Timeline of Ukraine war shows Russia’s incursion into Ukraine was NOT “unprovoked” as falsely reported in Western media

It is hard to understand the backstory of how the Ukraine war got started, and if all you are reading is the msm, you never will learn it. That’s why most of the West is demonizing Russia today.

Here is the part the Russia hating media refuse to tell you.

The Obama regime meddled in the Maidan in 2014 and converted a peaceful protest into a violent and illegal coup d’etat. US operatives including irrationally Russophobic Victoria Nuland and her partner ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, led a clandestine action to bypass the Ukrainian constitution and illegally create the government of Ukraine, a pack of Neonazis, to replace the old ELECTED government that was illegally overthrown with the involvement of the Obama regime. Their involvement is evidenced by a leaked recording of a conversation between Nuland and Pyatt, which was posted online, for example, by BBC.

Kiev and Russia, according to Western narrative, were at war. The West said Donbass was “backed by Russia,” and there was reportedly a war going on between them. But in reality, only Kiev had planes and tanks. It was a reflection of the “war” in Gaza today, where only one side had the lethal means to exterminate the other, and it is therefore a black joke to call it a war.

In fact, the Kiev side constantly shelled innocent civilians in Donbas, who lacked the means to fire back. I compiled video evidence of what amounted to a genocide during that time.

The failure of the Minsk 1 agreement set the stage for Minsk 2, which also failed because Kiev refused to comply with its commitment to hold a dialogue with Donbas.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2022/08/09/europe-punished-for-failure-to-implement-minsk-accords/

A day after French President Emmanuel Macron stated that Ukraine is willing to implement the Minsk Agreements, Kiev went back to square one by refusing to hold direct dialogue with Donbass, which is the key provision of the UNSC-backed accords.

In April 2022, Josep Borrell EU representative for Foreign Affairs and VP of the European Commission, said

“This war will be won on the battlefield.”

US defense secretary Lloyd Austin seconded this.

Looked like the West was winning. No one in the Western governments, and the western media dared say otherwise.

Thus, the West was the side that arrogantly gave up on diplomacy and accepted the responsibility for initiating war in the firm, quasi-religious belief that the West would win. The EU and US both thought that they could win over Russia. After all, it was a group of 27 nations plus the entire US. How could all these people lose against only one state, whose economy Obama had said was in tatters? They also affirmed that Russia was already running out of missiles at that early stage.

Well, that sounded good – unbeatable in fact. But the Russophobes who made this argument failed to realize that the entire West was manufacturing only about one-third of the weapons and ammo as Russia, and for a variety of reasons, that situation could hardly change within the foreseeable future.

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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-lost-war-west-bank-before-even-began

Middle East Eye: Israel lost the war in the West Bank before it began

What is happening in the occupied West Bank is a war on the very idea of a Palestinian state. It is a war of Judaisation and settlement expansion; a war on resistance, on the Palestinian Authority, on the land, and on the people.

But another goal might surpass them all in importance: it is a war on the outcome of the Gaza conflict.

Israel wants to create a different reality in the occupied West Bank - one that erases 7 October 2023 and the war that followed from the forefront of the Palestinian consciousness.

It is trying to forcibly displace the Palestinian population, an aim central to the Zionist doctrine of settler-colonial expansion. This goal has not yet been achieved in Gaza.

Israel is waging war on the same resistance that undermined the state’s security doctrine and awakened its existential fears, as a relatively small and modestly armed group of Hamas fighters were able to swiftly overwhelm Israel’s defences on 7 October.

Israel failed in its war on Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, it now wants to dismantle the deep bond between the Palestinian people and their land. This bond is what makes Palestinians cling to the rubble of their homes, even after a 15-month massacre.

The images of hundreds of thousands of people making their way back to northern Gaza - traversing their own path of suffering - are no less consequential than those of 7 October. They might be even more threatening to the Zionist settler-colonial ideology.

Embedded in history

Israel’s war on the occupied West Bank is a desperate attempt to erase the Palestinian presence in universities, in the streets, on public platforms, and across various forms of media.

It is an effort to reframe the Palestinian cause as an internal Israeli issue, thus downplaying the broader ramifications of its own presence as an occupying force.

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But the war on Gaza will remain embedded in history, shaping the course of the future. It will persist as a memory of genocide, as a symbol of legendary resilience, as proof of the failure of forced displacement plans, and as the struggle of a people fighting for liberation from occupation.

[I will keep trying to remind you that the Bible does not say, in either the Old or New Testament, that believers are in any way obliged to help a pseudo-state called Israel kill off an entire ethnicity and culture to make way for the Second Coming. This is part of the doctrine of the Satanic death cult called “Christian” Zionism. If you are confronted by someone representing this belief, ask them where in the Bible you can find that doctrine and watch them slink away]

The war has drawn a clear line between what came before and after 7 October. The outcome of the Gaza war has revived the dream and promise of Palestine, just as the Nakba in 1948 marked an irreversible turning point.

[The Nakba in 1948 is encapsulated in this documentary (but this crime is ongoing today)]

This is not to downplay the disastrous consequences of the war in human lives and massive territorial destruction - but steel is forged in fire. The Palestinian people have been hardened by this war of extermination.

Israel’s reading of 7 October was flawed. The shock of the attack by Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK and other countries, prevented the state from grasping the magnitude of what had happened [the labeling of Hamas as a “terrorist” group is a big lie. A resistance group is not a terrorist group. The group it fights is the terrorist. The main terrorists in the Middle East are the US and Israel. This was never fully recognized in the West until Israel started its genocide. But people are starting to wake up].

The Israeli response was fuelled by hatred, racism, an instinct for killing, and a predominant superiority complex. Through this lens, it waged war.

The same mindset led Israel to shift its war to the occupied West Bank, fleeing from the reality created by 7 October. But there is no escaping the truth: eventually, Israel will also have to abandon its war on the West Bank as it comes to terms with the limitations of its delusional dreams.

Israel is facing a people who might be weak, but are never defeated; a people who are gentle, yet fight tooth and nail when their dignity is at stake; a people who are forgiving, but will never pardon the killers of their children; a people who are culturally open, but determined to preserve their unique identity and heritage; and a people who are ready to coexist, but only on the basis of mutual respect, equality and rights.

The Israelis will eventually come to understand this. Until then, the war in the occupied West Bank will continue as a war on the outcome of the Gaza conflict. As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

Israel lost the war on the West Bank before it even began.

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.

Awni Almashni is a member of the consulting council for the Fatah movement and a columnist for Ma’an.

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Israeli Spy Network: The Force Behind The Surveillance State

By Chuck Baldwin
August 14, 2025

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The Mossad-Jeffrey Epstein 30-year blackmail network that entrapped large numbers of the superrich and powerful is still fresh in our minds and boiling in our hearts—at least in some of our hearts. Mike Johnson and other leaders in Congress are hoping that Congress’ August recess will be instrumental in helping the American people to forget the scandal. And given the American people’s short attention span, it might work.

One would think that the American people—Democrats and Republicans—would be outraged by this traitorous plot to bring the U.S. government into subservience to a foreign power, but, for the most part, they aren’t.

Democrats won’t protest, because Bill Clinton’s name is in the Epstein files; and Republicans won’t protest, because Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files. Our electorate has become so partisan that they put the wellbeing of their party above the wellbeing of their country.

With that said, I’m quite confident that most Americans—especially Christian evangelicals and MAGA conservatives—won’t be the least bit interested in what I will bring to light in this column, as they are consumed with Israel idolatry.

Regardless, this story must be shared. He that hath an ear, let him hear.

Israel’s demonic obsession with ruling the world and subjecting all nations to the will of “the chosen people” knows no bounds. Not only has Israel successfully bribed and blackmailed America’s political, financial and religious elite to do its bidding, it is also in the process of developing a global (at least in the Western world) surveillance state through which citizens themselves will be controlled.

I want to alert readers to an important investigative report by Independent Journalist Nate Bear:

Last week another batch of peaceful pro-Palestine protestors were arrested by British police on suspicion of terrorism offences, including a disabled man in a wheelchair, as the UK continues its descent into authoritarianism on behalf of Israel.

If any of these protestors had their phones on them at the time of arrest, the police will most likely have scraped them for data using sophisticated spy tech software. Protestors not arrested will have been caught on mobile cameras that sit atop police vans in the UK, and their faces, perhaps even their voices, will have been captured, analysed and cross referenced against a police database.

And in a perverse twist, this spyware technology - technology which now underpins the insidious and growing capabilities of the modern surveillance state - will most likely have been made in Israel by Israeli spies.

But it’s not just in the UK.

Spy tech developed by former Israeli spies is being used on an industrial scale by various agencies in western democracies, from police forces to national security agencies to militaries. Some has been declared illegal, some skirts legal boundaries, and much remains hidden.

The scale of usage, and the range of capabilities provided by this Israeli spy tech, is vast. From face and voice recognition software, to interception and wiretap technology, to covert location tracking, to forced data extraction from smartphones and other devices.

The tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code to enable and enforce Israeli domination over, and apartheid against Palestinians, is being sold to security services, police forces and immigration agencies across the west.

While much of the information in this article isn’t new, it hasn’t been summarised in one place before. The implications for global civil liberties of Israel’s dominance in spy tech have also not been articulated, and past media coverage has sometimes omitted the Israeli link to these companies. This article will outline the primary players, the sellers and the buyers, and also identify recent contracts, previously undocumented, between Israeli spytech and western buyers.

The first thing to say is that a few scandals involving Israeli spyware companies have been well documented by mainstream media, the most famous of which was the NSO Group affair. NSO, an Israeli firm founded by ex-Unit 8200 officers Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, was found guilty in a California court in 2019 of selling its Pegasus software to governments so they could hack WhatsApp accounts. Pegasus, which was able to execute what is known as a ‘zero-click’ attack to access a smartphone without the user knowing, was used by governments to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists and was likely used by Saudi agents to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was murdered. The company was eventually ordered to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, who bought the case, and in 2021 Biden blacklisted the company, preventing it doing business in the US. (The US state department, notably, went out of its way to say the US would take no action against Israel, despite the fact that the Israeli government provides export licenses for all spyware software).

Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not attract the same high-profile attention as the NSO Group. Candiru, also founded by ex-Unit 8200 intelligence personnel, sold spyware to governments to spy on human rights activists, journalists, academics, embassy workers, and dissidents.

In 2023, the Biden administration again blacklisted two Israeli spyware companies with little fanfare, and once again without taking action against Israel. The two companies, Cytrox and Intellexa, were founded by Tal Dilian, who spent 24 years in the IDF, rising to become chief commander of Unit 8200. In 2019, Dilian, who lives in Cyprus, was visited by a Forbes journalist, where he demonstrated how his software could remotely hack a phone within seconds.

In Europe, Cyprus and Barcelona have become hubs for ex-Unit 8200 Israelis building spyware companies.

Another Israeli spy firm, Paragon Solutions, was identified earlier this year as silently infiltrating and extracting data from WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger and Gmail without needing user interaction. A criminal complaint against Paragon was filed in Rome after an Italian journalist was hacked by the Italian government using Paragon software. No other legal action has been taken, however. The company, founded by Unit 8200 commanders Ehud Schneorson, Idan Nurick, Igor Bogudlov, and advised by former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, has not been blacklisted by the EU or the US and remains free to operate.

These companies are just the tip of the iceberg, the names that skirted legal grey areas and either eventually fell on the wrong side of the law (such as it is) and into the scope of the authorities, or whose illicit spying activities were discovered.

Even more insidious are the Israeli spyware companies openly contracting with western security services and agencies to spy on and crack mobile phones and other devices.

Because these companies work with lawful state agencies, they claim to have a different model than the NSO Group, Candiru and others focused on illicit hacking services. Yet in many cases their software is similar if not identical, and the full scope of their activities is unknown.

What this compendium demonstrates is that Israel and its apartheid economy sits at the centre of the drive towards a fully surveilled, zero-dissent world. Across the globe, Israeli spyware is ushering in a distinct 21st century fascism that fuses new technologies of control to a tried-and-tested framework that seeks to spy, suppress and dominate. Under the guise of citizen safety and crime fighting, Israeli tech is smoothing the gears of authoritarianism.

Israel's permanent war and apartheid economy, and the spy tech firms run by Israeli intelligence operatives that emerge from this economy, are the single biggest threat to civil liberties in the world today. And it’s no surprise that Israel has cornered this market. Israel churns out individuals and projects directed for dominance because Israelis are raised in and surrounded by a military culture of impunity. A culture where technology is created only to dominate, test subjects are abundant and rules of engagement non-existent.

In buying and relying on the tools of an apartheid state for security and law enforcement technology, we see how Israel’s apartheid and genocide itself becomes indispensable to western governments in their drive towards complete security states.

Our world is becoming more authoritarian and fascist because tools developed by authoritarians and fascists are being employed across the public and private sphere.

In an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, former CIA case officer Phil Giraldi also shed light on Israel’s surreptitious takeover of Big Tech in the U.S. for its own nefarious purposes, namely, the elimination of anyone who is not fanatically pro-Zionist:

Napolitano: Well, let's play this, Chris. This is a clip of a technical person from Dell Computer talking about AI used to assist in the slaughter in Gaza.

Video of Omar Zahzah (Professor at San Francisco State University and author): So, it's been long known that Dell is complicit in the occupation. The question of the AI-assisted targeting programs that the Israeli military uses, what we found through the documentation that we were able to obtain was that, in fact, Dell Technologies is also providing hardware that is used when running these AI programs. Now, your listeners may recall, these are programs such as the Gospel, which provides infrastructural targets, including private residences, and Lavender, which generates the kill lists of Palestinians, which have been critiqued for being so broad as to be essentially arbitrary in their applications and helping the military minimize any kind of human oversight and maximize destruction and lethality of the attacks. But so, again, what we found was that the actual hardware itself is an important element. And, fortunately, we were able to obtain that documentation and kind of continue to flesh out the image of just what tech complicity in military occupation and genocide looks like.

Giraldi: Well, I have known for years that the high-tech sector is heavily represented with affiliates in Israel. It has been that way for a long time. And these applications are particularly relevant to military operations. I'm sure the U.S. government encourages these relationships and has no problem with them. And I'm sure the companies are well compensated, and they have no problem with it. Why should anybody be surprised? This is normal. It's why the high-tech sector in the United States is loaded with former Israeli intelligence and military officers. [Emphasis added]

At this point, I’m going to sound like a broken record. So be it.

The principal reason why the Zionist state is allowed to get away with this unchecked debauchery and criminality is the acceptance of Christian Zionism by America’s evangelical pulpits and churches.

Obviously, there are also other factors in play, such as the power of the Israel lobby in Washington, D.C., the power of the military-industrial complex in Washington, D.C., and the power of the banks in New York City. But the power behind all of that, the thing that allows these miscreants in their various spheres of domination to succeed in their chicanery, is the religious institutions that provide cover for all of the above and inflict profound moral and spiritual blindness upon the people.

The oft-quoted French historian Alexis de Tocqueville is famous for writing, “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”

Human goodness comes from an awakened human conscience given to mankind at creation and an awakened pulpit, which gives society a spiritual conscience via the proclamation of spiritual truth.

The enthusiastic acceptance of Christian Zionism by America’s evangelicals—and other religions—has seared both our Natural conscience and our spiritual conscience. The result: unfettered access to the fiber and fabric of our society by the most vile and wicked demonic forces.

Without question, church pulpits are “the pillar and ground of the truth.” (I Timothy 3:15) When the pulpits lose truth, the nation loses truth.

Scofield Rapturism is a curse on America. Israel idolatry is a curse on America. Christian Zionism is a curse on America.

Fortunately, people outside the church are awakening to the diabolical evil of Zionism. The stones are crying out. (Luke 19:40) Furthermore, more and more people are more and more disgusted with the apathy and indifference to the barbarity and brutality of Zionism from inside the church.

I’ll say it again: Preachers who support Israel are driving millions of people away from Christ.

Even as we speak, the Zionist criminal cabal has succeeded in infiltrating, and in many ways controlling, America’s technocratic surveillance state with the ultimate goal of silencing (by any means necessary) voices of resistance against the Zionist state.

The time is here when the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny are intersecting at the point of a great struggle for the future of Liberty in our country. Sadly, churches are mostly on the side of the tyrants.

I’ll end this column with a bold speculation.

Donald Trump has announced that he is taking over responsibility and control of security for the summer Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles, California. Phil Giraldi is convinced that Trump is doing this as a precursor to his attempt to stay in office for a third term.

I agree with Giraldi, but I’ll take it a step further.

I would not be surprised at all if Trump’s takeover of the security apparatus for the 2028 Olympics would provide him with a golden opportunity to facilitate a false flag event resulting in the deaths of hundreds—or even thousands—of people, which Trump could use as justification for declaring a national emergency, implementing martial law and declaring himself a permanent president. That is exactly what Zelensky did in Ukraine.

And let me ask you, where is the opposition within evangelicalism and conservatism to Zelensky? They are full of toadies. Where is the opposition within evangelicalism and conservatism to Trump? They are full of toadies. Congress? Full of toadies. The Supreme Court? Full of toadies. The billionaire class? Full of toadies. Mainstream media? Full of toadies. Technocrats? Full of toadies.

If Giraldi’s or my speculations are anywhere remotely plausible, it means that we only have approximately 3 years to awaken enough of the citizenry to the evils of Zionism in such numbers to prevent the collapse of constitutional government and the rise of Zionist Fascism in the United States.

As Nate Bear’s meticulous research describes, Zionists are already fully engaged in setting up a total surveillance system by which every dissenter in America could be identified and targeted for incarceration or elimination, just as they are already doing—with great precision—in Gaza.

P.S. We have just released my latest Revelation Prophecy Message DVD. This is Prophecy Message Number Twenty-Five and is entitled The Second Coming Of Christ: The First Resurrection. This is my first message on the doctrine of Christ’s Second Coming.

Find the DVD here.

© Chuck Baldwin

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Translated from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://alkhanadeq.com/post/8253/وقفت-المدافع-لكن-الإبادة-لم-تتوقف-في-غزة

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 03:40 AM

The cannons have stopped, but the genocide in Gaza has not stopped.

Genocide in Gaza

Since the ceasefire was declared in Gaza and the ceasefire came into effect, the people of Gaza have rushed to return to the areas and homes from which the Israeli occupation army had displaced them, killing and destroying them. Many returned to find their homes reduced to rubble if they were lucky enough to be able to recognize their landmarks, or even the neighborhoods and streets where they were born and lived for generations.

The Israeli occupation army carried out one of the most heinous crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing in modern history, live on air and in full view of the world, with the blessing and participation of the United States and other Western regimes. The occupation army destroyed entire neighborhoods through bombing and demolition, reducing them to piles of stones and rubble stretching across the horizon. What wasn't destroyed was burned and vandalized, in a relentless effort to achieve ethnic cleansing. This cleansing and annihilation has extended to all aspects of life. The occupation army has put thirty-four hospitals out of service across the besieged Gaza Strip. The occupation army has deliberately bombed and destroyed thousands of water wells and tens of thousands of sewage and electricity lines, in accordance with a systematic policy that achieves "genocide" and confirms a premeditated intent to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people. However, these massacres, despite their horrific nature, did not break the will of the Gazan people who believed in the justice of their cause. Immediately after the first opportunity arose, represented by the withdrawal of the occupation army from the "Netzarim axis," as the resistance succeeded in achieving in the first-stage negotiations, people returned to the stricken neighborhoods. Tens of thousands of people poured out on foot, including men, women, children, the elderly, the sick, and the injured. They demonstrated their pride, defiance, and determination to remain steadfast in this land, rejecting displacement efforts in action, not words. However, their shock was compounded by the scale of the destruction, burning, and genocide suffered in northern Gaza, and the same applies to Rafah and other areas in the Strip. They were confronted by a dearth of resources and equipment, in addition to a water shortage and the absence of any effective role for relief work and shelter efforts from our brothers in blood, Arabism, and Islam. If any existed, they were limited and did not rise to the level of genocide. Their inner voice demanded, "Isn't it enough to let Gaza be pounded by aircraft and artillery for fifteen months, followed by this betrayal?" Unfortunately, no official or popular Arab delegation has entered the stricken Gaza Strip to closely examine the tragedy of Gaza and its people, to see and witness the scale of the crime and the genocide. Hearing is not the same as seeing. Furthermore, the heavy equipment and materials required to provide relief and shelter to the afflicted population have not entered.

Our people have rejected the displacement plans, clinging to their land. The people of Gaza, through limited individual and governmental initiatives, popular emergency committees, and the cooperation of municipalities and other activists, have succeeded in opening some roads and restoring some wells to service. Limited water trucks have been dispatched to the affected areas, and activists have participated in opening some camps. However, this is not enough and does not meet the great needs of a people emerging from genocide.

My message, and the message of all the people of Gaza, to our brothers in blood, Arabism, and Islam, and to the free people of the world, is that Gaza has paid the price it has to defend your freedom, defend the Night Journey of our noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and resist the last fascist occupation in the world. It is your right that you provide relief to its residents and rebuild its infrastructure. This is what every free, zealous person hopes and expects. Do not leave Gaza alone!

Writer: Izzat Jamal

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Air strike update for 8-16, 2025

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://ria.ru/20250816/pvo-2035777090.html

13:37 16.08.2025

Russian air defense shot down five aerial bombs and 169 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours

Russian Defense Ministry: Air defense shot down 5 guided aerial bombs and 169 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs in 24 hours

MOSCOW, August 16 - RIA Novosti. Russian air defense systems shot down five guided aerial bombs and 169 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

"Air defense systems shot down five guided aerial bombs, a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and 169 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The Russian military department added that operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged ammunition depots, military-technical property, storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 133 districts.