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Scott RItter - Ukraine Russia War Latest (14 min 04 sec):
Published on Oct 20, 2022 by Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
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Funny thing about Russia being asked to 'produce' evidence.
... The last time they produced reams of evidence for the bio-weapons labs ...
This is why I don't really follow too much from either side about what is going on there, as we have no real way of verifying any of it.Truth is the first victim of war... honestly how do we know any of this is true?
The latest from Jacob Dreizin...
Return of the Living CheckReturn of the Living Check - TheDreizinReport.com
Folks, the way it's going, the Ukraine won't be the only one getting blank checks. But first... So much for "the smartest people in Congress." The "We love the Ukraine, but the U.S. must talk to Russia to end the war" letter to Brandon's people, signed by the Democrat "Platoon" in the House...thedreizinreport.com
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Folks, the way it’s going, the Ukraine won’t be the only one getting blank checks.But first… So much for “the smartest people in Congress.”The “We love the Ukraine, but the U.S. must talk to Russia to end the war” letter to Brandon’s people, signed by the Democrat “Platoon” in the House…..……has been OFFICIALLY retracted and disowned by its lead signatory.All it took was less than 24 hours.Despite a dreamy, mushy, syrupy, highly favorable roll-out in the Amazon Post, the reaction from Botoxic (Pelosi) must have been so toxic…..…..that Rep. Jayapal had to say it was all a mistake, the letter was never “vetted”, and in fact…..…..we shouldn’t talk to Russia until after Russia has lost the war (which is Ukraine’s position, and thus indirectly, Uncle Sam’s as well.)What’s really funny is, the letter was fully vetted..
Truth is the first victim of war... honestly how do we know any of this is true? We pick our sources and choose to weight our trust one way or the other. Reality is they are both lying out their a$$e$!
Truth is the first victim of war...
They never looked at the evidence, so how would they know?Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say
A careful look at the evidence Russia cites for its claim that bioweapons were being developed in Ukraine has been largely missing from global speculation.theintercept.com
You don't like that they got 'invaded', but I guess was ok that for the last 8 years the west Ukraine has been bombing the east killing 15,000 civilians they call 'separatists'?Do I like the fact they got invaded? Heck no.
....but if we're allowed to invade other nations in what we see as our own national interest, so can any other nation.
Cancel culture cancelling culture.The latest from Jacob Dreizin...
Return of the Living Check
Agreed, but I'm not sure if what you were describing is Ukraine's unrelenting military assault on the innocent citizens of eastern Ukraine over the past several years or Putin's response to the violation of international agreements???Lotta truth here but I consider the first victims of war to be the innocent people simply going about their daily lives and trying to survive.
People who don't give two shits about politics or some power-hungry megalomaniac's insane lust for power and self-aggrandizing glory. People who simply want to live their lives in peace and provide for their families. Innocent people whose lives are taken from them, whose bodies, homes and property are destroyed on the whim of a lunatic.
Really sad.
Imagine if there was a way to outlaw war and to immediately get rid of any power crazed p-o-s who would dare to even think about using war as a means to satisfy some insane idea that pops into their head.
Maybe an organization like the one described in Klaatu's speech in the final scene of The Day the Earth Stood Still.........
Won't happen in my lifetime but maybe someday.
jm2c
Agreed, but I'm not sure if what you were describing is Ukraine's unrelenting military assault on the innocent citizens of eastern Ukraine over the past several years or Putin's response to the violation of international agreements???
From what I've gleaned from listening to the 'other' side (vs the MSM propaganda) is that the Ukraine situation was in the works decades ago.never forget -- russia/putin asked for a meeting with US/nato to discuss/negotiate security for the region before invading homeland 2.0
(US/nato) turned him down. they were hellbent to provoke russia into defending themselves so that (they) could do all of the evil sh-t they are doing now
(biden admin) picked up where (obomba admin) left off --- the coup in ukraine removed the elected president and installed (their) puppets
they slowed down during trump....until (they) stole those elections. this was one of the big prizes of stealing them - weaponizing ukraine and attacking russia came right back
people are waking up to (their) ukr scam. 57 repugs voted against the 40 billion in money laundering aid for ukr
... The argument that it was utterly unprovoked, however, is misleading at best and an outright falsehood at worst. ...
They never looked at the evidence, so how would they know?
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Krasovsky’s vile insistence that any Ukrainian children who complain about being occupied by Russia should be drowned or burned alive prompted condemnation from Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and the editor in chief of RT itself, Margarita Simonyan, who said the state-controlled broadcaster was suspending Krasovsky. Nonetheless, in the two days since Simonyan has seemingly started to lay the groundwork for his potential reinstatement.
Simonyan repeatedly retweeted and reposted on Telegram various versions of Krasovsky’s lukewarm “apology,” none of which were directed at Ukrainians. ...
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Krasovsky’s apologies to his RT colleagues didn’t address the fact that the interview was pre-recorded and edited before it was released. It was publicly available for two days before being translated into English, to the shock and dismay of the global community.
RT apparently had no objection to the commentary and reacted only after it prompted a global outcry. In a way, the situation is reminiscent of an incident in 2014, when an episode of an RT show called Truthseeker contained deliberate disinformation and sick fantasies, falsely alleging that Ukrainian troops “literally crucify babies in seized towns, force mothers to watch.” The show was taken down only in response to international censure.
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Simonyan is not the only one defending Krasovsky. Writer Zakhar Prilepin, who visits the occupied regions of Ukraine often and makes frequent appearances on state TV, complained about the unduly “harsh” and judgmental reaction to Krasovsky’s suggestion that Ukrainian children should be drowned or burned. RT commentator Egor Kholmogorov agreed with Krasovsky’s offensive commentary, remarking that any Ukrainians who call Russian troops occupants—like the children mentioned in the video—should indeed be killed.
Political scientist Mikhail Shpir took aim not only at Krasovsky’s accusers but at the head of RT herself. Recalling Simonyan’s comments that she would rather die in a nuclear war than to accept Russia’s defeat in Ukraine, Shpir noted that both Russian and Ukrainian children would perish in such a scenario. He wrote on his Telegram channel: “What’s wrong with what Krasovsky said? Why can [Margarita] Simonyan say it, but he can’t?”
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Perused the first couple of lines...I take it you didn't actually read the article. It reports on Russian scientists dismantling the propaganda. Yes, they looked at it - and explained how what the Russian government was presenting wasn't what they were claiming it to be.
... that kind of turned me off and made me think this was a made up story.
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Right from the gitgo they make it sound as if Russia is the crazy one here. ...
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The first Russian biologist to make his analysis of the evidence widely known was Eugene Lewitin, who holds advanced degrees in biology from Moscow State University and GosNIIgenetika, a biotechnology research institute. The documents from Ukraine, Lewitin wrote in an open letter posted on Facebook and Change.org, do “not imply any development of biological weapons or even the use of particularly dangerous pathogens in the laboratories. The list of destroyed strains published by RIA Novosti and other Russian media outlets contains not a single particularly dangerous strain. The list contains only strains common to microbiological and even more so to epidemiological laboratories.”
More than 800 signatories endorsed Lewitin’s letter when it was transformed into a petition from Russian biologists urging Russian journalists to stop repeating the government’s “false, absolutely groundless and hatred-inciting statements about allegedly found evidence of the development of biological weapons in Ukrainian laboratories.”
The first set of Ukrainian documents to be made public by the Russian military were published by the Russian government news agency RIA Novosti on March 6. Those documents were orders from Ukraine’s health minister, issued on the second day of the Russian invasion, directing labs in two cities, Kharkiv and Poltava, to destroy collections of bacterial pathogens used for research.
Given the subsequent Russian shelling of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian effort to ensure that an attack on the lab there could not cause the accidental release of bacteria seems prudent. But Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the Russian defense ministry spokesperson, told the state news agency that the attempt to secure the labs was itself evidence that Ukrainian and American scientists had been secretly plotting to weaponize dangerous pathogens. The destruction of the pathogens listed on orders sent to the labs, Konashenkov said, was a desperate effort “to conceal any traces of the military-biological program financed by the U.S. Department of Defense in Ukraine.”
At a defense ministry briefing in Moscow the next day, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov — the head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical, and biological protection force — displayed these documents on a huge screen. The only possible explanation for “why the samples were disposed of in such haste,” Kirillov insisted, must have been to prevent Russian experts from discovering “that synthetic biology methods were being tested there to enhance the microorganisms’ pathogenic properties.”
Kirillov also stated, without evidence, that a swine flu outbreak in 2007 and increased cases of measles, rubella, diphtheria, and tuberculosis in Ukraine had somehow been caused by biological research at U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine and the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
At a second briefing three days later, he claimed that documents on public health projects to detect and monitor animal diseases in Ukraine — including coronaviruses in bats, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and hantavirus in ticks and rodents, and avian flu in ducks that migrate from Ukraine to Russia — were proof of a sinister plot to send infected animals to Russia. He even speculated that a document showing that researchers in Ukraine had sent blood samples to labs in Australia was proof of a secret Pentagon effort to study “Slavic DNA,” in order to construct a biological weapon that would infect only ethnic Russians.
Kirillov also claimed that in a joint Ukrainian-American project called R-781, “bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents.” However, the document describing that project, which was projected on the big screen behind the general, just outlined a proposal for an expert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to collaborate with a veterinary medicine specialist in Kharkiv and a researcher in Tbilisi on routine disease surveillance of bats in Ukraine and Georgia, including testing for bacterial and viral infections (such as coronaviruses) and performing genomic sequencing. The proposal had nothing to do with biological weapons research, and the CDC told The Intercept that the project did not receive funding and never even began.
Some of the documents cast by Kirillov as evidence of biological weapons research actually concerned the Ukrainian health ministry’s cooperation with German experts from BNITM, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, to improve surveillance and diagnosis of diseases like dengue fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
In a statement sent to The Intercept, the institute rejected the Russian claims.
“The BNITM has never and will never work directly or indirectly on bio weapons,” the statement said. For the past six years, the BNITM has instead been working with public health officials in Ukraine to investigate “seroprevalence, the existence of antibodies, on various infectious diseases occurring in this region. The aim of the project is and was to enable the country to do diagnoses on antibodies itself.” The institute added that its project is part of the German government’s effort to improve global biosecurity through the “minimization of biological risks emanating from highly hazardous pathogens in 25 countries.”
Konashenkov, the defense ministry spokesperson, also claimed that the documents from Ukraine showed that “certain experiments were carried out with samples of coronavirus in bats. The goal of this and other Pentagon-funded biological studies in Ukraine was the creation of a mechanism for the covert spread of deadly pathogens.”
On March 10, Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed, falsely, that documents seized in Ukraine indicated that U.S. and Ukrainian researchers were plotting to use birds to covertly send deadly pathogens to Russia pic.twitter.com/83nNA897kc
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) March 17, 2022
Konashenkov additionally stated as a matter of fact something for which none of the documents presented at the briefing backs up: that American-financed studies of bird, bat, and reptile pathogens planned for later this year would include experiments on the ability of the animals to be used to covertly transmit weaponized African swine fever and anthrax.
When Russian news outlets repeated these claims, Lewitin, the veteran Russian biologist, wrote that they had been duped into printing what he called “deliberately false information,” fed to them by the military, about what was in the documents. Even reporters for state-run outlets, Lewitin said, have a duty to study what the state calls proof and consult experts to make sure official claims about science are accurate.
By way of example, Lewitin, who has a Ph.D. in genetics, pointed to “the absolutely wild idea of the existence of special ‘DNA of the Slavs,’” which could be used to target ethnic Russians with a biological weapon. That, he said, “is nonsense” that echoes “German Nazi propaganda.”
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You've well described our plight under the Bidet.People who don't give two shits about politics or some power-hungry megalomaniac's insane lust for power and self-aggrandizing glory. People who simply want to live their lives in peace and provide for their families. Innocent people whose lives are taken from them, whose bodies, homes and property are destroyed on the whim of a lunatic.
I don't like that, either.You don't like that they got 'invaded', but I guess was ok that for the last 8 years the west Ukraine has been bombing the east killing 15,000 civilians they call 'separatists'?
. I mentioned before (more than once now?) that Putin was not going to allow Ukraine to turn to the West when his buddy got deposed. Nothing I'm reading here has changed that conviction.
More than 800 signatories endorsed Lewitin’s letter when it was transformed into a petition from Russian biologists urging Russian journalists to stop repeating the government’s “false, absolutely groundless and hatred-inciting statements about allegedly found evidence of the development of biological weapons in Ukrainian laboratories.”
I agree, but the west will say that the east has all these resources Russia wants... as if the west didn't want them? Probably the real reason for the Ukraine war from the gitgo....I said back in '14 that should just divide the nation in two.
So you're saying Russia has the same world interests as the US...? Interesting....USA (CIA) has done real shitty stuff all over the western hemisphere (especially to Central America). No argument from me there.
But there is a difference between what the USA has done in the Western Hemisphere and what Russia set out to do (but failed and is now doing) in Ukraine.
If you want to understand the context, you really need to read the whole story (and understand the full extent of the Russian government propaganda)....
More than 800 signatories... on a petition? Is that supposed to mean they're 'experts'... trying to convince me to change my mind, or did they go by the local mall and ask folks to sign a petition like they do in the US?
Not just in the Western Hemisphere, but World wide.USA (CIA) has done real shitty stuff all over the western hemisphere (especially to Central America). No argument from me there.
Was it right for us to have done that?
and why would they destroy them, begging the question, if there was nothing dangerous there?Why would they be concerned about anything escaping the lab, if there was nothing dangerous there?
"Russia's chaotic retreat..."@Joe King - I don't have time to investigate your question right now. I'll revisit whenever I get a chance.
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