Darya’s killer has been identified and Russian is demanding the killers extradition. Dugin gave a statement that retaliation is petty for Russians, the war must be won. This signals a wider war with more economic pain for the collective West, desperate and without common purpose.
https://tass.com/society/1496717

Posted by: Goran | Aug 22 2022 13:47 utc | 203

In German media still no word about the fact that the perpetrator was recognized!
They still speak of a partisan organization in Russia as the culprit who allegedly confessed to it!!!

Posted by: mac998 | Aug 22 2022 14:07 utc | 205

Message and reason for the fact that Russia has not yet synchronized the nuclear power plant with Russia
Russia needs about 20 diesel emergency generators and only has old ones!
Is therefore not sure that this emergency power lasts about 3 days!
Now none of the doffy German consumers know from TV whether they should laugh or not!
Hypersonic but no 20 emergency power systems, those that do not come from Soviet times.
Everything is just ridiculous what is told on TV!

Posted by: mac998 | Aug 22 2022 14:14 utc | 207

Steven Starr | Aug 22 2022 13:33 utc | 202
Can anyone please suggest how I can access the Strategic Culture Foundation website?
One simple solution is the Tor browser.
Link to Tor Download
If the website is still blocked, you have to click the broom icon in the top right corner of TOR for a new identity. This works well in Germany, where many websites are blocked.

Posted by: Iguana | Aug 22 2022 14:27 utc | 209

Let’s talk about the daily attacks on Crimea.
Source: https://t.me/s/asbmil
“The Ukrainian military attempts to “strike” Crimea multiple times a day using various drones, usually rigged with explosives, sometimes not rigged with anything.
All of them are unsurprisingly shot down.
Crimea is a fortress.
Crimea’s Air Defence umbrella is extremely good, you can go as far as calling it the best in the world. At the moment, there’s no other place on earth as heavily defended from air attacks (other than Russian mainland) as Crimea. However, it is extremely easy to get cocky and forget that no air defense system is perfect & every air defence system can be penetrated.
This is a mistake many analysts make, they assume Crimea is untouchable. – it is not, it never will be.
These “meaningless, desperate” drone “attacks” by Ukraine are not actually meant to cause damage, they’re meant to find holes in Russia’s air defences — under strict NATO watch.
Americans and Brits observe every interception by Russian Air Defence systems in Crimea. They are clueless about Russian Air Defences in a combat setting. Russia’s domestic systems are only showing their true capabilities now.
Every interception gives them more data and more information on how to break it. Ukraine is doing this for 2 reasons:
1. Domestic propaganda
As Ukraine fails to gain any success on the front lines, launching drones at the “occupiers” make headlines every single time in Ukraine. The regime supporters rejoice, Zelensky looks strong and determined.
2. NATO orders
Let’s not forget that the US, EU & UK are not providing “help” to Ukraine.
They are lending them money, with interest. Every bullet and weapon has its tab. This will take decades to pay back. — in turn, the Americans want data. They want a lot of data.
They want every piece of data they can get.
Data on Russian missiles, air defence systems, operational structure, Russian gear and especially, russian radars and their capabilities.
This shows that NATO is simply clueless about Russia’s Air Defence capabilities, even when we’re talking about Pantsir S1 and Buk M1, as well as the S300.
The domestic versions of these systems differ drastically from the export versions we saw in action in the Syrian war and elsewhere.
There’s no doubt in our minds that they will figure out a way to break the Crimean AD umbrella, but it will be short lived.
While these systems can be overwhelmed, they cannot be overwhelmed to a large extent unless they are destroyed.
Russia is not using any of its newest systems to intercept these drones, they are using the domestic variants of systems we already saw working in Syria and in other conflicts — but those were all the export variants.
Russian domestic systems are clearly much, much more capable than their export variants.
When Ukraine and NATO figures out how to effectively overwhelm the current umbrella, Russia has another 3 generations of systems that NATO has never seen in action before.
The systems fielded by NATO are still behind the S1, M1 & S300 in every aspect. 3 generations behind.
Air Defence is Russia’s strong suit and always has been, but don’t assume that Crimea cannot be hit, that is simply stupidity.
It will be hit, it is just a matter of time.”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 22 2022 14:37 utc | 211

buggered off before she actually witnessed who got into what car.
Posted by: Ant. | Aug 22 2022 14:06 utc | 208
Very possible.
Or they wanted to kill both of them because this woman moved in the same building about a month ago, the FSB says. So she could have easily placed the bomb in the parking and explode it anytime she wanted. Or shoot or stab her.
But they waited for that event to take place because probably both of them were supposed to be in the car driving back from it.

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 14:38 utc | 213

Posted by: aquileia | Aug 22 2022 14:13 utc | 210
Now you complain that the US elects governments that lie about ceasing to war on other nations, and nothing may be done by the US people to stop this – huh ?
If the whole US is so corrupt it ..has no idea about what to do, then who is going to pay the price of this incompetence and incoherence
The people that’s who – if the people pay the price then it’s their responsibility/obligation to make sure they elect and reform their system of government – if not it will be done for them, by outsiders, who will make them pay the price of defeat
If you say that the whole western world is corrupt and you include the ordinary people in that corrupt you are merely lapsing into an easy/lazy despair which condones every failure as inevitable and fails to offer/allow of any solution
But there are always solutions, as this war has made quite clear

Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 14:50 utc | 215

they’re meant to find holes in Russia’s air defenses
Melaleuca | Aug 22 2022 14:37 utc | 215
That can be a reason but the ones used in Crimea to shoot down drones so far are mobile air defenses, already used in Ukr, nothing new for nato. Once they shoot, they move. There is one that can even shoot while moving at 30-50km/h, don’t remember exactly. Bases and airfields are visible from satellite anyway.
So far this seems to be mostly for propaganda reasons, to find some easy target for MSM, like that airfield with ammo stored near the planes. Or maybe Russians have jammed some satellites and they can’t see well Crimea. It is possible to use radio or lasers to blind satellites, everyone does it.
They also keep shooting at that Antonovsky bridge, for MSM reasons because there aren’t any other reasons. Today they’ve managed to kill some repair workers and people crossing were wounded shooting himars at it. At tonight’s news in natoland I expect to see great Ukr success, Putin is stuck and hides in his bunker.

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 15:07 utc | 217

At NTV and WElt so far not a word, just rambling again at 5 p.m. about partisan groups..

Posted by: mac998 | Aug 22 2022 15:08 utc | 219

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Aug 22 2022 13:38 utc | 205
BRI is “up and running”. BRICS is “up and running”. SCO is “up and running”. AU55 is “up and running.” These FTAs have delivered valuable, political and technical assistance to member states. I’m not surprise that you are unfamiliar with For the past two decades the G7 press corpse ignored the steady development and economic integration of these institutions as such scribblers have the last 100 years manufactured consent to colonial foundation (“shared history”) on which G7 supply chain “security” rests. And they still do, although every G7 summit joint communique articulates the anxiety, or fear, of economic losses posed by the effective convergence of political, financial, and institutional objectives of so-called unaligned, third-world governments as well as schemes to “destabilize” inevitable opposition to the violence of their “global leadership”.
This year RU “situational leadership” in UA –Europe’s political frontier–is no accident. Nor is it an isolated demonstration of E-W, N-S “ethnic” antagonism. One has only to look to so-called nationalist revolutions playing out (again) in KZ, PK, SL, MY, the Sahel, and possibly IN this year either to purge or domesticate G7 sabateurs.
This year, of permanent membership in these blocs, RU is best equipped, literally, to battle NATO attavists. In the meantime, regional “leaders” continue to negotiate the prerequisites and scope of guarantees offered by association. Next year and the years after, different “situational leaders” will emerge from this alliance.

Posted by: sln2002 | Aug 22 2022 15:22 utc | 221

But then we are left with the question – “Why would a supposed sophisticated EU elite, one acting primarily in its own self-interest (Lasch), commit seppuku by creating domestic social disorder, de-industrialization, and the transfer of economic primacy to the USA?”
Posted by: Sushi | Aug 22 2022 14:33 utc | 215
The proles get restive when they have money and a little comfort. We spooked them good in the 60s, since 1980 or so nothing for nobody except themselves and their minions. That’s why. It is how they retain control, and that is how they feed in the public trough.
It has been vanilla US politics to crash the economy to retain political control for at least 150 years. What Volker did in the 80s is a good example.
Both parties are private corporations, fund-raising operations, and control of the government is always funnelled through them. The last thing they want to do is lost access to the federal money river. THAT is what matters.
This is also why they like lots of immigrants.
And you will notice they don’t like the white working class here any more, since they have better historical memory of how things were in the past here.
Conservative Treehouse, which I do not normally read, had an excellent piece on this (from their POV) today.
My 2 cents.

Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 22 2022 15:29 utc | 223

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Aug 22 2022 11:05 utc | 168
I have just read an interesting article in TASS. The Head of the RF Security Council Patrushev has made a clear statement that the USA is likely to default on its debt in the way it has defaulted on its debt with Russia.
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I think that is unlikely.
First of all, the USD is still backed by gold, black gold to be more precise. Secondly, if the West goes broke all at once, it means all-out war (such a situation would be comparable to that in which Nazi Germany found itself on the eve of WWII), including the very likely and ultimate consequence of mutual nuclear annihilation.
I am sure Moscow and Beijing are aware of this and will cook Pepe Tzu low & slow.
(Please do not get too wild at my ignorance. I am just a simple man.)

Posted by: Nobody | Aug 22 2022 16:55 utc | 225

Re: Iguana | Aug 22 2022 14:27 utc | 212
Many thanks! / Vielen dank! The Tor browser combined with the new identity allowed me to access the blocked strategic culture site. I will pass this information on to friends.

Posted by: Steven Starr | Aug 22 2022 19:43 utc | 227

@Biswapriya Purkayast #204:
Agree with most of what you said. Paying back perpetrators in their own kind is worth a trial.
By the way, it’s not like MI6/CIA/MOSSAD haven’t assassinate or kidnap or blowup embassies etc. etc. before and boasted so openly.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Aug 22 2022 19:52 utc | 229

LOL!
A language ‘revival’? Quebec moves to protect French amid Canada’s shift towards English, jack o’ all trades, master of none dilemma

The federal minister of official languages, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, described the data as “worrisome”. French is more under threat in Canada, including in Quebec, than ever, according to the minister.

misplaced precision

A ‘force of assimilation’
“The phenomenon that underlies the (higher) increase in English and the weak increase in French is … a force of English assimilation that is out of proportion to (the force of) French assimilation in Canada as a whole,” explained researcher and statistician Charles Castonguay on Radio-Canada on Thursday. post 7 Years War tory “colonization”

‘Struggling to gallicise’ the UWC-way
Faced with birth rates that are insufficient to ensure the replenishment of their ranks, Francophone and Anglophone communities in Canada rely on immigration instead. … Canada’s government is promoting an immigration strategy that aims to increase Francophone immigration to provinces outside Quebec to 4.4 percent by 2023, support the integration of French-speaking newcomers and build the capacity of Francophone communities. But [D]espite this plan, the appeal of English remains strong, and [“]allophones[“] are still shifting to English, particularly because of the greater currency [gah bless Elizabeth II, Regina LOL!] of English in the labour market. …

but muh fancanglo colonial heritage

The law, which comes into force on September 1, states that all businesses with 25 to 49 employees will be subject to the Charter of the French Language, a 1977 law that made French the official language of Quebec. The law will also apply to businesses under federal jurisdiction, such as banks. It is seen as a new act of “withdrawal” by Anglophones, and as DISCRIMINATORY against Anglophones and [“]allophones[“]….

dead intellectualism: How many ways can you spell Zaporizh* ?

Posted by: sln2002 | Aug 22 2022 20:13 utc | 231

@ Oriental Voice
Yes, exactly. They have nothing to lose. Not only them but look at EU. The idiot borrell announced EU wants to create permanent training bases and supplying of weapons for Ukr.
It’s clear EU feels little pressure. If some protest in small numbers, they can be beaten or have accounts blocked with no problems. Trudy and Macaron have tested many methods and all worked.
So if Russia, China don’t want nato sponsored terrorism inside their borders, they have to start sanctions or find other moves to make. Like Pelosi said laughing when a reporter asked about China’s sanctions for her: “Well… Who cares???”. The same for EU. Who cares what Donbass or Russia want, borell says war

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 20:55 utc | 233

What’s the point of saying it is not their fault if they are the ones who pay the price
Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 13:08 utc | 194
If you change “fault” to responsibility then I agree with your argument.
If we make ourselves only into victims then nothing can be done except to be saved. And we all know how that usually turns out.
However it is the rare human that can see beyond creature comfort and in the west the process of de-education has been ongoing for at least 100 years. So its not fair to say it’s the fault of the working class, because they don’t even know there is such a thing as “class” anymore or what to do about it. I agree with you that it is the people who need to act and when that need becomes powerful, intelligent leaders from the people will come forward to help organise. Of course this is already happening here and there in the West.
The material conditions will force the action as Marx describes however there are always greater forces at work than just the material, the need of the people is also on a spiritual level and that need is currently starving in the west.
I’ll repeat that I found the lectures given by General Petrov to be very instructive on these matters, having watched a lot of his videos over the last few days I can see clearly that Putin listened to him. He spoke of the need for open education of the people so that people are equipped to participate in the politics of the country, and that elected leaders must be exceptional disciplined human beings in service to the people.
Of course there have been and are westerners with such heart, Intelligence and political vision but they will not be allowed to run a political party as they can in Russia.
I found this interesting etymology of the term “politics” in a paper on Political Science:
“The term `politics‟, is derived from the Greek word `Polis‟, which means the city state According to Greek Philosophers, Politics was a subject which dealt with all the activities and affairs of the city state. Their City States were known as `Polis‟. City state was an all inclusive term, as the ancient Greeks made no distinction between the state and the Government on one hand, and State and Society on the other. They never differentiated between personal life and social life. Hence according to them Politics was a total study of man, society, state, morality and so on.

Posted by: K | Aug 22 2022 21:44 utc | 235

susan mullen | Aug 23 2022 1:01 utc | 240
Did you know U$A actually *invaded* Russia?
One of those obscure “forgotten” footnotes of history.
I’ll leave it to you (or others) to fire up their search engine of choice for
§| when why how (and who) thought this a viable strategy.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 23 2022 4:56 utc | 237

This is a classic process of colonisation – the outsider power presents as all powerful in arms, allies this force with a number of ideologies and practices which appeal to the significant also minded and dominant local élites, so forms a deep alliance which can collapse the country for plunder…
Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 15:15 utc | 224
Smart post. But I disagree with your characterization of the US. Because it too has been colonized and plundered as you so well describe above. IMO.
If that is correct, then who or what do we substitute for ‘US’ in your statements?
We wonders, aye, we wonders, Precious!

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 23 2022 7:26 utc | 239