Ukraine authorities admit they’re helpless against Russian forces
After 2 years of lies from the Western and Ukrainian press, Ukraine’s foreign minister admits his army is helpless against the newly employed Russian bombs.
If foreign minister Kuleba had been honest, he’d have admitted long ago that there was NEVER a chance of winning.
There are numerous reasons why Ukraine never had a chance.
1—ammo shortage
2—Western inherent military industrial deficit
3—Russian hypersonic missiles
4—Thanks to hypersonic missiles, Kiev’s disappearing air defense systems
5—Recently, the FAB bombs newly added to the Russian arsenal
Ammo shortage
For one thing, during the famous “counter-offensive,” quite often, the Russians were firing 10 artillery rounds per 1 Ukrainian round. Back then, I explained why this is a devastating circumstance responsible for Ukraine’s inability to supply enough shells to Ukraine.
Western military industrial deficit
The reason for the West’s inability to supply sufficient arms and ammo to Ukraine lies in the fundamental differences between the Russian and Western economies.
If Russia needs x number of military widgets, the federal government issues an order. And if the order cannot be fulfilled with the existing factory capacity, it issues an order to build the capacity needed. ASAP. Problem solved.
But in the combined West, fulfilling orders in the case of a deficit of capacity requires the CEOs of the military industrial corporations to agree to build the requisite capacity. Now if the CEO can be assured of a constant demand, he will see fit to build the new capacity. But if the government cannot promise a future demand – after all, who knows when the war will be over? – then he or she will hesitate. This situation ensures a constant deficit of weapons in Ukraine for which there is no remedy.
It's the Achilles heel of the corporate capitalism enshrined in Western political ideology.
Russia’s hypersonic missiles
Further, there’s this little matter of the hypersonic missiles, which can take out any air defense for which the Russians can find coordinates.
This inevitably leads to the fact that Ukrainian air defenses, even the wonderful Patriots supplied by the West, are fast disappearing. Now Zelensky keeps shrieking that he needs more of these worthless pieces of junk. But the West isn’t sending him any more because it knows they are now worthless pieces of junk. You see, everyone except Zelensky knows that NO air defenses anywhere are capable of intercepting a hypersonic weapon.
In fact, Kiev’s lying press keeps lying that Ukrainian air defenses are shooting down Kinzhals right and left, but every arms expert in the world knows this is a lie.
The newly added FAB bombs
The innovative FAB monster bombs with guiding and correction modules attached thereto, are monster bombs that come with explosive charges of traditionally 500, 1000 and 1500 kg, but also recently, the newly added 3000 kg, can blow through underground bunkers and deal death to the residents thereof. They can be released at a distance of 40 km from the target, leaving the pilot and aircraft at a safe distance from enemy air defenses. I would venture to guess that if Russia had started using these FABs early in the war, we would all be sitting at the bargaining table or divvying up the former Ukrainian territory by now.
This terrifying innovation and the panic it triggered in the Kiev regime is the subject of the next report below.
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https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2024/04/07/kuleba-sdelal-shokiruyushchee-priznanie-o-vks-rossii
Apr 7, 2024
Kuleba made a shocking confession about the Russian Aerospace Forces
Apr 7, 2024
Russian aerial bombs regularly destroy the positions of the Ukrainian military, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba admitted in an interview with the Financial Times.
“[UAF units] are being hit massively and, I would even say, regularly with guided bombs, which destroy our positions,” Kuleba stated, as reported by RIA Novosti.
The minister confirmed that it is impossible to hide from these bombs and the only way to resist is to shoot down a Russian bomber, which is very difficult. [Not “very difficult,” Mr. Minister. IMPOSSIBLE]
The Aerospace Forces are actively using aerial bombs in the Northern Military District zone, which have begun to be equipped with universal guide and correction modules. This modernization allowed combat aircraft to strike at fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces without exposing themselves to fire from enemy air defense systems.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for April 7, 2024
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STRIKES ON ODESSA ON APRIL 7: WHAT THE MISSILES TARGETED, WHERE THE EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED, NEWS
Last night, the port infrastructure of Odessa was struck by an Iskander-M [hypersonic] missile system. Local authorities report that after the strike, a fire broke out and two buildings were damaged. Report on the current situation in Odessa.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down 17 Shaheds [Russian drones. The Russians usually report these as Gerans, but when the reports originate in Ukraine, careless Russian journalists copy-paste the reports without editing] at night in the Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Poltava oblasts, the Ukrainian Air Forces reported.
There was also an Iskander strike from Crimea and an X-31 missile from the Lugansk oblast - they were not shot down.
In the Dnepropetrovsk oblast, due to the falling debris of the Shahed, several buildings and cars were damaged in the Kamensky district. In the Petrikovskaya community, debris from a Russian missile damaged two houses, cars and a power line. [This is possibly Ukrainian disinformation. Whenever a Ukrainian air defense missile falls on civilian infrastructure, the Ukrainians falsely state that a Russian missile caused the damage]
In Kharkov, a private house was damaged by a drone strike and a man was injured [again, disinformation?]. Drones also hit the Lozovsky and Kharkov districts (the Ukrainian authorities did not specify the consequences).
In Odessa, after the explosions, a fire started and a column of smoke is visible, local publics write.
They posted a video with the sound of an explosion. Presumably, there was a ballistic missile strike.
Southern defense forces said the Russians fired a missile, believed to be an Iskander-M, at Odessa late in the evening. As a result of the impact, a fire broke out and administrative and technical buildings were destroyed. An employee of one of the enterprises was injured - she suffered from acubarotrauma.
What do social networks write?
The Russian Armed Forces attack the infrastructure of Odessa and Kharkov.
Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on Odessa. Judging by the footage of local public pages and incoming information from open sources, the strikes were carried out precisely on pre-selected targets, notes Semyon Pegov’s TG channel.
The strike on the Odessa cement plant, which was used as a storage facility for weapons, was reported. The oil harbor was also disabled, which, judging by the scale of the glow on the coastline, was actively used for fuel processing.
Traditionally, geran attacks were carried out at night on Kharkov targets, and explosions were also heard in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast.
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Russian army attacks Ukrainian military rear areas
The Russian army today again struck Ukrainian military rear areas and facilities related to the defense industry. Explosions occurred in Kharkov, where, as you know, there are many defense industry enterprises where equipment is produced and repaired.
Eyewitnesses talk about strikes in the Industrial District, where the main industrial zone is. And local authorities confirmed a powerful fire that broke out at one of the enterprises.
In addition, it is reported that a fuel storage facility was destroyed, as well as hangars near the airport. Earlier there was information about the defeat of another foreign air defense system.
The Russian army is carrying out precision strikes on targets associated with the Ukrainian army in response to attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack our energy sector.
News from the Ministry of Defense: operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery destroyed a warehouse with NATO naval drones [This kind of drones destroyed Russian naval vessels], two launchers of the S-300 anti-aircraft complex, and also damaged manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 107 regions.
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https://ria.ru/20240407/pvo-1938381463.html?ysclid=lupu1it4b4336368008
Air defense shot down 293 Ukrainian drones and four MLRS shells in one day
Defense Ministry: air defense shot down 293 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones and 4 HIMARS and Uragan MLRS shells per day
MOSCOW, April 7 – RIA Novosti. Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems shot down 293 Ukrainian drones and 4 MLRS shells, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Sunday. [I could be wrong but I don’t think Russia has ever shot down this many incoming targets before. The contrast with the Ukrainian forces couldn’t be more stark. Their air defenses are critically deficient. Most have been destroyed by Russian air strikes. Just one of numerous reasons Ukraine seems incapable of defeating Russia or even bringing any offerings to the bargaining table]
“During the day, air defense systems shot down 293 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and four rockets from the HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems,” the statement says.**
https://israelpalestinenews.org/six-months-on-gaza-is-a-betrayal-of-humanity-day-182/
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-shoots-first-asks-questions-later-day-183/
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG APRIL 7, 2024 AL-AQSA MOSQUE, BIDEN, BLINKEN, EREZ CROSSING, FAMINE, GENOCIDE, HUMANITARIAN AID, ISRAEL, LEON PANETTA, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER, WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
Israel shoots first, asks questions later – Day 183
Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza has displaced the majority of the population and caused untold suffering (photo)
Massacre of World Central Kitchen staff continues to haunt Israel; no noticeable improvement in entry of aid; trash is a serious problem in Gaza; 6-month reports on situation in Gaza; Israel drops tear gas on worshipers in Al Aqsa Mosque; Palestinian journalists call for boycott of White House Correspondents Dinner; Congress members pressure Biden, Blinken; Biden approval rating tanks over Israel, more
By IAK staff, from reports
EX-CIA CHIEF TALKS ISRAELI ENGAGEMENT VIOLATIONS
During an interview with Jim Sciutto on CNN, Leon Panetta, former US defense secretary and CIA chief said it is “not surprising” that Israel admitted that there are “serious violations” after an Israeli airstrike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, earlier this week.
“You have to be able to verify, to take time to make sure that the information you’re getting is accurate with regards to targets. And I have to tell you that in the past, at least in my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions.”
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Our thanks to CA
I don't consider myself a person of deep moral conviction, but I long ago made a personal choice to live by a code of honor, to strive to exhibit those character traits I find admirable in others. Also long ago, I abandoned a belief in an all-encompassing moral order in the universe — the moral order that is posited by most religions, the promise of those sublime rewards you'll receive when you die, if you've done what you are supposed to, and the judgment that awaits you if you don't.
Let's face it, the good aren't always rewarded; and the sinful don't always suffer for their sins. You may believe that a judgement will happen after death, but that is unprovable, and it is not something I'd try to convince others of. If there were a moral order to the universe, if there is a god (or goddess) of justice who rewards the righteous, and punishes the wicked, I think we'd witness a whole lot more of that.
All evidence points to another conclusion.
And the only reward for righteousness is in this world and in this life.
Morality is always individual. Morality is possessing the courage and the will, to make moral decisions on one's own, individually. It is standing on one's own two feet; and sometimes that requires sacrifice.
Morality isn't about following a set of rules or strictures; moral courage is possessing the ability to choose the right course of action, by oneself, without any outside pressure or influence.
Look for all the signs you want; I have discovered no signs either of a loving god or of a higher moral order. The only signs of decency in this world comes, not from any of the gods, or their churches or their clergy, but from ordinary people who possess no more than what I consider a "normal" amount of moral courage.
That's my take on it .. and I'm not trying to convince anyone else of something I don't even know for sure. I'm just saying, this is what I have come to believe. And it is this: There is no moral order in the universe.
Me:
We will always be able to question the existence of a moral order in the universe. However, as CA says, it is clear that humans have an inborn moral compass. It is only through religions and ideologies, often born by politicians, that this compass is disrupted. This has been born out vividly by the Israeli genocide after Oct 7, which was supported by so-called “Christians” and opposed by Muslims and the non-religious.
Recently, FRC president Tony Perkins travelled to Israel to show support for the genocidal murderer Netanyahu.
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Award winning film maker Regis Tremblay interviews Hendrick Weber and Blaz Kavcic about the Crocus City Hall massacre, which is still a mystery story:
Hendrik Weber, Blaz Kavcic discuss the ongoing investigation into the Crocus City Massacre; 100K Russians enlist as contract soldiers since January, and 16K alone after Crocus City; US and Allies beginning to accept the worst in Ukraine.
Regis
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Was Zarqawi a US project?
https://thecradle.co/articles/abu-musab-al-zarqawi-notorious-terrorist-or-american-agent
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Our thanks to CL for this article tip:
New President of Senegal: It’s time for France to get out
Big Picture Time from Pepe Escobar.
If the Rothschilds &Co. and deep state US military were still functional, would ANY of this be happening?
The Sahel’s ‘Axis of Resistance’
By Pepe Escobar
The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path.
Pepe Escobar
The emergence of Axes of Resistance in various geographies is an inextricable byproduct of the long and winding process leading us toward a multipolar world. These two things – resistance to the Hegemon and the emergence of multipolarity – are absolutely complementary.
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Erdogan lost the local vote. The people rejected him for the following policies of his administration:
high inflation, the high cost of housing in large cities (buying up real estate by foreigners creates problems for Turkish citizens), the presence of Syrian refugees that are alien to the indigenous population, and a departure from the principles of a secular state towards Islamism.
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The decline of the Erdogan era: what awaits Russian-Turkish relations?
April 2, 2024
On March 31, municipal elections were held in Turkey. Formally, their results, disappointing for the ruling Justice and Development Party, relate to domestic politics. However, these elections are partly related to Turkey’s foreign policy activities until 2028.
If we talk directly about the municipal elections themselves, they ended in the defeat of the Justice and Development Party [Erdogan’s party], which received 32.4% of the votes. The country's main opposition force, the Republican People's Party, became the winner, receiving 34.5% of the vote. What is especially important is that the Republican People's Party won the mayoral elections in Ankara and Istanbul. In the capital, the incumbent opposition mayor Mansur Yavaş received 60.4% of the vote, while the ruling party candidate Turgut Altinok received only 31.7%. In Istanbul, incumbent mayor Ekrem Imamoglu also won a landslide victory, receiving 51.1% of the vote, while Erdogan's party candidate Murat Kurum received 39.6% of the vote.
The last elections were the last for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One could even say that the 2024 municipal elections marked the beginning of the decline of the era of Erdogan, who will no longer take part in the presidential elections in 2028. And this is associated with many risks for Russian-Turkish relations.
The Turkish voter voted for the Republican People's Party due to dissatisfaction with domestic policies - high inflation, the high cost of housing in large cities (buying up real estate by foreigners creates problems for Turkish citizens), the presence of Syrian refugees that are alien to the indigenous population, and a departure from the principles of a secular state towards Islamism . Given such serious social problems and divisions in society, Turkey has no time to realize global imperial ambitions.
Even before the municipal elections, it was clear that in the coming years Turkey would not take drastic actions in the western direction. Immediately after last year's presidential and parliamentary elections, Erdogan formed a government exclusively of pro-Western cadres. Then official Ankara demonstratively released the Ukrainian Nazis, who were supposed to be on Turkish territory (see Natural ending: the collapse of Turkey’s “mediation” and the new reality for Moscow). In his address in connection with the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, Erdogan did not make any accusations against Greece (see Turkey preferred European integration and assistance to Ukraine to the war with Greece), but the Turkish President made an anti-Russian speech at the Crimean Platform summit (see Peacemaker "Erdogan, the struggle for Crimea and the intransigence of Ukraine), and his son-in-law Selcuk Bayraktar, whom the Wall Street Journal will read as his successor in March 2024, visited the largest US aircraft carrier at the end of August 2023 (see Why Erdogan's son-in-law ended up on board the largest US aircraft carrier ?). It is also significant that on November 23, 2023, Turkey and the UK signed a defense agreement, which also included support for Ukraine (see Turkey and the UK are rushing to save Ukraine from military defeat), and in early December, with the support of London and Washington, the normalization of the Greek -Turkish relations (see the USA and Great Britain set a “Greek trap” for Armenia).
The elections on March 31, 2024 will only cement Turkey's warming relations with the West. The same Republican People's Party criticized Erdogan for being too close to Russia, and last year, before the presidential elections, opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu even accused Russia of trying to interfere in the Turkish elections (see Why Erdogan's rival is dangerous for Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan ?). At the same time, the opposition can interpret its success as a victory over the adventurous foreign policy of Erdogan, who in previous years managed to ruin relations with NATO allies and ruin the economy.
The Turkish president himself is in many ways returning to the practice of the early 2000s, when Erdogan and his party were very pro-American even by Turkish standards. Even before the elections on March 4, the upcoming visit to the United States of the head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization, Ibrahim Kalin was reported. The Turkish intelligence chief was going to meet with CIA chief William Burns, visit the White House and the State Department, and also discuss many other topics in addition to bilateral relations, namely: the fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Islamic State** and the Fethullah Gulen movement, the situation in Iraq , Syria and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and problems in the Caucasus.
And literally two days before the municipal elections, on March 29, in Ankara, Defense Minister Yashar Guler received the American delegation led by the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers. The meeting allegedly discussed Turkey's acquisition of F-16 fighter jets and the problem of Kurdish groups. On the same day, American visitors visited the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. According to the head of the relevant committee, Hulusi Akar (former Minister of Defense), in addition to Syria, Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the parties discussed relations in the Mediterranean, Greece and Armenian-Azerbaijani reconciliation.
With all its desire in the current situation, Turkey could not help but normalize relations with the United States, which at the end of February this year imposed sanctions against 16 Turkish companies for helping to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions. Given hyperinflation and sanctions against individual companies, worsening relations with the United States would mean the collapse of the Turkish economy. Turkish banks also began to make a geo-economic choice, refusing to cooperate with Russia under fear of secondary US sanctions. It also does not seem strange that, according to Hürriyet newspaper columnist Hande Fırat on March 19, Washington and Ankara agreed on a regime for complying with anti-Russian sanctions. According to the agreement, the United States will first inform official Ankara about Turkish companies that do not comply with sanctions and demand information about their activities. In certain cases, measures will be taken against companies, but only after receiving information from Ankara.
Smartest thing in Ukraine would be to immediately head into negotiations and be willing to cede Donbas and Crimea. It is absurd that NATO doesn't support this. Even if they believe Putin is interested in further fighting, it would give them time to rearm. The western alliance appears to be led by demented dimwits.
The situation described re: Turkey is an object lesson in how the invisible hand of the CIA operates against countries that do not submit to the Anglo-American Rules Based Order: Divide and conquer via factions.