Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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When you're demented like hell but they want you to make a speech: 'Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.'
For my part, I will welcome the comets or the asteroids or whatever as if they were Russians.
Russel Bentley says he expects the RF army to stop at a N-S line, W of Kiev down to the edge of Moldova. The rest stays with NATO. So the idea of a new federation of Ukraine is dropped.
The sanctions which the West has placed on Russia can backfire as Russia can also apply sanctions.
One such area is the launching of satellites. In the case of the company OneWeb which relies on Russia to launch their satellites, Russia has asked for certain guarantees which likely will not come. The result will be the failure of that project.
sputniknews.com
So the Russians are asking the UK to quit their 42% stake in this company by Friday and solid guarantees of the satellites having a non-military nature. Unlikely to happen.
Another story from last week also showed European Space Agency's reliance on Russian rocket science and what problems this now gives.
www.theverge.com
One such area is the launching of satellites. In the case of the company OneWeb which relies on Russia to launch their satellites, Russia has asked for certain guarantees which likely will not come. The result will be the failure of that project.
Roscosmos: OneWeb System to Be Non-Functional Without New Satellites Launched
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Without adding new communication satellites to the OneWeb constellation, the system will not work, Russia's state-owned space corporation Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
sputniknews.com
Something about OneWeb:
So the Russians are asking the UK to quit their 42% stake in this company by Friday and solid guarantees of the satellites having a non-military nature. Unlikely to happen.
Another story from last week also showed European Space Agency's reliance on Russian rocket science and what problems this now gives.
European Space Agency claims joint Russian Mars rover probably won’t launch this year
The partnerships in space are starting to falter.
www.theverge.com
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Not necessarily. It might just be smaller than the current Ukraine and consist of those parts of Ukraine which traditionally have been more pro-Russian than pro-Western as election maps have shown. Yet, it is too early to make any big predictions of what will and will not happen.
So the 'interesting theory' is that Putin (or NATO? or the Consortium?!) is helping to create a new Jewish state in Ukraine?
Sounds like a typical conspiracy theory about 'OMG, the Jews'. And with no source material whatsoever, I'd say you can safely forget about it.
In the future, I think it would be best to stick to the facts as closely as you can. Speculating about potential futures from the basis of those facts is part of the fun, yes. But this 'theory' sounds like shallow gossip to me, designed to produce an emotional reaction and set the mind spinning. It has neither logic nor historical awareness of the situation.
Hi_Henry
The Living Force
“Banda de drogadictos y de neonazis”, por Thierry Meyssan
Muchos expresaron sorpresa después de oír al presidente ruso Vladimir Putin hablar de «una banda de drogadictos y de neonazis» cuando se refirió a los elementos que detentan el poder en Kiev. La prensa atlantista afirmó incluso que hablaba como un enfermo mental. Pero los hechos le dan la...
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Hi_Henry
The Living Force
Israel want to help mediate the conflict.
www.timesofisrael.com
Then we have another famously used card,
thejewishnews.com
Did or didn't ? I know, let the reader "ASSUME" that it did because the Russians are always the "bad guys".
Mayor of Munich does the "right thing"
consortiumnews.com
‘One hour before midnight’: In call with Putin, Bennett proposes Israeli mediation
PM says ready to help in any way, in light of Israel's unique ties with Russia and Ukraine; avoids condemning Moscow at cabinet meet; set to send more humanitarian aid to Ukraine
www.timesofisrael.com
Then we have another famously used card,
Russian Bombs Appear to Hit Site of Babyn Yar Nazi Massacre Near Kyiv — Detroit Jewish News
Ukraine's Jewish president and Natan Sharansky invoked the Holocaust in their condemnations of the bombing.
thejewishnews.com
Did or didn't ? I know, let the reader "ASSUME" that it did because the Russians are always the "bad guys".
Mayor of Munich does the "right thing"
Munich Philharmonic Conductor Sacked for Remaining Silent
The esteemed Russian conductor was fired because he would not publicly condemn Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Rotterdam, Vienna, Carnegie Hall also let him go. No Freedom of Silence By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium New Valery Gergiev, the conductor of the Munich Philhar
consortiumnews.com
Russian fear-pron from France via LE MONDE
Video Dated: Published on 08 December 2019 at 15h00 - Updated on 23 February 2022 at 12h14
Assassination plot against Zelensky was foiled and unit sent to kill him was 'destroyed,' Ukraine says
By Timothy Be lToday at 8:42 a.m. EST Washington Post Live
$1 million bounty on Putin offered by Russian businessman The Russian entrepreneur said the Russian president came to power by "blowing up apartment buildings in Russia."
By TZVI JOFFRE Published: MARCH 2, 2022 11:56 Updated: MARCH 2, 2022 12:23
Video Dated: Published on 08 December 2019 at 15h00 - Updated on 23 February 2022 at 12h14
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, the gap between Russia and the West has never been greater. Between 2014 and 2019, at least 13,000 people died in Ukraine. As for Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula since 1954, it now belongs to Russia. For their part, the United States and Europe have largely turned their backs on Russia. Since the annexation of Crimea, the G8 has become the G7... without Russia. And heavy economic sanctions have been taken against him. On both sides, provocations with gigantic war demonstrations or military infrastructure installations are increasingly numerous.
Yet in the early 1990s, Russia and the Western world agreed to end the war and build a new world. At the time, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of a "common European home", and a military alliance including the United States, Europe and Russia was even envisaged. Thirty years later, it is with Asia that Russia forges military alliance and economic contracts.
So what happened? We tell you in this third episode of our series "Mappemonde".
To see the other episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFuK0VAIne9LhQy5THa8YrrZbyWaIRqPc
Sources:
– Putin's Russia in a hundred questions – Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean: La Russie de Poutine en 100 questions
– Annual report of Rosstat (Russian Federal Statistical Service) 2018: RussianStat2018 (1).pdf
– Declaration of the Heads of State members of the Shanghai Cooperation, 2005
Assassination plot against Zelensky was foiled and unit sent to kill him was 'destroyed,' Ukraine says
By Timothy Be lToday at 8:42 a.m. EST Washington Post Live
$1 million bounty on Putin offered by Russian businessman The Russian entrepreneur said the Russian president came to power by "blowing up apartment buildings in Russia."
By TZVI JOFFRE Published: MARCH 2, 2022 11:56 Updated: MARCH 2, 2022 12:23
A $1,000,000 bounty for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin was offered to military officers by Russian entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin in a post he published on social media this week, as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine.
"I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws," wrote Konanykhin on LinkedIn. "Putin is not the Russian president as he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents."
"As an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia. I will continue my assistance to Ukraine in its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's Orda," added the businessman. Orda is the Russian word for "horde," a predatory, plundering gang.
The post was accompanied by an image with a photo of Putin and the words "Wanted: Dead or alive. Vladimir Putin for mass murder."
Konanykhin has a turbulent history with the Russian government.
According to a 1996 article in The Washington Post, Konanykhin studied at the Moscow Physics and Technical Institute before abandoning his studies and opening a student construction cooperative. He then branched out into a number of other businesses, including banking, stocks and real estate.
By the age of 25, he had an empire of over 100 firms. By 1992, his companies were worth about $300 million. He was even a part of then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin's first delegation to Washington that year.
In 1996, while living in the US, Konanykhin and his wife were arrested by federal immigration agents on charges of violating the conditions of their American visas. The case was seemingly sparked after Russian authorities claimed that he embezzled $8 million from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow.
The case went on for weeks, with FBI agents testifying that the Russian mafia had taken out a contract on Konanykhin's life as well as a former KGB agent who testified that he had serious doubts about the charges filed against the oligarch.
During the trial, Konanykhin testified that some of his corporate aides at the Russian Exchange Bank began pressuring him for money and made threats, prompting him to move to Hungary, according to the Post. He claimed that he was then threatened with violence again, prompting him to flee to the Czech Republic and then to New York.
Konanykhin complained about the threats to Russian officials and even Yeltsin himself. At a certain point, authorities stopped investigating the threats and began investigating him instead, claiming he had illegally wired $8 million from the bank to his personal accounts overseas. Russian authorities claimed that his version of events was fake and aimed to slander his former employees.
A settlement was eventually reached and he was freed from detention and eventually granted political asylum. Just a few years later, however, the Board of Immigration Appeals revoked the political asylum and ordered that he be deported. Konanykhin and his wife attempted to flee to Canada but were arrested.
The deportation of the couple was cancelled following a number of emergency hearings after U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis found the decision unlawful, saying "I have the firm impression that it is the strong desire of people in the executive branch to return this man to Russia for what reason I cannot tell. It stinks," according a report by the Moscow Times. He was granted asylum again in 2007.
In 2011, he founded TransparentBusiness, which helps companies manage their remote workforce. He is also part of Unicorn Hunters, a show which allows unicorn founders to pitch to millions of investors around the world.
Russia just acknowledged that it has lost 500 troops in the battles so far. I don't have the references, but I've read that U.S. intelligence estimated around 2000, and Ukraine is claiming something like 6000 (an order of magnitude higher). So, whatever the Ukrainians claim, you can probably get a pretty good idea of what's going on by dividing their numbers (soldiers killed, tanks destroyed, etc.) by ten.
Hi_Henry
The Living Force
The following video is not from 1940's when WW II was raging in the Soviet Union on what is now Ukraine.
It is from around 2013-2015. When the rifles are fired the officer is speaking in German.
I found the film thanks to Wayback Machine website so you need to enter that whole address without the minus sign and not just the YT address,
-https://web.archive.org/web/20160902050036/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1gI0GjLBE
That's one of Russia's goals. This adoration of vicious murderers who continue to do the same today. This mentality/tradition is in parts of Western Ukraine.
More found here. If film is gone try WayBack
It is from around 2013-2015. When the rifles are fired the officer is speaking in German.
I found the film thanks to Wayback Machine website so you need to enter that whole address without the minus sign and not just the YT address,
-https://web.archive.org/web/20160902050036/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1gI0GjLBE
That's one of Russia's goals. This adoration of vicious murderers who continue to do the same today. This mentality/tradition is in parts of Western Ukraine.
More found here. If film is gone try WayBack
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Indeed, that is surprising, but also encouraging. I had a look at the activities of the Centre for Russian Studies in Groningen, the Netherlands and although the University of Groningen has condemned Russia the Centre seems to be a bit more nuanced or maybe I'm reading too much into it:
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The University "has decided to freeze all relations with Russian non-university partners with immediate effect. For cooperation with knowledge institutions in Russia, the UG will follow the national policy."
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