Russia

Will the U.S. Lead or Continue to ‘Lose Ground’?

The world is seeing Vladimir Putin’s clear plan to reestablish the Russian Empire. It also is hearing rumblings from Asia about restoration of a Chinese dynasty, and in the Middle East, a return to when Persia — now an extremely different Iran — dominated the region.

For any of these empires to expand, they need to take control of other states or groups of people. Those states can either be overrun and annexed, or they can be controlled and remain smaller, more manageable political units. Today, Russia in Ukraine is the focus, but the aspirations of China and Iran must not be ignored.

Russia, China and Iran are all totalitarian regimes with authoritarian leaders. Russia by its actions in Syria and Ukraine, as well as Iran for its actions in the Middle East, easily can be identified as terrorist states. China — with its genocide against the Uyghurs, its illegal seizure of Hong Kong, and its continuing threats against Taiwan — should also be designated that way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, Russia, USA

Renewable Energy Is an Abundant Source of Self-Deception

Perhaps the Real Collusion is with Leftist Environmental Groups and Russia

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made a startling statement in the summer of 2014: “I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organizations—environmental organizations working against shale gas—to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam, Russia

Emails from Ukraine

Emails from Ukraine

I probably won’t post any more missives from my Ukrainian second-cousin-twice removed or whatever, but I did think this was worth a quick read. Bits are redacted. (We’re trying to get her into Canada actually, but her husband may be conscripted at any time.)

Thank you very much for your support.  I’ve just noticed your letter in my mailbox.
In main , we are doing fine.  I know that you phone to my mother regularly.  So you know how are they doing. As russian troops go back from Kyiv region to Belarus,  it’s comparatively quiet in Baryshivka region. But people say that russians left explosives and mines in every village or town they stayed in,  so it’s still dangerous to come back there.
Probably you’ve already seen all those horrible photos of Bucha after russians ran out of it. They even had mobile crematorium to burn out bodies of civil people to hide their’s crimes. I have no words to describe my desperate…
My former colleague and her daughter were hostages for 5 days near Kyiv . They were forced to seat in a very small basement of their private house.  Russians  came into a little village with tanks and other military armor. They took all the money women had and told them to stay in the basement.  Here in Ukraine our basements are not the same as your’s in Canada.  It’s a really cold place under the ground. People use to keep there potatoes,  carrots and other vegetables  from their gardens during whole winter. There is no water or heat or toilet down there. Usually there are no windows also. So poor women lived in such awful conditions while russians stayed in their house. Russians dug a big whole in the backyard and parked tank there to hide it from Ukrainian solgers. All days long the tank was shooting above the heads of women. I can imagine the terrible roar. After couple of days russians brought 5 people from the neighbor housies and put them into the basement of my colleague. They were women and elderly people with health problems. Russians took away all the phones so poor women couldn’t call for help or to get any information about the situation in their region. My colleague told that russians were drunk  and aggressive almost all the time. On one  of that moments of aggression one of the senior officers came down to the basement and decided to scare his hostages even more – he interrogated them very roughly and in the end he shot 2 people just in the eyes of poor women…. and left bodies in the basement so everyone left alive have to live near the dead bodies… I talked with my colleague by the phone after she was saved from this  hell. She said that she think she is out of her mind and she can not be normal adequate person after this. She is over 70 and her daughter is over 40. And the most unbelievable thing is that they were saved just thanks to one of the russians private. He came to them and said that he didn’t want to come to this war and wanted to help them. On that day there was green corridor arranged in the region and the russian private let people escape from the basement.  Now women are in Lviv on the western Ukraine.
This history is one of the hundreds , thousands. And I really don’t know if I can ever hear or read all of them because any normal psyche can not hold this horror out.
Me and my sister decided to stay wherever we are till the situation is pretty good in our regions.  For now the region is quiet but almost every day and night we here air raid sirens. Only this sounds can drive one crazy,  I assure you. But we’re still hoping, we’re still working and still waiting for peace.
Hugging you….

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by Black Mamba••0•Posted inRussia, Ukraine

Russia and Iran: The New Axis of Evil

Why Is the US Bankrolling Them?

Thanks to the Biden administration’s ill-judged obsession with reviving the flawed nuclear deal with Iran, the world can soon look forward to the creation of a new “axis of evil” between Russia and Iran.

In recent months, as negotiations over reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal’s official title, have continued in Vienna, Western negotiators have expressed concern about the negative support Iran is receiving from Russia in the talks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Russia

Corporate America’s Hypocrisy

 

There’s something heartening about the way corporate America has rushed to cut ties with its operations in Russia. But the quick, sweeping moves offer a strange contrast to the way corporate America has rarely if ever uttered a critical word about the government of China despite its ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs, its human-rights abuses, its oppression of Hong Kong, its threats toward Taiwan, etc.

In fact, corporate America might be getting tough on the Russian government in hopes that people forget how much it has groveled to Beijing and obeyed the wishes of the equally autocratic, equally aggressive and abusive Chinese government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors", Russia

Russia Is Screwed

“… Douglas London, a former CIA operations officer, writes in the Wall Street Journal that the outlook for recruiting Russians spies has rarely looked better: “Some of the CIA’s best agents have been volunteers who finally are pushed over the edge by a life-altering event and offer their services to an intelligence service. Tolkachev, Polyakov and Kuklinski were volunteers. Thanks to Mr. Putin’s deplorable behavior, I expect an increase in Russian volunteers who have toyed with the idea of doing something to better Russia’s future and might now be receptive to an encouraging nudge.” The FBI is sending Russian-language recruitment ads to cellphones in and around the Russian embassy that read: “If you have information that could help the FBI, please contact us.”

But it is in the long term — say, a generation from now — that Russia is screwed . . . really, really screwed.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

China Claims It Will Try to Fill Wheat Shortage Caused by Ukraine-Russia War

China’s Agriculture and Finance Ministries issued a joint notice on Friday urging farmers to maximize China’s spring plowing season of wheat and soybeans from early April in an effort to alleviate an expected global food supply shortage caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inChina, Food shortage, Russia, Ukraine, War

Ukraine Changes the Face of War Forever

Every fried Russian tank and dead soldier drives home the point that superpowers can no longer dominate simply because they have more troops and weapons.

Shocking Lessons U.S. Military Leaders Learned by Watching Putin’s Invasion

“I believe that at the heart of Russian military thinking is how Marshall Zhukov marched across Eastern Europe to Berlin,” a former high-level CIA official told Newsweek in an interview. Zhukov’s orders were to “line up the artillery and … flatten everything ahead of you,” he says. “‘Then send in the peasant Army to kill or rape anyone left alive.’ Subtle the Russians are not.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inRussia, technology, Ukraine, War

Geoff Russ: Putin and Xi were always the real threat to democracy, not Trump-style populists

For the last two decades, we in the democratic world have sought to identify mad-dog, would-be dictators in the form of frothing demagogues. This methodology is doubtlessly informed by the memory of men like Adolf Hitler and Idi Amin, both rabble-rousing populists who shouted their way to the top, and committed sickening acts of butchery once there. It is very likely why every populist of the 2010s like Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, and even Boris Johnson were condemned as dictatorial or fascistic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

The Russia/Bermuda Dark Money Subterfuge

If there is one thing you can say about the Russians it is that they stick to their proven playbook no matter what carnage they inflict on the innocents or how greatly they deceive the gullible.

During the height of the Cold War, they sought to stop America’s introduction of sophisticated weapons that would have blunted any planned invasion of Western Europe by the Red Army by infiltrating the “peace movement” with money and resources.

So it should come as no surprise that members of Congress continue to express deep concern that Putin’s Russia may be preventing the West’s energy independence by promoting through third parties, who may be unwilling dupes or active co-conspirators, “green” alternatives that are either impractical, aspirational, or an outright fiction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Russia, USA

Dog Whistles

Russian Elites Planning To Poison Putin/ Replace Him

According to Ukraine’s Chief Directorate of Intelligence at the war-torn country’s Ministry of Defence, a ‘group of influential’ individuals in Russia have begun plotting to remove the dictator from office.

Russia Warns Of False Flag Assassination At NATO Summit

Joe Biden has become a liability for the global deep state, which is why they may try to have him assassinated as a way of accelerating a world war against Russia.

h/t Mom

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Assassination, Fake News, False Flag, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War