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Ukrainian prime minister arrives in DC at make-or-break moment

Laura Kelly
The Hill
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:00 UTC
Shmyhal
© AP/Manuel Balce CenetaUkraine PM Denys Shmyhal
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal's arrival in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday comes ahead of a make-or-break moment in Ukraine's defensive fight against Russia, as Kyiv prepares to launch a counteroffensive that will determine the future course of the war.

Shmyhal, in an exclusive interview with The Hill, said that the counteroffensive could be launched as late as the summer, noting that the most intense pressure to start the counteroffensive comes from inside Ukraine.
"We do not feel the pressure from our friends and partners vis-a-vis the start of the offensive. All of our friends and partners do comprehend clearly that in order to go into counteroffensive, one must be 100 percent, and even more percent prepared to do so."
His visit also comes amid the backdrop of a major intelligence leak that included dire U.S. assessments of Ukraine's dwindling air defense ammunition.

When asked how the document leaks are impacting planning for Ukraine's counteroffensive, Shmyhal's text message was resolute:
"Ukraine will liberate its lands. We have proven multiple times that we can do it. From our international partners we ask for more military capabilities, like tanks, ammunition, planes, armored vehicles."

Comment: When will 'gimme gimme' Ukraine acknowledge it is being played - 'the pawn' between the rock and the hard place.

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Bullseye

Mexico's AMLO calls out US 'oligarchy' at Biden's 'democracy' summit

Ben Norton
G/E
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
AMLO
© The HillMexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used the US government's so-called "Summit for Democracy" to indirectly call out Washington's hypocrisy. (A full transcript of his speech follows below.)

AMLO strongly implied that the United States is an oligarchy, not a real democracy. He argued that the government needs to challenge the power of the economic elites if it truly wants to be democratic.

López Obrador opened his speech warning, "Many of the great crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of God or in the name of democracy".

Comment: Full video of Obrador's speech in Spanish:



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Question

Donbass leader questions Pentagon leaks on Ukraine


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:16 UTC
Pushilin
© Gavriil Grigorov/RIA NovostiActing Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin
Denis Pushilin believes the revelations could have been intentional as part of an attempt to mislead Russia...

The acting head of Russia's Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, has questioned the authenticity of recently leaked Pentagon documents that in part, allegedly detail Washington's war plans in Ukraine.

Writing on Telegram on Tuesday, Pushilin noted that the "the whole world is abuzz" discussing the leaks, which contain purported information about plans to shell Russian territory, force Israel to supply weapons to Ukraine and shed light on US surveillance of Ukrainian President Zelensky and other allies.

Several Western media outlets have reported that the leaks sent shockwaves through Washington, with Joe Biden's administration apparently being sent into "crisis mode." The Pentagon, meanwhile, has said that the papers pose "a very serious risk" to Washington.

However, a number of countries have since started to doubt the authenticity of the leaked documents, including Ukraine, which has portrayed them as a Russian ploy to derail Kiev's planned counteroffensive. Others have pointed to inconsistencies and inaccuracies presented in the files.

Nevertheless, the Western media seems to be actively trying to create an "information tsunami" about the topic, according to Pushilin, who suggested it could mean the leaks may have been deliberate.

Comment: Russia is the expert on US propaganda. Likely the US reveal was staged to reinforce false perceptions (as truths become increasingly transparent) and a bonus if another source can be blamed.

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Jet5

Xi warns armed forces to prepare for 'actual combat' - Chinese media


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:12 UTC
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) transferring a missile
© Liu Mingsong/XinhuaThis photo taken on April 7, 2023 shows the rocket force of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) transferring a missile before the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island.
The president told troops at a navy base that their mission is to defend the country's "territorial sovereignty".

President Xi Jinping has urged the Chinese military to prepare for real combat, national media reported on Wednesday. The remarks came days after Beijing held massive military drills around Taiwan which reportedly involved the simulation of precision strikes on the self-governing island.

Addressing military personnel at a navy base in Southern China on Tuesday, Xi called for the strengthening of "military training oriented toward actual combat," as quoted by the state-run CCTV channel.

The Chinese leader is reported to have named the defense of Beijing's "territorial sovereignty and maritime interests" as well as the protection of "overall peripheral stability" as the navy's core mission.

Comment: See also:

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Better Earth

Germany can't fulfill NATO obligations - Bild


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:34 UTC
german army tanks
© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesMembers of the Bundeswehr's 9th Panzer Training Brigade stand next to new Leopard 2 A7V heavy battle tanks they received during a visit by Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht to the Bundeswehr Army training grounds on February 07, 2022 in Munster, Germany.
Chronic underfunding and the country's support for Ukraine are among the reasons, the media outlet reports.

Germany is failing to live up to its NATO commitments both in terms of personnel and equipment it can provide for the military bloc's defense, Bild has reported. The media outlet, citing an internal appraisal by the nation's Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, claimed that a lack of funding, as well as Berlin's military aid to Kiev, are among the reasons for the current state of affairs.

The report published on Tuesday claims to be based on a 14-page analysis sent by Inspector of the Army Alfons Mais to Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Carsten Breuer in early March.

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Rep. Massie, Judiciary Committee launch probe into reports Biden Admin pressured FDA over COVID booster approval

Henry Rodgers
Daily Caller
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:40 UTC
Thomas Massie
© Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie sent letters Monday to senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine officials, letting them know the House Judiciary Committee will be investigating allegations the Biden administration interfered in the FDA's authorization and licensure of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Daily Caller first obtained the letters to Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, both of whom resigned following President Joe Biden's announcement in August 2021 calling for adults to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, which Massie says "put undue pressure on FDA health officials to quickly authorize the vaccinations."

Gruber serves as the Vice President of Public Health and Regulatory Science at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Philip Krause sits on the Board of Directors of Mesoblast, Inc. Gruber had been with the FDA for 32 years and Krause had worked at the agency for over a decade.

Comment: See also:

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Stop

Rex Murphy: The attack on Riley Gaines shows just how far things have sunk

Rex Murphy
Theepochtimes.com
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 02:13 UTC
Riley Gaines
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines speaks at a rally outside of the NCAA Convention in San Antonio on Jan. 12, 2023. (Darren Abate/AP Photo)
Commentary

Women are women.

How's that for a sentence? A declaration.

To say a woman is a woman requires no prefix. It requires no qualifier. No extra start-up syllable. It requires no semantic trickery to take its plain and always-understood sense — its sense since the beginning of time and the discovery of language itself — to try to turn it into something else.

The world, and all the men and women in it, have known and understood what it is to be a man and a woman since there has been a world with men and women in it. It is, if I may use the phrase, one of the atoms, one of the very basic concepts, of human beings. Man and woman are two of the most primary, first-learned, lexical understandings of every language the globe has or has had.

Neither word can, at the flash of whimsical self-declaration, be turned into its opposite. Merely for a man to "say" he is a woman does not and cannot in law, biology, sports, or common sense, make him a her.
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Biohazard

US making 'bioweapons components' in Ukraine - Moscow


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:24 UTC
Igor Kirillov
© Sputnik / Russian Defence MinistryFile photo: Commander of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov gives a briefing in Moscow.
The US is using Ukraine to manufacture components for biological weapons, the commander of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces told the State Duma on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov says the Russian military found ample evidence of this in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson.

"We have no doubt that the US, under the guise of ensuring global biosecurity, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components, in close proximity to Russian borders," Kirillov told lawmakers.

He said the military has come to this conclusion after interviewing multiple eyewitnesses and going over some 2,000 pages of documentation found in Kherson Region and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. The investigation also involved a parliamentary task force and federal law enforcement.

Moscow raised concerns over a network of secretive US-funded laboratories in Ukraine in the early weeks of the conflict, and has frequently made public evidence about the program ever since. The US government confirmed the existence of the labs last March, but insisted they were neither illegal nor intended for a military purpose, despite the fact that much of their funding went through the Pentagon.
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Bad Guys

Zelensky embezzled $400 million allocated by the US for purchasing fuel - Seymour Hersh


The Eurasia Times
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:47 UTC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
© AFP / Genya SavilovFILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars that the US allocated for the purchase of fuel, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh.
In his blog, Hersh writes - The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers' funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia.

It is unknown how much the Zalensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.

The issue of corruption was directly raised with Zelensky in a meeting last January in Kyiv with CIA Director William Burns. His message to the Ukrainian president, I was told by an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the meeting, was out of a 1950s mob movie.

Comment: The US is quite aware of what criminality is occurring in Ukraine, what's more notable is that they're admitting it to the press; is this an attempt to try to wrangle back some of the control over their minions in Ukraine? And perhaps against their controllers, that are seemingly part of another faction, in the US?

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Snakes in Suits

Awkward moment Joe Biden pushes UK's PM Sunak aside to greet diplomat as he lands in Belfast

James Tapsfield
Daily Mail
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:36 UTC
biden sunak
After a swift greeting with the UK leader Biden moved away to salute the King's personal representative for County Antrim, Lord-Lieutenant David McCorkell. He then appeared to be wrapped in a friendly embrace with Jane Hartley, the glamourous US ambassador to the UK he appointed last year.
It was meant to be a special moment for Rishi Sunak as he seeks to put the 'special' back into the UK's strained relationship with the US.

But the Prime Minister suffered an awkward moment as he greeted Joe Biden off Air Force One last night.

In what some have suggested was a diplomatic snub the US president was quick to shake off the attentions of the PM after landing in Belfast.

After a swift greeting with the UK leader on the tarmac in blustery, chilly conditions he moved away to salute the King's personal representative for County Antrim, Lord-Lieutenant David McCorkell.
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