Ukrainian troops shelled Energodar with HIMARS, damaging the administration building. In addition, the bridge at the entrance to the city and the Luch substation were damaged. There were no casualties.

It is also reported that on 18 October at night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to land troops at Energodar in 30 boats in order to seize the Zaporizhzhya NPP. The fight lasted several hours and the attack was repulsed.

Investigation of blowing up the Nord Stream: investigator covers up the rapist and frightened victim can't get the word out (1)

It is clear that Sweden withdrew from the joint investigation with Germany of the circumstances of the explosion on the NS-2 gas pipelines because it received an order from Washington to eliminate all evidence that could indicate the participation of the United States and Britain. A feature of the modern policy of sabotage is the openness of their customers literally from the very beginning after the incident. No one hides it. The US blew up the gas pipelines, and they are taking out the evidence of the crime with the hands of a puppet in front of the whole world.

At the same time, the victim, Germany, understands everything and does not dare to say a single word against it. How dare Germany not say a word against the storage of German gold in the United States, against US military bases in Germany, against the total wiretapping of German politicians by US intelligence services, against the fact that Washington directly manipulates the German media, universities, the formation of political parties, their programs, personnel reserves, and economy?

Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, the whole of Europe, understand that squeezing the United States out of Europe means a nuclear war in Europe. Moreover the USA will start it. In the Second World War they already showed that they easily make such decisions and do not pause before implementing them. So the pro-American sympathies of European elites are driven not by cultural and civilizational kinship, not by fear of Russia, but by animal fear of the United States. Europeans can easily negotiate with Russia, but not with the United States.

And that's why Sweden understands what it has to do on the gas pipelines. And Germany understands what it has to do. Sweden will export American evidence of sabotage of the German gas pipeline before Germany gets a chance. And Germany will turn away and show that it not only sees nothing, but also does not want to look in that direction.

Investigation of blowing up the Nord Stream: investigator covers up the rapist and frightened victim can't get the word out (2)

Germany's attempts to conduct its own investigation after Sweden are aimed at an internal audience. They need to show that Germany somehow reacted to what was done to it. If nothing is done, it somehow turns out to be completely indecent. How do you conduct a medical examination for rape, when the victim was taken to the shower three times and all traces were washed off the body?

The fact that Sweden is doing this work before Germany shows that the United States does not trust Germany. This is understandable. The Germans disregarded US objections when they built gas and oil pipelines from Russia. The USA understands that their domination is based only on fear of them, blind and animal horror of unlimited violence. The atomic bombing of Japan and the carpet bombing of Dresden and Hamburg showed this clearly. The USA is not a country that can be shown the door and they will leave.

Therefore, when Sweden says that because of confidentiality, it will conduct an investigation alone, it calls into question the object of confidentiality. In fact, Sweden plays the role of an investigator who says that the alleged rapist cannot be named out loud since this is a very famous and important person.

And the raped Germany shows with all her appearance that she has no complaints against anyone, and she is not going to report it to the police. Otherwise violence will easily turn into murder, and the investigator will again classify the results of the investigation. After all the killer does not even think of hiding, and the investigator does not pretend to be objective. This is the reality in the world of American allies, and nothing can be done about it. Became an ally of the United States and get ready to explain any bruises by falling down the stairs.

The former Soviet republic of Estonia declared Russia a "state sponsor of terrorism”.

88 deputies of the local parliament of the Nazi ministate voted for the ludicrous decision. At the same time, Tallinn is back to the February volume of exports and imports in trade with Russia.

A trash news outlet, the British newspaper The Telegraph, passes off the explosion in Yeisk for a "brutal attack" on Ukraine. This is where a Russian military plane went down due to an engine malfunction and the pilot ejected.

This is all you need to know about the "high standards of Western journalism".

A mass rally was recently held in Rome against Italy's involvement in NATO

Also on 17th of October, Greek residents expressed their dissatisfaction with the North Atlantic Alliance. They held a rally against the presence of NATO ships in the port of Patras. At that moment there were ships of the Second Maritime Mine Countermeasures Group (SNMCMG-2) of the alliance led by Turkey.

Part of the reason for the protest activity is Western military, political, and financial support for Ukraine, which has led to economic and energy problems for the European population.

🇭🇷The president of Croatia wants to block the training of the Ukrainian military in his country

This is reported by the local publication Jutarnji list.

Zoran Milanovic said that he does not support such an idea because he does not want to involve Croatia in the armed conflict in Ukraine.
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🇫🇷French TV channel abruptly "lost touch" with reporter who began to reveal that Ukraine was targeting civilian infrastructure and even hospitals

If we have a problem with the fact that there is a conflict in Ukraine, why don't we have a problem with the U.S. and NATO terrorizing the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya? Or don't we have a problem with the U.S. + EU helping Saudi Arabia and the UAE terrorize Yemen? Why don't we have a problem with Israel terrorizing the Palestinians? When are you going to wake up and start living in the real world?

Mick Wallace is a member of the European Parliament.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Kherson now, Russian air defence is active. Ukraine is hitting with HIMARS missiles.
Preliminarily a civilian crossing has come under fire. 6 strikes, 10 civilians tentatively wounded, some dead, it is being clarified, the rubble is still being cleared. A lot of civilian cars burned.

The Banana Wars.

I am sorry to say that this topic is not as cheerful as the noscript suggests, the banana wars seems like something you would call at a cartoon show, like adventure time or Tom and Jerry or something.

But unfortunately, the noscript refers to some of the most brazen violations and imperialistic policies on the rights of man, the global south in general, and Latin America in particular.

American involvement in Latin and South American affairs did not pop up suddenly during the cold war, it actually goes way back, and some events have happened that you may not be aware of, for example, the United States militarily occupied Haiti, but we'll get to that.

I am not going to blame capitalism for everything, and I personally view communism as detestable to the human soul, but the whole origin of the banana wars is because the USA wished to further it's economic and political interests, and one way for that was for American companies to get involved.

The US intervened and militarily occupied Panama for some time, this led to the Panama canal being constructed.

The United States, after winning a war against the Spanish Empire, militarily occupied Cuba 4 times in different years, the end result of these destabilization efforts was the US occupying Guantanamo Bay, and yes, it is Cuban soil, no argument.

The USA militarily occupied the Dominican republic for 8 years, again, it was motivated by American interests, economically speaking, because they used the excuse of an American-owned sugar plant being attacked, in where the business asked for military help, you can guess how that ended.

The US militarily occupied Nicaragua for 21 years, it was, again, motivated by American companies and their interest.

The US militarily occupied Haiti for 19 years, same thing, American business owners.

The US militarily invaded Honduras to protect American business companies and their interests, same playbook.

The US also militarily intervened in Mexico, but it never amounted to a nation wide occupation.

7 countries, 7 sovereign countries had American boots trample on their land, and American bullets kill their men, women, and children, and the American is wondering why people tear up at his mention, their crimes against humanity didn't start in Iraq or Afghanistan, it went way before that.

To finish off this post, I will list a quote by an American officer who still held some sort of a moral compass.

"I was a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers...a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism" -Smedley Butler

Russian command prepares Kherson for defence amid reports of an oncoming large-scale offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The civilians of Kherson will be evacuated and the city turned into a fortress before heavy fighting with the enemy. According to intelligence reports, Kiev will try to take the city at any cost, which is the task set by Washington.

A number of Russian and Ukrainian sources, as well as military experts and even war correspondents, claim that Kherson is being prepared for defence. According to the information being circulated, the Russian command decided to evacuate civilians from Kherson and its surroundings to other Russian cities to avoid civilian casualties. The city itself is being turned into a fortress to be defended.

As stated, in the near future Kiev will drive their troops into an offensive with the task of taking Kherson at any cost. This task was set by Washington back in the summer, but the "great strategist" Zelensky failed to achieve it. Now, Biden and the Democrats need to show before the midterm elections that they have not invested so many billions in Ukraine for nothing, as the territories are being "regained".

Warning to the British: get ready for a very cold winter with electricity and gas outages.

The head of Britain's National Grid has warned British households to prepare for a power outage from 16:00 to 19:00 in the "very, very cold" days of January and February.

The Pentagon has modeled the situation in which the Kakhovka dam would be blown up and what the consequences to the region would be.

The Ukrainian President's Office has taken these calculations into account and agreed to missile strikes on the dam, according to Ukranian experts who have access to the political backstage.

In 1985 specialists of the USSR Design and Research Institute "Hydroproject" analyzed the consequences of a hypothetical failure of the Kakhovka reservoir dam. Of course in Soviet times this data was kept under seven seals.

In 2004 the Kherson newspaper "Hryvna" published an article, "We are not ready for a local apocalypse", which revealed details of the secret report of the Hydroproject. If the dam explodes millions of tons of water will hit Kherson with a speed of 24.4 kilometers per hour and a wave height of 1 meter. In as little as 2.5 hours, a rather sharp rise in level to 4.8 meters will follow. The flood will last three days and will completely destroy the regional center.