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NATO-Russia confrontation 'could last decades' - Stoltenberg


RT
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:02 UTC
Jens St.
© Virginia Mayo/APNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg • NATO headquarters • Brussels, Belgium • February 7, 2024. Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged that the use of western-supplied arms to strike targets in Russia had long been a point of contention among Ukraine's allies.
The US-led bloc urgently needs to increase production of ammunition, the secretary-general has said...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on the bloc's members to increase defense production in anticipation of "a confrontation" with Russia "that could last decades." Stoltenberg has repeatedly warned that Western economies are ill-prepared for such a conflict.

With Ukraine's counteroffensive fizzled out and Russian forces poised to capture the key Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, media reports have for weeks highlighted the worsening shortage of men and ammunition facing Kiev. Amid warnings of "a cascading collapse along the front," Stoltenberg told Germany's Die Welt newspaper that NATO members must increase arms production to meet Ukraine's demand.
"We need to restore and expand our industrial base more quickly so that we can increase supplies to Ukraine and replenish our own stocks. That means switching from slow production in times of peace to fast production, as is necessary in conflicts."

Comment: This is one more war fantasy to be set in motion and doomed to fail dramatically...a global distraction to mask a global agenda.


Comment: As far as Russia is concerned, NATO is irrelevant.

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Classified Ukraine documents discovered in Biden's possession from time of Hunter's Burisma work

Steven Richards
Just the News
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:46 UTC
BidDocs
© Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/matzav.com/KJNUS President Joe Biden • Document Scandal
According to the appendices listing the documents recovered in the Justice Department investigation into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, the president retained talking points and a telephone call transcript with the Ukrainian prime minister from a key period in Hunter Biden's Burisma Holdings employment.

One appendix also lists a classified briefing on U.S. Energy Assistance to Ukraine, from September 2014, shortly after Hunter Biden had joined the board of the Ukrainian energy company.

These are the latest revelations from Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on his investigation into potentially mishandling of classified documents by President Biden. Though Hur ultimately declined to bring charges, the report has revealed new anecdotes about Biden's mental acuity and showed that he willfully retained and shared classified documents.

In a folder entitled "VP Personal" DOJ investigators found two documents relating to a December 11, 2015 call between then-Vice President Biden and then Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The summary of the first document reads:
"A Telephone Call Sheet setting forth the purpose of and talking points for a call with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk. There is a handwritten note addressed to Mr. Biden's executive assistant: 'Get copy of this conversation from Sit Rm for my Records please' that is signed 'Joe'."
The second document is the full transcript documenting this call with the prime minister.

In another location, the investigators found a memo entitled "U.S. Energy Assistance to Ukraine," dated to September 2014, just months after Hunter Biden formally joined the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company.

You can read the special counsel's report:
File: report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024-2.pdf

Comment: Scammer in Chief: Sensitive materials are those that provide kickbacks without divulgence.
Special counsel Robert K. Hur has submitted his investigative report into classified documents found at President Biden's private home and office - and the findings are still under review by White House lawyers, according to a letter sent to lawmakers Wednesday night.

The letter from Attorney General Merrick Garland said Hur had submitted his report to the Justice Department on Monday.
"Prior to submitting his report to me, Special Counsel Hur engaged with the White House Counsel's Office and the President's personal counsel to allow comments on the report. That included review by the White House Counsel's Office for executive privilege consistent with the President's constitutional prerogatives. The White House's privilege review has not yet concluded."
The letter comes a day after The Washington Post reported that Hur's report was complete and would be shared with Congress and the public in coming days. The Post also reported that people familiar with the matter said Hur's findings are critical of the handling of sensitive documents by Biden and his aides, but that conduct did not rise to the level of chargeable crimes.

In addition to deciding whether to seek criminal charges, special counsel's must file a confidential report to the attorney general explaining their decisions. In recent years, those reports have also been released to the public, sometimes with redactions. Hur's investigation had cost taxpayers nearly $3.5 million as of Sept. 30, according to a report released in January.

Showing willful intent to mishandle national security secrets is often a key factor in charging decisions involving classified papers.


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Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty


The Times of Israel
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:58 UTC
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© Hatem Ali/APPalestinians displaced by the Israeli offensive sit next to the border fence with Egypt in Rafah • January 24, 2024
Saudis also raise alarm; ground op pledged by Netanyahu in refugee-packed border city draws rebukes even from allies...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have added their voices to a rising tide of criticism of a planned Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that such a campaign was forthcoming.

Netanyahu announced Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to present the cabinet with a plan to both evacuate the city's civilian population — augmented by over one million refugees from the strip's north and center — and destroy Hamas's remaining battalions in the area.

According to Netanyahu, an assault on Rafah is critical to completing Israel's stated war aim of dismantling Hamas. Earlier in the week, the premier rejected Hamas's "delusional" terms for a hostage deal, which included a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip and the release of hundreds of terrorists serving life sentences.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday during a press briefing, warning:
"There is limited space and great risk in putting Rafah under further military escalation due to the growing number of Palestinians there. Escalation would have 'dire consequences'."
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Egyptian officials warned the decades-long peace treaty between Egypt and Israel could be suspended if Israel Defense Forces' troops enter Rafah, or if any of Rafah's refugees are forced southward into the Sinai Peninsula.

Comment: The wise have spoken to increasingly deaf ears.

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Ukraine regent Nuland told Zelensky not to fire top general - The Times


RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:23 UTC
Victoria
© Sergei Supinsky/AFPDeputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland • Kiev • January 31, 2024
The notorious neocon reportedly tried to save Valery Zaluzhny's job...

US Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was unhappy with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's plan to fire General Valery Zaluzhny and offered to "smooth over" the differences between the two, The Times reported on Friday.

Zelensky fired Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces on Thursday. Nuland was in Kiev at the end of January, as rumors of Zaluzhny's impending dismissal began to gain traction. In a meeting with the US ambassador to Kiev, Bridget Brink, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, she supposedly offered to help bridge the gap between the president and his top military leader.

Umerov reportedly told Nuland that Zaluzhny had "reacted with skepticism" to Zelensky's public statements and direct orders, going so far as to negotiate directly with Western countries about weapons deliveries behind the Defense Ministry's back.

Zelensky was unhappy that the general would not provide any plans for his 2024 military campaigns, Umerov is said to have told Nuland.

Comment: It's notable how fast the cookies are crumbling...!

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Judge Cannon rejects Jack Smith's effort to keep names of government witnesses secret and discovery material under seal

Cristina Laila
Th Gateway Pundit
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:16 UTC
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© Eduardo Munoz Alvarez; Robin van Lonkhuijsen/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith (inset)
Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, shut down Special Counsel Jack Smith's attempt to keep names of government witnesses and other discovery under seal in the classified documents case against Trump.

Jack Smith last June indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami.

Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.

Jack Smith has been fighting to keep the names of government witnesses a secret. He also opposed the unsealing of discovery material because one document confirms the existence of another FBI investigation.

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Israeli PM orders evacuation of 1.4 million Palestinians in last Gaza 'safe zone', Rafah, ahead of 'major ground offensive'


RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:15 UTC
rafah gaza
© Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty ImagesChildren line up for food prepared for Palestinian families in Rafah, Gaza, on Friday.
Benjamin Netanyahu has directed his military to prepare for moving civilians out of Rafah ahead of a major ground offensive

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to make plans for evacuating over a million Palestinian civilians crowded into Rafah, the last remaining refuge for displaced residents of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Israeli troops are preparing to launch a massive ground offensive against Hamas fighters in the area.

Comment: Israel's genocide and war of terror continues apace.

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Putin and Western Values

Hans Vogel
Unz Review
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:18 UTC
Ukraine Supporters
© unz.com
The interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently gave to American independent journalist Tucker Carlson was more than just an interview. In an approach reminiscent of the famous German journalist Emil Ludwig, Mr. Carlson tried to get a real conversation going, with serious answers to serious questions. Therefore, and unlike the style of most of today's Western journalists doing interviews, he actually listened to the interviewee, without trying to steer him into making statements that satisfy the US imperial propaganda apparatus.

Rather than an interview, what we saw was a master-class in history, skillfully delivered by the Russian President. Needless to say, most of it seemed novel to Mr. Carlson, who admitted to having studied history as an undergraduate. Likewise, most of what Putin said is certain to be news to the elites, journalists and the general public in the "West." Certainly in the US, but I am afraid also in Europe, which has been under US occupation and incessant, systematic brainwashing for eighty years now.

It should be pointed out that the US is built on the conscious denial of history. In the eyes of both the US public and its leading elites, the US remains outside of history: it is a "shining city upon a hill" that all the rest of the world is looking up to in never-ending amazement, hoping to be able to partake of its wonders. If only for that reason, Putin's history class was necessary, but if it will be helpful must be seriously doubted.
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Caricature of democracy: EU leaders threatened to 'politically rape' us - Hungary


RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC
Victor Orban
Brussels went further in its "blackmail" campaign against Budapest than previously reported, a senior government aide has said

Several EU heads of state directly told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that they would crash the Hungarian economy if he blocked a €50 billion ($54 billion) economic aid package for Ukraine, his adviser, Balazs Orban, has revealed.

EU leaders signed off on the mammoth four-year aid package earlier this month, after the Hungarian leader lifted his veto in exchange for some minor concessions from the bloc's 26 other member states. These concessions included an annual debate on its implementation and a promise to review its impact on the EU budget after two years.

Before the package was approved, the Financial Times reported that the European Council had drawn up a plan to cut funding to Budapest and tank the Hungarian economy if Budapest maintained its veto.

Balazs Orban, who is not related to the prime minister, told Austria's Exxpress newspaper on Saturday that multiple EU leaders phoned up Viktor Orban and "blatantly told him exactly this threat."
"Leading politicians called my prime minister and explained this to him openly," Orban told the newspaper."We rejected this approach. It contradicts the basic idea of ​​the EU. This is de-facto political rape."



Comment: The mask is dropping more and more about what the real values of the EU are and how words like "democracy" and "freedom" purely function as hollowed out terms which have been gutted of all the essential meaning of what those words mean. André Lobaczewski describes it well in the book "Political Ponerology"
If such a ponerogenic union could be stripped of its ideology, nothing would remain except psychological and moral pathology, naked and unattractive. Such stripping would of course provoke "moral outrage", and not only among the members of the union. The fact is, even normal people, who condemn this kind of union along with its ideologies, feel hurt and deprived of something constituting part of their own romanticism,their way of perceiving reality when a widely idealized group is exposed as little more than a gang of criminals.

Comment: The psychiatrist, Hervey Cleckley wrote an insightful book called the "The mask of Sanity" where he describes the psychopathic personality. A perhaps lesser known book by him, but equally insightful is called "The caricature of love".

Reading both books one can draw similar parallels to what Lobaczewski wrote in the comment above and we can see that for the EU and the Western world in general we have arrived at a caricature of democracy. Another quote from Lobaczewski describes it thus:
We shall call secondarily ponerogenic a union which was founded in the name of some idea with an independent social meaning, generally comprehensible within the categories of the natural world view,but which later succumbed to a certain moral degeneration.This in turn opened the door to infection and activation of the pathological factors within, and later to a ponerization of the group as a whole, or often of its fraction.
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Ukraine at risk of 'cascading frontline collapse' - NYT


RT
Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:32 UTC
Ukrainian soldier
© Roman PILIPEY / AFPA Ukrainian soldier of the 41st brigade walks in a trench near the frontline, outside Kupiansk, Kharkov Region, on January 23, 2024.
Ukraine's worsening lack of ammunition and battle fatigue will most likely force Kiev to abandon its current frontline positions unless it receives new aid from the West, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The paper said that Ukrainian defenses near the key stronghold of Avdeevka in Russia's Donetsk Region are reeling under relentless attacks, and Kiev's problems extend beyond one single battle.

Ukrainian troops, the Times added, are exhausted and suffer from a lack of weapons and ammunition, especially with regard to air defense systems. According to unnamed US officials interviewed by the outlet, Kiev only has enough air defense assets to last until March, unless it receives new shipments.

This is far from certain, as the US - Ukraine's main backer - is locked in congressional gridlock over President Joe Biden's request to approve a $118 billion security bill, $60 billion of which is earmarked for Kiev. Many Republicans have been reluctant to support the measure, claiming it does too little to improve security on the border with Mexico.

Comment: The NYT makes it seem like Ukraine will collapse tomorrow if we don't do something today. Obviously, that's intentional. The pressure is necessary to keep the theater of war in Ukraine going.

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Don't call Biden elderly man with poor memory - White House


RT
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:46 UTC
ian sams
© AP / Andrew HarnikWhite House General Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams at a press briefing at the White House, Washington, DC, February 9, 2024.
Robert Hur made "inappropriate criticisms" of the president, a spokesperson has said.

The White House has condemned a report compiled by US special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated allegations that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents. A top legal staffer said the prosecutor went beyond his mandate in describing Biden as having "diminished faculties in advancing age."

The spokesman for the White House's Office of the General Counsel, Ian Sams, went on the offensive against Hur's report during a rare Friday press briefing. Though the report ultimately recommended no charges for Biden, Sams questioned why Hur discussed the president's age at all.

Comment: That they're still trying to deny that Biden has clear signs of dementia has gone beyond exasperating to actually being sad. And to attack Hur about his comments only draws attention to the undeniable reality (Streisand Effect, anyone?). But what is truly galling is that Hur chose not to press charges because the jury would see Biden as a confused old man, yet the administration is claiming he was biased against Biden. Truly unbelievable.

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