AFU and wounding dozens more. The Russian rear strikes are doing massive damage—here’s another from today which blew away an entire Ukrainian train said to be full of armaments and Western gear: - Simplicius
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  1394. Will a new Speaker of the House solve our problems? No. Our biggest problem is our financial and moral bankruptcy, which has been brewing for over 100 years since the creation of the Fed and the rise of the Progressive era. But finally, we see Members responding to rising anger among the electorate over the financing of another forever war – this time with a nuclear superpower! Finally, we see Members saying “enough” to demands for even more money for the US empire. It’s a good start and we should do all we can to encourage it.- LewRockwell Russian forces advancing towards key town in bid to cut Ukrainian supplies. Watch missiles race toward enemy in vid as Russian army fights for Berdychi (see map), Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) to block Ukrainian supplies heading to Avdeevka, from where Kiev shells civilians in Donetsk. - Intel Report Rats are jumping the ship! Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky did not address the Romanian Parliament during his visit to the EU state on Tuesday. Local media reports suggested that the speech had been inexplicably canceled. - RT Avdeevka battle on the most fortified Donetsk front, Russian forces began the offensive phase after a long time. Apart from artillery and tanks, combat works from several types of helicopters like Mi-28NM accompanied by Mi-8, as well as Mi-35 transport and attack helicopter storming the enemy with Izdeliye-305 missiles. The result, several destructions of positions and disruption of communications of Ukrainian troops occurred. - Military Tube Today The unchecked delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine has resulted in a large amount of these arms ending up in the hands of organized criminal groups and extremists around the world, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has again claimed. - RT
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  1427. [Great Response from Medvedev and Maria!] Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vehemently rejected the EU’s demand that Moscow return gold that it claims belongs to Romania, describing it as “impudence.” On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to send back 91.5 metric tons of gold and cultural artifacts that were exported to the Russian Empire in 1916-1917 by Romania. Writing on his social media page on Friday, Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, stated that “I don’t even know how to respond to such impudence.” ”The EU has stolen $300 billion worth of Russian assets and is now demanding that Russia return gold to Romania. There is nothing to say except f*** off,” Medvedev wrote. Previously, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had pointed out that in 1935, the USSR had already returned a portion of the valuables to Romania as a “sign of good will.” She also recalled that the Soviet Union had forgiven Romania all of its debts for the “troubles and destruction” that it caused in Russia during World War II, when Bucharest was an ally of Nazi Germany. That was “despite all the atrocities that Hitler’s Romanian allies committed on our land. And this is no less than $300 million in reparations, i.e., if converted to today’s money, it would be something in the region of $4 billion,” Zakharova wrote on her official Telegram channel. The spokeswoman went on to state that if these Romanian debts to Russia and the Soviet Union were expressed in terms of bullion, they would be equivalent to 1,365–1,665 tons of gold, which is “20-25 times more than Romania’s entire gold reserve that was sent to Russia in 1916-1917.” Zakharova claimed that Romania was now using “Russophobic platforms, such as the European Parliament, which is ready for any excuse to force onto us its century-old phantom debts.” She suggested that Bucharest’s demand may be part of a desperate attempt to fix the “deplorable situation” in Romania’s “national economy, against the backdrop of farm strikes throughout the country. - RT
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  1428. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian troops have taken control of the entire Grodovka on the Pokrovsk direction, which is a fairly large settlement in terms of area, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on October 7, 2024. This section of the front in the Donetsk region is the area of responsibility of the "Center" Group of Forces, and due to their decisive actions, the offensive of the Kiev troops was repulsed even amidst the loud noise of Zelensky's "Victory Plan" together with Western partners. One by one, the territories fell into the hands of the Russian Armed Forces at a rapid pace, capturing the last part of Grodovka, key point between the Donetsk front towards Pokrovsk. During the day, the Russian assault forces advanced, capturing the last part of the Grodovka area still under Ukrainian control, and cleared it. They stormed the Ukrainian fortifications defended it with machine guns, firing at the Russians with heavy machine guns during fierce fighting. The Ukrainians also made ten counterattack attempts, which were defended by about two hundred soldiers remaining in the settlement, but all enemy attacks were repulsed. In a day, fighters of the Russian group inflicted damage on several enemy motorized infantry and paratrooper brigades, losses in manpower amounted to hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded. Russian fighters also destroyed various Ukrainian-NATO equipment, including the last armored vehicle in Grodovka, the American Bradley. The Center Group's drone recorded the movement of the vehicle, the first FPV drone made a devastating strike, after which the crew inside it abandoned their armored vehicle. The second hit the roof, and the third hit right inside the vehicle. The success of the fiery actions of the Russian military was noted not only in the Grodovka sector of the front, but also in almost all other sectors. While the Ukrainian-Western units were forced to take more advantageous positions at the moment. Therefore, the Russian command will try to take advantage of the opportunities presented before the autumn thaw restricts maneuver and the enemy comes to his senses. Generally, these prerequisites are strong enough to indicate that the Russian military is on the verge of a major breakthrough and attempts to launch a new offensive are underway, this month is expected to be hot!
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  1455. It’s always encouraging when a country’s military commander-in-chief – President Biden, in this case – announces in advance that he knows how he is going to respond militarily to the killing of three American soldiers at a base that supports an illegal and immoral U.S. “covert” war against Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and all those who oppose the US/Israel slaughter of Palestinians. Such anxiety to show antecedently that he’s not sitting on his hands is touching. It’s the kind of announcement that all great military leaders make. It is the kind of arrogant stupidity that has long been the norm for U.S. presidents who love war but lose them all while masquerading as conquerors. So it goes, and so it will go. To add to that, Biden says he doesn’t want a wider war as he creates one, since you can always take him at the opposite of his words. Yet he really has no secrets since his transparent corruption is almost palpable: He supports the Israeli/U.S. genocide in Gaza, the Ukrainian war against Russia, has expanded the war in the Middle East over the past few weeks, and will soon widen it further while the mass media report that he and his cast of fools are trying to “manage” their violent responses to prevent a wider war. The narrative has it that he is trying to outfox Netanyahu, who has often bragged how he has the U.S.A. in his back pocket. It is hard not to laugh derisively. Now Biden issues an executive order to sanction some Israelis on the West Bank, as if this blatant political move to help his election chances with Muslim Americans is an act of moral statesmanship, while the blood of over 27,000 Palestinians drips from his shaky hands and increases daily. In Biden’s case today, these are the actions of a desperado, a war-loving bumbling puppet who is over or under or out of his head as he feigns outrage at the killing of three soldiers who were placed in a spot where their lives were at risk because they were cogs in an imperial war machine. Pawns in the game. A very dangerous game in which the Zionists leaders of Israel are as desperate as Biden and whose secret operatives are no doubt plotting a desperate scheme to try to expand the war. Who is jerking whose chain may be questionable, but the dogs of war are barking. We are talking about very stupid leaders who have never learned from their losses and are risking a major war. - LewRockwell
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  1465. WHY RUSSIA IS DEFEATING NATO AS WELL AS UKRAINE Rather than hang around and catch the blame for the loss of Ukraine, I think Nuland decided to grab a parachute and jump out of the Biden policy plane before it crashes. Nuland is not stupid. She may be a strident ideologue, but she also can read the tea leaves and realize that Ukraine’s days are numbered. She has been around Washington long enough to know how the blame game works and probably decided to hit the bricks and prepare a defense. She wants to live to fight again. The neo-con crowd that Nuland runs with are a shameless lot. They never admit being wrong and are skilled at producing a counter narrative that will blame Biden and the Republicans, especially Trump, for destroying Ukraine’s chances for victory. My friends at the Duran offer an alternative explanation — she was pushed out. One of the key developments on the war front in Ukraine in the last couple of weeks is Russia’s success in destroying what remains of Ukraine’s scant air defense systems. There is video evidence of the destruction of Himars and Patriot systems. The further degradation of Ukraine’s air defense systems means that Russia is able to use swarms of drones to hit key targets and conserve its stock of hypersonic missiles. The Russian General Staff is busy planning contingencies to deal with the possible scenario of having to fight NATO forces and will want to have an ample supply of hypersonics that will overwhelm and defeat Western counter measures. Another big arrow in the Russian quiver are the glide bombs. These are being used with devastating effectiveness to blow massive holes in what remains of Ukraine’s defensive lines. The combination of glide bombs and drones as part of a broader combined arms operation has Ukraine on its heels and headed backwards towards the Dnieper River. - Sonar21
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  1473. The Recent Bombing in Iran and US Support of Terrorism in Iran... - The US has used armed terrorist organizations for decades as proxies against their adversaries worldwide, including most recently in Syria, Iraq, and against Iran; - US weapons and equipment “fell into the hands” of ISIS and other terrorist organizations, consisting of the largest, most effective militant groups participating in the US proxy war against Syria; - US government and corporate-funded think tanks like the Brookings Institution in its 2009 “Which Path to Persia?” policy paper proposed using listed terrorist organizations like the MEK to undermine, coerce, and possibly even overthrow the Iranian government; - The 2009 paper suggested MEK be “delisted” as a terrorist organization by the US State Department, which the Department eventually did in 2012 following intense lobbying and media campaigning by senior US and European representatives; - The MEK is currently still supported by senior US-European representatives with undermining, coercing, and overthrowing the Iranian government remaining as a key Western geopolitical objective; - Western media warns the recent terrorist attack in Iran could trigger a wider regional conflict, which the US has openly sought since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023; - The 2009 Brookings paper feared Iran might not retaliate against US provocations, denying the US the wider regime-change war it sought; - Between the US-backed brutalization of Gaza and now a terrorist attack on Iran itself, the US is making it as politically unlikely as possible for Tehran to avoid retaliation if and when a major US or Israel strike on Iran takes place; - The New Atlas
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  1478. Russia has defied Western sanctions and export controls intended to cripple its military firepower, ramping up missile production to even higher levels than it achieved before the Ukraine conflict began, the New York Times has reported. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of drone over the Belgorod region (pre-War West Russia). Two Ukrainian drones destroyed by Russian air defenses over Belgorod at 9:30 and 10:00 p.m - Intel Report China and India have ‘low intellectual potential’ – top Zelensky aide Uke Loon with Negative IQ angers Billions! Insanely, it looks like the US can't wait to fight Russia and China at the same time with a Woke Military whose priorities are Calling everyone a Racist, Climate Change, and Sexual Perversion. Goodbye 7th Fleet in a matter of minutes, per all the wargaming to date! Air Bases, Drone Swarms & New Ports: US Military Footprint in Asia Grows, But China Grows Faster - US Expands Military Footprint in Asia, But China is Expanding Faster - The US is also building “civilian” infrastructure close to the Chinese island province of Taiwan, further escalating tensions between the US and China but also involving the Philippines deeper as a US proxy; - The Philippines had been a US colony until 1946 and Washington has sought to reassert itself over Filipino sovereignty ever since, compelling Manila to make decisions that suit Washington at Manila’s expense; - A US attempt to develop drone swarms to mitigate China’s advantage in manpower and materiel ignores the fact that China’s growing advantage would also allow it to easily produce larger drone swarms of its own; - US seeks to adopt new doctrine to improve survivability of its air bases in the Pacific amid war with China; - The doctrinal shift will take years and likely won’t be complete until after China irreversibly surpasses the US economically and militarily; From The New Atlas using many Western Sources
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  1502. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Iranian sources reported that the Israeli attack was limited to a few IRGC military facilities, most of which were repelled by air defense systems, and was not as large as the Israeli media exaggerated. Iranians began to mock the Israeli aircraft attack on the morning of October 26, instead of seeking shelter underground, Iranians went to the rooftops to look for Israeli jets. The Iranian National Air Defense Headquarters said "the Israeli regime launched a provocative attack this morning, targeting military centers in Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam provinces. Iranian integrated air defense system managed to intercept and repel this aggressive action, causing only limited damage in some areas". Security analyst Eid al-Tufan said "We can say that the Israeli attack was the most unsuccessful attack in military history. All Iranian air defenses were ready, and acted well that night". Footage showed how the air defense and anti-aircraft missile activity in the skies over eastern Tehran impressively continued to repel suspicious objects, destroying all incoming projectiles, and most of them fell in open areas. In addition, the country's air defense system also managed to work mysteriously over the airspace of Khuzestan Province, western Iran. The Israeli media was very disappointed with the attack on Iran, not being 100% sure what the target was. Iranian official sources said that Tehran has good defenses, so far no explosions, fires, etc. have been reported in Tehran. As a result, only a few areas suffered minor damage. Only a small bush fire on the side of the road in Tehran, apparently caused by an intercepted projectile, was all that was seen there that night. The situation is completely under control and stable. No flights were canceled, and the infrastructure is operating in a stable mode, sources reported. The Iranian National Air Defense Headquarters added in this regard, urging the public to maintain solidarity and calm and follow the news related to the incident through the national mass media, ignoring the rumors, spread by the enemy's mass media.
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  1505. After Macron ignited the firestorm with his batty remarks, a mixed signal farrago of ‘corrections’ and clarifications ensued. But at the same time, on another vector he dropped an even bigger bombshell than before—that France may be forced to intervene if Russian forces began to approach Odessa or Kiev: That’s right, folks. Once again we have confirmation of my longest holding prediction that NATO would draw its red line at Odessa and would potentially intervene if Russian troops are realistically positioned to capture the city. In this case Rothschild stooge Macron seems intent on leading from the front with a wishful thinking campaign designed to generate solidarity around his ‘bold’ declarations. And the French Defense Minister countermanded his own boss’s words, which appears to suggest that Macron is making statements not approved by his own military: The Italian Ministry of Defense likewise seemed to rule it out: In reality, NATO can be said to be getting weaker by the year, with constant cuts to forces all across the board. So will the latest threats of buildups pan out? Probably not, as NATO stands slightly better chance to collapse than reinvent itself as a superpower, in my estimations. But as a reminder that NATO troops have already been in Ukraine, there’s this new note with complementary maps showing American operations since 2014: Of course, next we have the fact that the Matron of Maidan—or is that the Maiden of Maidan?—Nuland is getting the boot: And is being replaced with the guy who was hurriedly ad hoc’d into helming the ‘disastrous’ Afghanistan pullout: Then we have the biggest developments of all: Russia has been on an absolute killing spree of NATO air defense and other ‘prestige’ systems, with the Patriot reportedly being the latest victim yesterday—confirmed by Forbes: By the way, isn’t it interesting how Patriots easily “shot down” all those Kinzhals—a far superior, upgraded version of the Iskander—over Kiev, yet here a measly Iskander put the Patriot out to pasture? Just food for thought. But what is my point here? HIMARS, Abrams, Patriots, and everything in between are now getting obliterated each day. Time is running out, with Ukrainian opposition openly plotting against Zelensky who many expect to be overthrown come May. Meanwhile, Russia continues to only get stronger, with production ramping up all the time. In light of all the talk of NATO entering the war against Russia, Russian journalist Kharchenko astutely points out that this would open Pandora’s box because Russian society has been so conditioned against the eschatological level ‘Armageddon’ battle against NATO—and are incidentally so united now in solidarity—that the war would be nearly welcomed, taking up the banner of a new Great Patriotic War that would galvanize all Russian society like never before. No one in Europe would know would hit them, as Europeans are at one of their morally lowest points in history. This would be a disaster for the West and likely a replay of 1917, with Europe playing the part of the Russian Empire at the time of revolution—I full agree with the sentiment: - Simplicius
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  1509. LIFELESS BODIES SCATTERED at a Sunday morning market, as Ukraine slaughters civilians with NATO-supplied weapons. Reportedly 13 killed and 10 seriously injured at a Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) market - reports Head of region Pushilin. UPDATE: 18 confirmed killed. UPDATE: 25 confirmed killed, including several children. - Intel Report Ukrainian Nazi forces have just intentionally shelled a busy civilian fruit & vegetable market in Donetsk killing at least 25 innocent civilians & injuring dozens more including 2 children. This is a Ukrainian Government war crime. - Intel Report The shelling of the Russian city of Donetsk, which has claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians and wounded 20 others, is “a barbaric terrorist act” carried out by Ukraine with the support of the West, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said. It has been established that Sunday's bombardment of a busy market in the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic was inflicted with weapons supplied to Kiev by the US and its allies, the ministry said in a statement. “This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts of the Zelensky regime, which has once again displayed its inhumanity and hatred towards innocent people,” it said. “The West’s unrestrained desire to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia through the hands of their Ukrainian puppets, whom it is eager to support mindlessly and without limit, is pushing the Kiev regime to increasingly reckless steps, including acts of terrorism, massive violations of international humanitarian law, and war crimes,” the ministry added. -RT
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  1512. From a combat channel report late last night. Likewise the more gory (18+ warning) of the footage shows their personnel losses in the trenches. Thus, NATO elite, some of whom may still retain a sense of self-preservational realism for what it would take to defeat Russia, know the reality of what they’re saying. Their best weapons have been utterly crushed and ground to dust in the endless steppes once known as the Wild Fields. In the meantime, Russian ex-general and Duma deputy Kartapolov says that Russia is preparing the conditions for its own big offensive: Last night massive strikes rung out across ports in the Odessa region, Reni amongst them. Grain silos in the port were hit: Then industrial sectors of Dnipro were hit, obliterating the Yuzhmash plant where Ukraine was to be manufacturing missiles and possibly drones: Note how Ukrainian “air defense” has no answer whatsoever for advanced Russian cruise missiles, which obliterate any target they so choose with full impunity. CNN gleefully describes the terrorist attack on the bridge, which by the way killed civilians and orphaned a 14-year-old girl after sending her into a coma. Not once does CNN even hint at the fact that this may be a terrorist attack, and in fact ends the report with the foreboding warning that Ukraine will continue more of such attacks in the future. You can even see the car coming right above the drone, which they cut away from just as it’s set to explode. Instead, they do show another drone exploding just as a train is passing above it. All is fair, huh CNN? This shows the utterly vile and depraved nature of this corporate fake news mill. You can bet if it was a Russian attack, the only angle they would play is that of a “barbaric terrorist strike on civilians.” It merely shows how low the West has sunk to inhuman levels of moral depravity, and it’s a fact not lost on the rest of the world, which sees the sickening hypocrisy and incessant flood of contradictions. One day when the West falls, it will be from being crushed under the weight of its own shameless immorality.
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  1526. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Finally! The Russian Defense Ministry officially announced the liberation of Selidovo, which was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces yesterday, on October 29, 2024. Today October 30, the Defense Ministry also published a new video, about how the city of Selidovo was liberated, this large city in Donetsk, was deep in enemy territory, but now Russian troops have advanced into its streets without hindrance. And what is gratifying, these areas appeared with very minimal damage to infrastructure. It's time for the Ukrainian flag to be lowered, and the banner of victory to be raised all over the city, including the hoisting of the Russian flag at Korotchenko Mine, which was liberated as in the footage. This is another important milestone in the current collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the capture of Selidovo as a reality that has already happened! How the Russian military liberated the city, how it happened quickly! Russian assault detachments from the 15th and 30th Motorized Rifle Brigades of the Central Group of Forces, entered the city under the cover of an armored group. They took up key positions on commanding heights on the outskirts, entered the tree line in their area of responsibility and eliminated the enemy with the support of reinforcements. At the same time, UAV crews attacked Kiev's infantry and military materiel. Thus, the assault detachments advanced. As a result, the soldiers of the Central Group of Forces took key positions to dominate the heights on the outskirts of the city, so that the assault troops managed to wipe out Selidovo from Ukrainian formations. Ukraine lost up to 515 soldiers, one armored personnel carrier, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. It's not about the city was taken very quickly by the standards of the war, but Selidovo is really considered a symbol of the helplessness of Zelensky together with the Western collective to stop the Russian military machine, although they tried to do it. It is worth understanding how difficult the situation was for Kiev when Russian troops had liberated such a key city as Selidovo, and even the sweeping of the northwestern part of the city continued until the Central Group of Forces continued to advance towards Pokrovsk.
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  1542. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine flee in disarray, abandoning their weapons and ammunition on the front lines, during the liberation of Prechistovka by the Russian Armed Forces. On September 4, 2024, the Russian Defense Ministry officially confirmed the liberation of the village in South Donetsk by soldiers of the 40th Marine Brigade, the 155th Marine Brigade, and Motorized Riflemen of the Eastern Military District. Three soldiers of the 155th Marine Brigade, confirmed live on video their victory on the battlefield, successfully driving Zelensky's expired men out of Prechistovka. Ukrainian military analyst DeepState, which is connected to Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate, acknowledged the loss of Prechistovka by the end of September 3, that Russian forces had captured the remaining western part of Prechistovka, and established control along a forest strip stretching for 3.4 kilometers. A few days ago, Russian marines were reported to have advanced, and broken through the Ukrainian defenses in this village. Assault troops from Buryatia or Eastern Siberia, cleared the village, attacking the Ukrainian formation’s stronghold, which was a key part of the Ugledar group’s defenses. Drone footage showed an armored assault detachment of the 5th Tank Brigade and the 40th Marines, involving about 10 infantry fighting vehicles of various types and a motorcycle squad, charging in large numbers against the Ukrainian group. The armored troops closed in, then dismounted infantry were seen attacking the Ukrainian trenches at close range, shaking off enemy troops in their hideout in Prechistovka, which has now been taken. During the liberation of the village, drone footage from the 40th Marine Brigade captured the moment when Zelensky's remaining troops fled in panic to save their lives. The mass desertion of Ukrainian units of the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade and infantry formations of the 68th Jaeger Brigade was recorded, rapidly retreating towards Zolotaya Niva, and likely taking advantage for a few days. Establishing control over Prechistovka, would ultimately cut off the supply of the Ukrainian fortified area of Ugledar, and a large-scale attack on it would be imminent!
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  1552. It is suspicious that “Islamist terrorists” from Tajikistan would carry out a massacre at the Crocus City Hall for money rather than Islamic fervour, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan against Russia which has shown great sympathy for the civilians of Gaza. UK and USA exhortations to Ukraine to hate (see below) and attack Russians, their training of Ukraine troops for acts of sabotage inside Russia (including the murder of politicians and journalists) and the flight (see map) of the Crocus City terrorists to Ukraine, together with historical exploitation by the West of Islamist extremists in Afghanistan and the presence of those islamists inside the Ukrainian armed forces all suggest the Crocus City Hall massacre was connected to Ukraine. The Head of the Ukrainian Secret service Vasyl Malyuk admitted, in a TV interview, to high profile assassinations inside Russia including a Russian military blogger in St Petersburg and a Ukrainian MP Ilya Kyva. See this. The former CIA analyst Larry Johnson who was an expert in CIA operations behind enemy lines said in an interview with Judging Freedom: “This means that the United States knew that Ukraine was up to something, and had an idea of what it was going to do. And there is a good chance that Ukraine not only did this but did it with the help of weapons and support provided by the United States,” Having created the Ukraine monster we know that the USA has recently been worried about excessive attacks inside Russia but (while warning Russia of an imminent attack) they were unable to stop it. As the Turkish official Omer Celik stated the terrorist attack could not have been carried out without the support of foreign intelligence. - LewRockwell
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  1562. The American Dream… or Nightmare? Kamala's “Glorious Economy” Fantasy Welcome to the circus. In the latest episode of America’s desperate attempt to keep the illusion alive, we’re told the “glorious economy” will save Kamala Harris in the polls, just as the empire teeters on the brink of financial collapse. Let’s get real. The U.S. national debt is now approaching an eye-watering $35.8 trillion—yes, with a “T”—and each American citizen is shackled with an average debt burden of over $90,000. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Add in over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and every single American—man, woman, and child, is shouldering a mind-numbing $600,000+ debt burden. Is this the “glory” they're selling? The interest alone on this monstrous sum is set to devour trillions more in the coming years, dwarfing investments in infrastructure, healthcare, and education. Meanwhile, the IMF has just confirmed that Russia, despite over 20,0000 Western sanctions and relentless economic warfare, is now the fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). Moscow has maneuvered past Japan, silencing those who predicted Russia’s collapse. Unlike the speculative foundations of "Bidenomics," Russia's growth has been forged on tangible resources, resilience, and a sovereign economy. As BRICS nations rise, forging independent pathways free from dollar dependence, Washington doubles down on smoke-and-mirrors, feeding its citizens a diet of “everything is glorious” while the walls close in. The empire’s enemies take note. The “economic prowess” being celebrated in D.C. is little more than hollowed-out promises backed by the Fed’s Ponzi-money-printing machine. The American economy, propped up by the very fiat currency it weaponizes against the world, is the definition of a ticking time bomb. So, yes, bring on the election theatrics: Kamala, Trump, whoever. In reality, it’s a “choose your own dystopia” game. While Americans are distracted by the current presidential puppet show, the rest of the world watches as the empire implodes. Real power is shifting, and no “glorious economy” narrative will change that. The Global Majority, anchored by BRICS, isn’t buying the show. They’re building a parallel system and Kazan was only the beginning. As the West doubles down on an unsustainable path, others are investing in genuine growth, decoupled from Western debt traps. They’re not just betting against the dollar; they’re laying the foundation for a world where such illusions hold no sway. - Gerry Nolan - The Islander News - Intel Republic
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  1564. The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday shared footage of a TOS-1A multiple rocket launcher striking Ukrainian positions. The battlefield video was taken near Soledar, a Donetsk People’s Republic town located to the northeast of the city Artyomovsk (known in Ukraine as Bakhmut). The system, widely known by the nickname ‘Solntsepyok’ – ‘Scorching Sunlight’, is seen firing multiple projectiles at night. The strike was observed by a surveillance UAV fitted with an infrared camera. The massive 220-mm thermobaric weapon is seen leaving large glowing spots on the ground after hits, footage shows. While the system is effectively a short-range multiple rocket launcher mounted on a tank chassis, TOS-1As are classified in Russia as “heavy flamethrowers.” In its most recent daily briefing, the Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine lost an estimated 1,800 soldiers lost over the past 24 hours. It also reported the destruction of various pieces of hardware used by Kiev’s forces, including multiple artillery pieces, both Western-supplied and older Soviet-era systems. The most intense combat continued near Artyomovsk, as well as in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region, with an estimated 535 and 300 casualties inflicted on Ukrainian troops in the two areas, respectively, according to the briefing. Russian forces recently crossed the border at multiple locations into Kharkov Region. The offensive comes as part of the effort to push Ukrainian forces further away from Russian territory and thus stop the indiscriminate artillery and drone strikes on border settlements, including the city of Belgorod. The Ukrainian strikes, which the Russian Defense Ministry says primarily target civilian infrastructure and residential areas, have inflicted considerable material damage and resulted in dozens of civilian deaths. - RT
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  1577. The Battle of Borodino was the apogee of Napoleon’s reckless attempt to conquer Russia and set the stage for his ensuing defeat — French losses in securing their “victory” at Borodino, left them decimated and unable to finish the war they started. Napoleon and his commanders hunkered down in Moscow for a short period but then, with the onset of an early winter, realized they faced annihilation if they stayed and chose to try to return to France. They lacked the logistics to sustain themselves in a zone of conflict. The long, deadly retreat from Moscow, marked the nadir of the French military in that campaign, having entered Russia with an army of 600,000 men and escaped with only 16% of the force still intact. Losing 500,000 soldiers is not a recipe for victory. The Borodino strategy is not confined to Ukraine. The United States is intent on going to war with China. That is insanity. Just as Napoleon’s deep incursion into Russia stretched his lines of communications (i.e. logistics) to the point of collapse, the United States is talking about a military confrontation with China that it cannot sustain. The lesson of Borodino is that a war of attrition favors the power that is closest to its supply lines. It is a lesson the West, especially America, refuses to learn. One other lesson from Borodino — even though Napoleon’s army suffered terrible losses, Napoleon maintained his insatiable thirst for conquest and refused to find a path to peace. It was that unquenched desire that led him ultimately to Waterloo. The Western quest to dominate Russia and China is likely to lead to a 21st Century Waterloo for America and Europe. Yes, history rhymes. - Sonar21
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  1581. Well, now, we have the highest level confirmation of the above from an actual U.S. official. The Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, William Laplante, just dropped a major bombshell which should dim any hopes of major ATACMS triumphs, as so many are emptily looking forward to: That’s right—on a panel for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Laplante outright admitted that the much-hyped GLSDBs have proven an abject failure due to Russian jamming environments. Some have rightfully proposed this is due to the fact that an SDB glide-bomb is pretty slow once it detaches from the HIMARS booster rocket. And thus, as it slows while gliding toward the target, it must overfly a lot of EW contested airspace which gradually degrades its GPS course correction more and more until its targeting is way off by the time it reaches the actual target. In the first year of the war, Russia barely used its electronic warfare capabilities. Today it has made full use of them, confusing the waves of drones the United States has helped provide. Even the fearsome HIMARS missiles that President Biden agonized over giving to Kyiv, which were supposed to make a huge difference on the battlefield, have been misdirected at times as the Russians learned how to interfere with guidance systems. Next, let’s briefly mention some of the ongoing battlefield developments. The situation in the north/west Avdeevka sector continues to deteriorate for the AFU with a constant stream of revealing and sometimes urgent complaints from their channels giving us insight. Here’s a soldier from the AFU’s 115th Brigade giving an update: Read what he says: “My company was literally destroyed.” He complains about leadership throwing them away like meat, It has gotten even the most ardent Ukraine ‘experts’ and supporters admitting that the AFU may have to drastically fall back to a new defensive line behind the Vovcha River, abandoning at least a dozen or more kilometers of land: Yesterday Blinken was humiliated in his visit to China. Not only was he not greeted in the usual customary way at the tarmac, with no red carpet or official entourage, but while awaiting Blinken’s arrival, President Xi was even overheard impatiently inquiring when the sniveling rat-faced apparatchik would be leaving the country: Xi and China have no patience left for the U.S.’ disrespectful lecturing. The pointless visit was capped off by China reportedly not sending a single official to wish Blinken off, and he was instead seen away by the U.S.’ own ambassador stationed in China: In another dispiriting development for Ukraine, it has now been revealed that most of the weaponry sponsored by new U.S. aid will in fact not make it to the foundering country for years: This is further corroboration to something I’ve written about many times before as well: the fact that Russia is building strategic reserves and stores for a potential NATO conflict that could take place directly after or even concurrently with the Ukrainian one. NATO is clearly signaling escalation to “save” Ukraine, which is why Shoigu called up an entirely second army of 500k+ for that very contingency. Now, Russia is also building up stores for that army in case it needs to actually clash with NATO in the near future. Either way, it’s simply revealing of how much munitions Russia is producing that even despite the high usage in the Ukraine front, it’s still generating a vast surplus. Lastly, isn’t it fascinating how something decried as ‘barbaric’ and ‘illegal’ when used by Russia in actual war is treated as commonplace and with indifference when it comes to anti-Israeli protesters? - Simplicius
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  1583. Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev believes that the Russian army will create several bridgeheads on the right bank of the Dnieper. At the same time, according to him, an offensive operation will take place in Zaporozhye. According to him, the first wave will also include up to 2,000 troops and 300 boats. They report Russian forces stormed the Antonovsky Bridge area and captured or consolidated the dachas around it: Hell in Kherson: Russian Army breaks through and consolidates dachas near Antonovsky Bridge near Kherson Elsewhere, Russian forces have finally captured virtually all of the residential parts of Kurakhove, with only the industrial western area with the thermal power plant remaining: They’ve also captured the entirety of Novy Komar north of Velyka Novosilka: As well as expanding their hold in the southwest pincer and making their way into the town proper in the southeast, slowly bringing the stronghold into encirclement. Yes, unfortunately Ukraine started off the war vastly outnumbering Russia with a claimed 1 million troops to Russia’s 250,000. How is it that Russia is now outnumbering Ukraine by such a high count? There’s only one answer, and you know what it is. We may be entering a stage of heightened Ukrainian provocation attempts in lead up to Trump’s inauguration. There has been a rash of SBU-orchestrated arson attacks throughout Russia, assassinations—like that of General Kirillov—followed by various new ATACMS, HIMARS, and drone strikes, particularly yesterday’s brazen one on various residential buildings in Kazan. We can see that, as is always the case, Trump appears to be backsliding on all campaign promises. Early reports claimed he was exploring options to support Israel striking Iran, and now the new reports about continuing military aid to Ukraine. It seems increasingly likely the swamp will slowly assimilate Trump’s second term leading ultimately to little difference in foreign policy from the Biden administration. Lastly, as of this writing it’s being reported a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet has been shot down by its own Ticonderoga class warship while conducting illegal terror strikes against Yemen: Recall the talks of Russia’s “IFF failures” and ‘unprofessionalism’ when Russia suffered friendly fire incidents. Except Russia is in a near-peer conflict, while the US IFF doesn’t even function in a low contested environment. The US couldn’t even shoot down a Chinese balloon without major failures. The US would rue the day it ever got into a near-peer scenario, as such incidents would be near daily occurrences in today’s highly degraded and deteriorated US armed forces. - Simplicius
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  1605. If BS was fungible, both Israel and Ukraine would be rolling in dough and not need another dime of foreign aid. The nonsense spilling out of Tel Aviv and Kiev is legendary and much of the Western public is slurping it up like a ravenous dog eating a bowl of rabbit stew. Let’s start with Israel. The Zionists used more than 100 aircraft to send an estimated 200 air-launched ballistic missiles into Iran. Israeli aircraft did not dare to fly inside Iran. And what happened? Iran, with Russian help, shot down the majority of the Israeli missiles. Iran showed no signs of panic or anger in the aftermath of the attack — not what one would expect if Israel’s assault had been a smashing success. Compare for yourself. The first video show’s Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel. The second video shows what happened in the skies over Tehran. The Zionist spin patrol is working overtime to paint lipstick on their pig operation. The Zionists convinced themselves that Iran’s strike on October 1 was meaningless, notwithstanding clear video — and later satellite imagery — of damage from Iran’s missile barrage. Now, when confronted with evidence of Iranian air defense knocking Israeli missiles from the sky, they simply pretend it did not happen. Ukrainian forces are retreating all along the 900-mile front. Then there is the Ukrainian/CIA story claiming that North Korean troops are fighting on the front because Russia has lost so many men, it had to import new cannon fodder. I believe this story was ginned up by an increasingly desperate CIA in order to create a cover story for bringing South Korean pilots to Romania to fly F-16s. The “news” about the North Korean troops first appeared in the New York Times under David Sanger’s byline on October 8. Sanger has a long history of being a willing conduit for CIA “leaks.” Remains to be seen if the South Koreans will actually enter the fight. If they do, they will learn that Russia ain’t playing games and many of those pilots will likely die. I discussed this issue with Judge Napolitano. I am also posting a live podcast that Andrei Martyanov and I did with Nima as Israel’s attack was wrapping up Friday night my time. - Sonar21
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  1613. Yet when Tucker Carlson asked Putin what it was all about – we found simply that the protection of Russia and Russian people are a cause for which Putin is willing to fight. It is a concept that shocks the Western empire circa 2024. We also learned that years of western actions, like withdrawing from nuclear treaties and pursuing first strike capabilities, drove Russian development of hypersonic missiles and a whole range of capabilities to survive and defeat such extreme threats coming from an increasingly unpredictable West. Meanwhile, US and NATO naval capability is underwhelming, recruitment abysmal, technology plateaued and inappropriate for offense or defense, and funds are dwindling. We learned that while politicians and academics continue to push for ever more massive sanctions against Russia – new markets materialized and Russia’s economy adapted and thrived, as the economy of the western allies shrank and struggled. We learned that western cultural fetishes of magic energy replacing hydrocarbons, 72 genders, modern monetary theory and unlimited immigration without cultural integration have all been rejected – rationally and straightforwardly – by Russia. The former Communist empire has become a sanctuary for Orthodox Christianity, while the West bans and abandons Christian churches and principles in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Europe and in America. It sounds unbelievable, unpredictable, a rabbit from a hat and a lady cut in half all in one show – but it’s true. A key advisor to Zelensky on US-UK-EU proxy war, and former UK PM Boris Johnson is an exemplar of magical thinking. He was outraged that Putin explained with evidence how the last 18 months of war in Ukraine could have been prevented, and the ended peacefully, as peace talks in Turkey produced a draft treaty acceptable to both Ukrainian and Russian teams. This was abruptly canned after Boris rushed to Kiev, where he demanded the Ukrainians reject the nascent agreement. Boris, bobbing in the flotsam of magical thinking, is a liar, and yet, one marvels at the power of believing that your desires and wishes can create a new world order. - LewRockwell
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  1631. The decision to throw these specialists into the trenches signals more than just manpower shortages—it’s the death knell of Ukraine’s capacity to sustain itself as a viable military player. If the specialists who once repaired helicopters and aircraft are now clutching rifles in mud-soaked trenches, who’s left to keep what remains of Ukraine’s military equipment operational? The symbolism here is rich: a country whose leaders sold their people on promises of NATO-backed strength is now so depleted that it’s cannibalizing its own critical workforce. What comes next? If highly skilled specialists are no longer exempt, the ripple effect will soon extend to every other sector. Doctors? Engineers? Scientists? The machinery of Ukrainian society is being ground into dust, sacrificed at the altar of a war that Kiev has already lost. And all the while, its Western patrons grow increasingly indifferent, their attention shifting to other theaters of geopolitical drama. The message is clear: Ukraine has been wrung dry, and now it' literally to the last Ukranian. For Russia, this is yet another vindication of its strategy. The strikes targeting Ukraine’s military-industrial capacity are achieving exactly what they were designed to do—systematically dismantling Kiev’s ability to wage war while exposing the hollowness of its Western-backed promises. The conscription of specialists is not a sign of resilience; it’s a glaring red flag that the system is collapsing. The question is no longer if but when Ukraine’s unsustainable mobilization policies will push the nation beyond the breaking point. - TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  1645. I hope for the sake of your children and grand children that I am wrong, but the escalating bellicose rhetoric in the United States, Europe and Israel signals that our future is filled with the potential for horrific destruction not seen since the end of World War II. A more alarming development came in Sweden yesterday, 18 June, with the Swedish parliament giving the green-light to turn Sweden into a U.S. aircraft carrier Sweden, in accepting this deal, has made itself a primary target of Russia. This is akin to Cuba signing a deal with Russia to bring Russian nukes to Cuba and grant Russian forces access to Cuban military bases. This is suicidal. It is the Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0, only on steroids. This is an act of brazen provocation by the West, and it should not be shocked when Russian responds forcefully to prevent the U.S. from placing nuclear weapons intended for use against Russia on Swedish territory. Just one more flashpoint in an already tense world. Then there is Israel. Over the weekend, Netanyahu dissolved the six-member war cabinet, which included members of the opposition party. Unlike the United States, where the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, this power resides in the cabinet in Israel. This means that Netanyahu’s original cabinet — with bona fide terrorist crazies like Smotrich and Ben Gvir in place — has made Israel more likely to take reckless, foolish military actions, such as invading southern Lebanon. Doug MacGregor, during an hour-long chat with Danny Davis today, raised the specter of Israel using tactical nukes against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. I think he is right. The only way to put the brakes on this — barring a devastating preemptive attack by Hezbollah on key Israeli military and nuclear sites — is for the U.S. to suspend all aid to Israel until it comes to its senses. I think that is highly unlikely, which means that the Zionists surrounding Netanyahu are prepared to initiate a new offensive, which will set the Middle East on fire. - Sonar21
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  1656. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The dynamics of events are very fast on the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces raised the flag over the administrative building of the mine "Russia" or its Ukrainian name "Kotlyarivska", on the eastern outskirts of Selidovo. The events of Selidovo were recorded by Russian military correspondents on August 29, 2024, showing the momentum of the soldiers of the "Brave O Group" of the Central Military District raising the tricolor flag during the offensive in this direction, after their units began storming the important town of Selidovo, destroying the enemy, and capturing the defense lines of the Ukrainian troops within three days. In fact, there has been a serious advance of the Russian troops in recent days. The first military results of the Ukrainian offensive and NATO trainers and tacticians on Kursk turned into a bitter pill, instead Selidovo was taken by Russia. Ukrainian resources previously announced the start of the assault in Selidovo by Russian troops. Ukrainian troops did not expect such a maneuver now, and it is likely that only hastily equipped defenses will be built. Ukrainians are retreating in disorder, Russian artillery is working in this direction to the south and west of the town, this indicates that Selidovo is under the control of Russian troops. Therefore, it is likely that the city will not last long and the Ukrainians will be forced to leave without serious fighting. The media effect of the Kursk invasion is gradually fading! On the contrary, the Ukrainian segment is increasingly talking about the collapse of the front line on the Pokrovsk direction. They filmed the destruction of American Abrams tanks by Russian kamikaze drones, burning on the front road. Meanwhile, as Russian soldiers advance on Pokrovsk, they find other destroyed Bradley and Abrams tanks. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces are planning an operation to completely fall the town of Selidovo, and the Ukrainian formations that are in disarray there will probably be withdrawn!
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  1660. It’s damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days. This cavalier attitude toward nuclear brinkmanship that empire managers have been demonstrating lately was addressed on Monday by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who said the US is close to making a “fatal” miscalculation. “I would like to caution American officials against miscalculations which may have fatal consequences. For some unknown reason, they underestimate the seriousness of the rebuff they may receive,” Ryabkov reportedly said. There is a limit to how many escalations Russia will tolerate before taking drastic action against NATO to re-establish deterrence credibility, and nobody really knows exactly where that limit is. They seem bound and determined to find it however, and when they do we may already be on an irreversible free fall toward nuclear armageddon. And that’s why it’s very disturbing that these tensions are being ramped up so casually by the empire with no resistance from anybody — not from western governments, not from the media, and not even from ordinary people in any meaningful numbers. These freaks are playing chicken with armageddon weapons, and nobody’s got a foot anywhere near the brake pedal. They’re not even looking at it. They’re not even thinking about it. At the very least we’ve got to find some way to get people thinking about this. This would be such a damn stupid way for humanity to annihilate itself. - LewRockwell
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  1666. Ukraine Bleeds Troops and Territory as New Russian Tactics Prove Unstoppable “Putin has articulated a theory of victory that assumes that Russian forces will be able to continue gradual creeping advances indefinitely, prevent Ukraine from conducting successful operationally significant counteroffensive operations, and win a war of attrition against Ukrainian forces.” Well, uh, yeah—that’s exactly what Russia is doing and will do. And there’s nothing Ukraine or the West can really do to stop it because to do so would require a force disparity. And Ukraine cannot generate a force disparity because—surprise, surprise—it is losing more men than Russia. MacGregor states his European sources have told him that Ukraine is now over 600k dead with 1M+ total casualties, while Russia has 50-63k dead. “The Russian military command is currently prioritizing consistent offensive operations that achieve gradual tactical gains over conducting a large-scale discrete offensive operation that aims to make operationally significant gains through rapid maneuver.” the Western conception of Russian “Soviet-style” top down command is a total fraud, and in fact Russian units are granted independent autonomy at the tactical level to generate their own combat initiative. The front remains hot with Russian advances continuing everywhere. In fact, some Ukrainian sources are near-to-panic: Now there’s talk of 8 Israeli Patriots being transferred to Ukraine—remember, these are the same Patriots Israel decided to toss into the trash because they proved useless during Iranian attacks. But among manic cheers, the one tiny wrinkle pro-UA commentators overlooked was Blinken’s comments yesterday in regard to this: he stated that the new Patriots would be used to protect U.S. economic interests, not Ukrainian cities or assets. Whoops. We are trying to attract private investment to Ukraine to make sure its economy can grow and prosper. But you need to make sure you have air defenses to try and protect the areas you're investing in.” Let me get this straight: Blinken is bogarting defective Israeli Patriots to defend the new Black Rock economic extraction operation sites in Ukraine? You can’t get much more on brand for Ukraine than that. World Bank today just officially upgraded Russia to a “High Income Economy”: Ukrainian citizen describes the 18-hour long blackouts in Kiev, already a daily occurrence: NATO continues to saber-rattle yet reports like the following keep rolling out: the Bundeswehr cannot even find enough automatic rifles for their army. - Simplicius
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  1680. In a recent article I had mentioned how the Western press and elite commentariat for the first time began using the taboo ‘C’ word, i.e. “Collapse”, for Ukraine. Now this has opened up the floodgates, causing more and more worried publications to begin turning off their previous holding-the-line narrative filter and actually start describing the Ukrainian situation with truthful urgency. The U.S. has already emptied almost its entire store of usable surplus mainline weaponry for Ukraine, i.e. tanks, artillery, light armor—not counting things like ammo. As proof, even Ukraine’s most ardent American supporters have admitted this in the past few days: Yet Ukraine hinges their entire future on this mythologized support as if it’s some kind of instant videogame-like upgrade, a “power-up” that will immediately re-energize and supercharge the AFU—this is simply not the case. High-ranking military officers secretly told Politico under anonymity that: “There’s nothing that can help Ukraine…the West doesn’t have the technologies in sufficient numbers.” Read my lips, it’s quite simple: Ukraine has literally no chance whatsoever to do anything militarily in this war anymore. Ukraine and Zelensky’s only shot at survival is to push Russia into a confrontation with NATO. They are desperately attempting to do this each day by launching mass terror attacks all over Russia. The latest occurred yesterday on Yelabuga, where Ukraine literally crashed a giant Cessna-like plane into a dormitory full of students that they claimed was a drone factory: While Russia is crushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ combat potential on the actual battlefield, desperate Zelensky is hiring “ISIS” to massacre Russian civilians, attacking Belgorod highrises with drones and artillery, and is literally loading up Cessnas with bombs and flying them into buildings with African exchange students—that’s the stage his putrid terrorist regime is now at. Ukraine is doing everything in its power to destabilize Russia by stirring discontent within it—even Western rags now admit to the recent rash of ethnic tension being provoked by Ukrainian services: There is a growing understanding across the Western allies that Ukraine is losing the ground war against Russia, and by summer could face defeat. Russia is pounding front lines with artillery, rocket and drone fire — and at over five times the rate the Ukrainian army can reply. Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops are exhausted — after sustaining in some sectors a heavier concentration of incoming artillery than at the Somme in 1916, or the Normandy Bocage after D-Day in 1944. It goes on to sketch the dire situation of the West’s own armaments: So what is it, in particular, that’s got them so terrified lately? Mostly it seems twofold: Russia’s increasingly heavy hand in attacking Ukraine’s power grid, as well as the rumors of a mass spring-summer assault: I ask you: What do you think now? Still believe time is on NATO and Ukraine’s side? It sure doesn’t seem like it these days. I say this as preface to the fact that Russia is slowly taking its time, continuing to build its armaments and potential, and very gradually closing the constrictor squeeze on Ukraine from all sides. Recent rumblings indicate that Ukraine is unable to determine where Russia could choose to strike a more major line-breaking assault due to the nature of Russia’s air strikes not being limited to one particular theater, but destroying Ukraine’s infrastructure in a widespread fashion. Ukraine’s “mechanized” brigades are literally being downgraded to foot soldier meat hordes due to lack of vehicles. Russia made recent progress in the areas west of Bakhmut and are now preparing to launch the assault on Chasov Yar. Here’s a quick before and after look at the Ladyzhenskaya thermal power plant control room, to give an idea the type of damage Russian attacks have done: The first photo may be a stock one for illustrative purposes, but you get the idea; I don’t think that’s being repaired any time soon. - Simplicius
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  1682. This guy really believes that Russia is getting whipped on the battlefield and Ukraine is triumphing. For example, he practically soils himself on camera while extolling the tremendous Ukrainian “victory” in striking the Headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol. He neglected to mention that Russia retaliated by hitting Kremenchug Airport — the launch site for the cruise missile strike on Crimea-Sevastopol — with a barrage of cruise missiles. No air raid warning was issued. It is presumed that low-observable Kh-50 cruise missiles were utilized. According to a report out of Turkey, the strike destroyed SCALP and Storm Shadow missiles as well as some Su-24M/MR bombers used to attack Sevastopol. - Sonar21 Russian forces have destroyed another two German-made Leopard tanks in the Kupyansk region, according to a report issued by Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday. The Defense Ministry also reported that Russia’s Southern Group of forces repelled four Ukrainian attacks near the settlements of Vodyanoye and Maryinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The ministry’s latest report suggested that up to 200 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed and wounded in those attacks, and that two infantry fighting vehicles and three cars were also destroyed. - RT NOT JUST IN THE UN HALLS but even on YouTube view counts reveal nobody cares to hear repetitive platitudes of NATO stooges repeating same pre-prepared lines for two hours (if not two years) straight. We can bet view count for Zelensky or Biden's UN speeches, at half or a third of those from dignified, sovereign and visionary African or Eurasian leaders, come from those laughing at them! - Intel Report AFTER SMOKE CLEARS there’s nothing left of Ukrainian positions near Liman, Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine) with group of Grad ("Hail") rocket launchers unloading so many warheads at Kiev’s forces that fumes fill air - Russian forces push back 15 Ukrainian army attacks near Liman over past week. Russian army also stops 5 attacks dead in their tracks in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) over past week, with Kiev army losing over 950 troops, while total of 28 Ukrainian attacks thwarted in DPR and Ukrainian forces suffer over 1,455 casualties in process. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 22 More than 10 Ukrainian soldiers killed during attempt to storm Klesheevka, near Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut), Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). Footage shows the aftermath of the unsuccessful attack - who sends about 10 guys to storm 3 lines of Russian defenses? - Intel Report YOU’RE DOING THE WAR WRONG is what Mad Vlad Zelensky’s puppeteers in Washington are trying to tell Kiev as Western PR managers (pic above) explain that Begginsky’s strategy of throwing cannon fodder at Russian lines and committing war crimes on the daily ain’t best way to take over Russian territory. Pentagon's worried that Zelensky's obsessed with retaking Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut) and even more worried that Kiev army's gonna get obliterated if it's made to continue failed counteroffensive over winter - something Mad Vlad claims it'll do. "Comedian" who thinks he's a military genius - delusions of grandeur from coked-up madman. - Intel Report
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  1683. The sabotage in the Baltic Sea was the result of a long-standing US policy of driving a wedge between Russia and Western Europe Thursday marks one year since I reported President Joe Biden’s decision in the fall of 2022 to send a signal of resolve to Vladimir Putin by destroying Nord Stream 1 and 2, the Russian natural gas pipelines. Nord Stream 1 had turned Germany into the most powerful economic force in Western Europe. Today consolidated Vietnam is non-communist and America is its largest trading partner, and it is a major tourist stop for Americans and Europeans. The same can be said for Cambodia’s Ankor Wat, with its array of thousand-year-old temples. I played golf at a resort there a few years ago and went sightseeing with my family. Communist Laos remains relatively remote, but is modernizing rapidly and is a major trading partner of China. All that America fought, died, and killed for was gone within a few months. So much for containment. And so much for signaling. It was a lesson not known, or not interesting, to the Biden administration in early 2022, when it seemed clear that Vladimir Putin was going to lead Russia to war with Ukraine. Biden had long been a strong opponent of Russia, and before that Soviet communism, throughout his political career, and he especially reviled Putin. It is now widely accepted that Putin would have delayed or canceled the invasion if Secretary of State Antony Blinken had assured him that Ukraine would not be permitted to join NATO. That promise was not made. Instead, Biden publicly warned Putin two weeks before the Russians attacked that America would destroy the newly constructed pipeline, Nord Stream 2, that was prepared to funnel Russian gas to Germany. Putin had already slowed down and then cut off the earlier pipeline, Nord Stream 1, that began delivering gas to Germany a decade earlier. The idea of blowing up Nord Stream 1 and 2 had come from the American intelligence community, spearheaded at the time by the CIA. The community had been asked in late 2021 for options—American actions—that could convince Putin to back off. It was with this understanding that a most secret CIA unit was organized to find a way to do what President Biden wanted: to present Putin with a threat that could stop the Russian president from going to war. Bolstered by the CIA’s confidence, Biden stunned the intelligence community by threatening to blow up Nord Stream at a White House news conference on February 7, 2022, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz standing at his side. - LewRockwell
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  1696. most Ukrainian officers and officials are no longer fighting for 2022 or 1991 borders, but rather for simple survival: Konstantinovka is the next big strategic center after Chasov Yar whose importance likely even eclipses that of Bakhmut, as Konstantinovka and its neighboring Druzhkovka have classically been the headquarters of the entire Ukrainian ATO/JFO since 2014: In the meantime, Russia continues its infrastructural strikes, with a large one occurring the night before last. Ukraine’s energy grid authority Ukrenergo admitted several key power plants were again hit, this time in the west of the country, and “extensively damaged”: A separate report claimed that “all major thermal power plants controlled by Ukraine have now been destroyed or severely damaged” and that “Hydroelectric generation plants are next to reduce the flexibility of Ukraine's grid. After which Ukraine will rely on 3 nuclear power plants and imports from EU countries.” And Russian forces continue to advance a good deal each day. The latest in Krasnogorovka, which is now almost fully enveloped in a cauldron: Isn’t it interesting how Ukrainian brigades all started at 5000-6000 men and are now mostly operating at 1000-2500 at most, while Russian brigades balloon from 2500 to 11k? And yet they tell us it’s Russia that’s taking the “unbearable losses”. A quite unexpectedly rare sight occurred at the parade. A medaled Russian formation comprised of real SMO veterans took part. Consider the significance: these are among the only truly living decorated soldiers in the world who can lay claim to having fought and survived a real war. No other country presently can march real live, active duty, decorated heroes who’ve tasted real combat of this sort: - Simplicius
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  1701. As we head into fall and winter, the situation continues to worsen for Ukraine. The biggest developments have happened outside the locus of the conflict itself, but rather in the geopolitical scene where Ukraine is faced with a disastrous loss of financial support. The U.S. House of Representatives has just removed its Speaker for the first time in history, primarily over his secret side deal with Biden to get funding to Ukraine. Some of the current options on the table for his replacement would spell disaster for Ukraine as they are all staunchly anti-funding Republicans. The West has never looked weaker, not only in general, but specifically vis a vis their support for Ukraine. All of their recent attempts at portraying a unified front look increasingly hollow and desperate. - Simplicius FABOULOUS ARRIVAL of unstoppable FAB-500 bombs on Ukrainian positions scorch the enemy in above video, with blinding massive blasts obliterating everything in its path, as Kiev's regime suffers up to 290 soldiers as casualties in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine). Up to 170 cannon fodder either killed or injured in Kupyansk, East Ukraine, up to 45 and 2 armored vehicles destroyed in Kherson (ex-Ukraine), more than 35 killed by Russian forces in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ OCT 4 An amazing and most risky work of the moment when Russian a soldier from the 40th Brigade of the Pacific Marine Fleet, move alone to finish off 5 Ukrainian soldiers in a trench on the northwestern outskirts of Novomayorsky, Donetsk region. The soldier, the best in the sniper department managed to fight off the enemy force, taking out a Ukrainian group, who poorly trained. - Military Tube Today Something big is about to happen in Ukraine. Is Putin about to launch a pre-winter offensive now that Ukraine has exhausted all of its resources? Logistical signs are showing newly built railway tracks and large troop movements on the Russian side. Also multiple reports over the past 48 hours show an increased number of young Ukrainian men racing to get the hell out of Ukraine. - Redacted Ukraine Fatigue Is Worrying NATO Elites – and So They Should Be On both sides of the Atlantic, there is now discernible fatigue and anger among citizens over the bottomless money pit that is NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. The disgraceful adulation of a Nazi war criminal by the whole Canadian parliament in a perverse show of solidarity with Ukraine against Russia has helped focus public attention on the obscenity of the NATO proxy war. All that largesse that is billed to U.S. and European taxpayers has resulted in a slaughter in Europe not seen since the Second World War – and a failed Ukrainian state. And of course huge profits for the NATO military-industrial complex that bankrolls the elite politicians. What the conflict in Ukraine has demonstrated clearly to the Western public is just how morally bankrupt their governments and media have become. American and European elitist leaders may kid themselves a little longer by pretending there is no weariness and fatigue over their proxy war against Russia. The more they pretend the greater the eventual crash and downfall from public anger. - LewRockwell Putin: They are trying to replace international law with order. What order? Based on some rules. What rules? What rules are these? Who invented them? I don't understand it at all. It's just bullshit, nonsense! But it's what they're trying to instill in the minds of millions of people. We have to live by the rules. What rules? And in general, our Western colleagues, especially those from the United States, do not just set arbitrary rules. But they also teach them - who and how they should fulfill them, who and how they should behave in general. All this is done and said, as a rule, in a frankly boorish form. This is the same manifestation of colonial thinking. All the time we hear: you must, you are obliged, we are seriously warning you. Who are you people? What right do you have to warn anyone? - Forwarded from Slavyangrad (Sergey Slessarenko) HORRIFIED SCREAMS as bodies of cadets lay on floor, blood and limbs of injured and dead gushing everywhere following US-backed TERROR attack on Syrian military graduation ceremony in Homs, Syria. Even Syrian soldier, no stranger to terror, fixes hands on head in shocked disbelief as he wades through rows of bodies. Just as families of Syrian Army servicemen gather to honor brave fight against terrorism, criminals attack event, turning celebration into TERRIFYING TRAGEDY. - Intel Report As a result of powerful counterattack by Russian Armed Forces, Ukrainian forces were decimated in the "Killing Zone" Rabotino on Zaporozhye front. Russian forces held an advantageous position after intensifying attacks. While many remnants of Ukrainian equipment and personnel were killed, it ended in defeat and setbacks. - Military Tube Today
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  1702. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. Just a poor child’s birth to fulfill a prophecy that out of life would come death and out of death would come life. That hope was improbable but possible with faith. The Gospel birth narratives tell of a nativity that concludes with the grown child’s suffering, public crucifixion, death, and Resurrection – a story that lives on with the suffering of so many innocents. Matthew and Luke’s birth narratives are replicated again and again throughout history, presently and most conspicuously in Gaza and the West Bank, as the massacre of the innocents continues under today’s King Herod, Benjamin Netanyahu, the client king of Washington, not Rome, while U.S. politicians, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who claims to be a defender of children and opposed to U.S. war policies, support this genocide with rhetorical justifications. Wealth, its possession and the avid desire for it, signifies power over people and that power includes using them in many ways, including their labor, and killing them if one chooses, quickly or slowly, overtly or deviously, directly or indirectly, for some people are useless objects, inferior people. Such power is central to politics and warfare, as a quick glance at the wealth of war-promoting politicians will reveal. It is central to the widespread thinking today that the world is filled with useless people who must be disposed of one way or the other. It is a fundamental tenet of the World Economic Forum, the Gates-Rockefeller et al. crowd, and the racist eugenics promoters today and yesterday. It is behind the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) biological weapons gain-of-function research, the Covid-19 propaganda, and the CIA’s and Defense Department’s distribution of the mRNA countermeasures (“vaccines”). It is central to the hideously obscene profits of the medical military-industrial complex and the world-wide arms industry. It is central to the genocide taking place in Gaza. For the Israeli rulers, the problem is that the Palestinians exist, so they must be exterminated. It’s still the same old story told differently down through the ages. Hitler enacted it against the Jews. Christmas is about a birth, the birth of a boy who would become a man who sided with the outcasts, the poor, the forsaken, the gentle, and the peacemakers. His birth and life was a rebuke to the powerful and the rich who lord it over the innocent, the killers, those who profit at the expense of others, who amass wealth and useless possessions to parade their power, a show of power which, unknown to their self-obsessed minds, is a sign of their spiritual nullity. I have nothing against Santa. I once sat on his lap and he seemed nice to my four year-old mind. He was fat and jolly. He told me I would get what I wanted for Christmas. But he forgot to tell me what Christmas was really about. That is what I want. To remember. - Edward Curtin for LewRockwell
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  1721. MILITARY TUBE TODAY-The Russian Armed Forces took initiative control at the Kursk site, taking the overwhelmed Ukrainian and NATO troops, a large number of which were captured increasingly becoming prisoners of war. In 48 hours on August 13-14, 2024, Russian military correspondents documented, several enemy groups becoming Russian captures on the border, but here some infographic images are not shown. Although some on the Russian side were also taken hostage and killed, this senseless operation, culminating in an ambush of Kiev troops by infantry, drones, or aircraft. They opened a new direction where Russian troops had a greater advantage was a boon for Russian troops, despite the temporary victory of Ukrainian media. It always starts like this in all battles, even if Western mercenaries fight side by side with Ukrainians against Russia. Footage of Ukrainian troops serving in the 80th Air Assault Brigade, captured near the village of Ulanok by the 382nd Battalion of the 810th Brigade, or rather one of the battalions consisting of mobilized Russian fighters. In addition to an assault team of five Ukrainian soldiers who were captured, Russian soldiers also seized important equipment and a ridge in the area. One of the leaders is a suspect in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee regarding the attack on Russian territory. According to the detainees, Zelensky sacrificed some of the most capable and experienced Ukrainian troops for the Kursk campaign. A new wave of Ukrainian prisoners and liquidation operations, and destruction continue under the leadership of the Russian Special Forces and the Chechen Akhmat troops, on the border. Another Ukrainian detachment that was captured, stated that they had been in the region for only a day, capturing them very quickly in the first days of the operation. They were lucky not to meet Wagner fighters, because the Musicians had warned that they did not plan to take prisoners. A group of the detainees added about their desire to fight the Kiev regime, because throwing these people into the fire, like them were worthless. According to reports for August 13 only in 24 hours in Kursk, the Russian Armed Forces have eliminated up to 420 Ukrainian personnel in NATO operations. According to the latest reports from the battlefield in Kursk, 120 French soldiers, 180 Polish soldiers, and dozens of British, Estonian and other foreign soldiers from NATO countries, have been identified. It seems that the entire operation was prepared abroad. It was a NATO operation from the start, analysts note. - Military Tube Today
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  1741. Front lines are collapsing for the Ukrainian army, whole units surrendering. Top commanders are fired. Faced with complete disarray of the U.S.-NATO instigated war in Ukraine, U.S. militarists are doubling down. U.S. efforts to dismember Russia appear to have utterly failed. Economic sanctions, price caps, the protracted war on Russia’s border and tens of billions of dollars, along with hundreds of U.S. and other NATO member troops sent as trainers, plus mercenary contractors can’t hold the corrupt Ukrainian military machine together. The statements promoting strikes with the U.S.-supplied weapons to targets inside Russia are being made directly by President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is a former prime minister of Norway, but acts as if he were a U.S. official. All these elaborate plans would be dashed if Ukrainian defense lines crumbled before the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. This 75th anniversary NATO Summit is a grand plan to showcase U.S. and Western imperialist dominance. Zelensky’s effort to call a “Peace Summit” on June 15 and 16 in Lucerne, Switzerland, exposes Ukraine’s dwindling support. The “Peace Summit” bars Russian participation. The effort is so flimsy that not even Biden is bothering to attend. The Rand Corporation, a powerful think tank for the major military industries, confirms the cynical calculations that justify war profits, regardless of the danger. Rather than reassess their deteriorating global position, U.S. strategists seem determined to put the fate of the world at risk. - LewRockwell
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  1744. The BRICS 2024 summit kicked off as the big highlight of the week. There are an endless amount of things to be said from a variety of different analytical perspectives, but we’ll just mention a few of the salient points that stick out most for now. Firstly, the obvious is simply the optics of the event. Russia and Putin were supposed to be ‘isolated’ and here they are hosting the world’s top leaders on a grand stage: Note how even the simple optics of the event differ from the more ‘corporate structured’ UN, with its one-at-a-time tribune speech on stage meant to present the leadership of each country in a Western unitary model. The BRICS meeting on the other hand visually represents a roundtable of equals amongst all, which sends a powerful message for the future of global multipolarity and cooperation. That’s not to mention it was chosen for a symbolic date, as Putin explains here, with the original founding UN Charter being signed on October 24, 1945: It is clear the organizers of the BRICS summit foresee this pivotal time as being an epochal shift in the global world order similar in weight to that of the UN founding. What is meant by simple optics? For example, BRICS has sent a message of strength and solidarity, as well as giving legitimacy to a variety of countries, issues, and leaders which do not get it on the Western-ruled world ‘stage’. Putin himself appeared to directly address BRICS Development Bank (NDB) chairman Dilma Rousseff in very politely saying “let’s speed things up” by noting that the longer these transitions to a multipolar model take, the more dangers it poses, and the longer the global south has to live in slavery to the Western financial system: unlike the US-led United Nations, and other Western organs like the G7, the BRICS is foundationally designed to take everyone’s interests into account rather than being solely one hegemon’s private bully pulpit and centrally planned authority in one: Putin was also asked about Trump’s claim that he once told Putin he would strike Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin replied that this is merely the effect of election season and that such statements should not be taken seriously. He then gave a dressing down to BBC’s chief pest Steve Rosenberg: All the North Korean ‘panic’ stories from the Western press mill suggested it was a big ‘top secret’ operation with only ‘clever’ Western satellite intel able to bust Putin’s putative smuggling of the DPRK troops under the cover of night. On the other hand, a huge contradiction in the narrative: a stream of videos taken openly by Russian troops in full view of their commanders has emerged that purport to show DPRK troops in eastern Russian bases. If it was a big top secret operation like they pretend, then why are the troops openly being filmed? Overall, the key takeaway from the BRICS summit can be the following. Look closely at some of the scenes presented: India and China after having just negotiated a settlement to their border conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan hashing out their disputes, other “ostracized” members of the world community being greeted with open arms, no leering judgmental supremacism, condescending sermonizing and pompous pontificating like so often seen by the West at their global institutions, from the EU to the UN, etc The BRICS’ strongest achievement is sending a message of acceptance, compromise, openness, civility, and cooperation—the true definition of anti-illiberal qualities, the same the West so adamantly claims it champions. There was a kind of contagious energy that was palpable in the air: an alternate vision for a world led by sovereign grownups, not the small-minded, nervous little elitist compradors and pushy apparatchiks, the likes seen dotting the halls of the West’s equivalent institutions. In short, a breath of fresh air and maturity. This to me is the strongest message the BRICS sends. Even despite not achieving any major concrete advancements quite yet, it still was a symbolically significant set of optics for the entire developing world and global south to witness, which will only flower in the years to come as the wane of the West sets in. - Simplicius
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  1760. Putin adamantly restated the goals of the SMO. Not only that, but he again strongly implied that Russia will retake Odessa, calling it a purely Russian city which was founded by Catherine the Great. I think this fairly settles the debate on whether Russia intends to take back these territories. The Pentagon today admitted that the choice will soon be between attending to “our own military readiness” and supporting Ukraine: Putin’s statements reflect a reality even Western outlets now regularly report. This BBC report from a week and change ago interviewed the actual AFU marines there, shedding light on the horrors they’re experiencing: This is one of the first such specific admissions from the AFU side—he says he only has 2 howitzers while Russia has over 30 just in his quadrant alone. What’s shocking is that this is corroborated by another recent report straight from a Russian soldier who said AFU’s shelling has dropped so low there that they return 1 shell for every 50 that Russia fires. With such disparities, we’re supposed to believe that it’s the AFU taking favorable losses? The US general being placed in charge of the Ukrainian theater again reasserts that Russian jamming is greatly nullifying most Western systems in Ukraine: A new video released by a Russian electronics warfare unit shows a myriad of AFU FPV drones being jammed out of the sky, giving us a small idea of this lesser-seen aspect of warfare: Hitler once said if he knew the amounts of armor Russian factories could pump out, he would have never invaded. Looks like the 4th Reich mini-Fuhrer will learn the same lesson. - Simplicius
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  1764. Beyond the perfunctory pledges for cooperation in various civil fields, Russia and NK intend to construct a new road bridge at their border to better facilitate inter-state travel, as well as the big one: a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ for assistance in the event of aggression. There is the obvious fact that this represents an immediate signaling by Putin that he wasn’t bluffing when he said there would be retaliation for crossing of the red lines. The West escalates tensions by shielding themselves beneath a nuclear-capable proxy, which would allow the waging of nuclear war against Russia with a sort of built-in plausible deniability or legal defense. So now, Russia has requited in kind by implying they can give North Korea even more lethal missile technologies which can potentially be used in conjunction with nuclear warheads to put the U.S. under the nuclear sword. One suggestion making the rounds is the potential to supply the Russian Army with North Korea’s devastating KN-25 600mm MLRS system, which is basically the NK version of an ATACMS: That’s all not to mention the fact that while this was ongoing, Russian hypersonic-armed warships reportedly performed maneuvers within visual sight of Miami, a clear message sent: In short, Russia’s strategic defensive initiative with North Korea promises to keep Russia’s artillery-thirsty army more than quenched indefinitely. Russian forces on the north Kharkov front have settled into positions and allowed the reinforced Ukrainian troops to take the initiative in assaulting so that they can exhaust and attrition them, before retaking the initiative with new offensive actions. It’s becoming more and more evident that the entire Konstantinovka region is being placed in a slow-constricting boiler: As most intelligent observers know by now, the war is not about primarily gaining territory: it’s about attritioning the AFU and breaking its spirit until the point of collapse. - Simplicius
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  1767. This comes under the heading, "Know thy Enemy." Kiev regime drone terror attack attempt thwarted this morning - Russian Defense Ministry. Russian air defense systems detected and destroyed an unmanned drone over Belgorod region, pre-War West Russia. - Intel Report Ukrainian forces strike areas in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine) with 34 artillery shells of 155mm caliber, including 6 widely-banned cluster bombs. - Intel Report CONSEQUENCES OF ZELENSKY'S SPREAD OF HATRED IN HIS WAR AGAINST GOD. Man arrested after he enters church in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, punches icon of Jesus twice with a stone. - Intel Report Ukrainian criminal forces shell Belgorod region (pre-war West Russia) 9 times in 24 hours, 2 drones shot down. - Intel Report CAN'T JUST LEAVE THEM TO THE DOGS (00:13) says a clearly disturbed Russian soldier about Ukrainian cannon fodder not only left to rot for a week in Novoselovskoye, Lugansk (ex-Ukraine), but booby-trapped with mines by Kiev's regime. Moscow's troops got fired upon in an ironic reversal of roles, evacuating 7 of Zelensky's corpses and continue search for more dead or pieces of bodies. We're getting them in pieces. We're Christians, that's the way we were raised. We must help return these bodies and remains to their relatives. - Intel Report Destruction, charred buildings and homes in Kherson (ex-Ukraine) as region's residential areas endure 5 days of incessant Ukrainian shelling. - Intel Report Kiev's regime shells 10 times town of Volfino in Ukraine-bordering Kursk region (pre-war West Russia). 3 injured by shrapnel. - Intel Report Destruction at headquarters of humanitarian aid in Aleshki, Kherson region (ex-Ukraine). While Russia picks up Kiev's dead for the sake of their families, Zelensky's depravity knows no bound striking humanitarian aid going to people already subjected to his callous attacks. UPDATE: Russian air defenses also detect and destroy Ukrainian drone over Belgorod region (pre-war West Russia). - Intel Report Russian air defense destroy Ukrainian drone over Kursk region (pre-war West Russia). - Intel Report ◾ Russian forces repel Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), more than 425 enemy soldiers between killed and injured, tank, 4 armored vehicles, D-20, D-30 and Gvozdika howitzers destroyed. ◾More than 40 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 5 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 vehicles and artillery pieces destroyed in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine). ◾Russian air defenses intercept 8 US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher shells, destroy 25 Ukrainian drones. ◾Russian fighter shoots down Ukrainian-operated Mi-8 helicopter. ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 12 Ukrainians trying their best to escape military service due to massive numbers of war casualties, admits Zelensky's PR managers at New York Times. Number of draft evaders in Ukraine has grown substantially due to huge number of casualties, especially during the recent failed counteroffensive. Troop recruitment is becoming increasingly difficult and Kiev has reached ever deeper into society to keep its ranks filled - Note the report. PR managers with finally some actual PRing, claiming glaring lie that Kiev only suffered 150,000 between killed and injured since start of Special Operation, when it's proven to be around 400,000 KILLED and 2 million wounded/disabled. That's why Zelensky fired all regional recruitment chiefs.
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  1771. A large number of Americans still think that Russia is the Soviet Union, that the country is a crumbling wreck and the people are atheists and miserable. Boy, are they wrong. Although I have only visited the two largest cities in Russia — Moscow in the winter and St. Petersburg on the cusp of summer — I can report that the average Russian appears to be living as well, if not better, than their counterparts in the United States or Japan. Especially when it comes to quality of life. Unlike the big cities in the United States, you can stroll along the streets and boulevards of Moscow or St. Petersburg without worrying about getting mugged or stumbling over some homeless addict sprawled on the sidewalk. The streets are clean. No used needles or face masks. What about Russia’s military casualties? I spoke with a former soldier, who approached me at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, to express his frustration about Western propaganda. He made the same point I have — i.e., if Russia had suffered the number of casualties that Ukraine is claiming to have inflicted, Russia social media would be ablaze with photos and videos of fresh graves in cemeteries. Or, you would see multitudes of guys missing limbs or confined to wheel chairs moving down the sidewalks. I did not see that. While I am sure that Russia has suffered casualties, it has not reached a level that it is attracting public attention and comments on social media. I will close with a comment on the Zionist hostage rescue operation that took place over the weekend. While it is true that four hostages were freed, I suspect the operation was not the smashing success that is being touted in Western media. There are reports that the Israelis suffered some significant casualties and that other hostages were killed during the course of the operation. - Sonar21
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  1780. TIME Magazine Profile Depicts Grim Führerbunker-Stage of Zelensky's Conflict The lack of manpower has become so dire for the AFU that even if all the newfangled weapons from the West were to be delivered, Ukraine may no longer even have the men to use them: More and more voices have risen from the ranks of the AFU recently stating that they are flat out running out of men. This included the countless videos explaining how soon the entire population will have to be mobilized, man, woman, and child. Ukraine was defeated by its own Western propaganda. Now, the most aware pro-Ukrainian pundits are desperately trying to steer their flock back to rational thinking—but it’s too late. Some accounts have even pointed out how desperately pro-UA supporters have been trying to gin-up fake losses, for instance posting this one infamous photo of a field of corpses and trying to pass it off as Russian “meat assault losses” in Avdeevka. Only problem is, those were Ukrainian dead from Bakhmut as many well-trusted accounts have pointed out: In Kherson, Ukraine continues to claim some ‘successes’ but in fact the real intel is that they’re suffering nothing but absolute horrors there. A video emerged showing Ukrainian troops being fired upon by Polish mercenary “blocking detachments” to force them to cross the Dnieper. There are mutinies everywhere and the Ukrainian internal boards are filled with howling rage at the treacheries: Russia has continued to repel massive strikes on Crimea and Sevastopol. Now it’s being confirmed by Western sources that Russia has been increasing use of fully automated AI versions of the Lancet: Meanwhile the U.S. continues to experience weapons woes as the much-vaunted test launch of their new Minuteman III ICBM over the Pacific Ocean was apparently deemed a failure. - Simplicius ISRAEL FACES MOUNTING DIPLOMATIC ISOLATION WHILE UKRAINE GOES BEGGING Stupid! And let’s be clear, Brazil accused Israel of committing “war crimes.” This constitutes a little more than JUST “criticism.” I think “condemnation” is a better term. With each passing day Israel is digging itself a deeper hole. Videos like the following (which just appeared today) is one of the factors galvanizing more nations to protest Israel’s indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians. WARNING — THIS VIDEO IS HORRIFIC. - Sonar21 Against the background of heavy losses of the Israeli Army in manpower and heavy equipment during the ongoing ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the Russian army continues to deliver targeted missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, destroying the last remaining ammunition depots, which for a long time did not allow Moscow to put a final end to the agony of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Military experts recognized the Russian missile strike on the 47th arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southeastern part of the 'Khmelnytskyi' Oblast as the most powerful not only during all time of the current conflict but also in the entire history of wars since the beginning of the 1950s of the last century. - BORZZIKMAN
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  1782. WHY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IS CLUELESS WHEN IT COMES TO UKRAINE The fundamental flaw is the U.S. military personnel are pretending to have experience that they do not have. The Ukrainian counter offensive required having trained soldiers with a mix of skill and competence similar to that required of professional race car drivers. But they were not properly trained. They got the equivalent of a driver’s education class. Guess what happens when you put those “students” in a race with professional drivers? Yep. Massive car wreck. The biggest problem is the self-delusion of the United States. The American people have been bamboozled into believing that our multi-billion-dollar military is the best in the world. It is not. It is the most expensive, but well shy of being the best. At no time has the West squared up against a peer military with comparable, if not superior, air power, electronic warfare and combined arms experience, until now. The United States and its NATO partners created a de facto NATO army in Ukraine and naively assumed they could go toe-to-toe with Russia. I fear that the U.S. politicians and military leaders still fail to grasp that the “war” in Ukraine really was a special military operation. Russia did not unleash its full capabilities. The Russian General Staff, following the guidance received from President Putin, took great pains to avoid massive civilian casualties. Russia left a majority of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in place. Russia declined to destroy Ukraine and the West’s ISR platforms and satellite systems. Those actions are what you would see if Russia went on a total war footing. - Sonar21
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  1788. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned into a terrorist organization that intentionally attacks ambulances, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while speaking at the ‘Everything for Victory’ forum in Tula on Friday. He was commenting on attacks carried out by the Ukrainian military on residential areas of Russian cities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which have led to a number of civilian casualties. In one such attack on January 20, a paramedic working in the city of Gorlovka was wounded while trying to provide assistance to victims following a previous round of shelling. On January 12, another paramedic was also killed during a Ukrainian attack on an ambulance brigade in the same city. ”What is called the Armed Forces of Ukraine has turned into a terrorist organization that attacks ambulances,” Putin said. The president recalled a story he heard last year about how Russian forces intercepted communications between two Ukrainian tank operators who were trying to enter Donetsk. One of the servicemen had just killed a man who had stepped out of his house, Putin said, when the other officer asked him “Why did you do that? He was just some guy wearing a tracksuit. He had a family, you can hear his children running around in the house.” The response, according to Putin, was “They’re all terrorists here.” “What is this if not neo-Nazism? That’s not to mention the rounds of applause for actual SS officers in the Canadian parliament and the blatant attacks on medical workers and ambulance vehicles,” added the president. - RT
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  1804. Major Breakthroughs as AFU Defense Collapses in Avdeevka Firstly, Ukrainian comms were intercepted in the south of Avdeevka around this Tsar’s Hunt area. The exchanges point to heavy problems, a lot of dead and wounded amongst the AFU, as well as anger and disagreement with the command staff: Secondly, as Russian forces moved up, several batches of AFU surrendered, seemingly corroborating the disintegration of their lines hinted at in the radio exchanges above. Here, the Russian 80th Regiment troops of the 90th Guards Tank Division take in their haul of POWs in Avdeevka: There’s potential that this could domino into a huge collapse of several at-risk cauldrons which are now forming for the AFU. Russian troops have moved along Yasinovskaya toward the west, and now along the Tsar’s Hunt nearby. This has created a small cauldron in the center that can potentially be collapsed. In the south, the entire area north of the missile defense can potentially be collapsed and taken over. Here’s why that could bring AFU close to losing Avdeevka. It should also be mentioned all the areas being captured behind the Tsar’s Hunt are on high-ground, which is giving another advantage and likely contributing to the snowball effect of AFU’s collapse: And the Ukrainians bitterly admitted to Russia’s success here in their daily update: Lastly, there are also reports of advances on the eastern side of Avdeevka. Last time we spoke of the big Kharkov strike on French mercenaries. France tried to deny it, but oddly enough new information continues to trickle in reportedly confirming many of the names of deceased Frenchmen. Following this, Russia has now carried out a new devastating ballistic strike on the HQ of the Ukrainian 110th brigade in Mirnograd: Up to 40 AFU troops were said to have been eliminated, as reported by several Ukrainian sources including ex-Rada Deputy Ihor Mosiychuk: In the meantime, Russia gets stronger each day. A new batch of the latest 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV platforms was seen heading to the front, proving these systems are now in mass production as Russian defense officials promised last year: This is now the world’s most powerful and advanced artillery system. It has a totally new liquid-cooled barrel, and those big square blocks on the front are its own ballistic radar units which record the trajectories of each shot, calculating miniscule deviations from air pressure, wind, atmospherics, etc., and then automatically computing that into the next shot. It makes each subsequent shot more accurate than the last. But of course the biggest difference of all is the new barrel can handle far more powerful powder charges, which vastly increases its range. No one quite knows what it is for regular rounds, presumably 30-40km. But for special RAP rounds it’s reportedly in the 70-80km range, which would allow it to surpass any of the vaunted NATO weapons like the French Caesar, Phz 2000, etc., and more importantly fire from the deep rear where Ukrainian drones can’t reach. In a new interview, Zelensky ridiculously claimed that he doesn’t need a 500k man mobilization, and tried to pass that idea entirely off on ‘others’. It’s very clear he’s desperate to absolve himself of any of the most ‘difficult’ decisions which can be construed by society as justifications for his overthrow. Russian forces continue to deliver items to troops in the middle of trench assaults: More AFU were captured near Ugledar as well: There have been a lot of captures the past few days as Russian troops advance nearly everywhere. AFU’s head of aerial recon center for Berdiansk-in-exile says Russia is pulling away in drones and EW tech: - Simplicius
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  1806. The biggest take away from the Glantz/Houseman book is the difference between a Soviet “war footing” and the current Russian “Special Military Operation.” While modern day Russia is applying some of the planning and operational principles exercised by the Soviet Stavka during WW II, Russia has not fully mobilized nor has it unleashed the kind of firepower associated with Soviet attacks in WW II. This is a simple way of saying Russia has not yet fully flexed its military muscle. One of the biggest reasons the West consistently misunderstands and misinterprets what is happening militarily in Ukraine with Russian operations is that the West projects onto Russia what it thinks the Russians should do. Russia is employing a dispersed offensive that applies concentrated force at a variety of locations along the 1200 kilometer front. Without clearly signaling their next axis of attack, the Russians are able to confuse what is left of Ukraine’s army and force it to shift forces back and forth along the front. Just as a tsunami builds slowly and then suddenly overwhelms all that is in front of it, I think we are witnessing the Russians unleashing the equivalent of a military tsunami. I have long been on record that there was no stalemate in Ukraine; that Russia has a clear and decisive advantage. Good to know that former CIA Chief and Secretary of Defense Bobby Gates agrees with me: Still, Gates can’t help but peddle stupid BS. “Russia suffered staggering losses?” Absolute nonsense devoid of facts. It is this kind of self-deceit that prevents most Western analysts from grasping the dire predicament facing Ukraine and NATO. I suspect the Russians privately are encouraging the West to continue to indulge in such fantasies. Just makes the Russian strategic task easier to pull off. - Sonar21
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  1808. Following this news, a meltdown of epic proportions has ensued in the Ukrainian commentariat—the top names and influencers are not taking this news well: And why are they not taking the news in stride? Many believe that Syrsky is hated by the Ukrainian troops, particularly those on the frontlines. He’s being called a ‘butcher’ and is known in other circles as a meat-grinder who refused to give an inch in Bakhmut while calling for frontal meat-assaults, leading to the extermination of an entire field army group. Zelensky on the other hand praises him for his grand achievements: the Kiev “defense” and the Kharkov offensive. Unfortunately, as sector commander in 2015, he was also reportedly responsible for the infamous Debaltsevo cauldron: We have collected the most famous operations of Syrsky, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Debaltsevo-2015 Soledar-2022 Bakhmut-2022 All these operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ended in encirclement and defeat for them. Two majors. But here’s the most important angle that few others, it seems, have noticed. Ask yourself, why would Zelensky appoint a commander that the entire armed forces allegedly hates? In fact, this is a ‘design feature’ not a bug. Recently it was claimed Zaluzhny likewise attempted to get Avdeevka totally withdrawn. It does not seem that he likes to waste men for what he knows to be fruitless efforts. Syrsky on the other hand appears glad to grind them down. And in the past few days, reports on almost every frontline have been absolutely cataclysmic for Ukraine. The ammo shortage appears to be so bad now that they’re barely able to hold on, taking unprecedented losses in the process. Most notably, heavy action is occurring on Sinkovka and Novomikhailovka where Russia is pushing through Ukrainian lines: It’s getting so bad that a Ukrainian battalion now has as few as 40 capable fighting troops: But to get back to Avdeevka: the reports of losses in the AFU there are terrible. Such an anecdotal one says they’re losing a battalion a week just there alone: Female AFU POW taken: her husband is MIA, she has 3 kids, no job, went to the army to pay the bills, was sent to Krynki (Russian bank of the Dnieper), wounded, denied evacuation (not valuable enough), left to die, saved by the Russians. One of the key factors responsible for the decisive advances in Avdeevka of the past week were mass Russian bombing campaigns via UMPK Fab-500 glidebombs. Today alone a reported 80-100 such Fabs were dropped on Avdeevka alone onto Ukrainian positions and withdrawing units on the supply routes. A new video has dispelled doubts of the UMPK bombs’ accuracy for the first time, showing them hitting several large Ukrainian warehouses in closeup fashion. But what is most notable is the sequence at the end. Three bombs hit, two of them choosing adjacent warehouses—but note the third bomb: it is said to be a new type of airburst variety equipped with an altimeter or proximity fuze, allowing it to rain fragments and shrapnel down at the target from above: - Simplicius
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  1817. This past July, one of the most remarkable articles of the entire Ukrainian war flew under the radar. The reason is, as the Ukrainian war presently enters a new watershed phase characterized by the slow-acceptance of Ukraine’s now de facto losing position, a proverbial windmill of narratives is churned out from the pro-UA side seeking to somehow reconcile the various cognitive dissonances created by their inability to understand how it is possible that the mighty NATO bloc could be losing to Russia. But the key portion of the article, which comes next, is the admission that Biden dispatched CIA director Burns to Russia on the eve of the invasion in late 2021. They had been watching Russia’s troop buildups, and in essence sent Burns to deliver a final warning of consequences should Russia proceed with an invasion. Though Putin ended up “snubbing” the CIA head by staying in a Sochi resort and refusing to meet him in person, he did take his secure phone call from Sochi. What comes next is the heart of the entire article and is one of the most significant and remarkable admissions of the entire war. It is a must read: But that’s far from reality. The US is direly overstretched; its most critical bases in Europe—the ones actually capable of fielding the types of platforms that could actually do anything against Russia, are highly vulnerable. The US has further learned from the Ukrainian conflict that its most advanced air defense is virtually helpless against Russia’s top missiles. Reuters recently told us that Ukraine alone has 1/3 of all the air defense of the entire European continent, and yet Russia has no trouble penetrating it. Another small admission at the end. Pro-UA armchair warriors on Twitter believe US is incapable of being challenged and that Russia is weak; in the meantime, the actual CIA people who work the conflict understand the realities quite differently. Then comes another reveal of Russia’s own clandestine capabilities: Once again we see the common thread: contrary to BroSints’ performative gung ho chauvinism, the real movers and shakers are scrupulous and smart enough to fear Russia’s wrath. Though it’s besides the central point, this was an eye-opening revelation indeed: "The CIA learned with the attack on the Crimea bridge that Zelensky either didn't have complete control over his own military or didn't want to know of certain actions," says the military intelligence official. After the foolhardy drone attack on the Kremlin in the center of Moscow, the article notes that even Poland had begun warning the CIA that Ukraine was, in essence, a refractory mad dog: Ultimately though, this Newsweek article should serve as further proof to brainwashed pro-UA supporters that this really is a proxy war between two giants, with Ukraine merely being a pawn stuck in the middle, whose own infant squalls are ignored in favor of Russia’s far weightier demarches. That should serve as a wake up call for Ukrainians: you are merely being used as disposable puppets in a geopolitical Great Game. And when that game is done, the actual players will shake hands and move on to the next contest while you will be left as the detritus to be ‘swept up’, like the trash and fast-food wrappers strewing the stadium grounds after a big match. No matter how hard you try, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of lives of your own people you throw away, you will never become that Big Player on the stage that you were induced and gaslighted into thinking you could become. The only chance at survival you stand is to join the only one of the two Big Players which actually cares for you and views you as a close blood relative, rather than as a soggy rag to blow snot into then discard. - Simplicius
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  1819. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Once again, the Russian Armed Forces liberated a settlement outside Pokrovsk city, Shevchenko, dealing a serious blow to Ukraine and NATO, hundreds of their soldiers were eliminated while trying to defend it. The Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced on January 11, 2025, that fighters from the 74th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the Kutuzov Brigade of the Tsentr Group of Forces, have just completed an operation to liberate Shevchenko and hoist the Russian flag there! It was the area around Pokrovsk, heavily fortified by Ukrainian troops, that suffered another crushing defeat after two failed counteroffensives by the Kiev regime in Kursk. During the liberation of the settlement, Russian soldiers managed to destroy all Ukrainian military installations even in fierce battles, blowing up enemy positions using tanks and artillery! The tactics of continuous attacks by Russian troops on Ukrainian positions outside Pokrovsk, proved to be quite successful, breaking through Ukrainian defenses almost everywhere. As shown in the footage, the Russian flag is now flying over one buildings of Shevchenko, moving the Russian border even further west. Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the Russian command and personnel on the liberation of the village of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic. “Today, as for many years, the servicemen of the 74th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the Kutuzov Brigade honorably fulfilled the combat mission set before them in the fight against neo-Nazis, confidently repelling them,” the head of the Russian military department wrote in Telegram. Pokrovsk, the site of the most active fighting, is entering its final days as part of Ukraine. At the moment, the situation in the city is not normal and is characterized by the absence of activity of the population, as shown in the latest footage from the Ukrainian army. Every expert believes that the collapse of the main city is just a matter of time, as Russian troops continue to advance and at the same time Kiev's forces continue to decline. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a dead end, lacking personnel and military equipment, some of them even personally conduct fundraising efforts through the media.
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  1842. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - On the direct orders of President Putin, the 106th Guards Airborne Division's 51st Guards Airborne Regiment launched a massive counteroffensive to quickly dislodge Ukrainian troops from several settlements at once in the Kursk region. Russian military correspondent released videos today, September 11, 2024, showing a large Russian armored column with a large amount of equipment and landing troops, moving to launch an offensive from the north of Korenevo, and quickly reaching the south of Snagost. The troops of the 51st Parachute Regiment drove out, and destroyed the unfortunate Zelensky group, fleeing from Snagost, which had been occupied by Ukraine for some time. Yesterday's attack caught the Armed Forces of Ukraine by surprise! Western surveillance did not have any hints of a counteroffensive to liberate Snagost. As they write, Ukraine did not understand what was happening. But, Russia took a week of secret preparations and launched a powerful attack. Starting active offensive operations, first managed to bring at least eight tanks and armored vehicles across the Seym River, and then across small rivers, despite the Ukrainian attacks on the bridges. Armored convoys jumped through the fields to the settlements, and attacked Ukrainian hideouts there. It all ended in a short time with the liberation of Snagost at night. Kursk, events developed rapidly, the enemy has fled, according to war correspondent Pavel Kukushkin. Yesterday, our Paratroopers from the 51st and 56th Regiments suddenly attacked the enemy on our right flank in Vishnevka, Snagost, Apanasovka - they have been liberated, Kukushkin said. The situation on the left flank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine group has worsened significantly than on their maps. The Russian military released videos of the aftermath of the assault around Snagost, the restoration of the territory, and the consequences that the Ukrainian assault forces suffered, leaving their wounded comrades, some of which are infographic images. Video taken by a Russian soldier shows an Ukrainian soldier lying on a mattress with his head bandaged, with syringes and ampoules scattered nearby. Also, Paratroopers of the 51st Airborne Regiment are escorting eight Ukrainian officers, who were taken as prisoners of war.
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  1853. The more directly salient events occurred last night, when Russia launched one of the larger and more impactful strikes of the war, hitting numerous Ukrainian hydro-electric power plants, including the big one in Dnipro—one of the largest in Europe—Zaporozhye, and a plant in Kharkov, as well as dozens of other military production sites in Kiev and west Ukraine. The city of Kharkov was said to be entirely de-energized and even Ukrainian figures again confessed that little of the strikes was actually stopped by AD: Peskov has apparently let the cat out of the bag last night, seemingly inaugurating Russia’s new posture toward the conflict when he announced that this is no longer a Special Military Operation, but is now a proper War: One thing that is certain, is that given all the recent events, coupled with today’s terror attacks, Russian politicians are becoming increasingly bellicose and irreverent when it comes to respecting previous European “partners”. Pyotr Tolstoy, who’s the Deputy Chairman of the Duma, one of its most powerful members, just unleashed this blistering attack on Macron, and in French, no less: He states that Russia will specifically target and destroy all French military if they should arrive in Ukraine. This echoes Peskov who also added that beyond retaking the 4 new Russian regions (LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye, Kherson), Russia “cannot allow” the Ukrainian regime to exist on its doorstep. To finish by bringing it around full circle: What was the point of the Moscow terror attack and who was responsible? It’s really that simple: take attention away from Ukraine’s staggering losses, sow confusion and resentment against the leadership within Russian society, and perhaps most importantly: try to unbalance Putin into ‘over-reacting’ and creating some kind of retaliatory event that can be sold to Europe/NATO as a grave enough ‘Russian aggression’ necessitating French/NATO intervention to save Zelensky’s ass. One way or another, things definitely feel like a corner has been turned recently, and the conflict is entering a new more dangerous phase. Lastly: Yaroslav Dronov, better known as Shaman, has pledged to pay not only for every single funeral of today’s terror attack victims, but even for the rehabilitation of all the wounded: It’s times like these which separate the ‘liberals’ from the patriots and will further solidify Russia’s patriotic core. - Simplicius
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  1870. So pay careful attention to Putin’s warning to the West during his annual “The State of Russia” speech. Putin noted that while accusing Russia of plans to attack NATO allies in Europe, Western allies were “selecting targets for striking our territory” and “talking about the possibility of sending a NATO contingent to Ukraine.” “We remember the fate of those who sent their troop contingents to the territory of our country,” the Russian leader said in an apparent allusion to the failed invasions by Napoleon and Hitler. “Now the consequences for the potential invaders will be far more tragic.” In a two-hour speech before an audience of lawmakers and top officials, Putin cast Western leaders as reckless and irresponsible and declared that the West should keep in mind that “we also have the weapons that can strike targets on their territory, and what they are now suggesting and scaring the world with, all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization.” Putin’s remarks were not “off-the-cuff.” It was a carefully crafted message directed specifically at Biden and NATO leaders and came in the wake off French President Macron’s incredibly tone-deaf speech earlier in the week: Macron was not the only European leader with a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease. Olaf Scholz did his share to sow more NATO disunity. While he strongly dismissed Macron’s claim that Europe would deploy troops to Ukraine, he threw the U.K. and France under the bus: Besides Putin’s clear warning to the NATO alliance that it is playing with potential nuclear fire, Russia’ s intelligence service leaked a stunning conversation between German military officers who were discussing plans to attack Russia. This was not an accidental leak. It was intended to put the West on notice that Russia is fully aware of what NATO officials across the alliance are saying to each other and is aware of plans to attack Russian targets. This leak coupled with Putin’s remarks the previous day is an unmistakable warning to the West that it is approaching a red-line that, if crossed, will require a strong Russian response. Such a response could include destroying NATO bases used to launch attacks on Russia. Putin is not BSing. He is serious and the gravity of the matter is underscored by Putin giving the green light to leak intercepted conversations of NATO officers to the media. The West better pay close attention. - Sonar21
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  1878. The first thing that jumped out at me as I listened to the Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview is that Putin is 100 times more intellectually capable than President Joe Biden. No wonder Biden won’t take his call. It says a lot that the terrible people who run the United States wanted to prevent Carlson from conducting the interview, and then to hinder it from being made available to the American public. Many, including Carlson himself, expressed frustration that the Russian President began with a history lesson, going back to the founding of the Kievan Rus state in 882. I suspect this was Putin’s sly way of expressing a salient point that has long struck me about we Americans—namely, while our government is ever keen to send weapons and armies all over the world to police mankind, we find it onerous to sit through a 30-minute history lesson about the people and places we wish to control. Russia is, in Churchill’s formulation, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” and it has always been governed by an authoritarian state. Nevertheless, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there is plenty of evidence that Russia wished to cease living in a state of enmity with the United States. Russia is, in Churchill’s formulation, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” and it has always been governed by an authoritarian state. Nevertheless, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there is plenty of evidence that Russia wished to cease living in a state of enmity with the United States. To me, it seems clear it was the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, and NOT Russia, that wished to maintain this state of enmity, for without it, there would be little justification for the U.S. government to spend hundreds of billions on weapons goodies such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II—a program that started in 1995 and (if DoD accountants are to be believed) has cost U.S. taxpayers about 500 billion. - Courageous Discourse
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  1900. Very bad news for the Globalist West Warmongers! LOL The expert community began to discuss a very strange statement by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. In particular, he indirectly asked the Russian military not to start hunting for American tanks in Ukraine. ''I remember perfectly well how the Russians announced a hunt for German Leopard-2 tanks. This should not be allowed to happen with 'M1-Abrams' tanks. The Russians should start playing by the rules and stop declaring a hunt for American tanks,'' - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. - BORZZIKMAN CATASTROPHIC CLOUDS of soot and fumes engulf chemical plant in Ukrainian-controlled side of Avdeevka, Donetsk Region (ex-Ukraine) after Russian strike sears through facility and sends coke into dust. - Intel Report The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing a Tor-M2 short-range anti-aircraft system intercepting a US-made Switchblade kamikaze drone deployed by Ukrainian forces. The ‘M2’ variant is the latest in the Tor family, which has the ability to engage targets on the move rather than after stationary deployment. This makes it efficient in protecting military columns. - RT Ukrainian soldiers face wrath of Russian artillery pummeling their positions with devastating strikes in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine) destroying 2 tanks, 2 armored vehicles (footage above), shooting down Su-25 fighter jet and laying waste to up to 355 enemy soldiers. Russian air defenses destroy 26 Ukrainian terror drones. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 27 - Intel Report
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  1916. The Biden Administration declassified a U.S. intelligence assessment on the war in Ukraine and it was promptly shared with the media as part of a Biden Administration full court press to persuade Congress to cough up more bucks for Ukraine. The information reported by Politico and CNN is disturbing because it shows the U.S. is out of touch with reality and furiously spinning in order to give the politicians what they want to hear. These are classic examples of politics taking precedence over intelligence. Politico’s piece — US declassifies intel as the White House pushes for more Ukraine funding — focuses on the nonsensical meme that Russia is banking on a stalemate and insists that Russia is suffering terrible losses: We also know that Russia is not dragging 40 and 50 year old guys off the streets and forcing them to join the army. That is Ukraine. Russia, by contrast, signed up more than 40,000 soldiers a month during the first 11 months of 2023: We did not learn a damn thing from our debacle in Vietnam. Sending “advisors” to the front lines has never fixed a thing. There is not a single active duty general in the U.S. military that has any hands on experience with fighting a combined arms war against an industrial peer. Russia is not going to sit back and allow its civilians to be slaughtered by Western weapons. I hope Aguto understands that. If he does not, he may very well end his tour of duty in Ukraine in a body bag and the United States will be in a war it is not ready to fight. Pray for peace. - Sonar21
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  1917. When Empires Whisper: Clinton’s Forgotten Promise to Yeltsin Back in July (5th) 1994, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s embattled president, asked his American counterpart, Bill Clinton, for a favor: intercede for the rights of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states. Yeltsin’s plea was simple yet urgent, protect the millions of ethnic Russians stranded in newly independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after the Soviet collapse. Clinton, in a polished display of Cold War-era politicking, promised to "address" the issue. But promises, as history has shown, are cheap in the West’s rules-based order. Fast forward nearly three decades, and we see the real fruits of that broken promise. The Russian-speaking populations in the Baltics have been systematically marginalized… stripped of citizenship, voting rights, and even the ability to use their language in public spheres. NATO expansion swept over the region like a bulldozer, erasing Clinton’s assurances as mere footnotes in a broader campaign to encircle Russia. In the context of the SMO, the Baltic precedent underscores Russia’s legitimate concerns about the rights of her people and the creeping militarization of its borders. This wasn’t just about the Baltics, it was the opening act in a Western playbook designed to encroach on Moscow’s sphere of influence, from Ukraine to Georgia and beyond. The current conflict isn’t a "surprise"; it’s the culmination of decades of broken promises and deliberate provocations. The West claims to champion human rights, yet turned a blind eye to ethnic cleansing-by-bureaucracy in the Baltics. Clinton’s empty assurances to Yeltsin reveal the true nature of the so-called rules-based order: rules for some, chaos for others. NATO didn’t stop at the Baltics; it aimed straight for Ukraine, igniting the proxy war we see today. But the SMO has flipped the script. Russia isn’t just addressing NATO’s provocations, it’s dismantling the empire’s entire façade of credibility. The plight of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltics reminds the world of what’s at stake: the battle for sovereignty against a decaying unipolar system. The West’s lies, from Yeltsin’s era to today, are collapsing under the weight of their hypocrisy. The SMO is much more than a mere military campaign, it’s a historical reckoning. Russia is standing up for its people, its borders, and the very principle of national dignity that the West claims to defend but systematically destroys. Clinton promised Yeltsin action. Instead, he delivered NATO troops, anti-Russian rhetoric, and policies designed to erase Russian identity. The West has made its choice. Now, the multipolar world is making its move. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  1918. Tu-160 bombers have been upgraded with new cruise missiles with a range of over 6,500km - Ministry of Defense. The Tu-160 is the largest ever and most powerful military supersonic aircraft. The Tu-160M (modernized) had its maiden flight only in January 2022 and is deployed in the Special Operation. - Intel Report For every 100 people mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine this time last year, less than 20 remain - Poltava (central Ukraine) military enlistment office. - Intel Report Ukrainians are being advised to bury their dead in biodegradable bags, so that they will become useful fertilizer. Fighting for the land they're not even allowed to take up room in when they're dead - this is International Monetary Fund owned land now. - Intel Report Russian forces wake up and decide they wanna see a Ukrainian tank get nice and crispy - how handy that there’s 1 piece of armor just waiting to get wrecked as drone barrels into it and leaves it burning, all while Russian troops repel 34 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) over past week, with Kiev army suffering over 1,700 casualties in process. Ukrainian forces also fail so badly in their attempts to attack Russian positions in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) over past week that they lose over 740 troops and 20 tanks and armored vehicles, and are forced to withdraw their airborne assault brigade after it suffers huge losses. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 15 “Russia cannot be defeated ,” former adviser to Zelensky, Arestovich shocks Ukrainians. “It is impossible to put pressure on an opponent that has nuclear weapons. And economic sanctions, - Iran has been under economic sanctions for 40 years, and has been pursuing a completely independent policy. And Russia is bigger than Iran and more influential." Arestovich is taking the argument to its logical conclusion - if the stakes were raised high enough, one cannot 'win' a country with the highest nuclear arsenal in the world. Why then are they fighting 'to the last Ukrainian?' - Intel Report It is not just the Generals praying for signs that Russia is crumbling. Business Insider contributes its two cents about the alleged economic problems buffeting Russia — There are 5 things the West could do to put even more pressure on Russia’s struggling economy, think tank says. The neo-cons at the Atlantic Council are behaving like drowning passengers on the Titanic, frantically grasping for life jackets: I guess the scribes at the Atlantic Council are too busy conjuring fantasies to read the New York Times latest — Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say – NY Times Ukraine, by contrast, no longer has enough forces to sustain a breakthrough and is totally dependent on Western aid. One of the advantages of doing analysis without relying on classified information is that regular media and social media posts provide a pretty reliable indicator of the status of the battle. For example, there are several video clips of Ukrainian troops complaining about lack of weapons and terrible leadership. I have yet to see anything comparable from the Russian side. Another data point is the coverage of the main stream media. I make it a habit to check in on Sky News to see what the Brits are saying. Six months ago you could count on at least one segment in an hour broadcast at noon London time extolling the success of Ukrainian troops and dishing dire news about Russia’s flagging efforts on the battle field. That is no longer the case. Sky News barely mentions the war in Ukraine these days. If Ukraine was steam rolling to victory you can be sure that the British correspondents would be ebullient about the Ukrainian counter offensive. In this case, the proverb — silence is golden — does not apply. The silence about a purported Ukraine victory (or a Russian army in chaos) is telling. There is no good news to report if you’ve bet your house on Ukraine winning. - Sonar21
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  1919. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Russian troops managed to take another new settlement, Novodmitrovka, as its troops worked well, sucking out enemy forces with significant advances. The Russian Defense Ministry published videos on November 23, 2024, showing the breakthrough of the assault detachment by the "O Brave" unit of the Center Group of Forces, maneuvering under Ukrainian fire until the tricolor flag was raised there, north of Kurakhovo in Donetsk. The video shows basements and houses where Ukrainians were hiding, until the Russian flag was finally raised permanently there. The stormtroopers used a flanking maneuver to destroy the enemy in the tree line of the forest belt around Novodmitrovka. The brave soldiers, acting quickly under heavy artillery fire and Ukrainian attack drones, nevertheless made it through without any losses. Due to the coordination and courage in their work, the Center Group managed to clear the settlement and raise the victory flag. Towards Novodmitrovka, the zone of control of Russian troops has now been significantly expanded, penetrating Zarya and its environs, as well as Sontsovka, ensuring that most of Ukrainian group fled westward. Thus, Russian troops developed the offensive, penetrated as far as possible, and now control most of the semi-cauldron area southeast of Kurakhovo. The Russian stormtroopers also used other methods to quickly force Ukrainian troops to surrender. The troops worked very well, dropping leaflets with the help of drones and groups of Ukrainian armed personnel were taken to a safe place with the help of radios also dropped by drones. One Ukrainian soldier mistakenly thought that the drone were going to attack him, but in fact they were going to take him to a safe place and he was happy. Three soldiers from Ukrainian brigade with civilian appearance managed to lay down their arms amid the escalating situation between Russia and NATO, and considering their collapse in the city of Kurakhovo, it is getting worse!
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  1924. The EU is desperately looking for ways to finance the rebuilding of Ukraine as Soros becomes more and more angry with the failed war, failed peace, and a lost trafficking hub. Money. Using frozen Russian assets the Powers want to use the assets valued at $200 billion as collateral for a loan. The security for their ultimate transfer would hinge on Russia failing to pay Ukraine reparations after the war. Parlez vous … Deja Vu. The CIA is demanding that Zelenskyy hand over the military power vacuum to them. The CIA wants to run the show because Zelenskyy failed. The peril of this is obvious – America would be liable – and Russia could sue for Reparations! This is why the White House is in such a tizzy that the Ukraine aid of $60 billion inserted in a dead border deal was pushed aside. The CIA needs the funds to militarize Ukraine under their tutelage. Temporarily put on hold until funding can be generated… The idea that the CIA in Ukraine could defeat Russia is sheer madness. It completely upends the ability of the EU to use Russian assets to secure a loan to rebuild a country still in the midst of bombs. What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive! Imagine if the CIA put all that energy into actually doing good! Working FOR America instead of for their Masters. Allen Dulles was instrumental in creating this rogue element we call the CIA which is better defined as the ‘death squad for the Zionist Mafia’. Corrupt since their inception. Lest we forget – JFK’s assassination was orchestrated by this America Terrorist Cartel – CIA. We are not dealing with the brightest stars on the Hollywood sidewalk in Langley or the EU. Their inherent ability to stage a pretend play of narratives that have been wholly proven illegal by themselves implicates ignorance on a mass scale. - LewRockwell
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  1935. Two days out from Iran’s seminal strike on Israel and some things are being clarified. All the early claims of having shot everything down were slowly retracted, with more realistic headlines taking their place as testament to the confusion behind the scenes. Videos like this one are hard to deny—watch the end to see major explosions at the site of whatever was hit: Last night, Iranian assets were allegedly struck in Jableh outside Khmeimim—it’s uncertain if that’s meant to be the ‘response’, or one of them. Fake news reports claimed Israel had struck Russia’s Khmeimim base itself, but geolocations showed that to not be the case Everyone knows there are competing factions within the US government, which is why the State Department had witnessed a surge of resignations this year over the Biden team’s support of Israel. However, Brian Berletic outlined the other likely explanation for these seemingly incoherent discrepancies. On one hand, Biden reiterated he would not support Israeli strikes, which need to be “proportional”, he says: But on the other, Berletic quotes the 2009 Brookings paper entitled "Which Path to Persia?", which outlines a strategy of “maintaining plausible deniability while, in fact, attacking Iran including its nuclear sites.” It’s obvious that a pro-Zionist faction of the deep state in the US government is working in tandem with Mossad to set Iran up as the fall guy one way or another. Whether they get the Democrats to attack Iran, or they take out Trump and blame it on Iran in order to whip up a military campaign of performative vengeance. What’s obvious is that Israel is pushing all its neocon puppets to make the most out of its ongoing disastrous maelstrom of unprovoked attacks on neighboring countries. Israel will settle for any kind of ‘victory’, which can be defined as whatever buys it civilizational time against its enemies. Taking out Iran’s nuclear program would be ‘worth’ the price of slaughter and their likely soon-to-fail Lebanese campaign. It’s not looking good so far, with photos claiming to show knocked out Merkavas and Hezbollah’s claims that dozens of IDF have already been eliminated with hardly any territory captured. At this pace, Israel will understandably need to ‘divert’ again to a big US-led strike campaign against Iran to paste over and memory-hole what may turn out to be another huge failure in Lebanon. As a last pertinent update, on the heels of Iran’s strikes, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with Iran’s president in Doha, Qatar in a symbolic opening of a new chapter of rapprochement: Something tells me this isn’t the “new Middle East” Netanyahu wants: Just a day after Iran’s missile attack, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister meets with Iran’s president, declaring that Saudi Arabia wants to “permanently close the chapter on our differences.” So, snubbing Israel while meeting with Iran’s president under the proclamation of “permanently [closing] the chapter on our differences”. It seems the last remaining silver linings are quickly turning to lead for Israel. - Simplicius
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  1948. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Video shows Russian Northern Fleet drills in the Arctic Circle, kicking off new exercises on Tuesday, as joint naval exercises with China, as part of strategic command and staff exercises dubbed ‘Ocean-2024’ that began on Tuesday and run until September 16. The Russian Defense Ministry released footage showing the ships moving through the Arctic, having arrived in the eastern Arctic Ocean to protect the “military security” of Russian coastal facilities in the region. The drills will “study possible threat areas” in a region that most of the countries surrounding the Arctic are members of NATO, which is unfriendly and continues to deploy weapons in the region. The drills—which include the Rear Admiral Kulakov destroyer and the Alexander Otrakovsky, a large landing ship—are part of a series of joint Russian-Chinese exercises. They involve more than 400 warships, submarines and support vessels across the Arctic and Pacific oceans, as well as in the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic seas. More than 90,000 personnel and 120 aircraft are participating. Troops with the Russian Pacific Fleet will practice defending sea communications near Russian eastern Primorsky region bordering China, the Defense Ministry added. Four Chinese warships and one supply ship are taking part. The tasks that the Russian Northern Fleet will perform during the drills include ensuring the security of coastal infrastructure facilities in the Russian Arctic region, investigating potential areas of military operations and carrying out joint special operations aimed at eliminating terrorists during the military exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. NATO, despite taking a heavy hit in its proxy war in Ukraine, is busy reopening a number of facilities and military presence in the region, which poses an "acute threat" primarily to Russia.
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  1950. Update on Ukraine conflict for August 27, 2023 ALL from Western Sources per Combat Channel with refs supplied. - Ukraine’s offensive nears 3 months of fighting and has yet to breach Russia’s first of several defensive lines; - Russia not only continues frustrating Ukraine’s offensive, it is launching its own offensive in the northeast that is gaining momentum; - Amid the failing offensive, Ukraine and its Western sponsors trade blame and argue over the best course forward; - Talk continues to be made regarding “wonder weapons” like F-16 and JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets despite the implausible nature of using either effectively in battle; - A juncture is approaching where the West will have to decide whether to allow Ukraine to begin irreversibly collapsing or intervene more directly; Ukraine’s dreams of counter-offensive triumph have hit a hard reality. (The Telegraph). Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood. (The Economist). Ukraine’s Reset: A Slow and Bloody Advance on Foot. (The Wall Street Journal). UK Telegraph; Ukraine running out of men. Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory. (The Washington Post). The latest piece on Real Clear Defense, a Pro Ukrainian site, Why Is Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Destined To Fail?, is a stark warning that the Fat Lady is starting to sing: More of the MO of the UKE Army specializing in shelling civilian targets. Three children with shrapnel wounds hospitalized in Donetsk, DPR after another Ukrainian shelling. Ukrainian Army shells Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, DPR (ex-Ukraine) with multiple-launch rocket systems. According to DPR authorities, five missiles were fired. Ukrainian Army fires three 155mm widely-banned cluster shells on Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). Two civilians wounded in Gorlovka, DPR (ex-Ukraine) from Ukrainian Army shelling. Parts of Gorlovka, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) deenergized from Ukrainian shelling. - Intel Report
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  1971. Front lines are collapsing for the Ukrainian army, whole units surrendering. Top commanders are fired. Faced with complete disarray of the U.S.-NATO instigated war in Ukraine, U.S. militarists are doubling down. U.S. efforts to dismember Russia appear to have utterly failed. Economic sanctions, price caps, the protracted war on Russia’s border and tens of billions of dollars, along with hundreds of U.S. and other NATO member troops sent as trainers, plus mercenary contractors can’t hold the corrupt Ukrainian military machine together. The statements promoting strikes with the U.S.-supplied weapons to targets inside Russia are being made directly by President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is a former prime minister of Norway, but acts as if he were a U.S. official. All these elaborate plans would be dashed if Ukrainian defense lines crumbled before the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. This 75th anniversary NATO Summit is a grand plan to showcase U.S. and Western imperialist dominance. Zelensky’s effort to call a “Peace Summit” on June 15 and 16 in Lucerne, Switzerland, exposes Ukraine’s dwindling support. The “Peace Summit” bars Russian participation. The effort is so flimsy that not even Biden is bothering to attend. The Rand Corporation, a powerful think tank for the major military industries, confirms the cynical calculations that justify war profits, regardless of the danger. Rather than reassess their deteriorating global position, U.S. strategists seem determined to put the fate of the world at risk. - LewRockwell
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  1984. The most important developments on the docket are that Zelensky was supposed to address Congress in a classified meeting tonight, which was for some reason cancelled at the last minute. One of the potential explanations is that the Republicans have snubbed Biden and the Democrats’ overtures to unlock the Ukrainian funding, as the Rs simply won’t budge from their demands on securing the border first. A few months ago, there were reports that much of Ukraine’s critical aid like shells, etc., is given “hand to mouth.” Meaning, as soon as it rolls off the production line it’s immediately shipped and just as immediately used. They don’t have vast storehouses of it and thus the cut off would theoretically have instant ramifications on their ability to carry out basic battlefield functions. In the meantime, the pro-UA crowd is having a meltdown. All kinds of Ukrainian analysts and figures of the commentariat have been dishing out increasingly high-pitch squeals and cries of alarm. Everyone from Arestovich, Gordon, various soldiers on the frontline—there seems to be nothing but bad news. The West has completely dissolved the productive capacities that made it the powerhouse of the world during the Cold War era: This fraudulent specter of Russian imperialism is being ginned-up to spin fear through the dim European populace and galvanize Ukraine’s sagging support. Russia is vastly expanding its budgets and planning to conquer all of Europe, yet at the same time, it is Russia that is clamoring to end the war, and that a ceasefire is a “Russian propaganda” directive? How does that make sense? It’s just risible bile, and shows the utter moral and intellectual destitution of the declining West’s late stage propaganda efforts—they’re not even trying anymore. Just observe doltish Stoltenberg who pantomimes concern with his bovine blinks while expectorating some nonsense like: “We must bring peace by continuing to arm Ukraine!” It’s a veritable gallery of clowns! The U.S. has no interest in seeing its armor lose all its prestige on the world stage via dozens of HD videos of burning Abrams tanks, exposed by the superior Russian weaponry we were supposed to believe was no match. - Simplicius
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  1985. Thanks for letting us know that the Ukes "acting professionally" were destroyed! Also, talkng fast is a good way to cover up mistakes one makes when speculation substitutes for ground truth. I'm seeing more and more of that after examining the actual Ground Reports! Putin and the Russians have a pretty remarkable achievement with respect to one of their stated objectives at the outset of the Special Military Operation — demilitarize Ukraine. The catastrophic losses of manpower and equipment have left Zelensky and the Ukrainian Generals totally dependent on the flow of aid from NATO members. The situation for Ukraine is made even more dire because the United States and its NATO partners admit that they have drawn down their arsenal of weapons, ammunition and combat vehicles to dangerous levels. That is just on the military side of the equation. You also have to take into account the political success Putin has achieved by forming a de facto alliance with China and defeating the economic sanctions imposed by the West. Russia’s robust military industry is churning out artillery shells, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and drones while Joe Biden has admitted that the United States can no longer supply Ukraine with conventional 155 mm shells. - Sonar21 The following report is from WESTERN Sources who see the Truth. -Ukraine’s offensive nears the 2 month mark, having failed to breakthrough the security zone along the line of contact and reach the first of several layers of Russian defenses; -Ukrainian losses are significant, Russia’s Ministry of Defense estimated up to 26,000 casualties as of July 12, 2023, many more have died since; -Comments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicate significant losses throughout the conflict and an inability to properly prepare for the current offensive; -Ukraine has begun using bombings, drone strikes, and other forms of terrorism deep within Russian territory to compensate for a lack of progress along the line of contact; -US security assistance packages for Ukraine reflect dwindling capacity to sustain combat in a high-intensity war of attrition;
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  1992. [Establishment Alarmism in overdrive as Warmonger General Raytheon Austin in Panic Mode threatening Congress with war!] I wanted to do this quick nightly update as there are a few developments that couldn’t wait. Most astonishing of all, is the panicked tenor with which the U.S. establishment is now desperately trying to convince Congress of the need for Ukrainian aid. Now a new raft of reports and statements from the usual suspects gives us insight into how desperate the establishment warhawks representing MIC interests have really become. They’re dialing up the fearporn to a hysteric level like never before: But most startling of all, is a new report, which Tucker Carlson says is “confirmed” by his private sources, that Lloyd Austin has resorted to outright threatening the Republican House holdouts, telling them “We’ll send your kids to fight Russia” if they don’t break their deadlock over the Ukrainian aid: Lloyd Austin, Biden, and co., have dialed up the fearporn precisely because they see the above projection and know what it entails. So they’ve resorted to trying to scare the pants off the GOP congressmen to ram through that aid, but it seems the cheap tactic didn’t work. That’s not to mention the fact that Russia is now advancing on every single front, with breakthroughs everywhere. But recall that all this hardship for Ukraine comes amidst a crash in their exports as multiple countries are now blocking Ukrainian truck transports, with the maritime economy already long suppressed. So it sounds like the Ukrainian aid may be completely dead for the rest of this year. Congress will soon go on Christmas recess. After that, the prospects are dim for a long time. The Ukrainian economy is already hanging by a thread. While the despair grows on their side of the aisle, Russia and Putin continue to enjoy a resurgence all over the globe, as Putin has completed a jet-setting tour that saw him touch down in the newly-fashioned BRICS territory of Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the soon-to-be BRICS affiliated Riyadh, KSA: Russian forces captured a Leopard 2A4 on the Rabotino front. You can see the full geolocation, the Russian FPV drone hits on the tank, and subsequent inspection of it. Interestingly the soldiers indicate some of the crew died, shattering the myth of “invincible” NATO armor that always protects its crew even when disabled by strong hits: A beautiful shot confirming that Russian Su-34s now regularly drop 4 UMPK glide-bombs at a time: - Simplicius
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  1996. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. Just a poor child’s birth to fulfill a prophecy that out of life would come death and out of death would come life. That hope was improbable but possible with faith. The Gospel birth narratives tell of a nativity that concludes with the grown child’s suffering, public crucifixion, death, and Resurrection – a story that lives on with the suffering of so many innocents. Matthew and Luke’s birth narratives are replicated again and again throughout history, presently and most conspicuously in Gaza and the West Bank, as the massacre of the innocents continues under today’s King Herod, Benjamin Netanyahu, the client king of Washington, not Rome, while U.S. politicians, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who claims to be a defender of children and opposed to U.S. war policies, support this genocide with rhetorical justifications. Wealth, its possession and the avid desire for it, signifies power over people and that power includes using them in many ways, including their labor, and killing them if one chooses, quickly or slowly, overtly or deviously, directly or indirectly, for some people are useless objects, inferior people. Such power is central to politics and warfare, as a quick glance at the wealth of war-promoting politicians will reveal. It is central to the widespread thinking today that the world is filled with useless people who must be disposed of one way or the other. It is a fundamental tenet of the World Economic Forum, the Gates-Rockefeller et al. crowd, and the racist eugenics promoters today and yesterday. It is behind the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) biological weapons gain-of-function research, the Covid-19 propaganda, and the CIA’s and Defense Department’s distribution of the mRNA countermeasures (“vaccines”). It is central to the hideously obscene profits of the medical military-industrial complex and the world-wide arms industry. It is central to the genocide taking place in Gaza. For the Israeli rulers, the problem is that the Palestinians exist, so they must be exterminated. It’s still the same old story told differently down through the ages. Hitler enacted it against the Jews. Christmas is about a birth, the birth of a boy who would become a man who sided with the outcasts, the poor, the forsaken, the gentle, and the peacemakers. His birth and life was a rebuke to the powerful and the rich who lord it over the innocent, the killers, those who profit at the expense of others, who amass wealth and useless possessions to parade their power, a show of power which, unknown to their self-obsessed minds, is a sign of their spiritual nullity. I have nothing against Santa. I once sat on his lap and he seemed nice to my four year-old mind. He was fat and jolly. He told me I would get what I wanted for Christmas. But he forgot to tell me what Christmas was really about. That is what I want. To remember. - Edward Curtin for LewRockwell
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  2002. TOTAL DESTRUCTION of Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine) following massive Russian attack with artillery and small arms, zipping towards enemy positions, destroying NATO radar station, and LAYING WASTE TO UP 2,510 cannon fodder over the week, DESTROYING 40 TANKS. Up to 210 also thrown to meat grinder in Kupyansk, East Ukraine - 250 and 16 armored vehicles destroyed in Kherson and 330 in Zaporozhye regions (ex-Ukraine) - 185 drones also destroyed this week. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 28 MOSCOW DESTROYS WASHINGTON in Kupyansk, East Ukraine as satisfying footage shows Russian Tor-M2 missile perform signature curve movement before shooting towards US-made Switchblade drone, ripping it apart following explosive contact. - Intel Report CLAP OF THUNDER as 10 Ukrainian terror drones downed over pre-war Russia's Kursk region. Kiev repeatedly tries to cause nuclear catastrophe by targeting nuke plant in region although it's unknown if that was target of this raid. - Intel Report All ears from former Wagner PMC leader Andrey Nikolaevich Troshev (right, next to Yevkurov) as Putin tasks him with forming volunteer units to crush more of Kiev's cannon fodder. Troshev is a retired colonel and one of Wagner's founding members, reportedly provided crucial support for Prez Assad crushing terrorists in Syria. - Intel Report FROM BAD TO WORSE for Zelensky as Russia announces pumping massive resources into Special Operation, revealing a jump of 68% in defense spending with $111 billion funneled for purpose of crushing Kiev's Nazi-ISIS regime and fighting "US' hybrid war". It's obvious that such an increase is absolutely necessary because we are in a state of hybrid war waged against us by Washington, Special Operation must go on - Kremlin spokesman Peskov. - Intel Report ORBAN'S GOT "VERY DIFFICULT QUESTIONS" THAT KIEV NEEDS TO ANSWER before he allows talks on Ukraine's EU membership. We don’t know how big this country's territory is with war still ongoing, we don’t know how big its population, as they are fleeing. To admit a country to EU without knowing its parameters would be unprecedented - Says the Hungarian PM, surely leaving Zelensky fuming, following insane rambling about rEsToRinG 1991 bOrDeRs. - Intel Report BREAKING! Ukrainian forces quitting by the thousands, refusing to die in NATO's war | Redacted News Ukraine’s attempt to create a cheap-and-quick infantry fighting vehicle to compensate for losses in the fight against Russia has so far produced an unreliable, slow product that has reportedly cost some Ukrainian soldiers their lives. - Forbes
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  2004. Even though a growing number of Western elites are awakening to the reality that Ukraine is headed for defeat and will drag NATO along with it, the so-called intellectual cognoscenti of foreign policy, like the editorial board of the NY Times, continue to indulge fantasies and delusions. They conclude a Sunday editorial pleading for more money for Zelensky and the losing cause with this: The Washington and New York establishments continue to insist that Vladimir Putin is an “authoritarian strongman.” I have one word of advice — look in the damn mirror and pay attention to what is happening in the United States before you mount your moral high horse and gallop off to lecture other countries on democracy and human rights. Guess what? The United States has prosecuted (and persecuted) twice as many political prisoners than Russia. So spare me the BS about Russia being a soul crushing attack on personal liberty while claiming the United States is the bastion of freedom and justice. It is a lie. And I say that without delving into the Federal Government’s collaboration with social media to attack conservatives and censor articles and persons who are not in line with Biden’s woke agenda, as thoroughly documented by the reporting of Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi. Then there is the proven case of the Biden Administration’s attack on scientists and physicians who challenged the specious CDC claims and remedies for COVID is just another glaring example of the putrid authoritarianism emanating from Washington, DC. - Sonar21
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  2020. Some final thoughts on the appointment from another analyst: Belousov's appointment promises a total audit of all financial flows of the Ministry of Defense. He is a fairly tough and effective manager known for his practical approach to business. He often had an unpopular point of view on the work of accountable structures, which is probably what the Ministry of Defense needs now. And there’s always this, for the believers: The new Russian minister of defense, Andrey Belousov, is a practicing Orthodox Christian. He has personally donated to & built a monastery in the Vladimir Oblast: “Russia must become the guardian of the traditions of Christian civilisation. The era of globalism is over.” Acquaintances of Andrei Belousov told The Bell (foreign agent) that he periodically serves as an altar boy in one of the churches, presumably in the Vladimir region. Since the beginning, Putin has been slowly clearing out the calcified structures, upwardly promoting and mobilizing deserving men to replace the hangers-on from the dusty ages of long time past. This is a continual and unending process, but it has bore fruit and today we see its ongoing progression. The spring renewal of change and adaptation is a good thing. As a last quick mention of the ongoing Kharkov offensive, Russia is demining entire fields by setting them on fire and burning all the mines off: Many Ukrainian military-linked channels are in panic or disorder, now openly accusing Ukrainian leadership of not having built any defenses in the north. It’s clear that what began as a coping attempt to downplay the northern advance is now turning into an open debacle: The AFU is now scrambling to plug the holes by routing its most elite units to the north, with GUR spetsnaz and Kraken reportedly coming to the rescue. Unfortunately for them, several Kraken groups have already been captured by Russian forces. for once, this offensive has been marked by a specific emphasis on the fact that Russian forces are utilizing effective combined arms tactics, with several frontline reports making pains to note that artillery and drone utilization is good, communications are notably coordinated and running fluidly, It seems whoever is running the ‘Northern Wind’, as some are calling it, is doing a very competent job thus far. It was likewise already confirmed by other Ukrainian military accounts that the AFU was forced to withdraw much-needed units from the Avdeevka and Chasov Yar fronts to reinforce the worsening Kharkov direction: The dilemma, for Ukrainian leaders, is that a feint can turn into an offensive with little notice—as long as the Russians can spare the forces from their operations in the east. “It is a shrewd approach, considering Ukraine's manpower constraints,” Finnish analyst Joni Askola wrote. Meanwhile, AFU sources themselves report that Russia only started off utilizing 7% of its regional forces, subsequently increasing it to 15%—which should give an idea of what’s yet to come: Spokesman for Ukraine’s battlegroup Khortitsa, Nazar Voloshin, states Russia launched 22+ guided bombs on Volchansk today: - Simplicius
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  2024. All this drooling imbecility about completely fictional foreign interference being responsible for these campus protests looks even more ridiculous as the Israeli prime minister unabashedly flexes his nation’s extensive influence over US politics to call for a crackdown on campus demonstrations. It is a very dark kind of hilarious to see imperial spinmeisters falling all over themselves trying to spin the campus protests as a product of imaginary foreign interference even as police launch violent crackdowns on those very same protesters across the United States to advance the interests of a foreign government. the idea that young people would need to be manipulated into opposing the incomprehensible horrors that are being inflicted upon human beings in Gaza is an appalling insult to your intelligence. But that just shows how desperate these freaks are getting. More and more people are waking up from the lies they’ve been fed about their government, their nation and their world as western institution after western institution completely discredits itself in the eyes of the mainstream public trying to defend the most indefensible things imaginable. They’re frantically scrambling to try to remedy this PR crisis they’ve created for themselves, but everything they’ve tried so far has been a pathetic failure that has only made things worse for them, turning an entire generation into wide awake radicals whose bright young eyes will never, ever unsee what they have seen. - LewRockwell
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  2029. HUNGARY BLOCKS UKRAINE RECEIVING $2+ BILLION ARMS FUNDING FROM FROZEN STOLEN RUSSIAN ASSETS. After months of debate, EU countries this month agreed to use profits from around €190bn stuck in Belgian bank to buy weapons for Ukraine. But Hungary’s envoy has objected to fast-tracking payments. For the time being, they are blocking everything connected to the military support to Ukraine - article above reveals. Hungarian PM Orban earlier warned that he's rethinking Budapest's position in NATO 'cause warmongering members are preparing to go to war with Russia. - Intel Republic IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO - Russian FM Spokeswoman Zakharova calls out uselessness of Swiss "peace talks" after NATO Chief Stoltenberg asks to lift restrictions on striking Russia with West-supplied weapons. It is useful for those invited to an allegedly peace conference in Switzerland to know about Stoltenberg’s call to lift restrictions on Ukrainian strikes on the Russian Federation - Maria Zakharova. Even Biden reportedly not attending as he will be busy lobbying for his presidential campaign, instead of participating in irrational summit where Russia itself not invited for talks with itself. - Intel Republic US and UK intelligence services are attempting to leverage their long-standing ties with various terrorist groups to sow chaos in Central Asia, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has said. the West, led by the US, was seeking to maintain its grip on global hegemony. To achieve this goal, Western countries are trying to contain the development of other nations by fomenting strife and exploiting international and sectarian tensions, he claimed. Naryshkin noted that, despite Washington’s “humiliating” withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, British and American intelligence services still cooperate with underground terrorist cells “to destabilize the situation not only in [this country], but also in Central Asia and Eurasia as a whole.” US and UK spy agencies, he continued, essentially created such notorious terrorist organizations as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). Washington and London are still operating in countries like Syria, which has been the scene of a multi-sided civil war since 2011, and Afghanistan, the intelligence chief alleged. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the West is trying to manipulate existing conflicts, including the one raging in the Middle East, to undermine Russia and inflict a “strategic defeat” on the country. In February, Nikolai Patrushev, the former secretary of Russia’s Security Council who was recently appointed as an adviser to Putin, warned that the US could use any regional conflict to target countries that refuse to follow Washington’s lead in foreign policy. - RT
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  2040. The CIA is working overtime to push the lie that they warned the Russians about the 22 March terrorist attack and the Russians ignored that warning. Simply not true. As I noted in my previous article, the USG warning issued on March 7 only specified 48 hours. I have no idea when that “clock” started but let’s assume it was Friday the 7th and ended on Sunday the 9th. Since the “predicted” action did not take place there are at least two possible explanations — 1) the intel was bogus or 2) the stepped up Russian security at the Crocus City Hall on March 8 thwarted the attack. Unless the intel stipulated that if the attack did not occur in that 48 hour window it was moot, then it was incumbent on the U.S. State Department and the Embassy to re-issue a warning to AMCITs that the threat still existed. They did not do this. That’s the problem. If the US intel still thought this was a real threat then why did the USG go silent? The West has tried to paint Russia has a relentless, ruthless imperial power even though Russia, unlike the United State and the United Kingdom, has not been engaged in regime change in other countries. In fact, Russia helped Syria fend off a joint U.S./U.K. effort to overthrow the government of Bashir Assad in Syria. In the aftermath of the 2014 Western backed coup in Ukraine, the United States and NATO poured tens of millions of dollars in aid and military training into Ukraine, which was used to attack civilians in the Donbass. Sabotage of critical infrastructure? That got a belly laugh. Talk about clueless. The destruction of the Nordstream pipeline by the United States (according to Sy Hersh) and Ukrainian attacks on the Kerch Bridge with British and American missiles are some of the more prominent examples of the West’s efforts to sabotage Russia’s infrastructure. Until the United States and NATO come to grips with their responsibility for triggering the war in Ukraine, they will continue to encourage provocative actions that could lead to a global conflagration. - Sonar21
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  2044. Mr. President, I believe that the CIA is providing you inaccurate, false intelligence about Russia’s casualties and the condition of its economy. If you hope to realize your goal of opening negotiations with President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, you must be equipped with the best information available. You have been briefed that Russia has suffered devastating losses — as many as 800,000 casualties — and that Russia’s economy is weak and fragile. Data from open sources paint a diametrically opposite picture. It is essential that you understand that Russia views this war as vital to its continued existence. Russia is not fighting to reconstitute the Soviet Empire. It sees Ukraine as a Western-proxy being used to attack Russia with US-and NATO-supplied weapons and intelligence, with the ultimate goal of destroying the current government. Accordingly, the only satisfactory outcome for Russia is to end this threat. President Putin is willing to accept a negotiated settlement provided that Ukraine is stripped of its capacity to launch future attacks on Russia and that NATO ends any consideration of making Ukraine a member of NATO. Here is the critical point: the IMF’s forecast suggests that Russia’s economy continues to show resilience in the face of Western sanctions, largely due to factors such as robust oil and commodity exports to countries like India and China, and the expansion of its military-industrial complex. President Vladimir Putin uses these economic indicators to argue that Western sanctions have been ineffective and to showcase Russia’s economic model to partners in Asia and Africa. His message is resonating with the leaders of the Global South. If you consider Russia’s perspective on the war in terms of casualties and the economy, Vladimir Putin is under no pressure to reach a negotiated settlement that does not address Russia’s strategic concerns that it will no longer face a military threat from NATO. If you fail to understand this and adjust your strategy to make a deal, your efforts to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine will not succeed. - sonar21
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  2060. Let’s turn to Ukraine for a moment. There are a few interesting updates. A fascinating story has come to light regarding how precisely Russian forces were able to win their way into the Tsar’s Hunt area of southern Avdeevka. It turns out they were able to cut their way through a drainage pipe hundreds of meters behind enemy lines, waiting until a very foggy day to pop out in the rear and liquidate and capture an entire detachment: Ukraine tried desperately to counter-attack the lost Tsar’s Hunt area the past few days, but they were repulsed: In fact, it was recorded that they sent in some of their most elite special units to try to pry Russian forces from the area, but they failed with several of the ‘elite’ being captured. Here in one celebrated episode yesterday a lone Russian soldier captured several of them: In the meantime, Russia continues to inflict heavy casualties via long range strikes to the operational rear. Another report from Sergey Lebedev details how just days after the infamous Kharkov strike on French mercenaries, Russian ballistic missiles rained down on a Kraken HQ, also in Kharkov. It reportedly killed dozens of Kraken and another strike in Balakleya reportedly killed over 100+ Ukrainian militants as well: As US agitates Europe into a war footing against Russia, one of the founders of Azov Brigade, Sergei Korotikh, says there’s no way NATO can win because “they have no people even capable of fighting” due to years of emasculating their warrior class. Russia will go all the way and remove this ‘sad regime’. Ukraine is as good as finished. Russian industry continues hammering at full throttle. Here they are pumping out the 2S19M2 upgraded variant of Msta-S self-propelled howitzers: - Simplicius
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  2064. Kiev's sky under rule of buzzing Russian drones in above video as Moscow launches biggest UAV attack on Ukraine yet. Airport and energy facilities hit, leaving huge number of places without electricity. - Intel Report The Warmongers aren't winning. Time for Plan 2, the ONLY Plan that will work. Get rid of the Warmongers! A hard truth about the Russia-Ukraine conflict is finally dawning on the West. We are reminded that this is a war of attrition, i.e. one favoring Russia by its very nature. Even on CNN, we heard that much as early as April 2022, and the militantly Atlanticist Economist magazine admitted it in a backhanded way (using the euphemism “war of endurance”) in September. Clearly, “losing” Ukraine (which the West should not have tried to “own” in the first place) will reveal the bloc's weakness more sharply than the failures in, for instance, Iraq, Libya, Syria, or Afghanistan. For two reasons. First, unlike these countries, Russia is a great power; that means it is in a position to exploit the Western setback. Moscow, put differently, is big enough to geopolitically counterattack. - RT There is no evidence that Russia conducted any human wave attacks during 2022 or 2023 and certainly did not suffer mass casualties. Just the opposite. The Russian General staff conducted operations specifically designed to minimize Russian casualties. Russia has done two basic things to pulverize Ukrainian forces. First, it used its decisive advantage in missiles and artillery to pound Ukrainian trenches, bases and supply depots. Second, it used drones in an unprecedented fashion (and with increasing sophistication) to conduct “drone wave” attacks on Ukrainian soldiers hunkered down in bunkers. How do we know that Russia avoided mass casualties? Very simple. The social media platforms in Russia do not show massive new graves nor are there posting by grieving relatives about the loss of Sasha or Vitaly. Russian leaders, not just Putin, viewed the West’s efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO as an existential threat. Putin made that point quite clear to the West starting in 2008. Not only did the United States and the United Kingdom ignore those warnings, they upped the ante by helping fund and organize the Maidan coup in February 2014 and backed the new Ukrainian leaders as they attacked the Donbass. The West made a fatal error in underestimating Russia’s military industrial competence: The United States is like an aging boxer who decided to fight a rejuvenated contender in a 15 round Heavyweight match, but only trained to last two rounds. That is why Russia is battering the hell out of Ukraine and, by proxy, the United States. It is Ukraine that is being bloodied on a horrific scale. It is Ukraine that is sending women, including pregnant women, to fight in trenches. No civilized country possessed of its right mind would entertain such a grotesque measure. Russia can and is producing more bombs, rockets, missiles, shells, tanks, drone and aircraft than the West combined. That’s the message Washington needs to hear. - Sonar21
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  2076. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Bravery of Russian soldiers on the battlefield led to the elimination of an assault detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had just been deployed to a defensive position near Glubokoye in Kharkov region. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry, which released a short video on January 18, 2025, showing an Ukrainian armored vehicle carrying the assault detachment while firing several shots for unknown reasons. The operators of the Northern Army reconnaissance drones of the Russian Armed Forces of the Sever Group of Forces were working against the enemy there, but a group of Ukrainian assault detachments managed to take cover by rushing into the basement next to a building, partially protecting themselves from drones and even artillery fire. They probably thought that their position was safe there! However, an interesting scene happened because six members of the Kiev Army did not take into account the proximity of the brave soldiers of the Northern Army of the 11th Army Corps of the Sever Group of Forces. Three soldiers were in the immediate vicinity of the Ukrainian assault detachment's hiding place. At the right moment, one soldier silently approached the building, dropped a backpack with anti-tank mines right into the defensive room, and then rushed away from the place. Instantly a powerful explosion destroyed the basement even splashes of soil flew into the air. According to reports, at least six members of the assault detachment were eliminated, this was made possible by the quick thinking of a soldier during the battle.
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  2096. [Best comment on the recently released report from Borzzikman follows:] "Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity. In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas. If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy. Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time. Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns. 20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO. NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter). We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster? Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest. Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens—theirs will hide in the basements”. Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it. Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country. Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list. There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence). The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave. Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P. The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims). The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion. I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written. Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified."
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  2105. There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history. Many millions of viewers who may not have had access to the other side of the story were informed that the Russia/Ukraine military conflict did not begin in 2022, as the mainstream media continuously reports, but in fact began eight years earlier with a US-backed coup in Ukraine. The US media does not report this because they don’t want Americans to begin questioning our interventionist foreign policy. They don’t want Americans to see that our government meddling in the affairs of other countries – whether by “color revolution,” sanctions, or bombs – has real and deadly consequences to those on the receiving end of our foreign policy. What the US mainstream media was really worried about was that the “other side of the story” might start to ring true with the public. So they attacked the messenger. No wonder fellow journalist Julian Assange has been locked away in a gulag for so many years. He dared to assume that in a free society, being a journalist means reporting the good, the bad, and the ugly even if it puts those in power in a bad light. In the end, the massive success of the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin demonstrates once and for all that the American people are sick to death of their mainstream media propagandists and liars. They are looking not for government narratives, but for truth. That’s the really good news about this interview. - LewRockwell
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  2108. The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense: - Kiev at night attempted to attack three unmanned boats on Russian civilian transport ships en route to the Bosphorus Strait; – Ships of the Russian Navy repelled an attempt by Kyiv to attack Russian civilian transport ships en route to the Bosphorus Strait; – The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the area of the settlement of Terny of the Donetsk People's Republic; – The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoliman direction per day; – Russian air defense systems intercepted 16 HIMARS MLRS shells during the day, shot down 21 Ukrainian drones; – The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Staromayorsky in the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region; – The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk direction successfully repelled eight attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including near Bilohorivka and Maryinka; – The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the 38th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Razdolny area in the DPR; – The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Donetsk direction amounted to over 345 servicemen; – The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost over 220 soldiers, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Krab self-propelled guns in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporizhzhia directions during the day; – The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to advance in five directions per day – Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Krasnolimansky, Kupyansk and Yuzhnodonetsk; – Russian troops continued to advance and occupy more advantageous positions in the Kuzemovka area in the LPR; – The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled two attacks by units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Svatovsky district of the LPR.
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  2118. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Russian forces have made new progress by taken another group of Ukrainian soldiers including British mercenaries, who were captured around Sudzha while fighting for Kiev in Kursk region. The Russian military channel released footage on November 24, 2024, showing an Ukrainian soldier who did not surrender being eliminated on the spot by Russian soldiers, he was carrying civilian clothes and some another unusual equipment. Furthermore, his fellow Ukrainian soldiers, also consisting of 12 soldiers at a strong point in the northwestern part of Plekhovo, south of Sudzha. The Russian military reported by the interrogation that the prisoners shot at civilian and military vehicles, mined the highway in their operations mainly at night. They were specially trained for urban combat in Britain as per their confession. This once again proves the direct involvement of Britain in the war against Russia. James Scott Rhys Anderson a captured British soldier, as a signalman who identified himself and was wearing green military gear, has appeared online. The 22-year-old soldier who served in the British Army from 2019-2023, along with his comrades from Ukrainian Foreign Legion, decided to go and earn money on the Kiev side after experiencing personal hardships. He traveled to Ukraine via Krakow, Poland, entering through the Medyk checkpoint, and he was part of the fierce battles at Kursk, where Ukrainian forces were defending their newly acquired territory. James was lucky to survive, captured at Plekhovo strongpoint in the fighting, which is unlikely to have paid him several months of wages from Kiev. So far, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports that 141 British mercenaries have been killed during the Ukrainian conflict. Sources report that Russian forces are advancing towards Plekhovo. There is another forest to the east of Plekhovo, which is under Ukrainian control, which could be used to fire on advancing Russian forces. This means that Russian forces are likely to surround this forest, before taking over the settlement.
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  2119. For those not inclined to read to the end, here’s the bottom line — Israeli sources are admitting that the Israeli military killed its own civilians due to the oxymoronic term, “friendly fire.” The Government of Israel, in the aftermath of this debacle, worked furiously to proclaim the Hamas attack as mindless terrorism that had no other purpose than to slaughter Jews. Netanyahu’s government lied about Hamas murdering 40 babies and raping women. Not true. The only children killed that day were victims of the Israeli military. The Hamas attack was planned months in advance. We now know that Israeli intelligence officers tried to warn their bosses but were ignored. The Hamas plan was simple and had two objectives — 1) attack Israeli military position and kill soldiers, and 2) capture hostages to be used as bargaining chips to secure the release of imprisoned Palestinians. As I noted in a previous post, Hamas hit elements of the elite Golani Brigade and killed 72 of its members. That is not terrorism, that is war. YNET News published a piece today on “friendly fire” casualties by the Israeli military and buried this at the bottom of their piece: I guess this is Israel’s version of “Don’t ask, Don’t tell.” Remember the rave in the desert that was attacked by Hamas paragliders? The Hamas attackers were carrying rifles and pistols. They had no weapon system capable of causing this damage to the vehicles. These were hit by missiles fired by Israeli military helicopters. People who may have doubted the GrayZone reporting now have additional evidence to weigh in the aftermath of Israeli soldiers murdering three Israeli hostages who escaped their Hamas captors. Israel spent years bolstering its reputation as a professional, capable military force. Now, in the span of almost three months, the Israeli military is facing a public relations disaster. Instead of disciplined soldiers commanded by capable officers, the world is seeing an army and air force that is undisciplined, reckless and quick on the trigger. The United States Army was tarred by the My Lai massacre. The Israeli military campaign in Gaza in My Lai on steroids. - Sonar21
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  2128. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – It is noteworthy that for the first time, Russian warships from Tartus launched a barrage of Kalibr cruise missiles to bomb terrorist targets roaming Syria in the provinces of Idlib and Hama, last night, December 5, Syrian sources reported. Tartus, a Syrian port city near the northern Lebanese border is the base of the Russian Navy fleet, where warships carrying Kalibr missiles rained down on terrorist concentrations in areas they control in Idlib, also targeting HTS terrorist group around Mount Zeynel Abidin in the north of Hama. It seems that B-261 Novorossiysk submarine, and Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Gorshkov class frigates, which a few days ago took part in exercises in Mediterranean Sea, fired cruise missiles in the form of “Kalibr”, on the mercenary terrorists supported by Turkey, surprising them due to their miscalculation while entering Syria. It is assumed that one exploded in Idlib as in the video footage, delivering a crushing blow from what was launched by the warship from the military port of Tartus. A woman’s voice is heard screaming and a man reciting Islamic words, which were apparently added to the video for reasons of a media war like in Ukraine. Previously, pro-terrorist media and their supporters reported the complete withdrawal of the Russian Navy from Tartus due to the advancing terrorist forces “ named opposition”. But now Kalibr is fired from here! On the same night, Syrian Army ambushed a major terrorist attack on Mount Zeynel Abidin in the north of Hama. The army let them take control of the mountain for a while, manipulating the idea that they entered Hama at night, but ended up failing in clashes including artillery fire packages fired by Syrian Army. At least 300 terrorists from the elite HTS units were killed and the rest fled, Meyadin TV reported. Thus, the joint Russian-Syrian forces are ready for a direct confrontation with the terrorists at this stage. It seem Syria does not to repeat the same mistakes from decades ago, this time it will clean everything up once and for all, and expel the US from Syrian oil refineries.
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  2130. This is a ten on both the hypocrisy and propaganda scales. Check it for yourself. Do an internet search on the following — “Ukraine strikes Sevastopol.” Only cursory coverage. No blaring headlines in the NY Times or Financial Times or any other major paper. Ignore it. But this? Intense coverage. Only one problem with the story — it is BS. The children’s hospital was hit by an errant air defense missile fired by Ukraine. Whoops! What is really telling is that there was ZERO news coverage of the other sites hit by Russian missiles in Kiev. You know why? Because they were military targets and there were probably Western casualties. Russia delivered this blow in daylight during working hours in order to inflict maximum casualties on those engaged in producing or repairing weapons. Ukrainian authorities also lied about the number of Russian missiles shot down. The Ukie Air Force claimed it downed 30 of 38 Russian missiles. Check out the following videos. You can see at least five successful Russian missile strikes in Kiev, including some secondary explosions, which normally are associated with a weapons storage facility. Shifting to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, the British medical journal The Lancet, released a stunning report on the number of Palestinians who have died or will die because of Israel’s murderous campaign: As many as 186,000 Palestinians may be killed directly or indirectly by the Gaza war, the British medical journal, the Lancet, has predicted. “Even if the conflict were to end immediately, many indirect deaths will continue to be recorded in the coming months and years due to causes such as reproductive, communicable and non-communicable diseases,” the journal reported. - Sonar21
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  2142. One can hardly believe it anymore. The West has dropped all pretense of their sacred cow of ‘democracy’, used for generations as an instrument of moral superiority with which to browbeat the rest of the world. As the West finally unravels, we are witness to a veritable string of shocking perversions of the so-called ‘democratic’ process. The short-term obsessed West considers the various CIA-sponsored subversions of the democratic processes as “winning”: but have these people given any thought to what precedent they’re setting? They are burning their foundations, lighting their entire house on fire. In the hopes of smoking out a few ostensible ‘wasps’ they now stand to destroy their entire order within a generation. The perception of the West’s miserable ‘Rules Based Order’ will never be repaired after this—the rest of the free world is watching and learning precisely how ‘Rule of Law’ hews to principle; the West will never regain their trust, and its institutions will forever carry the stench and stain of political interference and hidden hatred for true democracy—which has always been a token byword meant to excuse the Western order’s imperialistic overreach. In short: they don’t have the time to construct elaborate myths and schemes any longer, instead forced to merely act on instinct to save their foundering empire. But in doing so, they have hastened its decline by revealing just how illiberal and despotic it has been all this time. This is the same process which saw the US presidency become totally coopted by a handful of powerful globalist agents working in the State Department and Cabinet, who essentially began to outright run the presidency, controlling all direct information flow to him in and out. This political order is not just a sick man of Europe, but the veritable sick man of the world, coughing up his infectious spume onto all nearby. This is the cynical twilight of the West, which has chosen terror, oppression, and political manipulation against its own citizens as a way of coping with the slow loss of its imperial entitlements. It’s only inevitable that the rising tide of anti-establishment political parties continue to sweep this canker away. But before this happens for good, Europe will likely see a destabilizing political paralysis for several years, as a kind of final death throes of the globalist holdouts and political hacks like Starmer, Macron, Scholz, and co., whose only jobs will be to delay the fall as long as possible. - Simplicius
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  2146. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - It was confirmed on September 10, 2024 that Vodyanoe, northeast of Ugledar, has been captured by Russian forces. The stronghold of Ugledar in the Donetsk region has held out for almost 2 years, but Ukrainian forces appear to be saying goodbye soon! Russian soldiers raised the flag of the Russian Federation in Vodyanoe and asserted military control over the settlement, which was liberated 3.5 kilometers wide and 1.12 kilometers deep, cutting off Ukrainian logistics towards Ugledar. Further in the background are two more mining complexes to Ugledar, the Yuzhno-Donbasskaya-1 coal mine has been taken over by Russia, number 2 still belongs to the Zelensky regime. Aviation and Tankers of the "Vostok" Group of the Russian Armed Forces, began a massive attack on Ukrainian positions at the Yuzhno-Donbasskaya-3 mine, west of Vodyanoe. This destroyed the Ukrainian positions at the top of the mine, about 30 enemy soldiers were destroyed along with their equipment. Here, the Ukrainian forces were so demoralized by the attack that about half of them were killed. The Ukrainians could not withstand the onslaught and surrendered to the Russians. The work was carried out by marines as part of armored groups on BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle, managing to capture several of their strongholds and disrupt the supply routes of the Ukrainian garrison, which was increasingly squeezed in Ugledar. Before attacking enemy positions, the marines, as a rule, distributed leaflets with offers to surrender, and instructions on how to do it. Surveillance footage showed that two Ukrainian servicemen decided to lay down their arms, amid fears of breaking supply lines in their sector of the front. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on September 9. At least several settlements fell to the Russians in the former Ukrainian Donetsk. Like the previously fortified Avdeevka, it held out for a long time. And no doubt the collapse of the trapped Ugledar will follow! As the cities fell one by one, the Ukrainians unleashed a desperate barrage of drone strikes on Russian cities. Two Ukrainian servicemen who voluntarily surrendered near Ugledar, told at length how bad the service of their commanders in the Armed Forces of Ukraine was.
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  2149. An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at a slew of canard-riddled reports, taken entirely out of context, deliberately misinterpreted, or pumped up in phony headlines for people who don’t read the actual article contents. How can Biden return Russian nukes to Ukraine? It doesn’t even make sense and is the most absurd of the current panic-inducing psyops. Nothing of the sort: the “anonymous official” is merely suggesting it on his own behalf, and trying to pass it off as Biden’s idea. This is merely crude amateur fantasy on behalf of the writer or some no name desk jockey to be dismissed as the leaky refuse it is. This entire fake stems from a single quote from “Admiral” Rob Bauer, head of the ‘NATO Military Committee’. The irrelevant pipsqueak mewled something along these lines to powder on the phony fear-porn: But now Ukraine has struck Kursk region with ATACMS for definite. We know this because in a rare move, the Russian MOD openly confirmed it by posting photos of the ATACMS boosters themselves. This comes directly from the MOD: Of course, the fact that Ukrainian AD radar operators continue being laid to rest from Russian strikes as a daily occurrence is routinely swept under the rug, As for the frontline, things get worse and worse. A Ukrainian officer actually on the front reports soon Kursk will be swarmed: Meanwhile Julian Roepcke inadvertently debunks ‘high Russian losses’ during assaults by admitting a mere 10 Russian troops are capturing entire town centers to no resistance: Major advances have been recorded with Russia now holding nearly half of Kurakhove and capturing most of the open plains to the south and southeast: But the bigger surprise were the sudden advances around Velyka Novosilka which caught Ukrainians totally off guard. Not only was Rozdolne captured to the north but Russians made a shock breakthrough to the eastern edges of Velyka Novosilka town itself, embedding themselves and initiating the fight for the town for the first time: - Simplicius
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  2154. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Morning report on November 27, 2024, Ukrainian military resources published a very alarming report for Kiev about the new successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Kurakhovo and its environs. Despite attempts to transfer reserves from the western outskirts of the city, the situation of Ukrainian garrison continues to deteriorate amid the presence of Russian assault troops in the city center, developing attacks on high-rise buildings. In one corner of the storming, UAV crew of the Yug Group of Forces from Southern Military District, discovered an observation post, and a firing position of Ukrainian ATGM Stugna on the upper floor of one of the city buildings. Nothing could hide from the drone, immediately destroying them all before the ATGM had time to be used! According to some Ukrainian sources, Kiev regime forbade General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to give orders to retreat even from the encircled settlements and tried to hold positions at the cost of heavy losses. However, the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade of Ukraine serving in the vicinity of Kurakhovo, in Berestki, apparently did not care about Kiev's orders. They chose to flee in disarray and suffered losses in small groups of 3-5 people through the forest belt after seeing the loss of Berestki. Meanwhile, another group was captured by Russian troops. They looked very happy to be captured because they would be safe from the war - their uniforms looked new! Russia has reportedly gained 235 square kilometers of territory in the past week in the strategic city of Kurakhovo in Donetsk, the fastest pace of progress since early 2022.
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  2164. Could not resist the Lord of the Rings reference because the Russian war correspondent, Marat Khairullin, makes a passing reference in his report below. The big news, breaking tonight, is that General “Butcher” Syrsky ordered Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Avdeevka — at least those not surrounded or too badly wounded to retreat. Those Ukrainian soldiers trying to flee are running a gauntlet of rockets, missiles, mortars and artillery. The casualties are catastrophic. Here is a heart wrenching video of a Ukrainian wife talking to her husband who is trapped in Avdeevka. He is wounded and cannot retreat. The good news? The Russians will give him good medical care: I turn to Marat Khairullin, the Russian war correspondent recommended by Andrei Martyanov. Here is his latest report: Dear friends, while public attention is focused on the events that are developing in the South Donetsk direction, we should not forget other sectors of the front. Because what we see now is a large-scale and very beautiful strategic operation. We have encountered not just a serious, motivated enemy, we, let me remind you, are confronting the united force of the collective West. The essence of what is happening is that our generals are playing in different sectors of the front, like a virtuoso pianist at his favorite piano. It’s like an experienced boxer opening himself up slightly, provoking his opponent into a rash attack in order to ultimately deliver a knockout blow. Marat astutely observes that Western ISR makes it virtually impossible to hide the gathering of a large mass of troops because of the “all-seeing eye.” That means satellites, drones and fixed wing aircraft with real time video. Russia has opted to inflict Ukraine with “death from a thousand cuts.” Small scale, shifting attacks employing combined arms that can be launched from hundreds of site. The Russians clearly have the initiative and will continue to press the attack at times and places of their choosing along the 1000 mile front. Ukraine simply does not have the manpower — trained personnel — to put up a stout defense. I will close with my video rant about the death of Russian dissident Alexei Nalvany. He died in prison. Western intelligence is pushing eagerly the false narrative that Putin had him whacked. That is absurd. If killing him was a priority he would have been dead long ago. He was a nobody in Siberia. Why would Putin order his death when Nalvany was no longer a feature of news coverage. Ridiculous. What is sickening is the disparity in the reaction of the Biden Administration to the death of this Russian in comparison to their lack of outrage to the death of American citizen Gonzalo Lira at the hands of Ukrainian authorities. Lira clearly died of abuse he endured while in custody and the Biden team did not do a damn thing to assist him. Just another reminder that Biden cares more about protecting Ukraine’s border than ensuring America’s security at home. - Sonar21
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  2170. How do you destroy a free press? Fill it with people who hate free speech, look down upon the poor and powerless, and believe that only their opinions matter. Then pay them to repeat and defend everything that the “ruling class” brands as an “official truth.” It’s amazing how fast public dissent dries up when you bribe the “journalists” and censor anyone who notices. “Reporters” are now so deferential to bureaucrats in positions of authority that they prostrate themselves before those most deserving of scrutiny. As obsequious servants to a “ruling class” that sees them as expendable, today’s “journalists” empower the powerful and silence the powerless. And when a “reporter” no longer serves those powerful interests, the Establishment’s exterminators need only decide whether to shrivel the offending slug with salt or squish it into gooey obsolescence. Think that’s hyperbole? Why has Julian Assange spent over a decade in legal purgatory and consular captivity while trying to avoid American incarceration and assassination? Why is Edward Snowden now a citizen of Russia, rather than a celebrated whistleblower addressing college auditoriums here in America? Why is Gonzalo Lira, Sr. mourning the torture and murder of his son in a Ukrainian prison, when Joe Biden could have freed the American citizen at any time? Because Assange, Snowden, and Lira all reported truths that revealed the U.S. government’s criminality, corruption, and antipathy toward the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Because our “ruling class” believes the First Amendment, unfettered free speech, and a courageous free press are all threats to national security. Because the American police state has no interest in seeking warrants or establishing probable cause before illegally spying on the American people. Those who have sacrificed everything to report these stories have been eliminated or cowed into quiet complicity with a Deep State diametrically opposed to human liberty. Those reporters who remain have chosen the lowly existence of common slugs. - LewRockwell
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  2171. Unlike many Western politicians, Russian diplomats say what they mean. They are not ones to make idle, empty threats. Joe Biden and the NATO lackeys better pay attention to recent statements by two of Russia’s leading diplomats. Sergei Ryabkov, pictured above, is Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister. I have had the privilege of meeting him. He is a classy gentleman who chooses his words carefully. Hence the cause for my concern in light of his comment this week in response to Joe Biden’s decision last week to approve the use of U.S.-supplied weapons to hit targets inside Russia. Ryabkov said: “I would like to warn American leaders against miscalculations that could have fatal consequences. For unknown reasons, they underestimate the seriousness of the rebuff they may receive, . . . “I urge these figures (in the U.S.) … to spend some of their time, which they apparently spend on some kind of video games, judging by the lightness of their approach, on studying what was said in detail by Putin,” Ryabkov said. Putin had delivered “a very significant warning and it must be taken with the utmost seriousness”, he added. Putin said the West would be directly involved in any use of its weapons by Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia, because such attacks would require its satellite, intelligence and military help. Ryabkov is not known as a bullshitter or one to make idle threats. He is polite, but firm and unambiguous. He is not sending some secret, coded message. He is putting the United States on notice. And it is important to note that Foreign Minister Lavrov issued a similar stern warning: The Biden Administration is pushing America to the brink of a nuclear conflagration. In the same way we would not accept Russia deploying nuclear capable weapon systems in Cuba or Mexico, Russia is applying the same standard to itself. - Sonar21
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  2177. HUNGARY RETHINKING NATO MEMBERSHIP 'CAUSE IT REFUSES TO FIGHT RUSSIA - says Hungarian PM Orban, after revealing warmongering bloc is preparing for war with Moscow. - Intel Republic ALL TALK ABOUT STRIKING RUSSIA WITH WESTERN WEAPONS IS A TRICK - Russian seasoned FM Lavrov calls out West's politicians and media nonstop blather about Kiev using West-supplied weapons to murder civilians in Russia as nothing but a dirty distraction. They said for a long time they were not supporting it. They also said they did not allow it and advised [Ukraine] against using it. But in fact, they are waging war against us. American weapons have already been used to strike various targets outside conflict zone. Washington trying to make reassuring statements for the local public or for NATO members, to pretend the decision has not yet been made. It is a trick. We are certain that American and other Western-supplied weapons are being used to strike targets on Russian territory, primarily civilian infrastructure and residential areas. They are responsible for what these weapons have done - Lavrov. - Intel Republic [No one sane would want to go to an America under the tyrannical rule of the Uniparty Globalists!] The US will begin restricting visas for certain Georgian citizens connected with the country’s so-called foreign agent bill, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. In a statement on Thursday, the top diplomat slammed the law, which requires non-profit organizations, media outlets, and individuals who receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as entities “promoting the interests of a foreign power.” - RT Russian soldiers massive action of Yug Group troops liberated Kleshcheyevka completely. Scouts identified Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries in settlements in Donetsk region, and launched artillery and FPV drone attacks on enemy positions. Next the attack group entered and engaged in close combat, eliminating and capturing their hiding fortress. - Military Tube Today ZELENSKY HAS LOST HIS LEGITIMACY - Putin states the evident in video above - as Begginsky's cancelling of elections, embarrassing forced conscription of Ukrainians, and PATHETIC performance on battlefield despite syphoning endless BILLIONS in Western cash is too much for even U.S. and EU "leaders" to tolerate much longer. In terms of legitimacy, the current (Ukrainian) head of state has little left of it, and I believe that one goal of Switzerland conference is to try to restore it before Western community - Putin. - Intel Republic
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  2191. The US has been using economic methods in an attempt to weaken Russia and hopefully to help get rid of Putin. The goal is to return to the sort of arrangement in place when Yeltsin was in power. These economic methods have been used against other countries, too. They include sanctions, interfering with currency transactions, interfering with gold repatriation, extra-territorial claims based on use of the US dollar, seizure of assets, and attempts to confiscate seized assets and use them for US purposes. The politicians in the West continue to promote these methods, even though mainstream scholarly works point out that in many, if not most cases, the use of such methods will not work properly. They will instead blow back on the US and cause numerous undesirable side effects and other unpleasant results. These cautionary findings have been borne out in fact. The leaders of China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and North Korea are all still in their jobs. OPEC plus Russia is still controlling the world oil market, the Russian and Chinese systems continue to replace SWIFT, more and more trade is conducted in local currencies, and the disagreements over using seized Russian assets are causing more cracks in NATO. Nations are becoming more skeptical about leaving their gold or other assets in the US or UK for safe-keeping. One opinion is that these US pillars of exceptionalism are under attack to destroy the existing system in order to ‘build back better’ and ‘you will own nothing and be happy.’ This may have made more sense back around the year 2000, before China and Russia got their act together. Whoever controlled the West, in some sense, controlled the world. Now, however, Russia and China are out from under that control and the US has been relegated to the number two position both economically and militarily. Russia is number one militarily and China is number one economically. The problem is that these facts have not sunk into the ‘little gray cells’ of the Western plutocrats, much less the mere billionaires. Asia and Africa show a distinct distaste for the ideas and plans of the WEF and most of ‘Wokism,’ and the West is too weak to force implementation in those continents. Barring a miracle (unlikely considering that the Establishment no longer believes in a miracle-working god), the end of the Age of the West is nigh. The future is with the East and the South, unless the West drastically changes course. - Sonar21
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  2199. May 1, 2024 - The Challenger 3 has been unveiled as the UK’s newest and most “lethal” main battle tank (MBT); - The Challenger 3 is produced by modernizing existing Challenger 2 MBTs with 127 planned for conversion from the UK’s existing 221 Challenger 2s; - The refurbishment/modernization of 127 tanks will cost $990 million or approximately $7.8 million per tank, several times more than modernized Russian tanks, and even more expensive or as expensive as new Russian tanks; - The Challenger 3 will weigh more than its predecessor, and both tanks are heavier than their Russian T-72B3, T-90M, T-80BVM, and even T-14 counterparts; - 127 MBTs in total will mean that most likely fewer than 100 tanks will be operational at any given time making it impractical for the UK to project military power abroad in any significant manner; - The Challenger 3 features a 120mm smoothbore gun that will use NATO standard tank rounds which is an improvement over the Challenger 2’s rifled gun which required unique ammunition incompatible with other NATO tanks; - The Challenger 3 is another illustration of Western military industrial production, emphasizing expensive, complex weapons built in small numbers to maximize profits versus equally capable, but cheaper and more numerous Russian or Chinese weapons designed to maximize both battlefield and strategic effectiveness; - While a Challenger 3 may or may not be capable one-on-one with a Russian MBT, the fact that Russia has many more tanks and is able to replace damaged or lost tanks faster than the Challenger 3 and other Western MBTs proves a disadvantage to the UK and the rest of NATO; - The New Atlas
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  2213. The Russians are advancing, NOT the Ukrainians who are being routed along the Front Lines! There were reports online from alleged loved ones and relations that an entire Uke battalion was completely ‘destroyed’: In short, Ukraine faces flagging support from the West and is forced to resort to increasingly escalatory ‘gimmicks’ like mass terror drone attacks on Moscow in the same vein as the terminal phase of the Wehrmacht in WW2 vindictively launching V1/V2 rockets at London. This is nothing more than a dying animal, thrashing out its last gasps. Many sources are saying that in the next few months, Ukraine will drown in Lancets. And there are new models coming which have thermobaric warheads for taking out troops rather than HEAT-style anti-armor warheads now most often used. In short, there’s nothing good or optimistic coming up in the slightest for the AFU. The Russian army only continues to grow stronger, larger, more advanced, more experienced while Ukraine grows in the opposite direction, with arms shipments declining and no more ‘wunderwaffe’ on the horizon to save them. - SITREP 8/5/23 Projecting the Immediate Future Foreigners who place their trust in the promise of the United States to have their back apparently are unaware of the fate of Vietnamese, Libyans, Cambodians, Afghanis and Iraqis who believed Washington’s promises. When the going gets tough, the U.S. says adios. With no success on the battlefield Ukraine is opting for the drone hail Mary — i.e., attacking a couple of Russian ships with maritime drones. These attacks are pin pricks with no strategic significance in terms of diminishing Russia’s military power. However, these attacks are likely to inspire the Russian General Staff to look at attacks on NATO ISR operating over the Black Sea because of the role played by Western aerial surveillance in providing Ukraine with intelligence needed to attack those two Russian vessels. In addition, these attacks are likely to stiffen Russia’s resolve to impose a de facto embargo on Ukrainian ports in the coming weeks. - Sonar21 Saudi Arabia's Ukraine "peace talks", which excluded Russia, fail. China sent its "positive signals" as Brazil said "real negotiations must involve all parties". Meeting, which involved officials from 40 countries, also fails to adopt final statement. UPDATE: New info from Saudi Arabia says countries "agreed on continuing international consultations and exchanging views in a way that contributes to building common grounds that pave the way for peace." - Intel Report
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  2217. The anti-Syrian propaganda, now virtually non-existent, had for years been relentless. We were told that Assad had simply lost control of the country, and that the US and its allies couldn’t risk having ISIS terrorists running around as a threat and trying to establish a caliphate in Syria because Assad simply wasn’t able to stop them. And whenever he did try, he was conveniently accused of humanitarian offenses. So of course, here comes Uncle Sam to ‘help’ get rid of ISIS, and also Assad – totally without any humanitarian issues, because American bombs aren’t like that. In the process, the CIA and Pentagon spent billions of dollars training and equipping ‘Syrian rebels’, many of whom bailed out to join other jihadist groups, including ISIS and Al-Qaeda, taking their shiny new weapons with them. There’s a glaring parallel here with Ukraine, which risks following a similar trajectory with Western involvement and patronage. Even before the current conflict, the CIA-linked Freedom House and others had questioned the extent to which far-right extremists controlled the country. Major Western media outlets were publishing pieces referencing Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem. So it looks like the same argument could someday be used on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky – that he’s lost control of the country to extremists. And just like the West trained extremists in Syria under the guise of helping, they’ve done the exact same thing in Ukraine by training and equipping the Azov neo-Nazi fighters. Both Iran and Russia had entered the conflict militarily at the request of Assad’s government to help stabilize the country, with Moscow first entering the scene when fighting got too close for comfort to its warm water base for the Black Sea Fleet in Tartus. So basically, Russia was called in to help clean up the mess that the US and NATO had made of the country. And by December 2018, when I asked Russian President Vladimir Putin at his annual press conference whether then-US President Donald Trump was right about ISIS being defeated in Syria, he agreed. Uncle Sam has to stick around to make sure that they never come back, ever again. Guess there’s no chance of just heading home and kicking back with a few beers and waiting to see if it’s actually going to be a problem in the future? Nope! Not when so much has been invested in establishing an in-country military footprint that just happens to be right on top of the biggest pile of Syria’s natural resources – the kind that have been the topic of CIA intelligence directorate reports since at least 1986. In December 2023, Syrian Oil Minister Firas Hassan Kaddour evoked the plan to “liberate” the oil fields from US occupation. Peace in Syria was only possible because of Russia helping to eliminate the troublemakers. The West lost in Syria and still won’t go home. Imagine if it had actually been able to have free run of the place. Maybe there’s something worse than a Russian ‘win’ for Ukraine: Permanent occupiers who use friendship as a pretext to stick around and suck the country dry. - RT
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  2227. There is propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission, the former often serve to conceal the latter. Timing is crucial. That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious. They are losing the war in Ukraine, have been condemned throughout the world for the genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Biden and Netanyahu’s political lives are at serious risk. And so they have just rolled out a full-court propaganda press effort aimed at covering their losses. It should be crystal clear to anyone who can use logic to see the timing involved. Once the death in a Russian prison of the Western backed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was announced on Friday, February 16, 2024, it was immediately followed by a cascade of anti-Russia pronouncements whose aim was to not only continue the demonization of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin but to serve other purposes as well. All this happened while Russia pushed through Ukraine’s defenses and took the city of Avdeevka, which had long been contested. With each day that passes, it is obvious that Biden’s Ukraine war strategy is that of a desperate politician on the ropes and that Putin has completely outfoxed the American desperados and their NATO European stooges. only a very dimwitted person would think that Putin would have Navalny killed. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so. Yet the MSM and their government overlords consider most people very stupid and so are trying to blitz them with obvious propaganda through commission and omission. We have heard this story before. - LewRockwell
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  2230. "MOTHERS, WIVES & CHILDREN WERE WAITING FOR THEM" - Speaker of Russian Parliament Volodin on the shot-down aircraft with Ukrainian POWs. This is a Nazi regime - fed by Biden, Macron, Sholz. Politicians of Western governments must finally see whom they helping, they must realize this is their responsibility, Volodin says in top vid. They shot their own soldiers in the air, their own! And our defenseless pilots who were carrying out a humanitarian mission - Volodin in bottom vid. - Intel Report KIEV'S TERROR REGIME DOWNS POW PLANE WITH MISSILES: Russian Defense Ministry reports 2 Ukrainian anti-air missiles launched from Kharkov region, East Ukraine at military transport plane with FULL knowledge that aircraft carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to be exchanged. By committing this terrorist attack, the Ukrainian leadership showed its true colors: it neglected the lives of its citizens - Defense Ministry Spokesman Konashenkov. UPDATE: Zelensky adviser Podolyak refuses to comment on terror attack, claims "clarifying data" will take time. - Intel Report Ukraine should be designated as a terrorist state, and the government in Kiev should be branded a terrorist cell, the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov has said, following the crash of an IL-76 military aircraft in Russia’s Belgorod Region. Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian military transport plane crashed near the village of Yablonovo, around 90km from the Ukrainian border. It was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel for a prisoner swap, as well as six crew members and three people accompanying the POWs. It is believed that there were no survivors. According to Kartapolov, Kiev was well aware of who this plane was transporting and accused the Ukrainian forces of shooting down the aircraft using what he claimed were “three Patriot or Iris-T air defense missiles.” He also noted that there had been another IL-76 carrying 80 more Ukrainian POWs in the sky at the time of the incident. This plane was turned around after the crash, the MP said. - RT
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  2241. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Viral videos on the internet show how all Iranian missiles hit their designated targets in the occupied Palestinian territories, at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, which Iran said was the time to give a firm response to the Zionist regime's aggression. The attack on the night of October 1, 2024, about 25 to 40 hypersonic missiles managed to evade Israeli anti-missile shield, and the US Navy Ship failed to intercept the missiles, which hit the military base directly. It is known that Nevatim Airbase, which is located 15 km from the Negev desert, is an air base that houses a squadron of fighter jets such as the F-35, and used to be a place where Israel received American bombs in the aggression on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Now, the air base is being destroyed to the maximum by order of the Supreme Commander of the Iranian Armed Forces, AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI! Chief of General Staff of the IRGC Armed Forces, Major General Muhammad Baqeri asserted that “In this Operation True Promise 2, Iran targeted the Mossad base in Tel Aviv, the Nevatim Airbase, the Hatzerim Base which houses the F-35 and F-15 used in the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the IDF radar arrays, and the staging area for Israeli tanks.” Initial damage assessments reported that the Nevatim Air Base as well as Israel’s so-called Air Force One were badly damaged by the unhindered missile strikes, making them now inoperable. Open sources said that around 20 F-35 5th generation fighter jets, which bombed the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives last year, have been disabled there. Iran finally broke its long silence and launched a large-scale missile attack. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said the attack was in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political director Haniyeh, Hezbollah supreme leader Nasrallah, and Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Abbas Nirfurshan.''If the aggressor responds with a counterattack, we will target all its infrastructure, retaliating a thousand times over,'' Muhammad Baqeri warned. Currently, regular and extensive flights of dozens of Iranian warplanes are being carried out across the country, on alert to detect and neutralize possible attacks by Zionist fighter jets.
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  2242. [Not a good time to be spitting in the Face of Almighty God when staring at His Judgment!] SOUTH KOREA OUTRAGED AFTER FRANCE INTRODUCES TEAM AS "DPRK - NORTH KOREAN" at Paris Olympics opening ceremony - IOC "deeply apologizes" another embarrassment after South Korean nation feels offended, demanding meeting with IOC chief. Regular folks all around the world also offended by perceived gross display of Satanism at opening ceremony, such as bastardization of Da Vinci's Jesus Last Supper with flamboyant transvestites and little girl wedged between and bizarre occult creatures, seen as an insult to Christianity. Organizers too busy with woke gewgaws, they failed at most important basic task, fumbling flag raising by flying Olympic flag upside down. - Intel Republic FRANCE'S BISHOP CONDEMNS OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY FOR MOCKING CHRISTIANITY, insulting religion and Jesus with scandalous degenerate depiction of Jesus and Last Supper. Episcopate deplores ceremony that unfortunately included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity. We thank members of other religious denominations who expressed their solidarity with us. This morning, we are thinking of all Christians on all continents who have been hurt by outrageousness and provocation of certain scenes. We hope they understand Olympic celebration extends far beyond ideological biases of few artists - Bishop's office. Using homosexuals to embody Jesus Christ at opening of Paris Olympics very dangerous - Warns pastor of Palestine's Ramallah Roman Catholic Church. Scenes so outrageous, drove Italian journalist Angelo Giuliano to ask for asylum in Russia to escape such "S--tshows", and many X users to agree and declare planning move to Moscow. - Intel Republic
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  2255. Jul 10, 2024 - The US has dominated the foreign and domestic policy of the Southeast Asian country of the Philippines for decades, having formally ruled the nation as a colony from 1898-1946; - The Philippines has been used for US military basing throughout the Cold War and is now enlarging its military footprint on the Philippines under the government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.; - It was under President Rodrigo Duterte that the US was being pressured to leave the nation while also expanding closer ties with China who was and still is the Philippines’ largest trade partner; - Today, infrastructure projects underway during President Duterte’s administration have been literally torn down, instead military bases are being built to point missiles at the Philippines’ largest trade partner, China; - The US through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has created large numbers of media platforms, political organizations, and education programs meant to convince the Philippine people that serving US foreign policy objectives is in their own best interests; - The ultimate irony is that these US efforts have convinced Filipinos that fighting China is necessary to protect their sovereignty, when in fact US influence over Philippine foreign policy already constitutes the usurpation of Philippine sovereignty; - Ukraine provides an example of where this process of the US using the Philippines as a proxy against China ultimately leads if the Philippine people are unable to recognize their current government is serving US interests at the expense of their own interests; - The New Atlas
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  2283. Donald Trump may be clear-minded when it comes to Russian history, but he started the “sanctions race” with Moscow, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. In a Fox News interview earlier this week, Trump pointed out that the Russian “war machine” defeated both Napoleon and Hitler, so stopping the Ukraine conflict had to be a priority for him if re-elected. Meanwhile, his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined “a Trump peace plan” in the Wall Street Journal that seemed at odds with the Republican candidate’s actual position. Commenting on both matters, Peskov complimented Trump for “knowing history in such depth” as few other Americans seemed to, but maintained that he was still “a representative of the US political elite that is now definitely suffering from total Russophobia.” “Of course, we saw this article and various other statements. We have never worn rose-colored glasses,” Peskov told reporters. The Kremlin press secretary reminded reporters that the US introduced “a huge number of sanctions” against Russia during Trump’s presidency, so “there isn’t much of a difference” between him and other American politicians, from Moscow’s standpoint. “He shows a little more wisdom in terms of maintaining channels of dialogue, but this does not have much of an influence on anything,” Peskov concluded. Pompeo’s op-ed blamed the Ukraine conflict on the “weakness” of current US president, Joe Biden, and accused him for leaving Ukraine “without the means to win” and having “no strategy for victory.” According to the former State Department head, a plan for peace through strength would involve revitalizing the US economy; imposing “real sanctions” on Russia; creating an anti-Iranian bloc in the Middle East; “revitalizing” NATO; and giving Ukraine $500 billion worth of “lend-lease” military equipment, while lifting all restrictions on its use. The terms he proposed for ending the Ukraine conflict involve freezing the current frontline while not recognizing any of Russia’s “occupation and claimed annexation,” handing Ukraine Russia’s frozen central bank reserves as reparations, “demilitarizing” Crimea and admitting Kiev to NATO and the EU, whereupon the sanctions on Russia might be gradually lifted. - RT
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  2309. You can't beat these people as God is watching over them! OUR PEOPLE CAN'T BE INTIMIDATED - Russian Election Commission Chief Pamfilova starts 1st voting day with Russian national anthem, hailing will of citizens risking their lives to vote under fire, while Kiev's regime threatens and kills them. We will endure everything; we have withstood it for more than one year and we know what's at stake - Pamfilova quoting courageous residents from reunited regions. We have accredited 706 officials from 106 countries as international observers. More than 13,000 representatives from almost 2,500 media outlets, without taking into account numerous foreign media outlets will have same full opportunity to cover what is happening in our country openly without any kind of obstacles - Pamfilova. - Intel Republic RUSSIAN PATRIOTS FIGHT EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS TO CAST THEIR VOTE - Citizens of Sakhalin region, Far East Russia fight their way through punishing icy sharp winds and thick snow (video above) to vote for better Russian future in today's presidential elections. 2 million already participated in early voting but West predictably labels the elections unfair before they even started. - Intel Republic TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN FAMILY TRAVELS 150KM ON SNOWMOBILE TO VOTE - Watch video above of the amazing nomad Khudi family from Russia's Arctic Yamalo-Nenets, whose patriotism manifested in a long hard road trip through extreme weather to the nearest polling station after father got tired of "waiting for helicopter" to fly them to participate in presidential elections. We always vote, because everything depends on our voice - says the mom. - Intel Republic RUSSIA'S ELITE OFFICIALS CAST THEIR VOTE - Early to arrive at voting stations, Russian FM Lavrov, Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of Staff Gerasimov post their ballots in today's presidential elections. Massive turnout expected as reunited Russian regions will finally enjoy fair elections , with head of Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) Pushilin leading by example by voting in bottom right video. Finally the day has come when we elect the president of our great Motherland - Pushilin. - Intel Republic MASSIVE BLAST RIPS THROUGH STREET and vehicles, wrecking department store following Ukrainian shelling that kills one, damages several buildings and stores in Belgorod region (pre-war Russia), as Kiev's regime continues futile attempt to intimidate Russians out of voting. Region's Governor Gladkov mourns the victim who spent his days helping victims of Ukrainian war crimes. He was one of its [civil defense] active participants, he repeatedly helped to evacuate civilians and ensure security in his native district. I express my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, it's a heavy loss for all residents of Belgorod region - Gladkov. - Intel Republic UKRAINE-BACKED SABOTEURS ISSUE WARNING TO RUSSIANS, WHILE MOSCOW DETAINS ONE OF THEIR TERRORISTS - West-funded PR battalion Freedom of Russia Legion, again issues "urgent warning" to citizens of Belgorod region (pre-war Russia), that massive attack about to be carried on city's military targets. One terror attempt immediately once again thwarted by Russian intelligence, as 21-year-old FRL goon in right video detained before he could plant explosives (confession on right) and spread chaos in Bryansk region (pre-war Russia), to disrupt presidential elections day. UPDATE: From March 12 to 15, Russian forces prevented all Ukrainian attempts to break through into territory of Belgorod and Kursk regions. More than 550 military personnel, 16 tanks, 19 armored fighting vehicles, including 11 U.S-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 15 vehicles were destroyed - Russian Defense Ministry. - Intel Republic
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  2322. [Some food for thought for the Globalist Lunatics supporting Biden who want to fight Russia, China, and Iran with a decimated woke pro-pervert Military!] Iran made history yesterday by launching “Operation True Promise”. In our usual style here, let’s cut through all the noise currently clogging up social networks and incisively demonstrate the facts as thoroughly as possible, while also pointing out how this was a game-changing and historic event which has brought Iran onto the world stage in a big way. Firstly, as establishment, Iran’s stated goal for the operation was to strike back at the bases from which the Israeli consular attack was launched on April 1: The footage is of the Intelligence HQ getting hit. I have yet to see evidence of 99% interception. Ramon has been badly hit. Nevatim was hit by more than 7 missiles. Air Force Intelligence HQ completely leveled. Other strikes on air defence installations obviously not close to population centres and out of view but I'm sure sat intel will show extent of damage. And another: ➖Nevatim Airbase in the south of occupied Palestine ➖Ramon Airbase in the south of occupied Palestine ➖The Israeli top-secret intelligence-spy base in Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon) in the north of the occupied Golan Now, let’s get down to the nuts and bolts. This strike was unprecedented for several important reasons. Firstly, it was of course the first Iranian strike on Israeli soil directly from Iranian soil itself, rather than utilizing proxies from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc. This alone was a big watershed milestone that has opened up all sorts of potentials for escalation. Secondly, it was one of the most advanced and longest range peer-to-peer style exchanges in history. Even in Russia, where I have noted we’ve seen the first ever truly modern near-peer conflict, with unprecedented scenes never before witnessed like when highly advanced NATO Storm Shadow missiles flew to Crimea while literally in the same moments, advanced Russian Kalibrs flew past them in the opposite direction—such an exchange has never been witnessed before, as we’ve become accustomed to seeing NATO pound on weaker, unarmed opponents over the last few decades. But no, last night Iran upped the ante even more. Because even in Russia, such exchanges at least happen directly over the Russian border onto its neighbor, where logistics and ISR is for obvious reasons much simpler. But Iran did something unprecedented. They conducted the first ever modern, potentially hypersonic, assault on an enemy with SRBMs and MRBMs across a vast multi-domain space covering several countries and timezones, and potentially as much as 1200-2000km. Additionally, Iran did all this with potentially hypersonic weapons, which peeled back another layer of sophistication that included such things as possible endoatmospheric interception attempts with Israeli Arrow-3 ABM missiles. After a certain pre-timed span, Iran then released cruise missiles so that they could strike roughly in a similar window as the drones. One video from last night confirmed the low-flying cruise missile presence: Then, following the appropriate time interval, Iran launched the coup de grace, its vaunted ballistic missiles. Here’s Iran’s own released footage of the start of Operation True Promise, which includes the ballistic launches: There is no conclusive proof that any ballistic missiles were shot down, and in fact all the evidence points to the opposite: direct footage of the missiles penetrating the AD net and striking targets. This is where it starts getting interesting, because the hits we saw in Israel appeared to potentially utilize some form of MaRV or hypersonic glide vehicle, which would mean Iran could have made history even beyond what we thought. So let’s get there by first mentioning the other controversial claim that Iran possibly used its most advanced new hypersonic Fattah-2 system: And lastly, there are some experts who believe Iran utilized its elusive hypersonic Kheybar Shekan missile, which also features a highly maneuverable MaRV. we do have evidence that the ballistic missiles largely went unopposed, slicing through what’s claimed to be the densest air defense in the world. Not only Israel’s itself, comprised of a layered defense of David Slings, Arrow-3s, Patriots, and Iron Dome, but also the aforementioned allied airforces, as well as what’s now been reported to be a U.S. Arleigh Burke warship firing upwards of 70+ SM-3 missiles from the Mediterranean shore. The hits that we saw were spectacular in one profound way: the terminal velocity of the Iranian ballistic missiles appeared stunningly fast. But here’s where we get down to business. The next video is the most eye-opening in terms of the capabilities of these missiles. The two most important things to note are: 1) the terminal velocity right before impact and 2) note how some of the missiles strike very precisely onto the same location in groups. That’s not to mention the official Israeli account tried to pass off old footage of Russian MLRS launches from Ukraine as Iranian ballistic launches last night: They call this the New Equation. Anytime Israel attacks them, Iran now intends to strike them ‘head on’, i.e. directly from its soil as is their newly demonstrated capability. But last night, Iran penetrated every missile shield manned and operated by NATO itself, with all the trappings and advanced C4ISR and SIGINT capabilities inherent to the entire Western alliance; from THAAD, to Patriot, David’s Sling, Arrow-3, SM-3, Iron Dome, and even ‘C-Dome’ from Israeli corvettes—not to mention the entire complement of the West’s most advanced A2A defenses flown from F-35s, Typhoons, Eurofighters, and likely much more. One must understand that ballistic missiles are precisely the apex predator that these most advanced Western AD systems were created to handle—and last night, they failed spectacularly in the same way the Patriots did in Desert Storm before them: In short: this is why Netanyahu needed an escalation. It’s to divert attention from the ongoing catastrophe of Israel’s potential defeat to Hamas, the catastrophic loss of standing of Israel’s image in the world community, the complete turning against Israel by the entire world. Rather than admit defeat and face the end of his career, as well as the coming trials and tribunals that would put Bibi in jail, he chose to take the only remaining option: to continue escalating in the hopes that a wider-scale war could wash away his sins and undo the past mistakes. Unfortunately, just like the ill-fated Zelensky, Netanyahu’s doomed plan appears destined to coincide with the U.S.’ historic decline, reaching its zenith now in this pivotal year of 2024. - Simplicius
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  2329. Highlights from Putin's State of the Nation as reported by Intel Republic UNITY OF RUSSIA IS A COLOSSAL FORCE - Putin praises Russian people of all religions for standing together against West aiming to sow discord and turn Russia into a Ukraine-like state manipulated by arm dealers. They are confronted by the firm position of our people, our soldiers, Muslims and Christians, Buddhists and followers of Judaism, have shown that unity of Russia can overcome anything, by standing shoulder to shoulder we fight for our Motherland - Putin. - Intel Republic RUSSIA IS STRONGHOLD OF TRADITIONAL VALUES - proudly declares Putin in above video. Smiles and nods of approval at State of Nation address as the Russian leader highlights that world at large, including millions in West look up to Russia's wokeness-free traditions that are upholding human civilization. - Intel Republic PUTIN CHALLENGES THE WEST - Russian Prez issues determined warning to West's warmongers who are considering sending NATO troops to fight Russia with Ukraine. West continues to lie through its teeth without any shame saying Russia wants to attack Europe, it makes absolutely no sense. They are now talking about sending NATO contingents to Ukraine, we all remember what happens to those who try to attack our country, but now consequences for those potential invaders will be much more tragic - Putin. Russian leader lists few tasty missiles that will welcome any potential suicidal invaders who decide to find out. - Intel Republic U.S. JUST WANTS TO DELUDE CITIZENS INTO BELIEVING IT STILL RULES THE WORLD - Putin deconstructs Washington's fuss about Russian space nukes as nothing but a ploy to force Moscow into arm treaties negotiations on U.S' terms and gain popularity points during elections. They're blocking our proposal which has been on their table for 15 years, it's not clear what they want. Words of today's American authorities about negotiations on strategic stability are demagoguery - Putin. - Intel Republic RUSSIA SOON ONE OF WORLD'S 4 LARGEST ECONOMIES - Putin proudly highlights Russia as the largest economy in Europe in GDP and purchasing power, 5th in the world. Last year, Russian economy grew faster than global average and outpaced growth seen in G7 states, becoming more sophisticated and technologically advanced, with less reliance on natural resources - Putin. - Intel Republic WE WILL BUILD NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE, FREE OF POLITICAL AGENDA - Promises Putin following crumbling of U.S. hegemony and West discrediting their own currencies. Russia together with its friendly states will continue to create an efficient and safe transport corridor infrastructure and build new global financial architecture, free of political agenda. We and our partners interact on basis of equality and fairness - Putin. - Intel Republic
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  2332. Comedown After Post-Aid 'High' Brings West Back to Reality In fact, just days ago Ukraine’s head of the aerial reconnaissance support center, Maria Berlinskaya, stated that “most Western systems have proven to be [worthless]” because Russian EW neutralizes them It was also revealed that much of the gear was already forward-stationed and merely awaiting the final approval, and has begun streaming in from Poland. In fact, some of it was already secretly given a week or two ago, such as in the case of the ATACMS missiles The problem is, amid the wave of drunken excitement over the new aid, there have been many sober voices making efforts to temper the wild flights of exaggerated optimism. And the main issue is now rearing its head more than ever: out of the several disastrous problems plaguing the AFU, the supply issue is not even its biggest; that dishonorable distinction goes to the lack of usable manpower. As for mobilization, here’s Ukrainian lawyer Rostislav Kravets and Arestovich both separately revealing that there are reportedly over 100,000 deserters in the AFU: This is utterly shocking because they are talking about actual deserters who were already fighting on the front or in military units—not men who fled the country to avoid service; those, as we all know, already number in potentially the millions. No, this is much worse. These are actual deserters from the already-thinning frontline, which is said to have a measly ~250-300k men or less. As such it represents a catastrophic morale. It’s another wake up call to those who actually believe Kiev’s casualty numbers. Tens of thousands of confirmed POWs, 100k deserters, but only 30k killed? Of course the most disgusting of the lies is the suggestion that the young will only be used to operate drones and technological things, implying they’ll be safely in the ‘rear’ as most drone operators are. In reality, they will be sent as fodder to the zero line. Their excuse for the blatant indifference to threat escalation is the canard that Russia is weak, would never use nukes, and that 90% of the Russian army has already been destroyed. In fact, we now know it’s the opposite: So, it is in fact Ukraine that lost 90% of its army in the literal first days of the war, and has reconstituted it several times, while the Russian army is now bigger and stronger than before. In essence, Europe is like a gang of frightened monkeys hiding behind each other, trying to pull the bear’s tail, drawing group ‘courage’ from each other, but running frantically at the sight of a single member’s panic. Now Ukraine faces major battlefield breakthroughs as Russian forces have been steamrolling AFU in a variety of important positions and fronts, capturing Ocheretyne and Novobakhmutovka earlier: As well as major portions of Krasnogorovka: The AFU’s own sources write that the collapse has been nearly catastrophic: - Simplicius
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  2334. There also is no good explanation why a band of Tajiks were hightailing it for the Ukrainian border. At a minimum that shows a belief that they would find safe haven if they could get across the border. They certainly did not behave like diehard jihadist warriors eager to sacrifice themselves and go to Paradise and cash in the reward of 72 virgins. I think the Islamic terrorism claim is a red herring and designed to shift attention away from the other indicators that some in the West, at a minimum, had foreknowledge of this attack. How else to explain the March 7 warning by US Embassy Moscow for American citizens to steer clear of event, such as concerts? And then, as I wrote yesterday, the US State Department was quick to issue a claim exonerating Ukraine for any role in the attack. The fires were still raging at the Crocus facility. That means only one thing — the State Department had intelligence indicating who carried out the attack. But the U.S. apparently did not share that with its Russian counterparts. That lapse alone is simply going to stoke more suspicion in Moscow about Western involvement. But we already know one thing for sure — that the West has been involved with facilitating a series of terrorist attacks against Russians since the start of the special military operation. What else do you call the artillery and missile strikes on Russian civilians in the Donbass,] and in Belgorod, with munitions that were supplied by the United States and other major NATO countries? At a minimum, that makes western powers an accessory to an act of terror. it is also important to note the President Joe Biden has said nothing, and has made no contact with Vladimir Putin to express sorrow or empathy. Quite a contrast with Biden’s actions in the wake of the news that Alexey Navalny, a political opponent of Vladimir Putin, had died. Biden was quick to express his fake grief for the death of Navalny. It is also clear from President Putin’s demeanor during his speech today that Russia will retaliate against those responsible for this attack. The one thing I know for certain is that this attack is going to strengthen the will of President Putin, the Russian general staff, and Russia’s intelligence service to put an end to NATO meddling in Ukraine, and the ability of NATO proxies to attack the Russian people. Whoever approved this badly miscalculated and will pay a terrible, but well deserved, price. - Sonar21
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  2338. Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition – is a shocking display of ignorance and misinformation about Russia, the state of the war in Ukraine and NATO’s military capabilities. Although Burn’s is an educated man and experienced diplomat, this article displays a profound arrogance seasoned with provably false claims. The so-called vision he presents for “transforming the CIA” is a childish fantasy and signals that the CIA is drifting towards being irrelevant as well as incompetent. An intelligence chief like Burns is supposed to bring a non-partisan, objective perspective to an issue like Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine. Burns fails spectacularly on that count. He refuses to acknowledge the role the CIA and Britain’s MI-6 played in sparking the 2014 coup that ousted democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych, which culminated in the Ukrainian military attacking the Russian speaking citizens in the Donbass. That in turn sparked the now ten year civil war and the vote in Crimea to re-join the Russian Federation. Burns is totally disingenuous. He pretends that the West played no role in the subsequent civil war that wracked the Donbass. He ignores the West’s repeated entreaties for Ukraine to join NATO – a firm redline for Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government. And he fails to acknowledge the West’s saber rattling as the U.S. European Command and NATO conducted annual joint military exercises with Ukraine where Russia was the featured foe. Burns’ claims about Russia’s “one-dimensional” economy and weak military capability is beyond shocking. This is the kind of specious claim one normally would expect of a middling university student or a partisan hack. Russia’s economy is anything but one dimensional – it has a robust defense manufacturing capability, is a leader in the production of grain and oil and gas, and is one of the world leaders in supplying critical Rare Earth Elements (aka REE). According to the Foreign Policy Research Institute: After two years of combat in Ukraine, Russia has demonstrated that it can defeat and deter every advanced NATO system provided to Ukraine. Although touted as “game changers” when first supplied to Urkaine – I am referring to the HIMARS, the Javelin anti-tank guided missile and the Patriot missile battery – these systems have proven to be expensive failures. The era of the United States calling the shots and coercing other nations to accede to its policies is coming to an end. When the history of this period is written, the war in Ukraine coupled with the West’s effort to destroy Russia, will be seen as the spark that ignited the fire that burned down the power of the Colonial West. - Sonar21
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  2354. Moscow’s forces have stopped the Ukrainian counteroffensive dead in its tracks, Evgeny Balitsky, the governor of Zaporozhye Region, has said. The official declared that Ukrainian forces, which have been trying to storm Russian positions for months, have “completely run out of steam.” According to Balitsky, the plan to reach the Sea of Azov and cut Russia’s land bridge to Crimea – widely seen as the main objective of Kiev's summer campaign – has been thwarted. Ukraine began a large-scale offensive in early June, but has failed to make substantial progress. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said last week that “the Kiev regime is losing.” He has previously estimated Ukraine’s losses at more than 90,000 troops, nearly 600 tanks, and 2,000 armored vehicles since the start of the push. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials have admitted difficulties with the campaign, blaming a lack of progress on delays in Western support, strong Russian defenses, and extensive minefields as well as Moscow’s air superiority. - RT RUNNING CRAWLING FOR THEIR LIVES are Ukrainian cannon fodder coming under wrath of Russian gunfire and anti-tank guided missiles after making massive mistake of attempting to breach Russian defensive lines. All attempts at return fire futile as entire enemy unit ends up either killed, injured or fleeing Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut), Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) 245 Ukrainian soldiers in total either killed or wish they never stepped foot in Donetsk, 170 in Lugansk Republic (ex-Ukraine), 160 in Kupyansk, East Ukraine. Russian air defenses shoot down 2 Ukrainian planes and 33 drones ( almost 9,000 UAVs destroyed since start of Special Operation). ⚔SITREP⚔ Nov 6 Intel Report
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  2362. UKRAINE'S MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIRECTLY LINKED TO CROCUS TERRORIST ATTACK - FSB Director Bortnikov announces as investigation continues, stressing main purpose of bloodbath was to destroy relations between CIS countries. Preparation, financing, attack and withdrawal of terrorists were coordinated via Internet by members of ISIS-K. More than 20 people, including perpetrators and accomplices, have already been detained. Kiev, having no chance on battlefield, switched to tactics of total terror. NATO countries facilitate transfer of mercenaries and terrorists to Ukraine - Bortnikov. U.S. rewards Kiev's terror by awarding Ukraine another $275 million for new HIMARS systems, artillery and anti-tank weapons. - Intel Republic ZELENSKY HAS LOST HIS LEGITIMACY - Putin states the evident in video above - as Begginsky's cancelling of elections, embarrassing forced conscription of Ukrainians, and PATHETIC performance on battlefield despite syphoning endless BILLIONS in Western cash is too much for even U.S. and EU "leaders" to tolerate much longer. In terms of legitimacy, the current (Ukrainian) head of state has little left of it, and I believe that one goal of Switzerland conference is to try to restore it before Western community - Putin. - Intel Republic Russian soldiers massive action of Yug Group troops liberated Kleshcheyevka completely. Scouts identified Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries in settlements in Donetsk region, and launched artillery and FPV drone attacks on enemy positions. Next the attack group entered and engaged in close combat, eliminating and capturing their hiding fortress. - Military Tube Today
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  2374. ⚔SITREP⚔ DECEMBER 4 ◾More ground taken by Russian forces North of Artyomovskoye, Donetsk Republic, ex-Ukraine (left map) as Kiev army forced out of their positions. ◾Russian drones make short work of Kiev army troops near Artyomovskoye as right vid shows deadly drops blasting soldiers apart. ◾ Up to 280 Ukrainian troops added to Kiev’s casualty figures in DPR while over 30 Ukrainian drone and US-supplied HIMARS rocket shot down by Russian air defenses. - Intel Report 97% OF FUNDS FOR UKRAINE ALREADY EXHAUSTED admits US State Department Spokesman Miller as he tries to prevent his voice from wobbling too much while delivering news to reporters. Miller confesses he’s "very concerned" that Congress still ain't passing Biden's $105 BILLION emergency package to send taxpayer cash to Kiev and Tel Aviv so they can continue their war crime sprees. - Intel Report RUSSIA UPHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS DESPITE WESTERN HYPOCRISY states Putin as he blasts West-controlled international organizations who've turned blind eye to suffering of Donbass residents for YEARS. Russian leader adds Moscow's ready to cooperate with all willing countries to ensure human rights for all. - Intel Report After the liberation of Khromovo west of Artemovsk, Russian Paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Brigade began expanding the offensive on Khromovo - Chasov Yar highway. Attacks by quadcopters and FPV kamikaze drones destroyed armored vehicles and infantry of Armed Forces of Ukraine as they fled on the highway west of Khromovo which had been held by PMC Wagner since early May. - Military Tube Today WATCH a charging infantry vehicle with a Russian flag waving defiantly in the wind PUMMEL Ukrainian forces with smoking gusts of ammo, sending them scattering in all directions near Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut), Donetsk Republic, ex-Ukraine. - Intel Report
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  2383. The lack of manpower has become so dire for the AFU that even if all the newfangled weapons from the West were to be delivered, Ukraine may no longer even have the men to use them: More and more voices have risen from the ranks of the AFU recently stating that they are flat out running out of men. This included the countless videos explaining how soon the entire population will have to be mobilized, man, woman, and child. Ukraine was defeated by its own Western propaganda. Now, the most aware pro-Ukrainian pundits are desperately trying to steer their flock back to rational thinking—but it’s too late. Some accounts have even pointed out how desperately pro-UA supporters have been trying to gin-up fake losses, for instance posting this one infamous photo of a field of corpses and trying to pass it off as Russian “meat assault losses” in Avdeevka. Only problem is, those were Ukrainian dead from Bakhmut as many well-trusted accounts have pointed out: In Kherson, Ukraine continues to claim some ‘successes’ but in fact the real intel is that they’re suffering nothing but absolute horrors there. A video emerged showing Ukrainian troops being fired upon by Polish mercenary “blocking detachments” to force them to cross the Dnieper. There are mutinies everywhere and the Ukrainian internal boards are filled with howling rage at the treacheries: Russia has continued to repel massive strikes on Crimea and Sevastopol. Now it’s being confirmed by Western sources that Russia has been increasing use of fully automated AI versions of the Lancet: Meanwhile the U.S. continues to experience weapons woes as the much-vaunted test launch of their new Minuteman III ICBM over the Pacific Ocean was apparently deemed a failure. - Simplicius PANIC MODE ACTIVATED in Kiev regime after top commander Zaluzhny’s disastrous admission of "stalemate" on Ukraine front to Western presstitutes (pic above) as US Republicans seize on opportunity for Washington to stop funding war crimes for "as long as it takes". Mad Vlad Zelensky’s thick skull ain’t accepting "gloomy" reality as he claims F-16s are gonna be the "wunderwaffe" that solves all Kiev army’s problems. Just like Leopard tank wunderwaffe, Bradley IFV wunderwaffe, Challenger tank wunderwaffe, list goes on. - Intel Report
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  2389. Since the Krokus attacks occurred, the West has been in utter overdrive to pin the blame on ISIS while absolving Ukraine from any responsibility. The heavy-handed desperation with which they’ve gone to lengths in doing this reveals the game and tells us everything we need to know about the nature of the attacks. Listen to Grant Shapps at the end of the video above, whose mask slips when he openly reveals: “We must resist Putin’s effort to link ISIS to Ukraine.” But before we go on, let’s remember how almost every previous terrorist attack that was denied by Ukraine ended up being quietly admitted later. After all, just yesterday Ukraine’s head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk went on a long confession spree, “unofficially” admitting Ukraine’s responsibility for killing Ilia Kiva, Vladlen Tatarsky, and others. The U.S. and friends really, really, really want you to know it wasn’t Ukraine who did the Moscow attacks, it was “ISIS”. Anyone who has even a functionally adult understanding of how the world works will innately comprehend that Ukraine is behind the attack. In this case, it was absolutely paramount that Ukraine had to utilize the services of a third party—so they hired some patsies through an intermediary with a convenient ‘ISIS’ link. But the timing is too ludicrous to believe—it’s akin to the CIA’s ‘best hits’, like the farfetched gas attack Assad carried out just when he had broken the enemy’s back and was winning the war. It’s utterly unbelievable that just as Russia had dealt some unprecedented blows to Ukraine, including a massively crippling air attack, and just as MSM outlets were sputtering out reams of devastating headlines about Ukraine’s impending collapse, ISIS just happens to decide to make a totally uncharacteristic attack in Moscow? You have to be infantilely credulous to believe such improbable coincidences. That’s not even to mention that the attackers were obviously caught heading to Ukraine, a fact now established with precise geolocation from on the ground videos: That’s not to mention that “ISIS” is incapable of supplying a stash of weapons into Russia for the patsies to have used—only Ukrainian SBU leads would have provided that weaponry from Ukraine deep inside Russia. Most of the above is in line with what Russian FSB head Bortnikov believes happened, as per his statements today: What he says: He believes Ukraine, U.S., and UK are behind the attacks He has some preliminary evidence to suggest this link, while investigations are ongoing His preliminary findings are that the terrorists were in fact “expected” on the Ukrainian border by their handlers He implies Budanov will be eliminated for his actions Putin also made some new statements on the ongoing investigation, corroborating the link to Ukraine: Some analysts have even speculated that Putin’s choice of ambiguous language is a hidden signal to the West: he knows precisely who did it and can reveal it at any moment, but—he’s giving the West a chance to make favorable concessions and gestures of reconciliation, to some extent. many in Ukraine and the West did celebrate the attacks Ukraine is merely being forced to resort to increasingly desperate and dangerous maneuvers to dislodge Russia’s unity, and Russian elite are increasingly consolidating under one form of ideological solidarity when it comes to the war’s end-game objectives. Those who may have toed the line previously, now recognize that only maximalist goals will achieve national security for Russia. Russia not only struck what it claims to be some leadership positions with hypersonic missiles in Kiev yesterday, but has also dealt devastating blows to the electric grid, this time targeting actual irreparable engine and turbine rooms. the world banking cabal cannot afford Russia winning the war, because it would initiate a cascade of untold consequences for the monetary hegemonic web they’ve tenticularly enwreathed the entire globe in. Russian citizens are very keen to what’s going on because they’ve developed a reflexive instinct for sniffing out the West’s provocations, after years of suffering them through the ‘90s and onward. So they know precisely where the attacks originated from, and who created ISIS itself, as they created Al-Qaeda to kill Soviets in Afghanistan in the ‘80s, as well as the Chechen jihadists in the ‘90s. Now the top EU puppet leaders climb over each other to stand out in the new pageant of war the ongoing events have germinated: Amid the scuffle and bustle, everyone sees opportunity to gain more power—after all, crisis is the absolute most ideal time to distinguish oneself from the pack and gain inordinate advantage. But ultimately, the reason these attacks had to happen, as I said in the beginning, was to mask the ongoing degradation of the Ukrainian armed forces: Beneath the gimmicks, terror diversions, and misdirecting but pointless missile attacks on Crimea, Ukraine continues to retreat as Russia steamrolls forward, breaking through the AFU’s lines: - Simplicius
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  2400. Trudeau’s Theater of Weakness: How Canada Became Puppet, Now Crushed Under Trump's Hammer Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are scrambling to appear relevant as Donald Trump, true to his businessman persona, moves to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. Their sudden outrage over “harsh medicine” is rich with irony, as this is precisely the predictable fallout of their own globalist servility. For years, Canada has been a willing vassal of Washington’s reckless globalist agenda, from backing fascist forever wars from Ukraine to Israel, to blindly following Biden’s disastrous open-borders. Now, stripped of sovereignty, Canada faces Trump’s leverage with no cards to play. Freeland’s hollow bravado about Canada’s critical minerals and metals exposes how unprepared Ottawa is. Sure, resources like nickel and cobalt are vital to the U.S., but Canada’s lack of investment in its own industries means it holds little strategic weight compared to Eurasia’s dominance in this space. Premier Doug Ford’s threat to cut energy exports to the U.S. underscores the desperation. Energy might power 1.5 million American homes, but this gambit only reveals how poorly Trudeau has positioned Canada on the world stage. Trudeau and Freeland’s outrage is especially galling given their role in turning Canada into a pawn of U.S. neocons and globalist elites. They championed NATO’s economic war on Russia, which backfired spectacularly, crippling European industries while strengthening Moscow’s economic position, now 4th in the world (IMF). They supported Biden’s border chaos and bankrolled Ukraine’s suicidal proxy war. When they weren’t busy with this, they were freezing the bank accounts of their own citizens during the Freedom Convoy protests. Having consistently betrayed Canadians, they now feign shock at Trump’s cold, transactional approach. Trump’s tariffs are not a betrayal but a harsh reality check. He’s merely exposing the rot within Canada’s leadership, a government more interested in photo ops and virtue signaling than actual governance. While Freeland talks of “robust responses,” one can’t help but wonder where this fire was when Trudeau sold out Canada’s autonomy to Davos bureaucrats and Military-Industrial warmongers. Under Trudeau, Canada became a textbook puppet state, blindly parroting DC’s talking points while sacrificing its own interests. Freeland’s claim that Canada’s partnership with the U.S. is at risk falls flat, Canada hasn’t been a partner in years, just an obedient subordinate. Trump, a realist, sees this and acts accordingly, tightening the economic noose while Trudeau flails, unprepared for the predictable consequences of his own policies. The hypocrisy is staggering. Trudeau, who cheered on sanctions that destroyed European economies in the name of punishing Russia, now cries foul when those tactics are turned on Canada. This government, which cloaked itself in the rhetoric of human rights, has supported Israel’s apartheid policies, backed NATO’s destruction of Libya, and crushed dissent at home. Morality, it seems, only matters when it’s politically convenient. At the heart of this crisis lies Trudeau’s betrayal of Canada’s sovereignty. By outsourcing decision-making to Washington and globalists, his government has left the country vulnerable to the whims of others. Trump’s moves simply expose the lie that Canada can act like a puppet abroad while maintaining independence at home. Trudeau and Freeland’s tears over tariffs ring hollow… they built this house of cards, and now it’s collapsing. Trump isn’t the villain here; he’s the reckoning. His tariffs are a brutal reminder that sovereignty cannot be outsourced, and leadership cannot be faked. Trudeau’s government, obsessed with globalist approval, sold out Canada’s future for a seat at the wrong table, a table where Canada was always the disposable pawn. If Canada wants to reclaim its dignity, it must start by rejecting leaders who cry victim only after they’ve betrayed their own people. O, Canada, wake up! - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews For Intel Republic
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  2414. BIDEN LETS KIEV BOMB PRE-WAR RUSSIA WITH U.S. MISSILES: Washington officially admits Genocide Joe’s gunning for war as he gives Kiev regime nod to use his weapons on pre-war Russian territory: President recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkov region so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces attacking them - Biden administration statement attempting to tone down extent of escalation. Congresswoman Greene blasts "insane", dementia-ridden Biden for escalation that could lead to "direct war with Russia". NATO's most warmongering members have already admitted they've given Mad Vlad Zelensky no restrictions on how he uses their weapons - looks like it's Biden's turn to jump on bandwagon - Intel Republic NATO CHIEF BRUSHES OFF BIDEN'S UKRAINE ESCALATION - "NOTHING NEW": Stoltenberg tries to play down Washington allowing Kiev to attack pre-war Russia with U.S. weapons by claiming some states never even bothered to impose restrictions on Mad Vlad Zelensky: We have right to help Ukraine uphold right to self-defense. That doesn’t make NATO allies party to conflict - Stolty insists. He’s really desperate to make nothingburger out of potentially-devastating escalation - how can you give Zelensky permission to target pre-war Russia with YOUR missiles and have audacity to claim you're "nOt PaRtY tO cOnFlIcT"? - Intel Republic "PUTIN HAS BEEN THREATENING UKRAINE ALLIES SINCE BEFORE 24 FEB 2022" - NATO Chief StOOltenberg is a master at convoluting basic information. Putin has been threatening NATO allies since the very beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the day before February 24 he gave a speech in which he threatened any ally supporting Ukraine, but we did not listen to him, if we were restrained by this message, then we could not provide no support – Stoltenberg says. On the day of the beginning of the Special Operation (24.02.22), for Putin it was imperative to formalize his objectives in a speech. Those objectives were to 1) Defend Donbass 2) Demilitarize Ukraine & 3) Denazify Ukraine. He warned external powers that all possible scenarios have been calculated and responses to them pre-determined, should anyone choose to interfere with the accomplishment of given objectives. That is not the same as "threatening NATO allies." - Intel Republic
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  2432. [Uke lies destroyed at the UN!] Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, has accused Ukrainian forces of hitting a children’s hospital with an air defense missile, declaring that if a Russian missile had struck the building, “there would be nothing left.” In an address to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Dr. Vladimir Zhovnir, the director of Kiev’s Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, accused Russia of deliberately striking the facility on Monday. Two people died and scores were injured in the blast, Zhovnir claimed, calling the incident “not just a war crime, [but] far beyond the limit of humanity.” “Does Mr. Zhovnir understand that if it was a Russian missile, there would be nothing left of the building?” Nebenzia responded. “Children and adults would have died rather than been injured.” Nebenzia explained that Russian forces targeted the Artemov missile plant in Kiev on Monday, and that “this target was hit.” “Since the plant is located approximately 2km from the children’s hospital, there is every reason to believe that the Ukrainian air defense missile that hit it was intended for a Russian missile that hit the plant,” he stated, adding that “this tragedy could have been avoided if the Ukrainian Armed Forces had not deployed air defense in residential areas.” The Russian Defense Ministry has also explicitly denied striking the hospital. In an official statement on Monday, the ministry said that “photos and video footage from Kiev clearly confirm” that the building was hit by a falling “Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city.” - RT
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  2442. The gist of this paper revolves around hatching ideas for how Ukraine can use its reorientation period to rebuild into a force that can defeat Russia. It begins with the same tired gloat of how much larger NATO/EU’s combined economies and military spending are over Russia. It’s a bit of a sophomoric take, as they expect this to innately convert into victory, as if it’s just a ‘given’ that “bigger is better.” I won’t rehash the obvious, but our recently discussed axiom applies here: you can print cash but not shells. So, lacking trained officers, a Ukrainian brigade can only effectively control two companies, giving an entire AFU brigade only 1200 meters of usable coverage? Eye-opening as it may be, these numbers check out with things we’ve seen. For instance in the summer counteroffensive, even the most elite brigades like the 47th only ever appeared able to operate 2-company assaults at any given time. —after spending a year downplaying Russia’s abilities, claiming they produce only 1 or sometimes at most 2 million shells, they now openly admit Russia has already reached 3.5M and will soon hit nearly 5M shells per year capacity. These words wouldn’t be so weighty if they weren’t issued from the very maw of the beast itself—the most powerful neocon deepstate ‘shadow elite’ which has run the US MIC for decades, and which therefore speaks on its very behalf. If you read carefully, there’s an almost desperate urgency in their tone—which is extremely telling. Wait a second, so the completely dead, battered, beaten and defeated, poor Russian army, who—according to MSM—had had 95% casualties thus far, is suddenly able to muster 3 entire full-fledged field armies just for the task of securing the Polish border? That is a veritable universe of difference with what’s allowed for public consumption. In fact, it’s absolutely dizzying what they now claim Russia will be able to muster along the entire NATO front: So now we get to the real truth about why the earlier-mentioned stealth fleets are so necessary. You see, they admit that NATO have no real ground forces to speak of, nor any artillery left, after giving it all to Ukraine—not that they had much to begin with. In fact, NATO is nothing more than a fragile glass jetfighter masquerading as a military alliance. These freaks, which have co-opted the country and its foreign policy, have in fact turned America into nothing more than a shambling golem, one without clothes like its shadow emperor. They now fear nothing more than for Russia to shatter this displaced “idea”, this fraudulent, barnacled ‘dream’ which exists only in the blood-addled minds of the neocon usurpers. This would shatter the illusion once and for all, not only freeing the globe from the Leviathan’s grasp, but destroying the age old neocon pursuit. The America they’ve concocted exists as a simulation in a matrix, and they fear Russia has found the key to unplugging their false construct-reality, awakening an entire generation to the actual truth: that the country and everything it ever stood for has been entirely hijacked by a criminal cabal. Most of all, they’ve revealed that “America’s” power relies on a spell cast over its closest ally, the completely subjugated Homo Europaeus. Once Russia “shatters” this spell, it’s game over. Dark stuff, I know. But this is why their tone is so evidently shrill and vexatious in this desperate report. Russia has cornered the rats and they’re panicking. - Simplicius
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  2473. In the footsteps of assassins and those who hire them Andrey Derkach, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian who became widely known for publishing recordings of conversations between ex-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and high-ranking foreign officials, including Biden (who was then US vice president), gave an extensive interview earlier this month to journalist Simona Mangiante. During this conversation, he disclosed sensational new details about the “special ties” between the Biden family and the Ukrainian authorities. So, instead of exposing the corruption in the previous Ukrainian administration, the Bidens (along with Zelensky and his team) turned against anti-corruption fighters. Derkach, who has been forced to hide in Belarus, was stripped of his citizenship by the Ukrainian authorities and sanctioned by the US. But that’s not all. In addition to criminal investigations and sanctions, Derkach says he has faced assassination attempts ordered by top officials in Kiev and Washington. It is noteworthy that in 2021, the Ukrainian police discovered plans to assassinate Derkach and the head of the group of prosecutors in the Burisma energy company case, Konstantin Kulik, but did not initiate a criminal case. The investigation tracked down the criminal gang from Eastern Europe hired to carry out the hit, as well as their base in Transcarpathia. The assassin himself was supposed to be an Albanian, but the information was leaked, and the gang escaped. The number of witnesses in the Burisma case – a company though which Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden earned profits via alleged corruption schemes – is also steadily decreasing. Shortly before she was due to testify as a witness in the case, the wife of Nikolai Lisin – a former partner of Nikolai Zlochevsky – was found dead in her apartment. She had been responsible for accounting at Burisma and had been aware of transactions carried out in the interests of the Bidens. Lisin himself died in a car accident back in 2011. - RT
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  2481. Polish volunteer Slawomir Wysocki traveled to Ukraine, returned home and in an interview for the media told what is really happening with the counter-offensive, which is so publicized by the Ukrainian authorities. “The human losses of the Ukrainian side are huge. Western equipment is burning like matches. Things are much worse than is commonly imagined. I counted the graves in Lviv. In the old part of the cemetery there are about 100 graves, in the new part there are more than 600. In the villages this proportion is colossally different. When I drive by, I see cemeteries along the streets. Each has up to a dozen new graves. There are flags near each one, they are easy to recognize. There are more than two thousand graves in Kharkov. It is impossible to hide these losses. Two months ago I was full of optimism about Kupyansk. Now we are still managing to hold our ground. It seems that the Russians are doing everything they can to reach Kupyansk, where they will take their positions for the spring offensive.” When asked by a journalist how Ukrainians feel about the Russian defense system, the Pole said: “They are terrified. They know that the Russian army has already foreseen everything. The defense system was built by construction companies. This is not a peasant waving a shovel to build a trench. Companies came in, poured concrete, made fortifications in the style of the Maginot Line. And there are three or four such lines. Ukrainians say that there are five mines per square meter. You can’t put your foot on the ground without one of them exploding”. The journalist further asks, with this situation on the front and the growing losses, are there still people willing to fight? The volunteer replies: “There are no willing ones. They are looking for them on the streets. In Lviv there are “round-ups”, people are taken from construction sites, from bars. Recently I witnessed such a situation at the bus station in Lvov. Five policemen stood and checked everyone who wanted to leave Lvov. Eight people were detained in this way. Many reasons for the current situation with mobilization originate in Bakhmut. It was such a plum, such a meat grinder that there was no one left to fight”. - Sonar21
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  2487. Zelensky finally presented his long awaited ‘Victory Plan’ to nation and Rada alike. Hear the pathological delusion presented as “plan” for yourself in all its demented glory: “What leaves me speechless is not that he is putting forward these points, but that they are all points whose implementation has already been rejected,” writes a befuddled Roepcke. He’s right most of the “plan” is obnoxious and can be dismissed outright. Number one: joining NATO—won’t happen; number two seems self-evident and redundant; number five is just some kind of ambiguous morale-boosting platitude with no real substance. This is nothing other than Zelensky’s pimping out of his country’s economic treasures and future in order to desperately tie NATO militarily to Ukraine’s hip. This is just the continuation of the same old plan, except this time via outright bribery: create massive monetary incentive to obligate NATO into sending boots on ground to confront Russia and save Ukraine by virtue or deterrence of WWIII. It’s dangling trillions before their noses to entice their help, with the alluded-to most ‘secret’ component of the deal likely having to do with the sheer preferential nature of the disaster capitalism extraction and economic shock therapy in one. It’s just more of what we already knew, that the Ukrainian game is all about the Western crony elite positioning themselves to pillage Ukraine’s resources and industries. For instance, most missed this excerpt from ex-CIA chief Pompeo’s recent prank-call with Russian Vovan and Lexus posing as Poroshenko. In the private call he describes how he got his own comfy sinecure on a big Ukrainian enterprise: Isn’t it interesting how the ex-head of the CIA now runs a bank of all things, and that bank is buying up Ukrainian enterprises? Also interesting it happens to be a telecom, just like Vodafone owned by the Azerbaijani oligarch who just bought up the remainder of Ukraine’s titanium industry. Virtually every deep state elite involved in the Ukraine debacle has got their fingers in the jar. - Simplicius
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  2491. COMPLETE MASSACRE of these NATO Ukrainian cannon fodder brigades in South Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) as Ukrainian armored column, which looks like it's made of British Husky infantry mobility vehicles, breaks down to bits in hopes of a breakthrough. In video you can see multiple Ukrainian soldiers (1 appears to be moving, others lifeless), lying in pit beside their NATO machine in a field as cratered as the Moon. 4-5 vehicles said to be destroyed. - Intel Report Russian warships thwart attack and destroy Ukrainian drone near Crimea (pre-war Russia). - Intel Report Here are the Ukes primary targets: Three houses damaged as a result of Ukrainian shelling on village in Bryansk region (pre-war West Russia). - Intel Report Ukraine gains nothing from use of widely-banned cluster munition on the battlefield, only used to spread terror against civilian population - Russian diplomat to UN Polyansky. Kiev's regime strikes northern Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), where there are no military targets, daily with cluster munition - Polyansky. ◾Russian forces repel Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), up to 510 cannon fodder between killed and injured. ◾Ukrainian army lost up to 195 soldiers in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine). ◾Ukrainian army's counter-battery station destroyed in Kherson region (ex-Ukraine), up to 30 enemy soldiers destroyed with it. ◾Russian air defenses shoot down 26 drones and a Ukrainian-operated Su-25 attack aircraft. ◾75 Ukrainian soldiers boinked in Kupyansk, Kharkov, East Ukraine. ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 17
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  2501. More and more the Atlanticist cabal of the EU and DC-controlled West are demonstrating just how totalitarian and undemocratic they’ve become. Yesterday a quite revealing story surfaced from the current Georgian prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze about how he was essentially threatened with assassination by EU commissioner Olivér Várhelyi for his perceived ‘pro-Russian’ foreign agent law. Kobakhidze also gave another interesting statement about how the U.S. has been trying to turn Georgia into a war front against Russia since 2002: Naturally, the timing comes right after Putin took office, and was merely the continuation of the Chechen war of the caucuses that the CIA lost and for which it needed a replacement to keep Russia from ever rising from its knees. Of course, the first Ukrainian color (Orange) revolution occurred not long after that in 2004—the opening sallies of a long multi-vectored war to destroy Russia and balkanize the Slavic people, which are not only the most numerous ethnicity in all of Europe, but represent the greatest threat to the Anglo-Atlanticist Empire. Now, rumor has it that after a small hiatus of regrouping, Russian forces are poised to make another large-scale broad-fronted attack across the entire front: In the coming Days/Weeks the entire Front will be activated from our side. In the coming hours the Regrouping and Rotation along the front will be completed. As already happened this morning in the Avdeevka area. And then our Troops began Offensive Operations again. This will happen in a timely manner from Zaporozhye to Kharkov. Now the enemy is exhausted and forced to jump from A to B. The Meat Grinder will start up at full speed shortly. This was followed by reports from the Ukrainian side that the Sumy border is getting hotter and hotter: By the way, there was some chatter from concern trolls or doomsayers that Russia has gotten “bogged down” in Kharkov and that UA has even managed to retake a tiny bit of land near Liptsy. The fact is, this is all according to plan thus far because Russia’s chief aim for now is not to retake much land up there but to do precisely what is being done—get Ukraine to redeploy mass amounts of reserves so they can be ground down there while thinning lines everywhere else and allowing Russian forces to bear down with disproportionate numbers on Ukrainian defenders in other key areas. Lastly, as wanton demonstration of the U.S.’ flaunting of any real ethical global strictures or standards, compromised (and probably kompromatized) Zionist puppet Mike Johnson has now openly declared the U.S. does not follow international law, because no international law supercedes American sovereignty: - Simplicius
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  2505. Orban’s visit to Moscow set the European political seraglio aflame this week. The histrionic theatrics were on full performative display as the chorus of captured crones and cucks crowed in limp futility: For his part, Orban conveyed that Putin is a totally rational negotiator: But the prevailing narrative that’s now swept over the commentariat and MSM-propagand-o-sphere is that Russia is desperately pushing for an end to the conflict. Everywhere you look, Putin is characterized as virtually begging for a ceasefire. News release after news release revolves around Russia nudging toward a cessation of hostilities, with Putin’s various speeches and soundbites used to support this. But how true is it, really? I’m here to tell you unambiguously: it’s total misdirection. The AFU continues to experience massive problems on the front, with units increasingly openly screeching via public forums about how everything is collapsing around them. One report from Legitimny states that if destruction of the power grid continues, Ukraine will be placed into permanent 8-12-hour-per-day blackout for the next several years: A U.S. Marine general was found “dead”: Interestingly, according to reports he was just in Ukraine. Several days ago were reports of U.S. flights out of Poland—the typical ones that carry Western mercenaries out after Russian strikes. Coincidence? There has been a spate of Russian long-range strikes, including ones on deployment points—several of them on Odessa recently, for instance. There’s good chance this general was visited by Dr. Ken Zhal for his final checkup. If things weren’t bad enough for the U.S., another defense plant blew up, which reportedly is in the business of Javelin production, amongst other rockets: Commander of the Ukrainian 116th Brigade perished in the Kupyansk direction: I’ll leave you with this poignant last statement from Russian analyst Older Eddy: We will say one thing. The more power and its dogs drive the Ukrainian people to fight, the larger the collapse will be. At some point, the front will simply sprinkle, as 80% of the army will consist of those who do not want to fight, or tired, or disappointed. It's like building a house, but making concrete for walls and foundations according to the formula of 12 bags of sand for 1 bag of cement. For some time it will stand idle, and after that « will begin to fall asleep », and if there is a minimum « earthquake », it will simply collapse. So in the situation with the Zemobilization and the Armed Forces. This is a time bomb. - Simplicius
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  2524. Lest anyone think that the claims about child sex trafficking by senior U.S. Government and business leaders is just some crazy conspiracy, think again. I saw the following video a few days ago and thought it was just another faceless crime. I did not realize its significance because the identity of the perp was not revealed in the video or police report. The “guy” arrived at a Seattle hotel expecting to meet two girls — aged eleven and seven. Then I saw this. The Fox Seattle station did some real journalism and identified the perpetrator as Navy Captain Bruce C. Meneley. Meneley was not an inconsequential nobody. He commanded the medical unit at Guantanamo. Talk about irony — overseeing medical treatment for alleged terrorists (note — most of the people being held at Guantanamo are not terrorists, but that is a story for another day). He also headed up a NATO medical unit in Afghanistan in 2012. Raises the legitimate question — did he molest Cuban and Afghan children while on active duty? What really floored me is that this guy admitted to at least two other prior arrests after retiring from the Navy. This is a level of sickness and depravity that I just do not understand. And it needs to be factored into reports that the U.S. is enabling child and sex trafficking in Ukraine. I am posting this because it is not getting the attention it deserves. How many other Bruce Meneleys are wearing a U.S. uniform and carrying out acts of sexual perversion with children? I think it is a legitimate question, especially now that the U.S. military is openly embracing transsexuals as normal. Even more disturbing is this guy was a physician. He was bound by the Hippocratic Oath. But he ignored that oath and did harm. - Sonar21
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  2528. Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens. In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman. Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence. The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath. When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, jailed if we dare step out of line, and then punished unjustly without remorse—all the while refusing to own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious: to promote, cultivate, and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens. To this end, “we the people” have become “we the police state.” We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions. The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them. Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free, and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths. - LewRockwell
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  2530. For a central bank to seize the sovereign wealth fund of another major central bank is akin to two of the largest crime families in a major Godfather film declaring war on each other. These are epochal, ground-quaking movements whose consequences will echo down the generations. Ultimately remember that Russia has the same amount of assets it can seize from the West, so the ‘exchange’, were it to happen, would be nothing more than the West illegally robbing its own people of $300B which they could not legally convince their populace to give them for Ukraine. In the meantime, the only interesting things out of Ukraine at the moment: The Institute for the Study of War managed to admit not only that Russia has all the initiative but that it has 95% staffing of its units, which allows timely and professional rotation and force generation: In short: Russian units are well-staffed, easily make up for any losses, and have all the operational tempo and initiative. Ukraine on the other hand, we learned in the last update, is suffering 30,000 losses per month and for the first time—according to some reports—was not able to replenish these monthly losses via mobilization recently. Ukraine’s air defenses are now more depleted than ever, and conversely, Russia’s air arsenal is stronger than ever because all of its PGM (precision guided munition) productive capacities have continued to go up parabolically. They are firing more missiles and other types of weapons than ever, particularly the growing portfolio of UMPK bombs. In the last report we learned about Russia adapting RBK-500 cluster munitions, now we have full confirmation they are also using 1500kg Fabs as well as even ODAB-1500 thermobarics. Given these increases, Ukraine’s positions in the rear are being struck with major losses incurred each time. For instance, since the last report—where I listed several “rear sites” that were hit with major losses—there has been a new hit on a mercenary hotel in Kharkov. NATO’s 3 month long 24/7 bombardment of Serbia destroyed a whopping dozen tanks and could only degrade the AD by 50%. Without boots on the ground, US’s failed coalition can do nothing to Yemen—and they’re not going boots on the ground so the strikes can only be regarded as a feeble ‘warning’ toward Iran, which will only inspire hearty guffaws in Tehran. A decrepit regime led by a senile president and debilitated secretary of state, launching illegal massacres from their nursing homes and hospital beds against the poorest nation on earth—virtually on the same day as their own bloc ally faced genocide and crimes against humanity charges at The Hague. You can’t make this up: the optics have never been worse for the Empire of Lies. That’s not to mention the fact that US apparently took losses and is now trying to cover them up after Ansar Allah forces claimed to have downed a US plane as well as hit a ship: Lastly, there is the sad news that Ukraine has murdered Gonzalo Lira. For all the accusations made against Russia, no American journalist or figure has died in Russian captivity, while an American citizen has now not only died in Ukrainian captivity, but under various forms of torture, at that. He described some of that torture in his final video, including things like his eyeballs being scraped by sharp objects and other ghoulishly medieval techniques. But of course, no one in the Nazi-complicit US regime cares; another in a long line of gross hypocrisies from the people that brought you the farcical “Rule of Law” and “Rules Based Order”. Rest in peace, Gonzalo. - Simplicius
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  2532. Americans are “not allowed” to talk freely about healthcare problems on US media and must go to Russian TV “to tell the truth,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told RT DE in Berlin in August 2020. He singled out RT America as the “only station” where he was free to express his opinion on the US healthcare system and its inadequacies. Kennedy was an outspoken critic of the US Covid-19 response during the pandemic. Often accused of being an ‘anti-vaxxer’, he has brushed off the claims, stressing that the only thing he opposed was administering drugs that have not been safety-tested. Kennedy claimed that the entire US vaccine industry was “an artifact” of the old “quasi-military” public health system introduced during the Cold War as a “national security defense against biological attacks” by Russia. According to him, the laws regulating vaccines were written with a “loophole” that allowed pharmaceutical companies to forgo time-consuming safety tests if they did not call a drug a medicine. This was done in order to deploy vaccines quickly and with no regulatory impediments, but resulted in a “gold rush to put more vaccines on the table” as pharmaceutical companies “took advantage of that old military loophole” to boost profits. “You know why people don’t know it? Because there’s censorship. I’m not allowed to talk about that on American TV… I do talk about it on RT America – it’s the only station that lets me talk about it,” he stated. - RT
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  2536. We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine thanks to the recently published article by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, HOW THE CHANCE WAS LOST FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT OF THE UKRAINE WAR — AND THE WEST WANTED TO CONTINUE THE WAR INSTEAD. The United States persuaded its NATO allies that pursuing the war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, offered a legitimate opportunity to destroy Russia. You want a definition of evil? This is it. Instead of helping end the war between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its NATO puppets condemned hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to death in a war with Russia they could not win. In the course of strong arming Ukraine’s Zelensky into rejecting the peace agreement, the West prepared and launched a propaganda campaign that claimed that Ukrainian military forces defeated the Russian forces and compelled them to retreat. It was a lie. As you will read in the timeline below, Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces starting on April 1, 2022 as a good faith gesture about Russia’s seriousness in complying with the 29 March Istanbul Agreement. All of the death and destruction experienced in Ukraine and Russia could have been avoided. But the West was intent on dethroning Putin and carving up Russia. Once you understand this point I think you will appreciate that Putin and his Generals are no longer of a mind to give the West the benefit of the doubt. Destroying NATO’s designs on Ukraine is now their chief aim in my view. - Sonar21
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  2538. So much assurance without even a shred of proof presented. It’s actually incredible when you step back a moment and consider how the West lives increasingly in a total fantasy construct. On every global issue or flashpoint, Western media no longer exercises even the barest scruples, instead blanketly reporting the most fantastical tales with zero corroboration. In Iran we’re expected to believe Israel “decimated” the entire Iranian air defense network, countless major labs and buildings, despite zero proof apart from a single grainy satellite photo that shows a slight discoloration somewhere—far less proof than we got from Iran’s much more massive strike on Israeli bases during True Promise 2.0. In Georgia, Western press reports with shameless authority that the election was ‘stolen’ despite no credible evidence. Threats, lies, and propaganda are flung with no accountability or attempt at justification; it seems we’ve entered the rapid parabolic singularity point of the ‘post-truth’ era in the West. Western intelligentsia and its corrupt crony political class must now likewise balloon their brazen lies to infinity just to keep from drowning in them as if the buoyancy of volume will keep them up. It seems obvious that Kiev is creating a preemptive excuse for their imminent loss of Kursk and the total catastrophic failure of the Kursk operation. In order to excuse and justify the massive failure, can conjure the ‘North Korean phantom menace’ to claim “we only lost because Russia introduced a surprise shock force of 10,000 North Korean special forces!” - Simplicius
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  2547. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Units of the "Center" Group of Troops of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing on Selidovo faster than the Armed Forces of Ukraine expected. Open sources reported until October 25, 2024, that in a few days Russian troops unexpectedly take a foothold at least 2/3 of the city's territory, forcing Ukrainians to flee to the western part of the city. The dynamics of the battle for the city accelerated after Russian troops developed a pincer on the flank of Vishnevoe, which is now completely cut off, and then began to penetrate it into the strategically important urban area on the Pokrovsk direction. One of the attempts by Ukrainian troops to counterattack, but the Russian "Brave O" unit blocked them with RPG. Their armored vehicles and infantry were hit, and the troops rushed to take cover in high-rise buildings. But around them, the Russian assault troops were informed of their location. Drone footage shows that the 433rd Motorized Rifle Regiment, named after the Don Cossacks of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, has raised the Russian flag on the roof of a high-rise building in the center of Selidovo. Meanwhile, the situation is critical for the rest of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trapped in the Selidovo cauldron. Russian forces deliberately surrounded the city to force Zelensky’s troops to flee before launching a final assault without significant damage to the city’s fabric. Videos of Ukrainian soldiers fleeing began to emerge, their MRAP driving into the streets controlled by the Russian assault troops, and being attacked with small arms. “No Kornet ATGM,” they said in Russian during the trip, and had to be censored. Many Ukrainian soldiers did not manage to escape the Selidovo fortifications, now only having a 2-kilometer strip of land, which they could still use to run to the wheat fields heading west. They apparently fled during the night, but not everyone was able to leave, possibly being attacked and captured by Russian troops. Here, the situation is such that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have installed Ugledar-2 there. Russian military correspondents released a clip on October 25, the first panoramic footage of Selidovo in Donetsk, where the Ukrainian forces are retreating, indicating that the city was not particularly prepared for defense, and that Ukraine lacks the human resources to conduct a permanent defense. Now, the battle to liberate the West City area has begun!
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  2549. [Much thanks for letting the world know who the real culprits are!] Yushchenko had initially lost the presidential election, but his supporters set up a tent city in central Kiev and blocked the government district. Foreign NGOs played a significant role in these events. The direct orchestrators of that color revolution included the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its affiliates, the Soros Foundation, the International Republican Institute, the Eurasia Foundation, and several other foreign entities Ukrainian society was divided in two, and Yushchenko’s policy laid the groundwork for a significant political crisis and the eventual war. Before Viktor Yushchenko came to power, Ukrainian politicians tended to avoid drastic measures, and instead favored compromises to resolve conflicts. However, his rise to power shattered that tradition. Yushchenko sought to impose an agenda that was alien to millions of Ukrainian citizens. By the time of the 2010 presidential election, Ukraine was deeply divided on cultural, linguistic, and national issues. A ticking time bomb had been set into motion back in 2004 when Yushchenko’s team chose to support radical nationalists and neo-Nazis. This strategy granted him a tactical victory but ultimately led the country to a strategic defeat. While in office, Viktor Yushchenko failed to address pressing issues. Instead, his policies exacerbated societal divisions which grew more pronounced each year. A decade after his rise to power, yet another revolution only deepened these contradictions, steering Ukraine away from the promised European future toward territorial losses and civil war. - RT
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  2559. Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens. In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman. Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence. The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath. When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, jailed if we dare step out of line, and then punished unjustly without remorse—all the while refusing to own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious: to promote, cultivate, and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens. To this end, “we the people” have become “we the police state.” We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions. The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them. Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free, and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths. - LewRockwell
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  2566. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Units of the "Center" Group of Troops of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing on Selidovo faster than the Armed Forces of Ukraine expected. Open sources reported until October 25, 2024, that in a few days Russian troops unexpectedly take a foothold at least 2/3 of the city's territory, forcing Ukrainians to flee to the western part of the city. The dynamics of the battle for the city accelerated after Russian troops developed a pincer on the flank of Vishnevoe, which is now completely cut off, and then began to penetrate it into the strategically important urban area on the Pokrovsk direction. One of the attempts by Ukrainian troops to counterattack, but the Russian "Brave O" unit blocked them with RPG. Their armored vehicles and infantry were hit, and the troops rushed to take cover in high-rise buildings. But around them, the Russian assault troops were informed of their location. Drone footage shows that the 433rd Motorized Rifle Regiment, named after the Don Cossacks of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, has raised the Russian flag on the roof of a high-rise building in the center of Selidovo. Meanwhile, the situation is critical for the rest of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trapped in the Selidovo cauldron. Russian forces deliberately surrounded the city to force Zelensky’s troops to flee before launching a final assault without significant damage to the city’s fabric. Videos of Ukrainian soldiers fleeing began to emerge, their MRAP driving into the streets controlled by the Russian assault troops, and being attacked with small arms. “No Kornet ATGM,” they said in Russian during the trip, and had to be censored. Many Ukrainian soldiers did not manage to escape the Selidovo fortifications, now only having a 2-kilometer strip of land, which they could still use to run to the wheat fields heading west. They apparently fled during the night, but not everyone was able to leave, possibly being attacked and captured by Russian troops. Here, the situation is such that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have installed Ugledar-2 there. Russian military correspondents released a clip on October 25, the first panoramic footage of Selidovo in Donetsk, where the Ukrainian forces are retreating, indicating that the city was not particularly prepared for defense, and that Ukraine lacks the human resources to conduct a permanent defense. Now, the battle to liberate the West City area has begun!
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  2569. The whole sordid charade is only postponing the reality that the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia is a debacle for the Western powers. This is not something to gloat over. It is a tragedy and an abomination. Up to 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, as well as tens of thousands of Russian military personnel. Total casualty figures are no doubt in the millions. In addition, millions of civilians have been displaced as refugees in Russia and throughout Europe. Hundreds of billions of dollars and euros have been raided from Western taxpayers to fund this bloody fiasco. Not only that but international tensions have been heightened between nuclear powers at a perilous pitch not seen since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 at the depth of the Cold War. Blinken seemed to be concerned with papering over cracks appearing in various media reports indicating that the U.S. is surreptitiously telling the Kiev regime to cut its losses and make a sort of peace deal with Russia. Blinken’s bravado rhetoric is akin to empty U.S. promises previously made to Afghanistan and countless other proxy regimes over the decades before Washington ignominiously pulls the plug and does a runner. All the NATO and EU talk is public relations bluster to conceal the brutal reality that the United States and its Western allies have created a monumental morass of misery for Ukraine by pursuing their nefarious geopolitical games to confront Russia. The rest of Europe and indeed the whole world has paid a terrible price for these imperial games. The futile and reckless war in Ukraine has been decades in the making since the supposed end of the Cold War in 1990. The treacherous breaking of promises by American presidents, especially Bill Clinton and George W Bush, to Russia to not expand NATO and the insidious inveigling of Ukraine to join the alliance from 2008 onwards – all led to the current eruption of conflict. - LewRockwell
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  2570. Trump closed out his campaign tour alongside his former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo, which should be enough to dash the hopes of even the most naive Trump supporters that US foreign policy is headed in a positive direction in January. As CIA director, Pompeo led a plot to assassinate Julian Assange and cheerfully admitted that “we lied, we cheated, we stole” at the agency. This odious swamp creature has remained in Trump’s good graces for the last eight years, and is reportedly expected to have a position in Trump’s cabinet once again. Speaking at a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday, Pompeo boasted that he has been called “the most loyal cabinet member to Donald J Trump” and said that when Trump is re-elected “we will take down the ring of fire; we will support our friends in Israel.” The “ring of fire” is think tank speak for Iran and the militias in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine who oppose Israel. So things are probably going to get uglier and uglier. But they were getting uglier and uglier under Biden, and they would have gotten uglier and uglier under Harris as well. That’s just what it looks like when you’ve got a dying empire fighting to retain planetary control like a cornered animal. You don’t get to be the US president unless you are willing and eager to do ugly things. Democrats exaggerate how destructive Trump is relative to their own bloodthirsty psychopath candidates. While we can expect Trump to inflict tyranny and abuse upon Americans, it will be nothing compared to the tyranny and abuse he’s going to inflict on people in other countries, and it will be nothing compared to the tyranny and abuse his predecessor has been inflicting on people in other countries. All the histrionic shrieking we see from US liberals about Trump only works inside a western supremacist worldview that does not see the victims of US warmongering as fully human, and therefore sees scorched earth genocidal atrocities as less significant than comparatively minor abuses concerning US domestic policy. - LewRockwell
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  2582. CAN NATO SURVIVE A LOSS IN UKRAINE? Killing off a bureaucracy — whether civilian or military — is nigh impossible. But the impending defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield by Russia presents one of those watershed moments in history where the raison d’etre of NATO will be exposed as a fraud. Much has been made in recent months about NATO’s supposed growing strength by citing the addition of Sweden and Finland as new NATO members. But this is illusory. In other words, Sweden and Finland could provide a total of 10 brigades (assuming their current active duty personnel are activated and fully deployed under NATO’s command). This is a “nothing burger.” The once mighty British Army and Navy have been transformed from a lion into a toothless, nasty chihuahua. NATO’s problems go beyond its inadequate military resources. The very political consensus binding NATO together is coming apart. The recent verbal sniping between the French and the Germans over whether to commit NATO troops to Ukraine is emblematic of a much deeper rift. NATO is a mess, yet Western leaders and NATO commanders continue to indulge the fantasy that they are ready and capable of carrying out a combined arms military conflict with Russia. They are not. Russia sent a deadly reminder of this fact in the form of an Iskander missile that hit a site in Odessa filled with French, Poles and Georgians. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps cancelled a planned visit to Odessa in the wake of this strike. - Sonar21
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  2583. Well, it finally happened: Avdeevka has fallen Interestingly, rumor has it that Zelensky was desperate to hold Avdeevka through his time at the Munich conference, so as not to be humiliated. However, the withdrawal order was only given because the 3rd Brigade (Azov) had already totally countermanded orders and began withdrawing on their own, with other units possibly following. To stave off total collapse of the command, Syrsky was forced to give an official order of withdrawal, but Zelensky is reportedly furious, as per Resident_UA channel: In quickly taking over such a large area, Russian MOD’s official numbers claim a likely record day with around 2300 AFU either killed, wounded, or captured: Some of the revelations confirmed some long-standing reports, like that the zone’s battalion commanders sit 40km away in Pokrovsk and refuse to come to the front. Naturally, the usual suspects were utterly despondent—and in fact, a new tone of total cynicism and distrust in the tired and predictable propaganda of Ukrainian authorities was noted among some of the biggest luminaries: Putin issued an official decree congratulating Colonel General Mordvichev who, as commander of the ‘Center’ group of forces, was the sector commander in charge of the Avdeevka capture. Ukraine’s final consolatory cope is that Russia suffered upwards of 50-100k losses in taking Avdeevka, or so they claim. Unfortunately, this is not backed in even the slightest by their own most meticulous casualty analysts like MediaZona, which still has Russian losses dipping sharply in the last couple months: the losses as recorded by direct Ukrainian troops from Avdeevka are staggering, by all accounts. Zelensky likely sought secret reassurances from European leaders that they will vocally back his presidency’s legitimacy during that troubling expiry period, when questions will certainly begin to arise at the least, if not outright challenges to his authority. In fact, swept under the rug was that along with the more high profile elimination of Zaluzhny, Zelensky did a clean sweep of the entire vast fold of the general staff: Nebenzya states that there is no way the currently controlled regions will ever go back to Ukraine—it is a total nonstarter: Now, a new Putin statement hammers this point home. He says that everything Ukraine does in the war is merely a form of attempting some tactical gain, the difference being that for Russia, this isn’t about such trivial technicalities—it’s an existential matter: For the past week or two, there have been rumors that a massive Russian force has been gathering on the Zaporozhye line. Now as of this writing, the offensive seems to have begun, with reports rolling in by the hour of breakthroughs of Ukrainian lines near Rabotino: I mentioned Russia’s 55th Brigade from Tuva. Ukrainian Nazis showed their colors and were very upset by the Tuvan heroes: Well, to rub it in and end on a positive note, here’s the same 55th receiving their prestigious honorary ‘Guards’ title just last month, for heroism and unbreakable courage in combat: Lastly, here’s a segment from a new report in liberated Avdeevka showing a resident who waited out the Russian army. Listen to what he says when asked about the Ukrainians who have been kicked out: “Those Germans? Drive them to Berlin!” - Simplicius
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  2585. PUTIN READY TO COMPROMISE, BUT NOT AT COST OF RUSSIAN INTERESTS: He gives an epic history lesson, in his typical, knowledgeable style: Let us recall the 19th century. After the so-called Crimean War in 1855-1856, when a number of restrictions were imposed on Russia. Many people in the West wrote & said that Russia should react to some injustices in the world... "Russia does not notice, it is isolated," all this was blamed on Russia. At that time, the Chancellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a dispatch to all our diplomatic representatives in Europe, where it was written how to react to such statements. There were famous words there: "Russia does not get angry, Russia concentrates." And gradually, as Russia concentrated, it regained all its rights in the Black Sea, strengthened itself, and so on & so forth. Some historians call the Crimean War the "Zero" World War (because of many parties involved.) Then there was the First World War & the Second World War. In this "Zero" World War (for Crimea), almost all European countries took part in the war against Russia. In spite of this, the situation then changed its appearance. There was a period of the First World War, when the countries that fought against us turned out to be allies. The fact is that everything changes - only the interests of Russia and its people remain unchanged. If we see that the situation is changing in such a way that there are opportunities & prospects to build relations with other countries, we are ready for this. The question is not about us, but about them. And never in violation of the interests of the Russian Federation. We went through a period in modern history, when our previous generations of politicians, in my opinion, went to the destruction of our own country in the hope that Russia would become part of the so-called "civilized world." And this civilized world only needed this, because as soon as Russia's potential shrank, it weakened & they began to finish it off. Instead of making it an equal partner & participant of this civilized world. Unfortunately, this is how the world works, at least today. If we are going to build relations with someone, we will build them only on the basis of the interests of the Russian state. We are ready to look for these compromises, but without harming our interests - Putin.  Clearly, this is not his, or Russia's first rodeo! Putin First @IntelRepublic
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  2639. Here is another article of delusional hopium courtesy of the folks at War on the Rocks. HOLD, BUILD, AND STRIKE: A VISION FOR REBUILDING UKRAINE’S ADVANTAGE IN 2024 I will make this real simple. Ukraine does not have the ability to implement the War on the Rocks prescription. First, manpower. Even Ukrainian sources are conceding that Ukraine has suffered more than a million casualties. The average age of the frontline troops is 43. For the math challenged out there (this clearly applies to Kofman, Lee and Massicot), if the average age is 43 that means you have a large number of 50 and 60 year old cannon fodder manning the trenches and bunkers. The under 40 crowd is not flocking to the recruiting office in Kiev to sign up. Just the opposite. They are going to extreme lengths to avoid being dragooned into the army. We’ve seen guys wearing disguises that make them look like 70 year old men and others dressing as women. Not because they are transgender but because the Ukrainian recruiters are not grabbing women off the street and throwing them on to the military bus. Let’s assume that Ukraine can somehow find an additional 500,000 potential soldiers. (They will need at least that many to keep up with Russia who added that number to their armed forces in 2023 and continue to sign up new recruits at the rate of more than 40,000 a month.) Where are they going to train? Russia’s missile strikes during the past month have hit some major troop locations. For example, the strike in Kharkiv last week wiped out a 200 man contingent of foreign mercenaries. Russia can and will hit every training center in Ukraine, which means the new Ukie recruits will have to be sent to bases in Europe. The War on the Rocks clown show pays lip service to Ukraine’s need for air defense, artillery, artillery rounds, tanks and armored vehicles, but ignores the real world. No country in the West has the ability to produce these items and send them to Ukraine in the quantities required to sustain a force in the field for the foreseeable future. The authors are particularly lost in La La land when they talk about Ukraine being able to launch long range missiles to hit critical infrastructure in Russia. There is no other country in the world with an air defense system like Russia’s. Moreover, if such attacks are launched Russia has the ability to launch successful counter strikes to eliminate those threats. Finally, let’s assume that Ukraine is able to muster a new army of cannon fodder to attack Russia’s heavily defended lines? Where is the Ukrainian air power? It does not exist and will not exist. If the United States is able to deploy a few F-16s to Ukraine, they will meet the same fate that Ukraine’s now non-existent air force met. They will be shot down. Let me leave you with this. It is a report from the front lines by Russia’s pre-eminent war correspondent, Marat Khayrullin. Here is the current reality: Speaking figuratively, today the entire front line is turning more and more into conditional Krynki. The Ukrainians are stupidly sitting in their holes and trying to somehow survive. And we continue to destroy them with greater and greater intensity. There is no point in eliminating this conditional bridgehead at the cost of the lives of our fighters – the enemy is already doomed. It’s much wiser to just wait. Moreover, we have nowhere to rush – assistance to the enemy from the West is drying up, human reserves are running out. And most importantly, the collective enemy is increasingly realizing the futility of resistance. - Sonar21
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  2646. You have to hand it to the U.S. and its henchmen for brazenness. In order to protect their client state Israel and its genocide in Gaza, the U.S., together with the UK, have in one week launched air and sea attacks on the Houthis in Yemen five times, referring to it as “self-defense” in their Orwellian lingo. The ostensible reason being Yemen’s refusal to allow ships bound for Israel, which is committing genocide in Gaza, to enter the Red Sea, while permitting other ships to pass freely. To any impartial observer, the Houthis should be lauded. Yet, while the International Court of Justice considers the South African charge of genocide against Israel that is supported by overwhelming evidence, the U.S. and its allies have instigated a wider war throughout the Middle East while claiming they do not want such a war. These settler colonial states want genocide and a much wider war because they have been set back on their heels by those they have mocked, provoked, and attacked – notably the Palestinians, Syrians, and Russians, among others. Let us call upon Israeli and American soldiers and pilots “to abandon the battlefield”, as an act of refusal to participate in a criminal undertaking against the People of Gaza. South Africa’s legal procedure at the ICJ should be endorsed Worldwide. While it cannot be relied upon to put a rapid end to the genocide, it provides support and legitimacy to the “Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield” campaign under Nuremberg Charter Principle IV. With each passing day, it becomes more and more evident that Israel/U.S.A. and their allies do want a wider war. Iran is their special focus, with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen targets on the way. Anyone who supports the genocide in Gaza, explicitly or through silence, bears responsibility for the conflagration to come. There are no excuses. It is bi-partisan war-mongering, of course, internationally and intramurally, since both U.S. political parties are controlled by the Israel Lobby and billionaire class that owns Congress and the “defense” industry that thrives on never-ending war. Neither the Israeli nor American government can allow themselves to be humiliated, U.S./NATO by the Russians in Ukraine and the Israelis by the Palestinians. Like cornered criminals with lethal weapons, they will kill as many as they can on their way down, taking their revenge on the weakest first. Men like Biden and Netanyahu are intent on launching desperate acts of war. Exactly when and how this expanded war will blaze across the headlines is the question. It has started, but I think it prudent to expect a black swan event sometime this year when all hell will break loose. The genocide in Gaza is the first step, and the U.S./Israel, “not wanting” a wider war, have already started one. - LewRockwell
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  2664. A bombshell wiretap leak has set the intelligence and geopolitical world ablaze today, revealing high ranking members of the German Bundeswehr openly discussing plans to supply the Taurus missiles and help Ukraine destroy Russia’s Kerch Bridge. Many are understandably pinning the leak on Russia’s GRU, but it seems just as—if not more—plausible that it was leaked by German insiders themselves in order to thwart the plans of their own deepstate establishment which is clearly bent on starting WWIII. It’s clear that there is an ongoing internal revolt in Europe by the last remaining sane faction against the hardliners pushing WWIII. This is evident by the fact that this entire pressure wave of ‘leaks’ suddenly coincided together from a variety of directions, which included Scholz himself outing British involvement in the war: In light of Scholz’s disclosures, a slew of revelations have come to light about NATO’s true involvement in the war: You can see the desperate, seeking attempts to find any lifeline for Ukraine. The NATO/EU nomenklatura are scrambling to create any possible conditions that may give Ukraine a tiny leg up, or even some leeway or breathing room for a few months. This of course all stems from the urgency inherent to Russia’s growing battlefield initiative, where Russian forces continue breaking through Ukrainian lines, generating total trepidation across the Western globalist ruling class: Ultimately, though, it shows the utter disarray that NATO and the West is in. It’s clear that there is huge disagreement and perhaps even outright revolt—what else could possibly cause Scholz to come out to countermand, and outright expose, his allies in this way? The last most important point that’s come to light amid all this recent controversy is the further illumination of the deep role that the CIA has played in Ukraine from the beginning. Ukraine’s collapse was precipitated in large part to order-spurning mutinies, with units like the 47th outright countermanding their own leadership to flee on their own. This has created chaos in this direction which the Ukrainian command is desperate to hide and sweep under the rug. But the truth has slowly come to light from several videos of captured AFU who confirm that they first withdrew, and only then the official order of withdrawal issued in order to save face. behind Orlovka, which Russian forces were said to have taken today, there are no good, naturally defensible positions all the way up to Pokrovsk. And this happens to be precisely where all the current talk revolves around. For reference, here’s the current defense line which is a temporary transit point that Ukraine has already mostly lost: Here’s a very evocative video of Orlovka, just to the west of Lastochkino in Avdeevka: Most striking are the gigantic Fab-500 craters, which are distinct from the regular 152mm shell craters moonscaping the surroundings. Julian Roepcke once more grieved at the sight of it, describing how Ukrainian positions were annihilated by the endless wave of Russian glide bombs, and how they stand no chance because of it: - Simplicius
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  2669. NATO should never have been formed in the first place because it was always a war-making organization serving U.S.-led Western imperialism. The organization is inherently for war-making. By definition, it has a terroristic purpose, to incite war, to justify war, and to never stop promoting war because Western imperialism can never co-exist with peaceful relations between nations. NATO has been sold to the Western public and the rest of the world as some kind of international security agency. The same deception has been used by American militarism and all other Western imperialist adventures. How Orwellian can you get? Peace means war, security means chaos and threats, and rules-based order means domination and exploitation. Imagine believing that millions of people were annihilated in U.S.-led wars for democracy and freedom! That is not dystopian fantasy. It actually happened and continues to happen, from Korea to Vietnam, from former Yugoslavia to Iraq, from Ukraine to Gaza, and many more horrors besides. However, the proxy war in Ukraine has crossed a fateful Rubicon. The world can finally see that the NATO axis is a glaring fraud that is endangering international peace with its relentless aggression and toxic lies. It’s not just about Russia. Any nation that decides to stand up to Western desired hegemony is liable to find itself in the crosshairs of a U.S.-led attack using NATO as a legal cover for an international coalition. That historic defeat of Western imperialism is at an epochal endpoint. American-led capitalism is bankrupt and irredeemable. That makes the NATO war machine a very dangerous unstable “multiplier” of American militarism. Will it risk a desperate final world war or will the abominable Western system be overhauled safely by the majority of people who abhor it? NATO’s sell-by date is well and truly past. Russia put paid to that. It remains up to the people of the Western nations to salvage something more constructive and democratic from the smoking hulk. - LewRockwell
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  2691. From a combat channel report late last night. Likewise the more gory (18+ warning) of the footage shows their personnel losses in the trenches. Thus, NATO elite, some of whom may still retain a sense of self-preservational realism for what it would take to defeat Russia, know the reality of what they’re saying. Their best weapons have been utterly crushed and ground to dust in the endless steppes once known as the Wild Fields. In the meantime, Russian ex-general and Duma deputy Kartapolov says that Russia is preparing the conditions for its own big offensive: Last night massive strikes rung out across ports in the Odessa region, Reni amongst them. Grain silos in the port were hit: Then industrial sectors of Dnipro were hit, obliterating the Yuzhmash plant where Ukraine was to be manufacturing missiles and possibly drones: Note how Ukrainian “air defense” has no answer whatsoever for advanced Russian cruise missiles, which obliterate any target they so choose with full impunity. CNN gleefully describes the terrorist attack on the bridge, which by the way killed civilians and orphaned a 14-year-old girl after sending her into a coma. Not once does CNN even hint at the fact that this may be a terrorist attack, and in fact ends the report with the foreboding warning that Ukraine will continue more of such attacks in the future. You can even see the car coming right above the drone, which they cut away from just as it’s set to explode. Instead, they do show another drone exploding just as a train is passing above it. All is fair, huh CNN? This shows the utterly vile and depraved nature of this corporate fake news mill. You can bet if it was a Russian attack, the only angle they would play is that of a “barbaric terrorist strike on civilians.” It merely shows how low the West has sunk to inhuman levels of moral depravity, and it’s a fact not lost on the rest of the world, which sees the sickening hypocrisy and incessant flood of contradictions. One day when the West falls, it will be from being crushed under the weight of its own shameless immorality.
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  2700. It is one thing for the addled Joe Biden to be clueless about the true situation on the ground, but many of the NATO leaders in the audience also were applauding this crap. They cannot plead guilty by way of cognitive decline. The claim that, “Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing,” is a craven lie. Ukrainian forces are being pulverized by missiles, 3000 kg FAB bombs and drones. And neither the United States nor the rest of the NATO countries have a stockpile of 155mm artillery shells and air defense systems that they can send to Ukraine. This is pure malpractice by Biden’s speech writers. The anticipated mini-counteroffensive never materialized. Instead, Russia is hitting Ukraine all along the 1000 km front and Ukraine is steadily retreating. Maybe, behind closed doors, the NATO members will fess up and admit that Russia is eating Ukraine’s lunch and bleeding NATO dry in the process. Biden bragged that the United States has 100,000 troops now deployed in Europe. Wow! I bet the Russians, who have 1.3 million active duty soldiers, are quaking in their boots. Today’s speech is nothing more than political theater intended primarily for the American political audience. But the youngsters who crafted this garbage had no understanding how these words will be heard in Russia. Russian planners, unless they are fools, will conclude that NATO is intent on attacking Russia and Russia will prepare accordingly. NATO is not altering course and is not disposed to seek any peaceful resolution with Russia. The Russians understand that and are ramping up accordingly. - Sonar21
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  2722. It is no secret that the West is hellbent to destroy President Putin, to force a Western friendly regime-change, so that finally after how many failed attempts (?) the West can take over this vast Russia, largest country in the world, by far the richest in natural resources which the West covets. Killing Aleksei A. Navalny, a lawyer and President Putin’s strongest adversary, would not be beyond Western secret services, just to strike at Vladimir Putin. Mr. Navalny’s death was announced on Friday, 16 February 2024. He was 47. Nothing could stop the West, especially not during the come hell-or-high-water implementation of Agenda 2030, alias the Great Reset. If the “MUST SUCCEED NOW” comes to a breaking point, no lives are spared. No lives are sacred. Why would President Putin kill his adversary, who is safely locked away in a prison in Siberia, almost 2,000 km north of the Kremlin? Makes no sense. Makes even less sense to have this presumed “murder” committed on the very day, when the Munich Security Conference (MSC, Febr 16-18, 2024) opened its doors to a plethora of “the rich and famous” —politicians with names, famous or infamous, like Antony Blinken, current US Secretary of State; Hillary Clinton, current Chancellor of Queen’s University of Belfast (remember, “We came, we saw, he died” about Mohammed Khadafi, see video below); John Kerry, the “Climate Czar”, Joe Biden’s Special Envoy on Climate, and many more. Absurdity abounds. During comments on reports of Navalny’s death, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass a US$95 billion aid package that includes a new infusion of money to help Ukraine in its war against Russia. See this. The MSC was the perfect occasion to lambast President Putin, to denigrate him, to call him names, including “murderer”. It looks like Navalny’s death was perfectly planned, so perfectly, it sounds and looks almost naïve to believe that President Putin would choose such a moment in time – the Munich Security Conference MSC – to get rid of his opposition leader. Anybody who saw Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Putin knows that Putin’s level of intellect and diplomacy is way beyond murdering an adversary. Despite being the heaviest sanctioned man and country – Russia – in the world, President Putin did not say one negative or “bad” word against any of his Western antagonists and aggressors. It is therefore highly unlikely that Mr. Navalny’s death was a Kremlin inside job. Just think, cui bono – who benefits? - LewRockwell
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  2730. Oct 30, 2023 Report from Western Sources The 2009 US Plan for Iran War Sees New Opportunity in Israeli Gaza Ops + Update on Ukraine - Ukraine's "operational pause" is Kiev announcing the "Spring Offensive" has for all intents and purposes, ended; - West continues to suffer setbacks in supplying ammunition to Ukraine including diverting much of it to Israel now; - Israel continues air and ground attacks on Gaza, compounding a growing humanitarian catastrophe; - US policymakers since at least as early as 2009 planned to provoke Iran into a conflict either directly or by proxy through Israel; - The US is citing drone and rocket attacks on illegal US military bases in Syria and Iraq as a pretext to deploy anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems designed to down entirely different types of threats; - It is clear that as the US had planned in 2009, Washington and its Israeli allies are preparing the battlefield ahead of a deliberate effort to goad Iran and its allies into a wider conflict; - The US is fighting a 3 front proxy war through Ukraine in Eastern Europe against Russia, Israel in the Middle East against Iran, and Taiwan against the rest of China in Asia; - With Iran’s role in supporting Russia’s successful military operation in Ukraine, the US has added incentive to eliminate Iran as a Russian-Chinese ally; - The Middle East was transforming in favor of multipolarism with the US clearly attempting to disrupt the process by introducing widespread conflict; - The US may feel the best possibility of success exists in the Middle East as its proxy war in Ukraine unravels and China’s military capabilities continue to close the gap between itself and US capabilities. - The New Atlas
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  2736. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Units of the Russian Armed Forces have begun to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Rabotino towards Orekhov, on Zaporozhye front. This was reported by the Deputy Chairman of the Coordination Council for the Integration of New Territories, Vladimir Rogov, citing a Russian military correspondent on October 29, 2024. In recent days, Russian servicemen from the special operations formations of Dnieper Group of Forces have forced Ukrainian troops out of the high ground, which is of tactical importance in Orekhov zone. Over the past 24 hours, the front line north of Rabotino has become more active, and intensive attacks have begun from both sides, reinforced by powerful armored vehicles, artillery and drones, which are working hard! Now the way for the Russian assault troops on the front line is wide open, there is an advance towards Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka. During the battle, Russian scouts detected Ukrainian positions in dugouts, heavily guarded by their armored vehicle in Orekhov sector. The tank crew of Novorossiysk Paratroopers, then quickly moved closer to the target, with the modernized version of T-72B3, which is an excellent tank in terms of performance, cost and speed of production. T-72B3 tank turret with mounted mounts for components of the active protection complex is effective against FPV drones, which are the main threat to today's armored vehicles. The tank fired powerfully, Ukrainian shelter was destroyed. In addition to the tank, the artillery crew of Dnepr Group of Forces operated a working 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, which performs its duties every day in special military operations. With accuracy, high rate of fire and all-terrain capability, the gunners fired ammunition, the Zelensky's troop shelter detected, was powerfully blown up! The Ukrainian troops did not even know what to do anymore trying to defend themselves from the Russian advance. They tried to attack the Russian assault troops with a heavy agrodrone, nicknamed "Baba Yaga", but were immediately detected by Russian FPV drone operators, who were actively hunting enemy targets. FPV drone immediately flew into the target, and Baba Yaga, nicknamed "Vampire" by its designers, fell into free fall! As a result, Ukrainian defense held together with the Western collective, was successfully penetrated north of Rabotino. The Russian strike area reached 10 kilometers, meaning that an area of up to 10 square kilometers was liberated. This eliminated the small gains at great cost, which Kiev's forces had gained with heavy losses during the 2023 “couhnteroffensive”. Here, Russian drone again filmed the streets to Rabotino, marked by several Bradley and Leopard 2A4 losses in the footage.
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  2742. How can the Ukes be in control of someplace when you just showed them getting blown to bits? You draw conclusions based on nonsense which is not helping your credibility! Stick to what's happening on the ground. Speculation is NOT war reporting! ◾Russian troops continue offensive in Novoselovskoye, Lugansk (ex-Ukraine, see map) and advance 300 meters while repelling 7 Ukrainian attacks in Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). ◾Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in Donetsk, destroy drone retraining center, storage and repair point in Dnepropetrovsk, East Ukraine. ◾Ukrainian army sustains losses of up to 250 personnel in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine), 80 in Kupyansk, East Ukraine, 190 in Donetsk. ⚔SITREP⚔ JULY 29 All sources from West in the report below. Update on the conflict in Ukraine. - Ukraine's "big push" over the past week has resulted in minimum gains and massive losses; - Ukraine's "big push" followed weeks of exercising an alleged "artillery advantage" used to soften Russian defenses; - Western analysts used the same flawed process to assess Ukraine's artillery capabilities they used to assess the supposed likelihood NATO armor would cut through Russian defenses; - The US rushing M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine by fall will make no difference on the battlefield, they are too few in number and no more capable than the German Leopard 2 tanks Ukraine has used in a so-far failed offensive; - Russian defenses are layered specifically to absorb Ukrainian advances and preserve Russian manpower and equipment as they move back to successive lines of defenses; - Ukraine's attempt to gain territory amid a war of attrition is only accelerating its own defeat; - A German army report blaming Ukrainian soldiers for the poor outcomes of the offensive is an unfair attempt to shift blame away from NATO;
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  2758. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - There were many losses, after the Iskander missile strike of Russian troops destroyed a large accumulation of vehicles and personnel of the Armed Forces od Ukraine in the Sumy region. Russian military correspondents released footage on September 4, 2024, showing the work of Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance officers, discovering a large concentration of Kiev equipment and troops while disembarking personnel near their stronghold in Bezdryk, southeast of the Sumy city. One of the launches of nine Iskander-M ballistic missiles, launched at once in the Sumy region on that day, thwarted the planned redeployment of Ukrainian troops in the settlement, about 30 kilometers from the Russian border and planned to the Kursk region. All invisible to the media of the war supporters, the high price of the failure of the Kiev officials in the Kursk mission was paid by the Ukrainians who were forcibly recruited. The concentration point was completely destroyed by missile, which did not care about the enemy's air defense systems. As a result of the missile landing, the entire assault brigade was destroyed, more than 70 personnel were killed, collected and loaded onto trucks. According to the information received, at least some units of equipment were destroyed, such as 7 cargo vehicles, 4 armored combat vehicles, and 9 off-road vehicles. In recent days, Iskander missiles have been diligently working to destroy enemy personnel, including their headquarters in several regions of Ukraine, victims include NATO personnel!
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  2760. Not only does Ukraine face a significant reduction in Western military aid in the coming months, but Ukrainian forces are being pushed back steadily towards the Dnieper River. Here is the latest report from Russian military correspondent Marat Khairullin Against the backdrop of growing pressure on the Ukies in the North, Russian troops continue to intensify in more and more new sectors of the front. Russian forces conducted a flanking maneuver on the left yesterday (Saturday) from the the village of Marfopol towards the village of Chervonoye, breaking through the first line of defense of the Ukrainians. At the same time, strong pressure from Russian troops began to the right of the Vremevsky salient in the Ugledar area – in the direction of the village of Prechistovka. Obviously, the goal of the advance was a maneuver to cut the most important Ukrainian road in this section — i.e., Gulyai Pole – Uspenovka – Velikaya Novoselovka-Prechistovka-Ugledar. The fighting is taking place on a wide front of more than 50 kilometers. The most powerful group of the enemy sits here, although it has thinned out significantly recently. It was believed, according to our estimates, that about 60 thousand Ukrainians (about 15 brigades) held the defense here. However, about 20 thousand of them were transferred over the last two months to the Northern Front to stop our “offensive” there. And now we see a serious increase in our activity on the flanks of this significantly weakened group. It is obvious that Russian troops continue to overload the Ukies along the entire length of the front. Let me remind you that in the northern direction the front has also expanded over the past 24 hours, where ours are actively increasing pressure on the Ukrops. To the left of Kislovka, Russians took Kotlyarovka and reached the most important highway N-026. To the right, Russian soldiers approached Ivanovka. The active pressure of Russian troops is here at a front of about 8 kilometers. To the south, our troops entered Makeevka at these hours, and at the same time the movement of our troops began towards the village of Nevskoye. The active front here has expanded to more than 10 kilometers. And these are just two new directions on this front. The width of the front where we apply pressure is very important, since the Ukrainians’ only method of maintaining defensive stability is to fill the position with fresh meat. They have no other methods. They definitely can’t add more firepower – all the remaining mobile missile and artillery brigades (the same wheeled self-propelled guns that we hunted all summer) are already heavily deployed. The only thing left to patch up the holes is human reserves. To the south there is also an active advance on the Donetsk front – in the area of ​​Avdeevka, advance both from Krasnogorovka and Kamenka, and from Opytnoye and Vodyanoye. In total, the Russians chewed off more than a dozen more strongholds. Active work is underway near Pervomaisky, Staromikhailovka, Marinka – in a word, Ukrainian forces are being leaned upon to the fullest. It is obvious that we are beginning to choke them seriously. - Sonar21
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  2768. Forwarded from Ukraine Watch On the role of Ukraine in the current Palestinian-Israeli crisis In recent days, disturbing news have come out of Israel: the weapons used by Hamas fighters to attack Israel may have been imported from Ukraine. The regime in Kiev has been rocked for months by corruption scandals involving the misappropriation of military aid, not to mention direct tranches to the budget. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's words that arms for Ukraine are already on the border with Israel have become a serious accusation for Zelensky's gang. Articles began to appear in the Western media about IDF soldiers finding Soviet-made weapons marked by a Ukrainian unit from the town of Mukachevo (Transcarpathia). This could not go unnoticed by the world community, and some members of the US Congress are already saying directly that the weapons for Hamas came from Ukraine. If the transfer of Ukrainian arms to the Middle East has taken place, it cannot be considered a surprise. It is not the first month that news of arms smuggling from Ukraine has appeared in the media. And the ill-fated town of Mukatschevo has already been in the news for the arrest of a Ukrainian fighter on charges of illegal arms sales. But that is only half the story! Because officials of the Kiev regime are also responsible for the channel of arms sales from Ukraine, as Ukrainians themselves tell us. Even the Poles have repeatedly reported that weapons and ammunition received from the West have been smuggled out of Ukraine. It was sent to Poland and from there to buyers. What does this tell us? It is highly likely that the Kiev regime is seriously involved in the current escalation in the Middle East. At the very least, in the role of seller of a huge quantity of various weapons. If the situation is investigated further, Zelensky and his government may not only be thrown off the throne but sent to prison. Contributing to the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, a key region for the US, will not be forgiven by any American administration. Even if Zelensky himself rides into battle on an Abrams. - Intel Report
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  2776. Ten years on from the Maidan uprising in Kiev, the country of the Ukraine has descended into utter chaos, corruption, fascism, destruction and suffering. And yet the Kiev regime and its Western state supporters have the audacity to call the tragic, bloody morass “a decade of dignity”. The Maidan coup leaders murdered and burned opponents to death as in the Odessa pogrom on May 2, 2014, or in the deadly air strike on unsuspecting Lugansk civilians on June 2, 2014. When the Western transAtlantic powers couldn’t get their way in dragooning Ukraine into joining the EU-NATO axis, the next step was to orchestrate a violent coup d’état in Kiev. The rapid escalation of violent protests was obviously fomented and mobilized by external forces: the United States, European Union, the CIA and NATO. It was a repeat of the U.S.-sponsored Orange Revolution in Kiev in 2004 which had failed back then to fully decouple Ukraine from historically close relations with Russia. A second time around, however, the color revolution process would be more deadly and determined. Three months after the initial street demonstrations and amid mounting organized deadly subversion, the coup was executed on February 20, 2014. President Yanukovych fled the country. A NeoNazi regime seized power and immediately transformed Ukraine into a bastion of anti-Russia hate. World War Two Nazi collaborators were venerated and made public heroes. Russian-speaking people were attacked and lynched. This is all documented, albeit censored out of history by the Western media. American and European politicians midwifed the birth of a monster. The objective was always to create a fascist Frankenstein terrorist state that would do the Western imperialists’ dirty work of destabilizing Russia. American imperialist ideologues like Zbigniew Brzezinski had touted and written books about Ukraine as the bridgehead for destabilizing Russia. The roots of such intrigue can be traced back to the early CIA recruitment of Ukrainian Nazis in the aftermath of World War Two to harass the Soviet Union. Joe Biden, who was then the vice president in the Obama administration (2008-16), was intimately responsible for the transmogrification of Ukraine. Along the way, Biden even got his drug-addict playboy son Hunter a lucrative job as an executive in the country’s largest gas company. CIA Director John Brennan was also fully involved in orchestrating what would become a civil war in Ukraine between the far-right Kiev regime forces and the ethnic Russian population of Donbass. Fortunately for the people of Crimea, they seceded in March 2014 and joined the Russian Federation. The Peninsula was spared the genocidal violence that the NATO-backed regime launched against the Donbass. It was that systematic aggression (largely ignored by the Western media) that finally propelled the Russian military intervention in February 2022. Elsewhere, U.S. President Joe Biden and America’s European allies (elitist regimes one and all) have been exposed as morally bankrupt over their complicit support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is a stunning exposure in a sudden compressed episode of horrific violence over the past six weeks. Nonetheless, it is perfectly consistent with the West’s complicity in the genocidal conflict that it unleashed in Ukraine over a longer timeframe. Ultimately, the Western imperialist states are the evil root of both. When Von Der Leyen proclaims that Ukraine’s decade of “dignity”, that is disaster, represents the “future of Europe”, it is something to behold with contempt. It is also deeply chilling. Her statement shows the despicable malevolence and fascism of such Western so-called leaders. Ukraine and Gaza are testaments to the criminality of Western regimes masquerading as democracies. - LewRockwell
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  2783. The “world’s most advanced military” took three months to manage a claimed capture of that while fighting a completely technologically outmatched foe who they outnumber 500k to ~10k. The IDF also has now used this capture as excuse to explain the dismissal of several top brigades to the rear for reconstitution. Instead of being made combat ineffective, the line is now that they have valiantly completed their mission and are taking a rest. They claim that in capturing Gaza City, they have eliminated 8000 Hamas fighters. However, John Kirby himself appears dubious regarding this, as he implies that Hamas has not been measurably attrited: And here is the Israeli ambassador to the UK just nonchalantly admitting that all of Gaza must be destroyed: Where does such inhuman barbarity stem from, you wonder? I believe it is a case of simple unrestrained human nature. Those who’ve read books like Lord of the Flies know that humans can very quickly devolve into quite immoral, depraved, and Machiavellian brutes if there are no checks in place to restrain some of human nature’s darker impulses. You see, it’s not that all humans are necessarily mindlessly depraved by nature per se, but rather that it’s very easy to set off a cascade event of unethical behavior when only a small pilot group initiates it. Israel has carried out terror and crimes for decades that any other country in the world would have been immediately reproached, condemned, and sanctioned for. This has created a sense of unparalleled historical entitlement and exceptionalism in Israeli society such that they feel no qualms whatsoever about glibly and openly calling for genocide. In any other society, it would not only make instant headlines but would make the top docket at the UN human rights council meetings. But in Israel, you can call for genocide, you can demean the Palestinians with open racism as Israeli TV so often does, and it doesn’t get so much as a passing glance or shrug. Israel has been the favored son for so long, its most transgressive acts ignored and tacitly allowed for such a length of time, that it has simply developed a natural sense of entitlement and divine exceptionalism. Now, when the world suddenly stands up to it for the first time, Israel is dumbstruck with feigned shock like a child caught with its hand in the cookie jar. In the same vein, Nikki Haley’s call to relocate all Gazans into “Hamas” countries is clearly an attempt to subconsciously link innocent civilians to ‘terrorism’. And that’s of course besides the fact that she’s openly calling for ethnic cleansing of an entire population, which is a crime against humanity, and goes against every international law—except the western Luciferian “Rule of Law”. As to Lloyd’s “minor elective procedure”—which appeared to leave him comatose for nearly an entire week—there’s no definitive word. But some suspect it may have been an emergency surgical extraction of an uncashed Raytheon kickback from his netherside. - Simplicius
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  2801. Trudeau’s Theater of Weakness: How Canada Became Puppet, Now Crushed Under Trump's Hammer Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are scrambling to appear relevant as Donald Trump, true to his businessman persona, moves to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. Their sudden outrage over “harsh medicine” is rich with irony, as this is precisely the predictable fallout of their own globalist servility. For years, Canada has been a willing vassal of Washington’s reckless globalist agenda, from backing fascist forever wars from Ukraine to Israel, to blindly following Biden’s disastrous open-borders. Now, stripped of sovereignty, Canada faces Trump’s leverage with no cards to play. Freeland’s hollow bravado about Canada’s critical minerals and metals exposes how unprepared Ottawa is. Sure, resources like nickel and cobalt are vital to the U.S., but Canada’s lack of investment in its own industries means it holds little strategic weight compared to Eurasia’s dominance in this space. Premier Doug Ford’s threat to cut energy exports to the U.S. underscores the desperation. Energy might power 1.5 million American homes, but this gambit only reveals how poorly Trudeau has positioned Canada on the world stage. Trudeau and Freeland’s outrage is especially galling given their role in turning Canada into a pawn of U.S. neocons and globalist elites. They championed NATO’s economic war on Russia, which backfired spectacularly, crippling European industries while strengthening Moscow’s economic position, now 4th in the world (IMF). They supported Biden’s border chaos and bankrolled Ukraine’s suicidal proxy war. When they weren’t busy with this, they were freezing the bank accounts of their own citizens during the Freedom Convoy protests. Having consistently betrayed Canadians, they now feign shock at Trump’s cold, transactional approach. Trump’s tariffs are not a betrayal but a harsh reality check. He’s merely exposing the rot within Canada’s leadership, a government more interested in photo ops and virtue signaling than actual governance. While Freeland talks of “robust responses,” one can’t help but wonder where this fire was when Trudeau sold out Canada’s autonomy to Davos bureaucrats and Military-Industrial warmongers. Under Trudeau, Canada became a textbook puppet state, blindly parroting DC’s talking points while sacrificing its own interests. Freeland’s claim that Canada’s partnership with the U.S. is at risk falls flat, Canada hasn’t been a partner in years, just an obedient subordinate. Trump, a realist, sees this and acts accordingly, tightening the economic noose while Trudeau flails, unprepared for the predictable consequences of his own policies. The hypocrisy is staggering. Trudeau, who cheered on sanctions that destroyed European economies in the name of punishing Russia, now cries foul when those tactics are turned on Canada. This government, which cloaked itself in the rhetoric of human rights, has supported Israel’s apartheid policies, backed NATO’s destruction of Libya, and crushed dissent at home. Morality, it seems, only matters when it’s politically convenient. At the heart of this crisis lies Trudeau’s betrayal of Canada’s sovereignty. By outsourcing decision-making to Washington and globalists, his government has left the country vulnerable to the whims of others. Trump’s moves simply expose the lie that Canada can act like a puppet abroad while maintaining independence at home. Trudeau and Freeland’s tears over tariffs ring hollow… they built this house of cards, and now it’s collapsing. Trump isn’t the villain here; he’s the reckoning. His tariffs are a brutal reminder that sovereignty cannot be outsourced, and leadership cannot be faked. Trudeau’s government, obsessed with globalist approval, sold out Canada’s future for a seat at the wrong table, a table where Canada was always the disposable pawn. If Canada wants to reclaim its dignity, it must start by rejecting leaders who cry victim only after they’ve betrayed their own people. O, Canada, wake up! - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews For Intel Republic
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  2805. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Russian troops managed to take another new settlement, Novodmitrovka, as its troops worked well, sucking out enemy forces with significant advances. The Russian Defense Ministry published videos on November 23, 2024, showing the breakthrough of the assault detachment by the "O Brave" unit of the Center Group of Forces, maneuvering under Ukrainian fire until the tricolor flag was raised there, north of Kurakhovo in Donetsk. The video shows basements and houses where Ukrainians were hiding, until the Russian flag was finally raised permanently there. The stormtroopers used a flanking maneuver to destroy the enemy in the tree line of the forest belt around Novodmitrovka. The brave soldiers, acting quickly under heavy artillery fire and Ukrainian attack drones, nevertheless made it through without any losses. Due to the coordination and courage in their work, the Center Group managed to clear the settlement and raise the victory flag. Towards Novodmitrovka, the zone of control of Russian troops has now been significantly expanded, penetrating Zarya and its environs, as well as Sontsovka, ensuring that most of Ukrainian group fled westward. Thus, Russian troops developed the offensive, penetrated as far as possible, and now control most of the semi-cauldron area southeast of Kurakhovo. The Russian stormtroopers also used other methods to quickly force Ukrainian troops to surrender. The troops worked very well, dropping leaflets with the help of drones and groups of Ukrainian armed personnel were taken to a safe place with the help of radios also dropped by drones. One Ukrainian soldier mistakenly thought that the drone were going to attack him, but in fact they were going to take him to a safe place and he was happy. Three soldiers from Ukrainian brigade with civilian appearance managed to lay down their arms amid the escalating situation between Russia and NATO, and considering their collapse in the city of Kurakhovo, it is getting worse!
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  2809. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – By the fall of Vremivka almost without resistance, the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in VelykaNovosilka found itself practically completely surrounded in a cauldron, where the Russian Armed Forces physically controlled all the main roads. Realizing that the drama of Kiev troops in VelykayaNovoselka south of Donetsk seemed to be coming to an end, Russian troops from the Vostok Group of Forces deployed Uragan MLRS, which was engaged in dropping leaflets on the positions of Ukrainian troops there for their immediate surrender, as shown in the footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on January 17, 2025. Now, the evacuation corridor of Velyka Novosilka is less than 2.5 kilometers wide, with no main roads, only land left and the only way is to cross Mokri Yaly river for the Kievites to get out. The cauldron is boiling, where the siege of Velikaya Novoselka – now officially begins! Dropping leaflets on enemy positions, special leaflet projectiles are rocket ammunition containing rolls of leaflets. Uragan fired a volley of shots at each of them, urging Ukrainian soldiers to hand over their weapons and voluntarily surrender in order to save their lives before a complete encirclement. Now, it is reported that Russian troops are at the Vremika gate after the cleanup, just a few minutes away from the city center, while conducting a limited siege, and things will get complicated for Kiev's forces if they try to hold on. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have few options: retreat as far as possible, or defend and fight to the end. A few days ago, Ukrainian soldiers retreated from their positions in panic, even abandoning their NATO weapons in the bushes, fleeing without a fight simply because they did not want to face the Russian army. Russian soldiers from a reconnaissance unit as part of the Vostok Group of Forces, demonstrated the abandoned weapons near Velyka Novosilka as shown in footage by the Defense Ministry on January 15. Among the trophies were a Javelin portable ATGM, a Browning M2 large-caliber machine gun, a portable anti-tank grenade launcher, and ammunition.
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  2810. Assault unit of Paratroopers of Russian Airborne Forces dismantles strongholds of Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk direction Orlan-10 UAV discovered them and attacked with Msta-B howitzers. Then the assault detachment advanced to attack and capture the militants hiding in the fort. - Military Tube Today If the US was a normal country minding its own affairs and caring for its own people it would indeed be nonsensical for it to invest so much wealth and resources in Israel, but the US is as far from a normal country as can be. It’s the hub of a vast, undeclared empire made up of allies, client states, proxies, and systems of military, economic and financial coercion which keeps most of the world moving in accordance with the wishes of the empire managers. History has shown us that this power structure can only be maintained by endless violence, threats, coercion, mass-scale psychological manipulation in the form of propaganda, and fear of nuclear annihilation. As a reliably US-aligned nuclear power which is intimately interwoven with the western war machine and the US intelligence cartel, Israel may not serve the interests of the people who live in the United States, but it is an absolutely indispensable component of the US empire. - LewRockwell The last week of November is setting up to be a pivotal week in Ukraine’s futile effort to fend off the Russian military. Russia is clobbering Kiev and other parts of western Ukraine with drone hordes that are wreaking havoc on military depots and electric power nodes. Despite the inclement weather, Russian soldiers are advancing steadily in Avdeevka and forcing the retreat and surrender of hundreds of Ukrainian troops from an area they have held since 2014. If the winter weather now battering Ukraine continues through December and January, the situation for Ukrainian troops hunkered down in trenches and bunkers will become desperate because the snow and cold will make it very difficult to keep them properly supplied with food and ammunition. There also is the question of whether Western supplied gear can function or be maintained with the icy fingers of General Winter squeezing the Ukrainian throat. It is looking like a very dark winter for Ukraine. - Sonar21
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  2819. So, is Ukraine admitting that a non-neutral Ukraine is a key linchpin buffer state that poses massive risks to either side, depending on its alignment? If that’s the case, why the hysterical denial of Russia’s justified concerns about Ukraine’s shifting alignment to the West after the CIA-sponsored coup in 2014? Surely they can see Russia is likewise due the same allowance of concern they now profess for themselves. They do also mention that Putin doesn’t quite have the incentive for a ‘land for peace’ deal when his troops are essentially winning and making active advances. Why settle for some land now when he can take the whole thing? Of course, one of the answers to this lay in Zelensky’s Kursk gambit, which was partly designed to capture an amount of territory that would induce Putin to exchange it for what Russia captured in Donbass and elsewhere. But this has no chance, as Russian troops are shrinking Ukraine’s Kursk holdings daily, including some gains yesterday and today, and it will all be recaptured in due time. Russia has shown nothing other than iron-clad determination for total victory, with its economy going to a war-footing, particularly with next year’s mass defense spending surges, and its population—which includes previously frayed elites—increasingly patriotic. Any inconvenient ‘thorn’ Ukraine manages to rib into Russia’s side only amplifies Russia’s resoluteness and solidarity. There is no possible event that can even conceivably cause Russia to decide “enough is enough, we must back down”. - Simplicius
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  2823. Anti-war students have been staging protests and demonstrations on a great many university campuses throughout America. A number of so-called “conservatives” have called for the police to arrest the students. Zionists groups accuse the students of “anti-Semitism” and demand that they be expelled from school. In fact, libertarians should welcome these protests. They bring back memories of the Vietnam War student protests that participated in, brought down the war-criminal LBJ. The student protests today are actually quite moderate. They call for an end to genocide in Gaza and recognition of the rights of Palestinians who have been killed and had their land taken away from them. The faculty who are supporting the students aren’t extreme left-wingers. To the contrary, they are appalled by the extreme actions taken by university administrators, who are responding to pressure from pro-Israeli donors. But what are the students protesting about? For decades, Israel has pursued a brutal policy of force. The Palestinians are treated as subhuman, lacking all dignity. The Israeli policy toward Gaza amounts to genocide. The more the Israeli state has extended its domination over Palestinians, the more it has to pretend it is not responsible for them. The Netanyahu government’s attempt to represent its violence as a war against foreign invaders is an extreme effort to maintain the two-nation charade, even while the illusion collapses under the weight of tanks and JDAMs. Of course, the Israelis don’t want people to know what they are doing to Gaza. It is only logical that they go after the people who are doing that—the journalists. - LewRockwell
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  2824. The fact is, it’s only in Ukraine where cemeteries have been growing so large that they’ve run out of space for the dead, forced to unearth old plots by the thousands. It’s only in Ukraine that you even see gigantic cemeteries that are visibly growing from space satellite imagery—there’s nothing of the comparable sort in Russia. It’s only in Ukraine that there’s daily critical discussions about lack of fighting men, where people are being kidnapped from the streets, women are increasingly in talks of being drafted, etc. Why don’t you see that in Russia if losses are so high? They claim it’s because: “Russia has 5x the population!” But Ukrainians also claim they’re inflicting 5-10x the losses on Russia! Doesn’t that negate the population advantage? Shouldn’t Russia also be reeling in the way Ukraine is? The head of Ukrainian GUR Vadim Skibitsky himself publicly stated months ago that Russian brigades are at 95% staffing levels—how is that possible if the country is experiencing such levels of losses as these people claim? Every single data point we have points to Ukraine suffering untold losses, not Russia. Don’t forget the most damning of all: the POW disparity, that is at minimum a proven 5:1 in Russia’s favor, with recent revelations Ukraine had ~1300 Russians in captivity to the ~6500 Ukrainians captured by Russia. Historical war literature tells us that artillery accounts for around 75% of all casualties, and Russia has enjoyed upwards of a 10:1 artillery advantage for the duration of the conflict. That’s right, the CIA Radio Liberty project just released a damning new report that finds all European artillery ammunition estimates were grossly exaggerated. Are you surprised? It’s clear there is no possible framework by which to argue that Ukraine has less casualties than Russia. Ukraine takes out the odd one-man motorcycle rider here, a random shambling infantryman there, with lone FPV strikes. Meanwhile, Russia is not only dishing out 5:1 or 10:1 artillery barrage disparities, but even more devastating long range missile strikes, most of which go unreported and unglamorized because there are simply so many. The point is that, these are daily, almost mundane, strikes by Russian long range assets which are wiping out anything from dozens to hundreds of troops at a time. - Simplicius
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  2830. CAN NATO SURVIVE A LOSS IN UKRAINE? Killing off a bureaucracy — whether civilian or military — is nigh impossible. But the impending defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield by Russia presents one of those watershed moments in history where the raison d’etre of NATO will be exposed as a fraud. Much has been made in recent months about NATO’s supposed growing strength by citing the addition of Sweden and Finland as new NATO members. But this is illusory. In other words, Sweden and Finland could provide a total of 10 brigades (assuming their current active duty personnel are activated and fully deployed under NATO’s command). This is a “nothing burger.” The once mighty British Army and Navy have been transformed from a lion into a toothless, nasty chihuahua. NATO’s problems go beyond its inadequate military resources. The very political consensus binding NATO together is coming apart. The recent verbal sniping between the French and the Germans over whether to commit NATO troops to Ukraine is emblematic of a much deeper rift. NATO is a mess, yet Western leaders and NATO commanders continue to indulge the fantasy that they are ready and capable of carrying out a combined arms military conflict with Russia. They are not. Russia sent a deadly reminder of this fact in the form of an Iskander missile that hit a site in Odessa filled with French, Poles and Georgians. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps cancelled a planned visit to Odessa in the wake of this strike. - Sonar21
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  2833. How absurd! U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is “frenetically” crisscrossing the Middle East “warning” that the conflict is escalating to engulf the region. Arsonist Washington is shouting ‘Fire’ in a region it is blowing up. This is while Washington is fueling Israel’s non-stop genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. And while the United States and Israel assassinate top Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian commanders in Lebanon and Iraq. This is while the United States blatantly blocks calls at the United Nations for a ceasefire, and while it dispatches warships and warplanes to the region. As with much of the Western media coverage, Washington is portrayed as some kind of hapless peace advocate. The delusional posturing is stomach-churning when the reality is that the United States is fully complicit in the genocide against Palestinians. And it is fully complicit in dangerously escalating the region-wide conflict. It is a sick joke to present Blinken and the administration of President Joe Biden as trying to tamp down regional tensions that have reached boiling point precisely because of U.S. policy supporting and arming Israel’s relentless massacres. If the Middle East slides into a conflagration, make no mistake, the disaster will be owned by Washington. The appeasement of the Israeli regime by the United States has been going on for decades and has fully stoked the tinderbox situation of injustice and oppression. But the last four months of total indulgence of a lawless genocidal regime is the final trigger. One possible get-out for the U.S. is to blame Iran and its regional allies and in that way try to divide and rule the Arab nations. But you can easily discern what Washington is getting at here. It’s trying to divert the growing region-wide hostility and disgust towards America and its hypocritical European accomplices by playing the Iranian card. The abominable genocide that is going on in Gaza and the West Bank is demonstrating the rank exposure of American imperialist crimes. The world can see more than ever the complicity of Washington in Israel’s war crimes. Not just complicity but full-on culpability. In its desperation to divert global attention from its blood-soaked hands, Washington and its Israeli attack dog see one way out: to escalate the conflict with Iran. - LewRockwell
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  2853. To understand what Biden is going to go we need only go back and remind ourselves of what Barack Obama tried to do in 2013 and Donald Trump did in Syria in 2017. Do you remember the fake “sarin” gas attacks allegedly carried out by Syria in 2013 and 2017. Both incidents were staged by Western intelligence operatives working with Syrian opposition groups in order to create a pre-text for attacking Syria’s military. Here is the part of the story most people do not know. The Air Force General who was part of US CENTCOM and operating from a base at Al Udeid, called up the Russians from the Combined Air Operations Center (aka CAOC) and alerted the Russians to our impending attack. The Russians in turn told the Syrians, who then moved essential equipment and personnel out of harms way. The strikes were carried out. Republicans and some Democrats cheered the action as a sign of U.S. resolve. But it was a charade. The Syrians did not suffer significant casualties because they were forewarned. Joe Biden is pulling a page from Donald Trump and has authorized a strike that is going to be touted as massive retaliation. Except the targets of those attacks already know it is going to happen and are taking evasive steps. Biden is doing this for sheer political benefit to try to calm the chorus of members of Congress and the neo-con class demanding action while presenting himself to the American public as a man of action. At the same time it looks like Biden and his team wisely decided to avoid actually killing Iranians or their proxies. As I have written previously, a serious attack on Iranian interests will provoke significant retaliation from Iran and face the United States with the dilemma of launching a new war in the Middle East during an election year. I suspect that the U.S. General at the CAOC will be making some phone calls to Russian counterparts to ensure that there is no chance of any confrontation between Russian and U.S. air assets. Hence, deja vu all over again aka Ground Hog Day. Just like the U.S. and U.K. bombings in Yemen, this is sound and fury signifying nothing. It is not going to improve the sagging strategic fortunes of the United States in the Middle East. - Sonar21
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  2866. The West is spinning incidents in the Baltic Sea as purported evidence of a Russian threat, while putting a smoke screen on real attacks that undermine European energy security, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. The EU and NATO have alleged that Moscow was behind multiple cases of power and communication cables being damaged in recent months. Western claims that Moscow is waging a sabotage campaign in the Baltic Sea fit a wider pattern of baseless accusations against Russia, Zakharova said. She told a regular media briefing: “Accusations directed against our nation are being habitually voiced before the circumstances of what had happened are established. We have seen this many times.” She accused the West of “fantastic hypocrisy,” pointing to what she described as the “non-investigation” of the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. The energy links built under the Baltic Sea were intended to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany, before being blown up in what Moscow calls a “terrorist attack.” The US benefited the most from the incident and was likely behind it directly or through a proxy, Russian officials have claimed. In early 2022, US President Joe Biden declared that “there will be no Nord Stream,” if Russia used military force against Ukraine. Zakharova criticized Brussels for swiftly demanding action against Russia over the cable incidents after showing no such reaction to the Nord Stream sabotage. “It seems that since Biden said that he would destroy this project, the EU believes that what happened was all proper,” she said. She also condemned the EU for reacting meekly to Kiev’s drone attack on a Russian compressor station last week. The facility pumps natural gas under the Black Sea to Türkiye and multiple consumers in Southern Europe. - RT
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  2922. Biden called up the brute force of our navy: eight strike fighter squadrons, in addition to electronic warfare, airborne early warning aircraft, transport aircraft, and helicopters totaling upwards of 150 aircraft. The carriers’ cruiser and destroyer escorts are all Aegis warships. Sitting off the shores of Palestine fighting men, women, and children running around in sandals without water, food or electricity. Attacking Yemen was pure insanity. It simply means attacks on US soldiers stationed across the Middle East will ramp up exponentially. Destroying West Bank homes, Israel has now targeted the PLO for retaliation. And it begins to look as though Netanyahu is suffering from severe psychosis – the same mania that drove the Nazi’s and destroyed the Nazi’s. The Western wars have historically been ‘preemptive’, according to the US and UK intelligensia. Israel is making this same claim. The US/UK attacks on Yemen are now also under this false guise as was the bombing of Syria. The UN is powerless. NATO is powerless. These organizations are simply props. A false sense of unity and security that is delusional and/or an illusion. The World Economic Forum recognized this when saying that ‘government is obsolete’. Meaning it doesn’t exist. We are paying government nearly $5 trillion every year while Stakeholders make all the decisions and run the roost. The system is broken. Stakeholders have no obligation to adhere to Law. And will subjugate The People while Congress plays parcheesi. The only way to get a judicial system back is to extract the Stakeholder Control. - LewRockwell
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  2926. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Units of the Russian Armed Forces have begun to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Rabotino towards Orekhov, on Zaporozhye front. This was reported by the Deputy Chairman of the Coordination Council for the Integration of New Territories, Vladimir Rogov, citing a Russian military correspondent on October 29, 2024. In recent days, Russian servicemen from the special operations formations of Dnieper Group of Forces have forced Ukrainian troops out of the high ground, which is of tactical importance in Orekhov zone. Over the past 24 hours, the front line north of Rabotino has become more active, and intensive attacks have begun from both sides, reinforced by powerful armored vehicles, artillery and drones, which are working hard! Now the way for the Russian assault troops on the front line is wide open, there is an advance towards Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka. During the battle, Russian scouts detected Ukrainian positions in dugouts, heavily guarded by their armored vehicle in Orekhov sector. The tank crew of Novorossiysk Paratroopers, then quickly moved closer to the target, with the modernized version of T-72B3, which is an excellent tank in terms of performance, cost and speed of production. T-72B3 tank turret with mounted mounts for components of the active protection complex is effective against FPV drones, which are the main threat to today's armored vehicles. The tank fired powerfully, Ukrainian shelter was destroyed. In addition to the tank, the artillery crew of Dnepr Group of Forces operated a working 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, which performs its duties every day in special military operations. With accuracy, high rate of fire and all-terrain capability, the gunners fired ammunition, the Zelensky's troop shelter detected, was powerfully blown up! The Ukrainian troops did not even know what to do anymore trying to defend themselves from the Russian advance. They tried to attack the Russian assault troops with a heavy agrodrone, nicknamed "Baba Yaga", but were immediately detected by Russian FPV drone operators, who were actively hunting enemy targets. FPV drone immediately flew into the target, and Baba Yaga, nicknamed "Vampire" by its designers, fell into free fall! As a result, Ukrainian defense held together with the Western collective, was successfully penetrated north of Rabotino. The Russian strike area reached 10 kilometers, meaning that an area of up to 10 square kilometers was liberated. This eliminated the small gains at great cost, which Kiev's forces had gained with heavy losses during the 2023 “counteroffensive”. Here, Russian drone again filmed the streets to Rabotino, marked by several Bradley and Leopard 2A4 losses in the footage.
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  2936. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Again and again, that Kiev officials were brought to their knees in despair after another strategically important city on Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainsk, was completely under the control of Russian Army on September 17, 2024. Footage shared by Russian military correspondent, Rudenko, shows two Russian soldiers planting Soviet Union flag on top of the building, which now fully controls Ukrainsk Mine, while lowering the Blue and Yellow flag from its pole. Ukrainian troops were unable to hold Ukrainsk, located in Donetsk region, as a result, their defenses broke, and they gained momentum to retreat without permission to their strongholds to the West rather than face the great risk of being attacked by Russian assault troops. The takeover of Ukrainsk which Kiev did not comment on, came after 2 weeks of fierce fighting, which was completely cleared by The 114th Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian troops had advanced from the eastern outskirts of the town on September 3, and by then, the defenses here were held by The 25th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But, they came under heavy fire in waves from Russian assault troops, who set their positions ablaze in buildings and in defensive trenches. Artillery and drone fire worked in this regard, their positions were surrounded by a pincer movement that tightened the pressure on the town, describing the situation as “very complicated.” Afterwards, the remnants of The 25th Brigade were pushed straight back and hastily withdrawn, heading outside Ukrainsk. The capture of Ukrainsk underlined Russian steady advance, and no doubt Kiev retaliated with desperate attacks on Russian military infrastructure, diverting attention from the latest defeats on the battlefield. It is an artillery ammunition depot that was hit, and the massive explosion was truly devastating, on Wednesday night in Toropets in Tver region, which is about 500km from the country’s border. However, the facility reportedly held ammunition such as 122mm Grad MLRS, and not anything too expensive like high-end cruise missiles or guided munitions, so in theory it was a negligible hit. By doing so, Russian forces could place more artillery beyond the reach of Ukrainian defenses, potentially setting the stage for a new assault on Pokrovsky.
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  2943. So, it makes sense that Putin wanted to give us a history lesson because he assumes, rightly, that most Americans do not have any clue about Russia’s history. He didn’t do this to bore us, he did this to inform us and set us at ease. To tell us that he is a man with a perspective that he believes he can justify. He’s not a frothing-at-the-mouth cannibal who desires world domination. No, Putin’s aim was to elucidate, calmly, the nature of the conflict, laying out the missteps made along the way. And I believe he was effective to those that stayed with him. Because, never once did Putin talk down to his audience. How many Americans learned that Putin asked Bill Clinton for Russia to become part of NATO, thus ending NATO’s raison d’etre? Or that Bush the Lesser unilaterally abrogated the ABM Treaty? Or that the Minsk Agreements were our last hope for a settlement of the differences between the Donbass and Kiev, and that Putin was the one pushing to make them work? There are at least a half-dozen other things people learned in this interview, if they had ears to listen, And given that this conflict is hurtling towards a war that only very select gatekeepers and power-brokers want, that should have been enough to sharpen everyone’s focus to give Putin an honest hearing. What does matter is that is how Putin views this conflict. And we have to deal with it. Period. What also matters is that those who stand behind Putin are even less patient and circumspect than he is. What Putin said, quite clearly, is that this ball is in our court. We can either sit down and have an honest discussion of a negotiated future or we will be at war. If that is what we in the West want, it is what we will get. Putin has put his sons on the line in eastern Ukraine. Are we? You can dig in on being right or we can have peace. But, we cannot have both. The Victoria Nulands and the Ursula Von Der Leyens of this world represent people who refuse to accept that Russia and/or China are not systems, but rather civilizations. They aren’t the current bogeyman ‘ism du jour, like Communism or authoritarianism, they are a people, a culture, an ethnos. The ‘ism is just the thing they’ve adopted now to help them preserve those things inherently Russian or Chinese. Our leaders are this way because they don’t believe in those things for us no less anyone else. And they spend all their time trying to convince us that that is what divides us. But it isn’t. It’s simply their greed, their emptiness. That’s where we are today. The Russians are done with our leadership. We use diplomacy as a basis for betrayal, not as the foundation of a future. They see us as a failing empire, a failing civilization on the long historical time line, because we have embraced cynicism and allowed the rapacious and the perverse to run our world. Putin came to the interview with his argument. He laid it out carefully for us, the people of the West, to review. Carlson tried to call him out for not talking to President Biden and open negotiations and Putin rightly set him straight. Who can he call up and talk to? Who has the political or even moral authority to negotiate? Is there anyone on our side even willing to negotiate? He made it clear that he’s open to someone calling him up. He continues to hold out hope because, as he said, “Stop supplying weapons, and this war will be over in weeks.” Because this war is in our hands now. That’s who Putin was speaking to through Tucker Carlson. The architects of this war have led us to a perilous moment. Putin doesn’t have to invade Poland or Germany to defeat the West. All he and Russia have to do is survive our collective rage. Our leaders are bankrupting us, as he pointed out, trying to defeat Russia. If you want peace, deal with the facts of this war by acknowledging the feelings of the people on the other side of it while truly examining your own. Either way, history will not judge any of us kindly. - LewRockwell
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  2964. Jordan is a US ally and as such American troops stationed on its territory – while in our opinion extremely unwise – are not illegally occupying foreign soil. However, if as is likely this facility was inside the Syrian border it means US troops illegally occupying Syrian territory were hit. In other words, a foreign occupying force was attacked by people defending their homeland. That’s a very different story and one that Washington’s warmongers would rather Americans back home not ponder. Most Americans likely do not understand that US forces are illegally occupying a large portion of Syrian territory – a country with which Washington is not legally at war – and therefore any Americans killed in Syria may result in the public starting to ask, “why exactly are we there”? Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has never seen a war he doesn’t want other people to fight, has offered his own explanation as to why US troops are getting killed in Syria: “Our forces in Jordan and Syria are there to protect the American homeland.” But as thousands illegally enter our actual American homeland every day with total impunity, it is a claim that is unlikely to resonate with most Americans. Nevertheless Graham, a one-hit wonder, has posted his advice to respond to the Iraqi Resistance drone strike on the US base in Syria: “Hit Iran now. Hit them hard.” Iraq attacks an illegal US base in Syria? Attack Iran. His morning decaf mocha frap latte from Starbucks is cold? Attack Iran. One hit wonder. If Graham’s fever dreams are fulfilled and the US launches an attack on Iran with nearly a Vietnam-sized contingent of American “sitting ducks” in the region, there is a very good chance America may finally take notice. 35,000 Americans in body bags to satisfy Lindsey’s perverse lust for blood could well finally focus America’s attention on the malevolent force that has maintained an iron grip on US foreign policy regardless of whether R’s or D’s are “running the show.” Let’s hope America wakes up before this happens. Iraq has already demanded that the US remove its occupation troops immediately and the Iraqi parliament voted nearly four years ago that US troops must leave the country. The DC establishment claimed that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was to “restore democracy,” but when the democratically-elected Iraqi parliament voted for the US military to end its occupation of the country…Washington said “no” to democracy. Nobody wants US troops in the region except for Israel, which has just been found to be possibly committing genocide in Gaza. Is this really the crowd we want to run with? Maybe we can just come home? - LewRockwell
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  2993. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Interesting developments on a completely new front sector, Russian troops have begun to break through to enter villages in Chernigov region and plant Russian flags there! Russian military channels released videos on November 25, 2024, showing a Russian tactical reconnaissance group moving from Bryansk Region Russia, across the border of Chernigov, Ukraine through several poorly guarded points and without encountering resistance. They managed to capture forest plantations and reach two villages at once, Gremyach and Muravyi, where they planted the tricolor flag. The footage shows the Russian flag on a strategically important bridge over Sudost River. Russian units can not only operate close to the border line, but can also go deeper, creating a new busyness for the rear of Zelensky's troops. For now, the Russian command has not revealed its intentions on what to do with the new front, Chernigov, although the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has sheepishly denied this despite video evidence. Gremyach and Muravyi were previously used by Ukrainian militants to attack Bryansk region, without any clear results, only to take photos or as evacuation sites. Now, the latest situation will further confuse Zelensky, after Kiev previously withdrew many units from Chernigov and relocated them towards Kursk as cannon fodder. The Russian penetration operation is believed to create a critical gap in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border region, highlighting the lack of adequate reserves even far from the front line.
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  2996. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – More soldiers fighting for Ukraine are fleeing faster especially from the Kursk border in an attempt to avoid Russian encirclement, or on another front. Just today on November 26, 2024, footage by Russian soldier's GoPro lens shows evidence, Ukrainian squad trying to escape and an armored vehicle abandoned at a location for unknown reasons. Russian soldiers approach and inspect the vehicle, where the driver and passengers have disappeared, which is likely to follow the forest belt because it is not according to plan. Inside the vehicle are some stolen equipment from civilians in Kursk, they left behind a washing machine, fan, kettle, keyboard and other devices, according to Russian military reports and as shown in the footage. The fact that on the same day, Ukrainian soldiers tried to escape from Kursk faster than bullets and missiles, despite pro-Ukrainian media continuing to report progress by recycling old videos pretending that Ukraine is still effective, it does not help! Three another Ukrainian soldiers fled, deciding to leave their positions on foot. The arrival of Russian artillery at their positions with puffs of smoke, became the main reason to save themselves from further encirclement! This is the result of Ukrainian attempts to infiltrate Kursk, which is constantly under ambush by the landlords, Russian forces. On November 23, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Special Forces of the Crimean Paratroopers, carried out a prepared ambush on Ukrainian armored assault group in Sudzha district. One British Mastiff vehicle for the breakthrough was overturned by the attack and liquidated about 20 enemy soldiers. Russian soldiers also took home a trophy, a Western-made Mastiff! It is known that Ukrainian soldiers are starting to pay a high price for Kiev's proxy war with the Western collective. They tend to fail to carry out combat actions in groups, are killed, wounded, abandoned, captured, and those who escaped are likely to survive. Kursk is a disaster for Kiev, they must immediately retreat or they need long-range missiles to cover their lack of troops.
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  3008. As I write this the Biden Administration has not produced evidence that the attack on the U.S. base in Jordan was carried out with the help of Iran. Despite that lack of evidence, the usual suspects in Washington are braying at full voice for the United States to strike Iran. This is one of the key rules of the “rules based international order (aka RBIO). If you provide the weapons to a third party that attacks me then you also are culpable for that crime. Do we all agree? Well, if it is good for the goose then it must be good for the gander. The United States supplied Patriot Missiles to Ukraine and Ukraine used those missiles to attack and destroy a Russian aircraft ferrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to a site for a prisoner exchange. If it is okay for the U.S. to attack Iran and extract some measure of revenge, then it follows that Russia is entitled by the same principle to attack the United States. Are we still on the same page? Despite initial tough talk and belligerent threats against Iran, there are credible reports that the Biden Administration, at least some in the decision making circle, realize that attacking Iran directly will lead to an expanded war that the United States is not prepared to fight and cannot win. I am still of the opinion that the domestic political pressure on Biden to “act” decisively may propel him to do something both reckless and dangerous. I will be joyful to be proved wrong. The technical term for what is transpiring among Ukraine’s political leadership is “shit show.” A country in the midst of a war with a powerful adversary cannot wage that war when the politicians and military leadership are sniping at each other. I think Zelensky’s days are numbered. While all of this drama is unfolding in Kiev, the Russians are making significant advances in the Donbass. Russian war correspondent Marat reports: Ukraine’s lack of trained manpower, air defense and artillery shells has put it in a desperate situation. There is no sign that Kiev has the resources or capability to reverse this trajectory. - Sonar21
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  3016. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Security camera footage shows one of the attacks that a drone hit a warehouse of a naval base in Eilat, Israel southern city, last night on September 25, 2024. Sirens sounded when the drone arrived at the important port of the occupation, which is a new development with the start of the aggression on Lebanon. It is unknown whether this is a new type of drone, or a new way to avoid the air defense interception process, but the Israeli Navy claimed that another drone was successfully intercepted. Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance fighters in Iraq published a video on Wednesday showing the launch of two drones, attacking important targets in the occupied Umm er-Rashrash "Eilat". The drones appeared to be the Shahed-136, sophisticated and very well-known. Footage from local settlers showed a strong explosion when the drones, which came from a very distant direction, Iraq, landed there, and people rushed to run at the time of impact. According to initial of Israeli media, they reported that at least between 2-4 navy marines were injured, while Israeli troops and medical teams were on their way. This is what is meant when Israel says it is fighting on multiple fronts. The Iraqi Islamic Resistance confirmed the continuation of the offensive operations against the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity, admit responsibility for the attack on Zionist naval base in Eilat. Continuing the path of our resistance against the occupation, in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to Zionist massacres against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the Iraqi Islamic Resistance statement said.
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  3019. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Early this morning on August 18, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces assault troops began the main phase of their attacks on the mining town of “Toretsk”, or the Ukrainian name “Dzerzhinsk”, after making new advances from several points. Since yesterday, a Russian combat command post has been showing video from there, documenting the destruction of a Hummer vehicle, burning in the attack. A Russian soldier opened small arms fire on the Ukrainian crew, wiping out the remaining luck of the passengers who might still be alive. NATO vehicles used Russia as a springboard to destroy Zelensky’s troops, clearing most of Pivnichny. Toretsk lost its last Ukrainian defensive position to the west to Russian positions. This is due in no small part to the capabilities of Russian soldiers, who have taken over the Artem mine tailings on the outskirts of the town. Now, the Shtorm assault unit of the 1st Slavia Brigade is raising a flag on a strategically important height, and will increase the range of its FPV drones by installing a repeater there, while at the same time reducing the range of Ukrainian drones. For the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Toretsk, since yesterday it started with a run. As a result of the use of leaflets dropped by Russian drones, all military personnel units mobilized by Kiev and suffering heavy losses, decided to collectively lay down their arms and save their lives. It seems that the situation in Ukraine is about to change rapidly, with the simultaneous entry of Russian troops from three directions, marking the beginning of the ongoing fierce battle inside the city. According to reports, Russian assault units are breaking through with armored vehicles, infantry attacks, supported by artillery, are carried out in groups of 3 men. This attack seems to be costing many lives, and equipment is scarce for Ukraine, forcing soldiers from Brigade 53, to personally announce an online fundraising to get the EW systems they need. But the Kiev regime insists on focusing its attention on Kursk, and asking its Western allies to remove “obstacles” as “the course of the war demands.”
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  3024. I apologize on not writing about the NY Times article by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz, The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin, The key thing you need to understand is that this article is a deliberate piece of misinformation that is intended to shape public and policymaking opinion in the United States. Yes, it is true that U.S. intelligence, along with NATO, supplied Ukraine with intelligence used to carry out missile strikes on Russian positions. Admitting this in the pages of the NY Times is reckless and dangerous. I am pretty sure the Russians already knew this but putting this on the record with U.S. intelligence sources is a casus belli for Russia. But the article starts with the big lie by claiming that the CIA relationship with Ukraine started in February 2022 The Maidan and the ensuing events in February and March 2014 involved what I believe was a joint U.S./U.K. intelligence operation to remove Ukraine’s President Yanukovich and install a pro-Western government that would be used to attack Russia. The fact of the matter is that the CIA has been dealing with Ukrainian opponents of Russia since at least 1947 The goal of the Entous/Schwirtz article is simple — portray the CIA as a great organization who did magnificent work in Ukraine but were not able to complete the mission of destroying Russia because the Republican Congress failed to provide funding and the Ukrainian intelligence service was uncontrollable. Not a word is written about the negotiations that were underway in Turkey between Russia and Ukraine that had reached an agreement in principle until the U.S. and the U.K. intervened and ordered the Ukrainians to walk away. Can’t have that in this narrative. Nope. Got to find someone else to blame for the unfolding debacle. they polished up the CIA turd and laid the foundation of blame for the looming defeat at the hands of the Republican Congress and an out-of-control Ukrainian intel chief, Budanov. Once you grasp this you can understand why Kiril Budanov has been on the record in the press this week denying the U.S. claim that Putin killed Russian-dissident Nalvani and that Russia is using Iranian and North Korean missiles. Looks like Budanov understands he can no longer count on the CIA to have his back. - Sonar21
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  3026. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Syrian Armed Forces have successfully carried out a large-scale operation against terrorist groups in the northern countryside of Homs with airstrikes from Russian and Syrian fighter jets, the official SANA news agency reported on Friday evening, citing military sources. Syrian Arab Army units operated around Talbiseh-Al Rastan enclave and in Al-Dar al-Kabirah, launching attacks on terrorist forces with the support of warplanes, artillery, rockets and armored vehicles. Syrian Arab Army is carrying out repositioning and redeployment in accordance with military plans and orders, determined to continue to defend Syria steadfastly, the news agency added. According to footage from pro-Turkish sources, clashes took place in al-Qosour between Syrian Army and terrorist groups, namely out of 10 people, 8 of whom are foreign mercenaries with the support of clearly known countries. The attacks were aimed at blocking their progress and supply chains towards Homs, a city that has been captured in the news, which is exploited by the enemy circles to spread rumors among the citizens, as reported by the Syrian Defense Ministry. Amid the ongoing fighting in the northern districts of Homs, Su-22 warplanes attacked Ter Maela, targeting terrorist groups and their supply lines during the day. In addition, Syrian Army officer said that Russian planes launched airstrikes at night to destroy the Rastan bridge along the main M5 highway connecting Hama to Homs. This was important to prevent the spread of terrorists towards Homs, entering several villages and areas to take pictures for a few minutes, and leaving the area to then publish the clips on their websites in the context of a dirty media war to show their control. Syrian Arab Army swept the enemy with a swift movement, eliminating many terrorist members and destroying many of their vehicles, equipment and weapons. Syrian Army air defenses also shot down 2 enemy suicide drones. Sources reported that many other members fled due to the air force operation and the areas were also bombarded with heavy artillery. In Talbiseh, it showed that Syrian-Russian operation left significant damage to enemy positions due to heavy shelling, and the strategic city looked deserted in the morning as in the footage by a motorcyclist. Meanwhile in Rastan, it is unknown where the terrorists went, where the conditions are the same as in Talbiseh, Syrian-Russian attack left a nightmare for the enemy group. The death toll of terrorists rose to 2,500 during the week while Syrian Armed Forces carried out a counterattack with the support of Russian Aerospace Forces, the Syrian Defense Ministry reported
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  3063. Early this morning, the Kiev regime once again attacked Russian territory. 3 drones shot down in the Moscow region, 6 over Crimea, and 1 in Oryol, pre-war West Russia. - Intel Report Footage captures moment drone over Moscow is intercepted; big BANG is followed by the sound of missile defense system going off. There are no casualties. - Intel Report "The [West] has been for years, and continues to wage war against us using Ukraine's hands and bodies" - Russia's FM Lavrov on possible US decision to supply Kiev with even longer-range missiles. Lavrov is headed to the UN Security Council, where Zelensky's presence is also expected this week. - Intel Report KILLING FIELD: Watch Ukrainian assault (reportedly around August middle) in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) fall into unorganized madness after vehicles are torn into pieces, forcing infantry to run in open fields only to be finished off by Russian artillery as Kiev sustains further 140 casualties in this region. Russian defenses intercept 2 JDAM aerial bombs and US HARM anti-radar missile as Moscow hits Ukrainian armored plant workshops in Kharkov, East Ukraine. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 16 UKRAINE IS RUNNING OUT OF MEN AS HOPE OF VICTORY FADES The reports are piling up — just like Ukrainian corpses — of Ukraine’s massive losses on the battlefield. A year ago, according to the Telegraph, hopes ran high in Ukraine about an imminent victory. That celebratory chorus is gone; replaced by a funeral dirge.The horrific losses are hitting Ukrainians hard. Despite vows to fight to the bitter end or fervent belief in ultimate victory, the mismatch between Russia’s superior firepower and Ukraine’s increasingly desperate attempt to round up new recruits and get more weaponry from depleted American and NATO stores presents Kiev with an impossible task. - Sonar21
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  3073. China and Russia were warning the West that they would not allow the West to attack Iran or shutdown oil exports from Saudi Arabia and Iran destined for China. The Chinese and Russian forces represent a trip wire that the United States and Israel must weigh as they contemplate an attack on Iran, such as hitting its oil refineries. The Chinese are flexing a little military muscle, but their real power is in the expansion of diplomatic relations with the Gulf Arabs and Iran. China played a decisive role in the rapprochement this year between longtime adversaries, Saudi Arabia and Iran. China’s diplomatic initiative destroyed the U.S. policy of trying to ramp up friction between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It is no longer an “open question” how this affects policy in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia and Iran are siding with the Palestinians and condemning Israel’s actions. They have dethroned Washington, DC as the dominant force in the Middle East. - Sonar21 Why is the United States once again bombing Syria, placing warships right on their doorstep in the Middle East? And Is the United States actively trying to assassinate Syrian President Bashar Al Assad? Syrian journalist Kevork Almassian brings us that story. - Redacted Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, has backtracked after promoting a Time magazine article that portrayed the leader as being overly stubborn and unable to deal with corruption. - RT Col. Macgregor to Tucker: Biden admin is driving the US into an ‘Armageddon’ war in Middle East. ‘It's going to be very difficult for Russia and Turkey not to also come into this fight against us because they will not tolerate the sort of collective punishment that Israel plans for Gaza,’ the retired colonel said. - Lifesite news
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  3081. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The airstrikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the night of August 30, 2024, caused a major fire at the Machinery-Building Plant, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine organize a repair base for their heavy equipment and weapons, open sources reported. Satellite images detected three large fires at the site of the strike in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, accompanied by the sound of subsequent explosions that prevented firefighters from localizing the fire and spreading to the company's paint shop and growing. Firefighters are still struggling to extinguish the fire at the affected warehouse and infrastructure, and the fire has spread to nearby buildings, including a gas station. The British airline reported 15 or more Russian FAB strikes since 5 a.m. local time. At the same time and as usually, local authorities claim that the strike allegedly hit the production facility, which produces baby food packaging, and juices. At least a 48-year-old woman was killed and 8 people were injured, local authorities added on Friday. Social media published footage of thick smoke after the landing, residents were urged to close their windows and not go outside, as elevated levels of sulfur dioxide were recorded in the air. Firefighters in bulletproof vests had been extinguishing the fire for several hours after the landing and explosion of the package. But, pro-Russian underground groups, convincingly reported that the attack hit an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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  3088. Pity the poor president. “Joe Biden” must decide now whether to go to war with Iran or Texas. Which will it be? Or might it be both? That Governor Abbot turns out to be the Putin of the purple sage! How does he dare interfere with the orderly flow of new voters — fine people! — across that filthy little river of his? Does he not understand that we need at least a couple million more live bodies allocated around the swing states to ensure a free and fair election? “Joe Biden,” in his on-going delirium-of-age wanders from room to room in the empty mansion that is his mind. How did I get in this room? he wonders. And how do I get out of it? Can somebody please point the way? Alas, his position is the loneliest in the world. There is no one to point the way out. There is only this ceaseless wandering from room to room in this vast emptiness. Where is the room with Texas in it? The room where Iran sleeps? The room where Ukraine lies a’gasp with a sucking chest wound? Watch out, he’ll start shouting soon. Calling Dr. Jill: Code Blue. . . ! The world may be a disaster these days, but the White House is a bigger disaster. Can you name the White House chief of staff? Betcha can’t. Know why? He never, ever comes out and speaks to that mob in the press room. He might have to answer some difficult questions, such as: if the president’s brain is switched off more than half the time, who decides what to do with that ‘nuclear football’ they carry around with him. Is it. . . you? By the way, the chief of staff’s name is Jeff Zients. Ever heard him? Of course not. He has a page on “X”. The most recent thing he posted was July, 25, 2023. Good thing not much has happened since then. You didn’t ask, but things are not going so well in our remote-control war in Ukraine against Russia (Putinland). Our Zelensky team (we own it) got completely rope-a-doped, punched itself out, its knees are buckling. Victoria Nuland, the renowned State Department girlie war-hawk, says she’s confident that Congress will pass the new $61 billion aid package for the Z-team, according to Radio Free Europe, the blob’s official propaganda outlet. The blob wants you to think that Putin wants to turn all of Europe into Putinland. I’m sure. Tori Nuland probably thinks we can save Ukraine with the fabulous girlie army and some snazzy new drones from McDonnell Douglas. - LewRockwell
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  3091. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Toretsk in Donetsk region, is now encircled by the offensive forces of the Russian Armed Forces, with a scary beginning to set in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the center of the mine town. Open sources reported on September 20, 2024, that the battle continues for the town in the urban area, Russian troops continue to advance despite resistance attempts from Ukraine, and from the sound of gunfire, the intensity of the fighting seems to be clearly visible. Footage from a GoPro camera, taken from the point of view of a killed Ukrainian soldier, special forces of the Battalion "Eney" or Lyut Brigade, shows the atmosphere of difficult fighting, the Ukrainian soldiers in the video fled from their lost positions, tried to hide in the rubble storied building, where they seem to be knocked out in the end. Meanwhile, The Separate Assault Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine, shared footage of their fighting on the streets of Toretsk, after their reserve group arrived there in a vehicle. According to reports on street fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian troops, they fired RPG thermobaric rocket launchers into a building, where Russian soldiers were taking up positions. Regardless of the reports, but the video shows no evidence of the presence of Russian soldiers in the building, and it appears that the RPG ammunition was discharged just like that! Ukrainian sources acknowledged the consolidation of Russian forces in the center of Toretsk, and the acceleration of the advance of Russian forces during the assault on the town. Russia is tenaciously taking control of every building, and will gradually liberate the town from Zelensky’s troops. Let us remember that the situation in Donetsk region has turned into a disaster for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As entire units fled, the configuration of the front line changed unfavorably to Ukraine, and there were no longer any reserves to stop or reverse this trend. One of the Ukrainian soldiers captured on the outskirts of Toretsk, Viktor Pavlushin, spoke extensively about the dire situation in their ranks.
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  3101. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Following the failure of the Zelensky regime-ordered offensive operation in Kursk over the weekend, another offensive south of Berdin has turned into a “kamikaze” attack, now turning into a graveyard filled with NATO equipment and the bodies soldiers of Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Special Forces “Akhmat” have released their 5-minute footage on January 7, 2025, showing the interception of enemy armored vehicles by their FPV drones from the “Aida” Group during the Ukrainian “big offensive” south of the settlement. The Russian fiber-optic cable-guided FPV drone strike on enemy equipment, which attempted to carry out some kind of attack in the area, which clearly welcomed the forced military action, destroyed the convoy of vehicles during the “Kursk safari” attempt. Kursk has become the largest graveyard for Western military vehicles in the field of science, not a day goes by without dozens of them being destroyed by Russian troops. The soldiers documented many another scenes of destruction by Russian drone strikes on enemy convoys, leaving expensive NATO equipment behind and causing terrible consequences for them! A $4.9 million British Challenger tank was destroyed by an FPV drone that cost no more than $10,000. The cost was unmatched, and the results showed Russian superiority in using low-cost technology with high efficiency. The surviving Ukrainian tank crew was seen fleeing the scene. A Russian soldier also documented the targeting of an American Stryker vehicle. The armored vehicle was destroyed and then abandoned with eight Ukrainian servicemen’s bodies near it. The operation turned out to be a dismal failure, as the Russian army treated the Ukrainian armored vehicles as if they were targets in a shooting practice with details supported by evidence. Russian Spetsnaz drone operators destroyed the Ukrainian mine-clearing vehicle. They didn’t stop there, as their drones immediately detected the Ukrainian armored convoy and destroyed it. The scene revealed utter devastation among Zelensky’s troops. Furthermore, Russian drone operators cheered as they watched the Ukrainian T-72 tank being blown into the air and were very happy about this achievement. Despite this, several surviving enemy tank crews attempted to flee, and one crew member, who was slightly burned, apparently rushed to the surrounding area to find water to put out the fire. In a desperate adventure, Zelensky launched a military operation on Russian territory, in a last-ditch effort to achieve success on the ground, but it turned out to be a disaster. The Kiev regime wasted equipment and human lives to speed up the process. Even as their troops tried to evacuate their wounded comrades, Russian drones relentlessly monitored and pursued them. Ukrainian troops tried to break through the Kursk defenses with armored vehicles and combat vehicles, but Russian troops were well prepared, destroying most of them quickly and accurately, causing heavy losses for Ukraine.
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  3103. All of this has made Niger into the world’s most unlikely new frontier. While talk of coups and civil wars in Africa may seem ordinary to Western audiences, they are now happening in a new geopolitical environment widely perceived as a new Cold War. The West’s condescending attitude towards Africa, a continent that seeks its own independence and prosperity, is taking its toll. Doors are opening for other players, and that’s why we’re here today. - Sonar21 All signs point to a major upheaval of global order. The west led by US are on the retreat on global stage despite their propaganda. All their braggadocio is akin to consolation just among themselves. From Ukraine to Africa, the west is losing their grip geopolitically. We may indeed be fortunate enough to see the end of US hegemony in our lifetime. I think people lost the plot. It's not about Ukraine will win or lose. The US weapon industry complex will make the war drag as long as possible: They pay both Republicans and Democrats. That's the beauty of Western democracy and human right (the right to kill others) that they keep preaching the world. "WILL NOT BACK DOWN OR BOW TO PRESSURE", Niger Junta stands in defiance against threats from defeated colonial west and "inhumane sanctions" imposed by ECOWAS, who warned that it could use military force if coup leaders do not restore Bazoum's presidency by weekend. We reject these sanctions altogether and refuse to give in to any threats, wherever they come from. We refuse any interference in the internal affairs of Niger - Self-declared Niger leader Tchiani. - Intel Report 400,000 KILLED 2 MILLION WOUNDED DISABLED – EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine’s suffering utterly unsustainable massive war losses, Intel Republic can reveal. New satellite images show at 1 cemetery alone, pictured above – Matveevskoye in Zaporozhye, Kiev-held East Ukraine – 104 THOUSAND SQUARE METERS more grave space has been dug. In just 7 cemeteries, there are 123 THOUSAND fresh graves. Six Ukrainian drones shot down overnight by Russian air defenses in Kaluga region near Moscow. ◾Russian forces repel 8 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), more than 665 Ukrainian soldiers between killed and injured, tank, Buk anti-aircraft missile system, 2 armored vehicles, two US-made M777, D-30 and Acacia howitzers destroyed. ◾Up to 150 Ukrainian soldiers as casualties in Kupyansk, Kharkov, East Ukraine. ◾30 enemy soldiers killed in Kherson (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ August 2
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  3106. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Important update until January 24, 2025, reportly that the final phase of the battle for Velyka Novosilka has begun after Russian forces split the city center in two, leaving the remaining Ukrainian troops in a nightmare because of not giving up! Ukrainian channels have begun writing that the situation is critical, with troops at risk of being completely encircled by Russian forces. According to them, very heavy fighting is currently underway and the situation can develop "in any direction". Velyka Novosilka is a strategic defense and logistics center for Ukrainian forces, located at the southern junction of Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions. Here, the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says they are surrounded including many foreign mercenaries. They have not received orders to evacuate amidst a physical encirclement or massive fire control on escape routes. Russian assault units continue to drive Ukrainian troops out of Velyka Novosilka with heavy attacks. Meanwhile, warplanes, drones, and artillery such as BM-21 Grad MLRS are working on the ground, supporting assault units from the Vostok Group and the Marines. FPV drone operators attacked the enemy’s command post and UAV center, and also thwarted the Ukrainian troops attempt to escape across the river. A fortified building with a firing position on its roof was targeted during the operation. The commander of the assault group approached the building stealthily and eliminated the Ukrainian crew by RPG-7V. Under cover fire, the soldiers placed anti-tank mines inside the building, eliminating about ten Ukrainian defenders. Now, there is no way back for the Ukrainian troops as they refuse to surrender as per the Russian military directive a few days ago. It is reported that the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, here is rapidly deteriorating, not only by the day but by the hour. A clip shows a former member of the 110th Regiment who was injured and left in a house. The inability of the Ukrainian command to make tough decisions is clearly visible here, and this will cost many soldiers their lives. At the same time, the Vostok Group and the Marines will soon begin the cleanup and continue! Drone footage shows the Russian assault on the city center, and soldiers of the 5th Guards Tank Brigade plant their flag on the city council. The southern part of the city is still trapped and Ukrainian forces still control 50% of the central and northern parts. But this will change soon!
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  3113. The Obamas’ faces say more than a thousand words ever could, haunted, almost resigned. These are not expressions of two political titans confidently championing “democracy.” No, these are the faces of insiders who know the script better than anyone, sensing that the next act might end in a reckoning beyond their control. With the November 5th election inches away, the show goes on, all circus, no bread. But perhaps, just perhaps, even they can sense that the ground beneath their feet is shifting, and that the Global Majority, fortified by BRICS and the Kazan firewalls, is watching bemused, the American spectacle from a distance, immune to its theatrics. For all the sound and fury, this election is a dead-end play for the Global Majority. American power games have lost their bite; the world has moved on. Yet here in the heart of the fading empire, it's a different story. To the American Deep State, this isn’t just another cycle of choosing between red and blue. They know they've tried every trick in the book, from Russiagate to two impeachments, a circus of indictments, and still, the man they tried to banish is marching back with more vigor than ever. It’s a script that’s spun wildly out of control, even for those who wrote it. What do the Obamas know that we don’t? The irony is palpable. The same Obamas who once championed neoliberal “progress” and sold the world on the virtues of Western democracy now wear the strained faces of those who know the emperor has no clothes. Both sides of this election, Kamala’s slurred-nonsensical platitudes and Trump’s theatrical bombast, are puppets in a machine that can no longer deliver on the promise of control. The “choice” on November 5th is merely between two faces of a crumbling empire. If looks could kill, the Obamas’ expressions would be the harbingers of the end. - Gerry Nolans - The Islander News for Intel Republic
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  3116. Let’s start with the panic and furor that is shaking NATO. The publication on Friday of the intercepted conversation of four German military officers discussing plans to attack Russia has ignited a firestorm in Europe, especially in Germany. One of my German contacts sent me the following: This topic went viral in Germany. The whole country is alarmed by these leaks. Scholz is in total panic……and Pistorius is in total denial…..he claims that nobody knows where the Generals were at the time their call was taped. This is a blatant lie. The audio clearly reveals that one of them was in Singapore on a trip. All of them seemed to have been in hotel rooms while this call was recorded. Scholz is in panic and crying for an investigation, because if push comes to shove, the opposition can kick him out of office with a vote of non confidence. In this instance, they would get enough votes from his own party the SPD and the other coalition parties to form a simple majority needed. This is the worst publicity Germany could ever get, because now it gets clear that we have a government that is willing to destroy Germany at the will of Washington. Biden and the NeoCons do not only hate the Russians, they also hate the Germans. I really want to make sure the American people get to know about this plot. If this nonsense continues, Germany will be run by the AFD with absolute majority. I want TCN to take this topic to the American people and humiliate the sitting German government in front of the whole f…. world……and I want TC to expose the doings of Washington with Germany. The intercepted conversation leaves no doubt that several NATO states are intervening directly in Ukraine and are carrying out military operations against Russia. This is playing with fire. There you have it — even if Germany supplies the missiles it will not change the fact that Ukraine is facing defeat and no NATO weapons will change that outcome. I still believe that the Russians leaked this intercept to RT for the express purpose of exposing NATO’s previous denials that it is providing personnel who are on the ground in Ukraine and assisting in the planning and execution of attacks against Russia. The release of this transcript/tape following President Putin’s warnings to the West in his state of Russia address last Thursday isa clear warning that Russia is prepared to escalate if NATO persists in going down this path. What about Israel? There the issue is more simple and more dangerous. Israel is in the process of deploying armored brigades to the Lebanese border. All indications signal that Israel is going to launch an attack on Hezbollah. I believe that is suicidal on the part of Israel because Hezbollah, unlike Hamas, will not be constrained in its counter attacks by having a million refugees intermingled with its defensive emplacements. Hezbollah is armed, equipped and trained to deliver Israel a very bloody nose, but Israel appears intent on carrying out this operation. I think it is suicidal. - Sonar21
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  3117. A hotel in Odessa Harbor Area was destroyed and heavily damaged, one of the important demilitarization targets by Russian Aerospace Forces, in revenge for Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. Odessa Hotel, which had been used as a base for Ukrainian Navy and NATO, with armored vehicles parked next to it was removed by drone and missile attacks. - Military Tube Today The attack by Tornado-G Multiple Launch Rocket System of the "South" group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces left no way out for Ukrainian forces in Maryinka direction, Donetsk region. Fiery Tornado shots cause fire and damage to enemy positions. Heavy artillery and MLRS continued to work to blow up and destroy Ukrainian defensive points in the western district of Maryinka. - Military Tube Today KIEV TERROR DRONES THWARTED over pre-war Russia’s Belrogod region (map above) as Russian air defenses shoot down 7 aircraft. Ukraine's latest a-ttempt to strike innocent civilians in region fails miserably. - Intel Report ALL THAT REMAINS of Ukrainian terrorist is blood, corpse and unused magazines full of rounds after he makes fatal mistake of attempting attack in pre-war Russia’s Kursk region. This trooper ends his crusade on Washington's orders after being found by Russian troops and swiftly dispatched after brief firefight. - Intel Report Russian TOS-1A “thermobaric” flamethrower system attacks destroy Ukrainian marines. The Russian Ministry of Defense distributed footage of an attack from the TOS-1A “Solntsepek” flamethrower system at the temporary location of units of the 35th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Ugledar in the DPR. - The Military Daily On the night of September 25, the Russian armed Forces conducted a group missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine. It is reported that the Russians used various high-precision long-range missiles. Moreover, the latest modifications of unmanned aerial vehicles were also used. As a result, all targets were successfully hit. Military experts have already called this missile attack one of the most successful during the entire war. - BORZZIKMAN
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  3127. [Establishment Alarmism in overdrive as Warmonger General Raytheon Austin in Panic Mode threatening Congress with war!] I wanted to do this quick nightly update as there are a few developments that couldn’t wait. Most astonishing of all, is the panicked tenor with which the U.S. establishment is now desperately trying to convince Congress of the need for Ukrainian aid. Now a new raft of reports and statements from the usual suspects gives us insight into how desperate the establishment warhawks representing MIC interests have really become. They’re dialing up the fearporn to a hysteric level like never before: But most startling of all, is a new report, which Tucker Carlson says is “confirmed” by his private sources, that Lloyd Austin has resorted to outright threatening the Republican House holdouts, telling them “We’ll send your kids to fight Russia” if they don’t break their deadlock over the Ukrainian aid: Lloyd Austin, Biden, and co., have dialed up the fearporn precisely because they see the above projection and know what it entails. So they’ve resorted to trying to scare the pants off the GOP congressmen to ram through that aid, but it seems the cheap tactic didn’t work. That’s not to mention the fact that Russia is now advancing on every single front, with breakthroughs everywhere. But recall that all this hardship for Ukraine comes amidst a crash in their exports as multiple countries are now blocking Ukrainian truck transports, with the maritime economy already long suppressed. So it sounds like the Ukrainian aid may be completely dead for the rest of this year. Congress will soon go on Christmas recess. After that, the prospects are dim for a long time. The Ukrainian economy is already hanging by a thread. While the despair grows on their side of the aisle, Russia and Putin continue to enjoy a resurgence all over the globe, as Putin has completed a jet-setting tour that saw him touch down in the newly-fashioned BRICS territory of Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the soon-to-be BRICS affiliated Riyadh, KSA: Russian forces captured a Leopard 2A4 on the Rabotino front. You can see the full geolocation, the Russian FPV drone hits on the tank, and subsequent inspection of it. Interestingly the soldiers indicate some of the crew died, shattering the myth of “invincible” NATO armor that always protects its crew even when disabled by strong hits: A beautiful shot confirming that Russian Su-34s now regularly drop 4 UMPK glide-bombs at a time: - Simplicius
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  3138. Moscow did not start the war in 2022, but is trying to stop the war that Ukraine started in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Putin announced the military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, following eight years of Kiev’s suppression of the Donbass population. Russia would only engage in a military conflict with a NATO nation such as Poland or Latvia if it is attacked, Putin said. Any Western claims to the contrary are “just threat mongering.” Unlike the US, Russia is not afraid of the rise of China, Putin said, calling Carlson’s suggestion that BRICS risks being “completely dominated by the Chinese economy” a “boogeyman story.” If the US wants to stop the Ukraine conflict, it should stop sending arms to Kiev, Putin said, adding that if this happened, the hostilities would end within weeks. Putin went on to say it was “ridiculous and very sad” that Kiev listened to then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and refused to sign a draft truce with Russia that was agreed on during peace talks in 2022. The conflict continues on to this day, while Johnson himself is no longer in office, he noted. NATO promised that it would not expand its territory eastwards, but quickly broke this promise by bringing all of Eastern Europe and Baltic states into the fold, Putin said. The US-led military bloc now intends to drag Ukraine in, he added. Asked by Carlson who he believes blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea, Putin replied: “You,” referring to the US and its allies. When pressed whether he has any proof of CIA or NATO involvement, the Russian leader said that in cases like this, one should first look for those who would benefit from the attacks, and who had the capability to carry them out. Zelensky was elected president on a platform of peace, but allied himself with “neo-Nazis and nationalists” after taking office, Putin said. - RT
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  3142. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Toretsk in Donetsk region, is now encircled by the offensive forces of the Russian Armed Forces, with a scary beginning to set in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the center of the mine town. Open sources reported on September 20, 2024, that the battle continues for the town in the urban area, Russian troops continue to advance despite resistance attempts from Ukraine, and from the sound of gunfire, the intensity of the fighting seems to be clearly visible. Footage from a GoPro camera, taken from the point of view of a killed Ukrainian soldier, special forces of the Battalion "Eney" or Lyut Brigade, shows the atmosphere of difficult fighting, the Ukrainian soldiers in the video fled from their lost positions, tried to hide in the rubble storied building, where they seem to be knocked out in the end. Meanwhile, The Separate Assault Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine, shared footage of their fighting on the streets of Toretsk, after their reserve group arrived there in a vehicle. According to reports on street fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian troops, they fired RPG thermobaric rocket launchers into a building, where Russian soldiers were taking up positions. Regardless of the reports, but the video shows no evidence of the presence of Russian soldiers in the building, and it appears that the RPG ammunition was discharged just like that! Ukrainian sources acknowledged the consolidation of Russian forces in the center of Toretsk, and the acceleration of the advance of Russian forces during the assault on the town. Russia is tenaciously taking control of every building, and will gradually liberate the town from Zelensky’s troops. Let us remember that the situation in Donetsk region has turned into a disaster for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As entire units fled, the configuration of the front line changed unfavorably to Ukraine, and there were no longer any reserves to stop or reverse this trend. One of the Ukrainian soldiers captured on the outskirts of Toretsk, Viktor Pavlushin, spoke extensively about the dire situation in their ranks.
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  3156. ▪It should be remembered that President Trump's previous "bad" tariffs were not only kept in place under the Biden administration, they were expanded upon over the last 4 years indicating this is a bipartisan "deep state" agenda; ▪Follow-up tariffs on not only China but now also Canada and Mexico are aimed at further permanently decoupling the US from China, not at negotiations or the stemming of "drugs" and "illegal immigrants," all of which are fabricated pretexts; ▪Tariffs have precipitated a cost of living crisis in the US (coupled with a similar crisis in Europe linked to sanctions on Russia), a crisis both the Trump and Biden administrations are clearly indifferent to; ▪The goal is very obviously to prepare for war with China, including a blockade of Chinese maritime shipping US moves against Panama and Greenland both serve as steps toward preparing; ▪Under the Biden administration, the reorganization of the US Marine Corps into an anti-shipping force likewise served as preparation for this; ▪China and its trading partners (virtually the rest of the world) need to realistically face this and prepare for this US plan to strangle multipolarism in the cradle - negotiations with the US must be done with this in mind, realizing the US has no intention of ever striking an actual deal, but is instead preparing the battlefield; ▪China's ability to innovate and replace US imports as well as diversify and protect alternative exports elsewhere from US destabilization (both regime change installing anti-China client regimes and the backing of violence targeting Belt & Road Initiative routes) will determine the outcome of Washington's actual objectives; - The New Atlas
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  3173. “If there is a general mood in the room not to focus on BSEC, let’s consider it as a talk show, as a self-made Security Council which we invented for ourselves, not for practical projects, not for helping people,” Birichevsky said, addressing Ukraine’s “provocative performance.” For Russia, the issue of Ukraine is not about territory or geopolitics, but “a matter of life and death,” said the diplomat. “It is about being able to live as [we did] for ages – as one family, with the same core values that are not for foreign intruders to destroy.” Birichevsky reminded his colleagues that Ukraine “lost its sovereignty” in 2014, “as a result of the US-EU sponsored and directed coup d’état.” He noted that President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted even after signing an agreement to settle the dispute with the nationalist protesters peacefully – mediated by France, Germany and Poland, none of whom cared when it was violated. “If we want to remember everything today, then let’s remember everything,” Birichevsky said, bringing up the role of US diplomat Victoria Nuland in the coup. He also called the government of Ukraine a “nationalist neo-Nazi regime… that has been conducting a full-fledged war against its own population” for the past decade. Just since February 2022, Birichevsky noted, the Ukrainian military has launched 32,388 attacks on the Donetsk People’s Republic alone, killing 4,787 civilians – including 142 children – and wounding another 5,776 people. - RT
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  3186. Why Ukraine Won’t Be Able to “Dig In” - After the defeated 5 month Ukrainian offensive and with admissions in the Western media that Ukraine’s cross-river offensive in Kherson is a failure, a growing number Ukrainian and Western military and political leaders are talking about Ukraine going on the defensive; - Ukraine seeks to build Russian-style defensives along the line of contact and use 2024 to build up combat power; - The main problem facing this strategy is that Ukraine has already in many places dug in since as early as 2014 and yet Russia has been able to overpower and displace Ukrainian forces regardless; - Russia’s successful defeat of the 2023 Ukrainian offensive was owed as much to its superior firepower as it was to the construction of defensive positions; - While Russia will not be able to conduct “big arrow” offensives without suffering heavy losses for the same reason Ukraine cannot, the existence of mines covered by artillery, FPV drones and other systems that can target Russian forces as they attempt to breach minefields; - Russia can continue its war of attrition while placing growing pressure all along the line of contact and exploiting anywhere opportunities begin to form; - Western commentators continue to interpret the conflict in mere 2 dimensions rather than the 4 dimensions actually required to understand Russia’s long-term strategy and why it has worked; - The 4th dimension being time, it is important to understand what Ukraine’s combat power will look like a year from now following concerted Russian efforts to target and irreversibly diminish specific capabilities (like air defense, artillery, counter battery fire, and military aviation); - The New Atlas
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  3195. The U.S. War Machine: Congress Sidelines Itself, the Empire Marches On (for now) Buried beneath the grandiose slogan of “democracy”: the US hasn’t declared war since World War II. Congress, the body constitutionally mandated to oversee such vital decisions, has been relegated to a cheerleading squad while the executive branch wields unchecked power like an emperor commanding legions. This is imperial fiat masquerading as consent of the governed. From Vietnam to Iraq, Libya to Syria, the U.S. war machine roars on, fueled not by congressional debate but by rubber-stamped resolutions, appropriations, and the all-too-familiar "Authorizations for Use of Military Force". These legal fig leaves allow the White House to bomb, invade, and occupy without a whisper of accountability. Let’s be blunt: Congress sold its soul. Since World War II, it has surrendered its constitutional prerogative to declare war, instead passing vague resolutions that grant presidents a blank check to wage war wherever and whenever they see fit. The result? Endless wars with no rational objectives, no exit strategies, and no accountability. And what happens to the trillions of dollars funneled into these wars? Enter the military-industrial complex, the world’s most sophisticated money-laundering operation. These wars are about enriching defense contractors, lobbyists, and Pentagon officials who shuffle through the revolving door between government and industry. From Lockheed Martin to Raytheon, the same corporations profiting off the carnage also fund think tanks and political campaigns to keep the war machine running. While the bombs fall, contracts worth billions flow into the coffers of weapons manufacturers. A significant chunk is then laundered back into DC, disguised as campaign contributions or lucrative speaking gigs. The Pentagon’s own accounting is so opaque that 2 trillion in spending has been deemed "untraceable." And let’s not forget Ukraine or Israel, the MIC’s latest cash cow, where tens of billions in U.S. aid vanish into a black hole of corruption. The wars of the 21st century don’t even bother with pretense. Forget declarations; the U.S. now engages in hybrid wars, proxy conflicts, economic strangulation through sanctions, and information warfare. Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, these are not declared wars, but they are wars nonetheless, waged in the shadows with the same deadly consequences. And behind every drone strike or sanction lies another bloated defense budget, another no-bid contract, another slush fund for the MIC. The Declare War Clause was meant to check power, to ensure that the decision to spill blood was taken soberly and democratically. Instead, it has been sidelined by an empire that cannot stop expanding, an empire that feeds on forever wars. This is not about defending freedom, but controlling resources, securing markets, and maintaining hegemony at any cost. And as BRICS rises, as the Global majority asserts its sovereignty, the Empire grows more desperate. Its (losing) wars: kinetic, economic, and informational, are not signs of strength but of fragility, the thrashing of a system that cannot adapt to a multipolar world. Who benefits from this endless bloodshed? Not the American people, saddled with 38 trillion in national debt and over 200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The winners are the same cabal that profits whether the bombs drop or not: defense contractors, Wall Street speculators, and the political elite. The MIC is not just about war but about money laundering on an imperial scale. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Cash cows. The conflict in Ukraine? A feeding frenzy for weapons dealers and their political masters. This is not just America’s problem. The endless wars waged by the U.S. ripple out, destabilizing nations, wrecking economies, and displacing millions. The Empire stumbles, but it won’t fall on its own. It’s time to push harder. The age of unaccountable wars and untraceable profits must end. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  3226. CATASTROPHIC DESTRUCTION AS UKRAINIAN ATTACK DESTROYS HUGE CHUNK OF BUILDING leaving civilians terrorized as apocalyptic ash covers entire neighborhood in pre-war Russia's Belgorod, Zelensky's favorite target to murder children. - Intel Republic MOMENT OF CRIMINAL IMPACT shown in top video as massive Ukrainian strike destroys civilian building in pre-war Russia's Belgorod. Woman and child murdered, at least 28 injured, with numbers feared to rise as emergency crews still clearing rubble, saving lives of 12 people, including two children so far. Beautiful show of the Russian spirit as ordinary citizens defy Zelensky's terror and gather to help rescuers, towing wrecked cars with their own hands and offering unconditional help under extremely dangerous circumstances. - Intel Republic UKRAINE-MADE TRAGEDY - civilians run and scream in horror after apartment's roof collapses right on heads of brave emergency workers saving civilians of Ukrainian war crime which destroyed high-rise in pre-war Russia's Belgorod. Rescuers safe according to first reports - 16 apartments collapsed following vicious assault, dozens of people killed and injured - official death toll not released yet. Another bloody link in chain of Kiev's regime's crimes, Western sponsors are behind Zelensky’s criminal attack - Russian FM Spokeswoman Zakharova. - Intel Republic SURVIVORS FOUND UNDER RUBBLE OF BELGOROD BUILDING AFTER KIEV TERROR STRIKE: Rescuers rush to remove debris after finding old man and woman pinned under remains of homes, working to pull out victims (top vid) as entire city rushes to aid wounded by setting up temporary lodging for survivors. Elderly lady praises emergency workers for their incredible speed, pulling her out from rubble even as heroic rescuers forced to rush for shelters as Kiev army threatens renewed strikes on area. Kiev regime carries out atrocious war crime on pre-war Russian city with NATO-supplied RM-70 Vampire rockets and ballistic missiles, as 2 kids among at least 19 wounded in attack. - Intel Republic
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  3240. It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government. The wars are not designed to serve the interests of the United States, the United States is designed to serve the interests of the wars. The US as a country is just a source of funding, personnel, resources and diplomatic cover for a nonstop campaign to dominate the planet with mass military violence and the threat thereof. This campaign is not waged to benefit the American people or their security, but to benefit the loose international alliance of plutocrats and unelected empire managers whose wealth and power are premised on the world order of continuous violence, exploitation and extraction which the campaign of global domination upholds. This campaign of global domination and its manifestations as a whole may be referred to as the US empire, which has very little in common with the US as an individual nation. And the behavior of the empire absolutely is an emergency. The escalations against Russia and China that these freaks are pushing have the world on a trajectory that’s going to get us all killed, and the horrors they are inflicting in Gaza and elsewhere are creating a nightmare on earth right here and now. The empire is only getting crazier and more violent as its planetary domination becomes more challenged, and until people can see it for what it really is, it’s going to be very hard to build up the necessary public opposition against it to use the power of our numbers to force them to stop. - LewRockwell
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  3247. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - New Ukrainian losses detected after the defeat of several T-64 tanks deployed to the battlefield to stop the Russian breakthrough in Nevskoye, which had been liberated a few days ago in Lugansk region. The Russian Defense Ministry released video evidence on the evening of September 24, 2024, showing that at that time, a Russian UAV spotted and monitored the separate movement of several Ukrainian T-64 tanks from Novolyubovka neighboring Nevskoye, trying to recapture the village but suffered losses. At that time, the reconnaissance drone operator called in the support of attack drones and artillery. First, the Lancet roaming ammunition of the 144th Division did its job, and smoked it out. The Zapad Group of Forces of the Military Group “West”, on 24-hour alert in their task area, continuously suppressed firing points, destroyed weapons, and inflicted damage from ammunition fire on Ukrainian troops. In a separate location not so far away in Novolyubovka, another T-64 tank advanced, the Ukrainians believed they could fire on Russian positions. Although the enemy tank was in a firing position for only a few minutes, turned around and started to flee, the Russian artillery shells managed to catch up with it, and hit it right in the head of the tank's turret. In addition, one T-64BV tank with anti-drone protection was destroyed with two hits, as shown in the video frames released by the closed channel. The tank was still trying to escape after being hit by artillery, but then stopped, at least this gave the surviving crew a chance to save their lives. The Lancet drone then dived quickly towards the tank, causing a huge explosion, and the equipment slowly burned out completely.
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  3248. When Empires Whisper: Clinton’s Forgotten Promise to Yeltsin Back in July (5th) 1994, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s embattled president, asked his American counterpart, Bill Clinton, for a favor: intercede for the rights of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states. Yeltsin’s plea was simple yet urgent, protect the millions of ethnic Russians stranded in newly independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after the Soviet collapse. Clinton, in a polished display of Cold War-era politicking, promised to "address" the issue. But promises, as history has shown, are cheap in the West’s rules-based order. Fast forward nearly three decades, and we see the real fruits of that broken promise. The Russian-speaking populations in the Baltics have been systematically marginalized… stripped of citizenship, voting rights, and even the ability to use their language in public spheres. NATO expansion swept over the region like a bulldozer, erasing Clinton’s assurances as mere footnotes in a broader campaign to encircle Russia. In the context of the SMO, the Baltic precedent underscores Russia’s legitimate concerns about the rights of her people and the creeping militarization of its borders. This wasn’t just about the Baltics, it was the opening act in a Western playbook designed to encroach on Moscow’s sphere of influence, from Ukraine to Georgia and beyond. The current conflict isn’t a "surprise"; it’s the culmination of decades of broken promises and deliberate provocations. The West claims to champion human rights, yet turned a blind eye to ethnic cleansing-by-bureaucracy in the Baltics. Clinton’s empty assurances to Yeltsin reveal the true nature of the so-called rules-based order: rules for some, chaos for others. NATO didn’t stop at the Baltics; it aimed straight for Ukraine, igniting the proxy war we see today. But the SMO has flipped the script. Russia isn’t just addressing NATO’s provocations, it’s dismantling the empire’s entire façade of credibility. The plight of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltics reminds the world of what’s at stake: the battle for sovereignty against a decaying unipolar system. The West’s lies, from Yeltsin’s era to today, are collapsing under the weight of their hypocrisy. The SMO is much more than a mere military campaign, it’s a historical reckoning. Russia is standing up for its people, its borders, and the very principle of national dignity that the West claims to defend but systematically destroys. Clinton promised Yeltsin action. Instead, he delivered NATO troops, anti-Russian rhetoric, and policies designed to erase Russian identity. The West has made its choice. Now, the multipolar world is making its move. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  3250. 4 high-speed military boats with up to 50 personnel of Ukrainian special forces deleted in Black Sea - Intel Report Ukrainian terror drones attempt to hit TV tower in Bryansk, pre-war Russia (see map), fail after they're disabled by air defenses. - Intel Report Ukraine's attempts to attack Russian territories with drones are dead end in which Ukrainian authorities are - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova (pictured). Agony of Kyiv regime, stupid hatred, anger and absence of any prospects in their own development led to this terrorist activity - Zakharova. - Intel Report Without Western satellites, Ukrainian drones hitting Russian territory would not be able to overcome such distances - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova on recent drone attacks. Spokeswoman adds attacks once again confirm terrorist nature of Kiev regime. - Intel Report Special Military Operation in Ukraine is decisive response to NATO aggression against our country - Russian Intelligence Chief Naryshkin (see vid). Looking back at more than half a century of the history of NATO, it becomes obvious that the appetites of an aggressor who believes in its impunity can only grow. And in such cases, as history shows, only timely firmness can help - Naryshkin. - Intel Report Ukrainian high-speed boat, East of Snake Island in Black Sea, destroyed by Su-30 jet - Russian Defense Ministry. Aaand just like that Ukrainian Navy adds another submarine to its glorious naval fleet... - Intel Report MARATHON TIME! Run with these Ukrainian soldiers as they try to reach the finish line but are finished by Russian drone with Kiev losing 85 soldiers in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) along with 3 M777 artillery systems, 3 M119 howitzers. Russian forces hit Ukrainian control and intelligence posts as they inflict 380 casualties on enemy, repel 5 attacks in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 29
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  3254. First, let me put in writing what I said in an interview on Iranian Press TV and in my conversation with Nima — Turkey’s President Erdogan is a despicable human hot air balloon when it comes to doing something about stopping Israel’s reign of terror. All he has to do is cut off the flow of oil to Israel that passes through Turkey’s hands. Of course, that would mean he would have to give up on getting a taste of the profits each month. Eliminating Israel’s access to that oil would compel the Zionist forces to curtail their attacks on Palestinians. No oil, no gas for tanks. Israel’s assassination of Hamas politburo chief, Haniyeh, in Tehran on Wednesday morning crossed a redline for Iran and Hezbollah that is likely to lead to a dramatic escalation in the war currently raging in Palestinian territory. Despite US denials, this attack was fully coordinated with Washington and London in advance. Not only did Zionist Foreign Minister Katz say so on Saturday, but the deployment of US and UK warships to the Med over the weekend, reportedly to stand-by for carrying out a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) from Lebanon and/or Israel. Apart from the United States, Israel is the only other country in the world that has bombed four different countries (five if you count Palestine) and claims to be the victim. That excuse ain’t wearing well. Especially in light of the recent news that the Israeli Military is investigating allegations that Zionist prison guards routinely raped Palestinian men and women prisoners. - Sonar21
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  3260. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The first images of several Israeli helicopters flying near the southern Lebanese border have emerged with the aim of evacuating soldiers who were killed in an ambush in Maroun al-Ras, according to local sources on October 2, 2024. Maroun al-Ras is one of the highest points, hills and endless fortifications in the area, where a second battle is currently underway after in 2006, Israel failed to capture the city after fighting there for weeks against Ridwan Hezbollah forces. Lebanese fighters reported a successful ambush and heavy losses on the Zionist side. Beirut confirmed that Israeli forces crossed the "blue line" of demarcation, where the UNIFIL peacekeeping force was previously stationed. More than 10 Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes in southern Lebanon and 60 others were injured, Sky News Arabia reported. Views from the east of Maroun al-Ras show medical helicopters buzzing and continuing to arrive - Israeli evacuations are underway where many casualties are reported in the fighting that has not ended as clashes are still ongoing according to the Israeli side. In addition, the Israeli army announced at least 8 Israeli soldiers killed and 35 others wounded in a Hezbollah ambush in the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh, according to media reports. Some images show confirmation of the death toll from the IDF's 89th Brigade Egoz Unit, Eitan Oster the command captain, and Nazir Etkin the team commander were also liquidated, who specialized in anti-guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, and direct attempts to enter Maroun al-Ras. About a day earlier, the commander of the Egoz unit announced that they would carry out larger maneuvers in Lebanon in the so-called Northern Arrows Operation against Hezbollah, and seek to return the northern settlers safely to their homes. The Israeli army showed scenes of their invasion as they entered Lebanese territory with the participation of commandos, which they said. However, it seems that so far they have suffered heavy losses when trying to advance on the Maroun El Ras line, and may be forced to retreat!
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  3266. Excerpts from a letter to Trudope from Sonar21 I know how much work this has been and how hard it must have been. I saw it begin all the way back in 2014 in Ukraine when the Trotskyist and the National Socialists finally united in a crusade against the common Russian enemy. But that was only the beginning of the glorious path we are on. Now, you have brought it full circle by formalizing this union before the world. I understand that one of your commissars, Chrystia Freeland, has been instrumental in accomplishing this. I also understand she had help from the American matriarch, Victoria Nuland. You must be proud that all this was accomplished by two women – under your firm guidance of course. This is an important achievement for women everywhere, because nothing is more empowering for women than engineering war and genocide! Send my best wishes to them both and tell them that nothing exceeds their beauty, except perhaps their spirit of humanity and justice! I extend my most sincere congratulations to you and to the Canadian People. My only wish is that every one of your subjects sees this letter so they can fully appreciate the magnitude of what you have done. This accomplishment needs to be appreciated by all! Before I end this letter – I understand you had an uprising by your kulaks recently. I also understand you brought this uprising down promptly by threatening them with starvation. I must congratulate you on your sense of Trotskyist tradition. Starvation has always been the Trotskyist solution for getting rid of troublesome kulaks. Now you don’t even need to send troops to take away their food – you just close their bank accounts! That is progress! Again, my most sincere congratulations!
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  3276. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – New Syria, literally after the overthrow of Assad by Al-Qaeda, was under between 100-150 violent bombardments by Israeli regime aircraft overnight on December 9, 2024. Israel took advantage of the rebel euphoria with the country's ongoing unrest, bombarding heavily against western, eastern, northern and southern Syria, which according to the Russian Foreign Minister has become “the subject of another geopolitical experiment”. In Latakia, a city in northwestern Syria that has existed for more than 4,000 years, the occupation's warplanes launched a series of heavy bombardments against key infrastructure used by Syrian military in the port, located 20 km from Russian main air base in Syria and has been used for logistical support to Russian Khmeimim Air Base. A series of explosions rocked violently, destroying "warships", sinking the entire remaining Syrian Navy fleet, Syrian Media reported. In addition to New Syrian Navy which has just been sunk, scenes of massive destruction after the occupation's intense shelling continue, shaking Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Tartus, Daraa and Damascus countryside, which Israel claims are targeting infrastructure, military installations, scientific research, defense laboratories and military airports belonging to Syrian Army. In Damascus, it was reported that Zionist planes with a very cruel attack and using heavy missiles, destroyed the headquarters of the "Electronic Warfare Department" and the "Scientific Research Center", and destroying "military helicopters" at "Aqraba Airport. So far, there are no complete reports and details of the extent of the damage, considering that the Zionists launched an air operation, the largest in recent decades, to destroy all the advanced and strategic military capabilities remaining in Syria. In more than about 250 attacks in just a few days, there was no reaction and intervention from the leadership of the New Syria, to prevent the ongoing destruction of Syrian capabilities. "It seems that no one should be happy with the overthrow of Assad by Al-Qaeda terrorists, the group that says "Assad must go", did not learn from history. They are aware of it or not, knowing or not knowing anything, working for the goals and interests of Zionists while the West celebrates it as "liberation", according to experts.
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  3290. Flynn’s Convenient Hypocrisy: Ignoring AIPAC’s Stranglehold on U.S. Politics General Flynn's post might as well be a comedic piece of political satire, were it not for the dark reality underpinning it. Flynn rails against the so-called crime of foreign influence in U.S. politics, yet remains glaringly silent on AIPAC—the grandmaster of foreign influence operations in Washington. It’s an irony so staggering that it’s a wonder Flynn’s tweet wasn’t followed by a mic drop from Netanyahu himself, who, lest we forget, was caught on video in the 1980s boasting about Israel’s control over the U.S. Senate and Congress. Let’s break it down: Israel, under the guise of "America’s closest ally," has warped U.S. foreign policy into a vessel for its own colonial ambitions. The impunity, billions in aid, the blind eye to apartheid, the never-ending military support—all of it, funded by U.S. taxpayers. Flynn's selective moral outrage conveniently ignores this very real subversion of U.S. interests in favor of a foreign state’s genocidal crusade. Israel is not just pulling the strings but writing the entire foreign policy playbook while American citizens foot the bill. And the damage? It’s incalculable. America isn’t just losing credibility on the world stage; it’s bleeding resources and entrenching itself in wars that serve no U.S. interest, only Israel’s. Every dollar sent to fund Israel’s military is a dollar not spent on American infrastructure, healthcare, or education. Every bomb dropped on Gaza or Lebanon in the name of "security" for the Zionist project further erodes what little remains of American moral standing. Israel is a parasite on American foreign policy, using U.S. might to further its own expansionist agenda while destabilizing the entire Middle East. And let’s not mince words: U.S. entanglement with Israel does nothing for American security. In fact, it’s making enemies faster than it can manufacture THAAD batteries, with each of Israel’s war crimes making the U.S. more complicit by the day. Flynn’s focus on foreign donations, while ignoring AIPAC’s blatant meddling, is nothing short of hypocrisy on steroids. The real foreign influence isn’t from some rogue actors funnelling cash into campaigns, it’s from an entire political establishment bending over backward to serve the interests of a genocidal regime. But don’t expect Flynn to call that out. After all, in America’s political theatre, some foreign lobbyists are untouchable. Israel has made sure of that. - Gerry Nolan - Via Intel Republic
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  3301. You have to hand it to the U.S. and its henchmen for brazenness. In order to protect their client state Israel and its genocide in Gaza, the U.S., together with the UK, have in one week launched air and sea attacks on the Houthis in Yemen five times, referring to it as “self-defense” in their Orwellian lingo. The ostensible reason being Yemen’s refusal to allow ships bound for Israel, which is committing genocide in Gaza, to enter the Red Sea, while permitting other ships to pass freely. To any impartial observer, the Houthis should be lauded. Yet, while the International Court of Justice considers the South African charge of genocide against Israel that is supported by overwhelming evidence, the U.S. and its allies have instigated a wider war throughout the Middle East while claiming they do not want such a war. These settler colonial states want genocide and a much wider war because they have been set back on their heels by those they have mocked, provoked, and attacked – notably the Palestinians, Syrians, and Russians, among others. Let us call upon Israeli and American soldiers and pilots “to abandon the battlefield”, as an act of refusal to participate in a criminal undertaking against the People of Gaza. South Africa’s legal procedure at the ICJ should be endorsed Worldwide. While it cannot be relied upon to put a rapid end to the genocide, it provides support and legitimacy to the “Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield” campaign under Nuremberg Charter Principle IV. With each passing day, it becomes more and more evident that Israel/U.S.A. and their allies do want a wider war. Iran is their special focus, with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen targets on the way. Anyone who supports the genocide in Gaza, explicitly or through silence, bears responsibility for the conflagration to come. There are no excuses. It is bi-partisan war-mongering, of course, internationally and intramurally, since both U.S. political parties are controlled by the Israel Lobby and billionaire class that owns Congress and the “defense” industry that thrives on never-ending war. Neither the Israeli nor American government can allow themselves to be humiliated, U.S./NATO by the Russians in Ukraine and the Israelis by the Palestinians. Like cornered criminals with lethal weapons, they will kill as many as they can on their way down, taking their revenge on the weakest first. Men like Biden and Netanyahu are intent on launching desperate acts of war. Exactly when and how this expanded war will blaze across the headlines is the question. It has started, but I think it prudent to expect a black swan event sometime this year when all hell will break loose. The genocide in Gaza is the first step, and the U.S./Israel, “not wanting” a wider war, have already started one. - LewRockwell
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  3303. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Iranian sources reported that the Israeli attack was limited to a few IRGC military facilities, most of which were repelled by air defense systems, and was not as large as the Israeli media exaggerated. Iranians began to mock the Israeli aircraft attack on the morning of October 26, instead of seeking shelter underground, Iranians went to the rooftops to look for Israeli jets. The Iranian National Air Defense Headquarters said "the Israeli regime launched a provocative attack this morning, targeting military centers in Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam provinces. Iranian integrated air defense system managed to intercept and repel this aggressive action, causing only limited damage in some areas". Security analyst Eid al-Tufan said "We can say that the Israeli attack was the most unsuccessful attack in military history. All Iranian air defenses were ready, and acted well that night". Footage showed how the air defense and anti-aircraft missile activity in the skies over eastern Tehran impressively continued to repel suspicious objects, destroying all incoming projectiles, and most of them fell in open areas. In addition, the country's air defense system also managed to work mysteriously over the airspace of Khuzestan Province, western Iran. The Israeli media was very disappointed with the attack on Iran, not being 100% sure what the target was. Iranian official sources said that Tehran has good defenses, so far no explosions, fires, etc. have been reported in Tehran. As a result, only a few areas suffered minor damage. Only a small bush fire on the side of the road in Tehran, apparently caused by an intercepted projectile, was all that was seen there that night. The situation is completely under control and stable. No flights were canceled, and the infrastructure is operating in a stable mode, sources reported. The Iranian National Air Defense Headquarters added in this regard, urging the public to maintain solidarity and calm and follow the news related to the incident through the national mass media, ignoring the rumors, spread by the enemy's mass media.
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  3323. From a combat channel report late last night. Likewise the more gory (18+ warning) of the footage shows their personnel losses in the trenches. Thus, NATO elite, some of whom may still retain a sense of self-preservational realism for what it would take to defeat Russia, know the reality of what they’re saying. Their best weapons have been utterly crushed and ground to dust in the endless steppes once known as the Wild Fields. In the meantime, Russian ex-general and Duma deputy Kartapolov says that Russia is preparing the conditions for its own big offensive: Last night massive strikes rung out across ports in the Odessa region, Reni amongst them. Grain silos in the port were hit: Then industrial sectors of Dnipro were hit, obliterating the Yuzhmash plant where Ukraine was to be manufacturing missiles and possibly drones: Note how Ukrainian “air defense” has no answer whatsoever for advanced Russian cruise missiles, which obliterate any target they so choose with full impunity. CNN gleefully describes the terrorist attack on the bridge, which by the way killed civilians and orphaned a 14-year-old girl after sending her into a coma. Not once does CNN even hint at the fact that this may be a terrorist attack, and in fact ends the report with the foreboding warning that Ukraine will continue more of such attacks in the future. You can even see the car coming right above the drone, which they cut away from just as it’s set to explode. Instead, they do show another drone exploding just as a train is passing above it. All is fair, huh CNN? This shows the utterly vile and depraved nature of this corporate fake news mill. You can bet if it was a Russian attack, the only angle they would play is that of a “barbaric terrorist strike on civilians.” It merely shows how low the West has sunk to inhuman levels of moral depravity, and it’s a fact not lost on the rest of the world, which sees the sickening hypocrisy and incessant flood of contradictions. One day when the West falls, it will be from being crushed under the weight of its own shameless immorality.
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  3326. Each U.S. destroyer carries an estimated 90 missiles (perhaps a few more). Their primary mission is to protect the U.S. aircraft carrier they are shielding. What happens when Yemen fires 100 drones/rockets/missiles at a U.S. carrier? The U.S. destroyer, or multiple destroyers will fire their missiles to defeat the threat. Great. Mission accomplished! Only one little problem, as described in the preceding quote — the U.S. Navy got rid of the ship tenders, i.e. those vessels capable of resupplying destroyers with new missiles to replace the expended rounds. In order to reload, that destroyer must sail to the nearest friendly port where the U.S. has stockpiled missiles for resupply. Got the picture? If the destroyer must sail away then the U.S. carrier must follow. It cannot just sit out in the ocean without its defensive screen of ships. The staying power of a U.S. fleet in a combat zone, like Yemen, is a function of how many missiles the Yemenis fire at the U.S. ships. The U.S. only has a limited supply of these air defense missiles and does not have the industrial capability in place and operating to produce new ones rapidly to make up the deficit. Here is the bottom line. The United States flotilla, along with its allies, can do some damage to Yemen but are unlikely to achieve a decisive victory. Yemen, for its part, can inflict some serious damage to some of the ships — maybe even sink one or two — and by doing so, score a moral victory that will fuel doubts about America’s naval capabilities and staying power. Perhaps this explains why the U.S. has been so slow to respond to the attacks launched by Yemen. - Sonar21
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  3338. The weekend’s standout story comes by way of Edward Luttwak, one of the so-called ‘premier military theorists’ in the West, openly calling for NATO intervention in Ukraine, lest the West suffer a “catastrophic defeat”: Luttwak has been an advisor for U.S. presidents and the U.S. military, as well as other world militaries. He’s also served in the IDF, which could explain his brazen machismo and lack of concern for morality or global safety. But more notable than the eye-catching quote that’s got everyone talking is Luttwak’s claim that NATO countries are already in the early stages of planning various types of contingents to be sent to Ukraine: Interestingly, he frames everything around the urgency of an imminent Chinese attack on Taiwan, which further adduces his poor analytical abilities. I had mentioned in the comments the other day that there are rumors Russia is preparing a campaign for this summer of utilizing Su-34s for the first time to launch mass UMPK glide-bomb attacks on the Odessa and Ochakov regions from the Black Sea. It’s an interesting rumor in light of these developments as it brings to question whether it’s Russia upping the ante after latest signals of NATO’s increasing salivation over Odessa—or vice versa, NATO is getting nervous for the very reason that they realize Russia is set to increase the pressure on Odessa. But what’s important to note, is that no one country wants to be left to take the brunt of the Bear’s retaliation alone; nor even two or three of them together. That means such an action would likely only occur if a coalition of scaredy-cats was formed, and the chances of that are not great. All combined, those countries could provide maybe 150-250k troops maximum, and that’s on the optimistic end. Meanwhile, Russia already has an entire fresh 500k man army raised by Shoigu waiting for them, which was created precisely to counter-act the new NATO threats, as I reported long ago. That’s not to mention hundreds of thousands of more reserves troops, including the conscript forces and national guard, that Russia could bring to bear if worse came to worse. But the real final buck-stopper is Russia’s true strategic missile defense system: the A-135, and A-235—also called Nudol. The A-135 is specifically designed to take out nuclear ICBMs, rather than being a jack-of-all-trades like the S-400/500 systems. But it is a final stopgap system as the A-135 missiles, which are called 53T6, themselves are nuclear. But they are neutron bombs instead of regular fission atomic bombs. They shoot up at a mind boggling acceleration of 0 to Mach ~10 (some sources, like Wiki, have it Mach 17, but I believe 10 is more realistic, as per Russian domestic sources) in only 3-4 seconds, pulling 200gs. Once they reach the altitude of over 80km where the incoming nuclear ICBM or MIRV’d warheads are approaching, the neutron bomb detonates which essentially causes the enemy’s nuclear RVs (re-entry vehicles) to go inert, by chemically defusing them: So, Russia has 68 nuclear-armed (neutron bomb) strategic interceptors, each of which can take out not only one ICBM, but dozens of MIRV’d warheads, if they have already been released. the West is unable to ignite the manufacturing prowess necessary to compete with Russia. a Russian soldier named Rodimir Maximov, introduced as a ‘Private’, was just awarded with state honors during an assault in the Novomikhailovka area. His commander was wounded at the very start of the assault, and Maximov immediately took over, issuing commands to the squad with total autonomy. Even more telling was that once he radioed HQ, they basically told him to hold down the fort and gave him leeway to act as he saw fit, even as the enemy launched multiple counter-attacks—there was no ‘Soviet-style’ one way marching orders as the dimwit Western military ‘experts’ would have you believe. The command gave him full autonomy for two full days, according to the story, as they coordinated reinforcements to come relieve the assault group which had taken the AFU fort. During the footage, you can clearly see the mere ‘private’ displaying clear signs of well-schooled leadership abilities, with no signs of any “drone-like” behavior: - Simplicius
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  3341. Globalists know that nothing drives public policy so much as the fear of impending death. Nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles may have scared the snot out of anyone living through the Cold War, but they were (and still are) the gifts that keep on giving for the military-industrial complex and national security surveillance State. The more catastrophic the consequences of any perceived threat, the more likely that otherwise skeptical human beings will hand over their freedoms in exchange for the elusive promise of personal security. Political systems specialize in exploiting this “Save Me!” impulse for maximum leverage. “Looming apocalypse” is Big Government’s best salesman every year. Ghost stories about “global warming” work the same way. If voters can be convinced that their economic freedom is leading to humanity’s extinction, then they will accept costly regulations and “green energy”-induced inflation. If they can be brainwashed into believing that hydrocarbon energy is evil, then they will actively protest for a future with intermittent yet expensive electric power. If they can be deluded into thinking that only politicians and central bankers can save the planet, then they will embrace communism in order to fight “climate change.” Given the fact that Earth’s climate is always naturally changing — whether humans are alive to notice or not — governments’ success in conditioning gullible people to fear every change in the weather has been remarkably effective in creating voluntary slaves. totalitarianism succeeds only when society’s level of anxiety can be ratcheted up well above eleventy! That’s why every iteration of the so-called “climate emergency” must sound more scary than the last. It’s also why each new season of “Climate Change: the Coming Armageddon” targets children who have never seen old episodes of the boring series. It may be the longest running television program of all time, but ignorant youths — who cannot imagine that their governments would ever lie to them — fall for the dying planet horror show every time. This is the kind of madness that “green” false prophets perpetrate upon unsuspecting peoples — stoking irrational fears in a misanthropic and Machiavellian quest for raw power. today’s globalists obsess over hydrocarbons, “white supremacy,” and “hate” speech. Future generations will see no distinction. Just like the monsters of the past, today’s Deep State agents seize power by manufacturing emergencies. Dictators always arrive on triumphal chariots that run on lies. As with all Deep State initiatives that say one thing while doing its opposite, Germany’s Ethics Council promises the public that it is wholly opposed to suspending “democratic freedoms” but encourages the government to create “supportive framework conditions” — including carbon taxes, personal emissions limits, product bans, and “compensatory payments” to “ongoing neo-colonial dependencies” — that will nudge Germans to do the right thing. Ahh, nothing says freedom like new taxes, forced redistribution of wealth, regulatory kicks to the groin, financial blackmail, and total personal surveillance! Just because the government holds a gun to the back of your head while you make decisions doesn’t mean you are any less free — the unethical Ethics Council says so! - LewRockwell
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  3345. There is a slew of reports that Friday will be General Zaluzhny’s last day as the head of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. I don’t know what will happen. I cannot rule out that the press reports are an information operation based on wishful thinking. Then again, it may be real. I plan on doing a podcast tomorrow around noon to talk about what transpired in the Ukraine soap opera. Kudos to Alex Christoforou for dubbing this “Days of Kiev.” An homage to the legendary U.S. soap, Days of Our Lives. John Helmer, who publishes at Dancing With Bears, translated an article by Yevgeny Krutikov, a Russian military analyst who served with the GRU. I am providing the full article because it illuminates one aspect of Russia’s strategy in the Donbas. “The settlement of Tabayevka in the Kharkov region has been liberated,” the Russian Defense Ministry says. We are not just facing the capture of a village: Russian troops are now hacking into the contact lines, which have not budged for a year. Russia is creating a new strategic situation in the Kharkov region, threatening to dismember the Ukrainian defence up to the Donetsk agglomeration. In Kiev, they were convinced that Russian troops were forming an offensive group in the Kupyansk direction, and so the VSU began to wait there for a frontal assault. However, as a result, the Russian Army did not undertake anything of the kind in this area. Instead, the Ukrainian units were gradually ground down by the Russian army in positional battles, while the Kupyansk group of the VSU had to be replenished with whatever troops were left. Behind the defensive fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an open field for tens of kilometres opens up on a whole group of sites. Kiev’s military reserves are gradually being squandered, and there is practically no human materiel left to plug the holes. Related to these problems there are the panic campaigns in Kiev about total mobilization. Ukraine confronts two deficits that cannot be remedied for at least one year — 1) lack of trained manpower and 2) lack of ammunition, air defense and reliable combat vehicles. Russia enjoys a clear tactical advantage on both counts. Helmer succinctly describes Russia’s plan for the near term: the strategic reserves of the Ukrainian forces should be destroyed first, together with the supply lines for the weapons and ammunition crossing the border from the US and the NATO allies. - Sonar21
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  3348. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has already widened to Israel vs. Hamas and Hezbollah, to the US/UK vs. Houthis, and now with the attack on a US base in Jordan to the prospect of a US attack on Iran or on Iranian officials. We will be very lucky to escape a US attack on Iran. Israel, which has extraordinary influence on US policy in the Middle East, has been pushing Washington for many years to attack Iran. Such an attack has the support of the majority of the US Congress and is fervently desired by Israel’s neoconservative allies, such as Victoria Nuland, who hold powerful positions in the US government. It would require a miracle for a US attack on Iran not to start a major war from which Russia and China could not stand aside. My conclusion is that proactive action is necessary to prevent an attack on Iran that would likely ignite a major world confrontation. A mutual defense treaty announced by Russia, China, and Iran would prevent an attack on Iran. The US, Israel, and NATO do not have the capability of fighting a war against three powerful countries. Without such an alliance, the determination of Israel and Israel’s neoconservative allies in Washington to expand Israel’s borders by removing Iran’s financial and military support for Hezbollah and the Houthis will result in a strike on Iran. It is what everyone in Washington wants, except the US military, but the decision will not be made by the military. Washington’s purchase of governments is what BRICS is supposed to end by creating an alternative financial mechanism for international trade that is not exploitative. BRICS success depends on how proactive Russia and China are in preventing Washington from starting more wars. It makes no sense for two powerful countries to leave the initiative in Washington’s hands. “President” Joe Biden, who is in office only through electoral fraud, has committed high treason against the United States of America. He should be arrested and tried for high treason against the United States. The US Constitution requires Biden to protect US borders. Instead he has worked consistently to prevent the protection of the borders and to leave them wide open for millions of immigrant-invaders, now numbered by the latest account at 22 million invaders. Article IV, section 4 of the US Constitution requires the federal government to protect each state against invasion. This the Biden regime has steadfastly refused to do, instead aiding and abetting the immigrant-invaders who are overrunning Texas and other states. Without any doubt, the Biden regime has broken the contract between the federal and state governments. - LewRockwell
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  3351. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The first images of several Israeli helicopters flying near the southern Lebanese border have emerged with the aim of evacuating soldiers who were killed in an ambush in Maroun al-Ras, according to local sources on October 2, 2024. Maroun al-Ras is one of the highest points, hills and endless fortifications in the area, where a second battle is currently underway after in 2006, Israel failed to capture the city after fighting there for weeks against Ridwan Hezbollah forces. Lebanese fighters reported a successful ambush and heavy losses on the Zionist side. Beirut confirmed that Israeli forces crossed the "blue line" of demarcation, where the UNIFIL peacekeeping force was previously stationed. More than 10 Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes in southern Lebanon and 60 others were injured, Sky News Arabia reported. Views from the east of Maroun al-Ras show medical helicopters buzzing and continuing to arrive - Israeli evacuations are underway where many casualties are reported in the fighting that has not ended as clashes are still ongoing according to the Israeli side. In addition, the Israeli army announced at least 8 Israeli soldiers killed and 35 others wounded in a Hezbollah ambush in the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh, according to media reports. Some images show confirmation of the death toll from the IDF's 89th Brigade Egoz Unit, Eitan Oster the command captain, and Nazir Etkin the team commander were also liquidated, who specialized in anti-guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, and direct attempts to enter Maroun al-Ras. About a day earlier, the commander of the Egoz unit announced that they would carry out larger maneuvers in Lebanon in the so-called Northern Arrows Operation against Hezbollah, and seek to return the northern settlers safely to their homes. The Israeli army showed scenes of their invasion as they entered Lebanese territory with the participation of commandos, which they said. However, it seems that so far they have suffered heavy losses when trying to advance on the Maroun El Ras line, and may be forced to retreat!
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  3352. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - There were many losses, after the Iskander missile strike of Russian troops destroyed a large accumulation of vehicles and personnel of the Armed Forces od Ukraine in the Sumy region. Russian military correspondents released footage on September 4, 2024, showing the work of Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance officers, discovering a large concentration of Kiev equipment and troops while disembarking personnel near their stronghold in Bezdryk, southeast of the Sumy city. One of the launches of nine Iskander-M ballistic missiles, launched at once in the Sumy region on that day, thwarted the planned redeployment of Ukrainian troops in the settlement, about 30 kilometers from the Russian border and planned to the Kursk region. All invisible to the media of the war supporters, the high price of the failure of the Kiev officials in the Kursk mission was paid by the Ukrainians who were forcibly recruited. The concentration point was completely destroyed by missile, which did not care about the enemy's air defense systems. As a result of the missile landing, the entire assault brigade was destroyed, more than 70 personnel were killed, collected and loaded onto trucks. According to the information received, at least some units of equipment were destroyed, such as 7 cargo vehicles, 4 armored combat vehicles, and 9 off-road vehicles. In recent days, Iskander missiles have been diligently working to destroy enemy personnel, including their headquarters in several regions of Ukraine, victims include NATO personnel!
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  3355. The American Dream… or Nightmare? Kamala's “Glorious Economy” Fantasy Welcome to the circus. In the latest episode of America’s desperate attempt to keep the illusion alive, we’re told the “glorious economy” will save Kamala Harris in the polls, just as the empire teeters on the brink of financial collapse. Let’s get real. The U.S. national debt is now approaching an eye-watering $35.8 trillion—yes, with a “T”—and each American citizen is shackled with an average debt burden of over $90,000. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Add in over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and every single American—man, woman, and child, is shouldering a mind-numbing $600,000+ debt burden. Is this the “glory” they're selling? The interest alone on this monstrous sum is set to devour trillions more in the coming years, dwarfing investments in infrastructure, healthcare, and education. Meanwhile, the IMF has just confirmed that Russia, despite over 20,0000 Western sanctions and relentless economic warfare, is now the fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). Moscow has maneuvered past Japan, silencing those who predicted Russia’s collapse. Unlike the speculative foundations of "Bidenomics," Russia's growth has been forged on tangible resources, resilience, and a sovereign economy. As BRICS nations rise, forging independent pathways free from dollar dependence, Washington doubles down on smoke-and-mirrors, feeding its citizens a diet of “everything is glorious” while the walls close in. The empire’s enemies take note. The “economic prowess” being celebrated in D.C. is little more than hollowed-out promises backed by the Fed’s Ponzi-money-printing machine. The American economy, propped up by the very fiat currency it weaponizes against the world, is the definition of a ticking time bomb. So, yes, bring on the election theatrics: Kamala, Trump, whoever. In reality, it’s a “choose your own dystopia” game. While Americans are distracted by the current presidential puppet show, the rest of the world watches as the empire implodes. Real power is shifting, and no “glorious economy” narrative will change that. The Global Majority, anchored by BRICS, isn’t buying the show. They’re building a parallel system and Kazan was only the beginning. As the West doubles down on an unsustainable path, others are investing in genuine growth, decoupled from Western debt traps. They’re not just betting against the dollar; they’re laying the foundation for a world where such illusions hold no sway. - Gerry Nolan - The Islander News - Intel Republic
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  3375. The following brought you by demented Biden! There are a lot of goings on, as the world continues to slide toward the brink. Texas governor Abbott has pulled the trigger on directly challenging the Federal government on the border issue: Republican governors are considering sending their national guards to Texas. Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma pledged to do so on video. In another video Governor Stitt called it a powder keg situation, sending echoes of Fort Sumter through many in the blogosphere. Desantis has already even vocalized plans to undercut Biden’s scheme of ‘federalizing’ the national guards to take control of them. Desantis plans to do this by potentially sending the ‘state guard’ which he says cannot be federalized. In fact, Desantis’s speech is a good one, even though it veers a bit off topic. But he brings up salient points about how Biden has abused federal authority in sending national guards to foreign lands like Syria and Iraq for obscure missions they were never meant to carry out. Biden immediately retaliated by announcing the suspension of LNG exports: While this has long been in consideration under the pressure of of environmental groups, the timing has clearly left many declaring it an obvious attack on Texas, given that Texas is the premier LNG hub in the US: Governor Abbott and Speaker Johnson were fuming at this obvious direct attack: Almost everything that’s currently happening is an incredible victory handed to the Russian axis. The wagons are circling and Biden has created a dangerous no-win situation for his regime. If he goes in with federal action, not only does he risk sparking civil war, but even at best he risks openly exposing the Democrat plan to forcibly slam in as many illegal immigrants as possible. The regime has to play it a little ‘cooler’ to conceal their rabid intentions to undermine American democracy. But it’s certainly an ominous sign for things to come and gives us an early look at the type of black swan event they could use to thwart the electoral process this year to maintain their hold on power. This flare-up has spurred a host of underground voices to the surface, who now send warning signs about the devastating choices the Biden administration is making. One such example is a new letter being circulated that is co-signed by a slew of former FBI executive directors: It’s clear the Biden administration is courting catastrophe from every conceivable direction. And following this border debacle, it was only a given that any talk of Ukrainian aid would again collapse: While this is going on, Yemen has hit another British tanker, which reports claim is burning and liable to sink: It further showcases that the Western hegemonic bloc is losing control of the situation, and no amount of effort is helping. Jake Sullivan has been dispatched to “press” beg China to intervene with Iran in curbing the Houthi attacks that are entirely unpantsing the United States Navy: If news wasn’t bad enough for the West, the ICJ finally issued a ruling on the Israeli genocide case, tacitly informing Israel it must stop its killing: South Africa achieved something momentous, opening the door for many further legal challenges to Israel in the future, but more importantly tarnishing Israel’s actions with the stamp of validation from the highest international human rights judiciary. It shows that even ‘smaller’ countries can have major impact when they have greater courage than the ‘big countries’, and stick to principles. The last major news item deals with Ukraine’s shoot down of the Russian Il-76 carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs set to be exchanged. It is now confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that the plane was carrying the POWs, and Ukraine was informed of this fact. A quite gruesome new extended video of some of the bodies can be seen here. - Simplicius
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  3382. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Ukrainian troops, who are still trying to hold out on Russian soil in Martynovka in the Kursk region, were raining by a heavy hail of incendiary ammunition, which covered the area of concentration of their manpower and equipment in the village. The Russian military channel released footage today, December 6, 2024, showing how a night barrage of 9M22S incendiary ammunition, presumably fired by BM-21 "Grad" MLRS, is now falling on the positions of those fighting for Zelensky's officials and the Western collective. It seems that the hail of incendiary ammunition was aimed at the last foothold, where Ukrainians concentrated their troops in the village, and now the enemy's positions are suppressed by the resulting fire. In recent days, the Russian Grad MLRS has been diligently firing its rockets, which contain magnesium and other substances mixed in them, to set fire to the enemy's military ammunition and fuel sources. As in the footage, the Russian Paratroopers "Tula" operate the Grad on Ukrainian formations in Kursk, precisely targeting manpower, equipment, fortifications, observation posts and armor! This week, much of the Ukrainian and Western equipment was destroyed by Paratroopers as they approached Martynovka. The footage shows a panoramic view of the village itself, which is being liberated by Russian troops, and new Kiev losses are being detected by drone vision. Two destroyed howitzers are seen blocking the road, and a heavily damaged Canadian "Roshel Senator" armoured fighting vehicle, while drone search for anothers by circling the village. Ukraine and the West have only advanced one step in the Kursk adventure with continued losses of life and equipment, and so far continue to be pushed back by Russian troops on the Kursk line, and it is believed that Martynovka will be liberated in days!
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  3397. Flynn’s Convenient Hypocrisy: Ignoring AIPAC’s Stranglehold on U.S. Politics General Flynn's post might as well be a comedic piece of political satire, were it not for the dark reality underpinning it. Flynn rails against the so-called crime of foreign influence in U.S. politics, yet remains glaringly silent on AIPAC—the grandmaster of foreign influence operations in Washington. It’s an irony so staggering that it’s a wonder Flynn’s tweet wasn’t followed by a mic drop from Netanyahu himself, who, lest we forget, was caught on video in the 1980s boasting about Israel’s control over the U.S. Senate and Congress. Let’s break it down: Israel, under the guise of "America’s closest ally," has warped U.S. foreign policy into a vessel for its own colonial ambitions. The impunity, billions in aid, the blind eye to apartheid, the never-ending military support—all of it, funded by U.S. taxpayers. Flynn's selective moral outrage conveniently ignores this very real subversion of U.S. interests in favor of a foreign state’s genocidal crusade. Israel is not just pulling the strings but writing the entire foreign policy playbook while American citizens foot the bill. And the damage? It’s incalculable. America isn’t just losing credibility on the world stage; it’s bleeding resources and entrenching itself in wars that serve no U.S. interest, only Israel’s. Every dollar sent to fund Israel’s military is a dollar not spent on American infrastructure, healthcare, or education. Every bomb dropped on Gaza or Lebanon in the name of "security" for the Zionist project further erodes what little remains of American moral standing. Israel is a parasite on American foreign policy, using U.S. might to further its own expansionist agenda while destabilizing the entire Middle East. And let’s not mince words: U.S. entanglement with Israel does nothing for American security. In fact, it’s making enemies faster than it can manufacture THAAD batteries, with each of Israel’s war crimes making the U.S. more complicit by the day. Flynn’s focus on foreign donations, while ignoring AIPAC’s blatant meddling, is nothing short of hypocrisy on steroids. The real foreign influence isn’t from some rogue actors funnelling cash into campaigns, it’s from an entire political establishment bending over backward to serve the interests of a genocidal regime. But don’t expect Flynn to call that out. After all, in America’s political theatre, some foreign lobbyists are untouchable. Israel has made sure of that. - Gerry Nolan - Via Intel Republic
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  3405. Russia may be sending the West a message that no matter what they come up with during this summit, it will be impossible to treat with a man considered not only illegitimate but even a wanted criminal at the state level. Recall just last month Peskov himself hinted as much, and Lukashenko was the one to bring up the illegitimacy roadblock. This encapsulates Russia’s potential plans. By introducing a large force in a new direction they can really throw the AFU off balance. However, there’s also a good chance that Russia is merely playing at the possibility of introducing the northern force for the very reason to keep Ukraine guessing and unable to fully deploy reserves in Donbass, as they have to be on standby to be deployed to Kharkov. Just by keeping a large force on the northern border, Russia can keep critical Ukrainian reserves tied down. Given the above continued developments, we’re once again being razzled with threats of NATO troop deployment: In the end though, most of this is just posturing. The game has once again been given away by Macron himself in the earlier interview, and others as well. Macron said: What I also wanted to reopen on February 26th was this famous strategic ambiguity, which should convince Putin that we are determined and that he will have to count on our determination. And here is Polish foreign minister Sikorsky again outlining the fact that this coordinated European provocation is merely meant as a smokescreen to “keep Russia guessing” via ‘strategic ambiguity’: The F-16 figleaf is likewise being used in this game of ambiguity to push Russia’s boundaries and test its limits. They will likely try to deliberately smokescreen where the F-16s can eventually be stationed or come from to give the effect that NATO may be involved in order to maintain a sense of tension they believe will deter Russia. But if you listen to Russian authorities and siloviki, they do not sound very frightened. But keep in mind, I believe that French troops have already long been in Ukraine anyway. Some may recall as far back as the Mariupol fight, Russian forces kept finding French military berets and pins in the wreckage. Here’s a recent resident of liberated Avdeevka who says he saw French troops firing on civilians Georgy Nekrasov, a resident of Avdeevka, said that in 2023, French tanks under the control of French crews from the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled peaceful areas of Avdeevka. Several times I was asked in past mailbags to comment on the state of the Ukrainian disabled veterans. Now, a new Le Monde article covers the topic quite grimly: It states outright that 70% of disabled Ukrainians are forced to care for themselves with the state having “given up on them.” Now add this to the new mobilization procedures which allow for the sick and even mentally incapacitated to be called up by Zelensky: I’ve long covered the topic of Ukraine’s prisoner disparity with Russia, which is an obvious analog to the general casualty ratios. After reports last time that the Abrams tanks were withdrawn from the battlefield, Ukraine’s 47th brigade vehemently denied it and said they haven’t gone anywhere. As if to undo the shame they appeared to make a show of it, risking the Abrams once more in defense of areas west of Avdeevka, which resulted in 2 new Abrams being destroyed today, as well as another Bradley. That reportedly now makes upwards of 6-8 Abrams destroyed thus far by most counts: - Simplicius
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  3408. While Ukraine was carrying out these 90% phony psyops with some modest success, Russia has been goring the AFU on the actual battlefield. Not only were there several reports of operational strikes on manpower consolidations like the following: But even the AFU themselves wrote of grievously painful losses. For instance, 108 Avdeevka ‘defenders’ were sent home for the holidays and their transport was struck by Russian precision weaponry, killing the entire group, as recounted by Ukrainian political scientists Vitaly Bala: Imagine that, 108 men wiped out in a single blow. It almost inclines one to quickly forget about an empty ‘landing ship’. He plainly states that they suffered more losses per day than they had previously suffered for entire months. That means to push Russian forces back those measly 1-2km behind the railroad tracks was costing them likely hundreds of lives per day, if not more—another example of Russian echeloned defense designed to systematically fall back while ‘leading’ the enemy through pre-set killboxes. The same soldier even makes an astonishing claim about NATO’s top gear, particularly the Abrams. He says the Abrams is useless because its low-positioned filters clog up every few minutes in Ukrainian terrain, requiring constant cleaning in the middle of battle, lest the tank entirely shut down: This segues us to the final section of battlefield updates. Russian forces have been making a lot of progress, finally officially capturing Marinka after nearly a decade. Even Zaluzhny confirmed the “full withdrawal” of AFU from Marinka during the press conference: Another exasperated AFU soldier wonders why society continues to downplay Russians as second rate when the AFU is being so badly slaughtered by them each day: - Simplicius
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  3421. Biden has finally begun his retaliatory attacks, hitting targets in Syria and Iraq. But sources claim that almost every target was known in advance and evacuated, as we suspected would be the case. Now there are new reports that the US has fully doubled down on the creation of a Palestinian state—in other words, the long-sought-after two-state solution: You have to understand how politi-speak works. In diplomatic/political terms, “security guarantees” is translated as: bribes. It effectively means, we’ll give you x amount of billions of dollars for weapons if you do what we say. Yes, you see, given that Israel has hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers occupying ostensibly Palestinian territory, the creation of a legitimate state would necessitate the total expulsion of all settlers, which would play like a sort of Israeli Nakhba on TV. Recall, the whole point of the illegal settlements was always about one thing only: keeping a Palestinian state from forming. So this would mean the end to a grand plan spanning many decades, and a historic failure of an age-old Zionist vision. But the most explosive developments come from the Ukrainian front, as usual. There are a few very interesting breakthrough stories to tackle. In fact, Seymour Hersh dropped another “bombshell” today claiming that his sources told him the reason behind the coming dismissal is that Zaluzhny has been conspiring with the West to not only oust Zelensky—an obvious point—but to end the war entirely: Zaluzhny actually wants to “get out of dodge” himself because when Ukraine is forced to surrender to Russia, the general doesn’t want to be made the scapegoat. The other huge news is another startling ‘surprise advance’ has occurred on the Avdeevka front: On that note, it’s not looking good for the AFU, and the given reason continues to be due to mass shell hunger and inability to fire artillery. Ukraine has too few ammunition not merely to go on assault or “win”, but even to defend and hold back Russia’s troops: Ukraine faces a shortage of infantry. To anyone with a brain, the reason why that is, is obvious. Putin confirmed something I’ve been long proclaiming: that the POW ratio between Ukraine and Russia is 10:1 in Russia’s favor. From RT: The fact is, Ukraine only has a few hundred Russians while Russia has had anywhere between 10,000-15,000 Ukrainian POWs at various points, fluctuating with exchanges. Given the fact that each category of casualty should scale relatively comparatively, this means we can expect a similar disproportionality to exist between Russian-Ukrainian KIA figures. There is again increased talk of mercenaries everywhere. As Ukraine runs out of men, NATO hawks hatch their plans for a desperate last-bell save, as well as pump their disrobed soldiers into the country to stem the losses. Not only have recent Russian reports mentioned a lot of ‘German chatter’ in intercepted comms in Kupyansk, but more and more foreigners have been eliminated in recent strikes. I found this unearthed admission in New Yorker interesting. Zaluzhny told Milley in late 2022 that “Ukraine had almost no jet fighters left”: Ukraine sank another middling Russian boat, of a ‘cutter’ class by Soviet designation—project 1241. Problem is, Russia seized four of these from Ukraine itself: AFU soldier dejectedly tells host there is no hope: Ukraine now not only has the lowest fertility rate on earth, but its male life expectancy has dropped to 57 years. How low will it go before the conflict ends? - Simplicius
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  3426. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Important update until January 24, 2025, reportly that the final phase of the battle for Velyka Novosilka has begun after Russian forces split the city center in two, leaving the remaining Ukrainian troops in a nightmare because of not giving up! Ukrainian channels have begun writing that the situation is critical, with troops at risk of being completely encircled by Russian forces. According to them, very heavy fighting is currently underway and the situation can develop "in any direction". Velyka Novosilka is a strategic defense and logistics center for Ukrainian forces, located at the southern junction of Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions. Here, the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says they are surrounded including many foreign mercenaries. They have not received orders to evacuate amidst a physical encirclement or massive fire control on escape routes. Russian assault units continue to drive Ukrainian troops out of Velyka Novosilka with heavy attacks. Meanwhile, warplanes, drones, and artillery such as BM-21 Grad MLRS are working on the ground, supporting assault units from the Vostok Group and the Marines. FPV drone operators attacked the enemy’s command post and UAV center, and also thwarted the Ukrainian troops attempt to escape across the river. A fortified building with a firing position on its roof was targeted during the operation. The commander of the assault group approached the building stealthily and eliminated the Ukrainian crew by RPG-7V. Under cover fire, the soldiers placed anti-tank mines inside the building, eliminating about ten Ukrainian defenders. Now, there is no way back for the Ukrainian troops as they refuse to surrender as per the Russian military directive a few days ago. It is reported that the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, here is rapidly deteriorating, not only by the day but by the hour. A clip shows a former member of the 110th Regiment who was injured and left in a house. The inability of the Ukrainian command to make tough decisions is clearly visible here, and this will cost many soldiers their lives. At the same time, the Vostok Group and the Marines will soon begin the cleanup and continue! Drone footage shows the Russian assault on the city center, and soldiers of the 5th Guards Tank Brigade plant their flag on the city council. The southern part of the city is still trapped and Ukrainian forces still control 50% of the central and northern parts. But this will change soon!
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  3437. At a cost of $1.3 billion, the US, Israel, France, UK, and Jordan worked in conjunction to take out the missiles and drones launched by Iran. This realizes two major schematics: 1. Israel is incapable of defending itself alone, and 2. The West is spiking War while scripting lies for the Media about peace thru sanctions. Israel intends to retaliate. The Ayatollah gave the US and neighboring countries advance notice of the intended strike (72 hours). Erdogan is calling Qatar to realize the extent of deception and murder. Jordan is too financially beholden to the West. And Saudi Prince bin Salman is cursing Israel for its stupidity. Iran was showcasing. US claims VICTORY Speech amidst ‘Iranian humiliation’. The real revelation is the sheer egocentricity and deception our western governments and their militaries promote instead of simply telling The Truth. Iran was thus able to show the world these western nuances. Damage control is not possible. During this same time period of attack, Israel managed to murder over 100 additional Palestinians with no reprisal at all. While regime change has been a prevailing mainstay of the CIA since its inception, the American public was not informed. This apparatus has now been fully identified and countries across the globe are more than a bit peeved at the realization. Americans are horrified. The concept of betrayal central. Processing the fact that our government has been the main creator of conflicts, regime change, murders, assassinations, and annihilation of entire countries, aka – Syria, when we were massively hypnotized into thinking we were the greatest peace maker, is a bitter pill indeed. The fact that we are now the victim of a blatant regime change has aided our awakening. Yet still, the realty exists that many if not all our government officials throughout the last 100 years have been installed. And that power has become infinite in its levy. The Israel War was likely created as a distraction from our CIA reality. But instead of realigning America against the created evil – Palestine and Iran = the common enemy, a fatal flaw emerged. Israel is The Deep State. And the CIA works for Israel. Israel recruits its benefactors, such as Soros and Fink and Bloomberg, etc… These benefactors agree to be the shield. In return, they will be granted enormous wealth. Netanyahu is not officially a member of the Club – but his ego sought this war as a means of demonstrating the extent to which his evil against Palestine and Muslims could earn him the right to belong. The response is NOT what he anticipated. - LewRockwell
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  3452. When President Biden approved the use of supersonic Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike Russia, he placed in jeopardy the national security of the United States, the safety of our troops abroad and violated the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, which provides that only Congress can declare war. Biden has made a decision to insert the U.S. into an unambiguous, escalatory phase, using the territory of Ukraine to attack Russia directly with missiles which can reach 190 miles deep. This is an illegal act by the President which puts our nation on a path to war with Russia. No President has the right to use unilateral executive authority to permit a U.S. missile strike against another nation. It invites a retaliatory attack. It is an impeachable offense. Any Member of Congress can, under privileges of the House, ask for immediate consideration of a joint resolution which invokes Article I, Section 8, and then cuts off all funding for personnel, coordination, technical advisers, materiel, equipment and deployment of ATACMS and emplacement of any other offensive missile systems in Ukraine. The Putin-as-Hitler narrative projected in the media accelerated fear, induced acquiescence and rallied Western support for what was essentially a long-standing war scam by the military-industrial-intelligence complex. The alchemy which turned man into monster turned blood into cash. Kiev has already paid a horrible price for being a US/NATO proxy: the loss of the flower of its youth, the destruction of its beautiful cities, the spoilation of its fertile farmland, and the sacrifice of its sovereignty. Now, as U.S. missiles rain down on Russia, a counterstrike will occur, spreading ever wider the misery which has enveloped Ukraine. - LewRockwell
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  3453. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The US forces instructed SDF militias to open a new front in Deir ez-Zur in eastern Syria, to advance and attack the positions of Syrian Arab Army, Al-Mayadeen correspondent reported today, December 3, 2024. The militias, fully supported by the US occupation, launched attacks on at least 7 villages controlled by Syrian Army along with Iranian forces and Arab tribal forces east of the Euphrates River. According to reports, the clashes were mainly focused on the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, with the targeted areas including Al-Hussainiya, Al-Salihiya, Hatla, Marat, Mazloum, Khasham, and Al-Tabiyah. The rebel militias used minesweepers to remove earthen obstacles, and with 12 mortar shells fired at the town of Khasham. Heavy clashes erupted between Syrian Army and the militia forces on the outskirts of the towns of Al-Salihiyah, Marat and Al-Tabiyah under the direct cover of US artillery and fighter jets from the US occupation bases near the Conoco oil field and the Al-Omar oil field. A video was published online today, showing US occupation fighter jets carrying out airstrikes, bombarding the positions of Syrian Arab Army and auxiliary forces, to assist SDF separatist forces in their offensive to advance towards the town of Al-Hussainiya. But, as part of the response of Syrian Arab Army units with the support of auxiliary forces, the fighters managed to thwart the attacks launched by the militias on seven villages, repelling them, SANA news agency reported. There was no change in the control map in Deir ez-Zur countryside, after the violent attacks launched by militia forces to seize the oil fields in the region together with the US. Now, more and more people in the world understand the true origins of the conflict in Syria, the mass violations and plundering of Syrian natural resources are taking place, initiated by the Western elites!
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  3454. Europe in particular is in utter shambles as their sunk-cost failure in Ukraine has exposed feeble European leaders as true naked emperors before their seething populaces. Germany continues to completely unspool before our eyes as France’s Macron issued a temp-gauging panic statement about the need for Europe to become ‘omnivores’ in a world full of ‘carnivores’, lest the decaying continent get left behind for good. Ultimately, as can be seen the two sides appear at a loggerheads: Trump in his supreme vanity thinks he can end a nigh holy war that has spilled the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides with the snap of a finger—this is the height of disrespect to both sides, particularly to Russia and Putin. But personally I can’t imagine Trump trying to escalate, beyond blowhard bluffs, because as stated, the US doesn’t have much of anything left to give beyond rusted junk or critical strategic reserves. The only possible way I can see out of it is Trump cutting all aid to Ukraine and allowing a full capitulation while blaming it on Europe after passing them the buck. We’ll close this section with Russian ambassador to UK Andrei Kelin’s reaffirmation of Russia’s negotiating positions: Compromise is out of the question. Zaporozhye and Kherson are Russian Russia will not make concessions to Ukraine – all demands of the Russian Federation will be met. These are demilitarization, denazification and neutral status of the country. - Simplicius
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  3459. I’ve written a number of essays trying to point at the baseless and irrational way westerners view military explosives as a far more civilized and humane way of killing human beings than bullets or blades, but I’ve never written anything that sums it up as clearly as this frank admission by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s senior manager of journalistic standards. Military explosives rip human bodies apart. They burn people alive. They trap them under rubble where they die excruciatingly slowly in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable. They leave people without limbs. They dismember and disfigure children for life. Many of the most agonizing deaths in human history have been caused by bombs. There are thousands of Gazans who have yet to be counted among the dead because their bodies are still buried under the rubble of fallen buildings. Many of them would not have died instantly. Some are still alive, waiting for days in a state terror and searing pain for a rescue that will never come. A UNICEF report released last month said that more than a thousand children had had one or both legs amputated since October 7 as a result of damage received by US-sponsored Israeli airstrikes, a number which would be significantly higher by now. We know that many such amputations have occurred without anaesthesia, because Israeli siege warfare has cut off Gaza’s healthcare system from the necessary supplies. If this is not vicious, then nothing is vicious. If this is not brutal, then nothing is brutal. If this is not murderous, then nothing is murderous. But it doesn’t get labeled as such by the western press, because it is being done “remotely”. - LewRockwell
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  3469. Defeat in Ukraine may be but one part to an accumulation of western ‘defeats’. Defeat in Israel would strike at the very core of U.S. political being. Hat-tip to Simplicius’ Bones of Tomorrow, in which he reflects on a Culture that has become debased; its lures that used to trap us into the ‘Myth of the West’ lie withered, as patently false idols. The dimming fire has squandered any sense of ‘magic’ in the guttering West, or indeed of hope to recoup this something ‘lost’. It is the wistful realisation that – as it stands – the myth is never likely to offer anything of lasting value again. The ‘Elect’ though, have deliberately raised the stakes. They do not want to ‘let go’. They have determined that, with the western train wrecked on its own cultural ‘wall’, the ‘End of Time’ story of convergence on a common future is ‘over’ too. And along with it, the claimed western mandate to dictate the ‘direction forward’ is over also. The West, by contrast, is still fed on stories of western leadership, election, innate qualities and exceptionalism. Put simply, this ‘influencer’ fad signally is failing to help westerners cope with the tectonic shifts occurring across the globe. Its peoples are wholly unprepared for the ‘Winter that is Coming’. The need for a return to an integrity of messaging is all the more pressing as attempts to repair one reversal, with a false narrative – inverting realities to achieve the putative ‘win’ – will only lead to further losses. Deceit is exposed in the instant. Trust takes a decade to build. Does the West really believe it can recoup in this way? Nobody beyond their authors believes these western Intelligence narratives, post- Ukraine. They are now tainted for the long run. In the end, military facts are more powerful than political waffle. - LewRockwell
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  3470. Russian Army going for the jugular as Civilian shelling Ukes getting destroyed all along the Front! BLASTED BUILDINGS BATHED IN EERIE LIGHT (left vid) as ruined homes stand in Donetsk City, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) after Kiev army launches shells at civilians that leave ruins in their wake. Rescue crews work overtime to shift rubble (right vid) as they work to rescue survivors trapped underneath devastated houses. - Intel Report "YOU HAVE WAR STRATEGY - WE HAVE PEACE STRATEGY" states Hungarian PM Orban as he schools Western presstitutes attempting to throw shade at him for daring to meet with Putin. Orban promptly shuts down questions about his reluctance to give Nazi Kiev regime cash as he's forced to repeat that he wants PEACE not war, stating he will let EU use "Peace Fund" money on Mad Vlad Zelensky but only after Ukraine explains exactly what they'll spend euros. - Intel Report Russia suddenly began nuclear drills and successfully tested its ability to launch a massive retaliatory nuclear attack from land-based silos, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile RS-24 Yars, Tula nuclear submarine launching R-29RMU Sineva, and from Tupolev Tu-95MS Tu long-range bomber. Intensive nuclear attack drills are undertaken in response to an aggressor's nuclear attack. - Military Tube Today "WEST INCITING KIEV REGIME" to continue war states Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov as he brushes aside claims that Russia doesn’t want peace, stating Moscow doesn’t avoid negotiations but Mad Vlad Zelensky hasn’t yet offered "serious proposal". EU's already worried sick about its appalling military production - how much longer till West runs out of steam and forces Mad Vlad to negotiating table? - Intel Report
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  3481. Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely aford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we amplify below. What Johnson’s impending Waterloo means, therefore, is not merely the prospect of another wild and wooly succession battle, but actually that there is no point at all in the preservation of a Republican majority and GOP House Speaker. Afer all, the Washington GOP has become so infected with neocon warmongers and careerist pols who spend a lifetime basking in the imperial projects and pretensions of the world’s War Capital that apparently the best the House GOP caucus could do when it ejected the previous careerist deep stater from the Speaker’s chair was to tap the dim-witted nincompoop who currently occupies it. The Republican party is thus truly beyond redemption. As JFK once said about the CIA, its needs to be splintered into a thousand pieces and swept into the dustbin of history. Needless to say, our dufus Speaker doesn’t know the “Baltics” from the “Balkans” where Serbia and other Russian friendlies are definitely not quaking in their boots about Putin. In point of fact, however, it is not hard to see that the civil war and territorial dispute between Kiev and Moscow over the Donbas and rim of the Black Sea from Mariupol to Odessa is a one-of of Russian and regional history and Washington’s mindless push of NATO eastward to Russia’s very doorstep. Nevertheless, the insanity of the Russophobia which keeps knuckleheads like Johnson from having an even rudimentary grasp of the matter reveals an even larger issue. Namely, it explains why Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy is a dysfunctional disaster, which unceasingly spawns madness like today’s $95 billion foreign aid boondoggle. To wit, it encourages the Empire’s client and allied states to take bellicose positions vis a vis Washington designated rivals and enemies because it brings aid to their treasuries, weapons to their militaries and prestige and self-importance to their politicians and diplomats. At the end of the day, what Washington now needs is a break-up of the GOP and the formation of a Peace and Freedom party from the remnants of the conservative GOP and the dovish left. Both have been ejected from the UniParty by today’s Republican and Democrat denizens of the world’s War Capital. So perhaps Johnson’s hari-kari act will bear some fruit, afer all. Not as he intended, but in the good way that American democracy desperately needs at this fraught juncture. - LewRockwell
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  3493. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The 82nd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, recently transferred to the Kursk region from Donbass, hoped to storm the settlement of Malaya Loknya, which is still in the gray zone. But Russian military correspondents shared footage on August 27, 2024, showing what the assault group was aiming for here while hoping to record a victory video, instead they themselves handed over the baton to Russian soldiers from the 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 92nd Assault Brigade. Ukrainian forces continue to transfer reserves in an attempt to seize the designated bridgehead in the settlement, but have suffered serious losses, and more of them were taken prisoner with a little red armband style. Confident of victory, the 82nd Assault Brigade of Ukraine brought their rags to Malaya Loknya. But the fate was different, the soldiers were captured while their comrades were killed on the land of Kursk. The footage now shows the 92nd Assault Brigade of Russia, taking the flag as a trophy, due to making a mistake trying to attack Russian positions. Finally, after the prisoners of war made the right choice, they were all interrogated directly and told the same questions over and over again. They were very angry, complaining that the commanders who sent them to Kursk, had been living comfortably in Ukraine while their comrades were killed. It is worth noting! On August 6, Ukraine with the help of NATO-US, attacked the Russian region of Kursk and now claimed the occupation of about 1200 square kilometers. However, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken prisoner by Russia. According to the latest reports, Russia has transferred more than 30 thousand soldiers and a large number of weapons and artillery from other reserves here. Its task is to provide them with everything they need," Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said at the Coordination Council Meeting on military security issues today on August 28.
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  3503. [Looks like the Warmonger in Israel is going to get his wish of starting a major conflagration so he can continue his genocide in GAZA and elsewhere at his diabolic whim!] Iran is threatening an “unprecedented” response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31st. In anticipation, the U.S. has begun bringing major reinforcements to the region, which includes F-22s, B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, an armada featuring the USS Roosevelt Carrier Group, as well as amphibious landing ships with 4000 U.S. Marines: The entire Defense industry has been ringing alarm bells for months that the U.S. forces in the region are nearing a crisis point when it comes to their ability to replenish AD assets. In a war against China, they know they would be in deep trouble: Now some reports claim Iran is still holding off and waiting to strike at a time of its choosing: One interesting aspect to the proceedings dovetails with a question someone asked recently in the mailbag surrounding what assistance Russia may be providing to the Middle Eastern resistance axis. First, there’s one uncorroborated report about Iran being given one of Russia’s most powerful electronic warfare tools, the Murmansk complex: At this point it’s clear, as we’ve written many times here before, that Netanyahu needs perpetual escalation in order to save his failing regime. Only by keeping people in perpetual fear and distress can he keep them from mustering the wherewithal and consensus to overthrow him. Furthermore, Israel seems to fear taking on Hezbollah with Iran’s backing and would love to have U.S. tie Iran down in a war, or eliminate it outright, first, prior to taking the risky gambit of slugging it out with Hezbollah. The last thing the Biden administration likely wants is a large scale war on the eve of the presidential elections, which will redound poorly on Kamala’s campaign. Thus, reports of the administration’s exasperation with Israel are probably true. Either way it doesn’t matter because if Trump was in office, you can bet he would declare full scale war against Iran on Israel’s behalf, so in this case we can quite unironically say that the Biden administration is preferable to peace. - Simplicius
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  3529. WHY RUSSIA IS DEFEATING NATO AS WELL AS UKRAINE Rather than hang around and catch the blame for the loss of Ukraine, I think Nuland decided to grab a parachute and jump out of the Biden policy plane before it crashes. Nuland is not stupid. She may be a strident ideologue, but she also can read the tea leaves and realize that Ukraine’s days are numbered. She has been around Washington long enough to know how the blame game works and probably decided to hit the bricks and prepare a defense. She wants to live to fight again. The neo-con crowd that Nuland runs with are a shameless lot. They never admit being wrong and are skilled at producing a counter narrative that will blame Biden and the Republicans, especially Trump, for destroying Ukraine’s chances for victory. My friends at the Duran offer an alternative explanation — she was pushed out. One of the key developments on the war front in Ukraine in the last couple of weeks is Russia’s success in destroying what remains of Ukraine’s scant air defense systems. There is video evidence of the destruction of Himars and Patriot systems. The further degradation of Ukraine’s air defense systems means that Russia is able to use swarms of drones to hit key targets and conserve its stock of hypersonic missiles. The Russian General Staff is busy planning contingencies to deal with the possible scenario of having to fight NATO forces and will want to have an ample supply of hypersonics that will overwhelm and defeat Western counter measures. Another big arrow in the Russian quiver are the glide bombs. These are being used with devastating effectiveness to blow massive holes in what remains of Ukraine’s defensive lines. The combination of glide bombs and drones as part of a broader combined arms operation has Ukraine on its heels and headed backwards towards the Dnieper River. - Sonar21
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  3546. Recall that Hamas was partly or entirely created by Israel—a fact confessed to by several high ranking Israeli officials—as a counterweight to the PLO, the dominant political group at the time. So it’s not out of the question that a group created by Israel and Western intelligence outfits can potentially still be under their control or at least infiltrated to the extent of being ‘steered’ into creating certain needed false flags which could benefit Israel as a whole. This is supported by new evidence reportedly coming out that Hamas was using Ukrainian-supplied weaponry, which would indicate a fairly standard Western intel weapons pipeline a la the Contras, et al. The primary principle that I operate under is that almost no global event happens by pure happenstance, particularly when it’s in a given related geopolitical sphere. And the Middle East is certainly tied, in many ways, to Russia, the Ukrainian war, and multipolarity in general. - Simplicius By Their Fruit, You Will Know Them… Biden Calls for More War, Putin Calls for Peaceful World - LewRockwell BODIES LIE LIMP, COVERED IN BLOOD as distraught crowd rushes the wounded out on stretchers, others hopelessly look to the dusty sky - amid devastating destruction unleashed by sustained Israeli attacks on Gaza. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Galant orders total siege of Gaza - "there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel.” - Intel Report AMBULANCE STRETCHERS STREWN EVERYWHERE, as contused Palestinian emergency worker tries to walk away from scene of attack, but almost drops dead in Israel's latest blast striking ambulance vehicles in Gaza. - Intel Report "The US precludes creation of the State of Palestine" - Lavrov and the Arab League. "The Americans are trying to monopolize mediation efforts, and divert dialogue away from a political settlement." “Russia and the Arab League can and must make their contribution to solving these problems, first of all, stopping the bloodshed." - Intel Report SOOT-COVERED BODY lies slack on ground as Palestinians rush to help people trapped under rubble after Israel targets refugee camp in North of Gaza Strip. Blasts that shake very earth as Israeli strikes target STUDENTS at Islamic University of Gaza (right vid) - sounds of baby’s cries echo in background with man filming fearing for his family’s safety. Israeli PM Netanyahu claims Hamas’s actions will “CHANGE THE MIDDLE EAST” as he kills HUNDREDS of Palestinians in strikes. - Intel Report Rocket rains down on Jerusalem as air raid sirens blare (left vid), while right vid shows ruined fences and cars in aftermath of strike. Hamas states it fired rocket in response to Israel’s bombing of civilians in Gaza Strip - reports of at least 7 injured in Jerusalem strike. - Intel Report Humans torn apart by Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip as Palestinians lie in agony with missing legs while people look on in shock as they wait for first responders - Intel Report Update on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for October 9, 2023 - As US proxy war in Ukraine continues to tip in Russia's favor, armed conflict has broken out between Palestinian-based Hamas militants and Israeli forces; - Israeli-Palestinian tensions stem from the Israeli government's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory in violation of international law and laid out specifically in UN resolutions; - Both Hamas and Israeli forces are currently targeting both military targets and civilians; - Israel has for decades served the purpose of a foothold for first British then American hegemony in the Middle East; - Hamas has a problematic background that complicates Palestine's ability to resolve hostilities between it and Israel; - Hamas has previously served as a proxy along with Israel in the US proxy war against Syria; - Israel is requesting additional military aid from a depleted United States, limiting its ability to escalate vs. Hamas and within the wider region; - The New Atlas "ISRAEL WILL WIN" claims PM Netanyahu as he shows off footage of houses in Gaza Strip crumbling from Israeli strikes (left vid). His claim that "we've started" comes amid reports of build-up of Israeli forces near Gaza Strip, with insider claims that Netanyahu's told Biden "we have to go in" to Gaza Strip. Right vid shows devastating aftermath of same strikes Netanyahu boasts about, with homes turned into apocalyptic wasteland after blasts. - Intel Report Gaza Strip lit up by flames as hellish landscape unfolds in darkness. Vid above shows flames flickering while rockets soar from Gaza Strip toward Israel. Israeli military claims it’s carrying out 1 of biggest airstrikes EVER against Hamas in Gaza Strip, while Palestinian medical officials warn health system could collapse in DAYS following power cuts imposed by Israel. - Intel Report Drones show damaged neighborhoods in Gaza Strip, during out-of-control bombing by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Hamas fighters. 1000 tons of explosives were dropped which destroyed thousands of buildings in the “total siege” of Gaza by a series of airstrikes using heavy bombs such as JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition). - Military Tube Today
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  3558. Thus, the current domino collapse of Ukraine’s defenses in the Pokrovsk direction will lead to a much greater snowballing that will lead to the collapse of the entire Konstantinovka cauldron, which would then set up the final showdown with the Kramatorsk agglomerate. Furthermore, Pokrovsk is the main hub of supply to the entire front southeast of there. Capturing Pokrovsk and cutting its main roads would pretty much atrophy the entire vast region to the southeast: There’s also the fact that Pokrovsk is the main railway hub of the entire region for the AFU: It receives large shipments and distributes them to the whole region’s settlements, like a major artery feeding hundreds of capillaries. Thus, it’s vital for the resupply and logistics of all AFU units in the vast region. In fact, what’s most interesting about this, and proves that the railway is the foremost strategic consideration of the entire ongoing operation there, is the fact that Russian troops are literally advancing along the railway. Thus, once Pokrovsk is captured, all those interior settlements to the southeast would come under immense pressure with dwindling supply routes, and their own collapse would be accelerated greatly. This is likely the reason for Zelensky’s desperate urgency in Kursk. His command likely understands the dire nature of what’s soon to come, as the entire front on this region stands to collapse after Pokrovsk falls. Zelensky needed a way to divert Russia’s attention somewhere else, but so far no slow down has been recorded for Russia’s advances in this area. Today alone, there have again been several major advances. As I mentioned, another huge swath of territory around Zhelanne has been taken, moving closer to Pokrovsk: - Simplicius
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  3559. “The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t”, a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically”. The former Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar has coined the term ‘swarming’ to describe this process of non-state actors miring the U.S. in the tactical attrition – from the Levant to the Persian Gulf. In the Ukraine, Russia has pursued a patient, calibrated attrition to drive hard-Right ultranationalists from the field of battle (in central and eastern Ukraine), together with their western NATO facilitators. NATO attempts at deterrence towards Russia (that recently have veered off into ‘terrorist’ attacks inside Russia – i.e. on Belgorod) notably have failed to produce results. Rather, Biden’s close embrace of Kiev has left him exposed politically, as U.S. and European zeal for the project implodes. The war has bogged down the U.S., without any electorally acceptable exit – and all can see it. Moscow drew-in Biden to an elaborate attritional web. He should ‘get out’ quick – but the 2024 campaign binds him. Some of those countries – including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have initiated ‘private’ steps that were not coordinated with the U.S. They are not only speaking with these militia and movements, but also directly with Iran. The strategy to ‘swarm’ the U.S. on multiple fronts was plainly stated at the recent ‘Astana Format’ meeting between Russia, Iran, and Turkey on 24-25 January. The latter triumvirate are busy preparing the endgame in Syria (and ultimately, in the Region as a whole). In sum, patience has run out over the U.S. weaponising the Kurds and attempting to revitalise ISIS in order to disrupt the tripartite plans for a Syria settlement. The trio want the U.S. out. the backdrop to Israel’s disruptive behaviour lay with America’s ‘forever wars’ of divide-and-rule in support of Israel. In his first substantive statement after 7 October, Seyed Nasrallah (speaking for the Axis of Resistance as a whole) indicated a strategic Resistance pivot: Whereas the conflict triggered by events in Gaza was centrally connected with Israel, Seyed Nasrallah additionally underlined that the backdrop to Israel’s disruptive behaviour lay with America’s ‘forever wars’ of divide-and-rule in support of Israel In short, he tied the causality of America’s many regional wars to the interests of Israel. Only it is not regional actors that are contriving to box-in Biden – it is America’s own protégé: Prime Minister Netanyahu. The confluence between the failed Ukrainian ploy to weaken Russia, and the risky ploy for Israel’s war on Hizbullah, is unlikely to be lost on Americans. - LewRockwell
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  3567. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Urgent analysis on November 6, 2024, Russian Armed Forces are advancing and advancing on the Kurakhovo direction, moving very quickly towards the town from the south near Trudove, with additional reports that Stepanivka has been liberated up to 2 km along the northern shore of Kurakhovo Reservoir. Russian soldiers installed the battle flag of their unit on a residential building, confirming full control over the settlement. Between Kurakhovo and Trudove, there are several another settlements where Ukrainian troops who claimed to have stood firm there are now starting to fall into a new cauldron! Ukrainian troops would most likely have avoided this difficult situation if they had carried out a large-scale withdrawal. It seems that Russian troops are continuing to deploy their offensive capabilities to form a depression in the direction of Donetsk, breaking through Ukrainian defenses near Trudove. The BMP squad of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade with armored forces maneuvered, landing in an area between the west of the settlement and 3.5 km south of Kostiantynopolske. Here, the fighting takes place in the forest belt where the assault units take and consolidate in the tree line, capturing several positions. The Russian forces are again outmaneuvering and cutting off supplies to the Ukrainian units in a worsening operational crisis, with less than 4 kilometers left to reach the Kostiantynopolske point with the advance very fast and getting tighter every day. At the same time, Zelensky's defenders from the 79th Brigade, who claim to have held out for more than two years in Kurakhovo, appear to be short of equipment to stop the Russians, and are seeking donations. They are in need of Mavic 3T drones with thermal cameras, a vital support to help them get spies at night, and to bolster their defenses, which are under threat in the Kurakhovo circle.
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  3580. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The joint siege of the Syrian Arab Army along with the Russian Armed Forces against various units of the rebel forces against the Syrian government has began following their attacks on the Syrian Army. On November 27, the rebels in Idlib launched their major attack around the western areas of Aleppo Province in Northeastern Syria, the timing of the attack just hours after Netanyahu's warning to Assad about "playing with fire", for supporting the Palestinian and Lebanese struggles, indicating a broader geopolitical strategy coinciding with the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon. As in the footage, the rebel forces attacked the Syrian Army with heavy weapons and MANPADS. Furthermore, additional reinforcements of special forces from the Syrian Arab Army arrived at the gates of Aleppo to stop them! The video reportedly shows the Syrian Army's MLRS now shots fire, hitting allied militias positions from the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), who are advancing in Aleppo. This is to stop the extremist rebels who violated the de-escalation agreement, started operations that endanger civilians and have reportedly captured the village of Zerbeh from the Assad Army in the area. Western media use the term 'Syrian Opposition' in the context of the conflict in Syria, and this attack as "the occupation by the Assad militias", who defeated the threat of the rebels for now along with Russian forces with heavy artillery fire. In addition, it was reported that the Syrian Arab Army was involved in fierce clashes with al-Nusra rebel units while the joint Russian-Syrian Air Force also took action in the town of Atarib. Aviation prepared for bombing strikes, which hit rebel positions as they advanced west of Aleppo city. According to Syrian sources today on November 28, more than 200 al-Nusra rebels have been neutralized since the offensive began. Regardless of whether Aleppo falls or not, the city has fallen before to President Assad and the possibility of returning Idlib to Syrian government control is currently being discussed.
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  3590. Things keep ratcheting up in Ukraine, with France continuing its saber-rattling escalatory spiral. Macron showed his dangerous hubris in the article by reciting the trope about Russia being a middling gas station with nukes: And this latest French sally was topped off by Russia’s spy chief Naryshkin’s rattling statement that France is preparing 2,000 troops for deployment: In fact, he states that the 2,000 number would be just the “initial stage”, but claims that such a force would become a priority target for Russian strikes: Meanwhile Spain’s El Pais paper confirmed that European troops have already long been in Ukraine: The baseless fearmongering from these Euro-mutants is simply unhinged! By logical deduction we can only assume that it’s not the imminent fall of any one particular zone, like Odessa, that has them so worried, but presumably the disintegration of the AFU as a functioning military force itself. But what else could possibly have Macron so rattled as to bear down into such desperate flights? Well, the news from authoritative sources continues to be quite grim for Ukraine. For the first time, they are openly using the dreaded ‘C’ word—collapse: Over the past two months, Ukrainian army losses have increased by 70% compared to the previous year. This is reported to be due to the rapid increase in the intensity and accuracy of glide bomb strikes. ISW foresees a new Russian offensive later this year: And even admitted to Russia’s increasing ability to adapt to all challenges: in many ways the Cold War was a far safer time because it had more serious, non-psychopathic people in charge who actually respected the dangers of nuclear holocaust. Today’s leaders are all totally immorally degraded puppets, likely placed in charge only on the basis of kompromat, and no longer have the necessary professional qualities or discretion of their forebears for the seriousness of the situation. Society, more stupefied by bread and circuses than ever, of course, is blind to their leaders’ total ignorance and dangerous provocations. Put the above pieces together and it’s clear the goal is to bring Moldova into the fold, entrench the region and create massive military buildups there to make sure Russia can never take back Odessa or retain supremacy over the Black Sea. That is why it is more imperative than ever for Russia to get the job done, capture Odessa and unlock PMR to keep from being strangled by NATO. Don’t forget, PMR just suffered one of its first direct military assaults, as an Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by an ‘unknown’ FPV drone, a provocation with a clear angle. I’ll leave you with a final couple videos: In Georgievka, one of the larger AFU troop surrenders of recent memory: Here’s two new very good pieces from M.K. Bhadrakumar. The first entitled ‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix’, which summarizes a lot of the points discussed here, with Europe’s terminal agony regarding U.S.’s potential withdrawal amid the realization of their own inconsequentiality. The second even more nourishingly erudite one is: ‘France all dressed up and nowhere to go’. If you have only time for one, I strongly recommend treating yourself to the second one. - Simplicius
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  3591. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – By the fall of Vremivka almost without resistance, the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in VelykaNovosilka found itself practically completely surrounded in a cauldron, where the Russian Armed Forces physically controlled all the main roads. Realizing that the drama of Kiev troops in VelykayaNovoselka south of Donetsk seemed to be coming to an end, Russian troops from the Vostok Group of Forces deployed Uragan MLRS, which was engaged in dropping leaflets on the positions of Ukrainian troops there for their immediate surrender, as shown in the footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on January 17, 2025. Now, the evacuation corridor of Velyka Novosilka is less than 2.5 kilometers wide, with no main roads, only land left and the only way is to cross Mokri Yaly river for the Kievites to get out. The cauldron is boiling, where the siege of Velikaya Novoselka – now officially begins! Dropping leaflets on enemy positions, special leaflet projectiles are rocket ammunition containing rolls of leaflets. Uragan fired a volley of shots at each of them, urging Ukrainian soldiers to hand over their weapons and voluntarily surrender in order to save their lives before a complete encirclement. Now, it is reported that Russian troops are at the Vremika gate after the cleanup, just a few minutes away from the city center, while conducting a limited siege, and things will get complicated for Kiev's forces if they try to hold on. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have few options: retreat as far as possible, or defend and fight to the end. A few days ago, Ukrainian soldiers retreated from their positions in panic, even abandoning their NATO weapons in the bushes, fleeing without a fight simply because they did not want to face the Russian army. Russian soldiers from a reconnaissance unit as part of the Vostok Group of Forces, demonstrated the abandoned weapons near Velyka Novosilka as shown in footage by the Defense Ministry on January 15. Among the trophies were a Javelin portable ATGM, a Browning M2 large-caliber machine gun, a portable anti-tank grenade launcher, and ammunition.
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  3609. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The situation as of the morning of November 23, 2024, Russian soldiers who developing on their progress in Chasov Yar, have consolidated their positions in the industrial zone of the city, Russian military experts report. Russian troops are defeating Ukrainian Nationalists in fierce battles that are still going on here with direct tank and mortar fire. The Akhmat Special Forces of the 78th Motorized Rifle Regiment "Sever-Akhmat" is working together with the 4th Brigade of the 3rd Army of the Southern Military District, Ramzan Kadyrov said while releasing a video. Operational information from one of the most difficult sections of the front line was reported by the Commander of the assault detachment of the Special Forces Akhmat with the call sign "Shustry", because Ukrainian nationalists use ordinary people as human shields. However, they will do this only if civilians are completely safe, then it will not be difficult for them to destroy the building where the enemy is located together with personnel as in the footage. Meanwhile, the 2S9 “Nona-S” self-propelled artillery system, moved towards the firing position and attacked targets near the city located in Donetsk, which is defended by the Nationalist “Azov” Brigade. Combat footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the Paratroopers “Kostroma” of the Russian Airborne Forces, operating 120 mm self-propelled guns towards the positions where Ukrainian Nationalists are hiding. Paratroopers detected the platoon’s fortifications protecting the Nationalists during a reconnaissance operation. The “Nona-S”, well camouflaged in the ruins, opened heavy fire, destroying the fortifications in the process and likely the Nationalists positions. Paratroopers then entered the destroyed fortifications and cleared them quickly! Russian units continue to push the enemy every day, advancing 1.5 kilometers in fierce fighting and gaining a foothold in the center of Chasov Yar. Now, 30% of the city’s territory is under the control of Russian forces, they have taken control of its industrial zone, military expert Andrey Marochko said. Meanwhile, in the center of Chasov Yar there is a decisive battle for the refractory factory, destroying Ukrainian positions in the buildings, which will decide the fate of the city!
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  3641. There is a lot of wild speculation and misinformation coursing through the blogosphere regarding the bombing of a U.S. base in Jordan. What was the purpose of the base? This base is one of the primary entry points for U.S. military personnel being sent to man bases in Syria. It is a personnel and logistics hub. Think about it. How do the U.S. military personnel at bases inside Syria, like Al Tanf, get there? They do not parachute in and there are no secure airfields. Instead, the U.S. forces fly into Jordan and land at one or more of the seven main Jordanian military airfields: It is no secret that King Abdullah is close with the United States. However, that no longer is a reliable benefit. It is a potential liability. The last thing King Abdullah wants is the world to focus on the fact that he is helping the United States carry out what are essentially oil protection operations in Syria. Illegal operations. And much of the oil winds up inside Israel. The U.S. mission in Syria has little to do with fighting and destroying ISIS, a Sunni inspired extremist organization. That is basically, in my view, a cover for action. The real purpose, I believe, is to destabilize the Government of Syria and maintain U.S. control over Syrian oil resources. U.S. forces also are in position to monitor and and carry out military operations against Shia tribes with ties to Iran. Here is one more thing we know — this was not an Iranian operation. The Pentagon has issued a carefully worded statement saying the group responsible is “Iranian supported.” If the United States had actual evidence implicating Iran in this attack that information would be broadcast loudly and widely. The fact that the Biden Administration is silent on that particular piece of evidence tells you the U.S. is still scrambling to find the slam dunk proof. - Sonar21
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  3642. Russian forces destroy 4 US-made high-speed military boats with Ukrainian paratroopers on board heading towards Crimea (pre-war Russia). - Intel Report FSB officers detain a manufacturer of explosive devices in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) working under the instructions of Ukrainian military intelligence. 5 kg of explosives, 17 electric detonators, 3 fuses and other components for making bombs were confiscated. - Intel Report Ukrainian armored vehicles, as another one and its crew pay their dues to Bandera after a guided missile by Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter rips it apart in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), where Kiev's regime suffered 285 soldiers in casualties. 115 cannon fodder suffer the same fate in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), up to 35 in Kherson (ex-Ukraine) - Mi-8 helicopter shot down, 6 howitzers, shipbuilding enterprise, where unmanned boats were assembled, 3 rocket and artillery warehouses destroyed. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 3 Abandoned streets and cars on fire following Kiev's regime criminal shelling on center of Donetsk City, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). - Intel Report Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter boinks Ukrainian armored vehicle after failed attempt to hide by trees, with guided missile finding it, destroying it and its crew in a horror night for Kiev's forces. - Intel Report Woman injured, house damaged following Ukrainian criminal shelling of village of Zernovo, Suzemsky district, Bryansk region (pre-war Russia). - Intel Report Russian forces have successfully fired a hypersonic Kinzhal missile at a target in Ukraine from a Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft, a source has told TASS. The Russian military has only previously reported launching the weapon from its dedicated MiG-31K platform.
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  3653. Here is what we know for certain. Despite repeated entreaties from Vladimir Putin to President Joe Biden and other Western leaders to provide assurances that Ukraine would not be admitted to NATO, the West told Putin to screw off and continued building up Ukraine’s military. The U.S. and its NATO allies believed that Russia’s military was weak and ineffective. Western leaders also believed that Russia’s economy was vulnerable to Western economic sanctions and that an economic collapse in Russia would catapult Putin from power. The Western plan was simple, audacious and delusional — i.e., using Ukraine as a military proxy, defeat Russia and humiliate Vladimir Putin; apply Western economic sanctions that would devastate the Russian economy and further erode support for Putin; break up the Russia Republic into 41 new countries. Put simply, the United States and its NATO allies were obsessed with the elimination of Russia as a nation and saw the war in Ukraine as their opportunity to carry out this plan. At no time prior to the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, or after, did the U.S. intelligence community provide any assessment countering this narrative. I would have to write a 500 page book to compile all of the West’s mistaken, erroneous predictions about Russia’s military capability. This represents a monumental intelligence failure. What a colossal screw up. Instead of weakening public support in Russia for Vladimir Putin, his political position became stronger. Instead of isolating Putin, NATO’s proxy war helped Putin solidify and expand relations with China, India, Iran, North Korea, South Africa and Brazil. The West is caught in its own trap. Russia reactivated a moribund defense industry and is cranking out ammunition, shells, missiles, rockets, artillery, tanks, drones and combat vehicles at a rate the West cannot match. Instead of demonstrating Western superiority, the NATO alliance has been exposed as fractious, impotent lot. The defeat of Ukraine will force the United States and NATO to make a choice — escalate the war with Russia and risk a nuclear conflagration or find a diplomatic off-ramp. While the current rhetoric among many NATO members is bellicose, with France’s Macron trying to whip up support for joining the fight against Russia, the divisions in Europe are growing. Germany certainly is no longer enthusiastic about signing on to France’s suicide mission. - Sonar21
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  3660. Desperate Globalists Float Boots on Ground to Save Ukraine After capturing Lastochkino yesterday, Russian forces have continued to Tonenke, reportedly capturing or making it a gray zone as of this writing—confirmed by AFU sources: And they have now begun the assault on Orlovka, which is the main stronghold of the region: With the latest reports claiming AFU is already fleeing out the west end of Orlovka, as Russian forces advance through the center The advances are coming surprisingly fast, such that Ukrainian commentators are falling over themselves to explain what’s going on. Officials are now getting worried. The next ‘thread’ which neatly follows the last report is the looming inevitability of Kharkov and/or the northern region falling. the rapidfire rotation of units that’s not giving Ukraine a chance to reinforce the constantly shifting axes of attack: It’s gotten to the point the CIA director was again dispatched to Kiev to stop things from unraveling: And outlooks continue to get bleaker: we get to the culmination of all this. Things are looking bleaker than ever, with Ukraine seemingly headed for potential collapse sometime in the next three or so months. So: with things unraveling, what is left to be done? It seems the most radical of hawks wanted to float a trial balloon of WWIII in order to frighten Russia into some sort of concessions. It was further confirmed by Polish president Andrzej Duda, who said a concensus was not reached on the topic: But before anyone is taken with flights of panic, it should be stated that virtually every other NATO country has already issued statements that no troops would be sent to Ukraine. This includes Spain, Italy, Greece, Finland, Germany, and now even the U.S. And in general, NATO and its barking chihuahuas continue to agitate and antagonize: This is why I have been saying from the beginning that Shoigu was extremely wise in his foresight of creating the new military districts and reserve armies of 500k+, precisely to deal with this new NATO threat. Incidentally, just today Putin officially inaugurated those two new districts: With things looking the way they are, several people have now opined that a major Russian operation may not be far away: Russia may have been expecting a far heavier battle and gathered large reserves, for almost none of them to have been used. This lends credence to the idea that such fresh reserves will be increasingly available for an even larger future operation that could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Recall the earlier words of ex-SBU colonel Starikov who spoke of Russia’s highly flexible and mobile reserve rotations. Budanov made a new “promise” to bring down the Kerch Bridge in 2024, ominously warning Russian civilians to not drive on it: Of course, the fact that this ‘threat’ was premised on the laughable assertion that he already fulfilled his earlier 2023 promise of invading Crimea because a couple troops snuck onto the shore in a boat at night, then quickly fled, makes it difficult to take seriously. the vast construction project Russia has now been carrying out in full to extend the railway lines all over the landbridge corridor from Rostov-Mariupol-Crimea: Thus, as multiple landbridge redundancies are built, Ukraine’s dream of severing Crimea grows fainter and fainter each day. - Simplicius
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  3662. Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a perceived national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president. The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended. The internet kill switch is just one piece of the government’s blueprint for locking down the nation and instituting martial law. Given the government’s penchant for weaponizing one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security, it’s only a matter of time before this particular emergency power to shut down the internet is activated. Packaged as an effort to control the spread of speculative or false information in the name of national security, restricting access to social media has become a popular means of internet censorship. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, these censors are laying the groundwork to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives. Whatever powers you allow the government and its corporate operatives to claim now, whatever the reason might be, will at some point in the future be abused and used against you by tyrants of your own making. By the time you add AI technologies, social credit systems, and wall-to-wall surveillance into the mix, you don’t even have to be a critic of the government to get snared in the web of digital censorship. Eventually, as George Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act. - LewRockwell
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  3663. Unfortunately, Trump exposes his complete ignorance and lack of credibility when it comes to the Ukrainian conflict by subsequently complaining that Russia has suffered an outrageous one million dead soldiers in the war. How can anyone possibly count on the man so ill-informed to be the savior that miraculously ends the war? We can understand a little flourish for the media to dress it up a bit, make things seem more dire for effect—but peremptorily citing such numbers just makes Trump look sadly disconnected, which further colors any of his efforts toward the war as similarly half-assed; that’s not to even mention his claim that Spain is a member of BRICS. He goes on to say that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal, and the way he says it almost feels as if Trump is now convinced that Putin has already made up his mind not to “make a deal”. He further claims that Russia’s economy is in ruins, and most notably, says that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia: This is the first time we’ve gotten confirmation straight from Trump himself, rather than Kellogg and the like, that he is in fact considering the ‘nuclear option’ of playing ‘hardball’ with Russia, should Putin refuse to bend the knee. And in fact, in a different interview he made it even more clear: So there we have it. Trump the ‘peace maker’ has shown his cards and clarifies the possible directions he intends to take. Which means some of the earlier claims from Keith Kellogg appear to have been accurate in regard to Trump trying to put the vise on Putin should the peace deal turn sour. There is some small chance that Trump continues to merely grandstand with the usual bravado for reporters but in reality, still seeks a way to dump Kiev completely. Listen again to when he’s describing Russia’s failed war effort, then says: “I mean…it’s a big machine so, eventually things will happen…” What he appears to mean that, despite his little ‘dressing up’ of the putative ‘failed’ war effort, he’s acknowledging that it’s not so failed after all because Russia’s war machine is at this point so big and powerful that eventually Ukraine will not be able to resist at all; it appears Trump is aware of this fine point after all. Now, sensing the pitfall Trump may sleepwalk into, top Trumper Steve Bannon has warned that Trump is in danger of creating his own “Vietnam”: In the end it will have to come down to which imperative of Trump’s is the stronger—his will for personal glory and the fear of tarnishing his vanity by being portrayed as a ‘loser’ in Ukraine? Or his great desire to fashion a legacy as a historic ‘peace maker’ at all costs. - Simplicius
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  3675. If you thought that NATO troop activities in Ukraine is something that developed in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup, think again. NATO has been mucking around in Ukraine since 1991. That 33 years for the math challenged out there. Formal relations between NATO and Ukraine began in 1991, when Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (later replaced by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council) immediately upon achieving independence following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Take a look at the 1997 — Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Ukraine. Ukraine made a formal request in 2002 to start the process for joining NATO. This coincided with Vladimir Putin’s initiative to strip Russian oligarch keen on meddling in domestic politics of their wealth. This also angered Western oligarchs who were licking their chops to get control of Russia’s vast store of natural resources. Military exercises with Ukraine kicked off in 2005 in the wake of the Orange Revolution. There are at least two types of military exercises — Rapid Trident (an annual joint exercise with NATO forces) and a U.S. only mission — JMTG-U, which is the acronym for Joint Military Training Group – Ukraine. The JMTG-U initiative was based at Yavoriv in Western Ukraine. Remember Yavoriv? Russia hit it with a hypersonic missile on March 13, 2022. Wikipedia plays dumb and pretends that Yavoriv was just some normal base: But as you will read and see in the following quotes and videos, Yavoriv was NATO Central in Ukraine and it was the primary base of operations for U.S. soldiers deployed temporarily to Ukraine over the years for training Ukrainian forces. When Russia hit it in March 2022 it scared the hell out of the NATO commanders. They realized their troops were no longer safe at a base that had hosted NATO and US troops for at least 16 years. I have not had time to do a thorough search of all NATO and US exercises in Ukraine — if any of you have some spare time, please dig in; I would like to pull together a complete list of every NATO and US military exercise carried out in Ukraine since 2005. I suspect it is more than 40, but that’s just a guess at this point. Here is just a sampling of what I found. July 2006 — In May Kiev will host an international conference with representatives of NATO’S 26 members; Ukraine will take part in the conference. Two months later Ukraine will, under NATO’s Partnership for Peace program, host its “Rapid Trident-2006” exercise at the National Defense Academy. October 2021 — Rapid Trident 21 continued more than 25 years of partnership between the U.S. and Ukraine. Through efforts such as Rapid Trident 21 and Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, the U.S. Army supports ongoing training efforts and enhanced defensive capabilities of Ukraine. With this information in hand it makes it clear that Russia’s stated objective of “demilitarization” of Ukraine also means terminating the activity of NATO and US forces inside Ukraine. If Macron is stupid enough to send thousands of French soldiers to Ukraine, they will discover what Napoleon did in 1812. When the Russian bear bites he takes off your ass. - Sonar21
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  3690. Given that the CIA is running Ukraine and Zelenskyy is simply a figurehead, Blinken is authorizing the CIA to strike inside Russia putting America in the war front and center. A last-ditch solution to Netanyahu’s criminal arrest dilemma. War. A last ditch effort to forego US elections. War. All while putting Taiwan on military alert. The Blinken logic is that if Ukraine uses – US weapons inside Russia – it could trigger WWIII. Problem with this media illogic? The Kyiv CIA has already been striking inside Russia in the Belgorod Region. Every weapon left to the disposal of Ukraine is either US made, German made, or UK made. The Kabbalah is running out of time and solutions. Kyiv has few troops left and morale is in hell. But Netanyahu needs a diversion. The insanity of America’s politicians discussing initiating WWIII based on Ukraine is most certainly the last death wish of Gyorgy Schwartz – Soros. Lloyd Austin has admitted that the US is not nearly ready for a confrontation with anyone given our depleted inventory of manpower and weapons. - LewRockwell Let’s get right into the most pressing development: a narrative overload has swelled around the topic of allowing Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil. It has suddenly become the top coordinated focus for the entire deep state establishment, with Zelensky and complicit Congressmembers forming a critical mass of pressure against the Biden administration, with some claiming they’re gaining headway. The reason is obvious: Ukraine is at a crossroads and a potential breaking point. The political situation has hit rock bottom, with Zelensky’s authority and legitimacy quickly unspooling; the manpower issue is reportedly very bad and is not being addressed by the newly announced mobilization; and on top of all that, Russia appears on the brink of opening up another in a series of new fronts that could bring the AFU to the brink by stretching the lines like never before. Russia is issuing the response that if things continue escalating in the current dangerous direction then Russia may have no choice but to bring much more devastating weaponry to bear. Russia continues conditioning the ground for Zelensky’s illegitimacy. Lukashenko even said at today’s talks that “a lot will happen this year….there are plenty of people in Ukraine both in military and government who would like to take the leadership position.” Apart from that, despite the glaring seriousness and danger of Zelensky’s continued provocations, Russia stands to potentially create a catastrophic situation for the AFU in the near to medium term future with the introduction of new fronts, whether Sumy and/or Belarus. The Sumy rumors continue unabated—the latest from Ukraine: Furthermore, the reason behind Zelensky’s desperately redlining provocations is because Ukraine continues taking catastrophic losses on the front. Just the 79th brigade alone reports 20 KIA per day, with another 35 WIA. The 59th brigade reports “2-3 dozen” losses per day as they scream desperately for help. - Simplicius
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  3693. Trump Raises Heat on Russia with Belligerent New Threats There are many things to be said here, but first let’s lay out all the statements on the table to see them as a whole. Here Trump begins to get even more belligerent and threatening than the post above—he very seriously threatens Russia with all kinds of “massive” taxes, tariffs, and sanctions if they don’t end the war “immediately”: So the big question becomes: how does Trump intend to put such devastating economic pressure on Russia, exactly? He mentions tariffs and taxes on imports, but this is almost an intentional joke: Russia and the US have virtually no trade turnover whatsoever; there is very little of any consequence from Russia that Trump could tax or tariff. The few things there are, like Uranium, are critical to the US which the US can’t get from anywhere else in the same quantity and timelines, and thus would be shooting himself in the foot. then even outright blames the Saudis for starting the Ukraine war—a pretty outrageously extraneous remark. How exactly do you demand various tithes and tributes from a country to the tune of a trillion dollars, all while belittling them? Putin has since developed closer ties to the Saudis and it seems hard to imagine they would skip and jump at Trump’s beck and call so easily all to spite Russia, with whom they now have good relations with, highlighted by Saudi Arabia’s recent inclusion into the BRICS fold. Trump’s new American century may fall flat and be exposed as nothing more than a cheap machismo PR campaign; that of course would subsequently bode very poorly for Ukraine. Russia has one of the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world, not to mention various materials and commodities. Even such a hit as envisioned by Trump could not slow Russia’s war machine for quite a long time. But even that proposition is a big “if”. Last time I reported that according to Bloomberg Russia’s revenues—which include mostly non oil and gas—have surged to record levels: Russia is quite well shielded against any possible sanctions he could dream up. So that leaves the only possible question: what is Trump prepared to do if and when his “plan” utterly flops? Trump has few real options, and the war will likely continue being prosecuted under Russia’s timeline. Russian Duma member under Putin’s United Russia party Elena Panina said precisely this: Listen to what she says at the end: “Now our task is to calmly move forward, occupy territory, liberate further, not yield to any provocations or blackmail, and understand that today we are in a stronger position than we were even three years ago.” While Western yellow press makes up stories to comfort their audience, Russia continues to collapse Ukrainian lines. Now the powerful stronghold of Velyka Novosilka has been split into a cauldron: - Simplicius
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  3699. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine flee in disarray, abandoning their weapons and ammunition on the front lines, during the liberation of Prechistovka by the Russian Armed Forces. On September 4, 2024, the Russian Defense Ministry officially confirmed the liberation of the village in South Donetsk by soldiers of the 40th Marine Brigade, the 155th Marine Brigade, and Motorized Riflemen of the Eastern Military District. Three soldiers of the 155th Marine Brigade, confirmed live on video their victory on the battlefield, successfully driving Zelensky's expired men out of Prechistovka. Ukrainian military analyst DeepState, which is connected to Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate, acknowledged the loss of Prechistovka by the end of September 3, that Russian forces had captured the remaining western part of Prechistovka, and established control along a forest strip stretching for 3.4 kilometers. A few days ago, Russian marines were reported to have advanced, and broken through the Ukrainian defenses in this village. Assault troops from Buryatia or Eastern Siberia, cleared the village, attacking the Ukrainian formation’s stronghold, which was a key part of the Ugledar group’s defenses. Drone footage showed an armored assault detachment of the 5th Tank Brigade and the 40th Marines, involving about 10 infantry fighting vehicles of various types and a motorcycle squad, charging in large numbers against the Ukrainian group. The armored troops closed in, then dismounted infantry were seen attacking the Ukrainian trenches at close range, shaking off enemy troops in their hideout in Prechistovka, which has now been taken. During the liberation of the village, drone footage from the 40th Marine Brigade captured the moment when Zelensky's remaining troops fled in panic to save their lives. The mass desertion of Ukrainian units of the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade and infantry formations of the 68th Jaeger Brigade was recorded, rapidly retreating towards Zolotaya Niva, and likely taking advantage for a few days. Establishing control over Prechistovka, would ultimately cut off the supply of the Ukrainian fortified area of Ugledar, and a large-scale attack on it would be imminent!
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  3700. Here we go again. The “Joe Biden” thing just started another war in Yemen without a constitutionally compliant declaration by Congress. And it/they did so against a rag-tag tribe of desert insurgents who cannot possibly harm the liberty or security of the American homeland. After all, the most fearsome missile possessed by the Houthi is the Burkan-3, which has a maximum range of 750 miles. Yet the last time we checked, the distance from Yemen to Washington DC was 7,200 miles. So why is the GOP leadership branch of the Uniparty saluting Sleepy Joe with a chorus of attaboys? No, Speaker Johnson, America must not go abroad seeking monsters to destroy, as our sixth president, John Qunicy Adams, stated so cogently nearly 203 years ago on Independence Day. The Red Sea is not the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound or the Gulf of Catalina—meaning that the Houthi blockade on ships heading to Israel in retaliation for the latter’s genocidal assault on Gaza is Jerusalem’s business to treat with, not Washington’s. In other words, all of the Uniparty prattle offered by McConnell and Johnson makes sense only through the false lens of a Washington-based Global Hegemon. So, yes, if Washington is obliged to keep the peace everywhere on the planet and safeguard all the sea lanes and all the air space from quarrelling local parties, as in the extant case, then let the assembled legislators call a vote and declare yet another war, as did the hapless Woodrow Wilson in April 1917 to no avail except the resulting rise of Hitler, Stalin, World War II, the holocaust and the Cold War. The truth is, Netanyahu is a megalomaniacal madman who has had the reckless audacity to pursue an utterly dangerous Machiavellian strategy of promoting and funding Hamas in order to kill dead as a doornail any prospect whatever of a two-state arrangement. For want of doubt, the facts are these. Between 2012 and 2018 Netanyahu gave Qatar approval to transfer a cumulative sum of nearly one billion dollars to Gaza in the form of suitcases full of cash. And at least half of that is estimated to have reached Hamas, including its military wing. In the meanwhile, Washington needs to truly sober up. Uncle Sam’s checking account is massively overdrawn. Now is not the time to fund wars which do nothing for America’s homeland security (Ukraine) or to launch yet another war on behalf of an ally that is unwilling to pay for the Garrison State its own blood-soaked anti-Palestinian war policies require. - LewRockwell
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  3706. The “rules-based international order” has allowed the incineration of Gaza, and the bombing of Yemeni forces who are trying to stop it. The “rules-based international order” allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed by western-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen. The “rules-based international order” allowed NATO powers to knowingly provoke a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine. The “rules-based international order” allowed western powers and their regional partners to plunge Syria into a horrific civil war by flooding the nation with heavily armed fascistic extremist factions. The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US to invade and occupy a vast stretch of Syrian territory in order to control the nation’s natural resources and prevent reconstruction. The “rules-based international order” has allowed our civilization to be controlled by the most powerful propaganda system ever devised, creating a mind-controlled dystopia of brainwashed gear-turners who are deceived into believing they are free. The “rules-based international order” has allowed our planet to be dominated by an empire of extreme murderousness and depravity at the cost of nonstop bloodshed and ever-increasing tyranny. If the “rules-based international order” has allowed all these things to happen, what kind of “rules” are we talking about exactly? And what kind of “order” do they sustain? If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it? - LewRockwell
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  3710. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The rapid changes, the Russian Armed Forces stormed and took the settlement of Berestki, securing more of the northern bank of the Kurakhovo reservoir, yesterday on November 27, 2024, Russian military correspondents report. Elements of the 114th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army released their footage, showing them planting the Red Flag and flying it on the roof of a house in the summer cottage area west of the settlement, accumulating the morale of the Kiev troops that was steadily declining in the town of Kurakhovo and its environs. The soldiers of the 114th Brigade continued their confident offensive, suppressing Zelensky's troops, who tried to take refuge in the buildings of the settlement, and in fortifications located about 1 km northwest of Berestky. During the assault, the footage showed the soldiers of the 114th Brigade, destroying Ukrainian equipment and infantry, consolidating control over the liberated territory. The aerial view shows the large Ukrainian fortifications, which were well established around March - April 2024, in addition to earthen fortifications, also have reinforced concrete shelters for defense. But the heroic soldiers managed to hold it constantly and persistently, giving a little friction to the Ukrainian positions in the shelters prepared for defense, but in the end it was not enough. In total, the fight to break through the enemy's defensive positions, Russian soldiers combed the enemy from house to house, previously pounded by artillery fire. Their attempt to escape in a vehicle was also thwarted! Berestky, another settlement in Donetsk under Russian control, but still awaiting official confirmation from the Ministry of Defense after the settlement is fully completed. Gradually, Russian troops will pass the reservoir, the last solid line of defense for Ukrainian troops - which means that Russia now has only about 3 km to trap Ukraine in the western part of the city of Kurakhovo. The situation in that direction is rapidly becoming critical, because it has long been known that Ukraine main problem is the lack of soldiers and equipment. Ukrainian brigades are facing a shortage of drones and have started to open donations, indicating that they are currently facing their toughest battle.
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  3711. Europe in particular is in utter shambles as their sunk-cost failure in Ukraine has exposed feeble European leaders as true naked emperors before their seething populaces. Germany continues to completely unspool before our eyes as France’s Macron issued a temp-gauging panic statement about the need for Europe to become ‘omnivores’ in a world full of ‘carnivores’, lest the decaying continent get left behind for good. Ultimately, as can be seen the two sides appear at a loggerheads: Trump in his supreme vanity thinks he can end a nigh holy war that has spilled the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides with the snap of a finger—this is the height of disrespect to both sides, particularly to Russia and Putin. But personally I can’t imagine Trump trying to escalate, beyond blowhard bluffs, because as stated, the US doesn’t have much of anything left to give beyond rusted junk or critical strategic reserves. The only possible way I can see out of it is Trump cutting all aid to Ukraine and allowing a full capitulation while blaming it on Europe after passing them the buck. We’ll close this section with Russian ambassador to UK Andrei Kelin’s reaffirmation of Russia’s negotiating positions: Compromise is out of the question. Zaporozhye and Kherson are Russian Russia will not make concessions to Ukraine – all demands of the Russian Federation will be met. These are demilitarization, denazification and neutral status of the country. - Simplicius
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  3721. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The airstrikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the night of August 30, 2024, caused a major fire at the Machinery-Building Plant, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine organize a repair base for their heavy equipment and weapons, open sources reported. Satellite images detected three large fires at the site of the strike in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, accompanied by the sound of subsequent explosions that prevented firefighters from localizing the fire and spreading to the company's paint shop and growing. Firefighters are still struggling to extinguish the fire at the affected warehouse and infrastructure, and the fire has spread to nearby buildings, including a gas station. The British airline reported 15 or more Russian FAB strikes since 5 a.m. local time. At the same time and as usually, local authorities claim that the strike allegedly hit the production facility, which produces baby food packaging, and juices. At least a 48-year-old woman was killed and 8 people were injured, local authorities added on Friday. Social media published footage of thick smoke after the landing, residents were urged to close their windows and not go outside, as elevated levels of sulfur dioxide were recorded in the air. Firefighters in bulletproof vests had been extinguishing the fire for several hours after the landing and explosion of the package. But, pro-Russian underground groups, convincingly reported that the attack hit an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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  3725. US Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine Extends to Syria The collective West is increasingly struggling to maintain the illusion of primacy in Europe as Russian forces advance on the battlefield, Western missiles fired into Russia fail to change the strategic direction of the conflict, and tensions dangerously escalate between the West and Russia; Ukraine’s military continues to deteriorate as Russian combat power grows, accelerating Russia’s gains on the battlefield; Russia has demonstrated escalation dominance with the use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, allowing for non-nuclear retaliation against Western targets if necessary; France and the UK’s discussions over deploying troops to Ukraine is likely a bluff. The feasibility of deploying these troops and having any impact on the conflict is negligible and would only weaken the collective West both literally and in terms of perceived political, economic, and military power; Beyond Ukraine, the US is opening up fronts in Georgia through street violence and a large, renewed US-armed terrorist offensive in Syria’s north; The US will continue pushing everywhere hoping cracks form because of its inability to defeat Russia in any one single point of conflict; The restart of US-backed hostilities in Syria is a stark warning to Russia regarding accepting any peace deal from the collective West and their proxies which would only serve as a means of regrouping, rearming, and relaunching hostilities at a later date; The Syrian conflict, like in Ukraine, is the product of US proxy war stretching over several years and multiple US presidential administrations; - The New Atlas
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  3734. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Syrian army began launching Tochka missiles, and the consequences of its "arrival" in one of the headquarters and operations of the Al Aqeeda affiliated organization "Jabhat al-Nusra" in Idlib, with devastating results. The scenes published on December 1, 2024 by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) showed that they began using various heavy weapons not only the M-600 'Tishreen' tactical ballistic missiles, but in particular now for the first time deploying the OTR-21 Tochka-U tactical missile, which can carry a 420kg warhead. In just a matter of days, the front line reached a dangerous level for the militia units, they entering Syria suddenly but miscalculated. This version has a range of 120 km and high accuracy, fired by the Syrian Army with targeted attacks on several militia command rooms, supported by Turkey and the West. The scene in the city of Idlib from the footage of the militia, shows the consequences of the Soviet Tochka missile hit, reaching a very severe level of damage to enemy targets. One of the gathering points of the terrorist militias "Jabhat al-Nusra", or the command headquarters of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as reported by other sources, was covered in dust and thick smoke, destroying several vehicles in the area around the militia leadership center after a wave of precision strikes by the Tochka missiles of the Assad Government forces. In this attack, at least 65 militias were reported killed, but it is likely more considering the damage caused by the missiles. It is noteworthy! The pro-militia media and their supporters are now starting to shout that the Syrian operations together with Russia are starting to have a severe impact on civilians, something that is repeated and unproven! The Syrian Government will take unprecedented measures to suppress terrorism that is considered to only understand the language of violence, and destroy it quickly as Assad previously said. It seems that the Syrian Army is operating hundreds of missiles from this system during this period, and its launches continue to destroy foreign militias with one goal, to occupy Syria.
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  3735. - China's growing technological edge despite extreme measures by the US & its allies to arrest its development. - Ukraine's failing offensive is just the visual manifestation of much greater fundamental odds it and its Western sponsors cannot overcome, particularly in terms of military industrial output. - Tension on the Korean Peninsula is the result of the United States attempting to create yet another proxy conflict like in Ukraine against Russia, but this time across Asia against China. - NATO exercises meant to intimidate Russia are more posturing than any actual serious message. Posturing without the military industrial capacity to sustain the type of warfare required to defeat Russia is meaningless. The New Atlas War Channel UKRAINIAN WAR CRIME caught on cam as Russian prisoners of war (POWs) forced to walk in minefields. At 01:00, you can see Russian POWs in the distance as Kiev's troops open fire at them and apparently hit mine with thundering explosion (01:13) seen in video right next to where Russian soldiers were. Above video reportedly found on phone in Ukrainian dugout. - Intel Report Ukrainian Armed Forces strike residential area of ​​Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region (ex-Ukraine) using Western-supplied weapons. In this way 'liberating their people' apparently; 4 apartment buildings are destroyed or severely damaged, information on casualties is being confirmed. - Intel Report On Putin's instruction, several planes on their way to Libya today with doctors, rescuers, and basic necessities for thousands of flood victims. - Intel Report DRONES to make lives for Ukrainian troops and vehicles utter hell, as tiny explosive packages home in on armor and soldiers like deadly mosquitoes (00:09), all while Russian forces repel 4 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine), routing Kiev’s forces and inflicting up to 275 casualties. Another 2 Ukrainian army attacks become utter failures in Zapoorozhye region (ex-Ukraine) with Kiev losing over 145 troops, while 2 Acacia self-propelled howitzers and up to 75 Ukrainian soldiers meet their end in Kherson region (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 14
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  3739. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - More than 50% of Toretsk is already under the control of Russian forces, and assault units are advancing amidst the ongoing fighting, liberating blocks of the city, which were defended by Ukrainian Nazi troops from the Azov Battalion and the Enei Battalion of the Lyut Brigade. This was confirmed by the Leader of the Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, in a video on October 13, 2024, when he personally assessed the situation in Dzerzhinsk, which had been renamed Toretsk. One of the commanders of the assault units that liberated the city with the call sign "Ostap" from the 132nd Brigade, spoke about this in a conversation with Pushilin, that presented the soldiers with watches during the visit. “Soon the old name will be officially returned,” Pushilin said! Near the Central District, heavy clashes continue and clearings in high-rise buildings and on the streets of the city are underway, although near the Residential District, there is a slight calm. The moment when the Ukrainian drone observed the Russian Orthodox soldiers praying, showing these people standing on the honorable side during the storming of the buildings of Toretsk. Due to the support of artillery and air force, which attacked Ukrainian firing positions and ammunition depots, while the Russian assault troops fought from house to house, continuing with significant changes to liberate half of the city. The footage shows the intensity of the fighting in the working positions of the Ukrainian assault units, which are being hampered by heavy fire from the Russian troops. They even show signs of almost surrendering the city, due to the lack of reinforcements and heavy equipment. The Eastern District of Toretsk, is almost under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian soldiers filmed the aftermath of the fighting in the area, in other reports that Ukraine controls about 30% of the city. Sources say that the Ukrainian military acted according to known practice, that is, withdrawing some of its units again and the remnants of the Ukrainian nationalist troops were forced to flee the city, which is expected to soon change its old name, Dzerzhinsk!
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  3741. So much assurance without even a shred of proof presented. It’s actually incredible when you step back a moment and consider how the West lives increasingly in a total fantasy construct. On every global issue or flashpoint, Western media no longer exercises even the barest scruples, instead blanketly reporting the most fantastical tales with zero corroboration. In Iran we’re expected to believe Israel “decimated” the entire Iranian air defense network, countless major labs and buildings, despite zero proof apart from a single grainy satellite photo that shows a slight discoloration somewhere—far less proof than we got from Iran’s much more massive strike on Israeli bases during True Promise 2.0. In Georgia, Western press reports with shameless authority that the election was ‘stolen’ despite no credible evidence. Threats, lies, and propaganda are flung with no accountability or attempt at justification; it seems we’ve entered the rapid parabolic singularity point of the ‘post-truth’ era in the West. Western intelligentsia and its corrupt crony political class must now likewise balloon their brazen lies to infinity just to keep from drowning in them as if the buoyancy of volume will keep them up. It seems obvious that Kiev is creating a preemptive excuse for their imminent loss of Kursk and the total catastrophic failure of the Kursk operation. In order to excuse and justify the massive failure, can conjure the ‘North Korean phantom menace’ to claim “we only lost because Russia introduced a surprise shock force of 10,000 North Korean special forces!” - Simplicius
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  3750. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Ukrainian armored forces were completely destroyed, failing to unblock VelykaNovosilka, attempting to assist the withdrawal of troops from the Russian encirclement. Today's reports on January 21, 2025 from various reliable sources, indicate that Russian troops advanced on Velyka Novosilka and captured part of the city, while Ukrainian armored forces tried to use a smoke screen to cover the possible withdrawal of units, now they are moving across Mokri Yaly river towards the flank of NovyKomar. Finally, Ukrainian garrison is almost completely surrounded, and it is not easy to retreat through the waterways and open fields. The Russian military has a fairly strong hold along the flank, where Russian drone operators spotted the armored maneuver and immediately destroyed it! The defeat of Ukrainian armor due to drone shooting by the Russian Armed Forces at the starting position in Dneproenergiya village. Another attempt of the armor was thwarted when they decided to reach the ground and move across the river, the distance from the combat contact line was about 5 km. It seems that Ukraine did not take into account that Russian fiber optic FPV drones work 24 hours a day, locking the flanks and hitting several enemy armor separately. In the village, Ukraine had to be willing to lose one T-64 BV, one Kozak armored vehicle and one American International M1224 MaxxPro MRAP. Other equipment such as one Excavator was destroyed and one 2S3 Akatsiya 152 mm self-propelled gun was burned by drones as in the footage. Meanwhile in a separate location, explosion and subsequent fire on an infantry fighting vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novy Komar village. Footage shows one Ukrainian variant of BMP-1 or BRM-1K, trying to break through to help the besieged troops reach the land of Velyka Novosilka, moving under the shadow of a drone operated by a Russian operator from the 37th Russian Motorized Rifle Brigade. The fiber optic drone strike destroyed it and burned completely. Velyka Novosilka front in south Donetsk is very worrying and the besieged Ukrainian troops have no choice but to surrender!
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  3753. For those not inclined to read to the end, here’s the bottom line — Israeli sources are admitting that the Israeli military killed its own civilians due to the oxymoronic term, “friendly fire.” The Government of Israel, in the aftermath of this debacle, worked furiously to proclaim the Hamas attack as mindless terrorism that had no other purpose than to slaughter Jews. Netanyahu’s government lied about Hamas murdering 40 babies and raping women. Not true. The only children killed that day were victims of the Israeli military. The Hamas attack was planned months in advance. We now know that Israeli intelligence officers tried to warn their bosses but were ignored. The Hamas plan was simple and had two objectives — 1) attack Israeli military position and kill soldiers, and 2) capture hostages to be used as bargaining chips to secure the release of imprisoned Palestinians. As I noted in a previous post, Hamas hit elements of the elite Golani Brigade and killed 72 of its members. That is not terrorism, that is war. YNET News published a piece today on “friendly fire” casualties by the Israeli military and buried this at the bottom of their piece: I guess this is Israel’s version of “Don’t ask, Don’t tell.” Remember the rave in the desert that was attacked by Hamas paragliders? The Hamas attackers were carrying rifles and pistols. They had no weapon system capable of causing this damage to the vehicles. These were hit by missiles fired by Israeli military helicopters. People who may have doubted the GrayZone reporting now have additional evidence to weigh in the aftermath of Israeli soldiers murdering three Israeli hostages who escaped their Hamas captors. Israel spent years bolstering its reputation as a professional, capable military force. Now, in the span of almost three months, the Israeli military is facing a pubic relations disaster. Instead of disciplined soldiers commanded by capable officers, the world is seeing an army and air force that is undisciplined, reckless and quick on the trigger. The United States Army was tarred by the My Lai massacre. The Israeli military campaign in Gaza in My Lai on steroids. - Sonar21
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  3759. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - An armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Army, which was on its way to the Pokrovsk front line, was completely wiped out by several well-prepared strikes by Russian troops. The Russian military channel released footage on Telegram channel, on September 30, 2024, showing how an APC, loaded with troops, decided to confidently rush to the positions of Russian troops, holding back attacks to defend Pokrovsk and being able to decide the fate of the war in one of the hottest sections of the front. However, the footage of objective control shows that the armored personnel carrier was even thwarted by a mine explosion, and was forced to stop in the middle of the journey. The unknown armored personnel carrier was set on fire by the “Black Leopards” of the Central Military District, which were on alert at the front. The surviving troops of about four people inside the vehicle scattered out of the vehicle and hid in the forest belt. The attack was continued with artillery ammunition, which swept the armored personnel carrier with additional fire, completely destroying it. As for the troops who managed to escape from the vehicle, it is unknown whether they were evacuated by their comrades or further processed by Russian troops. So far, the Russian Armed Forces are unstoppable, capturing two more villages, they have only 9 kilometers left to Pokrovsk in Donetsk region. Bombing raids were carried out on air defense posts of the Nazi Brigade "Lyut" in the villages of Lysovka and Krutoy Yar, military experts say. At one site, Ukrainian soldiers filmed the facts on their mobile phones from a distance, showing how Russian armored vehicles surrounded their comrades' positions. Fortunately, they escaped without waiting for the encirclement to come upon them.
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  3763. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Drone footage of Russian troops returning to duty on Sunday, showed military vehicles scattered and filling the streets of Plekhovo village, after its complete liberation on the night of December 7, as reported by Russian Marines from the 810th Brigade. Plekhovo, located south of the main Ukrainian stronghold of Sudzha in Kursk region, was almost completely liberated in November, but Ukrainian troops took control of local farms located on the outskirts, holding out there for a long time, preventing Russian troops from reaching one of the main logistics routes in the region. Eventually, “Russia advances, even Ukraine retreats”, surrounded and trapped in Plekhovo, in a hybrid war that Pentagon is unofficially waging against Moscow, and amid rumors that Kiev will receive new weapons in mid-January 2025. NATO weapons and vehicles assist them achieve this goal, but it will not help! In fact, they suffer serious losses and are turning into a dumping ground for damaged and destroyed equipment in Plekhovo. Many of the military equipment was left behind by fleeing Ukrainian soldiers on the streets and near the village, while bodies were scattered there for the unfortunate ones. Several vehicles were recognizable in the drone footage, some as “scrap metal”, and the slightly damaged ones as “trophies” for Russia from the nearly 50 scattered vehicles. The Russian 810th Marine Brigade showed such losses as Turkish BMC Kirpi, from the US a pair of International MaxxPro MRAP, a pair of Humvee, M113 APC and Cougar 4x4 MRAP. While Ukrainian Army’s BTR-4 Bucephalus IFV, also suffered a bad fate along with their vehicle counterparts. Now, after a relatively long lull in which the line of contact did not expand significantly, Russian troops are advancing towards the small town of Sudzha from the south, while developing operations towards Guevo-Kurilovka from the west to eliminate Ukrainian troops, who fled after Plekhovo liberation. Intercepted radio communications reveal the desperate pleas of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Plekhovo – trapped and betrayed. The promised evacuation never happened because the command left the entire unit to its fate. Thus, Russian fighters did not force the events and systematically pushed the enemy out. The capture of the settlements around Plekhovo is only about of time!
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  3766. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian stormtroopers of the Tsentr Group of Forces moved into the city and drove out Ukrainian troops, leading to the liberation of the city of Novogrodovka on September 8, on the Pokrovsk direction. The Russian Defense Ministry released detailed footage on September 30, 2024, showing first-person view of small groups conducting urban combat, which is still held by the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Due to strong fire support from artillery and constant reconnaissance by drones, the soldiers were able to move quickly and occupy enemy positions with minimal friction. However, the interaction between the various units was persistent, combing the hiding places of the troops fighting for Zelensky, one by one in building after building. However, all this was preceded by powerful artillery fire and under the blows of FVP drones, which accurately destroyed and suppressed enemy firepower. As seen in the video frames, BM-21 Grad MLRS worked well and accurately against the troops of the 25th Airborne Brigade, digging at least some of the hiding places in the industrial zone of the Novogrodovskaya Mine No.2, including garbage heaps. As a result, something happened there, the remaining battalions of the brigade, which had split into several groups, were mostly eliminated, and retreated from the city, trying to break away from the advancing Russian assault troops. This allowed the stormtroopers to quickly clearing the city streets. The enemy troops could no longer hide in the basements and they were driven out of the settlement, as a soldier with the call sign "Sever" said during the assault. The persistent efforts of the Russian assault troops, coupled with skillful leadership and effective use of forces and resources, led to a successful mission, completing the task of completely capturing Novogrodovka in Donetsk region. Since then, the local population has maintained good relations with the Russian soldiers, with former Ukrainian Army soldiers switching sides during the fighting. A resident of Novogrodovka told a Russian war correspondent about the forced evacuation carried out by the Ukrainian authorities. "Ukrainian authorities are separating families with children!" He also mentioned "Angels" - this is a Ukrainian volunteer group, which tries to bring as many children as possible to the Ukrainian side.
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  3769. “Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” – Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” I gave up on my country’s electoral system more than fifty years ago. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair and was so even then. Do most people have a clue that their country is owned and run by a small group of the super-rich and ten or so financial institutions, such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, etc., the big banks and financial interests that in 1947 formed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to spearhead the U.S. warfare state around the world in support of its economy that is reliant on endless war? The electorate continually puts its hope in the performers that the spectacle’s producers put up to front for their interests, failing to grasp that the rulers’ interests are not theirs. Arguing and anguishing over certain policy differences between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, they fail to see that both exist to serve global capital, not regular people, that exchanging presidents is a counterfeiter’s con-game with the voters the scammers’ marks. This void is the fact that the U.S. political economy is controlled by a small group of the wealthiest nihilists and is maintained through lies, a military-industrial economy, and perpetual wars around the world to maintain and increase their wealth. It is a death cult that people worship by their participation. Understanding it helps to explain most of what is going on today, including the farcical election just concluded. A battle between two candidates who represent the forces that oppress the common people, support the genocide of the Palestinians, and are figureheads for the warfare state. “Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich stay rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows” Do they? - LewRockwell
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  3775. The Russian military is making advances at multiple locations along the frontline in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), according to Friday's daily press briefing of the country’s Defense Ministry released. Officials said that over the past 24 hours, Moscow’s troops have inflicted heavy casualties on the adversary, amounting to up to 795 servicemen. The DPR saw intense combat at multiple locations, with troops “taking up better positions” near the village of Klescheevka, located to the southwest of the town of Artyomovsk (known in Ukraine as Bakhmut). The small village has been experiencing heavy combat for months, following the liberation of Artyomovsk early last year. The Russian military reported destroying multiple pieces of military hardware, including assorted armored and soft vehicles, as well as several artillery pieces, including two US-made M777 towed howitzers. The military said it had conducted multiple long-range attacks on Ukrainian ammunition stockpiles, troops, and hardware assembly points in more than 100 locations. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu revealed fresh estimates on the casualties sustained by Ukrainian forces over the past month. All in all, Ukraine lost more than 23,000 troops in January, the minister claimed during a meeting with top Russian military commanders on Friday, stating his forces now “hold the strategic initiative along the entire line of contact.” Over the past month, the Ukrainian military has also suffered heavy equipment losses, with over 3,000 heavy hardware pieces destroyed. The losses include multiple US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems, German-supplied Leopard main battle tanks and other hardware provided to Kiev by its Western sponsors, according to Shoigu. - RT
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  3776. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - The occupation army documented the launch of a barrage of rockets, fired by the Hezbollah Resistance Forces from southern Lebanon, entering the port city of Haifa and its surroundings. Today, September 8, 2024, at least 100 rockets were launched simultaneously in less than 30 minutes, marking the largest barrage of rockets in history since the beginning of the war on the occupied city, an important commercial and industrial center for the Zionist entity. The Israeli media labeled this as the largest attack, and wrote “You have to be here to know how big the disaster is in this city. Although this is part of Hezbollah's massive retaliation, but Israeli brutal attacks on Lebanese cities are considered much more destructive and indiscriminate. The Israeli air defense missile, Iron Dome tried to intercept some of them. The barrage of rockets that appeared in the sky of Haifa seemed serious, Iron Dome which costs 100 thousand dollars per shot, seemed to be overwhelmed by the incoming rockets. Some anothers were reported to have fallen directly while the settlers were saving themselves, in the center of Israeli third most populous metropolis, one of the two main ports, which serves as an entry and exit point for various goods including military weapons. Some of the rocket impacts fell, and one of them caused the most intensive explosion in Haifa Bay due to the failed interception of the defenses. Currently, several rockets have been reported to have fallen, and shrapnel in about 150 locations in the Haifa area and its surroundings. So far, there have been no reports of casualties. At the same time as Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Qassem was giving a speech, 100 rockets immediately happening to the heart of Haifa. He said in his direct speech that "The leadership and control in the resistance are carefully organized, following the practices established by Hezbollah, and we have dealt a painful blow. This large coalition of enemies Israel, the United States and the West intends to pressure and intimidate us, but we are not afraid of them," Sheikh Naim Qassem said. Meanwhile, the death toll from the US-backed Israeli aggression continues to rise daily in Gaza to 41,965 and 97,590 injured since October 7, not including the martyrs from the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
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  3796. The U.S. War Machine: Congress Sidelines Itself, the Empire Marches On (for now) Buried beneath the grandiose slogan of “democracy”: the US hasn’t declared war since World War II. Congress, the body constitutionally mandated to oversee such vital decisions, has been relegated to a cheerleading squad while the executive branch wields unchecked power like an emperor commanding legions. This is imperial fiat masquerading as consent of the governed. From Vietnam to Iraq, Libya to Syria, the U.S. war machine roars on, fueled not by congressional debate but by rubber-stamped resolutions, appropriations, and the all-too-familiar "Authorizations for Use of Military Force". These legal fig leaves allow the White House to bomb, invade, and occupy without a whisper of accountability. Let’s be blunt: Congress sold its soul. Since World War II, it has surrendered its constitutional prerogative to declare war, instead passing vague resolutions that grant presidents a blank check to wage war wherever and whenever they see fit. The result? Endless wars with no rational objectives, no exit strategies, and no accountability. And what happens to the trillions of dollars funneled into these wars? Enter the military-industrial complex, the world’s most sophisticated money-laundering operation. These wars are about enriching defense contractors, lobbyists, and Pentagon officials who shuffle through the revolving door between government and industry. From Lockheed Martin to Raytheon, the same corporations profiting off the carnage also fund think tanks and political campaigns to keep the war machine running. While the bombs fall, contracts worth billions flow into the coffers of weapons manufacturers. A significant chunk is then laundered back into DC, disguised as campaign contributions or lucrative speaking gigs. The Pentagon’s own accounting is so opaque that 2 trillion in spending has been deemed "untraceable." And let’s not forget Ukraine or Israel, the MIC’s latest cash cow, where tens of billions in U.S. aid vanish into a black hole of corruption. The wars of the 21st century don’t even bother with pretense. Forget declarations; the U.S. now engages in hybrid wars, proxy conflicts, economic strangulation through sanctions, and information warfare. Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, these are not declared wars, but they are wars nonetheless, waged in the shadows with the same deadly consequences. And behind every drone strike or sanction lies another bloated defense budget, another no-bid contract, another slush fund for the MIC. The Declare War Clause was meant to check power, to ensure that the decision to spill blood was taken soberly and democratically. Instead, it has been sidelined by an empire that cannot stop expanding, an empire that feeds on forever wars. This is not about defending freedom, but controlling resources, securing markets, and maintaining hegemony at any cost. And as BRICS rises, as the Global majority asserts its sovereignty, the Empire grows more desperate. Its (losing) wars: kinetic, economic, and informational, are not signs of strength but of fragility, the thrashing of a system that cannot adapt to a multipolar world. Who benefits from this endless bloodshed? Not the American people, saddled with 38 trillion in national debt and over 200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The winners are the same cabal that profits whether the bombs drop or not: defense contractors, Wall Street speculators, and the political elite. The MIC is not just about war but about money laundering on an imperial scale. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Cash cows. The conflict in Ukraine? A feeding frenzy for weapons dealers and their political masters. This is not just America’s problem. The endless wars waged by the U.S. ripple out, destabilizing nations, wrecking economies, and displacing millions. The Empire stumbles, but it won’t fall on its own. It’s time to push harder. The age of unaccountable wars and untraceable profits must end. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  3811. So, is Ukraine admitting that a non-neutral Ukraine is a key linchpin buffer state that poses massive risks to either side, depending on its alignment? If that’s the case, why the hysterical denial of Russia’s justified concerns about Ukraine’s shifting alignment to the West after the CIA-sponsored coup in 2014? Surely they can see Russia is likewise due the same allowance of concern they now profess for themselves. They do also mention that Putin doesn’t quite have the incentive for a ‘land for peace’ deal when his troops are essentially winning and making active advances. Why settle for some land now when he can take the whole thing? Of course, one of the answers to this lay in Zelensky’s Kursk gambit, which was partly designed to capture an amount of territory that would induce Putin to exchange it for what Russia captured in Donbass and elsewhere. But this has no chance, as Russian troops are shrinking Ukraine’s Kursk holdings daily, including some gains yesterday and today, and it will all be recaptured in due time. Russia has shown nothing other than iron-clad determination for total victory, with its economy going to a war-footing, particularly with next year’s mass defense spending surges, and its population—which includes previously frayed elites—increasingly patriotic. Any inconvenient ‘thorn’ Ukraine manages to rib into Russia’s side only amplifies Russia’s resoluteness and solidarity. There is no possible event that can even conceivably cause Russia to decide “enough is enough, we must back down”. - Simplicius
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  3816. Trump littered his first term with a collection of neocons and self-seekers who had no loyalty to Trump. His nominations of General Mark Milley, FBI Director Chris Wray, John Bolton, General Mad Dog Mattis and CIA Director Gina Haspel were self-inflicted wounds that continue to fester to this day. He got played by Dr. Anthony Fauci. One of the more despicable creatures, in my view, is Mike Pompeo, who reportedly is campaigning to be named Secretary of Defense. He would be a disaster for Trump and for the security of this nation. While he stumped for Trump — once it was clear that Trump was likely to win — some of us have not forgotten how sanctimoniously he threw Trump under the bus on the bogus Classified Documents case and the illegal appointment of Jack Smith as Special Prosecutor. If Trump and his team let this type of betrayal go unpunished, then I fear Trump is setting himself up for four more years of lawfare. Trump’s first act — naming his Chief of Staff — is a great indicator that he understands you have to have someone who cares about you running your daily affairs. Trump’s brush with death in Butler, Pennsylvania changed him for the better. I think it was the first time in his life that he realized his own mortality. It humbled him and brought him the realization that there may have been Divine intervention. Now, what will he do with this? The Deep State is thrashing about frantically in the wake of Trump’s victory. That’s why you saw the names of Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Nikki Haley floated as possible nominees for the Trump cabinet. I don’t think Trump will make the same mistakes that he did in the first term. He now knows that he is in a brutal cagematch and that his opponents have no intention of letting up or showing mercy or doing anything for the good of the American people. They want to hang on to their power and they will have to be defeated. - sonar21
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  3817. What is currently happening in the UK is unprecedented. Though there’s argument to be made it’s been brewing under the surface for a long time now, the sheer rapidity of the naked totalitarian onset has rarely been witnessed in modern history. The problem is, some contest that economic reasons were in fact a fig leaf to cover a much darker justification for the massive forced migration resulting in social and cultural destruction. In fact, not surprisingly, it was from the bowels of some shadowy think-tank called the Performance and Innovation Unit that the policy paper which birthed the new era of mass migration into the UK came about. The paper was released under Home Office head, Bilderberger, Jack Straw—who was Blair’s neocon-equivalent, and one of the key instigators of the Iraq War in the British government. It’s no surprise then that such deeply-rooted globalist comprador elite henchmen were instrumental in unleashing mass migration as a social weapon There are always multiple layers to the conspiracy in each country: the first veil was the lie about boosting the economy; the second was the lie about mass-migration being merely a way to rib Conservatives. But the true reason lays buried even beneath this hidden layer: mass-migration is the final weapon to destroy any ideological resistance to the globalist plan of centralizing power, to create, effectively, one world governance. By overrunning society with migrants and relegating native Brits to second class citizens, you disenfranchise and disinherit them to the point of torpor and impotence, clearing the way for total ideological subjugation allowing such madness as currently unfolding in the UK to reign. - Simplicius
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  3821. US COVERS UP WAR CRIMES - EXCLUSIVE: Donetsk Republic Chief Pushilin lays out how Washington hushes up own war crimes and justifies indiscriminate use of lethal cluster munitions against civilians. In rare meet with Intel Republic TOP official exposes double standards Donbass has faced since 2014 when Ukraine declared genocidal war against Russian-speaking regions. Where necessary, Western countries simply do not notice anything, including war crimes. Where war crimes - in their opinion - need to be committed, they cover it - Pushilin (above vid). - Intel Report Update on the conflict in Gaza for December 6, 2023… - Recent comments by the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are attempting to create plausible deniability regarding its central role in enabling Israeli military operations in Gaza, and more specifically, the targeting and displacement of the civilian population while using Hamas as a pretext; - The US follows a pattern of creating false pretexts and maintaining plausible deniability in regards to provocations and proxy wars; - There is little likelihood that upcoming US elections are driving US foreign policy, as US foreign policy is determined by and for unelected corporate interests regardless of who is in the White House or in Congress; - The New Atlas A Ukrainian attempt to launch overnight drone attacks against multiple Russian targets has been foiled, according to the defense ministry in Moscow. Russian air defenses downed 22 unmanned aerial vehicles while another 13 were intercepted over the Sea of ​​Azov and the Republic of Crimea, the ministry reported. - RT
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  3822. The Recent Bombing in Iran and US Support of Terrorism in Iran... - The US has used armed terrorist organizations for decades as proxies against their adversaries worldwide, including most recently in Syria, Iraq, and against Iran; - US weapons and equipment “fell into the hands” of ISIS and other terrorist organizations, consisting of the largest, most effective militant groups participating in the US proxy war against Syria; - US government and corporate-funded think tanks like the Brookings Institution in its 2009 “Which Path to Persia?” policy paper proposed using listed terrorist organizations like the MEK to undermine, coerce, and possibly even overthrow the Iranian government; - The 2009 paper suggested MEK be “delisted” as a terrorist organization by the US State Department, which the Department eventually did in 2012 following intense lobbying and media campaigning by senior US and European representatives; - The MEK is currently still supported by senior US-European representatives with undermining, coercing, and overthrowing the Iranian government remaining as a key Western geopolitical objective; - Western media warns the recent terrorist attack in Iran could trigger a wider regional conflict, which the US has openly sought since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023; - The 2009 Brookings paper feared Iran might not retaliate against US provocations, denying the US the wider regime-change war it sought; - Between the US-backed brutalization of Gaza and now a terrorist attack on Iran itself, the US is making it as politically unlikely as possible for Tehran to avoid retaliation if and when a major US or Israel strike on Iran takes place; - The New Atlas
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  3844. In the footsteps of assassins and those who hire them Andrey Derkach, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian who became widely known for publishing recordings of conversations between ex-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and high-ranking foreign officials, including Biden (who was then US vice president), gave an extensive interview earlier this month to journalist Simona Mangiante. During this conversation, he disclosed sensational new details about the “special ties” between the Biden family and the Ukrainian authorities. So, instead of exposing the corruption in the previous Ukrainian administration, the Bidens (along with Zelensky and his team) turned against anti-corruption fighters. Derkach, who has been forced to hide in Belarus, was stripped of his citizenship by the Ukrainian authorities and sanctioned by the US. But that’s not all. In addition to criminal investigations and sanctions, Derkach says he has faced assassination attempts ordered by top officials in Kiev and Washington. It is noteworthy that in 2021, the Ukrainian police discovered plans to assassinate Derkach and the head of the group of prosecutors in the Burisma energy company case, Konstantin Kulik, but did not initiate a criminal case. The investigation tracked down the criminal gang from Eastern Europe hired to carry out the hit, as well as their base in Transcarpathia. The assassin himself was supposed to be an Albanian, but the information was leaked, and the gang escaped. The number of witnesses in the Burisma case – a company though which Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden earned profits via alleged corruption schemes – is also steadily decreasing. Shortly before she was due to testify as a witness in the case, the wife of Nikolai Lisin – a former partner of Nikolai Zlochevsky – was found dead in her apartment. She had been responsible for accounting at Burisma and had been aware of transactions carried out in the interests of the Bidens. Lisin himself died in a car accident back in 2011. - RT
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  3847. Ukranian terror drone destroyed over Belgorod region, pre-war Russia (see map) - Russian Defense Ministry. Earlier, Kiev regime also dropped explosives on Belgorod village, damaging house and car. UPDATE: 1 civilian killed, 2 wounded in Ukrainian shelling - Belgorod Governor. - Intel Report RUSSIA LEVELING UP the bombings to level Ukrainian positions as enemy ammo dump in Kherson (ex-Ukraine) becomes crispy toast with Kiev losing 250 personnel and Strela-10 air defense system in Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). Russian forces repel 4 Ukrainian attacks in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) and inflict 115 casualties, while destroying ammo dump in South Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) along with 100 enemy soldiers. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 1 - Intel Report “On September 1, at about 11:15pm Moscow time, the Kiev regime attempted to launch a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge using a semi-submersible unmanned boat,” the ministry said in a brief statement, adding that the hostile craft was “promptly detected and destroyed” in the Black Sea. Three hours later, at around 2:10am on Saturday, another drone was destroyed in the area as it also attempted to strike the bridge, the Russian military said. A third incoming unmanned boat was reportedly neutralized at 2:20am. A child was killed and more than ten people were wounded on Friday as Ukrainian forces used multiple rocket launch systems to bombard the center of Donetsk, the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), local authorities have said. A total of 15 projectiles were fired at the area of the Donetsk City mall during rush hour, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said on Telegram on Friday. One person has been killed and two others wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Saturday. Writing on Telegram, Gladkov said that Kiev’s forces bombarded a settlement of Urazovo around 15km from the Ukrainian border. He added that one shell hit a private residential house, killing a man who received “fatal fragment wounds.
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  3852. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian troops dropped leaflets calling for the surrender of Ukrainian troops, who are still entrenched in Novoukrainka in the South Donetsk direction west of Ugledar. The Russian Defense Ministry released footage yesterday, September 23, 2024, showing a UAV team from the artillery reconnaissance unit of the Vostok Group of Forces of the Pacific Fleet Marine Brigade, dropping about 100-150 leaflets with special QR codes on the positions of Zelensky's troops. Using drones, each leaflet dropped contained a call to immediately abandon their weapons, giving the enemy the opportunity to surrender on the battlefield, and instructions on how to do so, before their positions are powerfully storming! A leaflet can sometimes have the same effect as a projectile! After that, three other soldiers from the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, took advantage of the Russian leaflets after dropped, and they decided to abandon their positions near Novoukrainka. One of the prisoners, Alexander, even advised everyone in other positions to surrender. They treat us normally here, they promised that there will be an exchange soon and they will exchange us,” Alexander added. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian troops who did not heed Alexander’s advice are facing a terrible fate under Russian shelling. Today, September 24, new glide bombs by Su-34 bomber, pounded their deployment points on the flank of the front line between Novoukrainka and Ugledar. Objective control data on the breakthrough by Russian units in this section, they have occupied a bridgehead on Kashlagach River, and advanced 4 kilometers deep into the town of Ugledar. The main goal was to quickly cut off the last Ukrainian logistics that were trapped, and now the entire town, under heavy fire from Russian MLRS, is likely to force the remaining soldiers, to leave the town before the final assault. The two-year battle for Ugledar, is likely to end with a victory for the Russian troops!
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  3879. Macron’s “Democracy”: Rules for Thee, Not for Me French President Emmanuel Macron’s house of cards continues to crumble as Prime Minister Michel Barnier becomes the first PM since 1962 to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament. With 331 votes, well above the required 288... the National Assembly united across the political spectrum to oust Barnier. The left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) and the right-wing National Rally (RN), normally fierce rivals, found common cause against Macron’s increasingly autocratic minority government. Marine Le Pen, leader of the RN, made her position crystal clear: “We made the choice to protect the French people. There was no other solution.” Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the NPF declared the no-confidence vote “inevitable”and called for Macron’s resignation, bluntly warning: “Even with a Barnier every three months, Macron will not last three years.” But Macron, ever the arrogant globalist puppet, has ruled out resigning. This is the same Macron who lectures Russia, China, Iran, and even Georgia on the "sanctity of democracy" and "respecting the will of the people." Yet in his own backyard, the will of the French people and their representatives is treated as a nuisance, not a mandate. The Breaking Point: The crisis erupted over Barnier’s draconian social security budget, proposing €40 billion in spending cuts and €20 billion in tax hikes. RN called the budget a slap in the face to ordinary French citizens, while the NPF accused the cabinet of betraying its pact with the electorate. Macron’s refusal to listen to his people has turned France into a powder keg, with thousands protesting in the streets. Macron’s rejection of democratic accountability echoes the arrogance of Louis XVI, whose obliviousness to the people's demands lit the fuse for revolution. The Fifth Republic, born from the ashes of political instability in 1958, now teeters under Macron’s hubris, reminiscent of the systemic collapses that doomed previous regimes. The cracks in the foundation of French governance are widening, and history offers no comfort to those who ignore its lessons. Macron, along with his fellow “rules-based order” lackeys in Germany, the UK, and the US, dares to lecture the world on democracy while ignoring the fundamental principle of consent of the governed. When Western elites speak of democracy, they mean control. When they speak of the “rules,” they mean rules for others, never for themselves. Macron’s crisis doesn’t just jeopardize France, it shakes the EU’s fragile core. As the bloc struggles with mounting economic and political divisions, this instability in its second-largest economy highlights the West’s inability to lead by example. Europe’s self-styled moral superiority erodes further, while the multipolar world takes note and prepares alternatives. France’s constitutional rules prevent another election for a year, leaving Macron scrambling to appoint a new puppet prime minister. But the damage is done. Macron’s government is a hollow shell, propped up by hypocrisy and arrogance. The Fifth Republic has endured 150 no-confidence votes since 1958, but Macron may very well go down as the man who shattered its credibility entirely. The rules-based order isn’t just failing, it’s imploding under the weight of its own lies. Keep lecturing, Macron. The world sees you for what you are: a globalist marionette clinging to power while your master's empire burns. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  3891. The Biden administration immediately claimed the attack was backed by Iran, with profoundly influential news agencies like AP and Reuters regurgitating this claim as established fact in their headlines immediately thereafter. As DeCamp notes in the aforementioned article, back in October a US official acknowledged to CNN that that there’s actually a “persistent intelligence gap” as to how much these Shia militias are in fact beholden to the orders of Tehran, but apparently this attack being linked to Iran is now being treated as established gospel truth anyway. In a statement on the attacks Biden said the US “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing,” meaning yet another military escalation in the middle east is on its way under this murderous administration. A full-scale war with Iran would be the absolute worst-case scenario resulting from the violence which erupted in the middle east this past October, potentially with mass deaths on a scale that would make what’s been happening in Gaza look like child’s play. In that same statement Biden said the US troops who were killed in the “despicable and wholly unjust attack” died working “to fight terrorism”, which is of course ridiculous. People who live in the middle east have far more legitimacy attacking US troops in resistance to a US-backed genocide than US troops have in being in the middle east to begin with, and the US military presence they attacked is there to shore up geostrategic control, not to fight terror. The US base by the Jordan-Syria border that was struck by Iraqi forces functions as a support base for America’s al-Tanf garrison, a sprawling “deconfliction zone” (read: illegal military occupation) in Syria which the US has for years been using to disrupt Iranian activities in the region and help Israel carry out its constant airstrikes in Syria. “Fighting terrorism” is just the pretense for the US military presence in the region; as always, the real reason is to facilitate the geostrategic domination of the US empire. Every US military fatality in the middle east is the fault of the US government for putting them there. US troops shouldn’t be in the middle east at all, and the US has no legitimacy in retaliating against efforts to kick them out of the region by the people who live there. Iraqi militias have 100 percent legitimacy in attacking US troops in the middle east during a US-backed genocide, and the US has zero legitimacy in retaliating. Get out of the middle east. Just Stop backing a genocide in Gaza, stop murdering people to shore up domination of world resources, and leave. Leave before you unleash something far worse than the nightmare you’ve already inflicted upon our species. - LewRockwell
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  3892. A chilling and alarming statement. Sergei Lavrov summoned U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy to the Russian Foreign Ministry and delivered a stinging demarche in response to the use of U.S. supplied cluster munitions in the attack on Russian civilians sunbathing on the shores of the Black Sea. Press reports offer this summary of the Russian position: Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, “Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.” It did not elaborate. But my friend, Alexander Mercouris, provided a more detailed summary of what was said. I have been unable to find a link to what the Russian Foreign Ministry presented to Ambassador Tracy, but Alexander reports that the Russia message included this phrase, “We are no longer at peace.” While stopping short of declaring war, the line between peace and war has been erased. This should scare the hell out of the politicians and public in America. Lavrov’s statement is extraordinary. He does not use any diplomatic weasel words. His message is clear — “The U.S. is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer.” This stark language that leaves no room for quibbling. In publicizing this message, Putin and Lavrov have closed down diplomatic options and gestures. Either they act, and act forcefully, or they do nothing and risk being excoriated by the Russian people. Neither Putin nor Lavrov are known for speaking idle words or making empty threats. While Russia is not going to act impetuously — Alexander and I agree on that — this public declaration, in my opinion, has created an expectation of future action that will entail something more than just giving weapons to a foreign group that is facing off with the United States. - Sonar21
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  3894. SITREP 7/31/24: Die Welt Reveals Dire NATO Camp Outlook for Ukraine This week brings us another new batch of damning articles from the pro-Ukrainian Western media. The most telling of these comes from German Die Welt, which exposes how nearly all NATO ‘insiders’ secretly whisper among themselves that Ukraine stands no chance, but they dare not say so in public: As you can see, there is a clear divergence between what the pro-Ukraine faction states publicly and what is privately acknowledged. You can see how they rewrite reality to suit their agenda for glamorizing the AFU as a valiantly heroic army, when in reality they’re falling for each of Russia’s strategic ruses to great loss. All the high level representatives the newspaper spoke to stated flatly that Ukraine will not win, nor reconquer any of the taken territories: Armchair Warlord reports on X that the latest NYT article reported a Ukrainian brigade in the collapsing Toretsk direction got 2000 reinforcements in the past two months, which presumably indicates their losses: Russian armor also continues to pour in, with three separate videos in the past week alone showing train-loads of brand new T-72B3Ms, T-80BVMs, and T-90Ms: Yesterday, Putins’ presidential aide Patrushev said some interesting words in regard to this: Listen closely—he specifically states what I just articulated above: Russia now has the massive advantage on the frontline and Ukraine and its Western sponsors want a rest so they can regroup and rearm. Does this sound like someone who’s ready to end the conflict and negotiate? - Simplicius
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  3904. Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was, at the time of his death in 1940, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, and World War I. However, at some point after World War I, he began to have grave doubts about his profession. Over time, with study and reflection, he concluded that he had NOT spent his life fighting and killing for the American people, but for special interests in New York City and Washington. As he memorably stated it in his 1935 book, War is a Racket: Though war is indeed profitable for the financiers and industrialists who champion it, it is invariably a disaster for a free citizenry. As James Madison remarked in a 1795 pamphlet: Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. In the past 20 years, every major US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power after 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq became dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power despite a CIA effort to overthrow him. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after a US-led NATO mission overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned on the battlefield by Russia in 2023 after the US secretly scuttled a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2022. - Courageous Discourse
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  3905. Reflections on Hubris and the Looming Extinction of the Fiat Dollar as Reserve. As we reflect on Trump’s bluster about imposing 100% tariffs on BRICS nations for daring to chart a course away from the dollar, perhaps he should direct his attention to a more pressing concern: the numbers staring us all in the face. More than $36 trillion national debt and over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. A debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 123%, built on a fiat Ponzi scheme so reckless it makes Monopoly money look like a sound investment. The U.S. dollar wasn’t dethroned by BRICS. It was undermined from within, betrayed by unchecked money printing, inflation, and weaponized sanctions wielded like a cudgel against half the globe. A dollar depended upon credibility as a means of exchange suicided itself. This isn’t the cunning of a financial hegemon; it’s the flailing of a system that abused its own credibility until none was left. A “mighty” dollar? No, a cursed relic, unraveling under the weight of its creators' hubris. And while Trump clings to his empty threats, the BRICS markets are rapidly growing, expanding into the future with dynamism and opportunity. In stark contrast, the U.S. market... when adjusted for real inflation is shrinking, bleeding vitality with every misstep and every policy blunder. This isn’t checkers, Donnie, and it’s certainly not Texas hold ’em, where you can bluff your way out of a terrible hand. You’ve got to think a few moves aheadand right now, it’s painfully clear that Washington has no endgame, only doubling down on monetary suicide. 100% tariffs on BRICS? Not a problem. In fact, the emerging economic powerhouses of BRICS+ would welcome them with reciprocal sanctions on the dwindling U.S. manufacturing sector, if it can even produce competitive goods anymore. While BRICS nations build the markets of tomorrow, America clings to its fading economic dominance like a ghost haunting the ruins of its own making. Let’s be clear: the U.S. has chosen to play monetary-economic Darwinism, and the result will be an expedited extinction of its fiat currency. This is no external conspiracy; it is a reality authored by decades of retrograde hubris, policy blunders, and a failure to adapt to a world that no longer tolerates the weaponization of money. The dollar’s demise isn’t just probable, it’s inevitable. Trump’s threats are hollow, as flimsy as the “mighty dollar” he claims to defend. And the rest of the world? They’ve already moved on. Economic Darwinism, indeed. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  3906. Since my strong warning of the stupidity and insanity of Western leaders who are without any doubt driving the world to nuclear Armageddon, the hyper dangerous situation has further deteriorated. While we all look forward to Thanksgiving holiday, the leadership of the Western world is setting us up for death. The insanity of the West is so extreme as to be incomprehensible. Not satisfied by taking the US and Europe to war with Russia by firing missiles into Russia, the NATO military committee is openly discussing preemptive missile strikes on Russia. This is extraordinary. At the present moment it is only Putin’s patience that stands between life and death on planet Earth. Putin is willing to tolerate the West’s provocations in the face of his clear warning until Trump assumes the presidency and indicates whether a mutual security agreement between the US and Russia is possible. With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear. If not insanity, it is the triumph of evil that the West tells Putin, whose patience is the only guarantor of avoidance of nuclear war, that NATO is considering preemptive strikes on Russia. For a person of my generation, such callous disregard for human life as Western “leaders” proclaim is incomprehensible. With nuclear war on the table, the task is to defuse the threat, not to inflame it. But the insane West has chosen to inflame it. - LewRockwell
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  3922. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The rapid changes, the Russian Armed Forces stormed and took the settlement of Berestki, securing more of the northern bank of the Kurakhovo reservoir, yesterday on November 27, 2024, Russian military correspondents report. Elements of the 114th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army released their footage, showing them planting the Red Flag and flying it on the roof of a house in the summer cottage area west of the settlement, accumulating the morale of the Kiev troops that was steadily declining in the town of Kurakhovo and its environs. The soldiers of the 114th Brigade continued their confident offensive, suppressing Zelensky's troops, who tried to take refuge in the buildings of the settlement, and in fortifications located about 1 km northwest of Berestky. During the assault, the footage showed the soldiers of the 114th Brigade, destroying Ukrainian equipment and infantry, consolidating control over the liberated territory. The aerial view shows the large Ukrainian fortifications, which were well established around March - April 2024, in addition to earthen fortifications, also have reinforced concrete shelters for defense. But the heroic soldiers managed to hold it constantly and persistently, giving a little friction to the Ukrainian positions in the shelters prepared for defense, but in the end it was not enough. In total, the fight to break through the enemy's defensive positions, Russian soldiers combed the enemy from house to house, previously pounded by artillery fire. Their attempt to escape in a vehicle was also thwarted! Berestky, another settlement in Donetsk under Russian control, but still awaiting official confirmation from the Ministry of Defense after the settlement is fully completed. Gradually, Russian troops will pass the reservoir, the last solid line of defense for Ukrainian troops - which means that Russia now has only about 3 km to trap Ukraine in the western part of the city of Kurakhovo. The situation in that direction is rapidly becoming critical, because it has long been known that Ukraine main problem is the lack of soldiers and equipment. Ukrainian brigades are facing a shortage of drones and have started to open donations, indicating that they are currently facing their toughest battle.
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  3932. A recently unearthed video of WEF guru, Israeli Professor, Yuval Noah Harari, has made the rounds of late. As Dr. Harari asserted not only that God is a fiction, but he also asserted that human rights are a fiction, a nice fairy tale with no basis in reality. Dr. Harari apparently believes that human rights are simply a made-up story. He further explains that if you dissect a human there are no rights there. Instead, there is simply a physical display of anatomy and what is left of the biological processes. Thus, he concludes that the only place human rights exist is in the imagination. A mountain is a reality, countries and legal systems, heaven, God, are not based in biological reality, they are merely artifacts of the imagination. Thus, homosapiens have no rights. If there are no human rights, then none of us have a right to protections under the law. Neither do we have the right to possessions or relationships, or our experiences, or our body, or our mind, or to our life. If this is the case, then it begs the question, does Dr. Harari have a right to live? These rights exist in animated human beings as evidenced by the willingness of human beings to fight for them. It is the unhindered individual expression of Divinity through the human experience that is the core basis for human rights. Human rights are not a fantasy of the imagination, they are necessary to allow Divine expression. The preservation of Natural Rights are the only legitimate basis for the existence of government. The Bill of Rights are universal rights. The Ninth Amendment is the most important Amendment as it protects the reservoir of unstated Natural Rights. We can argue over the precision of these rights and their application, however, their existence preexists and transcends government. - LewRockwell
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  3939. Consider that this very week alone, following the SSK Bridge disaster, absolutely nothing has been done by our government to stem that flow of countless potential saboteurs into the country. The news media isn’t even talking about it (of course). The prospects might look a bit unnerving, wouldn’t you agree? Things catching fire, blowing up, and falling down here, there, and everywhere. . . more of those thousand cuts adding up. Just maybe, the dazed-and-confused (possibly hypnotized) American public, a.k.a., the “voters,” might put together that “Joe Biden” and the Party of Chaos that owns him, are actually responsible for the on-going take-down of our country. After a certain point — now apparently passed — sheer incompetence is no longer a plausible explanation for what you are seeing. Oh, one other thing, look out for on-the-ground economic reverberations from the FSK Bridge disaster. For instance, Baltimore is the USA’s top port for importing and exporting automobiles. Also, earth-moving and large farm equipment, fertilizer, lumber, coal, and steel. Other arrangements must be made, for years ahead, considering the trucking links. It’s especially an interruption for trucking between the mid-Atlantic / New England states and much of Dixieland. It will affect the transport of fruits and vegetables to the Washington-Boston corridor. Things are going to cost more and we are already in an inflationary trouble-zone. How will this thunder elsewhere through an economy which, despite the japes of “Joe Biden’s” statisticians, is actively disintegrating? The fluttering wings of this black swan already throw a chill on spring’s incoming zephyrs. - LewRockwell
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  3950. [How sad. Ukraine has bombed open air markets, libraries, bakeries, voting facilities and now a zoo. Ukrainians are a disgrace!] “Grundy, our pet Bennett kangaroo, was killed in the shelling,” said the post on the zoo’s VK page on Tuesday. “The [exotic animal area] and the kangaroo enclosure were damaged by cluster fragments. Unfortunately, Grundy was outside at that time…” Bennett’s tree kangaroo is native to Queensland in northeast Australia. Grundy came to Belgorod from St. Petersburg in late 2019 and was described as “friendly, meek and absolutely fearless.” “There are no words to convey the pain. And anger. And powerlessness,” the zoo said. “We will never forget you, sweetie. When this waking nightmare is over, Grundy, we will plant the most delicious grapes in our forest in honor of you!” The Belgorod Zoo added that at least none of the staff were harmed. While the park has been shut down until further notice, employees are still coming in to take care of the animals. According to the Belgorod authorities, over the past week Ukrainian strikes have killed 11 civilians – including children – and injured 82 more, about half of whom have required hospitalization. Nine people are currently in serious but stable condition. Kiev’s forces have been using multiple-launcher rocket systems, such as the US HIMARS and the Czech Vampire, to strike at Belgorod since January, when 25 civilians were killed and over 100 injured in a Christmas market massacre. The missiles have often been armed with cluster warheads, many of which have been provided by the US, which is not a signatory to the convention banning the controversial munitions because of their harm to noncombatants. - RT
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  3952. The Russian Steamroller Rolls On as Ukraine Braces for Impact Firstly, the large gap area between Arkhangelsk and Keramik has been completely taken, Arkhangelske itself is now also being stormed with a portion of it reportedly occupied by Russian troops Zooming out, we can once again see that the key hub of the region, Kostantinovka, is slowly being enveloped by the salients pushing in from Ocheretino and Chasov Yar, In the north, RF units of the 98th Airborne Division advance in Chasov Yar not only directly head on, but bypassing the easternmost portion to the south where Russian troops have now been geolocated to passing over the Seversky-Donets canal This means they appear to be attempting to put the main body of Chasov Yar into a pincer Once the riotous fevers of post-aid jubilation cooled, Ukrainians have found themselves facing stark realities. This follows what I wrote in the last report about U.S. merely beginning to take orders for materiel that can take 1-2 years to arrive. This is greatly hampered by a sclerotic defense industry which is experiencing not only soaring costs but also great hesitancy and doubt: On the other hand, Russian supplies, strikes, and groupings continue to increase. The 47th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered very heavy losses in soldiers, and also lost 40 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 5 Abrams tanks. And Washington Post indirectly dropped another bombshell when they finally admitted that Zelensky’s laughable casualty figure was fake, meant to bolster morale, and that the real number is likely significantly higher—something those capable of breathing through their nose have long known: In fact, the U.S. is reportedly running out of Ukrainian men to train: Rezident UA reports that up to 35% of AFU servicemen went AWOL during European training and were never found—a number that increases each year: Furthermore, reports continue to stream out about just how badly Western tech has been degraded by Russia’s progressively improving EW capabilities. Russian Iskanders reportedly destroyed a huge Novaya Pochta mail warehouse in Odessa that, according to some sources, was housing one of the large new weapons shipments—particularly 155mm ammo—from NATO: In the strikes, it’s said that an important Major of the Ukrainian Southern Command was eliminated: Over and over again on every program and interview, it’s the only thing mentioned anymore: “We’re running out of men.” - Simplicius
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  3963. More evidence of the rise of dictatorship in the Anglo-American world of “liberty and freedom” is the failure of both the US president and the UK prime minister to notify Congress and Parliament that the executive branches in the US and UK were committing the US and UK to war with Yemen without consulting the legislative branches, a requirement in the US and a historical convention in the UK. Two people acting as dictators committed their countries to war. The Biden Regime has the War Powers Act or the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) for its justification for attacking Yemen territory. If memory serves, the power Congress gave the executive branch only applies to the use of force against those who attack US forces. It seems that the Biden Regime has expanded the definition to include anything the US executive branch can claim is an attack on America. The Houthi had not attacked US Navy ships, only commercial ships supplying Israel. The recent Houthi attempted attack on a US Navy ship came after the US attack on Yemen, not before. The Zionist neoconservatives who control US foreign policy consider any alleged, potential, or real attack on Israel to be an attack on the United States. Thus narratives can be constructed that justify every warmongering action Washington undertakes in Israel’s interest. England’s Prime Minister simply gave Parliament the finger claiming that “the government”, which apparently does not include Parliament, has no responsibility to inform the legislature when it intends to take the country to war. We now have the situation where the two countries who gave the world government accountable to the people are acting totally independent of the people You can see what will develop from this. - LewRockwell
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  3966. You can't beat these people as God is watching over them! OUR PEOPLE CAN'T BE INTIMIDATED - Russian Election Commission Chief Pamfilova starts 1st voting day with Russian national anthem, hailing will of citizens risking their lives to vote under fire, while Kiev's regime threatens and kills them. We will endure everything; we have withstood it for more than one year and we know what's at stake - Pamfilova quoting courageous residents from reunited regions. We have accredited 706 officials from 106 countries as international observers. More than 13,000 representatives from almost 2,500 media outlets, without taking into account numerous foreign media outlets will have same full opportunity to cover what is happening in our country openly without any kind of obstacles - Pamfilova. - Intel Republic RUSSIAN PATRIOTS FIGHT EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS TO CAST THEIR VOTE - Citizens of Sakhalin region, Far East Russia fight their way through punishing icy sharp winds and thick snow (video above) to vote for better Russian future in today's presidential elections. 2 million already participated in early voting but West predictably labels the elections unfair before they even started. - Intel Republic TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN FAMILY TRAVELS 150KM ON SNOWMOBILE TO VOTE - Watch video above of the amazing nomad Khudi family from Russia's Arctic Yamalo-Nenets, whose patriotism manifested in a long hard road trip through extreme weather to the nearest polling station after father got tired of "waiting for helicopter" to fly them to participate in presidential elections. We always vote, because everything depends on our voice - says the mom. - Intel Republic RUSSIA'S ELITE OFFICIALS CAST THEIR VOTE - Early to arrive at voting stations, Russian FM Lavrov, Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of Staff Gerasimov post their ballots in today's presidential elections. Massive turnout expected as reunited Russian regions will finally enjoy fair elections , with head of Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) Pushilin leading by example by voting in bottom right video. Finally the day has come when we elect the president of our great Motherland - Pushilin. - Intel Republic MASSIVE BLAST RIPS THROUGH STREET and vehicles, wrecking department store following Ukrainian shelling that kills one, damages several buildings and stores in Belgorod region (pre-war Russia), as Kiev's regime continues futile attempt to intimidate Russians out of voting. Region's Governor Gladkov mourns the victim who spent his days helping victims of Ukrainian war crimes. He was one of its [civil defense] active participants, he repeatedly helped to evacuate civilians and ensure security in his native district. I express my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, it's a heavy loss for all residents of Belgorod region - Gladkov. - Intel Republic UKRAINE-BACKED SABOTEURS ISSUE WARNING TO RUSSIANS, WHILE MOSCOW DETAINS ONE OF THEIR TERRORISTS - West-funded PR battalion Freedom of Russia Legion, again issues "urgent warning" to citizens of Belgorod region (pre-war Russia), that massive attack about to be carried on city's military targets. One terror attempt immediately once again thwarted by Russian intelligence, as 21-year-old FRL goon in right video detained before he could plant explosives (confession on right) and spread chaos in Bryansk region (pre-war Russia), to disrupt presidential elections day. UPDATE: From March 12 to 15, Russian forces prevented all Ukrainian attempts to break through into territory of Belgorod and Kursk regions. More than 550 military personnel, 16 tanks, 19 armored fighting vehicles, including 11 U.S-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 15 vehicles were destroyed - Russian Defense Ministry. - Intel Republic
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  3977. In 2021, the European Union created their own military – European Peace Facility. Despite its claim of building peace and preventing conflicts – they have instead instigated conflicts and provided weaponry to western backed governments or military juntas. Some of these peace building initiatives include funding military operations in such countries as: Macedonia, Nigeria, Jordan, Ukraine, Boznia, Ghana, Moldova, Somalia etc… Their first distribution of funds was $130 million to the African Union. Included in their detail description of the military spending is this phrase, “…designed to deliver lethal force”. CODE = KILL. Peace is NOT mentioned. The funding for these military operations comes from member countries of the EU which still cannot meet their NATO 2% mandate. The same NATO paid for predominantly by American Taxpayers. As the US and UK deplete their stockpile weapon inventory aiding and abetting the Ukraine and Israel wars, disrupting African nations via coups, Saudi Arabia just wrapped up their largest ever World Defense Show with weapon sales topping $6.9 billion. Countries attending the show revealed their concern that the world is entering a global phase of pre-war that will erupt into a titan of destruction. Given the West has depleted its inventory and spent billions creating disinformation campaigns and coups across Africa, they stand to be most at risk – while simultaneously initiating the stage for War.. It seems to me The Temporary Fear Propaganda about a Severe Security Threat against the US by Russia – in the midst of the unraveling of the Russia CIA Illusion – is more ego driven than political. It reveals that the US ‘forgot’ to actually go to work at the Defense Industry and build instead of culturally pronouning. In that event we might actually have superior military capability. - LewRockwell
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  4009. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The joint siege of the Syrian Arab Army along with the Russian Armed Forces against various units of the rebel forces against the Syrian government has began following their attacks on the Syrian Army. On November 27, the rebels in Idlib launched their major attack around the western areas of Aleppo Province in Northeastern Syria, the timing of the attack just hours after Netanyahu's warning to Assad about "playing with fire", for supporting the Palestinian and Lebanese struggles, indicating a broader geopolitical strategy coinciding with the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon. As in the footage, the rebel forces attacked the Syrian Army with heavy weapons and MANPADS. Furthermore, additional reinforcements of special forces from the Syrian Arab Army arrived at the gates of Aleppo to stop them! The video reportedly shows the Syrian Army's MLRS now shots fire, hitting allied militias positions from the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), who are advancing in Aleppo. This is to stop the extremist rebels who violated the de-escalation agreement, started operations that endanger civilians and have reportedly captured the village of Zerbeh from the Assad Army in the area. Western media use the term 'Syrian Opposition' in the context of the conflict in Syria, and this attack as "the occupation by the Assad militias", who defeated the threat of the rebels for now along with Russian forces with heavy artillery fire. In addition, it was reported that the Syrian Arab Army was involved in fierce clashes with al-Nusra rebel units while the joint Russian-Syrian Air Force also took action in the town of Atarib. Aviation prepared for bombing strikes, which hit rebel positions as they advanced west of Aleppo city. According to Syrian sources today on November 28, more than 200 al-Nusra rebels have been neutralized since the offensive began. Regardless of whether Aleppo falls or not, the city has fallen before to President Assad and the possibility of returning Idlib to Syrian government control is currently being discussed.
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  4013. The Hidden Danger Beside Trump: Why Peter Thiel is the Real Threat Trump tried to calm the waters, announcing that Nikki Haley and Mike “Kansas” Pompeo wouldn’t be returning to his team. Smart move, Haley and Kansas, with their cheerleading forever wars and regime change, warmongers and globalist puppets, embody the very swamp Trump claims to drain. But here’s the twist: sitting right beside Trump, grinning like the Cheshire cat, is Peter Thiel, a figure far more insidious than Haley or Pompeo ever were. Thiel isn’t just another billionaire with influence; he’s a Zionist hawk cloaked in Silicon Valley’s libertarian veneer. For years, his empire, particularly Palantir, has been at the forefront of merging Silicon Valley's tech prowess with the national security state, feeding both U.S. and Israeli intelligence networks with data-mining capabilities that would make Orwell blush. This isn't a recent development either, Palantir was designed from its inception as a tool to empower state surveillance, a vision that has seamlessly aligned with the Zionist agenda. In Israel, Thiel’s technology has been used to surveil Palestinian populations, enforcing a brutal occupation under the guise of “security.” And Thiel’s influence doesn’t stop there. He has deep roots in the U.S. military-industrial complex, aligning closely with the CIA through his early investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm. From the beginning, Palantir was woven into the fabric of America’s intelligence infrastructure, sold as a “defense” tool, while it quietly expanded a surveillance apparatus across the world, from the Occupied Territories to inner cities in the United States. The Zionist vision of control and surveillance has found its ultimate tool in Thiel’s empire - a Trojan horse that’s eroding civil liberties under the radar. Then there’s the paradox - Thiel, publicly a critic of “wokeism,” has quietly funneled money into (woke) initiatives that stir cultural war within the U.S. It’s an ancient imperial strategy: keep the masses distracted with ideological battles while the real agenda, bolstering Israel’s interests and consolidating a digital surveillance state marches on unopposed. By funding divisive causes and watching America tear itself apart, Thiel isn’t just hedging his bets, he’s ensuring that the spotlight never falls on his own agenda. For Trump to truly align with the idea of American sovereignty, distancing himself from Thiel isn’t a suggestion but a necessity. Thiel doesn’t represent a populist, patriotic agenda; he represents the apex of corporate, Zionist interests, a technocratic elite intent on tightening its grip over policy and control. If Haley and Pompeo were symbols of the neoconservative swamp, Thiel is the lurking shadow, the hidden hand of a corporate-Zionist cabal with a vested interest in manipulating America’s course. Trump, this is much more than merely draining the swamp, it’s about draining the Zionist infiltration embedded within Silicon Valley and the intelligence community. The art of the deal this time around means ensuring the U.S. doesn’t remain a puppet of Silicon Valley’s Zionist ambitions. If you’re serious about reclaiming sovereignty, you’ll keep Thiel at arm’s length, not in the seat beside you. - Gerry Nolan - TheIslanderNews - Intel Republic
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  4014. Today, May 9, marks the 79th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany aka Victory in Europe day and the Russian people held massive marches and commemorations — not just in Russia — but in countries around the world where Russian expats live. But in the United States, where the mythology persists that the United States defeated the Nazis, there were crickets The estimated population of the Soviet Union in 1940 was 170 million. In other words, 16% of Soviet citizens (which included Russia and Ukraine) died as a consequence of the Great Patriotic War. That does not begin to take into account the number of wounded, which probably represented an additional 20 million people. Compare that with the United States. There are conflicting estimates, ranging from 183,500 up to 276,655 US Army KIA in Europe/North Africa. Let’s go with the higher number. According to the 1940 Census, there were 132,164,569 Americans. That ratio of U.S. KIA in the European/North African theater compared to total population is 0.2%. In other words, far less than 1% of the U.S. population died at the hands of the Nazis. I will put this bluntly — the United States paid almost nothing in the way of blood and treasure in the campaign to defeat Hitler compared to what the Russian people endured. Consider the following: 750,000 Soviets died in the Battle of Stalingrad. At least 670,000 Soviet soldiers and citizens died in the siege of Leningrad. An estimated 421,000 Soviet died in the battle of Operation Citadel/Kursk. The staggering scale of Soviet losses is beyond the comprehension of most Americans. The Soviets tripled all American losses in the European theater in just one battle — Stalingrad. Yet, Hollywood has propagated the myth that the United States carried the burden of the battles that led to the destruction of the Third Reich. Not just Hollywood. In the immediate aftermath the capture of Berlin, the United States and the United Kingdom behaved as if they were the ones who save the world. Well, if that is true, why are the Americans and Brits silent on VE day? Because they did not endure the catastrophic human loss that the peoples of the Soviet Union endured, especially the Russians. That is why millions of Russians marched today carrying photographs of their grandfathers, grandmothers, great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers who served and died in the colossal fight to destroy the Nazis. The legacy of the sacrifice of those who fought 80 years ago still burns bright in the souls of the Russian people. Not so in America. A significant portion of the American population is ignorant: Profiteering off of war? That is a different matter. Americans are real good at that grift. Major General Smedley Butler, who wrote War Is a Racket in 1935, nailed it: Today’s America is the Alzheimer’s Generation when it comes to history. We are on a trajectory to pursue wars against Russia, Iran and China without the tiniest bit of appreciation of the potential loss of human life and capital that may be inflicted on the United States if it consummates its rapacious, foolish desire. I salute those Americans who served in World War II and all of the succeeding foreign expeditionary boondoggles. The names of 58,000 Americans decorate a black wall in Washington, DC. The vast majority served honorably and died in part because they believed the lies fed them by corrupt Presidents and a compliant media. Many of those who followed in their footsteps and served honorably in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are victims of a big lie. They were not fighting to defeat Islamic extremism. They were duped into fighting to fatten the stock portfolios of General Dynamics, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and scores of other Beltway Bandits. War is good business as long as only a small, insignificant (and despised) class of Americans pay the price in blood. The failure of the vast majority of Americans to commemorate May 9 will, I fear, come back to haunt us. If we do not find a way to live in peace with Russia, China or Iran, Americans are not likely to have the good fortune to avoid massive casualties.- Sonar21
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  4015. Trump closed out his campaign tour alongside his former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo, which should be enough to dash the hopes of even the most naive Trump supporters that US foreign policy is headed in a positive direction in January. As CIA director, Pompeo led a plot to assassinate Julian Assange and cheerfully admitted that “we lied, we cheated, we stole” at the agency. This odious swamp creature has remained in Trump’s good graces for the last eight years, and is reportedly expected to have a position in Trump’s cabinet once again. Speaking at a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday, Pompeo boasted that he has been called “the most loyal cabinet member to Donald J Trump” and said that when Trump is re-elected “we will take down the ring of fire; we will support our friends in Israel.” The “ring of fire” is think tank speak for Iran and the militias in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine who oppose Israel. So things are probably going to get uglier and uglier. But they were getting uglier and uglier under Biden, and they would have gotten uglier and uglier under Harris as well. That’s just what it looks like when you’ve got a dying empire fighting to retain planetary control like a cornered animal. You don’t get to be the US president unless you are willing and eager to do ugly things. Democrats exaggerate how destructive Trump is relative to their own bloodthirsty psychopath candidates. While we can expect Trump to inflict tyranny and abuse upon Americans, it will be nothing compared to the tyranny and abuse he’s going to inflict on people in other countries, and it will be nothing compared to the tyranny and abuse his predecessor has been inflicting on people in other countries. All the histrionic shrieking we see from US liberals about Trump only works inside a western supremacist worldview that does not see the victims of US warmongering as fully human, and therefore sees scorched earth genocidal atrocities as less significant than comparatively minor abuses concerning US domestic policy. - LewRockwell
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  4023. Joe Biden, amidst his mental confusion, must think he is John Mccain reincarnated. I bet he’s humming, “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb; Bomb Bomb Iran.” You know how it is, Iranians, Yemenis, they all look alike. While the bombs are causing some damage in Yemen, Yemen has seen it before and is unfazed. In fact, the bombing appears to be strengthening the resolve of Yemen to continue its blockade of the Red Sea. The United States does not have enough bombs to force Yemen to surrender. Why? Yemen’s rocket and missile force is mobile. They can move dozens of missiles at the same time in different directions, which then forces the United States, notwithstanding robust ISR, to find the needles in the haystack that is Yemen. The U.S. can kill and destroy some, but not all. But that is not the big problem. The U.S. Navy does not have the ability to sustain its presence off the coast of Yemen. Yemen can launch a hundred drones and missiles at U.S. ships and the destroyer escorts will exhaust their supply of air defense missiles. In the 1970s the U.S. Navy had ship tenders that could pull alongside a destroyer and resupply it. Not today. The Vertical Launch Systems have to be reloaded in a port. That means the destroyers will have to sail to Dubai, which means the U.S. aircraft carrier they are accompanying will have to follow because it relies on them for protection from ballistic and cruise missiles. Here’s the bottom-line, if you are going to get into a gun fight you better have enough ammunition on hand to finish it. Only we’re not talking about having a million rounds of 9 mm pistol ammunition. The missiles the Aegis system uses are damn expensive. Yemen is showing how a so-called third rate military can effectively bankrupt the Naval power of a “Superpower.” The neo-cons urging Biden to attack Iran are math challenged. Iran has more missiles, drones and rockets than Yemen. If little Yemen is doing this to the U.S., just imagine the havoc Iran could cause. Washington is like the degenerate gambler who is playing a losing game of blackjack. Instead of accepting his losses, Joe Biden seems intent on doubling down and destroying the reputation of the U.S. Navy as the most powerful force in the World. I suspect the Russians and Chinese are enjoying some heaping buckets of buttered popcorn as they watch this spectacle of national suicide. - Sonar21
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  4040. No change, Russia is winning as Ukraine Forces continue to be attrited! Russia thwart Ukrainian drone attack on Kaluga region overnight. 3 drones destroyed by air defenses, Ministry of Defense advises. - Intel Report Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) gives over footage of the July attack on the Crimean bridge - to CNN. The Bridge hasn't been used to deliver war supplies since the 4 new regions (re)joined Russia last year. The attack was knowingly against the civilian population, having killed 2 people traveling on the bridge, leaving their child an orphan. - Intel Report Two of three airmobile battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to go on the offensive in Zaporozhye region, (ex-Ukraine) - Acting Governor Belitsky (pictured). “It's about 500 people - people who are tired of seeing death of their colleagues and do not want to be cannon fodder themselves." Belitsky adds that the when Ukrainian soldiers are sent in to attack, they cannot reach even the 1st line of defense (of 3), so they simply die to "please Western commanders". - Intel Report ◾Russian air defenses intercept 4 US HIMARS rockets, shoot down Ukrainian Su-25 jet near Novotroitskoye, Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). ◾Russian forces are conducting offensive operations in Kupyansk, East Ukraine as they repel 9 Ukrainian attacks in Lugansk (ex-Ukraine) and Kharkov, East Ukraine. ◾Ukraine forces sustain losses of up to 170 soldiers in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine), 55 in Liman, Donetsk and 140 in South Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 15
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  4048. "Just straight up fascist. Not much else to say. Not much shocks me, any longer, but the arrogance of most US/UK/EU elites continues to amaze me. They are so far removed from the rest of us that it is scary." The keynote speaker of the World Economic Forum’s 2024 annual conference in Davos was Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President. She stated the top global risk for the EU is disinformation and misinformation, declaring disinformation destroys trust and limits the ability to “tackle the big global challenges.” In plain English, trust can only be restored by censoring inconvenient facts and evidence. The top risk in the WEF’s 2024 Global Risk Report is disinformation. If not controlled, societies will be polarized, elections will be disrupted, and there will be mistrust of the media and governments. WEF wants to control free speech to protect it, or social cohesion will be destroyed, leading to civil unrest. Only governments can arbitrate the truth. Orwell’s 1984 has become a documentary. DISARM runs its platform and repository on GitHub, a cloud-based service using open-source programming. Using hyperlinks allows the developer to enable anyone to see the repository or choose who can see it. DISARM has published a one-hundred-and-eighty-five-page white paper explaining how to combat so-called hate speech, misinformation, malinformation, and disinformation, which can be downloaded HERE. Paraphrasing DHS slogan, “If You See Something, Say Something; if you view something, report it. There is a significant push to codify hate thoughts and speech as crimes not only at the national level but also at the local level. The United States Mayors Conference issued a “Compact to Combat Hate, Extremism and Bigotry,” calling for reporting hate incidents and the expansion of hate crime laws. DISARM will be the global tool to identify occurrences that will be reported to government agencies. Globally, politicians and apparatchiks are moving towards digital IDs. USAID (CIA-founded and US-funded) issued an eighty-page white paper for developing a global digital ID program. The UN and EU are also proposing digital IDs. Digital IDs connected to DISARM would conveniently identify, track, and punish dissenters. The final coil in the hangman’s noose is the installation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for political oppression; the digital hangman noose is complete, with Orwell’s 1984 dystopia becoming a reality. Check out my earlier exposé illuminating another disinformation strategy on how the Global Disinformation Index blacklists conservative websites with online advertisers—funded by the State Department’s GEC, Soros’s Open Society, the EU, and the UK. - Sonar21
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  4049. Demonic Warmongering Biden Admin wants total war to save its sorry self. The first direct troop deaths have finally begun rolling in as warhawk voices in the US cry out for total war: There seems to be some major disagreement or deliberate obfuscation on US’ part as to where the troops were hit, exactly. The above resistance statement says multiple bases were hit. Most are assuming the fatalities were in al-Tanf base in Syria—the illegal base the US uses to facilitate ISIS and train terrorists to agitate against Assad, as well as to block the all important Syria-Jordan border-route to keep Syria isolated and economically stifled. It’s understandable how things could get so confusing, what with so many illegal American bases strewn about like candy wrappers, and all. But in reality, this is likely an attempt to downplay and conceal US’ al-Tanf activity and give the appearance of legality by misdirecting everyone to the Jordanian base which US actually has legal permission to be in—unlike al-Tanf. And for those who think “How could this be? The US was invincible during the Iraq War in 2003”—well, I have some news for you. There was no war, it was a total sham pysop operation If that wasn’t bad enough, US troops are even taking casualties on the Texas front: The only thing that’s certain is election year has just begun and things are already melting down faster than anyone could imagine. To be quite honest, it’s difficult to imagine how this situation could resolve without either a total US withdrawal from the Middle East or a new major war. The problem in both scenarios: 1. If the US withdraws, it will be viewed as the mother of all failures and weaknesses for the Biden administration, akin to the Afghan withdrawal x 100. I have no idea why it should be viewed that way, when in reality it’s a giant win for Americans to disentangle their country from globalist and MIC pursuits, but that’s how it will be spun by the totally compromised media which is the enemy of humanity. Most Republican warhawks will of course agree and stoke this interpretation as well, as they’re on the MIC payroll. 2. If Biden escalates and orders major strikes on Iran itself as Lindsey Graham and others are now cheerleading for, it could lead to an escalatory cascade that would shut down the entire region by engulfing it in flames, crashing the world economy to new levels, which would be a massive shock to any establishment re-election chances this year. Don’t even bother thinking about boots on the ground, if such a thing was possible it would take a year or more of preparation. So ground invasion is out—that’s not happening. The only thing they could possibly attempt is a long-spanning aerial campaign. But to even remotely scratch Iran’s capabilities would require a vast campaign lasting minimum 6-12 months and probably much longer. Remember, all of NATO mustered for 3 months against little Serbia with 6 million people and barely managed to destroy anything of worth. Iran has a 90 million population and a country probably a hundred times the size of Serbia, not to mention a far larger military. How long do you think it would take NATO to even put a dent in that from only an aerial campaign? In short: it would take years, and during those years, Iran would shut down every major maritime and economic chokepoint in the region, crashing the global economy. If you thought a few ships being hit now was bad, wait til you see the nominal Iranian forces rather than Houthis hitting everything in sight—it won’t be pretty. And I’ve beaten the point before about how difficult it would be to even find targets in the decentralized vastness of Iran, just like in Yemen. But of course that doesn’t stop the warmongers of the corporate-owned press: The danger in this, of course, is that once things get too desperate, the only possible recourse for the West to save themselves would be to launch a total global war in the hopes of ‘resetting’ the situation. This is why now again we continue to see the drums of war beating louder than ever: Let’s turn to Ukraine for a moment. There are a few interesting updates. A fascinating story has come to light regarding how precisely Russian forces were able to win their way into the Tsar’s Hunt area of southern Avdeevka. It turns out they were able to cut their way through a drainage pipe hundreds of meters behind enemy lines, waiting until a very foggy day to pop out in the rear and liquidate and capture an entire detachment: Ukraine tried desperately to counter-attack the lost Tsar’s Hunt area the past few days, but they were repulsed: In fact, it was recorded that they sent in some of their most elite special units to try to pry Russian forces from the area, but they failed with several of the ‘elite’ being captured. Here in one celebrated episode yesterday a lone Russian soldier captured several of them: In the meantime, Russia continues to inflict heavy casualties via long range strikes to the operational rear. Another report from Sergey Lebedev details how just days after the infamous Kharkov strike on French mercenaries, Russian ballistic missiles rained down on a Kraken HQ, also in Kharkov. It reportedly killed dozens of Kraken and another strike in Balakleya reportedly killed over 100+ Ukrainian militants as well: As US agitates Europe into a war footing against Russia, one of the founders of Azov Brigade, Sergei Korotikh, says there’s no way NATO can win because “they have no people even capable of fighting” due to years of emasculating their warrior class. Russia will go all the way and remove this ‘sad regime’. Ukraine is as good as finished. Russian industry continues hammering at full throttle. Here they are pumping out the 2S19M2 upgraded variant of Msta-S self-propelled howitzers: - Simplicius
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  4054. Against the background of numerous disagreements in the camp of the Western Coalition and an increase in the number of NATO countries that refuse to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Kyiv authorities received another disturbing news from the front. The situation in the Kherson direction began to change rapidly. Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses in this sector of the front. According to the Russian Military Department, over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 100 soldiers and 10 pieces of heavy equipment, including 'D-30' howitzers. - BORZZIKMAN Russia is ready for negotiations, but NOT any proposals for a ceasefire - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. Lavrov adds that West has deceived Russia with such a proposal before and it will not happen again. - Intel Report Biden’s reversal on ATACMS is another visible sign of growing desperation in the Biden Administration to find some way to boost Ukraine’s faltering military. Biden is willing to risk going to war with Russia in order to quiet Congressional critics that he is not doing enough to help Ukraine stave off the Russians. This is both stupid and dangerous. With these moves the Biden Administration is sending a stark message to Russia — we are going to ensure Ukraine can stay in the war and are willing to risk going to war with you. Sending ATACMS is a game changer, but it does not boost Ukraine’s chances of beating the Russians. It is a “game changer” because it increases the risk that Russia may feel compelled to start hitting NATO targets that, up till now, it has left alone. A very perilous time. - Sonar21 NATO claims it can raise army of 3.5 million even as it struggles to arm and supply the Ukrainian military amid Washington's proxy war there against Russia; - The New Atlas Kiev suffering heavy armor losses on Zaporozhye front – WaPo Russia’s defense has knocked out multiple German Marder and US Stryker infantry fighting vehicles, a Ukrainian commander told the newspaper - RT Onlookers stand in shock in front of a car with blown out windows as 1 killed and doctors trying to save the live of 13yr old girl after Mad Vlad Zelensky's latest war crime targets Tokmak, Zapaorozhye region. 2 other kids also among the 11 wounded after Kiev Regime strike, with doctors warning that the little girls condition is serious as they battle to treat her grievous wounds. - Intel Report "WUNDERWAFFE" gets wondrously wiped out by single Russian anti-tank guided missile as US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicle becomes all toasty inside, ready to be added to ever-growing scrap pile just like Ukrainian Mi-8 chopper shot down over Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine). 4 Kiev army attacks utterly demolished in DPR with Ukrainian forces taking up to 305 casualties in process, while Russian strikes blow up 35 Kiev troops in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 23 If West wants battlefield resolution to Ukraine conflict, so be it – Lavrov Russia’s Foreign Minister said Moscow welcomes negotiations about Ukraine but has ruled out a ceasefire - RT COLD DEAD EYES have nothing behind them but desire for death as US senator and full-time warmonger Lindsey Graham explains that all he wants is dead Russians and he couldn’t care less how many Ukrainians die in process. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead and untold misery unleashed by Kiev in Donbass, but for Washington it’s just a "good investment" that no American soldier has been killed according to Graham. Real-life American psycho - Intel Report More and more, the military warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Shlyakhovo on the right bank of the Dnieper River was severely burned by attacks from the Russian Aerospace Forces. Warehouses on Kherson front line near Nova Kakhovka contact line burned down in repeated explosions, where spares and equipment were stored, as well as storing fuel and lubricants. - Military Tube Today
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  4060. I know the Avdeevka retreat’s been beaten half to death, and I’m just as over it as you probably are. But here’s a couple things worth noting, that will tie together into a larger whole. They first focus on a 21 year old AFU soldier who just ‘barely’ made it out from the Russian advance: By the time his unit retreated, he was in charge. So many soldiers had been wounded that there was “nobody more senior left,” the 21-year-old said. When his group finally left the city entirely, he watched the convoy in front of him erupt into fire as artillery took them out. “It was just a convoy of people. A convoy of the best men ever. And in front of our eyes, this convoy was destroyed by artillery. People of my age, between 20 and 30.” I post this specifically because pro-UA supporters continue to push the narrative that Russia took more losses in Avdeevka. But first hand reports from their own troops indicate otherwise. In light of the above, a new archival video of the big retreat was released today showing very well one of the turkey shoots the soldier above may have witnessed: Planning bombs destroyed any AFU fortifications in Avdiivka and contributed to the rapid advance of the Russian Army in urban development. "These bombs completely destroy any position," Yegor Sugar, a Ukrainian soldier, said on social media. All buildings turn into pits after strikes by the Russian aerospace forces. Zelensky and his leadership have continued to fail in coming up with a full-on mobilization plan despite warnings of severe troop shortages on the front: While Ukraine has done some damage in the Black Sea, it continues to suffer grievous losses on the ground in the real fight. The first, then second, third, and potentially even third Abrams were destroyed: We also have startling new footage of the huge uptick in usage of the RBK-500 clusterbombs by Russia over Ukrainian positions. They are said to devastate positions at a time when Ukraine has run low on their own DPICMS—not to mention that Russia has adapted them into the UMPK glide-bombs which now rain these deadly fragments over AFU positions daily That’s not to mention glide-bombs being used so unsparingly as to be thrown at Ukrainian forest-belt positions and trenches - Simplicius
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  4065. Historians of the future, gathered round their campfires poaching armadillo tail-flaps in their own shells, will harken back to the wondrous day in 2024 when they could watch and compare two heads of great nations present themselves to the world for assessment. There was Mr. Putin of the land called Russia, calmly discoursing in fine detail on a thousand years of his country’s history. And there was Mr. Biden of the USA, facing the White House press pool, angrily refuting a special prosecutor’s glum conclusion that the President was not mentally competent to be tried in court on the finding that he’d indeed mishandled classified documents. If there has been any discussion about Mr. Biden being in possession of the so-called “nuclear football,” the briefcase full of launch codes for our arsenal of missiles and bombers, it has gone unnoticed in the press. I suppose a conspiracy to suppress that chatter would be labeled a “conspiracy theory,” which also suggests that Mr. Biden’s mental deficiencies have somehow infected the entire body politic of the USA. That is, much of the whole US population is mentally unwell, living in a national hall of mirrors. How did that happen? Is it possible that there are branches of our government dedicated to driving the population crazy. . . a kind of ordeal-by-gaslight? What Mr. Putin displayed most of all was an air of prudence, an awareness that America’s behavior has become increasingly and dangerously unhinged over the years he’s been in power, requiring much delicacy and Christian patience not to worsen. Ukraine was at the center of the discussion, of course, since it has become a point of dangerous geopolitical inflammation. It is unclear whether the American audience was able to follow Mr. Putin’s detailed disquisition on the history of Ukraine, and how lately it eventuated in America’s bungling effort to wrest it out of Russia’s sphere of influence. He explained his view of events around the “Maidan coup” of 2014 and NATO’s repudiation of the Minsk Agreements that might have satisfactorily ended hostilities and provided a framework for reestablishing Ukraine’s status as a neutral borderland between Europe and Asia. Mr. Putin also confirmed my own conjecture: that, after the fall of the USSR, Russia had one overriding concern in foreign affairs: to be re-admitted to the European family of nations as a once-again “normal,” member, especially in trade relations, after seventy-five years of its peculiar communist experiment. He spoke of this quite ruefully as a lost opportunity to shore up Western Civilization — now engaged in a mystifying act of mass suicide that Russia decidedly wishes to opt out of by strategically reorienting with the BRICs bloc. A not inconsiderable part of our Ukraine problem has been that our chief executive was for years engaged in bribery and money-laundering misadventures there, for which there is abundant and powerful evidence, meaning he may have had very personal interests in keeping that country disordered — and sending billions of dollars there, some of it surely embezzled among the Zelensky government. You’d have to also be aware that the bag-man in those operations, the President’s son, Hunter, might well have misbehaved with drugs and prostitutes on his many trips to Ukraine as a board member of Burisma. - LewRockwell
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  4069. Overnight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to storm Russian positions in Kleshchivka area, near Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut.) The enemy was met with heavy machine gun fire and an 82-mm mortar. The counteroffensives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 2 squads (up to 20 people) and rolled back to their original positions. The Russian Armed Forces continue to securely hold the line around Artyomovsk. - Intel Report ELECTRONIC WARFARE: Russia is disabling "sophisticated" missiles that Ukraine's Western allies provide by scrambling their GPS coordinates. One such system, the R-330Zh Zhitel, is able to suppress satellite signals. It's not the first time concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of Joint Direct Attack Munition, (or JDAMs), in Ukraine. Earlier, UK think tank "The Royal United Services Institute" cited leaked US documents, AGHAST that Russia is effectively jamming JDAM GPS coordinates. Russian defenses have proven resilient against Western-supplied weapons, with Western offensive tactics so far not securing Ukraine a decisive breakthrough. - Intel Report ◾Russian forces hit Ukrainian air bases near Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky, and Dubno, Rovno, West Ukraine. ◾Ukrainian forces lose 80 personnel in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) as Russian troops repel 2 enemy attacks in Rabotino, Zaporozhye. ◾Russian air defenses intercept 11 US HIMARS rockets, HARM missile while ground forces repel Ukrainian attacks near Kovalevka and Serebryansky forest, Lugansk (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔AUGUST 5
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  4071. By merely doing what used to be called “journalism” – interviewing and reporting on people and events, whether good or bad – one is “doing the bidding” of the subject of the interview or report? No wonder fellow journalist Julian Assange has been locked away in a gulag for so many years. He dared to assume that in a free society, being a journalist means reporting the good, the bad, and the ugly even if it puts those in power in a bad light. In the end, the massive success of the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin demonstrates once and for all that the American people are sick to death of their mainstream media propagandists and liars. They are looking not for government narratives, but for truth. That’s the really good news about this interview. The US claims to be spreading democracy, but the Zelensky government is riddled with neo-Nazis. This is a point Putin stresses again and again. Do we really want to support people like this? Probably the most important fact to remember about the Ukraine war is the provocative nature of US foreign policy. To me, it seems clear it was the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, and NOT Russia, that wished to maintain this state of enmity, And yet, this same United States government, which has invaded and bombed dozens of countries since 2001, claims it is perfectly reasonable to propose that Ukraine (whose northeastern border lies 370 miles from Moscow) join NATO. The distance from the Mexican border to Dallas is greater. Let’s do everything we can to end the futile conflict with Russia that brain-dead Biden and his gang of neo-con controllers have instigated. - LewRockwell
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  4073. BLOOD SPLATTERED ON SHATTERED GLASS as left vid shows homes blasted apart after Ukrainian strike on innocent civilians - at least 2 people seriously wounded by callous Ukrainian rocket attack on Pologi, Zaporozhye region, ex-Ukraine (right map). Each 1 of Kiev regime’s war crimes meticulously documented by officials - Mad Vlad Zelensky knows he'll have to answer for his atrocities. - Intel Report Zelensky’s call for NATO ships to guard Ukrainian grain ships are a COVER for Kiev's new military adventures in the Black Sea - Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Zakharova. Russia will take the possibility of NATO ships entering the Black Sea into account of its military planning. As it's not without precedent - Ukraine previously utilized the grain corridor, provided by Russia, to attack Crimea. - Intel Report FROM A HOTSPOT: Ukrainian soldier reports from Avdeevka, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) - which is currently seeing heavy fighting . Every day, they're losing around 13 people in the meat grinder, he says. - Intel Report The news is not good for Ukraine. Its troops retreated from these areas today under heavy pressure from Russian forces. This should dispel the nonsense that there is some sort of stalemate. Nope. Russia is moving forward and Ukraine is falling back. The following video provides dramatic footage of Russian soldiers attacking entrenched Ukrainians and rooting them out — i.e., killing, capturing and forcing a retreat. In addition to the fighting on the frontlines, there are reports of escalating political intrigue, mayhem and attempted “murder” back in Kiev. If you are part of the Ukrainian hierarchy this is more than worrisome. Nothing distracts from the business of fighting a war like sowing fear and paranoia among the political and military leaders. - Sonar21
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  4075. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Morning report on November 27, 2024, Ukrainian military resources published a very alarming report for Kiev about the new successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Kurakhovo and its environs. Despite attempts to transfer reserves from the western outskirts of the city, the situation of Ukrainian garrison continues to deteriorate amid the presence of Russian assault troops in the city center, developing attacks on high-rise buildings. In one corner of the storming, UAV crew of the Yug Group of Forces from Southern Military District, discovered an observation post, and a firing position of Ukrainian ATGM Stugna on the upper floor of one of the city buildings. Nothing could hide from the drone, immediately destroying them all before the ATGM had time to be used! According to some Ukrainian sources, Kiev regime forbade General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to give orders to retreat even from the encircled settlements and tried to hold positions at the cost of heavy losses. However, the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade of Ukraine serving in the vicinity of Kurakhovo, in Berestki, apparently did not care about Kiev's orders. They chose to flee in disarray and suffered losses in small groups of 3-5 people through the forest belt after seeing the loss of Berestki. Meanwhile, another group was captured by Russian troops. They looked very happy to be captured because they would be safe from the war - their uniforms looked new! Russia has reportedly gained 235 square kilometers of territory in the past week in the strategic city of Kurakhovo in Donetsk, the fastest pace of progress since early 2022.
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  4090. [Much thanks for letting the world know who the real culprits are!] Yushchenko had initially lost the presidential election, but his supporters set up a tent city in central Kiev and blocked the government district. Foreign NGOs played a significant role in these events. The direct orchestrators of that color revolution included the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its affiliates, the Soros Foundation, the International Republican Institute, the Eurasia Foundation, and several other foreign entities Ukrainian society was divided in two, and Yushchenko’s policy laid the groundwork for a significant political crisis and the eventual war. Before Viktor Yushchenko came to power, Ukrainian politicians tended to avoid drastic measures, and instead favored compromises to resolve conflicts. However, his rise to power shattered that tradition. Yushchenko sought to impose an agenda that was alien to millions of Ukrainian citizens. By the time of the 2010 presidential election, Ukraine was deeply divided on cultural, linguistic, and national issues. A ticking time bomb had been set into motion back in 2004 when Yushchenko’s team chose to support radical nationalists and neo-Nazis. This strategy granted him a tactical victory but ultimately led the country to a strategic defeat. While in office, Viktor Yushchenko failed to address pressing issues. Instead, his policies exacerbated societal divisions which grew more pronounced each year. A decade after his rise to power, yet another revolution only deepened these contradictions, steering Ukraine away from the promised European future toward territorial losses and civil war. - RT
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  4098. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Important update on September 27, 2024, the noose was strengthened around Ugledar by Russian forces, and has begun a massive unprecedented offensive, capturing half of the city, which was a stronghold for Ukrainian forces for two years. Video shows one of the Ugledar Mines successfully captured by Russian troops with the assault on the city continuing. Before the massive assault, Russian scouts wisely dropped campaign leaflets by drone in the western part of Ugledar, calling for the surrender of Zelensky's troops from the units of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, which was ordered to hold the city while he is still in the United States. At this time, for Zelensky's troops, the situation on the front is critical, the small mining town in the Donetsk region is surrounded, all entrances and exits are under Russian fire control. Ugledar, which is half surrounded is in half a cauldron, making some of the rest of the men from the 72nd Ukrainian Brigade, try to escape in Ugledar, but eventually a group of prisoners of war were forced to surrender. At first they tried to attack the Russian tank formation from Buryatia near Vodyanoye village in order to escape from Ugledar, but failed. All roads to Ugledar were cut off, their resistance was useless. Dozens of them eventually had only one chance to return home alive! The command of the Russian troops contacted the Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender, or be blocked in Ugledar! They were supposed to surrender because Russia did not ask twice. As a result, Russia showered Ugledar with incendiary ammunition, fired from BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher systems at night. Some Western sources, citing their contacts in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, claim that Ugledar is completely surrounded. The video was recorded by the Ukrainian military themselves, who complained about the "difficult conditions" under the magnesium rain. In addition, Russian drones raided Ukrainian troops still entrenched in the city buildings. This was the last chance for the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade to retreat, and was rapidly closing. It is strongly suspected that in a few days Ugledar will fall!
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  4111. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Interesting developments on a completely new front sector, Russian troops have begun to break through to enter villages in Chernigov region and plant Russian flags there! Russian military channels released videos on November 25, 2024, showing a Russian tactical reconnaissance group moving from Bryansk Region Russia, across the border of Chernigov, Ukraine through several poorly guarded points and without encountering resistance. They managed to capture forest plantations and reach two villages at once, Gremyach and Muravyi, where they planted the tricolor flag. The footage shows the Russian flag on a strategically important bridge over Sudost River. Russian units can not only operate close to the border line, but can also go deeper, creating a new busyness for the rear of Zelensky's troops. For now, the Russian command has not revealed its intentions on what to do with the new front, Chernigov, although the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has sheepishly denied this despite video evidence. Gremyach and Muravyi were previously used by Ukrainian militants to attack Bryansk region, without any clear results, only to take photos or as evacuation sites. Now, the latest situation will further confuse Zelensky, after Kiev previously withdrew many units from Chernigov and relocated them towards Kursk as cannon fodder. The Russian penetration operation is believed to create a critical gap in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border region, highlighting the lack of adequate reserves even far from the front line.
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  4112. Russian forces have pushed Ukrainian troops out from Staromayorskoye, Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine), Kiev suffered significant losses - Acting Donetsk Chief Pushilin. Ukrainian army pushed into village after Pentagon announced that "main thrust" of Kiev's counteroffensive has begun. Ukrainians lost 20,824 personnel and 2,227 units of various weapons, including 10 Leopard tanks and 11 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in past month - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. On July 26 and 27, Russian forces destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian vehicles including 31 tanks, including three Leopard tanks Rabotino, Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine), Kovalevka and Sergeevka in Liman, Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) now under Russian control - Shoigu. Kiev regime using wounded Ukrainian soldiers as organ donors - Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev. Ukrainians are not only thrown into the so-called “meat assaults”, leading to huge losses, but, according to incoming information, wounded Ukrainian soldiers are used as biomaterial, secretly removing organs for transplantation. Apparently, it is no coincidence that last year Zelensky signed a law on transplantation, which provides for transplantation of organs without consent - Patrushev. Number of dead due to Ukrainian shelling of civilians in Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) increases to 4, 10 injured. ◾Ukrainian army loses 275 soldiers, 3 tanks, M109 Paladin, M777 and FH70 howitzers in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine). ◾Russian forces continue offensive in Kupyansk, East Ukraine as they repel attacks in Staromayorsky, Belogorovka and Maryinka, Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). ◾Russian air defenses shoot down Ukrainian Su-25 jet over Donetsk, 12 US-supplied HIMARS multiple launcher rockets and 23 Ukrainain drones. ⚔SITREP⚔ JULY 30
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  4114. Since my article from last weekend’s tragic terrorist attack near Moscow, a lot of new information has been released supporting Russia’s allegation the attack has direct links to Ukraine. This is a follow-up. The Russian Emergencies Ministry department in the Moscow region released the following body count from the terrorist theater massacre a week earlier: As of 6:00 a.m. Moscow time on March 30, 2024, there were 695 casualties, including 15 children, in the terrorist attack, of whom 144 people, including five children, have been killed. By Monday March 25th, three days after the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Aleksandr Bastrykin reported that in addition to 11 suspects initially arrested, an additional seven were arrested for allegedly helping to organize the attack. Apparently, it was Washington’s own pathological paranoia preventing it from complying with standard international security protocol to alert other nations of imminent terrorism. So that psychotic delusion was in large part responsible for 144 innocent Russians to needlessly die. Of course, paranoia is a weak and feeble non-excuse to holdback lifesaving information. But clearly the far bigger reason the United States withheld full details of what it knew was to prevent Moscow from immediately determining that the Biden regime’s CIA played the #1 key role in this plotted bloodbath, which would obviously present far deeper criminal implications the US refused to risk. Since US intelligence was the driving force behind this massacre, sparing lives would have completely sabotaged and reversely countered its vile objective. During the Moscow tragedy’s immediate aftermath, within minutes after Russian news first broke the story, the US Security Council puppet John Kirby went before the cameras to emphatically state there is absolutely no connection to Ukraine. How would he or the US government even know when the investigation hadn’t even begun? This alone raises suspicion to implicate America’s involvement attempting to control the narrative. Then when Putin went before his nation mentioning that the terrorists that committed the attack were captured trying to escape near the Ukraine border, all US officials began were pressing the same word-for-word script straight from central casting prior to any actual probe even starting. On Wednesday March 27th, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: It’s strange, to say the least, that the Americans have dared to announce a single narrative. This suggests at the very least that they are trying to shift attention away from something. Also, the non-nonsense Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova weighed in on Wednesday also wondering and asking uncomfortable questions the US/West refuses to answer: Based on what data and what information? Only one thing is clear – they began to excuse the Kiev regime in order to excuse themselves. Because everyone understands perfectly well that there is simply no independent [Ukraine] without Western financial and military assistance. On Wednesday March 27th Maria Zakharova stated: They [Washington] have exposed themselves. They started crying, not calling for an investigation, but covering up for Ukraine. Their bias and involvement in this issue is evident. Zakharova’s boss, the level-headed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, had this to say in an interview posted Friday March 29th: The West is actively trying to convince everyone that this is the work of ISIS and there is no longer any need to suspect anyone, especially Ukraine. They keep insisting that Kiev is not to blame, to the point where it’s becoming obsessive. So, a full week of DC, the EU and entire Western Mockingbird media all obediently doubling down on the singularity of their boldface lie that this ISIS-K group had zero connection to Ukraine. The global masses are slowly waking up to the truth of how this world works, that terrorist rogue state pariahs are operating out of Kiev, Tel Aviv, Washington, Brussels, London (including the Rothschild City of London command center). Having seen through so many US/West cover-up crimes and scandals, ultimately the people are beginning to catch on and increasingly demand justice. It’s undeniable that the CIA and MI6 are deep inside Ukraine’s intelligence services, having built a vast anti-Russian spy network over many years with the Kiev regime. And now the world will ultimately realize how the UK-US-Zio spy network that takes their orders not from governments themselves but the owners of governments, and how together they maliciously operate at will committing the most despicable crimes on the planet through impugn deception, death and destruction. Again, these perps have been repeatedly caught red-handed that they cannot keep getting away with. This latest display of US Deep State deception is the dead giveaway that the so-called government actors, and that’s all they really are – two-bit, low life actors all dutifully lying through their teeth, rigidly following their centrally scripted lines in yet another pack of lies that the world knows are blood-soaked in red lies. The West possesses a historical pattern committing these worst unprosecuted atrocities. The globalist false propaganda machine plunged into overdrive the minute it learned of this latest massacre, instantly disputing Putin linking the killers to Ukraine, and ever since doubling down to squelch any and all unfolding evidence. It’s not as if desperate Kiev or Washington never engage in terrorism or coverup lies. Kiev and its Western backers have already lost the war militarily, backed into a corner now with more incriminating evidence coming out daily, these pathological criminals have no other choice but to keep lying and denying. But the world is onto them and truth and justice will prevail to triumph over lies. - LewRockwell
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  4121. SEEK AND DESTROY, Russian T-80 tanks come out of their positions, locate strongholds and command posts of Ukrainian army, destroying them with pinpoint blasts, leaving no chance for cannon fodder's escape, as enemy suffers over 485 cannon fodder in casualties in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), up to 50 in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine). US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, Uragan multiple rocket launcher destroyed, 75 drones, 5 Storm Shadow missiles shot down. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 20 Flames, destruction and fire engulf Rovno Thermal Power Plant, Rovno Northwest Ukraine following Russian strike on distribution center. Marks first strike of its kind in a long time - meaning Kiev just might be freezing in the dark sooner than its allies! - Intel Report The Ukrainian command cannot count on a speedy victory which would allow it to crush Russian troops and achieve significant changes. It also cannot transfer forces near Artyomovsk to another direction, as if the Ukrainian army stops advancing, Russian troops will seize the initiative. At the tactical level, this has already happened near Berkhovka, when the AFU refused to advance on the northern flank and focused on the southern direction. If anything, making progress near Artyomovsk would only harm Ukrainian forces – the price of advancing in this direction is growing by the day while the odds of achieving real success remain minimal. Yet instead of learning from the mistakes of the first ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’, Kiev continues to fall into the same trap. - RT DID POLAND JUST TORPEDO NATO AND UKRAINE? To quote Andrei Martyanov, WOWSER! Remember the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine in the early hours of 6 June 2023, which caused extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river? This is worse. This may explain the “Grumpy Gus” visage adorning Zelensky, his crew, as well as John Kerry and Antony Blinken yesterday at the UN General Assembly during Biden’s awful speech. This marks the first significant event where domestic politics — this time in Poland — is undercutting support for NATO’s plan to inflict a long-term war on Russia. Meanwhile, if you have any doubts that the United States is the number one country in the World for military “interventions” just take a look at this report from the U.S. Congressional Research Service, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798 – 2023. Since 1991, the United States has launched more than 200 military operations in foreign countries. Russia and China combined have been involved in less than 20 such activities. Just think about those numbers the next time you hear some American politician bloviate about the imperial ambitions of Russia and China. To paraphrase comedian Jeff Foxworthy, “If you launch an average of 9 foreign invasions a year you might be an Imperialist.” - Sonar21 ARM-LESS ARMY: Even conservative estimates that place loss of limbs of Ukrainian soldiers at over 20 thousand still are 10 times higher than the amount of American soldiers losing limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq over 20 year period. If Kiev's soldiers aren't left to die, they're left to starve: reports of surviving on dog food - such as the fate of 30-year-old Ukrainian soldier Goshka, an amputee who reports sharing dog food meals with his pit bull on the front lines: "It didn't taste bad." - Intel Report DECOMPOSED BODY found at Ukraine-Romania border as Ukrainians desperately attempt to escape becoming cannon fodder. Kiev reports it's 24th such dead body found as vid also shows increasing number of people wanting to flee Ukraine, paying around $5,000 to smuggle themselves in trucks out of the border. Body moving such a lucrative business after US and EU brought "democracy" to Ukraine, they take 'em dead and alive! - Intel Report Watch top Russian diplomat Lavrov destroy West and Ukraine at UN in 20 seconds. Lavrov says cookie monster Nuland ADMITTED, with pride, spending $5 BILLION "on pestering politicians obedient to West in Kiev" in 2013. DeMocRaTic UkRaIne - Intel Report "FOCK OFF BACK TO AMERICA", says based Moldovan farmer, disgusted by sight of merican NATO soldier desecrating his land and angered by bullshit of being "here to help" . Chad just like ordinary Moldovans sick of their country becoming a US-NATO vassal, pulls Uno reverse card with phrase US loves saying "go back to your country". - Intel Report Russian peacekeepers evacuate over 5,000 civilians from dangerous areas in Nagorno-Karabakh since latest outbreak of fighting. - Intel Report Commander of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces corps suspended. Being first detainee in case of death of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, he is held responsible for troops that killed Russian peacekeepers. - Intel Report
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  4124. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Once again, the Russian Armed Forces liberated a settlement outside Pokrovsk city, Shevchenko, dealing a serious blow to Ukraine and NATO, hundreds of their soldiers were eliminated while trying to defend it. The Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced on January 11, 2025, that fighters from the 74th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the Kutuzov Brigade of the Tsentr Group of Forces, have just completed an operation to liberate Shevchenko and hoist the Russian flag there! It was the area around Pokrovsk, heavily fortified by Ukrainian troops, that suffered another crushing defeat after two failed counteroffensives by the Kiev regime in Kursk. During the liberation of the settlement, Russian soldiers managed to destroy all Ukrainian military installations even in fierce battles, blowing up enemy positions using tanks and artillery! The tactics of continuous attacks by Russian troops on Ukrainian positions outside Pokrovsk, proved to be quite successful, breaking through Ukrainian defenses almost everywhere. As shown in the footage, the Russian flag is now flying over one buildings of Shevchenko, moving the Russian border even further west. Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the Russian command and personnel on the liberation of the village of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic. “Today, as for many years, the servicemen of the 74th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the Kutuzov Brigade honorably fulfilled the combat mission set before them in the fight against neo-Nazis, confidently repelling them,” the head of the Russian military department wrote in Telegram. Pokrovsk, the site of the most active fighting, is entering its final days as part of Ukraine. At the moment, the situation in the city is not normal and is characterized by the absence of activity of the population, as shown in the latest footage from the Ukrainian army. Every expert believes that the collapse of the main city is just a matter of time, as Russian troops continue to advance and at the same time Kiev's forces continue to decline. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a dead end, lacking personnel and military equipment, some of them even personally conduct fundraising efforts through the media.
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  4155. As I expected, Washington is moving the conflict toward Iran. Washington chose this moment to escalate in order to direct the news away from Israel’s trial in the International Court of Justice. Regardless, Washington’s neoconservatives intended escalation from the beginning of the Israeli-Hamas war. It has been clear to me since 9/11 in 2001 that neoconservative dominance in Washington guaranteed we were on a road to escalation that would eventually reach Armageddon. The world is going to be victimized by the incapacity of the American political and intellectual classes to think clearly and honestly. We are approaching Armageddon because US foreign policy serves Israeli expansion, not peace. Washington has now launched air and naval attacks on Yemen. Sadeh, Zubaydah, Abs, Bani, Sana, Hudaydah, and Taiz have been attacked by American forces, initiating yet another war without Congressional approval, a branch of the US government emptied of power. The price of oil increased in response to the American attacks. Oil kingdoms, such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, are beginning to feel rocky as a result of their alignment with Washington against the Houthis. The White House fool says it is the Houthis’ attacks that are reckless, not Washington’s. The New York Times and the rest of the Western media have gone to work placing all blame on the Houthis. The Houthis have announced that as a result of the US/UK strikes on Yemen “all American and British interests have become legitimate targets.” You can see where this is going. - LewRockwell
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  4156. ATGM COMING THROUGH, red dash glides towards Ukrainian observation post hidden in houses by Antonovsky Bridge, Kherson (ex-Ukraine), in footage showing Russian anti-tank guided missile crews surrounding Kiev's cannon fodder and suffocating them with precise strikes. - Intel Report Russian air defenses thwart terror attack attempt by Ukraine over Belgorod, pre-War Russia. Moscow downs 9 Ukrainian shells shot by multiple launch rocket systems before crack of dawn. - Intel Report POWERFUL FIRES and fragments of building everywhere after Russian night drone strikes deliver large-scale blow to Ukrainian ammo depots (pictured) in Kalinovka, Vinnitsa region, West Ukraine. Explosions thundered also in Dnepropetrovsk, West Ukraine and Odessa port, South Ukraine. - Intel Report Ukrainian Army used chemical weapons when shelling Gorlovka, Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine, pictured) regional advisor Gagin says. Ukrainian Army used chemical munitions shelling Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) as well - but don't expect any Western calls for regime change over that. - Intel Report SOLDIER STRUGGLES TO BREATH, walking through horrifying toxic fumes caused by use of chemical munition in Kiev's regime's shelling of Gorlovka, Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine). Some kind of bullshit is poisoned here - He says as he walks through what could be deadly-looking fog. DPR official warns victims are experiencing attacks of suffocation, teary eyes, nausea, swelling throats and burning skin. Don't expect but crickets from "International community" - Intel Report WELL, YOU CAN TELL BY THE RUSSIAN ARTILLERY DROPS, Kiev's cannon fodder won't be Staying Alive as explosions pummels their positions in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), causing Zelensky up to 550 in casualties, and destroying 3 ammo depots. 2 West-supplied artillery systems also destroyed in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), 40 enemy soldiers either killed or injured in Kherson (ex-Ukraine), air defenses destroy 25 terror drones. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 29 WHAT DO YOU BLINK YOU'RE SAYING? Who should we blame here? Malicious Western Russiophobic historical revisionism or faulty American educational system, which produced this IDIOTIC clam by Biden that Hitler's existential enemies who defeated Nazis, the Soviets, actually swooped in with a proverbial shovel after Nazi war crime that killed thousands to bury their war crimes. Thankfully, Blinken receives a community notes call-out reminding him of OBVIOUS fact Soviets LIBERATED Babyn Yar and Kiev after they, too, were among those massacred, as US regime provides weapons, endless money, and support for Kiev regime that honors Nazi atrocities today! - Intel Report RETIRED OFFICERS STILL LYING ABOUT UKRAINE WHILE MEDIA COMING TO GRIPS WITH THE UNFOLDING DEBACLE - Sonar21 FUNERAL MARCH aptly plays to grim footage of Ukrainian soldiers left to rot in their trenches in Kleshcheevka, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). Closer you look, more bodies you see littering the area, in brutal footage showing price Ukrainians gotta pay being West's cannon fodder for a regime ready to throw his own people at meat grinder while forgiving those "sponsoring the war" for a price. - Intel Report Kiev's regime shells monastery in Nikolskoye (map above), Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine), monk and parishioner injured. Must be an ISIS-affiliated soldier who picked the target! - Intel Report
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  4162. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The settlement of Nikolayevo-Daryino region has been recaptured by Russian assault troops while drones of various versions support the assault, working to destroy Ukrainian military personnel and equipment without resistance. Footage released on January 21, 2024 by the 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Airborne Forces, shows them displaying the Airborne Forces flag on a street in Nikolayevo-Daryino , where the settlement itself is a long row of houses along the road leading to the border with Ukraine. The first reports of fighting in the settlement emerged late last year in November 2024, where the assault forces managed to break through to the other bank of Snagost River, cutting off the supply line for Zelensky's forces. Russian drones such as the deadly FPV, were flown into Nikolayevo-Daryino before the assault troops entered. The footage shows the drones chasing a group of soldiers fighting for Kiev, Ukrainian forces or foreign mercenaries. But the drones don't care, attacking each and every one of the panicked soldiers in the hope of saving their lives. In addition to ambushing enemy personnel, a camouflaged Ukrainian mortar was hit by FPV. Similarly, several shelters in the basements of civilian houses, where Kiev's troops were gathering in an attempt to defend Nikolayevo-Daryino, were heavily bombed. The 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade reported that the clearing and consolidation took place the day before, and is now advancing along the state border. The liberation of Nikolayevo-Daryino made it possible to conduct reconnaissance and strikes in the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy region. Meanwhile, Ukraine lost more than 390 servicemen and 4 tanks in Kursk during the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on January 22.
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  4182. From Putin International Press Conference. The president said he would have warned himself against “excessive naivety and credulity in relations with our so-called partners,” apparently referring to the West. Concerning the advice he would have given himself, Putin said: “One must believe in the great Russian people. This faith is the key to the success of Russia’s revival and development.” “If there is no national currency, you can’t print anything, there is only one way – reducing budget spending for the social sphere, a severe cutting of wages, pensions, expenses on medicine, on roads and domestic security,” Discussing the “rules-based order” promoted by the US and its allies, Putin claimed that “those rules are non-existent because they change on a daily basis... depending on the interests of some of the stakeholders.” There are 617,000 troops involved in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine and Russia's new regions spread along the almost 2,000-km-long frontline, according to Putin. “For now, there’s no need” for another wave of mobilization, especially considering that on average, 1,500 people volunteer to defend the country every day, he stressed. Those, who were among the 300,000 mobilized during the first wave in autumn 2022 are “fighting hard”; 14 have been named Heroes of Russia, the president said, referring to the highest honorary title in the country. The ongoing events in Gaza are a “catastrophe,” Putin said. “Look at [Russia’s] military operation in Ukraine and at what’s happening in Gaza, and see the difference.” The president said there was “no such level of destruction” in Ukraine compared to the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian enclave. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called Gaza “the largest ‘graveyard for children,’” Putin noted. “Such a characterization is telling,” he added. - RT
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  4188. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Syrian army began launching Tochka missiles, and the consequences of its "arrival" in one of the headquarters and operations of the Al Aqeeda affiliated organization "Jabhat al-Nusra" in Idlib, with devastating results. The scenes published on December 1, 2024 by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) showed that they began using various heavy weapons not only the M-600 'Tishreen' tactical ballistic missiles, but in particular now for the first time deploying the OTR-21 Tochka-U tactical missile, which can carry a 420kg warhead. In just a matter of days, the front line reached a dangerous level for the militia units, they entering Syria suddenly but miscalculated. This version has a range of 120 km and high accuracy, fired by the Syrian Army with targeted attacks on several militia command rooms, supported by Turkey and the West. The scene in the city of Idlib from the footage of the militia, shows the consequences of the Soviet Tochka missile hit, reaching a very severe level of damage to enemy targets. One of the gathering points of the terrorist militias "Jabhat al-Nusra", or the command headquarters of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as reported by other sources, was covered in dust and thick smoke, destroying several vehicles in the area around the militia leadership center after a wave of precision strikes by the Tochka missiles of the Assad Government forces. In this attack, at least 65 militias were reported killed, but it is likely more considering the damage caused by the missiles. It is noteworthy! The pro-militia media and their supporters are now starting to shout that the Syrian operations together with Russia are starting to have a severe impact on civilians, something that is repeated and unproven! The Syrian Government will take unprecedented measures to suppress terrorism that is considered to only understand the language of violence, and destroy it quickly as Assad previously said. It seems that the Syrian Army is operating hundreds of missiles from this system during this period, and its launches continue to destroy foreign militias with one goal, to occupy Syria.
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  4189. "CLEAR EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES" says UN as it blasts both parties in Israel and Gaza of targeting civilians after Tel Aviv uses collective punishment tactics against Palestinian exclave. Footage of crimes piling up in pics above as UN demands all those violating international humanitarian law must be held accountable. - Intel Report KIDS FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES as screams of terror reverberate after Israeli strike sends smoke into skies near only checkpoint between Egypt and Gaza Strip (right map). 100s of Palestinians seen with packed bags in attempt to flee Israeli strikes, while Tel Aviv claims it's made NO official call for Palestinians in Gaza Strip to leave for Egypt. - Intel Report LIKE ALL FIREWORKS WENT OFF AT ONCE as 10s of rockets erupt from Gaza Strip (top vid), trailing lines of smoke on their way to Israeli city of Ashkelon (bottom right map). Sky over Ashkelon looks like mad scribbles as Iron Dome anti-air attempts to shoot down incoming barrage of rockets (bottom left vid), while flames erupt from parked cars as warheads make way past defenses (bottom center vid). Hamas had given people in Ashkelon hours of warning before starting strikes, adding that if Israel doesn’t end policy of "civilian displacement", Hamas will continue to DESTROY Ashkelon and move on to other cities. - Intel Report RUBBLE RAINS DOWN on terrified cameraman as journalists forced to flee from renewed Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip. As Tel Aviv bombs non-stop, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian urges UN to hold Israel accountable for "aggression and atrocities committed by regime". Iranian FM also holds emergency calls with Russian, Egyptian and Kuwaiti counterparts on situation in Gaza Strip. - Intel Report
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  4190. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Thrilling footage shows Russian troops advancing, retaking the village of Obukhovka in the Kursk region, and they took control of the settlement in the first 24 hours of the fighting, while Ukrainian militants who remained in the surrounding forest belt were crushed. The Russian Defense Ministry released footage of the assault on October 6, 2024, showing a platoon-scale mechanized assault by the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, the fighting is taking place along the forest line southeast of Obukhovka, where Zelensky's troops have temporarily taken refuge. Supported by ATGM and drones, five marines take up this position, three of them carrying out a shooting attack, while the other two come from the opposite side. This is not a mobile war, but a real war, where Russian marines enter the assault group, storming houses. Due to continuous monitoring using UAV, it was possible to detect the main points of resistance, and drive the enemy away from their strongholds, the houses of Russian residents. Immediate action was taken including a successful direct hit of an anti-tank missile from a distance of several meters from the first house in the village. Meanwhile, Russian drone operators gave them molotov cocktails, driving out those who were hiding in panic in forest plantations, disabling them and destroying military equipment. During the storming, Kiev's troops resisted, not wanting to give up their positions and tried to counterattack, but the Ukrainians did not succeed. Despite all the means, with 120-mm mines, cluster bombs, kamikaze drones, and continuous shelling, Russian troops held the village for three days. When reinforcements arrived, the Marines now managed to clear Obukhovka after an assault on the nearby forest area, which deactivated about 35 militants, and the survivors surrendered. As a result of fierce fighting, trophies were collected in Obukhovka. The marines managed to seize Western-made weapons, flags of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and personal belongings of the nationalists. According to the Marines, among those killed and captured were Ukrainian border guards, Polish mercenaries, and soldiers from two brigades. We disabled them all, all of them," the commander of the assault group said.
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  4203. ◾Russian forces repel 5 Ukrainian attacks in Belogorovka, Avdeevka, Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine) as Russian assault groups take better positions in Kuzemovka, Lugansk (ex-Ukraine) during offensive. ◾Ukrainian forces lose 135 personnel, 2 tanks in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) as air defenses intercept 7 Storm Shadow cruise missiles, 2 HIMARS rockets. ◾Russian Army strikes enemy command post Dnepropetrovsk, East Ukraine, inflict 120 casualties on Ukrainian army in Kleshcheevka, Donetsk. ⚔SITREP⚔ JULY 28 Ukrainian forces AGAIN attack Chongar Bridge between Kherson (ex-Ukraine) and Crimea, pre-war Russia with UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles. Last night, Kiev regime tried to destroy railway between Kherson region and Crimea, firing 12 long-range Storm Shadow missiles. All missiles were shot down by our air defenses - Kherson region chief Saldo. The rot that is the Godless Warmongering Globalist West that cares only about power for power's sake, the lives lost in their endless diabolic wars to plunder the world's riches being of no concern, is no longer being accepted by sane countries who have had enough of the US Hegemon and its morally bankrupt State Department run by Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan, and their serial sociopathic lying press enablers, the entire lot of which need to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity! The Uke Armies continue to be attrited in the field at an ever-increasing rate with their fantasies of storming Crimea going down the drain as their miniscule gains resulting in the cannon fodder of their soldiers attest to in spades! This was is over. It only continues because of the Western Hegemon dreams of destroying Russia when, in fact, they are destroying themselves. Take that, Nuland and the rest of ur US State Dept garbage prolonging this war to please your MIC donors, the cost in lives be damned. Karma is coming for you all!
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  4214. Images circulating online purport to show the immediate aftermath of the attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday, including the apprehension of the gunman. Fico was assaulted after taking part in a government meeting in the town of Handlova. According to local press reports, he suffered four gunshot wounds in his abdomen and chest. A helicopter picked him up to be airlifted to a hospital in Banska Bystrica as flying him to the capital Bratislava would take too long, Fico’s office said. - RT 71-YEAR-OLD IDENTIFIED AS MAN WHO SHOT SLOVAKIAN PM - REPORTS: Fico shot multiple times allegedly by elderly Slovakian who shouted “come here!” to PM before firing at least 3 rounds. Ukrainians swarm online to celebrate assassination attempt with unbridled relish (handful of bloodthirsty comments in bottom pic) - they're overjoyed 'cause Fico's been staunch opponent of funding Mad Vlad Zelensky's war crimes and has openly called for warmer relations with Russia. Fico's office announces PM's been hit "multiple times" and his condition "life-threatening". - Intel Republic Robert Fico’s third term as prime minister of Slovakia put him squarely at odds with both the European Union and NATO on the matter of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Slovak PM was shot on Wednesday, during a visit to the town of Handlova, and was rushed to hospital for surgery in a serious condition. His attacker has been arrested but his identity and motives have not yet been revealed. “This is not only a shot at Fico and Slovakia, but also at Russian-Slovak relations,” Russian lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin said in reaction to the news. “Fico knew very well that the majority of Slovaks, at least half, sympathize with Russia, despite the campaign of deception that rules the roost in Europe,” Zatulin added, noting that the Slovak PM had been “subjected to endless extortion and threats” from the EU over his political positions that ran counter to those of Brussels. - RT
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  4229. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Syrian Armed Forces have successfully carried out a large-scale operation against terrorist groups in the northern countryside of Homs with airstrikes from Russian and Syrian fighter jets, the official SANA news agency reported on Friday evening, citing military sources. Syrian Arab Army units operated around Talbiseh-Al Rastan enclave and in Al-Dar al-Kabirah, launching attacks on terrorist forces with the support of warplanes, artillery, rockets and armored vehicles. Syrian Arab Army is carrying out repositioning and redeployment in accordance with military plans and orders, determined to continue to defend Syria steadfastly, the news agency added. According to footage from pro-Turkish sources, clashes took place in al-Qosour between Syrian Army and terrorist groups, namely out of 10 people, 8 of whom are foreign mercenaries with the support of clearly known countries. The attacks were aimed at blocking their progress and supply chains towards Homs, a city that has been captured in the news, which is exploited by the enemy circles to spread rumors among the citizens, as reported by the Syrian Defense Ministry. Amid the ongoing fighting in the northern districts of Homs, Su-22 warplanes attacked Ter Maela, targeting terrorist groups and their supply lines during the day. In addition, Syrian Army officer said that Russian planes launched airstrikes at night to destroy the Rastan bridge along the main M5 highway connecting Hama to Homs. This was important to prevent the spread of terrorists towards Homs, entering several villages and areas to take pictures for a few minutes, and leaving the area to then publish the clips on their websites in the context of a dirty media war to show their control. Syrian Arab Army swept the enemy with a swift movement, eliminating many terrorist members and destroying many of their vehicles, equipment and weapons. Syrian Army air defenses also shot down 2 enemy suicide drones. Sources reported that many other members fled due to the air force operation and the areas were also bombarded with heavy artillery. In Talbiseh, it showed that Syrian-Russian operation left significant damage to enemy positions due to heavy shelling, and the strategic city looked deserted in the morning as in the footage by a motorcyclist. Meanwhile in Rastan, it is unknown where the terrorists went, where the conditions are the same as in Talbiseh, Syrian-Russian attack left a nightmare for the enemy group. The death toll of terrorists rose to 2,500 during the week while Syrian Armed Forces carried out a counterattack with the support of Russian Aerospace Forces, the Syrian Defense Ministry reported
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  4240. The US has conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen… and now Palestine and Ukraine. The unspoken objective is not to “win the war” but to engineer the destruction of entire countries, create political and social chaos, with a view to ultimately “picking up the pieces” and taking control of the national economies of sovereign nation states. This hegemonic agenda is also conducted through “regime change”, “color revolutions” and the concurrent demise and criminalization of the state apparatus coupled with “strong economic medicine” and the imposition of a soaring dollar denominated debt. The NeoCon agenda which is embedded in America’s military and intelligence agenda is to “Destroy Countries”. It is a profit-driven agenda: “Destruction” leads to “Reconstruction”. What is at stake is the engineered economic and social destruction of sovereign nation states. The creditors are there to “pick up the pieces” and “appropriate real wealth”. The Kiev Neo-Nazi regime is a Partner in this Endeavour. War is Good for Business. The greater the destruction, the greater the stranglehold on Ukraine by “private investors”: The Privatization of Ukraine was launched in November 2022 in liaison with BlackRock’s consulting company McKinsey, a public relations firm which has largely been responsible for co-opting corrupt politicians and officials Worldwide not to mention scientists and intellectuals on behalf of powerful financial interests. In late December 2022, president Zelensky and BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink agreed on an investment strategy. The Focus of the London Conference (June 23-24, 2023) was on Recovery and Reconstruction. It was preceded by a reception hosted by H.M. King Charles V. - LewRockwell
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  4253. Austin said the US must continue to play the role of global military hegemon – policeman of the world – because “the world will only become more dangerous if tyrants and terrorists believe that they can get away with wholesale aggression and mass slaughter.” How’s that for reason and logic? Austin and the interventionist elites have fact-checked 30 years of foreign policy failures and concluded, “well it would have been far worse if the non-interventionists were in charge.” This is one of the biggest problems with the neocons. They are incapable of self-reflection. Each time the US government follows their advice into another catastrophe, it’s always someone else’s fault. In this case, as Austin tells us, those at fault for US foreign policy misadventures are the people who say, “don’t do it.” What would have happened if the people who said “don’t do it” were in charge of President Obama’s decision to prop-up al-Qaeda to overthrow Syria’s secular leader Assad? How about if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when the neocons manufactured a “human rights” justification to destroy Libya? What if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when Obama’s neocons thought it would be a great idea to overthrow Ukraine’s democratically-elected government? Would tyrants and terrorists have gained power if Washington did NOT get involved? No. Tyrants and terrorists got the upper hand BECAUSE Washington intervened in these crises. - LewRockwell
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  4264. In a recent article I had mentioned how the Western press and elite commentariat for the first time began using the taboo ‘C’ word, i.e. “Collapse”, for Ukraine. Now this has opened up the floodgates, causing more and more worried publications to begin turning off their previous holding-the-line narrative filter and actually start describing the Ukrainian situation with truthful urgency. The U.S. has already emptied almost its entire store of usable surplus mainline weaponry for Ukraine, i.e. tanks, artillery, light armor—not counting things like ammo. As proof, even Ukraine’s most ardent American supporters have admitted this in the past few days: Yet Ukraine hinges their entire future on this mythologized support as if it’s some kind of instant videogame-like upgrade, a “power-up” that will immediately re-energize and supercharge the AFU—this is simply not the case. High-ranking military officers secretly told Politico under anonymity that: “There’s nothing that can help Ukraine…the West doesn’t have the technologies in sufficient numbers.” Read my lips, it’s quite simple: Ukraine has literally no chance whatsoever to do anything militarily in this war anymore. Ukraine and Zelensky’s only shot at survival is to push Russia into a confrontation with NATO. They are desperately attempting to do this each day by launching mass terror attacks all over Russia. The latest occurred yesterday on Yelabuga, where Ukraine literally crashed a giant Cessna-like plane into a dormitory full of students that they claimed was a drone factory: While Russia is crushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ combat potential on the actual battlefield, desperate Zelensky is hiring “ISIS” to massacre Russian civilians, attacking Belgorod highrises with drones and artillery, and is literally loading up Cessnas with bombs and flying them into buildings with African exchange students—that’s the stage his putrid terrorist regime is now at. Ukraine is doing everything in its power to destabilize Russia by stirring discontent within it—even Western rags now admit to the recent rash of ethnic tension being provoked by Ukrainian services: There is a growing understanding across the Western allies that Ukraine is losing the ground war against Russia, and by summer could face defeat. Russia is pounding front lines with artillery, rocket and drone fire — and at over five times the rate the Ukrainian army can reply. Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops are exhausted — after sustaining in some sectors a heavier concentration of incoming artillery than at the Somme in 1916, or the Normandy Bocage after D-Day in 1944. It goes on to sketch the dire situation of the West’s own armaments: So what is it, in particular, that’s got them so terrified lately? Mostly it seems twofold: Russia’s increasingly heavy hand in attacking Ukraine’s power grid, as well as the rumors of a mass spring-summer assault: I ask you: What do you think now? Still believe time is on NATO and Ukraine’s side? It sure doesn’t seem like it these days. I say this as preface to the fact that Russia is slowly taking its time, continuing to build its armaments and potential, and very gradually closing the constrictor squeeze on Ukraine from all sides. Recent rumblings indicate that Ukraine is unable to determine where Russia could choose to strike a more major line-breaking assault due to the nature of Russia’s air strikes not being limited to one particular theater, but destroying Ukraine’s infrastructure in a widespread fashion. Ukraine’s “mechanized” brigades are literally being downgraded to foot soldier meat hordes due to lack of vehicles. Russia made recent progress in the areas west of Bakhmut and are now preparing to launch the assault on Chasov Yar. Here’s a quick before and after look at the Ladyzhenskaya thermal power plant control room, to give an idea the type of damage Russian attacks have done: The first photo may be a stock one for illustrative purposes, but you get the idea; I don’t think that’s being repaired any time soon. - Simplicius
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  4266. Blast in Krivoy Rog, south-central Ukraine. On social media local authorities call not to film the area. This is likely a military infrastructure object in what happens to be Zelensky's home town. - Intel Report Putin addresses the people of Donbass for WWII Donbass Liberation Day from Nazi Invaders. The spirit of those who won then flows through their great-grandchildren, who are fighting Nazis today in the Donbass. - Intel Report NAPOLEON, HITLER, NATO: there is a certain pattern here. Neo-Nazi Azov Regiment (formerly Battalion) soldier complains that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been too heavily promoted as being swift, or easily accomplished. “We are at war with a power that no one has ever been able to destroy,” he says. Pretty sure this information was known to NATO and Azov prior to engaging 500k+ human lives in this fiasco. - Intel Report WHERE'S THE MONEY? Literally BILLIONS of dollars of Western aid later - mobilized Ukrainian soldiers are forced to buy weapons and ammunition at THEIR OWN expense. Will there be an audit of Ukrainian politicians that have recently purchased villas in Europe and the US? - Intel Report Russian air defenses intercept 4 US HIMARS rockets while ground forces repel 12 enemy attacks near Artyomovsk (formerly), Donetsk and inflict 190 casualties on Ukrainian army in South Donetsk (ex-Ukraine). ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 7 Ukrainian terror drone shot down over pre-war Russia’s Belgorod region. Kiev regime fails in latest attempted terror attack on region. - Intel Report
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  4271. The West is spinning incidents in the Baltic Sea as purported evidence of a Russian threat, while putting a smoke screen on real attacks that undermine European energy security, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. The EU and NATO have alleged that Moscow was behind multiple cases of power and communication cables being damaged in recent months. Western claims that Moscow is waging a sabotage campaign in the Baltic Sea fit a wider pattern of baseless accusations against Russia, Zakharova said. She told a regular media briefing: “Accusations directed against our nation are being habitually voiced before the circumstances of what had happened are established. We have seen this many times.” She accused the West of “fantastic hypocrisy,” pointing to what she described as the “non-investigation” of the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. The energy links built under the Baltic Sea were intended to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany, before being blown up in what Moscow calls a “terrorist attack.” The US benefited the most from the incident and was likely behind it directly or through a proxy, Russian officials have claimed. In early 2022, US President Joe Biden declared that “there will be no Nord Stream,” if Russia used military force against Ukraine. Zakharova criticized Brussels for swiftly demanding action against Russia over the cable incidents after showing no such reaction to the Nord Stream sabotage. “It seems that since Biden said that he would destroy this project, the EU believes that what happened was all proper,” she said. She also condemned the EU for reacting meekly to Kiev’s drone attack on a Russian compressor station last week. The facility pumps natural gas under the Black Sea to Türkiye and multiple consumers in Southern Europe. - RT
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  4272. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - A massive storming by the Russian Armed Forces on the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 coal mine northeast of Ugledar has put Ukrainian forces in a very difficult situation. A large video released by Russian military correspondent, on September 14, 2024, shows Russian assault troops launching a fierce assault on the mine structures, and entering the area around the mine, where Zelensky’s troops had been hiding for a long time trying to defend Ugledar. However, this time the enemy troops appear to be completely surrounded by artillery and bombing attacks, and a large explosion occurred in one of the buildings of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 Mine, located west of Vodyane, which was recently liberated by Russian fighters. The assault on the extreme mine, where fighting continued after the Russian assault troops landed, would be a death sentence for the fall of Ugledar. Epic footage shows artillery preparation, and then a mechanized attack with the entry of two Russian armored groups into the mine area to destroy the enemy. The armored groups, consisting of armored vehicles and motorized rifle units, entered from two sides at once, from the north and from the south, pinning down the Ukrainian positions. After a massive artillery barrage on enemy positions, the armored vehicles broke into the complex while firing and deploying troops. Soon after four more armored vehicles arrived to disembark, one of them was hit by an explosive device during the advance, but with almost no losses. The advance of their comrades did not stop, and it is likely that the landing force landed there while continuing to press the Ukrainian positions. As a result of the successful assault, the Russian Armed Forces managed to gain a foothold in the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-3 Mine, and currently control at least half of its territory, about 2 km north of Ugledar. So far, the battle for the mine is still ongoing, but it seems that the last stronghold of the Ukrainian troops here, one of the key locations for the liberation of the town of Ugledar itself, will soon be taken and cleared by Russian units.
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  4273. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The settlement of Nikolayevo-Daryino region has been recaptured by Russian assault troops while drones of various versions support the assault, working to destroy Ukrainian military personnel and equipment without resistance. Footage released on January 21, 2024 by the 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Airborne Forces, shows them displaying the Airborne Forces flag on a street in Nikolayevo-Daryino , where the settlement itself is a long row of houses along the road leading to the border with Ukraine. The first reports of fighting in the settlement emerged late last year in November 2024, where the assault forces managed to break through to the other bank of Snagost River, cutting off the supply line for Zelensky's forces. Russian drones such as the deadly FPV, were flown into Nikolayevo-Daryino before the assault troops entered. The footage shows the drones chasing a group of soldiers fighting for Kiev, Ukrainian forces or foreign mercenaries. But the drones don't care, attacking each and every one of the panicked soldiers in the hope of saving their lives. In addition to ambushing enemy personnel, a camouflaged Ukrainian mortar was hit by FPV. Similarly, several shelters in the basements of civilian houses, where Kiev's troops were gathering in an attempt to defend Nikolayevo-Daryino, were heavily bombed. The 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade reported that the clearing and consolidation took place the day before, and is now advancing along the state border. The liberation of Nikolayevo-Daryino made it possible to conduct reconnaissance and strikes in the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy region. Meanwhile, Ukraine lost more than 390 servicemen and 4 tanks in Kursk during the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on January 22.
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  4280. Israel is on a scorched earth tear, and the US is running behind it with a fire extinguisher, desperately trying to keep the flames under control. Biden, dazed and confused as always, embodies US’ headless chicken mien: Let’s piece this together. First, the above report states that US basically begged Iran to allow it to strike some symbolic targets with the promise that Iran would not retaliate, so that US can get a lick in and save its reputation on the world stage. Iran reportedly replied that no attacks on its territory would be allowed. You can see how ridiculous this type of theater gets, as US policy has devolved into nothing more than a delicate and performative balancing act, all for the sake of protecting its golden calf of Israel in the region. Presumably Iran has signaled that the only way to de-escalate is to present concrete outlines for the withdrawal of US forces. So this will be the area to watch in the coming days and weeks, to see if the US signals further acquiescence on this account, or makes any new announcements regarding official plans or talks that may sketch out a timeline, even a loose one, for some type of withdrawals. It should be mentioned though that days ago Victoria Nuland made it “clear” that US will not be withdrawing from Syria—but it’s difficult to know on whose behalf, precisely, she’s speaking: One gets the impression that her deepstate clan inside the government is so powerful that she’s sometimes given uncommon license to make opinionated declarations which have no actual statutory backing, but may later be rescinded simply because no one dares to gainsay her at the time, and she’s given more of a free hand to ‘interpret’ official policy at whim. Lastly, if all else fails and the Empire wants to keep escalating, Ansar Allah are reportedly ready to likewise up the ante in ways that could seriously wound the beast at their door: Zelensky finally pulled the trigger and attempted to openly oust Zaluzhny: The country is currently in a stasis, not only because Zelensky can’t bring himself to take the risk of getting the blame for a draconian mobilization bill, but also because the Ukrainian parliament is frozen by lack of future reassurance in the funding department. And on that account, Victoria Nuland was dispatched to Kiev, in what can only be deemed an emergency fixer job, to patch things up and hold it all together from falling apart: She even promised some nasty little “surprises” for Putin. Some have inferred this to mean the new announcement that Ukraine is allegedly already receiving the long-awaited GLSDBs, or Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs, which can fire from the HIMARs launchers. She gave some laughable AI-generated boilerplate ‘encouragement’ as answer, but her real assignment was clearly not about intermediating for what US Congress is doing, but about sending verbal warnings to Zelensky and the upper staff, and handing them their directives for the time being. Lastly, despite what happened thus far, CNN claims it was just the appetizer, and that Zelensky intends to issue a full presidential decree to remove Zaluzhny from power “by the end of the week”: Today Putin openly said—likely for the first time, in such an overt and public manner—that the entire contact line will have to be pushed back to such a distance as to keep Russian territories from being reached by NATO’s most advanced weaponry given to Ukraine: Given the announcement that GLSDBs are allegedly now en route, this is essentially confirmation that Kharkov and more will have to be retaken. Kharkov is only 30km from the Russian border while weapons like GLSDB have 140km+ range. The US military continues showing some serious cracks in its infrastructure and culture of readiness. This is the third F-16 crash in less than a year, not counting many other crashes like the B-1B, and various other craft: Interestingly, there’s now reports that a Yemeni missile has come the closest ever to hitting a US ship, bypassing the vaunted AEGIS system and making it all the way up to the last line of resort: the CIWS. This is extremely uncomfortably close. To be shot down at under 2km means if the missile was going at, let’s say, Mach 2, which is 2500km/h, it would have been only 2-3 seconds away from hitting the ship. At Mach 3, it was 1.5 seconds away from striking the ship. That’s what you call a close call. The IMF continues to ‘revise’ up Russia’s economic projections by more than double: - Simplicius
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  4303. [Their rehearsals won't help much against an opponent who has 2-3 years live-fire practice against their weapons and tactics. To what degree is this bellicosity driven by the self-absorbed halfwits thrown up by 'democratic' procedures? Otherwise, are ideas seeded in politician's simple minds by the NATO military establishment (along with ridiculous cheerleaders from the Atlantic Council working on behalf of the armament industry) in order to induce fear (it being a catalyst for military funding)? The Colonialist countries of NATO feel urgency here. Russia is standing up to the Colonialists and it is emboldening countries all around the world to get rid of their colonial overlords. Which leads to a decrease in revenues for the colonialists and less power and control around the globe for them. Russia is not a threat in the military or geographic sense. It is a threat to the colonialist's money and power] NATO’s ongoing ‘Steadfast Defender 2024’ war games are heightening tensions globally by simulating a military confrontation with Moscow, the secretary of the Russian Security Council has said. Nikolay Patrushev also cited the alliance’s growing military spending as an indication of its “increasingly aggressive nature.” Speaking on Thursday, Patrushev stated that the ‘Steadfast Defender 2024’ war games, “during which a scenario of an armed confrontation with Russia is being rehearsed, are undoubtedly increasing tensions and destabilizing the situation in the world.” He claimed that the “destructive role of the US in modern history is obvious,” and noted that no other country has “unleashed so many wars and military conflicts.” Patrushev characterized NATO as an “important tool” employed by Washington to exert pressure and influence on other nations. The official pointed out that the Brussels-based military bloc has come directly to Russia’s Western border, and is preparing for future conflicts. Late last month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also cited the military drills as a threat and NATO as an “instrument of confrontation” used by the US. - RT
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  4307. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – On November 24, 2024, drone footage of the battlefield showed the entry of a Russian armored column after artillery preparation and the operation of attack aircraft, carrying out a strategic storming, completely encircling Ukrainian troops taking up positions in the settlement of Ilyinka, located south of the city of Kurakhovo. The armor of the landing assault unit of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Division, using BMP-2M and T-72 "Supermangal" reinforced to combat drones, carried out a series of heavy shelling of the enemy's strategic points. The rapid advance of the armored column met with strong resistance, but the armored column held out well and without losses. The Ukrainian side was targeted unexpectedly from the north of the settlement along the Mokrye Yaly River, to their positions west of the settlement. Here, the Ukrainian troops were caught in a "fire trap", and quickly their defense collapsed due to the coordinated maneuver of the Russian assault units. Then after the operation of the armored column, "Supermangal" was seen sending assault troops to enemy support positions, Ukrainian troops hiding in the ruins of buildings and underground dugouts. The scale of the soldiers' engineering work is impressive - the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to make any effort to delay the rapid Russian advance. The brave Russian assault troops, consisting of only a few men, quickly took the suspected points, went through the buildings one by one, where the Ukrainian troops might still be, and cleared them. Meanwhile, two other assault troops approached the Ukrainian trenches under enemy fire. However, in the end they managed to break through the enemy's defenses and quickly capture their important trenches. Then, Ilyinka was cleared efficiently on the same day, as the Ukrainians were unable to hold their positions. On the same day, several Ukrainian sources reported that Russian troops had taken Ilyinka and Romanovka. Meanwhile, the battle continued for Yelizavetivka the next to the river, which was almost completely under Russian control, as reported by Russian military correspondents. Kiev's troops reportedly retreated to avoid encirclement, forcing the Ukrainian command to hastily withdraw the remaining units that managed to escape during the Russian armored assault, which advanced 2 kilometers from the north along the Mokrye Yaly River.
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  4328. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian Air Defense Forces brilliantly shot down 45 Ukrainian UAV in a large-scale night raid, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, on August 21, 2024. From Moscow to Murmansk, Ukrainian drones tried to attack targets in western Russia over the past 24 hours. The first explosions were heard in Podolsk at about 3 am, after which residents of the city heard loud sounds every 15-20 minutes. Unfortunately, all 45 kamikaze drones that tried to attack Russian cities that night were destroyed! In total, 11 were shot down over the Moscow region, another 23 were destroyed over the Bryansk region, 6 over the Belgorod region, 3 over Kalushka, and 2 over the Kursk region, the Defense Ministry detailed. But in a slightly interesting development, a Ukrainian drone carrying explosives was shot down during the day by air defenses near the closed military settlement of Vysoky in the Murmansk region. It is about 1800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and is located in the Arctic Circle. A UAV or rather an Aeroprakt A-22 aircraft, converted into a UAV with a longer range. According to preliminary data, the target was the Olenya airfield from which the Russian strategic bomber took off, but failed. So far, Murmansk airfield has been operating as usual after the restriction of airspace. Meanwhile, according to the Head of Ukrainian Intelligence, Kyrulo Budanov, said that in total about 50 drones were used that day, attacking the signal intelligence center, carrying out attacks on the Ostafyevo airport in Moscow, and the Millerovo airbase in the Rostov region, but without reporting the results!
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  4333. The Hidden Danger Beside Trump: Why Peter Thiel is the Real Threat Trump tried to calm the waters, announcing that Nikki Haley and Mike “Kansas” Pompeo wouldn’t be returning to his team. Smart move, Haley and Kansas, with their cheerleading forever wars and regime change, warmongers and globalist puppets, embody the very swamp Trump claims to drain. But here’s the twist: sitting right beside Trump, grinning like the Cheshire cat, is Peter Thiel, a figure far more insidious than Haley or Pompeo ever were. Thiel isn’t just another billionaire with influence; he’s a Zionist hawk cloaked in Silicon Valley’s libertarian veneer. For years, his empire, particularly Palantir, has been at the forefront of merging Silicon Valley's tech prowess with the national security state, feeding both U.S. and Israeli intelligence networks with data-mining capabilities that would make Orwell blush. This isn't a recent development either, Palantir was designed from its inception as a tool to empower state surveillance, a vision that has seamlessly aligned with the Zionist agenda. In Israel, Thiel’s technology has been used to surveil Palestinian populations, enforcing a brutal occupation under the guise of “security.” And Thiel’s influence doesn’t stop there. He has deep roots in the U.S. military-industrial complex, aligning closely with the CIA through his early investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm. From the beginning, Palantir was woven into the fabric of America’s intelligence infrastructure, sold as a “defense” tool, while it quietly expanded a surveillance apparatus across the world, from the Occupied Territories to inner cities in the United States. The Zionist vision of control and surveillance has found its ultimate tool in Thiel’s empire - a Trojan horse that’s eroding civil liberties under the radar. Then there’s the paradox - Thiel, publicly a critic of “wokeism,” has quietly funneled money into (woke) initiatives that stir cultural war within the U.S. It’s an ancient imperial strategy: keep the masses distracted with ideological battles while the real agenda, bolstering Israel’s interests and consolidating a digital surveillance state marches on unopposed. By funding divisive causes and watching America tear itself apart, Thiel isn’t just hedging his bets, he’s ensuring that the spotlight never falls on his own agenda. For Trump to truly align with the idea of American sovereignty, distancing himself from Thiel isn’t a suggestion but a necessity. Thiel doesn’t represent a populist, patriotic agenda; he represents the apex of corporate, Zionist interests, a technocratic elite intent on tightening its grip over policy and control. If Haley and Pompeo were symbols of the neoconservative swamp, Thiel is the lurking shadow, the hidden hand of a corporate-Zionist cabal with a vested interest in manipulating America’s course. Trump, this is much more than merely draining the swamp, it’s about draining the Zionist infiltration embedded within Silicon Valley and the intelligence community. The art of the deal this time around means ensuring the U.S. doesn’t remain a puppet of Silicon Valley’s Zionist ambitions. If you’re serious about reclaiming sovereignty, you’ll keep Thiel at arm’s length, not in the seat beside you. - Gerry Nolan - TheIslanderNews - Intel Republic
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  4334. Mr. President, I believe that the CIA is providing you inaccurate, false intelligence about Russia’s casualties and the condition of its economy. If you hope to realize your goal of opening negotiations with President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, you must be equipped with the best information available. You have been briefed that Russia has suffered devastating losses — as many as 800,000 casualties — and that Russia’s economy is weak and fragile. Data from open sources paint a diametrically opposite picture. It is essential that you understand that Russia views this war as vital to its continued existence. Russia is not fighting to reconstitute the Soviet Empire. It sees Ukraine as a Western-proxy being used to attack Russia with US-and NATO-supplied weapons and intelligence, with the ultimate goal of destroying the current government. Accordingly, the only satisfactory outcome for Russia is to end this threat. President Putin is willing to accept a negotiated settlement provided that Ukraine is stripped of its capacity to launch future attacks on Russia and that NATO ends any consideration of making Ukraine a member of NATO. Here is the critical point: the IMF’s forecast suggests that Russia’s economy continues to show resilience in the face of Western sanctions, largely due to factors such as robust oil and commodity exports to countries like India and China, and the expansion of its military-industrial complex. President Vladimir Putin uses these economic indicators to argue that Western sanctions have been ineffective and to showcase Russia’s economic model to partners in Asia and Africa. His message is resonating with the leaders of the Global South. If you consider Russia’s perspective on the war in terms of casualties and the economy, Vladimir Putin is under no pressure to reach a negotiated settlement that does not address Russia’s strategic concerns that it will no longer face a military threat from NATO. If you fail to understand this and adjust your strategy to make a deal, your efforts to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine will not succeed. - sonar21
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  4354. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Russian Paratroopers from the 51st Regiment of the 106th Airborne Division filmed the situation in the settlement of Krasnooktyabrskoye, which was liberated after launching a fairly large-scale counterattack on the Kursk front on Wednesday. A video confirming this came from a settlement located northwest of Snagost, showing the decisive actions of the paratroopers' reconnaissance unit clearing the Gaponovsky forest and the area around the settlement. Careful work helped to keep the settlement intact, the area was cut off by a sudden Russian counterattack. The lucky Ukrainian troops retreated across the fields, those who could not escape were killed or captured. However, Krasnooktyabrskoye was captured without significant resistance. Among the foreign equipment seized is an International MaxxPro armored vehicle from the United States. The remarkable progress in Kursk is not only from Krasnooktyabrskoye since the counterattack. Photos and videos from the Russian side show Russian marines applying pressure, fighting against Ukrainian troops. Clashes like the one in the footage were reported around Troitskoye and Elizavetovka across the border, while Russian forces were advancing from Korenevo towards Snagost. Russian marines took the lead in the attack with armor group, driving back and firing on Zelensky’s forces, who were trying to fight back against the Russian Armed Forces. Despite the dire situation and the ambitions of their commander, at least five more Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk chose to save their lives rather than continue fighting. Faced with advancing Russian forces, they surrendered by laying down their weapons and raising their hands in surrender. The situation after the clearing in the liberated areas may actually be much worse than it appears on the map. Within a short time, several settlements such as Apanasovka, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoe, Gordeevka, Krasnooktyabrskoe, Obukhovka, Snagost and Desyatoye Oktyabrya returned to Russian Armed Forces control, leaving behind piles of destroyed equipment, dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers beginning to accumulate on the front lines.
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  4358. Since my strong warning of the stupidity and insanity of Western leaders who are without any doubt driving the world to nuclear Armageddon, the hyper dangerous situation has further deteriorated. While we all look forward to Thanksgiving holiday, the leadership of the Western world is setting us up for death. The insanity of the West is so extreme as to be incomprehensible. Not satisfied by taking the US and Europe to war with Russia by firing missiles into Russia, the NATO military committee is openly discussing preemptive missile strikes on Russia. This is extraordinary. At the present moment it is only Putin’s patience that stands between life and death on planet Earth. Putin is willing to tolerate the West’s provocations in the face of his clear warning until Trump assumes the presidency and indicates whether a mutual security agreement between the US and Russia is possible. With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear. If not insanity, it is the triumph of evil that the West tells Putin, whose patience is the only guarantor of avoidance of nuclear war, that NATO is considering preemptive strikes on Russia. For a person of my generation, such callous disregard for human life as Western “leaders” proclaim is incomprehensible. With nuclear war on the table, the task is to defuse the threat, not to inflame it. But the insane West has chosen to inflame it. - LewRockwell
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  4359. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Last night, the Ukrainian military needed to deliver reinforcements to its troops in the Kursk border region, and wanted to move stealthily at night, but the Mil Mi-28 Night Hunter of the Russian Army Aviation stopped them from doing so, the Russian Defense Ministry released the helicopter combat duty today on August 21, 2024. Night vision and IR devices, allow to effectively attack targets day and night. With guided anti-tank missiles fired and used during sorties, the Mi-28 worked against Kiev's military reserves, burning down targets as shown in the footage. Kiev was badly hit even before their personnel did their job, even in one action the Russian attack helicopters would turn fantasy into the worst nightmare! The crews of Russian helicopters are tireless! The Mi-28 all-weather anti-armor attack helicopter, continuously carry out unstoppable air strikes, especially in recent days, which forced Ukraine together with its Western partners, to suffer heavy losses on the border. Daily targeted strikes on Ukrainian personnel and materiel concentrated on the border, and aircraft return to base after using aviation weapons. As reported by the Russian Marines yesterday on August 20, Ukrainian personnel and Western armored hardware columns were destroyed near Korenevo. Allegedly, dozens of vehicles including two Stryker and one Kozak armored personnel carriers, one Canadian-made Roshel SARV armored fighting vehicle, one Cougar mine-resistant vehicle, and one HMMWV armored vehicle were destroyed or damaged in one helicopter action, several Ukrainian servicemen from the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade were captured. In Kursk, which was led by Western units to cross the Russian border zone earlier this month, flight crews on helicopters mainly "Ka-52", "Mi-28" and "Mi-35", daily support servicemen by conducting strikes on manpower, armored and motorized convoys of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian Aerospace Forces also carry out missions involving search and rescue teams including fire support groups and paramedics, evacuation and transportation of pilots to military health facilities.
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  4372. Update on the conflict in Ukraine for January 21, 2024… - As Ukraine and its Western sponsors continue losing the conflict strategically, Ukraine continues conducting military operations to win public relations victories; - Ukrainian drone strikes on St. Petersburg and a Russian oil depot inflicted no tactically or strategically significant damage; - Such strikes have demonstrably only galvanized the Russian population further behind Moscow and are admittedly aimed at encouraging the Ukrainian population to remain invested in the conflict; - The US government has claimed that without further financial aid, Ukraine will decisively lose the conflict, omitting the fact that even with additional financial resources, the arms and ammunition Ukraine needs does not exist to be purchased and transferred to Ukraine in the first place; - France has urged arms manufacturers to boost output, claiming to have switched to a “war economy mode,” despite the necessary prerequisites to do so not being met and France being unable to boost output without huge investments in both money measured in billions, and time measured in years; - The fate of a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft continues to remain at the center of Western commentary, specifically because of a lack of strategically significant developments in Ukraine’s favor on the battlefield. The fact that Western media admits the allegedly destroyed plane has already been replaced reveals how insignificant the incident is; - The Western media continues promoting narratives of heavy Russian losses around Avdeevka, identical to narratives that preceded the fall of Bakhmut to Russian forces last year; - While such narratives are meant to depict Russia as weak and failing, the relentless tidal wave of men and equipment would not be possible unless Russia possessed vastly superior means of raising manpower and military industrial output; - The New Atlas
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  4379. Another in the list of disasters, well deserved, for an Army having no problem making a priority of the killing of innocents! This situation today is pure evil, and could lead to events that could change the world in very disastrous and deadly ways for all; even to such an extent as to threaten mankind. But that leads us to the real problem in all our lives, and exposes the biggest threat to the human population, which is any and all central authority, governments, and rule. You see, no government cares in the least about the people, as those who choose to rule are monsters bent only on money, power, and control over those it dominates. They do not give a damn about what they consider to be the “useless eaters,” and treat all as sheep to be herded into submission and compliance, or slaughtered for the sole benefit of the agendas of the State. - LewRockwell From the standpoint of the Big Picture, nothing that anyone sane has seen in these battle reports from multiple sources shows any hope of the Uke Armies winning the war for their NATO slave masters. What is shown is the piecemeal destruction of these Armies being attrited into oblivion on All Fronts by the Combined Russian Armed Forces! NO TO CEASEFIRE as US vetoes UN resolution that would have condemned Hamas’s surprise attack and called on "humanitarian pauses" in conflict to deliver essential aid to MILLIONS in Gaza Strip. Washington’s excuse? It’s "disappointed" that resolution "makes no mention of Israel’s rights of self-defense" (US Ambassador to UN Thomas-Greenfield in vid above)… Meanwhile bumbling Biden’s offering $100 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, claiming that Tel Aviv will allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Egypt. - Intel Report MINI MUSHROOM CLOUD blooms near Crimea’s Sevastopol (vids above) after Kiev army resorts to using converted anti-air missiles in desperate attempt to attack Russia’s Black Sea Fleet HQ. Air defenses intercept 2 missiles that fall to ground, exploding but causing no damage or casualties. - Intel Report
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  4384. Update on the conflict in Ukraine for Sunday November 10, 2024… The Western media is citing the recent US presidential election as a turning point for the Ukraine conflict, with Kiev facing abandonment and defeat despite both having already long-since materialized; Various proposals are being discussed regarding the freezing or ending of the conflict, proposals that were being developed independently of US elections; Meanwhile, Western reports indicate Russian military power continuing to grow while Ukrainian arms, ammunition, and trained manpower continue to dwindle as Ukraine’s loss of territory accelerates; While many see President-elect Donald Trump as seeking to undo harmful US foreign policy enacted by the previous administration, in his previous term he himself helped advance the US proxy war with Russia by both arming Ukraine and withdrawing from arms control treaties allowing the US to station more dangerous long-range weapons in Europe pointed at Russia; The incoming Trump administration, like those before it, view Ukraine, Israel, and “Taiwan” as US allies and are simply reprioritizing the flow of US resources to the latter two as Ukraine’s irreversible defeat unfolds; US political candidates incapable of openly and clearly identifying US foreign policy as aggressive, illegal, unacceptable, and at the center of the many global conflicts it has created including in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, are simply selling American voters “hope” with no real intention of changing anything; - The New Atlas
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  4389. Ukes really good at targeting civilians, their MO! Over the past day, Ukraine fired about 140 ammunition at villages in Belgorod region (pre-war West Russia), several explosive devices were dropped from drones - Ukraine-bordering region's governor Gladkov. - Intel Report "THEY DUG THEIR OWN MASS GRAVES", says Russian soldier as Moscow's forces allowed Ukrainian soldiers, trying to cross the Dnieper near Kazachi Lagerya, to go ashore, before firing artillery at the Ukrainian boats that were unloading. In total, about 150 soldiers, mostly mercenaries met their makers (some of them killing each other) - trophies are captured, including dozens of foreign weapons, ammunition, radio stations, and even US police equipment . - Intel Report TOTAL WIPE OUT: Watch as Russian artillery smashes Ukrainian position in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), where up to 190 soldiers got mangled or killed. Elsewhere, ammo depot destroyed, and up to 600 Ukrainian soldiers between killed or injured in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), more than 130 cannon fodder in Kupyansk, East Ukraine. ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 18 Russia thwarts Ukrainian drone terror attack on Moscow. Drone discovered by air defense forces, suppressed by electronic warfare and crashed in a deserted area causing no casualties or damage. - Intel Report Russia's Lancet kamikaze drone descends from video's left top corner and strikes Western-supplied tank with a perfect pinpoint hit. Obliterating it in a cloud of dust as it stands next to a massive crater courtesy of a Russian mammoth FAB-500 explosion - Not hard yet? That hole was filled with Ukrainian soldiers taking shelter behind the tank - their fate is now sealed. - Intel Report
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  4397. Zelensky's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad D.C. Snubfest Zelensky’s war appears to be on the brink. After a letdown stint at the UN assembly in New York, he’s now in Washington on the last leg of his begging journey to ensure the continuation of the war. Unfortunately, so far, it’s not going very well. The much hoped-for and vaunted ATACMS appears to already be kaput: I persist in informing people there are serious red lines behind the scenes which the U.S. itself fears to cross. That’s because there remain many pressure levers that Russia itself has not yet exercised, and which could easily make life for the U.S. much more difficult, both militarily, economically, and geopolitically in Europe. Polish president himself shockingly called Ukraine a “drowning man” who can pull you under along with him: Like I said, the pressure is really starting to become evident after only a few months of failed counteroffensive attempts. By next spring, Ukraine will have spent 6 months from today likely being pounded into oblivion with no hope any longer on the horizon. If the headlines are bad now, the prevailing sentiment 6 months from now will be apocalyptic. It becomes increasingly clear that 80-90% of the entire AFU was in fact wiped out. Depending what you believe their starting number was, whether 200k or 1 million as Zelensky might have claimed, you can draw your conclusions from there as to total losses. It seems those “tongue-in-cheek” remarks about Ukraine having its entire first army wiped out, and now operating on their second or third army, were perhaps not far from the truth. Meanwhile, last night Russia has begun the first of this season’s debilitating strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure. Energy facilities were hit with major power losses throughout a webwork of cities. - Simplicius Jake Sullivan is delusional. Give Sullivan kudos for being a master of spin. He presents the press with a steaming pile of manure while assuring them it is a delicious plate of chocolate mousse. Slurp it up guys. He starts off with the red-herring that Russia has not yet captured Kharkiv, Kiev or Kherson. A meaningless point, proving nothing, because Russia’s military operations are concentrated on destroying the Ukrainian army — which is losing upwards of 1,000 troops a day — rather than conquering cities. So far Russia regularly bombing critical targets in Kharkiv, Kiev, Kherson, Lviv and Sumy with missiles and drones and Ukraine is impotent to stop those attacks because its air defense is no longer viable. I think the key factor during the next eight weeks will be how much damage Russia inflicts on Ukraine’s remaining military strength and infrastructure. Barring a mass surrender of Ukrainian forces, however, the Biden policy is to keep the war going. Politics is the guiding principle governing the Biden team’s decisions on Ukraine. The American leaders are content, so far, to ignore the military situation on the ground in Ukraine as long as it does not create political problems in the United States. They don’t give a damn about dead and dying Ukrainian soldiers. As long as they are convinced that Ukraine’s attacks on Russia are weakening Putin, Biden and his malevolent advisors will continue to fan the flames of war. - Sonar21 Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) court sentences Ukrainian Army commander Vitaly Katranich to 24 years in prison for war crimes. When a poor Mariupol, Donetsk Republic resident asked for help charging his cell phone, Katranich shot and killed him on spot - as well as indiscriminately carrying out cold-blooded murder of several other refugees. - Intel Report No response from 20 of Kiev's soldiers in Zaporozhye (ex-Ukraine) as Russian forces and 120mm shells by mortar crews annihilate cannon fodders. Up to 370 enemy soldiers also killed or injured in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), up to 80 in Kherson (ex-Ukraine), 2 ammo depots, 2 Leopard tanks and 15 drones destroyed. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 21
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  4433. The West just can’t handle the truth — i.e., Vladimir Putin enjoys great popularity and easily won re-election. The whining and carping from Western political leaders filled the legacy media as they insisted Russia held a sham, illegal election. Boo hoo. After the debacle in 2020 and the subsequent imprisonment of hundreds of Trump supporters with unfounded charges of insurrection, the United States is in no position to lecture any other country about free and fair elections. It is hypocrisy on steroids. Prior to the election, Western pollsters learned, much to their surprise, that Putin held an 86% favorability rating. Almost eight out of ten eligible Russians voted in the Presidential election and gave Putin 87% of the vote. The Russian police and military were not roaming the cities and towns forcing people to the polls nor are Russians who do not vote threatened with economic or criminal sanctions. Even the voters in the war-torn republics of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporhyzhia turned out in force to vote. One of the most remarkable moments in the aftermath of the election was Vladimir Putin appearing in Red Square with the three opposition political candidates who ran against him. All four men spoke to the crowd and pledged their allegiance to Mother Russia. Turning to the war in Gaza for a moment, the Electronic Intifada posted an update on how and where Israeli Occupation Forces killed their own citizens on 7 October. YouTube did not censor this video because it is fact based and relies on the testimony of Israeli civilians. - Sonar21
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  4435. Iran unleashed their ‘Operation True Promise 2’ on Israel, sending hundreds of ballistic missiles which passed unopposed through Israel’s porous air defenses. Watch the above videos of hundreds of missiles hitting Israel, then read this deluded tweet by a Netanyahu aide, who with a straight face declared that most missiles were intercepted: we have eyewitness accounts and geolocations that appear to show the areas of sensitive targets being hit. These videos in particular claim to be from just outside Nevatim airbase which houses much of Israel’s F-35 fleet: It is currently impossible to find out whether the Air Base was damaged or destroyed, but the approximate range of the targets of Iranian Missiles is quite clear: Air Bases. So, we don’t yet know if any real damage was done, but the one take away that we’re again able to make is that Iran is at least capable of penetrating all Western air defense nets. That is because the US openly announced their attempt to interdict the strikes as much as possible, in futility—as reported by the official US Naval Institute: Israel can only create “miraculous” victories on the backs of the entire Western world, which controls the commerce, communications, military, and every other sphere in the region, allowing Israel to wield full spectrum dominance. Without this backing, Israel would not be able to survive on its own, and would have long ceased to exist. As a very brief summary, Israel has invaded Lebanon three major times since the ‘70s. The 1978 and 1982 invasions were essentially due to claimed attacks by Palestinian groups based in Lebanon. In 2006 they tried again to go all the way to the Litani—but this time they weren’t facing the PLO, but Hezbollah for the first time. One of the key differences is Hezbollah was armed with large amounts of ATGMs, which the PLO didn’t have, nullifying Israel’s armor and tank advantage. This time IDF could not even get past a few miles into southern Lebanon before giving up. The battle of Bint Jbeil was the main battle, only a couple kilometers from the border: - Simplicius
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  4443. For over 100 years our government has told us who are the bad guys and who are the good guys. And we dutifully believed because our government would never lie to us – it was unfathomable. Today, our government is caught lying daily. About everything. No PR campaign can undo what has been revealed. Everything we were told was fake – is real, and everything we were told is real has been found to be fake. Therefore, we can assume this fakery will continue unabated because it is all they know. ANY country that opposes US colonization is deemed a ‘terrorist’. Iran had defied the western colonization and thereafter became Enemy Number 1. Like Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, etc…, the punishment for fighting colonization is death, destruction, and economic suppression. Iran was simply another enemy to pile on the list that is now far greater than the list of our allies!! Does Iran have laws that don’t align with our value structure? You betcha! But the West also embraces laws that don’t align with our value structure – as in illegal border invasion, bribery of politicians, illegal stock market gains, pedophilia, child molestation, etc…. Yet, Iran isn’t bombing the US because of our failures and abuses. Neither is China. Neither is Russia. But all these countries are Enemy Number 1 because they will NOT allow US colonization. As a Bad Guy Campaign – Nikki Haley has declared Iran must be wiped off the face of the earth and American Taxpayers should be willing to spend every last dollar – to do so!!! While a disgraceful UN continues to thrive based on its “Peace Accomplishments”… The US has been involved in 108 Wars since 1776. There are roughly 10 wars ongoing across the globe. This is what the United Nations declares to be ‘peacemaking’. According to a Swedish report, there have been 285 war/conflicts since the UN was created in 1945. Not exactly a stellar accomplishment… It is disheartening – to say the least – to learn that the country you love is run by psychopaths and pathological liars, but at least, Now we Know. - LewRockwell
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  4461. There have continued to be outcries of protest from major Western nations, yet no one has been able to actually take any action against Israel for its wanton murder and genocide, which it continues to commit daily. Listen to the Israeli spokesman below as she tries to extemporize on the spot about the ethnic cleansing Israel intends to carry out on the Gazans heading toward Rafah crossing: One of the issues with the proposed ceasefire is that Israel wants to exchange a bunch of random Palestinian teenagers they nabbed off the street and erroneously labeled ‘terrorists’. Hamas refuses this, as they want their actual named prisoners to be released in exchange for Israeli hostages. Israel has classically ‘cheated’ by simply kidnapping children off the streets and putting them into perpetual extrajudicial imprisonment for bargaining purposes. One of the deeper aspects to follow is the economic damage that continues unwinding Israel’s economy. even the Israeli military is starting to become demoralized and disillusioned, wondering if they can ever truly win. The article goes on to state that likely far fewer of Hamas have been killed than Israel claims, and also that Hamas can “recruit new people” on the fly—which means even the ones killed could have very well already been replaced. “We’re having a lot of success inside Gaza. The question is what is the plan for the day after,” said the sergeant. “I don’t think there is any clear idea.” And Bibi may have very well answered this question recently: The plan proposes to virtually turn Gaza into a real live concentration and re-education camp, even more so than it already was: At the same time, Bibi also announced that he will totally resist the creation of any Palestinian state, which means the two-state solution will never come to pass under his rule: Additionally, there are increased signals that Israel intends to carry out a mass new operation in Rafah, at the Egyptian border, reportedly on Ramadan, March 10th: However, there remains good reason to believe that the hardline factions do fully intend to carry out the invasion no matter what, but it’s not certain their side will win the power struggle as there are immense pressures from the U.S. and international community to stop the war. One thing is clear: there is a large amount of internal dissent and opposition. Netanyahu’s plan has no such exit strategy in mind: In summary: it seems that Netanyahu is trying to have his cake and eat it too. Ostensibly he wants to ‘root out’ and destroy Hamas, but at the same time fears doing so would force the inevitability of creating a Palestinian state—as there would no longer be any real excuse not to allow it, should Hamas be undeniably eliminated. In many ways, Israel is a parasitic leech that lives and thrives off of the strategy of tension in the region, collecting huge war chests of annual military “aid” for its eternal protection from the perceived phantom threats it itself foments, instigates, and cultivates. Netanyahu wants to continue playing this long game while reaping all the benefits—but for once, the risks are becoming too grave for Israel’s slavish sponsors. Also, as a final mention, noteworthy is the fact that if Israel were to go to war against Lebanon in the near future, it could be the final nail in the coffin for Ukraine. Out of the paltry 30,000 or so monthly artillery shells the U.S. currently produces, about 10,000 of them have gone to Israel each month thus far—40k since October. A protracted war against Hezbollah would require massive artillery armaments, and given that Israel is the U.S.’ true golden calf, its surging artillery needs would unquestionably be prioritized over those of Ukraine, leaving the AFU’s provisioning gravely in the lurch. As a postscript, Israel has shot itself in the foot by virtually declaring itself an enemy of Russia this week, after a provocative harangue by Israel’s unhinged UN Rep, Gilal Erdan: This is further indication of Israel’s totally oblivious exceptionalism: they believe, even in the foundering position they’re in, that they retain impunity in lashing out in anger at Russia for its perceived support of Palestine. No one has informed Israel that hubris and mania mix like milk and alcohol. Israel little understands the existential danger it’s in, and just who they’re making an enemy of. With every recent blundering, buffoonish step, Israel has brought itself one step closer to the edge of the abyss. - Simplicius
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  4472. Tucker Carlson’s interview of Russian President Vladimer Putin has faced viscous assault from government/corporate controlled fake news outlets and personalities. The Pfizer pimps are in rampage mode. The fear and viscous attacks by media propogandists toward Tucker Carlson for interviewing Putin demonstrate how potentially dangerous this interview is to the current regime. The message is you don’t need to give your attention to this, we’ll tell you what to think. This will work on many people, however in general will backfire and this interview is likely to be one of the most watched in history, at least in the United States. The most striking difference between listening and watching the Russian President and an American President being interviewed, was the contrast between watching a knowledgeable person give detailed explanations, and a puppet provide soundbites to prescreened questions. Putin’s rehashing the expansion of NATO since the 1990s against Russia’s objections and in violation of agreements, the color revolution and CIA orchestrated coup in Ukraine, the 2014 bombing of Donbass by Ukraine, are all issues that the fake media would prefer to keep concealed from Americans. Even more of a threat is the fact that Putin exemplifies leadership and is very capable of presenting a logical coherent case for his perspective and dispel the media myth that he is an out of control mad man. Maybe a worse threat, is the fact that Putin is signaling that a negotiated peace in Ukraine is acceptable, and the West is rigidly opposing this. If Americans process Putin’s statements about the Russian hypersonic missiles and weapons programs then it may actually register how reckless the rhetoric and actions America and the West have taken. Instead of responsibly seeking to deescalate the conflict, the United States and NATO went into full blown propaganda mode. Military aid and funds were pumped into the dark money laundering slush fund called Ukraine, and the United States and NATO decided to fight a proxy war against Russia. Apparently, nobody read the proxy war 101 handbook that you only fight proxy wars in third world countries, and that it is totally moronic to fight a proxy war in the neighboring country of the other major power. The only potential outcomes of such a proxy war would be the destruction of the superpower in question or a crushing defeat for those engaging in such a proxy war. The latter appears to have occurred. The obvious goal of cashing in on the killing is definitely a subsidiary if not one of the primary objectives. Depopulating in Ukraine is a viable secondary objective. As already inferred, laundering money through Ukraine was at a minimum a secondary goal. Still, consider the conflict from the perspective of globalism. If the intention was to break the United States, then that goal has been furthered. In fact, consider the possibility that the U.S. military since at least the Post Cold War has been a mercenary force for globalist to further the goal of World Government while simultaneously depleting America of its resources. What was the purpose of engaging in such a stupid foreign policy adventure? The Russia Ukraine war appears designed to break America. This is necessary for the creation of a world government. An American dominated world interferes with the globalist designs. In the interview, Putin points out that Russia’s economy has been boosted and the U.S. dollar has been hurt. The conflict is facilitating the creation of a multi polar world. The Russian head of state mentioned the Roman empire and its decline within the context of the modern world and the rapidity of the evolution of events. History does appear to be moving faster. Pax Romana may have lasted 500 years, Pax Americana appears to have lasted about 35 years or so. The American NATO course of action of escalating the Russia Ukraine war, was a blunder, to say the least. I guess we can never underestimate human stupidity… - LewRockwell
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  4474. Most Western analysts were popping champagne corks today proclaiming Israel’s “massive” victory over Iran’s 14 April combined drone, cruise missile and ballistic missile attack on targets in Israel. I don’t know if they are really this blind to what happened or are willing participants in a psychological operation to persuade Israel that it had a victory and does not need to escalate. Regardless, let’s deal with the facts. Iran’s goal was to demonstrate it could hit Israel if it wanted to but was providing advance warning to give the Israelis time to protect personnel in order to minimize casualties. Iran was not trying to cause mass casualties. Not surprisingly, Biden officials are vehemently denying they had advanced warning according to the Reuters report: Statements from U.S. officials can no longer be accepted as accurate given their established history of lying. This is a “cover-my-ass” denial. Can you imagine the political outrage that would ensue if the Biden team copped to the fact that they had forewarning from Iran? Do you think that the Turkish and Jordanian officials did not communicate to Washington what they had been told? Of course not. Iran’s attack in the early morning hours of Sunday was symbolic retaliation. The mullahs and IRGC commanders put Israel on notice that any further attacks on Iran, especially Iranian territory, will be answered by Iranian attacks on Israel. Iran demonstrated a remarkably sophisticated attack using three different weapon systems — drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. They did not use their most advanced, sophisticated weaponry. Israel used up over 700 Iron Dome missiles in countering Iran’s 300 plus drones. Why? You normally fire two Iron Dome missiles per target to ensure a hit. Ditto for the cruise missiles. What we know for a fact is that most of the ballistic missiles hit their targets in Israel. Here is a video of one of the strikes. Iran demonstrated a remarkably sophisticated capabilitiy — i.e., a maneuverable warhead. Notice that the inbound Iranian missile evades the Israeli interceptor and strikes the target. Wow!! We are now in the wait-and-see mode. There are contradictory signals out of Israel. Some insist Israel’s retaliation is imminent. Others suggest there will be no retaliation. I believe Israel is under the control of some genuine crazies and will try to hit an Iranian oil facility or military installation in Iran. When they do that Iran will make good on its promise and will launch a much larger, more devastating attack on Israeli military and intelligence targets. This is a fight Israel cannot win. If it chooses to pursue this course of action it will lead to the unraveling of its military effort to defeat Hamas and rescue any hostages still alive. - Sonar21
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  4483. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Finally, the most intense clashes erupted in western Aleppo on Friday, November 29, after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) together with the Russian Armed Forces, fought the rebels from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group together with the Turkish-controlled Syrian National Army (SNA). The rebels used the method of sending evacuation orders to everyone in western Aleppo. The group claimed to have taken control of several towns and villages in what the Syrian army called the 'largest offensive since 2020', which began an attack on Syrian largest city, Aleppo. Now, the main battle areas stretch from the west and southwest of Aleppo, east of Idlib, southeast of Idlib to the vicinity of Saraqib. Since this morning, the rebel forces have launched a large-scale coordinated attack on these areas. The fighting was reported to have taken place inside Aleppo - confirmed by Ahmad Ali, a pro-Assad Syrian military journalist. The Syrian Arab Army immediately took decisive action, eradicating the rebels who came from various countries, which is a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty. New footage shows Assad's forces deploying various types of artillery with heavy fire, relentlessly pounding their groups' positions in the western countryside of Aleppo. In addition to the artillery work, Russian warplanes are now bombarding western and southwestern Aleppo on a large scale, continuing the bombardment to destroy the rebel positions. After enemy positions suffered heavy losses in caves and human shields, killing dozens of rebels, they tried to hold some positions, but some points were retaken by the Syrian Arab Army until reinforcements arrived. Since last night, Russian warplanes have been destroying the rebel headquarters in the so-called "Joint Forces" near the town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo. This was their gathering point, which was coordinating the attack efforts for the next day. But the heavy airstrikes destroyed the place as in the footage, killing dozens of rebels and their supporters, the pro-Syrian government channel reported. The Syrian Arab Army reported that one rebel of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham named "Ibrahim Khaled Dibo" was killed in western Aleppo today, and his strange clothing featured the ISIS flag on the emblem of his group's elements. Noteworthy! Moscow is determined to restore the constitutional order of Syrian government in Aleppo region as soon as possible!
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  4499. MILITARY TUBE TODAY - Viral videos on the internet show how all Iranian missiles hit their designated targets in the occupied Palestinian territories, at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, which Iran said was the time to give a firm response to the Zionist regime's aggression. The attack on the night of October 1, 2024, about 25 to 40 hypersonic missiles managed to evade Israeli anti-missile shield, and the US Navy Ship failed to intercept the missiles, which hit the military base directly. It is known that Nevatim Airbase, which is located 15 km from the Negev desert, is an air base that houses a squadron of fighter jets such as the F-35, and used to be a place where Israel received American bombs in the aggression on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Now, the air base is being destroyed to the maximum by order of the Supreme Commander of the Iranian Armed Forces, AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI! Chief of General Staff of the IRGC Armed Forces, Major General Muhammad Baqeri asserted that “In this Operation True Promise 2, Iran targeted the Mossad base in Tel Aviv, the Nevatim Airbase, the Hatzerim Base which houses the F-35 and F-15 used in the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the IDF radar arrays, and the staging area for Israeli tanks.” Initial damage assessments reported that the Nevatim Air Base as well as Israel’s so-called Air Force One were badly damaged by the unhindered missile strikes, making them now inoperable. Open sources said that around 20 F-35 5th generation fighter jets, which bombed the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives last year, have been disabled there. Iran finally broke its long silence and launched a large-scale missile attack. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said the attack was in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political director Haniyeh, Hezbollah supreme leader Nasrallah, and Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Abbas Nirfurshan.''If the aggressor responds with a counterattack, we will target all its infrastructure, retaliating a thousand times over,'' Muhammad Baqeri warned. Currently, regular and extensive flights of dozens of Iranian warplanes are being carried out across the country, on alert to detect and neutralize possible attacks by Zionist fighter jets.
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  4504. Now, things have gotten so bad there’s rumor the U.S. is tightfisting its own supply due to shortages: That means the U.S. and combined West’s 155mm situation is so bad that the U.S. doesn’t even have enough of its own rounds to conduct basic routine training for its own crews, which eats up a certain percentage of rounds per month throughout the year. But now the latest claim being trotted out is that Germany’s Rheinmetall plans to send Ukraine “millions” of rounds: This is all cruel nonsense. It’s hard to understand why they torture Ukrainians with such lies. Is that a joke? 100k shells by the second year? Those should be monthly numbers. Russia is said to be doing 250-350k shells a month at the minimum. And it’s nearly insulting to even comment on Rheinmetall’s claim of building an ammo factory in Ukraine—this is nothing but childish posturing. They know full well such a factory would get a sunny visit from Iskander and his pal Kinzhal and be promptly reduced to constituent silica. Not to mention NATO’s defense firms continue to go up in flames, with reports claiming Germany’s Diehl plant burned for days: But when you take a look at the Caesar production capability you learn that France itself has only 40-60 of them total, depending on source. And each unit takes a whopping 30 months to build—it took them something like 8 years just to build the few dozen that they have. Now of course that doesn’t mean they build one at a time, and the production time has allegedly been “halved” since then—they can build a few simultaneously in those months it takes, but it still means the total “75” is years away. A trickle of a few Caesars per year is not going to do much when Ukraine is facing collapse. The UK is in a similar quandary: Russia’s advantage is that it has many different types of missile systems which are produced independently by various corporations like Novator Design, Raduga, NPO Mash, Zvezda Strela, JSC Tactical Missiles Corp, etc. In conclusion: I remain unconvinced Ukraine can effectively do anything to the Kerch with ATACMS. Secondly, as time goes by the ATACMS will likely get increasingly ineffective as Russia adapts its systems and tactics to it, and AD operators master its signatures. To summarize the mood: ATACMS and all the other aid won’t save Ukraine, but rather “a whole new army” is what will do the trick. And even then, the best case scenario is to “force Moscow to negotiate”—goodbye to 1991 and 2022 dreams. - Simplicius
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  4506. It is delusional to believe that something can be achieved flying in the face of demonstrable facts that it can't! Update on the conflict in Ukraine for September 25, 2023. Great Report, killing them with their OWN words using western and Ukrainian sources to demonstrate how badly Ukraine is losing. - ATACMS will not arrive in numbers large enough for strategic impact; - Ukrainian intelligence chief admits to Ukraine's multiplying failures and obstacles including a lack of infantry and artillery to support them on the battlefield; - US-made M1 Abrams main battle tanks must be held back from the front line or they will be destroyed alongside German Leopard 2 and British Challenger 2 tanks according to Ukrainian intel chief; - Canada's parliament accidentally invited and honored a World War 2 veteran who fought for German Axis forces; - The incident highlights Ukraine's past and present problems stemming from its relationship with Germany during World War 2; - The New Atlas "Well, it looks like the love of the Third Reich is not confined to Ms. Freeland. Just the other day, while Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Canadian Parliament, the Canadians thought it a swell idea to wildly celebrate an elderly gent who was part of the Waffen SS. What is wrong with these people? The Speaker of Parliament displayed an incredible ignorance of history. During World War II Canada, as part of the British Commonwealth, was an ally of Russia (back then it was called the Soviet Union). The Russians lost more than a million soldiers fighting to free Ukraine from the tyranny of Hitler. Many Canadians died fighting Nazis like Mr. Hunka. These Canadian members of Parliament take stupid to a new low. They are a disgrace to the memory of their fathers and grand fathers who died because wretches like Hunka enlisted with the SS and fought for Adolf Hitler." - Sonar21 "Westerners were deceived into supporting yet another evil war, which once again is showing every sign of dragging on for the foreseeable future with no exit strategy in sight. The only difference between this war and all those other wars is that this one is laden with the risk of nuclear annihilation, a risk which the US empire has been treading less and less carefully around as the bloodshed continues. The more you think about it, the more horrifying it gets. These people are absolute monsters." - LewRockwell TRACK ‘EM DOWN and flush them out as Russian forces find building housing plenty of Kiev troops and their ammo in Kherson region (ex-Ukraine) - they ain’t got long to live now as artillery rains down hell on Ukrainian army position, while Russian forces hit command posts and blow up ammo dump in Kherson region. Russian army also inflict up to 100 casualties on Ukrainian troops in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), while total of 7 Kiev army attacks repelled in Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) with up to 445 Ukrainian soldiers left dead or wounded. ⚔SITREP⚔ SEP 23 "Russia will demand an explanation from Canada for giving a standing ovation in parliament to a Ukrainian man who served in a Nazi division during World War II, Oleg Stepanov, Moscow’s ambassador to Ottawa, has said." - RT "Over the past 24 hours Russian forces have struck several Western-supplied artillery systems during battles with Ukraine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported. Polish Krab self-propelled howitzer was blown up by the Russian military near the city of Kupyansk in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region. Around a dozen Soviet-era artillery systems have also been neutralized along the front line, it revealed. In the area near the village of Klescheevka, not far from the city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine), a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down, the ministry continued. Air defenses have also intercepted three HARM anti-radar missiles and eight projectiles fired by HIMARS multiple rocket launchers. In the DPR, four Ukrainian attempts to advance were thwarted. In the area near the village of Veselyoe, Russian forces also went on a counterattack and “improved their tactical position,” it said." - RT
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  4514. I am proud to say I know most of the people on that list and consider them friends. Fighting the mainstream tends to create bonds of friendship and camaraderie. I am shocked by who they left off. What about the boys of the Duran — i.e. Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou? They do one of the best jobs of blowing the whistle on a daily basis on Urkainian and Western bullshit. Leaving them off the list is an insult. Moving on to today’s spectacle of Mike Turner, the Republican in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, doing his desperate bit to coerce the Speaker of the House into bringing the funding for Ukraine to the floor. I call this, “Try to Scare the Hell Out of Congress and the Voters in order to get Money for Zelensky.” Here are the key take aways (I will do it in bullet form so that you can brief a friend if you want). President George W. Bush unilaterally withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in June 2002, paving the way for Russia to develop Anti-Ballistic Missile defense systems. Russia responded to the U.S. abrogation of the ABM treaty by declaring it would no longer honor the START II treaty. Russia proceeded to build up the world’s best air defense system, which is comprised of the S-400, the S-500 and the S-550. The S-500 is designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft,[21] for air defense against Airborne Early Warning and Control and for jamming aircraft and was deployed in 2021. Steve Bryen, a seasoned U.S. Defense expert wrote about Russia’s Space Based Nuclear Weapons today and in 2018 — Congressman Turner is hyping old intelligence. All the CIA briefers had to do was show the members of Congress the following video, which is readily available and NOT CLASSIFIED, on YouTube. - Sonar21
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  4523. UKRAINE: HAS THE US LOST YET ANOTHER PROXY WAR? Short answer, YES!! Just like the proverbial chicken without a head, the United States is running around headless and incapable of navigating a way out of a confrontation with Russia. A confrontation that the United States cannot win. But, based on Biden’s speech tonight, the United States is going to double down on a losing hand. The Biden team apparently have decided they cannot afford a loss in Ukraine before the election so they are likely to green-light more risky terrorist attacks inside Russia, oblivious to the repeated warnings from Putin and his national security team that Russia will strike back. You want to know how bad it is? Russian soldiers posted a video today begging Biden to send more M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and promising to give him 10% of the bonuses they will earn for destroying those tanks. That, my friends, is world class trolling. The following video shows the Ukrainians launching a desperate attack across an open field and suffering devastating casualties for their effort. The “Butcher” Syrskyi is living up to his reputation by dispatching his few remaining, capable reserves in actual human wave attacks against well entrenched Russian positions. Sheer madness. Steve Bryen did a great interview today with Bill Walton (not the basketball player). Mr. Walton has been a strong supporter of Ukraine and is coming reluctantly to the realization that Russia is mopping the floor with Ukraine. Steve does a very good job of describing the grim situation facing Ukraine. His commentary is important because Steve has been considered a part of the Washington defense establishment. His honesty shows courage and integrity. - Sonar21
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  4534. If the US was a normal country minding its own affairs and caring for its own people it would indeed be nonsensical for it to invest so much wealth and resources in Israel, but the US is as far from a normal country as can be. It’s the hub of a vast, undeclared empire made up of allies, client states, proxies, and systems of military, economic and financial coercion which keeps most of the world moving in accordance with the wishes of the empire managers. History has shown us that this power structure can only be maintained by endless violence, threats, coercion, mass-scale psychological manipulation in the form of propaganda, and fear of nuclear annihilation. As a reliably US-aligned nuclear power which is intimately interwoven with the western war machine and the US intelligence cartel, Israel may not serve the interests of the people who live in the United States, but it is an absolutely indispensable component of the US empire. - LewRockwell RUSSIAN BANKING SECTOR FORGES AHEAD to dismay of Russia’s "ill-wishers" states Putin as he meets with Russian banking giant VTB chief Kostin who states West's sanctions have FAILED to isolate Russia. Meanwhile European businesses losing 100s of BILLIONS of dollars due to very same anti-Russian sanctions. - Intel Report Assault unit of Paratroopers of Russian Airborne Forces dismantles strongholds of Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk direction Orlan-10 UAV discovered them and attacked with Msta-B howitzers. Then the assault detachment advanced to attack and capture the militants hiding in the fort. - Military Tube Today The last week of November is setting up to be a pivotal week in Ukraine’s futile effort to fend off the Russian military. Russia is clobbering Kiev and other parts of western Ukraine with drone hordes that are wreaking havoc on military depots and electric power nodes. Despite the inclement weather, Russian soldiers are advancing steadily in Avdeevka and forcing the retreat and surrender of hundreds of Ukrainian troops from an area they have held since 2014. If the winter weather now battering Ukraine continues through December and January, the situation for Ukrainian troops hunkered down in trenches and bunkers will become desperate because the snow and cold will make it very difficult to keep them properly supplied with food and ammunition. There also is the question of whether Western supplied gear can function or be maintained with the icy fingers of General Winter squeezing the Ukrainian throat. It is looking like a very dark winter for Ukraine. - Sonar21
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  4553. As could be expected, immediately upon receipt of “authorization” from Biden, Ukraine reportedly launched an ATACMS strike on the Russian 67th GRAU depot in Bryansk region. Though Putin had to make some escalatory show, it’s more realistic to expect Russia not to react in any overt way until Trump’s term settles in. Putin is aware that an outgoing senile despot who doesn’t care if the world burns behind him may seek to start WWIII, and that Zelensky may see his final two months’ chance to provoke Russia into overreacting. As such, it’s best for Russia to do nothing, and continue grinding the offensives which are destroying Ukrainian lines everywhere. Last major news that you’re hearing here for the first time: A couple months back, you may recall World Bank announced that as per their calculations, Russia had finally surpassed both Germany and Japan in GDP PPP. However, the official IMF and CIA figures still scoffed at this, with Russia trailing both countries on their counts. This allowed the popular narrative to be maintained that the World Bank figures were some kind of inaccurate fluke or anomaly. Well, the IMF has just done their latest report and has officially concluded that Russia has blown past both Germany and Japan as of 2024, and is now the number four economy in the world. And not only that, but the IMF has Russia in the lead by an even larger margin than World Bank. On top of which, the CIA also updated their numbers and likewise reflects Russia at the number four position. That means it’s official—every global institution of note has now validated that Russia is the number four economy in the world, after only China, US, and India. The most remarkable shift is that according to the IMF’s updated numbers, the Russian economy is now 15% larger than the German one when it felt like only recently that Russia had even officially surpassed Germany. The truth is, Germany and the EU are in absolute free fall, while Russia is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom. - Simplicius
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  4554. In Aleppo, the echoes of foreign voices betray the latest chapter in the empire’s relentless war. Uzbek-speaking mercenaries, under the banner of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have infiltrated Syria’s west, not to liberate, but to destabilize. They are no rebels. They are hired terrorists, pawns of agencies like the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, carrying out yet another front in the imperial proxy war. Their language alone, Uzbek, not Arabic exposes the farce of their so-called “resistance.” This is not about Syria alone. It is the empire lashing out, desperate to reverse its losing streak in the de facto World War III unfolding before our eyes. In Ukraine, Russia is finalizing NATO’s humiliation, systematically dismantling its military and economic gambits. The Ukranian front is more than a battlefield, it’s a graveyard for Western ambitions. But as NATO is defeated in Ukraine, the empire shifts its fury back to Syria, a nation that, with Russia’s unwavering support, defeated the West’s terror apparatus once before. The timing is no coincidence. Israel, the empire’s relentless enforcer, violated its fragile truce with Hezbollah, reigniting tensions across the region. And now, in Aleppo, HTS mercenaries appear, dispatched to open another front of chaos. This is the empire’s playbook: when direct confrontation fails, it sends its proxies, terrorists for hire, flooding sovereign nations with bloodshed to prolong their suffering. Then there’s Erdogan. The eternal fence-sitter, straddling NATO’s ambitions and his promises of respecting Syria’s territorial integrity. It’s time for him to choose: will Turkey stand with Russia and Syria to secure the region’s future, or will Erdoğan continue to enable the mercenaries that threaten it? He cannot serve two masters, and his neo-Ottoman ambitions are wearing thin. The empire’s desperation is palpable. Unable to inspire genuine local rebellion, it imports mercenaries, speaking foreign tongues in lands they have no claim to, their loyalty bought by Western intelligence agencies. This isn’t a fight for freedom; it’s a business model of chaos, exported by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, designed to fragment nations that defy their hegemony. But Syria and its allies have seen this all before. With Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah at its side, Damascus will hold the line. Aleppo is more than a city; it’s a symbol of resistance, a frontline in the global struggle against imperial terror and tyranny. As Russia closes NATO’s chapter in Ukraine, it stands shoulder to shoulder with Syria against this new wave of Western aggression. The empire may send its proxies, but its era of dominance is fading. Aleppo will resist. Syria will endure. And Russia’s triumphs will echo far beyond the battlefield, as the multipolar world continues its rises from the empire’s ruins. - Gerry Nolan TheIslanderNews for Intel Republic
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  4558. A chilling and alarming statement. Sergei Lavrov summoned U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy to the Russian Foreign Ministry and delivered a stinging demarche in response to the use of U.S. supplied cluster munitions in the attack on Russian civilians sunbathing on the shores of the Black Sea. Press reports offer this summary of the Russian position: Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, “Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.” It did not elaborate. But my friend, Alexander Mercouris, provided a more detailed summary of what was said. I have been unable to find a link to what the Russian Foreign Ministry presented to Ambassador Tracy, but Alexander reports that the Russia message included this phrase, “We are no longer at peace.” While stopping short of declaring war, the line between peace and war has been erased. This should scare the hell out of the politicians and public in America. Lavrov’s statement is extraordinary. He does not use any diplomatic weasel words. His message is clear — “The U.S. is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer.” This stark language that leaves no room for quibbling. In publicizing this message, Putin and Lavrov have closed down diplomatic options and gestures. Either they act, and act forcefully, or they do nothing and risk being excoriated by the Russian people. Neither Putin nor Lavrov are known for speaking idle words or making empty threats. While Russia is not going to act impetuously — Alexander and I agree on that — this public declaration, in my opinion, has created an expectation of future action that will entail something more than just giving weapons to a foreign group that is facing off with the United States. - Sonar21
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  4563. The US may not be technically at war, but the US war machine is everywhere, on every continent, in ever ocean, its military budget, way over $1 trillion a year when everything is counted bigger than it was in constant dollars than at the height of the Vietnam War when 500.000 US troops were in that country fighting, dying (and losing) a hot war. Meanwhile its hugely expanded special forces, its arms merchants of death, and its military “trainers” are busy stirring up and supporting local conflicts and pouring oil on fires like in Ukraine, Yemen, Gaza, Syria, Niger, Haiti, and elsewhere while making trouble off the coast of China, on the Korean peninsula (where the US still has troops based and has had since 1950, and in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea. - LewRockwell Per combat reports today, Russia standing firm all along the Front! Update on the conflict in Ukraine + Middle East for October 17, 2023 with refs from Western Sources - Russia continues overturning what negligible gains Ukraine made during its over 4 month-long offensive in Zaporozhye; - Russian operations in Avdeevka continue, however no major “offensive” has been announced by Russian military or political leaders; - Attempts by Russia to exploit possible opportunities along the line of contact are measured, with limitations identified by Russian commanders in stark contrast to Ukraine’s stand-and-fight approach; - In the Middle East, fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as Israeli military operations continue to target Gaza; - Israel has taken action to compel Palestinians to evacuate from northern parts of Gaza in what is likely an attempt to seize the territory and prevent a future return by Palestinians to the area; - Israel’s continued violation of international law and belligerence toward its neighbors is an unsustainable policy that undermines its own self-preservation, like most US proxies; - Russia and China are in a better position now than ever to advance the two-state solution and are creating a region in which this solution can actually materialize; - The New Atlas SOOT-COVERED WOUNDED STRETCHERED AWAY after Israeli strike hammers Gaza Strip’s Bureij refugee camp (right map) - Palestinians search through rubble of devastated buildings in desperate attempt to find survivors. 3,000 people in Gaza Strip killed by Israeli strikes, while Egyptian Foreign Minister states Tel Aviv’s demand that Palestinians leave North of Gaza "completely contradicts international humanitarian law". - Intel Report BODIES LITTER GROUND, AMONG THEM KID’S BACKPACK in inhuman aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza City hospital that killed at least 500 people, with reports of 800 losing their lives. Paramedics wail as they rush to treat wounded while onlookers can’t believe devastation. 100s had been sheltering in hall on hospital grounds when missile flew into buildings, with efforts underway to rescue people trapped in rubble. - Intel Report A massive attack by Russian Army with the Heavy Flamethrower System TOS-1A Solntsepek, swept Ukrainian troops in a forest area near Kupyansk. The thermobaric munitions of Solntsepek burned enemy positions which would have made it possible for the Russian assault group to carry out further attacks. - Military Tube Today WOUNDED TEEN COMFORTS BLOOD-STAINED TODDLER, holding wailing child in her arms despite her own horrific injuries. Paramedics struggle to handle overwhelming number of wounded survivors following Israeli strike on Gaza City hospital that killed at least 500. - Intel Report PEOPLE UTTERLY TORN APART, bodies and blood everywhere as Palestinians with missing limbs lie helplessly on ground while paramedics work at speed of light to load up wounded onto ambulances after Israeli strike on HOSPITAL in Gaza City. Man with no hand and hole in abdomen lies in agony as screams echo and people desperately hammer on ambulance door in traumatic scenes. Hamas vows strikes on Tel Aviv in response to massacre of civilians, with Israeli strike killing at least 600 people and wounding over 900. - Intel Report US RESPONSIBLE for Israel’s massacre of civilians in Gaza City hospital strike states Hamas leader Haniyeh (left pic), who blasts Washington for "cover it gives to Israeli aggression" and calls on Palestinians in occupied West Bank to "rise up against Israeli occupation". THOUSANDS on streets of Turkey’s Ankara to condemn Israel’s attack (right vid), while Tel Aviv orders its embassy in country to close and urges Israelis to leave Turkey. Saudia Arabia, Jordan and Syria among countries condemning hideous strike, with Russia and United Arab Emirates calling for urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss attack. - Intel Report "WE SAW GENOCIDE" when paramedics laid eyes on MASSACRE of civilians after Israeli strike on Gaza City hospital states Palestinian emergency worker whose eyes still hold horror of what he witnessed. Man calls on world to "stop GENOCIDE of Gaza", recounting difficulty of counting casualties because most of them "were parts". 30-40% of all casualties in strike are children according to front-line paramedic. - Intel Report KIDS KILLED BY ISRAELI STRIKE LAID TO REST IN BLANKET, their bodies burned and tattered after Israeli strike on Gaza City hospital MASSACRES at least 600 people. Toddlers and teens lie together on ground, brutally murdered by Tel Aviv attack that’s sent shockwaves around entire globe. - Intel Report
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  4574. An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at a slew of canard-riddled reports, taken entirely out of context, deliberately misinterpreted, or pumped up in phony headlines for people who don’t read the actual article contents. How can Biden return Russian nukes to Ukraine? It doesn’t even make sense and is the most absurd of the current panic-inducing psyops. Nothing of the sort: the “anonymous official” is merely suggesting it on his own behalf, and trying to pass it off as Biden’s idea. This is merely crude amateur fantasy on behalf of the writer or some no name desk jockey to be dismissed as the leaky refuse it is. This entire fake stems from a single quote from “Admiral” Rob Bauer, head of the ‘NATO Military Committee’. The irrelevant pipsqueak mewled something along these lines to powder on the phony fear-porn: But now Ukraine has struck Kursk region with ATACMS for definite. We know this because in a rare move, the Russian MOD openly confirmed it by posting photos of the ATACMS boosters themselves. This comes directly from the MOD: Of course, the fact that Ukrainian AD radar operators continue being laid to rest from Russian strikes as a daily occurrence is routinely swept under the rug, As for the frontline, things get worse and worse. A Ukrainian officer actually on the front reports soon Kursk will be swarmed: Meanwhile Julian Roepcke inadvertently debunks ‘high Russian losses’ during assaults by admitting a mere 10 Russian troops are capturing entire town centers to no resistance: Major advances have been recorded with Russia now holding nearly half of Kurakhove and capturing most of the open plains to the south and southeast: But the bigger surprise were the sudden advances around Velyka Novosilka which caught Ukrainians totally off guard. Not only was Rozdolne captured to the north but Russians made a shock breakthrough to the eastern edges of Velyka Novosilka town itself, embedding themselves and initiating the fight for the town for the first time: - Simplicius
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  4577. As could be expected, immediately upon receipt of “authorization” from Biden, Ukraine reportedly launched an ATACMS strike on the Russian 67th GRAU depot in Bryansk region. Though Putin had to make some escalatory show, it’s more realistic to expect Russia not to react in any overt way until Trump’s term settles in. Putin is aware that an outgoing senile despot who doesn’t care if the world burns behind him may seek to start WWIII, and that Zelensky may see his final two months’ chance to provoke Russia into overreacting. As such, it’s best for Russia to do nothing, and continue grinding the offensives which are destroying Ukrainian lines everywhere. Last major news that you’re hearing here for the first time: A couple months back, you may recall World Bank announced that as per their calculations, Russia had finally surpassed both Germany and Japan in GDP PPP. However, the official IMF and CIA figures still scoffed at this, with Russia trailing both countries on their counts. This allowed the popular narrative to be maintained that the World Bank figures were some kind of inaccurate fluke or anomaly. Well, the IMF has just done their latest report and has officially concluded that Russia has blown past both Germany and Japan as of 2024, and is now the number four economy in the world. And not only that, but the IMF has Russia in the lead by an even larger margin than World Bank. On top of which, the CIA also updated their numbers and likewise reflects Russia at the number four position. That means it’s official—every global institution of note has now validated that Russia is the number four economy in the world, after only China, US, and India. The most remarkable shift is that according to the IMF’s updated numbers, the Russian economy is now 15% larger than the German one when it felt like only recently that Russia had even officially surpassed Germany. The truth is, Germany and the EU are in absolute free fall, while Russia is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom. - Simplicius
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  4578. Today Zelensky’s forces appeared to bomb the Zaporozhye nuclear plant: However, most significant to ongoing events is the correct analysis of why Zelensky would choose to strike the plant just now. It is obvious to us that it represents a terminal desperation from the AFU, which can only mean that their situation on the ground is in fact grinding to a culminating point, which answers one of the chief questions we’ve had about the ongoing Kursk adventure. But why would Zelensky threaten his partners as well? The obvious answer is to shock them into providing more aid and committing totally to Ukraine’s victory. “Give us everything or we’ll take the entire world down with us in a ball of nuclear flame.” Funny how much similarity there is between Zelensky and Israel, what with their Samson Option and all. In the very opening paragraph of the Economist article, they describe how Russian glide bomb’s slaughtered their units: So, there’s almost 2,000 mostly Ukrainian wounded flooding Sumy hospitals, with the “Russian” ones he mentions presumably being the dozens of captured POWs. This is corroborated further by ongoing calls on Ukrainian channels for mass blood donation drives in Sumy: The biggest issue currently is that the much stronger than usual fog of war has allowed Western/pro-UA sources to completely confabulate various fake “advances” in the Kursk region. Virtually every new map from Western sources, whether ISW, the various articles posted above, etc., are currently completely phony. In fact, the AFU was driven out of every deep advance in the Kursk region, and now occupy only a small area around Sudzha. All the earlier advances to as far as Komski Byki, Snagost, or Shagorovo have all been destroyed and pushed back. Russian reinforcements have created an impenetrable wall, and Ukrainian units are now digging in around Sudzha, desperately looking for a chink in Russia’s armor while being slowly destroyed by Russia’s growing aerial-drone dominance of the zone. Even Sudzha itself, which AFU proudly announced as having captured, is now in a kind of gray zone, with AFU certainly not controlling any part of the town, excluding the entrance stele in the northwest by which they took some TikTok photos. - Simplicius
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  4588. The US and NATO allies are hard at work at re-envisioning their own battlefield priorities in light of the revolution being witnessed in the Ukrainian war. They start off with the one major admission—that the Western edge has not only been eroded, but rapidly so: we’ve long discussed here apropos the differences between Western and Russian military systems. Couching it in self-serving terms of seeking ultimate ‘protection’ for troops, they admit that Western systems have gotten so expensive that their operators are afraid to even use them—defeating the whole point of warfighting equipment: Western minds have taken a long time to come to conclusions drawn by Russia ages ago, which expounded on precisely this disparity in the warfighting principles between Russia and the West: the tune has now changed on ‘premium’ weaponry. In short: they argue that Western artillery shells are over-engineered and should be stripped of their tedious quality control measures to favor ‘quantity’ over ‘quality’ instead. Interesting proposition! They add that, in essence, Western military engineering is made for peacetime conditions—in real war conditions, a totally new rough-and-tumble ethos must be adopted. Russia had already long learned the lesson having been habituated to real existential Total Wars on its territory, rather than the predatory wars of opportunity the West is accustomed to waging. The fact is, the West tailor-made their modern showroom armies for specifically fighting localized, controlled conflicts against very limited Middle Eastern opponents. You can sense the desperation in the West as the realities begin to dawn on their leading thinkers. Years of building showroom ‘good-weather’ armies meant to impress buyers at MIC-enabled arms expos have left Western military doctrines woefully out of date concerning how real wars are fought. Put another way, precision ammunition machining doesn’t make much difference when the shell goes up an overused gun barrel that, in peacetime, would have long been consigned to the scrapheap thousands of shells ago. - Simplicius
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  4596. MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The Bravery of Russian soldiers on the battlefield led to the elimination of an assault detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had just been deployed to a defensive position near Glubokoye in Kharkov region. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry, which released a short video on January 18, 2025, showing an Ukrainian armored vehicle carrying the assault detachment while firing several shots for unknown reasons. The operators of the Northern Army reconnaissance drones of the Russian Armed Forces of the Sever Group of Forces were working against the enemy there, but a group of Ukrainian assault detachments managed to take cover by rushing into the basement next to a building, partially protecting themselves from drones and even artillery fire. They probably thought that their position was safe there! However, an interesting scene happened because six members of the Kiev Army did not take into account the proximity of the brave soldiers of the Northern Army of the 11th Army Corps of the Sever Group of Forces. Three soldiers were in the immediate vicinity of the Ukrainian assault detachment's hiding place. At the right moment, one soldier silently approached the building, dropped a backpack with anti-tank mines right into the defensive room, and then rushed away from the place. Instantly a powerful explosion destroyed the basement even splashes of soil flew into the air. According to reports, at least six members of the assault detachment were eliminated, this was made possible by the quick thinking of a soldier during the battle.
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  4600. The Biden administration has reportedly approved of an Israeli assault on Rafah, the last slightly safe city in the Gaza Strip, and is openly preparing to work with Congress to punish the International Criminal Court for seeking arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes. Biden is a monster who belongs in a cell at The Hague The genocide in Gaza is arguably the single most urgent matter in the world right now — partly for how horrific it is in and of itself, and partly for its potential to explode into wars which would bring far greater devastation to the region. But nobody’s allowed a vote on whether this will continue or not, even in the heart of the US empire which is making it all possible. The only candidates who stand any chance of getting elected are all committed to making sure this mass atrocity continues, because if you ever want to get anywhere near the presidency you have to make a whole lot of deals with powerful forces who were never elected by anybody. And what really sucks is that so many people believe this is freedom and democracy. The people will never know freedom until they first understand how profoundly unfree they really are. - LewRockwell ISRAEL BANS SPAIN FROM HELPING PALESTINIANS IN NEED - Monstrous retaliation from Tel Aviv against Spain recognizing a Palestinian State, announcing block on Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to devastated Palestinians. Catastrophic situation at Gaza's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as doctors warm premature incubator babies with blankets and their own hands after medical complex runs out of fuel and descends into complete darkness due to IDF's siege, leaving adults and babies waiting for miracle to save their lives. War criminal Netanyahu claims Madrid is "rewarding terrorists" if it offers to save innocent babies' lives. - Intel Republic IDF PREVENTS MEDICAL CREW FROM SAVING WOUNDED PALESTINIAN - Red Crescent Society shares incriminating video, showing man shot by IDF's bullets in Jenin, dropped to ground and abandoned by medics, who put their hands up after threat on gunpoint by "Most moral army in the world", while bulldozer forces them to drive away in ambulance. Clear evidence of war crime under Geneva Convention, but Zionists only reference it when it suits their lies. - Intel Republic ICJ ORDERS ISRAEL TO STOP RAFAH OPERATION, PROVIDE INVESTIGATORS WITH ACCESS TO GAZA STRIP - head of International Court of Justice Nawaf Salam refuses to cower to West's threats and rules in favor of South Africa's case against Tel Aviv's regime. Israel must immediately cease its military offensive or any other actions in Rafah that may endanger the Palestinian population in Gaza, potentially leading to their physical destruction, wholly or partially. Israel must implement effective measures to ensure unhindered access to the Gaza Strip for any commission of inquiry, fact-finding mission, or investigative body authorized by United Nations to investigate allegations of genocide - Salam. Israeli government on genocidal meltdown following ruling as Netanyahu prepares emergency meeting - National Security Minister Ben-ocidal Gvir quotes first Israeli PM Ben Gurion: Our future does not depend on what the Gentiles will say, but on what the Jews will do. There should be only one response to order of the anti-Semitic court in The Hague - the conquest of Rafah, increasing military pressure, and crushing Hamas until achieving complete victory in the war - Ben Gvir. - Intel Republic
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  4610. Update on the conflict in Ukraine for Sunday November 10, 2024… The Western media is citing the recent US presidential election as a turning point for the Ukraine conflict, with Kiev facing abandonment and defeat despite both having already long-since materialized; Various proposals are being discussed regarding the freezing or ending of the conflict, proposals that were being developed independently of US elections; Meanwhile, Western reports indicate Russian military power continuing to grow while Ukrainian arms, ammunition, and trained manpower continue to dwindle as Ukraine’s loss of territory accelerates; While many see President-elect Donald Trump as seeking to undo harmful US foreign policy enacted by the previous administration, in his previous term he himself helped advance the US proxy war with Russia by both arming Ukraine and withdrawing from arms control treaties allowing the US to station more dangerous long-range weapons in Europe pointed at Russia; The incoming Trump administration, like those before it, view Ukraine, Israel, and “Taiwan” as US allies and are simply reprioritizing the flow of US resources to the latter two as Ukraine’s irreversible defeat unfolds; US political candidates incapable of openly and clearly identifying US foreign policy as aggressive, illegal, unacceptable, and at the center of the many global conflicts it has created including in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, are simply selling American voters “hope” with no real intention of changing anything; - The New Atlas
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  4616. On the front, Ukraine is facing one of its most rapid collapses of the war thus far. There are no two ways of mincing things: Russian sources report catastrophic losses for AFU who are woefully understaffed and underarmed. The largest scale of POW captures in the past year is currently ongoing, with over a dozen new videos just from today alone showing dozens of Ukrainian prisoners, including many Kraken: Russian forces have now even gotten within artillery range of Kharkov city itself, and there are reports they are hammering AFU positions on Kharkov outskirts from about 22-24km in Glyboke/Hlyboke. There are even reports of blocking detachments now waiting in the rear to intercept fleeing troops: fighting was already being reported toward the center of Volchansk, whereas Russian forces had just reached the outskirts yesterday. Some reports stated Russian forces captured the administrative buildings near the cent Russia doesn’t have to capture Kiev, or even attempt to do so. Simply by bringing its forces to the outskirts, it could sow enough chaos and panic, civilian flight, etc., so as to finally unseat Zelensky in some kind of destabilizing coup, or force him to show his hand by fleeing with a government-in-exile, to Lvov or elsewhere—which itself would be politically fatal. There are many potential plays here. But for the time being any such potential moves are likely very far off, as the immediate objectives revolve merely around splitting Ukrainian forces and thinning the lines in order to create breakthroughs aimed at generating catastrophic losses of materiel, personnel, and morale. Amid the ongoing collapse, Blinken sped to Kiev to deliver another round of vapid “reassurances” to keep Ukrainian morale from catastrophically plunging. This ‘reassurance’ ended up consisting of nothing more than Blinken giving an uplifting rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In a Free World” in a Kiev dive bar: “What, you wanted weapons and money? I’ve come to give you a song instead.” Can the U.S. Empire get any more pathetic or embarrassing? Amid backbiting over the Kharkov region collapse, it’s now coming ever-clearer into focus what scale of corruption resulted in the gross treason: Here’s another example of Ukraine’s fortification miracle. A fed up Ukrainian soldier describes the totally inept trenchworks on one of the fronts—an endemic problem: - Simplicius
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  4623. Kiev's regime criminal shelling kills a civilian in Gorlovka, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). - Intel Report "TARGET HIT, LET'S LEAVE" says control base as Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters continue wipe out Ukrainian armored vehicles with precise missile strikes in Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), where more than 345 Ukrainian soldiers are either killed and injured. 30 cannon fodder also wasted in Kupyansk, East Ukraine, up to 160 in Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), self-propelled guns and ammo depots destroyed - 3 US-made JDAM bombs intercepted. ⚔SITREP⚔ AUGUST 27 IT'S A ROASTING of Ukrainian army personnel after Russian drone gives out positions of enemy stronghold to mortar and artillery crews, who launch brutal shells wiping all out in massive fiery explosions. - Intel Report Civilian wounded, school damaged as a result of Ukrainian criminal shelling on Gorlovka, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine). - Intel Report Russian air defenses destroy Ukrainian cruise missile over the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea (pre-war Russia). - Intel Report Russian air defenses destroy 2 Ukrainian drones attempting to strike terror on Crimea (pre-war Russia). - Intel Report Over the past 24 hours, Ukraine fired about 115 ammunition at Belgorod region (pre-war Russia) - Ukraine-bordering region Governor Gladkov. - Intel Report About 2,000 apartment buildings and 5,000 private houses damaged in Donetsk People's Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine) since 2022 due to Ukrainian shelling - DPR Head Pushilin. He also notes that Russian forces improved their positions in a number of areas in Avdeevka (DPR) - map above - and Kiev's army suffered serious losses. - Intel Report Explosion followed by car alarms heard in footage as Russian air defenses destroy Ukrainian terror drone flying toward Moscow overnight. 2 drone attacks also thwarted over Bryansk region (pre-war West Russia). - Intel Report Russia's Chadvedev decimates Kiev's regime while praising Moscow's weapons industry. Ukraine is constantly trying to count stocks of Russian equipment, while itself is a parasitic country that receives life from the body of its owners. If there is no supply of weapons to Ukraine, everything will end quickly for the Bandera regime. Meanwhile, Russia provides itself with all types of weapons already in quantities exceeding the current needs of the armed forces. This is how our military-industrial complex operates now, conveyors work in three shifts and Russia will produce as much weapons as necessary for effective defense - Medvedev. - Intel Report
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  4628. [What's masquerades for news on the US networks is Agitprop for the Western Globalists on the Payrolls of their MICs, the loss in lives be damned. I think this is great news to educate that propagandized public to wake up and see the con they've been force fed by the World Controllers while they and their families are still alive to do so!] Carlson, who launched his own network on X (formerly Twitter), posted a short video from Moscow, explaining the logic behind his upcoming interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Most Western media outlets are corrupt and “lie to their readers and viewers,” mainly by omission, Carlson argued. There has been no effort to speak to Putin since the conflict started in 2022, while US outlets have conducted many “fawning pep sessions” posing as interviews with Zelensky, he added. “That is not journalism. It is government propaganda – propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people,” said Carlson. “Because no one has told them the truth,” most people in English-speaking countries are unaware of “history-altering developments,” according to Carlson. “That’s wrong. Americans have the right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in,” he added, noting that freedom of speech is the American birthright that can’t be taken away no matter who sits in the White House. Carlson reminded his viewers that the US government spied on his text messages in 2021, when he attempted to interview Putin. He urged Americans to watch the entire interview on X, which will not be censored or paywalled, and decide for themselves, “like a free citizen, and not a slave.” - RT
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