The Washington-loyal EU could collapse in 5 years
Russian news outlet Tsargrad forecasts this. Soros warns of it. Biden desperately clings to autocratic control of Europe, but it’s slipping from his bony grasp.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/evrosojuz-razvalitsja-cherez-pjat-let-soros-vsjo-predskazal_1011528
THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL COLLAPSE IN FIVE YEARS. SOROS PREDICTED EVERYTHING
Events in Ukraine have highlighted the deepest crisis in the EU's foreign policy. The EU no longer has its own policy. All orders come from Washington, which is closely following the elections of the European Parliament.
Center forward
Events in Ukraine associated with the beginning of our Northern Military District highlighted the deepest crisis in EU foreign policy. It would be even more correct to say that the EU as a whole and the vast majority of member countries individually no longer have their own foreign policy in the form in which it was traditionally understood before the end of the 20th century.
This “diagnosis” is undoubtedly a determining factor that will influence the outcome of the European Parliament elections taking place on June 6-9, when citizens of 27 EU countries elect 720 deputies to the main legislative body of the united Europe. The central but unheralded player in the current European election campaign is the American liberal establishment, not European voters or European political parties.
It is the American “deep state” that is the true beneficiary of that show called “European Parliament elections”, which is observed in Europe every five years. Its result traditionally is the promotion to the highest bureaucracy of the EU not just of personnages loyal to the US, but exclusively of those who, on the liberal flank of world political forces, are even more liberal than their American curators. Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Josep Borrell and other cartoon characters from the European Commission - this is the company that looks into the mouths of Americans with tragic servility.
Hardware games
The direct involvement of the United States in the electoral processes in European countries in order to bring to power the characters the United States needs is the main reason that Europe has lost its political identity.
Washington directly interferes in the formation of the bureaucratic apparatus of the European Union, and in particular, in the formation of the European Commission, the body that carries out the daily management of the life of the EU. Since the composition of the European Commission is “approved” by voting in the European Parliament, promoting the “right” composition of deputies to the European Parliament is a task that Washington has taken upon itself, pushing aside the European voters themselves. That's how it was, at least until now.
The current composition of the European Commission is an appendage of the US State Department. Any foreign policy decisions of the EU are made either in agreement with it or on its direct orders. And, naturally, the European Commission is a political tuning fork for the governments of EU member countries. Based on statements from Brussels (that is, actually from Washington, since Brussels is a go-between), the texts of statements from national governments of EU countries are compared. [it’s called “harmonization. National legislation matching up with EU legislation]
Biden's confession
Today, the US administration does not even hide the fact that it wants to see Europe as its subordinate and nothing else. Recently, in an interview with Time, President Biden said that he fears that a number of countries on the border with Russia, including Poland, will begin to pursue a more independent policy.
If we ever let Ukraine fail, mark my words, you'll see Poland go away, and you'll see all these countries along Russia's dbe facto border - from the Balkans and Belarus - get together to act on their own, Biden said. [OMG, Joe. They may stop trying to destroy Russia. Wouldn’t that be terrible. And imagine if the genocide in Palestine stopped! Peace! How awful. Yes, that’s how they think]
He added that he intends to “shape the future of Europe for a long time to come” if he wins the presidential election in November. What a nightmare! Eastern European countries will behave independently!
Thus, let us repeat, it is the United States that is the main protagonist of all EU policy - both internal and external.
However…
However, the thoroughly corrupt European bureaucracy, which implants American liberal “values” on European soil and supports the same anti-national politicians, is already causing gnashing of teeth among a significant part of the European population. And these elections to the European Parliament, as already predicted, will be a demonstration of the disgust that Europeans feel for European officials in the service of the United States.
This will be a demonstration of the desire of Europeans to defend national interests and protect traditional values. And this is exactly what is in the programs of the so-called “right-wing populists,” if we apply this definition with a negative connotation that the liberal establishment has attached to them. This is how conservative and traditionalist politicians who oppose the liberal “values” imposed on Europe by Washington are called in Europe. [Almost all dissidents in Europe have always been branded as “ultra-right” for as long as I can remember (back to the early 60s when I first studied in Europe. The implication was always that these dissidents threatened to bring back Hitler’s Third Reich. This accusation of ultra-right sympathies was quite effective in marginalizing alternate candidates. Marine le Pen was tarred with this brush. Of course, it was obvious to many that she was by no means a Neo-Nazi – although her father was clearly a fringy with these tendencies. Le Pen was simply interested in keeping Europe independent and was well-intentioned. Today, the AdF is also being smeared as “ultraright” but it too is mainly interested in a freer Europe. The eurocrats are obsessed with keeping Europe obedient to Washington. Fortunately, there are cracks in this edifice as countries start to rebel. Robert Fico was starting to break away when he was shot. That is how fanatical they are to keep everyone in line – maintaining hatred and fear of Russia is the no. one concern, in both Washington and Brussels. But this irrational Russophobia is the biggest threat to world peace, taking the world closer and closer to nuclear Armageddon. It is high time to throw these people out of power]
Until now, there have been rare exceptions in the EU when individual states expressed disagreement with the general position of the European Union. These include, first of all, Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orban is considered the enfant terrible in the “friendly family” of European leaders. Suffice it to recall how Orban is blocking the allocation of multi-billion-dollar aid to Ukraine from the EU. But this exception only confirms the rule that EU countries are looking with their mouths open towards the United States, trying to catch the slightest breath expressing the will of the hegemon. [The entire combined West is an insane asylum.]
Now, as expected, a whole faction of “right-wing populists” will emerge in the European Parliament, that is, nationally oriented politicians “Identity and Democracy”, which, with a hundred of its deputies, will become the third largest faction.
From recent history
At the same time, if this trend continues, it is difficult to predict what will happen to the European Parliament and the European Union in the next five years. And this is precisely the trend. And it started quite a while back.
Let me remind you that in February 2019, before the last elections to the European Parliament, on the pages of the American magazine Project Syndicate, international political provocateur George Soros sounded the alarm. In an article entitled "Europe, please wake up," Soros wrote that "the people of Europe need to wake up before it's too late." Otherwise, he said, the European Union will collapse. [It needs to collapse]
Soros expressed fears that “anti-European forces will come to power in Europe” as a result of the then elections to the European Parliament. Soros had in mind, first of all, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who, as the Western press claimed, was striving at that moment to lead a pan-European campaign to restore traditional conservative politics. Orbán called and calls such policies “anti-immigrant, anti-multicultural” and defends the “Christian family model.”
Then, in 2019, actually on the direct orders of Soros, Viktor Orban and his party were subjected to severe pressure from the EU bureaucracy. And Orban took a step back so as not to aggravate relations with Brussels. But Orban continues to harbor hope. He is, in fact, a beacon for many nationally oriented parties in European countries.
Danger to Washington
In light of all of the above, the current elections to the European Parliament pose a serious danger for the Washington regional committee, since based on the results of these elections, candidates will be nominated for the posts of head of the European Commission and all European Commissioners in various areas, including EU foreign policy, economics, etc. And according to the forecasts of analysts serving the European bureaucracy, the new composition of the European Parliament may contain a “critically dangerous” number of “radical right-wing populists.” [remember, this is a misleading designation. They are trying to mislead dim-witted Europeans to think that going against the EU dictatorship is a step in the direction of Nazism. It’s a BIG LIE. The CURRENT US-led policies, eg, arming Nazis in Ukraine, supporting genocide in Palestine, is quickly taking the west back go Nazism! It is appalling that so few understand this]
In this regard, it will be interesting to see what tools and intrigues (including bribery, blackmail and threats) Washington will resort to in order to maintain the status quo in Brussels. After all, it is already clear that following the results of the elections to the European Parliament, “right-wing populists” will try to exert a serious influence on the formation of a new composition of the European Commission and, accordingly, a new foreign policy of the EU. Will they succeed?
[Probably the biggest threat to the US-controlled eurocracy is Sarah Wagenknecht, previously a member of die Linke (the Left). Obviously not an ultraright-winger. Sarah is against arming Ukraine and wants good relations with Russia. She terrifies the euro-estabishment. The fear that Russia and Germany may some day align with each other goes back over a century]
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Israel commits new massacre in strike on UNRWA school in Nuseirat
The U.S. and 16 other countries urged Hamas and Israel to “make concessions” to secure a ceasefire deal. Meanwhile, Israel killed 40 people in a bombing of an UNRWA school in the central Gaza Strip. [just yesterday I believe]
BY QASSAM MUADDI JUNE 6, 2024 2
Palestinians inspect a damaged UNRWA school following an Israeli airstrike on a the displacement shelter in Nuseirat refugee camp, June 06, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
PALESTINIANS INSPECT A DAMAGED UNRWA SCHOOL FOLLOWING AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON A THE DISPLACEMENT SHELTER IN NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, JUNE 06, 2024. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)
Casualties
36,654 + killed* and at least 83,309 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
527+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,140.
646 Israeli soldiers have been announced killed since October 7, and at least 3,657 have been announced as wounded.***
*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on June 6, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.
** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the PA’s Ministry of Health on June 5, this is the latest figure.
*** These figures are released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” The number of Israeli soldiers wounded according to declarations by the head of the Israeli army’s wounded association to Israel’s channel 12 exceeds 20,000 including at least 8000 permanently handicapped as of June 1st.
Key Developments
Israel kills 215 Palestinians, wounds 682 since Monday, June 3, across Gaza, raising death toll since October 7 to 36,654 and number of wounded to 83,309, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Israel kills 40 Palestinians in bombing of UNRWA school sheltering displaced Palestinians.
White House calls upon Israel and Hamas to make concessions in order to reach ceasefire deal.
Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry says 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza need medical treatment outside of Gaza.
Spain to join South Africa in genocide case against Israel at ICJ.
Colombia to impose restrictions on coal sales to Israel.
WHO says war in Gaza has “severely crippled health care provision in Rafah.” [Please. It is NOT due to a war. There is NO war, just a genocidal campaign against Palestinians!]
UNICEF says nine out of 10 children in Gaza suffer severe lack of food for growth.
Israeli forces wound six Palestinians in raid on Jenin.
Israeli army admits one soldier killed and 10 wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack in Galilee.
At least two Lebanese killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanese towns.
Israel’s Benny Gantz tells Israelis on northern front with Lebanon to “prepare for difficult days.”
Israel kills 40 Palestinians in a strike on an UNRWA school sheltering displaced families
At least 40 Palestinians were killed early on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike of an UNRWA school sheltering displaced families in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Gaza-based government media office said in a statement that 14 of the victims were children and nine were women. Around 74 more were wounded, including 23 children and 18 women, the office added.
The UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said through his account on X that Israel bombed an UNRWA school that housed thousands of displaced Palestinians during the night, without any warning to the displaced or to the UNRWA.
The Israeli army admitted the bombing in a statement, claiming that it had conducted a “precise strike” on dozens of Palestinian militants who were gathered in a building separate from the location of the civilians. The Gaza government media office denied the Israeli army’s claims.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
FEIRY NIGHT IN UKRAINE: "GERANS" BLEW UP AN OIL TERMINAL IN KIEV. "KALIBERS" HIT NATO AIRFIELD. WHAT IS KNOWN AT THIS MOMENT?
A massive attack on Ukraine’s military infrastructure was announced in advance. Local channels, in particular, actively disseminated information about Russian aviation takeoffs. However, all preparations were in vain: as promised, explosions occurred after 03:00. "Gerans" blew up an oil depot in Kiev, and "Kalibers" hit a NATO airfield, and also, apparently, disrupted another enemy rotation. Results of the fiery night throughout Ukraine at the moment.
Forewarned but not forearmed
Just the day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an important statement, which many listened to. He directly pointed out that we are capable of responding to the enemy’s attempts to raise the stakes in the Northern Military District zone. Yesterday, on May 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked refineries in the Rostov and Belgorod oblasts [in Russia proper] with the help of drones - Ukrainian social networks were delighted, but not for long. In Novoshakhtinsk, the fire was localized and extinguished over an area of 100 square meters. Firefighters and rescuers in the Stary Oskol urban district of the Belgorod region worked no less quickly.
Already in the evening, military blogger Yuri Podolyaka said:
In the morning there will be a powerful missile strike on Ukraine. Tu-95 MSM missile carriers are already in the air, and three ships are at sea - carriers of the Kaliber missiles.
The enemy was able to approximately track the movement of our bombers and fleet viamonitoring channels. According to forecasts, the first four Tu-95s from the Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region were supposed to overtake the enemy in the period 2:30 - 3:30. Moreover, even before midnight, our drones were conducting reconnaissance in several regions of Ukraine, including Odessa and Nikolaev. Ukrainians even then began to write that something was coming. And they were not mistaken.
The VKS strategic missile carriers are gaining altitude right now. Wheels in the air 23:20. If the flight is combat, missile launches are ~2:30 - 3:30. The rockets will cross the ribbon at ~03:30 – 04:30. There are also two missile carriers with 8 Caliber missiles on board in the Black Sea. <…> The first reconnaissance drones and decoy roles are already unloading the air defense over Odessa. [in other words, these decoys are being interpreted by the air defense systems as live munitions, causing the intercept rockets to be fired, thereby wasting rockets so that they can not be used to hit the actual munitions] Apparently there will be launches, military correspondents of the Tg-channel Condottiero wrote from 23:20 on Thursday, May 6.
Night raids
The first messages about strikes began to arrive at approximately 00:30. These were our Geran-2kamikaze drones targeting military infrastructure and the first missiles. Even the Polish Air Force was put on notice - Russian forces also struck behind enemy lines. Preliminarily, at objects in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts [in the Ukrainian far west].
The missiles reached their target in the rear of Ukraine <…> The Polish Air Force scrambled aircraft to intercept “Russian cruise missiles.” In fact, they fear stray Ukrainian air defense missiles, Condottiero military correspondents confirmed.
According to Ukrainian monitoring resources, up to 100 UAVs - kamikaze "Geran-2s" are in Ukrainian airspace at these minutes -- which has not been observed for a long time, reported the Military Observer.
However, later military correspondent Semyon Pegov (WarGonzo) clarified with reference to Ukrainian public pages that 53 kamikaze drones were launched at Ukrainian targets. The figure is significantly smaller, but the number is still amazing. On the other hand, they also talked about 100:
Tonight Ukraine suffered a major attack using the Geran UAV. According to Ukrainian public accounts, a total of 53 kamikaze drones were launched. Together with them, 5 missiles launched from long-range bombers flew into Ukrainian airspace. Objects in the central regions were mainly attacked.
After this, the enemy launched many Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. Most of them were recorded in the Ochakov area. It is reported that this has not been observed for a long time, which means that the situation was already serious then.
The enemy tried to shoot down our drones using air defense systems. However, military correspondents are confident that in this way our troops “unloaded the air defense” so that the enemy would not be able to actively shoot down aerial bombs and Calibers on approach. Actually, that’s what happened: closer to 5:00, the military correspondents gave out inside information.
Ukrainian air defense once again died the death of the brave, said the authors of the channel "Geran Blooming".
Military blogger Yuri Podolyaka reported in the morning:
A missile strike on Ukraine... This time it was mainly military targets, and, first of all, again the airfield in Starokontantinov. Objects south of Kiev, in the Odessa, Kharkov, and Poltava regions were also hit. Also, it seems, either military or related to the production of weapons.
Retaliatory strikes on Kiev and a fiery night
After the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on our oil refineries, all that was left was to wait for the missiles, so to speak, to return with a vengeance. Ukrainian telegram channels reported at midnight about strikes in Kiev and the region; columns of black smoke and a strong fire were visible. In the morning the strikes were confirmed by the Kiev authorities.
There was a fire at one of the industrial facilities in the region, said the head of the Kyiv regional military administration Ruslan Kravchenko, also clarifying that the elimination of the fire continues after several hours, there are no casualties.
Later the details came, but from eyewitnesses. It turned out that our drones blew up an oil depot and a fuel terminal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Grebenki, Kyiv region.
In Kyiv, a Russian missile was shot down by an oil depot, and here is the insidious Ukrainian air defense, wrote the head of the Crimean public movement to provide assistance to military personnel in the Northern Military District zone.
Near Kiev, after a night strike, an industrial facility has been burning for three hours. Previously, an enterprise involved in the Ukrainian military-industrial complex was struck, added military correspondent Yuri Kotenok.
NATO airfield and disruption of rotation
A series of powerful strikes was also recorded in the Khmelnitsky region - they again hit the Starokonstantinov airfield, but this time, apparently, with triple force, since there were reports that they were arriving as much as "Calibers" (range of action up to 2500 kilometers).
"First Kharkovsky" reported:
Tonight the Gerans were looking for aircraft carrying missiles. Found. The effectiveness of strikes against airfields based by Ukrainian Armed Forces aviation has been confirmed.
The Military Observer also added information:
More than ten UAVs - kamikaze "Geran-2" and Kh-101 cruise missiles today hit targets on the territory of the military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region. Front-line Su-24M bombers - carriers of Storm Shadow / SCALP EG cruise missiles - are based here. It was this airfield that was to become one of the bases for the deployment of Western F-16 fighters.
In March 2024, a powerful strike at this airfield was also recorded. Then the information was confirmed that engineers and officers from NATO countries were stationed on Starokonstantinov.
On the territory of the airfield there were engineers from the Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze (Polish State Aviation Plant) plant and Polish military instructors. Due to frequent cases of “self-disappearance” of aircraft ammunition, foreign specialists arrived to study and carry out work to improve the integration of Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles into the Su-24M weapon system,
- wrote "Donbass Partisan".
Then about 15 Polish military and engineers were neutralized, of which 7 people died. Both in April and May, the airfield continued to be shelled, since, according to available information, it was there that the first US F-16 dual-purpose (including nuclear) fighters would be located. They will... or were.
So, on May 26, according to the insider Tg channel “Visionary Channel”, the Russian army destroyed the first batch of fighters that were secretly transported to Western countries.
The first F-16s in Ukraine were hit by a missile attack. First, up to 20 Geran-2 UAVs were attacked, then 12 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aircraft. And the cherry on the cake is three “Daggers” from MiG-31K aircraft, which the Ukrainian side did not learn how to shoot down. On Friday [May 24. - Ed.] it was officially announced that the first group of Ukrainian pilots had completed training on the F-16 in the United States, without specifying exactly when. But the announcement of the supply of new weapons to Ukraine is always made retroactively, that is, it was actually announced that the pilots (like the F-16s themselves) are already in Ukraine <...> And today the first F-16s that arrived in Ukraine were covered massive missile strike, said the author, citing his sources.
And a few days later, the “Center for International Peacekeeping and Security” was destroyed at the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lviv region. There, NATO officers trained Ukrainians on simulators located underground for their first flights in the F-16. After the strike of the Russian Iskander, they do not train. Sources reported 179 killed and 201 seriously wounded.
The “cherry on the cake” was the strikes along Chuguev in the Kharkov region. Our drones were very active. At least 10 strikes have been reported.
Our report about strikes in Chuguev is confirmed by an informant. We wrote about more than 10 strikes - 11 explosions were confirmed. In addition, there was a defeat of infrastructure targets in the Slobozhansky district, and once again in Borovaya (there are strikes there every night). Important: there were no civilian casualties!, the military correspondents of the First Kharkovsky wrote in the morning.
It is important to note that this city is a concentration of a large number of enemy manpower. There are warehouses with ammunition and military transport there, and the settlement itself is a place of rotation of local troop groups. According to unconfirmed reports, it was there that our Gerans hit, disrupting the next rotation.
"Первый Харьковский" сообщил:
Tonight the Gs were looking for aircraft carrying missiles. Found. The effectiveness of strikes against airfields based by Ukrainian Armed Forces aviation has been confirmed.
The Military Observer also added information:
More than ten UAVs - kamikaze "Geran-2" and Kh-101 cruise missiles today hit targets on the territory of the military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region. Front-line Su-24M bombers - carriers of Storm Shadow / SCALP EG cruise missiles - are based here. It was this airfield that was to become one of the bases for the deployment of Western F-16 fighters.
In March 2024, a powerful strike at this airfield was also recorded. Then the information was confirmed that engineers and officers from NATO countries were stationed on Starokonstantinov.
On the territory of the airfield there were engineers from the Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze (Polish State Aviation Plant) plant and Polish military instructors. Due to frequent cases of “self-disappearance” of aircraft ammunition, foreign specialists arrived to study and carry out work to improve the integration of Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles into the Su-24M weapon system,
- wrote "Donbass Partisan".
Then about 15 Polish military and engineers were neutralized, of which 7 people died. Both in April and May, the airfield continued to be shelled, since, according to available information, it was there that the first US F-16 dual-purpose (including nuclear) fighters would be located. They will... or were.
So, on May 26, according to the insider Tg channel “Visionary Channel”, the Russian army destroyed the first batch of fighters that were secretly transported to Western countries.
The first F-16s in Ukraine were hit by a missile attack. First, up to 20 Geran-2 UAVs were attacked, then 12 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aircraft. And the cherry on the cake is three “Daggers” from MiG-31K aircraft, which the Ukrainian side did not learn how to shoot down. On Friday [May 24. - Ed.] it was officially announced that the first group of Ukrainian pilots had completed training on the F-16 in the United States, without specifying exactly when. But the announcement of the supply of new weapons to Ukraine is always made retroactively, that is, it was actually announced that the pilots (like the F-16s themselves) are already in Ukraine <...> And today the first F-16s that arrived in Ukraine were covered massive missile strike, said the author, citing his sources.
And a few days later, the “Center for International Peacekeeping and Security” was destroyed at the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lviv region. There, NATO officers trained Ukrainians on simulators located underground for their first flights in the F-16. After the strike of the Russian Iskander, they do not train. Sources reported 179 killed and 201 seriously wounded.
The “cherry on the cake” was the strikes along Chuguev in the Kharkov region. Our drones were very active. At least 10 strikes have been reported.
Our report about strikes in Chuguev is confirmed by an informant. We wrote about more than 10 strikes - 11 explosions were confirmed. In addition, there was a defeat of infrastructure targets in the Slobozhansky district, and once again in Borovaya (there are strikes there every night). Important: there were no civilian casualties!, the military correspondents of the First Kharkovsky wrote in the morning.
It is important to note that this city is a concentration of a large number of enemy manpower. There are warehouses with ammunition and military transport there, and the settlement itself is a place of rotation of local troop groups. According to unconfirmed reports, it was there that our Gerans hit, disrupting the next rotation.
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Lies about Hamas debunked
American Media Keep Citing Zaka — though its October 7 atrocity stories are discredited in Israel
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American Media Keep Citing Zaka — though its October 7 atrocity stories are discredited in Israel
Yossi Landau, head of operations for the southern region at Zaka (photo)
Israeli media has debunked the ultra-Orthodox group’s stories, but The New York Times won’t say so. [See related article and video below.]
by Arun Gupta, reposted from The Intercept, February 27, 2024
Yossi Landau is the head of operations for the southern region at Zaka, an Israeli search-and-rescue organization. Assigned to collect human remains after the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Landau and his fellow Zaka members riveted media outlets worldwide with the horrific atrocities they saw.
Speaking through tears at the Jerusalem Press Club shortly after the attack, Landau described finding a pregnant woman in Kibbutz Be’eri in a “big puddle of blood, face down.”
“Her stomach was butchered open,” Landau said. “The baby that was connected to the cord was stabbed.”
In Be’eri, he said, he also found a family who was tied up, tortured, and executed with a bullet to the back of the head: father, mother, and two small children around 6 or 7 years old. An eye was missing, fingers chopped off. Landau later told CNN, “The terrorists were having a ball,” with Palestinian militants devouring a holiday meal set out by the family. Landau broke down recounting the tale, as a CNN reporter comforted him.
Long after Landau’s emotional recollections were replayed, repeated, cited, and quoted in the global media, a problem emerged: No one could find any evidence that the two massacres ever took place — in Be’eri or elsewhere.
In the case of the butchered mother and fetus, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz concluded the killing “simply didn’t happen.” As for the tortured family, no one killed in Be’eri matches Landau’s account. The one brother and sister to die in the kibbutz were 12-year-old twins, killed when an Israeli general ordered a tank to fire on a house where Hamas militants were holding them hostage. Nevertheless, Landau told these stories unchecked in interviews and press conferences.
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Russian high-tech arms headed to the Caribbean
Joe Biden was asking for escalation when he demonstratively told Zelensky to feel free to use US weapons to strike deep inside Russia (But Ukraine deliberately attacks civilians). Putin says, ok, you want escalation? How about another Cuban missile crisis?
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
IVAN EVSEEV
THERE WILL BE RUSSIAN SHIPS OFF THE US SHORE: THE WEST IS IN CONFUSION - IS THIS PUTIN'S "ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE"?
The West sounded the alarm after Putin's statement about an asymmetrical response to the escalation of the conflict by the United States. Foreign media reported that Russia is already transferring planes and ships to the Caribbean. Read more in the material from Tsargrad.
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with media representatives, said that Moscow has the right to supply its long-range weapons to regions of the world from where attacks will be carried out on sensitive targets in countries that supply Kiev with weapons for attacks on Russia.
The West has “already heard” Putin’s signal about Russia’s readiness to supply weapons to their opponents, Dmitry Peskov said. According to the press secretary of the head of state, Moscow is not obliged to designate regions of possible supplies.
Against this background, Western media sounded the alarm - supposedly Russia already has a naval squadron ready for deployment. The most interesting thing is that options like the Houthis and the Gulf of Aden arise, but they are not the only ones, given the global presence of the United States in a number of regions of the world.
"Houthis, Yemen, American Navy"
As ex-US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik noted in a comment to Tsargrad, Washington has more than 800 bases abroad, now including in Scandinavia.
They have a lot of places to hit. Even Colombia or Panama, different bases in Africa where large drones are kept, as well as in the Middle East. And this is not to mention the fact that American bases are illegally located in Syria and Iraq, said Wren.
[It’s interesting that the author mentions Panama. Ricardo Martinelli, the ex president of Panama, was recently disqualified from re-election after a court trial convicted him of corruption. Inside sources told me that Martinelli believes this trial was orchestrated by the US, which hates Martinelli because he does not kiss US butt. However, Martinelli hand-picked another candidate, Raul Mulino, who won the election. Like Martinelli, Mulino will likely be out of favor with Washington and it is conceivable that he would be interested in hosting Russian naval ships – especially since Panama has no military presence of its own]
In turn, political scientist Andrei Perla noted that the United States is facing the most serious security threat since the Cuban missile crisis, since “high-tech Russian weapons in the hands of those who defend their independence from the United States can change the situation in different parts of the world.”
I will give just one example: the Houthis, Yemen, the American fleet. Russian surface-to-sea missiles. Hypothetically, purely hypothetically, Perla emphasized in a conversation with Tsargrad.
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0
Geopolitically, the situation is on the verge of a repeat of the Caribbean crisis. The positional confrontation with the West could last for decades if the missile knot is untied again. And the analogy with the Cuban missile crisis, which lasted two weeks, is valid, since the United States does not want to respect Russian interests. It is difficult for the United States to agree to the agreements that Russia has formulated, which is why the threat of war between the two great powers is increasing.
According to Reuters, Russia has already begun to transfer ships and aircraft to conduct military exercises in the Caribbean.
The exercise is expected to be the first simultaneous air and sea maneuvers Russia has conducted in the Caribbean since 2019, according to CBS News. The US interprets them as a response to American support for Ukraine and the intensification of US exercises with NATO allies.
However, according to the official, the exercises have been planned for a long time, and it is unlikely that they are a response to President Joe Biden’s recent partial lifting of the ban on Ukraine’s use of American weapons against targets in Russia. It is possible that Russian ships will make visits to Cuba and, possibly, Venezuela.
The point is for Russia to demonstrate that it is still capable of a certain level of global projection of power, said the publication's source. Russian authorities want to “knock [the US] off balance” and influence domestic audiences, the source added to the Miami Herald.
Russian missiles in Cuba
Retired colonel and military columnist for Komsomolskaya Pravda Viktor Baranets believes that Russia has long been conducting negotiations of a “military-technical nature” with Cuba and Venezuela. [Russia successfully neutralized a crisis in Venezuela during the Trump regime by sending several nuclear-capable large bombers to that country, whereupon the US backed off]
These countries are beginning to be less and less afraid of American dictates and, it seems, are beginning to change their policies. We have already started Russian-Cuban exercises there in the Caribbean. And if the Chinese also join there, it will be very cool and will cause wild screams in Washington. They may already announce today that they will not allow this, because if even one military base appears in Cuba, it will mean that a sharp Russian bayonet is pointed at America’s fat butt, says Baranets.
The colonel added that Russia is tired of NATO’s constant advance towards its borders, and a situation is emerging where American tanks “have already hit our borders with their guns.”
I think that we will be able to reach an agreement with Venezuela and Nicaragua. We've been retreating for too long. If we had behaved in our time as we are trying to do today, we might not even have had a Ukrainian conflict, noted the expert.
In addition, Baranets admitted that NATO’s strike at Russia’s borders was due to Moscow’s “inaction”; “we didn’t do anything real,” he says, since the United States only understands the language of force.
This will make you think a little that you shouldn’t joke with Russians like that. If missiles appear, even non-nuclear ones, that will reach the United States, then this will be a different picture. And we need to do this now, summarized the retired colonel. [The hypersonic Kinzhal, for example, could reach the US. In fact, a map that Putin used in his televised talk on his wonder weapons featured Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. A hint maybe?]
Conclusion
Vladimir Putin once already recalled the Cuban missile crisis. In 2007, in the context of the US deployment of a missile defense system in Europe, the president said that for Russia the situation is technologically very similar. “We removed the remnants of the bases from Vietnam, from Cuba and liquidated everything there. And such threats are being created for our country today at the Russian borders,” he said at the Russia-EU summit.
Today, if Russia decides to deploy missiles on the island, this could become an asymmetrical response to the approval of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack with American weapons on Russian territory and the escalation of the conflict by the United States.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/article/1325261-minoborony-gruppovye-udary-zapadnoe-oruzhie
27 group strikes were carried out: the Russian Armed Forces hit energy facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and storage sites for Western weapons
MO: The Russian Armed Forces carried out 27 group strikes on military targets in Ukraine in a week
Short link7 June 2024, 17:06 Sergey Gusarov
Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 27 group strikes with high-precision weapons against military targets in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. According to the department, as a result, energy facilities that supported the operation of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, arsenals for storing Western weapons and ammunition, as well as temporary deployment points for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries were hit.
27 group strikes were carried out: the Russian Armed Forces hit energy facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and storage sites for Western weapons
From June 1 to June 7, in response to the Kyiv regime’s attempts to damage Russian energy facilities, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 27 group strikes with ground-, air- and sea-based precision weapons, as well as attack drones. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
As a result, energy facilities that supported the operation of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine were damaged. In addition, attacks were carried out on arsenals for storing Western weapons and ammunition, missile and artillery equipment, unmanned boats, as well as temporary deployment points for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries.
As the department noted, the objectives of the strikes were achieved, and all designated targets were hit.
During the course of combat operations, units of the North group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defenses and defeated the manpower and equipment of seven formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a marine brigade, and two military defense brigades. Over the course of a week, 36 counterattacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault forces were repelled.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, during this period the enemy lost up to 1.4 thousand military personnel, five tanks, 11 armored combat vehicles, including a Stryker armored personnel carrier and two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, 32 vehicles, as well as 26 field artillery guns.
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Meanwhile, units of the West group of forces occupied more-advantageous positions within a week. Formations of four mechanized, tank and airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of military defense, as well as two brigades of the National Guard of Ukraine were defeated.
The fighters also repelled 11 counterattacks by enemy units. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 2,850 military personnel, two tanks, 19 armored combat vehicles, 34 vehicles, and 25 field artillery guns.
Within a week, units of the Southern Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and liberated N. Paraskovievka village (DPR), and also defeated the manpower and equipment of 14 formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost up to 2,835 military personnel, 14 armored combat vehicles, 29 vehicles, 35 field artillery pieces, of which 13 were Western-made, as well as a Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. Along with this, seven field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
During the week, units of the “Center” group of troops continued to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defenses and liberated N. Umanskoe village (DPR).
Military personnel of the Center also defeated the formations of nine formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine, and also repelled 39 enemy counterattacks.
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The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred many elite “Kraken”* and GUR units to the Kharkov region.
Over the course of a week, in this direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 2,690 military personnel, two tanks, including US-made Abrams, 14 armored combat vehicles, including two US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 21 vehicles, 62 field artillery guns, as well as a HIMARS MLRS combat vehicle.
Units of the Vostok group of troops improved the tactical situation and defeated the manpower and equipment of two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two brigades of the defense. The enemy lost up to 935 troops, two tanks, seven armored combat vehicles, 37 vehicles, and ten field artillery pieces.
Along with this, units of the Dnepr group of troops over the course of a week defeated the manpower and equipment of three brigades of marines, mechanized, infantry, as well as mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a technical defense brigade and a formation of the National Guard of Ukraine.
As the Russian Ministry of Defense clarified, the enemy lost up to 430 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, 32 vehicles and 24 field artillery guns.
Within a week, 27 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered.
During the week, air defense systems shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, two Tochka-U operational-tactical missiles, two S-200 anti-aircraft guided missiles modified for use against ground targets, and 17 HAMMER guided bombs made in France.
Also destroyed were three US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, three Neptune anti-ship missiles, 93 US-made HIMARS missiles, Czech-made Vampire and Alder missiles, as well as 424 unmanned aerial vehicles. Among other things, a Lancet drone [a loitering munition] hit a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
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Much of the EU is pretty much 'done', RIGHT NOW! They can't wait 5 more years.