Gimme that old-time Judeo-Christianity / Missile strike update for July 8, 2023
Jews and Christians share the Old Testament, and both know the commandment in Leviticus to love our neighbor. Yet both are cynically trampling on specifically this greatest of all commandments.
Here’s your daily missile strike update for July 8, 2023
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]. Please read this in conjunction with battlefield reports. Note that Poltava and Kharkiv are expected to be attacked by Wagner troops, as reported below.
https://ria.ru/20230708/trevoga-1882992664.html
Air alert announced in three oblasts of Ukraine
Ukrainian authorities announced an air alert in Dnepropetrovsk and two other oblasts
MOSCOW, July 8 - RIA Novosti. An air raid alert has been declared in the Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts of Ukraine, according to the data of the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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https://donbasstoday.ru/v-donbasse-unichtozhen-litovskij-naemnik-inostruktor/
Lithuanian mercenary instructor killed in Donbass
07/08/2023
In Ukraine, under mysterious circumstances, a mercenary from Lithuania, Valerijus Polkovnikovas, who taught Ukrainians how to operate UAVs, died under mysterious circumstances. This was reported by the Telegram channel "War Criminals", the correspondent of "Donbass Today" reports.
He arrived in Ukraine in October 2022. His LinkedIn page notes that since May 2023 he has been working as an instructor at the Kyiv-based military training company Global Drone Academy (GDA). [This would make a juicy target for Kinzhals in the future]
On his pages on social networks, Polkovnikovas wrote that the Russians do not have their own culture and language [apparently, this BS is being taught to Ukrainian troops. Proof that Kiev does nothing but lie about Russia], that after Ukraine, the Russians will seize Lithuania and other Baltic countries. At the same time, the mercenary often laid out the emblem of the Azov terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation. According to acquaintances, he not only worked as an instructor, but also served in the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Cossacks.
In mid-June 2023, Polkovnikovas went to the front in the direction of Artyomovsk, where he was injured as a result of an artillery strike. He had a broken rib and damaged back muscles. This is evidenced by the screenshots of his correspondence dated June 20, which were found by the Lithuanian media.
The death of the militant became known from the publication of the Lithuanian pilot Rokas Pauliukaitis. He said that the mercenary died in the vicinity of Artyomovsk when he came under artillery fire. Relatives of the deceased began raising funds for the transportation of the body.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania confirmed the death of a citizen of their country in Ukraine, but the causes of death were not named. At the same time, pilot Pauliukaitis deleted his old post and apologized for misinformation about the artillery strike. Relatives also suddenly stopped fundraising.
At the moment, nothing is known about the causes and place of the death of Valerijus Polkovnikovas.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
You can consult the map linked here
https://tsargrad.tv/news/vagner-v-sumah-vnezapnyj-perepoloh-v-gorode-poluchil-prodolzhenie_821489
"WAGNER" IN SUMY? SUDDEN COMMOTION IN THE CITY HAS A SEQUEL
The sudden commotion in the city of Sumy continues. Local officials are evacuating documents at an unprecedented rate, and businessmen are evacuating enterprises to Western Ukraine. Are they expecting Wagner?
Tsargrad already assumed that the new tasks of the Wagner PMC after leaving for Belarus could be precisely the northwestern area, which the Russian army was forced to abandon in 2022. We also analyzed why it is easier for [Wagner] "musicians" to enter from the territory of Belarus not directly, through swamps and minefields, but through the Chernihiv or Kharkov oblast [bordering Russia, with Chernihiv also bordering the Kiev oblast] with the prospect of moving to Sumy and Poltava [these two oblasts, as you can see from the linked map, are located near the Kiev oblast. Now we’re getting close].
If we assumed this, then we should not assume that something like this was not taken into account in the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Military expert, retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk does not rule out that the unexpected panic in Sumy may be connected precisely with the possible future entry of "orchestrants" [Wagner troops] there.
I do not rule out that those Wagnerites who left for Belarus may appear in the Sumy. I do not deny the possibility that Prigozhin is now sitting and signing contracts for new military operations. A cordon sanitaire, obviously, will be created around the Ukraine that will remain after the end of this conflict,"
- said the expert in an interview with the "First Russian".
By the way, the same commotion, but on a larger scale, is also happening in the Kharkiv region. We wrote more about this in the article "Wagner's New Mission: Kharkov and Sumy are preparing for cleansings."
Recall that the probable surrender by Kiev of two large cities - Sumy and Kharkov - was previously discussed by war correspondent Alexander Sladkov.
He outlined two signs that the Ukrainian authorities are preparing to surrender the two cities.
The evacuation of large enterprises has begun, - the journalist specified. - The enemy is strengthening the second line of his defense.
The military commissar did not give more information, adding only that the details would come later.
Military correspondent Dmitry Steshin, speaking about Kharkov, clarified that the evacuation is taking place at enterprises that are connected with the military-industrial complex and the maintenance of military equipment. [Of course, the ease with which Russian forces locate and destroy such MIC venues does not stop the West from making ridiculous deals with Kiev for the joint manufacture of arms. These joint manufacturing plants will be very quickly located and destroyed. Almost nothing that you read about Ukraine in Western msm is real. These journos and politicians live in an alternate universe of their own concoction]
Thus, the Ukrainians are "reeling in the bait," the journalist stated. He wondered, "what would it be for," and pointed out that the Russian military had recently become more active in the Kupyansk region, and were also "warming up" the Sumy region.
Recall: the Russian army has already entered the territory of the Sumy and Kharkov regions. But it left first, along with Chernihiv and Kyiv, after the Istanbul "agreement", as a result of which Russia was deceived and framed. And the second - after the regrouping. [This – and the blatant violation of the Minsk accords before the war, by which Kiev insincerely agreed to stop the shelling of Donbass, is why Russia is no longer inclined to make any deals with the West. Western – and even Chinese – efforts to bring the two sides to the bargaining table are therefore just a waste of time, even when Russia claims it is willing to negotiate.]
But we have to go back there. After all, after leaving these territories, we laid bare our borderlands - the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod [all areas of Russia proper] regions. And the enemy did not fail to take advantage of this [by attacking with artillery, rockets, missiles and drones, and by invading with infantry and armor]. It is no coincidence that during a recent meeting with military corps, President Vladimir Putin spoke about the need to create a sanitary zone.
And if this continues, then we must, apparently, consider the issue of creating some kind of sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine at such a distance from which it would be impossible to get our territory, the President of Russia warned. [Putin means that it must control all parts of Ukraine from which a weapon could be fired that can reach Russia proper. He specifically said that if the West should send longer-range missiles, then these sanitary zones must be extended by the additional distance of the range of such arms. Theoretically, this could oblige Russia to take almost all of Ukraine, and there is no doubt that this can eventually be done]
It remains to be added that lately Sumy has been increasingly appearing in reports of effective strikes by our army [These reports are essentially all covered by my daily missile strike reports]. Recall that the night of July 6-7 was one of the worst for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A powerful blow fell on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy, explosions thundered in the Dnepropetrovsk region and Berislav (Kherson region). In Berislav, by the way, 15 Ukrainian militants were killed.
On July 3, the SBU regional office in Sumy, Ukraine, was hit by Russian Geran drones [Russian drones are invariably reported as Shehad drones – made in Iran – by the Kiev press, which gets its information from the Ukrainian intel service, but the intel service reports are politically motivated and unreliable. Nonetheless, we have no way of knowing if they are Shehads or Gerans]. It was reported that after hitting the area with Gerans, users found on the map that the building of the regional department of the SBU was located in this square. That was the main target of the attack.
On the footage circulated in Ukrainian web sites, two arrivals were clearly visible and audible - one of them hit the building of the law enforcement agency. According to a number of sources, at that moment there were a large number of employees in the building.
As usual, the propagandists of the Kyiv regime began to spread fakes that supposedly the strikes were in residential buildings. This is done in order to create a psychological effect on their own population, as well as to hide the fact of the defeat of a military facility. [If must be noted that US-controlled Western media essentially all report ONLY what is reported in Kiev, and much of it is pure propaganda aimed at making the West believe that Ukraine has a chance of winning the war. Without this propaganda, Kiev fears that the West would stop its arms shipments]
Later, Ukrainian sources admitted that the Russian UAV attack was carried out on an "administrative building". The fact of the strike on the building of the SBU Banderistas [Nazis] was also acknowledged by Zelensky, noting that the air defense was unable to shoot down the drones. [This could be because 1) Russia is destroying as many of the air defenses as possible, and 2) Russian Electronic warfare systems in the drones are jamming the air defense radar signals that guide the intercept missiles to their target. Normally, drones would be very easy to shoot down. Of course, Zelensky uncharacteristically told the truth in order to bolster his request for “more quality air defense systems.” He thereby gave evidence of his abysmal ignorance. NO air defenses are capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles such as the Kinzhal and Iskander. The West also knows this but continues to play the political game of pretending to defend Ukraine]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets].
Americans should be good and mad about the large numbers of destroyed US-made arms destroyed by the Russians – no, not mad at the Russians, mad at the fools in the Western governments and NATO who insist on burning up your taxpayer dollars on the battlefield when they know full well that Russia is capable of easily locating and destroying these Western-shipped weapons. The decision makers in Washington and Brussels KNOW that Ukraine is losing badly but keeps burning up your tax money and wasting weapons that were originally intended for the defense of the US and Europe. On the other hand, let’s be honest: The US and Europe pretend to have departments or ministries of defense, but this is a lie. These countries’ militaries are purely offensive and target normally peaceful Russia for political and ideological reasons. If we were smart, we would dismantle NATO and start cooperating with Russia in a common defense scheme, but we can’t back away from a stupid confrontation that brings the world closer to a nuclear Armageddon with every passing day.
In case you missed it, here is my article showing that the Russia WAS indeed cynically and criminally provoked first by the Obama regime and then continually since 2014: https://donhank.substack.com/p/so-the-russian-incursion-in-ukraine
Calling the Russian special military operation “unprovoked” is a dangerous lie irresponsibly supported by our State Department, which is nothing more than a terrorist group: https://donhank.substack.com/p/us-state-department-the-most-dangerous
PAUSE ATTACKS. AFU ARE CHOKING ON THE COUNTER-ATTACKS: SITUATION ON THE FRONTS OF THE SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION
We have collected for you fresh reports from the fronts of the military special operation in Ukraine. Official and unofficial.
Officially
In the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the army and attack aircraft of the Zapad group of forces delivered eight air strikes on the points of temporary deployment of the [Ukrainian] 14th separate mechanized brigade and territorial defense units, said Sergey Zybinsky, head of the press center of the Zapad group.
In the defense zone of the First Tank Army, during reconnaissance and search operations by a special forces group in the area of the settlement of Peschanoe, an American-made M777 artillery gun was destroyed by loitering ammunition "Lancet," Zybinsky specified. - The fire of towed howitzers "Msta-B" in the area of the settlement of Berestovoye hit the accumulation of enemy manpower and equipment from the 32nd separate mechanized brigade. The losses amounted to the detachment of manpower and the American-made M113 armored personnel carrier.
Ukrainian militants lost another squad from the 32nd separate mechanized brigade in the Les Popov area - the advance of their saboteurs was opened using a drone. Two militants were taken prisoner.
Unofficially
It was especially hot last night in Zaporozhye. The Telegram channel "Two Majors" reported the latest news from the Zaporozhye Front from the Orekhovsky direction:
... At Rabotino, from two in the morning, the enemy threw another wave into the attack, including infantry and equipment. We met them well, and the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bogged down. Maybe there will be more. We are waiting.
Military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk in his telegram channel "Rybar" reported that in the Starobelsky direction the enemy made a number of attempts to attack our positions, and in the Svatovsky sector, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the area of Karmazinovka, Makeevka and the Zhuravka beam
To the south, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack in the area of the Torsky salient and in the Serebryansky forestry. Nevertheless, our subunits "confidently hold defensive lines in this sector of the front."
North of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian command also took a tactical pause to transfer reinforcements to the combat zone. The Russian military is reinforcing defenses in previously liberated territories, preparing to repel new attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
To the south, fierce battles continue for tactical heights and strongholds in the Kleshcheevka area. Our troops launched a series of counterattacks to improve positions around the settlement.
Near Gorlovka, Ukrainian formations tried to attack the positions of the Russians in the area of Mayorskaya station. The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not succeed and retreated after the loss of several armored vehicles.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian command continues to send troops to storm the Russian defenses in the villages of Zherebyanki and Rabotino. However, even at the cost of significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is not possible to expand the zone of control in the area of the settlements.
The reports from the analytical department of Wargonzo also note that in the Zaporozhye direction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after artillery strikes, they tried to attack the village of Zherebyanki. No success. The same fate befell their assault actions at Rabotin. Our artillery shelled Ukrainian units in Novodanilovka, Chervona Krinitsa, Malaya Tokmachka, Yegorovka, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaipole and Malinovka.
In the Ugledar sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked near Priyutnoye. And also failed to advance. With the support of artillery, they sought to push through our defenses in Staromayorsky, but were driven back. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being shelled in Novodarovka, Blagodatny, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Miner and Vugledar.
On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces tried to advance towards Novomikhailovka. With the support of artillery, they conducted assault operations in Marinka and near Pervomaisky.
In the Bakhmut area, there are fierce confrontational battles for the heights to the west and north of Kleshcheevka. The Russian armed forces counterattacked on the southwestern outskirts of the city, as well as in the Berkhovka area. Our artillery hit the Ukrainian units in Ivanovsky, Khromovo, Fedorovka, Rozdolovka and Verkhnekamensky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were shelling Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka and Bakhmut.
Western analysts also noted the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to counterattack our positions, and the fact that these attempts were not successful. But the Russians successfully hit the militants in the rear.
Here is what the experts of the American Institute for the Study of War write: the Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked in three directions. Including a new wave of counterattacks in Zaporozhye. The Russians carried out a successful series of missile and UAV attacks on the rear areas of the Ukrainian forces, as well as ground attacks in the western part of the DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic].
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'Sound of Freedom' Touched a Nerve on the Left: Not Just One, but Many
When They Tell You 'Nothing to See Here,' You Know You Need to See It
CAUF SKIVIERS
8 July 2023 Г.
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Spoiler alert: This article contains mild spoilers about the movie 'Sound of Freedom' that won't interfere with your ability to enjoy it.
I like Jim Caviezel, even before his classic performance in The Passion of the Christ, he was brilliant as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo. I listen to a number of podcasts, many just as background noise. So, of course, I was aware that Caviezel was making the rounds to promote his latest movie, Sound of Freedom. I confess I wasn't paying too much attention as the movie first struck me as some sort of 'right-wing Taken,' which is not my cup of tea. Anyway, I felt like I would eventually watch it, maybe one of these days.
But that has quickly changed, and what really sold me on the movie was a hit piece disguised as a review by the left-wing propaganda tabloid, The Guardian. The headline reads, “Sound of Freedom: The QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America.” The article sent me down a stomach-churning rabbit hole of lunatic conspiracy theories that permeate the Left these days. After that, I knew I should watch the movie as soon as possible because it was touching the right nerves in the wrong people.
More here
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https://www.rt.com/russia/579321-russia-vietnam-tropical-center/
7 Jul, 2023
Vietnam makes pledge to Russia
No matter what, bilateral ties will remain strong, the deputy defense minister has insisted
Vietnam makes pledge to Russia
Vietnamese Deputy Defense Minister Hoang Xuan Chien visits Russia, July 6 © Alexey Filippov/Sputnik
Vietnam is committed to preserving and developing cooperation with Russia regardless of changing international circumstances, Deputy Defense Minister Hoang Xuan Chien told senior Russian officials during his visit to Moscow this week.
More here
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Gimme that old-time Judeo-Christianity
I had written in these Substack pages that the State Department is the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. I showed that Washington has been captured by a small cabal known as the Project for the New American Century, a group of Jews with the following names:
William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, Richard Perle.
And I wrote:
These names are of US influencers, almost all of which have held positions in different presidential administrations and most of which have been founding members of the unipolar, hegemonic PNAC, whose policy is to strive for the dismantling of Russia in ways that bring us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
Today I would like to enter more deeply into why it is relevant that these Neocons are people identifying as Jews, and to put it very briefly and very bluntly, I feel very strongly that it is because, like their goy enablers, they have turned their back on their scriptures in the most cynical and deliberate way – and in dissolving their spiritual fabric, they have likewise dissolve their humanity.
Jews and Christians share the Old Testament in common, and both religions more-or-less are aware of the commandment in Leviticus to love our neighbor. (Lev. 19:18) – Which BTW, Jesus said was the most important of all commandments, in conjunction with the commandment to love God with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and strength. He and a Jewish law scholar both agreed that these were the “greatest commandments,” suggesting that at least the commandment to love one another is universally accessible.
And why not? Even an atheist could agree that love between human beings is necessary for harmonious relations. In the 5th century BC, Confucius taught harmony while Mozi taught universal love, as indispensable and cherished values.
But the Neocons have trashed their respective beliefs in exchange for a cheap petty form of patriotism, which clearly supersedes, nay replaces, the core teachings of these sacred scriptures, perhaps because they feel it is all a lot of silliness. Indeed, some of the commandments seem frankly unscientific in our enlightened day and age, and there is no denying it.
But I think that, instead of trashing them, there is a way of dealing with these hard-to-digest passages. That is, I think a common-sense approach makes the scriptures accessible to those Westerners who, while aware of the disturbing contradictions inherent in religion, lament the loss of traditional faith and the accompanying nihilism and hopelessness that is often attributed to this loss. Indeed, a Muslim intellectual influencer whom I am privileged to communicate with has urged Americans to recover their Christian faith for this very reason. He is right. Yet for many, there are intellectual barriers and they are very real.
Thus, while relying heavily on common sense, I think we also need to embrace the contradictions and the mystery inherent in the scriptures.
As I have written previously, Leviticus doesn’t stop there. The writer knew that the idea of loving one’s neighbor could be taken parochially, as applying, for example, only to other Jews. So, he prudently added:
Lev. 19:33 “‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
When we observe the shockingly criminal treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli settlers and authorities, it is clear that the Neocons, who – as either Jewish Zionists or “Christian” Zionists –wholeheartedly support Israeli atrocities, teach that Russia must be dismembered and weakened, have clearly trashed the most important and universally accessible teachings of their scriptures. Because this hatred of Russia is accompanied by a total lack of humanity toward the Palestinians. Which is why my Substack site deals with both Russian vs West and Palestinian vs Israel issues, each of which represents diametrically opposed values.
It is telling that Russia is the only world power that professes a form of Christian worship as central to its national doctrine and I strongly suspect that, despite an array of excuses for the Neocon hatred of this country (the latest being the lie that Russia’s incursion into Ukraine was “unprovoked), this open Russian embrace of traditional Christianity is in fact, at bottom, the reason for the seemingly irrational Neocon hatred of all things Russian.
Why do I dwell on these issues?
Because in the case of the confrontation of Russia vs West, Washington’s raw hatred of all things Russian has taken the world to the very brink of total annihilation of the planet. And in the case of the atrocities against Palestine, the West’s support for Israel’s crimes directly conflict with everything Americans think their country stands for (though in fact it doesn’t), and the hateful positions of their government are tearing at our spiritual fabric and turning brother against brother in ways that threaten what unity is left.
Civil war is a real possibility.
Also posted at https://donhank.substack.com/p/gimme-that-old-time-judeo-christianity?sd=pf
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Good one, Don!
As a former Catholic priest and theologian trained in Rome, I agree with your position on the non-Jews who control Washington and the world! They indeed have left humanity with two possible futures: civil war and nuclear annihilation. You stated it well. We can see the deep divisions in our families (mine included), among friends and colleagues...over almost everything. It is a cunning, evil plan that seems to be winning.
They hate and need to destroy Russia because of its strong Orthodox faith and traditional values, plus a history of destroying all invaders. I am no longer a believer in any religion, but I do believe in the "radical Jesus" who practiced love of the "other" and forgiveness. But, I have to tell you, I have attended many Orthodox services here in Russia and in the USA, I have never seen such devotion and attendance in all my years as a priest...anywhere, least of all in Rome! Even friends who are self-described as "non-believers," pray to icons, visit churches, light candles and leave prayer lists. Many even wear crosses around their necks. It is clearly a deeply religious country with churches and monasteries everywhere, literally.
For these reasons, Russians believe that this war with the USA has "biblical overtones." Many believe that Russia's mission is to defeat the evil and save humanity.
Just my seat of the pants thoughts for today.
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Caitlin Johnstone: Return of a Disgraced Neocon
July 7, 2023
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That U.S. presidents keep hiring someone so tyrannical, corrupt and murderous tells you everything you need to know about the nature of U.S. foreign policy.
Elliott Abrams during an exchange with Rep. Ilhan Omar in February 2019. (C-SPAN still)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article.
CNN reports that President Joe Biden has nominated criminal neocon Elliott Abrams for a position on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which according to the U.S. State Department is responsible for “appraising activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics” and pays “acute attention” to the U.S. government’s official foreign propaganda arm, the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
Usually when you hear someone called a “neocon” it’s not a strictly accurate description from a technical point of view and is frequently used to just mean “warmonger.”
But Abrams is actually a proper Project for a New American Century neoconservative ideologue with deep ties to the old-school neocons of the 1970s, and has helped promote violent U.S. imperialism in Latin America and the Middle East for decades.
In addition to serving as the Trump administration’s special representative for both Iran and Venezuela (two of the nations where former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy was at its most murderous), Abrams is probably best known for confessing to his role in the criminal coverup of Iran-Contra during the Reagan administration.