Antony
Jedi Council Member
Youlik, our life here is such a ruse, that believing such a coincidence - ok.
Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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Beijing highlights US role in Ukraine conflict
"Washington instigated the crisis and is pushing for it to rage on, the foreign ministry has said""The US is the “initiator and biggest promoter” of the crisis in Ukraine, Beijing has said, commenting on Washington’s reported claims that state-run Chinese companies were providing non-lethal aid to Russia."
"If the US government actually wants to help the Ukrainian people and see the crisis end as soon as possible, it should “stop sending weapons and reaping the benefits of war,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Monday during a news briefing."
Beijing highlights US role in Ukraine conflict
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called out the US over its push to keep the fighting going in Ukraine
It's not like it's been news for a long time, but the almost unclouded sincerity of the hyena is captivating. And many people can tell you about "caring for prosperity". And Vietnamese and Libyans and Iraqis and Afghans. Where else has democracy taken care of, I haven't forgotten anyone?
30.01.2023 Новости с Украины: Американский спецназ добивает раненый экипаж нашей ГЕРОЙСКОЙ БМП. Карта боевых действий (20 видео) смотреть онлайн в хорошем качестве
Это уже как бы и не новость давно, но подкупает почти незамутненная искренность гиены. А уж про "заботу о процветании" многие могут рассказать. И вьетнамцы и ливийцы и иракцы и афганцы. Где там ещё демократия позаботилась, никого я не забыл?
Депутат Европарламента от Польши: «Россия представляет угрозу, и она должна быть уничтожена навсегда. Россия должна перестать существовать в сегодняшних границах, распад «агрессивной империи» принесет неоспоримые преимущества демократическим государствам Европы и Центральной Азии. «Не существует таких вещей, как российский газ, нефть, алюминий, уголь, уран, алмазы, зерно, лес, золото и т.д. Все эти ресурсы принадлежат отдельным народам, проживающим на этих территориях». Причём среди этих народов нет заведомо нет русских.
Запад должен установить контроль над богатствами России. Депутат предложила странам Запада продумать концепцию создания на пророссийской территории «свободных и независимых» государств, основой которых станут коренные народы. А западные страны будут «заботиться» об их «процветании».
Депутат Европарламента от Польши: «Россия представляет угрозу, и она должна быть уничтожена навсегда. Россия должна перестать существовать в сегодняшних границах, распад «агрессивной империи» принесет неоспоримые преимущества демократическим государствам Европы и Центральной Азии. «Не существует таких вещей, как российский газ, нефть, алюминий, уголь, уран, алмазы, зерно, лес, золото и т.д. Все эти ресурсы принадлежат отдельным народам, проживающим на этих территориях». Причём среди этих народов нет заведомо нет русских.
Запад должен установить контроль над богатствами России. Депутат предложила странам Запада продумать концепцию создания на пророссийской территории «свободных и независимых» государств, основой которых станут коренные народы. А западные страны будут «заботиться» об их «процветании».
If you're on Telegram, I highly recommend this channel. The animator has created a series of wickedly funny cartoons called "Fainting Pig" mocking Ukraine and it's relationship to the west.
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This is the latest one, though it's worth to scroll back and watch them all. You can see her technique and political sophistication growing by leaps and bounds.
TG channel Putinger's Cat often provides explanations for westerners who might not be up on all the cultural subtleties. Here is the one for the cartoon above, Putinger's Cat / Кот Путингера
СВО- Свинка В Обмороке
Свинка - это не вся Украина, а лишь ее безумная часть! Чат тут: https://t.me/+OpOT5IQt8o0wOGFi ГИФКИ:https://t.me/svinkinigifki РЕКВИЗИТЫ ДЛЯ МАТЕРИАЛЬНОЙ ПОДДЕРЖКИ КАНАЛА. СБЕРБАНК КАРТА: 4276300042728629 Сергей К
t.me
This is the latest one, though it's worth to scroll back and watch them all. You can see her technique and political sophistication growing by leaps and bounds.
TG channel Putinger's Cat often provides explanations for westerners who might not be up on all the cultural subtleties. Here is the one for the cartoon above, Putinger's Cat / Кот Путингера
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His explanation is that he wants to spend more time with his family, and taking care of his health, as well as feeling the emotional drain from being in his position:
Maybe you can invite him to join FOTCM.Important message about the blog from Andrei | The Vineyard of the Saker
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The Saker has decided to close up shop at the end of February.
His explanation is that he wants to spend more time with his family, and taking care of his health, as well as feeling the emotional drain from being in his position:
Sheeba
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I cannot decide for my self, how much is propaganda ? or is it a back story to this? Planting a spy? Miscredit the Wagner group? Giving optics here in norway? How easy is it to day to pass through a very surveiled and short border?
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Former Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline | CNN
A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview on Monday.
f1esk
Jedi Council Member
It seems that some deputies in the Polish government are so full of malice and greed that they have forgotten the history of their state. Poland was divided, it seems 5 times? How could Poland's participation in the conflict end?
Meme .In any incomprehensible situation - we divide Poland.
f1esk
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I cannot decide for my self, how much is propaganda ? or is it a back story to this? Planting a spy? Miscredit the Wagner group? Giving optics here in norway? How easy is it to day to pass through a very surveiled and short border?
Former Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline | CNN
A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview on Monday.
From the article:
He added that he wants to now share his story in order to help bring Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin to justice.
“Sooner or later the propaganda in Russia will stop working, the people will rise up and all our leaders …will be up for grabs and a new leader will emerge.”
Either he is a fool or these are not his words.
Earlier, Prigogine commented on this:
“Yes, indeed, Andrei Medvedev worked in the Norwegian battalion of the Wagner PMC, which is called Nidhogg, since he had Norwegian citizenship. Should have been prosecuted for attempting to mistreat prisoners. Detailed materials are available in the security service of PMC "Wagner" and prepared for transfer to Russian law enforcement agencies. So far, he has been on the wanted list. Be careful, he is very dangerous, ”the answer says.
Пресс-служба Пригожина
#1108 Запрос от редакции издания «Афтенпостен» и ответ: Евгений Викторович, Газета «Афтенпостен» (Норвегия) просит Вам ответить на наш вопрос. В воскресенье человек по имени Андрей Медведев заявил, что смог сбежать из России в Норвегию. Сейчас он находится в Осло. Медведев заявляет, что он...
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In addition, Prigozhin named the number of Norwegians who joined the Wagner PMC(5 January, 2023):
“Today we have 67 people from Norway. Of which two have dual citizenship, and one is a citizen of Norway and the United States. More than half of these Norwegians served in the NATO armies and, by the way, treat Stoltenberg with respect,” Prigozhin said.
Пригожин назвал число норвежцев, вступивших в ЧВК Вагнера
В ЧВК Вагнера числятся 67 наемников из Норвегии. Об этом в интервью норвежской газете Aftenposten заявил основатель ЧВК Евгений Пригожин (фрагмент интервью приводит его пресс-служба). Из Норвегии ...
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I cannot decide for my self, how much is propaganda ? or is it a back story to this? Planting a spy? Miscredit the Wagner group? Giving optics here in norway? How easy is it to day to pass through a very surveiled and short border?
Former Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline | CNN
A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview on Monday.
Just some thoughts:
The picture painted of the Wagner organisation in the article is chaotic; disorganised, directed through force and brutality.
But from all the info I’ve seen of the Wagner group, they have been one of the most - if not the most - effective and experienced military group in the world. If their structure and organisation was as it is portrayed in the article, I think they’d all be dead by now.
Another thing is that the recruits are portrayed as unwilling and forced to fight under threat of death. This also contradicts information I have seen about them before now. As far as I know, all soldiers who fight for Wagner are volunteers.
Next, the term ‘confession through projection’ looks like it probably applies here. We’ve had no indication at all over the last year that the Wagner group are as disgusting and evil as the article says, but we have seen many examples that all the accusations about them do actually take place in the Ukrainian military - people who don’t want to fight being forced to under threat of death and deserters being shot.
Finally, I’m sure those who fight against the Ukrainians, whether for Wagner or in the Russian military, have a very good understanding of the regime and the troops that they are fighting against and I just can not imagine any of them thinking they would be better off defecting. Plus, you know you are winning, and they are losing; why would you change to the losing side?
We have no way of knowing the real truth, but unless more information comes out to corroborate this picture of the Wagner group, from more reputable sources, I’m leaning towards this article as being propaganda.
Perhaps the man who was being interviewed was in the Russian military, and later fought with the Wagner group, and he decided that his ticket out of the war would be to lie about what he had experienced.
Austria decided not to send more weapons to Ukraine. In response perhaps, Zelenskye has sanctioned 2 Austrian banks operating in Ukraine and calls for seizure of their assets. (translated by Yandex)
The sanctions are apparently because those banks or rather their subsidiaries, deal with Russia as well as Ukraine according to Reuters:
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This paper is, I think a tabloid paper so it might be a little more nuanced than what is mentioned. I noticed that the commenters did not appear to have warm fuzzy feelings about this action from the Ukrainian side.
The sanctions are apparently because those banks or rather their subsidiaries, deal with Russia as well as Ukraine according to Reuters:
Austria's Raiffeisen says Ukrainian sanctions target its leasing unit
A Russian leasing unit of Austrian lender Raiffeisen Bank International is among the companies targeted by sanctions that Ukraine announced overnight, RBI said on Sunday.
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'Approaching to point of no return: If they send fighter jets to Ukraine, the conflict will be expanding across the EU.'
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30 Jan, 2023
France won’t rule out jets for Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the idea of sending fighter jets to Ukraine was “not excluded”
Biden comments on F-16 jets for Ukraine
The president ruled out sending F-16 fighters to Kiev, just as he had said about Abrams tanks – before changing his mind last week
Almost one year on. Sanctions still aren't working (perhaps the oil price cap will be different for some reason).
Russia really has weathered the storm since this time last year, and such a thing cannot be a result of sheer luck or coincidence, but strategy and preparedness a long time in the making. The comments on YouTube videos like this are very favourable and supportive towards Russia - the infamous bot farms again? I'm joking, of course - that was mostly disinformation. There's hope for people still. You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Even the IMF forecast the Russian economy to grow this year, and outperform the UK
UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 - IMF
Even sanctions-hit Russia is expected to grow this year, but the IMF says the UK is "on the right track".
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Scott Ritter - rough and ready though he is - still stands out as the smartest, most clued in military commentator. An in depth dive with the Duran in which he goes through the first year and pretty much maps it all out accurately, then onto the state of the battlefield shaping going on now and then on to what it all suggests the next steps are likely to be. Not prophesy but a lot of logic.
A monument appeared in Estonia, depicting Zelensky as the Statue of Liberty. It's made of sand, which is quite fitting in a way.
“The Tirva community built the Freedom Park, in the center of which stands a giant sand sculpture of President Zelensky of Ukraine. Tarvakas opened it in June 2022 and promised to keep it open until the victory of Ukraine,” said the head of the Estonian government Kaja Kallas.
