Daily Chronicles … OT March 18

The Russian elections concluded. What a referendum! It was not merely a tidal wave for President Putin’s reelection, signifying internal cohesion and support of his team’s policies, but to resounding global satisfaction of the major Global South countries. Externally, this victory heralds continued global stabilization and reorientation to a fairer multipolar future led by Russia and the other civilizational-states.

Pl use as Open Thread.

March 21

💠 @International Reporters:
🇷🇺🇫🇷 The Russians being nice, they prepared for the French soldiers who will be sent to Ukraine a memo with the Volga radio frequency to contact to surrender and how to pronounce the ad-hoc phrases in Russian.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
Main world events by the morning of March 21:
🔸South African President Cyril Ramaphosa congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on re-election;
🔸A total of ten Vampire MLRS shells were destroyed over the Belgorod region, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
🔸The US Justice Department is discussing with lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the possibility of lessening charges in exchange for a “guilty plea,” US media reported;
🔸US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan secretly visited Kiev to reassure Ukrainian authorities of US support and said he could not predict when new aid would be forthcoming;
🔸Ukraine has received a $1.5 billion aid package from Canada. The government will use the money to offset its budget deficit;
🔸Spanish authorities may provide Ukraine with a new batch of military aid – up to 20 Leopard 2A4 tanks, the local newspaper reported;
🔸A Georgian prisoner said that mercenaries from the UK, Japan, Israel, as well as Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting in the Georgian legion on the side of Kiev;
🔸The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with the first female cosmonaut from Belarus was launched to the International Space Station. She is accompanied by Russian Oleg Novitsky and American Tracy Dyson;
🔸The first patient with a Neuralink implant in his brain can now “play video games with the power of thought.” Nolan, 29, was paralyzed in an accident eight years ago and has not felt anything below his shoulders since.

Ah! The wonders of Photoshopping. Help from friend “Green-Screen” Comedian in cokey Kiev?

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇫🇷 Macron is trying to appear courageous amid accusations that his wife’s name is Jean-Michel.

⭕ 🇷🇺🇫🇷 The Russian Armed Forces will destroy all French soldiers who appear on Ukrainian soil – State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy to the French channel BFM TV
“ The idea of sending French soldiers to Ukraine will end with coffins covered with the French flag arriving at Orly airport. And it won’t be Macron who comes for them. The French must understand the consequences, that’s all,” the deputy said in an interview with French TV. |video|

⭕ 🇷🇺🇫🇷 Call “Volga” [149.200]
🔸️Now also in French!
🔸️REMEMBER THESE PHRASES, REMEMBER THE NUMBER
🔸️French soldiers in Ukraine can get in touch to surrender

Double Helix BRICS DUO align with Yemen
⭕ @Intel Slava Z: 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇾🇪❗️The Russian Federation and China reached an agreement with the Houthis in Yemen that their ships can sail through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea without fear of attacks – media
⭕ @Pepe Escobar:  THE HOUTHI-CHINA-RUSSIA TRIAD
🔸️This is immense.
🔸️Deal reached in Oman.
🔸️Not only the Houthis are defeating thalassocracy: they have the Russia-China strategic partnership ON THEIR SIDE.
🔸️The Houthis assured Beijing and Moscow their ships can sail through the Bab-al-Mandeb, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with no problems.
🔸️In exchange, Russia and China offer total political support.
🔸️The road is paved for YEMEN to be considered as a serious candidate in the next BRICS+ expansion at the October summit in Kazan. 

March 20

💠@Dmitry Medvedev:

“In fact, for the good of the matter, it would be nice if the restless French sent a couple of regiments to Banderland. It is very problematic to hide such a number of military personnel, and, therefore, the issue of their systematic destruction will not be the most difficult, but extremely important task.

But what a benefit it would be!
With so many coffins that will be delivered to France from a foreign, distant country, it is impossible to hide the mass death of professional military personnel. Moreover, here you can no longer ignore the references to the fact that, supposedly, mercenaries themselves choose their fate and dispose of the right to life. These unfortunates will become full-fledged combatants as part of the intervention contingent. Their destruction will be the priority and glorious task of our Armed Forces.

But for the roosters from the French leadership, this will be tantamount to the guillotine. They will be cut into pieces by angry relatives and evil representatives of the opposition, who were told that France is not at war with Russia. And for other restless idiots in Europe there will be a good lesson.

And again the immortal lines of Pushkin will become relevant:

So send it to us, Vitii,
His embittered sons:
There is a place for them in the fields of Russia,
Among the coffins alien to them.”

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Main world events by the morning of March 20:
🔸️Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with the leaders of the country’s State Duma factions and has discussed plans for the development of the country, announced in a message to the Federal Assembly;
🔸️Five Ukrainian UAVs have been destroyed over Russia’s Belgorod and Saratov regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reports;
🔸️Canada will provide military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $29.5 million, the country’s defense minister says;
🔸️US President Joe Biden has confused Finland and Norway when talking about new NATO members;
🔸️China has launched the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, which will contribute to lunar exploration;
🔸️The US Air Force has successfully tested a hypersonic missile; [so they say]
🔸️Russia will transfer 25,000 tonnes of wheat and 23,000 tonnes of fertilizer to Zimbabwe on March 20;
🔸️International Olympic Committee has banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris;
🔸️More than 200 rescuers are working at the site of a mine collapse in the Russian Amur region, where 13 miners are trapped under the rubble;
🔸️Seven tonnes of cocaine disguised as scrap metal worth $451 million have been seized in Bolivia.

⭕ Israel’s War in Gaza Undermines Top UN Court, Says South Africa
🔸️South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor lashed out at Israel, accusing it of setting a dangerous precedent by defying the UN’s top court.

“The provisional measures have been entirely ignored by Israel,” Pandor said. “We’re seeing mass starvation now and famine before our very eyes.”

🔸️She added, “I think we, as humanity, need to look at ourselves in horror and dismay and to be really worried that we have set an example.”
🔸️Pandor noted that Israel’s continued attacks and blockade of Gaza could lead other nations to believe that “there is license – I can do what I want and I will not be stopped”.
🔸️South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide arising from its killing of more than 31,000 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, according to local authorities, in response to an October 7 Hamas attack.

💠 @Africa Intel: The announcement by the Niger military junta that the United States will withdraw its troops from the country has generated considerable confusion in Washington.
🔸️1,000 US troops are in Niger, 700 of them at the Agadez air base in the center of the country.
There, the US army usually has two electromagnetic intelligence aircraft, two maneuver helicopters and a dozen MQ 9 Reaper drones that allow them to have a view of the entire Sahel and, in particular, of Libya, which is the access route to the Mediterranean.
🔸️For this reason, the US is looking for a plan B, possibly with France to create Franco-American bases in West Africa.
🔸️The most logical destination is Chad due to its proximity and because the French army still has a presence there. Other options could be Mauritania, Morocco or northern Benin.
[The latter three are also “safe areas” of the Anglo-Zionist gardeners, not dystopian playgrounds like the rest of Africa. All three similarly have easy access to the Atlantic, forming a beachhead through which to assault the interior “jungle.” Methinks these shenanigans are coming to a head. All such Piratical aircraft carriers will be given a demarche — reform and stop serving the global enemy or else]

🔗 https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20240318-niger-pourquoi-la-base-militaire-am%C3%A9ricaine-d-agadez-est-strat%C3%A9gique-pour-les-% C3%A9tats-unis

March 19

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ France is preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, at the first stage it will amount to about 2,000 servicemen, Russian foreign intelligence service director says
🔸At the same time, the French army is “noticeably concerned” about the increased number of Frenchmen killed in Ukraine, Sergey Naryshkin noted.
🔸Paris has not seen such military losses as now in Ukraine since the war in Algeria (1954-1962), he underlined.

The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel

💠 @ Dmitry_Medvedev:

The rhetoric of Western idiots is striking in its inconsistency. No matter the performance, no matter the day, it’s a gem. You won’t understand whether it’s childish immaturity, mature stupidity, or extreme impudence.

[childish immaturity:] Here the main paddling pool is frightening with the landing of the French in Crimea (that is, in Russia), but he vows to immediately answer Vladimir Putin if he calls. What a consistent and courageous man!

[mature stupidity:] The sausage makers went further: we will no longer, they say, consider V. Putin as President, but we will negotiate with him. The question then is, who is he to them if he doesn’t have the necessary legitimacy? And what is the price for such negotiations?

And all this is due to shameful weakness. We cannot influence the elections, we do not recognize the results, but in order to somehow spoil things, we must make a stupid statement.

[extreme impudence:] The officials of Pindostan [USA] are even more impudent. They are openly and without hesitation waging a hybrid war against us. They use everything in it: huge supplies of weapons to the enemy, sending their own military specialists, and the work of intelligence forces. And then they say out of the blue: we want the resumption of the strategic dialogue on armaments. No really. This is the same as negotiating with Hitler about lowering the threshold of offensive weapons during the Great Patriotic War.

And so in everything! Endless fidgeting with your butt on the chair, cosmic lies, strained snot and theatrical tears for the sake of imitation of good intentions. But in reality – lies and manipulations to maintain one’s own power.

Indeed, freaks.

💠 @sputnik_africa:  Main world events by the morning of March 19:
🔸The reality is that Putin is the president of Russia, the White House has recognized. The United States will act on this basis, Washington adds;
🔸Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warmly congratulated Putin on his convincing election victory and declared Turkey’s readiness to play any supporting role in returning to the negotiating table on Ukraine;
🔸The South Korean defense minister questions Kiev’s version of the “Bucha massacre;”
🔸Russia’s air defense systems have destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the territory of Russia’s Belgorod region overnight; another was intercepted over the country’s Voronezh region;
🔸The US Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper drone made an emergency landing in northwestern Poland;
🔸North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has personally supervised the practice firing of the super-large MLRS 600-millimeter caliber in the DPRK;
🔸Israel has attacked a number of military positions in Syria’s province of Damascus; Syrian air defense systems shot down several missiles, the country’s defense ministry reported;
🔸The majority of EU foreign ministers support the use of revenues from Russian assets for Ukraine, but there is still no unanimous final decision, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said;
🔸The administration of US President Joe Biden is doing nothing to prevent crimes committed by illegal migrants in the country, American businessman Elon Musk has said;
🔸France joined the Polish position and demanded restrictions on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine;
🔸Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries, Rosrybolovstvo, plans to review agreements with unfriendly countries;
🔸The International Olympic Committee will discuss the implementation of the principles of participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

March 18

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
❗️Putin wins with a record result for the entire history of presidential elections in Russia, 87.29%: Central Election Commission after processing almost 100% of the protocols

⭕ ❗️Putin has won the elections with a historic result, candidate Slutsky tells Sputnik

⭕ ❗️This is a record result in the history of modern Russia.
🔸In 2018, Putin won 76.69% in the elections, in 2012 – 63.6%, Dmitry Medvedev won in 2008 with a result of 70.28%.
🔸In 2004 and 2000, Putin won with results of 71.31% and 52.9%, respectively.

⭕ 📹 Vladimir Putin visits his electoral headquarters in Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor – FULL VIDEO
🔸”People came to create conditions for the development and strengthening of the Motherland”
Putin spoke about the reasons for the high turnout at the elections.
🔸❗️ Initiative in the special operation zone belongs entirely to the Russian Armed Forces, progress is being made every day, Putin says
🔸🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Coincidence of interests between Russia and China is a stabilizing factor on the world stage, Putin says
Moscow will only [continue to] develop relations with Beijing in the coming years, he emphasized.
🔸❗️ Putin: I have every reason to believe that we are not seeing any democracy in the US electoral processes today
🔸️💸 Ten dollars: Putin reveals how much it costs to buy a mail-in ballot vote in the US
🔸🇨🇳 Taiwan is a part of China, Putin said.
🔸️❗️ Putin suggested that Russia might have to establish a sanitary zone in areas controlled by the Kiev regime.
The depth of this zone would be so strategically significant that it would present a challenge to overcome, particularly with foreign-manufactured equipment.
🔸️Putin called the political situation in the US “a catastrophe, not a democracy” |video|

⭕ ❗️ Nicaragua’s president congratulates Putin on his victory, saying the results of the Russian vote are a contribution to world stability

⭕ Putin has won. What to expect from his next six-year term?
🔸Vladimir Putin’s victory will ensure Russia’s economic rise and military-technical development in the forthcoming six years, Sputnik’s interlocutors say.
🔸📈 Economy: “Russia has not only emerged as the largest economy in Europe today but is a visibly vital part of the more economically relevant and fast-strengthening group of nations that now comprise BRICS, ASEAN, AfCFTA, Mercosur, and SCO,” Paul Goncharoff, a businessman and owner of the consulting company Goncharoff LLC, tells Sputnik, adding that Russia will continue to be a global “de-dollarization flagship” under Putin.
🔸🪖 Military: Russia will build on its current successes in the “technological race” with the West, according to Alexey Leonkov, a Russian military analyst. “The victory of President Putin is a determining factor given that under him [Russia] has built a [technological] chain that starts with research and development work and ends with the delivery of modern weapons and military equipment to the Russian Armed Forces,” he tells Sputnik.
🔸🌏 Foreign Policy: Russia will continue to pursue its goals without compromising its interests, according to HSE University professor Dmitry Evstafiev. “Russia is taking on the role of a leader in creating a space of geo-economic security in the event of the collapse of the US-centric global economy,” he explained. “The US-centric economy may soon enter a very deep crisis, which has already begun to take shape. Therefore, Russia will create such a security space in order, first of all, to protect itself.”

⭕ ♥️Main world events by the morning of March 18:
🔹️Vladimir Putin is leading in the Russian presidential elections with 87.31% of the votes after processing 99.71% of the protocols, according to the Central Election Commission data;
🔹️Putin thanked all the citizens of Russia who had voted in the elections and outlined the tasks for the new term, as he spoke at his campaign headquarters;
🔹️Putin did not rule out that Russia might be forced at some point to create a “sanitary zone” in Ukraine due to attacks on border regions;
🔹️Leaders of countries friendly to Russia began to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his election victory, including the leaders of the DPRK, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia: Kim Jong Un, Nicolas Maduro, Daniel Ortega, and Luis Arce, as well as the government of Cuba;
🔹️Today marks 10 years since Crimea reunited with Russia. On March 18, 2014, a treaty was signed in Moscow between Russia and the Republic of Crimea on the peninsula’s accession to the Russian Federation and the formation of new Russian federal subjects;
🔹️The DPRK launched three missiles, all flew 350 km at an altitude of 50 km, and fell into the sea near the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula;
🔹️Since March 12, 11 people had been killed and 82 injured due to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Belgorod region, the local Ministry of Health reported.

⭕ After Putin has been re-elected Russian president, the priority of national foreign policy in the next six years will the country’s very intense activity in the post-Soviet space and Eurasia, Dmitry Evstafiev, political scientist and HSE University professor, tells Sputnik.
He adds that other priorities may include:
🔸️Dialog with the West, above all with the United States, not on Ukraine, but on a wide range of security issues related to Europe and beyond. Prof. Evstafiev, however, notes that “The West sees as a problem that Russia is not the one they want. As soon as the West realizes that it’s not about Russia, but about the inadequacy of their perception of the modern world, there will be grounds for talking with the West seriously.”
🔸️Dialog with the Global South to continue a relevant foreign policy line that was defined earlier;
🔸️Creating a new space of geo-economic security in case of the collapse of the American-centered global economy based on the US dollar. It might include new payment systems or conducting non-dollar mutual settlements with Russia’s leading role in it.
“Putin is not the kind of person who makes sharp U-turns. He makes gradual decisive changes. Everyone understands the scale of his changes three years after they were committed,” Evstafiev concludes.

⭕ ❗️The turnout in the presidential election broke a record in the history of contemporary Russia: more than 87.1 million Russians, or 77.44% of voters, came to the polling stations, according to the head of the Central Election Commission

⭕ ❗️The polls were marked by a number of DDoS attacks 150 times higher than usual, according to the head of the Electoral Commission
🔸️Since the start of vote, more than 420,000 attacks on remote electronic voting resources have been blocked.
🔸️“The West was united as never before,” Ella Pamfilova noted regarding the attacks.

⭕ Fact check: Addressing Western claims about Russian presidential election. Western media outlets and politicians rushed to dispute the integrity of the 2024 Russian presidential election within moments of Putin’s landslide victory. Let’s review the facts of how the election actually proceeded:
🔻 Sputnik spoke with dozens of international observers who monitored voting at poll stations across Russia, none of whom reported seeing any violations. In total, more than one thousand international observers from 129 countries, including Western ones, took part in this year’s election.
🔻 Video cameras were installed at every polling stations, allowing independent observers to monitor the vote counting process in real time and flag any potential violations.
🔻 The election results were consistent with pre-election polling, including from opposition-leaning sociological institutes.
🔻 Russian were provided with a wide range of options for casting their vote – either from the privacy of their home online or at a polling station with paper ballots and sealed boxes.

Putin’s 87% of the vote is admittedly unheard of in the West. For comparison, US President Joe Biden has a 37% approval rating, French President Emmanuel Macron’s rating is at 33%, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stands at 21%, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a mere 17% approval rating. However, these abysmal numbers do not mean that Western “democracy” is somehow freer and fairer than Russia’s. On the contrary, they suggest that that the Russian government has a greater popular mandate to govern than its Western counterparts do.

⭕ ❗️No complaints or security incidents recorded at Russian polling stations by the SCO observer mission, head of mission says

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⭕ 📹 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu inspected the work of the Black Sea Fleet command post
🔸The minister set the task of conducting constant training with personnel both during the day and at night to repel enemy terrorist attacks.
🔸He stressed the need to increase the survivability of ships and vessels and the security of infrastructure facilities in the fleet’s area of responsibility. |video|

⭕ 📹 🇧🇯 🇫🇷 Beninese Pan-Africanist writer and activist Kémi Séba burns his French passport in front of an audience in Paris
🔸”Your passport is not a bone that you give us or take away according to how submissive we are to you, as if black people were dogs,” he said, addressing the Macron government.
🔸 “I am a free black man. I am a free African. I am a free Beninese,” Mr. Séba hammered. |video|

⭕ Russian forces hit a Ukrainian tank repair shop in Nikolayev, which worked with foreign military equipment (including German-made Leopards)
The Rebbe, muse of Netanyahoo and many US Presidents, was born here. He, perhaps above all, is behind current efforts to “raise the Moshiach.” For those who know Dune, he could be said to be like the “Bene Gesserit” or occultic king-makers behind the scenes, a most useful portal for even deeper darker forces..