Russia is putting the Russophobes to shame
Before Oct 10, 2022 the West was lying about Russia “running out of missiles.” Since then I put out an air strike report every day, typically including multiple strikes all over Ukraine.
The author bases her article on Emmanuel Todd’s book La Défaite de l’Occident, showing that Russia has “burned up” the Russophobic doctrine and the elites are now eating crow.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20240219/russia-1928122376.html
02/19/2024
Russia has burned up Western Russophobic doctrine
Elena Karaeva
It no longer burns - it is called burning with a blue flame. And it is burning so much that Western experts and Kremlinologists have already loosened their tongues out of fear, and are trying, albeit clumsily, to begin to tell the truth.
The case when this succeeds, contrary to Bulgakov’s famous remark, is difficult and not easy. [In Bulgkov’s novel, Master and Margarita, a personage famously says: “A fact is the most obstinate thing in the world.”] The European publication Politico, which sat through the Munich conference like a fly sits on dung, stated with bitterness (well, as far as they have not yet learned to distinguish tastes): Most of the participants... behind closed doors answered that they were skeptical about Ukraine’s victory over Russia either sooner or ever."
Of course, History, which is unfolding before our eyes, could not have come up with a better rhyme for the date of the meeting of our [Russia’s] opponents than the capture of Avdiivka.
Absolutely nothing was accomplished. Neither politically, nor militarily, nor economically. For every restriction, sanction, and cancellation, a Russian response was given. Calm and reserved. But significant. So much so that even Josep Borrell, the main pan-European hawk, was forced to admit that the current status quo on the position of the front line could last no more than 3 months.
Three months at the current rate of development of events is practically tomorrow, if not today. And if Borrell de facto admits that the anti-Russian military doctrine burned with a blue flame (the color of the EU flag), then it’s time to remind those who challenged us to a fight why, in fact, they lost it to us.
A month ago, the famous, influential and, oddly enough, persecuted (today) anthropologist and sociologist Emmanuel Todd published an essay in the venerable Gallimard publishing house, which he called without any grimace or fancy: “The Defeat of the West.”
Although Todd was accused of all mortal sins by his colleagues and the press even before the book was published - only on the grounds that the scientist did not join the ranks of the Russophobes - he calmly and with numbers to back him up, proves that the time of Western leadership is over. It has expired in science, it has expired in economics, it has expired in the ideological sphere.
Is the German recession in its second quarter or second year? However, now this no longer matters. France, which cannot even take a breath from more and more new nodes of the crisis in the social sphere (the unweathered smell of manure directly indicates this [this is an allusion to the fact that protesting farmers spread manure on government property]. And in America, all indicators related to national health are falling: life expectancy has decreased and, at the same time, infant mortality has increased significantly. But that's not all. Today, nearly half of Americans are obese. And also opioids, which the Obama administration and the Congress it controls allowed everyone to take almost uncontrollably.
Just a few numbers.
In the United States, life expectancy has decreased from 78.8 to 77.3 years. In comparison, in Russia it increased by six years from 2002 to 2020 (from 65.1 to 71.3) - a period that Todd refers to as "a country under Putin's rule."
The infant mortality rate, one of the main markers by which sociologists predict the future (according to UNICEF data for 2020, which Todd cites), in the United States was 5.4 per 1,000 births, while in Russia the same figure was 4.4 per 1,000 births. 1000 births.
In the “shining city on a hill,” as it turns out, little shines anymore. And we are not talking about “pictures of Russian propaganda,” but about figures presented by organizations that are generally trusted in the West. You can argue on any topic, but facts are too stubborn a matter to succumb to sloganeering heralds.
And these numbers are by no means some abstractions from someone else’s life. These are pictures from the existence of societies - the very ones whose administrators appointed us as “aggressors and imperialists”, who accused us of “slave psychology”, these are the people who were preparing to destroy us. People who brought their own people to obesity, to completely uncontrolled use of a slew of prohibited substances, characters who do not even know how to maintain their health and monitor the well-being of their own babies, decided to teach us about life, progress, democracy, human rights and all those values that they think they have. But we don’t have these “values,” judging by their rhetoric.
They were eager to fight with us for a very long time. This is the instinct of a predator. Instinct dictates the behavioral model. We thought for a long time that we could avoid the fight. It was eventually forced upon us. And we answered. Those who don't like our answer can prepare to capitulate. We have already burned their military doctrine - both semantic and material - on the very front line where they dreamed of defeating us. Their ideological doctrine will burn itself out. Without our participation.
Yes, and one last thing: while still a graduate student, Emmanuel Todd, in his essay “The Last Fall,” after analyzing figures relating, in particular, to infant mortality in the USSR (which began to rise in the 1970s), predicted the collapse of the “Red Project.”
It’s time for Borrell, Biden, von der Leyen and others to face the music (in every sense of the word) - it’s unlikely that after the failure of the Anti-Russia project they will even be hired as building managers!
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Here is your daily air strike update for Feb 20, 2024
2 Translations follow with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
February 20, 2024
The Russian army launched a new massive attack on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets
The Russian army launched new attacks on the Ukrainian military rear. Explosions were reported in Orekhovo, Zaporozhye oblast. Telegram channels write: the city is the main base of the militants. Strikes in Kremenchug, Poltava oblast, where there is a military airfield, and in Pervomaisk, Nikolaev oblast.
News from Avdeevka, liberated by our military. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' stronghold, which was located near the station, was taken. Well-fortified positions were occupied by a brigade formed from militants of Azov [hard-core Nazis], banned in Russia. Mercenaries from Canada and Georgia were brought into the city. The prisoner confirmed this information. A cache of imported cartridges and a warehouse of ammunition from the USA and the Czech Republic were found. Stocks of foreign medicines and dry rations from Canada were discovered.
In the Kupyansky area they are firing from D-30 howitzers. A strike on the camouflaged dugouts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Near Artemovsk, paratroopers captured a stronghold. Working in the sky. Su-25 attack aircraft attacked enemy units in the Donetsk direction.
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Missile strikes on Ukraine today: In Chuguev, ballistics killed 12 Ukrainian Armed Forces officers
Gerans today hit targets in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions. Ballistic missile strikes against targets in the Kharkov oblast. A massive attack was also carried out with glide bombs on Orekhov, which is not far from Rabotino.
Kharkov, strikes on the oblast
Last night, the city of Chuguev suffered the most. The restless Banderaites decided to set up a transshipment point there, as well as something like a command headquarters. We had to react; such a cluster cannot be left unattended.
The explosion was seen and heard eight kilometers from the city. They planted the Banderites beautifully, right in the heels. According to preliminary data, 10-12 officers have already been packed into the bag. There is no data on how many ordinary Banderite soldiers are packed, we limited ourselves to the words “a pair of KAMAZes,” [The Russian Kamaz company makes armored transport vehicles. Apparently 2 of these – Ukrainian – were filled with Ukrainian dead] reports military observer Sergei Lebedev.
Chuguev is a city in the southeast of the Kharkov oblast. Also famous for the Aviator club, which is located at the local airfield - that was a hint.
Nikolaev: flights to Pervomaisk
Last night there was finally a strike in Pervomaisk [in Nikolaev oblast], whose residents regularly write to the bot about insolent Banderites who feel safe. There are no strike details yet. But this is what they write:
The house shook. I still don’t understand whether this is one strike or several. If one, then very good detonation. It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact direction, but it felt like it was in the city. And there are military bases outside the city.
It is known that the 123rd separate territorial defense brigade is located in Pervomaisk. And also previously known as “Pervomaisk on the Bug [name of river]” military unit A2082. We are still finding out where exactly it flew and with what result.
Dnepropetrovsk: strikes in the city and outskirts
That night there were attacks on Dnepropetrovsk and on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk. There is no information yet about any hit in the city. But in the suburbs there is still indirect evidence of a trike on one of the workshops of the Yuzhmash plant.
“Suburb of Dnepropetrovsk, Explosions. The Geran-2 UAV group is launching a series of attacks on the Aviatorsk airfield, military correspondents report.
Zaporozhye and Zaporozhye oblast - struck
It was loud last night in Zaporozhye. Local residents are inclined to believe that the explosion was towards the Motor Sich enterprise, where military equipment is repaired, UAVs are assembled and operators of attack drones are trained. There are no arrival details yet. In the area where Motor Sich is located there are not only workshops, there is a swimming pool, there are many hostels in which Bandera members and foreigners live. There is a sports complex, hospitals and of course office buildings. There is somewhere to fly there. [Motor Sich has a colorful back story. It was an aviation engine manufacturing plant that was bought out by China several years ago. Even though China had already paid a large downpayment, the US – which by that time controlled Ukraine – interfered and forced the plant to cancel the deal. The problem for the US was that many of these aircraft engines were intended for sale to Russia. Even though the Ukraine war had not yet started, the US Neocon-controlled Washington regime was paranoid even then about Russia]
We also struck the city of Orekhov, in the southeast of the oblast [Zaporozhye], a few kilometers from Rabotino, which we recently returned under our control. The strike fell in at the place of deployment of Banderite troops, who were supposed to go on rotation near Rabotino. The strike was made with an FAB bomb; the explosion was felt 12 kilometers from the populated area.
Poltava: Kremenchug continues to be hit
Yesterday afternoon there were several strikes in Kremenchug, and at night the city was also not left without attention.
The city is famous for its oil refinery, which belongs to Kolomoisky [Kolomoisky is a known felon, who financed fellow Jew Zekensky’s election campaign and groomed him for the presidency] They struck it and were quite successful. But, as the agents report, several containers are still intact and fully functional.
Also in Kremenchug there is a very convenient railway junction, where trains are formed for different areas of the front.
According to our agents, in the city, near the Dnieper, there is an accumulation and repair of watercraft. Banderites did not give up the dream of a “counter-offensive,” including an attack from the Dnieper. The agents report that the watercraft are being prepared for landing on our shore in the Energodar area.
Kremenchug is not close to Energodar; before April it is hardly possible to move watercraft downstream.
The ghost of a downed Shahid struck an enterprise in Kremenchug at night, causing a powerful fire [This is sarcasm. All the Geran drones (reported as Shahids in Ukraine) that struck in Ukraine were reported, falsely of course, in Ukraine as having been shot down. This is routine. And then, the brain-dead American press copy-pasted this disinformation, which I happened to read on the msn home page this morning. msn is horrendously pro-US and pro-Ukraine, ie, anti-Russian.]
First in the morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that Ukraine was attacked by 23 Shahid drones at night and all of them were shot down, but after that the Poltava oblast authorities shamed the military by admitting that the enterprise was struck.
Last night, enemy UAVs attacked the Poltava oblast. The sounds of explosions were heard in the Kremenchug region. An industrial facility was under attack. This led to a huge fire. 18 units of State Emergency Service equipment and 85 people were involved in eliminating the consequences. There were no casualties or injuries, the Poltava oblast authorities reported.
Attack on the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovograd oblast
Yesterday, explosions were reported in the Poltava and Kirovograd oblasts in areas where enemy aviation infrastructure was located.
— in the Poltava oblast, a missile was intercepted by air defense systems in the area of the settlement of Chechelevo;
— in the Kirovograd oblast, a hit was recorded on the territory of the Kanatovo military airfield.
Coordinates: 48.5545363, 32.3665793
After analyzing the information received, it was established that the strike occurred between the stands of the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters, on which the ADM-160 MALD launch systems were suspended and whose engines failed due to the impact of the blast wave (subsequent detonation did not occur, the damaged ammunition was removed by explosives services). The planes themselves did not suffer critical damage.Координаты: 48.5545363, 32.3665793
After analyzing the information received, it was established that the strike occurred between the stands of the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters, on which the ADM-160 MALD [miniature air-launched decoy] launch systems were suspended and whose engines failed due to the impact of the blast wave (subsequent detonation did not occur, the damaged ammunition was removed by explosives services). The planes themselves did not receive critical damage.
The ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy) is a missile weapon designed to create decoys and distract air defenses. At its core, it is an air-guided target capable of deceiving radars and air defense systems.
Recently, launches of ADM-160 MALD missiles by enemy fighters, which took off from the Kanatovo and Mirgorod [The latter gets struck often] airfields in conjunction with combat launches of other launch vehicles from other airfields/airports, have been repeatedly recorded.
After last year’s regular and relatively successful attacks on the flight infrastructure, the enemy provided cover for objects with electronic warfare and air defense systems, in most cases, NATO standard, due to multiple losses of equipment and ammunition, as well as in preparation of the infrastructure for the use of F-16 fighters.
Deployed electronic warfare systems are capable of influencing incoming missiles by creating interference and intercepting control signals, which sometimes leads to a loss of missile control or a change in its trajectory, which in turn affects the qualitative effectiveness of strikes.
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This snatch of dialogue was taken from an August 2002 interview between Scott Ritter and Williams Rivers Pitt; 8 months before the US-led invasion of Iraq:
William Rivers Pitt: Who in the American government is driving the push for war? You've heard recent comments by Condoleeza Rice seeming to lay out only two options: do nothing or go to war.
Scott Ritter: Condoleeza Rice isn't a player.
Pitt: She's a mouthpiece. But, for whom?
Ritter: Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle.
Pitt: Why?
Ritter: Because they come from a neo-conservative think-tank environment that has extremely close ties to Israel, and which views Iraq as a threat to Israel and the United States. They've committed themselves ideologically, intellectually, politically, to Saddam Hussein's removal. They now have their hands on the reins of government, especially the Pentagon. Donald Rumsfeld was politically dead. No one thought of Donald Rumsfeld as having any potential. Paul Wolfowitz was seen as a raving lunatic of the far right. Richard Perle is not called "The Prince of Darkness" without cause. These are three people who seemed destined to spend the rest of their political lives sniping from the fringes, as they'd done for the previous decade. And now, suddenly, they're running the show.
American leaders took the US into that war with their eyes wide shut. They were doing the bidding, then, of Israel. The question now is: "will they do Israel's bidding again?"
It will require courage. Not much of that left, in my opinion.
"Send some young Americans to die for my politics" is NOT a courageous stand.
We're going down the same road again. Why?
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Last week the House of Representatives voted to condemn sexual violence by Hamas since the October7 attack on Tel Aviv. The resolution said nothing of the sexual violence committed by Israel against Palestinians.
The United Nations is concerned about this however.
The Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights published a statement to express alarm over the treatment of Palestinian women and girls while detained by Israeli forces. The UN says that these girls have been “arbitrarily executed… denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten.” They also say that they have been “subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.”
When the House voted to condemn the violence perpetuated by Hamas, they said nothing of these allegations. Perhaps because this is not new. The IDF has been capturing Palestinians, holding them without trial and sexually abusing them for decades.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhof said that he was given a “graphic private briefing” by Israeli law enforcement proving that Hamas was guilty of “torture, genital mutilation, butchery, leaving women to die after they’ve been raped and tortured, to die in a ditch.”
Relevant question: why do only some victims matter?
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article220413.html
Jerusalem, the "Conference for the Victory of Israel" threatens London and Washington
by Thierry Meyssan
The "Israel Victory Conference - settlements bring security: Returning to the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria » was no mere meeting of Jewish supremacists. A rabbi, sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes, spoke on behalf of the successors of the Stern group that assassinated British leaders in Mandate Palestine. It was a declaration of war against the Anglo-Saxons. By participating in this event, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was threatening Washington and London. President Joe Biden immediately banned all fundraising and money transfers to these extremists. This is the first time that the United States has imposed sanctions against Israelis.
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Happy faces on Ukrainian POWs. The Russians saved them from certain death.
https://up.tsargrad.tv/uploads/20-02-2024/27878_1_1_.jpg
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
HOUTHIS' IMPACT - THE SHIP INSTANTLY GOES TO THE BOTTOM. THE USA WILL NO LONGER WASH AWAY THE SHAME
The Houthis continue to sink Western ships in the Red Sea. The USA is trying to put a good face on a bad game. However, the shame can never be washed away.
Yemen's Houthis attacked three British ships in the Gulf of Aden in four days. On February 15, they attacked the British oil tanker POLLUX, and on February 19, they sank the British ship RUBYMAR. The crew was evacuated.
In addition, the Houthis shot down an American MQ-9 drone [valued at $30 million] in the skies over the Red Sea.
The captain of this ship thought the Houthis were kidding: https://up.tsargrad.tv/uploads/20-02-2024/izobrazhenie_2024-02-20_155921873.png
Judging by data from the Marinetraffic service, after the Houthis sank the British RUBYMAR, many ships began to mark the lack of connection with Israel in the electronic identification system in order to avoid such incidents.
Tsargrad political observer Andrei Perla noted that the success of the Yemeni rebels is the failure of US President Joe Biden. Despite complete superiority in air and sea, he can do nothing about this situation. [True, but it is also important to note that Biden is a genocide supporter fighting the ONLY entity in the world that dares to put teeth into its condemnation of genocide. Thus, there is a glaring moral issue here]
If in the case of the defeated Kyiv regime one can also refer to the fact that Russia is a very big and terrible enemy, which has aviation, developed air defense, and a navy, then with the Houthis this will not be justified.
There is no victory, there is complete shame. The Houthis have no armored vehicles, no air defense, no government recognized by the world, in general something like a partisan republic. And the monstrously powerful naval coalition deals blow after blow, and the strait remains blocked as it was. The sinking of the English ship is an excellent example of how the much-touted US strategy turns out to be nothing, Perla noted.
The political observer believes that the US will try to prolong the war between Israel and Hamas, as well as the conflict in the Red Sea, so that it all does not end too soon and does not look like a defeat for Biden. And, most likely, the blazing Middle East, despite these efforts, will still play a cruel joke on the Democrats.
There is no talk of victory: no matter how much they bomb Sanaa in Yemen and Gaza in Palestine, it will still have to stop someday. After this, the Hamas and Houthi guerrillas will say that they have won - and so it will be in reality, added the analyst.
Let us remind you that the Houthis are attacking Western ships, as well as ships heading to Israeli ports. Yemen's rebels say they will interfere with anyone trying to help the Jewish state in its fight against Palestine. The Houthi strikes have disrupted international trade supply chains. Many countries are forced to transport cargo bypassing the Gulf of Aden to avoid being hit. At the same time, the Houthis do not touch the ships of Russia and China, allowing them to sail unhindered in the Red Sea.
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US cargo ship struck by missile in Red Sea as Houthi rebels attack a day after UK ship abandoned
A US-owned cargo ship has reported a missile attack this morning in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen, just a day after a UK ship had to be abandoned after being targeted by Houthis.
Security firm Ambrey reported the strike on a Greek-flagged bulk carrier, owned by the US, this morning, which has been identified as the Sea Champion. No crew were reportedly injured in the strike on the ship that left Argentina on January 7 and is headed for Aden, 93 nautical miles east of Yemen.
Ambrey and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations confirmed the vessel and its crew, which included five Greek crewmembers, were safe and would be proceeding to the next port of call. Western ships traveling through the Red Sea past Houthi territory in Yemen have repeatedly come under attack as rebels shoot missiles at ships to protest the West's support of Israel in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
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Israel-Palestine news
https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/emails/webview/59730/113708993589806777
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Tue 2/20/2024 10:47 AM
Translation:
🇮🇱 🔴 Opinion: Since 1948, Germany has paid Israel and Zionist lobbies more than $100 billion in Holocaust reparations. Since 1948, the United States has paid Israel more than $300 billion in aid. Since 1945, Israel has received billions of dollars from countries and corporations for Holocaust blackmail using the powerful Zionist lobby. Israel was never a viable state, but rather lived like a parasite at the expense of other countries.
الصين بالعربية
@mog_china
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🔴 رأي:
منذ عام 1948، دفعت ألمانيا لإسرائيل واللوبيات الصهيونية أكثر من 100 مليار دولار كتعويضات عن المحرقة.
منذ عام 1948، دفعت الولايات المتحدة لإسرائيل ما يزيد عن 300 مليار دولار من المساعدات.
منذ عام 1945، تتلقى إسرائيل مليارات الدولارات من الدول والشركات بسبب ابتزاز… pic.twitter.com/XVOfbZi68E
19/02/2024, 21:07
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One very big thing absolutely was accomplished..the Insane overlords have managed to privatize Ukraine and pad their pockets richly. Blackrock and JPmorgan/Goldman Sachs..et al…even mentioning UN is concerned and any researchers believing that is concerning!