Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Rus Completes Avdeyevka Victory Captures Coke Plant; Zelensky Threatens Ukr Officers; West in Shock" video.
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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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DISPLACEMENT, SUBJUGATION, OR DEATH - as ICJ opens historic hearing into legality of Israel's occupation, Palestinian FM Al-Maliki highlights that ongoing genocide didn't start because of October 7, but as a result of successive Israeli governments giving Palestinians 3 choices: ethnic cleansing, apartheid or genocide. For over a century, the inalienable rights of our people to self-determination had been denied and violated. Palestine was not a land without a people. It was not! as Israeli leaders have described it "the wasteland". UN enshrined in its charter the right of all peoples to self-determination and pledges to rid the world of colonialism and apartheid, yet, for decades Palestinians have been denied this right - Al-Maliki. Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank and claimed sovereignty over these areas, referring to them by biblical names, also established hundreds of settlements with over 700,000 Israeli settlers. Statements by Israeli leaders affirm their intention to permanently occupy Palestinian land - Palestinian legal team at ICJ. - Intel Republic
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Navalny and Lira: A Case Study in Western Hypocrisy
DC’s upside-down morality is on constant display, but with these accidental examples of two middle-aged men, both working to expose government wrongdoing, only one was spending millions of dollars with connections to many European and NATO leaders, and their intelligence agencies, as this video illustrates. Only one was celebrated in the West, to include his wife’s invitation and presence at the most recent “Davos of Defense” three day military conference, along with the US Vice President and key EU leadership. Only one was a “democratic hero.”
Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, wrote, “I don’t want to hear any condolences. We saw him in prison on the (Feb) 12, in a meeting. He was alive, healthy and happy.” Clearly and predictably, she does not accept what is being reported. That Navalny seemed happy is important to note. From Lira’s distraught father, we have this: “I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son.” - LewRockwell
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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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