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NATO should give ultimatum to Russia - Polish general


RT
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:23 UTC
PutinKoziej
© ENewsPolish General Stanislaw Koziej • Russian President Vladimir Putin
The former head of the Polish National Security Bureau, General Stanislaw Koziej, has called on NATO to deliver an ultimatum to Russia: either Moscow stops missile strikes in the western parts of Ukraine near NATO borders or the alliance imposes "anti-missile protection" over Ukraine.

In an interview with the Polish web portal Onet last week, Koziej, who was Poland's national security chief between 2010 and 2015, said that NATO should protect the military equipment that Western countries are sending to Ukraine.

At the moment, the general said, Russian forces are trying to destroy the weapons by long-range missiles launched from the Black Sea, or with the help of strategic aviation.

This is "not acceptable," Koziej claims. According to him, the fact that Russia is apparently using dual-purpose missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads gives NATO every reason to take steps to mitigate the risks.
"We have all arguments to take preventative measures and to inform Russia that if it does not stop attacking our border with long-range missiles, then from some day we will introduce anti-missile protection over Western Ukraine."

Comment: No one sitting on the sidelines is supplying Russia with arms. Why should Putin 'obey' an encroachment dictate when NATO won't do the same.

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Footprints

When the lies come home

Douglas MacGregor
The American Conservative
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:01 UTC
soldier
© Bumble Dee/Shutterstock
Diogenes, one of the ancient world's illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens in the daylight. If asked why, Diogenes would say he was searching for an honest man.

Finding an honest man today in Washington, D.C., is equally challenging. Diogenes would need a Xenon Searchlight in each hand.

Still, there are brief moments of clarity inside the Washington establishment. Having lied prolifically for months to the American public about the origins and conduct of the war in Ukraine, the media are now preparing the American, British, and other Western publics for Ukraine's military collapse. It is long overdue.

The Western media did everything in its power to give the Ukrainian defense the appearance of far greater strength than it really possessed. Careful observers noted that the same video clips of Russian tanks under attack were shown repeatedly. Local counterattacks were reported as though they were operational maneuvers.
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Mail

US blackmailed Pakistan into regime change - former PM


RT
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:11 UTC
Imran Khan
© Rana Irfan Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesFormer Pakistani PM Imran Khan in Lahore, Pakistan, April 2022
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the US threatened his government with "consequences" unless he is removed from power. Khan lost a no-confidence vote in April.

"In the past 40 years, our leadership has basically bowed down to everything the US has demanded of us," Khan told the Sunday Times.

The former PM accused Washington of "imperial arrogance" and meddling in his country's domestic affairs.

Khan said his ambassador in Washington sent him a diplomatic cable in April about a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu.

According to Khan, Lu told the diplomat that Pakistan would suffer "consequences" unless the PM is removed from office. Lu assured him that "all would be forgiven" should he be ousted, Khan claimed.

Khan said his criticism of the war in Afghanistan was among the things that drew the ire of Washington. "The Americans never understood the culture of the country or the people they were dealing with," he argued.

Comment: Read the US playbook...therein 'lies' the future.

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Attention

For Ukrainian troops, a need arises: Javelin customer service

Alex Horton
The Washington Post
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:00 UTC
Javelin
© NBC News/Glen Garanich/ReutersThe Javelin
The Ukrainians had an urgent problem. Their Javelin missile launchers — sophisticated, finicky gear each costing six figures — were inoperable and no one in their unit could fix them.

They sought help from two Americans, who engineered a fix for one by cannibalizing electrical components from a video game controller, said Mark Hayward, a U.S. Army veteran and volunteer trainer. The others, he said, were thought to be broken until it was discovered that the user instructions had gotten gummed up in Google Translate. Hayward recalled the episode with profound frustration that the Pentagon, which has rushed more than 5,000 Javelins to Ukraine, hasn't done more to ensure that those battling Russian forces have help when such needs arise.

The powerful antitank weapons have come to symbolize U.S. involvement in Ukraine and the race to equip its army for the devastating fight that has unfolded. But lost in the scramble, according to Ukrainian commanders and Western volunteers, is effective, timely logistical assistance — things like training modules, spare batteries and other basics that the U.S. military itself relies upon. The United States' wartime customer service, they say, is lacking.

"We're sending equipment," Hayward said in an interview. "But have we decided not to do tech support?"

Comment: Seems like the Pentagon is rigging the system with negligence as a scheme to intensify and prolong the conflict.

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Did Europe's latest (& little noticed) anti-Russia move just push the world closer to WW3?


Zerohedge
Sun, 19 Jun 2022 21:00 UTC
Kaliningrad
Quite possibly the biggest Russia-West provocation of the entire four-month long war in Ukraine has occurred this weekend, but few in the media establishment seem to be taking notice of the singular event which has the potential to quickly spiral toward a WW3 scenario.

Baltic EU/NATO member Lithuania has implemented a ban on all rail transit goods going to Russia's far-western exclave of Kaliningrad, after transport authorities initially announced the provocative measure on Friday. "The EU sanctions list notably includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology, and Alikhanov said the ban would cover around 50% of the items that Kaliningrad imports," Reuters wrote.

This has given way to fears of panic buying breaking out in Kaliningrad Oblast, which is Russian sovereign territory on the Baltic Sea, but which is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, and is thus reliant on overland shipping for passage via its EU neighbors.

Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Russian oblast which has a total population of some one million people (with Kaliningrad city including almost 450,000 - and 800,000 total if outlying suburbs are counted) is urging calm:
Urging citizens not to resort to panic buying, Alikhanov said two vessels were already ferrying goods between Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg, and seven more would be in service by the end of the year.

"Our ferries will handle all the cargo", he said on Saturday.
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Bad Guys

War and food: What does it have to do with Africa?

Oleg Pavlov
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
African children
After Senegalese President Macky Sall's visit to Russia on June 3 and Vladimir Putin's extended interview published on the same day, in which he declared Russia's readiness to do everything in its power to ensure the export of Ukrainian grain, the subject seemed to have been exhausted. On June 8, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and discussed in detail issues related to organizing the export of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea ports. It should be recalled that the Russian President earlier suggested six options for exporting Ukrainian grain, including by sea provided that the Ukrainian authorities clear mines in the Black Sea, and gave guarantees that the new situation would not be used by the Russian military and navy for combat operations during this period.

The Russian minister in Ankara reiterated that attempts to turn this problem into a global disaster are groundless, as the share of Ukrainian grain in global food production is small. While Ukraine's share of the global food market is one per cent, in wheat it accounts for 11% of the global market, whereas Russia's share, depending on the harvest, ranges from 16% to 20%. Sergey Lavrov once again confirmed that Russia was ready to continue to open humanitarian corridors for the export of grain as far as the Bosporus, as has long been the case. And this applies to all merchant ships, not just those exporting grain. It should be recalled that over 80 ships and 450 foreign sailors are blocked in Ukrainian ports.
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Attention

Washington Gov. predicts summer full of 'blackouts, destruction, and death'

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:49 UTC
washington governor jay inslee
Governor Jay Inslee (D-Washington) sent an eerie letter to his supporters on Monday predicting that they are in for a summer of "blackouts, destruction, and death" over the alleged climate crisis.

The letter was sent directly after Gov. Inslee gave tacit support for destroying four dams along the Snake River which account for 8 percent of Washington's annual electricity generation, Environmental Director of Washington Policy Center Todd Meyers reports.

"Last week, @GovInslee gave implicit support to destroying the Snake River dams and 8% of Washington's electricity generation. Today he sent an email warning about electricity shortages this summer. #waleg," Myers tweeted Monday.
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Cult

WHO wants a new pandemic treaty?

Ramesh Thakur
Spectator Australia
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:53 UTC
tedros
© EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI
The Covid-19 crisis illustrates how the source and scope of many critical problems are global and require multilateral solutions, but the policy authority and requisite resources for tackling them are vested in states. An efficient architecture of global health governance would have detected the emerging epidemiological threat early, sounded the alarm and coordinated the delivery of essential equipment and medicines to population clusters in the most need. The World Health Organisation is at the centre of the existing architecture. It works worldwide to promote universal health care, monitor public health risks, prepare for emerging epidemiological emergencies and coordinate responses. It sets international health standards and guidelines and provides technical assistance to countries in need. It's credited with eradicating smallpox and coordinating the response to Sars. Its Covid performance, however, was somewhere between underwhelming and disgraceful. Its credibility was badly damaged by tardiness in raising the alarm; by shabby treatment of Taiwan at China's behest despite the potential lessons to be learnt from its prompt and effective measures to check Covid; by the initial investigation that whitewashed the origins of the virus; and by flip-flops on masks and lockdowns.
For problems without passports, in Kofi Annan's evocative phrase, we need solutions without passports. Instead, international and domestic border closures, wholesale quarantine of healthy populations and mandatory vaccine requirements insinuated passport requirements into daily activities.


Comment: It is just a one step closer to a totalitarian one world government.They want to bypass national health departments and governments so all the decisions will come from one center. In the last 2 years we were witness to the raising of the totalitarian police states all over the world. If this project is realized we will all be the guinea pigs of the psychopathic elites in a new totalitarian era that will be our new reality.


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Clipboard

Russia's new rules

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'N Guns
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Putin
© UnknownRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russia is done with the West. The divorce is nearly complete. In the past few days we've heard from all major Russian leaders the same thing, "The West will play by our rules now."

You can decide for yourselves whether Russia is writing checks they can't cash, but in the words of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telling the BBC bluntly, "We do not care about the eyes of the West." Lavrov has always been the soul of politeness and discretion when dealing with European media.

His open hostility towards his BBC interviewer was not only palpable, it was hard to argue with. He followed that up with:
"I don't think there's even room for maneuver left anymore because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Foreign Secretary Liz] Truss say publicly: 'We must defeat Russia, we must bring Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it."
Russia's leadership never talks in such openly blunt terms. It's almost like Lavrov was channeling comedian Dennis Miller who used to say, "Feeling froggy, take that leap."

See where it gets you.
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Arrow Down

West's Ukraine fantasy will spell doom for the Ukrainian nation

Scott Ritter
Press TV
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:36 UTC
Troops
© UnknownTroops in Ukraine
In the words of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Europe is undergoing one of the greatest struggles in the name of freedom since the American Revolution.
"The Ukrainians are fighting for their country; they're fighting for their future; they're fighting for their freedom. I am convinced and confident that, at the end of the day, Ukraine's independence, Ukraine's sovereignty will prevail and will be there long after Vladimir Putin has left the scene."
What was left unsaid was the reality that Russian President Vladimir Putin has survived four US presidential administrations and is well on his way to outlasting a fifth — the Biden administration that Blinken serves.

Blinken's comments come on the heels of continued calls from Ukraine's embattled President, Volodymyr Zelensky, for additional deliveries of heavy weapons needed for his country's ongoing fight against invading Russian forces.

While acknowledging that Ukrainian forces were suffering "painful losses" on the front lines, Zelensky believes that Ukrainian forces would be able to hold on to the contested Donbas region, and eventually launch a counterattack that would throw Russian troops from the totality of sovereign Ukrainian territory — including both Crimea and the Donbas.
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