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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
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Jan 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Absolutely intriguing excerpt from Guardian coverage of Cadwalladr/Banks trial. She claims to have "intelligence files from organisation contracted to undertake work countering Russian disinformation in Europe on behalf of a government agency." That would be #IntegrityInitiative.
She appears in their files, of course. When challenged, she claims she merely spoke at event organisation convened. Also used opportunity to further baseless smears/conspiracy theories about @WikiLeaks + Julian Assange colluding with the Kremlin.
It's in this context that her false claims that #IntegrityInitiative "also pushed attacks on the government and the Conservatives", not just Corbyn, become super interesting. This can't have just been her being characteristically foolish or ignorant...
Super interesting too Carole's good friend Peter Jukes (liar, fantasist, Magnitsky fraud endorser and vexatious little man) fought the suggestion #IntegrityInitiative targeted Corbyn so aggressively while also claiming to have no links to org or even have heard about it before...
@georgegalloway
Worth reinforcing #IntegrityInitiative "intelligence files" are invariably baseless lies from start to finish. One such document related to Catalan referendum falsely framed Julian Assange and independence movement as Russian agents on *zero* evidence.

kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/how-british-…
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that II staffer (and potential MI5 operative) Euan Grant specifically names Banks as a target in one document. And outlined a proposal for smearing individuals and organisations as in receipt of Russian funding.

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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
Feb 16
🧵: Missed this ASTONISHING report from Feb 13th on how Germany's military is considerably *less* battle-ready than it was when the proxy war started. As a result of sending so much equipment to Ukraine, it's basically defenceless, and it will take years to rebuild what was lost. Image
When proxy war erupted, soon to be ousted Chancellor Scholz gave a bombastic speech about a "historic turning point" (Zeitenwende) that would mean revolutionary change in Europe, including building up Germany's military significantly. But this didn't happen. The *opposite* did. Image
Despite this, Germany reamins "alongside Poland...tasked by NATO with providing the bulk of ground forces that would act as first responders to any Russian attack on the alliance's eastern flank." Well, they're completely fucked if that happens, aren't they? Like instantly. Image
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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
Jan 30
🧵: For those within the Empire's inner core, the full, seismic implications of Trump's "aid" suspension may not be fully obvious. But here in the Balkans, where USAID/NED has penetrated every sphere of public, political and even daily life, the impact is absolutely monumental. Image
In Bosnia, all basic functions of the state were post-war forcibly outsourced to USAID, NED, Soros, etc. On top of enfeebling the local population, it created enormous opportunities for grift and corruption, which anyone who could took full advantage of.

mintpressnews.com/enslaved-nonpr…
Not every country in the region is quite so dependent, although there are entire sectors of local economies where the only employment opportunities are with USAID/NED/etc-funded orgs. And this isn't restricted to the Balkans - similar story elsewhere in the former Soviet sphere.
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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
Jan 23
🧵: Relatedly, I find effort to frame low intensity Donbas civil war Kiev was losing post-Maidan as an unadmitted Russian invasion Ukraine was winning *very* interesting. British intelligence at the forefront, obviously. It was laying foundations for what happened in Feb 2022.
Take for instance this Times article from 2016, which claims Ukraine was experiencing "the Third World War on a tiny scale" in Donbass, and the conflict exposed "secrets" of Russian military doctrine and strategy the West could capitalise on. Complete and utter fantasy. Image
This article resulted from visit of Ukrainian ultranationalist paramilitaries to UK, arranged by British intelligence. They met with the British Army, journalists, and politicians. Bios of these fighters suggest they were exaggerating their military records *greatly*. Image
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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
Jan 21
🧵: Answer to this is manifold. Foremost of course, the imperial braintrust was in early 2022 extremely deluded about US/NATO power. Elements remain so today. But in many ways, a Ukrainian loss produces major potential US gains economically, politically and militarily.
On first point, in October 2022, Pentagon released a National Defense Strategy. It failed to once mention China and Russia's 'no limits' partnership, or consider the risk war with one of its major adversaries would mean war with them all, and defeat:

kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-e…Image
Then too, US officials weren't aware of extent of their defence industrial base's destruction, and enormous problems they would have replenishing ammunition, armour, vehicles and other materiel sent to Ukraine at any pace or scale. This simply wasn't considered until recently. Image
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Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Profile picture
Jan 20
🧵: ASTONISHING article in TIME about how the Biden administration never had any intention or even desire to help Ukraine win, and was always just going to step away at its behest at some point. We all *knew* this but to have it confirmed is important.

time.com/7207661/bidens…Image
Interesting passage confirming what @TheGrayzoneNews has been reporting since 2022 - the US was legitimately concerned about the proxy war escalating and avoiding that was a key objective, about which the British have consistently been - and remain - furious. Image
@TheGrayzoneNews Ukraninains likewise furious. Untold billions spent and sent, Washington paying salaries of *all* state workers and keeping country barely functional with 'aid' and 'stimulus', and it ain't enough. Kiev got set up for this and was always going to be betrayed. Stings, doesn't it? Image
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Jan 11
🧵: Western media been frenzied den of worst imaginable takes and 'analysis' from 'journalists', pundits, officials, spooks on Russia consistently, pretty much every minute, since the proxy war started. But let's focus on just one episode - Prigozhin's 'rebellion' in June 2023.
Wagner 'rebellion' was completely irrelevant publicity stunt that resulted in nothing. Prigozhin - who many Russians hadn't even heard of - had zero public or institutional backing. There was no chance of unseating Putin, even vaguely threatening his power, or achieving anything.
However, Western mainstream collectively lost its mind over this incident. @TheGrayzoneNews collated some of the funniest, most hysterical overreactions from dickheads like McFail and @anneapplebaum, who genuinely believed civil war had erupted.

thegrayzone.com/2023/06/26/rus…Image
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