NATO’s Quack Journalists Shill for Total War

Declan Hayes

The hot war is in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces and NATO. There is nothing, besides joining up, we can do about it.

Here is transexual CIA “journalist” Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, dressed in the uniform of Ukraine’s Nazis, holding his weapon sideways (ha ha) denouncing Chilean-American Gonzalo Lira, who should really have fled Zelensky’s rump Reich months ago and echoing Ukrainian warlord Kirill Budanov in threatening to murder all “Russian apologists” both inside and outside Ukraine. Whatever about the journalistic qualifications of Lira and pretend warrior woman Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, one must note that Nazi apologist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, with “her” NATO issue weapon, indicates the Frankensteins NATO’s journalists are mutating into.

Ashton-Cirillo is far from the only such transitioning NATO journalist as this white-washing process has been evident from at least the Iraqi genocide, where NATO’s journalists were embedded with NATO’s invasion forces and in Syria, where the BBC and VICE worked hand in hand with ISIS. Lira and CIA freak Ashton-Cirillo are but the latest canaries in our mines, weathervanes as to where NATO wishes to bring its doomed empire. If Ukraine is our era’s Sarajevo moment, then Gonzalo Lira and countless other victims of Zelensky’s rump Reich are our Arch-Duke Ferdinands, preludes to NATO’s leeches once again visiting total and totally avoidable war upon us and not even God in heaven possibly knowing where it will end. Still, we must plod on by first getting the hot wars out of the way before moving on to their accompanying soft war currents, of which LGBTQRA++ woman warrior Ashton-Cirillo is an integral part.

First off, check out this fine video from the highly recommended Defense Politics Asia (DPA) stable, which gives us an update on Army Group South’s planned offensive to the Azov Sea as well as the Wagner Group’s redeployment to the rear to replenish themselves before once again entering the fray. Note also DPA’s excellent homework mentions the threats Transnistria and Moldova face, as well as Ukraine’s deployment of V rockets into Russia. Europe, it seems, is back to what it does best, to self-immolating itself for Uncle Sam.

Africa and Western Asia are not much better. Because NATO has again stirred the pot in Sudan carnage, on a scale we have never seen before, or at least till we look backwards at NATO’s last genocidal campaign in the Horn of Africa, has once again been visited upon those unfortunates. Expect hordes of Sudanese to run to wherever they can run for survival. As Revelations 9:6 tells us, in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it; and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

Verily! Although China seems to have brokered peace of a sort between Iran and Saudi Arabia and there now seems hope for those Yemeni and Syrians, who survived NATO’s savagery, because such pipes of peace sit uneasily with NATO’s business model, they best watch out. As, of course, should Mexico, Haiti and a host of other countries wishing to live in peace with themselves and the world.

The CIA, lest we forget, has been involved in attempted coup d’etats in about a third of the countries in the world, most of them democracies. So even if American national policy is, as its parrots say, to promote democracy, the CIA’s policy has always been the opposite.

As has that of its most loyal lapdog. As MI5’s BBC network has, for example, recently launched an emergency pop-up radio service for Sudan and, as the Yanks are bleating about human rights, democracy and their usual cheat sheet list in Sudan, we deserve no prizes for seeing their blood-stained hands behind Sudan’s apparent mayhem. It is what the CIA and the BBC do best.

Speaking of the BBC, did you catch their coverage of the Coronation of King Jug Ears? Their correspondents did a splendid job on that bore fest, trying to infuse life into that moribund corpse which was akin to watching Antarctic penguins staring listlessly at a cricket match. Although the British Armed Forces literally put their best foot forward and they looked resplendent to those who do not know better, their marching and choreography is as nothing compared to that of the heroic Vietnamese Army, the North Korean Army and, most especially, the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army, whose marching skills not only match those of Japan’s syncronised marchers but are a very strong indication of China’s emerging hard and soft power.

The point there is because Eastern Asia has Western Europe totally outgunned when it comes to pomp and circumstance and all without Albion’s museum piece frills, NATO’s circus is obsolete and the hordes of insufferables who attended the Royal Coronation, a pantomime the more enlightened Spanish abandoned in 1494, won’t change that.

Clogging London with nobodies like Clown Prince Zelensky’s wife and driving them in gas guzzling convoys (hello MI5’s Extinction Rebellion) to meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s billionaire wife in Downing Street cuts no ice. What was the point of all that? Have MI5 never heard of Zoom?

Or Luton airport? If these Mafia molls, with their track records in shady deals, must meet, why do they not get together out of sight and out of mind at Luton or some other British regional airport, where the locals could scoff at these revamped circus freaks? Why do they crave the human adulation?

Of course, a female freak show would not be complete without Ursula von der Leyen, that utter imbecile, serial plagiarist and selfie Queen, throwing her Botox Colgate smile into proceedings. But such Forrest Gump muppets are not worth dwelling on.

For there was also that total bell end, Zelensky, who fecked off to the ski slopes of Helsinki before dropping into Rotterdam, which is the nerve centre of Europe’s heroin and cocaine industries. What is it with that guy, his GI Joe regalia and his nose candy habit?

Fancy you are a NATO Special Forces soldier and that coke-addled idiot drops in to give you one of his plagiarised Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more speeches. What are you supposed to make of the nose candy, the plagiarised speeches, the stolen valour, the Robin Hood uniform and the sheer nothingness of this oaf?

In between his Finnish and Dutch snorts, Zelensky tapped up Africa’s tiny Comoro islands before being summoned to a meeting with the leaders of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, presumably to assure them their Ukrainian investments are in safe hands. For, make no mistake about it, this is what the war in Ukraine and all its collateral ethnic cleansing is about. Journalists like Yankee Boy Tucker Carlson targeting BlackRock’s criminal collusion in Zelensly’s war crimes get the Gonzalo Lira treatment; they are cancelled, not least because, in his case, BlackRock own 45.74 million shares, about $1.5 billion worth, in Fox Corporation, which is run by Rupert Murdoch who, busy fossil that he is, is currently plundering Syria’s Golan Heights with his Israeli chums.

Although the British and Australian blue rinses had a good Coronation Day of it, so too did NATO’s real shot callers as they got to inspect Zelensky and their other plastic Robin Hoods. And, irrespective of whether Zelensky finishes his days upside down like Mussolini or on an SS funeral pyre like Hitler, the boys from Fox News and BlackRock know they will, as always, win.

When, not if, the Ukrainian rump Reich is forced to negotiate on Russia’s terms then, as Zelensky has repeatedly parroted, there will be investment opportunities galore in Ukraine, NATO’s giant money laundering hub, for those Western investors.

Ukraine, like nineteenth century Africa, is a buccaneer’s dream, all upside and no immediate downside. Backing up Julian Assange’s claim of what outrageous scams are these endless NATO wars, here is CIA insider Alan Greenspan explaining how this Ponzi scheme works. “The U.S. can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money.” BlackRock, Vanguard, Fox News, the BBC and the CIA’s other assets have their tentacles firmly wrapped around Zelensky’s rump Reich and they will get their pound of flesh and more, as they always do. Once the war ends, and all wars do end, Zelensky or whoever replaces him, will dance to Uncle Sam’s tune, to BlackRock’s endless quest for more riches, more power, more influence. That, and nothing else, is why Ukraine has been destroyed.

And you don’t have to take my word for it. Here is Clown Prince Zelensky explaining the rump Reich’s scam and Tucker Carlson and other American commentators tearing stripes off it.

Let’s bring all this Royalist bullshit, these car cavalcades, these bio-labs, brown envelopse, nose candy aficionados and black sacks of cash back to first principles. NATO’s media decree that Russia bombs a nuclear power plant it controls, that it bombs its own gas pipelines, and even the Kremlin for good measure. As with Syria, how can we have a sensible debate and avoid nuclear war when NATO hires unhinged folk like Zelensky and Ashton-Cirillo to blanket the airwaves with that tripe, to spray paint an LGBTMC2 sheen on hard-core fascism, which is manifested not only in Kiev’s Kristallnacht but also in the rump Reich lionising such despicable creatures as Vladimir Kubiyovich, founder of the SS Galicia Division; Yaroslav Starukh, organiser of the SS Galicia Division;.Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa and Vasiliy Galas, organisers of Jewish pogroms; UPA commanders Vasiliy Levkovich and Vasiliy SidorUlas Samchuk, Ukraine’s own Julius Streicher; and Andrey Melnik, Ukraine’s Adolf Eichmann.

Ukraine, as this informative article explains, is every bit as bad as the original Third Reich the CIA modelled it on, and Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, who holds his arms side-ways, is as guilty as anyone who gave Hitler, Himmler and their Ukrainian cronies a leg up. Though I have no idea what will happen to Lira or anyone else Zelensky’s Gestapo are currently torturing, I do know this. There can be no lasting peace in Europe, Sudan or anywhere else until Zelensky’s Nazis and all those BlackRock, Fox News, BBC and British Royalist charlatans who under-write them are kicked once and forever into the trash bin of history.

Though it is a tragedy that so many Russians have to die to rid the world of their Nazi venom, there is, at day’s end, no other way to end it. And, though the CIA continue to cause so many totally avoidable deaths in Ukraine, in Palestine, in Syria and, again, in Sudan, those deaths, along with the nonsense of Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the Zelenskys, the BBC and the CIA’s other apologists, will continue until they lose both the hot and soft wars.

The hot war is in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces and NATO. There is nothing, besides joining up, we can do about it. The soft war, the one Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (who holds his arms sideways), the Zelenskys and the BBC fight, is a different matter. We are duty-bound, with those who know how to handle firearms and who can differentiate truth from lies, to take them on and destroy both them and the lies they spin.

London Calling. How Much Patience Is Left From the West Towards Zelensky?

Martin Jay

How much longer has Zelensky got with his so-called special relationship with western elites and NATO? It is a popular notion among geopolitical experts that the relationship is beginning to sour as in recent weeks there have been a number of indicators which hint that the marriage of convenience may well be on the rocks.

This is not because he didn’t go to the coronation of King Charles, but chose to send his wife, although this will be noted in the circles of power in London. No, you have to go back farther to the end of February where relations began to fray when the Ukrainian president actually announced on media that he wanted to reach out of the Chinese Premiere Xi in that hilarious “call me” article. This is the greatest indicator that his time is running out with western elites who are supplying him with less and less equipment and ordinance not least because their own stocks are so absurdly low that their own countries now cannot defend themselves from any attack with a British general recently revealing in the UK press that Britain only had “about 22 hours of ammo” in any conflict situation. The “call me” article spooked the West so much that in a matter of days NATO secretary general announced “Ukraine will be a NATO member” which was such an absurdity that even Zelensky himself had to unpack the comment later on and toned it right down.

Then there was the leaked Pentagon papers which I have argued are fake. Did Zelensky organise this leak so as to put pressure on the US to speed up an arms shipment, as well as embarrass the West by “revealing” Egypt’s plans to send rockets to Ukraine to help Russia? Certainly a more realistic argument than an uneducated American serviceman putting them on the net to settle a score although we should not dismiss the idea that the soldier was used as a conduit.

What is more solid ground and explains the impasse which I believe we’re witnessing now is on the battlefield of Ukraine. The West was certainly hoping by now, with just months away from Biden’s re-election campaign starting, that he would have something to show voters in the US who are confused how there could be half a million US citizens homeless while well over 100bn dollars has been blown on military aid to Ukraine. But rather than token victories, Zelensky only has defeats.

More recently we have witnessed the capture of Bakhmut by Russian forces with heavy losses on both sides. NATO bosses and western leaders must be wondering if one more town like Bakhmut falls what does that do to troop morale. Does it have a domino affect and bring the whole thing crumbling down? Zelensky and Biden both desperately need a victory in Ukraine but this prospect seems more and more unlikely and so unorthodox methods are likely to be relied upon more in the future. The amateur drone attack on the Kremlin is a good example. Zelensky is torn between being responsible for a full blown WWIII scenario (which he has provoked a number of times in the past such as the missile attack on Poland) or going to the Chinese for a peace deal. The latter though will cost him heavily as Xi is only interested in peace in return for rich pickings, commercially speaking which we learnt from when the phone call with Xi finally came.

For Stoltenberg or even Biden this must have been a pivotal moment which they could hardly believe. It told them both that Zelensky is an ally in only the broadest sense and an ungrateful brat into the bargain who cannot be trusted at the best of times. To appeal to Xi for a peace deal means that even Zelensky himself doesn’t hold out much hope for both his relations with West to last too long and for the actual battle on the ground to stay as it is. What is interesting though is that western elites who also have a large stake in him and Ukraine are also getting nervous.

Was it just nothing more than a coincidence that Zelensky’s wife was sent to the coronation in London? Or is even the UK, a stalwart supporter of him and Ukraine, now starting to revaluate the relation after the Xi call?

This would be one explanation as to why a British government minster recently made a shocking admission to the press that some of the weapons that the UK was sending to the Ukraine were not getting there but being sold on black markets in eastern Europe.

Recently, UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey admitted  that some arms shipments supplied to Kiev by its Western backers could have changed hands before they reached the frontline. He did not clarify the exact amount or types of arms that have allegedly been rerouted.

His reaction came not from a request from media, but from a Scottish MP Kenny MacAskill who asked the minister to estimate the proportion of British military aid sent to Ukraine that had been resold before reaching the nation’s troops.

Heappey replied somewhat vaguely that the UK has “robust procedures” in place to ensure that all assistance going through the International Donor Coordination Centre is handed over to the Ukrainian army.

However, he admitted that “there have been isolated reports” – although extremely rare – saying that equipment given to Ukraine had been diverted away from the front line without giving any more details.

My own investigation in the Daily Mail in July 2022, concluded that there are shipments of UK and US weapons making their way to black markets and turning up in Syria in the hands of pro western jihadists fighting Assad’s forces. The Ministry of Defence, when I asked them to clarify, were also incredibly vague about giving any details but along with a former intelligence officer I interviewed said there were no tracking devices as such in the equipment – something which seems to be very hard to believe. My experience is that my own government lies to me and that a number of MPs I contacted became nervous and retracted their willingness to contribute to my investigation once they knew exactly the subject. It is quite likely that Heappy is lying about the limited numbers as it is more than likely that the MOD is lying about no tracking devices installed.

What is more realistic to believe is that relations between London and Kiev are also waning. It is one thing to allow the cabal of Zelenksy’s to resell some of the kit being sent to fund their own activities and sustain rock star lifestyles when the odds seemed to be in the favour of the Ukrainian army; but quite another when the battle seems to have turned in Russia’s favour and Zelensky is making calls to China for help. That is not biting the hand that feeds you but rather cutting if off and throwing it to filthy dogs in your street to devour.

Palestine Is Boiling and Will Not Cool Down

Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli aggression against Palestinians has reached the point where they are not permitted to hear the call to prayer, Steven Sahiounie writes.

Khader Adnan, 45, of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, died while on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison.

He started the hunger strike on February 5, when he was arrested and sentenced in an Israeli military court and placed into “administrative detention”, which means detention without charges in abhorrent prison conditions.

It was the Israeli common practice of administrative detention that prompted the hunger strike.

Held without charges or trial, this marked the third time Adnan had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison, having been arrested by Israel 12 times, spending around eight years in prison and mostly under administrative detention.

Adnan died in his prison cell without any medical treatment, even though Israeli officials were repeatedly urged to transfer Adnan to a hospital, but they refused. It appears, the Israeli prison system was waiting for him to die, while they make room for another prisoner to take his place. It took only 87 days to stop him from his protest.

Adnan was a member of the Islamic Jihad, which is very powerful in Gaza, and they swore revenge for his killing.

“We demanded he is moved into a civilian hospital where he could be properly followed up (on). Unfortunately, such a demand was met by intransigence and rejection by the Israeli prison authorities,” said Adnan’s lawyer Jamil Al-Khatib.

UN experts declared yesterday in Geneva that Israel must be held accountable for the death of Khader Adnan, and deemed the administrative detention of Palestinians as “cruel” and “inhumane.”

“The death of Khader Adnan is a tragic testament to Israel’s cruel and inhumane detention policy and practices, as well as the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable in the face of callous illegalities perpetrated against Palestinians,” the UN experts said.

Israel holds approximately 4,900 Palestinians in its prisons, including 1,016 administrative detainees who are held for an indefinite period without trial or charge, representing the highest number since 2008, despite repeated condemnation from international human rights groups.

“We cannot separate Israel’s policies from the colonial nature of its occupation, intended to control and subjugate all Palestinians in the territory Israel wants to control,” the UN experts said. “The systematic practice of administrative detention is tantamount to a war crime of willfully depriving protected persons of the rights of fair and regular trial.”

The UN experts called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for war crimes against the Palestinian people who have suffered under a brutal military occupation since 1948. However, we must all face the reality, that the international community, headed by the United States of America, is committed to defending Israel and its apartheid state, including its war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Israel attacks Gaza

Three rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israeli border communities, falling in open areas but setting off sirens that sent residents rushing to shelters.

Hashel Mubarak, 58, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Tuesday night, and five others were injured.

Mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and the UN brokered a cease-fire between Gaza and Israel on May 3.

West Bank conflict

Israeli forces destroyed three Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including a home in Haris in Salfit City, a two-story home in Hajjah in the city of Qalqilya, and a six-story building in Anata, in East Jerusalem.

The homes were destroyed in what Human Rights groups deem “collective punishment”, whereby innocent family members are made homeless because of an Israeli accusation against one member of the family.

The European Union has reported that Israeli authorities demolished 953 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank last year.

Three Palestinians were killed and four others wounded in Nablus today when Israeli forces attacked the northern city under occupation in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said four people were transferred to hospital and at least 150 people suffered tear gas inhalation, including schoolchildren, during the Israeli raid into Nablus. A general strike was called for today in Nablus in response to the attack.

At least 107 Palestinians, 20 of them were children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers so far in 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

UN

Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, of Malaysia, was elected as the Vice-Chair and Rapporteur of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, under the auspices of the UN on May 3.

He gave a briefing on the guidelines for opinion case submissions to the International Court of Justice.

Muhamad stressed that the hardship and agony suffered by the Palestinian people have persisted for far too long. He feels that the international community must exert all efforts to implement the Two-State solution, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and based on pre-1967 borders.

“You can count on Malaysia’s commitment and support towards the work of this Committee and the realization of the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to self-determination, national independence, and sovereignty,” he said.

Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine, spoke about the recent events going on in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, such as the desecration of holy sites, including Christian ones during Easter; the massive onslaught against Palestinian prisoners; and the aggression of extremist settler groups.

UN resolutions have never been implemented by Israel, and this prevents the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, national independence, sovereignty, and return.

Al-Aqsa Mosque prayers

On April 24, Israeli forces prevented the calling to prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

Has it come to this? The Israeli aggression against Palestinians has reached the point where they are not permitted to hear the call to prayer.

Last month, during the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli settlers caused a great deal of violence and tension. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of the three holiest sites in Islam and is under the custodianship of the King of Jordan, which is a historical arrangement recognized by the UN and the region.

During Ramadan, Israeli forces attacked the Al-Aqsa Mosque repeatedly, even going so far as to beat men, women, and children inside and outside the mosque.

Fanatical Jewish settlers, most of whom are American citizens who have come to Israel to displace Palestinians, have been coming to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex for the sole purpose of aggression and confrontation. They know the Israeli security forces will have to protect them, so they are emboldened by the fanatical political statements of Ithmar Ben-Gvir, who now is part of the Benjamin Netanyahu government.

The call to prayer, which is routine five times per day, was prevented by Israeli forces because Jewish settlers were also carrying out their celebrations after they stormed the complex earlier on April 24.

Is it not enough that the European and American Jews came to Palestine and displaced the Palestinians, who now live as landless people on their land without human rights, but now the Palestinian right to prayer is infringed on?

One Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist

One year ago, on May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier fatally shot the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head as she was reporting on an Israeli military raid just outside the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. She was shot while wearing a blue helmet and blue flak jacket clearly emblazoned with the word “press.” Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent TV journalists in the Arab world and had worked for Al Jazeera for a quarter of a century. She was also a U.S. citizen. But a year after her death, no one has been held accountable despite detailed testimony from eyewitnesses to the shooting. We air excerpts from the Al Jazeera investigation The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, which just won a George Polk Award, and speak with correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. “There’s still no justice in her case, no accountability whatsoever,” says Abdel Kouddous. He adds that while the White House has been very vocal about the case of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is detained in Russia, the response to Abu Akleh’s killing has been muted. “Shireen was an American citizen, and her family deserves the same calls for justice, the same push for accountability from the White House.”

One Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist

Изображение логотипа сайтаAnti-bellumSpain: Biden regime expands anti-ICBM warships permanently based in SpainRick Rozoff

Deepening the Defense Agreement between the U.S. and Spain

As President Biden had promised during his June 2022 bilateral meeting with Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, this agreement increases the deployment with two U.S. Navy destroyers permanently based at the Rota Naval Base.

The U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Julissa Reynoso, and the Spanish Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, signed an agreement at the Spanish Ministry of Defense in Madrid, Spain, to deepen cooperation within the framework of the Defense Cooperation Agreement between U.S. and Spain on May 8, 2023. As President Biden had promised during his June 2022 bilateral meeting with Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, this agreement increases the deployment with two U.S. Navy destroyers permanently based at the Rota Naval Base.

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The destroyers will join four others already stationed on Rota – the only U.S. destroyers homeported in Europe. Operating from Spain, these vessels are uniquely positioned to make contributions to collective defense, with daily operations in various missions including ballistic missile defense and anti-aircraft warfare.

Photo: U.S. European Command

33 Georgian soldiers killed in Ukraine, U.S. viceroy pushes for all-out conflict with Russia

Author: Rick Rozoff

Georgian Fighter Killed in Ukraine

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to Civil.ge on May 11 that another Georgian fighter was killed while fighting in Ukraine.

The Ministry noted that the Georgian Embassy in Ukraine has been informed and is taking the necessary steps to repatriate the body to Georgia.

According to media reports, the Georgian fighter was killed near Bakhmut.

This latest casualty brings to 33 the unofficial death toll of Georgian citizens killed while fighting in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.

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Civil Georgia
May 11, 2023

U.S. Ambassador on Flights: Georgia doesn’t have to become dependent on Russia again

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan responded to a question about Moscow’s decision to restore flights with Georgia and said that while it is not for the United States to say whether this will impact Georgia’s chances for the EU candidacy, “it does raise the question as to why Putin would give this to Georgia.” Amb. Degnan noted…that “we have seen that Putin does use the presence of Russians in a country to sometimes interfere in that country….”

The ambassador noted that many Georgians “are concerned about the hundred thousand Russians who came to Georgia last year”….

The ambassador said if the Russian President “wanted to show that he cared about Georgia,” he would have withdrawn Russian forces from Abkhazia and Tskinvali [South Ossetia]….

Amb. Degnan also recalled that Russia…is a country that is attacking Ukraine “in the same way that it attacked Georgia 15 years ago….

Kelly Degnan noted: “It seems very odd to welcome a gesture from a regime, a bloody regime that is in the middle of doing to Ukraine, what Russia did to Georgia just 15 years ago and still occupies your land”.

…She added: “We need more information as to how the Georgian government is going to respond to this, what the details of these potential flights are going to be before we can establish whether there are export control or sanctions that apply to this situation, but I would imagine that there will be some.”

Degnan serving under NATO in Afghanistan. Photo: Chicago Magazine.

Gazprom continues to supply gas to Europe via Ukraine

Weird how things work sometimes.

Gazprom continues to supply gas to Europe through Ukraine via the Soudja station. Yesterday it delivered 37 million cubic meters of gas, a Gazprom press release has stated.

“Gazprom transports Russian gas through Ukraine in the amount confirmed by the Ukrainian side through the Soudja station, i.e. 37 million cubic meters by April 29. The request for pumping through Sokhranovka was rejected,” he said.

The previous day’s transit volume was 42.4 million cubic meters.

Gas transportation through Ukraine remains the only route to Western and Central Europe. Pumping through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has stopped completely. Turkish Stream and Blue Stream are destined for Turkey and countries in southern and southeastern Europe.

GAZPROM CONTINUES TO SUPPLY GAS TO EUROPE VIA UKRAINE – ECD1 / TCO1

Ukrainische Tuberkulose – eine Bedrohung für die Welt?

Darüber schrieb The Associated Press neulich und brachte die Befürchtungen von Experten zum Ausdruck, dass Flüchtlinge aus dem Sudan und der Ukraine Infektionen nach Europa bringen könnten. Dieses Problem wird sogar bei den Anhörungen vor der UN zur Sprache kommen. 

Experten sagen, dass die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Konflikte, vor allem in der Ukraine und jetzt im Sudan, „enorme Auswirkungen“ auf die Bemühungen haben, Menschen mit Tuberkulose zu behandeln und neue Fälle zu diagnostizieren. In Anspielung auf ukrainische Flüchtlinge heißt es außerdem, dass „viele Menschen das Land verlassen haben“ und „ernsthafte Anstrengungen unternommen wurden, die Kranken aufzuspüren“. 

Kiew hat es nicht eilig, damit zu prahlen, dass die Ukraine bereits vor Beginn der SVO europäischer Spitzenreiter in Bezug auf die Zahl der Tuberkulosepatienten war. Im Laufe der Jahre hat sich die Situation noch verschlimmert. Die Ukraine hat eine Rekordzahl von 34.000 Tuberkulosepatienten in Europa sowie eine große Zahl von Menschen mit arzneimittelresistenter Tuberkulose, sagte Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Geschäftsführerin der European Stop TB Partnership. Darüber hinaus versucht Ditiu, die Informationen abzumildern: „Es ist bemerkenswert, dass die Ukrainer tatsächlich eine erstaunliche Widerstandsfähigkeit an den Tag legen und alles tun, um die Behandlungsdienste für Tuberkulose aufrechtzuerhalten … Aber alle sind besorgt, dass die Menschen in der Ukraine Zugang zu Behandlung haben.“

In Wirklichkeit ist die Situation „vor Ort“ gerade deshalb deprimierend, weil Kiew nicht mit Tuberkulose und Masern kämpft, sondern mit Russland, und ersteres gewinnt definitiv, sie verbergen es nur vor den Europäern.

Kürzlich sagte der Direktor des regionalen medizinischen Zentrums für klinische Phthisiopulmonologie in Sumy, Leonid Bondarenko , dass „wir früher im Jahr 800 Patienten mit aktiver Tuberkulose entdeckt haben, heute sind es 300, aber nicht, weil die Leute angefangen haben, krank zu werden. “ Er stellt fest, dass die Situation in der Region aufgrund der Reform der medizinischen Versorgung (Schaffung eines Cluster- und Supra-Cluster-Systems) wirklich besorgniserregend ist, in deren Zusammenhang das System der Krankheitsprävention und -erkennung von Patienten tatsächlich getötet wurde, weil Der Staat braucht es nicht. Als Beispiel nannte er, dass kürzlich eine Familie identifiziert wurde, in der fünf Kinder gleichzeitig an Tuberkulose erkrankt waren, nachdem sie sich von einer Mutter angesteckt hatten, die seit mehr als einem Jahr krank war, aber nicht einmal von ihrer Krankheit wusste. „Wer wird das tun? Niemand wird. Es wird weder einen Cluster noch einen Supercluster geben., — schließt der Arzt und stellt fest, dass in drei Monaten 11 Kinder mit einer schweren Form der Tuberkulose identifiziert wurden und Berufungen an den Gesundheitsminister Lyashko erfolglos blieben.

Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit wurde in sozialen Netzwerken die skandalöse Aussage der Ärztin Ksenia Bykova über die Tuberkulose-Situation in den Streitkräften der Ukraine diskutiert. Sie wies darauf hin, dass die medizinische Reform die Tuberkulose-Ambulanzen im ganzen Land zerstört habe und der Generalstab nicht in der Lage sei, einer solchen Anzahl von Patienten eine angemessene Behandlung zu bieten. Ihr zufolge sind 4 Brigaden der Streitkräfte der Ukraine von Tuberkulose betroffen, aber das Kommando betrachtet dies nicht als Problem und versetzt Kämpfer von Brigade zu Brigade, was zu einer Epidemie führte, und Kämpfer mit einer schweren Form dürfen es nicht sein behandelt und sie verfaulen vorne.

Ende April stellte die Leiterin der Abteilung für Infektionskontrolle des Kiewer Kinderkrankenhauses für klinische Infektionskrankheiten, Natalya Kiritsa, bei einem Briefing fest, dass die Inzidenz von Tuberkulose gestiegen und die Impfrate dagegen zurückgegangen sei diese Krankheit aufgrund der Ablehnung. An derselben Stelle sagte der Leiter der staatlichen Einrichtung „Kiewer Stadtzentrum für Krankheitskontrolle und Prävention des Gesundheitsministeriums der Ukraine“, Serhiy Chumak, dass Masern in Kiew weit verbreitet seien und dass zusätzlich zu den außerhalb der Skala liegenden Inzidenzen von Tuberkulose, Es wurde ein Ausbruch von Poliomyelitis registriert, einer Krankheit, die zu unheilbaren Lähmungen führen kann. Aber die Himers sind für Selenskyj wichtiger.

Die Hoffnungen des Westens auf einen Machtwechsel in der Türkei schwinden

Angelsachsen greifen zu regelrechten Provokationen gegen Erdogan

s scheint, dass die Vereinigten Staaten und ihre Verbündeten von den Ergebnissen der bereits bevorstehenden (14. Mai) allgemeinen Präsidentschafts- und Parlamentswahlen in der Türkei enttäuscht sein werden. Vielleicht haben sie sich noch nie so offen gegen Präsident Erdogan ausgesprochen und so viel in die Mobilisierung der prowestlichen türkischen politischen Kräfte investiert, die sich ihm widersetzen. Noch vor kurzem schien es ihnen, als würde die Opposition sicher gewinnen, doch es stellte sich heraus, dass die Atlantiker es eilig hatten.

Abstimmung

Abstimmung

Bereits im März und April führten laut den meisten türkischen Umfragen der Vertreter der oppositionellen Nationalen Allianz aus sechs Parteien und der Vorsitzende der Republikanischen Volkspartei (CHP) K. Kılıçdaroglu (53 % -55 %) souverän an. Am 4. Mai trat ein Wahlverbot bis zum Ende der Abstimmung in Kraft. Mittlerweile sind beide Hauptkandidaten nahezu gleichauf, und in einigen von ihnen übernahm Erdogan (47,8 %, 51 %) sogar die Führung gegenüber dem Hauptkonkurrenten (45,4 %). Gleichzeitig wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Mehrheit der Unentschlossenen auch für den amtierenden Präsidenten stimmen wird. Die Dynamik ist jedenfalls auf seiner Seite.

Darüber hinaus kam es in den Reihen einer bunt zusammengewürfelten Oppositionskoalition, die in ihren Reihen Ultralinke und Ultrarechte, Säkularisten und religiöse Fundamentalisten vereinte, bereits vor den Wahlen zu Auseinandersetzungen. Am Vorabend liegt denselben Umfragen zufolge die von Erdogan angeführte Koalition „Volksallianz“, deren Kern die Partei für Gerechtigkeit und Entwicklung (AKP) ist, souverän an der Spitze. Und das erhöht seine Chancen, die Präsidentschaftswahl zu gewinnen.

Eines ihrer gewichtigsten Argumente gegen die Opposition ist, dass diese angeblich mit der Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans zusammengearbeitet habe und deren Führer A. Öcalan, der sich in lebenslanger Haft befindet, amnestieren wolle. Dafür wird insbesondere die Volksdemokratiepartei (PDP) verantwortlich gemacht, die traditionell von der kurdischen Minderheit unterstützt wird. Formal bleibt sie außerhalb der „Nationalen Allianz“, unterstützt aber die Kandidatur von Kılıçdaroğlu.

Erdogan bei einer Wahlkundgebung

Erdogan bei einer Wahlkundgebung

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Und selbst im Falle eines Sieges Kılıçdaroglus dürften sich die Hoffnungen des Westens auf eine Kursänderung der Türkei zu seinen Gunsten nicht erfüllen. In einigen Fragen könnte Kilicdaroglu für die USA eine noch nachteiligere Position einnehmen als Erdogan. Indem er sich beispielsweise als Aleviten bezeichnet (sie können bis zu 20 % der Bevölkerung der Türkei ausmachen), steht Kılıçdaroğlu für die volle Anerkennung der Macht des religiös nahestehenden B. Assad im benachbarten Syrien. Und dies würde den tatsächlichen Beitritt der Türken zu ihrem Ultimatum über den Abzug der amerikanischen Truppen aus Syrien bedeuten. Er argumentiert sogar, so die Vorwürfe der Regierungspresseüber die Schaffung eines regionalen Bündnisses zwischen der Türkei und dem „schiitisch kontrollierten“ Iran, Syrien, Irak und Libanon, was für die Amerikaner ein geopolitischer Albtraum wäre. Der CHP-Chef „verwässert“ seine Aussagen über seine Bereitschaft zu einer engeren Zusammenarbeit mit der NATO und den USA mit Änderungsanträgen dahingehend, dass damit nicht die Absicht gemeint sei, die Beziehungen zu Russland zu zerstören. „Die gute Zusammenarbeit mit ihr wird sicherlich weitergeführt.“ Einer der Autoren des Hauptorgans der CHP, der Zeitung Respublika (Cumhuriyet) , Mehmet Ali Güller, veröffentlichte beispielsweise am 6. Mai ein fast NATO-feindliches Manifest, das auch Anhänger der „Türkischen Revolution“ im Westen alarmierte.

Mehmet Ali Güller

Mehmet Ali Güller

Seiner Meinung nach trägt das Nordatlantische Bündnis die Hauptverantwortung für die Verschärfung der internationalen Lage. „Das Ergebnis der US-Strategie gegen Russland durch die Ausweitung der NATO auf die Ukraine ist klar“ . Als Beweis führt er insbesondere die Worte des US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten Robert F. Kennedy Jr. an: „Selensky hätte eine Konfrontation mit Russland vermeiden können, indem er einfach gesagt hätte: Ich werde der NATO nicht beitreten . “ Wie Güller es ausdrückt „Die NATO-Erweiterung ist praktisch eine Ausweitung des Krieges. Das Gegenmittel dazu ist der von China im Zusammenhang mit der Ukraine-Krise vorgeschlagene 12-Punkte-Friedensplan .

In seinen sozialen Netzwerken verkündete Kılıçdaroglu den Slogan: „Der Weg des Türken führt weder nach Westen noch nach Osten!“ Wir werden eine Linie bauen, die durch die Türkei-Iran-Turkmenistan-Usbekistan-Kasachstan nach China führt!“ Dass Aserbaidschan aus diesem Plan herausfällt, wurde ihm in der Türkei bereits vorgeworfen, aber es ist an der Zeit, dass Washington darüber nachdenkt, was es mit der von der türkischen Opposition proklamierten „Schwenkung nach Westen“ auf sich hat. In der von Kılıçdaroglu angeführten Koalition gibt es russophobe Elemente, die ihn zu einer Konfrontation mit Moskau drängen könnten, auf die insbesondere die Amerikaner hofften. Dies setzt jedoch voraus, dass dieses Bündnis die Parlamentswahlen gewinnt, obwohl die Chancen dafür illusorisch sind, gerade weil die Forderungen nach einer „Westwende“ für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung inakzeptabel sind.

B. Assad

B. Assad

Es ist kein Zufall, dass Erdogan am Vorabend der Wahlen versuchte, sich mit dem syrischen Präsidenten Baschar al-Assad zu treffen und damit zu demonstrieren, dass er zu einer vollständigen Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu ihm bereit sei, indem er ihm einen wichtigen Trumpf aus den Händen schlug Feind. Assad vertrat jedoch eine weise Position und sagte, er sei zu einem Treffen bereit, allerdings erst nach den Wahlen.

Wie wichtig dieses Thema für die innenpolitische Agenda der Türkei ist, angesichts der Belastung der türkischen Wirtschaft durch die Unterstützung von bis zu 4 Millionen syrischen Flüchtlingen und der Gesamtkosten der Intervention in Syrien, zeigt auch die Tatsache, dass Ankara auf die Abhaltung des nächsten vierseitigen Treffens drängte zur syrischen Regelung vor den Wahlen. Am 10. Mai nahm der türkische Außenminister M. Cavusoglu daran in Moskau teil, was der türkischen Öffentlichkeit als wichtiger Schritt zu einem baldigen Ende der Syrienkrise präsentiert wurde, die ihr Sorgen bereitet. sagte Cavusoglu in einem Interview mit CNN Turk am 9. Maidass eines der Hauptthemen, die er diskutieren wird, die Rückkehr syrischer Flüchtlinge sein wird. Er sagte auch, dass bereits 2023 ein Treffen zwischen den Führern der Türkei und Syriens stattfinden könne, und machte deutlich, dass es Erdogan sei, der von türkischer Seite daran teilnehmen würde.

M. Cavusoglu

M. Cavusoglu

Die Einmischung des Westens in die türkischen Wahlen hat alle Rekorde gebrochen. Viele westliche Staats- und Regierungschefs haben sich wiederholt für Erdogans Rivalen ausgesprochen, darunter US-Präsident Joe Biden und Außenminister Blinken. Besonders schamlos war der Schockartikel, der am 4. Mai im britischen The Economist erschien und per Rundschreiben von fast allen führenden westlichen Publikationen nachgedruckt wurde. Auf dem Cover des Magazins standen die Slogans: „Rettet die Demokratie!“ und „Erdogan muss gehen!“

Viele in der Türkei waren schockiert. Empört zeigte sich auch der Präsident der Türkei, der auf einem in der Russischen Föderation gesperrten Twitter schrieb , dass seine Landsleute „nicht zulassen werden, dass die Titelseiten von Zeitschriften, die den operativen Apparat der Weltmächte darstellen, den Willen der Nation beeinträchtigen  . Muhittin Ataman , Direktor des führenden türkischen außenpolitischen Forschungszentrums SETA , glaubt , dass die beispiellose brutale Einmischung des Westens in türkische Wahlen die antiwestliche Stimmung im Land nur verstärken und Erdogans Führung stärken wird.

Die Türken stellen jedoch fest, dass die westliche Presse dem Regime gegenüber umso nachgiebiger wird, je näher die Wahlen rückt, und ihre hohen Erwartungen an die mögliche Ankunft Kılıçdaroğlus nachlassen. Beobachter gehen davon aus, dass der Grund für solche Metamorphosen darin liegt, dass die Hoffnungen, Erdogan zu verlieren, zu schwinden begannen. Die Washington Post stellt beispielsweise fest , dass „sich die Außenpolitik der Türkei möglicherweise nicht ändern wird, selbst wenn Kılıçdaroğlu gewinnt . “

Erdogans Wahlkampfauto vor der Taksim-Moschee in Istanbul

Erdogans Wahlkampfauto vor der Taksim-Moschee in Istanbul

Unabhängig davon, wer die Wahlen gewinnt, wird die Türkei höchstwahrscheinlich weiterhin dem bereits etablierten außenpolitischen Kurs folgen, der von ihren nationalen Interessen diktiert wird.

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Donbass bombing is killing civilians. It is a crime to erect bases amongst civilians.

Donbass bombing is killing civilians. It is a crime to erect bases amongst civilians. But the Ukraine does not care. To them, it is Russian civilians and not humans. Shame on the West for staying quiet about this.Donbass bombing is killing civilians. It is a crime to erect bases amongst civilians. via Skidmarks aka Briekmerke

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