Russia can’t allow the Ukraine to exist as a sovereign nation, says Gonzalo Lira. To do so would only guarantee that the war was for naught, and the Nazis and NATO would be back soon enough to infest the nation again, forcing yet another war on Moscow, perhaps a great deal more dangerous than the current one.
US LAWLESSNESS
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Western sanctions are resulting in more damage to the West than its intended target, Russia, note a group of economists interviewed by Peter Lavelle.
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Russian Ops in Ukraine: Rocket Launchers and Lost Cities
5 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—Update on Russian Military Operations in Ukraine for May 31, 2022 – Russian advances continue – roads out of Severodonetsk-Lysychansk cauldron under Russian artillery fire; – Ukraine launches anemic “counteroffensives” as political distractions from strategic catastrophe unfolding for them in the Donbas; – Ukraine, Western media float notion of Ukrainian retreat in Donbas; – Western media beginning to cover the full scale of Ukraine’s continued defeat; – Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) may still be sent, just not with long-range missiles; – US MLRS have steep logistical needs, large physical footprint that will make them cumbersome, easy to spot and destroy; – Other “wonder weapons” are being cleared off the battlefield in a similar manner, including most recently Italian FH70 howitzers; – Javelin and Stingers will take years to replace; – Nothing short of a direct NATO intervention will reverse course for Ukraine.
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PHILIP GIRALDI—But my favorite move by the Biden Administration, if one might be so bold as to suggest that it is actually capable of administering anything more kinetic than a hot dog stand, is the latest pander to Israel. The recent murder by military sharpshooter of Palestinian/American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh followed by a humiliating spectacle of police violence at the funeral as well as subsequently at a second Palestinian funeral, actually found some administration flunkies and congress critters calling for a full investigation by Israel. The Israeli government and army refused to do so and the White House has pretended that there is no longer anything to see or consider.
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MARIA GRITSCH —The US government and the corporate media falsely characterize Russia’s special operation as entirely ‘unprovoked’ and an ‘illegal invasion’. These allegations ignore four conditions which each independently compelled President Putin and the Duma to initiate Russia’s denazification and demilitarization operation and which establish this intervention as consistent with international legal norms.
Chief among the factors necessitating Russia’s immediate military response were indications of an imminent new massacre as 125,000 Ukraine forces amassed along the border of Donbass in December of 2021. This was never reported in the US corporate press.