Berlin. May 1945. Two Russians are standing in front of the burnt-out Reichstag. One turns to the other and says:
"But we lost the information war?"
Media are being shut down all over the place. VPN to reach RT.com and Sputnik, two of the most reliable sources available. Censorship in social media is intense. Racial hatred against Russians is reaching batshit levels. That any people, at any time, could ever get that bad... Yes, the information war. Organised well. Planned for a long time. So sad to see people so easily duped.
There's still no proper news on Ukraine from the US-friendly media. Nazis in the Ukraine? That can't be - Ze himself is Jewish! Rubbish like that. Sputnik, even more RT, have been covering the atrocities in the Ukraine for almost ten years. No mention in the West. None. Conflict with Russia began only a few days ago. But over there? Small wonder, as it's so close to home, and considered by many to actually be home. And this site just featured Oliver Stone's Revealing Ukraine with two celebrities from the Ukraine. (And where are those two today? Does anyone know? Have they also been "disappeared", together with their daughter? People are concerned.)
Russia's doing things according to plan. Tactically it's not a police operation, but strategically it is. They don't just bomb the shit out of things and people, like the US. They want to get rid of the Nazis and the military threat. That’s it. They have other fish to fry, so to speak. So they knocked out the entire Ukraine military infrastructure in an hour, by 07:00 local time 24 February. Now it's to encircle into "cauldrons" and sit it out and wait. The Ukies can't get supplies. And, in the meantime, they create "humanitarian corridors" as they so successfully did in Syria (where they were asked to intervene, unlike the US who goes wherever it wants).
The purpose of the humanitarian corridors, Gonzalo points out, is to save lives and reduce resistance. The Nazis want to stop this. Unsurprisingly. Once the civilians are evacuated, it's "Cowboys & Nazis", and the Nazis know it. A lot of them shed their army kit, blend in with the civilians, and dash it through the corridors, and the Russians know that too.
Some people are reporting the truth. Not just in Russia. Eva Bartlett is covering things. We also have a list of useful URLs coming. Just turn those boob tubes off. We took a deep dive for half an hour, gawking at the garbage coming through on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Sky, and we were quite amazed - and flabbergasted.
Here's a list.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxgKuAiHatLO-YskZU6PQQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxpPT4b4vnDlX0sBGz3r4Q
And of course Sputnik and RT if you can get them on VPN. Note that RT is constantly under attack, so you have to pass through a DDoS guard too. (Strangely there's no such need at 1.tv, Russia's premiere channel.)
We have lots to report for you. We want to catch up. If that's possible. For there's just too much coming in all the time.
None of us make a penny (a kopek) off this. We're doing this, shelving most other things, because we believe in truth (and justice) and want you to get a little more of the truth. Because, just as they said in front of the Reichstag...
Gonzalo: The Daily Beast Is Trying To Get Me Killed
Recorded at 06:30 of a sunny Kharkov morning. He talks quietly. He won't name names but others can. (The name is Mark Hay.)
Readovka's Daily Update
If maps help.
Карта военных действий на Украине за 22 марта
https://readovka.news/news/91683
Use Google Translate or, better still, Yandex Translate, if you want, but the map should be enough.
Alexander's Update on Mariupol
Sergei Lavrov's History Lesson
The enormity of this speech - the patience of seasoned diplomat Lavrov - is beyond the capacity of most people today. They can't absorb it. They've chosen to stay out of the loop for too long, and today it's just hopeless. Like the Assange thing. They don't know the details, they couldn't be bothered back then. Their instincts, which should have told them something bad was going down, failed. And so today they can't be bothered because they know they can't possibly catch up.
Lavrov's speech was picked up by MoA.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/lavrovs-history-lesson-russian-forces-develop-routine.html
Former military officer Bernhard has choice words of his own, so don't miss it.
"Back when I was a military officer we ran yearly large scale 'free running' maneuvers. Over nearly four weeks my tank company had to switch positions several times a day and march and 'fight' in between. The first week was cumbersome with lots of errors made by everyone. The second week was worse. Everyone was sleep deprived and folks screamed at each other. We had several accidents and twice parts of the company missed turns and got lost at night. During the third week things became gradually better and more routine. The drivers knew where to put their tanks without much command. The camouflaging done by the loaders and gunners was fast. The food that found its way to us was still hot and maintenance was done in no time. In the fourth week it was all pure fun.
"The reason behind it was that people needed to learn by doing. Before the maneuvers everyone had been 'fully trained'. But a few days on the training range do not give the experience one needs in the real world. Driving and 'fighting' through real villages and cities, real camouflaging against an 'enemy' airforce, real dueling in the open landscape day after day are different than training range time.
"Russia's forces are now in their routine mode. They will now grind down what is left of the Ukrainian forces.
"According to the Pentagon the Russian airforce yesterday flew 300 sorties over Ukraine, mostly at night. That's 50% more per day than last week. That means 300 Ukrainian weapon factories, ammunition depots, convoys, and fighting positions get destroyed every day, day after day.
"How long will it take until there are no more targets?"
"They own the long clock"
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-military-tactics-ukraine/
"They own the long clock", a senior Ukrainian officer recently admitted. "We are calculating time not in weeks or days - but in lives."
The Russians are already adapting, and by doing so are narrowing the Ukrainians' tactical edge. The one-sided culling of Russian armored columns that characterized the opening days of the war, and kept YouTube subscribers around the world happy, are a thing of the past. The Russians now lead their formations with electronic attack, drones, lasers and good-old-fashioned reconnaissance by fire. They are using cruise missiles and saboteur teams to target logistics routes, manufacturing plants, and training bases in western Ukraine. Realizing that the Ukrainians lack thermal sights for their stinger missile launchers, the Russians have switched all air operations to after dark. It may be for this same reason that Russian cruise missile strikes in western and southern Ukraine have also been at nighttime.
The Russians have learned to play to their strengths. While Ukrainian soldiers mock their Russian counterparts, they are deeply respectful of Russian artillery, an asset that the Russians are using more frequently to compensate for their infantry's deficiencies. Several snipers I spoke with recently agreed that the Russians' indirect fire capability was the most concerning - a result of sheer reckless mass rather than technical skill. They told some hair-raising stories to illustrate their point, and one amusing one: Ukrainian soldiers defending Kiev commute to the battle in their own vehicles. After a recent three-day insertion, the sniper teams returned to their extraction site to find their cars all flattened by Russian artillery - a contingency apparently not covered by their insurance plans.
Overconfidence may obscure for the Ukrainians one salient fact about this conflict: Time is not on their side.
And time is what Russia understands. They won already by 07:00 February 24th. Now all they're doing is waiting for the Nazis in the cauldrons to give it up.
The Proxy Army
https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2022/03/confirmed-nazis-are-proxy-army-of-us.html
"Couldn't be said more clearly. The former US secretary of defense and CIA director, Leon Panetta, admitted openly that 'We are engaged in a conflict here. It's a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not...' Referring to the Ukrainian forces, the US he claimed that 'These are good fighters, they are small-unit operations, they are working well...' The description 'small-unit operations' fits to proxy forces - mercenaries, rather than an organized national army."
Andrei: Saving Berlin 1945
Stefan Pasini:
Thank you Andrei.
I was thinking one thing about the Russians right now:
They came out from a very heavy empire (and so many wars before),
They went through 1st World War and Bolshevik revolution,
They went through communism including the 2ndWW that killed 25 million Russians,
They went through the 1990s, betrayed by the West, who only exploited and transformed in a country "of drunks, mobsters and whores" (this in Western reductionism, in negative and demonizing propaganda),
They have gone through NATO's constant advance and always demonization.
And now, that only in the last 10 years have had an improvement in living conditions, a certain recovery of national pride, and prospects of great trade agreements in Asia, now comes the United States, NATO, and other minions to try to spoil everything, with a racist campaign never seen in the history of mankind.
I tell you what - THE RUSSIANS NOW HAVE BLOOD IN THEIR EYES AND WILL NOT RETREAT AND WILL, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, RETURN ALL NEW OFFENSES.
Rutamira Bitongo:
We listen to you from Africa in large numbers. Keep doing what you are doing, we love you.
Gonzalo on Mariupol
Slowly squeezing... The lights are still on. Now picked by Saker who writes:
"Speaking of Gonzalo Lira, I am extremely worried about him, he has said that he would post a YT report ever 12 hours, and by now it has been sixteen (16!). And, considering this, I am frankly anxiously waiting for him to give a sign of life. Gonzalo, if you read these words (who knows?) I recommend that you try to get out towards the Russian lines if at all possible. If somebody has his email, please send it to me, I would like to contact him.
"If you have any news from/about him, please let me know."
Saker: Day 26
Yes it's been that long. Patience, young Jedi.
Read Saker-Andrei's full update here. Note that he's received an update that Azov might soon be gone from Mariupol, a milestone in the struggle, but he wants to wait with full confirmation a bit, so un-CNN-like.
http://thesaker.is/day-26-of-operation-z-in-the-ukraine/
"Castrate the cockroaches!"
Note that "cockroach" has special meaning for the resistance. You saw the hosts at Lushniki wearing those Z-formed cockroach emblems in their lapels?
But this doctor dude - Nazi evidently - is for real.
And yes, he really said that - he ordered his subordinate physicians to do that. Recurring culture-wide rage: someday we have to figure out how and why it happens and how to stop it. Obviously they’re "IOs", but we as a race need to learn more about them too.
Ukraine Confiscating Odessa Cargo
The Nazis confiscated a cargo of food sent from Moldova to China. Total value: €100,000. But hey, this is nothing. Some of you may remember how Russia sent convoys of humanitarian aid to Donbass in the "old days" but were prevented from entering by the Kiev Nazis.
https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14126385
"Humanitarian imperialism at least has the honesty to call itself imperial. Trotting out the old tired tropes every time an opportunity for military action is perceived by the MIC and their servants in government just becomes part of the background. While taxpayer money disappears whenever the military hardware we've shipped to Ukraine is hit by a Russian cruise missile, the cheap talk from American 'leaders' continues." - jhill
"Never ever believe anything in MSM that includes a number. Reporters are verbal people. They have no concept of number. None. They cannot add 2+2. They can discuss why 2+2 is a topic relative to race or gender. They can't come up with the answer." - oldhippie
Vovan & Lexus: Ben’s Deep Fake Show
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus (they’ve done Prince Harry, Elton John, Boris Johnson) communicate with the UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace posing as Ukraine’s Prime Minister.
"I have troops in Poland, Estonia, Lithuania..."
"Can we count on your secret supply of weapons?"
Don't miss the end when they reveal who they really are - and his reaction.
Rogan on NYT, Biden
Tulsi on Biden
Tucker: You are not allowed to ask this
Highlighted by SOTT:
And what a coincidence. Tucker's talking about the party of the two people featured in Oliver Stone's Revealing Ukraine, and you saw what happened to them - and you might have seen how they and their Ukraine director received a heap of awards.
So nice of Tucker to notice them. But he has too many cultural blindspots, doesn't he.
And not everyone denounced Russia, Tucker. People who are still not as warped as you, who can still read and learn, they're applauding it. And why?
Several reasons. But let's stop at the fourteen thousand murdered in Kiev's ongoing genocide. That's an oversight. Another Tucker Carlson blindspot, something else that neither Tucker Carlson nor the US MSM say anything about.
Clever propaganda, Tucker. We see through you. Good luck, Bowtie Boy. But at least you give the unwashed a pale second opinion of a sort.
That clip in its entrety shows just how brainwashed sheeple in the US are.
No wonder the German people supported Hitler.
PS. And foul McFaul is ambassador to Russia? And he teaches at Stanford?
Heaven help Planet Earth.
To reiterate: Tucker and his guests - and certainly nothing else on Fox or the warmonger US MSM - are the closest one can get to "truth" in the US. But it's still so far away from the "truth" that it's mind-boggling.
Turn off your televisions.
Bits of Interest
From MoA.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/bits-of-interest-from-the-war-in-ukraine.html
Zelensky says western leaders said no to Ukrainian NATO membership but refused to do so publicly.
US-supported “activist” commits publicly to war crimes.
CNN promotes leader of Azov Battalion.
Zionists pissed off by Zelensky's Holocaust revisionism.
Destroyed Kiev shopping mall was used as weapon and ammunition depot.
Despite a hopeless situation, Kiev refuses to surrender in Mariupol.
Unconfirmed: Zelensky rejects Ukrainian military request for retreat from Donbass.
Delving…
In two draft treaties sent to the US and EU in December, Russia demanded written declarations that the Ukraine would never join NATO. The US and the EU publicly rejected that demand. It was a major reason for Russia to start the intervention. But now Ze says to *CNN*:
"I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five. Just say it directly and clearly or just say no, and the response was very clear, you are not going to be a NATO or EU member, but publicly the doors will remain open."
MoA:
"The cowards just didn't want to say it publicly, even as it could have avoided a war."
(But perhaps the idea was to force a war?)
Israeli Lawmakers Trash Zelensky
Yes it was rather ghastly. But he's coked up, guys.
"Zelensky's claim that the Ukrainians were righteous gentiles who saved Jews in the Holocaust is sick historical revisionism. The Ukrainians were active, enthusiastic Nazis. Ukrainian Jewry wasn't annihilated in Poland, but in Ukraine."
Arnie Does It Again
Mariana Naumova, world champion in powerlifting, responds to Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the Russian people.
Voltaire
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
No, Voltaire never said that. His biographer Evelyn Beatrice Hall said that.
But, according to BrainyQuote, he did say this.
"Common sense is not so common."
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."
"Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous'. And God granted it."
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
The Voltaire Network's always had a good reputation, aside from that one slip after 9/11. But they haven't stopped. Their take on the Ukraine is interesting. And they seem to have lots of resources on the "inside".
But, to start things off, let's first pay a visit to TIME.
TIME 7 July 2021: Prince in Ukraine
What's he doing there? Ten BILLION?
22 February: NATO Expansionism in Europe
Two days before things began.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article215797.html
"NATO's enlargement in the last decades has been a great success and has also paved the way for a further enlargement of the EU': this was reiterated last Saturday at the Munich Security Conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. In order to fully understand his words, it is necessary to reconstruct this 'great success' story in its essential terms.
"It begins in the same year - 1999 - in which NATO demolishes Yugoslavia with war and, at the Washington summit, announces that it wants to 'conduct crisis response operations, not provided for in Article 5, outside Alliance territory'. Forgetting that it had committed itself to Russia 'not to expand even one inch to the East', NATO began its expansion to the East. It includes the first three countries of the former Warsaw Pact: Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. Then, in 2004, it extends to seven more: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (formerly part of the USSR); Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia (formerly part of the Warsaw Pact); Slovenia (formerly part of the Yugoslav Federation). In 2009, NATO incorporates Albania (formerly a member of the Warsaw Pact) and Croatia (formerly part of the Yugoslav Federation); in 2017, Montenegro (formerly part of Yugoslavia); in 2020, North Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) In twenty years, NATO expands from 16 to 30 countries.
"In this way, Washington achieves a triple result. It extends the military alliance close to Russia, even inside the territory of the former USSR, and maintains the levers of command: the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe is, 'by tradition', always a US general appointed by the US president and the other key commands also belong to the US. At the same time, Washington ties the Eastern countries not so much to the Alliance, but directly to the US. Romania and Bulgaria, as soon as they entered, immediately made available to the United States the important military bases of Constanta and Burgas on the Black Sea.
"Today 21 of the 27 countries of the European Union belong to NATO under US command. The North Atlantic Council, the Alliance's political body, according to NATO rules decides not by majority but always 'unanimously and by common accord', i.e. in agreement with what is decided in Washington.
"In this framework, Europe finds itself today in an even more dangerous situation than during the Cold War.
"Stoltenberg, spokesman for the US before NATO, declares that 'we keep the door open and if the Kremlin's goal is to have less NATO on Russia's borders, it will only get more NATO'.
"In the US-NATO escalation, clearly directed to explode a large-scale war in the heart of Europe, nuclear weapons come into play. In three months, the U.S. begins mass production of the new B61-12 nuclear bombs, which will be deployed under U.S. command in Italy and other European countries, probably also in the East even closer to Russia.
"They are also preparing intermediate-range nuclear missiles to be deployed in Europe against Russia, the invented enemy that can, however, respond destructively if attacked.
"Very clear: let's tighten our belts so that NATO can expand."
24 February: Comments on the Intervention
"A few hours ago the Russian army conducted airstrikes against the sector of the Ukrainian armed forces that is linked to NATO. In 3 hours, the Russian army wiped out the entire Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses and will continue its operation by next attacking the Azov battalion and all the Nazi officials that the United States and the United Kingdom introduced into the Ukrainian government.
"This should be good news for everyone, but here, in France, this operation is being portrayed as an invasion against Ukraine and as the forthcoming arrival of the Russian bear in Paris. So don't be fooled. because there are very important elements that we are not being told.
"Only those aspects referring directly to Ukraine are reported on, but the general context is overlooked. And that context proves Russia right, as I am going to explain to you.
"In October, Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State, traveled to Russia and, in Moscow, she threatened to crush the Russian economy and demanded the resignation of President Vladimir Putin. But you never heard about it. Look it up online. It is very easy to verify."
[We did try to look it up online, but we found no evidence of a demand for resignation. "Look it up" is quite the classic cop-out.]
"We must realize that the United States is no longer the world's leading economic power. It is now China. And it is no longer the first military power in the world. It is Russia."
"Only last weekend Russia showed that it has the capability to nuclearly destroy any target anywhere in the world without being intercepted because - as demonstrated - it deploys hypersonic launchers from submarines, from surface vessels, from bomber planes and mobile ground units. She can fire those launchers and destroy anything she wants anywhere in the world. It is impossible to deflect them because they move too fast. At the moment there is no way they can be intercepted. In minutes she can destroy whatever she wants and we should wonder that would happen if one day Russia may have to use such weapons against the Pentagon, the White House or the United States Congress."
"I don't say that as a provocation. What I am saying is that if Russia were to do so, the United States would not have time to intercept them, it would not even have time to use its own nuclear weapons."
"Let's take things seriously and respect International Law. It's what we all want. And it is in everyone's interest. So bravo for what Russia just did today!"
5 March: A Gang of Drug Addicts and Neo-Nazis
https://www.voltairenet.org/article215856.html
Yes, Putin put that in his speech, and he's totally correct, and Washington is fully aware. Fully. But what many saw as a reference to the coked-up Zelensky can instead have been directed at the equally coked-up Hunter Biden.
"All this was done thanks to straw men who have no expertise in gas, but have in common to participate in Hunter Biden's drug parties. This is what Russian President Vladimir Putin rightly referred to.
"It is easy to understand why the Atlanticist press is downplaying the Hunter Biden affair, in which his father, now President of the United States, is up to his neck in trouble.
"These facts should be linked to what I wrote in the previous article in this series. Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland, who piloted these schemes, are Straussians. And as the first of them, Paul Wolfowitz, wrote in 1992: The first rival of the United States is the European Union, whose development must be prevented.
"To understand, one must remember that at the end of the Second World War, the United States and the USSR each took many Nazi dignitaries prisoner. All tried to collect their information. But if, after eight months, the Soviets sent them back home, the United States kept some of them and recycled them."
The last graf is way beyond crucial.
"We must bear in mind that the Second World War was experienced differently in the West and in the East. In Western Europe, Nazism was a dictatorship that preyed on minorities, the Gypsies and the Jews, whom it abducted and exterminated by the millions in camps. In Eastern Europe, the project was quite different. It was a matter of freeing up a living space by exterminating the Slavic population. There was no need for camps. Everyone had to be killed. The levels of destruction are not comparable. The USSR alone counted 27 million dead. Modern Russia was built on the memory of this Great Patriotic War against Nazism. For the Russians, it is unacceptable to wear swastikas and to vote a racial law. One must act without waiting for it to be applied."
15 March: Ukraine: The Return of War Propaganda
A must-read. Really.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216075.html
"President Vladimir Putin, who had already waited eight years, could no longer put it off. Not only because people are dying every day, not only because the Ukrainian army was preparing a huge massacre on March 8, but because Russian law makes him personally responsible for the lives of his fellow citizens. In preparation for their eventual exodus, the vast majority of Donbass residents have acquired Russian citizenship in recent years."
Putin plays it carefully. The final graf seals the deal.
"Thus, Ukraine, which maintains more than one hundred thousand 'nationalists' and incorporated them into its 'Territorial Defense', then adopted a racial law, is working on illegal biological weapons and hopes to acquire the Atomic Bomb. We have chosen to forget the examples of courage of Jean Moulin and Charles De Gaulle and to support President Zelensky!"
15 March: Yavorov
We've heard this before, but not in such detail.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216085.html
This case illustrates that:
Contrary to NATO's repeated claims, NATO soldiers have been present in Ukraine for eight years. Innumerable photos can be found on the Internet attesting to this fact.
The weapons destroyed were probably worth several hundred million dollars. They were donated by the European Union and the United States.
That's enough for now.