Pat Buchanan at TownHall
About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea last week: there are conflicting versions.
...London's version: Defender sailed through waters off Crimea that belong to Ukraine. Russian gunfire was far off and unthreatening. No dropped bombs impeded the destroyer's passage.
Yet, according to The New York Times, BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale, who was on board Defender, has "published video footage showing as many as 20 Russian warplanes buzzing the ship and a Russian Coast Guard vessel drawing close alongside." Brian Williams concurs - he was there And in the studio in NYC
In brief, this naval encounter was serious business.
Defender's captain, Commander Vince Owen, made it clear his ship sailed close by Crimea deliberately "to assert the position that Crimea and the waters around it legally belong to Ukraine."
...This is not an unserious matter.
If the Brits repeat this exercise, which they see as a right, a duty and a mission, we could witness a Russian attack on a British warship.
This would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty that requires all member nations to treat an attack on one as an attack on all.
Britain's challenge to Russia, a few kilometers off Crimea, could have resulted in a shooting incident that could have forced a U.S. response against Russia. And that raises some serious questions:
Did Johnson inform us he was about to issue this direct challenge to Moscow? Or were the Americans left in the dark?
Did President Joe Biden or the Pentagon tell Johnson that if Defender were attacked, U.S. forces would have their back?
With this clash off Crimea, a peninsula Russia regards as vital and we have never regarded as vital, we could have been drawn into a conflict by our ally, Britain, which could not prevail against Vladimir Putin's Russia without the military assistance of the United States. China would love a war between USA and Russia
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[REGNUM] Another state-owned printing house, which they want to implement as part of the privatization program, is put up for sale in the Oryol region. A package of 100% of shares of Trud Printing House is planned to be sold at auction on July 22, 2021, reports IA REGNUM with reference to the documentation.
1,812,478 ordinary registered uncertified shares, which are currently owned by the region, are being offered for sale. The nominal value of one share is 40 rubles with an authorized capital of 72.49 million rubles (USD $1,002,202.38). The initial selling price of the lot is 200 million rubles (USD $2,764,000.00).
The Trud printing house was founded in 2004, but there is evidence that it dates back to 1812. The printing house is a full-cycle enterprise. Its main assets include real estate - a production facility with a total area of 9,590.7 sq. m, land plot, warehouses, garage, workshop and much more.
According to open data, in 2020 the revenue of the joint-stock company amounted to 42 million rubles (USD $580,440.00) against 50.9 million rubles (USD $703,438.00) a year earlier.
Let us remind you that today, June 29, it is also planned to trade for the sale of stakes in two more state assets from this industry - JSC Publishing House Kavkazskaya Zdravnitsa (Stavropol) and JSC Publishing and Printing Complex Dalpress in Vladivostok. In addition, full stakes in Zvezda Publishing and Printing Complex JSC from the Perm Territory and Saratov Printing Works JSC are put up for sale. Bidding for the latter two is scheduled for July.
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[REGNUM] On June 28, a detachment of ships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet (SF) of the Russian Navy, led by the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, left Severomorsk for the Barents Sea to make the transition to the Baltic Sea. This was reported by the press service of the Federation Council on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"During the voyage, the crews of the ships will improve their naval training, work out the tasks of joint maneuvering and conduct several exercises as part of the combat training course for surface ships of the Russian Navy," the message says.
The ships of the Northern Fleet are expected to arrive in the Baltic Sea in the first ten days of July.
Direct translation of the article. Edited. IA REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
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for decades, the Wehrmacht veterans have claimed that they were the "clean Germans" in contrast with the SS. As is clear from these discussions the last few days, the military were just as dirty as the SS.
It is notable that all the extermination activities in these camps took place without any participation by the SS. In addition this did not include any "special minorities". Instead they killed Russian civilians and POWs protected by the Geneva Convention.
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IA REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.
