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Germany rejects cluster bombs for Ukraine as clip surfaces of Biden admin previously calling them a 'war crime'

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© Clodagh Kilcoyne/ReutersA defused cluster bomb
In light of the Biden White House approving cluster bombs for Ukraine, under the justification that 'but Russia used them first', below is a quick trip down memory lane...

First, here is then White House press secretary Jen Psaki unequivocally condemning the use of cluster munitions as a potential "war crime" in 2022. The implication behind the exchange is that only the "bad guys" use them...
Next, below is a lengthy letter from top-ranking Congressional Democrats in a 2013 written to then President Barack Obama highlighting the evils of cluster bombs, explaining they are "indiscriminate, unreliable and pose an unacceptable danger to US forces and civilians alike."

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Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean Bridge

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© SputnikCrimean Bridge repair in aftermath of explosion
Ukraine has, for the first time, apparently admitted playing a role in the deadly attack on the Crimean Bridge last autumn. The incident belongs in the list of achievements for the country's armed forces, a senior official has claimed.

While Moscow has repeatedly claimed that the attack was staged by the Ukrainians, officials in Kiev had never before directly admitted responsibility.

On Saturday, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Maliar published a post on Telegram commemorating 500 days since the start of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, outlining several highlights.

The list includes an apparent public acknowledgment of Kiev's role in the attack on the key link between the eastern part of the Russian peninsula and the rest of the country.
"[It has been] 273 days since the first strike was conducted on the Crimean bridge to break the Russian logistics."

Comment: Ukraine forgot to mention: With a little help from our 'friends'.

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Ukraine failed with new missile attack on Crimean Bridge - Moscow

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© Sputnik/Dmitry MakeyevThe Crimean Bridge
Ukraine attempted a missile strike on the Crimean Bridge on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. The attack also targeted several other Russian regions but did not result in any casualties or damage, the ministry added.

In a statement on Monday, officials said Ukraine had used four S-200 air defense missiles modified to strike ground targets. Facilities were targeted in Crimea - where the bridge linking the peninsula to mainland Russia was damaged by a bombing last year - as well as Rostov and Kaluga Regions in the southern and western parts of the country respectively.

According to Viktor Afzalov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Air Force, air defenses destroyed two S-200s, and another two were jammed by electronic warfare measures.

He noted that one missile targeted the strategic Crimean Bridge, and another was flying towards a military airfield in Rostov Region. Kiev fired another two projectiles at a military airport in Kaluga Region, both of which were deflected by electronic warfare means, Afzalov said.

War Whore

Need more cannon fodder: Ukraine stepping up mercenary recruitment effort

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© Sean Gallup / Getty ImagesUkrainian military patches
Ukrainian units formed from foreign mercenaries have suffered high battlefield casualties, forcing Kiev to change its approach to finding hired fighters, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Monday.

In a statement, the ministry alleged that the Ukrainian military command views foreign fighters as cannon fodder, sending them into the riskiest missions and placing them at the back of the line when it comes to the evacuation of injured troops. This has made recruiting fighters in European countries such as Poland much harder for Kiev, the assessment claimed.

Ukraine has consequently ramped up efforts to find candidates in other parts of the world, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, which stated that a recruitment drive is underway in Argentina, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, and areas of Syria that are "under American control."

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Biden blasts 'extreme' Israeli government

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© Gil Cohen-Magen / Pool via APIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden has accused political extremists in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of contributing to the rising tensions in the West Bank, saying they are part of the reason that a peace deal can't be reached with the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu's cabinet has "some of the most extreme members" to lead Israel's government dating all the way back to Golda Meir's administration in 1969, Biden said in a CNN interview aired on Sunday. He dodged a question on when he will invite Netanyahu for a White House visit, saying, "Bibi, I think, is trying to work through how he can work through his existing problems in terms of his coalition."

Biden argued that some of Israel's cabinet ministers have essentially said, "We can settle anywhere we want. They [the Palestinians] have no right to be here, etc."

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Best of the Web: Joe Biden - The personification of the failing US Empire

If cocaine is so prevalent in the West Wing that there is somehow 'extra' cocaine just laying around, when is the White House going to start drug testing its employees? — Margot Cleveland
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Consider for a moment, and be grateful for, how perfect "Joe Biden" is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: "Joe Biden," the personification of a failed state.

As a criminal enterprise, for instance, the Biden family influence-peddling operation among foreign powers reflects exactly the racketeering character of corporate America today — which is to say, making money dishonestly, and often for doing nothing. In America's biggest industry, finance, this is absolutely the case. You may have forgotten what finance is, and what it's supposed to do: namely, to lend money for activities intended to produce things of value, useful things that people need and want, sometimes even public works that benefit everyone in society.

American Finance now is in the business of receiving free money (loans at minimal interest) from government-chartered central banks (issuing "credit" from nowhere), that banks, hedge funds, private equity outfits, and sundry freebooters can roll into instruments such as interest-yielding bonds (loans back to government) and derivatives (algorithmic bets derived, abstracted from, and tuned to market movements) magically multiplying money that finally produces nothing of value — though it may translate into yacht purchases, alimony payments, luxury suites at ballparks, private Caribbean islands, and traffic in humans for use as sex toys.

Bad Guys

NATO is 'malicious poison' - former Australian PM

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© Mick Tsikas-Pool / Getty ImagesFormer Australian Premier Paul Keating.
Paul Keating has argued that the military bloc should remain confined to Europe and the Atlantic and not try to expand into Asia.

NATO has no place in Asia and should stick to its original focus, that is the security of the Transatlantic region, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has argued. The Labour politician, who served in office from 1991 to 1996, also warned against attempts to "circumscribe" China.

In his statement published on Sunday, Keating appeared to refer to a recent report in Politico, which claimed French President Emmanuel Macron had blocked NATO's plans to establish a liaison office in Japan.

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Biden blasted for revealing sensitive US military info during interview

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President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday after he revealed sensitive U.S. military information during an interview that critics said could make America's adversaries more aggressive.

Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that the reason that he is giving cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the U.S. is running out of 155mm artillery shells.

"These are weapons that 100 nations banned, including some of our closest NATO allies," Zakaria said. "When there was news that the Russians might be using it admittedly against civilians your then press secretary said this might be constitute war crimes."

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Socialist Georgia mayor arrested on trespassing, burglary charges

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© Photo Courtesy of Fulton County Jail
The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and burglary.

South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday but was released later in the day after posting $11,000 bond, according to Fox News. The mayor reportedly entered a house that he thought was abandoned.

"The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment," a statement from the City of South Fulton said. "As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time."

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Best of the Web: Will the Ukraine war be the undoing of the European Union? - former UN Assistant Secretary-General

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© president.gov.ua/Creative CommonsUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky • US President Joe Biden: Energy and utility groups have reported more than half the combined losses, according to FT analysis of direct impact of the Ukraine war.
With the ending of the division of Europe, we will strive for a new quality in our security relations while fully respecting each other's freedom of choice in that respect. Security is indivisible, and the security of every participating state is inseparably linked to that of all the others. We therefore pledge to cooperate in strengthening confidence and security among us and in promoting arms control and disarmament.

(Charter of Paris for a New Europe November 21, 1990)
The madness of war reigns again in Europe. The delusion that only weapons provide security is once again in high season among politicians, think tanks, and the media across Europe. It has become acceptable once again in Europe that human sacrifices are being offered at the altar of alleged decisive battles. As if we had learned nothing from the past, the Ukrainian counter-offensive is now supposed to become such a decisive battle that it should bring a military solution to what we could not or did not want to achieve politically. In doing so, we Europeans are leaving the future of Ukraine and Europe, and perhaps even that of the world, to the unpredictability, fury, and brutality of the battlefield. And all of this, although it remains completely unclear what "solution" could be expected through the present intensification of the war, will certainly not bring peace to Europe.

Comment: Considering how contrary to EU interests the conflict is, it's reasonable to assume that the delusions driving it are multifaceted, and that the agenda is not intended to profit Europe, the EU, nor its peoples: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: France Riots Suddenly End - NATO's Ukraine War Racket - Climate Hysteria Spikes