Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Big SMO Expansion; Target Kharkov, Rus Offensive; Nuland Rushes Kiev, Saves Zelensky, Zaluzhny Out" video.
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[The entire family of Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland should be charged with war crimes and brought before the International Court and if they won't appear sanction them so they can't leave the US for fear of retribution. They are lower than the worst human.]
The US is essentially encouraging Ukraine to commit more atrocities by providing Kiev with a new shipment of long-range munitions, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, has said.
On Wednesday, during a visit to Kiev, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said that GLSDB (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb) munitions (which can hit targets at a distance of up to 150km) were already on their way to Ukraine.
Nuland, a foreign policy hawk, is widely seen as one of the key figures in the 2014 Maidan coup which led to the toppling of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and plunged the country into turmoil. The US official ended up in the media spotlight after she famously handed out pastries to protesters in the Ukrainian capital in late 2013.
Commenting on the announcement on Thursday, Antonov called it “irresponsible” and “simply shocking.” He described the GLSDB delivery as “a kind of a reaction to the terrorist attack by Ukrainian thugs” on an Il-76 Russian cargo plane with 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, three Russian troops, and six crew members aboard. - RT
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What really matters in the Order is what it says about Israel committing genocide. How could it be otherwise? Genocide is the crime of all crimes.
The Order clearly states that there is: 1) plausible evidence that Israel has the intent to commit genocide; and 2) there is plausible evidence that Israel is committing genocide.
In response to that dire situation the court ordered Israel to stop committing those acts that appear to be genocidal, and to preserve any evidence that bears on this matter, obviously for the trial ahead.
In short, the ICJ did not make a final decision on the charge of genocide against Israel, but said there is sufficient evidence at this point to believe there is a “real and imminent risk” of genocide, and therefore Israel must fundamentally alter its conduct of the war in Gaza.
I think this is a stunning outcome, especially when you consider the votes among the 17 members of the ICJ.
There were six separate votes on six provisional measures that Israel was instructed to obey.
Four of the votes were 15-2.
Two of the votes were 16-1.
Amazingly, the Israeli judge — who was recently appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu — voted in favor of two of the measures.
The American judge, who is also the head of the ICJ, voted in favor of all 6 of the measures.
Both the Israelis and the South Africans sent their “A” teams to the proceedings, and each took over three hours to lay out its arguments systematically and comprehensively.
Finally, I have read the ICJ’s 27-page Order, and it is an impressive document, which is not to say one must agree with all its conclusions.
This was not a kangaroo court.
It seems clear that yesterday was a black day for Israel, as the ICJ Order will leave a deep and lasting stain on its reputation. - LewRockwell
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Totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices. It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the government’s false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his free will, then the thoughts in his head, and finally anything he once called his own. It slowly dispossesses each person of his personhood, until the population withers into frail, colorless facsimiles of the bleak, omnipresent State. Without the courage to act, the desire to think, the wisdom to pray, or the conscience to object, human purpose disappears. Society is exsanguinated of its vitality, creativity, spirituality, and mirth — until it slips beneath the water and stops breathing.
With the Earth still wet from so much blood, Western governments now seek to turn the twenty-first century into the twentieth century’s even bloodier reflection. It is humbling to realize that we humans repeat so many mistakes through the course of history. It is infuriating, however, to watch today’s political leaders push humanity down the exact same paths that led to such monstrous tragedies in the recent past. When will the lesson be learned that censorship of opposing points of view leads to irreparable social division? When will governments grasp that coercion only intensifies the human desire to be free? When will courts realize that two-tiered justice and political persecution ensure the rule of law’s demise? How many more lives must be lost before those who exercise power understand that tyranny always leads to terror?
It is a strange sight to see Western nations send their parliamentary leaders, foreign ministers, military generals, and prominent business executives to Schwab’s WEF powwows, where they may organize how best to dominate and manipulate their respective national populations without even the pretense of a democratic mandate or constitutional legitimacy. This time around, totalitarianism returns to the West not on the heels of invasion and annexation but rather with light bacchanal celebrations in the crisp air of the Swiss Alps. It seems that the only thing aspiring Western tyrants learned from the twentieth century’s carnage is that would-be totalitarians should not waste resources fighting one another when their common enemy has always been the people. During the age of monarchies and empires, the easiest way to conquer foreign lands was to purchase their nobles. That is what the World Economic Forum and its cabal of globalist conquerors do today. - LewRockwell
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The US and its citizens are complicit in the deaths of the Ukrainian POWs who were killed last week when the Russian Il-76 military aircraft transporting them was shot down by Kiev’s troops, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has said.
On Thursday, Russia’s Investigative Committee released a report stating that the cargo plane was destroyed using two US-made MIM-104A missiles fired by a Patriot air-defense system. The Il-76 came down in Russia’s Belgorod Region last Wednesday. All of those on board – 65 Ukrainian POWs, three Russian troops, and six crew members – were killed.
Russian investigators stated that Ukrainian troops fired the missiles from a staging area in Kharkov Region, not far from the village of Liptsy, some 10km from the Russian border. They based their conclusion on 116 missile fragments found at the crash site bearing inscriptions in English.
Responding to the report, Zakharova said in a Telegram post that US citizens “need to know where their money is going,” arguing that President Joe Biden and his administration have made Americans “complicit in a bloody tragedy.” - RT
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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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