The head of the NATO military committee considers it 'justified' from a military point of view to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with long-range western weapons.
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Democrat 'October surprise' targeting Russia and Trump may be in the making – US psy-op veteran
US appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Russia’s warning. Still, the Democratic Party's "October surprise" may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
Russian victories don't play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, "arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary."
Given that, Bennett doesn't rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
Such measures could be also aimed at "guaranteeing" that Donald Trump wouldn't be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.
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US appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Russia’s warning. Still, the Democratic Party's "October surprise" may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
The US establishment's attempt to raise the stakes prior to the November election came amid Russia's continuous advance, which has not been slowed down by Ukraine's doomed Kursk incursion. "The military mathematics shows very clearly the overwhelming victory that will inevitably come to Russia," Bennett told Sputnik.
Russian victories don't play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, "arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary."
Given that, Bennett doesn't rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
Such measures could be also aimed at "guaranteeing" that Donald Trump wouldn't be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.
"The Harris Democrat establishment and national security/military-industrialist deep state in America is trying to tie [the Ukraine] conflict against Russia around Donald Trump’s neck as they did in 2016 when Obama waged war against Russia diplomatically by expelling its consulates and its news organizations from Washington DC," the psy-op veteran said.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "will firmly stand" by his refusal to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons supplied by Germany to attack targets deep within Russia, Die Welt reports.
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Leaked British Foreign Office docs: Britain launched propaganda war to demonize Russia years ago Part 1 👉 Part 2
Six British Embassy staff in Russia were stripped of their diplomatic credentials on charges of intelligence and subversive work, the Russian Security Service said on Friday. The agency said it had received documents confirming the UK's attempts to destabilize Russia.
Newly-leaked internal documents of the British Foreign Office, marked "Official-Sensitive FCDO-only" have been published by The Underside.
The documents reveal:
◻️ The British propaganda machine swung into action after Downing Street’s National Security Council (NSC) “recognized the presence of a threat from Russia to the UK and its allies” in 2020.
◻️ The London-based Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate (EECAD) oversaw the NSC’s global anti-Russian operation launched in 2016. Codenamed the Counter Disinformation & Media Development Program (CDMD), its subversive work was geared to promote regime change in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
◻️ Reuters, the BBC, Bellingcat, Meduza* and the Pussy Riot-founded Mediazona*, as well as YouTubers in Russia and Central Asia were paid to promote pro-NATO narratives.
◻️ All covert EECAD operations are concentrated in the HMG Russia Unit. Set up in 2017 and attached to the Foreign Office, it was tasked with coordinating propaganda campaigns against Russia. All its employees are active MI6 officers.
◻️ The unit implemented large-scale projects to demonize Russia, including the fabricated “Skripal poisoning case."
◻️ There is information that Russia Unit oversees operations of the 72nd Psychological and Information Warfare Center – a unit of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces.
◻️ It also reportedly provides information support for Ukraine's Nazi Azov** Battalion.
◻️ The same unit is reportedly behind staged chemical attacks in Syria and the Ukrainian ‘Bucha massacre’ provocation.
*recognized as foreign agents in Russia
** banned in Russia for terrorism and extremism
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Six British Embassy staff in Russia were stripped of their diplomatic credentials on charges of intelligence and subversive work, the Russian Security Service said on Friday. The agency said it had received documents confirming the UK's attempts to destabilize Russia.
Newly-leaked internal documents of the British Foreign Office, marked "Official-Sensitive FCDO-only" have been published by The Underside.
The documents reveal:
*recognized as foreign agents in Russia
** banned in Russia for terrorism and extremism
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Leaked UK Foreign Office docs: Britain’s subversive anti-Russia activity amid NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine Part 2 👉 Part 1
After the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, departments were created within EECAD to organize subversive activities against Russia. Special EECAD sections run subversive activities in former Soviet republics in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Belarus and Moldova, the Underside reports.
◻️ EECAD departments oversee NGO operations to boost financial assistance to Ukraine, coordinate subversive activities and monitor military actions in real time.
◻️ A special Ukraine Campaign Unit set up in February 2023 supports political-military engagement in Ukraine.
◻️ Senior civil servants including prime ministerial national security advisor Tim Barrow, British Foreign Office permanent undersecretary Philip Barton, Deputy Head of Russia Policy Christopher Joyce, and James Beer and Mark Diamond, heads of the HMG Russia Unit, are all central figures in this extensive network.
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After the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, departments were created within EECAD to organize subversive activities against Russia. Special EECAD sections run subversive activities in former Soviet republics in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Belarus and Moldova, the Underside reports.
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‘Orwellian’ attack on Russian media signals US desperation to save crumbling unipolar world order
Washington’s crackdown on RT is tied to “the desire to preserve the already virtually non-existent unipolar world order of Western dominance, which of course also means dominance in the information space, in order to preserve one point of view for everyone and suppress and destroy all others,” political analyst Alexander Asafov told Sputnik.
The US war on journalism – not just with the crackdown on RT, but the blocking of social media, harassment of journalists, etc. constitutes the practical implementation of the “horror stories British writer George Orwell once used to terrify the entire world. In essence, the persecution of journalists is an attempt to punish them for ‘thought crime’, for a person thinking differently and being willing to tell the truth,” according to the observer.
As for the new restrictions and charges against RT, these are another attempt to silence Russia and rob it of its right to present an alternative perspective, Asafov said, noting that the US will continue to raise the stakes in its attempt to reach this “impossible” goal.
US actions are “based on a pretext,” not facts, “and there are certainly no legal grounds for such actions,” the political analyst stressed, pointing out Washington’s behavior is not just a violation of international law and lofty ideas about freedom of speech and media, but America’s own legislation. Instead, they constitute the practical “application of the so-called ‘international rules-based order’.”
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Washington’s crackdown on RT is tied to “the desire to preserve the already virtually non-existent unipolar world order of Western dominance, which of course also means dominance in the information space, in order to preserve one point of view for everyone and suppress and destroy all others,” political analyst Alexander Asafov told Sputnik.
“The ramping up of efforts in this direction is tied to the fact that the average Western citizen, voter and taxpayer paying for everything no longer understands why they should fund the desire of their political elites to help some distant dictatorial regime like in Ukraine, and is starting to ask questions, and finding answers quite easily. To prevent them from doing so, measures like these are taken, factually constituting total censorship,” Asafov explained.
The US war on journalism – not just with the crackdown on RT, but the blocking of social media, harassment of journalists, etc. constitutes the practical implementation of the “horror stories British writer George Orwell once used to terrify the entire world. In essence, the persecution of journalists is an attempt to punish them for ‘thought crime’, for a person thinking differently and being willing to tell the truth,” according to the observer.
As for the new restrictions and charges against RT, these are another attempt to silence Russia and rob it of its right to present an alternative perspective, Asafov said, noting that the US will continue to raise the stakes in its attempt to reach this “impossible” goal.
US actions are “based on a pretext,” not facts, “and there are certainly no legal grounds for such actions,” the political analyst stressed, pointing out Washington’s behavior is not just a violation of international law and lofty ideas about freedom of speech and media, but America’s own legislation. Instead, they constitute the practical “application of the so-called ‘international rules-based order’.”
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Arab World sees US crackdown on RT as admission of the role it plays 'in conveying the truth to people'
The US launched a crackdown on the Russia Today broadcaster, which officials have admitted is linked to its “global scope” and ability to reach the Global South. Sputnik has reached out to regional experts to find out their opinion on the US sanctions.
◻️ Abdel Bari Atwan, Palestinian-British journalist: “These events clearly show that the world has once again been deceived by [US] claims of supporting a free media. Blinken leading the campaign against RT is more shocking than it is surprising, especially since the US is making these accusations against a channel expressing the views of many people around the world, not just in Russia,” Atwan told Sputnik.
◻️ Ibrahim Awad, VP of Lebanon’s National Media Council: The Biden administration is “projecting onto RT its own favorite method of using the media for insidious purposes,” Awad told Sputnik. He added the US’s deceptive position and attempts to sit on two chairs at once is not surprising.
◻️ Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Union of Journalists: Washington’s assault on RT is an “acknowledgement of the role the channel plays in conveying the truth to people.” The US elite “only wants one version of the world – their version, which entails falsification, lies and propaganda,” Bakr said.
◻️ Hakim Bugrara, Algerian professor of media studies: the US regularly “undermines the humanitarian and democratic values it claims to defend” when someone falls outside its orbit.
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The US launched a crackdown on the Russia Today broadcaster, which officials have admitted is linked to its “global scope” and ability to reach the Global South. Sputnik has reached out to regional experts to find out their opinion on the US sanctions.
“The US has a regime closer to a dictatorship than a democracy, and the campaign against RT contradicts Washington’s false claims that it seeks different opinions and democracy, which Americans no longer have,” Atwan said.
“Washington does not accept the existence of strong media contradicting its position, and the Americans are particularly worried about Russian media, which has enormous reach and distribution, despite all attempts to interfere with its broadcasts.”
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Houthi success swatting down Reaper drones betrays US trillion-dollar military’s paper tiger status
He commented on reports confirming that the Houthis have shot down their eighth US MQ-9 Reaper drone since the start of the Red Sea crisis last year.
Politically and strategically, the success of the Houthi anti-drone campaign may undermine the justifications for continued US operations and presence in the region, and even “raise questions about the effectiveness of US power projection policies…potentially threatening Washington’s regional and global strategic interests in the long term,” Rakipoglu explained.
The US is between a rock and a hard place battling the Houthis, unwilling to become further entangled in a large-scale confrontation for fear of sparking a regional war with their Iranian Axis of Resistance allies, but unable to extract themselves without losing face.
The Houthis have shown that they “have the capacity to counter one of the most advanced technologies” in the US’s arsenal, and can outcompete the Pentagon on costs too, Rakipoglu concludes.
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“The downing of yet another drone could negatively impact the reputation of the US military-industrial complex. Confidence in the effectiveness of US defense technologies could be undermined. This may lead to potential clients in US military and technology exports becoming concerned about the failures of American products,” political scientist and international affairs observer Dr. Mehmet Rakipoglu told Sputnik.
He commented on reports confirming that the Houthis have shot down their eighth US MQ-9 Reaper drone since the start of the Red Sea crisis last year.
Politically and strategically, the success of the Houthi anti-drone campaign may undermine the justifications for continued US operations and presence in the region, and even “raise questions about the effectiveness of US power projection policies…potentially threatening Washington’s regional and global strategic interests in the long term,” Rakipoglu explained.
The US is between a rock and a hard place battling the Houthis, unwilling to become further entangled in a large-scale confrontation for fear of sparking a regional war with their Iranian Axis of Resistance allies, but unable to extract themselves without losing face.
“The relative cheapness and local production-based equipment used by the Houthis can lead to more losses for the US, [whose] military expenditures run into billions of dollars," the expert notes.
The Houthis have shown that they “have the capacity to counter one of the most advanced technologies” in the US’s arsenal, and can outcompete the Pentagon on costs too, Rakipoglu concludes.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv, demanding an immediate deal for the release of hostages from the Gaza Strip.
The crowd was addressed by the widow of Russian citizen Alexander Lobanov, whose body was found in a tunnel in Rafah on 1 September.
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The crowd was addressed by the widow of Russian citizen Alexander Lobanov, whose body was found in a tunnel in Rafah on 1 September.
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Chip-maker Intel to get billions in US grants for secret Pentagon program
Intel has reportedly qualified for $3.5 billion-worth of federal grants to execute a secret Pentagon program.
Сhips with military and intelligence applications will be produced by the US tech giant, reported Bloomberg, quoting sources.
The program – dubbed Secure Enclave – will reportedly span several US states where Intel has manufacturing facilities.
The funding for Intel would add to the estimated $8.5 billion-worth incentive package of grants and $11 billion in loans that the company was awarded earlier in the year under the Chips and Science Act.
But Intel is yet to see any of that money as the terms of that package are still being negotiated, added the website.
The Pentagon deal would offer a welcome lifeline to the troubled company. Intel’s shares fell nearly 30% in August after a dismal profits report and pessimistic income forecast.
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Intel has reportedly qualified for $3.5 billion-worth of federal grants to execute a secret Pentagon program.
Сhips with military and intelligence applications will be produced by the US tech giant, reported Bloomberg, quoting sources.
The program – dubbed Secure Enclave – will reportedly span several US states where Intel has manufacturing facilities.
The funding for Intel would add to the estimated $8.5 billion-worth incentive package of grants and $11 billion in loans that the company was awarded earlier in the year under the Chips and Science Act.
But Intel is yet to see any of that money as the terms of that package are still being negotiated, added the website.
The Pentagon deal would offer a welcome lifeline to the troubled company. Intel’s shares fell nearly 30% in August after a dismal profits report and pessimistic income forecast.
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Friends with the Terminator: Schwarzenegger enjoys visit to Hungary
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shared clips on Instagram* of his encounter with actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The two greeted each other in a friendly manner and exchanged books with gift innoscriptions, then the actor posed for pictures at a desk in the Hungarian prime minister's office. The pair also went to a fitness center where Schwarznegger used to work out, with Orban getting behind the wheel himself.
Orban posted a photo of his workout with Schwarzenegger at the Budapest gym. The actor visited the same fitness center a few years ago when Budapest hosted filming for “Terminator: Dark Fates.”
*Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia as an extremist organization.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shared clips on Instagram* of his encounter with actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The two greeted each other in a friendly manner and exchanged books with gift innoscriptions, then the actor posed for pictures at a desk in the Hungarian prime minister's office. The pair also went to a fitness center where Schwarznegger used to work out, with Orban getting behind the wheel himself.
“I got the best service in Budapest. Prime Minister Orban took me for a ride in his car. Good chauffeur, always on time,” Schwarzenegger said.
“You are in good hands,” the Hungarian prime minister assured.
Orban posted a photo of his workout with Schwarzenegger at the Budapest gym. The actor visited the same fitness center a few years ago when Budapest hosted filming for “Terminator: Dark Fates.”
*Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia as an extremist organization.
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