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Zakharova blasts EU chief Borrell, describes his thinking as 'colonialist mindset'


RT
Fri, 05 May 2023 17:34 UTC
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© Russian Foreign Ministry / SputnikRussian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell betrayed a colonial mindset and a lack of geopolitical understanding when he dismissed China's peace plan for Ukraine as "wishful thinking," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed.

The Russian diplomat criticized Borrell on Friday for remarks he made earlier in the day at an event in the Italian city of Florence. The EU official had claimed that conditions set out by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky were the only viable path to resolving the conflict with Russia, and rejected a Chinese proposal unveiled in February as "not a peace plan."

"Not taking seriously proposals formulated on behalf of one fifth of the planet's population and the leading world economy - that can only come from either a person who knows nothing about geopolitics, or someone with a colonial mentality who doesn't respect people they consider beneath themself," Zakharova insisted, referring to Borrell.
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Stormtrooper

Ukraine's much-anticipated 'counteroffensive' could end in disaster


RT
Fri, 05 May 2023 15:28 UTC
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© John Moore / Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Ukraine soldiers on the march. "Bakhmut will teach you," a commander reportedly told a soldier who complained he had never held a gun before.
Are the Armed Forces of Ukraine ready to mount such a high-stakes operation and what challenges will they face?

Talk about a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has been doing the rounds for months, but it is still not clear when it might begin or whether it will happen at all. Previously, RT analyzed the readiness of the AFU for such an operation, but this time we will discuss the main challenges that may prevent Kiev's troops from implementing or developing its political leaderships aims. And, perhaps most importantly, those of its Western sponsors.

What is the AFU's main challenge in mounting this sort of endeavor?

We currently do not have any idea of where the AFU's counteroffensive could take place, although Russian military bosses will be well aware of troop movements. If it involves an attempt to breakthrough the front line, then in addition to preparing reserves for battle, the AFU will need high-precision weapons.

Ukrainian troops will have to use long-range artillery rocket systems, including the US-supplied M142 HIMARS MLRS. Since the start of Moscow's offensive, Kiev has used these systems only from deep within its own territory. However, to achieve momentum and penetrate the defense line, the systems will have to be moved closer to the front.

Comment: Scott Ritter's take with commentary by Danny Haiphong. Ukraine is being led down the garden path by its NATO masters. It is merely a tool to hurl against Russia. And when the smoke clears (figuratively and literally) it's doubtful there will even be a Ukraine to dig out of the rubble.



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Former CIA officer says decision to drone attack Kremlin was made by the United States

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 05 May 2023 11:14 UTC
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© Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMoscow warns of retaliation as war in Ukraine causes relations with the West to deteriorate.
Deadly escalation an effort to provoke major Russian response.

Former CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson says the decision to launch a drone attack on the Kremlin was made by the United States.

The Wednesday attack, which was likely to have been targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, was stopped by electronic warfare systems which disabled the drones before they could reach their target.

According to Johnson, the attack must have been spearheaded by the Biden administration and the US military-industrial complex because "decisions on such attacks are made not in Kiev, but in Washington."

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Up

Can China checkmate the west in Ukraine?

Alex Krainer
Substack
Fri, 05 May 2023 01:45 UTC
Zelensky may be the target of last night's drone attack against the Kremlin.
Boris and Chief Psychopath
© Substack
Last week's telephone call between Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and China's President Xi Jinping was certainly one of the most significant events since the beginning of Russian military intervention in Ukraine. The call, as we now know, was initiated by President Zelensky, without consulting his handlers in the Biden administration or NATO. President Xi accepted the call but made the subtle point of conducting it through a Russian and not Ukrainian language interpreter. According to Chinese government readout of the conversation, Xi warned Zelensky not to support US policy on Taiwan, and offered to send a peace delegation to Kiev in order to help broker an end of hostilities in Ukraine.

No cards left to play

The significance of this call could be hard to overestimate, including the fact that Zelensky took the initiative without consulting his western sponsors. If he risked their wrath by calling on the Chinese president, it was because, as Scott Ritter put it, Ukraine has no cards left to play. Their much talked about spring counter offensive appears dead on arrival and there are increasing signs of mutiny in Ukraine's military ranks. Apparently, numerous officials are privately voicing opinions that they must find an off-ramp and seek a negotiated peace solution to avert the nation's total collapse.

Even Poland's Chief of the General Staff, General Rajmund Andrzejczak who was one of the western alliance's most eager pro-Ukraine voices has lost taste for the adventure. Amid extreme casualties sustained by Ukraine in the recent artillery and missile attacks, he warned that the war does not look good for Ukraine. According to Colonel Douglas MacGregor, Andrzejczak now thinks Ukraine would need two million troops to have any hope of success with their counter offensive.
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Bad Guys

Germany revokes ex-chancellor Schröder's office privileges for his friendly relations with Russia, Putin


Deutsche Welle
Fri, 05 May 2023 00:53 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Gerhard Schröder has lost a court bid to reopen his government-funded office as a former chancellor. Parliament stripped him of the facility and staff, but did not link the move to Schröder's contentious Russian ties.
A Berlin court ruled on Thursday that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder does not have an automatic right to an office and staff in the German capital as a former chancellor.

Schröder was challenging a decision last May by the Bundestag parliament's budgetary committee, which stripped the former chancellor of the priveleges. Schröder can still appeal Thursday's verdict, which may not be final.

The court argued that only the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, could decide what it spent such money on, and that even if traditionally former German chancellors had received a small office and staff with seemingly no strings attached, as Schröder's legal team had argued, nowhere was this written into law.
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Russian delegate attacked by Ukrainian member after snatching Ukrainian flag at event in Turkey


TASS
Fri, 05 May 2023 00:50 UTC
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Screenshot: The embassy stated that it would "properly draw the Turkish authorities attention to this outrageous incident"
A Russian delegation member who was attacked by a Ukrainian delegate at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) in Ankara has been taken to the hospital as a precaution, the Russian embassy's spokesperson Irina Kasimova told TASS.

"A Russian delegation member was attacked by a member of the Ukrainian delegation. Our staff member is currently at the hospital where he is being examined; he has also received consular assistance," she said.

The embassy stated that it would "properly draw the Turkish authorities attention to this outrageous incident."
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Black Cat

Ukraine denies involvement after Russia alleges drone attack on the Kremlin

Jimmy Quinn
National Review
Wed, 03 May 2023 19:55 UTC
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© Ostorozhno Novosti/Handout via ReutersA still image taken from video shows a flying object exploding in an intense burst of light near the dome of the Kremlin Senate building in Moscow, Russia, May 3, 2023
Ukraine is denying Russian officials' claims that it attempted to carry out a drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday. The country's leaders say that they only see downsides to attempting such an attack, since it'd likely invite Russian escalation.

"Russia is clearly preparing a large-scale terrorist attack." Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter this morning after videos of the claimed attack circulated on social media.

"Ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation," he asserted. "What for? This does not solve any military issue. But it gives [Russia] grounds to justify its attacks on civilians." Podolyak wrote that he believes the attack indicates "the guerrilla activities of local resistance forces."

Comment: Conveniently, Zelensky was visiting Finland at the time, and somehow found it expedient to extend his stay as news of the attack broke. Was this attack launched without his knowledge?
The Finnish presidency said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid a surprise visit to Finland on Wednesday to take part in a summit of the leaders of the five Nordic countries.

"In order to be in NATO and support alliances to gain support, fundamental diplomatic work must be done. Ukraine is doing it today," Daria Zarivna, Ukraine's presidential communications adviser wrote on Telegram.

Zelensky is scheduled to meet with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, whose nation joined NATO in April, to talk about "Ukraine's defence struggle."

The Ukrainian leader will also hold bilateral talks with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Norway's Jonas Gahr Store, Denmark's Mette Frederiksen and Iceland's Katrin Jakobsdottir.

All of the Nordic countries have pledged both financial and military support to Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February 2022.
Military Summary discusses Russia's potential retaliations:



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Mr. Potato

UK Prime Minister makes stunning and brave admission that women do not have penises

Peter Caddle
Breitbart
Thu, 04 May 2023 20:07 UTC
Rishi Sunak
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed that no women in fact have penises, in a political statement that will somehow manage to cause controversy.

Britain's Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed in an interview his understanding that 100 per cent of women do not have penises, a statement that marks the latest chapter in one of the country's most bizarre political controversies in its centuries-long history.

Despite how obvious many will find such an observation, such a view is not held by some on the country's increasingly sex-politics-obsessed left, with a Green Party member of Scotland's devolved parliament claiming instead that biological male rapists have the right to call themselves women while in prison.

Speaking to the political news and opinion blog ConservativeHome, UK PM Sunak agreed with the point put to him that 100 per cent of women do not have penises.
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Stormtrooper

Judge dismisses Trump's $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times

Brandon Gillespie
Fox News
Thu, 04 May 2023 19:47 UTC
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© Getty Images/ISTOCKA New York judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump against The New York Times for "conspiring against him" concerning a report on his taxes. It has yet to rule on the claims Trump made against his niece, Mary Trump.
A New York Supreme Court judge on Wednesday threw out the $100 million lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump against The New York Times concerning a 2018 report on his taxes.

Trump filed the lawsuit against the liberal paper, as well as his estranged niece, Mary Trump, in Sep. 2021, accusing them of "tortiously breaching and/or interfering with his contractual rights and otherwise maliciously conspiring against him" for the report on his taxes.
Justice Robert R. Reed said in his ruling that Trump's claims against The Times "fail as a matter of constitutional law."

He added that the Times' reporting was at "the very core of protected First Amendment activity."
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Stormtrooper

Biden to send 1,500 troops to border ahead of expected migrant surge he created

Brett Samuels and Brad Dress
The Hill
Tue, 02 May 2023 19:21 UTC
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© AP Photo/Christian ChavezIllegal migrants approach the border wall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 21, 2022, on the other side of the border from El Paso, Texas.
The Biden administration is planning to temporarily deploy 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of an expected surge in migrants.

The announcement comes as Title 42, a policy that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border and blocks them from seeking asylum, is set to expire May 11.

A U.S. official told The Hill the troops would be deployed for 90 days to assist with work including ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support, but they would not be doing law enforcement work.

The troops are meant to station at the border until U.S. Customs and Border Protection can more adequately address its needs through contracted support, according to the official.

DHS officials have predicted that attempts to cross the border could climb following the end of the policy, which was first implemented under the Trump administration.

Comment: Trump was well on the way to getting control of the border. Biden has deliberately reversed those measures, facilitating what can only be called an invasion of the country. Add it to the long list of offences for which Biden should be impeached.

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