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

From Pepe Escobar's VK:
THE EMPIRE OF PIPELINE BOMBING
CAN'T EVEN BOMB A PIPELINE PROPERLY

Confirmed by Gazprom:

Line B of Nord Stream 2 was NOT damaged by Pipeline Terror last week.

Nord Stream IS a marvel of technology. Even Line A of NS2 and both strings of Nord Stream were only PUNCTURED. The pipes are tremendously strong.

All that is part of my upcoming column.

“Gazprom is working to depressurize Line B of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to reduce potential environmental risks from possible gas leaks. If the decision to start gas deliveries via Nord Stream 2 string B is made, natural gas will be pumped into the pipeline."

That opens a whole new chapter. Everything will hang on the German government being forced by General Winter to grow a pair, act on their national interests and screw the Empire.

Here's the statement from Gazprom he's referring to: Gazprom reports stoppage of gas leaks at Nord Stream pipelines
 

87% of world doesn’t support West’s new cold war on Russia


Two ex US diplomats admitted 87% of the world’s population refuses to enforce the West’s sanctions on Russia, showing neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine. They said “the outbreak of Cold War II” has led countries “to become increasingly multi-aligned,” especially in the Global South.

Two former US diplomats have acknowledged that the vast majority of the global population does not support the West’s new cold war on Russia.

In a Newsweek op-ed titled “Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn’t Following Us on Ukraine,” ex diplomats Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell wrote:

While the United States and its closest allies in Europe and Asia have imposed tough economic sanctions on Moscow, 87 percent of the world’s population has declined to follow us. Economic sanctions have united our adversaries in shared resistance. Less predictably, the outbreak of Cold War II, has also led countries that were once partners or non-aligned to become increasingly multi-aligned.

They acknowledged that new multilateral institutions like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS are growing, and offer new opportunities for countries in the Global South.

The diplomats also commented on the weakening of the Washington-controlled financial system and growing de-dollarization:

The dollar’s reserve currency status remains a pillar of the global economic order, but trust in that order has been damaged. Economic sanctions have weaponized parts of the international banking and insurance sectors including the SWIFT fund transfer system. Assets have been seized and commodity contracts canceled. Calls for de-dollarization have become louder. When Russia demanded energy payments in rubles, yuan or UAE Dirhams, China and India complied.

Many Asian economies are now being hit by both rising oil prices and the depreciation of their own currency against the dollar. As a result, they are expanding their use of bilateral currency swaps which allow them to trade among themselves in their own currencies. Eighty years ago the British pound lost its preeminent position among the world’s currencies. This is precisely what America’s adversaries are trying to do to the dollar and if the Saudis ever stop pricing oil in dollars, they may very well succeed.

Multipolarista has previously reported on the decline in US dollar hegemony.

The article by these two former US diplomats provides further support for the analysis Multipolarista published in March, detailing how “Many Global South countries blame US/NATO for Ukraine war, not Russia.”

The Wall Street Journal likewise acknowledged these inconvenient facts in a report in April titled “Anti-Russia Alliance Is Missing a Big Bloc: The Developing World.”

The mainstream corporate newspaper wrote, “Western leaders seeking to build a global coalition to isolate Russia over its war on Ukraine are facing pushback from the world’s largest developing nations, including the democracies of India, Brazil and South Africa.”


This reality has led some Western pundits to publish condescending, borderline racist editorials attacking the Global South.

“No event this century has done as much as the Ukraine war to expose the difference in outlook between the west and … the ‘rest,'” commented conservative Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh in June.

He lamented that “Russia retains a net positive reputation in Egypt, Vietnam, India and other countries,” and that “Pro-Russia protests have flared up in west and central Africa.”
 

Situation along line of contact near Krasny Liman stabilizing, DPR leader reports​

It is reported that the enemy certainly keeps trying to break through

MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. The situation is stabilizing along the line of contact in the direction of Krasny Liman, leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin told Channel One on Tuesday.
"The frontline situation is stabilizing there. The enemy certainly keeps trying to break through, but their forces are not what they used to be, because certain reserves have been pulled from near Artyomovsk and Slavyansk," he said, adding: "The allied forces have done a good job."
The allied forces have been building a major line of defense near Kremennaya in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), located northeast of Krasny Liman, the DPR leader said. "According to the information on the ground that I have been receiving, the enemy does not stand a chance [of advancing towards Kremennaya]," he reported.
The DPR leader also said Ukrainian forces were retreating in certain areas of Artyomovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut), while the allied forces had been gaining ground there. Ukrainian troops had pulled reserves from the direction of Artyomovsk, too, when they attacked Krasny Liman, he specified.

Earlier, the LPR People’s Militia officer Andrey Marochko told TASS that Ukrainian forces were trying to break through defenses, hit with colossal losses, but that the situation in that direction was still under control of the allied forces. On October 1, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that allied troops had been pulled out of Krasny Liman to avoid encirclement.
 
Standing ovation at the French assembly for the Uki ambassador in Paris 🤮 .

"Well...I believe this video is self-explanatory, don't expect anything [from the politicians]."


🤡 Déjà vu Traitor effect...

Reminds me very much of when the US congress went into a vigorous outburst of ecstasy, with cheers and ovations, during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "little" speech back in 2011 🤮
 
I guess the Russian Armed Forces did need mobilisation, and more equipment

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The AFU occupies settlements abandoned by the Russian Armed Forces.

According to reports from the ground in northern Kherson Region, the Ukrainian side occupied Davydov Brod, Malaya Aleksandrovka, Velyka Aleksandrovka, Novovodmytrivka, Staroselye, Novonikolaivka, Cherereshneve, Novovoskresenske, Mayske, Petropavlovka, Trifonovka, Novovasilyevka, Chervonoye, Novohryhorivka, Novaya Kamianka, Pyatikhatki, Sablukovka, Kachkarovka and others.

It is noted that a number of villages have been abandoned by the Russian side in order to avoid encirclement. At the moment, it is not quite clear where the new Russian defence line will be established.

Ukrainian troops have less than 30 km to reach one of the most important targets of the Ukrainian armed forces in this direction, Beryslav.



The fact that the Uki can concentrate large forces for a breakthrough in the offensive area, strike two main strikes simultaneously, knock out artillery and work in our rear areas by SRG, speaks of their level of operational skill and technical equipment. If we, knowing that Uki is concentrating large forces and preparing a strike, do not take the necessary measures, do not create defensive lines, including the use of civilian equipment, do not act on enemy communication routes in their at least immediate rear, do not mine possible approach routes, including using MLRS (or do it formally, for a tick), then it indicates our level of operational art.

Once again, we have forces to defend ourselves. The enemy has not created an overwhelming superiority in manpower, much less in equipment. Those defensive lines where we act more or less competently are not being breached. Those units and subunits that do not abandon equipment and do not run to the rear, confidently hold their positions, like the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. Now the main question (and this is always the main question of any war) is competent logistics, which includes replenishment of units with personnel, withdrawal of shabby units for rest and replenishment, and not only uninterrupted supply of ammunition.

Now for the news from the front. Yesterday at 10pm an enemy column moved from Torskoye to Yampolovka, about 20 vehicles. Our UAVs spotted it and set up a jet. After the first strike, the column dispersed, 10 vehicles were damaged, 5 fled and another 5, also in column, continued further to Yampolovka. They were hit by gunfire. Direct hits have already begun, in the third and fifth car. Ours worked competently, catching the enemy on the move.



In case you were wondering, the crisis in the Kryvyi Rih direction was again caused by a huge outnumbering of manpower and equipment by the AFU, not by some military genius.

Two, far from full-blooded, battalions on a 20+ km front, when according to the textbook it should be 10. You had to try to bring everything to such a situation and then be surprised.

 

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Colonel Zhilin: Pay attention, no one is discussing the problems of the economy, energy, the deepening of the global crisis, and so on. - all brains are polluted by the threat of nuclear war. An ideal situation for the implementation of global plans in the process of transforming the world order, transition to new energy, etc.
 
From PressTV:

Biden admin. bypasses Congress to send new arms to Ukraine, including more HIMARS rocket launchers
The administration of the United States President Joe Biden has bypassed Congress to arm Ukraine with the next tranche of advanced American weapons worth $625 million.

Reporting on Monday, Reuters cited sources briefed on the new package as saying that Biden has ordered provision of the military aid for Ukraine, using his "Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA)."

This is not the first time that the US administration chooses to send weapons to Ukraine, using the PDA, which allows the president to authorize transfer of excess weapons from US stocks without congressional approval.

Made by Lockheed Martin Corp the HIMARS launchers' accuracy and longer range have allowed Ukraine to reduce Russia's artillery advantage.

The US has thus far pledged 16 HIMARS launchers to Ukraine using PDA.

The weapons, which are expected to be shipped to Ukraine in the coming days, include four High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers, munitions, mines, and mine-resistant vehicles, the sources noted.
:mad:
 
'Idiots in CIA: We don't know what Putin is up to.'

4 Oct, 2022

'Collective Idiotic Agency'
The link doesn't work for me. I can't access RT.com it seems, also, I tried a google search, and the site doesn't even show up at all.
 
I guess the Russian Armed Forces did need mobilisation, and more equipment
Already even Russia's biggest war correspondent is mildly critical of the generals.

A few words about the Kherson direction. The wargonzo project knows for a fact that signals have been coming in from the ground that a "Kharkiv scenario" could happen there in one form or another for a long time. The commanders who are fighting in this area have reported upwards about the problems. Shortages of personnel and ammunition. As far as we know they received the comments in the form of "don`t make things up, everything is all right". In other words, it is not only the highest generals who do not hear the common officers. Very often even experienced generals who have real combat experience and authority in the troops are not heard. We are not defending anyone. We are stating. It's high time we learned to listen. Especially those in the field.

 
Below are two and a half article, two of which are from the Norwegian media: Steigan.no
The Swedes must have known more about the sabotage than they let on:
The Swedish navy had vessels in place before the explosions
but like the other gang members, they do no say much:
DIANA JOHNSTONE: Omerta in the Gangster War [Link to the Norwegian translation.]
and the PM of Norway even had two uniformed US Army soldiers present at his conference about the leak:
With US soldiers at our prime minister's press conference, the question arises:
Here follows:
The Swedish navy had vessels in place before the explosions
By red. PSt 4. October 2022
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Karlskronavarvet. Photo: Jonas Helmersson/Försvarsmakten
The Swedish navy had ships in place in the areas concerned, in the days before the sabotage against gas lines Nord stream 1 and 2, reports the Dagens Nyheter. But the Swedish armed forces don't want to say what the ships did on the site.
DN:
The Swedish navy had ship on the spot before the explosions
The Swedish navy's ships were in the area from Thursday to Saturday, and on Monday night the startling blasts took place. DN has used a commercial service to track the movements, which is based on the signals from the so-called AIS transponders on ships.

These transmitters shows where the ships are, but can be turned off when needed. According to the newspaper was the ships on Thursday, just on the north of the place where it was discovered three gas leaks. They were also in the area on Friday. AIS transmission seems to have been turned off, but when it was turned on again, were the vessels in place at the southern area, where it was discovered another gas leak.

Then they returned to the northern areas with the three later leaks. On the night of Monday, when the gas lines had been pushed, was it not possible to see whether the ships were in place by the help of the AIS system, according to DN.

– AIS-data from the current day shows that the transmitters are switched off when the ships approach exactly the areas where gas lines runs, notes DN.

Jimmie Adamsson, a naval officer, don't want to answer what the ships did on the site, but refers to strict secrecy. – Our operations at sea are subject to extra secrecy because of the different events and the global situation. So we don't tell you very much about what we are doing, " says Jimmie Adamsson.

Not a coincidence”
SVT writes:
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter has mapped ship movements in the area where the explosions on the gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 took place. It turns out that the Swedish Navy had ships in the area in the days before the sabotage.

- I don't think it's a coincidence, considering the behavior, says Niklas Granholm, analyst at FOI.

Niklas Granholm is a research leader at the Total Defense Research Institute, FOI, and knowledgeable about military activity in the Baltic Sea. According to him, there is a little too much that matches in time and space for it to be a coincidence.

- It could probably be that the navy has some kind of intelligence image in the background, he says to SVT Nyheter.

The navy has confirmed to DN via its press spokesperson that the information is correct, that ships have been in the area and carried out maritime surveillance. But cannot say what the purpose was, citing strict confidentiality.
M. K. Bhadrakumar comments
In a long tweet the indian diplomat M. K. Bhadrakumar gives his comment to Sweden's role:

The Swedish newspaper Dagens News revealed that the Swedish navy was active in the area of the Nord Stream gas pipelines 22. September and carried out "certain manoeuvres over the northern part of the pipelines that pass along the seabed." It was later discovered 3 major gas leaks there.

The Swedish navy admitted since these manoeuvres, but refuses to discuss the nature of the mission, or even when the ships finally left the area with the assertion that "the current secrecy laws" do not allow public disclosure.

The Swedish navy ship had turned off the transmitters during its mission that would have allowed the tracking of its exact course.

The impression of the World of Sweden is a benign social democracy steeped in humanism, development and peace. But in reality, Sweden has one of the most ruthlessly effective spy agencies in the West.

Swedish intelligence played a crucial role in Ukraine's transformation since 2014 as anti-Russian state. It is also actively participating in the war. During the Cold War, the Soviets considered Sweden as a de facto NATO country and its ‘diplomats’ in Moscow were under strict surveillance.

The catastrophic defeat in 1709 to king Carl XII in the battle of Poltava against tsar Peter (which ends the Swedish imperial history) is embedded deep in the psyche and has metastasized as Russophobia. Sweden fears Russian retaliation for the previous hostile actions, and therefore it is urgent to search NATO protection.
"Sweden fears Russian retaliation for the previous hostile actions", but have they tried to be good neighbours?
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Lewis Carroll writes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”

It is an appropriate comment for the western war politician's statements about the terrorist acts in the Baltic sea. First, it confirmed that NATO had a navy exercise with emphasis on underwater operations in exactly the area where the terrorist acts took place, BALTOPS 22. Also, it is clear that Norway has underwater drones that are world-class and could well have been used there, even if it is currently unproven. Then Antony Blinken shows up and says enthusiastically three times in the same press conference that the blasting of the gas line is a "tremendous opportunity". And then it turns out that the Swedish navy operated in exactly the area where the blasting took place – and have tried to hide their tracks.

The funny thing with the latter is that it is very difficult for NATO to get any in the global south to believe that it may have been another state which has carried out the terrorist acts in an area that NATO and Sweden guarded so carefully.

But western and Norwegian politicians and the media are known to devour camels on the long side, if they are told to, so they swallow probably this also.

But in the global south, the sarcasm of Bhadrakumars is fairly representative of the attitudes. They do not believe in it.
Did the Swedes participate, add their own explosives, monitor or perhaps activate. We may never know, but by now it appears to be an effort of state gangsters. The beginning of the following article carries the idea.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: Omerta in the Gangster War
September 28, 2022
Imperialist wars are waged to conquer lands, peoples, territories. Gangster wars are waged to remove competitors. In gangster wars you issue an obscure warning, then you smash the windows or burn the place down.

Gangster war is what you wage when you already are the boss and won’t let any outsider muscle in on your territory. For the dons in Washington, the territory can be just about everywhere, but its core is occupied Europe.

By an uncanny coincidence, Joe Biden just happens to look like a mafia boss, to talk like a mafia boss, to wear a little lopsided half smile like a mafia boss. Just watch the now famous video:
For context, here is the meaning of Omertá
Omertà (/oʊˈmɛərtə/, Italian pronunciation: [omerˈta])[a] is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor and conduct that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one is aware of, witness to, or even the victim of certain crimes). It originated and remains common in Southern Italy, where banditry or brigandage and Mafia-type criminal organizations (like the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita and Società foggiana) have long been strong. Similar codes are also deeply rooted in other areas of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Crete in Greece,[1] and Corsica, all of which share a common or similar historic culture with Southern Italy.
A story from Norway, or it is the US? At the press conference of the PM where the leaking gas lines were talked about, two US Army dressed personnel were present. The author reflects on how Norway slowly is becoming like a part of America:
With US soldiers at our prime minister's press conference, the question arises:
Of reader posts -4. October 2022
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Jonas Gahr Støre at the press conference on 28 September. Inset image of American soldier. Why did no press photographers have the presence of mind to immortalize the situation which more than any other shows that Norway is a banana monarchy under military control of the USA?
Is Norway a state in the USA?
By Northern Light, Derimot.no.

It should be a warning that something is wrong for the population, when the country's prime minister chooses to have American soldiers by his side and not Norwegian ones, during a meeting with the press in his office. When the prime minister chooses to have soldiers present during meetings with the press, it should mean that Norway is put on the highest alert, but what kind of signalling effect does it have that he chooses to show it with American soldiers in the prime minister's office, Norway's equivalent of The Oval Office in that White Houses?
When I arrived at the Prime Minister's office for Wednesday's press conference, a couple of American soldiers in uniform were standing in the same room. They had no role in the session, but were nevertheless a reminder of the seriousness. After the explosions that created holes in four places on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, the White House immediately announced that the United States is ready to assist. The Nordic prime ministers established close contact between themselves, and at the highest level with the EU and NATO. Together they agreed to say exactly what Jonas Gahr Støre told us in the press:

- We consider the situation to be serious, and it therefore looks like a deliberate act
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Martine Aurdal's comment in Dagbladet: Couldn't say it out loud
What they could not say out loud, claims the reporter, was that Russia did it, the rest of the article is the usual propaganda or worse. Next the article comments:
Do we not have Norwegian soldiers left, are Norway's defenses now so integrated into the US war machine NATO, that maybe there were Norwegian soldiers, but in American uniforms, since we have informally become the USA's 51st state? After all, we have become an informal member of the EU, and must meet the EU's energy needs, as the energy minister said bluntly, so why can't Norwegian soldiers just as well wear American uniforms?

Many questions are being asked about the Prime Minister's choice of military presence in his office. Perhaps the Prime Minister's bodyguards are ill from side effects of the covid 'vaccines', so American soldiers had to be called in? Or should the Prime Minister's bodyguards now also be replaced by Secret Service bodyguards? Just as well, when parts of Norway now become American bases where American law applies, and not Norwegian law.
"Norway is a good example of a country that has become part of the United States "
No European country has had such a large percentage of emigration to the USA as Norway, most Norwegians have relatives in the USA. With the Marshall aid, American culture also came to Norway, and Norwegians allow themselves to be assimilated, and today's generation speaks Norwegian/US English, many younger people speak US English without an accent. Norway is a good example of a country that has become part of the United States in an almost imperceptible way, and without most people having anything against it.

Something that can be an expensive lesson. Just like the hawks and the neoconservatives in Washington, it means the same thing, cares a bit about Norwegians in the war they are preparing against Russia, also from Norwegian soil. Like the pre-storage of offensive war weapons material and US military bases and air bases here. The F-35 aircraft, 52 advanced American combat aircraft on Norwegian soil, which can be armed with the B61-12 nuclear bomb, paid for by the Norwegian state budget. Purchased at Washington DC's wish/order by their Norwegian state military administration.

Slowly, Norway has been turned into a firing range and prepared for a battlefield.
The US managed to force Russia to intervene in Ukraine. If the US manages to provoke a military reaction from Russia, with a provocation from Norwegian soil, such as by bringing the B61-12 nuclear bomb to one of the four US bases where Norwegian law does not apply, we have a reverse Cuba crisis in Norwegian earth, and this time Russia will not budge.

If an F-35 is equipped with B61-12 bombs, and takes off from an airport in Norway and moves towards Russia, it will not help that Erik Solheim declared in the 1970s that Norway is a nuclear-weapon-free zone. The Russian retaliatory attack will be mercyless. It will be the punishment for a politically unconscious population, so preoccupied with material consumption, that they have not noticed that our political leadership does not represent the interests of the Norwegian people and country, but the global capital's new world order, and in that context Norway is only a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard.
 
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