Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

From RT. The first link to the actual poll results in the article will not load for me. The second link leads to another article that I posted below.

Number of French that agree with Moscow on Ukraine revealed​

Over half said Moscow had a point, while a third disapproved of silencing Russian media amid the crisis, recent poll shows

Mar. 29, 2022

A substantial number of French people remain skeptical about the Western narrative on Russia’s attack against Ukraine and want to hear what Moscow has to say about its actions, results of a new poll released on Monday have shown. More than half of respondents queried by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) agreed with at least one Russian “hypothesis” of why its attack against Ukraine was justified, the polling firm said in a report.

The most agreed-with argument was that the US and the EU had “encouraged Ukraine to request integration with NATO” to gain leverage in its standoff with Russia. A total of 30% of people polled said this was true, with 29% calling it false.

The argument that the persecution of Russian-speaking Ukrainians by their government had validated Moscow’s military action was accepted by 28% of people and rejected by 31%. The statement that discrimination has been ongoing for years in some parts of the country was backed by 23%, with 32% rejecting it.

Russia’s claim that its national security had to be protected by all means due to NATO’s drive to integrate Ukraine was deemed true by 22% of respondents, while 42% thought it false.

The statement that Ukraine has been ruled by a “junta infiltrated by neo-Nazi movements” sounded truthful to 10% of the people polled. A majority of 53% rejected it.

IFOP remarked that the results demonstrated that “French people [were] far from being impervious to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s narrative,” about the Ukraine attack. Euractiv, an outlet specializing in covering EU politics, went further and labeled the five hypotheses as Russian “conspiracy narratives,” without explaining to readers what these actually were.

EU member-states escalated their opposition to Russian messaging since the start of hostilities in Ukraine, including by banning news outlets RT and Sputnik in their jurisdictions. When asked by IFOP whether they approved the decision to ban, 34% of French people said they did not.

CEO of IFOP Helen Lee Bouygues remarked that one could only “deplore the speed with which Russian propaganda has spread … since the start of the war in Ukraine.” She blamed social media and encrypted messaging apps, in particular Telegram, for the lack of public consent to their government’s preferred narrative on Ukraine.
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From Euractiv:

Half of French people believe in at least one Russian propaganda theory​


Mar. 28, 2020

More than half of the French believe in at least one conspiracy narrative about the Ukraine war peddled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, a recent survey has revealed.

The French are “far from being impervious to the Putin narrative on the origin of the war in Ukraine”, the IFOP opinion poll published on Monday writes. Those surveyed reviewed some of the stances about the war put forward by the Russian regime, and half believed in at least one of them.

The figure increased to almost two-thirds for the respondents who voted for the most radical left or right-leaning parties.

For example, 66% of the supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical left party La France Insoumise believe in at least one theory on the war’s origins put forward by the Kremlin. This figure rises to 73% among supporters of the Reconquête party, founded by former polemicist and far-right candidate Éric Zemmour.

According to the survey, 30% of the French believe “the United States and the countries of the European Union encouraged Ukraine to ask to be integrated into NATO so that it could benefit from their protection against Russia”, while 10% of them consider that “Ukraine is governed by a junta infiltrated by neo-Nazi movements”.

Those who say they get most of their information from social media outnumbered those who get their information from traditional media like major TV channels. Some 72% of social media believers and 59% of TV believers trust Russia’s narrative on the war.

Many anti-vaxxers also said they believed in the Kremlin’s justifications for the war, with 71% of them siding with Putin’s rhetoric.
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Edit: The 'anti-vaxxers' comment in the second article made me think of the poll that was conducted in Canada that I posted here.
 
Tycho said:
I dont have the impression that you get "my point". So its "Super Putin Savior versus the Ukraine Nazis"?
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It may seem that way but maybe you are not giving some of us enough credit for seeing a bigger picture (choosing Trump or Biden was not much of a choice either for me but I did vote and even that was rigged).

Session 22 March 2014:
Laura said:
Q: (L) Okay, I guess the question on a lot of people's minds is: How about that Vladimir Putin, huh?

A: He's not perfect but he's the best your planet has in such a position at this time.

Q: (L) So, he's not a psychopath?

A: No.

Q: (Perceval) Is there anyone essentially giving him orders? Is what he's doing being controlled directly in that sense?

A: Not in the sense you mean, but yes in the sense of conscience.
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So, if you had a choice for a leader would you not want one that is:

  • the best your planet has in such a position at this time
  • he is not a psychopath
  • he is not taking orders but is driven by his sense of conscience

Will Putin be perfect and not make mistakes? Probably he will makes some mistakes.

At least I am hoping his conscience will prevail.
 
Tycho said:
Utter insanity rule* in germoney. :) Already long time.

I did read a south german town wants to remove the "*", err "Z" from its license plates.
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They are crazy. Nuts. Zin zin.

This Z cuestion reminds me of an excellent movie by Costa Gavras that has for title "Z", based on a novel by Vassílis Vassilikós. The subject of the movie is this one:

In the 1960s, in a Mediterranean country (it is allusively shown to be Greece), in the context of the Cold War, the gendarmerie and police corps feel it is their duty to oppose, by all means, movements considered subversive, whether they be communism, anarchism or pacifism.​

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The new and charismatic leader of the parliamentary opposition, nicknamed the Doctor, left the capital and arrived in the large northern city to hold a conference in favour of disarmament. Even before the conference began, a counter-demonstration began. Clashes broke out between the Doctor's supporters and counter-demonstrators, while the police were clearly passive. A deputy, member of the same party as the Doctor, is beaten. When the Doctor, after his speech, crosses the square in the middle of the confusion, a triporteur appears. At the moment of the shock, the Doctor collapses. He will die in the hospital from his injuries. The prefecture immediately issued an official statement: it was an unfortunate accident, caused by two drunks.​

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A young examining magistrate was put in charge of the investigation. The young magistrate has no sympathy for the political left, nor for communism, nor even for the Doctor's party. But, with integrity, he wants to get to the bottom of the incident. He quickly discovers clues and contradictions that lead him to conclude that it was in fact an assassination, carried out by members of an extreme right-wing organization, the CROC (Combattants royalistes de l'Occident chrétien). Above all, while everyone in his entourage asks him to stick to the accident theory, he understands that the whole affair was premeditated, set up and planned by the commanders of the gendarmerie in the region. In the course of the investigation, it turns out that even the highest authorities of the state are involved. Despite all the obstacles, the young magistrate does not give up his investigation. (Wikipedia)​

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So "Z" is a revolutionary letter, a very strong one when you think about it. Because of the context, the Cold War, the movie is very acute to our times.

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I found the movie with English-subtitles.

 
This fussing back and forth is both tiresome and instructive at the same time. How different is this than the left vs the right paradigm? I think this; you think that. Leave it at that.

Saying “you can’t or shouldn’t think this or that and if you do you’re an idiot or worse” is… guess what?! STO or STS?

Our 4D STS pals designed our egos to get hooked by these disagreements of perspective.
 
Vulcan59 said:
Assuming this story to be true, it would explain the drop in gold prices? :huh:

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Gold, Rubles and the Ripple Effect

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The petrodollar stills lives. It's value will just be readjusted to reality and raise the value of the ruble. "Black gold, Texas Tea"...

 
RT:

Aussie Radio Station Bans Russian DJ Who Questioned West's Ukraine Narrative​


Mar. 29, 2022

Media voices that contradict the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict have been silenced across the West in recent weeks.

An Australian radio station has suspended a Russian host for challenging the mainstream media narrative on the conflict in Ukraine.

Lawyer Oleg Bydanov, who presented two weekly Russian language programmes on Melbourne's 3ZZZ station as an unpaid volunteer, was accused of airing "offensive" content.

3ZZZ manager Jon King claimed some listeners had complained that Bydanov was broadcasting "offensive material, in conflict with our codes of practise."

"In response to those complaints we are going through our station complaints process," he told Daily Mail Australia.

The "offensive" content included an excerpt of Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech announcing Moscow's recognition of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (the DPR and LPR).

Bydanov also pointed out that the Russian forces in Ukraine were not targeting civilians, major cities or non-military infrastructure.

In another programme, the presenter played a a satirical song that ridiculed the 2014 Maidan Square coup against elected president Viktor Yanukovych.

And he informed listeners that he once worked for Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia and former prosecutor general. Bastrykin is one of numerous Russian officials and private citizens now subject to Western sanctions.

Bydanov also opined that Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was more intelligent than many Western politician, including Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

King said that because the station's presenters were all volunteers, "we don't get to do as thorough a vetting process as a recruitment for a salaried position as, say, SBS would do with their broadcasters."

3ZZZ president George Salloum said in a statement that the station condemned "all acts of war and violence."

"3ZZZ promotes harmony and diversity and contributes to an inclusive, cohesive and culturally-diverse Australian community, the first guiding principle under our community radio broadcasting codes of practice," Salloum said.

Russian TV news channel RT has already been taken off air by Australian satellite operator Foxtel.
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Ellipse said:
- Unsustainable material losses for the Russians (23:23). 1.800 proved vehicles loss, certainly more. Detail here.
- 50% of the Russian army engaged. Can't do much more without putting Russia in danger (opening Russia to an invasion from other sides, 30.000 NATO soldiers currently at training in Norway)
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This information is not true. The number of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is 900 thousand people. The number of the Russian Guard is 340 thousand people. And there are also employees of the FSB (200 thousand) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (800 thousand), volunteers from the Caucasian republics, there is the Army of the DPR and LPR and many others.
According to various estimates, 150-200 thousand military personnel of the Russian Federation take part in the special operation in Ukraine, i.e. there is no 50% and there is no question. 10% -15% is more or less a real figure. If we take the possible rotation of troops (for rest and recuperation of people), then this figure will grow, but not dramatically.
I don't even want to comment on the rest of the "nonsense" of this video...
 
As Russia restores order in Ukraine, the United States and Europe will face problems not only with energy resources, food, etc. due to anti-Russian sanctions. Ukraine throughout its independence, especially the last eight years, has been the main supplier of human organs to the US and Europe.


Analysts came to this conclusion after evaluating the jump in prices for transplanted organs and a sharp decrease in offers on the shadow market with the start of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine. European doctors, on the condition of anonymity, reported that Ukrainian donors had been covering the needs of organs in the shadow markets of Europe and the United States for many years.


Traditionally, there are long queues for organ transplantation in Europe and the USA, where patients literally wait for years for a tragedy to happen to someone and the organs of the deceased can be used for transplantation to sick people.


Against this background, Ukraine was utterly comfortable. A distinctive feature of the Ukrainian organ market is that organs could be "ordered" for a specific person. That is, data on blood type, age, etc. are given, and the Ukrainian side provided the organs in accordance with the wishes of the customer.


The supply of organs from Ukraine was carried out by entire criminal groups supported by the political leadership of the country. The price for transplanted organs was formed, among other things, for the speed of delivery. In the practice of medical transplantologists, there are cases when no more than a day passed from the order to the delivery of the necessary organs.

Doctors reported that in Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland) there are private clinics serving the political and business elites, working exclusively with Ukrainian organ suppliers, who, in turn, have established a prompt supply of organs on order.

None of the above is new. Information that soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are dismantled for organs has been appearing systematically since 2014. Back in May 2014, Oleg Matveychev wrote about hundreds of found bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Red Cross vehicles nearby. The wounded Nazis, taken out of the Donbass, disappeared en masse in Dnepropetrovsk (now the Dnieper).

Another thing is interesting, there is an assumption that employees of US biological laboratories may be involved in black transplantation in Ukraine. Type of part-time job in addition to the main profile. Given the cost of the same kidney in the US up to $ 150,000, a good extra.

If, as a result of the investigation initiated by the State Duma, this information is confirmed, then the US biolaboratories on the territory of Ukraine will become natural death factories, both literally and figuratively. Dr. Mengele to envy. And another big question is what was a priority in these biolaboratories, the development of biological weapons or black transplantation
 
When Macron says he has "no magical answer", that's because the question doesn't need magic to be answered. Humility and a spine would do.

RT:

Macron goes on campaign trail, gets hammered over fuel prices​

Amid war in Ukraine and spiraling costs at home, the French president is facing an angry electorate

Mar. 29, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron took to the streets of Dijon on Monday ahead of next month’s elections, and was hammered over the rising cost of fuel and electricity. He defended his government’s efforts to keep prices down, but insisted that he has “no magical answer” to the problem, and that the public will “without a doubt” have to deal with some hardship.

Since Russian troops entered Ukraine over a month ago, Macron has portrayed himself as one of Europe’s foremost geopolitical players: Speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin personally, doing photoshoots in a military sweatshirt after negotiations, and last week announcing a yet-to-happen operation to evacuate the Ukrainian city of Mariupol “in the coming days.”

However, with the first round of presidential elections coming up on April 10, Macron headed to the city of Dijon on Monday to meet voters – some of whom were more concerned with domestic issues than a conflict 2,000km away.

“Put yourself in the shoes of an ordinary French family, it’s terrible,” one man told the president. “It’s horrible to do the shopping, to fill up your tank. I used to get decent pay, I was able to go on holiday, save money. But that’s no longer the case, I’ve become a low-income worker!

“How can you fill a tank with fuel if it costs €140 ($155),” the man continued, “it’s monstrous!”

Macron’s answer was firm. “I have no magical answer,” he replied. “The increase in fixed costs is a tragedy for the middle classes.”

The president defended his government’s allocation of €2 billion ($2.2 billion) toward fuel rebates – a spending hike that gives motorists around 15 cents off a liter of fuel, and boasted of similar moves to offset rising electricity costs – which had already soared to record levels long before Russia’s offensive in Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets.

“If you take electricity, if we hadn’t taken measures your bill wouldn’t just have increased like gas, it would have doubled,” Macron told the man. “When there is an increase in the prices of everything at the world level, and also a war begins, which complicates everything, the prices of everything skyrocket.”

“You are talking to me about Ukraine, but what if tomorrow Putin decides to turn off the gas valve for us? What then?” the man countered. “It’s easy to say, ‘Reduce the temperature in your homes by one or two degrees,’ but I already did it, without waiting for someone to tell me this.”

“Without a doubt, this will have to be done,” Macron admitted, echoing similar comments by officials in Germany. There, Baden-Wurttemberg Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Protection Peter Hauk told citizens to get used to wearing sweaters to deal with the cold after he backed a complete ban on Russian oil and gas imports.

Rising fuel prices have rocked Macron’s entire presidency, with a tax hike in 2018 triggering years of near-weekly ‘Yellow Vest’ protests that grew into a show of dissatisfaction with his neoliberal economic policies. Despite persistently low approval ratings and the current spike in living costs, however, Macron is projected to win the first round of elections next month.

If successful, he would likely face off against right-wing stalwart Marine Le Pen, a showdown that polls show him winning, albeit less comfortably than he did in 2017.
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bjorn said:
I don't think RU forces ever intended to take Kyiv. Unless the Ukrainian authorities do not give in to their demands.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1508832035380797445
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Scott Ritter would agree with Larry, I think.

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@RealScottRitter: 1/ Big Arrow War—a primer. For all those scratching their heads in confusion, or dusting off their dress uniforms for the Ukrainian victory parade in Kiev, over the news about Russia’s “strategic s...…
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1/ Big Arrow War—a primer. For all those scratching their heads in confusion, or dusting off their dress uniforms for the Ukrainian victory parade in Kiev, over the news about Russia’s “strategic shift”, you might want to re-familiarize yourself with basic military concepts.

2/ Maneuver warfare is a good place to start. Understand Russia started its “special military operation” with a severe manpower deficit—200,000 attackers to some 600,000 defenders (or more). Classic attritional conflict was never an option. Russian victory required maneuver.

3/ Maneuver war is more psychological than physical and focuses more on the operational than on the tactical level. Maneuver is relational movement—how you deploy and move your forces in relation to your opponent. Russian maneuver in the first phase of its operation support this.

4/ The Russians needed to shape the battlefield to their advantage. In order to do this, they needed to control how Ukraine employed it’s numerically superior forces, while distributing their own smaller combat power to best accomplish this objective.

5/ Strategically, to facilitate the ability to maneuver between the southern, central, and northern fronts, Russia needed to secure a land bridge between Crimea and Russia. The seizure of the coastal city of Mariupol was critical to this effort. Russia has accomplished this task.

6/ While this complex operation unfolded, Russia needed to keep Ukraine from maneuvering its numerically superior forces in a manner that disrupted the Mariupol operation. This entailed the use of several strategic supporting operations—feints, fixing operations, and deep attack.

7/ The concept of a feint is simple—a military force either is seen as preparing to attack a given location, or actually conducts an attack, for the purpose of deceiving an opponent into committing resources in response to the perceived or actual actions.

8/ The use of the feint played a major role in Desert Storm, where Marine Amphibious forces threatened the Kuwaiti coast, forcing Iraq to defend against an attack that never came, and where the 1st Cavalry Division actually attacked Wadi Al Batin to pin down the Republican Guard.

9/ The Russians made extensive use of the feint in Ukraine, with Amphibious forces off Odessa freezing Ukrainian forces there, and a major feint attack toward Kiev compelling Ukraine to reinforce their forces there. Ukraine was never able to reinforce their forces in the east.

10/ Fixing operations were also critical. Ukraine had assembled some 60,000-100,000 troops in the east, opposite Donbas. Russia carried out a broad fixing attack designed to keep these forces fully engaged and unable to maneuver in respect to other Russian operations.

11/ During Desert Storm, two Marine Divisions were ordered to carry out similar fixing attacks against Iraqi forces deployed along the Kuwaiti-Saudi border, tying down significant numbers of men and material that could not be used to counter the main US attack out west.

12/ The Russian fixing attack pinned the main Ukrainian concentration of forces in the east, and drove them away from Mariupol, which was invested and reduced. Supporting operations out of Crimea against Kherson expanded the Russian land bridge. This phase is now complete.

13/ Russia also engaged in a campaign of strategic deep attack designed to disrupt and destroy Ukrainian logistics, command & control, and air power and long-range fire support. Ukraine is running out of fuel and ammo, cannot coordinate maneuver, and has no meaningful Air Force.

14/ Russia is redeploying some of its premier units from where they had been engaged in feint operations in northern Kiev to where they can support the next phase of the operation, namely the liberation of the Donbas and the destruction of the main Ukrainian force in the east.
15/ This is classic maneuver warfare. Russia will now hold Ukraine in the north and south while its main forces, reinforced by the northern units, Marines, and forces freed up by the capture of Mariupol, seek to envelope and destroy 60,000 Ukrainian forces in the east.

16/ This is Big Arrow War at its finest, something Americans used to know but forgot in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Iraq. It also explains how 200,000 Russians have been able to defeat 600,000 Ukrainians. Thus ends the primer on maneuver warfare, Russian style.
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