Russia Ukraine Situation

[vadaga]

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/03/28/sorry-ukraine-but-will-smith-slapped-chris-rock-so-were-a-little-distracted-today/

[windwalker]

Remember when

Galston’s words were echoed by then U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who shortly after the NSS was published declared that the notion of pre-emptive self-defense would lead to a breakdown in international order.

For any military action against Iraq to have legitimacy under the U.N. Charter, Annan believed, there needed to be a new Security Council resolution which specifically authorized a military response.

The U.S. and U.K. did, in fact, seek to secure such a resolution in early 2003, but failed.

As such, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003 under the sole authority of the U.S. doctrine of pre-emption, “was not in conformity with the U.N. charter,” according to Annan, who added “From our point of view and from the charter point of view it was illegal.”

and now

Putin laid out a detailed case for pre-emption, detailing the threat that NATO’s eastward expansion posed to Russia, as well as Ukraine’s ongoing military operations against the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass.

The bottom line is that Russia has set forth a cognizable claim under the doctrine of anticipatory collective self defense, devised originally by the U.S. and NATO, as it applies to Article 51 which is predicated on fact, not fiction.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/r ... ggression/

[windwalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ercDCoYiADE


kind of reminds me of what happened

Upon learning that US nuclear activity mirrored its hypothesized first strike activity, Moscow Centre sent its residencies a flash telegram on November 8 or 9 (Oleg Gordievsky cannot recall which), incorrectly reporting an alert on American bases and frantically asking for further information regarding an American first strike.

The alert precisely coincided with the seven- to ten-day period estimated between NATO's preliminary decision and an actual strike.[49]

The Soviet Union, believing its only chance of surviving a NATO strike was to preempt it, readied its nuclear arsenal. The CIA reported activity in the Baltic Military District and in Czechoslovakia, and it determined that nuclear-capable aircraft in Poland and East Germany were placed "on high alert status with readying of nuclear strike forces".[11][50] A 1989

US memorandum said that Soviet commanders ordered nuclear warheads to be placed on 4th Air Army bombers and for Group of Soviet Forces in Germany fighter-bombers to placed on a 30-minute alert.[51]

Former CIA analyst Peter Vincent Pry goes further, saying he suspects that the aircraft were merely the tip of the iceberg. He hypothesizes that in accordance with Soviet military procedure and history, ICBM silos, easily readied and difficult for the United States to detect, were also prepared for a launch.[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83




Buckle up boys, it might get rough

[vadaga]

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/03/30/russian-diplomats-post-obligatory-airport-pints-before-expulsion-pic-on-instagram/

[vadaga]

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/ ... c-retreat/

This is perhaps more serious:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60952125

[windwalker]

The war is going to end at some point...
There is no winning...for anyone.

Having said this when it does "end" the original objectives will have been achieved by Russia.

Will be interesting to see how the worlds reserve currency the US dollar will adjust when currencies used by
other major powers come to be used for oil transactions, as they will be considering the instability caused by
the sanctions.

Foreign-leased planes to be paid for in rubles
Russian airlines allowed to continue to fly Boeing and Airbus planes leased abroad

https://www.rt.com/business/553111-fore ... es-rubles/


The war would end sooner, when the the US stops instigating it and feeding the fire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYkYDMF4CdQ

[windwalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eEBjYRj4wE

30 Mar, 2022.
Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction involving biological agents – pathogens, dangerous viral infections – and the means of delivery. Aerosols, sprays, rodents, or insects can be used to spread pathogens. These weapons are indiscriminate.

If used, they can harm anyone in a given area, making them particularly dangerous.

Most people envision biological weapon attacks as a massive plague or smallpox epidemic, or an outbreak of Ebola. For centuries, these diseases had tremendous destructive power.

Today, however, biological weapons can be used surreptitiously without causing severe effects. Sometimes, their deadly effects can be stretched over a period of time, making it difficult to determine whether it is a natural phenomenon or a directed attack.

Though these types of weapons were banned in 1925, their development is still active, as dozens of secret labs exist and people’s biological material is collected and stored. So how real is biological warfare?

[Bob]

https://stories.app.goo.gl/T7PL

Humanity break - one of my favorites

[Peacedog]

Only question now, does Russian nuke and run on Kyiv? Or does it make some minor gains out east, and south, declare victory and go home?

I cannot see both Putin and Zelensky surviving. If Zelensky survives, Putin is the loser to his internal Russian audience and the oligarchs give him the long knife. And I don't see any clear cut method for Zelensky getting killed outside nukes. Putin tried assassination a few times and failed.

The next two weeks are going to be telling.

The biggest news is a gold backed Russian rouble. If true, the petro-dollar is done. And given the lack of trustworthiness involving the Russians, a lot of smoke and mirrors surrounds this.

Short term, big problems for the West. Long term, it might, just might, finally destroy the welfare state in the West and re-install some financial responsibility in the various Western governments. Going to be interesting times.

[Quigga]

Old Chinese curse: 'May you live in interesting times'

For myself, I can't stress enough to see clearly what you can and can not control, then focus on those you can without burning yourself out or clinging too much.

Lots of reasons to be anxious about. Little to be done in the grand scheme of things. New situation forces people to adapt and grow.

'individual level of interpretating existence - relationship between one's heart and mind - are you your own friend yet'

[windwalker]

War crimes

EU to send investigators to probe alleged war crimes in Ukraine
People behind these “heinous crimes” must not go unpunished, EU Commission head has said

https://www.rt.com/news/553295-eu-ukraine-bucha-probe/

Lets see if Russia will allow them into a war zone to try to enforce a law that they are not part of nor is Ukraine..

What could possible go wrong,,,with other parties in a war zone, under cover of the UN



consider

Neither Ukraine nor Russia is a state party to the Rome Statute—the 2002 treaty that establishes and governs the authority of the ICC.Mar 10, 2022

seems like there's a country missing..

whats that other country

The US is not a state party to the Rome Statute.

The US participated in the negotiations that led to the creation of the court.

However, in 1998 the US was one of only seven countries – along with China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and Yemen – that voted against the Rome Statute.

Could be wrong here starting to see a pattern

For those wondering

The Rome Statute established four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Those crimes "shall not be subject to any statute of limitations"

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[vadaga]

I saw the news this morning and the US is now calling for war crimes trials for Putin. That would be 'interesting'

[windwalker]

What the western news is pushing doesn't make much sense....

Whats being portrayed now an action
designed to bring in outside influences directly ...







https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1 ... assacre%2F

If there were to be a serious probe, one of the first places an investigator would begin is to map out a timeline of events.

Last Wednesday, all Russian forces left Bucha, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

This was confirmed on Thursday by a smiling Anatolii Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says:

“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers.”

“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals.

The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’

Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete

(but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”

Ukraintsiva was speaking a day after the mayor had said the town was liberated.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/q ... -massacre/

[windwalker]

On the ground reporting



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSGMfKNTjuQ

[aamc]

https://mobile.twitter.com/osinttechnical

I know everyone is now an armchair general, but I found this super interesting.



And as always: https://zrzutka.pl/en/razemdlaukrainy