Hi all … I posted a couple of links to the older thread … some may find them interesting, so reposting here, with the hope they  are not considered spam… 😉

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In case you missed Moody’s downgrade of the credit rating of the ‘zionist project’ ….

here’s John Helmer to translate it for you

https://johnhelmer.net/moodys-just-told-you-so-downgrades-israel-warns-that-weaker-us-backing-for-israel-war-with-hezbollah-would-trigger-crash/

Also sharing b’s article this a.m. at MoA … (b touches also on Helmer’s article on the downgrade)

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/escalation-in-northern-palestine.html#more

Yesterday I shared Meyssan’s latest which AHH has featured

and a few mins ago, Andrei posted Pepe’s latest

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/02/pepe-in-donbas-report.html

No doubt the US bill for funding the Ukraine will become more difficult to pass after this interview.

🔸Russian farmers have achieved tremendous success in a quarter of a century
https://m.vz.ru/economy/2024/2/14/1253331.html
▪️Over the past 23 years, Russian agriculture has made an incredible leap forward. From complete ruin in 1999, when Russia was forced to ask for grain on loan from the United States, to one of the largest exporters in the world. Exports of Russian products have grown tenfold in just a few years.

▪️Russian scientists were able to come close to creating a cancer vaccine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Forum of Future Technologies.
“We are very close to creating the so-called oncovaccines-cancer vaccines and new-generation immunomodulatory drugs. I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy, ” TASS quoted him as saying.
▪️German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, upon arrival at the next meeting of the contact group on military assistance to Kiev (Ramstein format), said that significantly more artillery shells will be transferred to Ukraine this year than a year earlier. According to him, the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine “will be decided, including on the assembly lines.”
▪️Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was not allowed to attend the Munich conference, because he faces “mortal danger” there.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov that after crossing the border, the former president “faces mortal danger.” This was announced by Poroshenko himself during a briefing, writes the newspaper “Strana”.

🔸BIDEN IS BEING REMOVED FROM OFFICE: THE GRAY CARDINAL OF THE UNITED STATES CAME IN WITH A LADY
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/bajdena-snimajut-s-dolzhnosti-seryj-kardinal-ssha-zashel-s-damy_959911
▪️In March 2023, the American press wrote that Barack Obama, who is called a real “gray cardinal” in the camp of Democrats, is moving his “wife” Michelle/Michael Obama for president and that this announcement will happen almost in March 2024. In the same publications, it was claimed that Barack Obama held a number of meetings with high-ranking representatives of the Democratic Party and expressed concern about Biden’s mental state and spoke with interlocutors about the candidacy of his “wife”.
Anyone who follows the state of the American information field could not help but notice that since the beginning of last year, the American “deep state” has begun the process of teaching American and world public opinion to think that the pervert Michel will become the candidate for president or at least vice-president of the United States from the Democratic Party/Michael Obama.

A COUP D’ETAT THAT WASN’T EXPECTED. PUTIN’S INTERVIEW WAS THE TRIGGER
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/gosperevorot-kotorogo-ne-zhdali-intervju-putina-stalo-spuskovym-krjuchkom_960637
▪️Tucker Carlson’s conversation with Putin probably had a negative effect on the Democrats. And the point here is not only that the Russian president directly accused the United States of provoking and prolonging the crisis in Nezalezhnaya. Americans saw what a truly strong national leader can be-confident, knowledgeable, with a good memory, with excellent self-control. So that this contrast is not very noticeable, “sleepy Joe” could be asked to temporarily not go to the press.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko !
▪️🇺🇦🇫🇷 Kiev was preparing assassination attempts on Macron during his visit to Ukraine.
France 24 TV channel reports this. According to French journalists, screenshots of correspondence from a person allegedly from Zaluzhny’s circle have surfaced on the Internet, who talks about the hypothetical reason for this decision. The correspondence says that the head of the GUR Budanov worked on the operation to eliminate the President of France, he also led the killers.
✖️ The plan failed because of former commander-in-chief Zaluzhny, media reports. It was he who conveyed information to the French through his channels. Probably, the assassination attempt was another provocation in order to later blame the Russian Federation for it.
👔It is now clear why Macron so suddenly canceled his trip to Zelensky, citing security reasons.
▪️🪖Ukrainian militants in Avdeevka were presented with an ultimatum to surrender – military correspondent Lisitsyn
📝 “The situation for Ukrainian forces is deteriorating by the hour, and, apparently, they have only a few days left before an encirclement in the south of the city, which could lead to significant losses. The Russian army is preparing a powerful tank strike, the purpose of which is to break through and completely close the boiler, and this is no secret to the enemy ,” the report says.
Already now, the supply chains of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been cut by our troops, the reserves of the Ukrainian garrison in the populated area are depleted, and instead of reinforcements, they are receiving hastily assembled and incapable units without proper preparation.
▪️🪖The cauldron has almost closed on the southern flank of Avdeevka. According to the Ukrainian resource Deep State, the Russian Armed Forces today advanced in the Opytny area and practically closed the enemy group.
❗️The main goal is to surround the fortified area of ​​the Ukrainian Armed Forces – the former Zenit air defense base. It is noted that our fighters are actively occupying positions in the city.
▪️🇺🇦Advisor to the head of Zelensky’s office Podolyak admitted that his brother lives in Moscow
📝 “I don’t know about the KGB, FSB and so on, of course not. If a person is 60 years old, I am 51, should I be responsible for other people? People in the Soviet Union chose to live in another country and I don’t communicate with people, so I should be responsible for them?
I cannot be responsible for other adults, just like Syrsky and any other person born in the Soviet Union. My relatives never belonged to the KGB and FSB ,” Podolyak said. He also said that Ukrainians in power can recruit their relatives in Russia.

🔸Forwarded from Rybar:
▪️🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Combined attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Crimea
🔻The morning strike on the large landing ship Caesar Kunikov was not the only one in the enemy attack off the coast of Crimea. The attack on the BDK was preceded first by comprehensive reconnaissance by NATO forces, and then by several UAV raids .
After midnight, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again sent drones to Crimea. This time the launch was carried out from three directions simultaneously: four from the Odessa region, two from the Kakhovsky direction and two more from the Orekhovsky area. The first two UAVs were shot down 70 km south of Yalta , three more were destroyed two hours later 6 km south of Feodosia – all five by Su-30SM fighters . And the latter were suppressed by electronic warfare equipment on approach to Anapa . The drones fell into the water 12 km from the city.

▪️🇺🇸🇺🇦 The role of the US Air Force RQ-4B drone in attacks on the Black Sea Fleet. The destructive activities of American and NATO intelligence in the Black Sea have already been discussed many times. Both today and Saturday this was confirmed again.
🔻On the night from Friday to Saturday from February 9 to 10, a Project 22160 patrol ship was attacked by BeK while escorting a Russian tanker from the Bosporus Strait. Seven unmanned boats tried to hit the side of the ship, but the crew noticed the drones and opened fire on them. As a result , one BeK was destroyed, and the rest retreated towards the Odessa region .
All this action was observed by the US Air Force RQ-4B UAV, which since the morning of February 9 had been patrolling south of the coast of Crimea , and also directly above the Russian ship at the time of the attack.
🔻It was the same today. A US Air Force drone flew into the Black Sea at 12 o’clock yesterday and began patrolling 70 km from the southern coast of Crimea. In the afternoon, the Russian BDK left Sevastopol and headed to the holding area south of Yalta , where it parked under the close attention of the UAV. And at 6.16, seven Ukrainian Beks attacked the Caesar Kunikov. Two drones were destroyed by machine gun fire, and four , unfortunately, were hit on board. The seventh drone was shot down by the crew of the rescue tug in the area where the landing ship was located. At that moment, Russian helicopters were already circling in the air, and the crew was being evacuated from the landing craft.
❗️And all this time RQ-4B was a little to the south, observing and directing BeKi, which was correctly noted by the Russian engineer . After the end of the rescue operation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at 09.30, he flew away from the Black Sea, ending his participation in the attack on the BDK. And this is just one of the episodes during the SVO.
What should we conclude? We think that everything is clear and without any explanation. Everyone understands perfectly well what NATO intelligence officers are doing off our coasts, but for some reason they do not resist it. Periodic exposure to electronic warfare does not produce the desired effect, as do the measures taken to combat BeKs. At the same time, there are practical possibilities for this – the RQ-4B shines like a New Year’s star on any radar. Let no one want to succumb to an obvious provocation – well, no one has canceled the proven method of “dumping fuel”. However, airplanes and drones have both flown and continue to do so with enviable regularity. And we can only guess why this is so. Probably, the Americans forbade shooting/impact, but we took it and obeyed.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️There has been a wild amount of fake news and “insiders” over the last couple of days. Either the covering of the training ground in Selidovo with hundreds of dead and wounded, then the withdrawal of the Ukrainians from Krynoki, then a report on French TV, which says that the crests were going to kill Macron. One smart person said about this today: “ The next war will be fought by drones and AI deepfakes, and people will watch and suffer .”
I am glad that in Avdeevka we continue to make good progress, without giving the enemy a break, and from a military point of view this is much more important than another loss of the Black Sea Fleet.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️”Armageddon” returns to Russia? Where General Surovikin continues to serve the Motherland
Article by the author of “RuNews24.ru” in Zen✍:
The famous General Sergei Surovikin may soon return from Africa and begin work again in the Northern Military District zone.

While Army General, Hero of Russia Sergei Vladimirovich Surovikin is in Algeria https://dzen.ru/a/ZccaYe55K1dx62NM , Ukrainians are hastily building new and strengthening old fortifications in front of our advancing troops. Diligently copying many elements of the “Surovikin line”, this is not even hidden.

And Surovikin’s vast experience, as well as his willingness to hit Ukrainian infrastructure without regard to “Western partners,” would be VERY useful today in breaking into Ukrainian defenses.

I’m sure many will agree with me. Simply because such people are not thrown around. Because this is, at a minimum, irrational, God bless her, with justice. Not to mention the fact that many important mechanisms that he established gradually stop working, but they are needed. The return of “Armageddon”, IMHO, will be a sign that the Northern Military District is turning into what it really is – a war for the survival of Russia.

AHH noted that stragegika51 >Ils placent des ogives nucléaires en orbite pour être sûrs que personne n’échappera au feu en cas de confrontation <

If this is so, then Plan R for Robert is no longer feasible.

Geewhiz I wish we had one of those doomsday machines, Stansi…

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“Biden preferred” quote from Czar>  @ stragegika 51 much more interesting is the full Putin quote> But we will work with any U.S. leader who the American people have confidence in. It’s obvious that noone have confidence in old Joe.

Analysis of semantic value is self evident. Elegant rhetoric.

Putin endorses both?

Now then, people expect Biden to retire, the VP to become prez, care-take long enough to “ram-rod” 😉 “Big Mike” into VP… matters to such design. Czar is not ignorant. It’s a subtle remark. Deeply ambiguous.

Maybe the special gizmos are in orbit, taken together with the Change in Policy toward US since 25 February…and Project https://youtu.be/ZrtVpJ-Sblo and in totality, the heat is on. This time the guy who said propaganda” was possible, we know how”, is drilling… it makes sense. Oh yes, we can do it, but western media makes it too hard… Right. Stumpy says the same stuff when he’s up to some cunning deal in the back room.

Really impressive to witness such expertise.

oops 25 January

‼️BREAKING: New Russian Space Weapon Sighted in Orbit for First Time! pic.twitter.com/GmD8hnUN24

— Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷🇰🇵 (@DlugajJuly) February 14, 2024

🔸America’s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies,
by Michael Hudson

America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies

▪️The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America’s NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within America’s own economic orbit. Allies are to forego the benefits of importing Russian gas and Chinese products, buying much higher-priced U.S. LNG and other exports, capped by more U.S. arms.

🔸The Age of Zugzwang: The Merciless Grip of Geostrategic Logic,
by Big Serge
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang
▪️… Zugzwang (a German word that literally means “move compulsion”) refers to any situation in chess where a player is forced to make a move that weakens his position, such as a king that is backed into a corner to escape from check – each time he moves out of check, he moves himself closer to checkmate. More simply put, Zugzwang refers to a situation where there are no good moves available, but it is your turn. If you find yourself staring at the board, thinking that you would prefer to simply skip your turn, you are in Zugzwang. But of course, you cannot skip your turn. You have to move. And no matter what move you choose, your position gets worse.

Interesting article:
🔸US scares the world with a “Russian nuclear satellite”
https://m.vz.ru/world/2024/2/15/1253576.html
▪️”A serious threat to national security” is suddenly perceived by American intelligence in certain “nuclear satellites” that Russia is allegedly preparing to put into orbit. Why did the US intelligence services just now begin to declare this threat, what kind of vehicles can we talk about – and how did the US itself test nuclear weapons in orbit?

🔸Satellites with nuclear weapons and a threat from space: the United States is ready for a new stage in the arms race https://www.kp.ru/daily/27567/4892022/
▪️The United States urgently convened a meeting of Congress to discuss the emerging “new threat to national security.” This doesn’t happen often. What happened? Leaks in the American press say that the question concerns information received about “Russia’s preparation to launch a nuclear facility into space to combat NATO reconnaissance satellites.”

RUSSIAN “DEATH STAR”. INCREDIBLE WEAPONS HAVE ALREADY HIT THE US
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/russkaja-zvezda-smerti-neverojatnoe-oruzhie-uzhe-udarilo-po-ssha_961063
▪️… in the Chinese scientific journal Nuclear Techniques, PLA physicists published an article in which they talked about creating a model for calculating the mass failure of satellites in orbit. It is claimed that the model is very accurate and allows calculations to be performed in a matter of minutes, which makes it possible to eliminate even such threats as an attack with hypersonic weapons.
As a solution, scientists propose a relatively controlled explosion of a relatively weak 10-Mt atomic warhead at a given altitude. It is noted that an explosion in orbit can be dangerous with a number of consequences, so an explosion at an altitude of 80 km was proposed. At this level, there is still enough air for the formation of a radioactive cloud, which in five minutes will rise to an altitude of 500 km and spread to an area of about 140 thousand square kilometers. It will become a kind of trap for satellites that will be partially or completely damaged during its passage. Scientists believe that in this way, one warhead can disable hundreds or thousands of satellites in a given orbit and not cause damage to friendly vehicles.

🔸Klaus Schwab rebrands the “Great Reset”: he claims that globalists want “humanocracy” instead of “technocracy” – video
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1345462
▪️Speaking at the 2024 World Government Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, Schwab said that the WEF is moving away from the” technocratic “structure of its” Fourth Industrial Revolution “in favor of a more” humanistic “approach, which he called” humanocracy”, due to the negative press reaction to the”Great Reset” 🤔

▪️Japan’s economy slipped into recession after a second-quarter slump due to anemic domestic demand, prompting some central bank watchers to abandon bets on when the country’s negative interest rate policy will end.
Gross domestic product contracted at an annualized rate of 0.4% in the final three months of last year, following a revised decline of 3.3% in the previous quarter, the cabinet office said on Thursday.
▪️The former Greater Britain’s economy entered recession in the second half of 2023 after contracting 0.3% worse than expected in the three months to December and also contracting 0.1% between July and September, official data showed on Wednesday.
A Reuters poll of economists pointed to a smaller 0.1% drop in gross domestic product (GDP) between October and December. The Bank of England said it expects the economy to recover in 2024.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇺🇸🇷🇺Russia is allegedly fighting with shovels and stealing washing machines to get computer chips for its collapsing army, while it could invade all of Europe, and now it is accused of creating an all-powerful space weapon. Two extremes of Western propaganda, according to which the Russian army is supposedly balancing between “hopeless backwardness” and “an insurmountable threat to civilization.”
▪️🇾🇪A new attack on a commercial vessel is recorded in the Gulf of Aden. The incident occurred 85 nautical miles from Aden (Yemen).
▪️⚡️Big explosion in southwest Tehran
A fire broke out at a chemical industry plant in the city of Shahriar, west of the Iranian capital Tehran. Earlier, local media reported an explosion. There is no information yet about the cause of the explosion.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️Today, Progress MS-26 departed from Baikonur for the ISS. Video from Roscosmos with a good montage showing the process.
Contrary to the squeal of the Ukrainian Arestovich that Russia will run out of missiles in March 2022, we clearly show that we have enough missiles for all purposes and tasks. Therefore, today the Ukronazis are lurking around the basements, and Progress is flying to the ISS.
It would also be interesting to know whether the US State Department’s hysterical screeching about the dangers from Russia from space is connected with this Progress flight. They will become very hysterical.
▪️Nine people were killed, and 20 more were injured in a missile attack on Belgorod. Ukronazis hit a shopping center in Belgorod. As usual, aimlessly and in residential areas.
▪️⚡️The Ukrainian military has already begun a partial withdrawal in the Avdiivka area and considers the surrender of the city to Russian forces to be only a matter of time (c) Washington Post
⚡️President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a law on the legalization of marijuana in the country.
It won’t help, Volodymyr Oleksandrovich. No grass can save you from your “overcome” with a minus sign at the front. Heroin should be legalized immediately.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️The terrorist shelling of Belgorod is reported to have already killed 9 people, including an infant. The Russian hero city takes upon itself the impotent anger of the Ukrainian, who, militarily, at the moment cannot inflict such damage on us as to affect the course of hostilities. Therefore, the crest simply kills peaceful Belgorod residents, those whom he can reach.
▪️Even during the first strike on Belgorod, Vampire wrote that the best air defense against this system is the destruction of the installation at the deployment stage, while moving or in a parking lot. And the most reliable means is to clear a strip 15 kilometers wide in the Kharkov region.
Air defense can shoot down Grad missiles, but this is difficult to do and if the crest fires half a packet/packet, something will still get through. Moreover, the Ukrainian is faced with the task of simply getting into the city, and not targeting military targets.
Our military today will kill the enemy on the Belgorod border with redoubled zeal, as well as destroy Kharkov, but a global solution to the problem can only be achieved by achieving the goals of the Northern Military District. Sooner or later, we will achieve our goals, I hope that at the same time, we will not suffer from any excessive humanism.

Avdiivka folded. It was one of the last remaining strongholds of the Ukrainian forces in Donbass. Catastrophic collapse of defenses and unplanned routs. It’s over. pic.twitter.com/er3orLjvDD

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 15, 2024

The gentleman of the press Seymour Hersch, who took the trouble to let us know that he is “a prisoner of his sources” (iirc the precise quote) has published the story of the seals and dhow…

He informs> seal team boss say no go. bigger (army (?) boss say go. They went. And predictably it went…wrong. One fella may yet die, making 3.

Under what authority in law was the dhow destroyed? Where are the kidnapped crew of dhow? How are local fellas out for a sail suddenly “smugglers”? By what law were they made prisoner? Much remains unsaid.

(fwiw I don’t buy Seymour’s story, but it sounds like the seals were the pirates, a crime spree. I have climbed boarding ladder up the side of a lightly ballasted tanker in a heavy swell from a shore-boat. You time the transfer very carefully, tuck the whisky snug under your belt, and jump. A screwup can mean drowning/crushing. It’s a long climb.)

I am recalling Casablanca, “round up the usual suspects”. I don’t believe the dhow was anything but a random pawn in a politically expedient farce. Ahbetcha the crew is not to be see again, ever. You know, witnesses an’ all… people fall overboard quite often, they tell me.

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sea state > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_state

if available> https://theduran.locals.com/post/5273614/make-my-day-seymour-hersh-seymour-hersh-substack-paywall-i-am-a-subscriber-update-f

List radio stations about to fall under the control of the well-know patron of the arts, the Soros! > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_owned_by_Audacy,_Inc.

They say that the esteemed lady, Huma, formerly close with the “person H”, is seen nowadays in close company with the Soros junior.

Of course proper programming will manifest.

Remark about the stories told about orbit nuclear machine. Use search-term “nuclear-pumped- laser”. There’s a wiki, etc. These machine, as ideas, go back to Teller, probably Szilard. The concept is obvious. Some designs do not use bomb, use special reactor. Read the wiki, maybe save. Quiz for extra credit> what establishment excels at power-laser tech? Extra extra special credit> what establishment excels at reactor tech?

The panic is artificial, of course, but quite possibly there is progress on such machine as nuclearpumpedlaser.

The wave-length of the radiation corresponds to the power…alot! Read the wiki.

🔸Chinese Lunar and Agricultural Calendars Explained-A China Rising Radio Sinoland Cultural Special Edition

Chinese New Year of the Wood Dragon 2024: all you need to know to impress your friends, colleagues and family. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240215

▪️It all began with the Jade Emperor who decreed that the years of the calendar would be named for animals. He declared a race across a great river and the first 12 winners would grace the calendar, to see what order the cycle would be in. There is a really cute fable how they arrived in this order (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd9nd6f).

🔸AFU miss a chance to get out of Avdiivka
https://m.vz.ru/society/2024/2/16/1253782.html
▪️Experts assessed the development of military events in Avdiivka

🔸A TRIPLE BLOW TO THE BLACK SEA FLEET. HEADS ARE FLYING: A SCENARIO THAT MANY WILL NOT LIKE
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/trojnoj-udar-po-chernomorskomu-flotu-letjat-golovy-rasklad-kotoryj-mnogim-ne-ponravitsja_961449
▪️”Drastic change in tactics”
Elena Panina, Director of the Institute for International Political and Economic Strategies of RUSSTRAT, also spoke about the possible change of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and his likely replacement.
Several sources report on the change of command of the Black Sea Fleet: instead of Admiral Viktor Sokolov, Vice Admiral Sergey Pinchuk was allegedly appointed. Officially, this information has not been confirmed – as well as what was the reason for the rotation. According to sources, this is an unconfirmed death of the BDK “Caesar Kunikov” the day before.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🤯The CIA fabricated data on Trump’s connections with Russia
As stated by American journalists Matt Taibbi, Alex Gutengtag and writer Michael Shellenberger, the CIA falsified intelligence data, which indicated that Trump is connected to Vladimir Putin, and Russia influences the results of the US elections. This allowed intelligence agencies to open an investigation into Trump, which ultimately came to nothing but served as a tool in media warfare against the Republican candidate for years.
📝“When we took a closer look at what data they had available to them they were not using, the intelligence was completely inconsistent with their conclusion that Russia supported Trump. They believed that they could harm Trump ,” the investigators noted.
❗️The fabrication of information about Trump’s ties with Russia was carried out by then CIA Director John Brennan. He, according to some reports, was behind the Trump campaign headquarters.
A clear example of a situation where the odious and omnipresent intelligence of the hegemon receives an unlimited budget and the broadest powers, beginning to dictate its will even to the heads of its own state.

▪️🇪🇺🇷🇺 The EU purchased almost €30 billion worth of oil and gas from Russia in 2023, despite sanctions.
The media write about this with reference to Eurostat statistics. The main importers of products from Russia to the EU in 2023 were the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Belgium and Slovakia.
In addition to oil and gas, the EU also purchased ferrous metals, nickel, aluminum, platinum group metals, fertilizers and ammonia from Russia.

▪️🇷🇺🪖 The Guardian: the volume of Russian weapons production worries the West:
The volume of military production exceeds all expert calculations, the newspaper writes. Russia has sharply increased production of military products, including artillery ammunition and missiles. Total defense spending in the Russian Federation increased to 7.5% of GDP.
❗️The West did not expect such growth, writes The Guardian. Other points from the article:
▪️Supply chains in the Russian Federation have been restructured to ensure the security of many key goods and circumvent sanctions
▪️Domestic production of shells in the Russian Federation ranges from 2.5 to 5 million units per year
▪️Ammunition, vehicle and equipment factories operate around the clock , often on 12-hour shifts, to support future production
▪️In the next year or two, production may exceed 4 million units per year
▪️Russia “will be able to maintain its offensive against Ukraine at the current pace for another two to three years, and perhaps longer.”

▪️🇺🇸🛰🇷🇺 NYT: The United States launched satellites to combat Russia’s “space nuclear weapons”
It turns out, writes The New York Times, that yesterday’s launch by the United States of hypersonic and ballistic tracking sensors into low-Earth orbit is “a rapid response to the Russian threat in space.”
✖️ The United States itself released information to the media about a possible nuclear threat in space from Russia and itself responded to these statements. And it doesn’t matter whether this threat actually exists or not, the reason for launching hundreds more American sensors into space already exists.
🚀 The project of spying on Russian and Chinese missiles to protect against the “threat” will require $14 billion. At the same time, the United States admitted that the “terrible” Russian technology has not even been deployed yet, but the budget needs to be cut now.

▪️❗️ The causes of Navalny’s death are being established – the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
It is reported that Navalny was carried out all the necessary measures, but they did not give positive results.
▪️The Federal Penitentiary Service of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported the death of Alexei Navalny (c) @SolovievLive
UPD . The cause of death was stated to be a detached blood clot. A commission has been sent to the colony.
UPD . Navalny became ill around 1 p.m. An ambulance was called for him. Medics tried to pump him out, but he died at 2:17 p.m.
▪️🇫🇲 🤡NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: all the facts surrounding the death of Alexei Navalny must be established, and “Russia must answer serious questions”
▪️🇷🇺The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the US administration to refrain from making sweeping accusations regarding Navalny’s death and to wait for a forensic examination
📝 “Why for the White House and the State Department did the death of a Russian citizen in a Russian penal colony turn out to be much more important and seemed more terrible than the death of an American citizen, journalist Gonzalo Lira , who was tortured to death in a Ukrainian prison?” – the statement says.
▪️🤡 Biden will soon give a speech in connection with the death of Alexei Navalny – White House

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️Judging by data from the field, the crest is fleeing Avdeevka, trying to escape through fields and relatively passable dirt roads. Our artillery escorts the fleeing Ukrainian with volleys. Chief General Sirsky, Count Debaltsevsky, Prince Bakhmutovsky and Avdeevsky, did not disappoint.

AHH,

Agree … Navalny is far better than a ff …

My fellow Americans … are worse than cats … ‘see the new shiny ball’?  look here, not ‘there’ …

And people wonder how the US got to be what it is today … (not gonna smack my head! am no longer shocked …)

I could listen to this man all day …

Shahid on ‘Layers of Decolonization’

http://disq.us/p/2xq3omw

Andrei has a thread on Avdiivka  at his site

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/02/butchers-bill.html#disqus_thread

He wasn’t able to post the video he references, however another poster was able to do so… who states Andrei’s reference begins at 10:50 mark

This https://helenaglass.net/2024/02/16/navalny-was-a-cia-asset/ may be redundant .. dunno. And the lady herself at the site says many things. I personally do not cotton to her, ugh, well, brand of nationalism, being myself more a-cottoned to the old commie brand…nevertheless a cogent lady and interesting.

We shall struggle on, my friends.

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Apropos of memeoy… In the mind there are refrains, and one of mine is a quote from our lost comrade Howard Zinn, which quote is especial. When I was bombing cities in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and France in the Second World War, the moral justification was so simple and clear as to be beyond discussion: We were saving the world from the evil of fascism. I was therefore startled to hear from a gunner on another crew — what we had in common was that we both read books — that he considered this “an imperialist war.” Both sides, he said, were motivated by ambitions of control and conquest. We argued without resolving the issue. Ironically, tragically, not long after our discussion, this fellow was shot down and killed on a mission.

How about that. I’d say “stray cosmic ray” changed our comrade, and set in motion the creation of…Howard Zinn.

🔸Germany swims or sinks with NATO,
by M.K. Bhadrakumar

Germany swims or sinks with NATO

▪️… The Chinese commentator compared Stoltenberg to an in-charge of a firm of undertakers, “a store owner of coffin and casket, which makes no money in peacetime. As an undertaker, NATO needs conflict, bloodshed for earnings. So it spreads fear and panic in order to ensure its member countries continue to contribute military funding.”

🔸Two “breaking news” items this week provided a timely opportunity for the United States and its media-intelligence apparatus to regain control of the narrative.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/16/russian-space-nukes-and-navalnys-death-u-s-psyops-go-ballistic/
▪️The claims about Russian space-based nuclear weapons unraveled to become a joke. Fortunately, the death of Western-sponsored dissident Alexei Navalny then occurred to enable Western media to go into a frenzy of anti-Russia headlines.

🔸Ecuador has remained neutral: the South American state will not give up Soviet military equipment to the United States https://www.kp.ru/daily/27568.5/4892828/
▪️South American Ecuador has always positioned itself as a neutral state. But Ecuador has armed forces, equipment and weapons are and have been purchased from various suppliers, incl. both in the USSR and Russia.

🔸Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza,
by Pepe Escobar
https://thecradle.co/articles/axis-of-resistance-from-donbass-to-gaza
▪️The resistance in Donbas and Gaza share an essential common vision: overthrowing the unipolar hegemon that has quashed their national aspirations.

🔸Death of Aleksei Navalny: the Brits did it,
by Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/16/death-of-aleksei-navalny-the-brits-did-it/
▪️In all of the false flag operations that have been directed by the West against Russia over the past decade or more, I have argued that the old Roman investigative principle of cui bono militated against the Kremlin having been involved in any way. So it is today: why would Putin want to murder Navalny, when the man is now largely forgotten within Russia.

🔸Planet of the Apes: Zelensky in Munich,
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240217/1053367466.html
▪️Sooner or later, any empire will degrade. It can then be revived even more powerful and great than it was before degradation, but periodic degradation is inevitable – it is connected with human nature.

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️As soon as Syrsky was appointed commander-in-chief and “Azov” was brought into the city, Avdeevka fell.
Traditions.
▪️A few intermediate points.
1. The battle for Avdeevka was actually the first major battle of the Russian Armed Forces won in 2024 and the first major city liberated (with an eye to the need for cleanup + liberation of the coke plant) in 2024.
2. The enemy’s most heavily fortified and prepared for long-term defense operational-strategic fortified area in the Donbass fell.
3. The enemy is actually being pushed back from the immediate outskirts of Donetsk, where the front actually passed near the city limits. This will not stop the shelling, but will somewhat reduce its intensity.
4. Zelensky and Syrsky reaped the main laurels for the defeat in Avdeevka. Zaluzhny escaped in time, although all the operational reasons for the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdievka were formed precisely under Zaluzhny. The Americans skillfully brought their creatures out of harm’s way.
5. The decisive moment in the battle for Avdeevka was the breakthrough of our attack aircraft south of the coke plant and the cutting of the city into 2 parts, which predetermined the rapid collapse of the enemy’s defense. The massive use of heavy aerial bombs, which destroyed enemy defense units along the path of our troops’ advance, also played a major role.
▪️Photos have emerged of civilians living in basements during the battles for the city.
According to the enemy, before the fall of the city’s defenses, there were still up to 900 civilians there.
▪️The enemy reports that the offensive of Russian troops has begun in the Zaporozhye direction (Rabotinsky ledge). The intensity of the fighting has increased sharply, and armored vehicles are being used.
▪️The Houthis continue to keep their word. Despite the US and British strikes on Yemen, this morning the British tanker Pollux was attacked off the country’s coast by anti-ship ballistic missiles.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️⚡️The United States transferred about $500 thousand from confiscated Russian assets to Estonia to assist Ukraine. This was “the first such case” (c) US Department of Justice
Trial balloon from the USA, the amount is indicatively small. Now they will watch Russia’s reaction. If there is no reaction (“concerns” don’t count), then they will start dragging everything away. This is like the transition from the supply of Javelin ATGMs to the supply of Abrams and Leopards. The answer here, IMHO, is the nationalization of their assets on the territory of the Russian Federation, this is enough.
To understand, we are talking about a global precedent that goes far beyond the conflict between Russia and the West.

▪️Well, the Zaporozhye Front has truly come to life. Our guys are moving forward at Rabotino. Artillery and TOS are burning out Ukronazi support forces, aviation is working.

I think God Bless you.

Tucker Carlson has a new podcast … you may want to bookmark …

Mike Benz, Exec Dir of Foundation For Freedom, gives the history of  censorship …

https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/

Benz interview is dynamite.

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Video B 7 … Never mind the obvious…think about how… what are the inescapable prerequisite actions… https://twitter.com/i/status/1758732558484074636

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There’s a transcript for this interview at Tucker’s site … I think one has to subscribe to the site

https://tuckercarlson.com/

Also  …  https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/

“AMOC” ?  Not the first topic when I wake. Never mind the silly stuff about CO2 and eating bugs… see learned paper> https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189

Excerpt> Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which can potentially collapse because of the input of fresh water in the North Atlantic. Although AMOC collapses have been induced in complex global climate models by strong freshwater forcing, the processes of an AMOC tipping event have so far not been investigated. Here, we show results of the first tipping event in the Community Earth System Model, including the large climate impacts of the collapse. Using these results, we develop a physics-based and observable early warning signal of AMOC tipping: the minimum of the AMOC-induced freshwater transport at the southern boundary of the Atlantic. Reanalysis products indicate that the present-day AMOC is on route to tipping. The early warning signal is a useful alternative to classical statistical ones, which, when applied to our simulated tipping event, turn out to be sensitive to the analyzed time interval before tipping.

excerpt> AMOC collapse
To develop such an early warning indicator, we performed a targeted simulation to find an AMOC tipping event in the Community Earth System Model (CESM; version 1.0.5). This CESM version, which has been used in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), phase 5, has horizontal resolutions of 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land components (see Materials and Methods).

Heinrich event on horizon. Chilly! Plenty of time though, And quite splendid. O! How papa Hemingway but anguish over his beloved Gulf Stream and the fishing… I suppose he’s scribbling at Abes…

From El Commandante… (I suppose) >

🔸Avdeevka – a curse lifted from Donetsk: Dmitry Steshin told how the Ukrainian Armed Forces were thrown out of the city and what will happen next
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27568.5/4893026/
▪️Dmitry Steshin: Our troops knocked out the will to defend from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdeevka

🔸Jewish separatists in Biafra want to proclaim a second Israel
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220453.html
▪️Igbo independence is back in Nigeria. It was the trigger for the “Nigerian Civil War”, also known as the Biafra genocide or the Biafran War (1967-70). Except this time, the separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, insists that the Igbos are a lost tribe of Israel.

Thierry Meyssan interview with Monika Berchvok
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220436.html
▪️Thierry Meyssan, who grants interviews to anyone who asks for them without discrimination, explained to Monika Berchvok his analysis of the confrontation in Gaza

🔸😄 Dmitry Kiselyov sent a request for an interview with US President Joe Biden
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1346465
▪️Dmitry Kiselyov, CEO of the Rossiya Segodnya media Group, sent a request for an interview with US President Joe Biden. He told about this in the program “Vesti Nedeli” on the TV channel “Russia 1”.
As RIA Novosti reports, according to him, in this way it is possible to continue the dialogue between the countries after the interview of Russian leader Vladimir Putin with American journalist Tucker Carlson.
▪️🤡Zelensky threatens the United States. The United States risks losing its high status as a “strategic ukropartner”
“If we are talking about an alternative, it means that it is not our strategic partner. That’s why I don’t consider such an alternative,” he said. A strategic partner cannot afford not to support Ukraine, Zelensky stressed.

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
TELEGRAM from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
to Colonel General A.N. MORDVICHEV:
“ Today, the “Center” group of troops, developing an offensive, completely captured the city of Avdeevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic. units: 30th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 2nd Army; 35th separate motorized rifle brigade, 55th separate motorized rifle brigade (mountain), 74th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 41st Army; 1st separate motorized rifle brigade, 9th separate motorized rifle brigade, 114th separate motorized rifle brigade, 1454 motorized rifle regiment, 10th tank regiment of the 1st army corps; 6th Tank Regiment, 80th Tank Regiment, 239th Tank Regiment of the 90th Tank Division.
For excellent military operations, I express my gratitude to all the troops led by you who took part in the battles for Avdeevka.
Eternal glory to the heroes who fell in battle while solving the problems of a special military operation!
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of
the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation V. Putin

▪️According to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the total advance during and after the capture of Avdeevka was 8.6 kilometers. More than 30 square kilometers of Donbass have been liberated. Active offensive operations by our troops continue. Now there are battles for Lastochkino. The enemy has not left there yet.
In the city itself, the cleanup is still ongoing – individual enemy soldiers abandoned by the command and who did not have time to escape are still hiding in the city.
▪️Peskov said that lists of those who distinguished themselves during the liberation of Avdeevka are now being prepared. Mass awards will be held soon.
The contribution of the VKS pilots, who with their systematic strikes paved the way for our attack aircraft, was especially noted.
▪️Also in the evening they report serious tactical successes of our troops in the Rabotinsky direction. The heights between Verbov and Rabotino are occupied. Height control will ensure further advance through adjacent plantings east of Rabotino.

▪️The President of Nigeria, who threatened to intervene in Niger last fall and assembled a coalition of the ECOWAS group of countries for this purpose, changed his shoes and declared that coups d’etat in countries that had left ECOWAS cannot serve as an obstacle to the development of regional cooperation between African countries.
In fact, in a veiled form, he expressed his readiness to recognize all new military governments in countries that had escaped from the French colonial yoke and to build relations, taking into account new realities. Thus, France’s plans for diplomatic encirclement and isolation of military regimes in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are crumbling.

Plastics Cannot Be Recycled and Producers Know This:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240217/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims-1116836370.html
▪️The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) released a report on Thursday which details how the plastics industry has evolved its marketing pitch in order to circumvent public backlash and potential regulation.
According to a report by the CCI, despite their knowledge that recycling plastics is not technically or economically practical, petrochemical companies have continued to push “fraudulent” marketing and public outreach campaigns to convince consumers otherwise. Doing so, the report says, has stalled legislative and regulatory action that could have addressed plastic waste and pollution long ago.
“Fossil fuel and other petrochemical companies have used the false promise of plastic recycling to exponentially increase virgin plastic production over the last six decades, creating and perpetuating the global plastic waste crisis and imposing significant costs on communities that are left to pay for the consequences,” the CCI wrote.

…“Companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron Phillips, and Dow—independently and through their industry trade associations—have colluded to deceive the public for half a century, despite extensive evidence that recycling is not a viable solution to the plastic waste problem,” the CCI wrote.

Scott Ritter

A romantic comedy in which we see that the Policy of recovering lost children of mother is not new. And we get to pretend that the Canadian zone is not nazi. Film has great charm. Good symbolism. Poor Liz.  https://youtu.be/8IZc_0Q20BY

Set prior to the war, I mean this war, not the other ones.

Canuk cop finds happiness in Rus with a married lady, and buys a farm. He being already married does make some difficulties.

oops! she being married, not he.

I regard as significant the several recent entries that the brave fellow from Texas has presented. The Tuckster saying Demonic? No joy in Mudville!

(I wonder what he heard from the unstated interviews nach Moscow, our fellow matures!, may we expect a conversion to Orthodox?)

Rubymar Man sagt, das tapfere Schiff Rubymar sei gesunken. Punktzahl! Aber kaum ideal… Sky News?

Amateur rhetorician (this is polite form 😉  ) at Washington Post sets the scene and paints the false tapestries for the great Big Mike to ascend to the throne. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/14/trump-biden-aging-scenarios-ballot/   Read with sharp red pencil. Harris as cannula the slide Mike in. Bear in mind that the matter of civil order in the relevant zones, and the constant showers of divisive propaganda… the misc en scene is looking like a tawdry crime spree conspiracy to further Machtergreifung . Fake process, fake female. Fine aesthetic fits der ende, eh?.  And Mike is never mentioned in the tale. Points for that. However my strict Jesuit Rhetoric professor (well, he got defrocked over some rumors about the boys,) …professor would probably let it go with a C, and a scribbled red remark about “do you really want to be in this class?”

Looks like Russel was right…Mobama. Post telegraph.

Navy fellers used to keep cruise books. I have one from an AK in the Pacific war. Thus, bringing mater to present, some lucky fellers get to put this picture in their book.

When Czar spoke with Carlson and the question of Poland was raised (not unless Poland attacks us), I sensed amused cunning. My impression was/is that Czar expects Poland to attack. Well, so do I. Not like it’s unheard of 😉  !

One might speculate as to how the great film director felt when Zhukov’s horse crapped under the Bandenburg Gate.

The several fellows an’ da judge guy . The dead criminal N was done, schedule pressures and all, and yes he was an agent, and yes wifiepoo all dressed up for to play her role.

BBC programming sure adapted wonderfully quickly to the shocking death … Right. BBC can be quite useful, if nasty to endure.

Thrilling metaphorical video fire aboard https://youtu.be/VFqtjlVvxSU (Lakonia fire) I like the part when the passengers do not realized the fires red hot under their feet. Nothing to do with the BB and the zionazienterprise.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALEXEI NAVALNY THIS TIME ROUND

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALEXEI NAVALNY THIS TIME ROUND

▪️Since a pack of lies about Alexei Navalny (lead image, right) won last year’s Oscar for the best documentary film of the year when he was alive, there’s no doubt he can win another Oscar when he’s dead. But alive or dead, the prize-winning propaganda of Navalny’s story bears no resemblance to the truth. This is what happens in wartime, especially when the side which is losing the war on the battlefield – that’s the US, NATO and the Ukraine – claims to be winning the war of words against Russia.

▪️On Friday last, the Russian language edition of the German state medium Deutsche Welle (DW) published a report of German and Polish government plans for the expropriation of PCK, the Rosneft crude oil refinery at Schwedt in northern Germany, and the Rosneft network of operating assets in Germany, Poland, and Austria.
The German assets of Rosneft, the Russian state oil production company under worldwide sanctions, had earlier been placed under what the German government called “fiduciary management” by an “independent” state regulator in September 2022.

PERFIDIOUS TEUTONS AND THEIR POLISH ACCOMPLICES – HOW THE ROSNEFT REFINERY IN GERMANY IS BEING EXPROPRIATED

🔸Scott Ritter: Mike Turner’s Folly

SCOTT RITTER: Mike Turner’s Folly

▪️Rep. Mike Turner’s release of raw intelligence about a Russian satellite system has compromised U.S. intelligence including likely its sources and methods.

🔸How Israel Corrupted America,
by Kevin Barrett
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/how-israel-corrupted-america?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
▪️But I’ll start in 1948 when the State of Israel was created by an act of genocide. The Zionist leaders had always known that to have a Jewish state in Palestine, they would have to kill and/or expel the native Palestinians. They didn’t advertise that too blatantly, but they said it many times in so many words.

🔸Avdiivka — the best thing that could happen to Ukraine
https://ukraina.ru/20240219/1053397339.html
▪️Although I regularly say that the historical process is not deterministic, that there is no fatal predestination of any events. But there are tendencies that are very difficult, almost impossible to change, because they stem from the depths of the national mentality, from the archetype laid down by our distant, wild ancestors

🔸Ukrainian intelligence confirmed the death of a pilot who hijacked a Russian helicopter
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/19/1254270.html
▪️The official representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrey Yusov confirmed the death of pilot Maxim Kuzminov.
In August last year, it became known that Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov hijacked a Mi-8 helicopter and landed on it in the Kharkiv region-in the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Later, the pilot said that he had stolen a helicopter for the armed forces of Ukraine. On board the hijacked Mi-8, in addition to Kuzminov, there were two servicemen who died.

▪️Russian positions in the special operation zone were attacked in late January with a toxic chemical banned in the European Union, the head of the radiation, chemical and Biological Protection Forces (RCBZ)said Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
Kirillov, at a briefing on the violation of the requirements of the Chemical Weapons Convention by the United States and Ukraine, said that the chemical used on January 31 against Russian troops led to burns of the upper respiratory tract, nausea and vomiting.
The presence of the toxic substance anthraquinone, which has a pronounced toxic effect and causes blindness, liver and kidney function disorders, was found, Kirillov said in a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry.
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/19/1254202.html

▪️Icons of St. George and Alexander Nevsky were pacified during a religious procession around the monastery near Lisichansk (LPR) on the day when the Russian military finally liberated Avdiivka, Archpriest Dimitry Vasilenkov, the chief military priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in the SVR zone, said.
The procession was held around the monastery on February 17, when Russian troops stormed Avdiivka completely and irrevocably, and suddenly the icons were silenced, reports TASS. The priest noted that now five elderly nuns live in the monastery without water or heating, who pray for Russian soldiers, and go in a procession around the monastery every day.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇫🇲The General Staff of the Russian Federation spoke about NATO military personnel in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. According to Colonel General Sergei Rudsky, NATO specialists are already participating in military operations in Ukraine: they “directly” prepare military operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and manage expensive Western weapons under the guise of mercenaries.
📝“They control air defense systems of operational-tactical missiles and multiple launch rocket systems, and are part of assault detachments. Currently, the Ukrainian people are being used by the United States as cannon fodder to realize geopolitical ambitions for global dominance ,” the officer added.
▪️🇺🇦 🔥 A drone production plant in Lviv was burned by Ukrainian partisans. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, as reported by TG channels, local underground fighters eliminated the plant’s guards, then doused the plant with gasoline and burned it. The fire covered an area of ​​more than 400 sq.m. UkroSMI presented this either as the result of an explosion for an unknown reason, or did not cover it at all.
❗️Journalist Yuriy Podolyaka notes that the plant produced 5 thousand drones per month for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them are the Furia, Leleka 100 UAVs, RAM II UAV and others.

▪️🇾🇪🇺🇸 The Houthis shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone. A representative of the Ansar Allah movement, Brigadier General Yahya Sari, said that the drone was shot down in the Hodeidah area.
The Houthis also successfully hit the British ship Rubymar, causing serious damage to it. Earlier, the United States reported that the Houthis began using seaborne semi-submersible drones to attack American ships.
▪️Sky News Arabia claims that the British bulk carrier Rubymar, damaged by the Houthis, sank due to fire and damage received.
There is no other confirmation yet. If confirmed, it would be the first ship sunk by the Houthis since the start of the strike campaign off the coast of Yemen.

▪️🇺🇦☢️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces used American chemical ammunition against Russian troops. This was stated by the head of the RKhBZ troops, Kirillov. Thus, on December 28, 2023, in the Krasnoliman direction, American-made gas grenades filled with the CS substance were dropped from a UAV on the positions of Russian troops.
This substance irritates the eyes and upper respiratory tract, and in high concentrations can cause skin burns, respiratory paralysis and cardiac arrest.
🇺🇸Now the Kiev regime, together with Western curators, is developing new combat tactics using a “special chemical belt,” Kirillov added.
📝 “It involves blowing up containers with hydrocyanic acid and ammonia during the advance of Russian troops,” he explained.
❗️ Such tactics, according to Kyiv’s idea, should complicate the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces and give Kyiv time to prepare defensive positions in the Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Sumy regions.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️⚡️In Spain, Maxim Kuzminov, who hijacked a Russian military helicopter, was allegedly found dead. He didn’t run for long. He didn’t just steal a helicopter – he also killed the crew. And all this for $500,000.
Was the money of no use? Choked, you nit? The earth is glassy for you, Maxim.

▪️⚡️Vladimir Putin allowed Expobank to buy the Russian division of the British HSBC (c)
In general, such news should be framed and hung on the wall. HSBC is one of the largest financial conglomerates in the world, the largest UK bank by assets and market capitalization. An octopus of monstrous size, whose tentacle was cut off for almost the first time in history.
▪️⚡️Vladimir Putin transferred the Ulyanovsk Machine Tool Plant, owned by the Japanese-German machine tool manufacturer DMG Mori, to the temporary management of the Federal Property Management Agency. The plant began operations in 2015, the Japanese-German DMG Mori invested 4.5 billion rubles in it. The company decided to close the plant and lay off employees after the start of the CBO.
⚡️The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit demanding that the privatization of the state-owned enterprise Ivanovo Heavy Machine Tool Plant (IZTS) in 1992 be declared illegal. As a result of illegal privatization, there was a “disposal of property from the ownership of the Russian Federation against its will.”
⚡️The Volga City Court of the Volgograd Region recognized the activities of Konstantin Efimenko and Elizaveta Andreeva, owners of PJSC Ural Autotextile Plant, as extremist. The court also decided to ban the activities of these people on the territory of Russia and transfer the enterprises controlled by them in the Russian Federation to the Federal Property Management Agency.
Today, it is better for liberals and fighters against the regime to read news, either standing or sitting on titanium furniture.

I realize my question is a ridiculous one, but I ask anyway …

to no one in particular … the universe at large?

How is it … that a country which has enabled and is taking part in the genocide …

is allowed to not only vote against a resolution to cease fire, in order to bring aid to starving babies and children… but to be the ONE vote that results in the death of the resolution and thousands of Palestinians? Why is the US allowed to vote? as well as the UK? Why haven’t they been kicked out of the UN, along with Israel? (Yes, I know … more than one question. .. all rhetorical of course.)

🔸“Russia has come and my soul feels good”: the first report by Alexander Kots from liberated Avdeevka https://www.kp.ru/daily/27568/4893573/
▪️A fighter with the call sign Tatar: In Avdeevka, residents greeted us joyfully, with a smile

Alistair Crooke:

The Resistance Has a Plan for Israel. But on the Other Side, Fantastical U.S. Stratagems Ensure a Cascading Failure

▪️We have entered a period of breakdown and violence, as the forces pulling apart the old status quo cascade and mutually reinforce one another.

🔸2024: The Year from Political Hell – Martin Armstrong

2024: The Year from Political Hell – Martin Armstrong

▪️Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is predicting political turmoil, civilian unrest, war and a big economic downturn in 2024 in a new report called “The Year from Political Hell.” It’s not just a US election year, but it is an election year for more than half of the world. This is a global phenomenon which no one can be sure of the outcome.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/globohomo-likely-ordered-dementia
▪️This is a politics post about the Democrat nominee if Joe Biden drops out.

🔸The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212205/US-casts-3rd-veto-of-UN-action-since-war-on-Gaza
▪️Thirteen council members voted in favor of the Algerian-drafted text, while Britain abstained. It was the third such US veto since the start of the current fighting on Oct. 7.

▪️Venezuela will join BRICS in the near future, the country’s President Nicolas Maduro said. The president pointed out that the “old colonial world with wars, interventions, genocide and a superiority complex” is being replaced by “a new world with BRICS.” According to him, “this world already exists and is irreversible.”
“The trend of the emergence of a new world and the consolidation of BRICS is irreversible, and Venezuela will soon be part of BRICS,” Maduro said, TASS reported.

🔸Maduro agrees with Brazilian President’s comments on Israel’s actions
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/20/1254409.html
▪️Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro agreed with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who compared Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip with Nazi Germany’s crimes against the Jewish people.
Lula da Silva said that what is happening in the Gaza Strip is genocide, and compared it to the atrocities of Adolf Hitler against Jews. According to the latest data of the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, the death toll from Israeli strikes reached almost 29 thousand people, more than 68.8 thousand people were injured.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz declared Lula da Silva persona non grata until he apologizes and refuses to compare Israel with Hitler’s Germany.

🔸Avdiivka was taken with minimal losses-Shoigu
https://ukraina.ru/20240220/1053431090.html
▪️The General Staff managed to carry out an operation to capture the city of Avdiivka with minimal losses. Successful military operations in this sector of the front will be included in history textbooks, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces created unbearable conditions for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdiivka, and the soldiers of the Kiev regime were forced to flee. Russian troops carried out 460 strikes a day on concreted Avdiivka, which is 200 tons of ammunition. Only for February 17-18, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 2,400 soldiers, Shoigu noted.
Hastily leaving the positions, the Ukrainian army soldiers left a lot of Western weapons. The President added that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave the order to withdraw from Avdiivka, already when the Ukrainian troops were fleeing from there.
The Defense Minister stressed that offensive operations after taking control of the city continue to the west, 72 square kilometers have been liberated. The movement of Russian troops does not stop.

▪️The town of Krynki in the Kherson region is under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces.
“The wings are cleared. We were stationed practically along the entire coast of the Krynka and Konka Rivers. Today, there are not only observation posts, but also troops stationed there. The paratroopers behaved very well, ” the minister told the president.
Recall that in Krynki, the Ukrainian army has held a bridgehead on the left bank of the Kherson region since October 2023.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin presented Kim Jong-un with a Russian car. According to the North Korean KCNA, the gift for Kim was presented on February 18. North Korean leader Kim Yo Jong’s sister said it “serves as clear evidence of the special friendly relations established between the leaders of the two countries” and called the car “the best gift.”
❗️The car brand is not named, but during his visit to Russia in September last year, Kim Jong-un paid great attention to the domestic Aurus car. It is quite possible that this was the one that was sent to the Korean leader: if so, he will probably soon appear on camera driving a new toy.
▪️🇺🇦⚡️🇷🇺Naryshkin: representatives of Kiev are going over to the side of Russia. Part of the Kiev “elite” is already ready to “betray in time” and go over to the side of Russia. This follows from the statement of the head of the SVR Sergei Naryshkin.
🇺🇸Therefore, the Americans want to assign an overseer to the representatives of the Kyiv authorities in the form of a Western special representative for Ukraine.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️The most important thing now is not even the capture of Avdiivka or control of Krynki, the most important thing is the strong initiative of our army. It is felt from gut, and not read from the news.

https://theduran.locals.com/post/5292307/from-donbass-today-the-adopted-son-of-the-commander-in-chief-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-alexand

The daddy made big booboo. Unless he’s… naw, General 2oo is general 200.

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The genre of conflict symbolism and aesthetics… I liked the old soviet posters, but then I’m of that heady time…open air bombtests and finks and the kennedy whacks…I miss Nikita at the UN. Anyway>

If one pays attention to the Aussie Cossack, he does mention Alaska. Alaska will also be ours [again, I presume!]  Maybe he’s overheard some supersecretpolicydiscussions at the embassy… 😉  That would not surprise. Referendum happen. Maybe Jefferson too…wars make change.

The fellows of Yemen caught nice fish> American Remus 600 unmanned underwater vehicle one of the most modern underwater reconnaissance units in [once belonging to ] the United States. (telegram from Texas)  Calling the departments of weapon analysis and engineering… I don’t know their traditions, but I doubt the fellows intend to give it back.

Also says> the zios whacked Professor Nasser Abou al-Nour (R.A.), Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at Gaza’s Islamic University, and his family.

The UK imposed sanctions against employees of the colony where Navalny died (DDGeopolitics)

Yes, I agree. Pointing out that this condition is in large measure due their alienation of the traditional “military families” by means of the perverted stuff, and simply poor leadership, and the vast ignorance produced by the atomization of family, strange and disruptive, divisive racial ideologies, and worthless schools. The physical assumptions behind USN have, meantime, become changed…such that very sexy model airplanes and boats are cheap to scale and run…all that ‘spensive steel turned to very pretty scrap meal coffins…while the esteemed suits took no notice and filled their pockets. If they had noticed, they’d have been side-lined, recalling LBJ famously saying don’t spit in the soup, we all gotta eat, Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes, and Vietnam…. Recalling Salamis, the loss of the ability of Persian fleet to supply, support, the army decided the engagement. Xerxes wisely retreated. It seems we witness something similar (well, no retreat, yet). Noting both air and sea zone is subject to contest more or less anywhere because of the electronics and computers and networks. The gentlemen of Yemen impress me especially by their mature and sober deliberately measured use of violence. I assume the fellows are setting an example to others, as it cannot be otherwise.

Submarineboat rocketlaunch> Longtime ago nighttimedrinking beer by riverside campfire a stranger joined us, a kid really, seemed he worked at the rocket factory, solids division. Unskilled labor. He had some fuel-bits he’d stolen, and of course bit by bit we tossed these into the fire. They took a while to get hot enough to react…then they became quite active. Zip! sugar cube size chunk, white hot, fly 20 feet, fast! Somebody might have been hurt. I can well imagine various technical problems in getting a good reliable hot start squib to fire when desired and not fire when not. Like I told my children, don’t play with explosives. Perhaps his royalness ought to chide his children in the uboot department. 😉

Wir lebten auf einer Insel, dann auf einem Berg, und als wir ins Tal zurückkehrten, stellten wir fest, dass wir unserer Zeit entfremdet waren. Und die Armen und Nicht-Armen konsumierten im Rahmen der Regierungspolitik harte Drogen. Das war schockierend. Die Verfremdungswirkung! Alles hatte sich zum Schlechteren verändert. It’s clear from our perspective, whatever the several causes, that the fall speaks for itself. I do wish the navy would pull back, as the emotional and political-emotional effects of a US warship being destroyed with many crew would not be controlled in this hysterical time. And no matter how carefully done, shooting at things is dangerous, even when it’s necessary. Can be metastatic and bring unintended results.

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Speaking of results… 😉 The elder Alex opines very thoughtfully that the magic imaginary Ruskie orbit thingies are touted because the US intends to orbit bombs.

On a technical level the thing is interesting. It raises many thoughts. From orbit how long to target zone? Ground launches give away the launch, bigbig missile bright exhaust, long climb. Deorbit not very much, and I see a way to deorbit with no retroburn give-away.

I note that often when the nazis speak of what they will do, they’ve already done it.

It’s what they have. And it fits their moral character. Ruskie maybe better makie snoop-o-tron satellite inspector machine.

🔸Instead of a victory for Ukraine, there will be a military coup in the United States: an enraged Tucker Carlson made a forecast https://www.kp.ru/daily/27571.5/4894585/
▪️Tucker Carlson: NATO helps Ukraine to launder money

🔸Yemeni army attacks US warships with armed drones
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212206/Yemeni-army-attacks-US-warships-with-armed-drones
▪️Yahya Saree, the spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, said in a statement on Tuesday evening that during a military operation, a number of American warships were targeted in the Red and Arabian seas with several drones.

▪️Modern Israel enjoys “the same encouragement, the same funding, and the same support” of the collective West like Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany before the World War II, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said.
“Powerful family names in the US, Europe, and London supported and celebrated Hitler’s arrival to power in 1933. They encouraged him and allowed him to persecute my Jewish ancestors,” Maduro stated, Russia Today reported.The president made public his Jewish ancestry back in the early 2010s, revealing his grandparents were Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism.
“The criminal military apparatus of the State of Israel also has the same encouragement, the same funding, and the same support” of the West, Maduro stressed. “As President Lula da Silva said, the Israeli government is doing the same thing [to the Palestinians] that Hitler did to the Jewish people.”

▪️Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) chief announced on Wednesday the oil and gas sector’s economic growth in autumn 2023 reached 21.8 percent. Attending the weekly cabinet session, Davoud Manzour said the country’s economic growth in the season stood at 5.1 percent if the oil sector’s growth was included and 2.5 percent if excluded.
Pointing to the figures released by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI), the official said the mining and services sectors witnessed 6.9 and 4.6 percent growth during the three months respectively and the agricultural sector’s growth rose to minus 1 percent from minus 3 percent.

🔸Israel has set the date of Armageddon for March 10, 2024
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1347810
▪️After the ceasefire talks stalled, Israel issued a new ultimatum to Hamas, with senior Israeli military cabinet official Benny Gantz saying that Israel would launch a full-scale offensive on the southern city of Rafah if all remaining hostages were not released by Ramadan. The Muslim holiday begins on March 10 this year, which is just a few weeks away.

▪️Disney blamed viewers for the failures of its latest projects
This was stated on condition of anonymity by one of the high-ranking employees of the studio. Recently, Disney has been experiencing serious difficulties both in the cinema box office and in the streaming business. Nevertheless, representatives of the corporation consider the fault not the product that it produces, but the audience.

🔸Nanai Girls ‘ Grain Fight,
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240221/1053456665.html
▪️What is the evidence of the long-term and constantly growing confrontation on the Polish-Ukrainian border? In addition, of course, Polish farmers are deservedly dissatisfied with Ukrainian agricultural expansion, and the Polish government does not have enough authority to ignore the farmers ‘ demands and suppress their protests by force.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇾🇪✖️🇮🇱Yemen’s Houthis launched a missile attack on the Israeli ship MSC Silver in the Gulf of Aden
📝“ The Yemeni navy carried out an operation against the Israeli ship MSC Silver in the Gulf of Aden using a number of anti-ship missiles , ” Yahya Saria, a spokesman for the movement, wrote on his X page.
▪️Yemen’s Houthis also captured an American unmanned underwater vehicle Remus 600. This device is considered one of the most modern underwater reconnaissance units in the United States.

▪️❗️Russia supplied 200 thousand tons of wheat to six African countries.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in total in 2023, the Russian Federation exported more than 66 million tons of grain: 25 thousand tons were supplied to Mali, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Eritrea, and to Somalia and the Central African Republic – 50 thousand tons each.
▪️🤡 South Korea was outraged that Russia donated a car to Kim Jong-un. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said that sanctions imposed on North Korea prohibit the sale or transfer of any vehicles, including luxury cars. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry reminded Seoul that “the Western sanctions wars are killing the very nature of international law” and depriving people around the world of access to food and medicine.
📝“If Seoul has questions about “compliance with UN sanctions” against the DPRK, then we should not run to the microphones, but contact the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee ,” said Maria Zakharova.

▪️🚀 The test of the British ballistic missile ended in complete failure. According to The Sun, the British Navy conducted a test launch of the Trident II D5 ballistic missile from the nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. The exercise ended with the missile simply splashing into the sea a few meters from the submarine. At that moment, Defense Minister Grant Shapps and the head of the Navy, Admiral Ben Key, were on the submarine.
🤡According to the military’s plan, the missile was supposed to fly 6 thousand kilometers to hit a given target somewhere between Brazil and West Africa. However, the warhead did not fly even six meters. The UK Ministry of Defense modestly called the failure an “anomaly” during the exercise.
📝“The test confirmed the effectiveness of the UK’s nuclear deterrent, in which we have absolute confidence. An anomaly occurred during the test. For national security reasons, we are unable to provide further information on this topic. The UK’s nuclear deterrent remains safe and effective ,” the British department added.
▪️🇷🇺Vladimir Putin visited the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunov.
Now, the plant is preparing for serial production of the strategic missile carrier Tu-160M ​​(a modernized version of the legendary “White Swan” Tu-160). The president boarded the plane and sat at the controls.
▪️🤡Reverse deliveries for the APU. This is definitely peremoga
The United States took all Abrams tanks previously transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Rzeszow in Poland.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️🇺🇸Secretary of State Blinken’s instructions to his staff have leaked to the media, according to which American diplomats are not recommended to use the “problematic” words “mother”, “father”, “husband” and “wife”.
The US Secretary of State suggests replacing these words with: “everyone”, “people”, “you all”, “parent”, “child”, “spouse”, “partner”.
The State Department does not recommend determining a person’s gender identity simply on the basis of appearance or name, because gender can change regularly (c) Maria Zakharova
The main thing is not to stop. In the meantime, we will increase the fence by another five meters.
▪️🇺🇦Vladimir Zelensky said that to resolve the conflict with Polish farmers, on February 24 he, the Minister of Defense and the entire government of Ukraine will arrive at the border with Poland.
A good chance for the Russian Aerospace Forces to solve a number of pressing issues at once🚀🐖💥🐽
▪️A dog is a dog’s death, – Dmitry Medvedev about the traitor pilot and killer of his crew Kuzminov.

The dead doggie story reminds of Rumpole and The Penge Bungalow Murder, a short novel iirc. Seems that the Ruskie pup did the same thing, shot dead his mates onboard the helio, as they would not cooperate. In novel the fellas he did not shoot, shot him at Penge. In the matter of Russian traitor – or an English one, who cares who shot him? He was a dead boy the instant he dropped the hammer. There’s a nice wiki on Penge.

Arrival of of junta 404 at border on a schedule…like what time?   😉  Inquiring minds an’ all that stuff. Minds me of Dallas…

🔸The possibility of nuclear war, correctional camps and politicians who will “die”: what Dmitry Medvedev said in a long interview https://www.kp.ru/daily/27571.5/4894678/
▪️Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev gave a long interview to Russian media. Journalists from Komsomolskaya Pravda, RIA Novosti, TASS, Radio Mayak and Lenta.ru took part in the conversation. We are publishing the first part of this conversation.

🔸Russian security zone and American missiles,
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240222/1053463092.html
▪️As soon as Putin recalled in his next speech that one of the guarantees that Russia needs is a demilitarized security zone from outside of which Russian territory cannot be fired at by rocket and artillery systems in service with neighboring states, the Americans immediately reacted.
They said that they are seriously considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with a version of ATACMS missiles with a range of 500-550 kilometers.

🔸Benjamin Netanyahu on borrowed time,
by Thierry Meyssan
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220460.html
▪️Benjamin Netanyahu’s provocations have provoked reactions that the massacre of 29,000 Gazan civilians did not. All the protagonists in the wider Middle East and the West, who are constantly at odds with each other, have suddenly joined forces against him. While everyone sees Gaza’s future differently, all agree that Israel can no longer continue with Jewish supremacists in its government. We’re heading for a temporary relocation of Gazans under Egyptian protection, followed by a purge in Israel.

🔸A Genocide-Complicit Global Hegemon?!
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/a-genocide-complicit-global-hegemon?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
▪️“Israel”—an 8,500 square mile insane asylum, populated by the sorriest collection of pathologically-lying uber-racist child-murder-loving lunatics ever to disgrace the human species—continues its ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The World Court provisionally agrees with South Africa that the Zionists are committing genocide. Almost every nation on Earth condemns that genocide and supports an immediate ceasefire. There is only one significant exception: The USA, that self-styled global hegemon.

🔸Putin blasted Biden for his rudeness
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/22/1254832.html
▪️Vladimir Putin in Kazan commented on Biden’s incorrect statement in his address. The head of state believes that the American president reacted in such a way to his words that Biden is the preferred next US president for Moscow.

▪️Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov called on Western countries to give Kiev all weapons and equipment.
According to him, the equipment will no longer be needed in Europe for the next conflict. As an example, Danilov cited Denmark, which handed over to Kiev “all the artillery, because it realized” that the conflicts “will be completely different, that all this will become scrap metal, which will be absolutely unnecessary,” reports TASS.
According to Danilov, “Ukraine better understands how to use these things” 🤔

LONDON DID NOT EXPECT SUCH TURN: REVENGE FOR BABIES OF BELGOROD HAPPENS BEFORE OUR EYES
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/london-ne-ozhidal-takogo-povorota-mest-za-mladencev-belgoroda-svershaetsja-na-glazah_963782
▪️While the West was waging a proxy war against Russia, a proxy conflict grew up right next to it, which affects the most painful thing – the economy.
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And now the West finds itself in the place of Russia, when a proxy conflict in the Red Sea is launched against it. We are talking about the Houthis, who are a nightmare for all Israeli and Western ships sailing through the Gulf of Aden – both military and civilian. Moreover, the priority is given to American and British vessels. Only recently were the Houthis able to sink the British bulk carrier Rubymar.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️The Bundestag approved the supply of long-range cruise missiles to the Ukrainian, but one must understand that this approval in itself is a political declaration that does not bind the government or Scholz personally to anything. Moreover, the name “Taurus” (the only German missile of this type today) does not even appear in the text of the approved document. Scholz, on the issue of supplying Taras to Taras, still cannot decide whether he wants to get involved in this, given that all the way the Germans tried to be number two in supporting Ukraine, and now, with the withdrawal of the United States, they will have to be first. Especially in such a sensitive issue as missiles, which can be used to strike Russian territory outside the combat zone.

But let’s assume that the Ukrainians are given missiles. What will fundamentally change? Compared to the Storm Shadow, the German missile is not much different, however, according to available information, it has slightly better capabilities for hitting protected/buried targets. From an air defense point of view, the threat remains unchanged – a low-altitude, stealthy subsonic missile flying around the terrain is a rather complex target, especially if it is used in conjunction with decoys (simulators).

Will this change the outcome of the war? No. But there will be more questions for Germany.

Alas, my reading eye skips, generally, names. I do expect I’ll remember the material or voice, style, genre, interests, and so forth.

Very fine collection above. Kudos Comrade!

The fellow on RT new just now, the yank, whose name! alas! opined that the 2024 US turf will be especially stimulating, as the southern border dopegangsfinks will “find” arms from 404, and use ’em. I do believe the handy phrase “civil war” was uttered. Oh my! Did those guns ever even go to 404?

The pace quickens. Well, that’s what happens in time such as we witness. Expected.

Analysis, such as we may perceive by media of the implied policy developments zone Rus – the spirit and zeit – Rus is no longer naive. I might repeat that and add that La Russie est désormais engagée et compte bien vaincre les criminels, les pirates et les bandits qui menacent la paix.

I note> HMS Prince of Wales’s unfortunate breakdown in August 2022 requiring extended repair work has not enhanced the RN’s image and provided perfect fodder for mainstream media always keen to exaggerate problems with aircraft carriers. . . Very shortly after sailing from Portsmouth on 27th August a coupling that joins sections of the starboard propeller shaft failed, causing significant damage to the shaft, propeller and some superficial damage to the rudder. The ship was subsequently dry docked in Rosyth inspection and repair. It has emerged the coupling break was the result of vibration caused because the shaft was out of alignment, something that was known about long before the carrier first left the shipyard in 2019. 

And remark> Rotating machine failures are almost always due to misalignment. Yeah, like you can say death is 100% due to heart failure, but seriously, Larry Johnson’s post (Ejectile Dysfunction) https://sonar21.com/the-u-k-s-ejectile-dysfunction-failure-to-launch/  is missing the “detail” that shaft alignment in ships is as basic as making coffee. And it’s complex, a job that must be done by experienced experts, and it can be sweaty and nasty difficult physically, and since it’s often done with computerized laser-gadgets, most “experts” can’t really do a proper shaft alignment with the tools of the 1940’s, dial indicators, pencil and paper, and so on. Bear in mind that steel is pretty flexible, so the “foundations” for ship machinery, bearings, gearboxes, engines, move as the sea and the loading and the power and temperature and so on change, and if there’s a grounding ! Ah… That’s especially bad. Things bend. ( BTW in Cruel Sea (film), Chief ERA Watts reports to skipper “Its the after coupling sir, an awkward place…” And the fellas hammer away with slugging wrenches for hours as the ship rolls helpless in sea of U-Boot.) The aircraft carrier  story sounds to me like the after coupling came apart and the right side prop banged into the rudder… lucky it didn’t fall off and sink the ship through the hole. It’s incredible. The sounds underway down in the heart of the ship when the coupling failed must have been terrible. Proper machinery sounds sweet.

I agree. If, perchance, I get the trip to Abe’s he’s on the interview list. I’m of opinion, based on stories from mother and granny, mostly, that for the boy, well, his family were deadly serious abolitionists…that was the only issue for him, as he’d been smuggling escapees for most all his then short life. Things are very clear at 15, sometimes. I only knew one of his sons, and not for very long. (I did climb trees with his black-powder rifle, and broke it…)  My own opinion is that the secession was lawful, but from the perspective of Lincoln foreign and domestic political and economic vectors combined with his executive responsibility things were not so simple…as we suspect from the plot conspiracy to dispose of him. The contradictions, which remain, in corpus US remind me of Kennan’s letter…speaking of the fellas of the South!

I will read the mooted papers. Many thanks. Best! P

Maybe there’s a misapprehension. I see no disagreement. Yours is in fine detail. It is about what I would like to discuss with GGDad. imho, fwiw, I agree with your view. Used. (Well, the devil works with what’s there, eh?, GGD lacked doubt. I did not. ) But you are the far better student and informed. Nevertheless, at 15, we succumb to ardent emotion, learned views and actions, and inherited spiritual dedication. Speaking of Carolina, ah, those old fellows of mine included brothers from Scotland and a profitable, prosperous, plantation, and a Quaker Decision, and manumission of the crew, if mother was truthful (she never lied). They were financially ruined, and moved west. I have worked alongside a descendant, recognizing the family name. The story he told me, fella I worked with at the army, is about the same. The dates are in Quaker histories, long prior to the civil war.

Moving forward in Time… Ludlow Massacre an’  the rest. Machine guns on strikers, families in the snow…very democratic.

General Lee kept his oath. The removal is perfidious. And ominous.

First colonize this, then that, then some more, and begin eating the children, so to say. Pretty soon people get upset. Well, those make contradictions, and lead to violence. God made the universe that way, imho. 😉 , speaking of Palestine and Yemen and RoW.

🔸Spydell: Insane more than $1 trillion capitalization in a day
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1348422
▪️Insanity has no statute of limitations and every time everything develops according to the same scenario. Nvidia added 277 billion for the day – the most significant one-day increase in capitalization for a single company in the entire history of global trading (the last record was Meta at the auction on February 2, 2022-197 billion) with more than 66 billion in trading turnover (a record).
The grandiose, stunning, monumental, unthinkable, and enchanting idiocy that was framed in the speculative AI rally does not even have historical analogues but about everything in order.

▪️In the world’s Internet, one of the most hilarious scandals of the week, alas. Friend’s, as you know, Google’s Gemini neural network, which creates amazing images at the request of citizens. The citizens of the planet were quickly convinced, Gemini practically does not believe in the existence of whites in general — and especially white men. That is, she gives out indian old ladies in tiaras to the request “draw me the pope of Rome”, gives out a huge selection of blacks in crowns to the request “draw the king of England”, and rejects the request “draw a white family” altogether, because of racism, and the family should be inclusive.
This news is striking because Google, as you can easily understand, tested its model for a long time at home, with hundreds of its best minds, before dumping it on the world market and ridiculously embarrassing itself.

▪️According to media reports, the occupation regime of Netanyahu published its “settlement plan” in the Gaza Strip after the end of the genocidal punitive operation “Iron Swords”. The translation into Russian was published by Netanyahu’s adviser Dmitry Gendelman. The Prime Minister’s plan” for the post-war structure ” boils down to one thing-occupation. But the occupation is even more brutal than before October 7.

▪️China has told the International Court of Justice that the Palestinians have the right to use “armed force” against Israel. Beijing said at the historic hearing that armed struggle against occupation is a “legitimate” and “justified” right.
China has supported the right of the Palestinian people to use armed force to fight the Israeli occupation of their land, calling it an ” inalienable right justified by international law.”
The comments were made on Thursday by Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun during the fourth day of public hearings held by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague.

🔸Patrick Lawrence: Guilt and Responsibility
The Case of Germany and Israel
https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/21/patrick-lawrence-guilt-and-responsibility/
▪️…The Federal Republic’s support of “the Jewish state” has long been unequivocal, ranking it with Washington’s “unconditional support,” the phrase Hillary Clinton favored during her years as secretary of state. This goes back to Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first chancellor, who authorized war reparations and greatly needed economic aid four years after Israel’s founding in 1948. Germany has never looked back. Rudolf Dreßler, a long-serving member of the Bundestag, described Germany’s dedication to the Israeli cause as a Staatsräson, a reason of state, a fundamental obligation, while serving as Berlin’s ambassador to Tel Aviv from 2000 to 2005. It does not get any further beyond negotiable.

🔸Ever since the freezing of Russian assets, the West has been dreaming of confiscating them. However, how can the scam of the century with Russian gold turn out for the West? This is a political gesture that is unlikely to bring the “author” anything good.
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/zapad-uzhe-otbil-russkoe-zoloto-afera-veka-upjorlas-v-nehoroshij-zhest_964482
▪️Russia’s illegally frozen assets haunt Western politicians. In fact, from the very beginning of the special operation, they are desperately looking for a legally neutral solution that will allow them to appropriate funds and not scare off potential investors in the future.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🤯The IMF was surprised at the growth rate of the Russian economy under Western sanctions. International Monetary Fund representative Julie Kozak, in an interview with a TASS journalist, said that production volumes are growing in the Russian Federation. According to her, the Russian economy surprised with its high growth rates despite the sanctions.
📝“The Russian economy has truly surprised us with the strength of its growth. It is obvious that Russia now has a war economy. This is due to the fact that there is a large amount of military spending in the economy, which contributes to the growth of production ,” Kozak said.
At the same briefing, Kozak noted that Ukraine will need about $32 billion in official donor support this year. Without Western money, the country will lose “fiscal stability”; in other words, it will be forced to print money, rapidly driving the remnants of the economy into the grave.

▪️❗️👔 Biden confirmed that the United States is introducing more than 500 sanctions against the Russian Federation – White House
Sanctions are being introduced against individuals associated with the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, as well as against the Russian financial sector.
✖️ Biden also said that the United States, as part of new measures against the Russian Federation, will take actions to “reduce” its income from energy resources.

▪️The European Central Bank ended the year with a loss for the first time in 20 years. Sanctions are working.

▪️🇺🇸Google’s neural network “Gemini” came under fire for generating black slave traders and black Nazis. Users began publishing the results of the “multicultural” and “racially unbiased” neural network, indicating that the IT giant was erasing the history of racial and gender discrimination.
❗️This forced Google to apologize for introducing a racial agenda into its AI algorithms.
Elon Musk also noted the incident: “I’m glad Google overplayed its hand with AI image generation because it made their crazy racist, anti-civilization agenda clear to everyone.”

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️🇺🇸The United States is introducing more than 500 sanctions against the Russian Federation, as well as export restrictions against 100 companies for supporting Russia (c) Joe Biden, White House
Give yourself Haloperidol, at least it will be beneficial.

▪️Judging by the news, Nikol Pashinyan caught the star and grew a huge cockscomb.
🇦🇲Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan announced the freezing of the country’s participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Pashinyan also said that the issue of preserving the Russian military base in Armenia is not on the agenda (c)
🇦🇲Russian border guards will be withdrawn from Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan (c)
🇦🇲Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said in Munich that Yerevan is not Moscow’s ally on the issue of Ukraine (c)
🇦🇲The Ministers of Defense of Armenia and the French Armed Forces signed new cooperation agreements in Yerevan. The head of the French Ministry of Defense in Yerevan said that a “permanent” military adviser would appear in Armenia to “orient” ongoing programs and reforms (c)
Of all the worst options in choosing allies, Pashinyan settled on the most unpromising – the French. Which in Europe, in principle, are no longer considered people, who have lost their positions in Africa, who are openly deprived of large military contracts (see submarines for Australia).
Armenia does not have long left in such situations. Azerbaijan has already announced shelling of its positions by the Armenian military.
P.S. I will never understand how the Armenians, seeing what is happening in Artsakh, having the example of Ukraine at hand, chose this shitty Pashinyan as prime minister for the second time. As a result, Karabakh was completely lost, practically without a fight, simply surrendered. Next up is the Zangezur corridor. What’s next?

▪️⚡️The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated back beyond the “Surovikin Line” on the Rabotinsky salient, laments Russophobe and Nazi Julian Repke from Bild.
What happened, Repke?😁

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️Pashinyan, declaring his intention to leave the CSTO, shows that he belongs to that widespread category of politicians today who lack the ability to perceive cause-and-effect relationships.
Unfortunately, in Armenia this concerns many representatives of the political elite – either conscious enemies of Armenia, or simply very poorly thinking people who are unable to assess the consequences, can consistently break this country away from Russia. Among these people there are also widespread illusions that correct pro-Western rhetoric can provide better protection than an alliance with Russia. But this union is also perceived very one-sidedly – Russia should be in it, but Armenia only takes it for granted.
No, among the Armenians there are wonderful thinking people, sincere patriots of both their country and our common Motherland, the core of which was, is and will be Russia. But in order for these people to start listening, apparently, a cup of suffering is needed, and Pashinyan is organizing this with his actions.

About the urgency of Slavery as a crime..metaphorical tale>  Longtimeago a “not-white” couple of boys were fishing while their loving father worked on a boat engine, deep inside a steel 45 footer. Making a few extra bucks. Heavy current. End of dock. One kid dropped his pole. Dad! What should I do! Splash, Get it! Help, splash, and all the rest. Presented with such a scene one may in an instant consider the matter, but the choice to rescue is impossible to resist. The boy was chosen to be saved. It was judged not possible to save the father. That’s a story I’d pose to GGDad. Now then, was that a good choice? Will the now grown boy hate the white guy that failed to save his dad? Hate himself for dropping the pole? What about the other boy? How will their stories evolve? And the fellow doing the rescue, how about the terrible guilt from choosing? Would it have been better to let the two or three all drown?

After CW GGD went to medical school, a real one, such as they were. I imagine he had some practical surgery under instruction, sorts of experience in the war. He and GD brought the first microscope west of Mississippi river – I used to play with it, bronze, made in France.

Roberts’ essay on the Northern War of Aggression is, I think, pretty straight.

John Brown was, in Granny’s house, a hero. Well, yes, I agree, bearing in mind the actual definition. These days we see a multitude of heroic deeds.

CW as an inevitable product of original contradiction? Yes I agree, and of course the contradictions were perpetuated – my hunch is that the assassination was important to perpetuate said contradictions…the great industrial fortunes deriving from sutler graft, DuPont, and such leading, in measure, to such adventures as the Businessman’s Plot, and Dulles pair, Brown Brothers…and to the collapse we witness.

I would ask GGD also, how much of your war was merely the natural adventuring of a boy, and how much was it theological or philosophical, and how were things at home when you joined up? What, if anything, did mom and dad say?

Apropos of the time, interesting diary>……….and iirc, he mentions hear-tell of a recovery from tetanus by means of massive cannabis extract and good nursing… said recovery taking place in India… But of course very exciting in view of the ordinary course of that infection. I ought to re-read it.

I note that their lordships now define belief in natural rights, people who see that rights come from God, as “Christian Nationalists” . The State now is the sole source of rights, they say. And they say that these people who believe that their rights come from God are not Christian. Astonishing. And in the South how does that play? 😉 Actually it don’t play @ Anoxia either. Speaking of Georgia (!/?) Cynthia McKinney on X is a fun gal to read.

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Ah! The Lady no longer adds to her X files. Still, a sprightly gal I like, and her old stuff is nice, what’s left on X under her name. Kaspersky rejects her actual website, btw.

Brother Comrade Medvedev, the man of many faces…with our commie friends>

Komsomolskaya Pravda Elena Revyakina When you were president and prime minister both in Russia and in the West you
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were considered Well, if you look at the top of the Russian government, you were considered very liberal democratic politicians in
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recent years, your political image has changed a lot and you are called the main hater on behalf of the Russian…

Such question interest old man @ Anoxia as well.

Recalling the Ritter, who pointed out that it was not the dead traitor shanked or whacked in the joint, but the CP that was/is the “opposition” in zone Rus.

And the good, Phaedrus, do we need anyone to tell us what is good?