Shell says in talks to sell Russian retail business
LONDON (Reuters) – Shell said on Friday it is in talks to sell its network of petrol stations and lubricant plant in Russia as the British company forges ahead with its plans to exit the country following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
LONDON (Reuters) – Shell said on Friday it is in talks to sell its network of petrol stations and lubricant plant in Russia as the British company forges ahead with its plans to exit the country following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ahead of the possible sale, Shell has suspended operations at its filling stations and the Torzhok lubricant plant, Sergey Starodubtsev, the company’s head in Russia said in a statement.
He also confirmed that negotiations were underway.
It was unclear who the potential buyer was but sources told Reuters it would most likely be a local company.
Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said on Thursday that Shell was in talks to sell its Russian retail business.
Shell wrote down $3.9 billion post-tax as a result of its decision to exit operations in Russia, which include a stake in a large liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.
Read More Shell says in talks to sell Russian retail business (msn.com)
May 6th 2022
Putin humiliated as Ukraine claims 409ft frigate ‘sunk by missile’ – ‘most important ship’
The Admiral Makarov is said to have been struck by anti-ship missiles while it was in waters off the coast of Odessa. Rescue ships and aircraft have reportedly been sent to the area and are being tracked by US surveillance drones. “OSINTdefender”, an open source intelligence monitor, tweeted: “It’s seeming more and more likely that the claims about the Russian Frigate Admiral Makarov being stuck by Ukrainian Anti-Ship Missiles off the Coast of Odessa are true.
Read More Russian warship Admiral Makarov ‘on fire after being hit by Ukrainian missile’ (msn.com)
May 5th 2022
We owe Finland and Sweden protection – Nato cannot turn its back
Rupert Hawksley
Russian generals seem to have developed an unfortunate habit of dying. Ukraine’s military claims to have assassinated 12 commanders of this rank since the country’s invasion by Vladimir Putin’s army, along with at least 15 senior colonels.
The fog of war, the Russian military’s natural unwillingness to confirm personnel details and Putin’s own habit of extinguishing subordinates who displease him make it hard to be sure exactly how many of these deaths we should credit to Ukraine’s hit squads, but what is clear is that it’s now almost as dangerous to be a Russian general in the Ukraine as it is to be a Kremlin dissident in the vicinity of an open Moscow balcony.
For weeks, international eyebrows have been raised at the success of Ukraine’s decapitation strategy. This week came confirmation of what most of us had long suspected: The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the United States has provided intelligence to Ukraine on the location of Russian commanders, in order to facilitate Ukrainian military strikes against them.
Read More We owe Finland and Sweden protection – Nato cannot turn its back (msn.com)
Putin ‘bracing for coup’ as army officials and FSB ‘look to oust Russian leader’
Alahna Kindred & Hannah Mackenzie Wood
Putin is preparing for an attempted coup as discouraged military leaders and the Federal Security Service (FSB) look to remove him power, reports claim.s preparing for an attempted coup as discouraged military leaders and the Federal Security Service (FSB) look to remove him power, reports claims preparing for an attempted coup as discouraged military leaders and the Federal Security Service (FSB) look to remove him power, reports claim.
Read More Putin ‘bracing for coup’ as army officials and FSB ‘look to oust Russian leader’ (msn.com)
US intelligence is helping Ukrainian forces kill Russian generals, report says
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Ukrainian forces have reportedly been able to target and kill a number of Russian military generals with the help of US intelligence since war broke out.
An exploded apartment building in east Ukraine- AP
On Wednesday, sources within the Pentagon said detailed information about Russian movements on the battlefield in Ukraine was allowing Kyiv to target and kill Russian military generals.
A senior Pentagon spokesperson, John Kirby, told The New York Times the US was providing “Ukraine with information and intelligence that they can use to defend themselves”, in apparent acknowledgement of the information provided, which he did “speak to the details of”.
Read More US intelligence is helping Ukrainian forces kill Russian generals, report says (msn.com)
Exclusive-WHO members to consider shutting Europe hub office in Russia over Ukraine – document
By Emma Farge and Francesco Guarascio
GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – World Health Organization states will consider a resolution against Russia next week after its invasion of Ukraine, including the possible closure of a major regional office in Moscow, a document obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday.
The resolution, to be considered on Tuesday, stopped short of harsher sanctions such as suspending Russia from the U.N. global health agency’s board as well as a temporary freeze of its voting rights, three diplomatic and political sources said.
The draft, prepared largely by EU diplomats and submitted to the WHO’s regional office for Europe this week, follows a request by Ukraine, signed by at least 38 other members including Turkey, France and Germany.
The move is seen as a political step that would further Western efforts to isolate Moscow, rather than having any significant health consequences for Russia or global health policy, which diplomats said they were at pains to avoid.
The text refers to a health emergency in Ukraine and is set to condemn Russia’s military actions which it said had resulted in mass casualties, disruptions to health services, increased risks of death from chronic diseases, increased risks of infectious diseases and of radiological and chemical events in Ukraine, the region and beyond.
Russia says Western intelligence to Ukraine won’t thwart its goals
(Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that the United States, Britain and other NATO countries were “constantly” feeding intelligence to Ukraine but this would not stop Russia from achieving its military objectives there.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a New York Times report that the United States had provided intelligence that helped Ukrainian forces kill a dozen Russian generals.
“Our military is well aware that the United States, Britain and NATO as a whole are constantly transmitting intelligence and other parameters to the Ukrainian armed forces,” he told reporters.
He said this, and the supply of Western weapons, “do not contribute to the quick completion of the (Russian) operation, but at the same time are not capable of hindering the achievement of the goals set”.
Read More Russia says Western intelligence to Ukraine won’t thwart its goals (msn.com)
May 3rd 2022
Europe prepares fresh Russia sanctions as US warns Moscow plans to annex parts of east Ukraine
Jon Henley with agencies
The European Union was preparing sanctions on Russian oil sales over its invasion of Ukraine after a major shift by Germany, Russia’s biggest energy customer, that could deprive Moscow of a large revenue stream within days.
Comment Why can nobody see the incredible Anglo U.S elite hypocrisy considering their generations of crimes across the world Why is annexing the Donbas such a big deal, after years of western backed ethnic genocide in the Donbas. Miss Roberta Jane Cook
How will Russia’s war with Ukraine end? Here are 5 possible outcomes
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- Less than two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the country’s people and armed forces have mounted a staunch resistance against Russia’s forces.
- Russia is seen as having made less progress than it expected.
- Still, analysts say Russia is likely to “win” in Ukraine, and have drawn out various scenarios for what comes next.
- As many as 1.5 million people have fled to neighboring countries in Europe for safety.
Civilians and soldiers with assault rifles during training on March 5, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine.Europa Press | Getty Images
Less than two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the country’s people and armed forces continue to mount a staunch — and undeniably brave — resistance against Russian forces.
But for all of Ukraine’s heart and courage in facing down multiple, sustained attacks from Russia’s military in the north, east and south of the country, many analysts and strategists believe it is only a matter of time before Ukraine is overwhelmed by Moscow’s military might.WATCH NOWVIDEO03:01Putin is isolated from other points of view: CIA director
What comes next for Ukraine could be bleak…..
Read More How will Russia’s war with Ukraine end? Here are 5 possible outcomes (cnbc.com)
Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow plans to annex Donetsk and Luhansk, US says; European Union preparing sanctions on Russia oil
US reports indicate Russia will try to annex the Donetsk and Luhansk regions with ‘sham’ elections; Russia’s demands for fuel payments to be made in roubles would breach EU sanctions, the bloc’s energy policy chief says.
Readers’ Letters: Ukraine can’t win, so it’s time for realpolitik
Scotsman Letters
Appeasement has been a dirty word since 1938, but if we are to avert World War III, the time has come for realpolitik. It is difficult to ask Ukraine to make concessions after witnessing scenes of genocide, but the reality is that Ukraine cannot win the war against superior Russian forces.
It is evident that President Putin has badly miscalculated not least because 21st century drones can destroy 20th century tanks, but how will he react to the huge unexpected losses? While the tabloids, irresponsibly, speculate Putin will declare the Third World War on 9 May, experts do think Russia will fully mobilise and extend conscription. He boasts that Russia has got the sarmat nuclear weapon with multiple warheads and claims they have developed frightening hypersonic weapons. Certainly Russia does have thermobaric bunker-busting weapons like the ones the USA used in Afghanistan.
Read More Readers’ Letters: Ukraine can’t win, so it’s time for realpolitik (msn.com)
Comment Anglo U.S Exceptionalism is the ongoing joke in this war story. The world needs constant reminders of what the Anglo U.S Wasps, who dominate Europe , have done to war crime whistle-blowers Assange and Manning. This is a war for the rich at the expense of the gullible and easily divided to rule masses. Miss Roberta Jane Cook.
May 1st 2022
Russian state TV simulates deadly nuclear strike on Europe amid UK WW3 warning
Kieren Williams & Peter Diamond
Russian state broadcasters have simulated a terrifying nuclear strike on Europe, declaring there would be “no survivors” in a TV rant in response to UK support for Ukraine.
Putin’s propaganda TV show hosts imagined a scenario of nuclear strikes on three European capitals, claiming the nukes would hit Paris, Berlin, and London in around 200 seconds.
With tensions continuing to grow amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, there’s growing concern that the rest of the world may be dragged into the conflict.
Replying to comments made by the UK’s Armed Forces Minister in support of Ukrainian attacks on Russia, presenters on Channel One’s 60 Minutes programme claimed the nukes could strike European capitals less than four minutes after being launched.
Read More Russian state TV simulates deadly nuclear strike on Europe amid UK WW3 warning (msn.com)
April 30th 2022
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Ukraine says Russian strike knocks out Odesa airport
By Hamuda Hassan, Jorge Silva and Natalia Zinets
DOBROPILLIA, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile strike at the airport in the southwestern port of Odesa – a city that has so far been relatively unscathed in the war – has damaged the runway and it can no longer be used, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday.
Russia has sporadically targetted Odesa, a Black Sea port, and a week ago, Ukraine said at least eight people were killed in a strike on the city.
“As a result of a missile attack in the Odesa region, the runway at Odesa airport was damaged. Its further use is impossible,” the Ukrainian military said.
There was no immediate word on the strike from the Russian military.
Read More Ukraine says Russian strike knocks out Odesa airport (msn.com)
Comment War is war. It is fatuous to bemoan the fate of Odessa. But for this being a proxy war deliberately provoked , sustained and prolonged by massive supplies and raneg of weapons and ordnance, has turned this into World War Three , Undoubtedly this could go nuclear as NATO makes a conventional Russian approach increasingly likely.
Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Putin faces army mutiny as Russian soldiers turn guns on Chechens – morale in tatters
John Varga
Furthermore, Russian officers are alleged to have gone on strike and are refusing to carry out orders in protest at their conditions and the war. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is a close ally of the Russian despot and has been a strong supporter of Putin’s war in Ukraine. He has sent his militias, known as the “Kadyrovtsy”, to help bolster Russian forces in their invasion.
The Kadyrovites have a fearsome reputation and, in the past, have faced repeated allegations of abusing human rights.
Part of their role is to prevent Russian soldiers from fleeing battle by threatening to shoot them if they try to desert.
Read More Putin faces army mutiny as Russian soldiers turn guns on Chechens – morale in tatters (msn.com)
Comment It is laughable that the author of the above piece of propaganda talks about Russians shooting deserters. That was the normal practice for the British Imperial Forces in World War One and they weren’t very nice to deserters in World War Two – note 20,000 deserted the British Army in 1939-45.
As for morale, well it is bound to be low since Russia is fighting the whole western world where the masses are Sheeple. I am sick of hearing about what is wrong with Russia as justification for the corrupt elitist British Police state and its cronies, like Saudi ( genocidal ) Arabia). As for Anglo American exceptionalism, lets add their abuses and genocides in Latin America, along with all the Regime Change.
As in the First Two World Wars, we are supposed to think it is all God’s work. Britain is one of the biggest hypocrites when it comes to Human Rights and Justice, but that is another story.
Miss Roberta Jane Cook,
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Russian propagandists parade another captured British fighter on TV
Will Stewart and Jack Newman For Mailonline
Another wounded British fighter has been paraded on Kremlin TV after being captured by the Russians in Ukraine.
Andrew Hill, a father of four from Plymouth, appeared severely injured and bloodied with a head bandage and his left arm in a sling.
The fighter said on camera he had received first aid for a gunshot wound from Russian soldiers.
His capture follows the killings of multiple international volunteers, with Scott Sibley, a 36-year-old veteran of the British armed forces who served in the Commando Logistic Support Squadron in Afghanistan, has been named as the first UK casualty in Ukraine.
Read More Russian propagandists parade another captured British fighter on TV (msn.com)
Comment If Britain was a democracy it would have given us a vote on whether we wanted war with Russia, because that is what we have. The U.K Government was first in line to block Nordstream 2 on U.S instructions. It has gone on to lead the campaign to arm Ukraine to the maximum. On top of that it has amassed troops in Europe, advising and sneaking them in to Russia behind the lines. Churchill set the standard for U.K propaganda , Russia hating and hypocrisy. Yet the U.K elite media and politicians mock everything Putin and his government say , as propaganda. That is why warrior fantasists ‘freedom fighters’ end up like the man pictured above. It is absurd to have men like him wandering around and then shout the house down when they are killed or caught. Miss Roberta Jane Cook
April 29th 2022
Injured Briton captured in Ukraine paraded on Russian state TV
Andy Gregory
Footage showing an injured British man who has been captured in Ukraine has been broadcast on Russian state television.
Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on 24 February- Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
The clip, released by Moscow’s defence ministry, showed the man with a bandaged left arm, a makeshift bandage around his head, and blood on his right arm.
Under apparent questioning by the Russian military, the man said: “I don’t have a rank … I just know the foreign legion said I could help.”
Speaking with a British accent, he said that his name was Andrew Hill, that he was from Plymouth, and that he had four children and a partner.
Mr Hill said he had travelled alone and of his own accord to help Ukraine, entering the country from Poland and aiding refugees near the border before he was approached to “help further” within the country’
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Footage showing an injured British man who has been captured in Ukraine has been broadcast on Russian state television.
Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on 24 February- Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
The clip, released by Moscow’s defence ministry, showed the man with a bandaged left arm, a makeshift bandage around his head, and blood on his right arm.
Under apparent questioning by the Russian military, the man said: “I don’t have a rank … I just know the foreign legion said I could help.”
Speaking with a British accent, he said that his name was Andrew Hill, that he was from Plymouth, and that he had four children and a partner.
Mr Hill said he had travelled alone and of his own accord to help Ukraine, entering the country from Poland and aiding refugees near the border before he was approached to “help further” within the country.
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Footage showing an injured British man who has been captured in Ukraine has been broadcast on Russian state television.
Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on 24 February- Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
The clip, released by Moscow’s defence ministry, showed the man with a bandaged left arm, a makeshift bandage around his head, and blood on his right arm.
Under apparent questioning by the Russian military, the man said: “I don’t have a rank … I just know the foreign legion said I could help.”
Speaking with a British accent, he said that his name was Andrew Hill, that he was from Plymouth, and that he had four children and a partner.
Mr Hill said he had travelled alone and of his own accord to help Ukraine, entering the country from Poland and aiding refugees near the border before he was approached to “help further” within the country.
Read More Injured Briton captured in Ukraine paraded on Russian state TV (msn.com)
Comment These people should not be in the war zone. Putin has said Britain is Boorish. He is being too polite. Putin has also pointed out that he could demolish Britain with one missile. Given the threats and arms deliveries to Ukraine, egged on by idiots like Johnson, Wallace and Truss, his frustration is understandable. The British side are either chronically ignorant of Russian history and the Treaty guaranteeing Ukrainian neutrality or criminal liars. British people en masse are ignorant, led by some very slick liars and opportunists. This is not the way to world peace. Their prattling on about war crimes after what has been done to Julian Assange is black comedy.
Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Putin ‘throwing Russian Generals in gulags’ as he struggles to gain support in Russia
Ebun Hargrave
Security expert Will Geddes explained how Russian President Vladimir Putin was handling the lack of support from his army Generals. Putin has been waging war on neighbouring Ukraine for over two months now, despite global condemnation the dictator has refused to drop arms. Mr Geddes claimed that senior FSB members were also being thrown into gulags. The security expert then discussed the attempted assassinations by the Wagner group.
Mr Geddes told GB News: “Next, as far as I know, he’s very autocratic about this.
“There’s been enough Generals that have been thrown into gulags.
“As senior members of FSB are also being thrown into.
“And again this is from either their decent, bypassing intelligence to Ukraine to Zelensky’s team about attempted assassinations by the Wagner group.
Read More Putin ‘throwing Russian Genereals in gulags’ as he struggles to gain support in Russia (msn.com)
Comment These men are traitors. Russia has been forced into war. Anglo U.S have made life a living hell for Julian Assange and destroyed Chelsea Manning. There is more. All this bullsh-t is built on Anglo American exceptionalism. The ‘queer’ logic here is no way to a peaceful sustainable future. Roberta Jane Cook
Russia refuses gas payment from Germany as Putin seeks to divide EU over sanctions
Alessandra Scotto di Santolo
Vladimir Putin refused payment from a German state-controlled utility firm on April 28 sparking fears the EU’s biggest economy could be next on the his list of countries to be cut off from gas supplies. German economy ministry said the payment only concerned a “marginEAal gas volume of about 0.2 percent of the Russian import volumes to Europe”.
Read More Russia refuses gas payment from Germany as Putin seeks to divide EU over sanctions (msn.com)
Russian hitmen ‘parachuted into Kyiv to kill Zelensky’ at start of war
Liam James
Volodymyr Zelensky has described how he came close to being captured or assassinated in the early hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president has led his country through the most difficult period in its modern history, gaining international praise for his composure in directing an exhausting defence of Ukraine from its much larger neighbour.
He has refused to leave Kyiv throughout the war, taking sanctuary in his presidential palace as shelling rained down on the capital.
Read More Russian hitmen ‘parachuted into Kyiv to kill Zelensky’ at start of war (msn.com)
Russian state TV threaten to wipe out ‘boorish’ UK with just one missile
Harry Fletcher
Russian state TV continues to be a terrifying and baffling place, with host Vladimir Solovyov threatening to wipe out the “boorish” UK with a single missile.
Solovyov is one of the most prominent voices pushing President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine heavily in the country.
Since the invasion first began, he has pushed the narrative that Ukraine is a Nazi regime that needs to be taken down and often cracks jokes about the situation.
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British spies to help link Russian leaders to war crimes in Ukraine
By Gavin Cordon, PA Whitehall Editor
British intelligence is to help Ukrainian war crimes investigators establish the chain of command between leaders in Moscow and Russian commanders on the ground.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said a team of UK war crimes experts will be travelling to Poland early in May to assist as the Ukrainians gather evidence of Russian atrocities on the ground.
Read More British spies to help link Russian leaders to war crimes in Ukraine (msn.com)
April 28th 2022
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Comment Wise move , but rather late. Roberta Jane Cook.
Russian progress in the Donbas is ‘slow and uneven,’ Pentagon says
by Mike Brest, Defense Reporter
Russia’s military is making “incremental progress” in its efforts to capture the Donbas region of Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said.
Russia and Ukraine’s military are mainly fighting in the Donbas region, which is in the eastern part of Ukraine that borders Russia and where Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists have engaged in fighting for years. After the Russians failed to conquer the capital of Kyiv, they redirected their attention to the Donbas.
Read More Russian progress in the Donbas is ‘slow and uneven,’ Pentagon says | Washington Examiner
20 Russian warships and submarines amassing in the Black Sea, warns MOD
Jack Walters, Millie Cooke
Vladimir Putin‘s troops have taken yet another step in Russia‘s military campaign against Ukraine after it was revealed Moscow has assembled offensive vessels in the Black Sea. The Kremlin’s newest threat to Kyiv was exposed by the MoD in an intelligence update posted to Twitter this morning. It said: “Approximately 20 Russian Navy vessels are currently in the Black Sea operational zone, including submarines.
“The Bosporus Strait remains closed to all non-Turkish warships, rendering Russia unable to replace its lost cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea.”
The MoD has also warned that the vessels assembling in the Black Sea could pose a serious threat to Ukraine.
Read More 20 Russian warships and submarines amassing in the Black Sea, warns MOD (msn.com)
Comment Britain is a real problem in this war. This country has had no problem supplying arms to Saudi Arabia or any other corrupt regime that serves its purpose. The slow death of Julian Assange should kill any Anglo U.S claim to moral high ground. But nothing gets through
There is very good chance that these Russian Ships will do some serious damage to Ukraine and any other moralising hypocrites who get in their way.. Britain’s elite affinity with Ukraine is intriguing and has to be about money and power.
The incredible flood of arms at taxpayers expense into bolstering Ukraine’s proxy war on Russia, is incredible.
Ukraine accuses Russia of stealing grain during war
By Natalia Zinets
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(Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of stealing grain in territory it has occupied, an act which it said increased the threat to global food security posed by disruptions to spring sowing and the blocking of Ukrainian ports during the war.
Asked about the allegations, the Kremlin said it had no information on the matter.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that it “strongly condemns the criminal actions of the Russian Federation in the so-called expropriation of crops from farmers in the Kherson region” of southern Ukraine.
Comment Ukraine accuses Russia of stealing grain during war (msn.com)
Putin humiliated after ‘overestimating’ Chechen army – Elite forces given ‘sinister’ role
Tara Fair
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Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia‘s Chechnya region and a staunch ally of President Putin, claims to have sent 1,000 elite fighters to fight in Ukraine. The Chechen leader has been accused of rights abuses including torture and proudly posts videos of his men fighting in Ukraine on Telegram. Despite their fearsome reputation, their record in combat with the Ukrainian forces has been less impressive.
Mark Voyger, a senior fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Analysis, told Express.co.uk: “Putin seems to have overestimated their abilities.
Read More Putin humiliated after ‘overestimating’ Chechen army – Elite forces given ‘sinister’ role (msn.com)
April 27th 2022
War Mongering Hypocrites
Miss Roberta Jane Cook.
‘No one wants it!’ 38 million barrels of Russian oil go unsold as energy threats backfire
Jacob Paul
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- Russian state TV shows Putin nervously biting his lipRussian state TV shows Putin nervously biting his lip. Daily Express
Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft reportedly failed to find enough buyers to fill a fleet of oil tankers last week, according to traders familiar with the matter. The company is run by Igor Sechin, a long time Putin ally, who invited bids for 38million barrels of oil. The company demanded payments to be made in rubles and said the oil would be loaded onto tankers at ports in the Baltic and Black Seas over the next two months.
But buyers did not seem interested.
Read More ‘No one wants it!’ 38 million barrels of Russian oil go unsold as energy threats backfire (msn.com)
Comment The western masses have swallowed the glorious war propaganda from their betters. They won’t link the rising energy prices and shortages, as well as inflated prices linked to transport, with their easily aroused jingoism. They need this oil , but mustn’t buy from the Russians because they are nasty, their betters in the elite tell them so. So they aren’t worried about nuclear annihilation. There are lots of re runs of old war films on Channels 52 and 82 to stir them up for the ultimate orgasmic cock up of war. Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Moscow says it CAN attack military sites in pro-Ukraine NATO countries
David Averre For Dailymail.Com
The Kremlin has warned it could target military sites in NATO countries which are supporting Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, suggested that strikes could be authorized against NATO states who provide arms to Ukraine.
She warned: ‘Do we understand correctly that for the sake of disrupting the logistics of military supplies, Russia can strike military targets on the territory of those NATO countries that supply arms to the Kyiv regime?
Read More Moscow says it CAN attack military sites in pro-Ukraine NATO countries (msn.com)
Careless Talk by Roberta Jane Cook
Comment Although Britain’s political and wealthy elite have not officially declared war on Russia, we are supposed to accept that secret truth and avoid careless talk. So I shouldn’t be saying this because I am already in massive trouble with an establishment labelled me paranoid bi polar schizophrenic.
These are the kind of tricks Britain used to accuse Russia of toward its dissidents. Britain’s elite have always been one jump ahead when it came to avoiding revolution – divide and rule being a favourite tactic , along with ‘breads and circuses.’
One of my mother’s favourite sayings was ‘All’s fair in love and war.’ But the British and U.S don’t see it like that. It is only fair for them when the playing field is tilted toward the opponents goal, with no changing ends at half time.
So from the people who brought you rolling illegal war in Iraq and the Middle East, with war crimes so vile they have jailed the whistle-blowers, we read the following garbage which totally ignores how Russia was set up for this war.
The fact that NATO has been supplying massive arms to worsen and prolong this conflict because they simply must have Ukraine, also infiltrating personnel and training operatives, is totally ignored in the self righteous west. So it is not surprising that Russia feels justified in attacking countries military sources of supply, with inevitable fall out for civilians. Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Senator ‘saw things that I would wish nobody would ever have to see’ in Ukraine
by Mike Brest, Defense Reporter
Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Victoria Spartz became the first U.S. lawmakers to travel to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24 when they spent two days there about two weeks ago.
The Republican senator from Montana was in Slovakia meeting with government officials when Ukrainian leaders extended an invitation for him to visit Kyiv, the country’s capital, and Bucha, a suburb located on the outskirts of town where there have been reports of alleged war crimes, including mass graves and executed civilians.
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U.K MPs banned from Russia for ‘whipping up Russophobic hysteria’
By Sam Blewett, PA Deputy Political Editor
Nearly 300 UK MPs have been banned from entering Russia for the alleged “whipping up of Russophobic hysteria” as Moscow announced retaliatory sanctions.
The Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was taking action against 287 members of the House of Commons in response to sanctions against Russian politicians.
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s department announced the move in response to the UK sanctioning 386 members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, last month.
Read More 287 MPs banned from entering Russia for ‘whipping up Russophobic hysteria’ (msn.com)
Russia suspends natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
Lucia Binding, news reporter
Gas deliveries through the Yamal-Europe pipeline have come to a halt, data from the European Union network of gas transmission operators showed.
Poland’s state gas company, PGNiG, was informed that gas would stop flowing by Russian gas giant Gazprom.
Gazprom also informed Bulgarian state gas company Bulgargaz that it will halt gas supplies as of Wednesday, according to the country’s energy ministry.
Russia says it wants to reduce ‘considerable’ risk of nuclear war – Ukraine news live
Read More Russia suspends natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria (msn.com)
Comment Why is this a surprise. The Western ‘liberal with propaganda’ democracies have declared on Russia and are moving their way into Russia. How far do the WASP MAFIA think they can push this ? Roberta Jane Cook
April 26th 2022
Russia should launch next phase of Ukraine campaign, separatist leader says
Reuters) -The Russian-backed separatist leader of the Ukrainian breakaway region of Donetsk said on Tuesday that Moscow should launch the next stage of its military campaign in Ukraine after reaching the region’s frontiers.
Read More Russia should launch next phase of Ukraine campaign, separatist leader says (msn.com)
Russia warns of nuclear war risk as western nations vow to send arms to Ukraine
Thomas Kingsley
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Russia has accused Nato of fighting a proxy war by supplying Ukraine with arms and warned that the conflict could turn nuclear as western nations met on Tuesday to pledge sending heavy weapons to Kyiv.
In a notable escalation between Moscow and the west, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the danger of a third world war was “serious and real” and should not be underestimated, before taking aim at the military alliance.
Read More Russia warns of nuclear war risk as western nations vow to send arms to Ukraine (msn.com)
April 25th 2022
Huge explosions at Russian oil depot ‘after Ukraine fires missiles over border’
Sean Seddon
A Russian oil depot went up in flames overnight amid claims of cross-border attacks by Ukrainian forces.
The large fire sent huge plumes of smoke into the air over the city of Bryansk, which lies less than 100 miles from the border.
A second blaze was raging close to the depot this morning, with unconfirmed reports it started at a military base holding ammunition.
Read More Huge explosions at Russian oil depot ‘after Ukraine fires missiles over border’ (msn.com)
Comment It is becoming clear that the SAS and or highly trained ex special forces are at work in Ukraine. Roberta Jane Cook.
Putin accuses West of plot to destroy Russia – and says secret service foiled attempt to kill journalist
Amar Mehta, news reporter
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Russia’s security services have foiled a plot to kill a “famous” TV journalist, according to Vladimir Putin.
Comment The Western elite’s mass media defines and edits the truth for a largely uncritical public. The simple facts of this war are not important in this part of the world. NATO basks in the post Second World War nostalgia as a bulwark against Communism.
The Yeltsin plot stumbled and the new regime crumbled. The western billionaires have a lot to fear. The Anglo-U.S have been into regime change since the first Gulf War. Russia and China having become crucial to the global economy are now seen as flies in the appointment. Much was made of Le Pen’s enthusiasm for rapprochement with Russia once this war is over. Like Putin, she is a conservative.
Meanwhile Britain’s bulbous Boris and Big Brother Biden are leading the charge into World War Three’ No way was Le Pen going to be allowed to win the presidency. Being sceptical about the EU, the negative impact of mass immigration and not wanting prolonged enmity with Russia, is regarded as fascism.
Any scepticism toward the elite’s new world order is fascism. They are exceptional which is why they are exempt from war crime moralising and allowed to lie. So we have the following hypocritical posturing story about hero Zelensky and what he is going to do the ‘the scum.’ It is never mentioned in mainstream media how all the women were going to fight with the men.
A lot of hypocrisies and contradictions are being exposed by anyone who cares to notice. NATO provoked this war. Now they are trying to rope Sweden and Finland in on the act, all in the name of ‘Liberal Democracy.’ Roberta Jane Cook
‘Filthy scum’ who killed mum and baby in Odesa will be punished, says Zelenskyy
A three-month-old girl, her mother and grandmother were killed by a Russian missile attack on a block of flats in Odesa.
‘Filthy scum’ who killed mum and baby in Odesa will be punished, says Zelenskyy (msn.com)
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Putin Is Pushing Finland and Sweden Into NATO’s Arms
When announcing Russia’s imminent invasion of Ukraine back in February, President Vladimir Putin mentioned NATO 40 times. It was clear he wanted to present NATO as the devil — but it wasn’t always like that.
I first met Mr. Putin while serving as the prime minister of Denmark in 2002. Back then, he was still willing to engage and work with the West. For some time, Russia even assisted the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
This all changed with the “color revolutions” of the mid-2000s: Seeing democratic movements spring up in Georgia and Ukraine terrified Mr. Putin. He worried Russia would be next. When I took over as NATO’s secretary general in 2009, Mr. Putin coldly informed me the organization I oversaw was a relic that should be resigned to history.
Read More Putin Is Pushing Finland and Sweden Into NATO’s Arms (msn.com)
Comment Fine patronising words from the NYT ‘s opinion section. Let us not forget how NATO spent years ignoring Ukraine’s genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbas before making it clear they were planning to make the Ukraine puppet state official, complete with nukes etc.
The above report has Anglo U.S Exceptionalism written all over it. A political book I was reading yesterday about ‘The Fall’ of Robert Maxwell, covered the rise of Yeltsin , with the line ‘No country in its right mind would choose not to be a Liberal Democracy’.
This line defines the age we live in. The old word democracy – demos & krakos combined – is juxtaposed with the high and mighty patronising elite’s use of the word liberal. It is of course only liberal in so far as it suits them, and that includes supplying arms , armies, air forces and navies to any regime it backs or to obliterate the ones it does not. It is also very liberal with propaganda, hypocrisy and moralising. Roberta Jane Cook
Russia-Ukraine war: Blinken says ‘Russia is failing’ in its war aims; RusReasian oil depot on fire near border – live
Martin Belam
Secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defense Lloyd Austin promised $322m in military financing during top secret trip to Ukraine.
Russian ambassador to Washington warns US against sending more arms to Ukraine
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Russia has warned the US against sending more arms to Ukraine, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington told Russian state television.
“We stressed the unacceptability of this situation when the United States of America pours weapons into Ukraine, and we demanded an end to this practice,” Reuters reports Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
April 24th 2022
Russia – Roberta Jane Cook.
Россия – великая страна. Я всегда любил и восхищался его культурой. Запад не мог поверить в свою удачу, когда Горбачев был узурпирован Ельциным. Проще говоря, вот о чем эта украинская война. Самое декадентское во мне — это транссексуал. В моей стране ЛГБТКИ — это отрицание индивидуального мнения. Я отказался от приказов нашей государственной полиции, в которых говорилось, что я должен принимать антипсихотические зомби-препараты, чтобы завершить смену пола и жить в их «фальшивой либеральной коробке».
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Experts warn Russian might is becoming harder to resist
By Russell BlackstockApril 24, 2022, 12:00 pm
Vladimir Putin’s forces may secure victory despite faltering progress in Ukraine marked by humiliating setbacks, according to experts.
Russian troops have been gaining territory in the east and the Donbas, and are now believed to outnumber the defenders by three to one.
After failing in their initial invasion objectives, that included capturing Kyiv and replacing the government, the Russian forces are under new leadership, with General Aleksandr Dvornikov now the country’s ground commander in Ukraine and said to be providing stronger, more effective direction.
Read More Experts warn Russian might is becoming harder to resist (sundaypost.com)
Putin can cause EU disaster with ‘untold damage’ by targeting nuclear plants: ‘Act of war’
Antony Ashkenaz
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the invasion of Ukraine is going far worse than expected, with Ukraine’s president claiming that an estimated 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the conflict. As Russia deals with losses in the war and economic hits from Western sanctions, experts have warned that Putin is already trying to retaliate with a series of cyberattacks aimed at institutions across the EU and the UK.
Aside from usual targets, which include the NHS, banking services, and major companies, an expert has warned that Putin may target companies that deal with “risky materials”, potentially leading to devastating consequences.
Read More Putin can cause EU disaster with ‘untold damage’ by targeting nuclear plants: ‘Act of war’ (msn.com)
Russia renews Mariupol attacks, top US officials to visit Kyiv, Ukraine says
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets
Read More Russia renews Mariupol attacks, top US officials to visit Kyiv, Ukraine says (msn.com)
Why is Belarus supporting Russia and how is it involved in Ukraine?
Joe Sommerlad
Read More Why is Belarus supporting Russia and how is it involved in Ukraine? (msn.com)
April 23rd 2022
Britain’s PM is a privileged idiot who seems to believe he is following in the very over rated Churchill’s footsteps. Johnson has written a most appalling book about his hero, no doubt with a lot of help from his friends. He has a certain reputation according to my journalist contacts. Roberta Jane Cook
UK named Putin’s ‘prime target’ as Russia warns it can launch ‘nuclear strike’ on Britain
Oli Smith
A Russian lawmaker issued a sinister death threat against Boris Johnson after singling out Britain as a “prime target” for Vladimir Putin. Boris Johnson’s strong stance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine has earned him a spot as the number one enemy of Kremlin supporters. Speaking on Kremlin-controlled state TV, Russia-1, one lawmaker said Russia “can carry out a nuclear strike against Great Britain”.
He pointed to false reports that Mr Johnson had suggested the UK was considering launching a nuclear strike on Russia without consulting with other NATO partners.
Read More UK named Putin’s ‘prime target’ as Russia warns it can launch ‘nuclear strike’ on Britain (msn.com)
Putin hunts SAS in Ukraine: Russia probes ‘British forces in Lviv’
Will Stewart And Adam Solomons For Mailonline
Vladimir Putin launched a search for SAS forces alleged to be fighting in Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s Investigative Committee (IC) is investigating British special forces thought to be in the western Lviv region.
Putin’s personal CIA said today it will look into ‘the facts of the activities of British SAS saboteurs in Ukrainian regions,’ according to state-controlled outlet RIA Novosti.
Read More Putin hunts SAS in Ukraine: Russia probes ‘British forces in Lviv’ (msn.com)
Poll finds 83 per cent of Russian fear nuclear war with US
Ellie Abraham
Read More Poll finds 83 per cent of Russian fear nuclear war with US (msn.com)
Russia threatens Moldova after Ukraine in dramatic expansion of Putin’s war objectives
David Parsley
Russia has raised the prospect of an invasion of Moldova if Vladimir Putin succeeds in his military objectives in neighbouring Ukraine.
One of Russia’s leading military figures said the Kremlin’s plan is to dramatically expand its assault in the Donbas region across southern Ukraine to provide land corridors to Crimea and Moldova.Rustam Minnekayev, deputy commander of Russia’s Central Military District, said that control over the south of Ukraine would provide Moscow with access to Transnistria, a disputed region of Moldova claimed by Russian separatists.
Read More Russia threatens Moldova after Ukraine in dramatic expansion of Putin’s war objectives (msn.com)
Comment This is just more of the NATO self fulfilling prophecies. It is NATO scaremongering. NATO is the ultimate protection racket. Our horribly biased pious elite mass media expects us to believe that on the one hand Russia is losing the proxy NATO war, while on the other hand Russia is plotting to invade and conquer ever more countries. Of course half witted badly educated Brits will believe this for the same reason they all clapped the clapped out NHS during Covid lockdown. Roberta Jane Cook.
April 22nd 2022
‘Incredibly harrowing’ Ukraine evidence handed to British police
Ryan Hooper (PA) & Erin Santillo
British counter-terror police gathering evidence of potential war crimes in Ukraine say they have been struck by the “incredibly harrowing” material and eyewitness accounts from the frontline of the conflict. The Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Team, which is a unit within its counter-terrorism command (CTC), said it had already received around 50 referrals from people with a link to the UK, including those who have directly fled the conflict in the last two months since Russia began invading.
Read More ‘Incredibly harrowing’ Ukraine evidence handed to British police (msn.com)
POTS & KETTLES – Comment by Roberta Jane Cook
Russia has a big problem with Britain. Back in the 1990s it welcomed the corrupt Russian asset stripping oligarchs to join its own, with its elite media reporting the end of history and slashing the military.
Something went wrong, so two gas pipelines from Russia and several coups in Ukraine later, we have a new version of history, with NATO on its dashing white charger putting all right again, getting ready to contain China.
So now we have the infamous and institutionally corrupt Metropolitan Police, which cannot police its own limits, poking its nose in with moralising about Russian war crimes as reported by the vested interests of Zelensky’s corrupt genocides regime and the corrupt Johnson Government who appear to want formally start World War Three.
Don’t forget this is the same Metropolitan Police whose thugs arrested innocent Anglo U.S war crimes whistle blower Julian Assange and selected sex pervert Wayne Couzens for an elite firearms unit ( they know how to find these nutcases ), the full extent of whose perverse crimes may never be known. Pots & Kettles. One could say so much more about this obscene public self serving fascist corrupt loathsome organisation. The British Police Satte knows no bondaries, which is why its war crimes go back for centuries and taught the Nazis a few tricks.
The only reason the U.K didn’t topple Hitler was because they were more afraid of Communism which slaughtered their monarchy’s corrupt lascivious hedonistic cruel Romanov cousins in the 1917 Russian Revolution – which is why they plotted to kill Lenin and installed Stalin to discredit communism. History repeats itself because humans are greedy power mad competitive animals arranged by bullies and slavish cowardly minions. There is no real decency or idealism about the scum that rises to rule, That’s why Trotsky died. That is why war and conflict will always be the way until the end of human time. .R J Cook
Green high hopes teeter on edge of disappointment in Biden
by Breanne Deppisch, Energy and Environment Reporter
President Joe Biden promised the most ambitious green agenda ever, ending fossil fuels, pushing renewables, and forcing business to toe the line. As Earth Day 2022 arrives, the Washington Examiner offers alternative coverage in light of record energy prices and widespread criticism of the administration’s incoherent policy approach.
President Joe Biden campaigned and won on an aggressive climate agenda, winning support from the most committed liberal environmentalists.
On Earth Day in his second year in office, though, Biden is at risk of disappointing the green movement.
Read More Green high hopes teeter on edge of disappointment in Biden | Washington Examiner
April 21st 2022
Huge fire erupts at Russian military weapons research facility
Will Stewart for MailOnline
A huge fire has erupted at a top secret Russian military research facility used to manufacturer missiles used in Ukraine, killing seven people.
Four military scientists were forced to jump out of windows from the burning institute in Tver which develops new space and weapons systems, with 25 others injured.
The cause was not clear but there were reports of ‘poisonous bluish-black smoke’ at the plant which produces Iskander missiles.
Read More Huge fire erupts at Russian military weapons research facility (msn.com)
Blaze sweeps Russian chemical plant hours after weapons facility fire
Adam Solomons and Will Stewart for MailOnline
A blaze broke out at Russia’s largest chemical plant just hours after a huge fire at a military facility killed seven people.
Huge plumes of smoke were seen enveloping the Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant late this afternoon.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. Almost 150 plant workers were reportedly evacuated.
The facility in Kineshma, east of Moscow produces more industrial solvents than any other in Russia.
It is less than 1,000km from the border with Ukraine.
Read More Blaze sweeps Russian chemical plant hours after weapons facility fire (msn.com)
Biden’s Defense Department says Russian nuclear tests are good, US tests bad
APRIL 20, 2022 04:03 PMBY TOM ROGAN
If you need a good example of the Biden administration’s penchant for appeasing Russia, look to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby’s almost congratulatory response to Russia’s test of a Sarmat-class intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday. “Russia properly notified the United States under its New START Treaty obligations [of] a plan to test this ICBM,” he said. Kirby added that the “routine” test was “not a threat … and it was not a surprise.”
So if this test was “not a threat” and was “not a surprise” and “is routine,” why is the U.S. unwilling to conduct its own missile tests?
That question is especially pertinent, considering that the Sarmat is designed to evade U.S. missile defense systems (including those in development) and to carry either a hypersonic glide vehicle armed with nuclear warheads or a large payload of heavy nuclear warheads. Put simply, the Sarmat is designed to annihilate key strategic targets such as Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Again, why aren’t we seeing similar U.S. ground-based missile tests?
April 20th 2022
The Deeper Meaning Behind Putin’s Media Crackdown
Maria Repnikova
While I was researching Russian investigative journalism a little over a decade ago, several of the people I interviewed used variations of the same metaphor to explain why Vladimir Putin had not stamped out the country’s independent media: They said that critical outlets—and they specifically referred to Russia’s most well-known investigative publication, Novaya Gazeta—were like credentials for Putin, allowing Russia to masquerade as a democracy. “Someone might be imprisoned in Russia for their articles, but Novaya Gazeta will continue to exist and showcase to the outside world that we do have freedom of speech in Russia,” a senior Russian journalist told me.
Read More The Deeper Meaning Behind Putin’s Media Crackdown (msn.com)
Ukraine troops at Mariupol steel plant ‘will not lay down weapons’ – as Zelenskyy claims Ukraine would have ‘ended the war’ with access to weapons
A Ukrainian commander has said forces in Mariupol “will not lay down our weapons” as fighting against Russian forces continues – as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed Ukraine would have “ended the war” by now if they had enough weapons.
April 19th 2022
British fighters ‘could face jail in Russia’ unless Boris brokers prisoner swap
Emma Brazell
Two British prisoners of war could face a show trial and jail sentences unless Boris Johnson arranges an exchange for Vladimir Putin’s friend, Russian state TV has warned.
Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, appeared on Kremlin mouthpiece channels pleading to be released yesterday after being captured while fighting for Ukraine.
Speaking separately, the pair asked to be swapped for the Russian president’s ally Viktor Medvedchuk, who is currently being held by Ukrainian authorities.
Read More British fighters ‘could face jail in Russia’ unless Boris brokers prisoner swap (msn.com)
Comment Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss actually urged hapless uniformed men like these to go and fight the Russians. As for the oligarch, he should be irrelevant. If Zelensky and company want to take hostages there is no telling where this will end. Most certainly Putin will make a big mistake if he does a trade off. These two men were not Ukrainian nationals. They were there for glory and to kill Russians – effectively mercenaries. Letting these men free will open the door to more like them. How can Britain moralise after its record in the Middle East and what it has done to war crimes whistle blower Julian Assange ? What they did to Chelsea Manning was bad enough. R J Cook
The Battle for Donbas could be a turning point – and it’s a battle both sides need to win
Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor in Kyiv
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Russia’s war against Ukraine has entered a second, potentially decisive phase, with a new Russian assault on the east marking the biggest test yet for Ukrainian defenders.
Read more The Battle for Donbas could be a turning point – and it’s a battle both sides need to win (msn.com)
Comment Why didn’t they go for the Donbas on their way down. ? Russia knew they were fighting NATO. This is where Ukraine’s genocide against Russian ethnics was taking place for years, with NATO’s blessing. Hence this war. R J Cook
April 18th 2022
British men captured by Russian forces appear on state TV and ask to be exchanged for pro-Moscow oligarch
Tom Gillespie, news reporter
Two British fighters captured by Moscow’s forces in Ukraine have appeared on Russian state TV and asked to be exchanged for pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
‘Never going to get it back’ Former NATO commander in stunning Crimea admission
Sophia Mencarelli
Following Russian troops’s preparation for a new offensive in the south east regions of Ukraine, Former NATO commander Chris Parry warns that considering the situation “we have to accept that Ukraine is never going to get Crimea back”.
Speaking to ex-NATO commander Chris Parry, the LBC presenter said: “It is impossible to see from a strategic point of view these scenes, and we just end to accept that Russia are where they are and there is never going to be a sort of move out”.
The presenter refers to reports from Ukraine which seem to show further evidence of acts of war crimes committed by Russian troops in the Ukrainian territory.
Read More ‘Never going to get it back’ Former NATO commander in stunning Crimea admission (msn.com)
Comment More U.K Jingoism and moralising. Revealing language here is, not going to get it back ‘ -it was and is Russian. Then ‘There are reports of possible war crimes say Ukraine.’ Well they would would they not. When the Anglo -U.S free Julian Assange and give Chelsea Manning her life back, it will be a start. But there are so many issues with the on going illegal Middle Eastern wars, and the lies used to attack Iraq twice. R J Cook
April 17th 2022
Why Russia Can’t Survive Tech Sanctions – YouTube
Alarming Propaganda
by Roberta Jane Cook.
So Russia and soon China will have to submit to U.S World dominance. Given theirs’s and U.K allies record on human rights abuse , injustice , lies, hypocrisy , corruption and war crimes , this is very worrying We are well in to a global police state that will make the Soviet Union look like a Summer Camp. The sanctions will and are rebounding on the west, but the elite do not care for their jingoistic masses.. The above video link is insidious and alarming propaganda.
The narrator is straight out of Orwell’s.’1984.’ There will be some very serious unintended consequences. The United States along with U.K Number one ally, are institutionally corrupt, elitist fake democracies. They are all about money , power and profit.
Russia made a huge mistake going for more than the Donbas, where there were , and still are, ongoing western backed Ukrainian war crimes and genocide and still are . Russia must either withdraw , and face regime change, or use all its fire power to defeat a Ukraine that is being massively resourced by the west .R .J Cook.
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April 16th 2022
Russia warns US and Nato of ‘unpredictable consequences’ over arming Ukraine
Steve Robson
Russia has formally warned the West of “unpredictable consequences” as a result of it arming Ukraine.
A diplomatic note was sent to the White House earlier this week claiming that shipments of the “most sensitive” weapons from the US and Nato are “adding fuel” to the conflict, the Washington Post reports.
The correspondence was received on Tuesday just as President Biden confirmed a new $800 million (£612m) package of military assistance, including long-range howitzers, coastal drones and armoured vehicles, to help Ukraine match Russia’s capability.
Read More Russia warns US and Nato of ‘unpredictable consequences’ over arming Ukraine (msn.com)
Comment I am no fan of secret policemen, but having worked for the state for over 20 years, if one counts Chile, then I can not claim to be pure. I have been too close to power to claim innocence. I just loathe British hypocrisy when it looks like pushing World war III beyond the Pale – an old Irishism for the uninitiated.
Britain and the U.S are in charge of this conflagration. Whatever former secret police boss Putin’s past sins may be, Biden and Johnson are not pure.. This started out on a very simple issue, but NATO’s greedy war mongers would not back down.
Now they have roped the vainglorious Of Sweden and Finland in on the game. I spent a term at the International Graduate School in Stockholm before finances pushed me back into labouring. Sweden used to be cool. Not anymore. The Western hegemony closed in long ago.
Putin needs to forget his secret police past, work out what he wants and come out of the dark.
R J Cook
April 15th 2022
Britain poised to sideline NATO and act alone if Putin launches chemical attack in Ukraine
Jon King
Copyright Appledene Photographics.
Russia is thought to have the largest supply of nuclear weapons in the world, with around 6,257 nuclear warheads comprising 1,458 active weapons, 3,039 available to be deployed and 1,760 retired, according to Statistica. During the first week of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he placed the country’s nuclear weapons forces on high alert.
He said: “Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country, but leaders of major NATO countries are making aggressive statements about our country.
“So I order to move Russia’s deterrence forces to a special regime of duty.”
Comment It astonishes me as to how stupid and ignorant the western masses appear to be. Russia is an enigma, with a questionable Yelstsin and post oligarch denouement. But this is not a good moralising platform given how state assets were stolen , welcome and invested in the West. The west are after something and it is obvious. They started this war.
Punishing the once welcome oligarchs with their dirty money is no way to cleanse the past. What happens to those western built super yachts is rather beside the point. Putin is no angel, but he knows that NATO and the corrupt western culture is not a way to future world stability. NATO are obviously power maniacs and agents of the Anglo Western Plutocracy. They have their own planet eating agenda. They are the fat cats. Nuclear war is an insidious possibility. R J Cook
April 14th 2022
He is a mercenary if Britain is not officially at war. He was getting his upkeep, so he was paid. Logically a free flow of so called volunteers from the U.K , either constitues an act of war or mercenaries.
But it is likely he will be used for propaganda purposes or as a political pawn by Vladimir Putin’s regime. He could eventually be released as part of a prisoner exchange.
Speaking to a friend in the UK just before he and his unit were captured, he said: ‘It’s been 48 days. We tried our best to defend Mariupol but we have no choice but to surrender to Russian forces.
‘We have no food and no ammunition. It’s been a pleasure everyone, I hope this war ends soon.’
Earlier this week, Mr Aslin’s younger brother Nathan Wood begged Russian authorities to take good care of him.
He told MailOnline: ‘As a family we don’t want to say too much because Aiden’s well-being and safety is our prime concern but President Putin has made dire warnings to those Westerners caught fighting for the Ukrainian Army.
‘Aiden has been called a mercenary but that isn’t true, he enrolled with the Ukrainian Army four years ago and has dual citizenship.
Read More First pictures emerge of British fighter captured by Russians (msn.com)
Russia admits Black Sea flagship in flames as Ukraine claims missile attack
There has been a fire on board the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, Moscow has admitted, with Ukraine claiming to have hit it with anti-ship missiles.
April 13th 2022
Russia warns Finland and Sweden against considering Nato membership
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
on Monday warned Finland and Sweden against joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) amid reports of Nordic countries rushing to become a part of the military alliance in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
Calling the alliance a “tool of confrontation”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Nato’s further expansion would “not bring stability to the European continent”.
Mr Peskov’s remarks came a day after it was reported that US officials are expecting Finland to apply for a membership as early as June, which would be followed by Sweden.
Read More Russia warns Finland and Sweden against considering Nato membership (msn.com)
Comment NATO is indeed a tool of confrontation. What more is there to be said ? Ukraine is rich in farmland and other resources. It is the gateway to Russia and China. The Western global elite are thriving on fear. This makes a mockery of concern for climate change as the carbon foot print of carnage is critical. R J Cook
April 12th 2022
Fears for British fighter as unit surrenders to Russians in Mariupol
Barney Davis
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A British man is feared among those surrendering to Russian troops as resistance collapses in the besieged port city of Mariupol.
Aiden Aslin, 27, told friends that he had run out of food and ammunition while defending the city.
Mr Aslin, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, is a member of the 39th Brigade Ukrainian Marines having taken an oath to defend Ukraine after completing training in 2018.
Read More Fears for British fighter as unit surrenders to Russians in Mariupol (msn.com)
Comment If this man is in fact British then he is a mercenary. If he is there with the U.K Government’s blessing, then he is helping to suck Britain into a rich man’s global war. R J Cook
Pro-Russia cavalcade provokes shock and anger in Ireland
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
A pro-Russian cavalcade in Dublin led by a car with the Z symbol has provoked astonishment and condemnation in Ireland.
https://mate.substack.com/p/urging-regime-change-in-russia-biden?s=r
About 10 cars with Russian and Irish flags drove in a convoy down the M50 motorway last Sunday afternoon in an apparent display of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The bonnet of the lead vehicle, a green Jeep, bore the Z symbol that Russian forces use in Ukraine.
The rally is believed to have been organised through a private Facebook group for Russians living in Ireland. Pro-Russia rallies were held in Germany on the same day, including a motorcade rally in Hanover.
Read More Pro-Russia cavalcade provokes shock and anger in Ireland (msn.com)
Comment It concerns me that all of us in Britain & Ireland are supposed to mindlessly support corrupt Ukraine and NATO Imperialism. We are supposed to accept being dragged further down into the morass of a war set up by Anglo U.S elites. The Russians have a point of view. As for the oligarchs, they were welcomed with their dirty money. The U.K , U.S and EU want to go back to the corrupt Yeltsin days that brought them in the first.
R.J Cook
RT News
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 11 April |
Questions arise about death of pro-Russian ex-MP in BuchaA new audio recording has surfaced, contradicting Kiev’s account on the death of veteran Ukrainian politician Alexander RzhavskyRead more on the site
| Business News | 11 April |
Hungary says it’s ready to pay for Russian gas in rublesHungary says Russia’s new ruble mechanism for gas payments doesn’t breach either EU sanctions or gas contracts, and it’s ready to embrace itRead more on the site
| Business News | 11 April |
Putin outlines priorities to restart economyPresident Putin has outlined a plan to stabilize Russia’s sanctions-hit economy, instructing the government to support its citizensRead more on the site
| World News | 11 April |
NATO holds war games on Russia’s borderNATO troops from the UK, France and Denmark, who recently arrived in Estonia, have started drills with their local forcesRead more on the site
| World News | 11 April |
President warns about African anti-migrant attacksSouth African president has condemed vigilante groups for harassing migrants, likening their actions to apartheid regimeRead more on the site
| World News | 11 April |
UK targets Balkan leadersThe UK sanctioned two top-level Bosnian-Serb leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, accusing them of “undermining peace” and of genocide denialRead more on the site
April 11th 2022
Ukraine War! What Is It Good For? Propaganda
Iain Davis
Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has been presented to us, in the West, as unprovoked and unjustified.
We have not been told about Russia’s legitimate security concerns in the face of NATO expansionism. Nor has Ukraine’s significant Nazi problem been honestly reported, with some Western propagandist even promoting them.
The Russian government claims that its recognition and defence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) are born from “compassion” for the people who have been under siege for eight years. However, Russia also needs the new republics as satellite states, providing a foothold for its own national security as it opposes NATO’s advance.
Read More Ukraine War! What Is It Good For? Propaganda – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Hallmark of Western Regime Change.
Mass protests in Pakistan against ‘imported’ government (VIDEOS)Mass protests have kicked off across Pakistan in support of the ex-PM Imran Khan got ousted in a no-confidence vote
RT News (10 April 2022)
| World News | 11 April |
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 10 April |
EU leader to meet Putin in MoscowAustrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer is set to visit Moscow to discuss the ongoing conflict in UkraineRead more on the site
| World News | 11 April |
Macron, Le Pen prevail in first round of French electionsEmmanuel Macron and rival Marine Le Pen win right to face each other in France’s presidential election runoffRead more on the site
Austrian leader to meet Putin in Moscow, hoping to build bridges
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi
ZURICH (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, he said, adding he hoped to help build bridges between Russia and Ukraine and stop the “war of aggression”.
Nehammer’s meeting would be the first face-to-face encounter between Putin and a European Union leader since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, triggering a broad Western effort to isolate Moscow.
“I’m going to meet Vladimir #Putin in Moscow tomorrow,” Nehammer wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
“We are militarily neutral, but (have) a clear position on the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine,” he wrote, referring to Austria’s position. “It must stop! It needs humanitarian corridors, ceasefire & full investigation of war crimes.”
Read More Austrian leader to meet Putin in Moscow, hoping to build bridges (msn.com)
Prosecution of Russian war crimes is ultimate test for Ukraine’s state
Isobel Koshiw in Borodianka
Surrounded by a scrum of reporters with a backdrop of bombed-out apartment buildings and rubble in Borodianka, a town in the Kyiv region, stood Iryna Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor general.
Venediktova is carrying the weight of bringing almost 2,000 cases of war crimes committed by Russia’s occupying forces to court at home and abroad. Her office is the only body in Ukraine with the power to investigate. It is through her office that information relating to war crimes is being collected, investigations will be conducted and domestic and international cases will be built.
Reminiscent of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s trip to newly liberated territories outside Kyiv, Venediktova walked around Borodianka with her subordinates observing the damage, wearing an army flak jacket and baseball cap.
Read More Prosecution of Russian war crimes is ultimate test for Ukraine’s state (msn.com)
Comment What is and isn’t war crime is decided by the Anglo U.S which is why Assange will never be freed. These elites abuse their own people while claiming a monopoly on power. R J Cook.
Russia strikes S-300 missile systems given to Ukraine by European state
(Reuters) – Russia has destroyed S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems which had been supplied to Ukraine by a European country, Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said that Russian sea-launched Kalibr missiles on Sunday destroyed four S-300 launchers which were concealed in a hangar on the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Russia said 25 Ukrainian troops were hit in the attack.
Russia did not say which European country had supplied the S-300 systems.
Read More Russia strikes S-300 missile systems given to Ukraine by European state (msn.com)
World Bank reveals damage to Russian GDP from sanctions and says Ukraine economy to be slashed by half
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Ukraine’s economic output is likely to contract by a drastic 45.1 per cent due to Russia‘s unprovoked invasion, which has rendered economic activity impossible in the European nation, the World Bank said.
The Washington-based lender in its “War in the Region” economic update on Sunday said Russia’s GDP output for 2022 will fall 11.2 per cent owing to the plethora of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.
Nato’s ‘achilles heel’: alliance conducts war games in nervous Lithuania
Philip Oltermann in Pabradė
About 30km west of the Belarusian border, the enemy’s tanks were rolling through the pine forests of Lithuania at speed until a makeshift obstacle made of barbed wire blocked their path. Soldiers carrying bolt cutters jumped out of the armoured vehicle at the front to clear the road.
Read More Nato’s ‘achilles heel’: alliance conducts war games in nervous Lithuania (msn.com)
Volodymyr Zelensky says next few days of war are crucial
By Associated Press Reporters
Ukraine’s president warned his nation on Sunday night that the coming week would be as crucial as any in the war.
“Russian troops will move to even larger operations in the east of our state,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address.
He accused Russia of trying to evade responsibility for war crimes.
“When people lack the courage to admit their mistakes, apologise, adapt to reality and learn, they turn into monsters. And when the world ignores it, the monsters decide that it is the world that has to adapt to them. Ukraine will stop all this,” Mr Zelensky said.
Read More Volodymyr Zelensky says next few days of war are crucial (msn.com)
Comment Zelensky is basically calling for this war on Russia to move from proxy to full scale world war on Russia and its allies. Large populations are at risk from this NATO power grab. They want Ukraine , while Russia needs Ukraine’s neutrality. The decision on that one has been made by the Anglo U.S NATO leadership, with U.K number one cheer leader. U.K media is full of anti Russian propaganda. Among other things, this makes a mockery of concern for climate change and carbon footprints. R J Cook
April 10th 2022
Here’s what the ICC can actually do about Putin’s war crimes
Ellen Ioanes
The bombing of a train station in Ukraine where many were gathered to evacuate. The murder of countless civilians in Bucha and other areas. As evidence of Russian atrocities against Ukraine builds, so do calls to bring the perpetrators to justice — including from US President Joe Biden, who recently said Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
Read More Here’s what the ICC can actually do about Putin’s war crimes (msn.com)
Comment Firstly the station was hit by a missile no longer standard in the Russian army. Secondly why isn’t there the same clamour to bring Tony Blair to a war crimes tribunal ? Thirdly, why was it OK to fake rape charges against war crime whistle blower Julian Assange then lock him away facing extradition and slow death – just because he was whistle blower for Anglo-U.S War crimes ? Answer is, because this is not really about war crimes. It was a war provoked by NATO , for regime change on the way to do the same with China. The Anglo Americans consider themselves ‘exceptional’ and Europe walks in their shadow. No NATO country wanted war more than corrupt U.K. R J Cook
April 9th 2022
The Debrief: Hugo Gurdon on the need for Biden to escalate pressure on Russia
by Washington Examiner Staff | April 09, 2022
The Debrief: Hugo Gurdon on the need for Biden to escalate pressure on Russia‘If I gotta go to war, I’m going with you guys’: Quotes of the weekMilley concedes Afghanistan withdrawal may have influenced Putin’s Ukraine move
Watch Biased Video The Debrief: Hugo Gurdon on the need for Biden to escalate pressure on Russia | Washington Examiner
Background Check
Hugo Gurdon is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Hill and previously served as an editor and reporter at the Daily Telegraph of London and the National Post of Canada. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal (Europe), the Financial Times, and the Guardian.
Gurdon has the typical upper middle class British media background. it is inevitable that these pseudo liberals are making the most of this so called war to free Ukraine. R J Cook
RT News (7 April 2022)
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 08 April |
Phone call records shed light on what happened near KievUkrainian officials and western journalists looking for alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha and beyond found something quite differentRead more on the site
| World News | 08 April |
Pentagon says Russian military won’t pick up the phoneUS military leaders have had no communication with their counterparts in Moscow since the beginning of Russia’s intervention in UkraineRead more on the site
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 07 April |
Kremlin hopes operation in Ukraine ends ‘in coming days’Russia’s military operation in Ukraine might end in the near future, the Kremlin has saidRead more on the site
| World News | 08 April |
April 8th 2022
US Congress votes to suspend Russia trade status and enact oil ban
By Kevin Freking,
US Congress has voted overwhelmingly to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.
House action came after the Senate approved the two bills with 100-0 votes. The measures now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
‘Near the brink of collapse’: White House says Russia’s financial system is close to default
Andrew Feinberg and Justin Vallejo
US officials are painting an increasingly dire portrait of Russia’s economic future under the weight of sanctions imposed by the US and EU in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian law enforcement officers patrol Red Square- AFP via Getty Images
On Wednesday, the Biden administration unveiled yet another round of financial penalties to be levied against Moscow, which President Joe Biden said would “ratchet up the pain” on Mr Putin, including sanctions against his two adult daughters, the family of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and members of Russia’s security council.
Russia suspended from UN’s Human Rights Council following invasion of Ukraine
Andy Hayes, news reporter
The UN’s General Assembly (UNGA) voted by 93 to 24 to suspend Russia, with 58 abstentions, over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers, which the United States and Ukraine have called tantamount to war crimes.
Moscow described the move as an “unfriendly gesture” and said there will be consequences for bilateral ties, according to a note seen by Reuters.
Read More Russia suspended from UN’s Human Rights Council following invasion of Ukraine (msn.com)
Putin’s spokesman admits ‘significant’ Russian losses since Ukraine invasion began
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has admitted a “significant” loss of Russian troops since the invasion of Ukraine began, telling Sky News their deaths are a “tragedy”.
Dmitry Peskov, in his first broadcast interview with Western media, also said Russia hopes “this operation” will reach its goals “in the coming days”.
Read More Putin’s spokesman admits ‘significant’ Russian losses since Ukraine invasion began (msn.com)
April 5th 2022
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 04 April |
Germany to kick out ‘significant number’ of Russian diplomatsGermany has declared a significant number of Russian diplomants ‘unwanted persons’, which equals expulsionRead more on the site
| World News | 04 April |
Poland blasts Germany over RussiaPolish PM Mateusz Morawiecki has criticized Germany for standing in the way of imposing harsh sanctions on RussiaRead more on the site
| World News | 04 April |
Number of IS sympathizers inside Israel revealed – mediaAround 200 Israeli citizens of Arab origin identify with Islamic State, according to media reportsRead more on the site
| Games & Culture | 04 April |
‘World of Tanks’ developer leaves Russia and Belarus‘World of Tanks’ developer Wargaming to leave Russia and Belarus, close studio in Minsk and hand over live service operations to third partyRead more on the site
| Business News | 04 April |
China eyes cheap Russian energy – mediaChinese gas importers are in discussions with suppliers to buy spot cargoes from Russia at a deep discount, Bloomberg’s sources sayRead more on the site
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 04 April |
Zelensky visits alleged mass killing siteUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the site of alleged mass-killings in the town of Bucha that Kiev has blamed on RussiaRead more on the site
| World News | 04 April |
France announces mass expulsion of Russian diplomatsFrance will expel “many” Russian diplomats, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced in a statement on MondayRead more on the site
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 04 April |
The truth about Bucha is out there, but perhaps too inconvenient to be discoveredThe US and UK are leading the charge in implicating Russia in the alleged deaths of Ukrainian civilians in the town of BuchaRead more on the site
| World News | 04 April |
EU to send investigators to probe alleged war crimes in UkraineThe EU has vowed to assist Ukraine in probing the alleged mass killing in Bucha and to send in a team of investigatorsRead more on the site
| World News | 05 April |
Biden wants ‘war crimes trial’ for PutinPresident Biden has accused his Russian counterpart of war crimes and called for a “trial,” despite “longstanding objections” to the ICCRead more on the site
EU shamed over failure to cut off Russia gas dependency ‘Cost is dead men and women’
Tom Watling
EU shamed over failure to cut off Russia gas dependency ‘Cost is dead men and women’
Tom Watling
As Ukrainian civilians are tortured by Russian soldiers in their own villages, European Union countries such as Germany have continued to import $850 million (£647 million) of Russian oil and gas every day, financially propping up the invading nation. Ukrainian diplomat Vasyl Filipchuk accused those still relying on Russian fuel of “hypocrisy” and called for countries to recognise the blood on their own hands.
Read More EU shamed over failure to cut off Russia gas dependency ‘Cost is dead men and women’ (msn.com)
Russia deploying soldiers ‘as old as 60 and giving conscripts 19th century rifles’
Tom Batchelor
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Russia’s stretched military is reportedly sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine with weapons developed in the late 19th century.
Conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region are said to have been dispatched into front-line fighting with a rifle called a Mosin, with the Kremlin relying on weapons stocks dating to the Second World War.
Vladimir Putin’s forces have struggled against fierce Ukrainian resistance and a steady supply of modern weaponry from Western allies.
After nearly six weeks of war, Moscow has claimed only limited territorial gains and while notching up significant losses in terms of vehicles, weapons and troops.
Nato estimates that up to 15,000 Russian soldiers may have been killed in the fighting, while Kyiv claims the death toll could have exceeded 18,000.
Read More Russia deploying soldiers ‘as old as 60 and giving conscripts 19th century rifles’ (msn.com)
April 4th 2022
Bucha massacre prompts West to consider stronger sanctions, total Russian gas boycott
by Barnini Chakraborty, Senior Investigations Reporter
New evidence of atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians prompted outrage around the world Monday, forcing Western leaders to threaten even more punishing sanctions, including a complete lockout of Russia’s vital gas industry.
The threat came after an all-out assault in Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv. The city was completely charred and littered with the corpses of civilians on Sunday.
Greens Are Green.
Comment by Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Western elites have shale gas for sale .Russia is competition and the environment does not matter. Greens are ‘green.’ How does one get to the truth? I live in a very corrupt country. The Soviet Union , like the rest of the world’s governments now, was corrupt. The west created Stalin and Hitler to destroy Lenin’s dream. The West plotted the ultimate war crime, backed by Churchill, to Nuke the Soviet Union.
Where is the moral high ground here ? The West encouraged the very Thatcherite oligarchs to steal state assets, bringing their ill gotten gains to the U.K and the west. How can anyone believe that we have an independent media ? Julian Assange’s continued incarceration informs us as to what the west really thinks about war crimes. Miss Roberta Jane Cook
Image Appledene Photographics / R J Cook.
So Sorry For Russia
Russian people fought to break the mould of European Capitalist Germanic Monarchical corrupt Romanov oppression. After the world war fun elitist inbred in fighting mass slaughter, the western elite made sure Lenin died, replaced by Georgian lunatic and paranoid cretin Stalin. After Russia did the most to defeat Nazism, the west plotted to Nuke them.
The dream of real quality ended. The Western elite have gone on to lie, corrupt and fool the masses.
I have worked with Russians. They are good people, so are the Poles, But there is so much internecine hatred in Eastern Europe. I see no happiness. I see no improvement to world wide political corruption. I see no hope for humanity. The most awful people seek and take power.
I hope to God I am not reincarnated because I am just not up to this and cannot wait to die. I am really freaking out. As Bob Dylan wrote ; “Saddle me up a big white goose, tie me on her and turn her loose. “ R J Cook.
April 2nd 2022
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 02 April |
Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-NazisSeveral Western media outlets have published stories lionizing Ukraine’s Azov regiment, downplaying or whitewashing its neo-Nazi linksRead more on the site
Russia views modern Ukraine as a ‘hostile’ country – KremlinUkraine has long turned into an openly hostile country to Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has admittedRead more on the site
Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Multiple outlets use the same talking points, quotes, and ‘experts’ to whitewash Ukraine’s notorious “Azov” regiment
During the last week of March, multiple major media outlets in the UK and the US ran stories about Ukraine’s ‘Azov Batalion’, seeking to whitewash almost a decade of previous reporting that clearly identified the unit’s Nazi sympathies and ethos. Supposedly acting independently, they nonetheless stuck to the same talking points and often the same verbiage, suggesting a concerted effort to spin the unit as heroic defenders of Ukraine against the alleged “real” fascists – the Russians.
The latest wave of the lionization of Azov began sometime before the Russian military operation – notorious was the much-publicized image of an AK-47-wielding Ukrainian granny training to repel invaders in the regiment’s camp. The last week of March, however, saw the puff pieces come in a tight group, like the bullet holes after an AK burst.Read more Ukrainian grandma with AK-47 shown off to Western press by neo-Nazi fighters – reports
The first of the bunch was a ten-minute video, from Britain’s state-broadcaster BBC, on March 27, in which presenter Ros Atkins sought to debunk Russian “untruths” about Nazis in Ukraine.
Read More Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Comment I have read a lot of today’s western media and do not feel like publishing it here. It is all about alleged war crimes, running out of missiles, tank parts and Vladimir Putin’s alleged cancer treatment bathing in Deer blood. Nowhere are the real issues covered because this is all about regime change for so called freedom. OK, you can apparently change sex over in the U.K so long as you take the medicine. Is that freedom by just wearing a dress ?. I do not think so. R J Cook
April 1st 2022
Russian Away.
Russia cannot win a war against Ukraine because Putin is fighting resource rich NATO who do not care about freezing and starving their masses. Similarly , Zelensky cannot make decisions about peace because he was put in post by the Western elites.
I have enough reasons of my own to be terrified, but the Ukraine boss needs to be careful and do as he is told, even though what is happening in the rubble all around him is heart-breaking. people laughed when he assumed power. There is nothing to laugh about now. There is no happy ending any time soon.
So many lives have already been lost. In the words of Joan Baez protesting against the Vietnam War, “How many dead men will it take to build a dyke that will not break.”
It is quite simple, if you put the dead and valuable infrastructure destroyed to one side, the balance of power concept was drummed in to me when I started my Aylesbury College A Level History course in 1968. Years later , after long travels, I ended up back at this place in the 80s, teaching the same course.
Russia faces rising sugar prices, shortages as traders divert shipments
By Maytaal Angel
Read More Russia faces rising sugar prices, shortages as traders divert shipments (msn.com)
Russia accuses Ukraine of using two military helicopters to attack fuel depot on Russian soil
Joe-duggan
kraine has been accused of using two military helicopters to launch a missile attack on a fuel depot on Russian soil in the city of Belgorod.
It is the first time that Russia has accused Ukraine of launching an air strike on its territory since Moscow invaded its neighbour on 24 February.
Video images posted online, which have not been verified, showed what looked like several rockets being fired from low altitude, followed by a huge explosion at the oil facility near the Ukrainian border.
March 31st 2022
Ukraine news fatigue is setting in, just as Putin hoped it would
Ian Dunt –
You can feel it happening now. People are starting to lose interest. Ukraine slips off the main headlines every so often – for the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, or the Partygate fines. It’ll slip off again soon, then more regularly. And eventually, a few months from now, it’ll be a news-in-brief, a few quick paragraphs detailing the who-where-when of Russia’s latest atrocity, with a body count tacked on the end.
We’re a month in, and journalists are already starting to report that Ukrainian stories are getting less views, that they’re starting to lose reader interest. People are beginning to switch off.
You can see it in how the story is covered, as well as the priority it’s given. Our standard tribal enmities are slowly seeping back into the debate. That brief moment of shared moral outrage is fading away.
“It’s not thuggish Vladimir Putin who is losing his marbles but doddery Joe Biden,” a recent Daily Mail comment headline read. Biden’s great crime was to say: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
Read More Ukraine news fatigue is setting in, just as Putin hoped it would (msn.com)
Comment More patronising western media drivel with obvious panic that people might start to realise that this is more Western Style regime change propaganda from the global elite. More is being revealed between the lines. Add to that the impact on everyday living costs from absurd moralising sanctions, western war crimes so covered up that Assange will never se the light of day again, along with obvious anti white bias toward Ukrainian refugees, and the cracks in the media dam to hold back truth, start to appear. One feels rather amused my Dunt’s bitchy outrage. R J Cook
March 29th 2022
Macron reacts to Biden’s Putin ‘butcher’ comments
The French president made it clear that he himself “wouldn’t use such words”
The escalation of the conflict in Ukraine through words or actions should be avoided, French leader Emmanuel Macron has warned, after US President Joe Biden labeled his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “a butcher,” who “cannot remain in power.”
When asked to comment on the statements made by Biden on the final day of his visit to Poland on Saturday, Macron said that, personally speaking, he “wouldn’t use such words.”
The French leader told the broadcaster France 3 that he was planning to talk to Putin about the situation in Ukraine in the next two days. He said his goal was “achieving first a ceasefire and then the total withdrawal of [Russian] troops by diplomatic means.”
“If we want to do that, we can’t escalate, either in words or actions,” Macron stressed.
Biden had earlier called Putin a “butcher” after visiting a stadium in Warsaw hosting Ukrainian refugees. In his speech later on that day, the US president proclaimed, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
Read More Macron reacts to Biden’s Putin ‘butcher’ comments — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Comment We at RCONB seriously miss RT’s truly independent journalism. I am aware that they are hostile to politicisation of transsexualism, but at least I know that is due to fears of undermining traditional role models – not rubbish about trans folk raping Britain’s amazingly sex women ( sic ) in dirty public toilets – assuming they can find any !.. Most have been sold off to become expensive houses or colleges.
Sadly traditional roles have gone in the U.K and U.S , with the EU not looking too good either. Victimising transsexuals without considering the poisonous effect of bigoted TERF feminisms an Islam, is not going to resolve anything. Islam does at least have some idea that traditions are important, but their religion is not compatible with environmental balance, but neither is global capitalism.
In my view, whatever Vladimir Putin’s shortcomings, he is not a butcher who wants to blow up the world. Nor does the EU. The madmen and women, like Truss, are posturing war mongers with no concept of what is happening. It is black and white, good and evil. It also makes a lot of money.
Watching U.K Sky News and BBC, it was smug self righteousness. Ideas of balance of power are long gone. Russia and China are still seen as communist. That threatens the global elite privileges and luxury. So Zelensky talking of accepting NATO neutrality does not please western privileged media. Ultimately he is not in chargge which is why recent negotiators all fell ill. The U.S & U.K had much to gain from this.
Sky were saying this is a humiliating defeat to Russia because they won’t get the Donbas and should lose Crimea. They are goading Putin. They want him out and crass European elite greed culture rolling in and all the way up to China.
For the sake of balance and China’s silk Road, we must hope for Russia and Ukraine to resolve differences, end the killing and stop adulating the EU along with the U.K and U.S beyond. The U.K , U.S A have a police state mentality. Russia wants a balance of power. NATO wants dominance.
These countries elites do very little good for their people and are fooling them into wartime fantasies of reliving the false glories of two previous vile rich man’s wars, where the poor pay for it with higher prices and tax,, where the rich got richer while the poor are comforted with religious delusion, so many paying with their lives.
The world needs many regime changes, but western elites would be hard to to topple. Then there are the African and Middle Eastern tyrants so loved by the likes of Britain with rubbish about a Commonwealth. Russia is a beacon of hope, not perfect, but not a nation of hypocrites. R J Cook
March 28th 2022
Russia switches tactics to grind down Ukraine’s army in the east
By Nebi Qena and Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to possibly end the war.
The bulk of the Ukrainian army is concentrated in eastern Ukraine, where it has been locked up in fighting with Moscow-backed separatists in a nearly eight-year conflict. If Russia succeeds in encircling and destroying the Ukrainian forces in the country’s industrial heartland called Donbas, it could try to dictate its terms to Kyiv and, possibly, attempt to split the country in two.
The Russian military declared on Friday that the “first stage of the operation” had been largely accomplished, allowing Russian troops to concentrate on their “top goal — the liberation of Donbas”.
Read More Russia switches tactics to grind down Ukraine’s army in the east (msn.com)
Voices: Zelensky shouldn’t trust Putin – or quit while he’s ahead
Sean O’Grady
General Kyrylo Budanov is someone worth listening to. The head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Service has the great distinction of not only predicting with confidence the Russian invasion weeks before it happened, but he also knows more about what is going on in this war than Vladimir Putin does. This is for the simple reason that the Russian junior commanders fear to tell their bosses the truth, and the colonels dare not tell Putin the truth.
Read More Voices: Zelensky shouldn’t trust Putin – or quit while he’s ahead (msn.com)
Comment This is a report by the not so Independent internet news. It is owned by a friendly oligarch with a grudge against Vladimir Putin. It represents the alleged British anti Putin consensus.
The British Government and Parliament is dominated by comfortable opinionated females and posturing men keen to display their masculinity. Like the male transphobes, they suffer from M.I.S.S -Masculinity Insecure Sex Syndrome. They , like the U.K and U.S media want Anglo U.S troops in Ukraine to fight the evil Putin, then march on to infest Russia with their institutional corruption, greed and lies. They want the World and think they can win, which is why NATO set this up
Biden is showing restraint, but Britain still has delusions of Imperial grandeur. It’s pampered elite are sending what Truss calls ‘lethal exports.’ Britain is well and truly in this war and MPs want a no fly zone.. They want to prolong it and remove Putin.
Zelensky has become more reasonable with Russia but we here at RCONB do not believe Zelensky is free to decide.. Britain and NATO do not want Ukraine to be neutral and the EU wants its resources. R J Cook
Watch: Rachel Johnson slammed for saying she could ‘live with’ handing Putin part of Ukraine
“Are you OK, Rachel Johnson, dividing up London if that ends the war in Ukraine? Wait, Putin probably has part of London already.”
Read More Rachel Johnson says she could ‘live with’ handing Putin part of Ukraine (thelondoneconomic.com)
Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged – Roberta Jane Cook
Comment This above headline is a perfect example of how there is only one correct opinion in so called British democracy, where atrocities like Operation ‘Shock & Awe ” in the illegal Anglo U.S War on Iraq and in Donbas go unnoticed by Western Media Elites and War Crimes experts.
The same goes for the alleged shooting of Russian POWs, where western media instantly discounts videos as Russian lies. Only the demonised Russians lie it seems.
As for the British media idiot comparing dividing Ukraine to dividing London to Ukraine, what a cretin. As for dividing off Ukraine from Russia, so badly in the first place, thank western lackey Boris Yeltsin for that. As for the current war, thank power and money grabbing NATO for offering Ukraine’s elite EU & NATO membership after overthrowing the elected government in favour of oligarch Poroshenko in 2014, triggering Ukraine’s Donbas genocide and the nightmare we have today.
Never mind, the people traffickers have never had it so good with so many young women forced to flee the country, as they did in 2014 . I have written elsewhere about how I met one of those poor girls who was working as a stripper and prostitute in a club next door to Limassol Police Station, Cyprus 2014.
This is a rotten world, run for and governed by the rich in the west, a system they cannot wait to extend via the weapons loving NATO. We are supposed to judge the wonders of our ‘free’ democracies by how badly the elite represent China and the east. I judge them by their hypocrisy and what they have done to Julian Assange. R J Cook
Ukraine to investigate after video shows alleged Russian POWs being shot: Zelensky aide
by Victor I. Nava, Overnight News Editor
Peace Hope“
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said his government would consider declaring neutrality and offering security guarantees to Russia, including keeping Ukraine nuclear-free.
Both Ukraine and Russia are set to hold fresh peace talks in Turkey this week.
He told independent Russian journalists on Sunday that the issue of neutrality – and agreeing to stay out of Nato – should be put to Ukrainian voters in a referendum after Russian troops withdraw.
March 27th 2022
Russia just sent a chilling reminder to the world of its nuclear arsenal
Sinead Butler
Speaking on Saturday (March 26), Medvedev detailed the four different scenarios in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, The Guardian reported.Viewers Had To Look Away When This Happened On Live TVAdAdLife Indigo
“We have a special document on nuclear deterrence. This document clearly indicates the grounds on which the Russian Federation is entitled to use nuclear weapons. There are a few of them, let me remind them to you: number one is the situation, when Russia is struck by a nuclear missile. The second case is any use of other nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies.
“The third is an attack on a critical infrastructure that will have paralysed our nuclear deterrent forces. And the fourth case is when an act of aggression is committed against Russia and its allies, which jeopardised the existence of the country itself, even without the use of nuclear weapons, that is, with the use of conventional weapons.”
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Additionally, Medvedev warned how there is a “determination to defend the independence, sovereignty of our country, not to give anyone a reason to doubt even the slightest that we are ready to give a worthy response to any infringement on our country, on its independence”.Continue reading
Read More Russia just sent a chilling reminder to the world of its nuclear arsenal (msn.com)
‘They will see our faces’: Ukrainians in embattled cities insist Vladimir Putin can never take their country
By The Sunday PostMarch 27, 2022
Ukrainians in embattled cities insist Vladimir Putin can never take their country and insist they will continue to step forward to resist his troops.
When we were leaving, everything was destroyed
Mariupol, by Haley Bader
Alla spent three weeks sheltering in a basement in the smashed city of Mariupol as Russian shells rained down. The 87-year-old slept on a wooden board, with no light or clean water. Instead, the basement’s desperate occupants bled the building’s central heating system.
“It was brown, this water. They filled up anything they had.” Her grandson, Misha, had called her at five in the morning after the bombing started on February 24 and told her to get ready to leave. Alla did not imagine what was in store, did not even pack underwear. “How little you have,” her grandson said when he saw her.
Joe Biden’s gaffe in Warsaw is a gift to the Kremlin and has raised Western fears about his leadership
Victoria-craw
Just for once it seemed everything was going Joe Biden’s way. His European trip was wrapping up, and had secured gripping images countering the narrative that his presidency was lost at sea.
But nine ad-libbed words in Warsaw then raised fresh questions about Biden’s capacity to lead the West in its standoff against Vladimir Putin.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power” is, of course, a statement of fact. But regime change in Moscow is not US policy. For weeks, the President and his top advisers have twisted themselves into pretzels to avoid indicating whether they think it’s “game over” for the Kremlin dictator.
A message for Biden or a change in war tactics – why did Vladimir Putin target Lviv?
Ian Collier, news reporter
Read More A message for Biden or a change in war tactics – why did Vladimir Putin target Lviv? (msn.com)
Why Europe can’t quit Russian natural gas
by Jeremy Beaman, Energy and Environment Reporter |
Europe is on a tear to reorient its energy markets away from Russian natural gas in response to the war in Ukraine.
But the continent’s entrenched trade relationship with its neighbor, buttressed by long-term and legally binding purchasing contracts, is currently keeping the fuel flowing.Next VideoReporter’s Notebook: US-NATO response to the Ukraine invasion08:40×01:02/01:32
The Europeans are still piping in gas from Russia to the tune of hundreds of millions of cubic feet per day, even as the West has made it a main project to starve President Vladimir Putin’s “war chest” of funds received via oil and gas purchases from state-owned
Read More Why Europe can’t quit Russian natural gas | Washington Examiner
Putin hits back at attempts to ‘cancel’ Russia
The moves to “erase” Russian culture in response to Ukraine conflict are akin to Nazi book burnings, the president said
Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared efforts by the elites in the West to weaponize “cancel culture” against famous Russian composers and writers – in response to the country’s military offensive in Ukraine – to Nazi book burnings.
“Today, they are trying to cancel the whole of our thousand-year-old country, our people,” Putin said on Friday at a virtual meeting with recipients of presidential awards for achievements in fine arts and literature. The president blasted what he called “growing discrimination of everything connected to Russia” in some Western countries. He added that the process was “tolerated and sometimes encouraged by the ruling elites.”
Read More Putin hits back at attempts to ‘cancel’ Russia — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Rubles-for-gas plan breaches contract – EU
The currency companies must pay for Russian fossil fuels is fixed in their contracts, the bloc’s leaders claim
Leaders from some European Union member states have claimed that Moscow’s demand that “unfriendly” countries pay rubles for Russia’s gas could breach supply contracts, Reuters reported on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered that gas contracts with “unfriendly countries” – those responsible for sanctions against Russia – be settled in rubles only. The announcement sent European gas prices soaring, raising concerns of a possible energy crunch in the EU.
Read More Rubles-for-gas plan breaches contract – EU — RT Business News
More on World War 3.
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 26 March |
Hunter Biden did fund Ukraine biolabs, emails published by media suggestHunter Biden reportedly helped arrange financing for US contractor in Ukraine that researched pandemic-causing pathogens
March 25th 2022
NATO slammed as former US Army chief exposes ‘two big issues’ in united Russia response
Ebun Hargrave
US Army vice chief of staff general Jack Keane, sat down on LBC radio to talk about the NATO conference which took place earlier this week. Mr Keane discussed the possibility that Putin could deploy chemical biological weapons on the battlefield. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already used the highly condemned thermobaric weapons since the war started just over a month ago.
The US Army chief acknowledged there had been no public policy declaration on the consequences Putin would face if he was to take such a barbaric action.
Mr Keane said: “Listen I was very disappointed by the NATO summit.
“I totally applaud the fact that they’re going to increase by 40k troops in Eastern Europe.
“And they’re increasing sanctions and it seems like a sense of unity.
“But on two big issues, it’s got to be disappointing, there’s no NATO public policy declaration.
Read More NATO slammed as former US Army chief exposes ‘two big issues’ in united Russia response (msn.com)
Russia says it’s changing focus in Ukraine – what could this mean for the war?
Olive Enokido-Lineham, News reporter –
Stronger military efforts by Russian forces in the east of Ukraine would make sense but they’ll have to fight hard to maintain control, a defence expert has said.© ReutersService members of pro-Russian troops in the southern port city of Mariupol – which does not have an agreed humanitarian corridor today
As Russian troops face fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces in key cities like Kyiv, the Kremlin now says it will refocus its efforts on the Donbas region.
But in a visit to Warsaw today, President Joe Biden said he is “not sure they have” when asked if he believed the Russians have changed strategy in Ukraine.© Associated PressPregnant women moved from Mariupol hospital were sheltering in the bombed theatre. Pic: AP
Many experts, however, have said that Vladimir Putin’s original war aims focused on regime change – but his troops have made limited progress, particularly in key areas like the capital.
Read More Russia says it’s changing focus in Ukraine – what could this mean for the war? (msn.com)
Biden calls on Russian people to stand against Putin to stop the war
by Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter |
WARSAW — President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to the people of Russia to stand up to President Vladimir Putin to stop his military assault on Ukraine.
Biden implored the people of Russia to reject Putin’s bloody invasion into neighboring Ukraine, an act that has been met with some resistance from both Russian civilians and troops.
Read More Biden calls on Russian people to stand against Putin to stop the war | Washington Examiner
Comment One assumes that Putin realises this is a World War. He was too slow to act because he simply wanted to stop something that had already happened under Poroshenko. Ukraine was de facto NATO, which is why all the weapons and ordnance were in place along with trainers and expertise, along with mercenaries and western trainers, not to mention CIA and MI6.
The United States has much to commend it, but some terrible institutional and infrastructure issues. Its immigration policy is worse than chaotic. It is a random free for all. The United States has plundered Latin America for a very long time, all for resources. They do deals with the drug barons. Their policies aren’t that different from the ones they have in Europe and the Middle East. It doesn’t matter how hideous the killing. Who remembers Oliver North and the Contras ?
So imagine Putin telling Americans to rise up against their war mongering war criminal government. Who remembers the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and Cambodia. Who remembers the British in Malaya.
Having said all of that, I don’t understand why Putin did not attack sooner and go straight to annexing the Donbas. R J Cook
Russia running out of precision munitions in Ukraine war and will use more dumb bombs, says Pentagon official
Ruchira Sharma
Russia’s supply of precision guided munitions is low meaning the country is more likely to rely on so-called dumb bombs and artillery, a senior Pentagon official has said.
Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Colin Kahl shared the latest intelligence claiming that Vladimir Putin’s forces were running low on precision guided weapons and missiles and were therefore much more likely to use unguided explosives.
So-called dumb bombs, also referred to as unguided bombs, do not contain a guidance system and therefore follow a ballistic trajectory.
Russia’s ex-president explains decision to ditch dollar and euro for gas trade
Dmitry Medvedev told RT that Western sanctions left Moscow no other choice
Russia had no other choice but to switch to its national currency, the Russian ruble, in its energy trade with Western nations, due to the nature of sanctions imposed on the country, the former head of state explained to RT and Ria Novosti journalists on Thursday.
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008-2012 and is currently the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, argued that President Vladimir Putin’s decision on Wednesday to switch to rubles in its energy trade with Western buyers is perfectly logical, with Moscow having no other option under the circumstances.
“They shut down the correspondent accounts for our commercial banks, made settlements in dollars and euros impossible and disconnected the banks on the sanctions list from SWIFT, at least some of them. What did they think we were going to do?” the Russian politician inquired rhetorically.
JK Rowling hits back at Vladimir Putin after he drags her into row over ‘cancelling Russian culture’
JK Rowling has responded to Vladimir Putin after the Russian president cited the Harry Potter author during a rant about cancel culture.
She said that “critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians”.
Comment Vicious transphobe J K Rowling is quick to grab an opportunity to redeem herself, jumping on Vladimir Putin for his reference to Western Cancel Culture. She is , like Boris, looking for a diversion to make herself look like an angel among heroes.
It is the best bandwagon since Covid Lockdown and Masks became a new national religion. Rowling knows as much about the Russo Ukraine War as she does about transgender. Her comments on Putin and Ukraine are as hideously superficial and pseudo moralistic as her dangerous drivel about transsexuals.
Vladimir Putin is right to point out the realities of western dictatorship – which set up this proxy war using Ukraine to fire its bullets.. Rowling, as an obvious TERF feminist and feminist dictator who has done a lot of harm, has no right to lecture Putin. Putin is simply pointing out that Western Culture is far from ideal and its claim to righteous democracy is bogus.
R J Cook.
March 23rd 2022
Russian diplomat: If NATO threatens us we have the right to press the nuclear button
Martha Kelner, US correspondent
The Russian deputy ambassador to the UN says Russia retains the right to use nuclear weapons if the country is “provoked” by NATO.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, one of Russia’s top diplomats in the United States, spoke to Sky News after Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said his boss could push the nuclear button if the country feels it is facing an “existential” threat.
Read More Russian diplomat: If NATO threatens us we have the right to press the nuclear button (msn.com)
Comment
Unfortunately , as with the United States, Russia’s constitution makes this clear. One does not need to be Sherlock Holmes to realise that the U.S and U.K set up this NATO nightmare war with Ukraine as proxy. Putin cannot back off and NATO doesn’t want to. The press would have a field day if they did and Boris Johnson, along with Biden would be seen for what they are. I expect a lot more misery, exhortations to sacrifice and western propaganda before the nuclear stage becomes Putin’s last resort.
R J Cook
Russia to expel a number of U.S. diplomats -Interfax
Corrections and clarificationsHans Zimmer pays tribute to Ukraine musicians during London stage return
(Reuters) -Russia told the United States on Wednesday it would throw out an unspecified number of American diplomats in response to a U.S. move to expel Russian staff from the permanent U.N. mission, Interfax news agency said.
The agency also cited the Russian foreign ministry as telling the United States that any hostile actions against Moscow would provoke a decisive response.
Last month Washington said it had expelled 12 Russian diplomats at the United Nations over national security concerns, describing them as “intelligence operatives”.
Read More Russia to expel a number of U.S. diplomats -Interfax (msn.com)
EU shame as bloc poised to import record levels of Russian energy: ‘Securing supplies!’
Callum Hoare
EU ambassadors will continue working on proposals to curb soaring energy prices ahead of a summit on Thursday. A leaked draft reportedly shows that the Commission is ready to call on EU countries to ill up their gas stores at least 90% before the next winter. The move, according to Politico, is to reduce Europe’s “dependency on Russian gas, oil and coal imports:.
But, the draft calls on these members to start refilling gas storage “as soon as possible” and preferably by working “together on the joint purchase of gas, LNG and hydrogen.
Diplomats have already reportedly raised concerns that this could lead to record imports of gas from the Kremlin, who is currently offering energy at “discount” rates.
Read More EU shame as bloc poised to import record levels of Russian energy: ‘Securing supplies!’ (msn.com)
Comment One should be forgiven for ever thinking that Britain has left the EU. Sanctions against Russia were coming. Nordstream 2 was not going to happen. Britain’s elite conned its ignorant population into thinking Brexit meant an end to Islamic immigration.
The reverse was the case, because – as blocking white Ukrainian refugees demonstrates – the elite do not want intelligent well educated white East Europeans. The Express represents the Western NATO interest. They have no moral right to talk of shame. Let Us look at the Express newspaper and its owner.
Launched and founded in December 1974 today’s Express is currently owned by Richard Desmond, it publishes the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and the magazines OK!, New!, Star, and TV Pick Magazine.
Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December 1951) is a British publisher, and former pornographer.
According to the 2021 Sunday Times Rich List, Desmond was the 107th richest person in the United Kingdom. He is the founder of Northern & Shell, a publisher known for running The Health Lottery and for having owned a variety of pornographic titles and of celebrity magazines (including OK! and New!), Britain’s Channel 5, pornographic television network Portland,] and Express Newspapers.
In 2020, Desmond was involved in controversy after pressuring the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert Jenrick to overrule the Planning Inspectorate and approve a housing development for Desmond’s company. The timing of the decision saved the company £40 million but was later overturned.
NATO should have left Ukraine alone. Russia was already aware of persistent efforts to undermine its government, in particular Vladimir Putin. It was a very simple request to maintain Ukraine’s neutrality from NATO. I am writing this while listening to incessant BBC propaganda telling the U.K that it is all Russia’s fault. There is no Nazism, so goes the BBC rhetoric. There is no truth that Russian is a banned language or that there has been genocide.
Russian regime change is a must then onto the real enemy, China. So Britain and the U.S lead the charge that Russia will attack all Europe. As with how they provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this could be a self fulfilling prophecy.
So back to Richard Desmond. It is O.K for a man whose fortune was founded on pornography to call the EU immoral for wanting to continue Russian gas imports. It is clear that the U.K and U.S are doing all they can, as one, to force Europe to take the more expensive U.S liquified gas.
It is the same old rabble and fear rousing that lured the masses into the last two wars. We will , no doubt, soon be hearing that God is on our side. I am sure Biden and Boris, with their crews, consider themselves men of destiny. the rest of us are just dross and cannon fodder. Sanctions and rising living costs won’t affect the elite , including overpaid opinionated media propagandists. Don’t forget , sanctions are two way and are already hitting us lower orders very hard. U.K and U.S led NATO are determined to prolong this war. The U.S are now talking about sanctioning China for supporting Russia and China.
They have made clear they want Vladimir Putin jailed for war crimes, their memories clean wiped of their atrocities in the Middle East and the jailing of war crime whistle blower Julian Assange. For this and so many other reasons, I believe I live in a western police that lies, deceives, divides to rule, serving only the rich elite – with lower classes paying the taxes, higher prices and losing even more of their few freedoms.. Our government have no mandate for supporting this war and wasting taxpayers money. If Putin is so evil, it begs the question how the global economy came to be.
R J Cook
Russia ‘planning attacks from Chernobyl exclusion zone after looting radiation lab’
Sam Courtney-Guy
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Ukraine has accused Russia of plotting attacks from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, having ‘looted and destroyed’ a lab containing radioactive samples.
Putin’s forces seized Chernobyl at the start of his invasion and were said to have taken its hundreds of staff hostage.
The plant has to be carefully managed to avoid further nuclear disasters like the meltdown of 1986 and is said to contain state-of-the-art equipment unique across Europe.
The ransacked Central Analytical Laboratory was used to process radioactive waste from the exclusion zone around the plant.
Read More Russia ‘planning attacks from Chernobyl exclusion zone after looting radiation lab’ (msn.com)
Mr Putin’s Super Yacht to be seized by NATO in worsening proxy war.
Vladimir Putin’s alleged ‘secret’ superyacht, complete with a gigantic swimming pool and piano that plays itself, could be seized in Italy. The 140-metre boat, thought to be the most expensive in the world, is currently undergoing repairs in Marina di Carrara Related: Keep up with all of today’s Russia-Ukraine news here (Picture: Anadolu Agency)
March 22nd 2022
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 20 March |
Deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet killed in UkraineDeputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been killed amid Russian offensive in Ukraine’s southeastRead more on the site
Ukraine and Russia close to agreement on ‘critical’ issues – TurkeyRussia and Ukraine are nearing agreement on some “critical” issues, the Turkish foreign minister said following meetings in Moscow and KievRead more on the site
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 20 March |
Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing Mariupol schoolUkrainian authorities have accused Moscow of bombing an art school, where some 400 civilians were said to be shelteringRead more on the site
Ukraine crisis could hit global growth – OECDThe Organization for Economic Development has warned the Russia-Ukraine conflict could cut global GDP growth and push up inflationRead more on the site
Biden sticks with Trump tariffs despite inflation and economic headwinds
by Haisten Willis, Staff Reporter | March 22, 2022
While he sought to portray himself as the polar opposite of former President Donald Trump during the 2020 campaign, President Joe Biden has stuck with some Trump administration policies since taking office, including on the thorny issue of tariffs.
Biden notably lifted some steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union last fall, but those measures remain in effect beyond a certain level of imports. And Biden has maintained nearly all of Trump’s tariffs on China, even in the face of high inflation and supply chain shortages.
Read More Biden sticks with Trump tariffs despite inflation and economic headwinds | Washington Examiner
WH Anticipates Global Food Shortage From War; Banks Seize $2 Billion From Evergrande | NTD Business
Ofcom revokes Russia Today’s broadcast licence with immediate effect
Kieren Williams & Ashley Summerfield
Ofcom has revoked Russia Today’s broadcast licence with immediate effect amid 29 ongoing investigations into the due impartiality of its news and current affairs coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The broadcasting watchdog wrote: “Following an independent regulatory process, we have today found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a licence in the UK. As a result we have revoked RT’s UK broadcasting licence.”
Read More Ofcom revokes Russia Today’s broadcast licence with immediate effect (msn.com)
Comment Ofcom said that: “We consider that given these constraints it appears impossible for RT to comply with the due impartiality rules of our Broadcasting Code in the circumstances. ‘
Having been an avid viewer of RT, the only bias I noticed was against the transgender production line. That is because as a conservative society, this phenomenon appears understandably destabilising. I say this and understand it , even as a transsexual. I am sickened by the politicising of gender, whether it be TERF feminism, LGBTQI or ‘normal’ feminism. As for the gender queer, who believe there are 120 different genders, I can see why so called western democracy disturbs thinking Russians.
The above extract from the OFCOM report is almost funny. It is definitely absurd. Mainstream media in the U.K is 100% biased in favour of Ukraine because they and the U.S engineered this war, via NATO. China is their big worry and Russia is step one to dealing with it. Energy is a big issue in this war. Biden has said we are on the verge of a new world order which must be led by the United States.
He and UK’S Churchill fantasist , fellow American, Boris Johnson have emphasised several time s that Nordstream 2 will not be allowed to come on line. That is why Europeans and U.K households face up to triple energy bills with more to come next year because energy companies must gold plated profits, and rising prices due to increased transport costs.
Here in the U.K we are told inevitable tax rises are all for the greater good. On top of that, some dotty member of the unelected House of Lords has insisted legislation be amended to accept a minimum of 10,000 ‘refugess on top of the usual 10,000 ‘asylum seekers’ per year. There is no mention of allied increased infrastructure, such as housing, jobs and health care – in spite of the misery of so many natives are experiencing.
As I write, the BBC are whining about the plight of Navalny and Mariupol ,whilst they never mention the fate of Anglo U.S war crime whistle blower Julian Assange. So it is incredible that Ofcom can offer such condemnation of RT, whilst expecting more intelligent and open minded British not to spot the hypocrisy – or how NATO provoked and are prolonging this tragedy.
R J Cook.
March 21st 2022
China plays ‘peacemaker’ while amplifying Russian justifications for Ukraine war
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter
China is attempting to present itself as a peace mediator in Russia’s war against Ukraine while amplifying Kremlin narratives attempting to justify the war and pointing the finger at the United States.
While claiming it stands for “peace” in Ukraine, the Chinese government repeatedly blamed the U.S. for violence in Ukraine in recent weeks, variously blaming Western exuberance over the collapse of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, NATO’s membership expansion over the years, and the U.S.’s provision of weaponry to Ukraine before and after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
March 19th 2022
Incredible Western Moralising Propaganda.
‘Like the horrific events of WWII’: Thousands of Ukrainians ‘forcibly taken’ to Russia
David Mercer, home affairs reporter and Alexa Phillips, news reporter
Thousands of people trapped in Mariupol have been “forcibly taken” to Russia, Ukrainian officials say – with the latest attack on the besieged city reportedly destroying an art school being used as a bomb shelter.
Read More ‘Like the horrific events of WWII’: Thousands of Ukrainians ‘forcibly taken’ to Russia (msn.com)
‘Life Jim, But Not As We Knew It’ – by Roberta Jane Cook.
Comment A World War Two Analogy is typical of the drivel being used by NATO and tame mainstream media. If one wants to hark back to World War Two, then one must face up to reality of Western Ukraine’s fighting with the Nazis.
One also has to face up to the fact that Ukrainian forces are using residential areas, schools and hospitals as cover for their military.
Propaganda and supplying arms, along with covert forces, is going to prolong the agony, leading to great danger, possibly a nuclear war. NATO provoked this by ignoring Russia’s reasonable demands. That is because they insist on Ukraine joining NATO, hence the coup. Then it is onwards to China. They also have to bury the Zelensky’ regime’s genocide on ethnic Russians in the Donbas, over 8 years of shelling and shooting.
Zelensky is president of nothing. He is a placeman. NATO are using the nightmare they have created, to suck Norway into their Mafia. Putin and Lavrov still hope for a negotiated peace. That is not going to happen. The global economy was and still is, supposed to lead to elite hegemony and plutocracy. Things have gone too far now.
To borrow a phrase, which apparently Captain Kirk never actually used : ‘This is life Jim, but not as we used to know it.’ The world has changed. It is even less stable and open to a climate & environmental disaster beyond imagination. The mealy mouthed weasel words I am hearing from the BBC as I write, are not going to stop this. Politically correct words won’t stop this or set the clock back. The demographic tectonic plates have shifted. The Poles and West Ukrainians, like Anglo U.S dominated NATO looked the other way when ethnic Russians were being terrorised and slaughtered.
Roberta Jane Cook.
Putin panicking at prospect of revolution in Russia inspired by Ukrainian democracy, says Boris Johnson
Andrew Woodcock
Vladimir Putin is panicking about the prospect of being overthrown by a revolution in Russia inspired by the example of freedom and democracy in Ukraine, Boris Johnson has said.
The prime minister said that Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was prompted by terror at the idea of Russians following the example of their neighbours.
Comment Johnson is upping the stakes for all he is worth in his Churchillian fantasy land. This NATO provoked war is perfectly timed to take attention away from him breaking his own ant democratic lockdown rules.
The Anglo Americans have an interesting idea of democracy. It involves voting for parties that are agreed on all key issues, including bombing in the name of that hypocritical planet eating ideology. Vladimir Putin made his issues with NATO very clear. He tried for too long and too hard, while the West equipped and prepared for war.
War is never fair on the masses. Decisions are taken and orders given way above their ignorant terrified heads. They pay and suffer for the brutal greed of so called leaders in the west. If Britain were a democracy , we would be free to criticise and hear the other party’s side of the story. The fact that dangerous buffoons like Johnson have to keep reminding us we have a democracy informs us that the reverse is true.
As for Ukrainian democracy, what a joke. The current regime was established when a western backed coup put Poroshenko in power , followed by Zelensky . The latter promised to end war with Russia over the Donbas genocide, which the west do not want to talk about. Ukraine is not a democracy any more than the U.K or U.S.A are. People in the Donbas have been shot bombed and occupied by Ukrainian far right armies for 8 years.. There is no proof of free and fair elections in East Ukraine. Outside humanitarian agencies and medias have refused to look at or for the evidence.
It will be a bad day for those of us who want genuine world wide democracy, not of the rich , for the rich, by the rich if NATO backed Ukraine wins this war. Ukraine could not fight Russia without NATO intelligence, mercenaries and weaponry. All Russia wanted was Minsk implemented. The fact that it wasn’t tells us all we need to no about Perfidious Albion , its mealy mouthed leadership and its allies’. R J Cook
March 18th 2022
Cruise missiles destroy building near Lviv airport, military says – as Klitschko warns of ‘war on civilians’ in Kyiv
Sunita Patel-Carstairs, news reporter
Several missiles have struck and destroyed a building near the airport in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, according to the city’s mayor.
Ukraine’s military said the aircraft repair plant was struck by cruise missiles fired from the direction of the Black Sea, which it said were likely Kh-555 weapons launched from heavy strategic bombers.
The plant was not in operation at the time of the strike and there were no casualties after at least three blasts, mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
Comment Lviv is the transit point of Western supplied military equipment and ordnance. This was a precision attack. Ukraine have a tactic of firing from residential areas and hospitals. R J Cook
‘Forward, Russia!’ Putin hails ‘special operation’ at massive celebration party for ‘reunification’ of Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the country’s “special operation” in Ukraine at a rally marking the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.
More Western Propaganda MSN
March 17th 2022
Analysis-U.S. gamble on China over Ukraine raises tensions with rival superpower
By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The Biden administration made a carefully orchestrated gamble this week, issuing a series of public and private threats to Beijing that it will face consequences if it supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The strategy was capped by a tense, seven-hour meeting in Rome on Monday between U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi.
But having fired loud diplomatic salvos at Beijing, Biden administration officials are still debating the next steps to take to ensure China does not help Russia evade Western sanctions or supply weapons to Moscow as casualties mount in Ukraine.
Read More Analysis-U.S. gamble on China over Ukraine raises tensions with rival superpower (msn.com)
On Stage by Roberta Jane Cook.
Comment Like all empires , the United States, founded by rich Englishmen using genocide of native Indians and black slaves traded by black leaders then bred, the United States pretends to care about common people. Like its parent country, it is divided more by class than race. The BLM banner is a cloak to hide under. The reality in the U.S is dirty, as with U.K , which the EU apes’.
In a school English discussion class when I was 15, I suggested that we humans needed to remember first that we are all animals. This was in the Buckinghamshire countryside. A well fed farmer’s daughter called Diane B, snapped back ” You might be an animal Cook, but I am not.” The irony of this snooty girl’s remark was not wasted on me. She is still around and probably still thinks she is above the laws of nature.
As with Boris Johnson in the U.K, Biden is playing to a gallery of morons and election fixers. Comparisons with Chamberlain and Munich misses the point. Munich was too late. It was too late when the Anglo French hypocritical leaders ( leading to the abyss and abattoir ) spitefully blamed Germany for World War One, ground the Germans down while they had fun.
The point of no return was when Hitler came to power in 1933. The U.S had their own problems and didn’t care until Japan attacked them in 1941. The same mind set , hiding behind melodramatic World War 2 Churchill clichés is alive and well. The analogies are in the wrong place. Mainstream overpaid media folk are reading from an autocue , even near the battlefield, with their ear plugs giving directions.
Outsiders in the west believe their media and can be relied upon to play the game, fantasising about victory over something they don’t understand because they are educated not to , even in the toilet paper world of the Uni degrees. They don’t even say the world University any more, because it is too long and there is no universal wisdom on offer. There is only the ‘Uni View.’ So it is no surprise the masses can’t or won’t see where this is going . China can..
Meanwhile there has been a surprise new Covid Virus outbreak in China. That’s where it started before, then hitting Russia. The West does not want anyone to know about the bio labs the Russians found in Ukraine. But the Chinese know. Everyone laughed when a comedian and second rate actor was dropped in , by the West /NATO to sustain the nightmare coup of 2008. I didn’t because I had worked with stand up comedians. I learned that modern comedy is about the right prejudices, sneering and ridiculing conservatism as a smokescreen for hypocrisy. modern comedians are ambitious, vain, conceited , smug and competitive. They like being on stage, none more so than Yelensky. R J Cook.
Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and who decides?
Associated Press
Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” on Wednesday for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine, where hospitals and maternity wards have been bombed.
But declaring someone a war criminal is not as simple as just saying the words. There are set definitions and processes for determining who is a war criminal and how they should be punished.
Here’s a look at how this all works:
Who is a war criminal?
The term applies to anyone who violates a set of rules adopted by world leaders known as the law of armed conflict. The rules govern how countries behave in times of war.
Read More Analysis-U.S. gamble on China over Ukraine raises tensions with rival superpower (msn.com)
Cold Bloodied Imbeciles
Roberta Jane Cook
Comment The system for all its fine words, is defined, implemented and controlled by the western elite. The court has to oblige and is constructed accordingly. Therefore the answer is, war criminals with exceptional ruling status decide. That is why they locked up Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange for revealing Anglo U.S War crimes in an illegal war. Obama alos has a case to answer. The U.S rely on the CIA , MI6 and SAS for their dirty tricks.
This is not justice. Biden clique threats of prosecution , extended against China is no route to peace and a stable world order. The point for peace was breached when the war crimes by the Ukraine, since western backed coup in 2014, were ignored by this court and other sanctimonious western led bodies. The point was also breached by the Anglo U.S elite whispering in Yelensky’s ear , that Ukraine’s NATO and EU membership was as good as done.
NATO and parasitical arms traders have no interest in a buffer zone because they want to move on to Russia and China. Meanwhile, Zelensky throws up NATO flak about Russia getting ready to take the whole of Eastern and Western Europe.
The vain western leaders are reckless imbeciles leading their people like lemmings off the World War Three cliff. Russia has no way out and the world is even more dependent on China. China knows that they are next on the regime change NATO list. It is asinine to speculate what China will do if the Boris / Biden bulls-i is Stacked any higher. by their careerist cold bloodied lackeys of both genders .. R J Cook
UN International Court of Justice orders Russia to halt invasion of Ukraine
Julian Borger in Washington
The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine, saying the court had not seen any evidence to support the Kremlin’s justification for the war, that Ukraine was committing genocide against Russian-speakers in the east of the country.
The court ruled by 13 votes to two for a provisional order that “the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine”. Only the Russian and Chinese judges on the court voted against the order.
The court president, US judge Joan Donoghue, said the court “is not in possession of evidence substantiating” Russian allegations of genocide on Ukrainian territory. In any case, she said it was “doubtful” the Genocide Convention gives any authority for the “unilateral use of force in the territory of another state”.
Read More UN International Court of Justice orders Russia to halt invasion of Ukraine (msn.com)
Comment Western hypocrisy continues to astonish me. The evidence for Ukraine’s genocide on ethnic Russians in the Donbas has been overwhelming since the outset in 2008. The evidence of Anglo U.S War crimes in Iraq and Guantanamo has been so obvious since whistle blowers Manning and Assange were jailed to shut them up. One can only conclude that there is no objective moral or natural justice basis for this court to pontificate. It is representative of war mongering NATO which backed an illegal war in Iraq, covered all with lies, killed tens of thousands destabilising the Middle East and North Africa. That atrocious carnage goes on – down played or ignored by vested interest elite media.
R J Cook.
March 16th 2022
Biden says he thinks Putin is ‘a war criminal’
President Joe Biden has labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal after weeks of the White House avoiding the phrase.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden told reporters Wednesday.
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Putin accuses west of seeking to destroy Russia and issues warning to ‘traitors’
Kieran Guilbert
Vladimir Putin has accused the west of trying to “violate” and “dismember” Russia and sent a warning to those within his country he labelled as traitors.
Addressing government ministers nearly three weeks into the war in Ukraine, the Russian president said what Moscow calls its “special military operation” was going to plan and that his country was ready to discuss neutral status for Ukraine.
Read More Putin accuses west of seeking to destroy Russia and issues warning to ‘traitors’ (msn.com)
Comment Vladimir Putin is spot on. They want to destroy Russian culture which is why they turned a blind eye to genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbas from 2008 to date. That is why the Anglo U.S led NATO provoked this war. R J Cook
How close are China and Russia and where does Beijing stand on Ukraine?
Helen Davidson in Taipei
How close are China and Russia?
Under the rule of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin China and Russia have becoming increasingly isolated from the west – and closer to each other.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine came just days after Xi and Putin cemented a significant partnership on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics – the first in-person, bilateral meeting Xi had attended since the pandemic began.
Read More How close are China and Russia and where does Beijing stand on Ukraine? (msn.com)
Hundreds detained at anti-war protest in Moscow – police
Law enforcement cordoned off a square not far from the Kremlin, ahead of demonstration against Russia’s actions in Ukraine
Read More Hundreds detained at anti-war protest in Moscow – police — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
West’s global political and economic dominance ends – Putin
The Russian president says the “myth of the Western welfare state, of the so-called golden billion, is crumbling”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has opined that the latest rounds of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine, mark the end of an era. According to Putin, from now on the West will be losing its “global dominance” both politically and economically.
Speaking on Wednesday, the Russian head of state proclaimed that the “myth of the Western welfare state, of the so-called golden billion, is crumbling.” Moreover, it is the “whole planet that is having to pay the price for the West’s ambitions, and its attempts to retain its vanishing dominance at any cost,” Putin said.
The president predicted food shortages across the world as Western sanctions against Russia are adversely affecting the entire global economy.
Touching on the decision by several Western powers to freeze Russia’s central bank assets, Putin claimed that this would only serve to irreparably undermine trust in those nations, and make other countries think twice before placing their reserves in the care of those countries. According to him, nearly half of Moscow’s assets were “simply stolen” by the West.
Addressing people in the West, the Russian leader said the massive sanctions imposed on Russia were already backfiring on the US and Europe themselves, with governments there trying hard to convince their citizens that Russia was to blame.
Putin warned ordinary people in the West that attempts to portray Moscow as the primary source of all their woes were lies, with a lot of those issues being the direct result of the Western governments’ “ambitions” and “political short-sightedness.”
The Western elites, according to Putin, have turned their countries into an “empire of lies,” but Russia will keep on presenting its own position to the whole world, no matter what.
Russia makes new claims on US-financed biolabs in Ukraine
The US has “covered” Ukraine with a network of biolaboratories linked to the Pentagon, the Russian Defense Ministry says
The Ukrainian authorities have been urgently destroying pathogens studied at its laboratories linked to the US Department of Defense, the Russian military claimed on Monday, adding that such activities hint at the military purposes of these studies.
As many as 30 biological laboratories have been established in Ukraine that are actively cooperating with the US military, the commander of the Russian radiological, chemical and biological defense force, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, said at a news briefing on Monday.
The list of these laboratories’ partners includes the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) – the largest biomedical research facility administered by the US military; the general added.
Many of these laboratories have been active since the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine and their emergence in the country has coincided with a spike in infectious diseases in the region, including German measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis, the Russian military said.
After the Russian forces launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, these laboratories started hastily destroying the materials they had been working on, including the highly pathogenic bacterial and viral agents, Kirillov has said, adding that Moscow has obtained documents related to that process.
Analysis of the documents shows that the laboratories had been working with dangerous infections such as anthrax and the plague. “Assortment and the excessive quantity of the biological agents suggest that the work done in these laboratories had been part of some military biological programs,” the general has said, adding that just one such laboratory in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov had destroyed as many as 320 containers with pathogens causing plague, swamp fever and Malta fever among others.
If these collections fall into the hands of the Russian experts, they will highly likely prove Ukraine and the US have been in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention,” Kirillov has said, adding that “this is the only reason that can explain the hasty destruction” of those materials.
The general has also expressed his concerns that all the biological materials needed for the alleged military biological program to continue had been already transported to the US.
Kiev has denied developing bioweapons, and Washington has not commented on the Russian military statements so far.
Moscow has been raising alarm about the activities of the US-financed biological laboratories located in the former Soviet states for quite some time. Earlier, it pointed to the Lugar Research Center – a US-funded laboratory in Georgia – as a place where some dangerous experiments are being conducted.
The Pentagon brushed off such accusations as a “Russian disinformation campaign” at that time.
Zelensky invokes 9/11, Pearl Harbor in plea to US Congress for no-fly zone
Ukrainian president urges boosted air protection for defense against Russia: ‘We need you right now’; tells Biden, ‘Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace’
Zelensky is being encouraged to talk dangerous ignorant rubbish about World War II in order to effectively start World War III. The Russians have reached the point of no return thanks to NATO and disinformation etc. They cannot be expected just to obey warnings not to fly over Ukraine. They will be shot down by ‘who knows.’
Zelensky wants the U.S and UK in there, with the best planes and pilots. Even just the aircraft from outside , will be an act of war. Zelensky is so self important because of NATO’s appetite for proxy wars, he wants World War with Russia, which will suck China in, faster than the best Dyson vacuum cleaner. The best one can say about Zelensky is that he is an absolute moron. As for NATO, they and their power crazed hypocritical scheming are beneath contempt. R J Cook
Journalist who staged on-air protest fears for her safety – but won’t flee Russia
A Russian television presenter, who staged an on-air protest over her country’s invasion of Ukraine has said she has no plans to flee, despite fears for her safety.
Marina Ovsyannikova held up a sign during a live broadcast on Channel One denouncing the war – a move the Kremlin described as “hooliganism”.
Following a court hearing on Wednesday, she was fined 30,000 roubles (£213) state media reported.
Latest updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Read More Journalist who staged on-air protest fears for her safety – but won’t flee Russia (msn.com)
Is Biden as stupid as he pretends to be ? By Roberta Jane Cook.
Comment This stupid arrogant woman is lucky to have gotten away with a fine. Of course here in the west, she is a hero ( not allowed to say heroine anymore ) because she is effectively and powerfully being used for western propaganda.
If Putin has any sense, while under such enormous pressure, he will leave her alone rather than martyr her for more western benefit. She was not employed to undermine Russia’s painful and strategic war. NATO do not have the moral high ground. Their war crimes are abundant and are never investigated – which is why they persecuted Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
NATO know perfectly well how they have fermented this murderous conflict. They only care about resources, power and wealth. They welcomed the oligarchs and laundered their money. Now the hypocrites want to punish them if they don’t abandon Putin. Absolutely incredible hypocrisy, revealing NATO, Johnson and the EU for what they are. Let us hope that Biden is not as stupid as he pretends to be. R J Cook
Zelensky: Ukraine Must Recognize It Will Not Join NATO
By Jack Phillips March 15, 2022 Updated: March 15, 2022
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country has to accept that it will not become a member of the NATO military alliance, a critical Russian concern that was used to justify the invasion.
“Ukraine is not a member of NATO. We understand that. We have heard for years that the doors were open, but we also heard that we could not join. It’s a truth and it must be recognized,” Zelensky said during a video conference with the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force on Tuesday.
He also again urged Western allies to provide Ukraine with fighter planes.
Read More Zelensky: Ukraine Must Recognize It Will Not Join NATO (theepochtimes.com)
Comment Zelensky ultimately is not in charge of Ukraine. NATO is. He is their place man and cannot go off message or he will be replaced. NATO wanted this war because they need to control and degrade Russia. This is because they fear an alliance with their ultimate economic and military competitor, China. The higher the death toll and the more they can deceive, the better it is for NATO. Putin is being lured into the dictator trap. If this continues, the cost to the global economy and social order will be enormous.
Britain, led by Boris, is a special danger; If the U.S joins in we have world war in the open. Then the masses will wonder why. Johnson thinks he is another Churchill so it suits him to portray Putin as his Hitler. Churchill was an appalling politician, coming to power when no one else wanted the job. But at least he was toff who had seen military service and combat. Johnson is a dangerous fantasist. R J Cook
How the Kremlin is resorting to Spetsnaz mercenaries and Syrian ‘volunteers’ to bolster Ukraine invasion
Cahal Milmo
Vladimir Putin is increasingly resorting to irregular forces including Russian mercenaries and Syrian fighters to bolster his invasion army in Ukraine after suffering significant losses, according to military analysts.
Some 400 Syrian troops, reportedly being paid $1,500 (£1,100) a month, are claimed to have arrived at training facilities in eastern Russian and southern Belarus in recent days as part of an initial contingent sent by the regime of dictator and Kremlin ally Bashar Al Assad.
Russia ‘sliding ever deeper into an abyss’ as Putin quits key human rights body
Nick Duffy
Russia will no longer recognise the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights amid tensions over the war in Ukraine, with rights experts decrying the step as a “tragedy for the victims of the Kremlin’s human rights abuses”.
Parliamentarians from across Europe on Tuesday were poised to vote on expelling Russia from the Council of Europe, the continent-spanning human rights body.
Read More Russia ‘sliding ever deeper into an abyss’ as Putin quits key human rights body (msn.com)
They are very concerned about Russia and China working to develop Africa and the Indian sub continent. Roberta Jane Cook
Comment
I totally agree with taking in refugees, but NATO undoubtedly provoked this war. I am very practical but also rather academic. As I said, before I had political ambitions. I have also lectured in political history. My first degree was in economics. In the first year I had to study economics, economic history, philosophy , social anthropology and sociology.
Those subjects have proven very useful to reading between the lines. I have also been a reporter and know the media. When Gorbachev began dismantling and opening up the Soviet Union, the Anglo U.S intelligence services backed a coup, putting the Vodka addicted Yeltsin in charge. He began selling of state assets to chosen cronies in hoc with the west, using Western borrowed dollars and stolen Soviet gold. These people became known as the Oligarchs. Their loot was welcome in the west, especially by Premier league football and Tory Party funds. The City of London did the money laundering.
The problem was that Putin took over, with a reforming agenda. All went well until NATO decided they needed the Yeltsin days back. I call NATO NUKUS because it is led by UK and US warmongering elites. They have have committed war crimes across the Middle East, Latin America ( I used to work for the Nitrate Corporation of Chile ) and in Africa – they are very concerned about Russia and China working to develop Africa and the Indian sub continent. .
All these backward areas are backward and overpopulated to make it easier controlling and exploiting the raw materials and crops needed by the west at the lowest prices. The press doesn’t write about this. When Assange leaked war crimes in Iraq, which was about oil, not weapons of mass destruction which never existed, he was framed for rape and is now facing extradition to the U.S. The media are shouting about Putin dropping out of the Human Rights Treaty, but UK and US never signed up because they claim to be exceptional. So this is where the deception starts.
There are interest groups in the U.K and U.S that want to frack for natural gas, a very dangerous and polluting process. They need to shut down Nordstream 2 until they get regime change. The global elite created the global economy for their benefit. They have been eager to shut it down as war on Russia, and for their benefit.
When the Soviet Union broke up, it was agreed in Minsk, to protect the ethnic Russians in the Donbas, East Ukraine. But the west backed a coup by the oligarch and horrible fascist Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko. This was 2008. He began a war on the ethnic Russians, which was subject to a western media news blackout. Putin supported these people who were also being attacked in Crimea.
That war has been going on since 2008. When Poroshenko left office to concentrate on more corrupt business, the Anglo Americans put one time comedian and B stream actor Yelensky in power. He has excelled. The war on the Donbas continued while the western world turned a blind eye. Then, when Putin got annoyed and recognised the Donbas breakaway republics, NATO began preparing Ukraine to join NATIO which would mean Nuclear weapons on Russia’s borders.
There has also been a lot of subversion by the west in Russia, because NATO’s main fear is China, far more organised and powerful economy and industrial military complex than the Anglo Americans or Europe. NATO needed a friendly Russia, by force if needed, to surround China. China knows this.
Meanwhile, the UK and US have been selling arms to Saudi Arabia, a cruel and corrupt regime for many years, supporting their genocide of the wrong kind of Muslim in Yemen ( known as Aden in British Empire Days ). The UK created this vile regime after World War One when they also created Iraq. Johnson is over there now arranging an oil deal to replace the Russian oil they intend to ban in order to force Russia to its knees.
These western politicians are not benign, but are good at propaganda. The previous two wars were about empires and wealth. The lower classes suffered and were slaughtered. They are starting to do it again because NATO will not back off from Ukraine and the Donbas will go suffering. People in this country are on the receiving end of very slick sick brainwashing. Anglo U.S attacked their old friend Saddam Hussein for 9/11, knowing that the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. The truth is stranger than fiction and bores ordinary people.
World War Two was not German peoples fault. Britain and France blamed them for World War One. Their inter war punishment was sanctions, reparations, starvation, death, disease, desperation and Hitler. Britain decided not to assassinate Hitler because our elite were more frightened of the Soviet Union’s communism.
They saw Hitler as someone who would invade and destroy the Soviets. The first ME109 fighters had Rolls Royce engines. The first BMWs were Austin 7s. History is repeating itself. The Russian Tsar, and German Kaiser were all Queen Victoria’s grandsons and Edward VII’s first cousins. World War One started just up the road from Ukraine. History is repeating itself. Putin is an easy scapegoat, but demonising him is making matters so much more volatile and anything could happen. Meanwhile, as I write, I have received a news feed that peace talks are going well. Let’s hope so.
Roberta Jane Cook
NATO on alert as alarm raised over Putin plot to launch devastating chemical weapons
Aleks Phillips
It comes just days after Ukrainian military intelligence reported Russian cars collecting the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers to “fake” evidence. A false flag operation involves making an attack appear to have been perpetrated by another belligerent.
Read More NATO on alert as alarm raised over Putin plot to launch devastating chemical weapons (msn.com)
Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are a Wake-Up Call for the World
Uri Friedman
He threatened any country that interfered in his invasion of Ukraine with “consequences greater than any you have faced in history.” He placed his nuclear forces on high alert and held exercises with them. And then he proclaimed that Western sanctions amounted to a “declaration of war” against Russia.
Read More Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are a Wake-Up Call for the World (msn.com)
March 15th 2022
Russian editor interrogated for 14 hours after telling viewers ‘they’re lying to you’
Emma Brazell
A brave Kremlin state TV editor who stormed a broadcast to demonstrate against the Ukraine war has reportedly been fined for making a video that called on Russians to protest.
Mum-of-two Marina Ovsyannikova risked the Kremlin’s wrath when she held up a sign behind a presenter which read: ‘NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They are lying to you here.’
Beforehand, she had filmed herself naming the Ukraine invasion ‘a crime’.
Today, a Russian court reportedly fined her $280 (£213) after finding her guilty of flouting protest legislation in relation to her video message.
Read More Russian editor interrogated for 14 hours after telling viewers ‘they’re lying to you’ (msn.com)
Comment This woman got off very lightly. She is a traitor, afraid for herself, not brave. Britain is clearly at war with Russia and global economy ramifications will be dire. Any news person in the U.K would be sacked and probably jailed. The fate of Julian Assange is a clue to what happens to anyone suggesting war crimes in the Anglo U.S NATO led sphere of ever growing influence. Over here we are supposed to believe right is on our side. There is no epistemological justification for Anglo U.S exceptionalism , as their conduct in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa attests. But they get away with it because people share a mixture of fear and ignorance. R J Cook
These foods could soon be in short supply due to the war in Ukraine
The world could be facing a food crisis with prices soaring and crops at risk due to the war in Ukraine, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has said.
Food prices were already high due to unpredictable weather, in part because of climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now with the invasion of Ukraine, the world’s food systems could be tipped into disaster. Exports are blocked, people can’t work the land in Ukraine and farmers can’t get the vital supplies they need to continue growing food.
Read More These foods could soon be in short supply due to the war in Ukraine (msn.com)
Comment . The Ukrainian puppet regime is corrupt and has conducted genocide in the Donbas since 2008. The West should not be lecturing anyone with their vile imperialistic foreign policies. This war is exposing more of the ‘rules based democracies. false freedoms and true tyranny. This is all just because NATO set Russia up for regime change. The Ukrainian puppet regime is corrupt and has conducted genocide in the Donbas since 2008. The West should not be lecturing anyone with their vile imperialistic foreign policies. This war is exposing more of the ‘rules based democracies. false freedoms and true tyranny. R J Cook.
Voices: The west needs more ‘neutral countries’ on our side against Putin
Vince Cable
Putin’s callous disregard for Ukraine’s sovereignty unites most governments against him. But 35 countries abstained on a United Nations motion condemning the invasions (which passed 141-5), with ambivalent comments coming in from important nations. The “neutrals” include not just traditional Russian allies such as Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam but big hitters from South Asia and Africa.
Read More Voices: The west needs more ‘neutral countries’ on our side against Putin (msn.com)
Covering the world with excrement – by Roberta Jane Cook.
Comment Dangerous drivel , but Cable clearly reveals the U.K is on the corrupt Ukraine’s side because Ukraine is effectively already in NATO. For Cable to ask for ‘neutral countries’ to join ‘our side’ is an oxymoron and an indicator of British political leaderships’ lack of intelligence.
This person is asking others to join what is effectively a world war, oblivious of the complexity of the global economy the global rich have constructed to exploit the masses for their own gain. They glorify the slaughter their sort engineered in 1914 and 1939.
They believe it is moral when they use their own as cannon fodder and kill the so called enemy. Zelensky is running around like the self centred posturing second rate actor that he was and still is, warning us that if we don’t help him, Europe will fall. Reality is that if the self serving war mongering elite get any further up Zelensky’s bottom, the consequent fart will destroy Europe and cover it with excrement. R J Cook
List of Irish companies ‘trading with Russia’ sent to Foreign Affairs Department
Cate McCurry
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The Ukrainian ambassador to Ireland has sent to the Foreign Affairs Department a list of Irish companies which she claims continue to trade with Russia.
Larysa Gerasko said she has asked the department to urge the companies to cut their trade and economic relationships with Russia amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Read More List of Irish companies ‘trading with Russia’ sent to Foreign Affairs Department (msn.com)
Comment What business is this of Ukrainian ‘Big Sister’ who doesn’t care about people losing their jobs just because NATO set Russia up for regime change. The Ukrainian puppet regime is corrupt and has conducted genocide in the Donbas since 2008. The West should not be lecturing anyone with their vile imperialistic foreign policies. This war is exposing more of the ‘rules based democracies. false freedoms and true tyranny. R J Cook.
Russian spies ‘infiltrated foreign fighters’ before airstrike on Ukrainian base
James Hockaday
Russian spies are feared to have posed as foreign fighters in order to leak information from a Ukrainian base destroyed in a missile strike.
Three British ex-special forces troops were feared to have died following Sunday’s devastating attack at the base near Yavoriv – just six miles from the Polish border.
Moscow said 180 ‘foreign mercenaries’ had been killed in the airstrike, but Kyiv said 35 died while 134 were wounded.
Read More Russian spies ‘infiltrated foreign fighters’ before airstrike on Ukrainian base (msn.com)
Academics raise concerns over ‘pro-Putinist’ smears
Catherine Lough
In education questions on Monday, chairman of the Commons Education Committee Robert Halfon said that an investigation by LBC had exposed “pro-Putinist propaganda at some of our leading universities”.
He said that at Leeds University, a retired professor, Ray Bush, had made reference to the United States having “chemical warfare installations in Ukraine – that’s a lie, as he knows, being spread by the Kremlin”.
Academics raise concerns over ‘pro-Putinist’ smears (msn.com)
The Kremlin takes the first steps to isolate the Russian internet from the rest of the world
Manu González Pascua
Since the invasion of Ukraine began, there have been rumors that Russia could decide to disconnect its citizens from the rest of the internet. On Monday, messages were leaked from the vice secretary of Digital Development, Andrei Chemenko, who directed government agencies to relocate all their networks to within the national territory before Friday. Amidst the backlash caused by the news, the Kremlin denied that it planned to isolate Russian cyberspace from the rest of the world, though it did not deny that it planned to do so with the government’s own websites.
There Is No Other View – Roberta Jane Cook.
Comment This is very unfortunate, but given all the propaganda being pumped out by the BBC and other Western media, The Kremlin has no choice. The U.K and U.S are doing their best to hide the truth, careless of Armageddon because of their elite’s power mania and greed.
For these countries , sexual hypocrisy is their basis for morality, which is why they have been dredging up Vladimir Putin’s love life as more smearing. For an insight into Anglo U.S elite sexual hypocrisy, read ‘Prince Andrew, Epstein & The Palace’ by Nigel Cawthorne. The author reveals some interesting stuff, including a picture of former President Bill Clinton wearing high heels and a blue dress, discovered by the FBI. He was famous for ejaculating over vulnerable White House intern, then 20 years old, Monica Lewinsky’s little black dress. Clinton and Blair rushed into destroy Serbia in order to take the searchlight off of Clinton’s sexual misconduct.
Billionaire child abuser & Pimp for the U.S and European rich and powerful, Epstein curiously managed to break his neck in three places, having manged to hang himself with paper sheets, in a CCTV watched cell. He and his girlfriend allegedly had a little black book of rich and powerful clients. Bill Clinton is known to have travelled on the Epstein jet.
To portray Russia as the ultimate police state is absurd. They have been stereotyped by the likes of James Bond. The reality is that the British do police state even better than the United States.
There are over 5000 employed at NATO HQ in Brussels. The United States, with toadying British posh boys and girls, needs NATO to keep an eye on , contain and retrain Russia and China.
The absurdity of Britain is exemplified by British Royalty – trotted out to denigrate Russia – who have never gotten over their fellow close relatives Saxe Coburg Goethe’s being liquidated after the well deserved, but distorted Russian Revolution. The west made sure Lenin was assassinated to be replaced by psychotic tyrant Joseph Stalin – a Georgian , not Russian, who organised the murder of Lenin’s Number 2, Trotsky. Stalin played his part in discrediting communism. Stalin is the brush they wish to tar Putin with.
As world population continues out of control with the likes of Britain pandering to Islam because their mass immigration provides malleable cheap labour, the NATO elite has to keep an eye on the poverty and tendency to communsm their greedy policies create. They pay lip service to climate, telling us to pay green taxes, abandon cars along with other pointless trivialities.
Meanwhile the forests fall, the consumerism is ever more rampant, food supply becomes problematic, war, disease and famine inevitable. NATO is watching everywhere, even in Africa where they fear Russia and China’s interference.
NATO’s answer is to push NATO right up to Russia’s borders. We are so free in the west that we face prosecution, jail and job loss if we don’t accept the rules of the rules based western democracies’. That is why we have this war, the tremors shaking the global economy, the cost of living expected to rise by 15%. Incredibly, a rigged YOUGOV poll reports that 57% of Britons want stronger sanctions to support the rules based western democracies against ‘demon’ Putin.. There is no other view allowed here.
Personally, I am very sorry we will soon be losing our Russian readers. We wish them well. If any want to send their comments and reports to us, they should contact roberta.cookofnorthbucks@btinternet.com
Roberta Jane Cook
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and senior White House officials banned from entering Russia
US President Joe Biden has been banned from entering Russia in response to sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Biden has not visited Russia since 2011, when he was vice president to Barack Obama. His trip to Moscow included talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
‘Putin will invade other countries’: Follow live updates on the war in Ukraine
Read More Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and senior White House officials banned from entering Russia (msn.com)
UK urges China not to join Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Beijing considers involvement in the with war
Hugo Gye
China should speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and avoid helping the Kremlin wage war, British politicians from across the spectrum have said.
Beijing insists it is “not a party to the crisis” but is said to be considering whether to send Russia military assistance.
Comment British political arrogance knows no bounds. At no time during this appalling war, has Britain’s dreadful bunch of conceited consensus politicians, ever mentioned their NATO group motivations for provoking Russia. They never mention Ukraine’s violation of Minsk, their support, with U.S, for Poroshenko, an Oligarch, and his coup, leading to war and genocide on ethnic Russians in the Donbas or their years of MI6 subversion in Russia. The British masses are poorly educated and overconfident due to expensive ‘uni’ degrees that are ripped off like perforated toilet paper. Their masters and mistresses have been to good school, they set the agenda in their ‘rules based democracy.’ The United States is the same, with Europe not so confident but tagging along. R J Cook
Thames Valley Police did their best to frame her as a whore in 2018. Maybe they fantasised about finding her in bed undressed like this, and with a client. We don’t know because they refuse to disclose their records. We know how amusing some cops found the police colleague who kidnapped , raped and murdered Sarah Everard. His workplace nickname was ‘the rapist’ and they exchanged jokes about his crime. That is the U.K ‘Rules Based Democracy’ where the rich and powerful divide, rule and fool.
March 14th 2022
| Russia & Former Soviet Union | 14 March |
Pressure on Putin begins ‘to have some effect,’ senior US official claims
Washington has pledged to continue helping Ukraine in every possible way
Pressure on Putin begins ‘to have some effect,’ US senior official claimsThe “enormous pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin has started bearing fruit, US has claimed
Fears grow that Putin is ‘crazy enough’ to use nukes and could ‘destroy world’
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: peace talks to resume; deaths as residential…Marvel leads tributes to ‘amazing talent’ William Hurt after death aged 71
Vladimir Putin will ‘destroy the world’ if he is left unchecked and is ‘crazy enough’ to use nukes, a Russian opposition politician has warned.
Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2018 presidential bid, said ‘We can expect unfortunately everything’ from the Russian President.
And his fears have been echoed by Poland’s premier, Andrzej Duda, who believes Putin could use ‘anything’ right now.
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Russia-Ukraine war latest news: peace talks to resume; deaths as residential…Marvel leads tributes to ‘amazing talent’ William Hurt after death aged 71
Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2018 presidential bid, said ‘We can expect unfortunately everything’ from the Russian President.
Vladimir Putin will ‘destroy the world’ if he is left unchecked and is ‘crazy enough’ to use nukes, a Russian opposition politician has warned.
Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2018 presidential bid, said ‘We can expect unfortunately everything’ from the Russian President.
Read More Fears grow that Putin is ‘crazy enough’ to use nukes and could ‘destroy world’ (msn.com)
March 13th 2022
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Motherland faces serious brain drain as liberal Russians flee Putin’s persecution
Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor, in Istanbul
There is an exodus under way from Russia. Almost invisible compared to Ukraine’s, but hugely significant for the future of the country.
An estimated 200,000 Russians have left already to seek refuge abroad, robbing Russia of brains and talent.
Tanya Simakova is the editor of lifestyle website The Village. Just over a week ago it was blocked by authorities and the team knew they had to get out.
Read More Motherland faces serious brain drain as liberal Russians flee Putin’s persecution (msn.com)
Comment In my experience, as someone threatened with jail for the past 14 years, I don’t think Russia is any worse on freedom of expression than the U.K. I don’t think this website deserves a high ranking for talent, but it reveals how difficult it is to speak on certain key matters. Lifestyle commentators are not crucial to Russia’s survival. NATO is an aggressor , representing the global elite and ultimate tyranny. Social stability for the masses is most important. People are conned by LGBTQI , feminism and BLM.
My issue concerning my gender reassignment is not about the rights and wrongs of freedom to do that, it is about being told it is contingent , in my case , on mind numbing anti psychotic drugs , which is an outcome of my issues with police.
We live in a society where it is image over substance and pointless consumerism, underpinning overpopulation and environmental issues. We need talented people to face up to those issues, not ‘More NATO.’ Zelensky is power crazed. I reserve judgement on Putin because he has been set up for this war. The Yeltsin era saw the rise of oligarchs stealing state assets and welcomed in the west. The tide turned when Putin pulled back on Yeltsinism and NATO eyed up Ukraine and regime change in Russia He was set up for this war , with Zelensky NATO’s proxy. Global economy is elite greed. It is not about global stability , justice and human equality. R J Cook
Russian footholds in Mideast, Africa raise threat to NATO
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine dominates world attention. But with less global scrutiny, Putin is also busy advancing Russia’s presence in the Middle East and Africa — an expansion that military and civilian leaders view as another, if less immediate, threat to security in the West.
Putin’s strategy in the Mideast and Africa has been simple, and successful: He seeks out security alliances with autocrats, coup leaders, and others who have been spurned or neglected by the U.S. and Europe, either because of their bloody abuses or because of competing Western strategic interests.
Read More Russian footholds in Mideast, Africa raise threat to NATO (msn.com)
Comment Here we go again. This is more NATO. Strategic interest is their elite interest. There is a link here with all the propaganda about being concerned for climate change. The global elite created the global economy. The part formerly known as ‘The Third World’ has been fundamental to the supply of primary products – crops and minerals. Britain was at the forefront of dealing with tyrants in Africa. Without black tyrants, slavery would never have worked.
As with Ukraine, NATO is concerned with control of resources. Rapidly advancing technology , including weaponry, has sped up the competition to exploit and consume the earth’s resources for elite profit. NATO is the shield behind which the elite advance, their mainstream media dishing out the propaganda.
They fear that Russia and China will promote real education and advance in the Third World, instead of promoting charity, overpopulation religion and supplying weapons. People forget that Britain used to be best friends with Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gadhafi. They are still best friends with the tyrants controlling Saudi Arabia.
They had no interest in the Zelensky regime’s genocide in the Donbas. It suited their interest to expand into Ukraine using their self self righteous placeman Zelensky. NATO paranoia is inevitable because they haven’t finished their proxy war in Ukraine and are worried Vladimir Putin might be pushed to extremes. It is not in China or India’s interest to have truck with NATO aggression.
It is clear that, here in the west, we are all supposed to support the NATO rich man’s club without any attention to how they triggered this war. They don’t care how many are killed. Their attitude is the same as when they lied about Saddam Hussein’s so called weapons of mass destruction. That war goes on, with fresh carnage today. They also triggered war in Syria, lying about chemical weapons. As for war crimes and Iraq, locking up whistle blower Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about NATO and war crimes. R J Cook
Qatari foreign minister to visit Moscow on Sunday, says source
DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar’s foreign minister will travel to Moscow on Sunday for discussions on the Iran nuclear talks and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a source familiar with the visit said.
The source said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, whose gas producing country is a U.S. ally, would meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
Eleven month-old talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal face the prospect of collapse after a last-minute Russian demand forced world powers to pause negotiations despite having a largely completed text.
Read More Qatari foreign minister to visit Moscow on Sunday, says source (msn.com)
Isvestia ? Pravda ?
Vladimir Putin is believed to have hoped his “special operation” in Ukraine would conclude within days with the submission of large parts of his neighbouring country. However, fierce resistance from both regular military forces and civilian volunteers have thrown a spanner in the advance of the Russian Army, with only one major city believed to have been taken over. Experts had previously suggested the port city of Odessa would be high on Moscow’s target list, but Air Marshal Edward Stringer highlighted the main obstacle to Russia’s plans.
Read More ‘Putin forces stretched to their limit’ Ex RAF commander explains why Odessa still stands (msn.com)
Putin keeping nuclear ‘up his sleeve’ after West commits vital mistake with Russia
Aurora Bosotti
Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert two days after launching his “special operation” into Ukraine on February 24. While he suggested he stands ready to unleash nuclear weapons on whoever were to interfere with his plans, former RAF officer Andrew Brookes suggested chemical weapons are more likely to be deployed. Mr Brookes noted Putin’s proclivity to use non-conventional weaponry was the result of the West failing to intervene in the past, leaving the Russian president believing he would face no consequence for his actions.
Read More Putin keeping nuclear ‘up his sleeve’ after West commits vital mistake with Russia (msn.com)
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