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by Chris Black If, at any point before February of 2022, someone would have said “I think the Ukraine, an impoverished former Russian territory with a population of 40 million people, can attack and destroy Russia, a superpower nation with 150 million people,” people would have just blinked at you. Somehow, it became gospel that …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1691376095516352512 Russia’s central bank to hold extraordinary meeting after rouble falls to 16-month low https://t.co/SMcYH3ndzX — Geoff Wilson (@GeoffGWilson) August 15, 2023
On the edge 🚨🚨🇷🇺 Russia fired warning shots at a NATO-owned Palau-flagged cargo vessel heading towards Ukraine port. pic.twitter.com/2fvgf2RcDY — Terror Alarm (@Terror_Alarm) August 13, 2023 🚨🇷🇺 Update: The ship went on its way to port in Ukraine after Russia carried out an inspection. — Terror Alarm (@Terror_Alarm) August 13, 2023 BREAKING 🚨 Russia says …
“Bill Taylor, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, thinks the solution is for Biden to keep talking about Ukraine in public over and over again and not just as a “throw-away line at a campaign rally.” Biden should also broaden the argument beyond the need to maintain the rules-based international order, Taylor went on. For …
BREAKING: Russia launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a probe to the Moon, kicking off its first mission to the celestial body in nearly 50 years READ: https://t.co/anw6oVRB9O pic.twitter.com/WIHVkldT2E — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 10, 2023
‘Moscow and Tver plan to accept 3,000 families from South Africa A rural community about halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg has been selected as the location of an “African village,” according to the African International Congress in Russia. The project is a part of a five-year pilot program to settle thousands of migrants from …
An ex-FBI agent who led the agency’s New York counterintelligence division and played a key role in the Trump-Russia collusion probe – will plead guilty to charges of colluding with Russia himself, a federal judge suggested in a Monday order reported by the Washington Times. Charles McGonigal was arrested in January and charged with violating …
by Martin Armstrong The Financial Times estimates that European companies have lost at least €100 billion ($110 billion) since the Russia-Ukraine war began. Around 176 European companies noted significant losses in their fiscal year reports for 2022, and the future remains grim as tensions continue to grow. Naturally, energy-related industries faced half of those losses, followed by …
FBI Special Agent Charles McGonigal is expected to plead guilty next week to conspiring with a Russian oligarch. Earlier this year former Special Agent in charge of counter-intelligence in the New York field office, Charles McGonigal, was arrested for conspiring with Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian Oligarch. Charles McGonigal was hit with a five-count indictment and charged …
by The Marine Insurance Companies are going to love this. Can you say, “COVERAGE CANCELLED”? #UPDATE: Footage taken from the Romanian border village of Tulcea shows fire in Izmail, Odesa oblast due to Russian Shahed drone attack. pic.twitter.com/mQhyNMgGRN — Faytuks News (@Faytuks) August 2, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1686539618852786176 More than 5 kamikaze drones flew over …
FACTS: NATO Members are now openly discussing war plans against Russia. Poland has indicated they are going to enter Ukraine regardless of what the NATO alliance says. We are on the path to war and we are in the hands of a man, [Joe Biden] who is not entirely stable. pic.twitter.com/e29SQ17Ezd — Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) …
Russia has placed International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Tomoko Akane on its wanted list months after the court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, state media reported Thursday. The Russian Interior Ministry search database lists Akane’s personal information, according to the state-run news agency TASS, but does not specify which …
Burkina Faso. Mali. Now Niger. Dominos falling in Africa… Niger soldiers announce coup and president’s removal on national TV Soldiers in Niger say they have removed President Mohamed Bazoum from power, after armed troops earlier blockaded the presidential palace in Niamey, the capital in one of the world’s most unstable nations. A group of soldiers …
Senator @RandPaul Accuses the Government of Fraud in $113 Billion Sent to Ukraine “It is impossible to send this much aid this fast into wartorn Ukraine without waste, fraud, and abuse,” asserted Senator Paul. “Yet we are told by departmental inspector generals that they have… pic.twitter.com/sXu9ne6bld — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 27, 2023 …
#BREAKING #URGENT Russia fired a KH-47 hypersonic missile at Kyiv. Ukrainian sources state that they shot it down before reaching its destination — 👑 Royal Intel (@RoyalIntel_) July 26, 2023 All hell breaking loose in Ukraine right now 🔥🔥🔥🔥 💥Unconfirmed reports of a Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile fired towards Kyiv 💥Ukrainian Air Force has confirmed the …
13 Russian Tu-95MS and a number of Tu-160M Strategic Bombers are currently noted Airborne across Western Russia heading towards “Launch Zones” over the Caspian Sea; a Large Missile Attack on Ukraine may be Imminent. — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 26, 2023 ⚡️About half of the 13 Tu-95 bombers are already over launch positions, if missiles are …
via naturalnews: The Black Sea Grain Initiative is dead in the water, and Russia is warning that any ships seen traveling to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports from now on will be considered potential military targets. The warning came after Ukraine announced plans to continue exporting grain and other food via a temporary shipping route to get …
STOP WHINING… https://twitter.com/pqpolitics/status/1681951858582233088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Elijah Wood has a message for Zelensky: go to rehab for your drug addiction. Instagram deleted the video. pic.twitter.com/5fpxb6h1Sv — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) July 20, 2023 h/t MonkeyWrangler
https://twitter.com/baronitaigas/status/1681685241692401665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The Russian MoD has declared a full blockade of Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now land-locked, and will remain so in perpetuity — assuming it persists at all as a sovereign entity. UPDATE – TASS updated their initial reporting. It now says "will be considered as potential carriers of military cargo." …
by Chris Black The significance of this joint military exercise is huge. If things ever got real serious in the Ukraine, China would commit troops. Just so, if the US ever triggered Taiwan to start a war with China, Russia would be backing them up in the sea. Neither has any choice in the matter. …
Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones a month! Russia is using 60,000 artillery shells a day! That’s over 2 million shells a year! h/t Mathetes 2.0
Wheat prices jumped as much as 3.5% as news broke Monday that Russia let the UN-brokered grain deal lapse at midnight, Istanbul time, marking the end of the Turkey-administered humanitarian corridor which let Ukrainian grains get exported to global markets. Russia since confirmed the deal has been “terminated” Currently there’s speculation that the fresh attack …
via Paul Craig Roberts: The Washington Dumbshits are encouraging Russia to wipe out the US in a desperate act of self-preservation. Russian lawmakers have completed an investigation into Washington’s military-related biological activities at laboratories across Ukraine on the basis of findings made public by Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops over the past year. …
by Chris Black They’re desperately coping with losing the war. 'I’m not allowed to do anything inside #Russia. Why? Because #Putin will use #nuclear weapons? The kids who are dying don’t care'https://t.co/1rVCVM8K8f#Ukraine commander to who #NATO is sending long range missiles & F-16s thinks he has the right to attack civilians in #Russia — Pete …
Ht @BankerWeimar Source without paywall:https://t.co/Xtub1bGrhD — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) July 12, 2023
“‘If the US supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces will be compelled to use equivalent weapons against the Ukrainian forces, by way of response,’ Shoigu told reporters while visiting military factories in Tatarstan. ‘It should be noted that Russia has cluster munitions, as they say, for all occasions,’ Shoigu added. ‘They are …
via kitco: The influence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Arica – should not be underestimated, especially when it comes to the threat it poses to the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, according to Simon Hunt, founder of Simon Hunt Strategic Services. “The involvement of BRICS has been …
The Russian air-launched Kinzhal hypersonic missile has gone into mass production and is now manufactured in quantities sufficient to meet the needs of the military, an executive for the Rostec defense conglomerate has reported. The weapon is widely perceived as impossible to intercept, though Kiev claims it has shot down many of the projectiles. “Previously, …
could be propaganda don’t know just putting it out there Breaking! On the brink of #nuclearwar #WW3! #Ukraine attacked with a missile the nuclear power plant from #Smolensk on the territory of #Russia. If this it’s confirmed expect everything. #Nazis in #Kiev know they can’t win and want to trigger a catastrophe. pic.twitter.com/A1xjCUGK3a — Nico’R …