what a turn of events!
reportedly russians are relocating from Luhansk to russia two factories -- they have already sent there the personnel, responsible for the move.
looks like russia is no more confident the ORDLO territories will not return to Ukraine's control...
while we are rightfully angry with Rand Paul, lest we forget those who created Ukraine this👇 image.
the first, who comes to mind, is ex-Ambo of U.S. Masha Yovanovitch, who created Kolchuga scandal in the early 2000s & Hladkovsky scandal just before the Presi elections in 2019.
not only Rand Paul is russian asset.
Masha is one of the best placed asset, who was very instrumental in complete international sidelining of Kuchma back in early 2000s with the Kolchuga scandal (she used to work in the @USEmbassyKyiv then) and in defeat of @poroshenko in 2019,
when she weaponized well known well before Hladkovsky corruption case in March of 2019, JUST BEFORE the Presidential elections.
not a surprise that angry Ukrainians elected Zelensky.
U.S. has no Ambassador level representation to Ukraine since, only Chargé d'Affaires level.
in order to understand the mindset of the archenemy of the civilized world, this is the required reading 👇
and yes, for the first time I have read it 23 years ago, in summer 1999.
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just a glimpse of this Dugin "seminal" book "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia", written in 1997.
yes, it is the map of the cordial geopolitical divide of zones of influence in Europe between two best friends: Russia and Germany
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and this explains why I was always against lumping russia & China together.
Dugin in 1997 was seeing China's territories as a part of russia's borderlands. He proposed to divide China like this👇
I bet there are Chinese statesmen, who are old enough to remember this.
We are grateful for the humanitarian aid, for sheltering our people. Very grateful. However ... baby food will be unnecessary if children die. Diapers - it would be good if mums could change them not in basements. What we need is weapons.
Yes, mothers, children and the elderly in Ukraine need weapons - which will be taken by their defenders who will drive the enemy away from the borders of Europe. Ukraine needs weapons so that Ukrainian refugees can return home and rebuild the economy.
Therefore, we ask you not to stop, to accelerate the pace of heavy weapons provision.
this is interesting...
Sergey Lavrov, who recently made quite a few anti-Semitic statements, has been overheard admiring certain actions of Nazi Germany at an informal CIS meeting.
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In the tape recorded during Lavrov's informal talks with the CIS diplomats he emphasizes that successes of East & West Germany at the Olympic Games (as he thinks) resulted from the correct doping system, based on Nazi research in concentration camps.
and he admires it.
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“Back then, it was even calculated that if the West GE and East GE medals would have been added up -- they would be almost on top.
Because of a smart doping system, based on Nazi developments in concentration camps,”
the voice similar to that of Lavrov, says
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so,
-- russia commits inexcusable war crimes in Ukraine;
-- the West squandered 8 years to not preparing Ukraine's air defense to this war;
-- Ukraine paid a bloody price;
-- the West's and russia's inexcusability creates a cognitive dissonance (both in the West and in russia)
meaning that the Western elites are reluctant to admit that they fucked Ukraine up so catastrophically, while russians they try to deflect blame personally on putin.
not surprisingly, the West buys this idea. why?
because it helps the West with its own cognitive dissonance.
the Westerners reasoning is "who the heck would have known that putin is so fanatically unreasonable?"
well, I have pretty good answer here: we, Ukrainians! we were warning you for years that it may end up in something like this! you never listened!!!