Thread by @ejmalrai

Day 8. #Russia directing ops around Bucha,Volnovakha, Kakhovka,Kupyansk,Nova Kakhovka,Mariupol, Okhtyrka,Sumy,Chernihiv,Chuhuiv. Kherson is under Russia.Roads to Odesa,only remaining major port & Mykolaiv r open.Russia then can join forces surrounding Kyiv&cut the country in half

Pro-Jihadists in #Idlib, #Syria, encouraged by #Israel/i (Tweet below), expressing their will to travel to #Ukraine and fight as mercenaries.

Ahmad Zakayev, a forgotten name from the 1990s who fought against the Russians during the First Chechen War, declared during an interview with the Russian-language, US-funded Current Time TV, that Chechens are ready to defend #Ukraine against #Russia.

Ali Bakaev, a Chechen activist in #Ukraine, said that "Two battalions of local Chechens – the Sheikh Mansour Battalion & the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion – already fight in Ukraine & defend Kyiv against the #Russia/n troops along with other nationalities who live in Ukraine."

Another of the Mujahedeen said that the access of already Jihadists who reached #Ukraine are travelling via #Georgia to fight #Russia.

The World never learn from history.

An unusual mix although we saw it in #Syria before

Jihadists joining #Israel: Hundreds of Israelis volunteered to fight in #Ukraine, Ukraine's Ambassador to #Israel has said.

Moreover, 400 men from #Sweden have so far signed up to join Ukraine as merceneries.

MichaelO'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution believes the #US coalition has lost between 100 to 5,000 servicemen and 500 to 30,000 wounded with between 1,000 to 100,000 civilians while occupying #Baghdad, #Iraq, in 2003.

brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…

The meaning of these letters displayed by #Russia on their armoured vehicles and tanks in #Ukraine:
V: Mission will be accomplished
Z: The power in the truth

#Russia captured more British and European weapons sent to #Ukraine: Light Anti-tank Weapon, also known as the NLAW, is a joint British and Swedish short-range fire-and-forget anti-tank missile system.

Learn the past, you understand the present and the future: How the #US pushed the Soviets to occupy Afghanistan to offer "another Vietnam" to #Moscow and drag it into a long war and start a propaganda campaign against it.

A US declassified memorandum 👇
nsarchive2.gwu.edu/carterbrezhnev…

A declassified memorandum that #US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski sent to Carter that "Moscow’s aggression in Afghanistan would threaten the security of all nations.”

Brzezinski advised the president that it was essential that the Afghan resistance continue. Carter approved a covert action finding increased the program, code-named Operation Cyclone, to $50 million. He took to calling the mujahedeen “Freedom Fighters”.
amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afg…

Perhaps in a decade or so, we'll learn who in the #US administration decided to copy Brzezinski's plan in #Ukraine to drag #Russia in war, thinking the war can last long.

Just replace the name of Afghanistan with Ukraine and the scenario would be exactly the same.

When the war in #Ukraine (perhaps before that) is over, #Russia will have a different position towards #Israel in #Syria. The Israeli leadership can start preparing themselves for a new policy. The "honeymoon" is over.

#France President @EmmanuelMacron spoke to #Russia President Vladimir Putin and said that "the worst still yet to come".

I've reached the same conclusion in my article here:

https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1499315535657545729

#France (and the #UK) has nuclear weapons. @EmmanuelMacron is calling European state leaders to form a European army. Why does Europe need NATO, a US-led army with the objective to challenge #Russia on the European continent, a powerful business and commercial partner of Europe?

"Problem Is Not That Putin Is Smart, which of course he's smart, But Our Leaders Are So Dumb and Joe Biden is "weak": Trump ndtv.com/world-news/don… via @ndtv

Read please:
If I may allow me to tell you the real story behind 100diplomats from some 40 Western countries and allies including Japan walked out of a speech by Russian FM Sergei Lavrov to the UN human rights forum in protest over Russia's war of Ukraine
reuters.com/world/eu-us-br…

Rarely this number of diplomats were united at the UN human rights forum. Western diplomats called Journalists asking them to be present to interview representatives of all countries that will be available to speech, w/o revealing Lavrov's speech or what was prepared.+

When all journalists reached the forum, it was surprising to see this large number of diplomats present in the UN room. When Lavrov started to talk, they all stood up and left.

When Minister Lavrov ended his speech, none of the diplomats returned to the forum.

The orchestrated propaganda campaign is succeeding the west to demonise #Russia because the west has a very powerful media and propaganda expertise and machine.

However, remember that the world is not made only of the West.

In another development, I was told by diplomats of different nations that the #US Secretary of State assistants are extremely active, putting pressure on the world's leaders to bring them together against #Russia to show to people that the world is "united" in its stand. +

I can assure you that many countries who remained neutral or hesitated were told that "the US won't forget its friends and those who did not stand with its position in this critical moment". basically the "soft menace" is dominant+

Also, European representatives are far from being stupid or blind. They are aware of the origin of this war and understand that #Ukraine would never dare to challenge #Russia without the #US behind (we know that).

EU leaders can't voice their ideas & political view out loud for fear of the #US reaction & the harsh media against those who "do not stand against #Russia". Europe is putting together a plan to soften the consequences of their sanctions on Russia, aware they will pay the price.

#Russia is allowing civilians to leave through safe corridors because the tactic of war is expected to be harsher after the first week of the war in #Ukraine unless the negotiation reaches an outcome, which is unlikely, depending on the #US (not Ukrainian) will.

#Ukraine is asking to be armed so more Ukrainians can be killed because the outcome is known regardless of the media's bullshit enthusiasm and slogans. Ukraine can't stand against #Russia. The more Ukraine is armed the harder Russia will be.

#Ukraine is still enjoying the Russian gas, as well as #Germany and the rest of #Europe to this day. Russia did not weaponise the energy flow to the west. However, sooner or later, when negotiating the presence of nuclear weapons in Europe is discussed, Russia could use it.