One of my news aggregators has started doing that on here, as it happens. I posted 2 warnings about that...3rd strike, it's out. BLOCK Ring Of Fire people--that's RFKjr's organ on Russia Today.
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-12-06 06:02:38 GMT
Tulsi #Gabbard's views on #Russia shaped in part by #Kremlin propaganda outlet, ex-aides say.She regularly read and shared articles from the Russian news site RT.
#Rogan, one of the world's most popular #podcasters, has sparked outrage in Ukraine, after claiming that Kyiv and its Western allies, rather than Russia, "are about to start World War III."
Despite the long-running nuclear rhetoric emanating from the #Kremlin, and the fact Moscow launched the full-scale #invasion of #Ukraine in the first place, Rogan pinned all the blame for the escalation of international tensions on Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
https://kyivindependent.com/honestly-go-f-k-yourself-ukrainians-react-to-joe-rogans-rant-on-ukraine/
It adds that nuclear weapons could be used in these scenarios: If reliable information is received about the takeoff or launch of strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic or other flying vehicles and their crossing the Russian border.
So a #military drone across the border is enough? Nearly the same bullshit is standing in the US version. This means they can use nuclear weapons in every war at any time.
#fail #news #warfare #war #Problem #conflict #defense #earth #future #politics #diplomacy
The Kremlin has denied reports that President-elect Donald Trump spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Nov. 7, branding the claim " pure fiction."
Washington Post (WP) citing sources familiar with the matter, reported on Nov. 10 that the call took place, claiming Trump advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, and highlighted Washington’s significant military presence in Europe.
Speaking on Nov. 11, #Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed the reports.
"This is the most vivid example of the quality of the information that is now published, sometimes even in fairly respected publications," he told Interfax.
"This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, this is just false information."
#Trump #Putin #disinformation #propaganda #Liars #HybridWar #InformationWarfare #fiction
"They blame the war not on the invader but on the #invaded. Not on (Vladimir) Putin's lust for power, but on Ukraine's thirst for freedom," von der Leyen said at the Globsec conference in Prague, attended by the Kyiv Independent.
"So I want to ask them: would you ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet #invasion of 1956? Would you ever blame the Czechs for the #Soviet oppression of 1968?"
"The #Kremlin's behavior was #evil and atrocious back then, and it is evil and atrocious today," the #EU official said.
Von der Leyen also criticized Europe's pre-2022 "illusion" that greater economic integration with Russia would lead to more stability.
See also Ring of Fire Radio and The Young Turks, both on Russia Today after they left Air America Radio. Heads up.
#RT #RoF #TYT
♲ Putin's IBS - 2024-08-07 20:31:10 GMT
"Meanwhile, in overdue news!"😂 🤣 😆#FBI raids #Russia_Today columnist
The #FBI is conducting a search of #Scott_Ritter's home. The #FBI is not disclosing details. Since 2019, #Ritter has been writing regularly for the #Kremlin controlled #RT, with propaganda presenting him as a "former #UN inspector" and "#American military analyst."
#Scott_Ritter is not hired by reputable Western publications because of his prison term for pedophilia.
With all dissent snuffed out at home, Russia is turning its attention to opponents who have sought refuge in the West.
“When I left Russia and came to Prague, I had this illusion of security,” says Alesya.
"Parasites can’t sleep in peace..." was one of the messages that investigative journalist Alesya Marokhovskaya received last year.
The threats were accompanied by the name of the street in Prague where she lived. “I moved house to make it harder for them,” says Alesya.
“We thought it may just be some crazy Czech guy who was pro-Putin and had recognised me on the street.”
But then the messages became more sinister - calling her a "scumbag" and promising to find her "wherever she walks her wheezing dog".
Alesya’s dog really does wheeze when it walks. She informed the Czech police.
Later, Alesya was due to fly to Sweden to attend a conference. The sender then sent even more specific threats: details of her flight, seat number and the hotel she had booked. “It was clear they had high-level access to documents,” Alesya says. “It looks like the behaviour of the Russian state.”
Alesya had been branded a 'foreign agent’ years before by the Russian government, due to her work at independent Russian news website iStories.
#Intimidation is the intent,” suggests Mark Galeotti. “The idea that you'd better keep your head down. It’s a way of deterring the emergence of some kind of coherent political opposition to the #Kremlin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl4y0j47xe4o
#RussianTerrorism #terrorism #IStories #Putin #PoliceState #FSB
The funds will be used to support the "defense and reconstruction of Ukraine," von der Leyen said.
"There is no better symbol or use for the #Kremlin's money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live."
https://kyivindependent.com/eu-transfers-ukraine-1-6-billion-in-proceeds-from-frozen-russian-assets/
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-07-11 02:44:25 GMT
Vladimir #Putin’s anti-Western rhetoric and appeals to the countries of the Global South with a call to build a “multipolar” world together did not arouse enthusiasm among residents of countries that the #Kremlin calls “friendly”».In the countries of Latin America, as well as in key countries - #Russia's trading partners - #India and #Turkey - the level of citizens' trust in the President of the Russian Federation in 2024 dropped to multi-year lows.
Meeting with Foreign Ministry senior officials • President of Russia
We last met in this extended format in November 2021, and since then, there have been many pivotal and even fateful events, without exaggeration, both in Russia and around the world. ... — http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/74285 #nsfw #russia #kremlin #foreignpolicy
#Kremlin #troops were 'laughing' at #Ukraine's inability to strike inside #Russia, Zelensky says
by Chris York and
The Kyiv Independent news desk
..."Speaking to the Guardian before Kyiv confirmed the ban had been partially lifted on May 31, Zelensky said it was "absolutely illogical to have (Western) weapons and see the murderers, terrorists, who are killing us from the Russian side."
"I think sometimes they are just laughing at this situation," he said in the interview published on May 31, adding: "It’s like going hunting for them. Hunting for people."
"They understand that we can see them, but we cannot reach them."
The U.S. gave Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory with American-supplied weapons, but only near Kharkiv, Zelensky's spokesperson, Serhii Nykyforov, confirmed to the Kyiv Independent.
Citing unnamed American officials, Politico reported on May 30 that President Joe Biden's administration had given the go-ahead for Kyiv to attack targets inside Russia but "solely near the area of Kharkiv." The report was then confirmed by other outlets, including ABC News and the Associated Press (AP)."...
#Kremlin in #disbelief at #US ‘ #insult ’ of #late #Iranian #president #Iran #Blinken
"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has expressed disbelief at comments by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, following the #death of former Iranian president #Ebrahim #Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The top US diplomat claimed the Iranian people are “better off” without Raisi, during a grilling by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over his department's reaction to the deadly accident on Sunday."
[...]
Two Russian-born #Czech citizens ran a #hotel in northern #Greece that doubled as a #SafeHouse for an infamous unit of Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU) as it carried out #bombings and #poisonings across Europe, an investigation by The Insider has found.
Husband and wife Nikolay and Elena #Saposnikov ran the Villa Elena, a three-story hotel in #Frama, Halkidiki, which, according to the report, hosted members of the #Kremlin's "most grimly accomplished #assassination and #sabotage squad," Unit #29155, on a regular basis for the last 15 years.
Putin's one hope will remain. The #Kremlin will desperately await its savior from Mar-a-Lago – who one #Republican reportedly called “Orange Jesus.”
Whether #Trump’s return to the Oval Office really would end the ordeal that Putin created for himself is another story. For now, Russia is once again heading for failure in Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-trump-is-putins-only-hope-now/
Dead meatgrinder men don't need money where they're going.
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-04-20 02:16:53 GMT
The Russian government last year announced a lucrative package for foreign fighters to join the country’s military, including a monthly salary of at least $2,000 and a fast track to Russian citizenship – but the #Kremlin has not said how many foreigners it has recruited under the plan.By some estimates, #Russia has been sending thousands of foreign men to fight in #Ukraine since #Putin ordered the invasion.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/india/india-russia-ukraine-one-mans-death-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
On Sunday T_he New York Times_ published an explosive and very belated full #admission that US #intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine wartime decision-making, but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago.
Among the biggest revelations is that the program was established a decade ago and spans three different American presidents. The Times says the #CIA program to modernize Ukraine’s intelligence services has “transformed” the former Soviet state and its capabilities into “Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the #Kremlin today.”
This has included the agency having secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers spanning back to just after the #2014 #Maidan #coup events, as well constructing a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border—work which began eight years ago. These intelligence bases, from which Russian commanders’ communications can be swept up and Russian spy satellites monitored, are being used launch and track cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory.
This means that with the disclosure of the longtime “closely guarded secret” the world just got a big step closer to #WW3, given it means the CIA is largely responsible for the effectiveness of the recent spate of attacks which have included direct drone hits on key oil refineries and energy infrastructure.
“Without them [the CIA and elite commandoes it’s trained], there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them,” according to Ivan Bakanov, former #head of the #SBU, which is Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.
A main source of the #NYT revelations—disclosures which might come as no surprise to those never willing to so easily swallow the mainstream ‘official’ narrative of events—is identified as a top intelligence commander named Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy.
Clearly, #Kiev and #Washington now want #world to know of the deep intelligence relationship they tried to conceal for over the past decade. It is perhaps a kind of warning to #Moscow at a moment Ukraine’s forces are in retreat: the US is fighting hand in glove with the Ukrainians. And yet the revelations contained in the NY Times report also confirm what #President #Putin has precisely accused Washington of all along.
The Russians obviously know about these bases since they presumably have had control of them for most of the last two years. So, why is Washington suddenly admitting to them now? Are the neoclowns attempting to establish some basis for arguing that since the #USA has been actively waging #war on #Russia for a long time, more aid and even direct military support for Ukraine is justified?
At some point, the anti-Russian Narrative is going to collapse, as one lie after another is exposed, and it eventually turns out that the Russians were doing nothing but telling the truth about The Empire of Lies and its activities in Ukraine all along.
It also documents how the CIA not only kept #PresidentTrump in the dark with regards to its anti-Russian activities, but consistently undermined him and his policies.
It is difficult to pin down the exact moment that Russia began morphing into a totalitarian state, but the transformation didn’t take long.
For over a decade, the #Kremlin was taking away civil liberties and feeding the population a revamped and increasingly more aggressive version of #nationalism. For nearly a decade, most Russians didn't seem to care.
In 2012, the Kremlin ruthlessly ended the wave of #demonstrations known as the #Bolotnaya protests. Named for the square in Moscow where demonstrators gathered, the rallies began in December 2011, when thousands of Russians flooded the streets to protest against election fraud.
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-decade-long-fall-into-totalitarianism-explained/
I was just scrolling yesterday through my stared posts in looking for something and I found this - which just seems way too relevant today in light of the #TuckerCarlson interview with #Putin.
Always remember what #peace means for #Russia whenever that #Kremlin idiot says it wants #negotiations. Always remember what #concessions by #Ukraine in exchange for #peace actually means for #TerroRussia. The only #peace which is acceptable for #Putler is the one where Ukraine gives up all its territory. Then #Moscow can start its #ethniccleaning and the erasure of #Ukrainian identity, just like it did with all the people in its empire. And when that happens, other countries are endangered of following suite - #Moldova, #Georgia, #TheBaltics, even #Poland and #Romania.
At this point, you could comfortably say that Russia is the last classical style #colonialempire of Europe. The only way to #EndTheWarInUkraine is to #defeatrussia.
#ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #RussiaIsABarbaricState #russiaisacriminalstate #russiaisateroriststate
♲ Anders - 2023-08-16 09:50:21 GMT
To those who thinks that #Ukraine should negotiate peace with #Russia, then Medvedev has just removed any reason to do so:https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1691545649299304448
The Kremlin has laundered $2.5 billion of African gold since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by an international group of researchers and human rights activists published on Dec. 12.
Russia's illicit activities and ties to authoritarian regimes in Africa have been under the public eye for years. Russian mercenaries on the continent, whose operations help to fill Moscow's coffers, have been repeatedly accused of human rights abuses against local populations.
The Blood Gold Report reveals that Russia-backed mercenaries, including the Wagner Company, support authoritarian regimes and destabilization in Africa as part of resource extraction schemes that bring Russia more than $100 million per month.
The research focused on Wagner's operations in three African countries, each illustrating a different method of resource extraction.
#Imperialism #Russia #theft #Africa #authoritarian #Kremlin #HumanRights #StopRussianAggression #BloodGold #gold #laundering #money #WagnerGroup
