Decrying a 'spiraling humanitarian nightmare,' UN Secretary-General #AntonioGuterres declared that nowhere in #Gaza was safe for civilians, hours before the #US vetoed a #SecurityCouncil resolution backed by the vast majority of its members. #Israel

Gaza fighting intensifies, US vetoes Security Council demand for ceasefire
https://www.rappler.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war-updates-december-9-2023/

Israeli authorities are investigating claims by #US researchers that some #investors may have known in advance of a #Hamas plan to attack Israel on 7 October and used that information to profit from Israeli securities.#Israel #StockMarket

Israeli authorities investigate claims of #ShortSelling before Hamas attacks | #IsraelHamasWar | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/israeli-authorities-investigate-claims-of-short-selling-before-hamas-attacks

Vice President #KamalaHarris said in a meeting Saturday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi that #Washington will not allow for the forced relocation of #Palestinians or any redrawing of the current border of the #GazaStrip. #US #Israel #Egypt

Harris says US will ‘under no circumstances’ permit forced relocation of Palestinians
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/02/politics/harris-cop28-israel-gaza/index.html

On Wednesday night, before the extension was announced, 10 #Israelis and four #Thais had been handed over to the #RedCross in #Gaza. The group included dual citizens with #US, #German and German nationality, Qatar said. The IDF said two hostages with Russian citizenship had crossed into #Egypt. Thirty Palestinian prisoners were later freed, including well-known activist #AhedTamimi.

#Israel-#Hamas war: ceasefire extended for a day amid last-minute mediation efforts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/israel-hamas-war-ceasefire-extension-one-day-details-gaza-hostages-palestine

#Washington has long been #Israel’s strongest military and diplomatic backer – but the relationship has evolved over time

#US wasn’t always Israel’s strongest ally – what changed and why? | US foreign policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer

The rally, organised by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is expected to see 100,000 people at the event on the National Mall, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service.#US

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in #Washington on Tuesday for a “March for Israel” to support #Israel, condemn #antisemitism and demand the release of the #hostages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/14/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-alshifa-hospital-staff-patients-trapped-israeli-drone-strike-west-bank-deaths-palestine?page=with:block-6553b9dd8f08fcf720c2cc5c#block-6553b9dd8f08fcf720c2cc5c

#anticommunism #mccarthyism #USA #US #CIA #pentagon #history #map of #american #terrorism

#USA #us #manipulation #ukrainian #vassalage #corruption #terrorism #sbu #economy #depression infinite #poverty after collapse USSR #history #failstate

"Our warnings and request to cancel the visa-free regime for representatives of the European Union and the USA, or to expel undesirable persons from the country were refused by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the presidential administration and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, citing political inexpediency," he stressed.

Zakharchenko added that on January 9, 2014, the Main Department of the Interior Ministry in Kiev, having collected the necessary materials, registered a crime under the article on "violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power." However, after the criminal case was transferred to the SBU, it was dropped within a week, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.

#western #USA #us #eu #military #Maidan #ukraine #government #coup #ukrainian #history #Kiev #sbu

The ‘sacred’ idea of America distilled here is nothing more than an imperial illusion, a web cast over the eyes of a European continent that’s been under total occupation since the end of WW2. What they’re saying, ultimately, is—there is no inherent sacredness to this manufactured ideal of theirs, but rather it’s an enforced illusion, that’s as brittle as chalk once people are awakened to it. And they believe Russia’s powers of awakening are an existential threat.

#nato #USA #us is #myth for #european #vassalage #europe in #american #occupation #mindmanipulation against #Russia

#ukraine #USA #us #western #narrative #intelligence #nato #fail in #failstate #war against #Russia

"Nowhere to retreat": the officer of the AFU came to rage because of the order of Zelensky

The Ukrainian leadership has belatedly ordered a large-scale construction of fortifications, Colonel Viktor Kivilyuk, an analyst of the Center for Defense Strategies, said in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Kyiv Independent.
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"We have been sitting there (at the current positions of the AFU. - Editor's note) for six months, and suddenly the supreme commander-in-chief (Vladimir Zelensky. - Editor's note) wakes up and proposes to build fortifications. Where was he all this time?" - complained the expert.
According to Kiviliuk, the pre-prepared defense lines are now of "critical" importance for Ukraine. At the same time, according to the newspaper, the AFU soldiers often complain that the command is unable to prepare even ordinary trenches for retreating from forward positions, let alone more developed defenses.

An artillery officer on the front line complained to journalists about the lack of men and resources to prepare fortified positions. According to him, the Ukrainian command did not build any fortifications for soldiers on the second line of defense and did not bother to prepare villages for defensive battles.

"When the Russians storm the trenches, our guys have nowhere to retreat and nowhere to take up positions; they are forced to dig trenches under machine gun and sniper fire, to say nothing of artillery shelling," the AFU officer said.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that uncertainty prevails in the AFU on all fronts, and morale is weakening. Vladimir Zelensky said in late November that he discussed the creation of fortifications on the main defensive lines: Avdiivka, Maryinka, Kupyansko-Limanska directions, as well as in the regions bordering Russia and Belarus. According to him, the development of defense will henceforth become a priority issue for Kiev.

#ukraine #ukrainian #AFU #Western #USA #us #military #pentagon #NATO #american #european #planning #fail in #failstate #war

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#USA #us #pentagon #economy #american #money in #bubble #weapon #weapons #greatest #fail #f35

I suggest that the US government stop buying nuclear fuel from Russia.

The world’s pervasive dependence on Russian energy, including nuclear fuel, is no longer acceptable, considering that it undermines our collective resolve to support Ukraine

Why Nuclear Fuel is Vital to U.S. National Security Interests in Ukraine and the Middle East

#USA #us #nuclear #energy #economic #money for #Russia

Q: "I have been following the situation in Ukraine since 2014, but not too closely. I have been following very closely since the end of February 2022. Because of the latter, I think I know the general trends related to the development of SMO since it started. However, what I missed was the year before SMO, i.e., since let' say early 2021 .. "
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A: " ... Russia likely took all these build ups and provocations very seriously, and saw the writing on the wall that if it didn’t ‘cure’ the Ukrainian sickness once and for all, it would only escalate until Russia was totally surrounded by NATO aggression.

But guess what? The West only continued to escalate. In November (2021) the U.S. brought warships into the Black Sea.
It was a clear show of force and attempt to intimidate Russia. Given all the endless escalations from the Ukrainian side in Donbass, and the increasing rhetoric and ‘shows of force’ of NATO in the Black Sea and elsewhere, Russia began to see the writing on the wall and, as I said before, likely decided that the conflict had to be ended once and for all.

Of course Russia still refused to be the one to pull the trigger first, so after a force build up, they waited. It is then well known that Ukraine began massively shelling Donbass in January and February 2022, as recorded by the OSCE:

And as they say, the rest is history."

#nato #USA #us #britain #pentagon #war #provocation #warmongers #ukraine #ukrainian #history #Russia

it’s the Abrams’ filters that might prove to be the biggest headaches for Ukrainian troops. Twice a day, an M-1 crew must rev its tank’s engine to high revolutions-per-minute in order to trigger a pulse-jet system that blasts air out of the tank rather than into it, shooting dust and debris from the back grille.

That keeps the filters clean across lengthy deployments. Before the Americans added the pulse-jet system to the M-1, in the early 2000s, tank crews—especially those fighting in the desert—openly complained about their vehicles’ reliability.

“Army officials are aware of the problems with high fuel consumption, unreliable fuel pumps and sand-ingestion,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 1992. “They are working on solutions.”

The solution to the sand-ingestion problem was the twice-a-day pulse-jet cleaning process. It works just fine, as long as crews rigorously adhere to its schedule. Even when they’re getting shot at.

"All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can't be repaired in the field," Mark Hertling, a retired U.S. Army general

#USA #us #weapons #abrams #nato #fail in #failstate #ukraine

The U.S. is establishing a single formalized system for coordinating PSYOP efforts among the security, intelligence, and civilian agencies

A new U.S. approach to waging information warfare operations states that military and civilian defense organizations will rely on Pentagon public affairs officials with support from academics and non-government organizations to counter Chinese and Russian disinformation.

#USA #us #infowar #psyops #pentagon #military #dictatorship #censorship against #democracy

Bloomberg reports that European plastic producers (and plastic is the base of the modern economy) are cutting back on production and states the beautiful thing:

"It would be a mistake to interpret this as a triumph in the fight against plastic. Europe continues to consume huge quantities of Styrofoam, paints, resins and any other products that petrochemical plants produce. This is simply replacing local production with imported production.

Petrochemicals are inherently energy intensive In Europe, natural gas is about five times more expensive than in the United States. [note to Crimson: what expensive freedom molecules in US LNG it turns out! Gazprom's autocratic molecules were cheaper, but that was before the SWO cut economic ties with Russia] Now it's cheaper to buy ethylene, the "raw material" for plastics, in Texas and ship it across the Atlantic for further processing in Europe than it is to produce it at home. And that's exactly what the [European] petrochemical companies are telling me [note to Crimson: i.e., the author of the Bloomberg piece]. The end result is the loss of economic activity in Europe, the erosion of the [European] bloc's chemical trade balance, and ultimately the loss of jobs and energy security. [...]
Privately, industry executives say they cannot lose money for so long, so the closure of [petrochemical operations] in 2024 looks inevitable.

Using more diplomatic language, the IEA [International Energy Agency] said last week that "it is becoming increasingly difficult to see how the petrochemical industry on the [European] continent can regain its former position". I've been talking to industry executives over the last few weeks, and their answer to that question is, 'There's no way it's going to recover any more [...]

Europe has [already] lost other industries to Asia. Steel, textiles and shipbuilding have moved east. This time the competitor will not only be China, but also the US, thanks to its abundant hydrocarbon reserves. Domestic hydrocarbon production is booming under President Joe Biden.""


To understand: the cost of the issue is about 40 billion dollars a year in lost exports (net). And all just on a single example of a single industry.

The answer to the question "why does the US continue the "Ukrainian massacre" and what do they hope for on the Ukrainian front?" doesn't really have much to do with Ukraine itself. The Americans are now hitting the European economy (from automobile manufacturing to petrochemicals) with control shots, and they need to make sure that nothing grows back there. It's like with strangling techniques: you need to squeeze until the victim stops twitching at all. And in order for the European industrial economy to shake off its hooves, the "Ukrainian case" must be prolonged. It won't be long now, in 2024 everything will probably be closed.


#eu #europe #chemical #economy #future in #poverty by #european #vassalage #USA #us #profit

In 2022, the Pentagon only managed to account for 39 percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets. With this failure, the Pentagon has kept its spot as the only US government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit. It also highlights the US war department's persistent lack of internal financial control, its poor budget estimations and rampant overspending.

A clear example of this is the F-35 program, which has gone over its original budget by $165 billion to build a plane tasked to perform many different tasks, none of which it does well.The Pentagon is slated to buy more than 2,400 F-35s for the Air Force, Marines, and Navy. The estimated lifetime cost for procuring and operating these planes – $1.7 trillion – would make it the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons project ever.

A 2021 Pentagon assessment of the F-35 found 800 unresolved defects in the plane.

For sixth year, Pentagon fails to account for over $3T


Let's remember Zumwalt, it's a total failure there too.
+ U.S. Air Force Secretary Warns Development of Urgently Needed ICBM ‘Struggling’: Program Collapse Possible


With such weapons, the US military is very lucky that the "evil" Russians haven't destroyed them yet.

#us #USA #american #military #warmongers #deepstate #pentagon #fail #weapons #nato #western #economy #money #finance

If the Russians were Americans, they would not hesitate to bring nuclear armageddon to the US right now with their hypersonic missiles. But fortunately for the Americans, the Russians always think about the civilians who may innocently suffer. In short, the Americans are extremely lucky.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Warns Development of Urgently Needed ICBM ‘Struggling’: Program Collapse Possible

#us #USA #military #nuclear #weapons #pentagon #fail lucky #americans

Some assholes say that the USSR would not have defeated the Nazis if not for lend-lease.
The Kiev regime is more than fully provided with lend-lease, so why doesn't it win?
#military #pentagon #USA #us #eu #europe #britain #germany and other american vassals #warmongers #vassalage #war in #ukraine #ukrainian #terrorism #american and #european #weapons and #money for #failstate

Reuters is just reporting that the #US, #Israel and #Egypt have agreed to a #ceasefire in southern #Gaza to coincide with the reopening of the #Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border. We had earlier seen media reports saying the Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing - now the only possible road out of Gaza - will be open "for a few hours" on Monday
#IDF spox on air just now with #BBCWorldService didn't seem to have any knowledge of any such agreement

the #US Embassy in #Israel said people "may wish to move closer" to the #Rafah crossing on the #Gaza - #Egypt border. It was citing US media reports which said the Rafah crossing will open "for a few hours". Neither report has been confirmed.

NBC News, citing a #Palestinian official, said the crossing would be open at 9am local time. ABC News, citing a security source, said the crossing would open for a few hours on Monday "and then close again in the late afternoon".

The #US embassy in #Israel has said it has offered Americans + their immediate relatives evacuation by sea.

Those eligible will leave from the port city of #Haifa for #Cyprus on Monday.
'Entry requirements can be found here: https://mfa.gov.cy/visa-information.html
Those wanting to board will be asked to sign a n agreement to repay the US govt

Meanwhile the UK Foreign Office is telling British nationals in #Gaza to prepare in case the #Rafah border crossing into #Egypt is opened:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67114394

The #US State Department has confirmed 29 American citizens have been killed in #Hamas attacks in #Israel

In a statement, the State Department added it was aware of 15 more citizens and one permanent resident of the US that are still unaccounted for.

The head of Lockheed-Martin is on the line:

"It makes no sense to keep Israel from a military operation. What is the point? In further developing our industrial complex, which should account for more than 2% of GDP. There are conflicts that need to be resolved with weapons - and we are ready to provide those weapons"

With regard to the war in Ukraine, a similar logic applies. And with regard to a future war in Taiwan, too.
#USA #us #warmongers #weapons for #war #capitalism #imperialism #Israel #ukraine

It has passed 9 AM in #Israel and #Gaza - a quick recap:
#US is in talks with #Israel , the #UN and #Egypt on allowing aid into #Gaza , and providing safe passage out of the territory for some residents. #Blinken is due to land in Israel

Israel has massed troops near the Gaza border, which includes about 300,000 #reservist forces. It is still unclear if and when it plans to launch a ground offensive inside Gaza
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The move to recruit ISIS fighters should come as no surprise given that prominent members of the Zelensky’s administration who have shown public appreciation and admiration for the Islamic State.

One of Zelensky’s closest friends and associates, Aleksey Arestovich is a controversial figure, to say the least. He often boasts about being one of the architects of Ukraine’s psychological and information warfare strategy.

During his attendance on a Ukrainian political talk show (most likely in previous years), Mr. Arestovich openly stated that he “admired and respected” the methods used by the infamous Islamic State, a global Islamic terrorist group, widely known for the absolutely horrific crimes, destruction and simply havoc they have brought on the peoples of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and even the Philippines, in addition to numerous individual terrorist attacks all across the globe. This was what Mr. Arestovich said:

“The commanders of ISIL are considered some of the more wise and successful commanders that there are currently. Everything is thought through in detail, even the degree of cruelty. Cruelty for show – it is inhumane, but it is of a very high level, a wise strategy, taking their particular interests into account.”

#USA #us #nato #Zelensky #ukraine #ukrainian #terrorism #AFU #ISIS

At the end of the war, Stetsko – who had eagerly written about the need to adopt Germany’s genocide methods to exterminate Ukraine’s Jews – decamped for America, where he spent decades running the OUN from the US while traveling in the highest circles of Washington, DC. Both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush celebrated Stetsko as a staunch anti-communist freedom fighter. He died in 1986.

Fighting communism is part of the reason Stetsko and thousands of others were welcomed by Western governments. As World War II rapidly transitioned into the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies recognized the potential of nurturing anti-Soviet groups in order to weaken the Kremlin’s hold over Eastern Europe. As a result, those who fought against Moscow became welcome assets. Some of the most organized and zealous assets also happened to be fascists and anti-Semites whose vision of freedom – and wartime experience – involved cleansing Jews and other ethnicities from their homeland.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/opinions/dark-postscript-america-nazis-golinkin/index.html
#SS #canada #britain #CIA #USA #us #american #history support #ukrainian and other #nazi #antisemitism #anticommunism #WWII #WW2

A YEAR OF LYING ABOUT NORD STREAM

#western #lie by #CIA #USA #us

BlackRock and the sale of Ukraine to transnational capital

It should be noted here that there is nothing particularly new in the agreement with BlackRock; this agreement only continues and expands the sell-off of strategic sectors of the Ukrainian economy, which was started by the previous head of the Kiev regime, Petro #Poroshenko. The list of Ukrainian companies in which the Black Rock empire was interested includes such giants as Metinvest, DTEK (energy), PrJSC MHP (agriculture), Naftohaz, Ukrzaliznytsya, Ukravtodor, and Ukrenergo.
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According to these data, in 2022, during the "acquaintance" with BlackRock, Vladimir #Zelensky 's personal fortune more than doubled: it increased from 650 million dollars to 1.5 billion dollars.

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#USA #us #warmongers #blackrock #ukraine #economy #ukrainian #corruption #failstate

At one time 72% of people voted for clown Zelensky because Poroshenko got everyone sick of his Russophobia.
#history #USA #us #sbu #ukraine #ukrainian #nazism #nazi #neo-nazi #Azov #Kiev #Avakov #Poroshenko is #western #puppet after government #coup #Maidan

#USA #us #nato #pentagon #warmongers #ukraine #Russia

"According to declassified documents made public under the Freedom of Information Act, on the night of December 3, 1949, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission sprayed radioactive iodine-131 (12,000 Curies) and xenon-133 (20,000 Curies) over 500,000 acres of land, including the Washington State towns of Hanford, White Bluff and Richland as part of Project Green Run.

About two thousand square miles of land in Washington State was contaminated. The radioactive cloud spread throughout that state and went into Oregon. The purpose of this exercise was to practice what the military would do after a nuclear strike."



“Fallout from the nuclear tests—radioactive particles that were swept into the atmosphere and fell back down to the earth—found their way into crops and livestock, whose radioactivity humans took on when they consumed milk, meat and produce. Fallout takes many different chemical forms, one of which is iodine-131: an isotope, or version, of iodine that has the usual 53 protons but 78 neutrons instead of the standard 74. Inside the body, the thyroid gland will absorb iodine-131, which eventually decays to produce radiation that can cause thyroid cancer and other problems.”


“The Nuclear Arms Race was the direct result of America’s September 1945 plan to “blow up the Soviet Union”, formulated by the US War Department.
The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb in 1949. Without the Manhattan Project and the War Department’s September 15, 1945 “World War III Blueprint”, the Arms Race would not have occurred.
The September 15, 1945 War Department set the stage for numerous plans to wage World War III against Russia and China:”



“The city leaders were very excited to have a nuclear test site on their doorstep. After all, the tourists showed unprecedented enthusiasm for what was happening in the desert. The first test, code-named Able, which was held Jan. 27, 1951, was celebrated with a musical parade attended by young girls dressed in costumes resembling a nuclear mushroom - says Fuhrer. - "Then a B-50 bomber dropped a nuclear bomb on the range whose power matched the power of both nuclear bombs the Americans dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.”

“Typically, over the next 12 years, tests were conducted every three weeks. Soon they became a real event. Tourists and locals drove to the desert, had picnics and watched the explosion from about 100 km away .”


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The Pentagon wants to play with nuclear weapons again





#USA #us #american #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #nuclear #experiments #weapons #history #lang_en #photo #pentagon #warmongers

#history #Maidan #Nuland #Tyahnybok #Yatseniuk #ukrainian #nazism #nazi #neo-nazi #Azov

#military #capitalism #USA #us

"Our soldiers had years to work it out, while the Ukrainians only had a few weeks," she said.

This is a direct lie, or rather a #hutzpah. With the help of NATO countries and the US in particular, the ukrainian army has been preparing for this war at least for 9 years, starting in 2014 #Maidan.


https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1281750
#nato #USA #us #weapon for #ukraine #failstate #ukrainian #army #western #media #lie #wsj

#ukrainisation #USA #us #money #capitalism is #poverty

#ukrainisation #USA #us #britain #france #germany #spain #europe #eu #mexico #brasil #korea #capitalism is #poverty #statistics

Oleh Tyahnybok (Ukrainian right-wing politician. Ukrainian nationalist, chairman of the Svoboda party) has repeatedly made statements that were seen as Russophobic and anti-Semitic. One of the most scandalous statements took place on July 17, 2004 on the Yavoryni Mountain in Ivano-Frankivsk region, when at a closed event dedicated to the memory of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Dmytro Klyachkivskyi (Klim Savur) - Tyahnybok made the following words:

They were not afraid, just as we should not be afraid now, they took an automatic rifle around their necks and went into those forests, they prepared and fought with the Moskals (Russians), fought with the Germans, fought with the Yidva (Jews) and with other filth who wanted to take our Ukrainian state away from us... It is necessary to give Ukraine, finally, to the Ukrainians. These young people, and you, gray-headed ones, are the mixture that is most feared by the Moskal-Zhidov (Russian-Jewish) mafia, which today rules in Ukraine.

We can also see in the photo Arseniy Yatsenyuk another Ukrainian politician involved in the looting of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.

#ukraine #ukrainian #USA #us #politics #Nuland #McCain #Tyahnybok #Yatseniuk #nazi #neo-nazi #anti-Semitism #neocons #deepstate #anti-Russia #russophobia #history #photo