I should point out that was obtained from the Strategic Culture Telegram channel, which is here:
https://t.me/strategic_culture
You’d think they’d be smart enough to update the channel on their status. Their last status report was:

Strategic Culture Foundation, [4/24/22 10:00 AM]
Before we were so rudely interrupted…
Dear followers, our website has experienced a massive DDoS attack, but now it functions as usual. Thank you all for your attention and care, YOU are our main asset!
Yours truly,
@strategic_culture

Well, no, it isn’t “functioning as usual”…

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Apr 25 2022 2:19 utc | 103

To Joe @27
Beware of any Jim Stone site; as it is run by the CIA

Posted by: Andrew S MacGregor | Apr 25 2022 2:51 utc | 105

Rare honest reporting from The Guardian on the Solomon Islands
Solomons PM sets Oz straight in a speech to his parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7WY1qXNzE

Posted by: K | Apr 25 2022 3:37 utc | 107

@ Homer | Apr 25 2022 2:39 utc | 101 Re:
“Seems to be lots of spontaneous fires breaking out at juicy military/infrastructure targets deep inside Russia – DEW weapons perhaps being used?”
Please spare us from the vaguely labelled hypothetical energy beams, working on completely unknown principles, which apparently have effects which have never been demonstrated to exist on any scale in or out of a lab. That is the kind of pseudo-scientific garbage that wrecked the 9/11 movement.
Beams have to consist of something, either electromagnetic spectrum or particles and those things would not escape attention. Common or garden sabotage is quite adequate as an explanation thanks.

Posted by: MarkU | Apr 25 2022 3:38 utc | 109

Posted by: Ian Kummer | Apr 24 2022 23:55 utc | 82
Hello Ian. I just wanted to say that I’ve enjoyed your writing on the Russia-Ukraine situation including the most recent one.
However, I’m only aware of one or two barflies who think that Russia is a simple force for good, or at least – more realistically in that mindset anyway – somehow bringing the “good” of a so-called multi-polar world into being and that it will keep the negative instincts of people and the rapacious mechanisms behind “Western” capitalism somehow in check. Clearly that’s a much too simplistic and naive outlook.
And while I’m only just past the part in your latest post about Estonian women, I think you’re missing the point on the propaganda / psyops war that’s being waged against the citizens of the West by their own media, social media and government. Your points on how NATO is seen in EU is a perfect example of what this propaganda war on the people of the West is about.
The “pro-Russia” (as a savior) crowd is very small, indeed. And while I appreciate you appealing to people to donate money to refugees, I don’t think that’s a new idea for denizens of MoA. IOW I think you may be missing your target audience here. Happy to discuss if you disagree and I’m about to finish reading your piece.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 25 2022 3:51 utc | 111

Testing. Testing. Last few comments have been disappeared. Not sure if they ever got posted. Was on a VPN, so that might be the issue. Testing. Testing.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 25 2022 3:54 utc | 113

This thug oligarch [Kolomoisky] is crucial to understanding the conflict in Ukraine.
Posted by: librul | Apr 24 2022 18:32 utc | 16
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I do hope we will see him swing along with US/CIA thugs following Russia’s post-war criminal trials.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Apr 25 2022 4:03 utc | 115

Posted by: Ian Kummer | Apr 24 2022 23:55 utc | 82
Thanks for that Ian. Got a translation of the lyrics to the patriotic song?
As for your suggestion that citizens of the west clean up their own houses – I think we all wish it were that simple. I remember in the lead up to the 2nd Iraq war that a majority of the citizenry in the US and UK were opposed to that war and there were many protests about it including some very large ones – all to no effect.
Unfortunately our citizenry has developed a serious case of amnesia over the past two decades and seemingly can’t recall how blatantly and openly they were lied to by both the press and government officials in 2002.
Over the past weeks since the start of the SMO there have been many posts/discussion in these threads regarding the difficulty of convincing friends/relatives/acquaintances that the narrative they are being feed is both entirely one-sided as well as defective/deceptive. I have personally experienced this and have mostly given up trying to ‘raise the flag’ on this one.
I continue to hope that Russia’s action will result in fundamental changes in international relations, at least some of which are positive, and that we don’t all go down in all consuming flames. There is a lot of momentum that has been built up over the past 30 years that makes it seem as if there are not and will not be fundamental changes in the world order, but it seems to me that the power has been turned off and we are still coasting so that changes which are occurring have yet to manifest clearly.
At any rate I enjoyed the essay.

Posted by: the pessimist | Apr 25 2022 4:09 utc | 117

Posted by: Homer | Apr 25 2022 2:39 utc | 101
…Seems to be lots of spontaneous fires breaking out at juicy military/infrastructure targets deep inside Russia – DEW weapons perhaps being used?…
What say ye on this subject…credible posting abt year+ ago on such being found and recorded in California/Oregon, IIRC. Perhaps it was debunked but here it is… See this for starters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRPKPJR1k5Q
Folowed his earthquake forecasting for years; gone quiet suddenly.

Posted by: chu teh | Apr 25 2022 4:30 utc | 119

The Babushka from Mariupol and effect on Russian sentiment:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ttm23dLLNbU/
The statue of woman with sword is “The Motherland Calls” set in a hill overlooking Volgograd (Stalingrad in WW2) where arguably the Third Reich was defeated. The sword alone is half length of the Statue of Liberty. See:
https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1515127030836350978?s=20&t=RC1x9YWDxgrUE_WeUYgkaA

Posted by: PJB | Apr 25 2022 4:39 utc | 121

From the last thread in response to the clip someone posted from “Cabaret”.
As the British and German men are leaving one says to the other” Do you still think you can control them?” The German baron shrugs and they both drive away smiling as if to say “who cares really”
This seems like a straight up reference to the elites being behind the rise of Hitler.
I totally took this musical for granted it is really clever. Will watch it again with fresh eyes, though always taking into account it’s a US perspective behind the camera.

Posted by: K | Apr 25 2022 4:48 utc | 123

OK This is [was!] the link. I saw it when Dutchsinse 1st posted it in Sept 2020. He was watching the real-time [GOES weather] broadcast and doing live, verbal analysis when suddenly he spotted the beams causing fire intensification effects. Now it shows 404 error,,,it has been taken down! How about that.
https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/video/2009/DOD_107991033/DOD_107991033-1920×1080-6221k.mp4
Then he “enhanced the beam s so they were more easily visible. Then few days later Def Sec Esper made 2st publis announcement of the “tests”.

Posted by: chu teh | Apr 25 2022 4:59 utc | 125

What is the history of when the propaganda is totally exposed? What happened in Germany, France, and other countries that were being defeated and the propaganda just became untenable, when the lies are massively exposed?

Posted by: Jimmy Walter | Apr 25 2022 5:05 utc | 127

From Intel Slava Z Telegram channel…

The US embassy in Kiev will reopen soon and Bridget Brink, the current US ambassador to Slovakia, is expected to be nominated as ambassador to Ukraine, The New York Times reports citing a senior State Department official.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Apr 25 2022 5:32 utc | 129

The European Commission said earlier that Moscow was the EU’s main supplier of energy sources in 2021 with some 45% of European imported gas coming from Russia. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in early April that the commission will present a plan to phase out the EU’s dependency on Russian gas, oil, and coal in the middle of May.

https://sputniknews.com/20220424/brussels-some-eu-countries-would-face-major-energy-crisis-if-imports-from-russia-banned-1095015512.html

The details of sanctions regarding Russian oil have not yet been agreed, Dombrovskis noted, adding that the EU may consider phasing out Russian oil or imposing export tariffs above a certain price cap.
In 2021, Russia’s imports to the European Union amounted to about 45% of gas, 27% of crude oil, and 46% of coal, according to the European Commission.

https://sputniknews.com/20220425/eu-planning-to-impose-6th-package-of-sanctions-against-russia-to-hit-oil-supplies-1095023045.html
UK Minister Gove Backs Coal Mine Opening to Cut Energy Dependence on Russia, Reports Say …

The UK’s dependence on Russian energy is primarily confined to the coal sector. In 2021, the UK imported over 50% of its all coal supplies, with Russia accounting for 43% of those. Moreover, Russia occupies leading position in exporting both steam coal and coking coal to the UK, ensuring 46% and 39% of deliveries, respectively.

https://sputniknews.com/20220424/uk-minister-gove-backs-coal-mine-opening-to-cut-energy-dependence-on-russia-reports-say-1095010094.html

Posted by: Laurence | Apr 25 2022 5:48 utc | 131

I don’t know if the news is true or not, but I’m afraid it is. How long can Russia endure a war against the supply chain of all NATO members? Either Russia destroys these shipments at the border, or it will face increasingly serious problems.
“Today alone, at least six American heavy transport planes arrived in Poland at the Rzeszow airfield, which is 90 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Two US Air Force C-17A Globemaster military transport aircraft, capable of carrying up to 77.5 tons of cargo, as well as Boeing 747 aircraft from US transport companies chartered by the Pentagon, landed at the site.
The arrival of the C-17A aircraft from the UK was also recorded.
On the question of logistics. All this, of course, can be transported in small civilian trucks, trucks, minivans. Don’t follow everything. But photos of huge trains running on fuel from Romania and Moldova or photos of Slovak tanks in the combat zone seem to suggest that Ukraine, unlike us, has inexhaustible resources.
They will drive them to a stupor and, destroying these tanks full of this fuel, already in the NWO zone, we simply cut off the heads of the Lernean Hydra. It is necessary to cut off communication with the West. This is now almost more important than the destruction of ammunition depots.”
@sashakots
https://t.me/SergeyKolyasnikov/32121?single

Posted by: SCan | Apr 25 2022 6:01 utc | 133

Latest from Jacob Dreizin…
Russia’s Plan A and Plan B, explained
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/04/24/russias-plan-a-and-plan-b-explained/

The first video covers the prospects for “Chernobyl 2.0”—a topic no one is talking about yet, but that everyone will be talking about, sooner or later.
The second (longer) video describes how and why Russia’s initial war plan FAILED (although the Ukraine’s military was severely degraded)…..
…..and, how it has been adjusted…
I am asking everyone plugged in to “MSM thinking” to NOT watch the below video.
Your loved ones don’t want to have to clean your brains off the computer screen.
This video was taken in Kharkov province, the Ukraine. The forces in this video are Russian.
What’s going on here? Why are people greeting and even blessing the vodka-soaked invading demon-horde?
Clearly, these people are no longer afraid.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Apr 25 2022 6:26 utc | 135

bevin #72

It is time for the armies of Canada and the USA to get out, go home and play out their endless, interminable wars on their home turf. Europe has had a gut full of them.”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/24/nato-ukrainian-order-of-battle/
And then there is Finian Cunningham on the Public Health Labs that the Pentagon so kindly provided for Ukrainians. They were preparing to share the fruits of their expensive research with the Russian people too, before Putin so unsportingly intervened.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/24/pentagon-biological-warfare-built-war-crimes-of-fascist-japan-nazi-germany/

Many thanks, great writing and an affirmation of the power of language and rhetoric.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 25 2022 6:52 utc | 137

Moon of Alabama Retweeted
Anabel V. @Anabel_Villeroy · 15h
“Siri, show me a collapsing 🇺🇦 narrative.”
In 2019, 40 House Democrats signed a letter asking the U.S. State Department to designate #Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as a terrorist organization.
https://maxrose.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2019.10.16_rose_fto_letter_to_state.pdf

Posted by: Laurence | Apr 25 2022 7:17 utc | 139

Posted by: Laurence | Apr 25 2022 5:48 utc | 126
Laurence, can you reveal where you are located? I (in Germany) can read rt.com and tass.com fine, but sputniknews.com constantly times out. If you run some kind of Linux-box and could do a “dig http://www.sputniknews.com“, perfect!
Thanks a lot!

Posted by: TomD | Apr 25 2022 8:06 utc | 141

@visitor | Apr 24 2022 22:26 utc | 60

Blues’ post is one of the most thought-provoking pieces that I have read since a long time. His thesis is that the Ukrainian war was forced upon Russia by the West to acquire full control over the minds of its own citizens. In the midst of the “Hate Russia, hate Putin” mass hysteria, people will be easy to control as they will blame all their woes on Russia. READ Blues’ post, it is a MUST READ

Agreed, well said. Thank you for making me read that post again. The main message slipped the first time I skimmed it.
In this light the “covid” scam where the national health services became a weapon against the citizens, the big picture makes a lot of sense. The covid scare was constructed primarily to condition people to fear and obedience and followed up with the fear and hate Russia campaign. Notice how the second seamlessly replaced the first.
The common denominator is controlling the people in the west to the degree they accept the descent into chaos.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 25 2022 9:00 utc | 143

Craig Murray has a new post up. I don’t agree with his stance on Ukraine overall, but at least he points out the hypocrisy of the Guardian in pretending Putin is doing something unique that the US and UK haven’t done and are doing in spades.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Apr 25 2022 9:25 utc | 145

Seems Russia is targeting the entire Ukraine railway network in the west now. The gloves are well and truly off. Next time Boris wants to visit his friend Elensky, he will have to travel by bicycle which would actually do him a power of good

Posted by: DaVinci | Apr 25 2022 10:42 utc | 147

“The visit to Ukraine by Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin was all that you might expect.
A visible show of support. An announcement that US diplomats will return to Ukraine shortly. The promise of more military support.
But what stood out was this comment from Austin: “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine. It has already lost a lot of military capability… we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”
That is a surprising thing for a US defence secretary to say.
He might, of course, have been referring to Western sanctions degrading Russia’s military industrial base.
Or was he instead expanding Western war aims? Was he even implying that a longer war in Ukraine might be a useful thing?
Not all Western allies might share Mr Austin’s position, or his candour.”
BBC comment on Lloyd Austin being perhaps a bit too honest.

Posted by: Milos | Apr 25 2022 10:50 utc | 149

Maybe Nato won’t get its consolation prize of Sweden and Finland after all.
Turkey will not support the admission of two potential new members of the Alliance to NATO. As it became known, the current position of Turkey is such that Finland and Sweden have no place in the military bloc and, probably, during the next NATO summit, Turkey may categorically oppose the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance.
https://avia-pro.net/news/turciya-vystupila-protiv-prinyatiya-shvecii-i-finlyandii-v-nato

Posted by: Kim | Apr 25 2022 11:27 utc | 151

#—-The war was for sure started for this outcome, for to be able to infiltrate nazi thugs into our societies in adequate numbers, with the peoples´s consent ( as they conceeded to their own suicide past year “for the common good”..) since a NATO victory was unthinkable form the start.
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 22:26 utc | 59
I used to listen to Alex Jones way back, because he had many interesting guest. Some of them I still follow. Several time it was theorized that the wall they were building on the Mexican border was to keep people in, not to keep them out.
The Real News Network in 2019 :https://therealnews.com/tohono-oodham-invaded-by-border-patrol-israeli-surveillance-tech
Maybe it’s time for this?
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/editorials/max-hernandez-introducing-thieves-emporium-part-1-a-new-wilderness/

Posted by: Anne B | Apr 25 2022 11:36 utc | 153

#—-Zubrin’s a smart guy. .Zubrin’s a smart guy??
Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 24 2022 23:39 utc | 78
Maybe he think Mars is in the Ukraine? Or is it another planet.
That girl is surley raving in the Ukraine right now.

Posted by: Anne B | Apr 25 2022 11:54 utc | 155

US to give Ukraine “Coke Head” M142 HIMARS systems with a range of up to 500 kilometers.
https://avia-pro.net/news/ssha-peredadut-ukraine-kompleksy-m142-himars-s-dalnostyu-do-500-kilometrov
What could possibly go wrong Victoria Nuland?

Posted by: Kim | Apr 25 2022 11:56 utc | 157

Hey, whaddaya know, the great Blinking-one his self showed his stupid face for the world to ignore once again. I didn’t know Ze suffered from little man syndrome. What an absolute mess and the west clearly does not have the mental capacity to comprehend the dilemma they have got themselves into with this Special Operation. That Austin dude looks like he might actually have been a tough teddy bear at one time. I’m impressed.

Posted by: thecelticwithinme | Apr 25 2022 12:24 utc | 159

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 24 2022 23:39 utc | 78
Posted by: Anne B | Apr 25 2022 11:54 utc | 150

#—-Zubrin’s a smart guy. .Zubrin’s a smart guy??
Maybe he think Mars is in the Ukraine? Or is it another planet.

Another one. It’s small hats all the way down, it seems.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 25 2022 12:25 utc | 161

A war correspondent for the Chinese TV channel CGTN, Lu Yuguang, took a photo with two Chechen commanders in Mariupol.

Posted by: alaff | Apr 25 2022 12:31 utc | 163

Kim @147, sln2002 @151
Actually, there’s no need for Finland to join NATO. There’s a better, less expensive way for Finland to achieve the security it desires. Finland could try to negotiate a nonaggression treaty with Russia. Then, in the unlikely event Russia refused, that would be the time to seek admission to NATO.

Posted by: Chas | Apr 25 2022 12:37 utc | 165

An unconfirmed sonar image of the cruiser Moskva at the bottom of the Black Sea.
https://t.me/WarLife/10444

Posted by: Kim | Apr 25 2022 12:50 utc | 167

In Bryansk, in addition to the burnt oil depot, the railway was damaged in the direction of the military unit, along which military equipment and ammunition were transported to Ukraine, media reported.
Photo.
https://t.me/WarLife/10440

Posted by: Kim | Apr 25 2022 12:57 utc | 169

Posted by: njet | Apr 24 2022 21:27 utc | 47
“And everything we observe within the last years concerning the Empire of Lies fits into this picture. With all respect to Engdahl or Escobar and some barflies here, I don’t buy this “Davos” story. I still don’t know what it is really about.
”
My ‘don’t know’ is whether or not China-Russia is somehow coordinated with Deep State Biden Davos etc. On one hand is outlandish but on other how extraordinary that they all seem aligned in goal of collapsing West.
My best guess is that they are somewhat allied for now – the enemy of my enemy is my friend – but later on will return to mutual rivalry.
I suspect the new payment systems will involve digital currency and digital IDs in some sort of international, ie para nation state jurisdictions fashion.
On a more simple basis, seems like a multipolar world has to kick the old credit cartels out, hence War but that pits Davos et alia against them. Apart from occasional comments like this here am trying not to think about it too much. The world of news is a dystopian jungle these days…

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 25 2022 13:24 utc | 171

@160, Russia and Finland already have a treaty, requires non alignment from Finland….. joining nato breaks the treaty and invites an attack

Posted by: WRFB | Apr 25 2022 13:29 utc | 173

His Die Welt von Gestern is addictive reading.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 24 2022 23:07 utc

Thank you. Although I knew Stefan Zweig, that book was unknown to me. Just ordered it!

Posted by: Helmuth von Moltke | Apr 25 2022 13:41 utc | 175

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 24 2022 22:31 utc | 62
“It’s more palatable to envision a malicious secret plan and a puppet-master behind the scenes, and structure one’s world view around that, because at least that makes rational sense. Except, there’s no guarantee that the malicious plan and puppet master, if these exist, aren’t stupid and detached from reality to the same degree.”
Very well explained. Maybe one could add greed into the mix, inc lust for power, status, wealth, meaning, success and so forth.
And also maybe the compulsion to feel part of an upper class elite that derives its sense of entitlement from deliberately dumbing down and fooling those beneath, and thus excluded from, them. Their superiority depends upon making others inferior.
And perhaps this sort of thing blends psychological tendencies with overt scheming in much the same way as you so skillfully blended malice with stupidity.
I’ve often felt that much projected onto the ‘you know who’s’ is as much a mentality as an outright organization, though clearly there is a lot of the latter in the mix and clearly over time family and tribal ties become woven in.

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 25 2022 13:48 utc | 177

Blinken talked about “going forward” with there possibly being a US ambassador to Ukraine.
“Part of our commitment going forward involves a number of things that I was able to share with President Zelenskyy yesterday, including the return of American diplomats to Ukraine starting [this] week, including President Biden’s intent to nominate a new ambassador to Ukraine, Ambassador Bridget Brink – currently an ambassador, someone I’ve served with for a long time, deeply experienced in the region, who’ll be a very strong representative for the United States in Ukraine.”
…from Newsweek:

Currently the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, Brink formerly served on the National Security Council and at U.S. outposts in Serbia, Uzbekistan, Georgia and elsewhere. With more than two decades in the foreign service, Brink has focused largely on Europe and Eurasia.
Originally from Michigan, Brink was appointed to her current role by Trump, and most recently served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State. She was also deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 2014 to 2015, and in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2011 to 2014.
While serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State in 2015, Ukraine was among Brink’s areas of responsibility.
Brink speaks Russian, Serbian, basic Georgian and French. She holds Master’s degrees in International Relations and Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Kenyon College. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 25 2022 14:03 utc | 179

Posted by: Thomas | Apr 25 2022 1:46 utc | 95
“In other news, zelenski is demanding $7 bil/monthly to, in essence, keep his mouth shut; guess where that $7 bil would come from.”
The whole thing is just another shakedown by the unohoos…
Also why so many neocons are behind Nazis…..
Empire of Lies indeed…

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 25 2022 14:08 utc | 181

Russia is developing non-traditional weapons.
During a recent meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Borisov unexpectedly announced the development of unique types of weapons by Russian specialists and designers. According to Borisov, we are talking about non-traditional types of weapons, which will clearly provide Russia with technical and military superiority over potential adversaries.
At the moment, it is known that we are talking about weapons based on new physical principles. In particular, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov spoke about the development of directed energy weapons, kinetic weapons, as well as robotic systems and complexes.
“The new weapons program will be aimed at creating qualitatively new, including non-traditional, types of weapons, including directed energy weapons, kinetic weapons, as well as artificial intelligence control systems and robotic systems”- said Borisov.
At the moment, work on the creation of such weapons is actively underway. At the same time, it is noteworthy that by 2023 a new state armament program will be formed. This means that by the middle of the decade, these weapons may well begin to enter the Russian troops.

Posted by: Kim | Apr 25 2022 14:10 utc | 183

#—-Either we talk about the “most stupid people on the planets face” sitting in DC, or we talk about an evil plan of “zionists” in “Davos” or in the catacombs of the “deep state”. There is a contradiction between both.
Posted by: njet | Apr 24 2022 21:27 utc | 47
No need for confusion, all can happily coexist, personally I think its just different names for the same old thing. Evil people make plans but also shit happens unexpectedly, like now in Ukraine.
What if God gets really really bored with our snails pace of learning down here on Earth, wouldn’t She throw a spanner (Russian Steel of course) in the works just to shake things up a bit and even the odds?

Posted by: K | Apr 25 2022 14:15 utc | 185

@179
Well K if u ever played a sandbox godgame then well yes if the creator is somehow human he would exactly do that exactly because of the slow pace of learning 🙂

Posted by: Macpott | Apr 25 2022 14:28 utc | 187

Ukrainian Gestapo (SBU) plot foiled.
“Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Monday that it detained a group of “neo-Nazis” instructed by Kiev to kill popular Russian TV host and journalist Vladimir Solovyov.
According to the FSB, the hit was ordered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). “The members of the criminal group are confessing to preparing to kill Solovyov and flee abroad afterwards.”
The FSB said that during searches, it seized an explosive device, eight Molotov cocktails, six handguns, a sawed-off hunting rifle, and a grenade. It added that more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition were seized as well, along with fake Ukrainian passports.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 25 2022 14:33 utc | 189

How long do they imagine they can sustain the charade?
Posted by: Oldhippie | Apr 25 2022 14:33 utc | 182
800 years more.

Posted by: sln2002 | Apr 25 2022 14:39 utc | 191

It seems that today one can post on MOA without having registered a username/password.

Posted by: arm45 | Apr 25 2022 14:40 utc | 193

A series of massive fires resulting from presumed attacks on Bryansk, which is over 100kms inside Russia, seems like quite the escalation.
https://www.rt.com/russia/554454-oil-depot-on-fire/
Interestingly, i checked all major Western outlets, from BBC to CNN, to La Stampa, NYT to Le Figaro and many many more.
Not one website features the story on the front page, despite the clickbait visuals of red plumes in the night sky, and the likely Schadenfreude its readers would enjoy. Instead we have the obvious Macron reelection, Blinken visit to Kiev, and various minor railways bombings in Ukraine.
By not reporting this event, are Nato countries trying to underplay their role in these attacks? Are they deliberately keeping readers ignorant, so that when reporting Russia’s eventual response, (assuming they start making Western countries actually pay a price, instead of just Ukraine?) Western MSM can continue with the ‘Russian aggression’ narrative?
Am i the only one wondering why the Kremlin talks of ‘unfriendly countries’ and ‘unpredictable consequences’, which clearly gets ignored over and over, and instead does not spell it out more clearly, that Western Gov’ts attacking Russia and killing Russians, be it with weapons sales, intel sharing or by proxy, will result in Russia hitting Western targets and making Westerners suffer too? Do we all need to wait for a nuclear bomb to get this message across, really? Please tell me they have a better deterrence strategy in mind.
How else does the Russian Gov’t expect to deter Western leaders and the public that supports their war on Russia, when there are no (military) consequences for them, and the only ones living in fear of dying are Russians and Ukrainians? To be clear, i am not calling for violence against the West, i live here too, i just don’t see how this is going to be resolved before the 10/10 response, and it would be nice if Russia’s messaging was as effective as its hypersonic missiles. Words are much cheaper and less deadly, too.

Posted by: Et Tu | Apr 25 2022 14:53 utc | 195

If this has been posted already … my apologies.
Alistair Crooke SCF
“It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement. If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage. This is a war that never should have happened, but it did. The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now—not later—when everyone will be DEAD!”, Trump said.
Trump effectively is wedging apart the possible key fault-line for the coming elections (even if some GOP panjandrums – many of whom are funded by the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) – favour a more robust military involvement).
Trump too, always has an instinct for an opponent’s jugular: Biden may be highly attracted to the argument for escalation, but he is known to be sensitive to the thought of body-bags coming home to the U.S. before November becoming his legacy. Hence Trump’s exaggeration that sooner rather than later, everyone in Ukraine “will be DEAD!”.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/25/the-dynamics-of-escalation-standing-with-ukraine/

Posted by: ld | Apr 25 2022 15:05 utc | 197

Scorpion | Apr 25 2022 14:43 utc | 188
Europe is entering its final, terminal Dark Age and I say good riddance. In every way – biological, cultural, spiritual, and simply in terms of being stupid enough to abjectly obey a master which is a homicidal maniac – Europe has reached its final decadence, whether or not it’s to be full-scale nuclear war..
As an American Christian my only concern is whether America can be redeemed and build the church in anticipation of Christ’s coming, nuclear war or not. Probably no such church will be built by our hands; this place too will have to collapse to its full Sodom and Gomorrah decadence and await Christ’s purification.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Apr 25 2022 15:10 utc | 199