Ukraine / Russia - Actions and Reactions

[GURPS]

‘Firestorm’ Over Russian Condiments Removal​

Critics took it as another piece of evidence that there is growing Russophobia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but Barry Levenson, the former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin and the founder and curator of the museum, told The Daily Wire that this was all a big misunderstanding.

Levenson told The Daily Wire that he has mustard displays from around the world and that the museum had about six Russian mustards. As seen in the photo below, those condiments were replaced by the following sign:







More Ignorant Virtue Signaling

 

[GURPS]

Well this didn’t take long. Last week, Salon Magazine published an article headlined, “Are There Really Neo-Nazis Fighting For Ukraine? Well, Yes — But It’s A Long Story.”

I just want to point that Coffee & Covid got complaints last week for reporting that the Azov Battalion — now un-jailed by Facebook and celebrated as freedom fighters — were LITERAL NAZIS. Commenters accused me of spreading “Putin’s propaganda.”

The Salon article reports that “Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Svoboda Party … played leading roles in the U.S-backed coup in February 2014.”

Oh.

It also reports that:

Neo-Nazis also dominated the Azov Battalion, which was founded by Andriy Biletsky, an avowed white supremacist who claimed that Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of Jews and other inferior races. It was the Azov Battalion that led the post-coup government’s assault on the self-declared republics and retook the city of Mariupol from separatist forces.

So. I guess it wasn’t Putin propaganda after all. The cycle time from “conspiracy theory” to “we always knew that” is getting shorter and shorter. We need to come up with a term for it. At what point are the people who call us conspiracy theorists themselves accountable for spreading misinformation?

To be clear, I am against Russia invading Ukraine, and all my sympathies are with the dispossessed and war-ravaged Ukrainian people. But I’m also against real nazis, too. Can we talk about Ukraine’s nazi problem now?

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New ways heart attacks, blood clots, and strokes infect people; high gas prices cause sports injuries; how to help Ukraine today; more conspiracy theories become facts; and more...

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[Gilligan]

To be clear, I am against Russia invading Ukraine, and all my sympathies are with the dispossessed and war-ravaged Ukrainian people. But I’m also against real nazis, too. Can we talk about Ukraine’s nazi problem now?

Isn't there something like 2500 members of the Azov Battalion? And something around 44 million Ukrainians..... I'll save my pearls for clutching later.

 

[stgislander]

From the perspective of someone who actually trained Ukrainian troops in Ukraine, commanded US forces, and attended the US Army War College – though it's kind of the Chico State of war colleges....

Please tell me I'm not the only one that found this hilarious.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

 

[Gilligan]

If I may ...

I'm capable of multi-tasking my hate. ;-)

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

I'm capable of multi-tasking my hate. ;-)

You are so delusional that when presented with a counter narrative, you dismiss it outright. Either well programmed, or a beneficiary.

 

[GURPS]

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

Why Putin Invaded Ukraine: Geopolitical and Economic Implications Explained

Discover the reasons behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and how it relates to energy control, geopolitical strategy, and the threat to the Petrodollar and Western financial system.

businessner.com

 

[PJay]

Lara Logan... love her

Pepe Lives Matter on Gab: 'Three minutes and fifty seconds of red pills. She…'

Pepe Lives Matter on Gab: 'Three minutes and fifty seconds of red pills. She popped off. 🔥'

gab.com

 

[PJay]

Donald J Trump: "Russia just sanctioned Joe Biden. While that is a terrible thing, in so many ways, perhaps it will now be explained why the Biden family received 3.5 million dollars from the very wealthy former Mayor of Moscow’s wife. During our Presidential Debate, “moderator” Chris Wallace, then of Fox, would not let me ask that question. He said it was inappropriate. Perhaps that’s why Biden has been so “slow on the draw” with Russia. This is a really bad conflict of interest that will, perhaps now, be fully and finally revealed!"

Donald J Trump on Gab: 'Breaking News: Russia just sanctioned Joe Biden. …'

Donald J Trump on Gab: 'Breaking News: Russia just sanctioned Joe Biden. While that is a terrible thing, in so many ways, perhaps it will now be explained why the Biden family received 3.5 million dollars from the very wealthy former Mayor of Moscow’s wife. During our Presidential Debate...

gab.com

 

[PJay]

This piece from 2018, by Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva , breaks open the US biolabs in former Soviet Republics. It's worse than we think. 'US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program'

US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program | The Liberty Beacon

Pentagon scientists have been deployed in 25 countries & given diplomatic immunity to research deadly viruses, bacteria & toxins at US military biolaboratories.

www.thelibertybeacon.com

OutlawJW on Gab: 'This piece from 2018, by Bulgarian journalist Dil…'

OutlawJW on Gab: 'This piece from 2018, by Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva , breaks open the US biolabs in former Soviet Republics. It's worse than we think. 'US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program' ~ @paulserran...

gab.com

 

[GURPS]

Russia announces sanctions against Biden and top US officials​

According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday imposed "personal sanctions against representatives of the U.S. leadership and persons associated with them."

The sanctions, according to the report, were imposed "in response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation."

The report said that as of March 15, Biden and the other individuals listed would be included on a Russian "stop list" on the "basis of reciprocity departments and well-known American figures."

 

[black dog]

Isn't there something like 2500 members of the Azov Battalion? And something around 44 million Ukrainians..... I'll save my pearls for clutching later.

I bet they're Mikimotos.....

 

[Gilligan]

a beneficiary.

How do you think I afford my island compound and all my toys? Duh.

 

[Gilligan]

The Soviets had a conversion like that for their earlier SGMT tank mounted machine guns. The 7.62x54r packs a nice punch.

That's one heavy sumbitch to fire offhand though...and that's not even including the ammo belt and can. LOL...for real men to shoot. I suspect it would be deployed much like the MG42, M53 etc...with that bipod or some other front support and a second guy carrying ammo.

 

[herb749]

Russia announces sanctions against Biden and top US officials​

According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday imposed "personal sanctions against representatives of the U.S. leadership and persons associated with them."

The sanctions, according to the report, were imposed "in response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation."

The report said that as of March 15, Biden and the other individuals listed would be included on a Russian "stop list" on the "basis of reciprocity departments and well-known American figures."

He could spill the beans on all their illegal connections . I don't think it will get that far before they buy him off.

 

[glhs837]

 

[Hijinx]

Wasn't there someone once who stated that civilians with small arms would have no chance against tanks?

It seems it may be a dangerous practice, but certainly not impossible.

 

[GURPS]

What is the American interest in the Russia-Ukraine war?​

Following the Zelensky speech, Republicans and Democrats were practically tripping over themselves to get in front of a TV camera declare that we must do more, in the form of sending Ukraine an infinite supply of weapons, to continue Ukraine’s war effort.

It seems that somewhere along the timeline, however, lost in our national conversation about Ukraine, is the reality that none of this has anything to do with actual American national security interests. And this doesn’t even cover our regime’s economic warfare campaign against Russia, which is contributing to a global economic malaise and the suffering of untold millions, while clearly harming Americans, too.

While many atop the elite hierarchy stand to gain or lose a lot from the continuing war in Ukraine, it remains clear as ever that this is an inter-slavic spat in the form of a turf war unfolding 5,000 miles away from the United States. There is indeed a lot at stake for the U.S. and NATO military industrial regime, for the Kremlin, for the Ukrainian government, and for shadowy private actors, but not for the average American citizen.

The Biden Administration and Congress seem hellbent on encouraging the war effort, and have activated the Big War machine without explaining what is exactly at stake for We The People, or even the Ukrainian people, who are very much a mixed bag of support between East and West.