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Ukraine – War Propaganda And News Items
Today Russia's missile and drone onslaught on Ukrainian infrastructure continues. I yesterday posted 25 headlines which over the last 7 month predicted that Russia would soon 'run out of missiles'.
For laughs: The 'coping' mechanism after yesterday's 200+ missile and drones is the very same I had debunked:
Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch – 14:48 UTC · Oct 10, 2022
As horrible as today was for Ukraine today, the sliver of good news here is that Russia likely can’t sustain this rate of missile launches. It’s very telling that they have not had this rate of long range fires since the start of the war.
The NY Times is lying:
With Civilian Attacks, Putin Gives Hard-Liners What They Wanted
'Civilian attacks' when, as the NYT itself reports, only 14 persons were killed and less than 100 wounded yesterday during 200+ missile and drone strikes:
The attacks killed at least 14 and wounded scores of others, while countless more in cities across Ukraine were terrified by dozens of incoming missiles explicitly targeting civilian infrastructure.
How many of those were killed by Ukrainian air defense misses is not known. It is sad that people get killed in a war but sometimes unavoidable.
The Ukraine military has killed way more civilians by its artillery strikes on Donetsk city. In 2003 U.S. 'shock and awe' in Baghdad killed at least 10,000 people. Israel kills hundreds of civilians during each of its frequent onslaughts on Gaza. Russia is obviously avoiding to kill civilians but still gets accused of doing it.
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Who is really killing Ukrainian civilians?
Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal – 6:23 UTC · Oct 10, 2022
"We haven't any time to put them in jail. They disappeared… somewhere"
A local official jokes of massacring pro-Russian citizens of Ukraine in towns vacated by Russian forces
The human rights industry is basically forbidden from acknowledging this
Quoted Tweet
Анатолий Шарий @anatoliisharii – 18:50 UTC · Oct 9, 2022
A district deputy from Ukraine brags to a Zelensky-affiliated channel “journalist” how they killed many Ukrainians they considered to be “enemy agents.” "These people gone missing". It’s fun for them. Embedded video
Ukrainian is false flagging its murdering of civilian 'collaborators':
War Crimes – Dreizin Report
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Russia had so far also avoided to hit significant Ukrainian infrastructure. Yesterday its President Vladimir Putin explained why it had to change that. The Dugina murder, sabotage attacks within Russia, NATO destroying Nord Stream 2, and the Kerch bridge attack changed the picture:
The President held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council, via videoconference. – Kremlin
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Thus, the Kiev regime, by its actions, has actually put itself on the same level as international terrorist groups, and with the most odious of those. It is simply no longer possible to leave crimes of this kind without retaliation.
This morning, at the proposal of the Defence Ministry and in accordance with the plan of Russia’s General Staff, a massive strike was launched with long-range precision air, sea and land-based weapons against Ukrainian energy, military and communications facilities.
In the event of more attempts to stage terrorist attacks on our territory, Russia's response will be harsh and commensurate with the threats posed to the Russian Federation. Nobody should have any doubts about that.
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Kit has a nice scoop:
Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg – 18:25 UTC · 10 Oct 2022
Now, this is pretty big. Advise you read in full. In brief though, "audacious" plans for destroying #KerchBridge drawn up at request of infamous British military spook Chris Donnelly, at precisely the time London was sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine this April.
EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it – Grayzone
MoA has previously exposed Donnelly and his Institute for Statecraft:
The 'Integrity Initiative' – A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The "Russian Threat"
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Realism setting in:
Don't Buy the Narrative on Ukraine – American Conservative
The Western party line about a struggling Russia and a resilient Ukraine overlooks hard realities.
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Whitney is citing the OSCE reports without crediting MoA which covered them before the start of the war:
Some of Us Don't Think the Russian Invasion Was "Aggression." Here's Why. – M. Whitney / UNZ
Back on August first I wrote and published a short article about energy and its finally entering the discussion about the motivation/causation for our Hybrid Third World War and concluded with this paragraph:
“If the Global South is going to develop so it can raise its populace from poverty, a high proportion of what remains of proven hydrocarbon reserves will be used for that project, while the West wants as much as possible for itself alone. Currently, the ultimate commodity and collateral are hydrocarbons. Other energy systems will eventually replace them, but not for several more decades as that capacity/capability will take time to build up. And thus NATO’s very large, unspoken problem–its geoeconomic dependency on the rest of the world, flipping the relationship that’s existed for the last 500+ years.”
That would be all of NATO, not just its European members. Now energy output and distribution networks have become strategic targets for both sides and IMO we’ve only seen the opening shots in this aspect of the war. This RT item will provide barflies with the sentiment within the Imperial Congress, “Calls for US to punish Saudi Arabia grow”:
US Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Ro Khanna have accused Saudi Arabia of “colluding” with Russia by cutting OPEC oil production quotas, supposedly to boost Moscow’s energy revenue. The two high-profile Democrats called for weapons sales to be stopped, in order to punish Riyadh.
“America shouldn’t be providing such unlimited control of strategic defense systems to an apparent ally of our greatest enemy – nuclear bomb extortionist [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Blumenthal, Khanna and Yale business professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld wrote on Sunday in a Politico op-ed. They added that they will propose Senate and House legislation on Tuesday to immediately halt US arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
On Monday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez also called on the US government to freeze all aspects of its cooperation with Saudi Arabia. “There simply is no room to play both sides of this conflict,” he said, adding that he “will not green light any cooperation with Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine.”
Do note how deeply they believe their own propaganda and how much control they think they can exert by withholding arms sales–very common deluded group think by those inhabiting Depravity Central. I welcome the Empire cutting its coercion of the Saudis, something the Saudis have anticipated.
Those that follow my commentary will have noted my linking to proven hydrocarbon reserves twice over the past month to show the Outlaw US Empire’s dire condition when it comes to what remains within its geographical boundaries. I also commented on the fact that Canada’s bitumin deposits won’t be any sort of savior since there’s not enough gas or water to mine much of those deposits, gas being the main constraint. Thus the Neocon targeting of Iraq and Venezuela and current theft of Syrian oil. Perhaps the biggest failure of Outlaw US Empire Imperialism was gaining absolute control of all Persian Gulf hydrocarbon resources, not just their “management.”
The idea to make the EU dependent on North American hydrocarbon resources while logical won’t be practical for very long because of the overall lack of resources–there isn’t enough for Canada, the Empire and EU at any price: You can’t sell what you don’t have. Hopes were placed on the ability to exploit Ukrainian gas via fracking to sell to non-Ukrainians, but that failed. I expect conflicts to erupt soon over gas deposits around Cyprus and offshore Lebanon and Gaza, while the massive Pars field gets jointly developed by Iran, Qatar, Russia, and China, with most of its gas going East to Asia and West to Africa.
And then there’s the African Theatre which so far has remained off most barflies’s radar where both Russia and China are very trusted partners, while the West is increasingly loathed. Africa needs Africa’s resources for its own development, and a massive network of pipelines, railways, and motorways are currently under construction mostly via BRI.
So, the Ukrainian Nazis will suffer the fate some of us knew would likely befall them–total loss of Ukraine–once they resorted to and became the newest iteration of the Outlaw US Empire’s Terrorist Foreign Legion. Yes, that will present problems for Russia’s security and governance of the restored regions. I still anticipate Belarus’s involvement. What becomes of the Baltics and Poland when the energy runs out looks grim–a reversion to being primarily agrarian. And what of the remainder of the EU, those not friendly and or connected to Turkstream? As Hudson, Diesen, myself, and others have noted, EU energy dependence is Structural. There are ways to avoid the fate that’s now staring at them; but to avoid it, individual nations will need to abandon the EU/NATO and restore relations with Russia.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 11 2022 17:03 utc | 191
Yet again, RT links block posting of comments. Link now removed:
Back on August first I wrote and published a short article about energy and its finally entering the discussion about the motivation/causation for our Hybrid Third World War and concluded with this paragraph:
“If the Global South is going to develop so it can raise its populace from poverty, a high proportion of what remains of proven hydrocarbon reserves will be used for that project, while the West wants as much as possible for itself alone. Currently, the ultimate commodity and collateral are hydrocarbons. Other energy systems will eventually replace them, but not for several more decades as that capacity/capability will take time to build up. And thus NATO’s very large, unspoken problem–its geoeconomic dependency on the rest of the world, flipping the relationship that’s existed for the last 500+ years.”
That would be all of NATO, not just its European members. Now energy output and distribution networks have become strategic targets for both sides and IMO we’ve only seen the opening shots in this aspect of the war. This RT item will provide barflies with the sentiment within the Imperial Congress, “Calls for US to punish Saudi Arabia grow”:
US Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Ro Khanna have accused Saudi Arabia of “colluding” with Russia by cutting OPEC oil production quotas, supposedly to boost Moscow’s energy revenue. The two high-profile Democrats called for weapons sales to be stopped, in order to punish Riyadh.
“America shouldn’t be providing such unlimited control of strategic defense systems to an apparent ally of our greatest enemy – nuclear bomb extortionist [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Blumenthal, Khanna and Yale business professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld wrote on Sunday in a Politico op-ed. They added that they will propose Senate and House legislation on Tuesday to immediately halt US arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
On Monday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez also called on the US government to freeze all aspects of its cooperation with Saudi Arabia. “There simply is no room to play both sides of this conflict,” he said, adding that he “will not green light any cooperation with Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine.”
Do note how deeply they believe their own propaganda and how much control they think they can exert by withholding arms sales–very common deluded group think by those inhabiting Depravity Central. I welcome the Empire cutting its coercion of the Saudis, something the Saudis have anticipated.
Those that follow my commentary will have noted my linking to proven hydrocarbon reserves twice over the past month to show the Outlaw US Empire’s dire condition when it comes to what remains within its geographical boundaries. I also commented on the fact that Canada’s bitumin deposits won’t be any sort of savior since there’s not enough gas or water to mine much of those deposits, gas being the main constraint. Thus the Neocon targeting of Iraq and Venezuela and current theft of Syrian oil. Perhaps the biggest failure of Outlaw US Empire Imperialism was gaining absolute control of all Persian Gulf hydrocarbon resources, not just their “management.”
The idea to make the EU dependent on North American hydrocarbon resources while logical won’t be practical for very long because of the overall lack of resources–there isn’t enough for Canada, the Empire and EU at any price: You can’t sell what you don’t have. Hopes were placed on the ability to exploit Ukrainian gas via fracking to sell to non-Ukrainians, but that failed. I expect conflicts to erupt soon over gas deposits around Cyprus and offshore Lebanon and Gaza, while the massive Pars field gets jointly developed by Iran, Qatar, Russia, and China, with most of its gas going East to Asia and West to Africa.
And then there’s the African Theatre which so far has remained off most barflies’s radar where both Russia and China are very trusted partners, while the West is increasingly loathed. Africa needs Africa’s resources for its own development, and a massive network of pipelines, railways, and motorways are currently under construction mostly via BRI.
So, the Ukrainian Nazis will suffer the fate some of us knew would likely befall them–total loss of Ukraine–once they resorted to and became the newest iteration of the Outlaw US Empire’s Terrorist Foreign Legion. Yes, that will present problems for Russia’s security and governance of the restored regions. I still anticipate Belarus’s involvement. What becomes of the Baltics and Poland when the energy runs out looks grim–a reversion to being primarily agrarian. And what of the remainder of the EU, those not friendly and or connected to Turkstream? As Hudson, Diesen, myself, and others have noted, EU energy dependence is Structural. There are ways to avoid the fate that’s now staring at them; but to avoid it, individual nations will need to abandon the EU/NATO and restore relations with Russia.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 11 2022 17:07 utc | 196
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