Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Wow. If that doesn't sound like a propaganda piece.
How about we stop calling this the war against Ukraine and call it what it really is.
It's NATO's war against Russia.
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Quote:If it was NATO fighting Russia, then for every $750 billion in real estate damage Russia does to Ukraine, NATO would do $750 billion in damage to St. Petersburg. There wouldn't be a power plant left operating anywhere in Russia west of the Ural mountains because NATO bombed the generators. Millions of Russian refugees would be fleeing toward Siberia. That is what an actual war between NATO and Russia would be.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. If that doesn't sound like a propaganda piece.
How about we stop calling this the war against Ukraine and call it what it really is.
It's NATO's war against Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If it was NATO fighting Russia, then for every $750 billion in real estate damage Russia does to Ukraine, NATO would do $750 billion in damage to St. Petersburg. There wouldn't be a power plant left operating anywhere in Russia west of the Ural mountains because NATO bombed the generators. Millions of Russian refugees would be fleeing toward Siberia. That is what an actual war between NATO and Russia would be.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. If that doesn't sound like a propaganda piece.
How about we stop calling this the war against Ukraine and call it what it really is.
It's NATO's war against Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. It's by proxy. NATO isn't that brazen...
Yet.
But if it weren't funneling money and weapons to Ukraine along with the US, Ukraine would have lost this bullshit the moment it started.
Dissolve NATO today and the war ends by midnight.
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Scuttlebutt is, Russia is going to lash out in a major way. We'll see...
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Macron warns France needs to prepare for difficult time ahead
“I believe that we are in the process of living through a tipping point or great upheaval. Firstly because we are living through … the end of what could seem like the end of abundance,” he said.
Referring to the war in Ukraine, Macron also said: “Our system based on freedom in which we have become used to living, sometimes when we need to defend it, it can entail making sacrifices.”
The speech appeared designed to prepare the country for what promises to be a difficult winter ahead, with energy prices rising sharply and many families struggling with inflation.
‘The end of abundance’
The severe drought over the summer, leading to water restrictions across most of the country, has also caused many French people to express fears about the increasingly obvious effects of climate change.
“This overview that I’m giving – the end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions – it’s ultimately a tipping point that we are going through that can lead our citizens to feel a lot of anxiety,” Macron continued.
“Faced with this, we have duties, the first of which is to speak frankly and very clearly without doom-mongering,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/24/macron-warns-france-needs-to-
prepare-for-difficult-time-ahead
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Germany warns the same. They claim that Russia uses energy as a weapon, conveniently bypassing the fact that THEY cut themselves off from Russian gas and oil by ending Nord Stream II, sanctioning Russian oil, holding up a gas turbine, Ukraine ending gas flows to Europe, and not paying for gas delivered.
Jeez.
But the EU population has been conditioned to bow their heads to "the authorities". Just look at how they were made to tolerate unrealistic immigration programs and Covid responses. So I think this will go on for a while until reality breaks thru their conditioning.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Germany warns the same. They claim that Russia uses energy as a weapon, conveniently bypassing the fact that THEY cut themselves off from Russian gas and oil by ending Nord Stream II, sanctioning Russian oil, holding up a gas turbine, Ukraine ending gas flows to Europe, and not paying for gas delivered.
Jeez.
But the EU population has been conditioned to bow their heads to "the authorities". Just look at how they were made to tolerate unrealistic immigration programs and Covid responses. So I think this will go on for a while until reality breaks thru their conditioning.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It needs to get a lot worse for them (and us) for that to happen.
I hope it does.
Most of my adult life I've marveled at the way that TPTB had learned from history and were able to slowly ebb away the freedoms and the relatively prosperous lives that The People lived in such a way that they hardly noticed that it was happening.
I figured they'd just keep that up forever until we all found ourselves in cages and happy about it.
The fact that they cranked it all up to full blast in 2020 and completely threw out the slow burn approach makes me think that they know about something big that we don't know, and they have a plan that we're not privy to.
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Quote:The true story goes very different than the one you and Russians are telling, Signym: Russian gas supplier Gazprom refused to accept the turbine, blaming technical issues and missing documents. Despite Gazprom's rejection, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Tuesday that the five remaining turbines would be returned.
Originally posted by SignyM:
. . . holding up a gas turbine . . .
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-to-return-five-more-turbines-to
-germany/
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FSB 'Disinformation Campaign'
Sergej Sumlenny, a German political expert with a particular focus on Russia and Eastern Europe, told Newsweek that he believes the Kremlin's version of Dugina's assassination is "totally fake."
"It's absolutely out of the scale of plausibility," said Sumlenny, pointing to the evidence the FSB produced in attempting to pin the blame on a female Ukrainian citizen, who allegedly arrived in Russia in July with her daughter, rented an apartment in the same building as Dugina and spied on her before killing her.
The FSB released a purported passport photo of the Ukrainian citizen, as well as footage that allegedly showed her in Russia. Data analysts were quick to point out on Twitter that the document was photoshopped.
"We already see that what they call evidence is clearly forged, for example, the ID of the woman who they say has killed Dugina is photoshopped," said Sumlenny.
Sumlenny suggested the allegations are part of the FSB's "standard disinformation campaign after every event."
"Why did they do this? Because they want to spoil the discussion. They want us to dig into all these insane versions and spend all valuable time in debunking them," he explained.
Does the NRA Exist?
Sumlenny said that from a historical point of view, he doesn't believe that the NRA underground partisan group exists at all, and suggested that it may even be a creation of the FSB.
"I don't believe it [NRA] exists, why? Russia is a state with very strong surveillance and a lot of informants among all potential groups," he explained.
In recent history, there were no terrorist networks in Russia, except for some Islamic terror groups in northern Caucasus, and a gang of young men, known as the Primorsky Partisans, who, in the early 2000s, committed crimes, including the murder of two policemen, Sumlenny said.
"All other terrorist groups which existed after that were poor FSB creations," he said.
Sumlenny explained that a typical FSB strategy has been to attend political discussion clubs in universities, infiltrate them with an agent and attempt to radicalize these young people in order to present them as a terror group.
He pointed to the "non-existent" terror group Set, which Russian authorities said were plotting to overthrow the government.
Rights groups and lawyers argued that charges against the members were fabricated and that they were tortured into confessing. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also described the Set group a "fictitious terrorist organization."
"So this is how Russian terror groups are being created," said Sumlenny. "So to think that some anti-Putin liberal pro-European movement has appeared, which is not infiltrated by the FSB, which has skills to assemble a bomb, to put this bomb into a car and to let it explode remotely. It's impossible."
Given the Kremlin's official narrative is that Ukraine is behind Dugina's killing, it is only logical that Russia has yet to comment on the existence of the NRA, Sumlenny suggested.
"Their unofficial narrative, which they have allowed to be spread is the 'underground movement,'—they also need to crack down [on opposition]. So they let this narrative be transmitted."
'A Patriotic Flame'
Ruslan Trad, a security researcher at the U.S. think tank Atlantic Council, told Newsweek it is evident that the murder of Dugina "created a wave of needed anger" in Russia, now six months into its war against neighboring Ukraine.
"Dugin is now mostly a symbol, not an instrument for the state. His role in the creation of the current Kremlin mythology for Eurasia and the so-called 'Russian world' has already ended and he can be sacrificed," Trad said. "Currently, the Russian army needs victories, a patriotic flame."
The Russian state and its proxies already use murder for political purposes, he sai
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Europe’s Russia problem
The prevailing mood of denial in Europe has allowed Russian society to wholeheartedly embrace an anti-Western ideology while at the same time enjoying the benefits of Western civilization. Moscow actively attacks Western values and routinely depicts the United States, NATO, and the European Union as implacable adversaries. At the same time, the Kremlin elite and Russia’s middle classes send their wives and children to live in the hated West and take advantage of Europe’s superior education and healthcare opportunities. They buy up Western real estate, invest in Western businesses, settle their disputes in Western courts, and keep their savings in the same Western currencies they preach against.
Russians have grown used to the idea that they can use violent rhetoric, violate international norms, and even invade their neighbors with impunity. They are supremely confident that Western leaders will nevertheless seek to maintain dialogue with Moscow.
This has fostered a culture of contempt. Not unreasonably, Russians believe the West has no stomach for confrontation and is utterly unable to defend the values it so readily betrays. After years of engaging with the perceived hypocrisy of the West, Russians see nothing wrong in professing their hatred for democracy while enjoying its fruits. Likewise, they are entirely comfortable calling Ukrainians “brothers” and in the same breath proclaiming that Ukraine itself cannot be allowed to exist.
Until this absurd situation is addressed, there is little hope of ending Russian aggression. Instead of viewing the country as a difficult partner or a competitor, the West must acknowledge that today’s Russia is an unambiguously hostile power that is waging war against the entire democratic world.
One key measure would be to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. A small number of countries have already taken this step, but others including the United States remain reluctant. Skeptics argue that such a move would lead to unwelcome consequences that should be avoided. This is a slippery slope. Experience since 2014 demonstrates that failing to respond forcefully to Russian aggression only leads to bigger problems and higher costs further down the line. Rather than seeking compromises with a hostile power, Western leaders should designate Russia a state sponsor of terror without delay.
Europe must also deploy its considerable soft power tools to demonstrate that the days of double-dealing are over. You cannot expect to drive luxury German cars while scrawling “to Berlin” slogans on Russian tanks and parading them on state TV as symbols of national identity. You cannot expect to drink French wine or Viennese coffee while simultaneously threatening to nuke Europe.
Sanctions should be tightened and loopholes closed. Russian citizens should face a Schengen Zone tourist visa ban, with only humanitarian cases permitted to enter the EU. A wealth of evidence indicates that the vast majority of Russians support the war in Ukraine. They need to understand that they will face negative consequences for the war crimes being committed in their name.
Until the Russian middle classes begin to lose access to the trappings of Western civilization, they will continue to dismiss Western criticism of Russia as hypocritical and insincere. Once they are denied access to the privileges they previously took for granted, serious change in Russia may finally become possible. This will not happen overnight, of course. But until the current double standards are addressed, there is no chance whatsoever of Putin facing genuine domestic pressure.
More at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/a-strong-ukraine-is
-the-best-solution-to-europes-russia-problem/
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