Tom_Q_Collins @194–
Pepe’s been suspended by Twitter, something he thought would occur weeks ago. He’ll be allowed back until he’s 100% banned.
Alberto @188–
Yes, that’s true, but the reason for the annexations was to create a buffer. Trying to take Finland was utterly foolish and caused Stalin to think because of that failure and distraction from the real threat that when the Germans invaded he fully expected to be shot and was very pleasantly surprised when he wasn’t. Oh, we shouldn’t forget the purge of Russia’s General Staff either. Many more Russians died than might have otherwise because of Stalin’s mistakes–almost mirroring Hitler’s dysfunctional generalship.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 24 2022 22:30 utc | 203

From MoD Russian Telegram Channel…
Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.
The incoming materials allow us to trace the pattern of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian bio-objects. The involvement of entities close to the current US leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of equipment to the Pentagon’s bio-labs around the world.
The scale of the program is impressive. The US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the military department. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.
Please note – the registration card confirms that it was 30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 settlements that were involved in full-scale military-biological activities in Ukraine.
The document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.
The registration card identifies the customer of the work, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as a list of biobjects.
As we have previously reported, the funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document states that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarised the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the US and its allies to export at least 16,000 bioassays outside Ukraine.
Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to Hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.
This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region.
Document review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK, the Loeffler Institute in Germany.
All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.
One of the US customers’ priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.
The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of US military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analysed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.
Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon’s research and its true purpose.
We know of examples where the US military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies.
Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the US Army’s Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.
The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We continue to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. We would like to point out that such work is prohibited within the US and is carried out by the military department outside the US.
Earlier mention was made of the UP-8 research, which involved more than 4,000 people. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalised.
The documents received confirm the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.
What makes the US sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.
Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the US administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the US Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities.
The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.
We would like to draw attention that the number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.
We believe that in the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the US biolaboratories as part of the international investigation.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 24 2022 22:35 utc | 205

now this, to me, is more than just a little bit interesting – ‘annexation’ is on the table now!?
anyone here care to comment on this tidbit?
https://t.me/intelslava/23389
The Ukrainian leadership missed its chance for a sovereign state, – the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
“They have already missed the main chance for the existence of Ukraine within their own borders, a sovereign Ukraine, an independent Ukraine,” she said.
If you read between the diplomatic lines and Zakharova does not carry a gag, then this can be understood in such a way that a course has been taken for the annexation of Ukraine.
91.2K views Mar 24 at 10:10

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 24 2022 22:39 utc | 207

Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2022 22:20 utc | 198
My search for “The Lobster for Hess” returned a lot of stuff I am pretty confident you were not referring to.
Can you be more specific as to what you are referring to? Also curious to read about the reason for your moniker.

Posted by: David F | Mar 24 2022 22:49 utc | 209

Posted by: pppp | Mar 24 2022 22:21 utc | 199

Methinks none of you lived in Poland under Soviet rule so you are free to talk BS about things you have no clue of.
Haters gonna hate.

Ok, so why do you hate Russians then?
Because it covers too much of the map? A bit of envy eh?
And btw since Poland was was not a member of Soviet Union, it was under ‘Soviet’ rule as much as today Poland is under ‘Brussels’ rule.
Well, actually, Poland was under a soviet rule, but those were your own councils, right?
The point is: you want to paint yourselves as innocent victims, but you were actually quite active participants in that project.
Don’t be ashamed, be proud, you little field mouse.
Smrt fašizmu!

Posted by: hopehely | Mar 24 2022 23:00 utc | 211

In other news, Donald Trump is suing Hillary Clinton
‘Former US President Donald Trump has sued Hillary Clinton, the Democrats, their lawyers, former FBI employees and everyone connected to the “Steele Dossier” for conspiracy to falsely accuse him of “collusion” with Russia in 2016, and undermining his presidency afterwards.’
Source is RT, the counter source for the Western media putsch for hearts and minds.
The legal action bears the title Arsehole 1 vs. Arsehole 2. Should I laugh or weep? Or both.
It’s a very strange world we live in, Master Jack.
No hard feelings if I never come back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8
I read my country is now following in the footsteps of the US, as in being a War profiteer. Our dear leader is nothing more than a shiny face with a hand up his back. For the first time, I’m thoroughly ashamed of my Country. Been close before, but now I have nowhere to go to fob off the truth.
“Oh, the year was 1778
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
A letter of marque came from the king
To the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen
God damn them all! I was told
We’d cruise the seas for American gold
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears
But I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett’s Privateer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
And they say we are now a civilized entity, not like those who came before us. My gosh we even do Gay Pride! How civilized is that?
Stan Rogers was a unique talent, he died young in a plane crash. I miss him. He was a patriot. Step out of your box for just a wee bit of time. See One Warm Line.An artist, a Patriot, a humanist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIjFpwsXhuI
Ottawa Citizen MSM journalist quoted a Canadian Pilot who took part in the NATO attacks in Libya, and he said “We were Al Qaeda’s Air Force”
There is no way to reconcile these things. Yet, I still love my Country in spite of Arsehole 1 vs. Arsehole 2. and the dummy we currently call a leader, in Ma Kuntry..channeling Borat.
My old bro who was an ex copper and a nasty piece of work would have called the Bronfman’s boy a shiny face. And he would have been right. He was a weird guy in many ways, but I think much changed for him when he was a fresh faced copper and had a young woman come to him seeking help for incest and hoping to protect her younger sister. He did some research in the copper files and was taken back by the volume of complaints of incest in the jurisdiction he was part of.
The official position of the politico’s of the time was, it was a family matter and a Church domain. Now we have me too. Just say it, and it must be true.
Entrenched positions may best be described by the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ‘An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
You know what? As howey Mandel might say, I don’t really see humanity progressing a whole lot at the end of day. Dear leaders talk the talk, but they don’t delver the walk.. They are still stuck in the times Stan Rogers sang about, A Letter of Marque Came From the King, to the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen
But do carry on with your analysis, if it makes you feel better.
And Jesus wept.

Posted by: bubbles | Mar 24 2022 23:10 utc | 213

All three of Kiev Mayor Klitschko’s children are American citizens born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A son was born in 2000, a daughter in 2002, and another son in 2005, making them now ages 22, 20, and 17.

Posted by: susan mullen | Mar 24 2022 23:12 utc | 215

March 24, 2022
“US Dollar and Kinzhal”
lastest Video from Andrei Martyanov
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 24 2022 23:15 utc | 217

Posted by: Goran | Mar 24 2022 22:55 utc | 208

Hog wash. Tito marked ethnicity in the ID cards of their holders. Croat – H, Muslim – M, the Serbs had no ethnicity in their ID cards and that in itself identified them.

Are you sure that M stood for a Muslim and not for a Macedonian or perhaps, Hungarian? 😛
And that hypothetical S, would that designate a Serb, Slovenian, or Slovak maybe, hmmm?

Posted by: hopehely | Mar 24 2022 23:21 utc | 219

The US west is starting to look desperate. Massive propaganda operation to try and bury bio weapons, Kinzal demo plus other assorted firepower. India China, gulf head choppers all telling US//UK where to go, trying to be best buddies to Iran and Venezuela. At the moment it looks a toss up if next move is a major false flag in Ukraine or to dig the hole deeper by sanctioning China.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2022 23:38 utc | 221

It is useful to read for those who do not yet know how the Ukrainian propaganda of lies works.
Posted by: alaff | Mar 24 2022 15:20 utc | 42
I saw a great graphic somewhere displaying opinions on the Ukraine war by Covid vaccination status. Surprising nobody, the folks who believed all the news on Covid also believe all the news spin on Ukraine. Those who were skeptical on Covid, are also skeptical on Ukraine.
Mainstream liberals tend to be very trusting of government and

… You must be a special kind of stupid.
Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/
“Dictatorship of the worst kind” – Trudeau lambasted by European parliamentarian | True North https://tnc.news/2022/03/23/dictatorship-of-the-worst-kind-trudeau-lambasted-by-european-parliamentarian/
Croatia on Russian sanction list – “we can be proud” states Prime Minister – The Dubrovnik Times https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/news/croatia/item/13202-croatia-on-russian-sanction-list-we-can-be-proud-states-prime-minister
Vaccine Hesitancy in Ukraine: The Sign of a Crisis in Governance? | Wilson Center https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/vaccine-hesitancy-ukraine-sign-crisis-governance
Mortality Analyses https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

For the twenty countries currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide, the bars in the chart below show the number of deaths either per 100 confirmed cases (observed case-fatality ratio) or per 100,000 population (this represents a country’s general population, with both confirmed cases and healthy people). Countries at the top of this figure have the most deaths proportionally to their COVID-19 cases or population, not necessarily the most deaths overall.

Cases and mortality by country
Country Confirmed Deaths Case-Fatality Deaths/100K pop.
United States 79,844,430 974,830 1.2% 296.99
India 43,014,687 516,672 1.2% 37.81
Brazil 29,738,362 658,286 2.2% 311.91
France 24,683,075 142,362 0.6% 212.29
United Kingdom 20,669,099 164,712 0.8% 246.45
Germany 19,217,142 127,324 0.7% 153.16
Russia 17,408,475 358,510 2.1% 248.32

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 24 2022 23:49 utc | 223

Yes, this is OT, but very important. Yves wrote this today about the ruble payment issue, and Michael Hudson made the following comment:
“Your explanation was wonderfully clear, Yves. I’ve circulated it to my UN colleagues after a morning meeting with the Near East and India for a meeting. They are seeing dedollarization as a means of de-indebting themselves, especially in view of the rising energy and food prices that will make payment of their foreign debt impossible. The IMF is trying to give them SDRs to pay dollar bondholders, but the representatives I spoke with today look forward to a Eurasian-backed alternative set of institutions to the IMF and World Bank, starting with a kind of Clean Slate. That was their motive for inviting me to the meeting. The amazing thing is that it is the US itself that has chosen to dedollarie the world — and perhaps with it, its dollarized debt burden for the Global South.”
I wish I had this info yesterday in our discussion with Hudson–Damn!!

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 24 2022 23:52 utc | 225

@David F | Mar 24 2022 20:30 utc | 174
thanks! might be the same women for all i know!
@ oldhippie | Mar 24 2022 20:52 utc | 178
i agree with you – racism, pure and simple… i liked the story you gave serving for gorby…
@ Cabe | Mar 24 2022 21:42 utc | 187 / 192
thanks! i really appreciate your articulate and informed view of this.. i am going to share your response to her and will let you know her response.. she is really a very nice lady- all light and happiness on the surface, but the prejudice and etc – hidden under the surface until the topic is raised on the ukraine – russia situation.. it really is the west under usa-nato verses the russian perspective… it is hard to impossible to change peoples minds and i haven’t even tried with her! she loves jazz and met me as a drummer playing it.. as it happens her brother is also a jazz drummer in poland, so we have a nice relationship for this and other reasons… however, we don’t talk politics and i have told her i identify with russias position much more then the west.. i try to just leave it at that and she accepts that.. fortunately her brother also sees it the same and he lives in poland! i will give her your response and get back to you on her response if she provides one.. i think she will!
@ Lolgege | Mar 24 2022 22:09 utc | 193
of course, that is how i see it as well, as do many here at moa… thanks..

Posted by: james | Mar 24 2022 23:56 utc | 227

Posted by: ptb | Mar 24 2022 15:47 utc | 48
Saw something on a Telegram channel IIRC that this is a new jamming pod that the Russians are using to jam Ukrainian air defense. Which may be why a number of Ukrainian S-300 have been destroyed in the last day or so. Makes sense – Russia built the S-300, they should know how to jam it.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 25 2022 0:34 utc | 229

Posted by: Boo | Mar 24 2022 16:14 utc | 65
I saw that. If that actually reflects Russia’s thinking, everyone is in for a surprise. Russia will likely annex ALL of Ukraine – including western Ukraine. That will boggle most people’s minds.
Note: This is still not an “occupation” in the conventional sense. Russia would rely on a new Ukrainian “administration” to control the country, i.e., a “puppet regime.”
I still doubt this, but the difference between my conception of what will occur and this idea is not entirely clear.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 25 2022 0:39 utc | 231

Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia
March 23, 2022
Two leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed the lies of mainstream media about how Russia is conducting the Ukraine war in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict, writes Joe Lauria.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war.
President Joe Biden is caught in the middle of the fray. So far he is siding with the Defense Department, saying there cannot be a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”
“President Biden’s been clear that U.S. troops won’t fight Russia in Ukraine, and if you establish a no-fly zone, certainly in order to enforce that no-fly zone, you’ll have to engage Russian aircraft. And again, that would put us at war with Russia,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this month. (The administration plan is to bring down the Russian government through a ground insurgency and economic war, not a direct military one.)
But pressure on the White House from Congress and the press corps is unrelenting to recklessly bring NATO directly into the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, hailed as a virtual superhero in Western media, has vacillated between openness to negotiating a peace settlement with Russia and calling for NATO to “close the skies” above Ukraine. To save his country he appears willing to risk endangering the entire world.
Meanwhile, Western corporate media, depending almost exclusively on Ukrainian sources, report that Russia is losing the war, with its military offensive “stalled,” and in frustration has deliberately targeted civilians and flattened cities.
Biden has bought into this part of the story, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.” He has also said that Russia is planning a “false flag” chemical attack to pin on Ukraine.
But on Tuesday, the Pentagon took the bold step of leaking two stories to reporters that contradict those tales. “Russia’s conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage—and it reveals the Russian leader’s strategic balancing act,” reported Newsweek in an article entitled, “Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why.”
The piece quotes an unnamed analyst at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) saying, “The heart of Kyiv has barely been touched. And almost all of the long-range strikes have been aimed at military targets.”
A retired U.S. Air Force officer now working as an analyst for a Pentagon contractor, added: “We need to understand Russia’s actual conduct. If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict.”
The article says:
“As of the past weekend, in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons in the first day of the 2003 Iraq war). …
A proportion of those strikes have damaged and destroyed civilian structures and killed and injured innocent civilians, but the level of death and destruction is low compared to Russia’s capacity.
‘I know it’s hard … to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is,’ says the DIA analyst. ‘But that’s what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations.’”
A second retired U.S. Air Force officer says:
“I’m frustrated by the current narrative—that Russia is intentionally targeting civilians, that it is demolishing cities, and that Putin doesn’t care. Such a distorted view stands in the way of finding an end before true disaster hits or the war spreads to the rest of Europe. I know that the news keeps repeating that Putin is targeting civilians, but there is no evidence that Russia is intentionally doing so. In fact, I’d say that Russian could be killing thousands more civilians if it wanted to.”
These Pentagon sources confirm what Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense have been saying all along: that instead of being “stalled,” Russia is executing a methodical war plan to encircle cities, opening humanitarian corridors for civilians, leaving civilian infrastructure like water, electricity, telephony and internet intact, and trying to avoid as many civilian casualties as possible.
Until these Pentagon leaks it was difficult to confirm that Russia was entirely telling the truth and that corporate media were publishing fables cooked up by Ukraine’s publicity machine.
No Evidence of Chemicals
The second article directly undermines Biden’s dramatic warning about a false flag chemical attack. Reuters reported: “The United States has not yet seen any concrete indications of an imminent Russian chemical or biological weapons attack in Ukraine but is closely monitoring streams of intelligence for them, a senior U.S. defense official said.”
It quoted the Pentagon official as saying, “There’s no indication that there’s something imminent in that regard right now.” Neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post published the Reuters article, which appeared in the more obscure U.S. News and World Report.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story — even if it could lead to the most devastating consequences in history.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/pentagon-drops-truth-bombs-to-stave-off-war-with-russia/

Posted by: daffyDuct | Mar 25 2022 1:00 utc | 233

@james | Mar 24 2022 18:59 utc | 145
“Polish people suffered more cruelty from russian/soviet army/administration than from more civilized, westerners Germans….”
Six million Poles died under Nazi occupation 1939-1945. How many millions died between 1945-1989??? How many Poles would be alive after 50 years had the Nazi occupation continued until 1989? Do the math.
“Russians… still represent asian cruelty…. Soviets and Stalin were pure savages, or better: beasts.”
She could be quoting from *Mein Kampf* here.

Posted by: Vintage Red | Mar 25 2022 1:02 utc | 235

@ bubbles | Mar 25 2022 0:57 utc | 230
i agree with you about the divisiveness and prefer the various shades of grey.. nothing is black and white, but in the world today we are encouraged to think in these black and white only ways… you’re in scotland right? i seem to remember you saying that, or was it a canuck with scottish ancestry? my dads family is from kintail next to the isle of skye… that was a very long time ago.. we came to canada in 1796 on ship mcdonald.. i did a whole music project taking gordon lightfoots songs and putting them in a jazz context back in 2017.. i made a cd of it too and have toured this music mostly on vancouver island and 3 different times over in vancouver.. i have a stan rogers songbook here that i have yet to play all the way thru… being a 2nd rate piano player, i can do it, but both of these songwriters are mostly known via the guitar, not the piano..
@ Vintage Red | Mar 25 2022 1:02 utc | 233
people are funny… they get attached to their views and no matter how much information they are given to challenge their views, the attachment to the old view remains in place… i suppose this is why people will go along with an unhealthy situation much longer then one would think they would tolerate… when it comes to opinions – we all have them… i try not to get too attached to them myself… i sent her @ cabes latest comments.. if she replies, i will share her reply… cheers
karlof1 @ 223…. thanks again for that.. others would benefit from reading it. it lays it out fairly well.. it is especially interesting where india sits in all of it too…

Posted by: james | Mar 25 2022 1:24 utc | 237

What Soviets did should not be blamed on Russians. The Russians were the first and foremost victims of the Bolsheviks. Read Solzhenitsyn.

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 25 2022 1:27 utc | 239

Didn’t Poland have sovereignty before the 18th century partitions?

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 25 2022 1:37 utc | 241

At the USNATO summit press briefing, President Biden stated this in answer to a question.:

My reply to Biden:
We don’t have to imagine it. We did see it happening somewhere else, with your blessing! We witnessed it in February 2014 in Kiev on the Maidan, when rioters stormed the legitimate government, and policemen and people got killed by Nazi snipers!
And what did you do? You sided with the coup and Neonazis (just like you accuse Trump of doing). Worse, Victoria Nuland was directly involved in the installment of a puppet government in Kiev, with the U.S. government funding that coup to the tune of Billions.
Nazis, who also carried torches and chanted racist rhymes on the streets of Ukraine, were involved in the storming and overthrow, and ever since have grown in influence in the Government and military of Ukraine.
President Biden, quit pouring fuel on the fire by arming Nazis that are using Ukrainian civilians as human shields like they did on the Maidan back in 2014. Thanks to you and Victoria Nuland, Ukraine is infested with Nazis at all levels. So please take that hypocritical, smug political pitch and put it where the sun don’t shine.
How ironic that Biden sees himself as an anti-Nazi defender while pouring billions in weapons into Ukraine where Nazi influence is rampant.
Putin is the only one preventing Nazis from ascending to power militarily.

Posted by: Circe | Mar 25 2022 1:51 utc | 243

David F @207
The scholarly Lysias@ 236 answers the question re Lobster Magazine (I was wrong to call it The lobster), which is a web magazine edited by Robin Ramsay. It describes itself as a Magazine of Politics, Parapolitics, History. It is often very good, usually superb but occasionally very wrong. In a word it is essential reading.
I can’t find the article that I was thinking about but, as I recall, Hess met in Lisbon with the Duke of Gloucester (I think) before the famous flight. He got the impression that he would receive a warm welcome in the UK… At any rate whatever the details, there is nothing wild about Pepe’s theory- here is a wiki excerpt..
“With the British Expeditionary Force in retreat to Dunkirk and the fall of France seemingly imminent, Halifax believed that the government should explore the possibility of a negotiated peace settlement. His hope was that Hitler’s ally, the still-neutral Italian dictator Mussolini, would broker an agreement. When a memorandum proposing this approach was discussed at the War Cabinet on 27 May, Churchill opposed it and urged his colleagues to fight on without negotiations. He was supported in the war cabinet by its two Labour Party members, Clement Attlee and Arthur Greenwood, and also by the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, who as leader of the Liberal Party was co-opted to the war cabinet for its meetings about the proposed negotiations. Churchill’s biggest problem was that he was not the leader of the Conservative Party and he needed to win the support of ex-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, without which he could have been forced to resign by the large Conservative majority in the House of Commons…”
The book I recommend is Lukacs, John (1999). Five Days in London: May 1940. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08466-5.
As to Ernest Bevin, the illegitimate son of a dockworker in Bristol who spent part of his childhood in Devon. He became the leader of the TGWU- a Union in the days when the UK had them- and in the Churchill coalition, Minister of Labour. In the Labour government he was Foreign Secretary and is remembered inter alia, for opposition to the Zionists. He was a right winger but unlike the current crop, not a traitor to the people. In my view it was Bevin- and the millions of working people he spoke for- who tipped the scales and insisted that there be no accommodation with the Nazis.

Posted by: bevin | Mar 25 2022 2:05 utc | 245

@james | Mar 25 2022 1:24 utc | 235
“people are funny… they get attached to their views and no matter how much information they are given to challenge their views, the attachment to the old view remains in place…”
That they do. I’ve heard it said that often with any entrenched worldview under challenge from its inadequacies or inner contradictions it’s often necessary for the older generations invested in it (materially, ego-identification, however) to literally pass away before a new worldview, carried to the fore by the younger generation, can replace it.
Wonder what it’s gonna take in the Western world…

Posted by: Vintage Red | Mar 25 2022 2:12 utc | 247

pppp@199
Much of what you write, including the assertion that the Red Army was preparing to invade Germany before Barbarossa is straight out of Goebbels and an apology for the attack on the USSR- one of the worst and most criminal military campaigns in history. In it over 3 million Soviet POWs were killed in camps with neither shelter nor rations, surrounded while the prisoners starved and died of exposure.
The story of the two Polish Armies, to which you refer, recruited from POWs in the USSR makes a stark contrast: one was repatriated to Europe and fought with great distinction as part of the British Army in North Africa, Italy and Normandy. It was the Poles who saved the day at Falaise. The other fought alongside the Red Army and took part in the, never to be forgotten, campaigns which rolled the Wehrmacht back to Berlin, liberating several actual death camps, including Auschwitz, on the way.
If you cannot see the difference between the fate of the Russian prisoners of the Third Reich and the Polish prisoners of the Red Army, I know that the Poles could. I used to work with them in England half a century ago where many had settled after the war, visiting Poland in their holidays.

Posted by: bevin | Mar 25 2022 2:44 utc | 249

you’re in scotland right? i seem to remember you saying that, or was it a canuck with scottish ancestry?
Posted by: james | Mar 25 2022 1:24 utc | 235
Ach laddie, sometimes I think the cranky Scot in my bloodline get’s the best of me 🙂 Alas there’s also Welsh, Englander and Dutch that I know of. Have one of those family history things done by an Aunt which claims a possible connection to a famous Boer General known for his guerrilla war tactics, but I think that was more fantasy than fact.
No shortage of bonafide Combat Veterans in the clan though, unlike the neolibcon chicken hawk tribe. I remember the few the months I was privileged to spend in the company of my Grandfather a Veteran of Galipoli, before he passed. He never spoke of his experiences but the few things he did say, poems he quoted, the look in his eyes when he spoke, conveyed a message I came to understand much better later in life. Combat Veterans rarely talk to anyone about the horror they experienced except to others who lived through the same and understood.

Posted by: bubbles | Mar 25 2022 2:52 utc | 251

From Colonel Cassad’s Telegram channel… Looks like the Ukrainian government is preparing to flee from Kiev…

The government of Ukraine has prepared for the evacuation from Kyiv. This is indicated by the decision (https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/39203) of the Verkhovna Rada to support amendments to two laws: “On Central Authorities” and “On the Legal Regime of Martial Law”.
In particular, if earlier the government could only be located in Kyiv, now the Cabinet of Ministers can move to any other city in Ukraine.
It is curious that this decision was made against the backdrop of loud statements by Zelensky’s office about counter-offensives (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/36124) in the capital region and surroundings (https://t.me/dtlive/46373) of almost the entire group Russian troops in the area of ​​Irpin (https://t.me/rybar/29564?single), Bucha (https://t.me/zakharprilepin/6485) and Gostomel (https://t.me/sashakots/30359).
The question arises: if everything is so good near Kiev, and in some areas the Russian troops are “thrown back” (https://t.me/stranaua/32756) for 70 km, then why are you creating legal grounds for the evacuation of the government?!

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 25 2022 3:03 utc | 253

bubbles | Mar 25 2022 2:52 utc | 249
for a Scot you’re not very cranky. I got to read my grandfathers diaries a couple of years ago. Joined up a enthusiastic volunteer. he was late getting in because he did not meet the physical requirements at the start but put in the last two years in the trenches of france and belgium. by the ed of the first year he had become a pacifist- or least, never again to go off to fight a foreign war. He had signed up to see it through to the end and that is what he did, but he never spoke of war after returning home. I looked into his war record some years ago when my father was getting on. Although he knew his father had been to france, he never knew anything about his fathers two years on the western front. My father would have been in his late eighties when my sister told him about it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 25 2022 3:19 utc | 255

@ Vintage Red | Mar 25 2022 2:12 utc | 245
well if nothing else i get an education here at moa with the many insightful posters… perhaps one can never learn enough, or as the tao teh ching says – the further you go, the less you know… we do what we can with what we have…
@ bubbles | Mar 25 2022 2:52 utc | 249
my wife says i have generational trauma from the highland spirit inside me that was kicked off the land and forced to come to canada.. not much choice in the matter.. i have read up on the highland clearances… it wasn’t an easy transition, but maybe it beat all the clan wars that i’ve read up on as well.. i guess it is a scottish thing to be cranky… i had a lot of that in me when i was younger and fought against everything.. my outer persona here at moa doesn’t convey any of this.. i have mellowed with age and apparently learned how to pick my battles… thanks for your personal stories and links to the past… i can confirm some of what you say first hand..
@ Jen | Mar 25 2022 3:04 utc | 252..
also we can know for sure that the west under usa leadership will not go along with any of it and continue to try to push russia into a corner and box it in… this way of processing russia will eventually fall apart.. not sure how long that will take… none of these bootlickers inside nato had the balls to say no to ukraine.. they couldn’t and can’t.. they are consequently all in it for the ride here forward…

Posted by: james | Mar 25 2022 3:39 utc | 257

I can’t catch any news on the Azov Regiment — are they finished? TIA

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 25 2022 3:42 utc | 259

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 25 2022 1:27 utc | 237
My reading of Solzenitsyn is slightly different: Russians did the most suffering, yes – he says that, but he also says that Russians themselves are responsible for the Soviet system, he does not blame any other, the others were important but the ultimate responsibility lays with Russians themselves.

Posted by: bystander 04 | Mar 25 2022 3:49 utc | 261

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 25 2022 3:42 utc | 257
Not quite, apparently. Not long now for those in Mariupol.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 25 2022 3:51 utc | 263

Posted by: librul | Mar 24 2022 18:12 utc | 118

The “1812 Overture” will be banned from playing at 4th of July celebrations this year.

The 1812 Overture was for a long time used in the Australian army’s recruitment propaganda (complete with a whistled snippet at the end over visuals of happy blokes in camo in the bush). As I have been out of the country for two decades, I don’t know if it was ever replaced. I suspect not, as it was “iconic”.
No guesses as to whether it has been axed now, of course.

Posted by: Herr Ringbone | Mar 25 2022 4:04 utc | 265

Nuland in India. What did she achieve? US can buy used Russian/Soviet style weapons and spare parts from India and give it to Ukraine to help there.
Rather meagre result, seems.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-must-stand-against-autocracies-like-russia-and-china-senior-us-official/article65248954.ece

Posted by: bystander 04 | Mar 25 2022 4:05 utc | 267

@bystander 04 265
re: Nuland unsuccessful in India.
1. It encourages China to stay with the program, although they don’t probably really need it.
2. It reminds me of when Hillary went to India as SecState promoting Arkansas’s WalMart. I checked, India still doesn’t have WalMart.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 25 2022 4:15 utc | 269

Any ideas about what happened to the Orsk in Berdyansk? The Ukies claim to have set it on fire, but handling ammo & explosives is always dangerous by itself.
My pro-Russian pages have ignored it completely, disappointing, and making the Ukainian claim more likely.

Posted by: KP | Mar 25 2022 4:17 utc | 271

The multipolar world.
https://twitter.com/CaoYi_MFA/status/1507025046761459715
An Indian tearing strips off a yank ‘professor’. Worth watching.
Assad invited to Bahrain, Iran has a stand at Doha, India gives the middle finger to UK/US, Brazil goes straight to Russia to secure fertilizer what else is happening… oh yeah China tells US to go as – Martyanov puts it- fvck themselves.
The world has narrowed somewhat. NATO, Australia, Japan, South Korea. and South Korea is iffy.
Looks like my country is going to do the European bearded lady thing and sacrifice itself on yank greatness.
Our head clown threatening to sanction China… deep down Alice’s rabbit hole and safely wrapped in the world of insanity.
This very much fits where we are headed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOl0wRIIsWc

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 25 2022 4:22 utc | 273

Roger @ 134
If the Chinese news website Guancha is correct, which it mostly is, “China-India diplomatic relations will significantly ease and enter a recovery period.”
I was listening to an analysts and I liked this line – I put it in my own words because the original was not in English.
“Wise politics is not only how to deal with an enemy, but more importantly is how to deal with an ally so that to overcome differences that comes along the way.”
Iran wise politics with Russia when it comes to nuclear deal with the US.
China wise politics with Russia when it comes to supporting them.
And now lets see what will come of the wise politics from both China and India if diplomatic relations to enter a recovery period.

Posted by: Man | Mar 25 2022 4:26 utc | 275

Matt Dell on Twitter: “Just found out the BC public service pension plan has roughly ~450M invested in the Russian state owned or oligarch backed companies. Primarily oil & gas, banks and mining, including Gazprom. Divest this now! #bcpoli” https://twitter.com/mattdellok/status/1497369042314661888
Bloomberg on Twitter: “Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have been purchasing beaten-down corporate bonds tied to Russia in recent days, as hedge funds that specialize in buying cheap credit look to load up on the assets https://t.co/x8Lt0P24BB“ https://twitter.com/business/status/1499633770139377664

To the tune of Stompin’ Tom Conners’ Market Place theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt0qVqwDUUA
Yes they are the Banksters,
Of the Master Race,
Buying up the bargains!
In the ol’ market place. … 🪠 🤣`

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 25 2022 4:40 utc | 277

Better India-China ties would be a HUGE LOSS to the US’s Indo-Pacific program, with its title and also the the new label on the Pentagon’s force in the area, US Indo-Pacific Command reflecting US hopes that India (and the Indian Ocean) would now belong to the US also as reflected in the Quad — US, Japan, Oz and India — which was meant to be anti-China BUT China is never mentioned in any of their meeting summaries, probably India’s doing.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 25 2022 4:43 utc | 279

daffyDuct @ 231
The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war.
The great horror to the pentagram would be the pentagram actually having to face an adversary that matches them on many levels. They could make the attempt but their losses would be large scale. I am very certain the CIA has analysts saying the same thing but analysis not liked is sidelined when there is a political objective.
All the weapons NATO is dumping into the fray is for a long term insurrection. Large weapons systems would be easily located and destroyed. They do not want another Crimea where they just folded easily into Russia.
It sounds like the Russians are prepared to rebuild areas once secured. They will also have the ability to shut off the wild propaganda outlets and that will help immensely to bring a future peace in a partitioned Ukraine. Parts of the Ukraine may well see prosperity again.

Posted by: circumspect | Mar 25 2022 5:40 utc | 281

Divide and conquer has ended. Assad was invited to Bahrain, Iran exhibited its military products at Doha. India China understand divide and conquer. Turning of an era now I have to keep going to explain it to my kids who are raising their own families.
The rest of the world is aware of history and culture but the anglo world is not. All it knows is the destruction of cultures.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 25 2022 5:42 utc | 283

Mariupol, March 25, 2022

“Master Miller! Hallo, man!
Grind me that as quick as you can!”
“In with ’em!” Each wretched flopper
Headlong goes into the hopper.
As the farmer turns his back, he
Hears the mill go “creaky! cracky!”
Here you see the bits post mortem,
Just as Fate was pleased to sort ’em.
Master Miller’s ducks with speed
Gobbled up the coarse-grained feed.
Conclusion
In the village not a word,
Not a sign, of grief, was heard.
Widow Tibbets speaking low,
Said, “I thought it would be so!”
“None but self,” cried Buck, “to blame!
Mischief is not life’s true aim!”
Then said gravely Teacher Lämpel,
“There again is an example!”
“To be sure! bad thing for youth,”
Said the Baker, “a sweet tooth!”
Even Uncle says, “Good folks!
See what comes of stupid jokes!”
But the honest farmer: “Guy!
What concern is that to I?”
Through the place in short there went
One wide murmur of content:
“God be praised! the town is free
From this great rascality!”

Mariupol, 25. März 2022

“Meister Müller, he, heran!
Mahl er das, so schnell er kann!”
“Her damit!” Und in den Trichter
Schüttet er die Bösewichter.
Rickeracke! Rickeracke!
Geht die Mühle mit Geknacke.
Hier kann man sie noch erblicken,
Fein geschroten und in Stücken.
Doch sogleich verzehret sie
Meister Müllers Federvieh.
Schluß
Als man dies im Dorf erfuhr,
War von Trauer keine Spur.
Witwe Bolte, mild und weich,
Sprach: “Sieh da, ich dacht, es gleich!”
“Jajaja!” rief Meister Böck
“Bosheit ist kein Lebenszweck!”
Drauf so sprach Herr Lehrer Lämpel:
“Dies ist wieder ein Exempel!”
“Freilich”, meint’ der Zuckerbäcker,
“Warum ist der Mensch so lecker!”
Selbst der gute Onkel Fritze
Sprach: “Das kommt von dumme Witze!”
Doch der brave Bauersmann
Dachte: Wat geiht meck dat an!
Kurz, im ganzen Ort herum
Ging ein freudiges Gebrumm:
“Gott sei Dank! Nun ist’s vorbei
Mit der Übeltäterei!”

Source

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Mar 25 2022 5:58 utc | 285

What the Soviet film “Come and See” can teach us about Ukraine. It’s not necessarily what you think.
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/25/what-come-and-see-can-teach-us-about-ukraine/

Posted by: Ian Kummer | Mar 25 2022 6:09 utc | 287

I do not understand why Zelensky will not accept Putin’s terms. It’s so infuriating.
Crimeans want nothing to do with Ukraine and the people of Donbass want independence.
Who’s going to force them to be part of Ukraine? Even Biden has softened on the territorial part when asked about these terms in the Q&A at the NATO Summit. He said something like it was for the parties to decide and settle. He said nothing about territorial integrity.
All Putin’s terms are reasonable. For this he must be demonized day in and day out? So many Russian soldiers died because Putin has tried to spare the lives of civilian Ukrainians.
Now apparently, the Pentagon agrees that civilians were not deliberately targeted. I wish they’d all come to their senses and realize that Putin just wants security for Russia and what Russian-speaking people in Eastern Ukraine need.
It would spare everyone so much grief and hardship if Zelensky would face reality and concede to the facts on the ground.
It’s enough.

Posted by: Circe | Mar 25 2022 6:18 utc | 289

@Peter AU1 | Mar 25 2022 6:01 utc | 284
“what else do I say, The Asian century is here???”
It is. “The Asian Century is here” would make an excellent title with which Pepe Escobar might needle the PNAC… 😀

Posted by: Vintage Red | Mar 25 2022 6:25 utc | 291

Steve @ 9
Truth is like a puzzle of connecting dots. That was at least in my case. It does not come from confronting them with one piece of information because mostly likely you will reinforce there original belief. Only necessity or curiosity will make them sit to read or listen to connect the dots themselves. You can pretend you believe the MSM but with skepticism, then ask stupid questions in the hope it will tigger their curiosity.

Posted by: Man | Mar 25 2022 6:31 utc | 293

Amazing what a totally fallacious assumption of propriety covers for.
Nuke-Proof ‘Doomsday’ Boeing 747 Deployed to UK as Joe Biden Attends NATO Summit in Brussels https://sputniknews.com/20220325/nuke-proof-doomsday-boeing-747-deployed-to-uk-as-joe-biden-attends-nato-summit-in-brussels-1094170818.html
Finland to Send Additional Materiel to Ukraine Amid Russia’s Special Op https://sputniknews.com/20220325/finland-to-send-additional-materiel-to-ukraine-amid-russias-special-op-1094172289.html
For all intents and purposes Finland is at war with Russia. Or as somebody on Twitter said: The goalposts are of the pitch at this point.

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 25 2022 6:45 utc | 295

yep we are whities watcher, masters of the universe until it all ends of course. So many peoples in his world. so many cultures. you are Australian watcher. I am tired.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 25 2022 6:57 utc | 297

[Possible 🤭] Erratum @ | Mar 25 2022 6:45 utc | 293
… *off* the pitch …
What’s the score?

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 25 2022 7:07 utc | 299