MORE CLUES THAT THE WEST MAY DITCH ZELENSKY / Air strike update for Auf 4, 2023
Complaints by Western regimes that Zelensky is not showing sufficient gratitude for their "help" are a strong clue that they may be about to throw him under the bus and terminate aid to Ukraine.
Here’s your daily air strike update for Aug 4, 2023
Below you will find a translation with my notes in bold typeface and in [brackets]. You can consult the map linked here, and also read my explanation of possible motives for these strikes.
On Oct 10, 2022, the first day of the current missile strike campaign, I started chronicling the daily Russian air strikes on Ukraine infrastructure in an attempt to debunk the lies of the Western press, which had falsely claimed starting in March of 2022 that Russia was running out of missiles. I knew that Russia would not have been foolish enough to invade Ukraine if it was not 100% certain that it had enough armaments to prosecute a war of indefinite duration.
So far, I have seen that Russia is hitting Ukrainian infrastructure not just regularly, not just often, but in fact every day, and the strikes have all been multiple, targeting more than one oblast or city every day. Countries running out of ammo can’t do that.
4.08.2023
Ukrainian authorities announced an air alert in Kharkiv and three other regions
MOSCOW, August 4 - RIA Novosti. An air raid alert has been declared in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions of Ukraine, as well as in the Kiev-controlled parts of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, according to an online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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Canadian prof denies Ukraine has Nazis. Never heard of Bandera?
The Kyiv Post, instead of denying the existence of Neo-Nazism, has been running articles aimed at whitewashing Nazism.
KP has also been running this Nazi-sympathetic BS by Lubomyr Luciuk, professor of Political Geography at the Royal Military College of Canada, who tells us that the stories of Nazis in Ukraine are just an excuse used by Putin. Here is a video of this misfit spouting his lies:
You can find Mr Luciuk on Facebook here if you would like to say something to him.
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Our thanks to WD for this:
Don, you mentioned that Pols are wanting to take western Ukraine lands. All Putin would have to do to calm the Bandera gang is offer Galicia to Poland. They would come running to Moscow for help. From 1919 to 1939 Galicia was under Polish Rule. The Ukrainians hated the Pols, that is why they joined up with the Germans who were anti Polish & Jew. Thanks for all your articles.
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WB answering my rhetorical question about ditching Zelensky:
No they have too much to Hide Human Trafficking Drugs, Guns and $$$ Laundering
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More clues – really strong ones – that the West is fed up with Zelensky
https://ria.ru/20230803/ukraina-1887831756.html
08/03/2023
"Zelensky went nuts." NATO decided to terminate its offspring
MOSCOW, August 3 - RIA Novosti, Mikhail Katkov, Renat Abdullin. Kyiv again irritates Western partners - this time the scandal flares up in the Polish sphere. In Warsaw, it was considered unacceptable that the Ukrainian authorities called the Polish ambassador to the carpet. Discontent is felt across the ocean.
[The problem is that the Kiev elites have never fully understood that they are all just being used in the most cynical possible way to implement the US desire to dismember and hence destroy Russia – no doubt because the ultranationalists in Ukraine harbor the same visceral irrational hatred for Russia as the US and the elites in its vassal countries.]
Exchange of reproaches
The reason for the conflict was the statement of the head of the Presidential Bureau of International Policy of Poland, Marcin Przydacz. Speaking on national television, he commented on the problem of grain supplies and bilateral relations. According to him, Kyiv "should appreciate the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years."
After that, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki. He was told that "statements about alleged ingratitude of Ukrainians for helping Poland are untrue and unacceptable." The Polish diplomatic mission immediately protested to the Ukrainian ambassador in Warsaw, Vasily Zvarych.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also reacted - on his Twitter page, calling the behavior of the Kyiv authorities unacceptable. "In international politics, in the context of the ongoing confrontation and given the huge support that Poland has provided to Ukraine, such mistakes should not be made," he stressed.
Timid reconciliation
Volodymyr Zelensky, who ignored the flaring diplomatic scandal for several hours, nevertheless intervened. “The peoples of Europe know that everyone’s freedom is stronger when it is the common freedom of all. [It is, on one level, true that Ukraine has no reason to thank the West, because without Western actions, initially under Obama, particularly on the Maidan in 2014, there would be no war. The US installed radical anti-Russian psychopaths to the Kiev regime, knowing that these misfits would stir up trouble with the Russian speaking citizens of the Donbass and elsewhere. The leaked phone call between State Department arch-Russophobe Victoria Nuland and US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt shows that the US was behind the appointment of Russia hater Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine, depriving the country of any sovereignty, democracy or freedom – though Western media incessantly drone on about Ukrainian “heroes” fighting for their freedom and sovereignty. The new regime immediately started bombing and then shelling civilians in Donbass, as I reported here. None of these genocidal actions were reported in our CIA-controlled press] <…> But now we see different signals that politics sometimes tries to be higher than unity, and emotions are higher than the fundamental interests of peoples,” he wrote on Twitter. And he added: Ukraine appreciates "the historical support of Poland," and "emotions should definitely cool down." However, he did not apologize.
Despite Kyiv's attempts to smooth over the conflict, the exchange of recriminations could worsen bilateral relations. Poland, which, due to its geographical proximity, receives the main flow of Ukrainian refugees, is increasingly outraged by the situation. The authorities have already cut some of the benefits for migrants, but the problems are only multiplying. For example, in the spring it became known that the Polish social security service intends to cancel part of the benefits paid to Ukrainians. Many of them, allegedly, having received the money, simply left the country. As a result, the Poles are dissatisfied both at the domestic level and at the political level. In particular, according to opinion polls, almost half of the local population would not like to see Ukraine in NATO.
Growing discontent
Warsaw is far from the only ally angered by Kyiv's rhetoric. Back in the fall of last year, with references to sources in the American White House, there were reports that US President Joe Biden is having a hard time making phone calls with the "ungrateful" Zelensky. [I suspect that these reports would never have appeared if Biden had not weighed ditching Zelensky]
“The American people were quite generous, and their administration and military worked hard to help Ukraine,” he said (Biden. - Approx. ed.), Raising his voice, - NBC News cited the details of one of the conversations. - And Zelensky could express a little more gratitude." [Yes, Joe, after you and Obama stirred up a war that killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men, caused mass emigration and damaged the economy beyond repair, you’d expect more gratitude].
In the summer, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Zelensky clashed in absentia on the same topic with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. He had previously said that Kyiv could more actively express gratitude for the help. “I just don’t know how else we should thank. We can wake up in the morning and thank the minister.” [Here again, it was Britain – Boris Johnson to be precise – that rushed to stop a deal between Russia and Ukraine that could have averted hundreds of thousands more casualties. Why is Ukraine so ungrateful for all the “help”?]
In the summer, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Zelensky clashed in absentia on the same topic with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. He had previously said that Kyiv could more actively express gratitude for the help. “I just don’t know how else we should thank them. We can wake up in the morning and thank the minister. Let him write me how to thank him, and I will do so,” the President of Ukraine commented on Wallace’s words.
Finally, the West is irritated not only by the lack of gratitude, but also by the constant new "wishes" from Kyiv. According to CNBC, the White House was frankly angry at Zelensky's demands to show more respect for Ukraine in connection with his invitation to the NATO summer summit. He either wanted to go there, but only with certain guarantees, then he hinted at a boycott. In the United States, the focus is not on ceremonial gestures, but on concrete steps - like recommendations for the conduct of hostilities. But Kyiv ignores them, notes the channel and concludes: the Ukrainian authorities will always have little support provided. [Well, Mr Z., during your counter-nonoffensive, your commanders sent Western tanks and other armor straight into mine fields without any precautions, so how much more support would you want?]
Kiev madness
Denis Denisov, an expert at the Financial University under the Government of Russia, believes that NATO representatives are not abandoning attempts to bring the President of Ukraine to his senses. “Zelensky and his team seem to be in a parallel reality. They imagined themselves to be subjects of international relations. First, the United Kingdom and the United States showed dissatisfaction, now they started talking about this in Poland. Apparently, the Baltic countries, Cyprus and North Macedonia are starting to get annoyed. They are trying to return Zelensky from heaven to earth, but he stubbornly resists.”
According to him, the leader of any state wants his country to have as much sovereignty as possible, but Ukraine does not have any prerequisites for this. The economy of the republic and its military machine will not last even a few months if the West stops helping. Even without public political support, Zelensky will have a hard time keeping power in his hands. According to Denisov, if Kyiv does not change its foreign policy, partners may cut aid and begin to actively seek ways to resolve the conflict peacefully.
In turn, political scientist Alexander Dudchak attributes the reaction of Western countries to the failure of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “They don’t like the course of hostilities, but then Zelensky asks for more money, weapons and shells and accuses partners of sluggishness. As if they are to blame for everything,” the expert notes.
In this regard, he does not rule out that the image of the President of Ukraine may be changed from a "hero of resistance to Russian aggression" to a sacred offering. After that, the West will reset relations with Kiev and start thinking about how to proceed.
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A poll by Kyiv Post asks
Does the West want Ukraine to win or just contain Russia?
Have a look:
Of course none of the queried said they thought they were being used. They wouldn’t have dared with their faces appearing on TV. But the mere existence of such a poll is revealing in that it shows it has occurred to the Ukrainian elites that they might just be being used and the public may realize this. A Ukrainian POW who was interviewed by the Russians and said nowadays his fellow soldiers often just hide among hills and fire their rifles into the air to simulate action and just await the chance to surrender tells it all.
There was also a poll showing that the average Ukrainian does not want to fight the Russians.
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-troops-shoot-medics-feet-during-raid/
Children targeted by Israeli IDF and police for merciless beating
I cannot stress enough that all the atrocities committed by the Israeli authorities is silently countenanced by US church goers who, incredibly, call themselves “Christians.” They have swallowed the Satanic doctrine of “Christian” Zionism, which I have written about here, here and here.
Let me be clear. The issue is not Christianity. Nor is it religion. The issue is that the teachings of both the Hebrew scriptures and the Gospels have been grotesquely distorted by people pretending to be devout, and unfortunately, most have assimilated these false messages. Sadly, the scriptures have been trampled by the “church.”
Please watch what the Israelis are doing to children with the blessings of Evangelicals and Jews:
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http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2023/august/03/british-totalitarianism/
British Totalitarianism
written by john laughland thursday august 3, 2023
Since my hour and a half long interrogation at Gatwick Airport last October, there have been a number of developments which only serve to reinforce my initial reaction, which is that Britain and Europe are sliding into totalitarianism.
First, I am not the only political commentator to have been treated in this way. My friend Vanessa Beeley was, as I now learn, also subjected to the same treatment, in 2021, as was Kit Klarenberg of The Gray Zone in May. Both Vanessa and Kit are British, like me, and yet we have been treated under legislation (the 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act) designed to prevent hostile persons entering British territory. The unspoken implication is that these supposedly hostile actors are not British citizens, whence the fact that the legislation applies only at points of entry into the UK.
But the fact that the legislation creates a special legal regime which is in force only at borders, where normal rights are suspended, only emphasises the fact that this legislation creates lawlessness – a point I made in my first article on the subject. It would not be possible to seize our computers and detain us in this way anywhere else on British territory. Yet special regimes are the very opposite of the rule of law: as the seminal English constitutionalist, A. V. Dicey, defined it, "We mean [by the rule of law], in the first place, that no man is punishable or can be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land.” (my emphasis).
Second, the seizure and retention of the material copied from my computer (of which I was deprived for three weeks, even though I depend on it every day for my work) was reviewed by two judges six months after the event. This delay was itself a serious procedural infraction: the police are supposed to apply within seven days, not six months, for the right to keep such material.
Worse, the reasons given by the two judges for keeping the material on my computer, again underline the illegality of the regime created by this 2019 Act (and incidentally also by the 2000 Terrorism Act which was used to detain a French publisher at St Pancras International station in April). The judges both concluded that I was not accused or even suspected of anything, but that retention of material was still justified.
Read more
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Translation:
China offers infrastructure, India offers agricultural projects and Russia offers Security to Africa. And you, in Europe, you propose homosexuality.
JEAN-LUC MELENCHON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
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Our thanks to RT for lightening the mood:
Friends,
Wondering if others are feeling bombarded and fatigued with all of the daily, 24/7 blabbering about the war, who's winning, who's losing, Putin has cancer, the Prigozhin whatever it was, Zelinsky, NATO, the EU, etc etc?
Well, I've decided to take a step back and enjoy LIFE with other Russians and Crimeans. There is no disrespect to those who are fighting and who have died. Life goes on and not as escapism. This is how normal life is here in Crimea. These local events and celebrations are for locals and visitors from other places in Russia. There are no foreign tourists thanks to American sanctions.
With my mind cleared of war reporting and doom and gloom, I am once again feeling creative and energized. I've taken this break (it is only a pause) for another reason: to focus on a new series I've created, "Did You Know This About Crimea?" The purpose is to share daily life, and the many cultural, historic places of Crimea. I am focusing on civic, cultural, music, and local celebrations that always include local artisans and producers of wine, cheese, bread, oysters (yes, from the Black Sea) and snails. I want to show people in the USA and the rest of the world what Russia and Crimea are really like. Gone are the days of the "Evil Soviet Empire" and Communism. This is a new and wonderful place to live.
I hope you will enjoy this series. This is the first, our dinner party at our favorite Crimean winery
Regis