Why do the Israelis behave like this in full view of the world?
Because they have done this with impunity for 7+ decades, and the US always ran interference for them, censoring the damning reports in the media. In fact, in the case of the Israeli attack on the US ship USS Liberty, Lyndon Johnson forbade any of the wounded and other victims from speaking about the event!

No self-proclaimed Christian country anywhere in the world has ever before wholeheartedly condoned and empowered the crimes of another, partner, country to the extent to which the US has, on the official government level, condoned and even empowered, the unspeakable crimes of the pseudo-state we for all the wrong reasons, call “Israel.”

As could have been expected, another layer of inhumanity now comes to light, in the form of atrocities and crimes against women (see report below), some of the most egregious ever witnessed.

How could it be otherwise in a world where religious intolerance, both Christian and Judaic, sweeps aside all accepted legal protocol and rational debate? The demons of the Pandora’s box that was opened in 1948 never returned to their confinement. They are now at large and continue their rampage, doing what demons do, unimpeded by the long-discarded trappings of law and decency.

In a world governed by a modicum of justice, based on moral principles derived from both Judeo-Christian and universal rules of proper conduct, the high government officials of both the US and Israel would all face trial and would spend long years behind bars or even face capital punishment. They are no more moral than the Nazis sentenced to hang at Nuremberg, no less deserving of punishment.

No one is more worthy of leading these fiends to the gallows than, say, a Palestinian child who has lost both parents and all her siblings to an American-made aerial bomb dropped by an American-trained IDF pilot from a US-supplied aircraft – a starving child who was miraculously pulled out from under the rubble of her home with third-degree burns on her limbs and body.

We are a long, long way from that just world, but I dream of it and sincerely believe in it.

When to expect it, I don’t know. The Russians say God’s mills grind slowly but surely.

To achieve justice in the West would require a complete in-depth cultural and spiritual overhaul on both the official and grassroots levels. It would require a bedrock of goodness, decency and wisdom that perhaps the West no longer possesses – if indeed we ever did.

The Palestinian Nakba marks the West for the rank hypocrite that it is and always was.

Almost every US senator, congress person, president, federal decision maker and religious leader of the last 7 decades is guilty of this catastrophe and richly deserves the full Nuremberg treatment, no less.

They deserve no more leniency than they have accorded to the helpless Palestinians.

And a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6

Link to Alkhanadeq report on Israeli crimes against women

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

Tuesday 27 February, 2024

Grave violations against Palestinian women: a systematic war crime

Attack on Palestinian women

With the escalation of the grave violations committed by the Israeli occupation army against civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the rate of attacks on women is also increasing, including sexual assaults, rape crimes, and enforced disappearance. The international reports launched by the experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council are considered, which straightforwardly reported on the occupation soldiers committing sexual violations and assaults against women and girls in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. These are credible and realistic, especially since they are based on documented testimonies of many of the assaults that occurred, which warn the international community of the need for urgent intervention to uncover the criminal, inhumane and immoral practices pursued by the occupation. And these crimes are added to the record of genocide crimes, in which most of the international community today, with its legal and judicial institutions, agree that the Israeli entity, with its military arsenal, is involved and implicated to the greatest extent.

Rationale for United Nations reports on grave violations against Palestinian women

UN experts say they have seen “credible allegations” that Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assault, including rape, while in Israeli prisons, and are demanding a full investigation. According to a report in The Guardian newspaper, the expert committee said that there was evidence of at least two cases of rape, in addition to other cases of sexual humiliation and threats of rape. Reem Al Salem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said the true extent of sexual violence may be much higher. "We may not know for a long time the actual number of victims," she added. She pointed out that secrecy in reporting sexual assaults is common due to fear of retaliation, noting that in the wave of arrests of Palestinian women and girls after the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, there was an increasingly lenient attitude towards sexual assault in Israeli detention centers. Reem, who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as a special rapporteur in 2021, said, “I would like to say that violence and the dehumanization of Palestinian women, children, and civilians, in general, have become a normal thing throughout this war.” How did these attacks appear?

UN reports indicate that Palestinian women and girls have been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often along with members of their families, including their children.

- There was deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in the places where they took refuge, or during their flight. Experts said that some of them were carrying pieces of white cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or its forces. [We have heard reports of two women who were shot dead while visiting a church in Gaza]

- Arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists [the most famous case was the Israeli assassination of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the IDF, long BEFORE Oct 7] and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since the conflict began on 7 October.

Many female detainees were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, deprived of menstrual pads, food and medicine, and subjected to severe beatings.

Palestinian women in Gaza are detained in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.

- Sexual abuse of women and girls during detention, such as stripping and strip-searching, by male Israeli army officers.

- At least two Palestinian detainees were raped, while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.

- The Zionist occupation army took humiliating pictures of women and girls and uploaded them to the Internet.

- The forced disappearance of an unknown number of Palestinian women and children, including girls, after contacting the Israeli army in Gaza.

- At least one infant was forcibly transferred by the Israeli army into the entity [Israel], and children were separated from their parents, and their whereabouts are still unknown.

What is required of the international community and international institutions: Immediate action to stop these grave attacks and violations against women, girls and children, because they constitute serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and reach the level of serious crimes under international criminal law that can be prosecuted under the Rome Statute. [But the US will run interference and nothing will happen! Only the collapse of the US can bring justice]

Proving international criminal responsibility requires accountability and punishment

These aforementioned crimes are in addition to a number of other violations linked to acts of genocide and raised by the State of South Africa in the lawsuit filed before the International Court of Justice regarding taking urgent measures in the context of violation of the Genocide Convention. These claims are reinforced today by international reports that Palestinian women and girls in Gaza were beaten, arrested, humiliated, raped, or executed by Israeli officers, and were considered “military” targets.

It is necessary to activate these UN reports with an impartial international investigation that supports the facts and live testimonies of many victims who provided testimonies refuting the allegations of the occupation, which denied that its soldiers committed these crimes, despite clear proof and evidence. It is also worth noting that the UN reports are issued by highly professional experts who enjoy great credibility at the international level. Certainly, this step will be clear additional evidence of the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing committed by the occupation, led by the war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his army, against the Palestinian people.

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The mighty Iskander wipes out 3 S-300 air defense systems in one blow

Link to video of strike aftermath

https://videon.img.ria.ru/Out/Flv/20240309/2024_09_03_udarxsayt_2gujwo43.sgp.mp4

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Here’s your air strike update for Mar 9, 2024

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

Use this map to locate oblasts mentioned in air strike reports

https://www.1tv.ru/news/2024-03-09/472359-desyatki_udarov_po_pozitsiyam_protivnika_nanesli_rossiyskie_sily_za_minuvshuyu_noch?ysclid=ltk8kcthzy167638913

March 9, 2024

Russian forces carried out dozens of strikes on enemy positions last night

A report from the Ministry of Defense on how the night went in the special operation zone. Russian soldiers repelled eight attacks by militants near Avdeevka. Our military carried out dozens of strikes on enemy positions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also lost Western equipment.

Donetsk direction. The artillerymen destroyed the strong point. Camouflage did not help the enemy. Fire at targets from a D-20 howitzer. Aviation operated in the Severo-Donetsk sector. Su-25 attack aircraft in the sky attacked Ukrainian positions with unguided aircraft missiles.

And near Kupyansk, our fighters disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Accurate fire from the Giatsint  (Hyacinth) [artillery piece]. The movement of the militants was detected by intelligence.

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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://m.ok.ru/yesttaka/topic/157859155261617?ysclid=ltk8xh4zgn635807760

The Russian Armed Forces have delivered a missile strike and continue to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces

On March 9, 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special operation in Ukraine to protect Donbass, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. On March 9, 2024, the Russian armed forces launched a massive powerful missile strike on the territory of Ukraine. An air raid alert has been declared throughout northeastern Ukraine, including the Kyiv oblast. An air alert has been declared in Sumy, Poltava, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev oblasts, as well as in parts of the Kherson oblast of Russia controlled by Kyiv.

Russian kamikaze UAVs flew through Ukraine, striking military targets. Dozens of drones took off from Crimea and flew intricate routes through several oblasts

On the night of March 8-9, Ukraine was subjected to a massive attack by Russian kamikaze drones. Dozens of UAVs took off from the territory of Crimea and flew through several oblasts of the country, striking various military targets along the way.

Explosions occurred in the suburbs of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk oblast

In the Kharkov oblast, underground fighters derailed the second military echelon with ammunition and equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It all happened in the area of the 86 kilometer railway station in the Kharkov oblast. Here the train derailed due to damage to the tracks. Kharkiv[Ukrainian name for Kharkov] residents rebelled against the Zelensky regime and are now actively partisans, helping the Russian army bring victory closer.

On the night of March 8, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the secret intelligence center “Ovidiopol-2” near Odessa. The Kinzhal strike from a MiG-31 on a mysterious building in the vicinity of Odessa turned out to be a precise hit on the intelligence center. Near Odessa, the Ovidiopol-2 space and radio reconnaissance complex in Velikodolinskoye near the village of Akkarzha and an ammunition depot in Zatoka were destroyed. The complex went to Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. The Ukrainian Armed Forces used it for electronic reconnaissance and interception of information transmitted via satellite communication channels, since representatives of NATO intelligence structures gained access to the Ovidiopol-2 facility, located in the Odessa oblast.

In the Odessa oblast, one of the most modern VERA-NG radars in service with the Ukrainian army from the French company ERA was hit. The position area of the VERA-NG radar was hit by a Kh-31P anti-radar missile and a MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by its own crooked air defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces when returning to the air base (Aviatorskoe airfield in Dnepropetrovsk).

The Russian army attacked UAF targets in the Odessa oblast, delivering strikes nearIlyichevsk and in Odessa itself. Explosions were heard in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkov oblast.

Explosions occurred in the Kirovograd oblast. Strikes were carried out in Nizhyn and Chernihiv [Ukrainian for Chernigov] oblast. Explosions in the Poltava oblast and Kupyansky district. Tactical aviation has worked. A series of explosions occurred in Krivoy Rog, Pokrovsky district, explosions.

The massive use of kamikaze drones allows Russian troops to carry out targeted strikes on important military targets deep in Ukrainian territory, complicating logistics and supplies for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Unusual flight routes and the use of multiple UAVs complicate the work of Ukrainian air defense

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The West always thanks God for the success of its crimes.

Our thanks to AN for this tip to an important article:

https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-synagogue-of-satan-became-israel-from-sugar-to-cotton-to-oil/

How the Synagogue of Satan Became Israel: From Sugar to Cotton to Oil

NOI RESEARCH GROUP • MARCH 4, 2024 • 3,300 WORDS • LEAVE A COMMENT

“[T]here can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.”

—The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1984

More here

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Someone please tell Tucker Carlson, who claims there are no Nazis in Ukraine.

French Nazi César Ojar was eliminated in the special operation zone - “Military Correspondents”

Mar 9, 2024

The leader of the French Nazis and football ultras, César Ozhar, was liquidated near Avdeevka. This was reported by the telegram channel “Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring”.

“The leader of the French neo-Nazis and football ultras, Cesar Ozhar, came to Ukraine in the spring of 2023. One of the leaders of the fascist group “Paris Zouaves” joined the 3rd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (former Nazi regiment “Azov” ), was transferred to Avdiivka, where he ended up in an encirclement. There have been no more posts on the Instagram page since February 16, and in the comments people write that the Nazi is dead,” notes TK.

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Our thanks to WD for this:

 USA Enemies   Russia,  China, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia   75%

  Indian subcontinent  and Arabian peninsula   not enemies but more  favorable toward Russia    25%

        We have LOST the Asian continent. 

Me:

Yes, WD, and that is because, in the Neoon/Nazi view of Washington, Israel is rated at about 90+%. This distortion is costing us big time!

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Our thanks to Regis for this:

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Powell predicts more bank failures

Americans can’t afford health care, but not to worry, folks. We still have plenty of money for the Ukrainian Nazis and the genocidal killers in Israel!

https://thehill.com/business/4516758-powell-there-will-be-bank-failures-caused-by-commercial-real-estate-losses/

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The story of 6 yr old Hind: murdered by the US and the ‘only democracy in the Middle East” and “best US ally”

With the full support of Americans posing as “Christians”

https://www.instagram.com/guychristensen_/reel/C3gDpxopXSK/

I guess if Tucker heard a Chinese person speaking his native language, he’d say “I didn’t understand a thing he said. It sounded really dumb to me.”

[(Here’s the link to yesterday’s newsletter: https://donhank.substack.com/p/if-hezbollah-missiles-could-expel (sorry, I had forgotten to add it to the email)]

We Americans are taught to think this way. If you don’t understand something foreign, then it’s stupid, right?  We’re the smart ones, the intellectual leaders of the planet.

We didn’t understand socialism, so we sent bombers to Korea and then to Vietnam to kill these people we couldn’t understand, killing millions of them. And we wonder why North Korea doesn’t like us sweet god-fearing Israel-loving Americans.

So who’s dumb? Oh, not the Americans, right, Tucker? If we can’t understand some people we send the Marines to kill them all. Good idea, eh, Tucker? Cause that’s the smart American thing to do!

Tucker’s superficial way of thinking is why many Americans unquestioningly buy into the Neocon message that Russians are evil and want to take over the world. After all, if we can’t understand them, they MUST be up to something evil. [The ruling class and its think tank mercenaries is not that dumb. THEY know that socialism works much better than capitalism, and that socialist countries—given half a cance to compete fairly—would soon bury capitalist powers. —Ed]

I had commented previously on Tucker’s weird response to Putin’s reference to denazification, which he admitted he didn’t understand. I reminded readers that, according to Newsweek (not a known conspiracy theorist tabloid), the Ukrainian regime officially celebrates the birthday of known Hitler collaborator Stepan Bandera on January 1 of every year.

Now, for a person with normal intellect, any country’s officially celebrating the birthday of a Nazi would be a big red flag. It would be a sign that the ruling class there warms up to goose steppers. Further, the fact that the US regime supports these Nazis would reflect on us as well. However, if you saw Tucker’s Putin interview, you noticed that he sat through Putin’s initial history lesson with a furrowed brow, looking uncomfortable. Tucker obviously hates non-PC history and other intellectual pursuits and this first part of the interview really soured him against Putin, who was saying things that, in George Soros’ America, we just aren’t supposed to talk about.

Because America not only ignores and rejects intellectual subjects, it has imposed a tacit ban on them – in fact, in US satrapy Europe, Russian news publications Sputnik and RT are outright banned. Be sure to read the next article pertaining to dumbed-down US academe.

(Today’s air strike update is the last article of this newsletter)…

En Ucrania renombran una calle en honor de un colaborador nazi - 05.03.2024, Sputnik Mundo (sputniknews.lat)

Translation from Spanish with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

In Ukraine a street is renamed in honor of a Nazi collaborator

05.03.2024, Sputnik Mundo (sputniknews.lat)

In Ukraine they rename a street in honor of a Nazi collaborator

Pyotr Diachenko,. The Americans happily gave him refuge, and he died in 1965 in New Jersey.

Pavlográdskaya Street in the Ukrainian city of Nikopol was renamed in honor of the Nazi collaborator, fanatical anti-communist, and accomplice of the Holocaust Pyotr Diachenko, awarded by Hitler for his services to Nazi Germany, as reported by the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. From Russia they declare that nowhere in the world is Nazism promoted at the state level like in Kiev.

[This renaming was certainly not well received by the local residents because Nikopol is located in Zaporozhye, a Russian speaking oblast with strong sympathies for Russia]

"The City Council of the Ukrainian city of Nikopol renamed Pavlográdskaya Street in honor of the Nazi war criminal, accomplice of the Holocaust, executor of punitive actions against civilians, officer of the Galizien Division of the SS, commander of the 31st Schutzmannschaft SD battalion, and head of collaborationist units Piotr Diachenko", indicates the director of the organization Eduard Dolinski on his social networks.

He stressed that Diachenko was awarded the Iron Cross for crimes committed in particular against Jews. [And this occurred under the watchless gaze of a Jewish Kiev regime. I can’t begin to tell you how this is possible. Only Zelensky knows]

The SS Galizien Division was a military unit within Nazi Germany's elite corps, the Waffen-SS, led by Heinrich Himmler. Created on April 28, 1943, after the occupation of Ukraine, it was made up of more than 80,000 Nazi collaborators, mostly from the Ukrainian oblast of Galicia. During the Second World War, the ranks of the division carried out police force tasks, combating partisans and intimidating the population, committing numerous atrocities against civilians on the territory of the Soviet Union and Poland.

Young Ukrainian soldiers performing a Nazi salute - Sputnik World, 1920, 02/22/2024

Neo-Nazism in Ukraine

"There are no Nazis in Ukraine": Internet users react to young Ukrainians giving the Nazi salute

Photo link: https://sputniknews.lat/20240222/no-hay-nazis-en-ucrania-internautas-reaccionan-a-jovenes-ucranianos-haciendo-el-saludo-nazi-1148452520.html

February 22, 18:02 GMT

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote in February on her Telegram channel that kyiv (or Kiev) could soon begin "canonizing collaborators of the Ukrainian ultranationalist Stepan Bandera." [News flash for Maria Zakharova: The Kiev regime already canonizes Bandera. On Jan 1 of every year, Ukraine officially celebrates this Nazi’s birthday.]

From Russia they have declared on several occasions that neo-Nazi crimes against civilians in Ukraine are ethnic cleansing, punishment actions. By supporting Kiev, Western countries are normalizing Nazism, they added. The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, pointed out that nowhere in the world is Nazism promoted at the state level like in Kiev.

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Translation from Spanish with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://sputniknews.lat/20240222/no-hay-nazis-en-ucrania-internautas-reaccionan-a-jovenes-ucranianos-haciendo-el-saludo-nazi-1148452520.html

"There are no Nazis in Ukraine": Internet users react to young Ukrainians giving the Nazi salute

18:02 GMT 02/22/2024

Although the Kiev authorities assure that "there is no Nazism" in Ukraine, videos that appear periodically show the opposite [but Tucker Carlson doesn’t read these reports because he thinks they are “dumb” and that is Putin’s fault] Recently, Internet users were outraged by a video in which underage Ukrainian fighters sing a song glorifying Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and give Nazi salutes.

Video link: https://sputniknews.lat/20240222/no-hay-nazis-en-ucrania-internautas-reaccionan-a-jovenes-ucranianos-haciendo-el-saludo-nazi-1148452520.html

"A group of 17-year-olds are taught Nazi songs in preparation for death," comments one user, while another warns: "The poor kids don't even know what meat grinder is already waiting for them."

"That's why Zelensky has taken control of the state media, probably he has told [the young people] that they are winning," he speculates.

"Does this sound familiar to you?" asks the next one, referring to a photo of Hitler with members of the Hitler Youth during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, "Does anyone really want to experience something like that again?"

"Degeneration in its purest form" and "Indoctrination, 101", the others add.

"How much truth there is in the words 'Whoever forgets their history is condemned to repeat it,'" emphasized one Internet user.

"There are no Nazis in Ukraine, Zelensky said," the other ironically concluded.

Even the recently sacked Gen. Zalushny is proud to show his Neonazi loyalties. Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valeri Zaluzhny with Commander of the Ukrainian 67th Mechanized Brigade Andriy Stempitski pose in front of a portrait of Stepan Bandera - Sputnik World, 1920, 02/11/2024

Photo link: https://sputniknews.lat/20240211/la-foto-de-zaluzhni-con-elementos-neonazis-amenaza-a-zelenski-1148156547.html

Zaluzhni's photo with neo-Nazi elements "threatens" Zelensky

February 11, 17:52 GMT

Although this video was filmed some time ago, it demonstrates how the practice of educating children in a nationalist way has spread in Ukraine, through camps and children's organizations dedicated to this.

Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian ultranationalist who served as leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (banned in Russia) in the first half of the 20th century. His anti-Jewish, anti-Russian and anti-Polish ideas brought him closer to Nazi Germany before and during its invasion of the USSR.

The OUN perpetrated countless crimes, the most notable of which is considered the massacre of the Polish civilian population in Volhynia (western Ukraine) in 1943, as well as thousands of Ukrainians for refusing to collaborate with ultranationalists.

Today the Ukrainian authorities place monuments to [Nazi] Bandera, promote songs about him and educate new generations with his ideology.

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Russophobia in the Ivy League

I had my first personal exposure to Russophobia in the 70s.

I took a few undergrad courses in Russian (not my major) and when I felt I was fluent enough to go to a higher level, I decided to take a Master’s degree in Russian language, with the sole purpose not of enhancing my earning power but simply to build up my fluency and learn as much as I could about an admirable people and their beautiful language and culture.

Along my journey I enrolled in a Russian study tour in Leningrad with the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange), where I had another strange brush with Russophobia in academe.

I was sitting in a break room at the student dorm with a group including 2 tour guides from Inturist and a young American gentleman, whom I had taken for a student. We were speaking Russian as usual. Somehow the conversation drifted toward academe and it came out that the young man was one of the chaperones and had a doctorate in Russian (whatever that means in America). At this point, since I was vaguely interested in perhaps pursuing a doctorate as well, I said “you have a doctorate in Russian?”

I guess I must have sounded surprised that the guy would have such a high degree in Russian, but that was not my intent at all. He scowled and snapped defensively something like “yes, I do for your information!”

I had not paid any attention to the quality of his Russian but I guess he may have been full of complexes due to a sense of linguistic inadequacy. But was that my fault?

I had once heard that some American profs who teach Russian are not that good. As for those who are native Russians, they are kept from revealing their inadequacy by the American majority on staff. Which would have been an easy task for the Americans because a certain percentage of these native-Russian profs were escapees from the Soviet Union and were already intimidated by the general Russophobia endemic to America.

Later, it eventually dawned on me that this Russophobia to which I was exposed – and didn’t know its name yet – was only part of a bigger phenomenon that I call Westernness, which is in fact an infectious psycho-social disease, ie, primarily a way of thinking and functioning, one of whose symptoms is a general recalcitrant mediocrity and incompetence that in America has spread throughout academe, the professions, politics (in particular), the military, the think tanks, intelligence agencies, the media, Big Religion and the general populace. But it is also a sociopathy, making it invisible to the wide public. This stands in contrast to what I call Easternness, a way of thinking that not only is not a psychosocial disease but is in fact the remedy for the infectious epidemic of Westernness. Easternness is prevalent in Russia, China and countries allied with them. It is responsible for the economic prosperity of China and the military and diplomatic superiority of Russia – which in turn have given rise to enormous (but ineffectual) blowback from the incompetent Western political class.

I believe that once the West begins to understand Easternness, or Eastern thought, it will realize that it is beginning to heal. I suppose that if I could bottle it, I could become a millionaire. I could of course also wind up in jail, sharing a cell with Julian Assange.

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Later, I started looking for a university to further my knowledge of Russian. I didn’t realize it yet, but academe was exactly the wrong place to look for knowledge in the West.

Around that time a friend of mine who had a Bachelor’s degree in Russian from Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster, PA, and was fluent in Russian, was accepted to Yale to work on his Master’s in Russian. After he returned on a break from his first semester, he told me that the profs in all his classes taught only in English. He lamented that, as a graduate student of Russian, he was forgetting his Russian.

Now let me back up and reassure you that the undergraduate courses in colleges that offer Russian are taught in Russian and the profs I knew of then were first rate. It was on the graduate level where it all fell apart.

My friend’s story did not surprise me. While I was studying Russian at a summer school in Colby College in Maine, one of my profs, Dr. Yury Grinberg, told me that my Russian was better than that of the head of the Russian Department of Harvard.

At first I refused to believe it, but he pressed me until I realized he was telling the truth. And to be sure, I did spend a lot of my free time reading Russian short stories and I imagined I was not half bad.

My Lancaster friend confirmed what Yury Grinberg had told me, namely, that none of the US big name universities, including Ivy League ones, taught the Master’s level Russian courses in Russian.

Dr. Grinberg also told me that in his Midwestern home, people had looked at him with suspicion when he received packages, mostly books, from the Soviet Union. Even the postman treated him like a leper. I didn’t know the word “Russophobia” then but I could feel its icy grip.

During my search for a suitable Master’s course, just as an experiment, I called Harvard and spoke with the head of the Russian Department. I told him I might be interested in doing my Master’s course work there and acted a little hesitant to make him think I was afraid I would not know enough Russian. He told me not to worry, that all the course work was done with English translations of Russian literature.

So this was how it was then.

I had explored the Master’s level course offerings of various colleges in other languages like German, French and Spanish and learned that these were taught in the languages in question. The students read works of literature in the languages in question, wrote papers in the language, heard lectures in the language, etc. These were real language courses.

Only the Russian course was taught in English.

I was getting apprehensive. Was this a conspiracy?

During my search for a college, a friend of a friend told me that she was taking a Master’s level course in Russian at Bryn Mawr on a scholarship and the head of the Russian department was desperate to find more students, offering scholarships to warm bodies. Apparently there was not much demand for Russian courses. I drove down there for an interview.

Knowing what I had learned about big name colleges teaching Russian Master’s level courses only in English, I approached her with feigned apprehension, asking if there was a chance I would not understand her lectures or the course work.

“Oh, there’s nothing to worry about,” she reassured me smiling. “It’s all in English!”

“What about the reading material?”

“It’s all English translations of Russian literature.” Still smiling.

“Why do you call it a Russian course if we aren’t able to hear and read the language?”

With her Smile wiped off, she stammered out: “Some of the students wouldn’t understand if it were in Russian. I’m very jealous of my degrees.”

“So you’re afraid you might accidentally confer a Master’s degree in Russian on someone who knows Russian,” I thought, but didn’t say it.

Needless to say I gave that course a miss.

At any rate, I placed a few more calls and located a no-name college, Kutztown State, where I came across an eccentric prof by the name of Dr. Richard Fortune, who became my Russian prof for the next 3 years or so. He was a lovely person but a stickler for the Russian language, never once lapsing into English in class.

Dr. Fortune had taken his doctorate at Columbia University — where his “Russian” profs also only taught in English in our Kafkaesque America where mediocrity is not only tolerated but is enforced with rigid rules to prevent students from getting too familiar with the language of a hated enemy of the state. Apparently there was a real fear that Russian students might start thinking like Russians and start joining terrorist gangs or sympathizing with communism.

On one occasion, Dr. Fortune was not available for a course for a semester, and I was obliged to take another prof. This prof was a Russian native. I only went to one class because this man turned out to be a fanatical anti-Soviet with a chip on his shoulder. He spent the whole class hour talking about the evils of the Soviet Union. In English. I dropped the class.

I often think about Franz Kafka and try to imagine his life as a youngster and what it must have been like.

I passed his family home the one time I visited Prague. It was closed to tourists that day but as I contemplated the exterior I imagined Franz sitting at his typewriter in a dingy attic room batting out those strange dreamlike stories of his, and I wondered what his life must have been like.

Surreal I supposed, something like life in Amerika.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-say-they-target-two-us-warships-red-sea-2024-03-05/

The Houthis have targeted 2 genocide-supporting US warships in the Red Sea.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-suspected-attack-by-yemen-s-houthi-rebels-damages-a-ship-in-the-gulf-of-aden/ar-BB1jovIP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=4b0fc683a2784a099789ab11a2096471&ei=14

A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels damages a ship in the Gulf of Aden

Story by JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press

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If you are pro-Palestine, Biden – as bad as he’s been – is probably the best choice!

Genocide Joe or Baby Slayer Trump. Which do you prefer?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/6/trumps-talk-on-gaza-highlights-stark-choice-for-voters-in-us-election

Trump’s Gaza comments highlight tough choice for peace-supporting US voters

Former president’s rhetoric shows voters seeking to punish Joe Biden for backing Israel face dilemma in upcoming election.

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Here’s your daily air strike update for Mar 6, 2024 (plus some battlefield reports)

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

Refer to this map to locate the oblasts mentioned in the following texts (many of them are western)

https://ok.ru/yesttaka/topic/157847383619761

The Russian Armed Forces have delivered missile strikes and continue to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On March 6, 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special operation in Ukraine to protect Donbass, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. On March 6, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces launched massive powerful missile strikes with Kh-101 ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles against military-industrial complex and infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. [The Kh-101 is a subsonic missile. It is long-range and highly precise]

On the morning of March 6, 2024, a strike was carried out with long-range precision weapons. Air raid alert in Sumy, Poltava, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaevoblasts, as well as in parts of the Zaporozhye and Kherson oblasts controlled by Kiev. At 4 a.m. Moscow time, an air raid alert covered almost the entire territory of Ukraine. Explosions were heard in the Kiev oblast, Chuguev, and the Kharkov and Sumy oblasts. The airfield of the Ukrainian Air Force in Starokonstantinov has been disabled. [This airfield gets hit regularly]

Over the past 24 hours, on March 5, 2024, fighter aircraft and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Su-27 and one MiG-29 in the Zhitomirarea, one Su-27 and one Su-25 in the Radomyshl area, one Su-25 in the Nizhyn area, one MiG-29 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev oblast, one Mi-8 in the Kiev area, six unmanned aerial vehicles, including the Bayraktar TB-2.

Bomber and attack aircraft hit 3 Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile systems and 3 Ukrainian Armed Forces radar stations. The missile forces destroyed an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system.

The bases of the personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Chuguev village area and in Martovo, Kharkov oblast, were hit.

In Ternopil, an explosion occurred on the territory of a railway repair and mechanical plant. NATO equipment damaged on the battlefield is being restored there.

In the Khmelnitsky oblast, Geran drones burned down the airfield, which was used by Su-24s, to launch Western missiles at Crimea. Two weeks ago, after the last strike, the airfield received serious damage. Now there is also little left of it.

As a result of a missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast, an equipment assembly shop for armored vehicles and a warehouse with parts were hit.

The Russian Armed Forces hit Odessa and Ilyichevsk with Gerans in the dark. Izmail{Odessa oblast] is burning, while in Odessa there are significant problems with power supply. Last night, Russian troops hit targets in Odessa City and the Odessa oblast.

Swarms of Geran 2 drones are attacking Ukraine, causing panic in enemy territory. Powerful explosions are heard in Odessa and throughout Ukraine. Strikes were recorded in the Kiev oblast, Kharkov, Vinnitsa, Ternopil, Sumy oblasts and Chernihiv oblast. The bases of Ukrainian armed forces personnel in the Chuguev area of the Kharkov oblast were hit.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have hit positions of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army in 20 settlements of the Kharkov oblast with high-precision strikes.

On March 6, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 1,215 militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

In the Kupyansk area [Kharkov oblast], on March 6, 2024, artillerymen of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the Western Group of Forces, using the Akatsiya self-propelled gun, destroyed a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kupyansk area. The Russian Aerospace Forces are striking at pontoon bridges across the Oskol River and hitting concentrations and headquarters in the Kupyansk district. The Russian army advances towards Ternov and Yampolovka. The Russian Armed Forces were able to gain a foothold in Ternov, the Russian group is pushing back the militants from the eastern flank. In the Kupyansk area, motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery and aviation, improved the tactical situation and hit several concentrations of militants and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The group’s artillery units hit 63 targets, including temporary deployment points, platoon strongholds, artillery positions, concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. During the counter-battery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed a mortar crew and an ammunition supply point in the Sverdlovka area.

Over 160 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, a 152-mm Msta-B gun, a mortar crew and three vehicles were destroyed.

In the Donetsk area, on March 6, 2024, in the Avdeevka sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to lose armored vehicles, trying to hold positions in the area of Berdychi, Orlovka and Tonenkoye. Our troops are advancing to the center of Pervomaisky, Krasnogorovka and Novomikhailovka. In the Donetsk area, there is also progress on several sectors of the front at once. Here the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in three directions at once from Marinka. The Northern Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are putting pressure on Georgievka, where Russian troops managed to advance along the railway track, occupy the warehouse, and also started fighting in the area of Vatutina Street and are moving towards an abandoned car repair plant. On the western flank, in Georgievka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced along Tsentralnaya Street to the intersection with Molodezhnaya Street and thus managed to clear the southern part in Stavki, which cuts Georgievka into two parts. In the Donetsk area, units of the Southern Group of Forces, conducting active combat operations, occupied more advantageous positions along the front line, defeated formations of the 5th, 92nd assault, 22nd, 28th and 54th mechanized, as well as 56th th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Zakotnoye and Pershe Travnya of the Donetsk People's Republic

Over 260 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, two tanks, two armored personnel carriers, two armored fighting vehicles, 14 vehicles, an Msta-B howitzer and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery units were destroyed, and three Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depots were destroyed

In the Krasnoarmeysky (Avdeevsky area is now called Krasnoarmeysky) area on March 6, 2024, Russian troops the day before destroyed another sixth Abrams tank. The crew of the T-72B3 destroyed the Abrams in the Avdeevsk area with the first shot. Currently, 4 US tanks are rusting on the battlefield (the fourth was destroyed yesterday), as well as 2 more Abrams-based mine clearance vehicles. They will become Russian trophies. Moscow is waiting for a captured Abrams tank. The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants will not be able to pick up their crippled vehicles because the front is shifting to the west. Russian assault forces penetrated the southern part of the settlement Krasnoye and the northern part of the Berdychi village. The Russian Armed Forces are gradually moving west of Avdeevka. Artillery fire destroyed 11 support forces of Ukrainian militants, and Aerospace Forces aviation is working in places where enemy manpower and armored vehicles are concentrated. Units of the “Center” group of troops, as a result of coordinated actions, occupied more-advantageous lines and positions in the Avdeevka area, and also inflicted fire on the forces and equipment of seven brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the areas of the settlements of Novopokrovskoye, Ocheretino, Novoselovka Pervaya and Toretsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic Republic (DPR).

In addition, Russian military personnel repelled three attacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army in the areas of the settlements of Leninskoye and Novgorodskoye, as well as nine counterattacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Orlovka and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

Up to 460 militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed, two tanks, one of them Abrams made in the USA was destroyed by the crew of the T-72B3 tank from the first shot, a self-propelled firing installation of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, four infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles and five cars"

In the South Donetsk area, on March 6, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces trample militants into the ground of Novomikhailovka in the South Donetsk area, capturing more and more strong points. In the South Donetsk area, in addition to the successes at Pobeda, the Russian Armed Forces advanced from the south of Novomikhailovka. Russian units from the 68th Army Corps managed to completely clear the farm southwest of the Church of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael. Russian attack aircraft from the 20th Motorized Rifle Division continue to move forward. In the South Donetsk area, units of the Vostok group of forces, as a result of active actions, improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on enemy personnel and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Mirnoye and Ugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Up to 210 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, two tanks, three cars, a launcher for the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as an ammunition depot were destroyed.

In the Kherson area, on March 6, 2024, Russian aviation launched strikes against Ukrainian militants on the left and right banks of the Dnieper. 36 temporary deployment points were struck. During the day, the enemy lost 95 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters, two armored combat vehicles, eight guns and mortars, three cars and one boat. In addition, 49 Ukrainian drones were shot down and suppressed. Attacks were carried out on four formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - the 117th Infantry Brigade, the 38th Marine Brigade, the 121st Terrorist Defense Brigade and the 15th National Guard Brigade. On the Zaporozhye Front, the Russian Army concentrated its main efforts in the Rabotino area. Assault groups of our troops are operating in the area of the village center near the school. In the Kherson area, units of the Dnepr group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the 118th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 126th technical defense brigade and the 23rd brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino, Verbovoye of the Zaporozhye oblast, Tokarevka, Sadovoye of the Kherson oblast and Vysshetarasovka Dnepropetrovsk oblast.

Up to 125 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and two vehicles were destroyed.

With operational-tactical and army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit: aviation equipment, aviation ammunition and fuel depots at the Lozovatka airfields in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast and Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytsky oblast, an ammunition depot operational-tactical group "Donetsk", manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 113 oblasts.

[Russian] Air defense systems shot down, intercepted and destroyed: nine US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system rockets were shot down, as well as a French-made AASM “Hammer” guided aerial bomb. 135 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed, including in the areas of the settlements Sladkoe, Pavlovka, Signalnoe, Verkhnetoretskoe, Orlinskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Golikovo, Chervonopopovka, Novodruzhesk of the Lugansk People's Republic, Mirnoe, Magedovo, Shevchenkovo and Novoe of the Zaporozhye oblast.