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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
Oui @202–
Thanks for that. The escalation is occurring as I anticipated. MBZ is in St. Petersburg for Russian Energy Week as well as meeting with Putin.
Part of what Zakharova said about Ukraine at today’s briefing:
“We must not forget about the incessant shelling of cities and villages of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, acts of nuclear terrorism against the Zaporozhye and Kursk nuclear power plants. Representatives of the Kiev regime of all stripes are proud of this. And for many years, the Myrotvorets website has been publishing data on who was destroyed, cynically “painting over with a cross” this or that column with the surname. In different ways, they glorify the explosions of infrastructure, the destruction of objects, the murder of people.
“One could say that this is because there is nothing more to be proud of. ‘To break is not to build.’ I’ll put it another way. That’s not the point. It’s much more serious. The fact is that this is their global ideology: not creation, but destruction, not light, but darkness, endless deception, substitutions and global hypocrisy, behind which hatred and misanthropic ideology are hidden.”
The bolded segment describes those who actually run Ukraine as most would recognize. After a pause, she returned to the Main Terrorists:
Then, when morning came in Washington and those who lead and sponsor them woke up, the tactics changed dramatically – they began to cowardly deny what they had done and “move the needle.” Whether this is childish stupidity, or the action of some drugs that have a limited duration of action and periodically end. In moments of rare sobering, they begin to deny everything that was said under some kind of “dope”.
The same departments say the exact opposite things during the day: they were delighted, they say, there was a reason for national pride. They all recorded this action as an asset. All the “state institutions” of Ukraine were in solidarity and shared the success. Half a day passed. Apparently, Washington was “pulled away”, recalling that until now the states that consider themselves to be within the framework of international legal relations differ from quasi-state terrorist entities.
Enthusiastic, bravura, sincere congratulations on the act of a terrorist nature on the Crimean bridge were heard from officials from NATO countries. Those same countries that have been talking about human rights for decades are creating specialized institutions to protect every whim of a person that is not related to his basic needs, elevating to the rank of cult any lust. Here, suddenly, having lost the last thing that visually denoted reasonable people in them, they began to congratulate the Kiev regime on a successful terrorist act. We drew a line under any doubt as to who actually fulfilled it. They directly congratulated the Kiev regime on a successful diversion. It was the twenty-second year of the twenty-first century. Then these people meet each other at conferences and talk about how to save the environment, how flowers and trees suffer, that you can not conduct experiments on animals. Now I understand what they are about. It is considered wrong to conduct experiments on animals, since they consider it right to do it on humans. [My Emphasis]
Zakharova’s statement just about Ukraine is quite long–22 paragraphs-and ends thusly leaving IMO no doubt that my prediction and the opinion of Medvedev will be fulfilled:
We would like the international community to finally wake up from the suspended animation in which it finds itself and demonstrate impartiality and integrity in assessing the recent actions and statements of the Ukrainian authorities. It has demonstrated in fact that it is still an international community, ready and able to show empathy, sympathy, compassion. That this is not just a group of ideologically “minded” bureaucrats bought with Western funds and money.
We are well aware that the United States and other Western countries will never allow this to happen. They will do everything to create the illusion that the listed (in fact, single crimes affected, but numerous) do not fall into the field of view of human rights institutions, structures, and public figures. Not only are they blindly covering up Kiev’s permissiveness and impunity, but they are also demanding it from others by exerting unprecedented pressure on them.
Under these conditions, there is only one option – to continue a special military operation with the stated goals. All goals and objectives, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly said, will be fulfilled. [My Emphasis]
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 11 2022 18:04 utc | 215
The full transcript of Maria Zakharova’s Briefing including the Q&As in Russian is finally complete, and a video is available at the top of the page. The English version is not even 1/10th completed and probably won’t be finished until tomorrow can be found here. None of the Q&A was available when I provided those earlier extracts. Number 18 relates to a collective set entitled, “On the destructive actions of the United States in the world,” and was asked by a member of Yahoo! News. What follows is that exchange and the one that follows all of which are classic Zakharova responses suitable for framing:
Question: Why do you call the explosion on the Crimean Bridge a terrorist attack, and not an act of war?
A: What war? I would like to decide before we whirl in an interesting “dance”. You said “act of war.” I’m not arguing, just clarifying. When did it start?
Q: In February 2022.
Answer: It doesn’t “beat”. The Kiev regime spoke about plans to destroy the Crimean bridge long before February 2022, and openly stated, threatened with sabotage and explosions. It was part of the ideological work with its own population – to promise citizens that there would be no bridge. That is why we call it a terrorist attack. This was said by the Kiev leadership. We are talking about a deliberate, long-cherished intention to destroy civilian infrastructure. And this was voiced when everyone was focused on the implementation of the Minsk agreements and the desire to end the crisis by political and diplomatic means.
There was a referendum in Crimea. You have the right not to recognize it. We recognize. We have that right. This is the territory of the Russian Federation. A civilian infrastructure facility was built there.
You represent Yahoo News. Let me give you an example that will be more understandable to you than the situation in Ukraine. The U.S. is now in Syria. They occupied part of a sovereign state. They do not build bridges or buildings there, but only facilities that allow them to pump Syrian oil. You didn’t know? Entire areas are occupied there. I can drop geolocation, addresses, passwords and appearances so that you know where the representatives of the United States and its units are (I do not know what they are called – private / official) and pump oil. We’ve been talking about this for a few years.
Tell me, is the United States at war with Syria? Damascus every day tells Washington to leave, to leave the Syrian infrastructure, resources, to stop pumping oil, to trade it, to sell it, including to militants. The U.S. says it has a right to be there. Was there a referendum? Do the people of Syria want to give territory to America? Join? No.
Second example. The US armed forces have been on the territory of Iraq for a long time, disposing of subsoil and energy resources. How do you qualify that? The state of war, the special operation – what was it called? There are so many political scientists, so many opinions, if we live according to the concept of a “rules-based world order” imposed by the West. We have always advocated the law, with clear wording, the ability to adequately assess each other’s steps and check with a single law. We are constantly denied this.
Question: I don’t know about Syria.
Maria Zakharova: How can you know if the United States does not talk about it, and journalists do not write.
Question: But we are talking about Ukraine, not about American forces.
Answer: We are talking about the commonality of approaches. You say you don’t recognize referendums. We recognize. Just gave an example. Many don’t recognize what the U.S. is doing. But the U.S. wants to and does. We need a unified approach. There is the UN Charter, international law. It says in black and white: there is sovereignty and territorial integrity, and there is the right of peoples to self-determination. This is complemented by the fact that most countries have subscribed to the fact that democracy is good. Everyone can have it with its own nuances, but in general – good. Democracy is the ability of people to legally and legally exercise their will in various spheres (political, economic, cultural, etc.). One of the ways to implement it is through elections. The other is referendums, plebiscites, etc. You can’t pretend that this doesn’t exist and didn’t happen. As much as I’d like to, it’s there.
I’ve heard that referendums are due in the UK soon. Why do people there have the right to do this, but in other countries they do not?
Question: But the referendums are held not somewhere in India, but in the UK. There is a difference.
A: Thank you for saying. Crimea has held more than one referendum. In the 1990s, the legitimate (we recognized them) authorities in Kiev did not allow their citizens to hold a referendum. All of them were not recognized. But there is a referendum that even the United States has recognized, in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, on whether the republics want to remain inside the USSR or gain independence. Then the United States, the European Economic Union, all countries recognized. The republics said they wanted to stay together. This was violated, no one referred to referendums, the USSR collapsed, No one asked Crimea where he wanted to be (although he had the right to express). Since 1990, Crimea has been fighting for the right to hold a referendum. As part of Ukraine, he did it. The Kiev authorities did not give the go-ahead then, but they were illegal. At that time, the legitimate government was overthrown in the course of an unconstitutional coup d’état.
You could say that the people of Ukraine rebelled and decided to carry out a coup. No. There was interference from Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, the EU as a whole. All of them: ministers, high representatives of foreign policy, even some presidents walked around the Maidan and stimulated people to unconstitutional actions. Here’s the story.
Question: The SBU has put you on the wanted list. Could you share your impressions?
Answer: I can tell you where I am. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, in the hall of the Press Center. I didn’t hide it. There was an announcement.
Q: Are you not afraid that this will affect your movements around the world? In general, for life?
Maria Zakharova: Are you not afraid that in the center of the European continent there is a regime that professes extremism and terrorism as a state ideology? Do you think they’ll stop someday? People who do not deny, but implement and “glorify” such a method of doing business, never refuse it. They themselves have shrugged off all the ways to conduct negotiations, a political, diplomatic, international legal method of resolving the situation. We signed some papers, came up with some decrees. We chose only this method.
Aren’t you afraid? It is the center of Europe. Everyone believes that this is far away, it will not affect anyone. Better study history. Look at what happened to other areas of American “experiments.” They first created monsters, and then they got out of washington’s control. Remind? Al-Qaeda, W. bin Laden, ISIS, which appeared on the ruins of the Iraqi state. Nothing new. The world went through it all. At first, everyone believed that they would not be affected, but only those whom extremists and terrorists threatened. And then they didn’t know where to hide or what to do. When the ideology of misanthropy, terror and extremism appears somewhere in the world, the world must unite, close ranks and say a resolute “no” to such manifestations. Otherwise, it will be a universal problem. At the instigation of the West, it is.
And the final Q&A:
“Question: You said what signals the United States sends. Is Russia sending any signals to the United States about the possibility or impossibility of dialogue?
“Maria Zakharova: Not all the signals we send to the United States can be voiced. Not everything for the airwaves.”
There are some other very good Q&As, so I highly suggest awaiting the English transcript unless you can machine translate.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 11 2022 22:23 utc | 300
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