Re: #114 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Orange Man Bad]

You should know there's uuuuge difference between "Trump saying something" and "Trump doing something".

Trump saying something:



Trump doing something:

Attempted coup in Venezuela, attempted coup in Iran...

Maybe you missed the US politics lately and didn't notice what happens to people that express themselves against the establishment.
And those you mentioned are CIA/FBI workings - same ones that faked the 2020 elections. It doesn't mean that Trump directed them as he obviously had little control, with even military deceiving him and then bragging about it.
I'll stop here as it's clear for me it's impossible to change your mind.
Not sure why you bothered replying.

[KneelB4Zod!]

The_Real_Fly
@The_Real_Fly
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10m
Italian media: Rome will send Israeli-made anti-aircraft systems and drones to Ukraine.

[Mr Badger]

The US is not delivering Abrams to the Kiev regime from stock, but putting them in a long queue to be built, so they won't arrive for many "months or years".
The whole announcement is in reality just political flak and cover to push Schulz to relent on providing the Leopard https://t.co/O99YFrC6ZJ

— Mark Sleboda (@MarkSleboda1) January 26, 2023

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/NEIN_Es_reicht_Chat/9271

There is a video of what it would look like if bombs came down in Berlin. Unfortunately, I can't find a direct link.

Maybe something like this should be created for other European cities as well. It doesn't need that for the USA, Hollywood has already ruined the USA hundreds of times.

[KneelB4Zod!]

War Monitor
@WarMonitors
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1m
The United States and NATO have approached a dangerous line on the way to a full-scale military conflict in Europe — Russian Deputy Representative to the OSCE

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

Ballistic rocket strike near Chasov Yar. Reportedly a Tornado-S guided rocket. pic.twitter.com/pHhpKT1XL2

— LogKa (@LogKa11) January 26, 2023

[KneelB4Zod!]

VDV on Kremenaya front pic.twitter.com/1aIJGqMBVh

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) January 26, 2023

[KneelB4Zod!]

Ballistic rocket strike near Chasov Yar. Reportedly a Tornado-S guided rocket. pic.twitter.com/pHhpKT1XL2

— LogKa (@LogKa11) January 26, 2023

Iranian rocket strike Ukranians? People in video claim it has parachute. pic.twitter.com/4OtRTGdss5

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) January 26, 2023

[KneelB4Zod!]

Levi
@Levi_godman
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4h
Police released Serbs with Russian flags detained in Melbourne after failing to press charges.

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/colmacgregor/2309

https://t.me/senatordickblack/20

Great analogy #share

.............. 

Very funny video.

Besides, with Macgregor, as well as with Scott Ritter, a German Nazi writes with the most disgusting filth of comments.

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

Opytnoye south of Bahkmut has been captured and there is already video. It looks pretty well reduced to rubble. pic.twitter.com/iuFisX2kl1

— GraphicW (@GraphicW5) January 26, 2023

[khnum]

Russia and her allies should declare Blackwater/XE/Academi as a criminal organisation the US plays this game as well at the height of the war in Afghanistan there were 18000 contractors there

[Mr Badger]

I have posted this article in full as it's from PRESSTV and I don't know if everyone is able to access it without a vpn. It, along with RT, is banished from UK tv. I don't know what the internet situation is.

'Doomsday clock': 90 seconds to midnight
Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:08 AM  [ Last Update: Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:17 AM ]

By Pepe Escobar

The Doomsday Clock, set by the US-based magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight.  

That’s the closest ever to total nuclear doom, the global catastrophe.

The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and a group of sponsors – which includes 10 Nobel laureates – have focused on “Russia’s war on Ukraine” (their terminology) as the main reason.

Yet they did not bother to explain non-stop American rhetoric (the US is the only nation that adopts “first strike” in a nuclear confrontation) and the fact that this is a US proxy war against Russia with Ukraine used as cannon fodder.

The Bulletin also attributes malignant designs to China, Iran and North Korea, while mentioning, only in passing, that “the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, stands in jeopardy".

"Unless the two parties resume negotiations and find a basis for further reductions, the treaty will expire in February 2026.”

As it stands, the prospects of a US-Russia negotiation on New START are less than zero.

Now cue to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov making it very clear that war against Russia is not hybrid anymore, it's "almost" real.

"Almost" in fact means “90 seconds.”

So why is this all happening?

The Mother of All Intel Failures

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke has concisely explained how Russian resilience – much in the spirit of Iranian resilience past four decades - completely smashed the assumptions of Anglo-American intelligence.

Talk about the Mother of All Intel Failures – in fact even more astonishing than the non-existent Iraqi WMDs (in the run-up to Shock and Awe in 2003, anyone with a brain knew Baghdad had discontinued its weapons program already in the 1990s.)

Now the collective West “committed the entire weight of its financial resources to crushing Russia (…) in every conceivable way – via financial, cultural and psychological war, and with real military war as the follow-through.”

And yet Russia held its ground. And now reality-based developments prevail over fiction. The Global South “is peeling away into a separate economic model, no longer dependent on the dollar for its trading needs."

And the accelerated collapse of the US dollar increasingly plunges the Empire into a real existential crisis.

All that hangs over a South Vietnam scenario evolving in Ukraine after a rash government-led political and military purge. The coke comedian – whose only role is to beg non-stop for bags of cash and loads of weapons – is being progressively sidelined by the Americans (beware of traveling CIA directors).

The game in Kiev, according to Russian sources, seems to be that the Americans are taking over the Brits as handlers of the whole operation.

The coke comedian remains – for now - as a sock puppet while military control over what is left of Ukraine is entirely NATO’s.

Well, it already was – but now, formally, Ukraine is the world's first de facto NATO member without being an actual member, enjoying less than zero national sovereignty, and complete with NATO-Nazi Storm troopers weaponized with American and German tanks in the name of “democracy”.

The meeting last week of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group – totally controlled by the US – at the US Air Force base in Ramstein solidified a sort of tawdry remix of Operation Barbarossa.

Here we go again, with German Panzers sent to Ukraine to fight Russia.

Yet the tank coalition seems to have tanked even before it starts.  Germany will send 14, Portugal 2, Belgium 0 (sorry, don't have them). Then there's Lithuania, whose Defense Minister observed, "Yes, we don't have tanks, but we have an opinion about tanks."

No one ever accused German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of being brighter than a light bulb. She finally gave the game away,  at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg:

“The crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe because we are fighting a war against Russia.”

So Baerbock agrees with Lavrov. Just don't ask her what Doomsday Clock means. Or what happened after Operation Barbarossa failed.

The NATO-EU “garden”

The EU-NATO combo takes matters to a whole new level. The EU essentially has been reduced to the status of P.R. arm of NATO.

It’s all spelled out in their January 10 joint declaration.

The NATO-EU joint mission consists in using all economic, political and military means to make sure the "jungle" always behaves according to the "rules-based international order" and accepts to be plundered ad infinitum by the "blooming garden".

Looking at The Big Picture, absolutely nothing changed in the US military/intel apparatus since 9/11: it’s a bipartisan thing, and it means Full Spectrum Dominance of both the US and NATO. No dissent whatsoever is allowed. And no thinking outside the box.

Plan A is subdivided into two sections.

1. Military intervention in a hollowed-out proxy state shell (see Afghanistan and Ukraine).

2. Inevitable, humiliating military defeat (see Afghanistan and soon Ukraine). Variations include building a wasteland and calling it “peace” (Libya) and extended proxy war leading to future humiliating expulsion (Syria).

There's no Plan B.

Or is there? 90 seconds to midnight?

Obsessed by Mackinder, the Empire fought for control of the Eurasian landmass in World War I and World War II because that represented control of the world.

Later, Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski had warned: "Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition between Russia, China and Iran."

Jump cut to the Raging Twenties when the US forced the end of Russian natural gas exports to Germany (and the EU) via Nord Stream 1 and 2.

Once again, Mackinderian opposition to a grand alliance on the Eurasian landmass consisting of Germany, Russia and China.

The Straussian neo-con and neoliberal-con psychos in charge of US foreign policy could even absorb a strategic alliance between Russia and China – as painful as it may be. But never Russia, China and Germany.  

With the collapse of the JCPOA, Iran is now being re-targeted with maximum hostility. Yet were Tehran to play hardball, the US Navy or military could never keep the Strait of Hormuz open - by the admission of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Oil price in this case would rise to possibly thousands of dollars a barrel according to Goldman Sachs oil derivative experts – and that would crash the entire world economy.

This is arguably the foremost NATO Achilles Heel. Almost without firing a shot a Russia-Iran alliance could smash NATO to bits and bring down assorted EU governments as socio-economic chaos runs rampant across the collective West.

Meanwhile, to quote Dylan, darkness keeps dawning at the break of noon. Straussian neo-con and neoliberal-con psychos will keep pushing the Doomsday Clock closer and closer to midnight.

[khnum]

In Australian society there are many quiet achievers that feed the poor,tend to the elderly,keep our suburbs tidy,help handicapped and disadvantaged people so the obvious choice for Australian of the year is a 'body image activist' who tells us to be comfortable in our own skin even if your a fat useless 12 sandwich eating bastard.



When will this woke nonsense end

[Böhse Tante]

Here is a page on which you can access blocked pages. Pretty much at the top is a blue square where you can paste the blocked URL and then click "Gehen".

https://vpntester.org/freeproxy/

This website is made freely available by a German software company in Russia. They also offer very good free VPNs, all for international understanding. 

Here is the page in English. 

https://vpntester.org/en/contact-us/ 

In case someone has trouble with blocked pages. 

[刘汉]

Hungary should occupy Transcarpathia immediately to block this.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Clown show has just moved up a few gears:

EU is considering effectively borrowing frozen Russian assets, giving them to Ukraine for restoration purposes and then paying them back the principal with interest, in the future. pic.twitter.com/XCNKvcP9BD

— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) January 26, 2023

[刘汉]

War Monitor
@WarMonitors
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White House's Kirby: Abram tanks will take “many months” to arrive in Ukraine.

Or never arrive at all. It's an empty promise.

There is another point: If US would deliver Abrams via the Atlantic, Russia would have the right to control all ships and take them away (prize, Prise). According to  the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law 1856 (signed by Russia, but not by US) Russia is entitled to take all contrabande of war taken on foreign ships even if officially neutral.

More so:

As per Geneva Convention, Title XIII:
Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

That is why Russia should rather declare war as the rules that apply would be different.
Geneva Convention does not provide provisions for a SMO - whatever that is.

This means that if Russia declares war on Ukraine, the West assistance either must stop or an official war between Russian and all the Western countries involved will be effective.

Mistake:

Hague Convention XIII of 1907 (There numbers I-IV of 1899 and I-XIV of 1907, numbers I-IV are doubled, they don't have the same content.)

Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague13.asp

This is expanding and complementing the regulations of Paris 1856, that were restricted to maritime war. The Hague declaration are about warfare on land.

The Hague Conventions are about, who is fighting a war, the Geneva Conventions are about, who is not fighting a war.

[KneelB4Zod!]

-53℃! The #Daxinganling region recently broke the record for the lowest #temperature in Chinese history. See what it looks like.

Credit: Douyin user 82040558 pic.twitter.com/93ZT08lpk6

— QinduoXu (@QinduoXu) January 26, 2023

Holy shit, you don't even need to put ice to your Whisky!

[KneelB4Zod!]

Many accounts has been restored recently. Including Gleb Bazov's one (a.k.a. Slavyangrad). Interesting.

https://twitter.com/gbazov

[Böhse Tante]

-53℃! The #Daxinganling region recently broke the record for the lowest #temperature in Chinese history. See what it looks like.

Credit: Douyin user 82040558 pic.twitter.com/93ZT08lpk6

— QinduoXu (@QinduoXu) January 26, 2023

Holy shit, you don't even need to put ice to your Whisky!

This is global warming, it's freezing to death right now.

[Mr Badger]

Volume warning:

"Pantsir" shoots down HIMARS missiles

Next should be Russian ATGMs and tanks on "Leopards" and "Abrams".

Then Su-35 and S-400 on the F16. pic.twitter.com/fAsLdqSo0E

— AZ (@AZgeopolitics) January 26, 2023

[KneelB4Zod!]

Nuclear warhead capable...

"Malka" 203mm SP Guns doing its' thing at Ugledar frontline. pic.twitter.com/hNFVmabL4T

— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) January 26, 2023

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/12220

The leader of the "Ajnad al-Kavkaz", "Rustam Magomedovich Azhiev" aka "Abdul Al-Hakim al-Shishani" and his group left Idlib to join the "International Legion of Defence of #Ukraine" and were spotted fighting against #Russia in #Bakhmot.

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Video inside 

[KneelB4Zod!]

https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/12220

The leader of the "Ajnad al-Kavkaz", "Rustam Magomedovich Azhiev" aka "Abdul Al-Hakim al-Shishani" and his group left Idlib to join the "International Legion of Defence of #Ukraine" and were spotted fighting against #Russia in #Bakhmot.

............ 

Video inside 

Not surprising at all. All kind of extremist vermin will join NATO-led fight agains Russia in Ukraine. There's not enough Ukrainians already. So they need to import jihadists. Clever enough, Russia eliminated most of the headchoppers in Syrian operation. Otherwise, guys as Al-Shishani would be back in Europe...

[Orange Man Bad]

War Monitor
@WarMonitors
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4m
White House's Kirby: Abram tanks will take “many months” to arrive in Ukraine.

Or never arrive at all. It's an empty promise.

There is another point: If US would deliver Abrams via the Atlantic, Russia would have the right to control all ships and take them away (prize, Prise). According to  the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law 1856 (signed by Russia, but not by US) Russia is entitled to take all contrabande of war taken on foreign ships even if officially neutral.

More so:

As per Geneva Convention, Title XIII:
Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

That is why Russia should rather declare war as the rules that apply would be different.
Geneva Convention does not provide provisions for a SMO - whatever that is.

This means that if Russia declares war on Ukraine, the West assistance either must stop or an official war between Russian and all the Western countries involved will be effective.

Mistake:

Hague Convention XIII of 1907 (There numbers I-IV of 1899 and I-XIV of 1907, numbers I-IV are doubled, they don't have the same content.)

Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague13.asp

This is expanding and complementing the regulations of Paris 1856, that were restricted to maritime war. The Hague declaration are about warfare on land.

The Hague Conventions are about, who is fighting a war, the Geneva Conventions are about, who is not fighting a war.

Since I provided the quoted text I think it's quite clear that was a mistake.
I was just trying to add more weight to your original post but you decided it's fancy to try a slap.

Obviously, this is not a friendly place to be.
First Tante, then Zod, now you...

Seems it was a mistake trying to return here.

Good luck everyone!
Seems we'll all need it soon.

Signing off for good now.

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/putingers_cat/3742

I am looking for someone to help translate a video in Georgian Language.
I know this one is going to be a challenge but let's try. If you can help please email me to fearlessjohn1944@gmail.com

Thanks everyone.

Follow:
t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses


https://t.me/putingers_cat/3743

Please help Fearless John if you speak Georgian or know somebody, who does.

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[KneelB4Zod!]

War Monitor
@WarMonitors
·
4m
White House's Kirby: Abram tanks will take “many months” to arrive in Ukraine.

Or never arrive at all. It's an empty promise.

There is another point: If US would deliver Abrams via the Atlantic, Russia would have the right to control all ships and take them away (prize, Prise). According to  the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law 1856 (signed by Russia, but not by US) Russia is entitled to take all contrabande of war taken on foreign ships even if officially neutral.

More so:

As per Geneva Convention, Title XIII:
Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

That is why Russia should rather declare war as the rules that apply would be different.
Geneva Convention does not provide provisions for a SMO - whatever that is.

This means that if Russia declares war on Ukraine, the West assistance either must stop or an official war between Russian and all the Western countries involved will be effective.

Mistake:

Hague Convention XIII of 1907 (There numbers I-IV of 1899 and I-XIV of 1907, numbers I-IV are doubled, they don't have the same content.)

Art. 6.
The supply, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by a neutral Power to a belligerent Power, of war-ships, ammunition, or war material of any kind whatever, is forbidden.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague13.asp

This is expanding and complementing the regulations of Paris 1856, that were restricted to maritime war. The Hague declaration are about warfare on land.

The Hague Conventions are about, who is fighting a war, the Geneva Conventions are about, who is not fighting a war.

Since I provided the quoted text I think it's quite clear that was a mistake.
I was just trying to add more weight to your original post but you decided it's fancy to try a slap.

Obviously, this is not a friendly place to be.
First Tante, then Zod, now you...

Seems it was a mistake trying to return here.

Good luck everyone!
Seems we'll all need it soon.

Signing off for good now.

C'mon, you're welcomed here. Don't be so touchy. Let's get a pint and discusse more