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Load up on your war propaganda, Russian or Ukrainian, your choice. Cuz they're all fucking liars, and none of them deserve our sympathy or support.

Prayers for the Russian and Ukrainian people. Death for the Russian and Ukrainian governments.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1500996398694629376?source=patrick.net

The West thinks sanctions are hurting Putin.

They have it backwards: His power inside Russia is surging.

A thread on what analysts are getting so wrong.

Objectively, Putin's poll numbers have improved since the lead-up to and onset of the war.

This was predictable – a "rally 'round the flag" effect is common for wartime president.

In less than 2 weeks, his approval rating spiked 10 points – from 61% to 71%.



Many in the West are predicting that this effect will be short lived.

Analysts think that Russians will sour on Putin if the economic situation in the country continues to worsen.

But there's a gaping hole in their theory: Russians don't think the war was Putin's fault.

This is difficult for people in the West to understand.

Here, we see the invasion of Ukraine as a war of choice.

In Russia, the average citizen sees the conflict as a war of necessity – one forced onto Russia by NATO and Ukraine.

This was confirmed before the war in research by the Levada Center, a non-governmental polling firm widely trusted in the West.

More than 66% of Russians blamed the conflict on America, NATO, or Ukraine.

Only 4% said the conflict was Russia's fault.


Because Russians do not believe Putin was responsible for the war, they naturally do not blame him for sanctions.

Citizens of the United States did not blame FDR for economic hardships like rationing during WW2.

Russians have a similar perspective on wartime hardships today.

If anything, the perceived cruelty of the current sanctions is making the West more of a villain in Russia.

Some Russians I know who had favorable opinions of the West now feel like they are personally under attack.

They resent being the targets of economic warfare.

One of the most egregious examples is the attempt to block international calls into Russia.

Today, many Russians overseas are having trouble reaching their families at home.

This makes them angry – but not at Putin. It makes them hate the West.

BREAKING: A potential cyber attack is blocking some international calls to Russia.

I just confirmed this myself.

When I dialed a Russian number, a message played calling Russia a fascist state for invading Ukraine.

It said calls to Russia could go f*** themselves.

The Russians who are upset with Putin about sanctions are the ones who already opposed him.

They are a vocal, younger minority inside the country.

But the people attending anti-war marches are the same ones who previously were marching against corruption.

Putin's base sees the Western pullout from Russia as an opportunity to purge the country of foreign influence.

They like the idea of Western companies selling their stakes in state industries.

They like replacing Western brands with Russian and Chinese substitutes.

I'm not arguing that these replacements will be smooth.

They won't stop Russia's economy from heading for a deep recession.

But nationalist sentiments inside Russia right now are so strong, that's a price Russians are willing to pay.

The Kremlin is doing everything in its power to strengthen those sentiments.

It's why, within the last 2 days, it alleged that the U.S. was funding secret nuclear- and biological-weapons programs inside Ukraine.



In the West, these WMD claims were met with skepticism.

But in Russia, they were widely believed.

They reinforced the narrative that President Putin was forced to invade – because otherwise Ukraine might use WMDs in a war to retake Crimea or the Donbas.

The threat that Russia faces from Ukraine has been portrayed as the sequel to the threat from Nazi Germany – but this time, with WMDs.

And the crackdown on dissenting media voices inside Russia ensures that narrative remains unchallenged.

It's easy to laugh at "brainwashed Russians" and mock the country as the new North Korea.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that's true:

Should the U.S. be proud of a foreign policy that has created a "new North Korea" with 6,000 nukes?

If the goal of our policy towards Russia was to make it a closed, paranoid society – mission accomplished.

But we shouldn't pretend that, any day now, Russians will feel the sting of our economic warfare and turn on their President.

They're more likely to turn... on us.

Sounds like the globalists are gearing up for a chemical weapons false flag in Ukraine. Hopefully it's fake like the Iranian one, but not feeling super hopeful right now.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/kamala-harris-poland-diplomacy-ukraine/?source=patrick.net

There are a few other things that the official directive specifies. We’re not supposed to mention the thirty bioresearch labs that the US maintains in Ukraine. We are not supposed to mention Ukrainian support for Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, its government’s efforts to undermine Donald Trump, or its connection with George Soros, Klaus Schwab’s “Great Reset,” or its lavish financial support of the Biden family and the families of other high-ranking Americans. All that is off-script, so, even though it is potentially clarifying, I won’t mention it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/?source=patrick.net

As the United States and Allies reaffirmed in the June 2021 NATO Summit Communique, the United States supports Ukraine’s right to decide its own future foreign policy course free from outside interference, including with respect to Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.

Ukraine: We want to join NATO?

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/realists-underestimate-vladimir-putin/?source=patrick.net

Realists are also being attacked now by their intellectual adversaries for blaming Washington policymakers for creating the conditions for the current war by expanding NATO to Russia’s border and proposing that Ukraine join the Western defense organization.

Such a move, argued realists, would be perceived by Putin — and rightly so — as posing a threat to core Russian national interests, not unlike the way Russian or Chinese deployment of military forces equipped with nuclear weapons in Mexico would be viewed in Washington.

In a thoughtful New York Times piece, columnist Ross Douthat reflects on these issues, quoting Mearsheimer’s 2016 warning that the “West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.” ...

Realists perceived Putin to be protecting Russia’s legitimate national security interests in Ukraine and Georgia by using limited military power in the way the US itself has acted in the past.

NuttBoxer says

Sounds like the globalists are gearing up for a chemical weapons false flag in Ukraine. Hopefully it's fake like the Iranian one, but not feeling super hopeful right now.

Yep.

"Look, this rare pathogen was released. According to our intelligence, this was developed in the former Soviet Union, of which Russia is the successor state, so there's a clear chain of custody linking Putler to this release!"

No mention that the US seized Soviet-era bioweapon research and has, unlike the nukes, been maintaining rather than destroying it for decades.

https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-question-what-is-the?s=r&source=patrick.net

The forgotten question: What is the American interest in the Russia-Ukraine war?
The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian challenge, but not a national security issue.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-great-pivot-of-spring-2022-v?s=r&source=patrick.net

The Great Pivot of Spring 2022, V. 2.0
Say Goodbye to Ukraine (?), and Hello Again to Tony.

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From where I sit, we appear to be on the threshold of yet another propaganda about-face.

The Ukraine “war” is increasingly looking like it was all about Russia having found a moment when the NATO-associated World Economic Foundation client states were distracted by other matters, and then seizing the opportunity to put a halt to the gradual assimilation of Ukraine into the NATO alliance. If one looks at the situation from a Russian geopolitical-realpolitik frame of reference, the gradual development of a NATO-aligned state along the Russian border, replete with US-sponsored “Biolabs” that were (at best) working with biothreat agents (toxins, pathogens) collected from the Ukrainian region (and heavens knows where else), represented a legitimate threat to Russian national security. Were those “Biolabs” more than just sample collection stations? Russia certainly seem to think so. The USA acknowledges the existence of these “Biolabs” but denies that they were involved in bioweapon research. Personally, based on my professional experience, that one sticks in my craw. Russia asserts otherwise. He said, she said. These days, truth seems to merely be whatever and whichever state-controlled media that you are subjected to says it is. ...

US politician Tulsi Gabbard (a WEF “young leader” trainee whose WEF webpage was recently removed) raised concerns on Twitter regarding the “Biolabs” issue and was immediately attacked by Mitt Romney (Senator, Utah, Uniparty).

When the WEF deletes her page, that gives her more credibility with me.

What matters most, from a COVID-19 perspective, is that (functionally speaking) the Executive branch (apparently with congressional consent) transferred 13.6 Billion US Dollars (well, that would certainly buy a lot of fertilizer and diesel for US Farmers!) to support what appears to me to be a lost cause in Ukraine. Back to local DC Kabuki, in their infinite wisdom the administration and their congressional Uniparty allies have boxed themselves in with this little trick, as apparently this was some sort of reappropriation and transfer of of COVID-19 funds consequent to the most recent propaganda pivot from COVID-19 to the crisis in Ukraine. But the news cycle moves faster than a DC bureaucrat can say “congressional earmark”, and with the headspinning pivot back to suddenly needing to promote nonstop fearporn, there is a pressing need to fill the COVID-19/Pandemic cookie jar again.

Patrick says

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/?source=patrick.net

As the United States and Allies reaffirmed in the June 2021 NATO Summit Communique, the United States supports Ukraine’s right to decide its own future foreign policy course free from outside interference, including with respect to Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.

Ukraine: We want to join NATO?

The people that run Ukraine, under the US direction of course, are a bunch of thugs and criminals. Yeah, they want to join NATO because if Russia gets to them, they're going to be tried, and executed. They are the ones that insist that every Ukrainian fight to the death. It's a criminal thug nation, quite a bit worse than our criminal thug nation.

Patrick says

When the WEF deletes her page, that gives her more credibility with me.

I think she's controlled opposition, and I don't say this with any happiness at all.

I bet she's being groomed for the presidency, and when she's there, will be as awful as Hillary Clinton - because really, there's no way to be worse. That she was part of the WEF is a huge problem, and just because the WEF is trying to hide that fact now, makes me think that the WEF is trying to distance HER from IT, not IT from HER.

They more they advertise that she's part of the WEF, the more damage it does to her. They are instead trying to hide the fact, since its become known that the WEF is part of the Deep State (which of course, is a conspiracy theory and doesn't exist - Wikipedia told me so!)

That's the whole point of the NGO takeover of governments. Place people in power that are loyal to the WEF such that, when it is time to act, they will fulfill their clandestine role to overthrow their own government in favor of the WEF alternative.

Tulsi alliterates with Trojan Horse.

stereotomy says

That's the whole point of the NGO takeover of governments. Place people in power that are loyal to the WEF such that, when it is time to act, they will fulfill their clandestine role to overthrow their own government in favor of the WEF alternative.

But there are some governments, who well totally onboard for the NWO agenda, want to maintain their sovereignty. Two of them are definitely China and Russia. So while there may be a struggle for how the Great Reset shapes out, don't for a minute be fooled into thinking they aren't all in cahoots.

It is and will always be us vs them.

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That’s a lot of truth bombs

https://www.rt.com/news/552191-south-africa-nato-ukraine/?source=patrick.net

17 Mar, 2022 23:36
South African president blames NATO for Ukraine

“The war could have been avoided if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and officials over the years that its eastward expansion would lead to greater, not less, instability in the region,” Ramaphosa told South African lawmakers on Thursday.

Rather than reaping an expected peace dividend after the Cold War ended in 1991, NATO expanded, adding former Warsaw Pact nations and ex-Soviet republics to its fold, starting with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in 1999. Another wave came on board in 2004, including Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Albania and Croatia followed in 2009; then came Montenegro in 2017 and North Macedonia in 2020. Ukraine and Georgia have asked to join the bloc.

https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-day-21/?source=patrick.net

This site seems to keep updated on the war.

from your link:

The corvette of the Black Sea Fleet “Vasily Bykov”, which was “sunk” by the Ukrainian media, returned unharmed to the port of Sevastopol. “Vasily Bykov” reached the harbor of Sevastopol on March 16. No visible damage was noted. In the lists of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the ship is still listed as “sunk”.

72 hour rule in effect here big time. 13 Heroes Died saying "F U!"

Lots of use of human shields by Azov in Mariupol, Refugees were complaining the Azov Battalion was blocking the agreed humanitarian corridor out of town. This was a few days ago, I don't have the link.

My asspull guess is the Russians are creating a "Cauldron" around the Ukrainians blocking in the Luhansk/Donetsk area, and the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) put Azov in Mariupol since they have good morale and keep the public from assisting/selling to the breakaway areas with intimidation as the holder of the Southern Flank.

I expect to see Russian forces in the North cut south or go to the Dneipr and send holding forces South to cut off the AFU west of Donbas, though the priority is encircling Kiev.

Only 150,000 troops on Russia's side are currently involved, hardly the overwhelming force that was expected.