🔸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.

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▪️🤯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

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▪️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.

Thank you for your encouragement, most kind and dear emersonreturn 🙏

🔸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.

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▪️🇺🇸🇷🇺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.

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▪️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.

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▪️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.

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.

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▪️🇺🇦🇫🇷 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.

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▪️🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 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.

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▪️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.

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▪️”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.

🔸The tale of people’s struggle and electoral banditry in Pakistan
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-tale-of-people-s-struggle-and-electoral-banditry-in-paki
▪️The optimism of many has been shattered and people are reminded of H.L Mencken’s words, “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

🔸Imran Khan’s rivals form coalition govt after ‘stolen’ elections in Pakistan
https://thecradle.co/articles/imran-khans-rivals-form-coalition-govt-after-stolen-elections-in-pakistan
▪️US and army-backed parties have joined forces to form Pakistan’s new government following elections marred by internet blackouts, terror attacks, and allegations of vote rigging

Thank you dear AHH for the explanation about the software of the site. I can understand why the “Robert Lansing Institute” is an unfriendly site, but there are two sides of the same coin. Why can’t one take a look at the other side?
Putin himself stated, in the recent interview, that his ‘Western partners’ won the propaganda war when the SMO started, both by tradecraft and politically.

🔸Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson [i]
by Aleks from BMA
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/vladimir-putin-and-tucker-carlson
▪️We can delve right into several observations. I want to say straight ahead, since half of the internet has already analyzed the interview, I do not plan to go step by step through the interview and analyze every word. Instead, I will write about several expressions that I consider especially interesting or important.

🔸Putin signals interest in Ukraine talks
by M.K. Bhadrakumar

Putin signals interest in Ukraine talks

▪️The great beauty of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interview with the famous American journalist Tucker Carlson is that there is something in it for almost everyone — be it historians who memorialise the past; diplomats who isolate history and take it out of context; spymasters who were cold warriors with adrenaline flowing still; politologists who contrived to create false narratives; and even an American president or two and one colourful British Prime Minister most certainly, who may have blood on their hands.

🔸Erich Vad in an interview: “The fate of Ukraine will be decided in Washington and Moscow”
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/erich-vad-im-interview-ueber-das-schicksal-der-ukraine-wird-in-washington-und-moskau-entschieden-li.2185298
▪️Erich Vad was Merkel’s most important military advisor. He criticizes Germany’s Ukraine policy. There is a risk of chaos like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, he says in an interview.

TUCKER CARLSON’S VISIT TO MOSCOW: A SPECIAL MISSION FOR TRUMP
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/vizit-takera-karlsona-v-moskvu-osobaja-missija-po-zadaniju-trampa_959392
▪️Why did America’s most popular journalist “rebel” Tucker Carlson come to Moscow? There are still questions about what it was.

🔸Does anybody still believe in Ukrainian victory?
by Uriel Araujo
https://infobrics.org/post/40457/
▪️…Thus, going beyond the issue of Ukraine, it is about time to acknowledge that the declining American superpower is currently overburdened and overstretched, in Stephen Wertheim’s words; that its policy of “dual containment” makes the world a far less stable place; and that Washington therefore must exercise restraint.

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▪️🇮🇷The IRGC has acquired the Lancet-3M UAV. A video has appeared on the Internet in which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launches a drone similar to a Russian loitering munition.
❓The agreement between Russia and Iran in the field of defense and energy is likely to gain momentum.
Iran also showed footage of tests of a multi-purpose short-range missile that is installed on light boats. It is likely that the Yemeni Houthis will soon have similar weapons.

▪️🇺🇸🇦🇷The United States and Argentina hijacked a Boeing 747-300 plane from Venezuela. The US Department of Justice took away a Boeing 747 plane from a Venezuelan company. According to Washington, it was previously allegedly owned by the Iranian company Mahan Air, associated with the IRGC, which is under American sanctions.
🛩In the United States, they believe that the plane was purchased in violation of these restrictions, so it was arrested in Argentina in 2022, and now it was stolen and transported to Florida.
🇻🇪 The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry expressed public dissatisfaction with the hijacking. Diplomats said that Argentina, following a tip from the Americans, sent the plane to the United States at night under the guise of a military flight and with periodic communications blackouts.

▪️💥 They report a powerful missile strike on a military training ground in Selidovo. At this training ground, according to Russian military correspondents, a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces recruits were concentrated. At the time of the strike, there could presumably have been up to 1,500 Ukrainian military personnel at the facility who had arrived for the exercise.
🇺🇦 According to the TG channel Resident, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, after the strike, ordered to block any information on losses at the Selidovo training ground. This indirectly confirms the “successful” training of the Ukrainian fighters today. According to the Resident, the city of Selidovo was also the main transshipment base for the Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves, which were collected for reinforcements in Avdeevka.
✖️ There is silence in the ukropubliks, there are no refutations or confirmations. But the first details of the strikes are emerging. Previously, there were two strikes, both times with cluster munitions.
❗️The first blow was struck at a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel at about 11:30, covering a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel. The second was carried out an hour later, when personnel arrived at the site of the first strike to clear the rubble.

▪️The strike on the Selidovo training ground was a real disaster for non-brothers. According to the telegram channel “Welders”, the most powerful attack on the Selidovo training ground began on February 13 at 11: 30.
The first stage involved the use of cluster munitions for 20 minutes. Soon the Ukrainian military arrived to collect and transport the wounded and dead, and immediately came under new cluster fire. At the moment of 12:40, shelling and detonation of ammunition are continuing
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/rezervy-unichtozheny-poteri-ogromnye-chto-izvestno-o-katastrofe-v-selidovo_959979