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Best of the Web: France preparing deployment of 1,500 Foreign Legion to Ukraine in April — Russia


TASS
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:56 UTC
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Sergey Guneev; RIA NovostiFILE: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Maria Zakharova also said the Kiev regime "continues to cleanse the media space and introduce total censorship in the country".
France could bring about 1,500 servicemen to combat readiness in April for deployment to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"New information is emerging about the preparation by Paris of a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine. To this end, the command of the French Foreign Legion in early March approved the makeup of a battalion tactical group of about 1,500 people," she said at a news conference. "It is expected that in April the group will be brought to full combat readiness for an operational deployment to the Ukrainian theater of military operations."

"Meanwhile, the French continue thy [sic] part of their history, which in general should be consigned to oblivion: the business of their ancestors, who were engaged in the secret export from Ukraine of cultural treasures, including ancient Byzantine icons, for their alleged, as they phrase it, preservation in France," the diplomat said.


Comment: Interesting that Zakharova should mention icons: Explosives hidden in religious icons traveled by truck through Europe, Ukraine, found by Russia's customs officers

Zakharova's announcement:



Comment: Notably, the Kiev-junta just warned that, in the next few months, they intend to attempt another terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge in Crimea. Furthermore, it's likely that the German military, who, just a few weeks ago, was exposed conspiring to do just that, will be able to provide them with some kind of assistance.

It also wouldn't be the first time that France had sent meat for the grinder: Russia releases names of French mercenaries in Ukraine, includes son of a General of France's Armed Forces

South Front provides footage of the training exercise (see full text below):

🇫🇷🇺🇦 FRANCE - UKRAINE

The French Foreign Legion getting ready to deploy in Ukraine - Documentary Eng subtitles.

According to http://Southfront.press, one of the best media on contemporary conflicts, French military leaders have already begun training combat units to send to the Ukrainian front.

At the end of February, President Macron instructed the Ministry of the Armed Forces to study the question of sending French Foreign Legion forces to Ukraine.

On February 27, 2024, by order of the Legion command, the formation of three companies of Legion fighters began.

On March 5, 2024, the French military command and Legion command approved the personnel numbers of the battalion tactical group, which is expected to include 1,500 military personnel. This battalion tactical group contains three Legion companies, which were assigned for this purpose in advance.

These are :

- a material support company;
- two engineering companies.
- The battalion tactical group should also include: up to 6 companies of motorized and armored infantry as well as the operational team.

The French command failed to assure the number of declared personnel of the battalion tactical group to the members of the Legion.

The assumed ratio of members of the Foreign Legion to regular military personnel of the Ministry of the Armed Forces in the battalion tactical group is approximately 1:2.

During the first half of March, the battalion tactical group began combat coordination at the Courtine training camp in the "Creuse" region of France.

March 8 to 14, 2024, the 2nd regiment of the Foreign Legion based in Nîmes was reported preparing for a large-scale exercise throughout the "Creuse" region of France. 800 legionnaires and their 120 vehicles were trained in the countryside and the streets of the quiet town of "Guéret" including 40 armoured vehicles.

The staff was tasked with completing combat coordination by mid-April. Personnel should wait for the order and be ready to be sent to the front in Ukraine.

The deployment of the group to Ukraine could take place in the second half of April as suggested by the Russian MFA press secretary Mari Zakharova

Documentary of the exercise from Objective Gard: 2nd Foreign Infantry (foreign legion) Regiment of Nîmes for full-scale training at the Courtine camp (Creuse).


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Vader

Biden sinks to new lows over Moscow bombing and RussiaGate fake news

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:58 UTC
biden zelensky
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Biden's breath-taking stupidity in Ukraine is finally going to expose NATO for what it is: a paper tiger.

Are we all preparing for the inevitable? Trump returning to the White House? It would seem that certainly the Biden administration is doing just that given recent events. Moscow's terror attack has taken centre stage of world news in recent days yet not one western journalist seems able to call out the ISIS warning from the U.S. for what it was: sham.

And not only the warning was disingenuous but the sheer bad taste vitriol of Washington which was on a level only matched by the suspicious outright and swift rejection that Kiev had no part in the attack.

Bad taste seems to be the hallmark of the Biden administration with a failed foreign policy which trails in second place. If Americans didn't know before that the U.S. could not control two proxy wars on two separate fronts, now they know. As the aid parcels which drop onto Palestinians - sometimes even killing them - makes a statement in itself, it's interesting to see how Biden is always looking in the past in almost everything he does.

Even RussiaGate has been dragged out of its dank grave and had new life breathed into it by Biden's press people who are now preparing the American public for a Biden failure in December. The biggest fear for Biden is the "hack and leak" attack which pushed many democrats over a line with Hillary Clinton when her emails revealed what an utterly morose political figure she is. Who could forget that "there are terrorists there [in Syria] but they're on our side" comment when talking about the early days of the Syrian crisis which started in 2011?
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Pirates

Best of the Web: Ukraine (ahem, the CIA and MI6) threatens another terrorist attack on Crimea's Kerch bridge

Luke Harding
The Guardian
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:03 UTC

Comment: Luke Harding is a British intelligence agent masquerading as a journalist, so keep that in mind as he explains to you why it's 'inevitable' that Europe's longest bridge 'must be destroyed' to 'avenge Ukraine'...


Kerch Bridge
© Getty Images/Anadolu AgencyKerch Bridge terror attack, October 08, 2022
They have become a familiar sight in the skies above parts of Russia: long-range enemy drones, buzzing their way to another target. In the biggest Ukrainian onslaught inside Russian territory since Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion two years ago, Ukraine has in recent weeks carried out a series of attacks on Russian oil refineries and ports. On Tuesday, it hit a refinery and drone factory in the industrial region of Tatarstan - more than 800 miles from the border.

The Ukrainian spy agency behind these drone strikes has its eyes on another target: the 12-mile long Kerch bridge connecting occupied Crimea with Russia. Senior officials from Ukraine's HUR military intelligence service indicate it is plotting a third attempt on the bridge, after two previous attempts to blow it up, claiming its destruction is "inevitable".

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Pirates

Russian intelligence official: 'US shielding itself by whitewashing Kiev role in Moscow terror attack'


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:06 UTC

Comment: We're this close to Russia 'busting it wide open' - the entire War on Terror era being the handiwork of Anglo-American-Zionist intelligence...


Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev.
© Sputnik / Vladimir AstapkovichRussian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev.
Evidence suggests that the Ukrainian government was behind last month's concert hall massacre in Russia, a senior official has claimed.

The US refuses to allow any discussion of potential Ukrainian involvement in last month's terrorist attack near Moscow because Washington is ultimately accountable for Kiev's actions, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has insisted.

The US government has claimed that all evidence points to an Afghanistan-based offshoot of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) as the mastermind behind the Crocus City Hall massacre on March 22. Any Russian suggestions to the contrary are "nonsense and propaganda," White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby claimed last week.

Comment: The Russian government has also sent formal requests to the judiciaries of the US, France, Germany and Cyprus for answers to questions it has about possible links between elements in their countries to the Moscow terror attack:
The Prosecutor General's Office has expressed hope that authorities in the four countries would comply with Moscow's request and "fulfill the obligations assigned to them" under certain international conventions.

These include the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 1999 and the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings of 1997.
By the way, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has refuted US government claims that it 'warned the Russian government' about the Moscow terror attack:
"I would really like to receive factual material on this topic from the American side. That is, to whom and when did they give this information?" she added.
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Russian Flag

Dmitry Trenin: Russia is undergoing a new, invisible revolution

Dmitry Trenin
RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:48 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia
© Grigory Sysoev / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with election campaign workers at the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia.
The US-led bloc has pushed the country to develop a new awareness of itself and its place in the world.

When President Vladimir Putin, back in February 2022, launched Russia's military operation in Ukraine, he had specific, but limited objectives in mind. It was essentially about assuring Russia's security vis-à-vis NATO.

However, the drastic, expansive and well-coordinated Western reaction to Moscow's moves - the torpedoing of the Russo-Ukrainian peace deal and the mounting escalation of the US-led bloc's involvement in the conflict, including its role in deadly attacks inside Russia - have fundamentally changed our country's attitude towards our former partners.

We no longer hear talk about "grievances" and complaints about "failures in understanding." The last two years have produced nothing less than a revolution in Moscow's foreign policy, more radical and far-reaching than anything anticipated on the eve of the Ukraine intervention. Over the past 25 months, it has been quickly gaining in strength and profundity. Russia's international role, its position in the world, its goals and methods of reaching them, its basic worldview - all are changing.

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Evil Rays

Climate-con and the media-censorship complex - Part 1

Jesse Smith
Off-Guardian
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
disinformation
The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex. Just prior to this year's annual globalist confab in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced that misinformation and disinformation are currently the greatest threats to humanity, with the release of its Global Risks Report 2024.

From a list of 34 risks, the WEF report identifies mis- and disinformation as the top threats to global stability over the next two years and the fifth most dangerous threats over the next 10 years. Of particular concern is false information that could affect elections, democratic processes, and social cohesion in various countries worldwide, as well as sentiment contradicting the "consensus" narrative about climate change.

“consensus” narrative about climate change.
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Heart - Black

Best of the Web: Israeli strike kills foreign aid workers in Gaza - NGO


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:11 UTC
Gaza, bombed vehicle, World Central Kitchen NGO
© AFPA vehicle of the World Central Kitchen NGO destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.
Seven aid workers, including four foreigners, providing meals for the World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in a "targeted attack" by Israeli forces in Gaza, the NGO, founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jose Andres, has said.

All of the group's operations in the Palestinian enclave have been suspended following the Monday incident, it added.

Five fatalities were reported initially as a result of the airstrike, but WCK announced an updated death toll in a statement on Tuesday. The victims include a dual US-Canadian citizen, three Palestinians, an Australian, a Pole and a British national, the group said.

According to the NGO, its staff members were attacked in the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza as they were leaving a warehouse after unloading tons of food aid earlier delivered to the Palestinian enclave by sea.

The aid workers were traveling through a de-conflicted zone in two armored cars with the WCK logo on them as well as a soft skin vehicle, the NGO said. The convoy was struck despite WCK coordinating its movements with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the statement read.

"This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations, where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable," WCK CEO Erin Gore said.

Comment: This was obviously no accident. But what better way to stop an organization from delivering much needed food than by killing a few people, calling it an accident, and having the organization stop of its own accord.

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Gavel

Appeals court block Texas migrant arrest law again

Emily Goodin
The Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:48 UTC
migrant camp texas border
© Anadolu via GettyMigrants build makeshift tents with blankets to protect themselves from the cold as an American helicopter guards the border
Stops cops from arresting illegal border crosses as state's battle with the Biden administration rages on

A Texas law that allows state police to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally entering the United states will remain on hold for now, a federal appeals court ruled in a victory for President Joe Biden.

Biden's Justice Department has argued that Texas' law is a violation of federal authority and would create chaos at the border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has argued the Biden administration isn't doing enough to control the border and that the state has a right to take action.

A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied - in a 2-to-1 ruling - a request by Texas to let the law take effect while the state's appeal of a judge's ruling blocking it plays out at the appellate court.
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Bad Guys

Israeli attack on Damascus was terrorism - Moscow


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:14 UTC
Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, Israel attack Iranian embassy
© AFP / Louai BesharaThe rubble of a building annexed to the Iranian embassy is pictured a day after an air strike in Damascus on April 2, 2024
The head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has described Monday's airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in the Syrian capital as a terrorist attack committed by the Israeli government.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with his Belarusian counterparts on Tuesday, the spy chief condemned the strike, which reportedly killed several Iranian diplomats as well as seven officers of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals - Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi.

Naryshkin described the attack as "an ugly and criminal step in relation to the sovereign state of Iran, and in relation to the sovereign state of Syria, on whose territory this terrorist act was committed."

He added that the SVR has received additional information about the incident, and reactions from various countries, but did not provide further details.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has also condemned the bombing of the Iranian compound in Damascus, stressing that any attacks on diplomatic missions, which are protected under the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, are unacceptable.
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Putin

Putin warns Moscow terror attack mastermind: 'We will get them'


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:51 UTC
Putin Rusija
It's crucial to identify the perpetrators and ultimate beneficiaries behind the Crocus City Hall tragedy, the president has said

Russian security agencies will find the masterminds behind the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City concert hall, President Vladimir Putin has pledged.

It's crucial to establish not only the direct perpetrators of the "bloody terrorist attack" which took place on March 22, but also all the links in the chain leading to its ultimate beneficiaries, Putin said during a meeting with the leadership of Russia's Interior Ministry on Tuesday.

"We will definitely get them," the president said of the masterminds of the Crocus City Hall massacre, in which 144 people were killed and more than 550 injured.

Comment: When the FSB completes its investigation, the results are likely to be shocking. But how will Russia wield that damning information?

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