Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians died under the delusion they were defending "sovereignty," but it didn't exist
Since VP Biden, with a simple phone call, could remove a Ukrainian high official from office, we cannot speak of a “sovereign” Ukraine. 100s of K of soldiers died fighting for delusional sovereignty.
Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko was core shareholder of Hunter Biden-led Burisma subsidiary
The detail overlooked by most reporters and investigators is that Biden, as US VP, was able, with a mere phone call, to have the chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, removed from office.
What does this show us?
Ever since the start of the provoked Russian incursion into Ukraine, Western msm and government officials have been shrieking that the Ukrainian people were willing to fight to the last man to “defend Ukrainian sovereignty” or “independence” or “democracy.”
I have been pointing out since the US takeover on the Maidan in 2014, that the notion of Ukrainians fighting for their “sovereignty” is a cynical lie intended to lend legitimacy to Western support for the war. In fact, the leaked phone call between then-assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland and US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was already solid evidence that it was NOT the Ukrainian people but rather Washington officials who were making the important decisions in Kiev. Specifically, she mentions in this conversation that she wants (extremist nationalist) Yatsenyuk and not (more moderate) Vitaly Klitschko to lead the country. And voila, Yatsenyuk did indeed become the new national leader. Under these circumstances, there can be no genuine discussion of Ukrainian “sovereignty.”
Likewise, the fact that a high US official – VP Joe Biden – could, with a simple phone call, have a high government official removed from office. This is a decision that is supposed to be made by Ukrainians, not Americans, in a sovereign Ukraine.
And yet, under undue pressure from the Obama regime, both the Ukrainian and the US msm and officials spread the narrative that the Ukrainian people were fighting and dying on the battlefield for Ukrainian “sovereignty,” “freedom,” “democracy,” or the like.
And thanks to this false narrative, Ukrainians were thrown into the meatgrinder where an estimated 500K+ have so far died for a lost cause, and Americans have been conned into accepting the granting of billions of dollars’ worth of arms and cash to a corrupt Ukrainian regime with zero accountability for the use of these gifts.
No one should believe a single word in US media or from politicians regarding Russia or Ukraine or the war in Ukraine or the Middle East. We are all being conned.
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Rachel Blevins with Jeff Halper
Will Netanyahu drag the US into a regional war to protect his power?
I don’t think Bibi realizes how much power the Iran-sponsored coalition has! He is playing with fire. Already, as I reported yesterday, Israel has lost big bucks as a result of the Houthi attacks.
Meanwhile, Iran had long warned that if Israel attacks its territory, it has the missile power to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Jan 8, 2024
Another busy day for the Russian aerospace forces
These last 2 weeks have seen the most intensive and longest-lasting air strike campaign on Ukraine that we have seen since the start of the war. It seems as if all Kiev has left is jingoistic propaganda, and we are now at the point that the Ukrainian men are no longer up for throwing away their lives on a hopeless meat grinder.
To see a heart-breaking scene, click on this link this link and go to minute 2:58/2:59, where you will see Ukrainian recruiters loading a poor sucker that they have caught into a van to send him to the front lines, where he knows he will almost certainly be killed or maimed for life. He is obviously frenzied, trying desperately to cling onto the door opening of the van. In an ordinary war, the national leaders would be working with the other side to end the carnage and get on with life. But this is no ordinary war. It is the most vicious kind of war, a war by proxy in which the Washington Neocons, represented by Victoria Nuland (who helped start the war by seizing the reins of power in Kiev in the Maidan coup in 2014), and the robot Antony Blinken, who are devoid of all human sentiments, are rigidly demanding that the Ukrainians keep killing Russians, because that is the real goal – killing Russians, which these genocidal fanatics hate with a white hate and obsessively want to destroy.
These are the same monsters who support the maniac Netanyahu in his inhuman drive to kill Palestinians and have killed so far at least 20,000 innocent human beings, mostly women and children, calling them “animals.” Meanwhile, the ghouls in Washington, while pretending to try to influence Netanyahu to be less monstrous, are sending arms and money to Israel so that MORE civilians can be senselessly slaughtered, all under the pretext of hunting Hamas, a group of resistance fighters that the West calls terrorists, but without these brave men, the Palestinian people will simply die out.
Behind the inhumanity of Washington, fighting with all their hearts and souls for the total genocide of the Palestinian people, are millions of Evangelicals whom we call “Christian” Zionists, a Satanic cult hiding behind the name of Jesus to lend moral and propaganda support to one of the most vicious and brutal regimes ever seen on the planet.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
January 8, 2024
The Russian army launched a massive attack on military targets in Ukraine
Progress of the special operation is going. Our army today launched a massive strike with precision weapons on military targets in Ukraine. Long-range sea- and air-launched missiles were used, including hypersonic Kinzhals. Explosions occurred in the Kharkov, Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk oblasts.
The Kiev regime is habitually silent about the targets hit, but something is already known. Thus, in Krivoy Rog, a workshop for the production of drones, which was deployed in the warehouses of a closed shopping center, was destroyed.
Another article, same subject
Also see the more detailed article https://sputnikglobe.com/20240108/russia-strikes-ukrainian-military-facilities-with-kinzhal-missiles-mod-1116052314.html
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The financial cost of killing children
Our thanks to JS for this
I Calculated How Much of My Money the U.S. Sent to Kill Palestinians. You Can Too.
As Americans, our money is paying for Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. How much did you give? The total aid the U.S. will be giving to Israel in 2023 and early 2024 will be about $18 billion. To figure out your own contribution,add your total federal income liability to the costs of any federal bonds you bought this year and multiply that number by 0.004.
by Jon Schwarz, The Intercept, 28 December 2023
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Israel’s War on Palestine Day 88: Israeli army kills 4,000 students in Gaza, detains hundreds in torture camps.
by admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Israel’s opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu’s law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.
Casualties
21,978+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
321 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
506 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 2,193 injured.
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Today's headlines
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 94: Israeli forces kill four-year-old girl in occupied West Bank; Gaza’s children face brunt of the genocide
Leila Warah
Ten children in Gaza are losing a limb every day in Gaza to Israeli airstrikes, as Israeli politicians say the Gaza onslaught will last at least another nine months.
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‘Body parts strewn on the ground’: Israeli airstrike kills 7 in Jenin, including 4 brothers
Shatha Hanaysha and Yumna Patel
At least 11 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank on Sunday, including seven who were killed in a single Israeli airstrike on Jenin. “They’re dealing with us like Gaza, attacking civilians,” a fighter with the Qabatiya Brigade tells Mondoweiss.
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Weekly Briefing: Claudine Gay was brought down by the Israel lobby
Philip Weiss
https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/emails/webview/59730/109813396762789560
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We all see the horrific videos of suffering in Gaza. We must not look away | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/dont-get-excited-us-economy-bad-shape-below-surface-208388
Don’t get excited. The US economy is in bad shape below the surface
Here in Canada the PM is all huggy, kissy with Zelensky because he is hoping it will win him favor with Ukrainian Canadian voters.