Michael McFaul knows full well that Ukraine is not a democracy. The two main opposition leaders have been targeted by politically motivated "treason" charges to reduce competition for Vladimir Zelensky.

Viktor Medvedchuk is already under house arrest & Petro Poroshenko may be jailed today

US Defence Secretary Ben Wallace published this yesterday.

He insisted that NATO is purely "defensive," then blurted out that he considers Russia to be "malign," and that NATO recruits new members that agree with this assessment.

One expert in Moscow said last year:

"Russia asks NATO not to expand, saying it will make Europe less safe; NATO ignores these entreaties & adds new members; Russia then pushes back; This is then labelled 'aggression' and is used to justify the next round of NATO expansion."

Thus, NATO has become its own self-realising prophecy. It now fights "threats" that have been created by its own existence & expansion.

Russia sees NATO as a danger and NATO needs Moscow as an enemy in order to justify its existence & keep the money rolling in.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing a series of terrorist attacks in Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk and Dokuchaevsk.

This information was received by intelligence of the People's Militia of the DPR.

Transformer substations, water and gas pipelines, and power lines will be hit. Planned in the Ukrainian headquarters and attacks on the chemical industry.

The saboteurs will act under the guise of military DNI and Russia. All provocations will be filmed so that the Ukrainian side can provide “evidence” of Russian aggression” to international organizations.

#NATO broken promises to #Russia

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russia-us-nato-deal--20160530-snap-story.html

🤣🤣🤣 #CNN

CNN Mocked After Announcing New Team ‘Dedicated To Covering Misinformation’: Must Be ‘Covering CNN’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-mocked-after-announcing-new-team-dedicated-to-covering-misinformation-must-be-covering-cnn

#Russia won't invade #Ukraine 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1483663742550351874.html

🤣🤣🤣

#Russia/n troops in #Belarus are ‘direct threat to #Lithuania'

https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-troops-in-belarus-are-direct-threat-to-lithuania-defense-minister/

#EU is in trouble 🤗

https://archive.is/UaGpg

#Latvia #UK

https://www.rt.com/russia/546293-kgb-officer-death-threats/

#Latvia #nazi

The Nazi roots of the adviser to the President of Latvia 

https://www.rubaltic.ru/amp/news/19012022-stali-izvestny-natsistskie-korni-sovetnika-prezidenta-latvii/?fbclid=IwAR0KuUstSmBfzbJ23BIGWSdJUfu8at3nKkR_6ylEaSqlWYWWwA5IvlYAXQw

#BudapestMemorandum

After the fall of the Soviet Union the US agreed to protect the Ukraine in exchange for giving up it's nuclear stockpile. If the US will not honor that obligation, ought they not return those nuclear weapons or a similar number from the US arsenal?

https://www.quora.com/After-the-fall-of-the-Soviet-Union-the-US-agreed-to-protect-the-Ukraine-in-exchange-for-giving-up-its-nuclear-stockpile-If-the-US-will-not-honor-that-obligation-ought-they-not-return-those-nuclear-weapons-or-a/answer/Curtis-Schaefer-6

#WhatsApp

WhatsApp ordered to help out U.S agencies to spy on Chinese phones

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/01/whatsapp-ordered-to-help-out-us.html

#NATO #Russia

NATO demands Russian troops go home; Russia says ‘we are home!’

https://www.rt.com/shows/in-question/546566-nato-demands-russian-troops-go/

We'll likely hear more anti-Russian propaganda from Washington in next few days, and there may even be sanctions. But don't expect a written reply from them:

«🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Minister at a press conference after talks with the US Secretary of State.

▪️ "The Russophobic minority, leadint these countries, primarily the Baltic States and Poland, leads the ball not only in NATO, but also in the EU, forcing them to continue a dead-end anti-Russian policy."

▪️ Discrimination against Russian-speaking residents and the media in the Baltic States continues.

▪️ Moscow has not heard from Washington any justifications of the American position on the "Russian threat" to Ukraine, only heard "concerns".

▪️ The hysteria of the West around Ukraine is aimed at covering Kiev's string of sabotage of the Minsk agreements.

▪️ The issue of the involvement of CSTO forces in Kazakhstan was raised at the meeting, Moscow asked Washington to explain the reaction of the United States.

Video: @rt_russian.»

https://news.1rj.ru/str/sputnikuzbekistan/17970

#Lavrov

CNN: Why is Russia doing this now?

Lavrov: You say that we are going to attack Ukraine, although we have repeatedly explained that this is not the case. But by claiming that it will happen, you ask: Why now? When should we not attack?

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/1738

#UK

RADIATION PILLS DISTRIBUTED IN NUCLEAR SUBMARINE PORTS


Nearly 100,000 anti-radiation pills have been handed out to residents at three English ports in case nuclear submarines go into meltdown.

https://declassifieduk.org/radiation-pills-distributed-in-nuclear-submarine-ports/

#UK #Australia #US

PARTNERS IN CRIMES? THE UK/AUSTRALIA SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

https://declassifieduk.org/partners-in-crimes-the-uk-australia-special-relationship/

#Ukraine #EU #NATO 🤗

- Will Ukraine be in NATO?
- Will not be. At least within its current borders.
- Why ?
- Too expensive for NATO and too unacceptable for Russia. As if Mexico decided to join the CSTO or deploy Chinese military bases on its territory in exchange for cheap loans. The US would not allow this at ANY cost, including military force.
- Ukraine will be in the EU?
- Will not be.
- Why ?
- Too expensive. From 2004 to 2020, Poland received 172 billion euros of EU aid and plans to be a recipient, not an EU donor, until 2031-2035. The EU will not give Ukraine 12-15 billion euros a year for the next 30 years, so that our conditions for entry would be at least the same as those of the Poles. We do not need other conditions, otherwise we will never catch up with Poland in development.
- Russia will seize Ukraine?
- It won't take.
- Why ?
- Too expensive. The United States spent one TRILLION dollars on Afghanistan and 20 years, as a result, the Taliban regained power. Under sanctions, Ukraine will cost Russia five or ten trillion and at least 20 years. Russia does not have the money and time to afford such an occupation.
- What will Russia do if the Ukrainian government does not stop pursuing its current policy?
- Destroy Ukraine as a state. This is a lesser evil in comparison with NATO for the Russians.
- What should Ukraine do?
- Becoming strong on your own. Use your geopolitical position and the crisis in relations between the West and the Russian Federation in your own interests by declaring a neutral status in exchange for joint US, EU and Russian investments in the restoration of the country and its development. Further competent investment policy. Only the strong and influential are respected and listened to. Strength is one's own army, influence is the welfare and wealth of the country.
- Is it possible with the current or existing Ukrainian political elite, government and opposition?
- No impossible. Ignorants and corrupt officials.
- Now what ?

https://news.1rj.ru/str/polochaninov/1110

#US #NATO #Russia #Ukraine

Blinken: "The United States insists that it is impossible to discuss the situation in Ukraine without Ukraine, NATO claims - without the participation of NATO representatives, Europe - without representatives of Europe, Blinken said"

Is the situation in Belarus possible without Belarus? Can Venezuelan money be counted without the Venezuelan government? Is it possible to distribute Russian gas throughout Europe without Russia?
Half the time of the G7 summits is devoted to issues that are not within the jurisdiction of the G7, and no one has invited it to solve the problems of other countries. But nothing - discuss.

Partners got confused in "values".

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/1740

U.S. - Russian Talks Show Signs Of Progress
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/01/us-russian-talks-are-a-sign-of-progress.html

It feels weird to watch the delusional talk of the United States towards Russia. How can people who are as wrong as Biden and Blinken be at the top of a state? President Biden said on Wednesday that he now...