Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and ex-White House National Security Adviser John Bolton admitted on CNN that he helped plan coup attempts in foreign countries.

Jake Tapper: "One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup."
John Bolton: "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work."

Financial Times: Nato and EU sound alarm over risk of Ukraine weapons smuggling

Nato and EU states are pushing for better tracking of weapons supplied to Ukraine in response to fears that criminal groups are smuggling them out of the country and on to Europe’s black market.

Since Russia launched its war against Ukraine, western states have pledged more than $10bn in military support, from portable rocket launchers and armoured vehicles to rifles and vast amounts of ammunition.

“All these weapons land in southern Poland, get shipped to the border and then are just divided up into vehicles to cross: trucks, vans, sometimes private cars,” said one of the western officials. “And from that moment we go blank on their location and we have no idea where they go, where they are used or even if they stay in the country.”

July 12 - Warehouses of saltpeter exploded in Novaya Kakhovka after the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The large explosion damaged residential buildings, a hospital, a market and a humanitarian aid center. At least seven people were killed and dozens more wounded.

WARSAW, July 11 - Poland's president on Monday called for Ukraine to admit what he called the shameful truth about how Ukrainian nationalists had massacred over 100,000 Poles during WW2, despite Kiev and Warsaw's common front against Russia now.

The remarks by Andrzej Duda were made on the 79th anniversary of the 1943 killings in Volhynia in Nazi-occupied Poland and were a pointed reminder of the complex historical ties between Warsaw and Kiev.

At a Warsaw ceremony on Monday, Duda said that the truth about the wartime massacres and others like it in Eastern Galicia from 1944-45 had to be “firmly and clearly stated” regardless and called on Kiev to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Poles by Ukrainian nationalist militias.

‘NATO supported Ukraine since 2014…at the same time NATO not part of the war’ – Stoltenberg

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on the occasion of an agreement signing between NATO member countries in Brussels that ‘NATO is not part of the war’. At the same time, he underlined NATO member states' continued military support for Ukraine's armed forces.

Biden: Force is 'last resort' to keep Iran from nukes

U.S. President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as he began a trip to the Middle East.

"Calibrating" Vinnitsa.

There were two arrivals. One rocket hit the House of Officers and the other the military enlistment office.

By the way, Russian missiles had never been so far from the frontline to such "institutions" before.

Everything has changed, after HIMARS strikes on military and non-military facilities in Donbass and liberated South of Ukraine.

And it seems to me, for some reason, that these events are interconnected.

P.S. And if I were the American military instructors (who are directing the HIMARS strikes), I would also think twice. It seems to me that they, too, have become a prime target for Russian missiles in recent days.

Anti-Russian sanctions are not enough for Ukraine's leaders

Zelensky slams Canada for its decision to return to Gazprom the turbine for the pipeline transporting Russian gas to Germany

Another Ukrainian soldier is bragging about his new weapon from the West, having taken up residence in a school, once again...

In Poland, local nationalists have decided to cover a flowerbed planted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, with a Polish flag. An original "salute" to their "nationalist ideological counterparts" in Ukraine.

I remember how Ukrainian nationalists mocked the Russian flag quite recently, and now we have this. An historical "boomerang" if ever there was one.

The residents of liberated Lisichansk are telling us how the military formations of Ukraine destroyed their city!

A group drives up to a building, launches a copter, puts target marks on their tablet and leaves quickly. In 3 to 5 minutes a mortar barrage hits these points. About 15 mortar shells hit immediately.

Russian speakers in the town of Seversk refuse to be evacuated to Ukraine.

Wait till end

So let's be slightly rhetorical, shall we?

Of course I know none of us like big and extravagant speeches, we're all just normal people who want to see what's next for dinner and maybe go for the park once or twice a week, but some things have to be said.

There were periods in human history where the average citizen was not even required to think about politics, and that boils to a few things, people back then were only concerned (in the grand scheme of things) with 2 things, God and loyalty and service to the King/Caliph/Emperor/Pharaoh/Eternal Leader, the main concern was to maintain a household, raise your kids and making sure to provide for your family.

And if the average peasant, blacksmith, machinist ever thought about anything about his nation state / leader, it was probably because it all went to shit.

But relatively recently most of the world doesn't live under an autocratic leadership where it is granted that you were born when this man was here and you'll die while he's still in his chair, for the past 200 years or so active participation in politics by the average citizen increased massively, now of course he still cares about his own household, but it is a fact that the average citizen of today is much more politically literate than his ancestor 300 years back, he was given an education and the circumstances to allow for it.

The question is, what has that led to?

Well, it did lead to an increase of accountability at the beginning, but now you can admit you're going to lead your country into ruin and no one can stop you, it's not very different from that corrupt king who was only for food and lust

It has also forced us to think more, I bet you most Americans 10 years ago didn't even know where Ukraine was, and can you blame them? Why would they? It's a different country from far away and they'll unlikely to have any sort of personal connection to it, they just care about their own personal lives, as anyone naturally should..

Now look at the news, "Putin" "Ukraine" "Putin's tax" "Russia bad" "Ukraine good", the western institutions are trying to force their citizens to be more politically aware about foreign policy, and not in a good way, they're making life unnecessarily complicated and in a state of disaffection, because let's be honest, if the problem turns out to be 1 ocean away and not from your own leader's dumb policies, then what can you do?

Compare them to citizens of other countries, in Russia, yes, Uncle Vova has been there for 20 years and probably will for another 20, but why do I care? It's not like he's shoving his boot in my ass, or Iran, well, we're a shia country and we're Muslim, Israel is here and we have to deal with it, now back to my Ramadan preparations..

Point is, while most people are now automatically forced to be more politically literate, don't make it your entire persona guys, focus on your personal life and ambition's.

Russophobia: History of Hate
Western disdain for Russia explained
Russia has been portrayed as a ‘savage and barbaric’ nation, from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin. But where does the image come from? The documentary explores the creation of the anti-Russian narrative in the West and how it spread to the media and popular culture.

Researchers, historians and writers in the documentary claim Russia became a convenient target after the Great Schism. Throughout history, European rulers and philosophers constructed the image of an uncivilised nation, unfit for talks. For example, French philosophers Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau argued if Russia could become a civilised country or if it was destined to remain barbarian.

The mythical ferocious Russian bear and the tale of bad Russia still feature in the media and contribute to modern russophobia. The documentary traces the origins of the anti-Russian narrative in the West and explores who benefits from it.

🇰🇵🇺🇦 North Korea put the Ukraine in its place

The DPRK responded to Kiev's decision to sever diplomatic relations after Pyongyang's recognition of the Republics of Donbass.

A statement from the DPRK Foreign Ministry pointed out that Ukraine is not in a position to make any assessments after it supported US sanctions against Pyongyang

🇺🇦🇳🇴🇸🇪🇪🇪 “For the first time we see more Ukrainians than Romanians” — in Norway and Sweden, the police revealed criminal networks for organizing prostitution

During the investigation, the Norway and Sweden police revealed several large networks in organizing prostitution. According to NRC Netherlands, women are massively imported to the Scandinavian countries, most of them from Ukraine.

According to the inspector of the Swedish police and the prostitution expert Simon Haggstrome, the growth of the number of Ukrainians involved in prostitution in Sweden is caused by the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

“For the first time, we see more Ukrainians than Romanians,” said Haggstra. The policeman added that women discovered by law enforcement officers during the investigation did not turn to the government with a request to provide asylum.

As Readovka reported earlier, Estonian authorities also declared fears that Ukrainian refugees would be engaged in prostitution and bring HIV to the country.