Currently, the possibility of “direct intervention” by the West in Ukraine is being discussed in newspapers around the world.
What few know, however, is that, in practice, this is already a war between Western and Russian troops.
Large numbers of mercenaries from NATO countries are fighting in Ukraine, mainly participating in terrorist raids against demilitarized regions on the Russian border.
With the Ukrainian failure in the special military operation zone, the neo-Nazi regime is focusing its attention against Russian border cities.
Since late 2023, Belgorod and Kursk have been bombed frequently.
Western missiles and drones kill Russian civilians in these regions where there is no military mobilization, which makes the attacks truly terrorist.
As experts have already said, these border attacks have no military relevance.
Kiev’s aim is to divert attention from its defeat on the battlefield and show its Western sponsors that the military aid provided is being used “appropriately” – reaching deep into Russia.
The problem is that this “PR stunt” is absolutely illusory. In practice, most of the Ukrainian missiles supplied by the West are shot down by the Russian defense, just as land incursions are quickly neutralized by Russian troops.
Publicly, the West quickly replaces Ukrainian material losses. What is little talked about, however, is that NATO is also already supplying Kiev with human resources. Thousands of foreign mercenaries are fighting against Russia. Border raids are largely being operated by these foreigners. I witnessed this personally in March when I was in Belgorod during a BRICS Journalists Association’s press expedition.
Our main objective was to cover the bombings carried out by the Kiev regime to harm the Russian electoral process.
In Belgorod, I spoke to civilians in the affected regions and received some important information about those responsible for the attacks. For example, on March 12, there was a land invasion in the village of Kozinka (Belgorod oblast). At the time, the enemies were quickly neutralized by the Russians. Fleeing from the fire, the invaders abandoned their dead and wounded soldiers as well as various equipment along the way.
The Russians thus captured the belongings of a Swedish mercenary neutralized on the border.
A notebook and diary were found with personal notes describing his work as a pro-Ukrainian soldier. In his notes, the Swedish citizen had important information about the use of special weaponry and military medicine techniques. There were also notes in his notebook on sabotage tactics and reconnaissance operations, as well as a collection of basic phrases in the Ukrainian language.
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Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
It is suspicious that “Islamist terrorists” from Tajikistan would carry out a massacre at the Crocus City Hall for money rather than commitment to the Islamic State, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan against Russia which has shown great sympathy for the civilians of Gaza.
UK and USA exhortations to Ukraine to hate (see below) and attack Russians, their training of Ukraine troops for acts of sabotage inside Russia (including the murder of politicians and journalists) and the flight (see map) of the Crocus City terrorists to Ukraine, together with historical exploitation by the West of Islamist extremists in Afghanistan and the presence of those islamists inside the Ukrainian armed forces all suggest the Crocus City Hall massacre was connected to Ukraine.
The West Teaches Hatred and Killing of Russians
US General Milley said not long ago that:
“there should be no Russian that goes to sleep without wondering if they are going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night” and called on Ukraine to “create a campaign behind the lines”
Vladimir Buchok, a Ukrainian serviceman of the 24th brigade of the AFU, was mobilised on his way home from university. He was sent for training in the UK.
“I was trained in the UK. They taught us how to use weapons and medicine. Psychologists worked on us so that we did not like Russian soldiers and all Russians in general, so that we killed them and treated them harshly when we captured them”
No wonder the American magazine The Spectator cited a statement from the head of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Kirill Budanov to Western journalists:
“We killed Russians and will kill them anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine. We have gotten to many people, including members of the public and the media.”
The Head of the Ukrainian Secret service Vasyl Malyukadmitted in a TV interview to high profile assassinations inside Russia including a Russian military blogger in St Petersburg and a Ukrainian MP Ilya Kyva.
The former CIA analyst Larry Johnson who was an expert in CIA operations behind enemy lines said in an interview with Judging Freedom:
“This means that the United States knew that Ukraine was up to something, and had an idea of what it was going to do. And there is a good chance that Ukraine not only did this but did it with the help of weapons and support provided by the United States.”
Having created the Ukraine monster we know that the USA has recently been worried about excessive attacks inside Russia so (while warning Russia of an imminent attack) they were unable to stop it.
As the Turkish official Omer Celik stated the terrorist attack could not have been carried out without the support of foreign intelligence.
Terrorists’ Ukraine Escape Route
The Russians now have evidence from the phones and other electronic equipment captured with the 4 Tajik terrorists that they were in communication with their organiser both before and after the attack who directed them towards Ukraine and Kiev where they were to pick up the remainder of their one million Rubles reward.
The map of south west Russia and the border area with Ukraine shows that the 4 terrorists were unequivocally headed towards Ukraine.
The map shows the area between the city of Bryansk and the Ukraine border. The main road from Moscow is the M3 which runs north south meeting the P120 just outside Bryansk where anyone traveling West to Belarus or east towards the “stans” (Kazakhstan or Tajikistan for instance) would have turned off.
But the terrorists were caught just outside Navlya some 360 kilometers south of Moscow and well south of the Bryansk turnoffs.
So even without any evidence from electronic devices it is clear that the terrorists were driving towards the Ukraine border, an intense war zone which no one would head towards without specific instructions and a promise of reward! They would have headed south on the M3 and turned West towards Kiev on the E391.
The Russian Investigative Committee analysed financial transactions and claim to have traced connections to “Ukrainian nationalists”. This could mean nazi extremists like Azov or simply the Ukrainian State agencies engaged in planning sabotage and killings inside Russia.
Apparently the terrorists received significant amounts of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine. (we know that cryptocurrency has been a favoured method of US donations to Ukraine, not least from the recently convicted FTX fraudster Bankman Fried)
Ukraine Embassy Recruited Tajiks in Tajikistan
Although the notice published has now been removed the Ukrainian Embassy in Tajikistan was recruiting Tajiks to fight in Ukraine:
The work on recruiting foreign citizens was headed by Ambassador Valery Evdokimov, the former foreign intel chief under Zelensky.
Natives of Tajikistan regularly become targets for recruitment by Ukrainian intel services: one of them was caught while photographing objects in a military unit near Moscow and the presence of ISIS fighters in the Ukraine Armed Forces is no secret. Here the Associated Press reports ISIS insignia on the uniform of a Ukrainian commander. https://thecradle.co/articles-id/1300
US Denial of Ukrainian Terrorism
The speed of the American denial of any Ukrainian involvement in the attack, compared to the slow investigation of the Russian government, was suspicious. Simplicius the Thinker reminds us of American past denials of Ukrainian terrorism which turned out to be true:
BBC News 23/8/22 “Darya Dugina: Moscow murder accusation is fiction says Ukraine”
6/10/2022 New York Times: US Intelligence says Ukrainians behind Darya Dugina killing
The long standing presence of dangerous (often Tajik) Islamic terrorists in Ukraine cannot be denied and their recruitment for Ukrainian causes is clear: see this and this.
Whether the direct links between Kiev officials or nationalist extremists and the Crocus City terrorists can be made, time will tell.
But the atmosphere of extreme hatred of all Russians by UK, US and Ukrainian officials and the admission by Budanov and Malyuk of the targeting of civilians, the long track record of Ukraine’s political assassinations and the recent indiscriminate shelling of civilians, schools and residential blocks (NOT collateral damage) in Donetsk and Belgorod have created an atmosphere within which the Crocus City massacre could logically fit.
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Today my book Rockefeller: Controlling the Game is released internationally by Skyhorse Publishing.
It has been a long journey. Almost exactly 15 years ago, as a PhD Candidate in Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, I started researching the politics behind climate change.
In the summer of 2008 I had decided to scrutinise the allegations against skeptical scientists, that they were paid by oil companies to discredit AGW (the theory of anthropological global warming). I found that these allegations were mostly unfounded, with a few notable exceptions (e.g. the Global Climate Coalition). I saw mainly a number of scientists who actually stood up for a genuinely scientific approach; who would not let themselves be bought by political trends and fat research grants. All skeptical scientists were not even critical of the AGW theory but only contended the degree of the human influence on climate, or the efficacy and wisdom of proposed mitigation policies.
Upon further digging, I instead, much to my surprise, found that oil companies were actually pumping money into projects which embraced Al Gore’s doomsday message! And had done so since early 1960s!
I asked myself where the threat of climate change really came from. When did it start? Alas, I found no answer. No one at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (to which I was affiliated at the time) knew. There were many who did research on climate-related issues without having the faintest idea about the origin of their mission. But if the UN had declared that it is a crucial issue for humanity it must be true, seemed to be their reasoning; “everyone thinks so”. There were always references to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The debate was over.
I wanted answers. When no one else could provide me with those answers I realised I had to research the matter myself. I found documentation in a book published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where the development of the climate change issue was briefly described. A few key events were listed, which I used as a starting point: the International Geophysical Year 1957-58; a climate conference organised by the Conservation Foundation in 1963; the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972; and the Conferences in Villach, Austria in the first half of the 1980s.
I found out which actors were involved, what documents they used, who financed them, and what policy suggestions they came up with to solve the alleged problem of climate change.
I had initially planned on writing five pages but it landed on close to 50. The result was surprising and somewhat shocking. A clear pattern emerged. I knew it would be controversial to communicate these findings. They contradicted the views preached by the believers. Especially concerning the fact that a number of U.S. oil billionaires had gotten involved at an early stage. This was especially the case with most prominent oil family of them all. The founders of Standard Oil/Exxon. The Rockefellers.
I included the chapter in my doctoral thesis, which struck down like a bomb upon its publishing in December 2012.
In early 2016 I decided to do a more thorough investigation. It resulted in the first Swedish edition of Rockefeller, which was released on Easter Monday 22 April 2019. I asked a number of questions:
Why had the Rockefeller family funded and influenced climate research since the 1950s and helped shape climate policy since the 1980s?
And why did Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2014 announce that they would divest from all of their fossil energy holdings? Why attack the very industry on which their immense wealth was founded? What was their motive in their own words – and how did it all begin?
The answers can be found in the book. Published one day after Easter Monday 2024, and available as hardback, ebook (kindle) and audiobook.
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The results of Türkiye’s 2024 local elections and its influences on Turkish politics will undoubtedly be seen more clearly in the medium term.
However, there are some significant points that the results indicate, and even if they are still in the heat of the moment, these points clearly show to the actors in the Turkish political scene that no election can be won in Türkiye if the economic and political realities are not taken into consideration.
There is no doubt that the undisputed winner of this election is Republican People’s Party (CHP), which won the majority of the metropolitan and provincial municipalities and became the first party in the provincial assembly vote rate with 34.44%.
The loser of the election is the ruling party AKP, which fell below its vote share in 2002 for the first time in 22 years. If an evaluation is made as to why the ruling party experienced such a large loss of votes even though only 10 months have passed since the general elections, the key to winning elections and reaching to power in Türkiye can be understood:
First of all, during this 10-month period, the ruling party, with its new economy team in the government, followed an economic policy in line with the expectations of global capital, could not reduce inflation in the country, and prioritized the financial interests of global capital, not the people, and forgot about the retired and low-income segments of Turkish society.
This explains the approximately eight million votes lost from the ruling party compared to the previous election results.
As a matter of fact, we understand from the messages they give through their representatives that the global capital is the most disturbed one by the Turkish election results. The first messages coming from the pens of Western capital point out that the markets do not like the election result in Türkiye, they expect the return to orthodox economic policies to continue, foreign capital will be disturbed by these results and will expect extra guarantees for the continuation of the current economic policy.
However, the political practice and economic reality confirmed by the election results signalize the exact opposite: the election in Türkiye cannot be won with such economy team and economic policies that increasingly impoverish the Turkish people and serve the interests of global capital!
Secondly, the economic priorities and security sensitivities of the people in Türkiye are parallel to each other, and failure to conceive this will definitely have a negative impact on the election results. Again, during this 10-month period, the government’s shift to the West, which poses the biggest security threat to Türkiye in the last decades, has created serious question marks in the minds of larger parts of Turkish public. While on the one hand, they felt sorry for Gaza, on the other hand, the silent reaction they have shown in the meeting squares to Türkiye’s increasing trade with Israel was reflected in the ballots.
Thirdly, the refugee issue, which the public pays attention to in the economy-security balance of interests but is ignored by the ruling party, was a factor that affected the election results. The results in Kilis province, a province bordered to Syria, shows that the public does not accept the government’s refugee policies, its efforts to remove the refugee issue from Türkiye’s agenda, and, more importantly, its efforts to impose refugees on Turkish society as the new reality of Türkiye’s demography.
Fourthly, it has been seen that embracing outdated Western-origin liberal policies in a world that has become multipolar by following micro-nationalist and separatist political figures along with economic policies that prioritize the interests of global capital will not provide positive outcomes in the elections in Türkiye.
In addition, it seems that the era of political Islamism in politics, where political Islamism could gain support by showcasing the people’s so-called ‘conservative values’, is now coming to an end.
The conservatism of the people is something private and personal, and this requires an unquestionable respect.
But, the pure reality in the daily life of the Turkish people is wealth and security, which can only be provided equally to all citizens if the secular, modern Turkish nation state is strong. The election results are a sign that the secular Republic of Türkiye has never become obsolete, on the contrary, it is becoming more stronger in the 21st century; it has also been an indication that Atatürk’s legacy cannot be erased neither in Türkiye nor in the world with his strong nation-state and mixed economy models that give priority to the interests of people.
As the result of the election, those who are rising as new stars in Turkish politics are the CHP candidates, especially Mansur Yavaş, who won with a record vote in Ankara.
The fact that such large differences have emerged in favor of the opposition party for the first time in metropolitan cities is an indication that the Turkish people wishes a radical transformation in Turkish politics. The fact that Mansur Yavaş, Mayor of Ankara, won the election with a margin of 30%, doubling his closest rival, makes factitious inferences that the winner of İstanbul will be the natural presidential candidate meaningless.
Especially, when looking at the provincial assembly votes; and also, when the voting potential of the parties representing nationalist voters, which are currently components of the ruling alliance, and the approximately 8 million voters with high national sensitivity who have broken away from the ruling party, are taken into account, this wish for transformation is more apparently understood. More interestingly, it has become clear that the people demand the establishment of a new national central politics under the leadership of winner of this election, CHP, the founding party of the modern Republic of Türkiye.
The national center in the new political era, which has already started as of April 1, 2024, can only be possible with a new political perspective that can build economic policies that prioritize the people’s interests without giving credit to separatist politics and promise Türkiye’s independent stance in the world politics.
The results of this election are a signal that any political organization that can realize the need for this new perspective will sooner or later come to power in Türkiye.
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The only thing worse for the U.S.’s global prestige than reversing course in Ukraine and accepting defeat would be escalation. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
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 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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For Biden, there must be many troves for the Russians to leak at the given moment, with corruption in Ukraine being at the top of the list. But one salient question might be, does Putin even need to worry about “election interference”? This comical expression, coined by the Americans and slung at Moscow is done in such a fashion as to trick the humble observer that it was a dirty Russian invention despite the Americans practically inventing the practice and using it to their own means for the last 70 years in Latin America.
The reality is that Putin doesn’t need to interfere. He’s on a win-win ticket as, if Biden is re-elected the then senile U.S. president will be defeated in Ukraine and the American people will not only see all of the corruption stories emerge from that country but also the link between the Obama administration’s election meddling in 2014 to overthrow a Russian-aligned leader and today’s war. The crafted fake news narrative of everything starting from the day of the Russian invasion will no longer wash once Russian forces overthrow the Zelensky government and the West will be humiliated beyond its wildest nightmares into signing whatever is handed to them.
Am Abend des 1. April haben die israelischen Luftstreitkräfte ein iranisches Konsulat in Damaskus angegriffen. Durch die Attacke wurde das Gebäude vollständig zerstört. Nach aktuellen Angaben wurden mehrere Menschen getötet oder verletzt, darunter auch Diplomaten.
Wir verurteilen diesen Angriff auf die iranische konsularische Vertretung in Syrien auf das Schärfste. Jegliche Übergriffe auf diplomatische und konsularische Einrichtungen, deren Unverletzlichkeit durch entsprechende Wiener Übereinkommen gewährleistet ist, halten wir für absolut inakzeptabel. Besonders aufmerksamen machen wir darauf, dass der Angriff in einem dicht besiedelten Viertel der Hauptstadt durchgeführt wurde, wodurch ein hohes Risiko entstand, dass diesem zahlreiche Zivilisten zum Opfer fallen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass ein derartiges aggressives Verhalten Israels vollkommen unzulässig ist und aufhören muss. Wir halten es für notwendig, dass alle verantwortungsvollen Mitglieder der internationalen Gemeinschaft diesbezüglich klar Stellung beziehen und eine entsprechende rechtliche Beurteilung dieser Handlungen vornehmen. Wir fordern die israelische Führung nachdrücklich dazu auf, auf provokative Militäreinsätze auf dem Staatsgebiet Syriens und anderer benachbarter Länder zu verzichten, die äußerst gefährliche Konsequenzen für die gesamte Region nach sich ziehen können.
En Berdychi el ejército ruso ha llevado a cabo el primer ataque de la historia con robots terrestres mecanizados. Un grupo de drones de asalto participó en el apoyo a las operaciones, garantizando la supresión de las posiciones ucranianas en la localidad, utilizando los módulos lanzagranadas AGS-17 instalados y disparando cientos de disparos.
El ejército ruso tendrá en cuenta la experiencia adquirida en Berdychi para el futuro desarrollo de las plataformas robóticas de asalto. Ha sido algo similar al primer ataque con tanques durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, dice un comunicado del Ministerio ruso de Defensa.
Los drones mostraron sus prestaciones durante el asalto. Pudieron seguir operando incluso en condiciones en las que las pérdidas de personal y equipos debido al fuego enemigo habrían sido inevitables.
Una base con orugas exitosa tiene un gran potencial para desarrollar una plataforma robótica de asalto con la instalación de varios módulos de combate y operaciones de apoyo como el transporte e instalación de minas, la evacuación de heridos y el transporte de municiones y equipos.
Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña y China han realizado diversas pruebas de campo con este tipo de drones, pero ha sido Rusia el primero en utilizarlos en un asalto real. La era del combate terrestre robótico ya ha comenzado, aunque los resultados no son concluyentes.
Los drones aéreos ucranianos pudieron atacar a los rusos muy fácilmente, lo mismo que a unos soldados de infantería que se mueven lentamente.
En el futuro el combate terrestre tendrá que evolucionar gradualmente en los asaltos reforzados con drones en una dirección u otra. La gran preocupación, como siempre, es que las cosas caigan en otra ronda de estancamientos posicionales al estilo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, esta vez con robots.
Simultáneamente, Rusia lanzaba con éxito otro nuevo satélite de reconocimiento de detección de la Tierra, el Resurs-P, desde el cosmódromo de Baikonur en Kazajistán.
Der Friedensstifter 