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April 3, 2022
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2022-40

Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:

Propaganda:

  • Gonzalo Lira proves without doubt that four different Ukrainian propaganda clips with different actors were all filmed at the exact same location, a 'battlefield' with several long destroyed Ukrainian tanks –> Propaganda BTFO (video)
  • Yesterday evening a Ukrainian station showed a video of Ukrainian troops driving through Bucha, north of Kiev, with several 'dead' people lying in the street allegedly 'killed by Russians'. There are two difficulties with these claims:
    – One of the dead appears to move his arm: video
    – Bucha was declared 'completely liberated' of Russian troops by its mayor on Thursday, March 31. Are we to believe it would take three days for such an 'incriminating' video to come out? Or that those 'dead' were lying there for three days with no one bothering?


Other issues:

U.S. regime change drive in Pakistan:

Afghanistan:

I had written that, according to witnesses, most of the casualties of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport had come from U.S. soldiers shooting at civilians after the bomb exploded. The U.S. military had denied that. The Pro Publica report below finally proves it:

> “It sounded like a shooting range,” said one Marine who was knocked momentarily unconscious by the blast. “An overwhelming amount of gunfire, everywhere.” He hid behind the ditch wall until the tear gas gave him some cover, then sprinted into the airport.

One Marine thought he saw another gunman in a watchtower by the roof. He raised his rifle to take him out, when, suddenly, another Marine practically tackled him.

“It’s a fucking British guy!” someone else yelled, racing down the line to warn others. “Don’t shoot him!”

A Marine later told investigators that she began firing in the same direction as other troops. “I went in and saw a lot of Marines shooting” by a barrier, she said.

“There was a lot of smoke,” she said. “I couldn’t see where they were firing. They grabbed me, and I started firing my weapon as well. I don’t know what I was firing at.” <

Use as open thread …

Comments

Russian forces withdrew from Bucha on the 30th of March, with the local mayor confirming this in a video address a day later without mentioning “any local residents laying shot in the streets. The purported “evidence” of the incident emerged only four days after the withdrawal, when Ukrainian intelligence and representatives of Ukrainian television arrived in the town.
It has all the hallmarks of a Ukrainian staged event.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2022 12:54 utc | 301

Posted by: WJ | Apr 4 2022 12:43 utc | 296
That video i strange, instead of publishing the original video she is “refilming” it, recording how she views it instead. I wonder if that could actually be done to remove the original timestamps or audio…
The junction at 0:16 looks similar to https://aftershock.news/sites/default/files/u14743/teasers/cf91daddd9ddc47ee712d.png

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 12:55 utc | 302

The result of SMO are being wasted to the point that it would have been much better to cut the gas to Europe instead of waging such an ineffectual battle.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 4 2022 13:00 utc | 303

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2022 12:54 utc | 300
Unless I’m mistaken, there’s video evidence of bodies on streets dated from APril 1. See 296 above.
Possible that these bodies were the result of a battle or of shelling that happened prior to Russian withdrawal. Hard to see how these bodies could have been placed by Ukrainian shock troops that arrived a day later. Possibly two things being conflated?

Posted by: WJ | Apr 4 2022 13:03 utc | 304

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 12:55 utc | 301
That’s an interesting hypothesis. I am in no way qualified to judge whether this is going on. One of two things is happening, however:
(1) Either there is something fraudulent about the video listed “officially” as being posted on April 1
OR
(2) The narrative of what happened in Bucha between March 30, when Russia left, and April 1, when the video was shot, needs to be supplemented by information that is not yet known or understood.
What is clear is that the mayor of Bucha is probably unaware of whatever “event” is said to have occurred on March 31, when he makes his video. (Very possible he was not informed one way or the other by intelligence services for their own reasons.)
I don’t know how many videos there are of the atrocities in Bucha and whether they present to us all the same bodies, or different bodies, and how many bodies there are filmed total.

Posted by: WJ | Apr 4 2022 13:10 utc | 305

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1510954553478418433?cxt=HHwWgsC4_abK_vcpAAAA
If true, Russian forces have broken through Ukrainian frontline at Izyum and dont move to Slovyansk, but to Pavlograd. This means that the Russian encirclement is aimed at the entire Donbass front, not only parts of it, because going for Slovyansk + Kramatorsk would have meant splitting the Donbass front, Kramatorsk is the Ukrainian headquater and supply base (Dnipro in the rear). Interestingly, the Northern pincer didnt wait for Mariupol’s completion. So Ukrainian forces can technically still move south and out, which they wont do.

Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Apr 4 2022 13:11 utc | 306

But it seemed clear that the Special Military Operation was going to result in tens of thousands of dead Ukrainian forces.
So, surely Russia had some plan for how to respond to this?
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Apr 4 2022 12:51 utc | 299
War means deaths. This can not be totally avoided. But de-nazificaiton and war is not the same. If anything, de-militarization is much closer to the idea of war.
What are the plans and what are ctriteria to choose between plans is anyone’s guess.
The idea of “denazification” was problematic from get go. Because even USSR failed to do it comprehensively.
So my current guess is that the term would be defined retroactively after the crisis. “What we managed to do was it”.

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 13:12 utc | 307

(I’d have to really hunt to try and find sources for this but —)
Since the ‘90’s, the Canadian military at times conducts mass killings of civilians who are CIA operatives, with the support of the Canadian populace (who can figure out what’s going on). And back in the shining unipolar moment, biological weapons were at times referred to as “Canada’s nuclear weapons” (or some such term). I don’t know how it works in Europe, but it’s the OK Corral and the Wild West much of the time on this continent (maybe that initial genocide of all the peoples living here had something to do with it). So — for any Russians who hear Trudeau remark on killing civilians, please keep this in mind.
A CBC news report from the wild 90’s (Yeltsin era):
https://youtu.be/zMBJp0yJvsY
Just for the flavour of it.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Apr 4 2022 13:12 utc | 308

Posted by: c1ue | Apr 4 2022 10:34 utc | 267
Your post is absolute nonsense. You begin by stating that it’s unreasonable to demand payment in a currency such as the ruble, which is not “freely convertible”. First of all, the ruble is freely convertible, just like the dollar or the euro. Any foreign entity that wants to buy or sell the ruble can just go to to international FX markets and make an offer. Second of all, who decides in the first place whether a currency should be freely convertible? The issuer of the currency, in this case Russia. How the hell can a factor that Russia alone decides over be a reason for Russia not to take a certain course of action? Absolute insanity.
The root of your flawed reasoning seems to be that you think that currencies are natural, pre-existing phenomena, like natural resources. But they are legal instruments to settle debts. The reason that the ruble is hardly demanded on world markets (which is not the same as not being freely convertible, that is available to buy or sell to any foreign entities who do want to do so) is precisely that it is not required by non-Russian entities for settling debts (for example in transactions involving Russian oil and gas).
The yuan and ruble are, according to you, “not supported by banking infrastructure in the EU/US”. To the extent that is the case, why do you think that is? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the West could, until now, always pay for Russian oil and gas in dollars and euros, never needing to touch the ruble? Why exactly would the West provide infrastructure for an enemy country’s currency if they were not forced to? How can this possibly not occur to you?
Immediately your flawed assumptions and lack of understanding lead to the absurd claim that it’s “harmful” to de-dollarization to demand payment in currencies other than the dollar. That is obviously the complete opposite of the truth. The key to creating demand for the ruble is of course to demand that others buy it if they want to access goods they really need, such as Russian oil, gas and metals. If there is never any such need for alternative currencies, and on the other hand always the US threats of violence for not using the US dollar, there will not be de-dollarization in a thousand years.
All this has basically been pointed out to you, by me and others, numerous times already. Your response is always the reflexive and comical claim that we have not really read (or not understood) your post. Whatever the reason may be that you are completely incapable (or unwilling) of taking these points to heart, I just really hope that your insidious bullshit is fully ignored by other readers.

Posted by: Unnamed | Apr 4 2022 13:13 utc | 309

UNIAN ukromedia published “dead children” in Buch, then had to remove it.
https://t.me/mig41/16090
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/39560

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 13:18 utc | 310

The Russians left on the 30th
The mayor says there are no more Russians, it’s a beautiful day and he doesn’t mention any deaths on the 31st
The twitter video is from April 1st at 8pm
The police cleaned up on April 2 and there were no deaths on the street
The only explanation is that the street images are not of Bucha
Or the Twitter video isn’t from April 1st

Posted by: FZappa | Apr 4 2022 13:20 utc | 311

„ The idea of “denazification” was problematic from get go. Because even USSR failed to do it comprehensively.“
#306
Agreed. This is important. Despite all socialist ideology Stalin and Chruschow, the GDR and the USSR never tried to get fascism and nationalism out of the brains of all the people in sovjet states. After the braking up in 1991 this terribly hit back.

Posted by: njet | Apr 4 2022 13:22 utc | 312

The photo of the dead child above, comes from a (since deleted) article by Novaya Gazeta
https://web.archive.org/web/20220314013355/https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/12/nikolaev
which showed scenes from the morgue in the city of Nikolaev. The morgue was said to be running out of space due to victims from the conflict but this would have been in addition to the usual number of bodies it saw. How the victims died (from conflict due to Russian acts, from conflict due to Ukrainian acts, from regular non-conflict causes).
It is interesting that N-G chose to shut down because they were afraid of running foul of the Kremlin’s new rules. Yet, these rules only require that media do not present anything about the conflict that is not factual. Of course, this could be twisted as a tool for political purposes but surely it is a better standard than the EU’s outright banning of RT and other Russian news sources? Imagine how long a British paper would last if it began to actively promote the Russian side of things. Now imagine how much faster censorship would happen if Britain itself was directly fighting in the war.

Posted by: Brannagyn | Apr 4 2022 13:29 utc | 313

⚡️🇺🇦THE MAYOR OF NIKOLAEV SAYS THAT THE CITY IS UNDER FIRE
https://twitter.com/UKR_Report/status/1510971559724388354
I want to amend my previous posting. I thought that Russia would do a North-South pincer move to encircle the Donbass front at Pavlograd. But it is equally possible that Russia just moves south from Izym and uses the Southern forces for and advance on Odessa cutting off Ukraine from the Black Sea. Or the Southern pincer isnt aimed to connect with the Northern pincer at Pavlograd, but to move on Dnipro on the left bank of the Dnepr cutting off all Ukrainian forces to the right side of the Dnepr.

Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Apr 4 2022 13:33 utc | 314

The Times of Israel – April 2, 2022
Russia ‘categorically rejects’ accusations over Bucha killings
Kremlin suggests images of corpses are ‘fakes’ and ‘do not correspond to reality,’ calls for UN Security Council meeting to address ‘heinous provocation’

The Kremlin on Monday rejected accusations that Russian forces were responsible for killing civilians near Kyiv and suggested images of corpses were “fakes.”
“We categorically reject all allegations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
Peskov said that Russian “experts at the ministry of defense have identified signs of video fakes and various fakes.” . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 13:37 utc | 315

@Brannagyn | Apr 4 2022 13:29 utc | 312
Your link didn’t work try a “naked” link instead
https://web.archive.org/web/20220314013355/https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/12/nikolaev/

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 4 2022 13:39 utc | 316

@Norwegian | Apr 4 2022 13:39 utc | 315
Sorry, the preview was different from the final link. Oh well.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 4 2022 13:40 utc | 317

@314
I like the English used: categorically rejects, images of corpses, heinous provocation, video fakes and various fakes

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 13:41 utc | 318

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 4 2022 12:07 utc | 288
Thank you! I would enjoy MoA not drifting to racist or nationalist attitudes.

Posted by: njet | Apr 4 2022 13:47 utc | 319

Larry Johnson
Bucha Massacre? A Ukrainian False Flag?

. . .If the city was liberated on 31 March why are the bodies still lying in place three days later? Why were they not gathered up by grieving relatives? This report is having the predicable effect in the West–pundits and politicians are demanding a NATO military response. Russia is not fazed by this latest propaganda barb; it is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to present evidence refuting the charge.
One final point, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Fox News’ Bret Baer that the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has “fully integrated” with the Ukrainian military. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 13:52 utc | 320

Putin should really get the Nobel Prize in medicine:
From Sputnik
Russia Resumes Flights With More Than 50 Countries After Lifting COVID Restrictions
Prime Minister Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin announced on Monday that starting from 9 April anti-pandemic restrictions on charter and regular flights are to be removed.
“”First of all, I will say a few words about the document signed today, which was eagerly awaited by the air transportation industry and, of course, by our citizens – starting from 9 April, we are lifting the restrictions meant to fight the coronavirus infection, which applied to our regular and charter flights between Russia and a number of other countries”, he told legislators ahead of his report to the State Duma.”
The PM noted that since infection levels are going down, it is time to resume air travel with multiple friendly countries.
Russian citizens had access to flights to only 15 countries, but now they will be able to book flights to Argentina, Brazil, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Serbia, Turlkey, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and many other nations.

Question is: Will they fly western leased planes abroad or only Russian ones?

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 4 2022 13:53 utc | 321

Vzglyad Russian website – Yandex translation edited
Why Zelensky needs a fake about the “atrocities” in the Butch
Residents of the Kiev region were victims of a bloody provocation
April 4, 2022, 13:14
Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Text: Alyona Zadorozhnaya,
Daria Volkova
Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of “genocide” of Ukrainians. The reason for this was the events in Bucha, where many bodies of dead local residents were found after the retreat of Russian troops. The footage from Bucha caused a violent reaction from the media and Western politicians, who, following Kiev, accused Russia of mass murder. However, the Network immediately began to raise questions about inconsistencies in the Ukrainian version of what happened. Why are the reports about the “atrocities” of the Russian army in Bucha a lie and why was it needed?
For several days in a row after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev region, Ukrainian and Western media have been spreading fake stories about the alleged mass killings of civilians by the Russian military in Bucha. This city is located northwest of Kiev. In particular, the Ukrainian side claims mass shootings of people with their hands tied, rapes of women and looting.
The Russian Defence Ministry called these shots “another staging of the Kiev regime for the Western media.” The military stressed that all units left the city on March 30, and drew attention to the fact that on March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, confirmed in his video message that there was no Russian military in the city, “but he did not even mention any local residents shot in the streets with their hands tied.”
“Therefore, it is not surprising that all the so–called evidence of crimes in Bucha appeared only on the fourth day, when SBU officers and representatives of Ukrainian television arrived in the city,” the department said. They also pointed out that all the bodies of people whose images were published by the Kiev regime, after at least four days, have not stiffened, do not have characteristic cadaveric spots, and in the wounds on them there is uncoagulated blood. The ministry recalled that the southern outskirts of the city were constantly shelled by the Ukrainian side.
In turn, war correspondent Alexander Kots, who worked in the Kiev direction, expressed the opinion that the Ukrainian military shot civilians in Bucha because they wore white armbands, which during the presence of Russian troops served as an identification sign for the civilian population.
“And now pay attention to the screen, 22 seconds, on the body on the left is the same Russian identification mark. Having entered the Bucha, the Territorial Battalions grabbed people, dragged them into the basement, tortured them to find out information and shot them for “cooperation” with the Russian troops. And now they are passing off the people they killed as victims of Russian aggression,” he said in a statement.
At the same time, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said that “the fact that immediately after the withdrawal of Russian troops, the AFU subjected the city of Bucha to artillery shelling is deliberately hushed up in the United States.” He did not rule out that “this could lead to losses among the civilian population.”
Importantly, Russia quickly demanded the convening of a meeting of the UN Security Council on April 4 to discuss what actually happened in the Kiev region. According to Dmitry Polyansky, the first deputy permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, during the meeting the Russian delegation will “bring the presumptuous Ukrainian provocateurs and their Western patrons “to clean water.”
At the same time, “yesterday, in the worst English traditions, the British presidency of the UN Security Council did not agree to hold a meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Bucha,” therefore, “Russia today will again demand the convocation of the UN Security Council in connection with the criminal provocations of the Ukrainian military and radicals in this city,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian official has already called the incident “genocide”. According to Volodymyr Zelensky, he intends to create a special justice mechanism with the involvement of Ukrainian and foreign specialists. And the Foreign Minister of Ukraine demanded the introduction of “new destructive sanctions” against the oil and gas and banking sectors of Russia. At the same time, foreign experts still note the inconsistency of the accusations of the Ukrainian side.
“Time of death. Cause of death. The place of death. Answer these three questions for each of the bodies. And then start looking for the culprits. Before that, you are only literally spreading disinformation.”,
– said Scott Ritter, a former UN inspector overseeing the elimination of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. “A basic medical examination would answer three key questions. Let’s see if the Ukrainian side will provide verifiable medical data that would support its accusations,” the American stressed. He stated that objective observers should “wait for the results of the examination before naming the perpetrators.”
According to Russian experts, Bucha is another episode of the series, which is produced by Zelensky’s team in order not to lose support in the West. Before that, we had seen through the false story of the “Russian ship” off the Zmeiniy island, missile “strikes of Russia” on the centre of Kharkov, “strikes” on Babi Yar in Kiev, “attacks” on the maternity hospital and drama theatre in Mariupol, the myth of the “Ghost of Kiev” and many others.
A separate problem for the creators of the fake is the video of the entrance to the Butch of the National Guard soldiers who conducted operational filming of the situation on the streets. There are no “mountains of corpses” on the official photos of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and local residents do not report anything about “shootings” and “rapes”.
At the same time, when Zelensky talks about the need to involve Ukrainian specialists in the investigation of Bucha, it looks frivolous, because for eight years Ukrainian specialists have not investigated the circumstances of the deaths of people on the same Euromaidan and in Odessa on May 2.
“It is quite obvious that today there is a whole information war against Russia. However, for those who want to understand the situation, the lie becomes obvious,” Maxim Grigoriev, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, told the newspaper Vzglyad. According to him, at the moment the “fake machine” is just starting to work, but the first results are already visible.
“Here, in addition to the above-mentioned fakes, we also recall photos of a Ukrainian “Tochka–U” strike on Donetsk, which Western newspapers passed off as a Russian strike on Kiev,” the political scientist recalls and notes that similar cases occurred during “chemical attacks” in Syria, but over time this lie became obvious.
“Bucha is not the last fake.
It seems to me that we will still see violent scenes with dead women and children who will be exposed as victims of “Russian aggression,” Grigoriev admits. “As soon as the next “stuffing” happens, foreign journalists will immediately be on the scene,” the expert argues.
Special attention should be paid to the synchronous work of the Western media, replicating fakes, to which politicians react without any proceedings. This applies not only to Emmanuel Macron, who advocated additional sanctions against Russia, but also to a number of other figures, the most aggressive of which are Boris Johnson and Mateusz Morawiecki.
Moreover, the “Bucha fake”, according to experts, is designed not only to distract the West’s attention from the topic of torture and executions of Russian prisoners in Ukraine, but also to prepare public opinion for an even greater increase in arms supplies in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian blogger Yuriy Podolyaka believes.
“Another thing is that trying to tell someone the truth about Bucha is possible only if the other side wants to know this truth. We have been sentenced for a long time. The maximum dehumanisation of Russia is taking place, combined with the delegitimisation of the country’s authorities,” Alexander Malkevich, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, told the Vzglyad newspaper.
“At the same time, the Western “fake machine” does not work for Ukraine, but for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than $300 million has already been spent on creating and promoting fakes about the special operation and about Russia’s actions. And this does not include data for the last three or four days – there will certainly be another injection of funds. Ukraine does not have such money,” the source reminded.
“I suspect that there will be more than a dozen such stories as in the Butch, because the enemy’s task is to prolong the conflict and create an image of Russia from which we will not be able to escape for decades. Malkevich continued. –
In order to remove Russia from the world arena, Ukraine fits perfectly.”
“As for the recipients of this fake, the problem here is that it is difficult for an ordinary person to understand such news and footage. We analysed the video frames in detail and also noted the absence of characteristic medical signs that should be present in such cases. But who will delve into this in the West?” – the interlocutor is rhetorically interested.
“The calculation is made on the fact that the average person will see publications in the same Guardian newspaper, watch videos on YouTube and will be in a state of psychosis. This is the meaning of the technology of spreading fakes, which are then used by the governments of Britain and the United States,” adds Malkevich.
But despite the pressure from the West, Russia should constantly provide evidence refuting fakes, Grigoriev is convinced. “We have repeatedly refuted such accusations, including on the situation in Syria. We perfectly remember the campaign that was launched before the US war with Iraq. And today’s lies of the USA and Britain will be remembered for many years to come. So Russia should continue to defend the truth, especially at the UN venues,” the interlocutor believes.

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 4 2022 13:57 utc | 322

The US White House, State Department and Pentagon have nothing on Bucha. Not a word. State has an entry on “Massacre in Mali” is as close as they come.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 13:59 utc | 323

India Punchline, April 4
Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April

An indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over the allegations of atrocities by Russian troops in areas around Kiev through the past month. Prima facie, this allegation is fake news but it can mould misperceptions by the time it gets exposed as disinformation.
. . .The alacrity with which Macron and Scholz consumed the fake news is a harbinger of a new phase in the information war. Succinctly put, there is a sober awakening in Paris and Berlin that the Russian operation is successfully meeting the set objectives.
“April”, TS Eliot wrote in his masterpiece The Wasteland, “is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” But the dark irony of this year’s “Aprilness” is going to be that the fecundity and renewal here will be about Russia’s regeneration in a world of both history and the myths spawned by quarantined western minds.. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 14:07 utc | 324

The twitter video is from April 1st at 8pm
The police cleaned up on April 2 and there were no deaths on the street
The only explanation is that the street images are not of Bucha
Or the Twitter video isn’t from April 1st
Posted by: FZappa | Apr 4 2022 13:20 utc | 310
Not the only. I repeat: there was a claim UkrArmy made artillery shelling of bucha “immediately on RuArmy leave”.
Notice that the 1st April video was re-filmed, maybe to plausibly delete sound track.

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 14:15 utc | 325

Has this link to Helmer’s latest been posted?
If so, sorry to repeat it. If not
http://johnhelmer.net/how-to-read-the-war-in-reverse-without-outsmarting-yourself/#more-47851

Posted by: bevin | Apr 4 2022 14:15 utc | 326

The west has been substantially rejected and humiliated to this point. One might hope that would cause then to rethink and back down, but
1) Backing down would mean failure
2) There are those who want war
It is certain that those who cause the war will in no way suffer for it. This is the source of humanitys dilema today – how to reflect the suffering back on those who cause it as a means to make it unpalitable.

Posted by: jared | Apr 4 2022 14:16 utc | 327

Even the impending economic collapse will not disturb those who are behind the war. They are positioned to remain in control whatever may come to civilization. Apparently many of them favor reduction in population.
The actual war has not yet begun. But its off to a good start.

Posted by: jared | Apr 4 2022 14:20 utc | 328

Could it be that the french nemesis Bernard-Henri Lévy is in Mariupol, ref. the helicoper rescue attempts a few days ago?

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 4 2022 14:21 utc | 329

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 4 2022 12:07 utc | 288
You seem to believe Soviet atrocities only happened in American propaganda. The fact of the matter is that massacres of civilians in World War 2 by the Soviets are pretty well documented, as is mass rape. That said, acknowledging this doesn’t make American atrocities go away. History isn’t black and white.

Posted by: WhyCantWeJusGetAlong | Apr 4 2022 14:25 utc | 330

Germans can’t really stop being german, so this is in practice tantamount to claiming that they intrinsically deserve inhumane treatment through no fault of their own.
Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 12:20 utc | 291
It is similar to self defense problem. Are you allowed to kill your enemy? Christianity foundations seems to say you are not, you should “give another cheek” and “love thy enemy” as he kills you and your family. No violence is allowed.
More pragmatic approaches seems to allow violence conditionally. Answering violence for violence. In some conditions, to some degree. And normal judges would not expect someone in a heat of the deadly fight to be as reasoned as some other person enjoying a luxury resort.
Where could Soviet soldiers in 1942 summer met “German soldiers” to treat them as subhumans and commit other atrocities? Was it Berlin, was it Paris, was it Warsaw?
Efficiently those were invaders who were, once, dehumanized.
That propaganda line was immediately cut short and reverted later, as the situation was changing.
USA politicians though call Russians subhumans without a single Russian soldier besieging DC yet.
Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 12:38 utc | 294
First of all, please note that I was replying to the second comment; the one that gave current-day approval to historic claims of sub-humanity.
“Subhumans” do not exist.
Dehumanizing the enemy not only leads you down an immoral path, it also absolves the enemy of their crimes. If the enemy is subhuman, unworthy of being the object of moral reasoning; it is certainly also unable of being the SUBJECT of moral reasoning, a dehumanized enemy has no moral agency.
If nazis are subhuman, they are not responsible for their behavior.
Their behavior is naturalized as a raw fact, because their moral agency is not recognized. But their behavior is not an impersonal, natural occurrence: Their behavior is a conscious decision to further their own goals, and has moral weight.
The proper answer to armed, militant enemies is armed, militant force. To death if necessary.
But nobody deserves torture, nobody deserves arbitrary cruelty.
And nobody deserves being a torturer. The one who would be a torturer eagerly, doesn’t deserve an opportunity to fulfill their sadistic desires; and the one who would be a torturer begrudgingly, doesn’t deserve being led down a path of evil and remorse.
Claims of subhumanity only make it easier for these evils to gain root, and therefore can only lead astray even the most righteous of causes.
TL;DR: Nazis are humans and morally responsible. That’s why they deserve to be defeated, courted, and punished – sometimes to death.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:25 utc | 331

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 4 2022 12:07 utc | 288
Debsisdead, I thank you for your posts, and on the subject of atrocities, whether it be for those you are describing or for just the horrific video images of deaths and torture that have been video present to us armchair warriors (they also serve who only stand and wait), I would very strongly recomment caution as we choose whether to view or not to view. We know from days during the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. that a sophisticated program to obfuscate what is being seen by video snatches. Not to mention that images impress upon the mind whether we like it or not; you cannot ‘unsee’ them. It is hubris to imagine that you can.
I even avoid still photographs of atrocities; I saw them in Odessa; I see them still. In those days, the horror was new – we thirsted to discover the truth. I can still see that unknown pedestrian in the Donbass shot down by someone in a speeding jeep. That is enough for me – I won’t willingly watch something like that again, and now folk have been meticulously poring over the sight of dead bodies on a street to see if there is a flicker of life therein. That may be a task for those required to authenticate — it is not our task.
Knowing how easily we are manipulated by our own senses, that even eye witnesses can be convinced in a court room that they saw something they did not, we ought to respect our own fallibility and serve by waiting. All will be revealed eventually when we are not in the midst of horror as we are now. Waiting is our duty, not second guessing what is going on. Lives may depend on it.
And Debs, a question: what is your sense of the New Zealand public reaction to leadership’s strange pivot toward total obedience to the dark side? I only get a sense from comments at the Daily Blog, that resistence is growing. For NZ I would think it may be a rift developing, but I am always hopeful. Are there better local outlets for comments of citizenry? Where, for instance, is Nicky Hagar? Obama was our Judas goat – it seems Ardern is an equal in that respect. She doesn’t look good at all now.
It’s a lot like holding judgment on videos, they having been prostituted. When that is evident in leadership, the public is doomed to a long battle. Leaders are important, whatever one’s convictions about ideals.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 14:26 utc | 332

Well to get the numbers we can be sure that they were the dirt poor peasants who probably couldn’t even read a newspaper or much less buy it.
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 10:36 utc | 269
This sentence alone nullifes trust to everything else said in that spin.
Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 12:10 utc | 289
Looks to me like you were triggered by what I clearly said was a generalization. I have my doubts if you even read what I quoted and from where.
I said,
“One such detail being who were the people that made up the army. Well to get the numbers we can be sure that they were the dirt poor peasants who probably couldn’t even read a newspaper or much less buy it. I know I am generalizing, but these were very naive people who could be told almost anything and they would buy it. Much like those today who wear masks inside cars.”
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You are a like a leaf in the wind, spinning at your own convenience because suddenly in this exchange “Все хорошо”,
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In one leaflet headlined “Kill” Ehrenburg incited Soviet soldiers to treat Germans as sub-human.
He was absolutely right.
Posted by: olly45 | Apr 4 2022 11:57 utc | 285
Soviet propaganda then had a hard task to make Soviet soldiers kill enemies without any hesitation nand remorse. Because that is what war is about.
Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 12:28 utc | 292
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No outrage about that description of “Kill” ???? But you were upset because I suggested the soldiers were “illiterate” ???? Wow
“….hard task to make Soviet soldiers kill enemies….”
No kidding !!! This is exactly what I said in my “spin”.
“Now this is where the next layer comes in, people who molded the minds of these soldiers. People like Ilya Erenberg (Jew) who had the knowhow of how to do it on these impressionable people going into combat. For motivation was the primary quality needed on the battle field.
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So much shit being talked in here especially by judeophobes who commit the classic act of racism by using one example of bad behaviour to paint an entire culture
Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 4 2022 12:07 utc | 288
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Now that is a strong argument. You can’t even count how many examples there were or FROM WHERE the information was sourced.
The first link had a bibliography,

[1] Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (Vintage Books, 1991), p. 824.
[2] Paul Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin (An Archival Study) (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 63.
[3] Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Cornell University Press, 2001), p. 425. See also here, p. 1028.
[4] Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2017), p. 152
[5] W. Bruce Lincoln, Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War (Simon and Schuster, 1989), p. 386.
[6] Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him (Random House, 2004), p. 69.

https://ww2gravestone.com/about-us/
“The Canadian Jewish News”
It’s obvious to me that you don’t read carefully but definitely react immediately, judging by what you wrote.
As for this,
” Both sides (jews & judeophobes) are wrong but I cannot decide if it’s sadder than it is sick that this nasty nazi propaganda is being regurgitated for the nth time in 2022.”
Don’t like it, move on. You qualifying the historical record as “nazi propaganda” which shouldn’t be touch because it is 2022 is a pathetic argument. I have bad news for you, history repeats and repeats and will continue to repeat, because it’s the bloody history. Not to know the details is not an option, unless you like to soft version of events which can be condensed into 3 sentences. That is probably found on CNN. History is what it is, complicated.

Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 14:28 utc | 333

“…a sophisticated program was developed…”, sorry.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 14:29 utc | 334

Bucha massacre: time and location

Posted by: WJ | Apr 4 2022 12:43 utc | 296
The problem is that there appears to be a video from April 1st. https://twitter.com/ViktoriiaUAH/status/1509985789404459011
No idea if this video can be verified as in Bucha.

Yes, the video was filmed during daylight hours on April 1, the latest. It was a cloudy and rainy day. The other videos must have been from the same day.

Viktoriia 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ViktoriiaUAH on Twitter, April 1, 2022, 20:07 GMT
My brother sent this to me. Town of Bucha northwest of Kyiv. The amount of dead citizens on one street alone…I just can’t even process.

The location is Idilika on Yabluska Street in Bucha. The largest concentration of bodies is right in front of a gated residential complex named Idilika Home – продаж таунхаусів в Бучі. Yabluska Street runs parallel to the Bucha River, only 200 meters northwest from it. This is very close to the front line. Interestingly the videos or photos show no signs of shelling.

But I am suggesting that if this video really is in Bucha, and really does date from April 1, then the explanation has to account for the placement of these bodies by that date.

Russian troops left on March 30th, the video is from April 1st. There is a two day time window.
@ViktoriiaUAH is a naturalized US citizen tweeting for America. It is likely that his brother is also an American citizen, maybe on some voluntary mission in Ukraine. We do not know if he got the video from some friend or filmed it himself. In any case, the video adds an American connection to the events.
23 minutes before the massacre tweet @ViktoriiaUAH sent another tweet with a critical observation. I made the same observation based on another map a few hours later.

Viktoriia 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ViktoriiaUAH on Twitter, April 1, 2022 19:44 UTC
If this map is accurate we may see the first encirclement of the war soon. If western most blue dot in the finger is Ivankiv there are no roads between it and the river. Interesting to know what Russian forces may be left inside the pocket.

For some reason Ukrainian sources were holding back the information that Russia had left Bucha and Gostamel. Was it because they were preparing the ground for a false-flag massacre? Or was it because the massacre had already happened and they were in damage control mode.
For more sources, see the Bucha massacre page in my massacre archives.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Apr 4 2022 14:33 utc | 335

@ 323 . . .more from India Punchline

. . .Even more surprising is that within minutes of the “breaking news”, western leaders — heads of state, foreign ministers, former politicians — popped up with statements duly kept ready and only based on the videos, seconds-long videos and a clutch of photos, ready to pour accusations. No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard.
French President Emmanuel Macron broke his election campaign where he’s in a dead heat with Marine Le Pen for reelection in next Sunday’s poll to brand the alleged Russian atrocities as “war crime”. So did German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who is in big trouble too as Germany is posting inflation at +7.3 percent in March.
There’s nothing unusual about beleaguered politicians catching hold of bogeymen. Intelligent minds like Macron and Scholz’s must be realising by now their flawed policies leading inexorably to such a strategic defeat at the hands of Russia. But the big question is: Why such theatrics just at this point?

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 14:34 utc | 336

Macron & Scholz blew it. . .how about the ‘buck stops here’ guy that caused Ukraine?
Democratic anxiety grows over Biden’s dismal polls

. . .“It’s bad,” said one Democratic strategist. “You have an energy crisis that’s paralyzing and inflation is at a 40-year high and we’re heading into a recession. The problem is simple. The American people have lost confidence in him.” . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 14:43 utc | 337

Don’t know how accurate,but seems close to Russian reports on lost equipment.
🇺🇦Data from the General Staff of Ukraine on the losses of VFU
Updated data on the losses of the armed formations controlled by the Zelensky regime (from February 24 to April 4).
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in manpower:
➖ non-refundable — 16 405
➖ sanitary — 11 933
➖ surrendered – 1035
APU losses in equipment:
✔️ 125 aircraft
✔️ 91 helicopters
✔️ 392 UAVs
✔️ 226 SAMs
✔️ 1936 tanks and other AFVs
✔️ 211 MLRS installations
✔️ 833 field artillery and mortar guns
✔️ 71 PU
✔️ 4 PU TR – tactical missile launchers
✔️ 1810 units special automotive equipment
✔️ 8 military boats
Volodymyr Rogov, member of the Main Council of the Civil-Military Administration of the Zaporozhye region

Posted by: Kim | Apr 4 2022 14:51 utc | 338

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 4 2022 13:57 utc | 321

“…”The calculation is made on the fact that the average person will see publications in the same Guardian newspaper, watch videos on YouTube and will be in a state of psychosis. This is the meaning of the technology of spreading fakes, which are then used by the governments of Britain and the United States,” adds Malkevich…” [my bold]

Thank you, Waldorf! That is a very helpful post.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 14:55 utc | 339

This constant talk of JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS is disgusting.
It’s disgusting here, it’s disgusting at Saker’s, it’s disgusting at Smoothie’s, and it’s disgusting anywhere.
For starters, it dismisses that the persons usually targeted are people with ECONOMIC POWER. RICH PEOPLE. BOURGEOIS. Or in the anti-soviet variant, since this is hardly applicable, it then “forgets” political and organizational power and opportunism.
Who the fuck actually thinks that a christian, a muslim, a pagan or an atheist with the same power would be somehow less evil? This is amply contradicted by history and by actually existing countries with negligible jewish presence.
Or do they think that jews have some sort of mystical power or divine backing to gain power unexplainable by mundane factors? that in itself is a Judaic belief!
The usual anti-jewish drivel ignores obvious economic, political factors and very much constitutes a sort of inverted religious zionism, where jews are through a dark lens projected as a chosen people endowed with unnatural powers.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 340

Democratic anxiety grows over Biden’s dismal polls
. . .“It’s bad,” said one Democratic strategist. “You have an energy crisis that’s paralyzing and inflation is at a 40-year high and we’re heading into a recession. The problem is simple. The American people have lost confidence in him.” . . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 14:43 utc | 336
Biden is 79 years old. A mild wind is a challenge for him. How can anyone in the US think that in such a high stress executive position ,which is the presidency, such a person can be expected to perform even close to optimal ? It’s pure delusion. A best it is a misunderstanding.
I know he wasn’t “elected”, but to expect anything positive from him was not the reason why they put him in, IMHO. It was exactly his decrepit state that was needed to reflect the state of the United States. Old, sucked of vital strength, and ready to fall over. Biden fits that bill perfectly.

Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 15:02 utc | 341

@Circe | 164
“What on earth was Putin thinking?”

That Abramovich is a useful ‘tool’? I’ve learned not to second-guess the judo chessmaster.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Apr 4 2022 15:04 utc | 342

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 339
Don’t disagree with the essence of your comment – collective punishment is never justified. And the real war is a class war.
Though I’d say the inversion of ‘jewish power’ versus its incredibly small population has nothing to do with ‘super-natural power’ or a mystical ‘covenant’ but is simply due to ‘cronyism’.
cheers!

Posted by: gottlieb | Apr 4 2022 15:06 utc | 343

@olly45 #280:

You’re just not cut out to be a Russian.

Oh, really? Do I have to deny that those rapes happened to be “cut out”? True strength lies in being able to admit truth about ourselves, even when it’s unflattering. People like you who simply waive off unflattering stuff are not “strong”. You are weaklings and cowards.
And just to be clear: yes, after 18,000,000 Soviet civilians were killed by the Nazis, including 632,253 civilians who died of hunger during the Siege of Leningrad, it’s hard for a Russian to be sympathetic to the plight of those German women. But I never said that Russians should be sympathetic towards them, all I said was that many Russians deny the rapes happened. And we know they happened; it’s mentioned in official Soviet documents and in memoirs of Soviet war correspondents. No serious Russian historian denies the fact; they argue about the numbers (and yes, some figures put out by Western authors are clearly bogus), but not about the fact. And yes, Americans did the rapes, too.
Now go fuck yourself.

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 15:09 utc | 344

On my camera I can set the time and date manually. If I set it to 1st April, that is the timestamp that would appear in the exif data. Should I wish to change it later, I can edit the timestamp using ExifTool.
As all the metadata can be edited, it can not be relied upon as evidence.

Posted by: Ranelagh | Apr 4 2022 15:17 utc | 345

@ Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 339
Yeah. The US govt could just as easily have been controlled by the Mexicans. As well as world banks, and worldwide control of the media. As well as most of the last presidents in Ukraine. As well as getting the Romans to kill Jesus, and getting booted out of a hundred countries, and controlling the Bolshevik leadership, which crushed the Russian people. It could’ve been Egyptians, or Iranians, Koreans or the Congolese. It was just a fluke that it was Jews and not any other people. Just crazy luck, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 4 2022 15:25 utc | 346

Old, sucked of vital strength, and ready to fall over. Biden fits that bill perfectly.
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 15:02 utc | 340

And more than will to read anything they put on the teleprompter. Pay not attention to what’s going on behind the curtain.

Posted by: Wook | Apr 4 2022 15:27 utc | 347

@251 Tom_12

You sure as hell are singing a different tune here today. So now you are fine with Abramovich BEING AN APPROVED member of the negotiation team serving obviously “someone’s interest” but yesterday a suggestion of that nearly destroyed your well being !!! Wowzer, what a difference a day makes.

No, I’m still not fine with it. One comment was written before I read the article and based on Putin’s own words describing oligarch self-indulgent behavior at the start of the SMO in Ukraine. The comments that followed I wrote after I actually read the Helmer article, and realized that Abramovich did have a prominent seat at the negotiating table, and that could only happen with Putin’s approval. So I couldn’t reconcile Putin’s earlier description with his decision to have Abramovich appear prominently at the negotiations in Turkey. I’m not the inconsistent one. I was basing myself on Putin’s words and still am because that is how I also see the Oligarchy in Russia, but inconsistent optics at a negotiation where the outcome was the retreat of Russian forces from Kiev breeds justified mistrust!
So I naturally expressed that feeling and after reading the interpretation of others here I tentatively backed down without completely surrendering the skepticism I was feeling about that inconsistency. At a time like this consistency matters; because trust is paramount. So that discrepancy between what Putin said and then what he did threw me off that trust. Now, I’m only keeping an open mind.
You obviously pegged your bias against me to your failed interpretation of my comments. It’s transparent in your overall nasty response.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 15:31 utc | 348

@251 Tom_12

You sure as hell are singing a different tune here today. So now you are fine with Abramovich BEING AN APPROVED member of the negotiation team serving obviously “someone’s interest” but yesterday a suggestion of that nearly destroyed your well being !!! Wowzer, what a difference a day makes.

No, I’m still not fine with it. One comment was written before I read the article and based on Putin’s own words describing oligarch self-indulgent behavior at the start of the SMO in Ukraine. The comments that followed I wrote after I actually read the Helmer article, and realized that Abramovich did have a prominent seat at the negotiating table, and that could only happen with Putin’s approval. So I couldn’t reconcile Putin’s earlier description with his decision to have Abramovich appear prominently at the negotiations in Turkey. I’m not the inconsistent one. I was basing myself on Putin’s words and still am because that is how I also see the Oligarchy in Russia, but inconsistent optics at a negotiation where the outcome was the retreat of Russian forces from Kiev breeds justified mistrust!
So I naturally expressed that feeling and after reading the interpretation of others here I tentatively backed down without completely surrendering the skepticism I was feeling about that inconsistency. At a time like this consistency matters; because trust is paramount. So that discrepancy between what Putin said and then what he did threw me off that trust. Now, I’m only keeping an open mind.
You obviously pegged your bias against me to your failed interpretation of my comments. It’s transparent in your overall nasty response.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 15:31 utc | 349

Posted by: bevin | Apr 4 2022 14:15 utc | 325
Thanks for the link! Very good analysis — I loved “The Long Game Surprise”; that explains a lot. Also the quote from Uncle Remus, the tar baby episode at the end:
“.. he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in the embers…”
And this especially:

“…What none of the analysts has considered yet is that the Russian General Staff realized there were serious risks of a Ukrainian offensive – that’s to say, an attack across Russian borders, not merely counterattacks against initial Russian manoeuvres. There was every possibility of an Ukrainian battle group breaking northward toward Voronezh and then taking cover in civilian areas for an advance to include a swing southward towards Rostov, with the aim of encircling Donbass…”

This also makes the evidence from those bio-military labs so very chilling. No wonder Nuland was so scared, spilling the beans. Rostov! (I have a wonderful, large framed photograph I found at the Salvation army thrift store – the Rostov Cathedral, huge it is, and so beautiful!)

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 15:32 utc | 350

Here’s an interesting video of the Police clearing Bucha after the Russians left.it was posted 2 days before the bodies turned up.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/11429

Posted by: Kim | Apr 4 2022 15:33 utc | 351

Here’s an interesting video,made as the Ukie Military Police first entered Bucha after the Russians left,2 days before the bodies turned up.
Our source in the OP said that there was a big scandal at Bankovaya, because of the video of the national police, which was posted on the network at the direction of Anton Gerashchenko with the cleansing of Bucha. It is this video that is strongly dissonant with the footage of the killed residents, who flew around the world yesterday, but made two days later than the cleansing and were not included in the report of the national police, which now raises questions. Arestovich considers Gerashchenko’s actions a deliberate provocation, because the video raises many questions, why there are no dead people on the streets, and the mayor of the city simply reports on the cleansing.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/11429

Posted by: Kim | Apr 4 2022 15:40 utc | 352

This constant talk of JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS is disgusting.
It’s disgusting here, it’s disgusting at Saker’s, it’s disgusting at Smoothie’s, and it’s disgusting anywhere.
Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 339
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Tell that to Putin and the Jews. They don’t seem to have a problem talking about it. What is a problem though, is the fact that in the West they are exclusively portrayed as the victims. Well history says something else,
“JTA — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that at least 80 percent of the members of the first Soviet government were Jewish.
“I thought about something just now: The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet government, whose composition was 80-85 percent Jewish,” Putin said June 13 during a visit to Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
Putin was referencing the library of Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The books, which are claimed by Chabad representatives in the United States, began being moved to the museum in Moscow this month.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/
Putin pulled this act like a master of judo. He said, “I thought about something just now: …”
No Vladimir, you knew exactly what you wanted to say then. A brilliant move. 🙂
The subject should be raised when it is appropriate. In the case of propagandizing and ideologically controlling the Soviet Army it is appropriate. They were there in great numbers. Burying everything under the category “the Soviets”, “the Russians” is the easy way out from a much more complicated situation. A complication if not understood well, will lead to future trouble (and has).

Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 15:41 utc | 353

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 15:31 utc | 347
In answer to your question, Circe, please go read the link at 325 by Bevin. Putin very possibly isn’t ready for conclusive negotiations at this point, much as we armchair troops would love this war to be speedily concluded. There were indeed great risks involved to begin with, and your question is answered by the link’s analysis.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 15:46 utc | 354

RT has two articles based on warnings issued by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan about the danger faced by the USA thanks to its theft of Russia’s reserves and its proxy war against Russia. A few key outtakes:

The combination of inflation, the conflict in Ukraine and Russia sanctions may “dramatically increase risks ahead” for the United States, JPMorgan’s Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in his annual letter to shareholders on Monday. He has warned of unpredictable consequences for the nation’s economy.
According to Dimon, the outbreak of the conflict in Europe has changed things, roiling markets, realigning alliances, and restructuring global trade patterns. That introduces both risks and opportunities for the US and other countries, he wrote.
“The war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia, at a minimum, will slow the global economy — and it could easily get worse,” Dimon said.
The head of the biggest US bank pointed to the uncertainty about how the conflict will conclude and its impact on supply chains, especially for those involving energy supplies.
“Many more sanctions could be added — which could dramatically, and unpredictably, increase their effect. Along with the unpredictability of war itself and the uncertainty surrounding global commodity supply chains, this makes for a potentially explosive situation,” Dimon said. “I speak later about the precarious nature of the global energy supply, but for now, simply, that supply is easy to disrupt.”

And from the second article:

The US dollar is dealing with some of the same challenges that the British pound faced in the early 1900s, before it went into decline, Goldman Sachs said in a research note released on Thursday. The Wall Street bank warns that the greenback could lose its global dominance.
According to the research seen by Business Insider, the move by Washington and its allies to freeze much of the Russian Central Bank’s foreign currency reserves has raised concerns that countries could start moving away from the dollar. Analysts explained the risk as due to worries about the power the dollar grants the US.
The challenges that Goldman Sachs named include the fact that the US has a relatively small share of global trade compared to the dominance of its currency in global payments. Another issue is that the country has a deteriorating “net foreign asset position,” with rising foreign debts. In addition, the nation faces geopolitical problems, such as the conflict in Ukraine.
The Goldman Sachs economists also said the nation’s large debts due to the fact that it is a big importer of goods could be a particular problem.

Now we have confirmation as to why BidenInc didn’t seek advice from Wall Street or the Fed on its decision to threaten the dollar’s status, for that’s precisely what was done. You can be sure such a fantastic mistake will not be missed by those aiming at dedollarization; they will jump on it and something along the lines Galziev suggests will be forthcoming. The impact will be the equivalent of the sinking of every aircraft carrier in the USN and the immediate atrophy of the World Bank and IMF as they lose their attributes as hegemonic levers. Indeed, I fully expect many IMF and World Bank loans to be repudiated as odious, weakening them further. This time next year, the international financial arena will look vastly different as dominance by the Outlaw US Empire implodes.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 4 2022 15:48 utc | 355

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 4 2022 15:25 utc | 345
So your problem is not whether the US government is controlled by a shadow agency, your problem is whether this agency is majority jewish.
As a non-american who views all religions with similar contempt, whether high US posts are staffed by worshippers of YHWH, Jesus Christ, the Prophet Muhammad, Jah, Mithra, or the Invisible Pink Unicorn is a non-issue to me.
Your problem is not that banking and media have an uncanny degree of capital and decision-making concentration, your problem is whether this control is wielded by jews.
Your problem is not whatever ukrainian presidents did, your problem is if they were jewish or not.
The logical conclusion is that there is some other religion which, in your eyes, would justify equivalent actions by equivalent actors, so long as they weren’t religiously or culturally tied to judaism.
And it seems you’re also unable to tell historical determination apart from religion.
Regarding Roman and Soviet myths I’ll refrain from further comment since they fall squarely outside of my interest and my politeness.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 15:49 utc | 356

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Apr 4 2022 14:33 utc | 334
This is by far the best treatment to date I have seen of this April 1 video. Thanks.

Posted by: WJ | Apr 4 2022 15:49 utc | 357

@Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 15:49 utc | 355
You’re trying to put words in my mouth. It’s interesting that I’ve seen this before, whenever that question comes up.
And none of my post was about “religion”, but about a people, be they religious or secular.
If it were some other ethnicity or tribe controlling the deep state. But it’s not. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Maybe it’s just pure concidence, but I doubt it.
If it were any other ethnicity or tribe, it would stick out like a sore thumb. Oh ! Ukraine’s been in the crapper since x-amount of years, coincident with the Congolese being in power. Etc, etc etc. It would appear absurd. But what actually IS absurd is anyone mentioning it being labeled an anti-semite, and that people mostly either don’t know, or just accept that that’s just the way things are, nothing extraordinary.
And I’m not saying this people is all bad, no more than I’d say all blacks are violent hooligans. But in this example, blacks make up less than a sixth of US population, yet account for more than half of violent crimes. Maybe it’s because of all past racism they suffered ? I don’t buy it, any more than jews are only coincidentally at the wheel of a lot of very evil stuff, and no more that it’s cause these people have so long been victimized by anti-semites.
Maybe jews are so often “successful” in politics cause they’re such great leaders ? Yeah, no.

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 4 2022 16:13 utc | 358

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 341

This constant talk of JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS is disgusting.

You’re right.
We shouldn’t use the J word.
We should take it on a case by case basis.
We should wipe out all these politically dominant elites who hold undue influence over foreign policy, academia, the media and the state.
Jew or German, Mongol or Moor, let’s hang them all from the lamposts …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2022 16:41 utc | 359

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 341

This constant talk of JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS is disgusting.

You’re right.
We shouldn’t use the J word.
We should take it on a case by case basis.
We should wipe out all these politically dominant elites who hold undue influence over foreign policy, academia, the media and the state.
Jew or German, Mongol or Moor, let’s hang them all from the lamposts …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2022 16:41 utc | 360

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 4 2022 16:13 utc | 359
Neither Jew, nor Jewish, nor Judaic nor Judaism are ethnic terms.
They’re religious terms.
The primary, overriding criteria for determining whether the above terms can be truthfully predicated of an individual are behavioral, religious. Some Rwandan or Mapuche bloke could, hypothetically; learn the appropriate scripture, participate in the required rituals and follow the prescribed norms, and voilà – he’d be jewish.
Just like he could do the same with Christianism, or Islam, or most other religions, and never once would it cross anybody’s mind that these are any sort of ethnicity.
This hypothetical person is now a jew, jewish, a practitioner of judaism with judaic beliefs.
His ethnicity is entirely unaltered by this, ethnicity is only inherited and impossible to convert to, because the causes of ethnicity always lie in the past, never in the present, and are thus immutable.
If you maintain that his ethnicity is altered by religious conversion, you are giving credence to Judaic religious beliefs.
If you maintain that his ethnicity cannot be altered by religious conversion, you have no basis to maintain that “jewish” denominates ethnicity with greater weight than, say, “polish” or “german”; since the allegations to greater continuity with ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah than with present and recent populations is, again, only sustainable through recourse to Judaic religious belief.
If you were talking about Ashkenazis, or Sephardis, now THOSE are terms with objective ethnic weight AND a relation to judaism. And they have objective ethnic weight precisely because they trace ancestry through time and space and in their relation to contiguous populations, instead of diluting them into a mythical allegiance towards long-disappeared kingdoms and dubious supernatural agencies.
Considering jewishness an ethnicity is THE misattribution of category authorizes both the Pogrom and Zionism, and it is a degenerate form of Judaic religious belief.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 16:54 utc | 361

@Arioch #294:

Where could Soviet soldiers in 1942 summer met “German soldiers” to treat them as subhumans and commit other atrocities? Was it Berlin, was it Paris, was it Warsaw?
Efficiently those were invaders who were, once, dehumanized.
That propaganda line was immediately cut short and reverted later, as the situation was changing.

True. Georgiy Aleksandrov, then head of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), even published an article in Pravda on April 14, 1945 titled “Comrade Ehrenburg is oversimplifying” (in Russian), which criticized Ehrenburg for lumping all Germans together as “one colossal gang”.

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 17:06 utc | 362

* Arioch’s comment I was replying to is now #296.

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 17:08 utc | 363

@ Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 14:34 utc | 337
Don, excellent post from Indian Puchline – well stated.
Thanks.
Other point –
Biden eating ice cream and saying: Did I do that?
He will be fondly remember for what he has accomplished – if we survive this. But he can only take it so far – Putin to take it from here, I think.

Posted by: jared | Apr 4 2022 17:17 utc | 364

Everyone should be raising the issue of the influence of nazi like or affiliated groups having substantial influence in (the) Ukraine.
I would look to all groups (but some moreso) to take the lead in bringing this issue to public awareness and discussion.

Posted by: jared | Apr 4 2022 17:29 utc | 365

Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 4 2022 14:28 utc | 334
No, you were not generalizing.
Generalizing is saying like “if 8 persons of 10 are illiterate, we can consider the whole group illiterate, for our question this simplification would only lead to small errors”
You said like “if 2 persons of 10 are colour-blind, we can consider the whole group illiterate…” – it is not generalization, it is feigning generalization for the sake of making unsubstantiated insults and “perception management”.
“Hey, there is no need to prove that Russians did mass rapes. It is obvious they did. Look at those illiterate idiots, isn’;t it obvious that people who could not even learn ABC could never really understood personal privacy and could do nothing but rape as long as they saw beautiful European ladies, not their usual Slavic ugly she-animals?”
That is what you are trying to sell as “generalization” when pressing upon ideas both incorrect and unrelated, but creating bad image for persons you seek to accuse without substantiation – and instead of substantiation.

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 17:39 utc | 366

@Unnamed #310
What I posted is what Zoltan Pozsar said.
So if you want to argue with Pozsar – lead analyst for short term interest rates at Credit Suisse, ex-Federal Reserve, ex-Treasury – have at it.
My view: I have actually conducted international trade. The example is 100% accurate to my experience.
The nonsense you’ve put up bears zero resemblence to the reality as I have personally experienced, but by all means keep trying to attack me in order to reinforce your basement sofa libertarian nonsense.

Posted by: c1ue | Apr 4 2022 17:44 utc | 367

in Pravda on April 14, 1945 titled “Comrade Ehrenburg is oversimplifying” (in Russian), which criticized Ehrenburg for lumping all Germans together as “one colossal gang”.
Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 17:06 utc | 363
Well, here we have a rather different newspaper (general-population and party-controlled, not the army’s paper which had separate editors and less proliferation) and different year (april 1945 is almost the end of the war, not the direst moments of 1942).
It also criticizes a very different article of Erenburg, the linked 1945 article “Enough!” – http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/PAPERS/HISTORY/ERENBURG/ENOUGH.HTM
This could be perhaps army vs party struggle, as the army still needed efficiency of presrving soldiers and killing enemies, while the party needed to optimize for post-war occupation and reconstruction.
Frankly, to evaluate this we should have read through all the soviet newspapers of 1942 – 1945 (and radio translations too) and check all the propaganda pieces and how would the angles shift, month after month. But frankly, this is too much of a hastle.

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 17:50 utc | 368

And we know they happened; it’s mentioned in official Soviet documents and in memoirs of Soviet war correspondents. No serious Russian historian denies the fact; they argue about the numbers (and yes, some figures put out by Western authors are clearly bogus), but not about the fact. And yes, Americans did the rapes, too.
Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 15:09 utc | 345
You said not rapes happenned but mass rapes. I wonder what is your idea of “mass rapes” is it two? three? four?
Or is it two millions, three millions, four millions?
It is not “about numbers” it is about trends and norms, when numbers are so high.
There was a funny religion in one fantasy book. The voidness religion. They said, that as we all are consistring of atmos, and atoms consisting of void with tiny miniscule core and yet tiniest electrons, then all this world and all who lives in it are just voids. And there is nothing good and nothing bad, whatever being done – it is just void and some movements of things too infinitsimal to be considered real.
Yeah, “about numbers” too.

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 17:59 utc | 369

@Arioch #369
I was actually agreeing with you. I think your explanation is correct. In 1942, when Konstantin Simonov wrote his famous “Kill him!” poem that had a line “So, kill the German…”, there weren’t really any German civilians in the European part of the USSR (Soviet Germans have been deported to Kazakh SSR after Russian SFSR’s Volga German ASSR has been abolished on August 28, 1941), so the word “German” simply meant a Nazi Germany combatant. However, as the Red Army started approaching Germany, that was no longer the case, and the messaging had to be updated.

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 18:16 utc | 370

@ Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 4 2022 16:41 utc | 361
“We should take it on a case by case basis.
We should wipe out all these politically dominant elites who hold undue influence over foreign policy, academia, the media and the state.
Jew or German, Mongol or Moor, let’s hang them all from the lamposts …”
I would amend to “WHO MISUSE their influence over ANY policy” (etc.)
There has to be transparency and accountability.
And YES, the guilty should be punished, if only to dissuade future misbehaviour.
Or else we will always be afflicted.

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 4 2022 18:18 utc | 371

The location is Idilika on Yabluska Street in Bucha.
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Apr 4 2022 14:33 utc | 336
Why do you think so? At 0:28 in the video there seems to be a “circular movement” junction type left of the road the car drives, and the nat 0:29 the “circular movement” sign on the lamppost.
I do not see such a place anywhere near your anchor on Google maps. If you would scroll to west-north-north you would see such type of a junction there, near “АТБ” grocery shop and “Continent” appartsments block. So, Google maps does represent circular junctions as they are. There is another circular junction southwest, at the very exit into the Bucha from Kiev highway.
While i may appreciate “Google Streets” photo-cars did not drive there since 2015, but the traffic management is important thing and circular junctions should always be marked in the maps, as their traffic mode is very different from usual T or X junctions. So i have big doubts about your location attribution.
circucular

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 4 2022 18:23 utc | 372

….Graham Phillips reporting from POLAND…
There were few vlogs or persons that I can trust reporting from (Ukraine) YouTube…. and one of them is Graham Phillips he came to Ukraine from Belarus and was arrested inside Gorodyna, Ukraine recently and here the story via RT… (the last part vid videos taken earlier..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcbxO8uGA4

Posted by: JC | Apr 4 2022 18:41 utc | 373

@Arioch #370:

I wonder what is your idea of “mass rapes”…

An army is a reflection of society. Just as there are thieves and rapists in general society, there are also thieves and rapists in an army. That is why we have military police, military courts, etc. That is why the Red Army had military prosecutors and military commandants. So my idea of “ordinary rapes” is when rapes occur at a rate that is roughly comparable to ordinary criminal statistics; accordingly, my idea of “mass rapes” is when rapes occur at a rate that significantly exceeds ordinary criminal statistics (let’s say, 10 times). When I say “mass rapes”, I don’t mean to say that every Soviet soldier engaged in rapes—that is, of course, Goebbelsian/Western propaganda (“an army of rapists”, “the Red Army raped its way through Europe”, etc.). What I mean to say is that in some units, specifically, some units that were operating in East Prussia and Silesia in early 1945, there was a complete breakdown of law and order, and groups of soldiers and sometimes even officers were openly engaging in serial rapes of women.
It’s hard for us to believe that these things happened because we hold the Red Army and everything associated with the Red Army and our fathers’ and grandfathers’ Victory in such a high esteem. So maybe consider this. Soviet and Russian historian Oleg Rzheshevskiy, who was a member of the scientific council of the Russian Military Historical Society, in his 2002 article criticizing the rape propaganda against the Red Army, mentioned the following (emphasis added):

Along with explanatory and educational work, tough punitive measures were taken. According to the data of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, in the first months of 1945, 4,148 officers and a large number of privates were convicted by military tribunals for committed atrocities against the local population. Several show trials of military personnel resulted in death sentences for those responsible.

Why were all these officers and privates convicted if there were no atrocities?

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 19:09 utc | 374

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Apr 3 2022 14:14 utc | 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNuMJNIS64
“No bodies are seen on the 7 minute video.”
Dear Petri, this is simply not true. Just watched it briefly and already spotted two!
0:24 big screen filling body on the road
4:57 blurred out body in car (blue jack)
By now I was already sick watching but also disgusted that you review evidence without any attention, then post those views on the Internet. There’s enough of that already. Don’t add to lies.

Posted by: John Dowser | Apr 4 2022 19:48 utc | 375

They are surrendering – some, hopefully sign of more to come
From intel slava
https://t.me/intelslava/24364
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Mariupol. The storm is coming.
The best fighters of Ukraine are surrendering
267 marines from the 503rd battalion (assigned to the 36th Marine Corps) chose life and surrendered to the Russians.
Earlier, their commander, Pavel Sbitov, a native of Lviv who had been fighting against the Russians of Donbass since 2015, was destroyed.

Posted by: jared | Apr 4 2022 20:18 utc | 376

Soviet Deep Battle and OODA Loops in the Ukraine. My latest take on the Ukraine information war, through a lens using theory by the late Col. John Boyd.
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/04/05/soviet-deep-battle-and-ooda-loops-in-the-ukraine/

Posted by: Ian Kummer | Apr 5 2022 2:32 utc | 377

Sorry for this long post b.
[Once in a blue moon]
The Yellow peril…..
LIppman

America must stand with the “Western world” against the barbarous hordes of the East.

[0]
Churchill

I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

Russell

Population [must be] stationary or nearly so…. The White population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the Negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without the help of war and pestilence…. Until that happens…the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific….”
In 1951 he warned about the kinds of dangers he saw in the near future — apparently the renowned Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were not having the kind of result he was hoping for. In The Impact of Science on Society, he wrote: “At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars…. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect…but perhaps a bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors would be free to Procreate freely without making the world too full.” Russell went on, “this state of affairs may be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”

Jack London

There were two Chinese for every white-skinned human in the world… There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to Increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction.
The Western nations set aside their differences and mobilized. The mission was for containment. Biological warfare did the dirty work—a pretty grim end.
That wasn’t me! After Western nations repopulated the desolate land that was China…

Prince Philips

“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed… We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” ―

[hint]
The Wasp’s distaste for chianman are open secret,
their royals never hide their disdain for those ‘slitty eyed !!@###]
Australian microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet

We must develop bio-weapons for use against the ‘overpopulated countries of South-East Asia.’

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD,
[US army think tank]

“Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend …. One-fourth is destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a ‘natural death.’ … Now as we approach the quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human — the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers — the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body …. Fortunately, you are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.”

………………
The consensus…
They want us dead….
Wars aint effective,
Germ warfare might do the job.
These are satanists, note the constant reference to the
four horsemen Apocalypse.
When Hubbard said 1/4 of humans are defective and need to be culled, was she thinking of chinaman ???
You wanna kill Chinese ? [1]
—————————-
They keep saying..
Germ warfare to cull the yellow horde.
SARS [RACE SPECIFIC]
H5N1
H7N9
COVID = THE ANGLO SAXON MISSION ? [2]

The real goal, is to set up the post-catastrophic world. To ensure that this “New World” [note the term] is the one the controllers want, totalitarian control structures need to be in place when the catastrophe occurs – with an excuse that the populace will accept and demand them. Martial law in the right, carefully chosen countries before the catastrophe occurs will enable the “right” people to survive and prosper in the post-catastrophic world, and the beginning of the next 11,500 year cycle.
What may have been carefully planned on a covert global scale, for the last several generations, is nothing less than who will inherit the Earth.
Who are the “right” people? The white Caucasians.

[0]
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/richard-poe/how-the-british-invented-color-revolutions/
[1]
You wanna kill some Chinese ?
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-confronting-covid-crimestop/?showcomments#comment-5071793
[2]
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_endgame10.htm

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2022 3:38 utc | 378

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 4 2022 14:57 utc | 341
So true.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 5 2022 5:54 utc | 379

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD,
[US army think tank]
[Some drug-addled malthusian drivel I have no desire to reproduce]
Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2022 3:38 utc | 379
Damn!
Eternal thanks, Denk, for finally pinpointing the source of the much-touted “CulTuRaL mArXiSm” that permeates north-american institutions!
And yes, western “elites” are ultimately genocidal racists.
However, it seems to me that right now the situation is developing more towards the scenario by Olaf W. Stapledon in The Last and First Men, where Europe is wiped out by an engineered plague…

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 5 2022 9:40 utc | 380

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 5 2022 5:54 utc | 380
Thanks. It grows tiresome.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Apr 5 2022 9:42 utc | 381

fyi
the ridiculousness of the british. hahahaha
the brits and the poles have got to be the stupidest of all the …uh …. Europeans
I look forward to the day when the British National Gallery and all brit museums are forced to return all their illegal art, looted, stolen or pirated from the national treasures of the Third World/global south countries, which the Brits pillaged as the world’s premier colonial and neo-colonial power for hundreds of years
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/04/03/britian-british-national-gallery-renames-edgar-degas-drawing-ukrainian-dancers-russia/6501649011838/
“….The decision, first reported by The Guardian, comes amid the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine which has led to the deaths of at least 1,189 civilians. The name change has since taken effect on the museum’s website…”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 5 2022 10:42 utc | 382

I saw this update posted a few hours ago about Canada’s HMCS Halifax:
“The Naval Boarding Party, and crew members brush up on force protection aboard #HMCSHalifax before chopping into #OpREASSURANCE with our #NATO Allies.”
https://twitter.com/RoyalCanNavy/status/1511285768601448452
(Posted with a couple of photos to stir the imagination.)
I thought aha! They must be joining SNMG2 in the Mediterranean to help with Mariupol port situation. But no, HMCS Halifax is joining SNMG1 which is near Norway.
“SNMG1 visited Tromsø last weekend, in the High North of Norway 🇳🇴. After the exercise Cold Response 2022 we made a stop there for rest & replenishment. The group has now set sail to continue it’s core task: continuous maritime capability at a high level of readiness. #WeAreNATO”
https://twitter.com/COM_SNMG1/status/1511065888694407172
(Posted with some just incredible drone or satellite photos, damn Norway you are a good-looking country!)
Which reminds me (obscure reference) of a story I read earlier today about Atlantic salmon.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sea-lions-take-over-bc-fish-farm-1.6407888
“Dozens of hungry sea lions have taken over a fish farm off the west coast of Vancouver Island, feasting on untold numbers of farmed Atlantic salmon as staff struggle to move the intruders out.”
Anyway — it’s NATO’s birthday! Or it was on April 4th. The Commander of SNMG2 put together a little video. You know, when NATO allies are (maybe) doing things like defusing mines, the alliance is not such a bad idea. Kind of heart-warming actually.
https://twitter.com/COM_SNMG2/status/1511068943171166218

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Apr 5 2022 14:51 utc | 383

Arganthonios | Apr 5 2022 9:40 utc | 380
The hyenas always hunt in a pack
During the Opium war, a pommy raiding fleet was taking a heavy beating from the Chinese defenders at Taku fort
A gringo fleet, under the command of Commodore Josiah Tattnall, pounded the Chinese position, thus allowing the pommies to retreat without total annihilation.
Some gringo sailors asked Tattnall,

BUt sir, why’r u helping the pommies, they killed some of your family in 1812 didnt they ?

Tattnall answered

sTILL, son,
BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.
nOW we’r together against those Asiatic barbarians.

Posted by: denk | Apr 6 2022 2:00 utc | 384

Below is a Xinhuanet posting about a telephone conversation between the FM from China and the FM from Canada at the latter’s request…read the next to last paragraph…grin

BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday held a phone conversation with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly at the latter’s request.
During their conversation, Wang said that the people of China and Canada have enjoyed long-term friendly exchanges, noting that Canada is one of the first Western countries to establish diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China.
However, in recent years, China-Canada relations have suffered a serious setback due to the Meng Wanzhou case, which is something we do not want to see, Wang said.
The essence of this case lies in the U.S. suppression over Chinese high-tech enterprises by coercion, a shameful behavior that everyone could see clearly, Wang said.
No country should act as a facilitator of such unilateral bullying, and all countries have the right to make necessary responses, he added.
Noting that China always views and handles China-Canada relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, Wang said the current situation of bilateral relations is not in the interests of both countries, calling on Canada to face up to the problems and cooperate with China. He further put forward three proposals in this regard.
Firstly, Canada should view China positively and objectively with a steady and pragmatic China policy.
China’s political system and development path are the Chinese people’s own choices, which have inevitable historical logic and are in line with China’s national conditions and its people’s needs, said Wang.
China’s development and progress are not only the legitimate right of its 1.4 billion people, but also an important part of the modernization of all mankind, he said.
China and Canada have no historical disputes or real conflict of interest. China hopes that Canada, in line with the goal of mutual benefit and win-win results, will do more to enhance mutual trust and promote bilateral relations, Wang said.
Secondly, the two countries should respect each other’s core interests and not create new obstacles to the development of bilateral relations.
The one-China principle is the political foundation of China-Canada relations, Wang said, adding that if the Taiwan question is not handled properly, China-Canada relations will suffer fundamental damage.
China hopes Canada will adopt a correct attitude and position on issues concerning China’s core interests, he said.
Thirdly, Canada should uphold its independence and eliminate unnecessary external interference.
Noting that the elder generation of leaders of the two countries broke through resistance and made a decision to establish diplomatic ties, Wang said there are many good stories and traditions in China-Canada exchanges that should be cherished and carried forward.
China hopes Canada will work with China to eliminate external interference, overcome difficulties and realize sound, stable and sustainable development of bilateral relations, he said.
The two sides also exchanged views on the Ukraine issue.
Noting that Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a comprehensive and authoritative elaboration about China’s position on the issue, Wang said China calls on all parties to think calmly and rationally, create opportunities for peace and open up prospects for negotiations.

I want to repeat one statement

China’s development and progress are not only the legitimate right of its 1.4 billion people, but also an important part of the modernization of all mankind, he said.

I read two things into that statement
1. You can take your God of Mammon religion and shove it
2. China will lead the modernization of all mankind and it won’t include the God of Mammon or other religions but will blow them away as no longer relevant.
On the denial side of history is the ZH posting title below

“Absolutely Historic” – Harvard’s Rogoff Admits US’ Weaponization Of Dollar Could End Dominance Within 20 Years

I posit Rogoff is off by a factor of 10 which puts dominance ending in 2 years….seems much more likely to me.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2022 2:08 utc | 385

Ellen Brown at the Web of Debt blog has a new posting up with the link below followed by a take away quote
The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
The quote

A Page Out of the “American System” Playbook
Russia is following the U.S. not just in hitching its national currency to sales of a critical commodity but in an earlier protocol – what 19th century American leaders called the “American System” of sovereign money and credit. Its three pillars were (a) federal subsidies for internal improvements and to nurture the nation’s fledgling industries, (b) tariffs to protect those industries, and (c) easy credit issued by a national bank.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2022 2:15 utc | 386

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2022 2:08 utc | 385
Trudeau senior would be turning in his grave. !

Posted by: denk | Apr 6 2022 2:34 utc | 387