🇺🇦 “Territorial defense” fighter confuses a DPR tank with a Ukrainian one in Mariupol. Needless to say he got a first class ticket to 🌙

"Empire of Lies" speech - 24 Feb 2022

00:01 - NATO expansion, a changing world order
05:00 - Lawless interventions in Belgrade, Iraq, Libya & Syria
09:45 - Western support and funding of terrorism in the Chechen wars
10:30 - Imposition of unnatural pseudo-values and the degradation of society
12:00 - Unpreparedness and lessons of WWII, "We won't make the same mistake twice!"
15:30 - A red line was crossed with Ukraine
16:15 - Donbass Genocide: attempt to rectify the situation peacefully for 8 years
17:30 - Neo-Nazism and the threat to the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine
18:15 - Nuclear weapons for Ukraine are only a matter of time
20:00 - Announcement of Special Operation Z
21:15 - Victory in WWII is sacred and we will protect that freedom
22:30 - Address to the Ukrainian people
24:50 - Important words for anyone who seeks to intervene externally
25:30 - Our future is in reliable hands.

I would recommend you further substantiate your understanding with this lecture. ❗️

Whenever you remind people of the fact that the armed conflict in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years, someone will say that "Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014" and that the existence of the Donbass Republics is a Russian aggression. Recently, military historian Yevgeny Norin got into such a discussion on Facebook and took a look at the facts (translation our own, reposted with his permission):

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0. Armed violence as such in Ukraine was triggered by the Euromaidan protests. This was an armed uprising and it led to the fall of the government. It is not immediately obvious that rebelling against the government is good in Kiev, but bad in Donetsk.

1. By the time the Russian army entered Donbass, the war was already in full swing - if we are talking specifically about the army, companies, and battalions made up of soldiers and officers on duty. By the time the Russian Federation started supplying weapons en masse, the war was, again, already going on. Yes, the moment when there were ill-supplied men at militia roadblocks was not very long, but it existed, and the Russian Federation brought weapons into an already ongoing conflict in which the opposing side was using firearms, including artillery and armored vehicles.

2. By the time of the first organized armed detachment, which can be called Russian (which is a stretch, by the way: Strelkov's personal status is vague, and 80% of the detachment were Ukrainian citizens, including Crimeans), the State Security Service building in Lugansk had already been captured & local armories had been opened, and in Kharkov there were already people killed in firefights. In addition, if we take for granted the thesis that Strelkov "started the war", a cartoonish picture emerges in which 50 people have taken Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Liman, Artemovsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and a number of smaller towns and cities, giving as many as 7-8 occupiers for each city. In reality, even the reason why Strelkov went to Slavyansk is known - a large local detachment was waiting for him there.

Local commanders dominated the whole first stage of the movement (the bright personality of Strelkov somehow overshadowed the less bright Zakharchenko, Khodakovsky, Mozgovoy, Bednov, Tsvyakh, Dremov, Plotnitsky, Bolotov, etc.) and locals until 2022 constituted 75-90% of the rebel groups at all phases of events, which can be easily proven by name lists of republic soldiers KIA. Even at the peak of Russian involvement until 2022, in August 2014, citizens of Russia and other countries were not more than a quarter of the dead, and soldiers and officers on duty were not more than a quarter of that quarter, the bulk of Russian citizens were just volunteers who went to fight at their own risk.

4. In those places where attempts at pro-Russian protests were suppressed, including violently, with murders, Russian direct influence was virtually undetectable. In Odessa, after the mass murder of pro-Russian activists, exactly one citizen of the Russian Federation was captured alive, who did not play any significant role there and was worthy of a separate mention only by the fact of citizenship; in Kharkov, after the defeat of the group trying to create the Kharkov People’s Republic, there were zero Russian citizens among the captured, as far as I know. Thus, the thesis that 2014 was an invasion by the Russian Federation is incorrect: both the key events, including the seizure of administrative buildings and the search for weapons, took place before the appearance of organized units from Russia, and the composition of the units opposing the government are mostly locals from start to finish. An invasion in which all the infantry are citizens of the invaded country is obviously nonsense: in Poznan or, I don't know, Székesfehérvár, Strelkov would have immediately become a General without an army.

Макеевка. Точка У.

March 16, 2022 — Project 22160 Russian Navy "Vasily Bykov" of the Black Sea Fleet enters Sevastopol after completing tasks at sea.

2 weeks ago, Ukrainian media were spreading “evidence” of how this ship was destroyed with Ukrainian MLRS off the coast of Odessa.

Why Democrats Demand Collective Punishment Against Russian Civilians

The six-year-long campaign of dehumanization against Russians has set the stage for liberals to angrily demand not just punishment of the Russian government, but Russian civilians. Because — per Quigley — what’s the difference anyway, right?

https://mtracey.substack.com/p/why-democrats-demand-collective-punishment?s=r

US, UK, France falsely promised USSR not to expand NATO east of Germany

https://rokfin.com/post/78380/US-UK-France-falsely-promised-USSR-not-to-expand-NATO-east-of-Germany

Almost 40% Of Americans Would Rather Flee Than Defend The US; New Poll Finds

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/almost-40-americans-would-rather-flee-defend-us-new-poll-finds

LOL

Boycott of Russian gas and oil ‘could cause mass poverty in Germany’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-gas-oil-boycott-mass-poverty-warns-germany

‘False flag’ chemical attack in Ukraine: a coming attraction

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/13/false-flag-chemical-attack-in-ukraine-a-coming-attraction/

Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: US is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’

A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.

https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/

Foreign mercenaries in #Ukraine

The Reddit battalion thinks it's 'absolute insanity' that they're expected to actually defend the country after pledging to defend the country.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1503391933514792966.html

Foreign mercenaries in #Ukraine

Welcome to the WTF "The Grand Western Alliance of BRAVE mercenaries from the West" Special Edition

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1503595344008921090.html

Chomsky Is No Friend of the Syrian Revolution

A leading Syrian intellectual takes on the famous linguist, arguing that Americentrism blinds the latter from the reality of the revolution

https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomsky-is-no-friend-of-the-syrian-revolution/

Western intelligence apparatus won the information war in Ukraine before a shot was fired.

📍 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1503805760236507137.html

📍 https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/

Greeks in Mariupol: “The Russians help us and don’t discriminate like the Ukrainians” (VIDEO)

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/12/greeks-in-mariupol/?amp

#Ukraine #Donbass

"In October 2014, Human Rights Watch reported that Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias were responsible for the widespread use of cluster munitions in populated areas in Donetsk city."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1503282338012274689.html