The West fights for politics – Russia and allies fight for survival
Western warmongers are unable to articulate their reasons for fearing and hating Russia. Their Russophobia is visceral. Russia, however, is fighting for its life against a sociopathic gang of thugs.
Our thanks to our French friend Joelle for this:
Translation from French with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Caroline Galacteros: NATO is preparing a possible entry into the war against Russia with 300,000 soldiers
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate, NATO recently announced that it is planning a possible entry into the war against Russia with the deployment of 300,000 troops. Is this announcement a gesticulation on the part of the Atlantic Alliance or a fatal spiral towards a general war in Europe?
updated on 11/06/24
NATO enters the dance, plans the general war in Europe and relaunches the escalation.
According to political scientist Caroline Galacteros, this revival of escalation is particularly worrying, because it comes in a context where NATO seems to have lost the North and is unconsciously sinking into a disastrous self-fulfilling prophecy. She stresses that the consequences of such a conflict for the European peoples would be disastrous, with the economic collapse, suffering and death that would result.
The political scientist also recalls that the recent attacks by Ukrainian kamikaze drones against Russian early warning radars could aim to blind Russia so that it cannot help its ally Iran, which is a potential target for the United States. She notes that these radars also cover Bahrain, where there is an American base and where cruise missiles, possibly nuclear ones, are based.
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But Russia is ready in case…
Putin: 300,000 Volunteers Signed Up for Russian Military Service
11:26 15.09.2023 (Updated: 12:24 15.09.2023)
The Russian leader held a bilateral meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi. During the meeting, the presidents discussed, among other things, the situation in Ukraine and the progress of the Russian special military operation.
As many as 300,000 volunteers have already signed up to join Russia's special military operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
"I said a couple of days ago that our men, our soldiers, had already signed contracts with the Russian armed forces, 270,000, but this was already outdated data. This morning they reported about 300,000 signed contracts by people who, I want to emphasize, are ready to sacrifice their lives in the interests of their homeland, defending the interests of Russia," Putin told reporters following the meeting with Lukashenko.
He added that the units now being formed are equipped with modern weapons and equipment, with some of them already about 90% equipped. Even though the Russian authorities pay money to the participants of the operation, people go to serve first of all for patriotic reasons, the president stressed.
[Perhaps the main difference between the combined West and Russia in this regard is that Russia’s military industry is capable of manufacturing all the ammo and weapons Russia needs to succeed in its war on Ukraine, whereas the West has donated a substantial part of its materiel to Ukraine and lacks the basic supplies even for the domestic supplies of western countries. Thus, Russia has won from the very outset and is just playing a reckless political game that it cannot win.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for June 13, 2024
OUR TROOPS STRUCK AN "ACCURATE AND CORRECT" BLOW: ZELENSKY WAS DEPRIVED OF A SAFE HAVEN - A SPECIAL FACILITY HAS BEEN BURNING IN KIEV FOR A DAY
The Russian military struck an "accurate and correct" blow - something continues to burn "strongly and for a long time" near Kiev. It is possible that this is an enterprise associated with military service, experts say. The attack can probably be explained by the preparation of Western countries for the transfer of the first F-16 aircraft for the needs of the Armed Forces. Moscow makes it clear that hiding planes on the territory of Ukraine is pointless, and Zelensky is losing his safe haven. About everything in proper order - in our report.
"These are good pieces of debris. The fat ones"
People are restless near Kiev. Apparently, our fighters struck an "accurate and correct" blow. It is possible that an enterprise connected with the military service is on fire. They couldn't put out the fire for a long time.
"Something continues to burn very strongly in Vasilkov near Kiev," military blogger Yuri Podolyaka writes in his telegram channel.
According to him, "in the morning, as soon as our aerospace force struck, it has been burning from that time on."
"Moreover, the fire is only gaining strength so far... They write that this is an enterprise connected with military service. Well, then let it burn out to the end. Moreover, the local gauleiter said that no one was killed as a result of the strike.
In general, our strikes were very accurate and correct this morning," Podolyaka summed up.
Other publications on social networks also speak in favor of the fact that a special object is burning in Kiev. As the Voevoda Broadcasts telegram channel reports, "they’ve been trying to put out a fire at an industrial facility near Kiev for more than a day, four fire trains and hundreds of rescuers are involved." At the same time, the enemy reports that "the fire started due to "falling debris."
"These are good pieces of debris. Fat ones," the author of the telegram channel ironically remarks.
It is also clarified that 249 personnel, 98 pieces of equipment, and 4 fire trains are working at the site of a large-scale fire.
This information was published in the morning by the State Emergency Service as of 7:00, writes the Politika strany [Politics of the country].
Experts agree that the Russian army staged a powerful intimidation action against Ukrainian nationalists. It became clear that Bankova's attempts to turn the capital of Ukraine into a fortified bastion had completely failed. [Bankova is the street on which Zelensky’s office is located]
Moscow has never seen such a large-scale response
The Russian military organized a massive shelling of military facilities in the Kiev oblast, Newsland reports. Where ws the strike? The main blow involved an attack on infrastructure and security facilities at the highest levels of the Ukrainian government, including President Zelensky, the journalists write.
The operation was a response to the terrorist actions of Ukrainian militants, who have been purposefully hitting civilian targets over the past few days. The actions of the Kiev regime were reinforced by a change in the positions of the United States and a number of European countries, which had limited the permission of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to hit targets on the territory of Russia. The Kremlin has made it clear that Kiev is no longer a safe haven for Vladimir Zelensky and his people. [The author is referring to Zelensky loyalists, NOT to the Ukrainian people]
According to the Ukrainians, they have not seen such a large-scale response from Moscow for a long time. The range of targets was quite wide, and the attack was combined (both missiles and drones were involved). In particular, warehouses where shells for American Patriot air defense systems were stored were damaged.
Officially, the Ukrainian side stated that it allegedly managed to shoot down all Russian missiles on approach. But the situation on the ground is clearly different. Do not forget that the activity of Ukrainian air defense systems is also capable of provoking problems on the ground, since downed munitions still tend to fall. [Note the skepticism of the author. The Ukrainian news services are constantly working in disinformation mode, lying shamelessly that they are shooting down all Russian missiles, even as Zelensky keeps begging for more air defense systems. Well, if you want more air defenses, then stop claiming you have perfect defenses capable of shooting down all the missiles]
According to the Ukrainians, "the enemy fired X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles from the sides of Tu-95MS strategic bombers." [These are NOT hypersonic and theoretically, they can be shot down. However, Kiev is fast losing its air defenses to Russian attacks.] However, analysts are sure that this is only the beginning. Military expert Alexander Ivanovsky does not rule out that larger-scale actions may be organized in the near future, and the main target will be the territory of Kiev.
This is due to the fact that in conditions of a shortage of supplies of Western weapons and shells, the capital of Ukraine has turned into a kind of warehouse.
Extensive strikes were also recorded in the Odessa and Mykolaiv oblasts. In particular, it was estimated on social networks that about 11 foreign officers, including Czechs and British, were liquidated in the Odessa area. [This last piece of news has been reported previously and the translation has appeared earlier in this newsletter]
According to the data of the Nikolaev underground worker Sergei Lebedev, the Poltava oblast also got it. According to preliminary data, the explosion was heard in the area of the Industrial microdistrict of Mirgorod.
Hiding planes is pointless
Recall that a year ago, Russia launched a massive missile strike on the night of June 13. At the time, it was called the most powerful for the entire time of the special operation. It was reported that the APU [Ukrainian army] offensive played against Kiev, forcing Ukrainians to bare their backs. [prodigious numbers of Ukrainian fighters were lost in this offensive. The Kiev lie machine worked overtime at the time claiming that it was RUSSIA that was losing the most men. I showed here why that was a silly claim. In fact, still today, the US-backed lie machine is hard at work. For example, Business Insider now tells us that the change in military policy allowing Kiev to hit deep inside Russia is “turning the tide” of the war. Wishful thinking. There was no change at all because Ukraine had always ignored the supposed restrictions, striking deep inside Russia with NATO weapons many months ago. The lie machine is desperate to put a smiley face on the Ukrainian forces, which are simply running out of men and still catastrophically low on ammo. Alexander Mercouris [not sure about this link, but be SURE to follow Mercouris’ daily reports] reports that many commanders are simply ignoring orders from above and fleeing the battlefield to save their lives. The front lines are being described as a meatgrinder for Ukraine, while Russia has the advantage of vastly more ammo and the use of massive FAB bombs that are released by Russian pilots up to 40 km or more away from the front lines. Thus while Ukrainian soldiers are dropping like flies – excuse the expression—the Russians are being spared]
They were hitting military facilities in Ukraine. Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv, the cities of Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne and Chernivtsi oblasts came under fire.
Most likely, the targets of the strikes were weapons depots and places where Ukrainian soldiers were based. Thus, the Russian command weakened the Ukrainian troops as much as possible, who then tried to carry out their sensational counteroffensive.
What is it now? The activity of Russian troops may also be related to the preparation of Western countries for the transfer of the first F-16 aircraft for the needs of the Armed Forces. At the same time, the question of their locations remains open. Now Moscow is making it clear that hiding planes on the territory of Ukraine is pointless. [One reason for this is that Russia now has lots of friendly spies in Ukraine who are sick and tired of the war and HATE Zelensky, who is no longer officially president]
Earlier, the Dutch Defense Minister confirmed that the first batch of Dutch F-16s will arrive in Ukraine in the summer of 2024 - the period has been announced, and there is little time left. The only reason why Amsterdam is slow is because it is waiting for Denmark to start its deliveries.
That is, the first official F-16s from the two countries are expected this summer.
There is also a very high risk that the planes will come with nuclear stuffing. First of all, they have a dual purpose, that is, they are capable of carrying a nuclear charge. In this case, the Russian Foreign Ministry has already warned the West that, regardless of which version of the fighters will come to Ukraine, appropriate retaliatory measures will be taken.
Adding to the anxiety is the fact that the Netherlands, which in its militant rhetoric will soon catch up with France and Poland, recently received B61 nuclear bombs from the United States and became the first country in history with the right to use American nuclear munitions at its discretion without Washington's permits and recommendations. For this reason, concerns are growing.
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Weapons and Strategy
Will the Ukraine War Spill Over to Europe?
Recent NATO Moves Could Cause the war to expand to NATO countries
STEPHEN BRYEN
JUN 12, 2024
The danger is rising that the Ukraine war will spill over to Europe. The risk of a European war has never been so high.
The general consensus among military experts is that Ukraine is slowly, but inexorably, losing the war against Russia. But what does that mean?
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Israel has defeated itself but also the US. We have no friends left
https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-destruction-starvation-and-death-in-gaza-are-israels-defeat/
The Destruction, Starvation and Death in Gaza Are Israel’s Defeat
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG JUNE 13, 2024 CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, GENOCIDE, HOLOCAUST, PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, SUPPORTERS OF WAR
The Destruction, Starvation and Death in Gaza Are Israel’s Defeat
Gaza (photo)
The Jewish state was defeated because its politicians and public officials are causing 2.3 million human beings to go hungry and thirsty.
by Amira Hass, reposted from Haaretz, June 4, 2024
Israel was defeated and is still being defeated, not because of the fact that at the start of the ninth month of this accursed war, Hamas has not been toppled. The emblem of defeat will forever appear alongside the menorah and flag, because the leaders, commanders and soldiers of Israel killed and wounded thousands of Palestinian civilians, sowing unprecedented ruin and desolation in the Gaza Strip. Because its air force knowingly bombed buildings full of children, women and the elderly. Because in Israel people believe there is no other way. Because entire families were wiped out.
The Jewish state was defeated because its politicians and public officials are causing two million three hundred thousand human beings to go hungry and thirsty, because skin ailments and intestinal inflammation are spreading in Gaza. The only democracy in the jungle was overwhelmingly defeated because its army expels and then concentrates hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in increasingly smaller areas, labeled safe humanitarian zones, before proceeding to bomb and shell them. Because thousands of permanently disabled people and children with no accompanying adults are hemmed in and suffering greatly in those targeted humanitarian areas.
Because mounds of garbage are piling up there, while the only way to dispose of them is to set them on fire, spouting toxic emissions. Because sewage and excrement flow in the streets, with masses of flies blocking one’s eyes. Because when the war ends, people will return to ruined houses chock full of unexploded ordnance, with the ground saturated with toxic dangerous substances. Because thousands of people, if not more, will come down with chronic diseases, paralyzing and terminal, due to that same pollution and those toxic substances.
Because many of those devoted and brave medical teams in the Gaza Strip, male and female doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and paramedics and yes – including people who were supporting Hamas or on its government’s payroll – were killed by Israeli bombs or shelling. Because children and students will have lost precious years of study.
More here
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Nuseirat refugee camp. (source)
US CENTCOM COMMANDER WAS IN ISRAEL DURING NUSEIRAT CAMP MASSACRE:
Middle East Monitor reports: The commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Erik Kurilla, visited Israel over the weekend at the invitation of Israeli Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday.
The visit coincided with Israel’s gruesome massacre of at least 275 Palestinians and the wounding of 689 others (mostly women, children, and elderly) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday during an operation to rescue four hostages.
“Kurilla and Halevi held an operational situation assessment, discussed recent regional challenges and the strengthening of the strategic partnership against the Iranian threat,” said Israeli occupation army spokesman Avichai Adraee said on X on Tuesday. “They also discussed developments in the war against Hamas [sic] in the Gaza Strip and ongoing Hezbollah attacks from Lebanon.”
The occupation army did not elaborate on the program of Kurilla’s visit.
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I don’t know this author’s name or if he belongs to a group. He just sends me opinion pieces to my email that make sense and I like them.
IS THE WEST *REALLY* THE BEST?
We are constantly encouraged to believe we in the West are the crown of creation, that we live in the elite and thoroughly exceptional kingdom of the western world. How does this compare to reality?
Presumably you have seen the state of some U.S. streets in recent times. Not just the tent cities or people sleeping in their cars (and these are people with jobs) in gated car parks. No doubt you are aware of the ongoing situation there regarding illegal drug use, drugs such as Fentanyl that can reduce human beings to virtual zombies.
Then there is the field of politics. Biden vs. Trump, Sunak vs. Starmer. These are the best the USA and UK can do apparently. Impressed? As for the political systems of both lands… what do you make of the crowded middle ground where both parties seek ownership of the banal middle ground where elites love to congregate? [Yes, and while Trump was busy for 4 years working his magic, the zombies depicted above were wandering the streets, unaware that they were to be made great again…]
Are the endless war policies across the western world from Washington to London to Brussels and beyond to your taste? Wasn’t diplomacy supposed to be the way to go so that military conflicts could be contained and not allowed to spread? No more it seems.
How is your infrastructure doing, your health services, your schools, roads and the social network of life in general. Are things improving or worsening? Do you find your life becoming ever more affordable, more stress free and generally on an upward trajectory? Or the reverse?
As you look at other regions of the world how do they compare? If you have travelled at all you will undoubtedly have compared what you left behind with what you find in those foreign lands. How are their life prospects compared to yours? Naturally there will be placed where the comparison favours back home but what about those so-called enemies of the West, China and Russia. Have you ventured to either recently? No graffiti, no litter, well-dressed, well-behaved, apparently happy people, excellent infrastructure whether we are talking of their transport systems or a large range of other facilities and services.
With western influence in the world waning and the same opportunities for western exploitation of others or their manipulation to secure and build our power bases within them, and with greater resistance to our ‘West is Best’ attitude, do you find the prospects for increased affluence, greater leisure time and ever-enhancing opportunities in the West realistic?
The daily grind in the West for most is reaching abominable levels. Depression, discontent, suicide, drug-use (both legal and illegal), an ever disintegrating effect on traditions and cultures once held dear, things are looking bleak and headed for an anything goes woke liberalism where nothing is sacred nor stable any more. An anything goes mentality of flux and anarchic chaos appears destined to prevail from here on out.
This as other parts of the world hold fast to their cultural traditions and mores that have stood the test of time and show a clear resolve not to go down the reckless path to a place where nothing much can be relied upon any more. There you can find the stability and predictability that is fast leaving the western world. There parents define what it is to live in safety and in an aura of mental health for their children. They teach their children, showing them each jigsaw piece of life with a defined edge that they can fit into the picture overall. Increasingly in the West there is no overall picture; therefore parents offer their children jigsaw pieces with no defined edges which cannot possibly give any child an overall picture with which to live a happy, productive and life integrated with all others. They stand alone, confused. Perhaps with peers who advocate becoming transgender as a way to garner some kind of identity in a milieu absent of any defined rules.
Which society do you think survives best in the long run? Perhaps look at the evidence. Take a look around the world if you can. If you can’t afford to be there bodily, at least travel via the internet and delve as deep as possible into each culture, environment, social milieu and economic level. Take a good look around and compare.
IS THE WEST *REALLY* THE BEST?
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How To Justify NATO’s Aggression Against Russia
Thierry MEYSSAN
13/06
Joseph Stalin had old official photographs corrected to remove any trace of his opposition. Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and their allies, too, are rewriting history. They have just staged, under the name of the “Normandy landings”, events that happened otherwise. They hide the serious conflict that arose, from June to August 1944, between the French organizations that fought against the Nazi occupation – the National Council of the Resistance and the French Committee of National Liberation – and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. They also obscure the fact that General Charles de Gaulle refused to take part in the landing… and they even invented Ukrainian participation.
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We’ve just witnessed a vast rewriting of history, aimed at manipulating public opinion to justify NATO’s current treatment of Russia. A misleading vision of the June 6, 1944 landings has given rise to a commemoration of events that never existed as they were presented to us.
AMALGAM WITH THE WAR IN UKRAINE
The commemoration of the falsified version of the D-Day landings was an opportunity for President Joe Biden and his master of ceremonies, President Emmanuel Macron, to draw a parallel with their equally falsified presentation of the current war in Ukraine.
For the record, no Russian delegation was invited. On the contrary, the Ukrainian army, which fought alongside the Nazis, was.
More here
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Progressives Are FURIOUS After Jamaal Bowman Gets BETRAYED (by Israel)
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Jewish intel officer quits over Gaza injustice
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Police officers commit child sexual abuse in US
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Russia Day 2024
Life Goes On As Usual
Link to video:
REGIS TREMBLAY
JUN 13
With a daily barrage of drones and US ATACMS on Crimea, and the rest of the world is being hysterical about a nuclear Armageddon, people here are going about their daily lives as usual.
Yesterday was Russia Day 2024 and I spent nearly four hours walking on the Yalta Promenade by the Black Sea. It was a warm and almost cloudless day with many people strolling about and enjoying this annual Russian holiday.
I watched a two-hour live “emergency press conference” last night, sponsored by the Shiller Institute at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. featuring Scott Ritter, Col. Larry Wilkerson (ret), Col. Richard Black (ret), and Helga Zepp-LaRouche: founder of the Schiller Institute.
For two hours, the entire focus was on the real threat of a nuclear Armageddon caused entirely by the United States, and why the American people seem completely unaware in stark contrast to October 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was when JFK and Nikita Khrushchev made a deal that saved humanity. Sadly, there is no one in Washington today that is capable of a diplomatic solution with Russia that could save us again from this madness.
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Our thanks to JS for this:
America Is Losing the Arab World
And China Is Reaping the Benefits
By Michael Robbins, Amaney A. Jamal, and Mark Tessler
In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 assault and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, Arab public opinion is turning against not only Israel but also the United States. Michael Robbins, Amaney Jamal, and Mark Tessler—all investigators at Arab Barometer, a leading public opinion polling project in the Arab world—conducted surveys in five countries in late 2023 and early 2024. They show, in an essay from the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs, that “the United States’ standing among Arab citizens has declined dramatically” since the war began—and that “Arab citizens’ views of China have warmed.”
To achieve any of its goals in the Middle East, not least a permanent settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Washington must win the trust of Arab citizens in the region—or risk losing more ground to Beijing. To start with, Robbins, Jamal, and Tessler write, “the United States must show the same care for the suffering of the Palestinians that it does for that of the Israelis.”
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