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I can't speak as to the veracity of the content, nor do I know if it's government sponsored propaganda. I enjoyed the vid and believed it's worth sharing. Take it fwiw and dyodd.

Life in the MOST SANCTIONED COUNTRY in the World​

May 11, 2024 MOSCOW

There are more sanctions here than in North Korea, Syria and Iran (summed together!) How do we survive?!


19:48

Time codes:
00:00 I live in the most sanctioned country in the world
01:34 Empty supermarkets? Survival?
03:26 Brands that left Russia after sanctions
05:44 Do we have access to social media?
07:39 Payment system: can we use cards in Russia or abroad?
08:44 If you're a foreigner that is going to visit Russia in 2024
09:26 Can you get a visa to Russia?
11:35 How to pay for things in Russia?
13:03 Money transfers to and from Russia. Is it possible?
15:38 Russian alternatives of apps for traveling
17:43 Future of Russia?

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ElifromRussia/videos
 
searcher said:
Last night's 60 Minutes story on Havana Syndrome.

Havana Syndrome evidence suggests who may be responsible for mysterious brain injuries​

Mar 31, 2024

Efforts continue to investigate brain injuries suffered by U.S. officials. This is the fourth 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report and, for the first time, there’s evidence of who might be responsible.


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More:

- https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117249
- https://democrats-homeland.house.go...argeting-americans-in-the-homeland-and-abroad
- https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/...ncidents-targeting-americans-in-the-homeland/
 

RUSSIA TO UK FRANCE: NYET MEANS NYET - THE "RESISTANCE STRIKES BACK"​

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The world is tiring of the Ukraine adventure...

The US is "in it" as if it was a Perry Mason show... over and done with in an hour...

Russia is "in it" as if it was War and Peace....
 
Maria Zakharova in English

With emotion, turning into bewilderment, I watch the farcical discussion in the West about the legitimacy of elections, inauguration, appointment of government and other constitutional procedures in Russia.

It seems to me that all these “reasoners” from NATO-centric structures would do well to sort out their own “legitimacies” first.

It is completely inexplicable why none of the Westerners who defend democracy, the rule of law and human rights pay any attention to the fact that in the United States they openly declare “the need to kill the presidential candidate, ex-president of the country Donald Trump.” This is talked about not in blockchain networks, but in the official media, and not by Philadelphia drug addicts from Kensington Avenue, but by Democratic politicians. For example, Congressman Dan Goldman and political scientist-publicist Robert Kagan, who is also (suddenly!) the husband of Victoria Nuland, called for this.

If you think this is all just rhetoric, then I will tell you that this is simply US history.
First, a short excursion into the reality of American-style legitimacy.

• 1835 – assassination attempt on President Andrew Jackson,
• 1865 – assassination of President Abraham Lincoln,
• 1881 – assassination of President James Garfield,
• 1901 – assassination of President William McKinley,
• 1912 – assassination attempt on President Theodore Roosevelt,
• 1933 – assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
• 1935 – assassination of presidential candidate Huey Long,
• 1950 – assassination attempt on President Harry Truman,
• 1963 – assassination of President John Kennedy,
• 1968 – assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy,
• 1972 – assassination attempt on presidential candidate George Wallace,
• 1974 – assassination attempt on President Richard Nixon,
• 1975 – assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford,
• 1981 – assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan,
• 1993 – assassination attempt on President George H. W. Bush,
• 1994 – assassination attempt on President Bill Clinton,
• 2005 – assassination attempt on President George W. Bush,
• 2008 – assassination attempt on presidential candidate Barack Obama,
• 2011 – assassination attempt on President Barack Obama.

The tradition is terrible, but it is, as they say, established. And this is only part of what has been declassified and is available in open sources.

It would be nice if all this Anglo-Saxon army turned its attention to the monstrous problems with the legitimacy, democracy and human rights of their own electoral and constitutional procedures.

 
The perception of the Soviet Union as an adversary was a pillar of American political consciousness for decades.

Americans in general and politicians in particular were used to thinking of the Soviets as bad guys and of the Americans as good guys, and that provided the sense of balance and comfort (yes, comfort!) to their everyday lives.

The Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 broke that pillar and with that, completely destabilized the mental equilibrium and comfort of American politicians, leaving them searching for a new pillar to lean on. They chose an easy solution, however, and instead of building that new pillar, they opted to refurbish the old one by simple mental swapping of the Soviet Union for Russia. Despite Russia's stark differences from its predecessor, this substitution swiftly restored equilibrium and comfort in American political consciousness. Nothing changed, except now, instead of the Soviets being bad guys, it was the Russians.

Moreover, the American political establishment has quickly figured out that maintaining an adversary, be it the Soviet Union or Russia, was much more profitable than cultivating cooperation and coexistence—after all, America is, first and foremost, about money!

And so, here we are. Very very sad…

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searcher said:
I can't speak as to the veracity of the content, nor do I know if it's government sponsored propaganda. I enjoyed the vid and believed it's worth sharing. Take it fwiw and dyodd.

Life in the MOST SANCTIONED COUNTRY in the World​

May 11, 2024 MOSCOW

There are more sanctions here than in North Korea, Syria and Iran (summed together!) How do we survive?!


19:48

Time codes:
00:00 I live in the most sanctioned country in the world
01:34 Empty supermarkets? Survival?
03:26 Brands that left Russia after sanctions
05:44 Do we have access to social media?
07:39 Payment system: can we use cards in Russia or abroad?
08:44 If you're a foreigner that is going to visit Russia in 2024
09:26 Can you get a visa to Russia?
11:35 How to pay for things in Russia?
13:03 Money transfers to and from Russia. Is it possible?
15:38 Russian alternatives of apps for traveling
17:43 Future of Russia?

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ElifromRussia/videos
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Interesting article that paints a different picture that the one painted above. Locations maybe?

thebarentsobserver.com

Last open land border to Europe for Russian shoppers. But for how long?

“We keep coming over here because we’ve got used to it. We love these places, we love your [Norwegian] food,” - interviews with Russians who keep coming on shopping tours to Kirkenes, Arctic Norway.
thebarentsobserver.com thebarentsobserver.com
 
History lesson time

THE NAZI UNIFICATION OF EUROPE - GREATEST THREAT O EUROPEAN SECURITY​

Prof. Maria Nikolakaki discusses in detail how the Nazi ideology did not die at the hands of the Soviet Red Army, because its seeds were planted in Ukraine and other European countries.
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A Russian court has ordered that Deutsche Bank's assets, accounts, property and shares be seized in Russia as part of a lawsuit involving the German bank, court documents showed.

The bank was one of the guarantor lenders under a contract for the construction of a gas processing plant in Russia with Germany's Linde, which was terminated due to Western sanctions.

The lawsuit was filed by St Petersburg-based RusChemAlliance, a joint-venture that is 50% owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom and which is the operator of the project.

St Petersburg arbitration court has barred Deutsche Bank from exercising its 100% interest in the authorised capital of its Russian subsidiary, as well as Deutsche Bank Technology Center LLC.

The court has also imposed the seizure of up to 238.6 million euros ($259.36 million) in securities, real estate and bank accounts of Deutsche Bank, as well as its Russian subsidiary and Deutsche Bank Technology Center.

Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and in Russia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Russian court on Friday ordered UniCredit's assets, accounts and property, as well as shares in two subsidiaries, be seized as part of a parallel lawsuit.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/oth...he-bank-assets-as-part-of-lawsuit/ar-BB1mC23i
 
^^^^^

Moscow takes control over assets of Western companies​

May 20 (Reuters) - Kremlin has been seizing assets of some Western companies in Russia through decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin and court orders related to lawsuits over halted projects or blocked funds amid Western sanctions.

Below is a list of the companies affected so far.

AGROTERRA​

Russia seized companies belonging to agricultural group AgroTerra and placed them under temporary management in April, including some backed by Dutch investment firms, a decree signed by Putin showed.

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Something I came across, maybe something going on??????

 

I left Russia and moved to Florida. These were the 5 biggest culture shocks.​

  • Elena Brandt grew up in Moscow and moved to Florida in 2018 with her husband.
  • She got her PhD at Florida State University and now works as a startup founder.
  • Brandt found the States' limited maternity leave and willingness to apologize surprising.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elena Brandt, the Russian-born founder of Besample, about her move to the United States. It's been edited for length and clarity.

In 2017, I worked as a communications manager for Yandex, a tech company in Moscow, where I had lived since birth. I wasn't excited about the direction of Russia's political regime, so I applied for an O-1 visa to the U.S.

O-1 visas are for people with extraordinary talent to temporarily live in the US and pursue that skill.

While waiting for my visa, I met my future husband. He was a Russian economist teaching at Florida State University who had returned to Moscow for vacation.

Our relationship progressed quickly; in 2018, I got my visa and moved to Florida. We got married the same year, my husband adopted my two-year-old daughter, and we had two more children, one in 2019 and another in 2021.

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‼️♨️‼️♨️‼️US SECRET OPERATION AGAINST RUSSIA?​

Colonel of the Austrian General Staff Dr. Marcus Reisner
Why did Washington order Kiev to attack Russia's early warning radars, which have the sole purpose of warning the Kremlin in time of a sudden insidious US strategic nuclear attack on Russia.

According to Colonel Reisner, attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian 77Я6 «Воронеж» early warning radars have no immediate military significance for the Ukrainian army, since these over-the-horizontal early warning radars effectively only detect the flight surface from an altitude of 2000 km to an altitude of 6000 km, i.e. only flight paths US strategic nuclear missiles. Ukraine has only ex-Soviet Точка tactical missiles and American ATACMS tactical missiles. And they fly along ballistic paths with a maximum flight height of 60 km. The destruction of the Russian 77Я6 «Воронеж» radars has no military significance for Kyiv, as these radars do not even monitor the flight levels of Ukrainian tactical missiles. Nor do they monitor the flight levels in which Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets may soon operate. On the contrary, the destruction or damage of these radars creates a potentially explosive situation, because the US gains a strategic advantage over Russia, because Russia may not see in time a sudden insidious nuclear strike by the US.

Analysis of the US covert operation “Boiling the Frog” against Russia.

According to Colonel Reisner, Washington is now carrying out a war strategy known as "Boiling the Frog" by using Ukrainian attacks on Russia's strategic warning radars. This wartime strategy, literally "Cooking the Frog", is metaphorically named after the culinary method of preparing a live frog by gradually heating it in lukewarm water, so that the frog does not know that it is in danger until the last moment. Intended to lull the opponent with gradual steps into the fact that he is not in mortal danger, and then insidiously arrive at him in an instant, without him being able to resist.

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

 

Report to Congress on Russia’s Nuclear Weapons​

MAY 29, 2024 9:48 AM

The following is the May 21, 2024, In Focus Congressional Research Service report, Russia’s Nuclear Weapons.

From the report​

Russia presents an “acute threat” to the United States and its allies, according to the 2022 National Defense Strategy. The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, a Biden Administration review of U.S. nuclear policy, states:

Russia remains the U.S. rival with the most capable and diverse nuclear forces. Today it is unique in the combination of strategic and non-strategic nuclear forces it fields that enables nuclear employment ranging from large-scale attacks on the [U.S.] homeland to limited strikes in support of a regional military campaign [in the Euro-Atlantic region].

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searcher said:
Russia presents an “acute threat” to the United States and its allies, according to the 2022 National Defense Strategy.
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So do bears in the forest...

Don't mess with bears is the solution!
 
Can anyone explain exactly when Russia became the great enemy again?

I remember when him and the Shrub jr used to have visits and pal around, and no one thought it meant Bush was Putin's puppet.

The hag and Obozo signed off on them getting our uranium in, what was it? 2010? Maybe '12, or somewhere around that timeframe. Was Russia the great enemy then?

How about when Obozo got caught on the hot mic giving a message to Putin that he'd be more free to deal AFTER the upcoming election. What was that all about, and was Russia the great enemy at that point? How 'bout after his reelection? Was Russia the enemy then? Didn't Russia go into Crimea around 2008? Why did we do the uranium deal after that? Doesn't make much sense to do that if Russia doing an invasion is so terrible.

After all that, I'd half expect us in a couple years to give 'em 20% of our coal reserves, or something like that. Would make as much sense as the uranium deal a few years after they invaded Crimea.
 
Big picture thinking apparently is -

West needs Russias mineral resources and does not have a business model that actually pays for such things
War industry needs an enemy and perpetual war ( that it can easily win )
Financial system (US$) needs to reset and a war is the best way to cover / justify
 
^^^^^ All of that is bullshit though.

So in other words, there is no reason. Russia is only the great enemy due to the hag and her Russia collusion lies against Trump. They've went too far with it to back down now, and we're gonna end up in WW3 because of it.
....and we have supposed fellow American idiots that support them?
I say supposed Americans because they ain't real ones.
 
Russia has been a target for the last 200 years.

Perdifious Albion organised the Bolshevic revolution, installed 'communism' and much more

The Crimea war that launched Florence Nightingale was a previous attempt to get control of Black Sea and hence Russias warm water export routes.

The hag is just a more recent frontpiece for the dark dudes machinations.

Happy to dig out a ton of material that attempts to demonstrate this ......
 
rblong2us said:
Happy to dig out a ton of material that attempts to demonstrate this ......
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Then why were our American communists so willing to deal with him right up until the Trump Russia collusion lies?
 

"Darkness is not forever"​

Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be "on the first flight home" as soon as the Putin regime falls. "We are optimists. Putin is not forever," the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says.

It is soon three years since Ivan Pavlov could walk the streets of his native St.Petersburg. In early September 2021, he left Russia following mounting repression from Putin’s security services.

The 53-year-old lawyer has for nearly three decades ardently worked for rule of law and democratic development in Russia. He has defended several of Russia’s most prominent regime critics and prisoners of conscious, among them Aleksei Navalny and Ivan Safronov.

Pavlov and his team are advocates of another Russia — a country based on democratic rule and the independence of the judiciary. For the illegitimate regime of Vladimir Putin, their work for a ruled-based state is seen as a serious threat.

In late April 2021, Pavlov was detained by the FSB, put in house arrest and barred from communicating with the surrounding world. Shortly later, the Russian General Prosecutor declared Team 29, Pavlov’s association of independent lawyers, a so-called ‘undesirable organization.’ The status includes risks of criminal prosecution for any of the organization’s associates.

“Lawyers’ work has become very risky in Russia. Especially if you work on anti-war and human rights cases. It was risky before, but now the risks have increased, highly increased,” Ivan Pavlov says in an interview with the Barents Observer.

More:

thebarentsobserver.com

"Darkness is not forever"

Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be "on the first flight home" as soon as the Putin regime falls. "We are optimists. Putin is not forever," the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says.
thebarentsobserver.com thebarentsobserver.com
 
Amid straining ties with Washington over Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the United States an “enemy” state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary Peskov's remarks come after former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter's claimed that he was prevented from visit St. Petersburg and his passport was confiscated by border officials.

Responding to it, Peskov told reporters that "the latest manifestation of the rabid campaign" to stop Americans from communicating with Russia would only be "understandable" if the move had any connection to his former intelligence status.

“We are now an enemy country for them, just as they are for us,” he told reporters.

According to Agentstvo, a reputable Russian investigative website, neither Peskov nor Putin have ever referred to the United States or other "unfriendly" countries as Russia's enemies.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-amid-straining-ties-over-ukraine/ar-BB1nGWQW
 
"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the United States an “enemy” state."

We've had people in our gov calling them that since the fake Russia/Trump collusion BS the America hating democrats started.
 
And wasn't Syria part of the "Axis of Evil" for the crime of... being attacked by Israel, Turkey, US proxies, and seemingly having to endure Iranian forces on their land? Those Iranian forces attracting even more attacks on them?
 
If you really want to know what's going on in Ukraine & Russia

In the Eyes of Truth with our guest Scott Bennett: US Army Psyops whistleblower.​

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🇺🇸🇺🇸 A historical note on how fast Superpowers can collapse

In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New...Treaty (Russian,and reform the Soviet Union.) A year later, however, the USSR didn’t exist.

In 2021, an astonishing 66% of Southern Republicans and 50% of independents were in favor of secession. (http://archive.today/Qpdp6) The West Coast also showed strong support for secession but of a different political flavor, this time being mostly supported by Democrats.

In this sense, the U.S. is already in more of a precarious situation than the USSR was in early 1991…

 
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