US midterm election effects

 Alexander Mercouris suggests that the pressure on Ukraine government to show some success in Kherson  offensive by mid November is due to the Democrats desire to show some thing by the midterm elections. There was a similar suggestion about the pressure on  Saudi Arabia to increase oil supply.

Putin on the early Kiev pullout

 

Joe Lombardo and Scott Ritter ‘Issues that matter with Cynthia’ (Pooler)

 

Turkish pipeline attack stopped

 

Jaynes on cosciousness

Jaynes on consciousness I have been wondering about some of these things and came across this today.

Dmitry Kulikov exolains the Russian point of view in the Ukraine conflict

https://youtu.be/KMwJoL6cPuA

‘Swimming camels’ of Jamnagar

https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/jamnagars-swimming-camels-in-deep-waters/

Long and interesting discussion

but unsatisfactory as they did not quite explain the economic factors except Yves Smith to some extent. Gonzalo Lira seems right but a bit of a loose canon. This video is also posted in Naked Capitalism. inthe comments, Yves Smith explains a bit of the unpleasant commements by Gnzalo Lira about Scott Ritter: Yves Smith October 13, 2022 at 9:22 pm Lira did an unnecessarily nasty takedown of Ritter not long after Lira was detained by the SBU and had all of his channels taken from him by them, which led to Lira being demonetized. Lira’s beef was Ritter’s tendency to make sharp changes in his readings of the war, without similarly sharp changes in underlying facts. I had relied on Ritter unduly early on and was also persuaded by his bullish take on Russia’s prospects, and I think Lira was mad at feeling duped. Ritter was aggressively saying Russia would wrap up the war quickly, as in a few weeks. He then flip-flopped when NATO was going to arm Ukraine and said it would be a game changer. He’s also made questionable statements about NATO being effective at training, which might have been true when they had the leisure of time, but can’t be now if nothing else based on how the Ukrainians have to be trained out of country, in too little time (a mere 3 weeks for the ones in the UK) and too few in number. Ritter also declared Lira to be dead when he disappeared. If you read Ritter”s Wikipedia entry (and there’s no reason for the pro-Establishment Wikipedia to cut Ritter any slack), Ritter was found guilty 2x, both time stings, both time with no actual sex, just phone and IIRC sexting. The first time was supposed to be sealed. It was nevertheless presented in the second case, where Ritter maintained the woman he never met was pretending to be 15 but wasn’t. When he was being prosecuted, you can guarantee the police got his computers and communication devices. If they had found any kiddie porn or evidence of solicitation or sex with minors, you can be sure that would have been brought in.

Robert Trivers and reciprocal altruism

https://quillette.com/2022/10/07/on-evolved-altruism/

Scott Ritter update with Anita K on nuclear exercises etc

Col. Doug Macgregor update on the Russian strikes

On Nord Stream 2 by Pepe Escobar

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/nord-stream-2-offers-germany-a-date-with-destiny/

Gilbert Doctorow on some awakening in Russia

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/10/11/partial-mobilization-and-democracy/

The Duran interview with Tim Kirby

ann American origin journalist living in Russia. it is different from usual interviews in that we get some glimpses of everyday life in Russia. it is possible that Tim Kirby is connected with particular sections of the people and one has to go through the comments to get some sense of the discussion.Gilbert Doctorow too wrote about everyday life in Russia but as a visitor.

Russia hits back after the Crimea bridge fire

Col. Douglas Macgregor Debunks Latest Ukraine Myths

Anil K interviews the Duran duo

Interview with Rukmini S

India Far Less Committed to Liberal Values Than Imagined, Data Shows https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/16/india-far-less-committed-to-liberal-values-than-imagined-data-shows/?fbclid=IwAR116qP1iOjyJ9XcBSxJSGidjCWe5UrnfCXZ7huhS0yox_q3gXa9C6chyzY second part: What the Numbers Say About Women, Caste, Religion & Voting in India https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/07/what-the-numbers-say-about-women-caste-religion-voting-in-india/?fbclid=IwAR17BYn7HarWOKZLwC53PLv97iydRviZdb1ZI3huBP0A0DxGxt8vthbxYFY

The Duran on war zones

there is a discussion on the referendums and the situation on the ground during that period explained by Patrick Lancaster and then China discussion with Alex

The Duran on the situation in Germany

Brian Berletic on the current Ukraine offensive

Ukraine conflict paradigm shift

Putin’s speech

compared tohis Munich2007speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladimir_Putin

An update from Brian Berletic

A retrospective of respective troop strengths and performances by Alexander Mercouris

Reckless administration and Pentagon the only hope

Another theory of the pipeline sabotage

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/the-bornholm-blow-up-repeats-the-bornholm-bash-poland-attacks-germany-and-blames-russia.html

About the pipeline damage

Surprising take on the referendum from Larry Johnson

https://sonar21.com/more-on-the-referendum-game-changer/

Blog traffic statistics from UNZ review

https://www.unz.com/announcement/less-than-200-million-but-also-more/

Volatility of prices

"The evidence is that the volatility of commodity prices is in the fiat currency they are priced in, and not the commodities themselves. Figure 3 shows this relationship, by comparing the price of oil measured in legal money (gold) and the fiat euro currency." From https://www.goldmoney.com/research/geopolitics-the-world-is-splitting-into-two

A Hugarian poll

Direct Democracy

Doug McGregor’s analysis

About Caratheodory with a tribute from Einstein

https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/constantin-caratheodory-greatest-greek-mathematician/?fbclid=IwAR1RZIgr6aJ7eThLP2yQndLBhI30Y7zx8kB0KMfMANbHgYs2elaNln5SQ2o

Update from Brian Berletic

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 21, 2022 - Referendums have been announced across Russian-held territory in Ukraine; - If incorporated into the Russian Federation, Moscow could upgrade the special military operation significantly; - The US Department of Defense, in a recent briefing, seems to acknowledge the limits of what aid it can provide Ukraine; - Western analysts appear to agree that Ukraine’s offensives may have been a final gamble, exhausting their reserves and leaving them at the mercy of subsequent Russian escalations;

Ukraine Update from ‘the Duran’

I have been following closely for some time the Russian SMO. it seems to me that it will go on for at least six more months. Russia has the upperhand and the coming winter will bring more economic woes to EU and Ukraine. Russia seems to be keeping its main army mostly in reserve to face possible NATO threats and is numerically at a disadvantage in Ukraine. But despite this it seems inevitable that Russia will prevail in due course and i will probably stop following the events clisely. Meanwhile herethe Alexander duo answer various queies from their audidnce Another phase inthe war Earlier report https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blackwater-mercenaries-training-far-right-militia-ukraine-donetsk-military-commander-claims

Putin May Upgrade SMO to Counter Terror Operation; Modi Says India Russia Friendship Unbreakable

where the meetingof Putin and Modi is described for 15 minutes from 48:30. Even more interesting, a description of Prime Minister of Pakistan speech below

DerridaHaramda!

https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2022/09/10/derrida-haramda-reading-deconstruction-in-pakistan/?fbclid=IwAR1nrutOAw-NZtY7Y4Wc74KHZ3QH5dKFM6SdC5wfIgDOH4vR074jg0gzcpo some problem. i am not able to post links properly. Those interested have to copy and search.

Lokayata

http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/848/1/Lokayata%20-%20a%20Study%20of%20Indian%20Materialism%20-%20Philisophy.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1phUBQp59WSRUu78gwUk5uyTc5lriSqdB-kcDO8ftjm0_PutFtdsEued4 by Debirasad Chattpadhyaya. more about the author https://www.frontierweekly.com/archive/vol-number/vol/vol-43-2010-11/vol-43-12-15/lokayata-43-12-15.pdf?fbclid=IwAR21QRVbjCS_BsXgDiUQFGsC2roAKq1_A1pvJZlwN__TQBjJTYN1hCkmuuQ

Scott Ritter on Kharkiv retreat

Another update from ‘the duran’

The Duran discussion ( over two and half hours) on the coming winter in Europe

twi Alexanders, Brian Berletic and Gonzalo Lira.Scary.

Russia 'Encircling' Bakhmut, Putin Sticks with SMO, Rebuffs Scholz, Macron

https://youtu.be/5RdTnaP5plk A comprehensive overview including estimates of troop numbers. I get the impression that Russia can end this quickly if it wants by increasing the infantry numbers but letting it burn slowly. May be it wants to preserve as much as possible of its troops if there is a bigger war with NATO.

From Mousiqar, Nadeem Begum, Salamat Ali and Nazakat Ali

 

An update from Duran

 

The coming winter in Europe

 But Russia seems to be supplying some LNG to Greeceand Sweden

Some deleted songs from films

 Mostly of Greta Dutt Here is one of the songs 

Russia starts hitting at civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

 

Hopefully temporary. See more details at https://youtu.be/cYbtKbJ37-M  Longer discussions by Alexander Mercouris https://youtu.be/96F5a0k3t8U

And Brian Berletic https://youtu.be/q-IE4094j14 My impression: Generally, it has been easy for Russia and there seem to be some miscalculations. Slow grind, economic pressure and coming winter are probably expected to do the job by Russia and one of the two counteroffensives seems to have been a tactical victory for Ukraine.

Alexander Mercouris is critical of the Russian approach

 

Sayee-Subbulakshmi

 Their background and relationship to Periyanaki from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayee–Subbulakshmi

Articles by Richard Singer and Minai, the first link has comments from some of their relatives. Here are couple of their dances 

The above are all from different language versions of the same film and all a bit different from each other. Periyanayaki sings in the Tamil and Telugu versions.

Dian Berletic and Alexander Mercouris differ a bit in their analyses

 https://youtu.be/n3zNxBahukU And https://youtu.be/JoroqK1QuCA

Scott Ritter on the new phase in Ukraine

 

In the new phase in Ukraine war

 By Gilbert Doctorow 

U.S. ups the ante: are we indeed headed into WWIII and what can save us?

Brian Berletic update on the two Ukraine counteroffensives

 

Saker explains the Russian military strategy in Ukraine

 Sekar explains. Check also the previous post by Chris Cappy which discipusses other aspects.

Chris Capp on Ukraine counteroffensive around Kherson

 This seems more objective than the others that I have been posing

Russian SMO in Ukraine, reports on the Ukraine counter-offensive

From Bhadrakumar and Brian Berletic

A Father’s Day in Australia

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid027XriJVSg3VaLfHJqwfZJdDSrAhbeBQsNFHEHQbqrDjBnFUDJX3pQLWFa4YVRheRSl&id=749518284

A poem by Jeannette Encinias

 https://www.jeannetteencinias.com/beneath-the-sweater-the-skin

Beneath the Sweater
and the Skin

How many years of beauty do I have left?

she asks me.

How many more do you want?

Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.

 

When you are 80 years old

and your beauty rises in ways

your cells cannot even imagine now

and your wild bones grow luminous and

ripe, having carried the weight

of a passionate life.

 

When your hair is aflame

with winter

and you have decades of

learning and leaving and loving

sewn into

the corners of your eyes

and your children come home

to find their own history

in your face.

 

When you know what it feels like to fail

ferociously

and have gained the

capacity

to rise and rise and rise again.

 

When you can make your tea

on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon

and still have a song in your heart

Queen owl wings beating

beneath the cotton of your sweater.

 

Because your beauty began there

beneath the sweater and the skin,

remember?

 

This is when I will take you

into my arms and coo

YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING

you've come so far.

I see you.

Your beauty is breathtaking.

Some European politicians

 

Discussion about Alexander Dugin

 with two of his translators. It seems that there are similar things going on like Hindutva in other places.

Alexander Mercouris update

 

A briefer version https://youtu.be/eUHh58fz0V4 from ‘the duran’

Latest Kherson offensive falls flat

 

Strange developments at Zaporizhzhia

 

See also this comment in MoA

Intel Slava Z

🇷🇺🇺🇦 And so what happened today in Energodar. The landing operation was supposed to be the icing on the cake of the Kherson offensive. The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared it for a long time, trained landings from boats, carefully masked the preparatory measures (which did not prevent our intelligence from carefully monitoring them).

And even though the Kherson offensive operation itself did not go according to plan, the capture of Energdar by a river assault was supposed to neutralize the negative consequences of huge losses and, in general, at the moment, an extremely unsuccessful attempt at a counteroffensive.

As a result, early this morning, 2 barges and up to 30 boats of the Ukrainian landing force began to cross the Dnieper and crossed it directly into a prepared ambush, where Russian Guard soldiers and army aviation were already waiting for them.

One barge was burned right on the way, parts of the landing force were allowed to land on the shore, pressed down by fire and began to methodically and cold-bloodedly destroy. Now up to 60 corpses of Ukrainian fighters of the most elite units lie on the shore, the beauty and pride of the ZSU. The rest swim in the river and feed the fat Dnieper crayfish.

There were instructors from NATO countries, we will find out after examining the corpses, it is quite possible that they were. In any case, the landing operation will go down in the golden annals of the most disastrous operations, and drowned men in the form of Zbroynyh forces emerging from the waters of the Dnieper at night will be part of Little Russian folklore for a long time to come.

Zaporizhzhiye updates

 

Marcel Marceau story

 Marcel Marceau: The Legendary Mime Who Saved Jewish Children and Fought Nazis

"It had nothing to do with show business. He was miming for his life.”

Marcel Marceau developed his craft while desperately trying to keep children quiet as he helped them escape the Nazis…

Zaporizhzhia update

 Russia welcomes idea of permanent IAEA presence at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Coming European winter May not be so bad

 China Is Quietly Reselling Its Excess Russian LNG To Europe

From MoA

And other pro-Russian sites. But CNN, western newspapers and sites not favourable to Russia have more hopes.

Ukraine - A 'Counteroffensive' That Was Destined To Fail 

Moon of Alabama follows up the previous post

 Europe's Economic And Social Suicide - Provoked by The U.S. And Helped Along By Europe's Leaders

Yves Smith writes

 Will Europe Go Down to Defeat Before Ukraine?

POLLINATING FIGS: THE INSIDE STORY — FIG WASPS

The secret life of figs  

Playback for Suraiya, almost.

 

Modern movies to understand Russia

 Russian soul through movies

Coming winter

 In UK

In Europe

Standstill says military summary

 

And conflicting reports about missile strike at a railway station in Ukraine https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/death-toll-rises-after-russian-missile-strike-on-railway-station-20220825-p5bcw2.html

Alexander Mercouris disagrees 

Secrets of the Arab Cafe

 https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2021/2/17/secrets-of-the-arab-cafe The stories behind four iconic cafés in Marrakesh, Cairo, Algiers and Hebron and their role in conversation and culture

From Umair Haque

 Britain is rewriting the rules of social collapse 

“The head of the NHS — or one of them, at any rate — recently warned his own government — that would be the British government — of a “humanitarian crisis.”

He said, let me quote, ‘Many people could face the awful choice of skipping meals to heat their homes and having to live in cold and very unpleasant conditions.” To translate that from polite British official-ese for you, that’s the head of the National Health Service warning his own government that scores of people are going to freeze to death.”

Check also https://systemschangealliance.org/beyond-collapse-the-prophetic-voices-of-umair-haque-ravi-batra-peter-turchin-and-h-t-odum/

Open house of many pro-Russia commentators in the Ukraine conflict

 Four and half hours. I watched only bits of it.

Colonel Douglas McGregor updatesthe Ukraine situation

 

BobDylan at 23

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/10/24/the-crackin-shakin-breakin-sounds?fbclid=IwAR02wCY0RPuvGociHqbty60zCCWsvb4WVPJ9uuWSgEDCVGdgKGlfCK2iGZc

Discussing Ukraine. Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris

 

David Harveyon Marx

 Why Marx’s Capital Still Matters AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID HARVEY

Bilkis Bano case

Bilkis Bano Case: Release Of Convicts Reveals Chinks In The Armour Of Law from Outlook

State rights in india, gradually eroded.

 

Life evolved in thermal vents?

 A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging in part a review of 

Transformer

The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

By Nick Lane.

Col.McGregor latest summary and forecast

 

 At be after this, I can stop following Ukraine news.

The situation at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

 Via a comment in ‘Moon of Alabama’ in 

Ukraine Open Thread 2022-133

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is analyzing the development of the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Since July 18, 2022, the station has been subjected to systematic shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine from multiple rocket launchers, barrel artillery and using unmanned aerial vehicles.

As of August 18, 2022, 12 attacks were carried out, during which more than 50 artillery shell explosions and 5 kamikaze drones were recorded on the territory of the NPP and the city of Energodar.
The Russian Defense Ministry conducted an investigation and found that the strikes were carried out from the direction of the settlements of Manganese and Nikopol.

As a result of the shelling, the auxiliary support systems of the station were damaged, as well as the life support facilities of the city of Energodar.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian side, together with their curators from the United States, is trying to play the card, causing, in their opinion, a minor accident at the nuclear power plant and thereby disrupting the normal and safe operation of the nuclear power plant, blaming Russia for this.

The Ukrainian side has repeatedly stated that the strikes on the plant are carried out by the Armed Forces of Russia, and Russian heavy weapons are placed on the territory of the NPP, from which shelling is carried out on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

We are ready to present to the IAEA real pictures with very high resolution, the sample is placed on a slide, which shows that we do not place weapons, especially heavy ones, on the territory of this station. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation said this to UN Secretary-General Guterres.

We know that in the presence of a large number of military and commercial foreign satellites, the same information can be presented to the world community by the American side.

At the same time, the United States suppresses objective data on the shelling and the situation at the nuclear power plant, thereby encouraging the impunity of the Kiev regime and contributing to the possible development of a nuclear catastrophe in Europe.

It is no coincidence that the conclusions of specialists of the American Agency for Arms Control and Disarmament (Washington, DC) and a number of other similar institutions of Western countries, and not the IAEA, which has the right to such conclusions, are widely quoted in the media that the occurrence of a large-scale disaster at the NPP seems unlikely.

In their opinion, the thickness of the concrete shelters of its nuclear reactors is 10 meters, in addition, the station was designed and built taking into account the need to overcome the consequences of incidents such as the fall of a civilian aircraft.

At the same time, it is not excluded that a direct hit of large–caliber artillery shells into the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel will lead to radioactive contamination of the area within a radius of up to 20 km, and an emergency situation at a nuclear reactor is up to 30 km maximum. At the same time, it is emphasized that the risks of radiation spreading on the territory of European countries are assessed as minimal.

Thus, according to American experts, the consequences of the nuclear incident at the Zaporozhye NPP will be limited and will not affect the territory of European countries.

I would like to remind the UN Secretariat and the entire world community that the principal cause of the accidents at the Chernobyl plant and the Fukushima nuclear power plant, despite the fact that in the first case there were experiments with a nuclear reactor, and in the second case – an earthquake and tsunami, is the failure of supply systems, disruption of power supply, partial and complete de–energization cooling systems, which led to overheating of the nuclear fuel and destruction of the reactor.

As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the territory of more than 20 European countries was contaminated with radioactive isotopes. About 4 thousand people died from direct exposure to radiation, tens of thousands of cases of genetic deformities in newborns and hundreds of thousands of oncological diseases were recorded. Not counting the consequences of forced evacuation, up to 100 thousand people and more than 5.5 million people received an increased dose of radiation.

At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, only at first glance it may seem that the consequences are insignificant. Up to 500 thousand people were subjected to gradual forced evacuation, and descendants will feel the consequences of dumping radioactive water into the ocean.

One gets the feeling that this has been forgotten.

According to our experts, due to the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a similar situation may arise at the Zaporozhye NPP.

Thus, in case of failure of backup diesel generators and mobile pumps, in case of an emergency, the core will overheat and, as a result, the destruction of reactor installations at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe with the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere and their spreading for hundreds of kilometers.

Such an emergency situation will cause mass migration of the population and will have more catastrophic consequences than the impending gas energy crisis in Europe, which is confirmed by the forecast of a number of European specialized organizations.

In addition, according to available information, as part of a trip to Ukraine from August 17 to 19, 2022, UN Secretary-General Guterres plans to visit the city of Odessa. By this date, the Armed Forces of Ukraine intend to stage a provocation of a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye NPP, which consists in the leakage of radiation, destruction of the integrity of the nuclear waste storage and the withdrawal of the NPP reactor into a state of abnormal operation.

All this, according to their plan, should be a consequence of the military actions of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of the nuclear power plant, the incompetence of Russian specialists involved in the operation of this nuclear facility.

In order to stage the AFU, it is planned to deploy radiation monitoring posts to the compounds, military units and units stationed in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, which are part of the united group of forces "Dnepr", to provide 100 percent of the military personnel with means of chemical and radiation protection, to conduct training on chemical and radiation protection and other security measures for the purpose of staging the AFU. In particular, the units of the 44th separate artillery brigade were ordered to be ready to act in conditions of radiation contamination of the area by August 19. In the same place, in the area of the Zaporozhye NPP, units of the 704th separate regiment of the RCB protection of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being transferred.

Artillery strikes on the NPP are planned from the city quarters of the city of Nikopol.
This "performance" will be accompanied by alerts to the population about the increase in radiation background and other "special effects". The staging is carried out in the interests of influencing the UN Secretary General and the international community to cover up decisions beneficial to Kiev.

The ultimate goal of the provocation is the creation of an exclusion zone of up to 30 km, the introduction of international forces and foreign observers into the territory of the NPP, as well as the accusation of the Russian Armed Forces of nuclear terrorism.

As a conclusion from the above, we draw your attention to the fact that with the continuation of the negative development of the situation related to the shelling of the nuclear power plant by Ukraine, the issue of the withdrawal of 5 and 6 power units to the "cold reserve" may be considered, which will lead to the shutdown of the Zaporozhye NPP.

An article by Salman Rushdie from 40 years ago

 Imaginary Homelands

Nasir Abid on Naipaul

 One of the best articles about Naipaul that I have read. It also says that the family were originally called Dubey but they emigrated to Nepal which gave rise to the later family name. There is a passing reference to Salman Rushdie.

Five days with VS Naipaul

Putin and Shoigu on globalisation

 

James Brown, an early dance

 

Leonardo self supporting bridge

 https://www.facebook.com/749518284/posts/pfbid02UCeWLSbgExaFmefYbeXfHMRetgrouyniBW32ZzCQdxtVU4hov3uppFKWFqd6beVSl/

Col Douglas Macgregor a week ago talks about Biden, deep state etc and Trumpt’s attempt to get out of Afghanistan

 

Change of tactics by Ukraine?

 More sabotage operations says 

From Alexander Mercouris

 Update where he explains the importance of the Ukraine military operation and why he is focussing on it compared to other issues.

A comment from’ Moon ofAlabama’

 Military Summary PREVIEW of coming months, from minute 17'30":

https://youtu.be/9Ae0A-wgd5E?t=1050

2022-September-11: referendums of Kherson and Zaporizhia
After: moving a bunch of conscripts to their new Russian territory
Then: freeing SMO troops to storm what's left of Novorussia: Khrakiv in the east, Dnipropetrovks in the center, and Odessa in the south-west.
Tactics: encircle those big cities (and Nikolaev and Zaporizhia) instead of urban fighting. This was saves troops, and keeps the big "trophies" intact.
Priority: save the Nuclear power plant, and the dam north of Kherson. Push Ukraine's shelling away from that. That's +80Km north and west of Dnipre river, up to Kryvyi Rih.
Meanwhile: keep the meat grinder in Donbass until Donetsk Republic is 100% liberated.

It makes sense to me. I guess the Kiev junta will really miss that deal that they could have signed in April...

Long read from Myrmikan Research

The world gone mad 

Ukraine update from Brian Berletic

 

Secondary sanctions

 Secondary sanctions from TRT related to the previous post. “…..Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, while in Accra, Ghana delivering a pretty lucid threat to any African countries considering buying Russian oil. ”