Episode IV of
"A Chef's Adventure on the Way to Moscow"

'Hannibal ante portas'

Ep. IV: "Rebellion and the <Merchant of Death>" Viktor Bout, the world's most famous arms dealer, also nicknamed the "Merchant of Death", was released from prison by the Biden administration in December 2022, in a prisoner exchange with the famous American basketball player Brittney Griner.

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" Hannibal ante portas ".

I thought a lot about whether to write a comeback - a third part (my first comment from the evening of 24.06 - at the beginning of the 'rebel march', the second, from 25.06, after the famous "stop" of the march - in the two embedded threads below) -

¶ … so if is the case to come back with the third part on the analysis of the skit "Rebellion. Smoke & Mirrors" - or "Theatrical Play for the Blind", directed by Putin-Patrusev, and in the main role, the Hollywood star, Evgeni Prigojin, on his stage name.

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https://twitter.com/Andrey_Daniel_B/status/1672668393218928641?s=20

Xivilization.

This variant of China's "Xivilization" diplomacy wants to promote Beijing's own vision of attracting countries to its side, contrary to the "rules-based international order" of the West.

¶ For three years, the COVID pandemic has kept China's global diplomatic goals frozen.

Now, with the US embroiled in a domestic election campaign and the international community preoccupied with the war in Ukraine,…

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Despair, your name is Putin!

Since launching the Ukr counter-offensive almost three weeks ago, the Kremlin leader has been making daily statements about the "success" of his invading forces and the "failures" of the UAF.

¶ But Putin is advancing balance sheets without evidence and rather giving the impression that he is in a desperate communication campaign to show that he is in control of the situation.

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HOW are we doing with money and expenses - at the state/government level - during wartime.

How to pay for wars is a problem as old as war itself!

"Short and hot wars" are financed by additional borrowing, while "long and cold wars" are financed by (new) taxes.

A thread.

¶ Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukr has led to a sharp increase in defense spending. For short wars, governments can finance spending through borrowing, experts say, but if there is a long war, the more you have to use other methods, such as taxes.

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' Howdy, dear friends! :)

I was away for a few days on a short city break - 5 days in the (always) beautiful Venice, Italy - so I ' m behind with an analysis of the movements in Donbas.

I have' up-to-date' data, but I didn't have time to sift through and analyze them.

¶ A comment, at the level of the date of June, 15-16.
I don't give you "maps and arrows", but only an analysis of what I "see".

With the promise that I recover the latest events and come up to date,
a thread - analysis.

For all my 10-20 readers. :)

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' Howdy, dear friends.

A parallel.

79 years ago (June 6- 19/25August , 1944), American, British and Canadian troops landed in German-occupied France, taking the first risky step towards the liberation of Western Europe.

¶ Today, as new UAF units, trained in NATO countries, focus on preparing their own version of "Operation Overlord", the lessons of that epic landing remain relevant.

Many tend to believe that although the well-equipped US, British and Canadian forces suffered heavy casualties…

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Norway has officially announced that it has completed the sale of 32 F-16 aircraft to Romania.

The principle of this sale had been announced in November, 2022, for an amount of €388M.

¶ The 32 Norwegian F-16 AM/BM aircraft are in the M6.5.2 configuration, and the contract also includes spare engines and logistical support.

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' Howdy, dear friends!

Today's editorial:

A technologically evolved society of the near future or just a pretext for a super controlled and non-stop supervised society?

¶ A New Conspiracy Theory or something that is being prepared, something that is already "baking" in the great "laboratories" of the world elites?
Read and judge, for yourself.

A thread about the "15-Minute City".

'Morning, dear friends!

The Ukr combat roll, reinforced with 9-10 mechanized brigades trained by NATO itself, as well as with as many high mobility brigades formed by the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, threatens to overturn the Russian defense on the entire front line.

¶ In these unfavorable conditions, the Russian forces are trying to make the best use of the few assets it has left - missiles and drones, as well as tactical aviation.

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' Howdy, dear friends!

Last night, Kyiv was subjected to a furious cruise missile fire.
Kalibr and Kh, in combination with Iranian drones.
18 such cruise missiles and an undetermined number of drones were shot down by the Ukrainian AD.

¶ No, no Patriot systems were touched/damaged/destroyed last night.
The only damage was caused by the remains of Russian cruise missiles, crashed in different districts of Kyiv.

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'Howdy, dear friends!

The 'great' Ruzki vatnik troll have a new agenda :
Khmelnitsky!

After posting a bunch of fake videos and images, some from Iran, since January, they have now launched, very coordinated, a new lie:

¶ "In fact, there, in that warehouse, were stored,no more and no less!!, than all the depleted uranium ammunition received from the UK."

"Fact <proven> by increasing the level of radiation in the air."

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G' day, Europe!
G' morning, USA!
Hi, Xi! :)
Go&fék yourself, Putler's RuSSia!
Day 444

Several explosions took place on Friday in the RuSSian-occupied eastern Ukr city of Luhansk.

¶ Ukrainian-made "Grom" ballistic missiles were used, and not the 'new stars' of the UAF, the British "Storm Shadow"

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The Sultan's gift.

The Turkish-made Cobra II armored vehicles arrived at the front in Ukraine, after transiting through Romania.

They were donated to Ukraine by Turkey.

¶ Cobra II has the capacity to carry up to nine soldiers, including the driver and a crew commander, and equipment related to the completion of a combat mission.

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When you dream of yourself as hypersonic, but you parade with T-34 and helicopters drop like flies, it is called that you are the second military power of the world.

Below:
¶ The RuSSian MoD announced on Friday, May 12, that a Mi-28 attack helicopter crashed in the Crimean Peninsula.
As a result of the accident, the two pilots died.

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Eurovision contest.

First prize, section
"No Panic" goes to...
Ruzki pro-Kremlin war correspondent Sasha Kots, who claimed that Kyiv's long-awaited counter-offensive has begun.

¶ "Ukrainian tanks were on the Kharkiv ring road heading towards the border with Russia", he said, citing (of course!) <reliable sources>.

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' Howdy, dear friends! :)
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USA.NATO.UKRAINE.
CHINA. RUSSIA.

Alliances and strategies in the dynamics of current and future events.

Reconstruction of the world order after the war in Ukraine. The role of military alliances in the dynamics of international relations.

¶ A vision and an interpretation, for all my 10 readers. :)

A thread.
Long and boring, of course. :)

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Christianity vs the "Christian" supporters of Putin's RuSSia.

Recently, accounts have appeared, larger or smaller, that have an Orthodox cross in profile, framed to the left and right by the flags of Russia and the USA. So called "Russian Orthodox Christians" from the USA.
Or at least, that's what they claim.

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In the last few days, we witnessed "victories" on the line of ruzki:
Drones over the Kremlin; a Kh-55 downed by Patriot;

¶ a second Kh-55 launched from the airspace of Belarus, which instead of descending to the south, towards Kyiv, suddenly and of its own volition turned right and flew to the west, landing on an abandoned field in Poland.

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Because all day yesterday and last night I had some "friendly discussions" with Ruzki propagandists or ardent supporters of Putler's Ruzz, let's take down, in what follows

Ruzz myths about May 9.
How Ruzz is using propaganda & disinformation to rewrite history.

Long thread! :) Myth 1: The Soviet Union was always an adversary of Nazi Germany.

In reality, Moscow and Berlin wanted together to destroy the Versailles-Washington system of international relations established in 1918, …

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How I see things.

"Standing crooked and trying to judge correctly".

For a long time, as a historian devouring historical facts and not sterile propaganda, I had realized that the Second World War continues to be seen through the glasses of the victors.

¶ I have written and said at various debates and on various occasions, among illustrious military or historical figures, about the war between 1939-1945, …

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