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Not helping: Trump jokes US should 'put the Chinese flag' on F-22 fighter jets and 'bomb the s---' out of Russia

Mychael Schnell
The HIll
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:52 UTC
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© Leah Mills/ReutersFormer US President Donald Trump
Former President Trump reportedly joked on Saturday that the U.S. should "put the Chinese flag" on F-22 fighter jets and "bomb the shit" out of Russia.

Trump made the comment to top Republican National Committee donors at a retreat in New Orleans, according to CBS News.

The network reported that the former president suggested that the U.S. should blame China for the offensive and then watch as the two countries engage in a conflict.

"And then we say, 'China did it,'" Trump said, which, according to an unidentified source cited by CBS News, elicited laughs in the room. "Then they start fighting with each other, and we sit back and watch."

Comment: Meanwhile, the Empire green-lights NATO members to supply jets to Ukraine, but wisely, Poland and Slovakia won't go along:
Asked whether NATO members could begin sending planes to Ukraine, Blinken said "that gets a green light." The US' top diplomat then said that Washington was already working with Polish officials to "backfill" any aircraft they send to Ukraine - meaning the US would replace every Polish aircraft given to Kiev with an American one.

The US and NATO have ruled out a no-fly zone, and repeatedly stated that they would not send troops to Ukraine.

However, delivering fighter jets to the Ukrainians has not proven simple thus far. The European Union pledged warplanes to Ukraine late last month, but faced two significant hurdles: first finding jets that Ukrainian pilots could fly, and then finding countries willing to deliver them from their airports.

The Ukrainian Air Force uses Soviet-designed MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-24, Su-25, and Su-27 jets in combat roles, and with the Su-25 used by Bulgaria and the MiG-29 used by Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia, the jets would need to be sourced from these countries.

Shortly after the EU's announcement, Poland stated that it wouldn't send jets to Ukraine nor allow its airports to be used for deliveries. Bulgaria and Slovakia then stated that they wouldn't take part in any deal, effectively killing off the EU's arms supply plans.


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Israel's Naftali Bennett informs Berlin after meeting with Vladimir Putin


Deutsche Welle
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:27 UTC
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Bennett spoke with Germany's Scholz after meeting with Putin in Moscow
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been the latest world leader to visit Moscow to speak with President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. Some see Bennett as a potential mediator between Moscow and Kyiv.


Comment: Israel has been arming the neo-Nazi's in Ukraine since at least 2018, who on earth thinks it could qualify as a mediator in this situation?


Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Bennett arrived in Germany after a visit to Moscow, where he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin. After meeting with Putin, Bennett called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"We continue to dialogue," the Ukrainian leader tweeted after his talk with Bennett.

Comment: Russia and Putin have no need of help from those who continuely violate international law, commit war crimes, and crimes against humanity:

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Don't look now!

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Mark Peckmezian/RyanJLane/Getty Images/Facebook/KJNRussian President Vladimir Putin • US President Joe Biden • WWIII
Ukraine is a manageable localized problem in a distant part of the world and Russia is going to manage it. The American crisis of confidence in its own operating system is something else.

Did "Joe Biden's" handlers actually want to start World War Three? They are the same posse who contrived the Russian Collusion hysteria of 2016-19, then launched Covid-19 — and the even more deadly mass "vaccination" response to it — and have now successfully goaded Russia into cleaning up the international hub of grift and mischief known as Ukraine. One thing established for sure as fact: the "Joe Biden" family received plenty of cash off that grift wagon, and those "handlers" have neatly ring-fenced it from official scrutiny.

Where does that leave the so-called president of the US in the current crisis?
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Durham shreds Sussmann's motion to dismiss and lays out the Clinton connection

Nick Arama
RedState
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:14 UTC
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© Bob Child/APUnited States attorney for Connecticut, John H. Durham
I'm guessing someone didn't like all the coverage of the Clinton connection to the Durham probe and the allegations in the Durham filing in the case against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann that revealed that servers connected to President Donald Trump were being surveilled for their DNS lookups.

After the news came out, the attorneys for Michael Sussmann moved to strike the factual background in the Durham filing that has raised all the furor, claiming essentially that Special Counsel John Durham said too much, and that the intent was "to politicize this case, inflame media coverage, and taint the jury pool."

But then Sussmann's attorneys moved to dismiss the entire case against him, basically arguing he didn't say enough — that he didn't state a case for the charge — and that Durham didn't allege all the elements of the charge against him.

Comment: More background:

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Blinken: US 'looking actively' with Poland into sending fighter jets to Ukraine

Khaleda Rahman
Newsweek
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:41 UTC
Blinken
© Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP/Getty ImagesUS Sec of State Antony Blinken
The United States is considering sending planes to Poland if Warsaw decides to send fighter jets to Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday. Blinken, during a visit to Moldova, said
"We are looking actively now at the question of airplanes that Poland may provide to Ukraine and looking at how we might be able to backfill should Poland decide to supply those planes. I can't speak to a timeline but I can just say we're looking at it very, very actively."
The White House said it was working with Polish officials "on this issue and consulting with the rest of our NATO allies," NBC News reported. "We are also working on the capabilities we could provide to backfill Poland if it decided to transfer planes to Ukraine," a White House spokesperson said.

The Polish prime minister's office on Twitter dismissed reports of a potential arrangement for the country to hand over fighter jets to Ukraine. The chancellery of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki tweeted early Sunday:
"Poland won't send its fighter jets to #Ukraine as well as allow to use its airports. We significantly help in many other areas."

Comment: Great plan, Blinken. Offer jets you don't have!
Supporting the delivery of jets to Ukraine occupies a middle ground for the US between active intervention in Ukraine and purely economic retaliation against Moscow. The government in Kiev has made no secret of its desire for the US to intervene militarily. Such a measure would see the US and any willing NATO allies commit to shooting down Russian aircraft, something Moscow has explicitly said it would perceive as an act of war.

Delivering fighter jets to the Ukrainians has not proven simple thus far. The European Union pledged warplanes to Ukraine late last month, but faced two significant hurdles: first finding jets that Ukrainian pilots could fly, and then finding countries willing to deliver them from their airports.

The Ukrainian Air Force uses Soviet-designed MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-24, Su-25, and Su-27 jets in combat roles, and with the Su-25 used by Bulgaria and the MiG-29 used by Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia, the jets would need to be sourced from these countries.

Shortly after the EU's announcement, Poland stated that it wouldn't send jets to Ukraine nor allow its airports to be used for deliveries. Bulgaria and Slovakia then stated that they wouldn't take part in any deal, effectively killing off the EU's arms supply plans.


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Tech trojan horse: How the Senate is poised to codify censorship of social media

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 10:00 UTC
Klobuchar
© Greg NashSenator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn)
Beware of politicians bearing reforms. Since the Trojans first wheeled a wooden horse into their fortified city, many are leery about "gifts" that may be heavily laden with dangers. That is true with the Trojan horse legislation just offered by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). In the name of "reforming" the internet and bringing tech monopolies to heel, Klobuchar has penned a "Nudge Act" that would expand corporate censorship and speech controls.

Even the name is designed to be non-threatening. After all, who could oppose an act titled "Nudging Users to Drive Good Experiences on Social Media"? It is enough to garner the support of Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.). The act, however, is less of a nudge and more of a shove toward approved content and choices.

For years, President Joe Biden and Democratic members of Congress have pushed for greater and greater censorship on the internet and on social media. Liberals have found a winning strategy in using corporate censorship to circumvent constitutional limits on governmental speech controls. Senators like Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) warned social media companies that they would not tolerate any "backsliding or retrenching" by "failing to take action against dangerous disinformation," and demanded "robust content modification" to block disfavored views on subjects ranging from climate control to elections to the pandemic.

Comment: We are forewarned...but it is already too late.

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Best of the Web: Terrorists set for deployment in Donbass were trained at US Al-Tanf base


Sputnik
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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© TaghribnewsUS backed militants • Al-Tanf military base
Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on 24 February with a stated goal to demilitarise and de-Nazify the country. President Vladimir Putin authorised the op following a request for help from the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, which have faced increasing bombardments by Kiev.

NATO countries are sending terrorist fighters to Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service warned on Friday:
"The intelligence services of NATO countries are transferring foreign terrorist fighters to Ukraine...the US and UK intelligence services in recent weeks have de facto turned Polish territory into a 'logistical hub' used to supply weapons and smuggle fighters, including from the Middle East, to Ukraine."
According to the intelligence service, the terrorists, who are to be deployed to Donbass, were trained at the US-controlled Al-Tanf military base in Syria.
"At the end of 2021, the Americans released from prisons... several dozen Daesh terrorists, including citizens of Russia and CIS countries. These individuals were sent to the US-controlled Al-Tanf base, where they have undergone special training in subversive and terrorist warfare methods with a focus on the Donbass region."

Comment: The US and its cohorts just can't stop themselves in this race to the bottom, dragging all of civilization along with them.

ISIS, Nazis, terrorists of whatever stripe, it's all the same to the Empire.

See also:

DPR: Ukrainian militants preventing evacuation of civilians from Volnovakha

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Senior State Dept., White House officials travel to Venezuela to pressure key Putin ally

Brittany Bernstein
National Review
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:38 UTC
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© Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/ReutersVenezuela President Nicolas Maduro, Miraflores Palace, Caracas, Venezuela
February 16, 2022
Senior U.S. officials traveled to Venezuela on Saturday to hold meetings with the administration of President Nicolás Maduro as the Russian invasion of Ukraine brings renewed attention to Russia's Latin American allies, according to a new report.

Sources told the New York Times about the scheduled trip, which marks the highest level visit by Washington officials to Venezuela's capital, Caracas, in years. The delegation includes senior officials from the State Department and the White House, according to the report, and it was not immediately clear how long the group would stay in Caracas or with whom the group plans to meet.

While the U.S. cut ties with Maduro's administration and closed its Caracas embassy in 2019, U.S. officials have zeroed in on Venezuela as one of Russia's last remaining international allies as many countries have shunned the Kremlin over the Ukrainian invasion.

Comment: Years of the unrelenting US whipping stick and what now? A carrot?

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Putin ready to discuss protection of Ukraine's nuclear plants


RT
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:34 UTC
Zelensky Macron Putin
© Getty Images / Anadolu Agency / ContributorVolodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin at the Elysee Palace in Paris, December 9, 2019.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is open to a meeting on the safety of Ukrainian nuclear plants, but that it should not be in Chernobyl, the location suggested by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.

In a phone call with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on Sunday, Putin accused Ukrainian radicals of creating a "provocation" at the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant "with the involvement of a sabotage group."

The shootout and fire at Ukraine's Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant on March 4 sparked worldwide concern and accusations that Russia was risking a nuclear disaster. Kiev and Moscow, however, accused each other of provoking the situation.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Crossing the Rubicon



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Flashback Best of the Web: The globalist American Empire would rather risk nuclear war than admit its own arrogance


Revolver
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 02:27 UTC
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Ukraine warmongers of the Empire
The United States is on the brink of a war in Ukraine, and most of the country hasn't even noticed.
WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials.

The move would signal a major pivot for the Biden administration, which up until recently was taking a restrained stance on Ukraine, out of fear of provoking Russia into invading. But as President Vladimir V. Putin has ramped up his threatening actions toward Ukraine, and talks between American and Russian officials have failed to discourage him, the administration is now moving away from its do-not-provoke strategy.

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The discussions came as the State Department ordered all family members of U.S. embassy personnel in Kyiv to leave Ukraine, citing the threat of Russian military action, and authorized some embassy employees to depart as well, according to senior State Department officials who briefed reporters on Sunday.

— New York Times
Sounds very serious. Yet right now, this is the New York Times front page.
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