Political and media elites ‘turned UK into tinderbox', US Deep State may be stoking fire

 “If the political class had listened to that warning and accepted the verdict of the people, the killings in Southport either would not have happened at all (because the killer and his family would have been sent back to the now entirely peaceful and safe Rwanda), or would have been seen as a terrible crime which the police and courts alone should deal with,” political analyst and former MEP Nick Griffin told Sputnik.

The riots have been overwhelming cities across the UK in the wake of the July 29 stabbing attack, which saw children being targeted by a teen whose family is of immigrant stock. 

As 17.4 million people – the largest democratic mandate in UK electoral history – voted for Brexit, it was a very clear instruction to the political elite to get a grip on the borders, Griffin emphasized.   

“But the political and media elites refused to accept the vote, failed to deliver the secured borders... It is this, together with an endless litany of two-tier policing and criminal justice, which make indigenous Brits… feel like second-class citizens in their own country. Frustration and anger over this had turned large parts of the country into a tinderbox, just waiting for a spark,” Griffin said. 

“Deep down,” Griffin believes, “the US Deep State helped create [the British and wider European migrant] crisis – and is now stoking it – as a way of destabilizing its supposed allies. It’s the same trick as the sabotage of Nord Steam: The ostensible target was Russia, but the real target was the German economy and the Euro - damage them and the looming end of the dollar hegemony may be put back a little longer.”

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❗️Units of the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup hit formations of six Ukrainian brigades. Ukrainian losses amounted to 355 militants.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry’s weekly briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Up to 105 militants and one tank were lost by the Ukrainian forces as a result of actions by the Russian Vostok Battlegroup;

▪️The Russian Dnepr Battlegroup destroyed two Ukrainian field ammunition depots;

▪️The Russian Yug Battlegroup improved its tactical position, with the Ukrainian forces losing up to 520 militants;

▪️Units of the Russian Zapad Battlegroup struck formations of six Ukrainian brigades. Ukrainian losses amounted up to 370 soldiers;

▪️The Russian Sever Battlegroup struck the Ukrainian troops in the Sumy and Kharkov regions. Ukrainian losses amounted up to 120 militants;

▪️Russian air defense shot down six HIMARS rockets and 51 Ukrainian drones.

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❗️The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Ukrainian attempt to break through in the Russian Kursk region:

▪️On the morning of August 6, 2024, the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed an armed provocation on the section of the state border of Russia within the Kursk region.

▪️The border settlements of the Kursk region were shelled.

▪️The border guards, together with the attached units of the Russian Armed Forces, have taken measures to repel armed aggression.

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Throwback to 2023: Ursula von der Leyen blamed Russia for posing a nuclear threat and dismissed the US' role in the bombardment of Hiroshima, Japan. 

"It was a sobering start to the G7 and one that I will not forget, especially at a time when Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons once again. It is heinous, it is dangerous, and in the shadow of Hiroshima, it is unforgivable," she said, not even mentioning the US, the only country that has used nuclear weapons. 

Today marks the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. Now the West, seemingly, tries to conceal US involvement in the unfortunate event, shifting the blame to others.

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📹"We have to stay WOKE. Everybody needs to be woke": a clip from 2017 best describes Kamala Harris' political platform.

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The European Union demanded that Georgia send mercenaries to Ukraine in an organized manner, said the speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili.

He clarified that the United National Movement party and the opposition called on Georgia's authorities to impose restrictions against Russia.

According to him, the ruling Georgian Dream party rejected such demands and said that such actions would be tantamount to being drawn into the conflict.

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Fighting has begun in the town of Toretsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Ukrainian troops are moving their positions closer to the city center, said Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the DPR.

The settlement is not being stormed head-on, but is being squeezed in a pincer movement, he added.

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❗️Kamala Harris is supported by 99% of the delegates of the Democratic Party; she has now officially become the US presidential candidate from her party.

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Leaving enemy electronic warfare powerless: Meet the new Russian AI drone Rusak

Russia has started mass production of the Rusak-S, a new first-person view unmanned aerial vehicle with artificial intelligence, a spokesperson for the Stratim company, which developed the drone, told Russian media.

🔸The quadrotor drone Rusak-S operates as a kamikaze UAV carrying 2.5-3 kg of payload and flying at a maximum speed of up to 150 km (93 miles) per hour. Its flight range is 20 km (12 miles).

🔸The Rusak-S can independently detect and prioritize targets. All its operator needs to do is to select a relevant target and give the drone an order to destroy it.

🔸“The drone is capable of tracking heavy and medium armored vehicles and wheeled ones, as well as artillery and infantry,” the Stratim spokesperson said.

🔸When the target is selected and the command to destroy is given, the Rusak-S can fly the last 500-1000 meters in autonomous mode, which allows the UAV to effectively hit targets beyond the radio horizon and evade enemy electronic warfare systems, according to the spokesperson.

🔸The firm touted the Rusak-S as sort of a homing anti-tank guided missile, which can hit enemy military equipment’s upper part, where the thinnest layer of armor is in place.

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What caused Ukrainian troops to swiftly abandon their positions near a strategic city?

The swift loss of Ukraine's defensive positions outside the city of Toretsk was caused by “unrelenting Russian attacks” amid serious mistakes made by Ukrainian commanders, the New York Times has reported.

The city’s strategic importance pertains to the fact that its possible fall may complicate the logistics of the Ukrainian defense at the eastern front line, according to the NYT.

The rotation of troops in Toretsk in early June was a “big mistake” by senior Ukrainian commanders, which added to subsequent success of Russian offensive there, a Ukrainian soldier was cited as saying.

During the rotation, the Ukrainian Army’s 41st Mechanized Brigade moved from the city of Chasov Yar to take command of the Toretsk area instead of the 24th Brigade, which was deployed to Chasov Yar. Soon it became clear that the 41st was unprepared to defend Toretsk since it did not know the terrain.
The commander of the brigade has also been criticized for issuing unclear orders and not reacting quickly to the changing threat environment, per the NYT.

Yevhen Strokan, a commander of a combat drone platoon in the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion, part of the 41st Brigade, said that “there were losses in the battalion due to the senseless orders of the senior commander."

He was echoed by Roman Kuliak, the deputy commander of the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion, who insisted that both the 41st’s commander and the Ukrainian General Staff were responsible for the fact that defensive positions on the outskirts of Toretsk that had held for years “fell in a matter of days.”

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