Ukraine

(Full Episode) Putin vs. the West | BBC Select​

Feb 5, 2024

Throughout the two decades that Vladimir Putin has controlled Russia, global leaders have tried various tactics to keep him in line. Now, as war rages in Ukraine and the world faces one of its greatest tests to peace since the Cold War, this documentary attempts to identify where these leaders went wrong and tries to understand how we have reached this point of no return with Putin.

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Alexey Navalny and Putin's history of suspected poisonings and crackdowns | 60 Minutes Full Episodes​

Feb 17, 2024
From 2020 and 2017, Lesley Stahl's two interviews with Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who reportedly died in a prison north of the Arctic Circle this week. Also from 2017, Stahl's chat with Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was twice poisoned to the brink of death by a mysterious toxin. And from 2013, Stahl's story on Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot.

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The Ukraine War Runs on Prevarication​

James W. Carden
February 17, 2024

The Biden administration’s Ukraine PR campaign echoes messaging on the Vietnam War beat for beat.

That the tide of the war in Ukraine has turned in Russia’s favor is now too obvious to ignore—unless, that is, you are a high ranking Biden administration official, in which case 2024 will likely lead to some sunlit upland of victory and prosperity for Ukraine.

Consider the comments made a week apart at the end of January by the then-Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and one of her successors in the office of the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, James O’Brien. Upon her departure from the Ukrainian capital, Nuland (who is believed by many to be among the principal advocates behind the decade-long proxy war between the United States and Russia) declared, “I leave Kiev tonight more encouraged about the unity and the result, about 2024 and its absolute strategic importance for Ukraine.”

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Alexey Navalny and Putin's history of suspected poisonings and crackdowns | 60 Minutes Full Episodes​

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Amazing how they figured this all out in a matter of hours (20 minutes really).

There will be an investigation, an autopsy and they'll reveal what happened to Navalny.

like clockwork...





the mockingbird media strikes again!

They all have the SAME story... amazing!

Another thing about Ukraine fleeing from Avdiivka​

- I keep hearing that if Congress gave Ukrainians money or equipment, they would have held on.

Let me repeat to you what I wrote in my last post - Avdiivka has been reinforced by Ukraine for ten years.

Millions of tons of concrete were used on building defense fortifications there - millions of tons!

Metro-diggers spent those same 10 years creating dozens of miles of tunnels. And not the HAMAS-style tunnels, but that cars could drive through.

Ok, so let's say Congress bowed to Zelensky's whining back in November and allocated them the money - what exactly do you think would change?
How would 60 billion change the situation in such a way, that Ukraine would be able to hold the town?

Bags of cash don't stop incoming artillery - millions of tons of concrete do. But they didn't - cause the Russians used better tactics... And more people.

60 billion won't buy Ukrainians smarter commanders or more manpower on the frontline.
Ukraine would still lose Avdiivka. Like they lost Bakhmut before. Like Mariupol before that...
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After Mariupol, Ukranians said "give us HIMARS and we will push the Ruskies back." We gave them HIMARS.

They kept losing and lost Bakhmut. Ukranians said "give us NATO tanks and Putin will run tail between his legs." We gave them tanks. They got their butts handed to them in the counteroffensive they publicized for months and now lost Avdiivka.

Now they are asking us to give them more money and some other magic silver bullet, but the harsh truth is that there is no silver bullet.

Anyone who thinks there is must have a memory of a gold fish, not able to remember that we have had exactly the same situations multiple times and every time we gave them what they promised would change the course of the war and they still kept losing.

Like Elon said recently and the situation on the battlefield proves time and again - there is no way Putin will lose this war.

I said it before - whoever tells you otherwise is either stupid or expects to get a cut from those 60 billion.

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Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

: Dear Ambassador Antonov, how would you comment on the American officials’ reaction to the report of the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets Region on Alexey Navalny’s death?

Anatoly Antonov: We paid attention to the flow of bile towards Russia. We have a feeling that the main goal for Washington is not to get to the bottom of the problem, no matter how sensitive it may be, but to hit our country harder. Here they are looking for a reason for derogatory attacks, and most importantly, for the introduction of additional sanctions. The main task is to save collapsing Pax Americana based on so called rules.

The death of a person is always a tragedy. In this situation it is extremely important to figure out all the details of the occurrence. However, local politicians do not want to wait and have already blamed the Russian authorities.

Here arises a quite natural question: who is the judge? There is another attempt to interfere in the internal policy of the Russian Federation. And death is just an excuse. Such a policy is unacceptable. It would be better for local leaders to focus on the problems of their country that require urgent measures.

This makes more sense now

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I said it before - whoever tells you otherwise is either stupid or expects to get a cut from those 60 billion.

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Or? More like both.

Kiev abandoned wounded during Avdeevka rout​

Six incapacitated Ukrainian soldiers in the city were promised evacuation that never came, according to one of them.

The Ukrainian military abandoned a number of severely injured soldiers on the battlefield in the former Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, local media have reported, citing a video with one of the service members. Kiev has acknowledged that several troops were captured during the retreat.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed the withdrawal, calling it “absolutely logical” and insisting that its main goal was to spare troops.

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Musk agrees Ukraine conflict is ‘war of lies’​

The tech mogul has apparently concurred with entrepreneur David Sacks that people are being told Kiev “is winning when in fact it is losing”.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemingly agreed with American investor David Sacks, who believes that the Ukraine conflict will end in a heavy defeat for Kiev, but that the West will try to spin the narrative in a way to sweep the truth under the rug.

On Sunday, Sacks published a post on X (formerly Twitter) entitled “A war of lies,” arguing that the Ukraine conflict is based on falsehoods and deceit about “how it started, how it’s going, and how it will end.”

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Germany suffering ‘irreversible’ damage without Russian gas - Putin​

The president says industrial heavyweights are moving their plants abroad where energy is cheaper, including the US.

The German government’s decision to switch from Russian gas to more expensive energy sources is having a negative effect on the country’s economy, President Vladimir Putin has said. He added that Western leaders had apparently hoped that Moscow would fold quickly if shunned by the European market, but they miscalculated.

The EU’s economic powerhouse had for years benefited from relatively cheap Russian energy, receiving up to 40% of its gas imports from the country.

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VERY INTERESTING, IF TRUE​

I have found a post on Russian social media that claims Navalny's wife visited him on February 14th, then immediately returned to Moscow and then flew to Berlin. Supposedly, she gave him "gifts and medicines". If this can be confirmed, (and as of now, it is NOT) then, elementary, my dear Watson, the case is solved, and Yulia Navalny is the killer. Her staged "doubt" about whether Navalney is actually dead, may well be a ruse, feigning ignorance of the fact that he is dead because she killed him. Another factor will be whether she returns to Russia after her high-profile tour of the Munich Security Conference and the Oscars.

If the Russians discover Navalny was poisoned, and if Yulia did in fact visit him just before she left Russia, and as would be documented, if she gave him food and/or medicine, then there you have weapon, motive and opportunity, and a compelling case. If Russia does not disclose the cause of death, this too, could indicate they are waiting (no doubt, in vain) for Yulia's return so they can arrest her.

So the whole case revolves around whether Yulia Navalney visited her husband in his Siberian prison before she left for Berlin. If yes, she did it. If no, somebody else did, on orders from the West. If anybody comes across any info about whether Yulia Navalney visited the prison, please post it in the chat, AND please message me directly at -

Alex as only he can report...

Munich Freedom Night. Drink to defeat Putin. Avdeyevka anger. Elensky invites Trump to frontline​

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Gonzalo was a US citizen

Earlier this morning I was doing some research on a maritime incident that occurred near Trinidad and Tobago. The maritime incident is totally unrelated to anything going on in Ukraine, but this article is. It's from August 2023. Some interesting reading for anyone interested.

A New Tool Shows What War Has Done to Ukraine’s Forests​

Access The OSINT Forest Area Tracker here. You can read a concise summary of the tool on the GitHub repository.

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Among the many victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are some of the most important ecosystems in Eastern Europe: Ukraine’s forests and protected areas.

The full extent of the damage, however, is unknown. That’s why we are launching a new tool that will help open source researchers track destruction from afar.

In September 2022, Ukrainian environmental researchers visited national parks — which are more resilient to climate change than artificial plantings and support crucial biodiversity—to assess damage to forests and wildlife. Initial findings revealed broken trees, damaged root systems due to trench digging and unexploded munitions scattered across protected lands.

“Forests have suffered a lot on the frontline… huge areas of forests are being mined”, Yehor Hrynyk, an environmental campaigner at the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group, told Bellingcat.
But large parts of Ukraine’s vast national parks, mountainous regions and woodlands are inaccessible for on-the-ground environmental monitoring.

That’s where open source techniques come in.

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Alexey Navalny and Putin's history of suspected poisonings and crackdowns | 60 Minutes Full Episodes​

Feb 17, 2024
From 2020 and 2017, Lesley Stahl's two interviews with Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who reportedly died in a prison north of the Arctic Circle this week. Also from 2017, Stahl's chat with Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was twice poisoned to the brink of death by a mysterious toxin. And from 2013, Stahl's story on Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot.

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Neocons care more about a Western asset who was most likely killed in a Russian jail than a US/Chilean reporter who was tortured and died in Ukraine.

Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny's US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death​

- Alexei Navalny's political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself;
- The Western media had previously (and reluctantly) revealed Navalny as far-right, racist, and xenophobic despite efforts to pass him off as a progressive pro-democracy activist;
- US government-funded polling agencies consistently found Alexei Navalny extremely unpopular in Russia with single digit approval ratings;
- After an alleged 2020 "Novichok" poisoning, Navalny's popularity "surged" to 20% as the Western media accused Moscow of being behind the incident;
- The US is now exploiting the death of Navalny to advance its anti-Russia policy while the Western media collective omits all relevant context regarding Navalny's background and US funding;
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Great interview... if you want the latest intel

Avdeevka Military Sitrep - How the Collapse & Rout of Kiev Forces Occurred, the Political Fallout in Kiev, What's Next for Russian Forces in Ukraine, Kiev Forces Using US Chemical Weapons, more...​

Radio Interview on Faultlines 20/02/24

Russian confidence grows with Avdeyevka capture w/ Patrick Lancaster​

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U.S. imposes more than 500 new Russia sanctions after Navalny death​

The Biden administration announced Friday that it will hit Russia with hundreds of new sanctions after the death of dissident Alexei Navalny, aiming to constrict the billions of dollars in energy revenue that have financed President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The United States will impose more than 500 new sanctions on Russian companies and individuals, according to a Treasury Department spokeswoman.

The West’s sanctions on Russia, though billed as among the toughest ever, have thus far failed to deter Putin from carrying out the war in Ukraine, and the announcement of new measures may raise questions about why the United States had not previously targeted these firms. Despite the predictions of some analysts, Russia’s economy grew by more than 3 percent last year — faster than the United States — as Moscow spent extensively to support the war effort.

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U.S. imposes more than 500 new Russia sanctions after Navalny death​

The Biden administration announced Friday that it will hit Russia with hundreds of new sanctions after the death of dissident Alexei Navalny, aiming to constrict the billions of dollars in energy revenue that have financed President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The United States will impose more than 500 new sanctions on Russian companies and individuals, according to a Treasury Department spokeswoman.

The West’s sanctions on Russia, though billed as among the toughest ever, have thus far failed to deter Putin from carrying out the war in Ukraine, and the announcement of new measures may raise questions about why the United States had not previously targeted these firms. Despite the predictions of some analysts, Russia’s economy grew by more than 3 percent last year — faster than the United States — as Moscow spent extensively to support the war effort.

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We here are but plebes in the political landscape... if WE here can SEE the hypocrisy of the sanctions and the fake proxy war between the US and Russia I can't help but think the rest of the world ALSO sees it in even greater detail.

It's beginning to be an "us agin the rest of the world" situation with the 'them' being the BRICS+ forging a new world without the US and EU.

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We here are but plebes in the political landscape..

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^^^^ as long as the plebs support those that treat them as such, that they'll always be.

NEW ARTICLE: Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny’s US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death

"The Western media itself admits that Alexei Navalny founded “Democratic Alternative.” US cables admit “Democratic Alternative” was being funded by the US government through the NED*. The Western media itself admits the US government funded organizations like this to implement regime change inside targeted countries – in this case Russia.

Alexei Navalny was aiding in Russia what the US government had already done in Georgia in 2003, leading eventually to NATO-trained troops attacking Russia in 2008, and did again in Ukraine in 2014, leading to NATO-armed and trained forces killing Russian-speaking Ukrainians along Russia’s borders and threatening to attack Crimea following a 2014 referendum resulting in its return to Russia."

READ MORE: https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/24/w...-us-funding-as-washington-exploits-his-death/

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Putin's Speech February 24, 2024

"Empire of Lies" speech - 24 Feb 2022

00:01 - About NATO expansion, and a changing world order
05:00 - Lawless interventions in Belgrade, Iraq, Libya & Syria
09:45 - Western support and funding of terrorism in the Chechen wars
10:30 - Imposition of unnatural pseudo-values and the degradation of society
12:00 - Unpreparedness and lessons of WWII, "We won't make the same mistake twice!"
15:30 - A red line was crossed with Ukraine
16:15 - Donbass Genocide: attempt to rectify the situation peacefully for 8 years
17:30 - Neo-Nazism and the threat to the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine
18:15 - Nuclear weapons for Ukraine are only a matter of time
20:00 - Announcement of Special Operation
21:15 - Victory in WWII is sacred and Russia will protect that freedom
22:30 - Address to the Ukrainian people
24:50 - ️ Important words for anyone who seeks to intervene externally
25:30 - Our future is in reliable hands...

Stas Krapivnink - Russians View on Avdeevka and Navalny​

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NEW VIDEO: Pentagon Admits Ukraine Aid Unsustainable + Why Neutrality is Ukraine's Only (Good) Option

Update on the conflict in Ukraine for February 25, 2024...

Russian forces have cleared Avdeevka, taking over a thousand Ukrainian soldiers prisoner, illustrating the disorganized nature of Ukraine’s withdrawal;

The US Department of Defense admits essential supporting elements for sustaining US weapon systems transferred to Ukraine were never provided, thus inhibiting the effective use of US arms by Ukrainians;

A fighting force makes up a small percentage of an overall military service because of the large amount of support infantry require on the modern battlefield. Without these supporting elements, a fighting force cannot sustain combat especially against a better supported force;

US military equipment is especially complex to sustain and maintain on the battlefield, a fact illustrated by US purchases of Russian helicopters for Afghan forces because US helicopters were too difficult to fly, maintain, and sustain;

The end game for Ukraine is particularly bleak considering the attritional nature of the conflict, Russia’s ability to outproduce Ukraine and its allies, and the unrealistic objectives Ukraine and its Western sponsors are attempting to achieve;

Attempts to focus on Russian military shortcomings while ignoring Ukrainian military shortcomings produces a fatally flawed perception of the conflict disallowing both the means and objectives of the fighting to be realistically evaluated;

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Ukraine Has Lost - Is Putin Wrong? - Netanyahu's Policy | Paul Craig Roberts​

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Putin’s Inability to Act Is Spinning the Ukraine Conflict Out of Control​

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What We are Witnessing in the Democrats’ Administration of Justice Is Totally Corrupt Weaponized Law Used As a Weapon​

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Two Years in, Russia's War on Ukraine Continues to Pose Threat to Global Security

Russia's invasion and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine is not just an assault on Ukrainian freedom and liberty, but also a threat to global order, U.S. officials said.

www.defense.gov

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"Russia's invasion and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine is today not just an assault on Ukrainian freedom and liberty, but also a threat to global order, said U.S. officials.

Two years ago today, on Feb. 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, Russia has failed to capture Kyiv, take control of the Ukrainian government, or stifle the spirit of the Ukrainian people."


First two sentences are fabrications... propaganda. No need to read more.

We all know NATO puppets lied to Putin about 'not one inch' on advancing toward Russia. They fortified Adiivka for 10 years with reenforced concrete bunkers preparing for war with Russia.

Ukraine has always been Russian. The threat to 'global order' is NATO. Saying Ukraine is an independent nation is like saying Palestine is an independent nation. Russia and Israel both agree.

Russia leaving Kyiv at the start of the SMO was part of an agreement, a 'good faith' gesture. Some say it was a 'feint' at the start, but I think the former was true.

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg affirmed Ukraine’s path to NATO membership and pledged ongoing support during his address on the second anniversary of Russia’s war with Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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Not making an accusation here. Just posting some food for thought.

Trump is Hiding Something w/ Putin, WHAT IS IT?​

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Stoltenberg assures that Ukraine will join NATO

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg affirmed Ukraine’s path to NATO membership and pledged ongoing support during his address on the second anniversary of Russia’s war with Ukraine on Feb. 24.

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This won't end well... they'll violate their 'rules' to bring Ukraine in. One of the 'rules' are the subject nation can't be involved in a war....

If you really want to know what's going on in Ukraine... follow this guy. He covers what's going on using both sides geolocated videos.

Latest News From Robotyne, Avdiivka, Bakhmut And Kupiansk Direction. Military Summary For 2024.02.25​

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