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Cherchez la Femme? ‘Bundeswehr scandal’ spreads to failure of gender politics

The roots of the recent “Bundeswehr recording” leak lie in Germany’s radical gender politics, according to Julian Reichelt, former editor-in-chief of the digital edition of Bild Zeitung. He said the head of Bundeswehr’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Martina Rosenberg is to blame:

🟥“Martina Rosenberg, as the head of Military Counter-intelligence Service, is directly responsible for this disaster,” Reichelt said. “This is what happens when you appoint a former ‘head of the department for social affairs and gender equality’ without espionage experience the head of a German special service... Someone just wanted by all means to have ‘the first female head of a counter-intelligence service’.”

🟥Rosenberg became the head of MAD in October 2020. Soon after her appointment she initiated a “reform program,” focused on the “fight against right-wing extremism among the women and men of German Bundeswehr.”

🟥Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Rosenberg said the importance of her service “has only been growing.”

🟥But she is not the only female official who presided over the decay of the German military.

🟥According to investigative site danisch.de, Rosenberg has much in common with the so-called Unholy Trintiy of Ursula von der Leyen, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Christine Lambrecht. These women have in turns headed Germany’s ministry of Defense for most of the past decade with catastrophic results for the Bundeswehr.

🟥“It has long been the case that incompetent women were put in important positions in Germany, with no attention being paid to their professional abilities,” the report said. “The main requirement is to be a politically correct woman. The feminist battle cry is ‘quality is a myth,’ and the mere notion of competence is dismissed as an invention of white males.”

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🔶 Coup plotter on steroids: rise and fall of American neocon Victoria Nuland

🔶 Honey Trapped: Retired US Air Force officer arrested for passing classified info to "Ukrainian" woman from dating site

🔶 Biden, you need to start getting along with Russia’ – US Journalist

🔶 Why are doubts hovering over the Anglican Church’s bid to absolve itself of its slave trade sins?

🔶 Pepe Escobar: Global South youth flocks to ‘isolated’ Russia

🔶 ‘Who’s in charge in Germany?’ Scott Ritter asks amid leak of Bundeswehr’s Crimea attack plans

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The Kiev regime cannot explain where 700,000 mobilized Ukrainian servicemen are and what they are doing, The Washington Post reported.

Lack of a clear mobilization strategy was one of the reasons for the dismissal of Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, the article revealed.

New commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky "has been tasked with auditing the existing armed forces to find more combat-eligible troops, after Zelensky’s office recently announced that of the 1 million people who have been mobilized, only about 300,000 have fought at the front lines," the newspaper stressed.


However, Syrsky has so far brought no clarity to the issue.

"Nearly a month after his promotion, no one in the military leadership or the presidential administration has explained where those 700,000 are — or what they have been doing," the article explains.


Meanwhile, Zelensky recently claimed that only 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the outset of the conflict.

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❗️ Yemen’s Houthis said they carried out strikes using missiles, drones against two US warships in the Red Sea.

"The Naval forces, Missile forces, and airforces of the Yemeni armed forces ... carried out a qualitative military operation in which they targeted two American warship destroyers in the Red Sea. The operation was carried out with a number of naval missiles and drones," the Houthis said on Telegram.


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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General said in a report that it documented dozens of claims of misconduct involving aid sent to Ukraine by the United States since February 2022.

USAID’s Office of Inspector General has received 15 complaints of alleged theft or diversion of aid, 12 complaints of program fraud, 11 complaints of procurement fraud and 11 complaints of conflict of interest, the report, released Monday, said.

The oversight office also received five complaints of alleged bribery, five complaints of mismanagement, and one complaint of sexual exploitation and abuse, the report said. In total, the office received 182 separate complaints.

The report includes summaries of closed complaint cases, but the office does not publicly disclose information about open investigations.

One closed case involved aid workers allegedly demanding fees from beneficiaries in order to receive assistance, the report said. Another case involved alleged corruption by a medical doctor in the city of Dnepr, the report said.

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Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny would win the presidential election if it were held in Ukraine in 2024, according to a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Social and Marketing Research SOCIS.

According to the survey, Zaluzhny would garner 41.4% in the first round among those who would go to the polls, Volodymyr Zelensky would garner 23.7% support, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko 6.4%, and ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada MP Dmytro Razumkov 5.6%. In the second round Zaluzhny would defeat Zelensky 67.5% to 32.5%.

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has arrived in Russia's Sochi for consultations, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

On Monday, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told Sputnik that Grossi will travel to Sochi on March 5 and is scheduled to hold consultations with the Russian delegation on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on March 6. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there could be a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Grossi.

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🇷🇺 Participants from all over the world came to Russia for the World Youth Festival. What surprised them most about Russia, an “isolated rogue” country against which the West has imposed a record number of sanctions? Here's what Sputnik found out.

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US President Joe Biden is one of the "most successful" American leaders of our time and his constant use of notes is beside the point, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said.

“You're upset because the President has note cards? You're asking me a question about the President having note cards? The President, who has had a, probably one of the most successful first three years of an administration than any modern-day President, he's done more in the first three years than most presidents who had two terms. You're asking me about note cards?” said Jean-Pierre, apparently bewildered.


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❗️ Russian forces have destroyed two American HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS) on Tuesday, according to reports in the media. The US-supplied weapons were obliterated deep in the rear of a formation of Ukrainian troops with one being wrecked in the Donetsk region and the other on the border of the Kherson and Nikolayev regions. Footage shows the destruction of the launcher in the Donetsk region.

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South Korea is still seeking compensation from Japan for the World War II era atrocities

One year after announcing a new initiative to compensate Korean victims of World War II era Japanese forced labor, the South Korean government is still waiting for Japan to signal its cooperation in the effort.

“When we make progress in our resolution, we believe that Japan will respond to it,” said South Korean foreign ministry spokesman Lim Soo-suk, expressing hope that Tokyo would voluntarily contribute funds to a new Seoul-backed public foundation.


Imperial Japan, which allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the second World War, committed mass atrocities in China and Korea, including mass rape, human experimentation, starvation, forced labor, sexual slavery, and massacres. The abuses have been a source of diplomatic strife for decades, with denial and apologetics for the atrocities remaining widespread even among top Japanese leaders.

Former Japanese President Shinzo Abe generated outrage in 2013 by expressing support for Imperial Japan’s notorious Unit 731, which conducted human experimentation on prisoners of war from China, Russia, and Korea.

The diplomatic tensions have undermined the United States’ efforts to unite regional players against China, which is viewed as a threat to global Western hegemony.

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Bundeswehr audio ignites blame game between German politicians

🔶 The audio recording of the conversation between German military officers on “scenarios” of a possible strike with Taurus missiles against Russia’s Crimean bridge led to a flurry of political accusations in Germany. The German political elite, harboring anti-Russia sentiment, is pushing Chancellor Olaf Scholz down a more dangerous path “to avoid Ukraine’s defeat.”

🔶 Germany’s main opposition party, the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU), accused chancellor Olaf Scholz of having lied to the public. CDU deputies in the Bundestag parliament say the recording contradicted Scholz’ statements in which he refused to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, because that would have required German military servicemen on the ground.

🔶 “It looks like the chancellor has been justifying his refusal to send Taurus missiles [to Ukraine] by falsehoods,” said Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag faction of the Christian-Social Union (CSU), the CDU’s Bavarian coalition partner.

🔶 The CDU has long been pushing for more military aid to Ukraine than Scholz, a Social Democrat, was ready to deliver.

🔶 The Financial Times reported that the leaked conversation had damaged the western narrative about Moscow since “it proved that the collective West had designs to attack Russia.”

🔶 Germany has long denied that its armed forces harbor plans to attack Russia – either directly or through a proxy force. But the four German officers whose conversation was leaked discussed precisely that – how could Germany’s Ukrainian proxies make a strike against the Crimean bridge, using 10 to 20 German-made Taurus missiles.

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The Supreme Court of Serbia is expected to issue the verdict on the first lawsuit filed by victims of NATO's use of depleted uranium during the bombing of Yugoslavia by the end of 2024, Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic, told Sputnik.

In January 2021, Aleksic filed the first lawsuit in the Supreme Court on behalf of the late Serbian army Colonel Dragan Stojcic. NATO refused to participate in the lawsuit, stating that it had immunity under an agreement with Serbia.

The lawyer mentioned that he had since received the results of Stojcic's official medical examination, which showed that the level of depleted uranium found in the officer's body was 500 times higher than normal.

"We already have four lawsuits before the Supreme Court and 31 before the Basic Court in Belgrade. By the end of the year, I expect a verdict on the first lawsuit we filed in the Supreme Court several years ago. We are demanding that NATO compensate us for the damage," Aleksic emphasized.


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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will discuss the prospects of restoring peace in Ukraine with former US President Donald Trump during their meeting in Florida on Friday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.

"One of the main points on the agenda between President Trump and Prime Minister Orban will definitely be how peace will return to Europe, especially to the central and eastern part of Europe," Szijjarto said. "What we definitely would like to discuss with him is how to make peace in Ukraine and in the eastern part of Europe."


Szijjarto emphasized that Orban's visit to the United States is not meant to sway US voters to lean toward electing Trump in the upcoming presidential election in November, but it highlights that US-Hungarian relations thrived during the Trump administration and there were no major wars around the world then.

"Without him [Trump] being elected, we see a much, much, much smaller hope for peace in the foreseeable future in Ukraine," Szijjarto said. "We understand we do not represent the majority in Europe with this position of ours, but still we are convinced of it."


Szijjarto said he believes the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided and the current Gaza conflict would have been resolved quickly had Trump been reelected to the White House in 2020.

In addition, Szijjarto noted that Western efforts have failed to give Ukraine an advantage on the battlefield against Russia.

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❗️Putin supported the initiative to create a grain exchange within BRICS. Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Russian President Vladimir Putin has supported an initiative to create a grain exchange within the BRICS bloc and said speculative trading affects prices and consumers.

"Regarding an exchange, of course, you are absolutely right. All these exchange indices are formed either in the United States or in Europe, in Paris. I do not know, how much grain do the French produce? I think less than we do. And traditionally, stock the exchange index is formed there. Of course, this is unfair, because from here it affects pricing. Your idea is very good," Putin said at a meeting with representatives of the agricultural-industrial sector.


Since there are countries in BRICS that produce and buy grain, they might be interested in creating such an exchange, the president said.

"Especially since these things of a speculative nature, of course, affect consumers in the end. And this is a problem. And these are problems that all governments are trying to solve ... We will definitely work on your suggestion with our partners," Putin said.


Russia's share in the world grain market is approaching 25%, and every fourth tonne of grain is of Russian origin, Eduard Zernin, the head of the Russian Union of Grain Exporters, told the meeting.

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Ugly colors of Victoria Nuland's revolution: she’ll be remembered for the f-word – CIA veteran

"[She will be remembered for] taking Ukraine to the precipice of disappearing into an abyss, passing out cookies. But in terms of a legacy left, she's left no legacy. No positive legacy other than the one, known as the use of the F word," Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik, recalling Nuland's role in the 2014 Euromaidan coup d'etat.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that Nuland will step down in the coming weeks as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Nuland's decision to retire was a bolt from the blue, according to the CIA veteran.

"This is completely unexpected," he said. "I think one explanation is that she's probably resigning in frustration over what she views as waning support of the rest of the Biden team for the Ukraine mission... I think she's acknowledging that the end is near with respect to Ukraine."

The last time Nuland was seen in Kiev was early February 2024, during the row between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and then- commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhny. Zelensky's purge of Ukraine's top brass failed to sove his problems: the nation's armed forces suffered defeats due to lack of manpower, shells, resolve and morale.

"Nuland didn't want to be standing around there when the loss comes in," Johnson concluded.


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🔥 The Ukrainian military command has transferred at least 5 Abrams tanks to the Avdeyevka area, 3 of which have already been destroyed by Russian forces. Western propaganda has overestimated this equipment said Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

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China’s 5% growth target ‘conservative’, impressive for developed economy

China’s GDP growth target of “about 5 percent” for 2024 is “fairly conservative” and definitely in the realm of possibility for achieving, Dr. John Gong, a professor of economics at the Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics, has told Sputnik, commenting on the development priorities outlined by Premier Li Qiang in a speech to the National People’s Congress.

China’s growth rate targets are all the more impressive, Gong said, given that the Asian nation’s economy is “increasingly looking like a ‘developed economy’, where normally a 4-5 percent growth rate is already a great achievement.”

On the tech and R&D front, where Li outlined a series of measures to stimulate growth, Gong said the prioritized commitment of resources to these “very critical areas” signals “that China doesn’t want” to fall behind the West, particularly amid “a fair amount of hi-tech choking and boycotting by Washington.”

On defense, which saw 7.2 percent bump in spending, Dr. Gong said it’s important to keep the PRC’s outlays in perspective compared to the United States, whose defense budget is approaching $900 billion compared to China’s $238 billion, even though China’s nominal GDP is approaching the US.

“In terms of where the defense budget will be spent, I would guess an increasing portion will be spent on emerging technologies in defense. The war in Ukraine tells a lot about what the future battlefield will look [like], and I am pretty sure PLA generals are keeping a close eye on what is happing in the Donbass and Zaporozhye,” Gong said.


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NATO member states are still in agreement that the military alliance is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine, despite leaked audio of German military officials discussing a possible missile strike on the Crimean Bridge with a French fighter jet, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.

"I'd like to say two things on that: first, that we have a decision in NATO in place, and this decision has not been questioned by anyone yet. This decision has been made a bit more than two years ago, and this decision says that NATO is not a party to this conflict," Szijjarto said, when asked about the leaked conversation.


Neither Germany nor France has challenged or requested a review of the NATO decision, Szijjarto said.

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The US Censorship Industrial Complex is alive and well, according to independent commentator Steve Poikonen. Poikonen joined Sputnik's The Critical Hour program to discuss the issue after the popular blog Naked Capitalism received an email from its ad service provider conveying a threatening warning from Google over alleged content on the site.

"If you are espousing genuine dissent, if you are challenging power, regardless of what its political party is, you are on the chopping block," said Poikonen, adding "this is a war for the supremacy of the digital information space."


Poikonen claimed the kind of corporate oligopoly that controls traditional media in the United States is emerging online as well, with the US government holding strong influence over the few social media companies that control most online discourse

"Elon Musk is performing a service for the security state, not just on Twitter, but in every other company he owns," said the journalist. "He's implemented a social credit score on Twitter. There's a whole bunch of algorithms that determine your reach and your ability to get your word out, and all of them have to do with never saying anything out of line."


In 2022, journalist Lee Fang reported on a clandestine effort between the X social media platform and the US Department of Defense to spread US-backed propaganda on the microblogging site.

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