🔥Zelensky🇺🇦: Has our world completely forgotten the mistakes of the 20th century, where appeasement leads? How did we get to this point, where war is waged & ppl are dying in Europe, longer than during WWII. How did we end up in the biggest security crisis since end of Cold War?
Zelensky: I hope no one is thinking about #Ukraine as a permanent buffer betw #Russia & the West. This will never happen. No one can let this happen. Who then is next? NATO countries will have to protect each other. I hope NATO Art5 is more effective than the Budapest Memorandum.
With moral clarity, #Zelensky leans in to EU, NATO: #Ukraine made its choice in 2014. Many sacrificed their lives for it. #Russia says that we chose wrong, that no one's waiting for us in Europe. Shouldn’t Europe be saying—and demonstrating—that we made the right choice? #MSC2022
“We don’t need your sanctions after bombardments, after we lose our economy, after we lose our borders"—Zelensky urges preemptive #sanctions against #Russia—not to delay until after invasion. (Hardly preemptive w/ now 190k troops & false flags every hour) kyivindependent.com/national/zelen…
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🚨Don't miss this important part of the story: #Russia has drafted "kill lists" of exiled dissidents in #Ukraine, many in Kyiv. It's yet another indication Kremlin rhetoric about NATO is just that. So appeasing Putin regarding NATO won't even mollify him. foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/rus…
#Russia Planning Post-Invasion Arrest & Assassination Campaign in #Ukraine - targeting prominent Ukrainian political opponents, anti-corruption activists, and Belarusian & Russian dissidents living in exile in Ukraine. foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/rus…
Biden administration was "startled" by how formalized #Russia's kill lists are — targeting Russian & #Belarus#dissidents in exile in #Ukraine, #journalists and anti-#corruption activists, and vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic #minorities and LGBTQI+ persons.
“A deliberate ruse”—#Russia’s announced military pullback from #Ukraine’s border was a deliberate ruse to mislead the US & other world powers, US intel officials washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
🚨US officials now believe #Russia’s pullback announcement & Kremlin-made videos of tanks leaving border was a fake to mask Putin’s true intentions: False flag using chemical agent to immobilize civilians, then use cadavers to make it look like #Ukraine gassed & killed civilians.
Here’s the gruesome intelligence: “a false flag by Russia would involve the use of a chemical agent that would immobilize civilians, then use cadavers to make it appear as though the Ukrainians had gassed and killed civilians.…the blame might also be pinned on Americans.”
Today #Russia's propaganda media RIA published the outlines of a false flag/pretext to invade #Ukraine—following Putin falsely claiming "genocide" in Donbas:
"Investigative Committee [FBI] Opened A Case Because of Mass Graves Found In Donbass"
Media is essential to Putin's war.
#Russia's false flags look very coordinated w/ govt officials, proxies in occupied #Ukraine, and propaganda media.
Yesterday's claim by Putin of "genocide" is today an official investigation, not ironically to investigate Ukraine for violations of international human rights law.
#Russia claims mass graves were discovered in Slavyanoserbsk in Russian-occupied Donbas, claiming "295 civilians died of indiscriminate shelling by Ukrainians were exhumed." Specifically mentioned is Pervomaisk, a city widely known to have been devastated by Russia's war in 2014
The night Yanukovych fled 2/22, Putin called meeting & tasked military & spec services w/ "saving the life of the president of Ukraine"
"We are forced to begin the work to bring Crimea back into Russia." Troops arrived 2/27—5 days later
When Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych (who fled to Russia) in 2014, Putin freaked out & panicked. 100+ Ukrainians were killed in Kyiv, but Putin claimed Yanuk would be killed. And that "forced" him to invade Crimea. It's pretty wild. And he admitted it all. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Putin actually made a glitzy propaganda film confessing to lying to the world about Russian troops in Crimea. The cynicism was seen as clear & ominous. I wrote about it at the time. It was just after Nemtsov's assassination at the foot of the Kremlin. euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/26/put…
🤔Putin blamed the US for trying to goad #Russia into armed conflict over #Ukraine, but said he "hoped for more dialogue" - even as his invasion force of Russian troops remains amassed on Ukraine's border - The New York Times nytimes.com/live/2022/02/0…
Putin's laughably absurd line: that the US is using #Ukraine as an excuse for #sanctions on #Russia to "contain its development." There wouldn't be sanctions had Putin not stolen parts of Ukraine. He's held a bullet to Ukr since & now uses it to demand NATO exit 1/2 of Europe!😒
So this is interesting: Putin says if #Ukraine joins NATO, then @NATO could launch a war against #Russia to recapture #Crimea. Maybe don't capture another country's territory in the first place, and then you won't be paranoid about the legitimate owner-sovereign recapturing it?🤷🏻♀️
So it was Flynn who spawned the idea (with Waldron) to seize voting machines. And not only by the military, but by DHS, a 2nd draft executive order directed. It's unclear if DHS was a backup or if the coup plotters thought the military & DHS would share coup responsibilities😬
>>> Flynn personally reached out to at least one senior defense official in mid-December attempting to enlist their help with his cause (to seize voting machines)
Could the “senior defense official” be Flynn’s brother Charles??
So Trump had a direct role in the plot to seize voting machines. He directed Giuliani to call DHS's Cuccinelli AFTER the Pentagon rejected the idea. AND after Barr at DOJ rejected it.
That makes THREE fed depts Trump pressed to conspire with him in this part of the coup.