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Early 2010s.
The world, in all of it's spheres, from cultural, political, and economical, changed quite alot, we now live in phase that's one of the most transformative in Human History.
See, since the times of Adam and Eve, and going back millenias ago, there were always some sort of balance in the World, the same way the human body has it's chemicals balanced so that we could not be physically or mentally deranged or unbalanced, so does the world, a truly unipolar world was never seen in Human History until recently, in the 90s.
Ancient Egyptians and Hitties, Romans and Persians, the British and the French, the Ottomans and the coalition of Christian Europe, there were always some counter weight to the a great power, which was always another great power, or a coalition of some of them.
From the 1990s, with the collapse of the USSR, the world had a severe setback, for once a unipolar world order was established, with it's capital in Brussels, but then slowly, something started to change.
Starting the 2000s, the US was the main trading partner of most countries in the world, with the 2010s finishing off with China being the largest trading partner of 170 countries in the world, displacing the United States.
In Russia, there was a slight rise starting with the 2008 war in Georgia, which just accelerated after the 2014 take-over of Crimea.
Iran became more active in supplying organizations and groups, their aid to the Houthis started to increase gradually from 2003, hitting it's peak in the 2010s.
The decouplation and de-dollarization process, which started in the 2010s is now hitting full swing in the 2020s, God knows where this will end, I just know it's not going to be fun.
In my own country, I've lived through 2 revolutions, in 2011 and 2013, this world wide change I felt more personally, my countries economy largely depended on trade with Europe and North America, but now, the trade increased massively with other countries, with Brazil, Russia, China, etc...
Civil societies were shook, the army - reinvigorated, and numerous amounts of national projects were enacted, a Nuclear Power Plant, new ports, fiber internet connections being built, whole new cities from scratch, the largest Black Sand processing plant going operational, life here changed greatly if we compare it in 2010, of course, not all changes were good, but sometimes it's wild to see it firsthand, I've seen entire new quarters being built, I've seen the school system and healthcare system being digitized, I've also seen ups and downs - the security situation, which at first was terrible, being more secure as time goes by, the economy as volatile as a bipolar woman, and some social and legal changes were, well, iffy to say the least.
But what can I say? I'm sure it'll be better one day, if not for me, maybe for the future generations, history is being written as we speak, afterall, it should just be enough to look back, contemplate it, then move on.
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The world, in all of it's spheres, from cultural, political, and economical, changed quite alot, we now live in phase that's one of the most transformative in Human History.
See, since the times of Adam and Eve, and going back millenias ago, there were always some sort of balance in the World, the same way the human body has it's chemicals balanced so that we could not be physically or mentally deranged or unbalanced, so does the world, a truly unipolar world was never seen in Human History until recently, in the 90s.
Ancient Egyptians and Hitties, Romans and Persians, the British and the French, the Ottomans and the coalition of Christian Europe, there were always some counter weight to the a great power, which was always another great power, or a coalition of some of them.
From the 1990s, with the collapse of the USSR, the world had a severe setback, for once a unipolar world order was established, with it's capital in Brussels, but then slowly, something started to change.
Starting the 2000s, the US was the main trading partner of most countries in the world, with the 2010s finishing off with China being the largest trading partner of 170 countries in the world, displacing the United States.
In Russia, there was a slight rise starting with the 2008 war in Georgia, which just accelerated after the 2014 take-over of Crimea.
Iran became more active in supplying organizations and groups, their aid to the Houthis started to increase gradually from 2003, hitting it's peak in the 2010s.
The decouplation and de-dollarization process, which started in the 2010s is now hitting full swing in the 2020s, God knows where this will end, I just know it's not going to be fun.
In my own country, I've lived through 2 revolutions, in 2011 and 2013, this world wide change I felt more personally, my countries economy largely depended on trade with Europe and North America, but now, the trade increased massively with other countries, with Brazil, Russia, China, etc...
Civil societies were shook, the army - reinvigorated, and numerous amounts of national projects were enacted, a Nuclear Power Plant, new ports, fiber internet connections being built, whole new cities from scratch, the largest Black Sand processing plant going operational, life here changed greatly if we compare it in 2010, of course, not all changes were good, but sometimes it's wild to see it firsthand, I've seen entire new quarters being built, I've seen the school system and healthcare system being digitized, I've also seen ups and downs - the security situation, which at first was terrible, being more secure as time goes by, the economy as volatile as a bipolar woman, and some social and legal changes were, well, iffy to say the least.
But what can I say? I'm sure it'll be better one day, if not for me, maybe for the future generations, history is being written as we speak, afterall, it should just be enough to look back, contemplate it, then move on.
@mediterraneanman
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NATO Secretary General pre-ministerial press conference, 13 FEB 2023
Pre-ministerial press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the meetings of NATO Defence Ministers, 13 February 2023.
NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels this week (14-15 February 2023) to strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence…
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The White House said that the Chinese military has an extensive program of using high-altitude #balloons for reconnaissance.
According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, Chinese balloons were active during the Trump administration, but they were not noticed ... and only under Biden were they able to track and shoot down.
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A two-month-old baby was rescued from under the rubble 128 hours (almost 6 days), after the earthquake in Turkey.
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First year or the Russia-Ukrainian war is almost over
Part 1
Almost a year has passed since the beginning of the Special Military Operation. What has changed in our perception of those tragic events?
At the beginning of the conflict the domination in the international media field of war was almost absolutely hold by the West. Only TG was remaining as a scarce source of uncensored information, after practically all Russian media outlets were banned in the "World of the Free Speech".
While Ukraine has military organisation responsible for propaganda campaign, which is well connected with the "intelligence community" and has affiliated journalists in all major mainstream media, Russia, I believe, erroneously, has gone different way. Top officials in Russia believe that "the strength is in the truth" (which is right) and that there is no need to participate in the info-war (which is wrong).
So Russia has a talking head of Lt.-Gen. Konashenkov, who was boringly reading the "list of ships" like reciting Iliad; RT which has been trying to play by Western rules and nevertheless was banned everywhere; and also Internet Research Agency (aka "Troll Factory" owned by Prigozhin — also PMC "Wagner" founder) which is a private enterprise and which role is very much overestimated. The vacuum became filled up by the southands of DIY patriots and amateur volunteers to the info-war (among which is #TransFormator at your service). That is why pro-Russian propaganda is often contradictory, poorly coordinated and is in a mess generally. Western "fighters with misinformation" are trying to prove that this is a "cunning plan" to offer many versions of one event to "wash out" or "thin" public opinion. However, the truth it that it was simply lack of coordination.
There are certainly some noticeable and talented people in the Russian media, but there is not a single centre that can control and guide the flow and the pace of the info operations. MOD, MFA (here I mean public relationships departments), TV1, RT — they are all doing their job the way they understand it, but even within one organisation the coordination may be poor.
In Russia we have lack of centralised control (which may be good) and also lack of centralised coordination and cooperation (which cannot be good). On the opposite, Ukrainian CIPSO were well coordinated and connected with the Western media.
Despite all that, more people now do understand the provoked and even forced nature of the beginning of the military actions by the Russian Federation. It is typically Russian situation, when some progress is being achieved not "because" but "despite".
Putin in one of his speeches has admitted that to some extent the collective West has achieved its objective and made inevitable the war at Russian borders and on Russian territory:
“This same collective West is the direct instigator and direct culprit of what is happening. If this very West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to containing Russia, then we can say that it succeeded”.
Prof. Mearsheimer, Roger Waters, Peter Hitchens and several other few are trying to convey the message to the Western people. Many facts confirming this has become known only now. The planning of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipe, American "Lend-Leas 2" program directed to pumping astronomical amount of money into the military industrial complex, training of Ukrainian military — all that started before or even long before the beginning of the Military operation. Recent revelations from the Western leaders about their unwillingness to fulfil Minsk agreements is another strong argument justifying the necessity of the military solution.
Russia simply could not just sit and wait, while the loaded gun was aimed at the country and would inevitably fire.
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First year or the Russia-Ukrainian war is almost over
Part 1
Almost a year has passed since the beginning of the Special Military Operation. What has changed in our perception of those tragic events?
At the beginning of the conflict the domination in the international media field of war was almost absolutely hold by the West. Only TG was remaining as a scarce source of uncensored information, after practically all Russian media outlets were banned in the "World of the Free Speech".
While Ukraine has military organisation responsible for propaganda campaign, which is well connected with the "intelligence community" and has affiliated journalists in all major mainstream media, Russia, I believe, erroneously, has gone different way. Top officials in Russia believe that "the strength is in the truth" (which is right) and that there is no need to participate in the info-war (which is wrong).
So Russia has a talking head of Lt.-Gen. Konashenkov, who was boringly reading the "list of ships" like reciting Iliad; RT which has been trying to play by Western rules and nevertheless was banned everywhere; and also Internet Research Agency (aka "Troll Factory" owned by Prigozhin — also PMC "Wagner" founder) which is a private enterprise and which role is very much overestimated. The vacuum became filled up by the southands of DIY patriots and amateur volunteers to the info-war (among which is #TransFormator at your service). That is why pro-Russian propaganda is often contradictory, poorly coordinated and is in a mess generally. Western "fighters with misinformation" are trying to prove that this is a "cunning plan" to offer many versions of one event to "wash out" or "thin" public opinion. However, the truth it that it was simply lack of coordination.
There are certainly some noticeable and talented people in the Russian media, but there is not a single centre that can control and guide the flow and the pace of the info operations. MOD, MFA (here I mean public relationships departments), TV1, RT — they are all doing their job the way they understand it, but even within one organisation the coordination may be poor.
In Russia we have lack of centralised control (which may be good) and also lack of centralised coordination and cooperation (which cannot be good). On the opposite, Ukrainian CIPSO were well coordinated and connected with the Western media.
Despite all that, more people now do understand the provoked and even forced nature of the beginning of the military actions by the Russian Federation. It is typically Russian situation, when some progress is being achieved not "because" but "despite".
Putin in one of his speeches has admitted that to some extent the collective West has achieved its objective and made inevitable the war at Russian borders and on Russian territory:
“This same collective West is the direct instigator and direct culprit of what is happening. If this very West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to containing Russia, then we can say that it succeeded”.
Prof. Mearsheimer, Roger Waters, Peter Hitchens and several other few are trying to convey the message to the Western people. Many facts confirming this has become known only now. The planning of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipe, American "Lend-Leas 2" program directed to pumping astronomical amount of money into the military industrial complex, training of Ukrainian military — all that started before or even long before the beginning of the Military operation. Recent revelations from the Western leaders about their unwillingness to fulfil Minsk agreements is another strong argument justifying the necessity of the military solution.
Russia simply could not just sit and wait, while the loaded gun was aimed at the country and would inevitably fire.
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Ka-52 helicopters in combat action within the special military operation
💥 During the sorties, the army aviation pilots launched missiles at the detected AFU’s fortified positions. As a result, they destroyed AFU armour and a command and control post.
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💥 During the sorties, the army aviation pilots launched missiles at the detected AFU’s fortified positions. As a result, they destroyed AFU armour and a command and control post.
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Memo for Ukrainian trainees in the Bundeswehr:
"Dear interns from Ukraine! In Germany, for displaying swastikas or other symbols associated with fascism (for example, SS signs), you can get a sentence of up to three years in prison or a large fine"
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In Germany, the swastika, therefore, is not allowed, but everywhere outside Germany — it is possible.
I wonder, and if the Ukrainians still can't resist and demonstrate, what will it be for them? Is it really a fine or prison?😱
Nothing will happen to them. They can go to the exercises right under the banners of the Reich, all in swastikas and with panzervaffe badges — and nothing will happen to them.
Who will touch them. They 're Ukrainians.
The sacred cow of Europe. Or the untouchables of the Old World. In understanding of the Indian caste system.
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"Dear interns from Ukraine! In Germany, for displaying swastikas or other symbols associated with fascism (for example, SS signs), you can get a sentence of up to three years in prison or a large fine"
I love this
In Germany, the swastika, therefore, is not allowed, but everywhere outside Germany — it is possible.
I wonder, and if the Ukrainians still can't resist and demonstrate, what will it be for them? Is it really a fine or prison?😱
Nothing will happen to them. They can go to the exercises right under the banners of the Reich, all in swastikas and with panzervaffe badges — and nothing will happen to them.
Who will touch them. They 're Ukrainians.
The sacred cow of Europe. Or the untouchables of the Old World. In understanding of the Indian caste system.
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Artists Georgy and Anastasia Begma have created a new video art for the day of liberation of Rostov-on-Don, dedicated to the real tragic story of the girls-anti-aircraft gunners who fought in the 734th Rostov Air Defense Regiment. This is not a simple story, but it should not be forgotten.
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Artists Georgy and Anastasia Begma have created a new video art for the day of liberation of Rostov-on-Don, dedicated to the real tragic story of the girls-anti-aircraft gunners who fought in the 734th Rostov Air Defense Regiment. This is not a simple story, but it should not be forgotten.
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Translated from Ukrainian propaganda channel:
Another video has appeared showing how in Odessa military registration and enlistment office has “recruited” yet another man on the street.
In OK "South", we recall, stated that after this incident, the leadership of the Odessa regional and district military registration and enlistment offices were brought to disciplinary responsibility.*
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Another video has appeared showing how in Odessa military registration and enlistment office has “recruited” yet another man on the street.
In OK "South", we recall, stated that after this incident, the leadership of the Odessa regional and district military registration and enlistment offices were brought to disciplinary responsibility.*
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*It appears that those methods are to harsh even for Ukrainian propagandists. However, there are too many video evidence to consider it just a "performer's kurtosis".
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Madrid, Spain, February 2023
Today, in Madrid neo-Nazis marched in memory of the fascist Spanish volunteers who fought in the Nazi army as part of the 250th "Blue" Spanish Division.
The Spanish "Blue" Division was annihilated by the Red Army in the battle of Krasny Bor in February 1943.
The Blue Division was blockading Leningrad. What's the Spanish soldiers have forgotten there? By any chance, how did the Swedes end up near Poltava?
Europe is the motherland of Nazism.
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Madrid, Spain, February 2023
Today, in Madrid neo-Nazis marched in memory of the fascist Spanish volunteers who fought in the Nazi army as part of the 250th "Blue" Spanish Division.
The Spanish "Blue" Division was annihilated by the Red Army in the battle of Krasny Bor in February 1943.
The Blue Division was blockading Leningrad. What's the Spanish soldiers have forgotten there? By any chance, how did the Swedes end up near Poltava?
Europe is the motherland of Nazism.
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The 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received the honorary name "Edelweiss" by Zelensky's decree
The 1st mountain infantry division of the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht had the same name.
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The 1st mountain infantry division of the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht had the same name.
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The footage is circulating with leaflets that the AFU post on the entrances of houses in Bakhmut. They say that in two days the houses will be burned to create a smoke screen in order to slow down the advance of Russian troops in the city.
Naturally, the Ukrainian authorities will deny involvement in such events. But the Ukrainian Army will in any case use the residential houses to defend the settlement, regardless of whether there are civilians there or not.
There are many examples — Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Soledar. During the assault on cities, the destruction of buildings is always inevitable, and in Bakhmut, Ukrainian formations also consider the population to be “separas” and second-class people. Therefore, the burning of houses by the enemy does not look like something out of the ordinary.
And it is unlikely that now the Armed Forces of Ukraine will do without the targeted destruction of the Bakhmut civilian infrastructure.
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Naturally, the Ukrainian authorities will deny involvement in such events. But the Ukrainian Army will in any case use the residential houses to defend the settlement, regardless of whether there are civilians there or not.
There are many examples — Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Soledar. During the assault on cities, the destruction of buildings is always inevitable, and in Bakhmut, Ukrainian formations also consider the population to be “separas” and second-class people. Therefore, the burning of houses by the enemy does not look like something out of the ordinary.
And it is unlikely that now the Armed Forces of Ukraine will do without the targeted destruction of the Bakhmut civilian infrastructure.
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Since When did Ukrainians Become Ennoscriptd to the State they Got?
By Alexander G. Markovsky for the American Thinker
This is the history of the transformation of a tiny area occupied by Zaporozhian Cossacks into the largest country in Europe after Russia, larger than France or Germany. How did Ukraine pull off an expansion of this magnitude without a single conquest?
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The historical record demonstrates that contemporary Ukraine emerged from a mosaic of lands assembled by Russian conquests and paid for with Russian blood and treasure. Except for a small area of the Zaporozhian Host (the red area on the map), Ukraine has no historical connection to the land it occupies and is the product of Russian geopolitical engineering.
The foregoing is the reason Henry Kissinger wrote, “The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country.”
If Americans had been more aware of Ukrainian history, they would have raised reasonable doubts about the validity of Ukraine’s territorial aspirations. Konrad Adenauer once said, “History is the sum total of things that could be avoided.” It couldn’t be better said about Ukraine; if Czar Alexey in 1654 had not protected the Zaporozhian Host’s Cossacks, the precursors of Ukrainians, from annihilation, we would never have heard about Ukraine.
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Even the New York Times, no friend of Putin, in its January 9, 2022 editorial, just before the invasion, challenged the wisdom of Ukraine joining NATO and admitted that "Mr. Putin's concerns cannot be entirely dismissed. Were Ukraine to join NATO, the alliance would then have a 1,200-mile land border with Russia, a situation no major power would abide, no matter how loudly the Atlantic alliance claims to be purely defensive."
Whether political naiveté, recklessness, incessant appetite for foreign aid, or all of the above, Ukraine’s tenacious insistence on NATO membership, even in the face of a looming Russian invasion, instigated a war that could easily be avoided.
It was a blunder of historic magnitude.
And, as this failed state, with the borders drawn by the Soviet Union, rotten with incompetence and corruption, collapses in blood and destruction, the eerie premonition is that Ukraine will remain a wasteland for generations.
So, if Ukrainians deserve a state, they may indeed deserve the state they got.
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By Alexander G. Markovsky for the American Thinker
This is the history of the transformation of a tiny area occupied by Zaporozhian Cossacks into the largest country in Europe after Russia, larger than France or Germany. How did Ukraine pull off an expansion of this magnitude without a single conquest?
...
The historical record demonstrates that contemporary Ukraine emerged from a mosaic of lands assembled by Russian conquests and paid for with Russian blood and treasure. Except for a small area of the Zaporozhian Host (the red area on the map), Ukraine has no historical connection to the land it occupies and is the product of Russian geopolitical engineering.
The foregoing is the reason Henry Kissinger wrote, “The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country.”
If Americans had been more aware of Ukrainian history, they would have raised reasonable doubts about the validity of Ukraine’s territorial aspirations. Konrad Adenauer once said, “History is the sum total of things that could be avoided.” It couldn’t be better said about Ukraine; if Czar Alexey in 1654 had not protected the Zaporozhian Host’s Cossacks, the precursors of Ukrainians, from annihilation, we would never have heard about Ukraine.
...
Even the New York Times, no friend of Putin, in its January 9, 2022 editorial, just before the invasion, challenged the wisdom of Ukraine joining NATO and admitted that "Mr. Putin's concerns cannot be entirely dismissed. Were Ukraine to join NATO, the alliance would then have a 1,200-mile land border with Russia, a situation no major power would abide, no matter how loudly the Atlantic alliance claims to be purely defensive."
Whether political naiveté, recklessness, incessant appetite for foreign aid, or all of the above, Ukraine’s tenacious insistence on NATO membership, even in the face of a looming Russian invasion, instigated a war that could easily be avoided.
It was a blunder of historic magnitude.
And, as this failed state, with the borders drawn by the Soviet Union, rotten with incompetence and corruption, collapses in blood and destruction, the eerie premonition is that Ukraine will remain a wasteland for generations.
So, if Ukrainians deserve a state, they may indeed deserve the state they got.
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Since When did Ukrainians Become Ennoscriptd to the State they Got?
This is the history of the transformation of a tiny area occupied by Zaporozhian Cossacks into the largest country in Europe after Russia, larger than France or Germany. How did Ukraine pull off an expansion of this magnitude without a single co...
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