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Ukraine attempts to blame Russia for humiliating Pentagon leak

Ahmed Adel
InfoBrics
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Ukraine war
The Pentagon announced it was trying to remove from the internet a major leak of secret documents which have exposed plans relating to Ukraine's war on Russia. For his part, Elon Musk sarcastically highlighted the vain attempt, saying on Twitter: "Yeah, you can totally delete things from the Internet - that works perfectly and doesn't draw attention to whatever you were trying to hide at all."

The American billionaire derided on Twitter the Pentagon's attempt to remove social media posts containing leaked classified documents relating to the conflict in Ukraine. The day before his tweet, the New York Times newspaper indicated that officials were not successful in removing the publications from the internet.

The leak was described to the New York Times by a senior intelligence official as "a nightmare for the Five Eyes," the intelligence sharing apparatus between the Anglo countries - the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Some of the documents were found on Twitter and other sites on April 7, a day after US officials announced that they were investigating a potential leak of classified Ukrainian war plans. These war plans include an alarming assessment of Ukraine's faltering air defence capabilities and notes that 12 brigades are being formed for Ukraine, including nine trained by the US and other NATO allies.
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Moron Rep. McCaul pushes war: US troops in Taiwan 'on the table' if China invades

Caitlin Doornbos
New York Post
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:37 UTC
MIchael McCaul
© ReutersRep. Michael McCaul acknowledged the US may send troops to Taiwan should China invade the self-governed island.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul has said the US may send troops to Taiwan should China invade the self-governed island.

"If communist China invaded Taiwan, it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by Congress and with the American people," the Texas Republican told Fox News.

"Are they prepared to do this? Is Taiwan worth it? I can argue for a lot of reasons why it is."

The potential move would represent a stark contrast to the the war in Ukraine, where the US has sent billions in weaponry to Kyiv but has refused to send troops.

Comment: The idiot US government is pushing China to its own Cuban Missile Crisis moment. There is no reason to assume it will have the same sanguine outcome. The hubris of our "leaders" is staggering.

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Black Magic

Stand with Ukraine and Shun God

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church persecution
Behind the ghastly military conflict in Ukraine a proxy war has been declared against the Russian people. And deeper still, a spiritual conflict between the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a nationalist movement of stunning iniquity.

The world has witnessed over the last year a shocking military collision between Russia and Ukraine. Yet behind the military conflict is a spiritual conflict between the historic Orthodox Church which has existed in Ukraine for over a thousand years, and a new nationalist sect created by the patriarch of Istanbul in 2018.

The true shepherds of the Orthodox Church have always stood faithfully to defend the faithful, whether they were persecuted by pagan Rome, oppressed by the Ottoman Turks, or martyred by the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.

The Zelensky state has sponsored soldiers to seize churches and monasteries, assault priests and monks of the canonical Orthodox Church. The regime has allowed a new nationalist sect created by the patriarch of Istanbul back in 2018 to forcibly install members of the new nationalist sect in these holy places. The pressure, the fear of this ungodly regime, has transformed and shattered traditional orthodoxy in the country. In order to survive, many in the high clergy of the Ukraine church have bent to adopt doctrines, essentially abandoning their faith.
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Macron refuses to back US line on China


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:00 UTC
Xi Macron
© AFP NG Han GuanFILE PHOTO 6. April 2023: The French president distanced himself from Washington's confrontational policy on Taiwan
Western Europe must pursue "strategic autonomy" and avoid getting dragged into confrontations on behalf of the US, Emmanuel Macron told Politico on Sunday. The French president has made similar assertions before, but has nevertheless followed Washington's lead on Ukraine.

In an interview while traveling within China this week, Macron told the news site that "Europe faces a great risk" if it "gets caught up in crises that are not ours."

"The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America's followers," Macron said. "The question Europeans need to answer... is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction."

Comment: It's unlikely that Macron simply decided to 'refuse' to back the US on China. What's more likely is that, after China rejected the West's attempts to persuade them to 'come around' to their way of thinking on Ukraine (and in effect Russia), China left the ball in the court of Europe's leaders who now have to decide for themselves what's more important, the multipolar world, or the ailing US empire.

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Russia prepares fortifications in Crimea in anticipation of Ukraine incursion, satellite images show

John Psaropoulos
Al Jazeera
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:00 UTC
crimea
Russian forces have been digging defensive fortifications and trenches that experts say would be difficult and costly to overcome.
An analysis of satellite images by Al Jazeera has revealed that Russian forces are fortifying the Crimean peninsula in anticipation of a Ukrainian attempt to recapture it.

Experts say that those defences are likely to make any such effort difficult and bloody.

Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, eight years before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the war grinds on for more than a year, Ukraine's political and military leadership has made it clear that it defines victory as reclaiming its 1991 borders, which Russia had recognised. The United Nations and all of Ukraine's Western allies also recognise those borders, which include Crimea.

Comment: There's little chance that Ukraine will retake Crimea because, as noted above, it's of utmost importance to Russia, and its people, and as Putin has said, in this conflict, Russia has hardly gotten started.





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Chad gives German ambassador 48 hours to leave country over disrespect of 'diplomatic practices'


PressTV
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:31 UTC
Jan Christian Gordon Kricke
Jan Christian Gordon Kricke, German Ambassador to Chad
Germany's ambassador to Chad will be expelled within 48 hours for his "impolite attitude" and "non-respect of diplomatic practices", the government in N'Djamena said in a statement Friday.

The ambassador, Jan Christian Gordon Kricke, has been in the role since July 2021, and the government gave no official explanation for his expulsion.

Government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh urged him to "leave Chadian territory within 48 hours."

"We have not been officially contacted," a source at the German Embassy told AFP on condition of anonymity, who said he had heard the news via social media.

Comment: This may reflect the shift seen throughout Africa whereby a number of nations no longer feel they need to tolerate the West's underhand behaviour, because now there's the multipolar alternative: Leaders in Ghana, Zambia, slam US for 'undemocratic' meddling, amid VP Harris' tour of Africa

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Rand Paul calls for arrest of Manhattan DA after evidence surfaces in Trump case

Martin Welsh
Conservative Brief
Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
BraggPaul
© Getty ImagesManhattan DA Alvin Bragg • Kentucky Senator Ron Paul
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to task after former President Donald Trump was indicted, saying Bragg could be forced out of office and into court himself.
"Wonder if DA Bragg remembers Durham DA Mike Nifong who withheld exculpatory DNA tests on the Duke lacrosse players. He was subsequently forced out of office, disbarred, and convicted of contempt of court."
Paul refered to Nifong, the district attorney in the 2006 case accusing Duke University lacrosse players of rape. The three players were exonerated and Nifong even spent one day in jail.

"A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power. The DA should be put in jail," Paul said in a separate statement just before news late last week about the indictment.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy declared that Congress will take action after former President Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan on Tuesday for his arraignment in the case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Comment: Melodramatic: The American political soap opera continues. Stay tuned.

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White House names Afghan exit debacle culprit


RT
Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:48 UTC
coffins
© Jason Minto/U.S. Air Force/Getty Images11 US Marines killed during the August 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under Biden's watch.
Over a year and a half since the end of America's longest-ever war, President Joe Biden's administration has attributed the chaos and deadly violence that arose during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to former President Donald Trump.

"President Biden's choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor," the White House said in a 12-page report released on Wednesday. Biden inherited the smallest US troop presence in Afghanistan since 2001, as well as an agreement by Trump to withdraw all of those forces by May 2021. The previous administration provided no plans for conducting the exit, the report said.

The report essentially acknowledged no mistakes by the administration, although one "lesson learned" was to prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a "degrading security situation." White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that those lessons had already been applied in Ukraine and Ethiopia, adding that such decisions are difficult because the administration must strike the right balance between getting its people out quickly enough and trying to avoid undermining the host government.

Comment: Rewriting history: This double-down rhetoric is yet another proof the Dems are still afraid of Trump. The greater the panic, the harder they protest.

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Briefcase

Judge overseeing Trump case could face ethics investigation

Chris
Trending Politics
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
MerchanTrump
© Ahmed Gaber/NY Times/Redux Pictures/ABC7.com/KJNJudge Juan Merchan • Former US President Donald Trump
Judge Juan Merchan, who presides over the case of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, may be subject to an ethics investigation for violating New York's Code of Judicial Conduct.

Outlined in the New York Code of Judicial Conduct, sitting judges are prohibited from engaging in any political activity, including making contributions to political organizations or candidates. Judge Juan Merchan's three donations to Democrats during the 2020 election could be a violation of this rule.

Judge Juan Merchan made three donations to Democrats in 2020, which include $15 to Biden for President and $10 each to Progressive Turnout Project and Stop Republicans, according to FEC records.
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O'Neill urges BRICS bloc to expand, challenge dollar's dominance

Antony Sguazzin
Bloomberg
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:40 UTC
O'Neill
© Simon Dawson/BloombergEconomist Jim O’Neill
Jim O'Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist who coined the acronym BRIC, said the bloc of nations that later adopted the name should expand and work to counter the dollar's dominance.

In a paper published in the Global Policy journal on March 26, O'Neill called on the group to apply strict criteria to ensure the addition of any new members to its ranks helps further its aims and urged it to focus on climate finance, improving healthcare and boosting trade.
"The US dollar plays a far too dominant role in global finance. Whenever the Federal Reserve Board has embarked on periods of monetary tightening, or the opposite, loosening, the consequences on the value of the dollar and the knock-on effects have been dramatic."
Brazil, Russia, India and China established BRIC in 2009 and the bloc became BRICS a year later when South Africa was admitted. If it expands to include other "emerging nations with persistent surpluses," a globally fairer, multi-currency global system could emerge, O'Neill said.

Comment: As reality continues to divide, there is little chance opposing ideologies will cooperatively merge.

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