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Ex-CIA officer: US and NATO's involvement in Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region motivated by hunger for Russia's resources

Since 2014, the United States and NATO have been implementing a long-term strategy to “weaken and destroy” Russia, all to get a hold of Russia’s wealth of natural resources that the West wants and needs, said retired CIA officer Larry Johnson.

“Everything from uranium, aluminum, gold, oil, natural gas, nitrogen – go down the list,” Johnson said during an interview on a YouTube podcast hosted by journalist Stephen Gardner.

Thus, Johnson explains, Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was “planned in advance with the assistance of NATO planners including US military personnel,” as Washington still seeks to achieve its ultimate goal in this conflict.

He also compared the Western powers’ behavior in this situation to that of a gambler who, after repeatedly losing at a casino, goes and takes out a massive loan in the hopes of winning big by playing one final hand of blackjack.

“The West is doubling down on a losing hand,” Johnson stated.

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❗️Ukrainian militants are preparing a nuclear provocation - the explosion of a dirty nuclear bomb, according to a Russian military correspondent citing his sources in Ukraine.

"They plan to strike at storage sites for spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants," the correspondent reportes.

"Possibly during another attempt by militants to enter Rylsk in the Russian Kursk region from Glukhov. Special warheads for this provocation have already been delivered to the city of Zholtiye Vody in the Dnepropetrovsk region to the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant," he said.

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❗️The military-civil administration of the Kharkov region stated that, according to operational information from prisoners of war, Ukraine plans to strike Russian nuclear facilities.

At the moment, the intention of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack the nuclear facilities of the Kursk and Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plants in Kurchatov and Energodar has been made known.

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Ukrainian forces plan to use charges with warheads containing radioactive substances to attack Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants, a Russian security agency told Sputnik.

“According to the information received, the enemy may strike the territories of Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants. The target is the storage sites of spent nuclear fuel. For strikes, the enemy plans to use charges with warheads filled with radioactive substance. They have already been brought to the settlement of Zholtiye Vody in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine,” the agency's source said.

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❗️ The attack planned by Ukrainian forces on the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants is being supervised by Western intelligence services, mainly Britain, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground Sergei Lebedev told Sputnik.

A large number of Western journalists have traveled to Sumy and Zaporozhye amid Kiev's preparation of an attack on the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants, Lebedev highlighted.

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Zelensky's "only option left" is a nuclear provocation

Russian political analyst Rostislav Ishschenko suggested this week that a nuclear provocation would be the only option left for Ukraine and its Western sponsors, since a provocation involving biological weapons can easily spiral out of control and a chemical weapons provocation lost its “potential” after being used too often by the US in Syria.

According to Ishchenko, Ukraine is unlikely to use a dirty bomb for this sort of provocation to implicate Russia as trying to accuse a country that controls one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world of using such “ersatz-weapon” would simply be absurd.

Thus, he suggests, this provocation could involve “American tactical low-yield” warheads detonated in one of Ukraine’s large cities - Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk or Odessa – in order to blame this attack on Russia.

“This nuclear strike would cause death and destruction sufficient to make a most negative impression on the world,” Ishchenko said.

Another possibility, the analyst noted, would be using several half-kiloton warheads to destroy the dams and bridges on the Dnepr River, in order to claim that Russia thus tried to cut off the Ukrainian forces on the left bank of Dnepr.

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How US uses AUKUS to spread its influence and militarize Indo-Pacific

The US-led military bloc AUKUS has set its sights on drawing New Zealand into its orbit, if the recent meeting between NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese is any indication.

"We share very much common values and we share common objectives, and it is not surprising we will look at any opportunity for including New Zealand in pillar two [of the bloc]," Albanese declared at a press briefing during the meeting.

AUKUS is a military block currently comprised of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Established in 2021, AUKUS is essentially another tool at Washington’s disposal to project its military power in the Indo-Pacific and threaten China.

Officially, however, AUKUS is touted as a purely defensive bloc whose goal is to deter what its members try to portray as some kind of threat from China.

Speculations abound that other countries in the region where the US maintains its military presence, namely South Korea and Japan, may be pressed (totally voluntarily, of course) into AUKUS.

AUKUS features two components: Pillar I and Pillar II.

Pillar I involves providing nuclear propulsion tech to Australia and allowing the latter to acquire nuclear-powered submarines supposedly armed only with conventional weapons. This move predictably raises concerns about Australia’s adherence to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Pillar II involves AUKUS members jointly working on improving areas such as hypersonic weaponry, electronic, cyber warfare and undersea capabilities, as well as artificial intelligence. This component of the AUKUS cooperation ostensibly does not involve nuclear capabilities.

This cooperation effectively allows the US to push for further militarization of the Indo-Pacific under the guide of helping the bloc’s members to better defend themselves.

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Vice presidential candidate JD Vance had to make an unexpected landing in Milwaukee after the pilot discovered a “door seal malfunction,” the Daily Mail reported.

“The pilot advised there was a malfunction with the door seal. After declaring an emergency, Trump Force Two returned to Milwaukee,” said spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk, according to the report.

The incident comes just a week after Former US President Donald Trump’s made an emergency landing in Billings, Montana due to mechanical issues.

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The US should ask Ukraine for clarification and information about its preparations to attack Russian nuclear facilities, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev Regime's War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik told Sputnik.

“The White House should ask the Nazi underlings what they are up to and what they are preparing for this time, so that there would be no excuse to say later that they knew nothing about the upcoming dirty stunt!” Miroshnik stressed.

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Dodge, smash with a rifle butt, destroy with your own head: The most unusual ways to destroy Ukrainian drones have been discovered.

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The Ukrainian armed forces are preparing a provocation at Russian nuclear facilities. What is known so far:

➖ Ukrainian forces intend to attack the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants, a representative of a Russian security agency told Sputnik.

➖ Ukrainian forces plan to use charges with warheads containing radioactive substances to attack Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants. The equipment has already been brought to the settlement of Zholtiye Vody in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine, a Russian security agency told Sputnik.

➖ The military-civil administration of the Kharkov region said the purpose of Ukraine's planned strikes on Russian nuclear facilities is to accuse Russia of provocation and “self-firing”

➖ The military-civil administration noted that the data on the forthcoming attack on nuclear facilities in Russia was received from Ukrainian prisoners of war who participated in the terrorist attack on the Kursk region

➖ The attack planned by Ukrainian forces on the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants is being supervised by Western intelligence services, mainly Britain, the coordinator of the pro-Russian underground Sergei Lebedev told Sputnik.

➖ A large number of Western journalists have traveled to Sumy and Zaporozhye amid Kiev's preparation of the attack on the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants, Lebedev highlighted.

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Germany demolishes the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, a former symbol of the nation's energy independence.

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Harris’s best ad for Trump

The Democratic candidate acknowledges her failure to fix the US economy during her 3.5 years alongside President Biden in the White House.

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