Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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IAEA mission has arrived at Zaporizhzhya NPP. Reuters reports that the IAEA experts may stay at the Zaporizhzhya NPP for less time than initially planned.
Earlier, on the morning of 1 September, the Ukrainian side undertook a series of military actions to disrupt the visit of an IAEA delegation to the nuclear power plant.
At 6:20 a.m. local time, two sabotage groups of the Ukrainian armed forces with a total number of up to 60 people landed on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir, three kilometres northeast of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The landing was carried out using seven fast-moving motorboats. The saboteurs then split into groups of five to six men each and attempted to move towards the nuclear power plant through the cottage settlement.
The sabotage groups were detected and blocked in the landing area by Rosgvardiya units guarding the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. A unit of the Russian Armed Forces and helicopters of the army aviation were deployed to reinforce the Rosgvardiya troops in order to suppress an attempt to enter the nuclear power plant and destroy the Ukrainian saboteurs.
As of 2 p.m. local time, both sabotage groups had been neutralised. At least 47 Ukrainian saboteurs killed.
Officials of the civil-military administration of Zaporizhzhya Region said that three Ukrainian saboteurs had been captured, two of them in a serious condition. Rogov, a member of the administration, said that the Ukrainian saboteurs who were planning to seize the Zaporizhzhya NPP had received special training in the UK.
At around 7 a.m. local time, units of the Russian Armed Forces foiled another landing attempt to seize a nuclear power plant.
A few kilometres from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant near the settlement of Vodyanoye, there was an attempt to land a combat unit of the Ukrainian armed forces in two self-propelled barges that had left Nikopol.
Both barges were sunk. The number of surviving AFU servicemen is unknown.
Starting from 8 a.m. local time, the Kiev regime intensified shelling of the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also launched artillery strikes at the expected meeting place of the IAEA mission with Russian specialists near the village of Vasylivka, as well as on their route to the city of Energodar.
Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 metres from the first power unit of the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
Despite all attempts by Kiev to thwart the visit, the IAEA mission leadership has shown determination to visit the nuclear power plant. A large group of journalists accompanies the IAEA experts. Security at the nuclear power plant is ensured by the Russian military police
Today is the beginning of the school year in Russia. The Day of Knowledge, as we call it. The kids are going to school, but not all of them. In some localities of the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions, distance learning has been announced, i.e. children do not attend school, but receive assignments and are monitored via the Internet. This was during the coronavirus restrictions, but now, instead of that infection, there is an equally harmful, and sometimes deadly threat of shelling from the Ukrainian Nazis. Those who make decisions seem to realize that if Ukrainians are given the opportunity, they will definitely do it and decided not to give extra opportunities. This is already a reputation.
Сегодня в России начало учебного года. День знаний, как его называют у нас. Детки пошли в школы, но не все. В некоторых населенных пунктах Белгородской, Курской и Ростовской областей объявлено дистанционное обучение, т.е. дети не посещают школу, а получают задания и контролируются через интернет. Такое было во время коронавирусных ограничений, теперь же вместо той заразы выступает не менее вредная, а иногда и смертельная угроза обстрелов со стороны Украинских нацистов. Те, кто принимает решения, видимо осознают, что если хохлам дать возможность, то они обязательно это сделают и решили не давать лишних возможностей. Это уже репутация
Corvus
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It is a suicide mission, how they think they can take plant with 60 people, that is inferior numbers, and the other side has superior numbers, probably bunkers and well placed checkpoints with heavy machine guns, air support, quick reaction force at standby and probably tanks and APC s at the location. That is some desperation by US and Zelensky.Breaking. IAEA Arrived at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
IAEA mission has arrived at Zaporizhzhya NPP. Reuters reports that the IAEA experts may stay at the Zaporizhzhya NPP for...
Yes, it is, but... There were not 60 people. These 60 crossed by boats in one place, other participants tried to cross to another place on 2 self-propelled barges. The barges were sunk and therefore the number on them is unknown, but it was clearly more than the contents of 7 rubber boats. Here is an article describing the possible purpose of all this madness.
https://news-front.info/2022/09/01/minoborony-rf-o-magatje-i-diversii/
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МАГАТЭ оставит своих представителей на Запорожской АЭС после отъезда миссии
Да, это так, но... Было не 60 человек. Эти 60 переправились на лодках в одном месте, в другое место пытались переправиться другие участники на 2 самоходных баржах. Баржи были потоплены и поэтому количество находящихся на них неизвестно, но это было явно больше, чем содержимое 7 резиновых лодок. Приведу статью с описанием возможной цели всего этого безумия.
dredger
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I wondered in which thread post this one !?
Maybe starting a new thread with a subject's name like "Social crisis in occidental countries" ... at least, the quick clip below, taken from a telegram channel would indeed well cope with it :
This clip could be named "Realtime inflation", can be watched without telegram :
t.me
Maybe starting a new thread with a subject's name like "Social crisis in occidental countries" ... at least, the quick clip below, taken from a telegram channel would indeed well cope with it :
This clip could be named "Realtime inflation", can be watched without telegram :
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NEW - Gasoline prices in Germany literally exploded right on time at midnight after tax cuts ended. @disclosetv
t.me
Grossi after a first visit to the plant:
t.me
Zvezdanews
⚡️МАГАТЭ сохранит постоянную миссию на Запорожской АЭС, здесь еще многое предстоит сделать - Гросси после визита на станцию Подписаться на Zvezdanews
t.me
If it is easier for some:Grossi after a first visit to the plant:
Zvezdanews
⚡️МАГАТЭ сохранит постоянную миссию на Запорожской АЭС, здесь еще многое предстоит сделать - Гросси после визита на станцию Подписаться на Zvezdanews
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1 Sep, 2022 15:46
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Ukraine conflict will be over soon – Belarusian president
Kiev's troops on the front lines see the situation as “hopeless,” Alexander Lukashenko believes
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko © Sputnik / Ekaterina Chesnokova
The denouement in the Ukraine conflict is coming soon, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has predicted, alleging that there are tensions emerging between the country’s armed forces and its civilian leadership.
Speaking on Thursday during a virtual class for all Belarusian school and university students, Lukashenko said that “Ukraine is being divided” and that a “conflict is brewing between the president and the military.”
According to the Belarusian leader, the Ukrainian army is the only power in the country that can “pound the table and say: let’s talk or else Ukraine will be wiped off the face of the earth.”
Lukashenko argued that the country's military, which has first-hand experience of what is actually happening on the frontline, “sees that it’s hopeless.”
Meanwhile, he warned that the conflict in the neighboring country could spiral into the “most dreadful confrontation” involving the use of weapons of mass destruction.
He also stated that “Russia cannot suffer a defeat there,” adding that Minsk stands firmly by its ally, Moscow.
Lukashenko went on to call out those who describe Russia and Belarus as “aggressors.” He argued that Moscow’s military operation was pre-emptive in nature, helping to avert an imminent Ukrainian missile strike on the southern regions of Belarus, including against Russian forces that had not yet been withdrawn from the country after military drills.
He also alleged that the Russian military took out Ukraine's missile units half an hour before President Vladimir Putin announced the start of Moscow’s offensive in late February.
Lukashenko suggested that the West – and the US in particular – had been behind the preparation for the planned attack against Belarus, claiming those powers would still “do everything to bring Russia to its knees.” “And Russia cannot kneel,” he concluded.
The following might well show what is in store for the collapsing EU:
1 Sep, 2022 08:48
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Leaked document exposes hidden Western hand behind new British-style anti-worker laws in Ukraine
How London played a role in Zelensky's newest clampdown on the rights of the country's citizens
FILE PHOTO: Employees work at the steel production of the Melitopol autotractor spare parts factory, in Melitopol, Ukraine. © Sputnik
In a scheme which may have been devised in far away London, Europe's lowest paid workforce has just lost some of the few precious protections it had. The measure flies in the face of Ukraine's apparent ambitions to join the European Union.
On August 22, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky ratified highly controversial new labor laws, ones that have wide-ranging negative implications for the overwhelming majority of the country’s workers.
Collectively known as Bill 5371, the legislation robs up to 70% of Ukrainian employees of rights and protections provided under the country’s established national labor law, while severely restricting the power of already-embattled trade unions to organize.
President Zelensky’s ruling Servant of the People party argues the “liberalizing” measures are not only necessary, but long overdue, as a result of Kiev’s “extreme over-regulation of employment” contradicting “principles of market self-regulation [and] modern personnel management,” and creating “bureaucratic barriers both for the self-realization of employees and for raising the competitiveness of employers.”
By contrast, in the lead-up to Bill 5371’s ratification, a great many groups within and outside the country expressed outcry at the proposed measures over many months. The International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency charged with ensuring social and economic justice by safeguarding international labor standards, including conditions of freedom, equity, security and dignity in workplaces worldwide, published a withering and extensive analysis of the proposals – as did Ukraine’s own parliamentary committee on EU integration.
The body charged that the legislation “weakens labor protection, narrows the scope of labor rights and social guarantees of employees, in comparison with the current legislation,” in contravention of Ukraine’s obligations to Brussels under the terms of its Association Agreement. Andrey Reva, Ukraine’s former minister of social policy, has leveled similar charges:
“Employees will no longer have any protection against arbitrary dismissal. Upon hiring, the employee will be asked to sign an employment agreement, which will allow the employer to obtain unilateral advantages during its conclusion and deprive the employee of any legal opportunities for his defense … Why is this being done right now, when Ukraine has submitted an application to join the European Union and is awaiting its consideration?”
Made in Britain
Many comparisons have been drawn between these ‘reforms’ and notorious “zero-hour” contracts, which offer staffers no paid vacation time, limits on daily or weekly hours worked, notice periods, pension contributions, or even guaranteed work in the first place. They have been dubbed by academics as “a post-modern form of slavery.”
Internationally, the use of zero-hour contracts is almost exclusively restricted to Britain, with retailers, service industry operators, bars, restaurants and fast food enterprises throughout the country using them extensively, despite significant controversy. For example, 90% of McDonald’s workers in the country – amounting to almost 100,000 people – are employed on zero-hour terms.
Due to enormous public and trade union pressure, several major businesses that previously relied heavily on zero-hour workers have phased out their usage entirely in recent years, and there are ongoing efforts to ban such contracts outright. In New Zealand, they were outlawed in April 2016 before even taking off in the country.
One might wonder then why such a uniquely British phenomenon will be adopted by a country with which it has so little in common economically. The answer to that disturbing riddle lies in a leaked document revealing London has been intimately involved in covert information warfare operations to sell the deeply damaging new laws to Ukrainians as beneficial, and convince the public to harm their own interests by embracing the change.
The file in question is a communication strategy prepared by research consultancy Abt Associates, on behalf of the British Embassy in Kiev, and Foreign Office unit UK Aid, which officially aims to “achieve sustained poverty reduction,” improve the lot of “poor communities in developing countries,” and advocate for “free and fair work conditions.”
It offers extensive proposals for marketing the new laws, right down to “visual stylistics” to be used in on and offline ad campaigns, social media messaging, and press conferences.
For example, Abt Associates suggested using “contrasting” aesthetics, by “inverting colors” – “light text and graphics on a deep blue background.” The “advantages” of this approach were said to be to be: “brighter, more emotional, eyecatching, will differ from the predominantly white color scheme of publications on the pages of the [Finance] Ministry,” and “gives more opportunities to use creative illustrations.” Nonetheless, the risk that “emotional and vivid communication … will be perceived negatively” was acknowledged.
If that wasn’t manipulative enough, a section offering “recommendations” for “general principles of public communication of the bill” starkly underlines the duplicity and manipulation at the campaign’s core.
Noting that public figures supporting the legislation had to date purely extolled the benefits for employers, Abt Associates proposed inverting this to focusing on ostensible “positive results” for employees.
“Make communication easier and more emotional. Add formats of materials that will contain short simple formulations of key benefits,” the company wrote, going on to endorse surreptitiously enlisting the support of “opinion leaders” such as “journalists and bloggers” via “off-the-record meetings with the participation of the heads of the [Finance] Ministry and (optionally) the authors of the bill.”
“Emotional messages that do not correspond to the tone of the Ministry's communication may be voiced by third parties,” the document explains.
Examples of messaging to be employed included portraying the “main purpose” of the laws to be “[protecting] new opportunities for both employees and employers,” creating “more opportunities and resources for business development,” and helping workers “get legal jobs faster and easier.”
Conversely, a list of “expected results” from the legislation included in the presentation – not intended for public consumption – ranked “increasing investment in Ukraine’s economy by improving business conditions” above most other potential benefits.
The end of democracy
How much London ultimately spent on this malign effort isn’t clear, although the sums involved could’ve been significant – UK Aid’s budget stands at £150 million, and the Foreign Office spent £40 million on a variety of programs in Ukraine in 2020/21, among them the labor-busting initiative administered by Abt Associates.
Still, British meddling wasn’t entirely successful. After being introduced to parliament in early 2021, legislators consistently refused to back it in significant numbers. This changed on May 12 this year, when the Rada voted in favor of the legislation’s first reading by a landslide – 192 votes to zero.
Pivotal to the laws’ sudden success was support from several previously-opposed political parties and groupings, which were banned less than two weeks earlier by Zelensky’s order. British media outlet openDemocracy speculates this crackdown – and the prospect of MPs belonging to these factions being purged from parliament outright in the future – may have been pivotal in convincing them to vote the ‘right’ way.
Since the 2014 Maidan revolution, Kiev has represented a never-ending feeding frenzy for Western governments and corporations. One of the post-coup government’s first acts was to remove constitutional restrictions on foreign shareholdings in Ukrainian businesses, privatization, and land ownership, and accept sizable loans from predatory US-dominated financial institutions such as the IMF, which opened up the country’s vast natural resources and land for untrammeled overseas plunder and profiteering.
While a great many companies and individuals have benefited handsomely from this wellspring – look no further than America’s first family for example – sizable public opposition to impoverishing neoliberal reforms has to date prevented outright enslavement of the population.
Now, though, with protests prohibited under martial law, opposition parties and dissident media outlets remorselessly censored and banned, scores of government critics – including officials themselves – arbitrarily jailed, and a brutal nationwide effort to root out “traitors” underway, the ability – or willingness – of Ukrainians to take to the streets and oppose measures such as the new anti-worker legislation is harshly truncated, if not eliminated entirely.
In the process, Zelensky’s ruling party is free to steamroll any and all laws through parliament it wishes – and the West’s total takeover of Kiev can finally be completed.
It seems odd that Ukraine is imposing such discredited and reviled arrangements on its citizens when public yearning for EU enrolment is at an all-time high, and high-ranking officials, including Zelensky, are demanding Brussels allow the country immediate entry to the bloc – the terms of Bill 5371 are contrary to Union workers’ directives and protections.
Perhaps, though, London and Washington, for all their pronouncements to the contrary, are unconcerned about Kiev becoming a member – in fact, that might suit their interests better.
By Slobodan Kolomoets
Ocean
The Living Force
Good article well worth the read.
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Noam Chomsky on the Lex Fridman podcast:
Chomsky gives a pretty good analysis that is almost totally based on examining what has happened politically since Putin came to power, while pointing out that anything else that could be said about Putin’s possible goals - stuff spouted by the mainstream media - doesn’t fit the facts of reality.
There is, however, one point he mentions a couple of times that I can’t quite figure out. Like when I read Collingwood for the first time, I would get confused as to whether the ideas I was reading were actually Collingwood’s, or those of the philosophers whose ideas he was presenting.
Chomsky mentions a certain idea a couple of times: that what the operation in Ukraine demonstrates is that Russia’s army is a paper tiger who can’t even conquer a country a couple of miles from its own border. When he first talks about this, he brings it up as an irreconcilable contradiction in the analyses of the western governments and media, in relation to their fear mongering about Putin wanting to take over the world. So far, so good. Towards the end of the video, the way he puts it sounds more like he actually believes it to be true himself.
Like I say, I just can’t quite figure out whether he means that’s just what the west believes, or whether he’s saying the west’s analyses of Putin’s intentions are irreconcilable with the ‘fact’ that Russia doesn’t have any military capacity.
Overall, the video is worth watching just to see someone basically sticking to the facts about Putin and Russia, and the operation in Ukraine, on a very widely watched podcast. No one here on the forum will learn anything new.
When he sticks to the facts, his analysis is pretty much spot on, but when he goes off course and adds in ideas about Putin accruing wealth for himself (for which there is no evidence), he lets himself down.
Chomsky gives a pretty good analysis that is almost totally based on examining what has happened politically since Putin came to power, while pointing out that anything else that could be said about Putin’s possible goals - stuff spouted by the mainstream media - doesn’t fit the facts of reality.
There is, however, one point he mentions a couple of times that I can’t quite figure out. Like when I read Collingwood for the first time, I would get confused as to whether the ideas I was reading were actually Collingwood’s, or those of the philosophers whose ideas he was presenting.
Chomsky mentions a certain idea a couple of times: that what the operation in Ukraine demonstrates is that Russia’s army is a paper tiger who can’t even conquer a country a couple of miles from its own border. When he first talks about this, he brings it up as an irreconcilable contradiction in the analyses of the western governments and media, in relation to their fear mongering about Putin wanting to take over the world. So far, so good. Towards the end of the video, the way he puts it sounds more like he actually believes it to be true himself.
Like I say, I just can’t quite figure out whether he means that’s just what the west believes, or whether he’s saying the west’s analyses of Putin’s intentions are irreconcilable with the ‘fact’ that Russia doesn’t have any military capacity.
Overall, the video is worth watching just to see someone basically sticking to the facts about Putin and Russia, and the operation in Ukraine, on a very widely watched podcast. No one here on the forum will learn anything new.
When he sticks to the facts, his analysis is pretty much spot on, but when he goes off course and adds in ideas about Putin accruing wealth for himself (for which there is no evidence), he lets himself down.
I’ve watched it again, and even the first time he brings up the ‘weak military’ idea, it’s ambiguous as to whether that’s what he personally thinks.
The only reason it’s a sticking point for me is because it’s based on completely erroneous ideas about Putin’s goals in Ukraine. However, when asked what he believes Putin’s goals are, he says, to protect Russia and maintain Crimea, the south east corridor, and make an agreement about the Donbass. In that sense, the capacity of Russia’s military would only need to be enough to achieve those objectives.
It’s just the whole elephant in the room about how Russia has conducted itself in Ukraine that is niggling at me regarding Chomsky’s analysis. If we’re going to base analyses on hard facts, the idea that Russia ‘can’t conquer’ Ukraine shouldn’t even come up in the conversation.
If someone else watches the video, could you let me know your opinion as to whether Chomsky is just putting forth the ideas/propaganda of the west, or whether he actually believes himself that Russia ‘can’t conquer’ Ukraine?
The only reason it’s a sticking point for me is because it’s based on completely erroneous ideas about Putin’s goals in Ukraine. However, when asked what he believes Putin’s goals are, he says, to protect Russia and maintain Crimea, the south east corridor, and make an agreement about the Donbass. In that sense, the capacity of Russia’s military would only need to be enough to achieve those objectives.
It’s just the whole elephant in the room about how Russia has conducted itself in Ukraine that is niggling at me regarding Chomsky’s analysis. If we’re going to base analyses on hard facts, the idea that Russia ‘can’t conquer’ Ukraine shouldn’t even come up in the conversation.
If someone else watches the video, could you let me know your opinion as to whether Chomsky is just putting forth the ideas/propaganda of the west, or whether he actually believes himself that Russia ‘can’t conquer’ Ukraine?
lilies
The Living Force
Andrei Martyanov has written books about this. On his military science blog is constantly talking about how Western "experts" and incompetent generals are simply not able anymore to objectively asses a war situation. These "experts" are flooding the intel channels Chomsky is probably feeding on. He has an excellent video series too.
I completely rewrote his blog's old CSS style (for Firefox) significantly enlarging and bolding all his text, so I can read it conveniently without glasses. He goes hand in hand with Larry Johnson, who is a former CIA analyst. The two make a fantastic comedy pointing out the hilarious incompetence of the current military leadership of the West who all are - Westpoint Military Academy graduates - in general..
Rounding these two out are some really nice independent journalists articles on The Saker: with Pepe Escobar celebrated there and everywhere on alternate media, I especially enjoy his positive-minded articles.
Above sources will help you asses what Chomsky is about. :D
Olivierlejardinier
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A map from this article (08-31-2022) :
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My overall prognosis is very simple: I believe that Russia has degraded Ukraine’s military capabilities beyond repair, and is now doing the methodical work of grinding away the rest, while forcing the west to bear the unexpected burden of propping up the Ukrainian state and army.The actual intricacies of Russia’s operational plan of course remain a secret, but I believe there is a good chance that most of Ukraine east of the Dnieper will be annexed, as well as the entire Black Sea littoral.
The Big Serge Annexation Map
UN thanks Russia for keeping nuclear team safe
“We are glad that the Russian Federation did what it needed to do to keep our inspectors safe,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters at a briefing in New York, when asked about Moscow’s comments. "
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UN thanks Russia for keeping nuclear team safe
The UN thanked Russia for ensuring the safety of IAEA inspectors visiting the Zaporozhye nuclear plant amid a Ukrainian commando attack