Several hours after Odessa awoke to explosions Thursday morning, Avraham Wolff, the city's chief rabbi, got a call from a nearly 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. The man was so distressed he could barely speak.
“He cried and cried, and I just listened to him,” Wolff said. “I told him that everything is OK, the Russians are not coming to kill us, these are not Nazis.”
For weeks, the rabbi had prepared for the possibility that Russia could invade Ukraine. He bought several tons of sugar, macaroni, rice, flour and water, hired 20 security guards and reserved buses to evacuate thousands of Jews to neighboring Moldova.
Must read piece on Ukraine by Pepe Escobar at Unz.
From the Black Sea to the East Med, Don't Poke the Russian Bear
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From the Black Sea to the East Med, Don't Poke the Russian Bear
This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed. From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a history lesson delivered by President Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins...www.unz.com
Another masterpiece by Pepe. He truly excelled himself here. Just so love his wit and dry humour !
Someone who did lead the KGB cant be trusted in any way.
An exchange between Putin and his spy chief Sergey Naryshkin 'went viral' this week to spread the message that Putin publicly bullied his government ministers into going along with his plans for Ukraine.
Aside from the fact that all the other exchanges went smoothly (and the fact that you'll NEVER see a cabinet meeting at which ministers make decisions of historical importance broadcast on Western TV), there's something else to note about why this exchange stands out.
Russia's central intelligence director, of all people, should know that the topic at hand is recognition of Luhansk and Donetsk, not accession into Russia (not yet anyway). Did he just 'goof' because he was nervous? If so, why is he nervous? He's been FSB Director for 6 years, and was Speaker of the Duma for years before that!
And why was Naryshkin not able to give a straight answer until Putin coached him into giving one? Putin didn't like that he said "in the worst case." By saying that, Naryshkin was suggesting that recognizing the two Republics would be a serious or "worst case" scenario. Putin and all others present saw it as a simple matter of fact, necessitated by the action, or rather lack of action (in implementing the Minsk agreements) by the gang in Kiev.
This got me thinking about Kazakhstan's intelligence chief, Karim Masimov, who was arrested for high treason last month as Russian and Kazakh forces snuffed out the regime change op. It's known he had business ties with the Bidens, though no doubt there were other 'ties'. I wonder if Naryshkin too has 'particular friends' in the West. There are discreet links at that spymaster level that are not there at the political level.
Putin knows this, I guess, because he too knows the intel world. Check out that look he gives Naryshkin at 01:17...
By the way the image of the intercontinental missile is fake as well as the "ghost of Kiev" that you have shot down 6 Russian aircraft.
Thank you for clarifying - fake news flooding in everywhere
Rule of thumb still remains to distrust anything sensational until you can validate from different angles and have multiple images or videos of same thing taken from different places.
Z - Zapad ----> West
V - Vostok -----> East
An exchange between Putin and his spy chief Sergey Naryshkin 'went viral' this week to spread the message that Putin publicly bullied his government ministers into going along with his plans for Ukraine.
Aside from the fact that all the other exchanges went smoothly (and the fact that you'll NEVER see a cabinet meeting at which ministers make decisions of historical importance broadcast on Western TV), there's something else to note about why this exchange stands out.
Russia's central intelligence director, of all people, should know that the topic at hand is recognition of Luhansk and Donetsk, not accession into Russia (not yet anyway). Did he just 'goof' because he was nervous? If so, why is he nervous? He's been FSB Director for 6 years, and was Speaker of the Duma for years before that!
And why was Naryshkin not able to give a straight answer until Putin coached him into giving one? Putin didn't like that he said "in the worst case." By saying that, Naryshkin was suggesting that recognizing the two Republics would be a serious or "worst case" scenario. Putin and all others present saw it as a simple matter of fact, necessitated by the action, or rather lack of action (in implementing the Minsk agreements) by the gang in Kiev.
This got me thinking about Kazakhstan's intelligence chief, Karim Masimov, who was arrested for high treason last month as Russian and Kazakh forces snuffed out the regime change op. It's known he had business ties with the Bidens, though no doubt there were other 'ties'. I wonder if Naryshkin too has 'particular friends' in the West. There are discreet links at that spymaster level that are not there at the political level.
Putin knows this, I guess, because he too knows the intel world. Check out that look he gives Naryshkin at 01:17...
Keep all the nobles close by you so you can see what they're doing?!It is worth noticing that Chubais ,who IMHO is a Davos man, was kept close by Putin and no retired. Why ?
Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine
That's NBC for you!
What's the idea of calling these Ukrainian radicals 'white supremacists' in an area of Europe where there are only white people near and far?
Yeah, it's a real big problem.Hitler Jugend in Ukraine!
Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine