🇺🇸🇷🇺RAND Corp: Exploiting Armenian and Azeri Tensions

RAND corp's 2019 study noscriptd "Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground" was prepared for the US army and suggests with remarkable accuracy who might be behind what will undoubtedly become a major threat to Russian security in coming months.

This raises the question whether the dark hands of an Anglo-American intelligence operation are behind the current Azeri-Armenia conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Adding further gunpowder to the Caucasus unrest, on October 5, 2020 NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO’s security interests are synonymous with those of Turkey, despite Turkish purchase of Russian advanced air defence systems.

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In Odessa, a local "nationalist" publicly vandalised a monument to the founder of the city, the Russian Empress Catherine II, pouring red paint on it.

The vandal waited for the police to arrive. They took him to the police station but then immediately released him, without even drawing up a criminal report.

This example clearly shows that the word 'law' has lost all meaning in Ukraine. Obviously, if this nationalist wrote an offensive comment about Zelensky in social media, he would immediately be arrested and thrown in jail. Whereas other types of politically motivated offences, up to and including murder, are given a 'green light'.

Hungary is no longer a full democracy, MEPs say in new resolution.

Apparently, it doesn't take much to stop being a democracy: it's enough not to grant your support to anti-Russia sanctions that would cause serious damage to your economy.

The meaning of the word "democracy" is twisted these days. Every puppet of the US is a "democracy", while "dictatorships" and "authoritarian regimes" are those countries who wish to have some degree of sovereignty. 🤡

MRLS HIMARS kill children. Kiev regime’s militants struck a college in Perevalsk, LPR. As a result, a teenager was killed, 6 children were injured. The educational institution was accommodating orphaned children

"The concentration of Ukrainian heavy equipment is increasing along the entire line of contact in the Zaporozhye region, the situation is tense", — reports Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.

It is also reported about the abandonment of Belogorovka near Lisichansk and Kiselevka near Kherson. Ukrainian troops had confidence in themselves after the regrouping of the Russian army near Kharkov.

In an interview with "Dozhd' radio station, which is now broadcasting from the Baltic States, the Office of the President adviser Podolyak said that in fact Ukraine is ready to arrange a "bloodbath" in Kherson, Zaporozhye, LPR and DPR with subsequent actions in the Crimea. Now Russia has no other choice but to win.

Last Friday (9.09.22), the Ukrainian armed forces shelled Donetsk city centre. They shot at the theatre and almost hit a café, to whose brave worker Ekaterina Chubuk this post is dedicated.

Here are the details:
▪️First attack: panic on the veranda, people crawling under the tables, someone crying.
▪️The second shelling: waitress Katya rushes out and starts taking people into the basement, literally by the hand. And then, by the theatre, onlookers are taking selfies in front of the crater and she rushes out to them and takes them to the basement.
▪️Only when all are safe she goes down to the cellar too, and while she is running, another explosion happens, it smashes out the window glass, Katya covers her face with her hands, the glass cuts them and splinters get stuck in her hair.
▪️The next day people come to the café with flowers and boxes of chocolates, thanking Katya for saving their lives.

On 13.09.22 Denis Pushylin awarded Ekaterina Chubuk with Medal for Courage 🔥 Our respects to Katya 💪

Let's expose the fakes about Izyum (2)

The journalists of Ваши новости (means "Your News") channel worked in Izyum in July and August and saw everything with their own eyes.

So, the long video, filmed by Deutsche Welle. At 30 seconds we see the bridge, footage of its destruction is presented as a crime committed by the Russian army.

The short video filmed by "Your News" shows that the bridge is intact and we are driving over it calmly. It was filmed on 29 August, a few days before the attack by the Ukrainian army.

Next, Deutsche Welle shows the destroyed school - the destruction is also blamed on the Russian army.

However, this school was most likely destroyed by the AFU, just like the school shown by Anna Dolgareva in this story. The footage is from July 25, Ukrainians hit the building at night.

The military told us that Izyum, you could say, had not seen war until the town started being shelled by the Ukrainian army, when the Russian army was already in Izyum. And it was the Ukrainians who did 90% of the destruction in the city, targeting educational, medical and municipal facilities, hoping to catch the Russian armed forces' bases there.

Izyum was shelled every day. The Ukrainian media gave quite a cynical and silly version - the Russian military was shelling Izyum from outside the city.

The AFU themselves caused all the destruction in the city. Tell that to Deutsche Welle.

In this footage you can see how the AFU smashed Izyum while the Russian military was there.

Part 1 - https://news.1rj.ru/str/node_of_time_en/785

SCO is a world majority summit.

When western propaganda tells you that Russia is a pariah country, just look how much of the world's population is represented at this summit.

India, China, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The global turnaround to the east is ongoing.

Twitter has decided that a MintPress post with pictures of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a Nazi patch behind President Volodymyr Zelensky is "sensitive content."

The intelligence officers recruited by Twitter (as reported by Alan MacLeod) are hard at work protecting NATO's chosen narrative on the proxy war in Ukraine.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/twitter-hiring-alarming-number-spooks-secret-agents/281114/

European steel mills are halting output due to rising energy costs.

🤔There are two wars going on:

1. Physical war by the US against Russia to the last Ukrainian.

2. Economic war by the US against Russia to the last European.

But the Ukrainians and Europeans do not understand this yet. And when they do, it may be too late.

Nothing to be surprised at, just a toilet bowl for raising money for Ukraine placed in a British shop .

Very symbolic creative installation from British taxpayers who are giving politicians a kind of a hint where it all will end up.

I wonder how else the Brits will humiliate the Ukrainians? After Boris Johnson it will be hard for Liz Truss to surprise the Brits...

Timothy Stead - Commander of the "Third Hundred" detachment.

In recent months, the "Carpathian Sich" battalion has become a full-fledged equivalent of the International Legion: the unit is swarming with foreign mercenaries, recruited through various programs.

But while previously the battalion had been run by AFU officers, on the eve of the Kharkov offensive, foreign commanders appeared in the Sich. One of them is veteran British infantry officer Timothy Stead.

▪️ According to his subordinate Robert Roy Lane, Stead had served in the British infantry for 9 years.

▪️ During that time, the Briton was involved in three combat operations in two countries - apparently in Afghanistan and Iraq.

▪️Timothy Stead was treated for PTSD and alcohol dependency when he returned home.

▪️He came to Ukraine as a medic but soon joined the AFU. In the "Carpathian Sich" he was appointed commander of the "Third Hundred" detachment in the Izyum sector.

▪️On 22 August he was awarded the Medal of Honour of the "Carpathian Sich"

FT: US shale bosses tell Europe: ‘There’s no bailout coming’

The US shale industry has warned it cannot rescue Europe with increased oil and gas supplies this winter amid fears that a plunge in Russian exports will send crude prices soaring back above $100 a barrel. Even though oil markets have softened in recent weeks, the respite could end when an EU embargo on Russian sales comes into full effect later this year.

However, US shale executives sitting on vast oil and natural gas reserves that could be used to alleviate a European energy crunch say they will be unable to step up supplies quickly enough to prevent winter shortages.

"It’s not like the US can pump a bunch more. Our production is what it is,” said Wil VanLoh, head of private equity group Quantum Energy Partners, one of the shale patch’s biggest investors. “There’s no bailout coming,” VanLoh added. “Not on the oil side, not on the gas side.”

Asked about the prospect of a big production increase from the US shale industry, Scott Sheffield, chief executive of Pioneer Natural Resources, said: “No, I don’t see it coming.” “We’re not adding [drilling] rigs and I don’t see anyone else adding rigs,” said Sheffield, who runs one of the biggest oil producers in the US. Crude prices could rise above $120 a barrel this winter as supplies tighten, he added.

Ben Dell, chief executive of private equity group Kimmeridge Energy, said the shale industry’s investors on Wall Street would not give their blessing to a big production increase, preferring a low-production, high-profit model. “Investors generally don’t want shale companies to pursue a growth model,” he said. “The capital availability is extremely limited.”