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

[benkostka]

Since we don't have a separate thread dedicated to the attack on North Stream pipes...


US journalist Seymour Hersh has just published results of his investigation into that terror attack.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

seymourhersh.substack.com

Just a few highlights:
- his investigation revealed that the explosives were planted by US military divers. US Navy Diving and Rescue Center specialists were behind the attack.

- It wasn't a quick decision, the White House discussed the plan for nine months

- An enigmatic "U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center" (based in Panama) has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades; last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that eventually destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines

- Earlier, in December of 2021, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion. It soon became clear that "Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of the President."

- CIA gets involved and William Burns authorizes "an Agency working group whose ad hoc members included—by chance—someone who was familiar with the capabilities of the Navy’s deep-sea divers in Panama City. [Soon] members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline."

There is much more in there, too much for me to summarise. If anyone feels like adding more key points, go ahead!

Well I was at that “enigmatic” diving school and there aren’t any courses there on diving to plant explosives, at least not in the way described by Hersh. Maybe guys from NEDU (Navy Experimental Diving Unit) could work with the CIA, but Hersh never mentions them, and he curiously never mentions anything about UUVs, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, that could easily be used to plant explosives without risking lives of divers….. It all smells like a limited hangout.

UUVs have certainly come a long way in the last 10 years and as far as detonating explosives with sound, that’s how it’s been done for a while.

Seems the UUV option is way easier, and the Navy has been perfecting the technology.

Mine Countermeasure (MCM) set to be unmanned and autonomous

Sea mines are one of the cheapest and most dangerous threats for naval forces; a reality experienced in both World Wars and the Korean War. In order to mitigate the impacts and risks of sea mines on naval operations, advanced navies have been increasing their investments in autonomous MCM...

www.naval-technology.com

 

[Tuatha de Danaan]

The Saker has said the Russia has asked Roger Water to attend the UN Security Council meeting.
Moscow has requested that Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters be allowed to speak at the next UNSC meeting on Ukraine

British rock icon Roger Waters has officially been asked by Russia to participate in the upcoming United Nations Security Council meeting, set to be held on Wednesday, to discuss peace prospects and weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

The invitation was announced by Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky on Tuesday. He wrote on his Telegram channel that Russia had officially requested that the UN allow the Pink Floyd co-founder and peace activist to be featured as a speaker.

Waters has been an outspoken critic of the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which he has called an “unnecessary war,” and has repeatedly called for efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the issue. He has also condemned the West’s continued military support to Kiev, accusing the US and its allies of “war profiteering” and intentionally provoking and prolonging hostilities in the region.

He has also stated on several occasions that he holds Washington responsible for sparking the Ukraine crisis and allowing the conflict between Moscow and Kiev because it benefits American interests and is “really good for business.”

The musician’s repeated calls for peace between Moscow and Kiev and criticism of Western military meddling have seen him branded as a Russia apologist and propagator of “Kremlin talking points.” His opinions have led to his concerts being banned in Poland and he has even landed in the notorious ‘Mirotvorets’ database – often dubbed Kiev’s “kill list” – after several individuals, including journalists and politicians, were assassinated after appearing on the website.

In September, Waters wrote an open letter personally addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling for diplomatic talks to end the conflict. He also wrote to Vladimir Zelensky’s wife Elena, asking her to help him “to persuade our leaders to stop the slaughter.”

Sorry for the book attachment, couldn't delete sorry.

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Mod Edit: Attachment deleted :)

 

[Possibility of Being]

It all smells like a limited hangout.

It may well be. As about anything during this information war, his findings shouldn't be taken at face value and need scrutiny.

 

[Lyndi]

Since we don't have a separate thread dedicated to the attack on North Stream pipes...


US journalist Seymour Hersh has just published results of his investigation into that terror attack.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

seymourhersh.substack.com

Just a few highlights:
- his investigation revealed that the explosives were planted by US military divers. US Navy Diving and Rescue Center specialists were behind the attack.

- It wasn't a quick decision, the White House discussed the plan for nine months

- An enigmatic "U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center" (based in Panama) has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades; last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that eventually destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines

- Earlier, in December of 2021, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion. It soon became clear that "Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of the President."

- CIA gets involved and William Burns authorizes "an Agency working group whose ad hoc members included—by chance—someone who was familiar with the capabilities of the Navy’s deep-sea divers in Panama City. [Soon] members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline."

There is much more in there, too much for me to summarise. If anyone feels like adding more key points, go ahead!

I just saw this about US Navy divers laying the explosives the summer before Nord Stream sabotaged. Seymour Hersh, said Robert Malone on his today Substack, broke My Lai and Abu Ghraib.

Dr Malone wrote this morning:

"The list of his breaking stories which blew the cover on US Government misdeeds is enormous. This guy is a national treasure. And now he has ferreted out the details and spoken the truth which all who are politically astute knew but none could speak for fear of retaliation by the CIA and captured global media. But here it is, yet another story of illegal activities."

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

 

[luc]

Now we know what went down with Nord Stream 1/2:

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

seymourhersh.substack.com

Regarding what I wrote earlier about remote detonation:

Yes, given what Niall posted above, my guess is that they installed the devices during one of the drills earlier, and then waited for the right timing/opportunity. I think they still had to be close to it to detonate it. I'm pretty sure this can't be done via satellite because the water would block the signal, and since such devices usually operate in fairly high frequencies, the range is very limited (plus the attenuation by the water). So either one part of the group of ships that "switched off the transponder" stayed close, or they remote-detonated it when they passed Bornholm while "heading west".

I'm no expert in military tech, so maybe they have other radio tech that allows long-range triggering of underwater bombs, but I highly suspect that's not the case and some vessel needs to be very close (couple of kilometers) - to remote-detonate or send a torpedo or whatever. OSIT

Seems I was right, sort of: they used a buoy dropped from a plane, which then sent a complex low-frequency (almost audio range) signal to detonate the bomb. It was apparently very difficult to pull off technically.


Edit: Just saw @Possibility of Being already posted the link

 

[benkostka]

Now we know what went down with Nord Stream 1/2:

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

seymourhersh.substack.com

Regarding what I wrote earlier about remote detonation:


Seems I was right, sort of: they used a buoy dropped from a plane, which then sent a complex low-frequency (almost audio range) signal to detonate the bomb. It was apparently very difficult to pull off technically.


Edit: Just saw @Possibility of Being already posted the link

Something to consider about this also are the capabilities of what was the NR-1 Submarine that wasn’t much talked about in the Navy. It could do all the work about cutting underwater lines and installing listening devices…. So it was decommissioned in 2008 and during that time the technology exploded for remotely operated underwater vehicles.

American submarine NR-1 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

It’s way easier to use UUVs or something similar instead of risking divers and it’s unlikely that the capabilities that were inherent in the NR-1 would just be scrapped without something to replace them.

 

[luc]

Something to consider about this also are the capabilities of what was the NR-1 Submarine that wasn’t much talked about in the Navy. It could do all the work about cutting underwater lines and installing listening devices…. So it was decommissioned in 2008 and during that time the technology exploded for remotely operated underwater vehicles.

It’s way easier to use UUVs or something similar instead of risking divers and it’s unlikely that the capabilities that were inherent in the NR-1 would just be scrapped without something to replace them.

The way Hersh describes it, all of that is also a matter of paper trail, who knows who, who needs to know, chaotic short-term decision making etc., which sounds plausible enough. Maybe they can't just use whatever toys they want or even the best ones under such circumstances? The bit Hersh wrote about the diving school really sounded like journalistic fluff, though.

Re remote explosion, in my understanding the tech isn't complex, but the logistics are: the need for proximity. I can see how it's not trivial to plan something like that on short notice without being obvious. Some fluff here too though in Hersh's piece for sure.

 

[Bluegazer]

Austrian Colonel M. Reisner decided to reveal who will operate Leopard tanks in Ukraine.

It's all very simple: a NATO soldier takes off his uniform, signs a contract and goes to Ukraine.

Elegantly, an Austrian soldier becomes a Ukrainian mercenary.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622644854428663816

 

[Adobe]

White House responds to new Nord Stream investigation​

"Officials have categorically rejected reporting by a legendary US journalist who claimed Washington blew up the pipelines"

"US President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday blasted Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh"

"The former New York Times journalist, who rose to fame when he exposed the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians in 1969, wrote that US Navy divers planted explosives on the Nord Stream conduits"

White House responds to new Nord Stream investigation

The White House denies report by journalist Seymour Hersh that US Navy divers sabotaged Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines

www.rt.com

 

[benkostka]

Re remote explosion, in my understanding the tech isn't complex, but the logistics are: the need for proximity. I can see how it's not trivial to plan something like that on short notice without being obvious. Some fluff here too though in Hersh's piece for sure.

Check out the archerfish ROV from bae systems. It could easily do what was needed to Nordstream. With that system, a competent person could perform the mission in weeks from any sort of vessel that is disguised to look like a merchant or fishing vessel.

I’m not saying that’s how it went down, just that Hersh’s tale of diver derringdo is absurd, plus how can anyone verify anonymous sources? It does however put all the blame on Biden…. Who is growing more toxic by the day.

 

[thorbiorn]

But what it shows is that the morale and discipline of both, mercenaries and regular troops, are falling rapidly.

Looking for the original link, I found other news:
Aleksej Arestovich/Arestovych keeps talking:

"We're just going to be blown away."
Arestovich predicted what awaits Ukraine
Alexey Arestovich advised Ukrainians to moderate their ambitions to end the conflict

MOSCOW, February 7-RIA Novosti. The conflict in Ukraine may not end as expected by the country's residents, said ex-adviser to the head of the Office of Vladimir Zelensky Alexey Arestovich, writes the publication " Country.ua".

"What will happen to the society that has raised its expectations and gets a conditional Minsk-3? This return spring of unrealized expectations will hit us so hard-on morals and everything else-that we will simply be stunned," he stressed.
Arestovich added that success requires 400,000 perfectly trained soldiers with NATO weapons.

"Do we have this? No. What will happen next year? Will not be. There won't be enough training facilities. <...> We as a society are not ready for such an outcome. But the most unpleasant thing is that the West thinks the same way, and we are totally dependent on them," he concluded.

As an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Alexey Arestovich publicly held the opposite opinion about the development of the special operation. On the airwaves of Ukrainian Youtube channels, he repeatedly predicted an "early victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on the battlefield and claimed an alleged acute shortage of ammunition in the Russian troops.

In January, Arestovich resigned after his words about the incident in Dnepropetrovsk. Then he said that the reason for the destruction of part of the house in the city was the work of the Ukrainian air defense.

After that, the politician faced a wave of criticism. Ukrainian deputies have started collecting signatures for his resignation.

As a result, Arestovich retracted his words, issued an apology, and then decided to leave the post. The resignation letter was accepted by the Office of Volodymyr Zelensky on the same day.

A few days later, the politician admitted for the first time that the Kiev regime will not be able to gain the upper hand in the conflict with Russia. He noted that the Zelensky government should heed the warnings of Polish President Andrzej Duda about the possibility of the country's imminent disappearance.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal "to protect people who for eight years have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime." For this purpose, according to him, it is planned to carry out "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for" bloody crimes against civilians " of Donbass.

January 24, 03: 11
"This is our death": Arestovich spoke about the national catastrophe of Ukraine
03:11 24.01.2023

'This is our death': Arestovich spoke about the national catastrophe in Ukraine
Arestovich: the anthem of Ukraine contains a national catastrophe for all Ukrainians

MOSCOW, January 24 - RIA Novosti. The anthem of Ukraine is the source of a 'national catastrophe,' Oleksiy Arestovich, a former adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, said in an interview on his Youtube channel.

'There (in the anthem. - Approx. ed.) There are very curious lines. They sound like this: 'we will lay down our souls and bodies for freedom.' Tell me, is there at least some constructiveness in our anthem, some kind of social engineering? What will be in the world after the 'victory'? There is only 'we will lay down our soul and body', and what's next?' Arestovich said.

According to him, the wording 'put soul and body' actually means that the citizens of the country are ready to fight until they all die. According to him, the idea embodied in these lines, combined with the position 'to kill each other, so that someone does not consider themselves a new hetman' is deadly for Ukrainians.

In conclusion, the politician noted that these concepts contain 'national death, catastrophe' for Ukrainians.

The points made by Arestovicy about the National Anthem are not new, even if they are not voiced every day or even widely acknowledged. In 2014 or 2015, I watched a video, where a Ukrainian commentator compared the Ukrainian and the Russian. Since then others have tried:

Comparison of hymns of Ukraine and Russia
The Wiki for the anthem of Ukraine states:

Chubynsky's original lyrics (1862)
The first stanza of Chubynsky's original poem is somewhat similar to the first stanza of national anthems of Poland and Yugoslavia and "Hatikvah", the national anthem of Israel.[36]

What are the lyrics to Ukraine’s national anthem in English?

The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished
Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.

We’ll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we’ll prove that we brothers are of Kozak kin.

Compare lyrics of Poland:
What are the lyrics to Poland’s national anthem in English?

Poland has not yet perished,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign force has taken from us,
We shall with sabre retrieve.

That was the first verse that resembled the Ukrainian. The anthem continues with the refrain followed by the next verses.

March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

We’ll cross the Vistula, we’ll cross the Warta,
We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.

March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

Like Czarniecki to Poznań
After the Swedish annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.

March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.

March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

It is tempting to begin an analysis, but history provides a commentary soon enough. Looking for the Wiki about the Polish national hymn there was:

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (Polish pronunciation: [maˈzurɛɡ‿dɔmbrɔfˈskʲɛɡɔ] "Dąbrowski's Mazurka"), in English officially known by its incipit Poland Is Not Yet Lost,[a] is the national anthem of the Republic of Poland.[1][2][3]

The original lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, between 16 and 19 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the map. Its initial purpose was to raise the morale of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions that served with Napoleon Bonaparte in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. "Dąbrowski's Mazurka" expressed the idea that the nation of Poland, despite lacking an independent state of their own, had not disappeared as long as the Polish people endured and fought in its name.[2][3]

The life and the shifting alliances of Dąbrowski are instructive:

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈxɛnrɨɡ dɔmˈbrɔfskʲi]; also known as Johann Heinrich Dąbrowski (Dombrowski)[6] in German[7] and Jean Henri Dombrowski in French;[8] 2 August 1755[a] – 6 June 1818) was a Polish general and statesman, widely respected after his death for his patriotic attitude, and described as a national hero who spent his whole life restoring the legacy of Poland.[9]

Dąbrowski initially served in the Saxon Army and joined the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army in 1792, shortly before the Second Partition of Poland. He was promoted to the rank of general in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794. After the final Third Partition of Poland, which ended the existence of Poland as an independent country, he became actively involved in promoting the cause of Polish independence abroad. He was the founder of the Polish Legions in Italy serving under Napoleon from 1795, and as a general in Italian and French service he contributed to the brief restoration of the Polish state during the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806. He participated in the Napoleonic Wars, taking part in the Polish-Austrian war and the French invasion of Russia until 1813. After Napoleon's defeat, he accepted a senatorial position in the Russian-backed Congress Poland, and was one of the organizers of the Army of Congress Poland.

The Polish national anthem, "Poland Is Not Yet Lost", written and first sung by the Polish legionnaires, mentions Dąbrowski by name, and is also known as "Dąbrowski's Mazurka".[10]

Instructive is also the history about the Polish Legions:

The Polish Legions (Polish: Legiony Polskie we Włoszech; also known as the Dąbrowski Legions)[1] in the Napoleonic period, were several Polish military units that served with the French Army, mainly from 1797 to 1803, although some units continued to serve until 1815.

After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, many Poles believed that Revolutionary France and her allies would come to Poland's aid. France's enemies included Poland's partitioners, Prussia, Austria and Russia. Many Polish soldiers, officers, and volunteers therefore emigrated, especially to the parts of Italy under French rule or serving as client states or sister republics to France (leading to the expression, "the Polish Legions in Italy") and to France itself, where they joined forces with the local military. The number of Polish recruits soon reached many thousands. With support from Napoleon Bonaparte, Polish military units were formed, bearing Polish military ranks and commanded by Polish officers. They became known as the "Polish Legions", a Polish army in exile, under French command. Their best known Polish commanders included Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Karol Kniaziewicz and Józef Wybicki.

The Polish Legions serving alongside the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars saw combat in most of Napoleon's campaigns, from the West Indies, through Italy and Egypt. When the Duchy of Warsaw was created in 1807, many of the veterans of the Legions formed a core around which the Duchy's army was raised under Józef Poniatowski. This force fought a victorious war against Austria in 1809 and would go on to fight alongside the French army in numerous campaigns, culminating in the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, which marked the end of the Napoleonic empire, including the Legions, and allied states like the Duchy of Warsaw.

Like in the days of Napoleon, there are Polish mercenaries active, though not with France, but still on behalf of western powers with which Poland or at least its elite now identifies itself. If in November there were about 1700 dead, how many might it be now? And here they say not less than 10,000 Poles have participated as mercenaries in Ukraine.

 

[thorbiorn]

Here are a couple of other observations with a few comments;

Ukraine May Have Already Reacquired Nuclear Weapons, Polish General Says
6 hours ago (Updated: 5 hours ago)

“I do not rule out Ukraine having nuclear weapons, because the Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories and knowhow. In other words, everything they need to possess such a weapon. In fact, today no one is in a position to prohibit the Ukrainians from having it,” Skrzypczak, the former commander of Poland’s Land Forces, said in an interview with Polish media.

However, last week, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Oleksiy Makeev announced Kiev’s desire to “begin a discussion” on the country’s nuclear status, saying that the 1994 Budapest Memorandum security agreement which led Ukraine to give up nukes proved a “bad signal for all countries in the world which realized that only nuclear weapons could save them” from an “aggressor” like Russia.

Perhaps Ukraine is not very satisfied with a few tanks some time away or older ones with small guns and little ammunition from Germany. Are they trying blackmail? (If you don't give us weapons, we go nuclear, and you take the fall-out.)

Last summer, former Polish Foreign and Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Western powers could transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine, given that Russia had “violated” the Budapest Memorandum.

President Zelensky threatened to renounce Kiev’s non-nuclear status and initiated consultations under the Budapest Memorandum at the Munich Security Conference in February 2022.

Ukraine’s pledge to do away with nuclear weapons dates back to before the Budapest Memorandum to Kiev’s July 1990 declaration of state sovereignty, which committed the republic “not to accept, produce, or acquire nuclear weapons.” All 1,700+ nuclear warheads that Kiev transferred to Moscow in the 1990s remained under Russia’s control via a nuclear football held by President Boris Yeltsin. Moscow signed the Budapest Memorandum on the understanding that Ukraine would remain a friendly, militarily non-aligned state – provisions which Kiev’s US backers violated repeatedly in color revolutions in 2005 and 2014. A 2019 law amended Ukraine’s constitution to put it on a “strategic course” to join NATO and the European Union.

Why would a Polish General talk about N weapons, at a time when Ukraine is suspected of using gas, and is in such a weak position that they send very young men to the front?

There was also Victor Medvedchuk

09:00 08.02.2023
Causes of the conflict. Was the Ukrainian tragedy inevitable?

Medvedchuk: President of Ukraine Zelensky betrayed the inhabitants of the country, to whom he promised peace

[... long...]

Zelensky is the fifth column for the destruction of Ukraine and Europe

[...]

And what is the point of Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, acting against the interests of his country, contrary to his election promises, against peace and stability in Europe? NATO's policy has brought the policies of Ukraine and the collective West together. Now the defeat of Ukraine will be the defeat of NATO, although the alliance is not formally involved in the conflict. It is clearly seen that Zelensky defends not the position of Ukraine, but the position of NATO: he constantly refuses peace and demands weapons from the West for the military defeat of Russia. For war, it has neither weapons, nor the means, nor an organized rear – all this places a heavy burden on Europe. What is the point of this political process?

And the point is that Zelensky, regardless of whether he realizes it or not, is a fifth column not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe. He, as his guy from the people, was pushed to the presidency, and instead of sentencing his belligerent predecessor, he becomes a verdict on his country. He, as a young and energetic politician, is introduced into European diplomacy, and he becomes a verdict on Europe. Why doesn't anyone notice this game? Because it's not supposed to. Today, Ukrainians are strictly forbidden to criticize Zelensky: they will fall under the pressure of repression and lawlessness. And it is indecent for Europeans to criticize it, NATO does not allow it. Whoever does not allow to see the real mechanisms of the conflict, he created it.

If Zelensky's power clique are a little stronger on Nazism, NATOism resembles fascism, with different countries in a bind, since they are all expected to submit to US/UK/EU/NATO/UA pressure, send weapons to Ukraine, and abide by antirussian sanctions that do not serve the wellbeing of their own people.

 

[Possibility of Being]

Why would a Polish General talk about N weapons, at a time when Ukraine is suspected of using gas, and is in such a weak position that they send very young men to the front?

Why not?
Listening to Skrzypczak makes as much sense as listening to another pathocomedian, Volodymyr Zelensky. There is a good reason why reasonable Polish commentators asked about this or that statement made by a Polish official answer that they are not psychiatrists. I'm not joking. Those people live in a different reality and should have been institutionalized years ago.

Just a sample of what Polish Prime Minister said a few days ago in an interview with Spanish El Mundo:

Russia is a paper tiger
History has taught us that Russia is not to be trusted and should teach the West that if it leaves Kiev alone, sooner or later the war will move to Berlin or Paris, as happened in 1939, when Europe left Warsaw without support.
Berlin has long been noticing Poland's growing geopolitical importance.
Our raison d'être is to stop Russia. From Madrid to Kiev there is a Europe that wants to live in peace. If we do not have the determination to defend a single European country, we run the risk of our continent becoming a besieged fortress for many years to come.

Sadly, that's very true; the only raison d'être of Polish party of war is to start another war with Russia, even at the cost of 3rd world war and nuclear holocaust. I didn't think I would ever say it, but it's only thanks to the US who pulled their reins a few times already that we still have a chance to avoid it.

 

[hlat]

The Ukrainian army is using teenagers as soldiers.

(Translated by Google)

Battalions of teenagers are being created in Ukraine (videos)​

2023-02-08

Starship Troopers even got it right about the military killing the new kids who refuse to fight.

 

[Voyageur]

Something strange may have happened while Putin was in Volgograd giving that speech - specifically, a UFO sighting over the city:

I don't know what these 'laser displays' were, but I presume that these pilots would not confuse them for a discrete 'flying object' above the city.

Recall this from the Cs session of 14 January 2023:

(L) When?

(Niall) Last week. They said it was a drone, but there were rumors on the ground that there was a strange light.

A: UFO was not shot down but was observing.

That question and answer referred to this news report:

'Russia shoots down unknown object' in Rostov - Newsweek​

As an aside, Volgograd is not far from Voronezh, where in September of the year 1989 this unraveled:

Voronezh UFO incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Volgograd

Voronezh

Along with a chupacabra story:

Mysterious 'chupacabra'-like predator annihilates poultry stock in Russian village -- Sott.net

An unknown animal is killing chicken by the hundreds in villages of Russia's Voronezh Region. Frustrated poultry farmers claim that the beast is killing everything it can get, yet the ripped-apart chicken carcasses have suspiciously little blood...

www.sott.net