The siege of Leningrad illustrates the contrast between Russia and the combined West, Christian love and hypocrisy
Nazism is staging a powerful comeback. US-backed fascist regimes in Ukraine and Israel highlight the contrast between regime that attempted genocide in Leningrad and Orthodox Russia,
Russia is celebrating the lifting of the Leningrad blockade
that took the lives of a million Russians. At the hands of the German Nazis – whose values are, sadly, reflected in the combined West today.
The Russians understand something the West will never understand, namely, what Nazism looks like up close and what it does to its victims. And it is something horrible beyond description. They learned this lesson well during the siege of Leningrad. And the US-backed Israeli regime is teaching us this again.
The abysmal ignorance of Westerners about Nazism/fascism is what allows hopelessly naïve Americans to gush over Zelensky, the consummate Nazi (who grabs his citizens off the street and sends them to the meatgrinder to die), and to allow the Washington regime to fleece them shamelessly to send their hard-earned tax dollars to an openly Nazi regime.
If Americans knew. If they only knew.
The translated text that follows will help a few conscientious Westerners understand why Russians fear Nazism enough to motivate them to fight a long war, as long as it takes, to prevent another debacle of the kind that Hitler’s hordes inflicted on them 8 decades ago.
This brings us to the ticklish question of whether a Western regime can support a Nazi regime with ample transfers of money and weapons and not itself be imbued with the ideology of Nazism – though most likely without even realizing it.
When we contemplate the shocking wholehearted support of the US regime for both the Ukrainian Nazis who for 8 years straight, prior to Russia’s incursion, kept up the genocidal shelling of Donbass since the 2014 US takeover of the Kiev regime, converting it into a Nazi stronghold, and when we combine this impression with that of this same Washington regime unflinchingly supporting the genocidal Israeli regime with the arms needed to finish off the remainder of the Palestinians, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the West has not only partaken of Israel’s evil but has in fact drunk deep of the Nazi ideology of both Ukraine and Israel. It is my firm conviction that any regime that supports the Nazis with arms and money is itself a Nazi regime. The West may never face up to this fact, but it is still a fact.
Aren’t we in fact the baddies?
Yes, we are the baddies.
Remember that, considering the horrors inflicted on the Russians in the Third Reich, the salient pillar of Nazism is an irrational hatred of Russia. And the West is reviving it.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Россия помнит то, что Запад предпочел забыть - РИА Новости, 27.01.2024 (ria.ru)
27.01.2024
Russia remembers what the West chose to forget
Elena Karaeva
Our genetic code is woven not only from victories and overcomings, but also from the memory of suffering, torment, and death. This does not make us the keepers of memories that are unique to victims, but it gives us the opportunity to try on the trials of our ancestors, experiencing pain and horror, overcoming fear and thereby working out, as they say today, trauma.
These are our lessons on the day when exactly 80 years ago the blockade of the city on the Neva was finally lifted. This was done by the participants of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation
Caption: People who defeated Nazism will always be a moral example, Putin said yesterday.
Those who were pitted against us by the Wehrmacht wanted to destroy the Leningraders (all of them). These were not only the German state’s own units, but also a contingent from countries allied to the Nazis. The city and its inhabitants were killed by Finns, Italians, Spaniards, and Norwegians. [It is important to note that these same countries, along with the Germans, are still behaving extremely belligerently against Russia, building up troops, weapons and fortifications at the Russian border and issuing warmongering public statements slandering the Russians, blaming them for the conflict in Ukraine that was in fact provoked by NATO. They’re not imitating Hitler, they’re outdoing him]
There is no need to roll your eyes and hysterically repeat “you’re all lying,” since the battle to capture the “window to Europe” was fought with us by those who dreamed of getting even, taking revenge, and warming their hands on our suffering.
We forgave them for everything then. And not only were they forgiven, but the Norwegians were generally helped to free themselves from the Nazi occupation by placing thousands of [Russian] marines in the fjords surrounding Kirkenes, which our landing force took.
This is history and the facts that make it up, and we have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of here.
We then not only forgave them everything, we tried to make sure that the past - from politics to military aggression - would not overshadow the cooperation and good neighborliness that were important to us. After all, the last thing (both then and today) that we Russians wanted and want is to fight. We know too well what is behind all this, and we are aware of the price that we had to pay. Today.
Leningrad, which stood and did not surrender for 871 days and nights, paid for its resilience with a million lives, if not more. More than half of the dead were those who died of hunger. Hunger that became a weapon of mass murder [Just like in Palestine today!]. It was used by the most “cultured nation in Europe” [Germany saw itself that way] to teach the Russians a lesson, forcing us to kneel. And capitulate.
Well, if Hitler’s boot was licked by subjects of the Belgian crown and the monarchy of the Netherlands, citizens of the French Republic, and so on, then why should the gray-legged Russians, in a much more difficult situation, resist?
In general, there were practically no reasons for the Europeans of that time to doubt that they would bring Leningrad to its knees. For the surrender of the city, despite extensive propaganda, there was no reward for a barrel of jam, a basket of cookies, or Bavarian cookies. The very belonging to the Russian nation, the very Slavicness, was a death sentence.
[A salient feature of Nazism was (is) racism. These Russians were being slaughtered for being Russians, in exactly the same way as the Palestinians are being slaughtered for being Arabs – and ironically, by the ethnic group that itself was persecuted in the Third Reich for being Jews! They had their lesson, but failed to learn it! And they’re paying the price]
What we were doomed to then can be seen from the dry lines of the diary entries of 12-year-old Tanya Savicheva, who drew with a pencil with the last of her strength: “The Savichevs died. They all died.” The fate of the Leningraders was determined by these threew words.
Resistance to destiny is inscribed on the stones of the Fontanka embankment: “Here the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad took water from the ice hole.” Because water was needed to wash, to prepare food - yes, from vegetables collected from gardens, to cook soup from leftover wood glue and even from rats - water was needed to remain human, although they dreamed of turning us into animals.
It did not work out. Failed. Factories and libraries operated in the besieged city. In the besieged city they gave classical concerts, and no matter how much the “cultural nation” mocked us, the music of Beethoven and Bach sounded under the arches of the Philharmonic along with the music of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. We, as guardians of European traditions, could not abolish someone else's culture in order to settle petty scores with someone. [Herein resides the difference between Russia and its haters, who continue to cancel Russia, while the Russians treat everyone as equals, and with forgiveness. The West still parades itself as “Christian,” while Russia lives its religion]
We then lived not only in the hell of hunger pangs and everyday trials, not only in earthly problems, but also in hope. In Leningrad, during the entire blockade - 871 days and nights - women gave birth to children. The birth rate, if we refer to the official records, in 1943 exceeded the pre-war level. Women, like men, since it takes two to parent, nothing stopped them. Not the nightmare of artillery shelling, not any lack of everyday amenities, not even (in that situation quite understandable) fears of the coming days. Not all babies were lucky enough to survive, but those mothers who lost their babies became nurses of those who held tightly to life and to this light with their tiny hands.
Breaking the blockade is not only the victory of light over darkness, not only the joy of liberation from horror. It is also the triumph of goodness and, as its highest manifestation, our love over the hatred of our enemies.
We managed to preserve this feeling, carrying it through eight decades. We remember the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of people, but we are warmed by the courage and self-sacrifice that Leningrad and its inhabitants set as an example for us.
We will continue to strive to be worthy of the memory of those who died, but we are also grateful for the lessons of kindness and love that we remember. And will always remember.
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Our thanks to JS for this
A Brief History of Israel’s 33-Year Long Policy of Starving Gaza
First lockdowns, then siege, now famine. At the time of writing, estimates are that 95% of starving people in the world are now in Gaza.
by Zachary Foster, Palestine News, January 26, 2024
https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/brief-history-israels-33year-long-policy-starving-gaza
EXCERPTS:
It’s been 5 weeks since Human Rights Watch reported Israel was starving Palestinians “as a weapon of war;” 5 weeks since the UN said more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving; 5 weeks since 1 in 2 people in Gaza have been facing "Emergency" or "Catastrophe" levels of food insecurity; 5 weeks since the World Health Organizations said the risk of famine is “increasing each day.”
Israel is starving a million plus Palestinians to death. “Everyone in Gaza is hungry,” the UN reported this week. “If the current conditions prevail,” said Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, there would be famine in Gaza by early February.”
According to multiple testimonies (1, 2, 3), people are grinding rabbit fodder into powder to make bread since flour is nowhere to be found. Now, Al Jazeera has reported that even the animal feed has run out. Make no mistake, Gaza is on the brink of famine.
The famine unfolding before our eyes did not begin 5 weeks ago or even 3 and a half months ago.
…
By the late 2000s, Israel wanted to make the people of Gaza suffer, but not starve. At the time, Israeli leaders didn’t think the world would allow death by actual starvation to happen in Gaza. (Turns out they were wrong about that.)
And so, to ensure no starvation took place, the Israeli Health Ministry began to calculate the caloric needs of the population of Gaza, and allow precisely that much food in. Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, summed up Israel’s policy this way: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
By 2023, Gaza’s population had been put on a 16-year “diet”, and was on the brink of collapse. A 2022 UN report found that 76% of households were worried about not having enough food to eat; 54% of Gazans had to borrow money for food; 52% had to reduce expenses on health and 46% had to reduce or cease payment on utilities like electricity to put enough food on the table. Meanwhile, households spent on average 56% of their money on food.
That was the state of Gaza on the eve of October 7th. A besieged population totally dependent on food aid to survive.
After nearly four months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has imposed its most severe lockdowns to date, preventing any food from entering Gaza for nearly a month, and just a small fraction of Gaza’s food needs since.
At the time of writing, estimates are that 95% of starving people in the world are now in Gaz
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MUST listen if you want to understand the Israel-Palestine debacle
Douglas McGregor talks with Judge Napolitano on the US-Israeli war.
Takeaway: Americans, both analysts and grassroots alike, are saying that, despite the unprecedented rage that spread across the Muslim world after the Israelis started committing genocide in Palestine on Oct 7, 2023, Egypt and Jordan are not about to fight. They remind us that Egypt is relying on the US to fund its unwieldly debt and the Jordanian king is not strong enough to fight.
They also say that Erdogan is all talk, no fight.
But McGregor is not buying this. We are in one of the rarest situations in history where the people themselves are mad as hell and not about to take the Zio-American insult that Muslims are “animals and savages” particularly now that the world can plainly see that Israelis are the animals, starving and bombing innocent MUSLIMS in Palestine, and the US “Christians” are backing them up 100%.
So unlike past wars where the elites led the people to war (in the US case, wars against non-enemies based on phony made-up casi belli), we have the ordinary people demanding that their country fight Israel and they’re not willing to take no for an answer.
The US is virtually alone on the world stage, with a house, senate and White House all mouthing the shibboleth “I stand with Israel,” simply because the entire crew of government parasites owes their jobs to AIPAC while the grassroots is in thrall to a set of Satanic beliefs supported by cherry-picking the Bible – beliefs that have degenerated into undying support for genocide and war!
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https://tsargrad.tv/news/russkie-pvo-sbili-sem-raket-ukraina-nesjot-tjazhjolye-poteri_952496
RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE SHOT DOWN SEVEN MISSILES. UKRAINE SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the successes of the army over the past day. Air defense forces shot down seven HIMARS and Vampire missiles. In addition, the enemy suffered heavy losses.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian troops in the Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts destroyed fuel depots, as well as hangars with drones. In addition, the offensive of our army continues, during which the enemy suffers significant losses. Here is a summary of the enemy forces destroyed for the day:
- Kupiansk direction - up to 25 militants;
- Krasnolimansk direction - up to 100 militants;
- Donetsk direction - up to 250 militants;
- South Donetsk direction - up to 115 militants;
- Zaporizhzhia direction - up to 20 militants;
- Kherson direction - up to 15 militants.
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Motels as homeless shelters? More local governments are housing people in motel rooms
Jared Weber
Every morning, Yolanda Etter wakes up in a motel room and feels at ease. It’s not a vacation — for now, it’s her home.
“I sleep with my door open,” Etter said. “We don’t have any worries."
Etter is one of 24 people who live at the Reno Motel in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles. The longtime motel was purchased and converted into 12 interim housing units by the nonprofit National Health Foundation in 2013.
According to a 2018 annual report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, roughly 553,000 people experienced homelessness on any given night last year. Los Angeles County is just one of several areas across the country that, with the help of nonprofit organizations and developers, has begun renovating or leasing motel rooms as a way to uplift its homeless population. The Reno Motel in Los Angeles is one of these.
It’s one of several similar projects across Los Angeles County that have popped up in recent years in response to the city’s increasing homeless population — nearly 59,000 residents, according to a June report from the Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority. That’s up from approximately 55,000 people in 2017, and second in the nation only to New York City, which reported almost 79,000 homeless residents last year.
According to a 2018 annual report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, roughly 553,000 people experienced homelessness on "a single night" last year. Los Angeles County is just one of several areas across the country that, with the help of nonprofit organizations and developers, has begun renovating or leasing motel rooms as a way to shelter its homeless population.
More here
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But we always have money to support the Ukrainian Nazis and the genocide in Palestine.
Medvedev: US completely impotent on domestic policy
https://pravda-en.com/usa/2024/01/26/284612.html
Medvedev: The United States has shown itself to be "completely impotent" in matters of domestic policy
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that Washington, which supports the Kiev neo-Nazis, has shown a total inability to cope with its domestic political issues.
"Official Washington, which enthusiastically supports the Kiev neo—Nazis and seems to notice nothing else, has shown itself to be completely impotent in matters of domestic policy," he wrote his opinion on the Telegram channel.
Medvedev added that the administration of US President Joe Biden has demonstrated its inability to cope with the migration crisis that has flared up in the state of Texas.
According to him, Washington may face a constitutional crisis and "plunge into the abyss of a new more destructive civil confrontation."
Earlier, the governors of 25 states accused Biden of unwillingness to protect the US border.
Source:
https://russian.rt.com
Ex-ambassador Craig Murray:
'Yesterday I attended a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva. Over 120 states attended. While the formal session consisted of statements of national position with few surprises, I was able to discuss with a large number of delegates in the corridors why the Genocide Convention has not been activated, triggering a reference to the International Court of Justice.
'The answer is now clear to me. It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed. There is no respectable argument that this is not a genocide... 'The problem is that once the ICJ has determined that this is a genocide, it follows that not only are Netanyahu and hundreds of senior Israeli officials and military personally liable, but it is absolutely plain that “Genocide Joe” Biden, Sunak and members of their administrations are also criminally liable for complicity, having provided military support for the genocide. 'The International Criminal Court cannot ignore a judgment of genocide from the International Court of Justice and will have no choice but to issue arrest warrants.' Source: https://craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/12/murder/
…
https://twitter.com/jonathan_k_cook/status/1735074867102220515
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Without US backing, none of this would be happening!
If the ICJ keeps ruling against Israel, eventually, this will reflect on the US and someone will wind up facing charges. This is why the Biden regime is frantically fighting this.
Grandmother shot and killed fleeing Gaza. Watch CNN's investigation | CNN
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Our thanks to HM, who comments that this could spark a civil war
Megatron
@Megatron_ron
BREAKING:
⚡ Oklahoma is getting ready to send their National Guard to help Texas in their fight against illegal immigration and the Biden administration.
The announcement came from Governor Kevin Stitt, who previously raised the prospect of confrontations between State forces and the Federal Government. "We've already started putting the numbers together. We'll be in contact with Governor Abbott."
… pic.twitter.com/UDWfGI1a4y
26/01/2024, 21:28
https://twitter.com/megatron_ron/status/1750948854831140914
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Russia is celebrating the lifting of the Leningrad blockade that took the lives of a million Russians. At the hands of the German Nazis – whose values are, sadly, reflected in the combined West today.
The Russians understand something the West will never understand, namely, what Nazism looks like up close and what it does to its victims. And it is something horrible beyond description. They learned this lesson well during the siege of Leningrad. And the US-backed Israeli regime is teaching us this again.
The abysmal ignorance of Westerners about Nazism/fascism is what allows hopelessly naïve Americans to gush over Zelensky, the consummate Nazi (who grabs his citizens off the street and sends them to the meatgrinder to die), and to allow the Washington regime to fleece them shamelessly to send their hard-earned tax dollars to an openly Nazi regime.
If Americans knew. If they only knew.
The translated text that follows will help a few conscientious Westerners understand why Russians fear Nazism enough to motivate them to fight a long war, as long as it takes, to prevent another debacle of the kind that Hitler’s hordes inflicted on them 8 decades ago.
This brings us to the ticklish question of whether a Western regime can support a Nazi regime with ample transfers of money and weapons and not itself be imbued with the ideology of Nazism – though most likely without even realizing it.
When we contemplate the shocking wholehearted support of the US regime for both the Ukrainian Nazis who for 8 years straight, prior to Russia’s incursion, kept up the genocidal shelling of Donbass since the 2014 US takeover of the Kiev regime, converting it into a Nazi stronghold, and when we combine this impression with that of this same Washington regime unflinchingly supporting the genocidal Israeli regime with the arms needed to finish off the remainder of the Palestinians, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the West has not only partaken of Israel’s evil but has in fact drunk deep of the Nazi ideology of both Ukraine and Israel. It is my firm conviction that any regime that supports the Nazis with arms and money is itself a Nazi regime. The West may never face up to this fact, but it is still a fact.
Aren’t we in fact the baddies?
Yes, we are the baddies.
Remember that, considering the horrors inflicted on the Russians in the Third Reich, the salient pillar of Nazism is an irrational hatred of Russia. And the West is reviving it.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Россия помнит то, что Запад предпочел забыть - РИА Новости, 27.01.2024 (ria.ru)
27.01.2024
Russia remembers what the West chose to forget
Elena Karaeva
Our genetic code is woven not only from victories and overcomings, but also from the memory of suffering, torment, and death. This does not make us the keepers of memories that are unique to victims, but it gives us the opportunity to try on the trials of our ancestors, experiencing pain and horror, overcoming fear and thereby working out, as they say today, trauma.
These are our lessons on the day when exactly 80 years ago the blockade of the city on the Neva was finally lifted. This was done by the participants of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation
Caption: People who defeated Nazism will always be a moral example, Putin said
Yesterday.
Those who were pitted against us by the Wehrmacht wanted to destroy the Leningraders (all of them). These were not only the German state’s own units, but also a contingent from countries allied to the Nazis. The city and its inhabitants were killed by Finns, Italians, Spaniards, and Norwegians. [It is important to note that these same countries, along with the Germans, are still behaving extremely belligerently against Russia, building up troops, weapons and fortifications at the Russian border and issuing warmongering public statements slandering the Russians, blaming them for the conflict in Ukraine that was in fact provoked by NATO. They’re not imitating Hitler, they’re outdoing him]
There is no need to roll your eyes and hysterically repeat “you’re all lying,” since the battle to capture the “window to Europe” was fought with us by those who dreamed of getting even, taking revenge, and warming their hands on our suffering.
We forgave them for everything then. And not only were they forgiven, but the Norwegians were generally helped to free themselves from the Nazi occupation by placing thousands of [Russian] marines in the fjords surrounding Kirkenes, which our landing force took.
This is history and the facts that make it up, and we have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of here.
We then not only forgave them everything, we tried to make sure that the past - from politics to military aggression - would not overshadow the cooperation and good neighborliness that were important to us. After all, the last thing (both then and today) that we Russians wanted and want is to fight. We know too well what is behind all this, and we are aware of the price that we had to pay. Today.
Leningrad, which stood and did not surrender for 871 days and nights, paid for its resilience with a million lives, if not more. More than half of the dead were those who died of hunger. Hunger that became a weapon of mass murder [Just like in Palestine today!]. It was used by the most “cultured nation in Europe” [Germany saw itself that way] to teach the Russians a lesson, forcing us to kneel. And capitulate.
Well, if Hitler’s boot was licked by subjects of the Belgian crown and the monarchy of the Netherlands, citizens of the French Republic, and so on, then why should the gray-legged Russians, in a much more difficult situation, resist?
In general, there were practically no reasons for the Europeans of that time to doubt that they would bring Leningrad to its knees. For the surrender of the city, despite extensive propaganda, there was no reward for a barrel of jam, a basket of cookies, or Bavarian cookies. The very belonging to the Russian nation, the very Slavicness, was a death sentence.
[A salient feature of Nazism was (is) racism. These Russians were being slaughtered for being Russians, in exactly the same way as the Palestinians are being slaughtered for being Arabs – and ironically, by the ethnic group that itself was persecuted in the Third Reich for being Jews! They had their lesson, but failed to learn it!]
What we were doomed to then can be seen from the dry lines of the diary entries of 12-year-old Tanya Savicheva, who drew with a pencil with the last of her strength: “The Savichevs died. They all died.” The fate of the Leningraders was determined by these threew words.
Resistance to destiny is inscribed on the stones of the Fontanka embankment: “Here the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad took water from the ice hole.” Because water was needed to wash, to prepare food - yes, from vegetables collected from gardens, to cook soup from leftover wood glue and even from rats - water was needed to remain human, although they dreamed of turning us into animals.
It did not work out. Failed. Factories and libraries operated in the besieged city. In the besieged city they gave classical concerts, and no matter how much the “cultural nation” mocked us, the music of Beethoven and Bach sounded under the arches of the Philharmonic along with the music of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. We, as guardians of European traditions, could not abolish someone else's culture in order to settle petty scores with someone. [Herein resides the difference between Russia and its haters, who continue to cancel Russia, while the Russians treat everyone as equals, and with forgiveness. The West still parades itself as “Christian,” while Russia lives its religion]
We then lived not only in the hell of hunger pangs and everyday trials, not only in earthly problems, but also in hope. In Leningrad, during the entire blockade - 871 days and nights - women gave birth to children. The birth rate, if we refer to the official records, in 1943 exceeded the pre-war level. Women, like men, since it takes two to parent, nothing stopped them. Not the nightmare of artillery shelling, not any lack of everyday amenities, not even (in that situation quite understandable) fears of the coming days. Not all babies were lucky enough to survive, but those mothers who lost their babies became nurses of those who held tightly to life and to this light with their tiny hands.
Breaking the blockade is not only the victory of light over darkness, not only the joy of liberation from horror. It is also the triumph of goodness and, as its highest manifestation, our love over the hatred of our enemies.
We managed to preserve this feeling, carrying it through eight decades. We remember the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of people, but we are warmed by the courage and self-sacrifice that Leningrad and its inhabitants set as an example for us.
We will continue to strive to be worthy of the memory of those who died, but we are also grateful for the lessons of kindness and love that we remember. And will always remember.
**
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on an industrial enterprise near Kremenchug
January 27, 2024
The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on an industrial facility in the Kremenchug area, which resulted in a fire. This was reported by the head of the Poltava Regional Administration, Philip Pronin.
“The enemy attacked the Poltava oblast with missiles. Air defense was operating in the region. An industrial facility in the Kremenchug region was hit, which caused a fire. Information about the victims is being clarified. All emergency services are on site,” he writes in his telegram channel.
Earlier, an air alert was announced in Ukraine; the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that missiles were flying towards Kremenchug. The mayor of Kharkov reported about the explosions.
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Strikes on the Kirovograd and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine: what was hit
Warehouses of aviation weapons have been set up in the Kirovograd and Dnepropetrovsk regions
01/27/2024
SIMFEROPOL, January 27 - RIA Novosti Crimea. Over the course of 24 hours, the Russian armed forces carried out a series of powerful attacks on fuel warehouses and ammunition storage facilities in the Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk and Cherkasy oblasts of Ukraine. This was reported to the Ministry of Defense.
Strikes by operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery
“The S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Cherkasy oblast, fuel and aviation weapons depots in the Kirovograd and Dnepropetrovsk oblasts, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 102 districts were hit,” the defense department said in a report.
Over the past week, the Russian army carried out 13 group strikes with missiles and drones on enterprises producing unmanned boats and missiles, as well as on arsenals with fuel and ammunition and military airfields of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The goal of the strikes has been achieved. All designated targets were hit.
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ICJ lands a stunning blow on Israel, US shrugs – Day 112 (israelpalestinenews.org)
ICJ lands a stunning blow on Israel, US shrugs – Day 112
KATHRYN SHIHADAH JANUARY 27, 2024 BIDEN, COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE, GAZA, GENOCIDE, ICJ, ISRAEL, UNRWQ, WHITE FLAG DEATH
ICJ lands a stunning blow on Israel, US shrugs – Day 112
Protesters hold a Palestinian flag as they gather outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ). January 26, 2024 (photo)
Biden admin (and Israel) still in denial about genocide in Gaza; Israeli bombardment in Gaza not slowing down; more white-flag deaths, open fire on people waiting for food; responses to ICJ ruling; civil trial begins, charging Biden, Blinken, Austin with failing to prevent and complicity in genocide; Israeli leader in US to purchase more war equipment; US defunds UNRWA due to controversy
By IAK staff, from reports
Trita Parsi stated Friday in Responsible Statecraft,
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) just ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly could constitute genocide…
This is a devastating blow to Israel’s global standing. To put it in context, Israel has worked ferociously for the last two decades to defeat the BDS movement…because of how it could delegitimize Israel internationally. However, the ruling of the ICJ that Israel is plausibly engaged in genocide is far more devastating to Israel’s legitimacy than anything BDS could have achieved.
Just as much as Israel’s political system has been increasingly — and publicly — associated with apartheid in the past few years, Israel will now be similarly associated with the charge of genocide. As a result, those countries that have supported Israel and its military campaign in Gaza, such as the U.S. under President Biden, will be associated with that charge, too.
A different Biden approach could have shaped war efforts and prevented this from happening in the first place. (Read the full article here.)
More information on the ICJ ruling is here..
Middle East Eye reports: The White House has brushed aside the ICJ ruling that Israel must prevent genocidal acts against Gaza and will continue to double down on its unconditional support for Israel’s war in Gaza, Friday’s White House press briefing revealed.
US national security spokesperson John Kirby reiterated Israel’s “right to defend itself” despite the ICJ’s same-day interim decision accusing Israel of genocidal acts in Gaza.
The spokesperson revealed the White House’s complete disregard for the ICJ’s interim ruling, stating that “it has not been found that they are committing genocide, we have no indication that that is going on, that they are deliberately exterminating the people of Gaza” and“the president believes that the people of Gaza deserve to live in peace and security” but that a general ceasefire is “not the best approach”.
Don Hank, thanks for your comments and your reposting of some excellent Substack reports, also for disseminating the response of ordinary Russians to the efforts of ‘the West’. Regarding this last designation, I think that in your piece, ‘the West’ actually represents America: here in Europe, we have sadly confronted Nazism directly. It is even sadder that despite this close encounter, lessons do not seem to have been permanently learned.
If you don’t already follow Ricky, and Caitlin Johnstone on Substack, let me recommend both of them to you. Ricky, especially (Council Estate Media) writes incisively on the disgrace that pretends to be the British government at present and the equally disreputable government in waiting. I would especially recommend Ricky’s pieces on the current genocide in Gaza.
Best wishes again.
It’s amazing, isn’t it? I don’t know enough about Ukraine to be able to comment intelligently, but it’s being used as a proxy war between capitalism and communism, which never ends well. Regarding the decimation of Palestine, that is much clearer. The zionazis (excellent and very appropriate designation) are simply a settler-colonial project, and those never end well either. The sheer hypocrisy of the ‘West’ immediately withdrawing UNRWA funding because of zionist allegations...🤬🤬🤬