According to Pronews , “dozens of NATO officers” were killed in a “terrifying strike” by a Mach 12 missile. In all likelihood, we are talking about the defeat of the “shadow General Staff” of NATO in Ukraine. The secret underground bunker, built at a depth of 400 feet (120 meters), housed several NATO officers (retired) and advisers. In total, more than 300 people. To date, according to the portal, 40 people have been pulled out from under the rubble of the underground headquarters, but most of those who died under the rubble have not yet been found.
“This, ” says Pronews, “is the first such large-scale strike against the military personnel of NATO countries, and it is not known how the Western capitals will react to this, although in the event of a reaction, it would be like recognizing the active participation of military personnel in the war against Russia.”
According to the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, the bases of attack drones have been destroyed, the transfer of reserves and rail transportation of foreign weapons have been disrupted, and production facilities for the repair of military equipment and the production of ammunition have been disabled.
..whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..
Is there or is there not a radioactive cloud headed over EU? Guess we'll never know in this lie, deny, state until folks are glowing like my friends here
The destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine has produced a radioactive cloud which has been blown toward Western Europe, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has claimed. The UK has supplied this type of munition to Ukraine to be fired from British-made Challenger tanks.
The senior official revealed the purported threat during a government meeting on Friday, in which he accused the US of manipulating its allies to provide “help” to other nations that results in harm being done to the recipients.
“They ‘helped’ Ukraine this way too, applied pressure to its satellites to supply depleted uranium munitions. Their destruction resulted in a radioactive cloud moving towards Western Europe. They have detected an increase in radiation in Poland,” Patrushev stated.
Unconfirmed reports have circulated in Ukraine regarding the target of a Russian strike last Saturday, which Moscow said destroyed an ammunitions depot in the city of Khmelnitsky. According to the claims, the military facility was used to store British-provided depleted uranium shells. It has been suggested that the material may have been turned into dust by powerful explosions at the depot.
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Russia previously warned that the use of depleted uranium munitions poses a long-term environmental and public health threat, based on studies in nations such as Serbia and Iraq, where the weapons were previously used. London has denied such a risk.
While it is mildly radioactive, depleted uranium is mainly considered a health risk because the material is a toxic heavy metal. Particles of uranium or uranium oxide produced in an explosion could be inhaled by anyone exposed to them, or contaminate the environment.
Polish authorities have denied claims that a spike in radiation was detected in the eastern city of Lublin on Monday.
Speculation about the blast in Khmelnitsky was fueled by the reported deployment of Ukrainian military patrols that allegedly collected samples in and around the city. A nuclear power plant is located nearby, but reports claimed that patrols that normally monitor the situation around the facility were seen far away from their usual routes.
..whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..
As Ukraine is being relegated to non-news here in the US, Saruman's Orcs are stirring in Isengard and some folks are keeping a weather eye. Unfortunately not the Western "elites". Gilbert Doctorow keeps a foot in either camp based in Brussels (I think) he is specialises in Russian affairs. His latest long blog piece is worth a read.
My point in this article is that no one in leadership positions on this side of the New Iron Curtain seems capable of seeing beyond one move in the grand chess game of the Great Powers now proceeding before the eyes of the world. I dedicate this article in particular to the unidentified but very welcome readers in the U.S. Army who are following me on LinkedIn.
The starting point for today’s discussion is where I left off in my expose two days ago of the conformist and ill-considered presentation of the Russian-Ukraine war by The New York Times senior diplomatic correspondent in Brussels, Steven Erlanger, at a prestigious downtown club in this city.
I closed that expose by expanding on my question to Erlanger at the start of his Q&A: why were Europe and the U.S. so unprepared for the land war that Russia unleashed on 24 February 2022 given the way they all had taunted the Russian bear ever since 2014 in a manner that could only lead eventually to war.
.....The United States and Europe gloated at the way Russia stumbled in the opening days and weeks of the Special Military Operation. They concluded publicly that Russia was far less strong than anyone had supposed.
....Then it turned out that the Russians were firing up to 60,000 rounds of artillery a day,....Now all attention was directed to propping up the Kiev regime with ever more lethal military hardware while cleaning out the armories in Europe to an alarming degree. The Russians were finally understood to have the world’s biggest accumulation of munitions, backed up by the world’s biggest manufacturing capacity in this domain. This is not to mention the new wonder weapons like the hypersonic Kinzhal which the Russians began to introduce on the field of battle a year into the war.
My question was and is: why were these aspects of the coming war in and about Ukraine not foreseen by those in power in the West? This bespeaks gross irresponsibility and incompetence…and, surely, also vast corruption. How else can one understand that the three or four hundred billion euros spent collectively by the EU member states on defense each and every year for the past twenty years versus the 80 billion euros of the annual Russian military budget yielded such a discrepancy in war readiness when it finally came in early 2022? And of course, by extension, why did U.S. stores and manufacturing turn out to be so paltry given its military budget greater than most of the rest of the world combined?
Very little is being reported about the build-up of NATO troop strength and materiel all along the Eastern frontier with Russia. Very little is being reported right now in Western media about the threats coming from Poland to support an armed uprising being planned against the Lukashenko government in Belarus. Indeed earlier this week Polish television interviewed a former minister of defense who is actively pushing for his country to intervene militarily in support of any such uprising....
However, a lot more is being said on mainstream Russian television like Sixty Minutes that goes unreported by our press and that goes well beyond cracking down domestically in Russia....One of the most cogent such Duma member panelists is a retired general who has some very specific recommendations on military strategy that our boys in DC would do well to consider....Russia reserves use of nuclear weapons against NATO, as this Duma member made crystal clear.
If the hare-brained regime in Warsaw proceeds with plans to do Washington’s bidding and create a “second front” by invading Belarus under the guise of local insurgents, Russia will certainly intervene. President Putin specifically stated that yesterday, but you will not find his citation in today’s NYT. If as a follow-on, NATO begins to move against Russia along the vast front line that it has recently manned, then the Russian general’s proposed response is also ready to hand: to use tactical nuclear weapons against these NATO forces, destroy them and move tanks past them to the next point of resistance where it again uses nuclear weapons.
And what would the USA do about the destruction of its European allies? An informed guess is nothing. If Washington is now pussy-footing over whose tanks go to Ukraine, over whose F-16s go to Ukraine, all for the purpose of keeping the fight with Russia at the level of proxies, then why would the USA risk instant destruction by Russian strategic missiles just because Europe is burning?
..whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..
Budge wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 1:59 pm
As Ukraine is being relegated to non-news here in the US, Saruman's Orcs are stirring in Isengard and some folks are keeping a weather eye. Unfortunately not the Western "elites". Gilbert Doctorow keeps a foot in either camp based in Brussels (I think) he is specialises in Russian affairs. His latest long blog piece is worth a read.
My point in this article is that no one in leadership positions on this side of the New Iron Curtain seems capable of seeing beyond one move in the grand chess game of the Great Powers now proceeding before the eyes of the world. I dedicate this article in particular to the unidentified but very welcome readers in the U.S. Army who are following me on LinkedIn.
The starting point for today’s discussion is where I left off in my expose two days ago of the conformist and ill-considered presentation of the Russian-Ukraine war by The New York Times senior diplomatic correspondent in Brussels, Steven Erlanger, at a prestigious downtown club in this city.
I closed that expose by expanding on my question to Erlanger at the start of his Q&A: why were Europe and the U.S. so unprepared for the land war that Russia unleashed on 24 February 2022 given the way they all had taunted the Russian bear ever since 2014 in a manner that could only lead eventually to war.
.....The United States and Europe gloated at the way Russia stumbled in the opening days and weeks of the Special Military Operation. They concluded publicly that Russia was far less strong than anyone had supposed.
....Then it turned out that the Russians were firing up to 60,000 rounds of artillery a day,....Now all attention was directed to propping up the Kiev regime with ever more lethal military hardware while cleaning out the armories in Europe to an alarming degree. The Russians were finally understood to have the world’s biggest accumulation of munitions, backed up by the world’s biggest manufacturing capacity in this domain. This is not to mention the new wonder weapons like the hypersonic Kinzhal which the Russians began to introduce on the field of battle a year into the war.
My question was and is: why were these aspects of the coming war in and about Ukraine not foreseen by those in power in the West? This bespeaks gross irresponsibility and incompetence…and, surely, also vast corruption. How else can one understand that the three or four hundred billion euros spent collectively by the EU member states on defense each and every year for the past twenty years versus the 80 billion euros of the annual Russian military budget yielded such a discrepancy in war readiness when it finally came in early 2022? And of course, by extension, why did U.S. stores and manufacturing turn out to be so paltry given its military budget greater than most of the rest of the world combined?
Very little is being reported about the build-up of NATO troop strength and materiel all along the Eastern frontier with Russia. Very little is being reported right now in Western media about the threats coming from Poland to support an armed uprising being planned against the Lukashenko government in Belarus. Indeed earlier this week Polish television interviewed a former minister of defense who is actively pushing for his country to intervene militarily in support of any such uprising....
However, a lot more is being said on mainstream Russian television like Sixty Minutes that goes unreported by our press and that goes well beyond cracking down domestically in Russia....One of the most cogent such Duma member panelists is a retired general who has some very specific recommendations on military strategy that our boys in DC would do well to consider....Russia reserves use of nuclear weapons against NATO, as this Duma member made crystal clear.
If the hare-brained regime in Warsaw proceeds with plans to do Washington’s bidding and create a “second front” by invading Belarus under the guise of local insurgents, Russia will certainly intervene. President Putin specifically stated that yesterday, but you will not find his citation in today’s NYT. If as a follow-on, NATO begins to move against Russia along the vast front line that it has recently manned, then the Russian general’s proposed response is also ready to hand: to use tactical nuclear weapons against these NATO forces, destroy them and move tanks past them to the next point of resistance where it again uses nuclear weapons.
And what would the USA do about the destruction of its European allies? An informed guess is nothing. If Washington is now pussy-footing over whose tanks go to Ukraine, over whose F-16s go to Ukraine, all for the purpose of keeping the fight with Russia at the level of proxies, then why would the USA risk instant destruction by Russian strategic missiles just because Europe is burning?
This article is very sobering. While the focus back home is on making money and the AI frenzy, there are events unfolding that could have serious consequences if some sanity is not injected into the equation. For one we could all be glowing in the dark soon. I read another article somewhere that claimed the attack on Russia is due to its abundant resources, particularly its vast and pure water supplies, said to be the largest in the world.
There is a complete blackout of real news in the West. I think I lost two Ukrainian friends simply because I dared to offer an alternative viewpoint. I was shocked at how brainwashed they had become. The bottom line was that by questioning the narrative I was insulting every Ukrainian. I was literally stunned, considering I have known these individuals for over 10 years. I can honestly say that if they were armed and I were in the same room, I'm not sure if I would walk out or be carried out.
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SOL wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 6:25 pm
I read another article somewhere that claimed the attack on Russia is due to its abundant resources, particularly its vast and pure water supplies, said to be the largest in the world.
In 1974, University of Colorado, Navy ROTC class, we were told by the Commandant that wars in the future would be fought over water, not oil. Prescient or not, I've seen it happening.
We are a stardust WAVEFORM in a quantum entanglement.
scott wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:24 am
I hear now, they are not going to arrest Prigozhin. I think it was "maskirovka". The west will eat it up with relish.
It depends whether the demented corpse thinks we are vsing Stalin…he did say recently God bless the Queen in a recent campaign speech lolololol
I don’t know whether to run or just keep laughing at the clown show that is the presidential office
scott wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:24 am
I hear now, they are not going to arrest Prigozhin. I think it was "maskirovka". The west will eat it up with relish.
In the modern world of ISR (i.e., Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) it is virtually impossible for any country to assemble a secret army with the array of tanks and armored vehicles necessary to launch an offensive. So what is a military planner to do? Get the world focused on a shiny object that is powerful enough to attract and divert the opponents intelligence analysts from what is really going on. I believe that Prigozhin and Bakhmut are that shiny object and the West, like a bored dog, is frantically chasing Russian squirrels that have nothing to do with the force Russia has in reserve waiting for the right moment to strike.
I could be wrong, would not be the first time, but the very existence of Russia is at stake and I believe that Putin, Shoigu and Gerasimov fully grasp that reality and are prepared to act with all necessary force to defeat the looming threat.
One more point to consider — the Western narrative insists that Putin is a brutal dictator who brokers no dissent. Really? If that was true then Prigozhin would be in shackles headed for a secret prison were he would die of some unexpected illness. But that is not what we are seeing. Prigozhin is posting outrageous comments and videos and is still walking around. That fact alone persuades me that he is playing a role in Russia’s current Maskirovka campaign. https://sonar21.com/evgeny-prigozhin-tr ... askirovka/
Larry Johnson Ex CIA seems to agree with you
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The end is always near; its the beginning and how you live each moment that counts the most
scott wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:24 am
I hear now, they are not going to arrest Prigozhin. I think it was "maskirovka". The west will eat it up with relish.
In the modern world of ISR (i.e., Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) it is virtually impossible for any country to assemble a secret army with the array of tanks and armored vehicles necessary to launch an offensive. So what is a military planner to do? Get the world focused on a shiny object that is powerful enough to attract and divert the opponents intelligence analysts from what is really going on. I believe that Prigozhin and Bakhmut are that shiny object and the West, like a bored dog, is frantically chasing Russian squirrels that have nothing to do with the force Russia has in reserve waiting for the right moment to strike.
I could be wrong, would not be the first time, but the very existence of Russia is at stake and I believe that Putin, Shoigu and Gerasimov fully grasp that reality and are prepared to act with all necessary force to defeat the looming threat.
One more point to consider — the Western narrative insists that Putin is a brutal dictator who brokers no dissent. Really? If that was true then Prigozhin would be in shackles headed for a secret prison were he would die of some unexpected illness. But that is not what we are seeing. Prigozhin is posting outrageous comments and videos and is still walking around. That fact alone persuades me that he is playing a role in Russia’s current Maskirovka campaign. https://sonar21.com/evgeny-prigozhin-tr ... askirovka/
Larry Johnson Ex CIA seems to agree with you
Seems Scott Ritter doesn't agree with me. I deem him well informed, forthright, and much better than others on this issue, a credible source. However, he could be part of the maskirovka, if it is one. Think we might not know for years, if ever.
