[Libertarian Institute] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he is seeking to ban all religions with ties to Russia under a new law. He claims the move is needed to "guarantee spiritual independence to Ukraine." No wonder the bulk of the Uniparty loves him. He's anti freedom of speech and religion.
The measure will target millions of Ukrainians who identify as Russian Orthodox.
During his nightly address on Thursday, Zelensky announced he was introducing legislation that would eliminate religious organizations affiliated with Russia from operating in Ukraine. He said this will make "it impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine."
The Ukrainian leader said it was necessary to purge the church to preserve the country’s spiritual independence, adding "We will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul." Zelensky denounced Ukrainians continuing to attend the parishes as failing to overcome "the temptation of evil."
He claimed a series of recent raids by Kiev’s intelligence found Orthodox churches which remain connected with the Moscow Patriarchate have been acting as operatives for the Kremlin. In his address, Zelensky instructed his security forces to further target Russian Orthodox parishes.
Around two-thirds of Ukrainians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians. At one point, the majority of Ukrainians attended parishes that followed the Moscow Patriarchate. Some recent polls say that number has dwindled to under 15%, however the polling was only conducted in territory that was controlled by Ukrainian forces. Zelensky has vowed to return those regions to Kiev’s authority.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, responded by slamming Zelensky’s move as authoritarian. "The current Ukrainian authorities have openly become enemies of Christ and the Orthodox faith," he said.
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Why do they need it? We're supplying them with $40 billion with billions more on the way. They can buy all the gold-plated overpriced US equipment from Raytheon and Lockmart.
Oh wait, they're stealing the money, aren't they? That's why they have to use WWII weapons. How much is getting kicked back to US government officials?
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Careful we don't let the messaging streams cross!
Ukraine using old stuff is waste not want not, a frugal virtue. The Russians using old stuff means they have run out of modern armaments and have lost the war. Again.
[NYPost] The Russian military is pouring its resources into capturing the small city of Bakhmut, puzzling intelligence analysts who say the city in Eastern Ukraine is of little strategic importance.
Russian troops are attempting to encircle the city in the Donetsk region, one of four regions Russia has claimed as its own. But Bakhmut, which had just about 70,000 residents before the war, would offer little advantage, according to the UK Ministry of Defense.
"Russia has prioritized Bakhmut as its main offensive effort since early August 2022," the ministry said Saturday in its daily intelligence update. "The capture of the town would have limited operational value."
The update said taking Bakhmut would be primarily a "symbolic, political objective" for the Kremlin, which has seen massive losses on the battlefield in the past few months, including November’s retreat from the key city of Kherson, which it had held since the early days of the war.
"The capture of the town would have limited operational value although it would potentially allow Russia to threaten the larger urban areas of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk," the Defense Ministry said of Bakhut. "However, the campaign has been disproportionately costly relative to these possible gains."
The effort has also decimated the city, which has historic importance to Ukraine. A video posted online by an adviser to Ukraine’s internal ministry showed aerial shots block after block of bombed-out homes, apartment buildings, and businesses.
"What was once people’s homes are now just empty shells," said the adviser, Anton Gerashchenko. "Russian world destroyed the worlds of many Ukrainian people."
Separately, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ridiculed Russia for burning through its resources, human and military, in the fight.
"Kremlin eliminates thousands of its conscripted, prisoners, mercenaries and military near the city that has no strategic importance," the president’s adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak wrote. "All to prove themselves: we can still do something! No, you cannot. Forget about Bakhmut."
Earlier this week, a senior U.S. defense official highlighted the historical importance of Bakhmut for Ukraine during a briefing with the Department of Defense, pointing to World War II atrocities that occurred in the town.
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Oh, now suddenly, " city in Eastern Ukraine is of little strategic importance." Quite the contrary. "symbolic, political objective" Western media derangement syndrome. Ukraine has poured troops into this area knowing how its loss disrupts their ongoing efforts against Russia. So many dead in muck and mire. Too many to remove from the field dead or alive. The West continues to push against Russia when it has already lost. Simply review what they have done and you will see a hollow shell of failures. Throw money and equipment over and over expecting a different outcome each time. It seems we have the grownup hippies running things with their brains burned out from years of drug use.
Hamas sets up posts in tunnels underneath schools and hospital, Dron, so that Israeli missiles literally have to go through the buildings full of civilians to get to them. Being under hospitals also makes it easy when they have wounded of their own in need of care.
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...puzzling intelligence analysts who say the city in Eastern Ukraine is of little strategic importance.
It does have importance. The Donetsk region is highly built up and has been difficult to take, even in WWII for the Germans and Russians. Usually they go around it. Bakhmut is the last major city. Behind it is 200km of flat, open farmland that is very hard to defend all the way to the Dnipro. Kramatorsk and Slovansk are a bit to the north and Russia does want them, but if the Bakhmut lines are breached the Ukrainian defensive line in the south can flanked by tanks in open ground once the ground freezes.
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[LB] In total, eight regions were attacked by the enemy.
by Iryna Lysohor
The night was relatively calm, without shelling, in Volyn, Transcarpathia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopil Oblasts, Poltava Oblast, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, and Kyiv Oblast.
In the past 24 hours, there were seven shellings of artillery and rocket systems of volley fire in the Chernihiv region : Chernihiv, Novgorod-Siversky districts, from mortars. There were no victims, reported in a summary from OVA.
In the Donetsk region, the situation is difficult near Bakhmut and Vugledar, the villages of Torske and Zarichne of the Lyman community are constantly shelled. Last night - shelling of Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, village. Georgiivka, settlements of Toretska (New York, Severny, Piadenne, Shumy, Magdalinivka, Zalizne) and Soledar communities (Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske). At night, there are single flights both in the old part of Avdiivka and in the central part. In the morning, there was a massive art attack in the central part of the city. Information about the injured civilians is being clarified. Along the line of defense around the city, shelling continued almost all night. This morning - enemy assaults in the directions of Krasnohorivka, Vesely, Promka, Vodyany, Pervomaisky. Over the past day in Donetsk region: one dead and four wounded civilians.
In Kharkiv, during the day, the Russians attacked the population centers of Chuguyiv, Kharkiv, Kupyan, and Izyum districts. There is damage to private farms, hitting open areas. In Vovchansk, a 55-year-old man was injured as a result of shelling, hospitalized, the victim's condition is average.
In the Sumy region yesterday, during the day, the enemy made 76 strikes on the border with various types of weapons. Seredino-Budska, Znob-Novgorodska, Krasnopilska and Bilopolska communities came under fire. No victims.
In Zaporizhzhya, during the past day, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Vilniansk, Biloghirya, Gulyaipole, Orihiv, Chervone, Malynivka, Dorozhnyanka, Shcherbaki, Zaliznychne, Stepove, Primorske, Olhivske, Novodanilivka, Charivne, Mali Shcherbaki, Kamianske. 41 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by the Russians. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified. During the past day, the civilian population was evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians shelled Nikopol, Marganetska and Chervonogrigorivska communities at night. They were fired from "Hrads" and heavy artillery. Nikopol suffered the most. It was hit by 30 Russian shells. In the city, two dozen private houses, two gas furnaces, electricity grids and 50 solar panels were mutilated. Several high-rise buildings, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged in the Marganetska and Chervonogrihorivska communities. It passed without casualties or injuries.
In the Luhansk region, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the Chervonopivka area. On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the Russians fired from tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery in the areas of Novoselivskyi, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, and Ploshanka. The occupiers also carried out an airstrike on Novoselivske. Over the course of a day, the enemy fired 57 artillery shells at our positions on the contact line.
In the Kherson region, the situation is complicated. According to information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, areas of settlements located on the right bank of the Dnipro River, in particular, Zolota Balka, Havrylivka, Dudchany, Tyaginka, Kachkarivka, Ivanivka, Ingulets, Mykilske, Dar'ivka, Molodizhne, Zelenivka and Dniprovske, were hit by artillery fire.
Russian invaders shelled Kherson - damaged power grids. Repair crews of energy workers immediately started work. Road clearing works are ongoing in Kherson region. Mobile communication base stations are being restored. Phased restoration of gas supply continues in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Malia Oleksandrivka, Novodmytrivka and Visokopyla. In total, gas has been restored in 50 settlements out of 86 that have a centralized gas supply. Residents of liberated communities are provided with humanitarian aid.
We will remind that the total combat losses of Russia from February 24 to December 3 approximately amounted to 90,600 people. During the past day, the defenders eliminated another 510 occupiers.
Day 283 of my 3 day war. I've taken Russia from having the "world's 2nd most powerful military" to Macron effectively saying our army is so shit that we need guarantees for our security.
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[Korrespondent] 22:40 The Russians exported at least $1 billion worth of grain from Ukraine, Bloomberg calculated. According to the publication, in the occupied territories, the Russians harvested about 6 million tons of wheat. At present, Russian troops have occupied territories where about a quarter of all Ukrainian wheat is grown.
22:15 Arakhamia said that Ukraine is ready to provide security guarantees to Russia: "For this, it is enough: to leave the territory of our country; pay reparations; punish all war criminals; voluntarily surrender nuclear weapons. After that, we are ready to sit down at the negotiating table and talk about security guarantees ".
A maximalist position that hasn’t a hope in Hell of being accepted.
22:03 Macron, after a visit to the United States and negotiations with Biden, said that Paris and Washington should prepare a dialogue between Russia and Ukraine. According to him, the future security architecture of Europe should include "security guarantees" for the Russian Federation.
21:36 Pressure on Putin over nuclear weapons has forced him to change war tactics, says US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: "Russia has already made itself a pariah, but we explained: the use of nuclear weapons will entail a response and consequences of an incomparable level. Our response was united, and after that, Russia switched to a fundamentally different weapon, launching attacks on the energy infrastructure."
20:17 Zelensky called the decision to set a cap on the price of Russian oil at $60 "frivolous" and "weak": "Now the world has ended - unfortunately, without serious decisions - the discussion on price caps, that is, on limiting the export price because the decision to set such a limit on Russian prices, which is quite comfortable for the budget of a terrorist state, cannot be called serious. Russia has already caused colossal damage to all countries of the world by deliberately destabilizing the energy market. And the world can not decide on its real energy disarmament. It's a weak position."
Brent crude was selling at US$83.50 per barrel on Monday. How much of a discount would India, China, etc. demand to take Russia’s oil off its hands?
The President emphasized that it was only a matter of time before stronger instruments would have to be used: “It is a pity that this time will be lost. In particular, Poland and the Baltic countries, the Russian budget will receive about $ 100 billion a year. This money will go not only to the war and not only to further Russian sponsorship of other terrorist regimes and organizations. This money will also be used to further destabilize precisely those countries that trying to avoid serious decisions now."
20:05 Zelensky, in an evening video message, spoke about the situation at the front: "In the Donetsk region - Bakhmut, Soledar - now it is still the hottest, most painful. We are doing everything to help our guys in this direction. Luhansk and Kharkiv regions - we are strengthening our forces "South - we continue to "minus" the capabilities of the occupiers. Border - we are strengthening the entire perimeter. Black Sea water area - we are working so that in the end Caliber could only be at the bottom."
19:42 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, said that in the satellite image published by the BBC, the building with the inscription on the roof "The Russian Army - to the inhabitants of Mariupol" is not a military base, but the largest morgue in the Donetsk region, which the Russians disguised as a diagnostic center.
19:38 The Council of the EU has approved a limit on the price of Russian oil: from December 5, the limit price for oil, oil products and oils originating from Russia or exported from it will be $60 per barrel. According to an official statement from the Council of the EU, capping the price of Russian oil should limit price spikes caused by extreme market conditions; sharply reduce the revenues that Russia receives from the sale of oil; contribute to the stabilization of world energy prices and mitigation of negative consequences for the energy supply of third countries.
19:20 The Russians today hit four rockets on the industrial zone of Kramatorsk. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said. The General Staff clarified that the blow fell on a civilian infrastructure facility in the city of Kramatorsk.
18:49 On the evening of December 3, Shoigu suddenly flew to Minsk and an hour later he signed the amendments to the document on regional security. According to Russian propaganda media, the purpose of the visit is negotiations with the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Khrenin. The monitoring group of Belaruska Gayun noted that Shoigu's visit to Belarus on the day off was not previously reported.
In addition, less than an hour later, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus reported that Khrenin and Shoigu signed a protocol on amending the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on the joint provision of regional security in the military sphere of December 19, 1997. Moreover, judging by the photo, the signing of the documents took place right at the airfield in Machulishchi, which is extremely atypical and only emphasizes some kind of haste. In addition, according to the information of the monitoring group, immediately after the signing of the documents, Lukashenka also went to Minsk to meet with Shoigu.
Lukashenka also today publicly acknowledged for the first time that the Belarusian military is participating in the military training of Russian mobilized at the training grounds in the Republic of Belarus: “I think the Belarusian Minister of Defense has already told you about the situation in Belarus, about the training, combat coordination of the units of Belarus and Russia that are present in Belarus. I must say that we have approached this seriously. Both our and your officers are preparing guys. Both Belarusians and Russians are being trained."
17:11 In the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region, on a field road, two people died after being blown up by a mine in a car carrying bread, the police said.
16:36 The Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that "a protocol to an agreement on the joint provision of regional security in the military sphere" was signed with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
16:31 A Russian military base has appeared in the center of Mariupol - the BBC has published a satellite image from the Maxar company. The base was built recently, on its roof you can see the logo of the Russian army in the form of a star and the inscription "The Russian Army - to the residents of Mariupol."
No doubt they are grateful indeed to have been gifted such a thing from the Big Russia brothers.
16:25 Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the presidential press service reported. The participants listened to reports on the operational situation at the front and countering the enemy, analyzed the pace of restoring damaged military equipment and providing the defense forces with weapons and ammunition. In addition, we reviewed the progress in restoring the energy system of Ukraine and the implementation of measures to ensure the autonomous operation of critical infrastructure facilities. They also discussed measures to ensure the spiritual independence of Ukraine.
15:54 Canada imposes sanctions against Iranian companies associated with the development of UAVs and their transfer to the Russian Federation. In particular, according to Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, restrictions are being introduced against four more Iranian individuals and five legal entities. The list includes the Baharestan Kish company, which helped develop the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, as well as the Safiran airline, which helped deliver the UAV.
15:17 Peskov said that Putin "over time" will visit the Donbass.
14:30 Macron said he wants to talk with Putin after a conversation with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, to discuss the situation with civilian nuclear energy in Ukraine.
14:08 Russia is already using a strategic stockpile of certain types of weapons, as well as missiles manufactured this year, including in August, Vadym Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said: "This suggests that some missiles are being used directly from "As long as they last, a lot depends on production. Yes, it has fallen compared to the pre-war period. But, unfortunately, the Russian Federation, due to the fact that it bypasses economic sanctions, is still capable of producing a certain number of cruise missiles and other weapons."
According to Ukrainian military intelligence, for two months Russia has been exporting 122/152 mm artillery ammunition from Belarus. In addition, negotiations are ongoing between the Russian Federation and other countries on the supply of ammunition, missile weapons for the Smerch and Uragan MLRS, which it has a shortage of, as well as negotiations with Iran on replenishing ballistic missile stockpiles. According to Skibitsky, there are relevant draft agreements between these countries, but to date, the supply of such weapons has not been recorded.
11:46 In Belarus, the accumulation of the allied group of troops continues, but so far there is no threat from the Republic of Belarus yet, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Naev. According to him, in the event of an increase in the military threat, depending on its quantitative and qualitative composition, the assistance of additional forces and means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is provided.
11:25 Lithuania has repaired and delivered two more PzH2000 howitzers along with ammunition to Ukraine, Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas said.
11:17 The topic of negotiations can be used by Putin to resupply his troops before launching a new offensive, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said: "The solution to this issue must be sustainable. We must be wary of the pause that Russia is using to make sure that its the next phase of aggression will be more effective than this."
11:14 During the period of December 3-5, the ban on crossing the Dnieper at the River Station section during daylight hours is lifted. This is done so that people who are in dachas on the left bank of the Dnieper can be evacuated to Kherson, the Kherson OVA reported.
11:02 British intelligence reports that Russian troops have advanced south of Bakhmut in recent days. If the Russians capture the city, it would be of limited operational value, but would potentially allow them to threaten the larger urban areas of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, analysts say. Russia's plan is most likely to encircle the city with a tactical advance to the north and south, experts say.
Since August, Russia had made Bakhmut a priority in its main offensive operation, but the campaign was disproportionately costly compared to the possible benefits. There is a real possibility that the capture of Bakhmut has become primarily a symbolic political task for Russia, according to intelligence.
10:34 Russia may inflict a new massive blow to Ukraine when the frost intensifies and the temperature drops to 8-10 degrees, Podolyak believes. According to him, Russia is going to "hard freeze the Ukrainians," therefore, it is waiting for the appropriate weather conditions in order to inflict a sensitive blow not on the energy sector as such, but to direct it to heating in the homes of Ukrainians.
09:40 The withdrawal of weapons from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which Ukraine demands, will be part of the agreement between Kiev and Moscow with the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, director of the agency, said in an interview with La Repubblica. According to him, both sides have already agreed in principle not to fire at the station and not to fire from its territory. "Russia is not against the agreement and the principle of protecting the station," he added.
09:37 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Putin is not interested in negotiations with Ukraine that could lead to a sustainable peace. Analysts say the Kremlin is remaining vague on the subject matter of the talks, likely to lure Western officials into negotiating without a clear definition of whether such talks will be aimed at a ceasefire, a peace process, or a final peace deal.
ISW concludes that Russia would benefit from an interim agreement with Ukraine and Western countries that would create a pause in hostilities, allowing Russia to build up military forces for future military operations in order to achieve maximalist goals in Ukraine. With Putin showing little interest in a ceasefire, and the Kremlin continuing to make demands tantamount to total Western surrender, this shows that Putin remains focused on achieving a military victory, ISW said.
09:29 Australia also imposed a price cap on oil supplied by sea from Russia at $60 per barrel.
09:03 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 3.
personnel - about 90,600 (+510) people liquidated,
tanks - 2917 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 5886 (+3),
artillery systems - 1906 (+1),
MLRS - 395 (+0),
air defense systems - 210 (+0),
aircraft - 280 (+0),
helicopters - 263 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1572 (+8),
cruise missiles - 531 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4472 (+8),
special equipment - 163 (+0).
08:27 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one civilian was killed - in Soledar. Four more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:41 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of Russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of Krasnopopovka, Luhansk region and Soledar, Experienced, Nevelskoye, Krasnogorovka and Maryinka, Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report .
01:16 G7 has reached a consensus on setting the maximum price for the purchase of Russian oil at $60 per barrel. The group said in a statement that the deal would come into effect "December 5 or shortly thereafter." At the same time, the G7 decision on the marginal cost of oil products of Russian origin will come into force on February 5, the price will be determined separately.
The G7 hopes that the cap on Russian oil will lower the cost of energy and encourage other importers to adhere to this policy. At the same time, Russia can sell oil below the limit, remaining on the world market, or operate outside the G7, reducing its presence.
The US Treasury considered the price limit for oil from the Russian Federation at $60 sufficient for Russia to continue selling oil to world markets.
00:04 In Kherson, as a result of Russian shelling, the power grids were damaged, the city was again left without electricity, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
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[RIA] Opponents of Russia are constantly talking about negotiations over Ukraine, but in recent days the differences in the approaches of the West and Kyiv have become more noticeable.
In Kiev, they not only reject the idea of negotiations, they argue about when the conditions are ripe for them: after Ukraine takes Lugansk and Donetsk, or is it better to wait for the return of Crimea. There are, however, those who call any negotiations with "barbarians" unworthy:
"They just need to be destroyed so that they cease to exist as a country within the boundaries in which they exist. Because today Russia is one of the few countries that has colonies on its territory, which has destroyed a huge number of peoples, languages, cultures, traditions."
These words of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov are very revealing: a Russian person not only declares that he is not Russian, but also says that Ukraine has nothing to do with Russia, which "constantly steals someone's history."
"You are Muscovy, which was on its own territory, you are thieves who constantly stole someone's history, you constantly demand something, but you are not worthy that anyone in the world would communicate with you at all ... In general, I think that Putin and Hitler are Siamese twins, only one was born a little later."
The bravado of the Kiev mankurts
...from a novel published in the Soviet Union in 1980, a mankurt was originally a zombified prisoner of war. The word evolved thereafter to mean an ethnic Soviet citizen who has lost connection to their non-Russian heritage...
is understandable - so much has been said and done on the path of abandoning their own identity that there is nowhere to retreat: Europe is behind, into which they wanted to bring the entire Independent. It did not work out - and it will never work out again, so you have to rely only on the destruction of Russia.
Naturally, with the help of the West, which should not only increase military assistance to Kiev, but also not think about any compromises with Moscow . The West, in principle, agrees, but, as they say, there is a nuance.
The West is ready for negotiations, but they want to conduct them from a position of strength, that is, to be sure that they have defended Ukraine's independence from Russia and ensured that it belongs to the Western world. As NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said the other day: "If we allow Putin to win, we will all pay an even higher price for many, many years to come."
“We know that most wars end at the negotiating table. But what happens at the negotiating table is directly related to what happens on the battlefield. Therefore, in order to create the conditions for a lasting peace, we must make sure that Ukraine wins as a sovereign independent state. We must continue to provide military support to Ukraine."
The idea that Russia's victory can provide "conditions for a lasting peace" is categorically unacceptable for the West, or rather, they pretend that they don't even imagine such an outcome. US President Biden said so bluntly on Thursday:
"The idea that Putin will ever win in Ukraine is unacceptable. It cannot be allowed! Even imagine that he could occupy this country in the next few years."
Therefore, the States will provide assistance to Kiev as much as necessary, Biden said at a press conference with French President Macron who visited Washington. The French idea of creating an international tribunal to try Russia has received support in Washington: Biden and Macron "are determined to hold Russia and Putin accountable for the war with Ukraine" and, do not be surprised, "the rest of the world." What kind of negotiations can we talk about then?
But the fact of the matter is that Biden's words quoted above are taken from his answer to the question about the terms of the peace talks - in the rest of the answer, the US president set conditions and talked about "Putin's mistakes":
“Putin has to get out of Ukraine – that’s number one. He’s not going to do it yet. He pays a very high price for not doing it. But I don’t have a plan to go to Putin. there is an interest on the other side to end this war, but so far he has not shown such an interest.If so, then in consultation with the allies, I am ready to discuss with Putin what he has in mind ...
He miscalculated in everything: he thought that he would be welcomed there with open arms by the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine (read his speeches before the invasion). He imagined himself to be the next Peter I, he called Kiev "the mother of Russian cities," there is a Russian identity and so on - he miscalculated everything. The question is, how does he get out of this? If he is ready to discuss something, fine, I am ready, but in consultation with my allies. I won't do it on my own."
That is, Washington pretends that Putin is in a weak position and does not know how to get out of it, and the States will simply wait until Moscow is ripe for negotiations on "saving face," and then "graciously deign."
The main condition is indicated - the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine, which means not only the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions , but also the DPR with the LPR, although with regard to the latter, the States, of course, will be ready to compromise. Against the backdrop of Kyiv's position, this is presented as a constructive approach - and calls from European leaders to Putin are already beginning.
On Friday, Scholz called - the German chancellor "called on the Russian president to come to a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, including the withdrawal of Russian troops," the French president will also talk about this, urging Putin to negotiate. At the same time, Macron publicly repeats the same thing as Biden and all other Western leaders:
"We will never force or encourage Ukraine to make a compromise that does not suit them. They are so brave, so serious and dedicated to defending their homeland that we must understand that if we want a sustainable peace, we must allow Ukraine to hold negotiations on the terms that suit Ukraine."
So what is the West counting on, simultaneously pumping the topic of negotiations with "weak Putin," and assuring that the negotiations will go only according to the Ukrainian scenario, and threatening Russia with a tribunal and confiscation of frozen assets? What kind of tactic is this? They believe that this is the method of "carrot and stick" - and in the role of "carrot" there are negotiations. Which are so needed by Moscow and "Putin, who has found himself in a dead end."
That is, the difference in the approaches of Kyiv and the West lies in the fact that the Ukrainian authorities act as an evil investigator, while the European ones act as a good one: some demand to "finish off the reptile", while others talk about the possibility of a compromise with the "new Hitler" if he comes to his senses and back off.
Scholz even said the other day that "we can return to the peaceful order that worked and make it safe again if Russia also shows a willingness to return to such a peaceful order", that is, "stop trying to expand the territory of Russia by military means" and recognizes "the existence of open societies with broad views, democracies that have a completely different system of government and that attract people differently. <…> As a result, aggression does not come from EU member states and from NATO: all issues of common security can be discussed and resolved. Willingness there is to it."
That is, the problem allegedly is that Putin saw a threat to his power in the existence of a democratic and European-oriented Ukraine (this is Scholz's favorite topic, he has been repeating it for a long time) and wanted to expand the territory of Russia. And not that the western expansion to the east has gone as far as preparing for the annexation of our historical territories (what is Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO?), which fell under the control of mankurts like Danilov? Russia should have come to terms with this? And now to negotiate with the West on its terms, that is, to recognize that Ukraine belongs not to the Russian, but to the Western world?
The problem with all Western discourse about negotiations with Russia is that they do not understand what is at stake: it seems to them that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 was a point in Russian history, after which Ukraine went to the West as a trophy. First as a buffer state on the border with Russia, and then as a potential part of the Western world.
Therefore, it will be possible to negotiate with the Russians in general and with Putin in particular, especially if Moscow is convinced that the battle for Ukraine is tantamount to a proxy war (that is, indirect) with the entire West.
But the Russian attitude to what is happening is completely different: for us, this is the restoration of the unity of our country and our people (even if a considerable part of it in Ukraine has already undergone de-Russification - this only reinforces the need to counteract the process of Ukraine’s separation from Russia), this is the elimination of a potential military threat from West (only an illiterate or a Russophobe can consider it mythical), this is the correction of one's own mistakes. This is a holy war for the right to be yourself throughout the entire space of the Russian world - from Vladivostok to Pochaev.
What and with whom should we negotiate? With the Ukrainian government, which expresses the interests of those forces that de-Russify Ukraine, and invent a history separate from Russia for it, and wish it a European (that is, someone else's) future? With European powers deprived of full-fledged sovereignty and unable to defend even their own interests? With the Anglo-Saxon elite, interested in the maximum weakening of Russia, in a guaranteed rupture of European-Russian relations, in promoting transhumanist globalization hostile to our civilization?
We have no one and nothing to negotiate on Ukraine, except ourselves.
If we allow ourselves to be convinced that “we are weak,” “we are losing,” “the whole world is against us,” “if we don’t compromise, everything will end in defeat and collapse,” then we will indeed lose everything and lose the country.
If we are confident in ourselves, in our rightness, if we learn from mistakes and correct them, if we gather our will into a fist and understand that we have no alternative to our complete and unconditional victory, but it will take a long time and hard to go to it, then everything we will succeed. And, of course, there will be negotiations with the West - later, at six o'clock in the evening after the victory.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 19:28 Unique footage from RT military correspondent Andrey Filatov: soldiers of the 11th regiment of the NM of the DPR are clearing residential buildings in the village of Pervomayskoye, where the Armed Forces have settled -video 18:49 Law enforcement officers confiscated from a cache near the village of Kalanchak, Kherson region, anti-personnel mines, artillery shells and hand grenades, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region reported.
17:30 Effective linkage of UAVs and artillery of the Russian forces in the Bakhmut direction: another Ukrainian pickup destroyed -video
17:26 The BMP of the Ukrainianss took off their shoes in the mud, after which they went on foot -video
16:24 DPR special forces destroyed the SPG-9 crew and a group of militants near Vodiane -video
16:00 The destroyed location of the Ukrainians in the Bakhmut direction -video
15:57 Powerful blows were delivered to the industrial zone of Kramatorsk -video
15:55 Scouts of the "Brave" flew at night on the support of Ukrainian terrorists -video
15:53 Air alert announced in Kyiv, informs City Administration.
14:34 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progressholdingspecial military operation on the territory of Ukraine (3.12.2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, preemptive strikes by army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems prevented an enemy attempt to attack in the direction of the Kuzemovka settlement of the Luhansk People's Republic. Up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armored personnel carriers and four pickup trucks were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the directions of the settlements of Kolomyychikha and Zhytlovka of the Luhansk People's Republic was thwarted. As a result of army aviation strikes and artillery fire, enemy units were stopped and dispersed.
More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and three Kozak armored vehicles were destroyed.
In the Donetsk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts to restore the position of their troops in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Kurdyumovka, Avdeevka and Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic. As a result of the inflicted fire damage, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks and five armored combat vehicles were destroyed in a day.
In the South Donetsk direction, the enemy made attempts to counterattack in the areas of the settlements of Sladkoye, Shevchenko and Novomayorskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. Attack aviation strikes and artillery fire stopped the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pushed them back to their original positions.
The losses of the enemy in this direction amounted to more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded. Two infantry fighting vehicles and five vehicles were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated three enemy command posts in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Kharkov region, Svyatogorsk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, 74 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 195 districts were hit.
In the area of the settlement of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, two points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries were hit. In the area of the settlement of Kaleniki of the Donetsk People's Republic, a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery radar was destroyed. In the areas of the settlements of Tabaevka, Kharkiv region and Primorskoe, Zaporozhye region, two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Selydovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by means of air defense in the areas of the settlements of Golikovo in the Lugansk People's Republic, Sands, Kirillovka, Nikolskoye, Novotroitskoye, Yegorovka and Olginka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, eight rockets of the HIMARS and Vilkha multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted in the areas of the settlements of Popasnaya and Lisichansk of the Lugansk People's Republic, Novopetrikovka, Volnovakha and Kuibyshevo of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 336 aircraft, 178 helicopters, 2,609 unmanned aerial vehicles, 391 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,970 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 908 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,652 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 7,450 units of special military vehicles.
13:54 Air raid alert announced in Poltava, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Kyiv-controlled parts of the Zaporozhye region.
13:17 "The guys are young, but you can go into battle": the combat work of the crews of 152-mm artillery mounts 2S3 "Acacia" of the Southern Military District in the special operation zone -video
Artillerymen, supporting the actions of motorized rifle units, strike at enemy fortifications, accumulations of manpower and columns of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:12 Denazification is ongoing —video
11:10 Destroyed Ukrainian transport —video
10:26 Western weapons did not help Ukrainian militants to keep Maiorsk -video
10:16 Artillery of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Army Corps in Artyomovsk destroyed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
10:10 Night work of the calculation of the 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad" of the allied forces of the LDNR on the positions and equipment of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
10:09 A checkpoint with four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by the crew of the Forpost-RU UAV near the settlement of VOLCHANSK —video
09:15 Schoolchildren from Yekaterinburg wrote letters to servicemen participating in a special military operation. The children included drawings and postcards in their messages -video
08:38 Military doctors of the "Brave" rescue civilians on the front line -video
08:01 Calculations of 122mm 2S1 self propelled artillery "Acacia" destroy enemy artillery in the Zaporozhye direction -video
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:43 Special Forces of the RF Armed Forces destroyed Ukrainian hangars with equipment in the village of Berestovoye in the Lugansk People's Republic, a reconnaissance officer of the ZVO special forces in the LPR told RIA Novosti -video 23:39 In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the Ministry of Defense said, an attempt by Ukrainian troops to attack in the directions of Kolomyychikha and Zhitlovka of the LPR was stopped.
23:11 In the Kupyansky direction, an attempt by the enemy to attack in the direction of Kuzemovka in the LPR was prevented, the Defense Ministry reported.
22:41 Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Selidovo region in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry noted.
22:20 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces and aircraft hit two points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
21:22 The shelling of the Kirov region resumed. From the positions of the VFU in Krasnogorovka, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
17:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for December 3, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- on the street. Kalinina, 232 "a" a woman born in 1957 was wounded.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Kalinina, 232 - a direct hit on a farm building was recorded, followed by a fire;
- st. Sviderskogo, 22 - a private residential building;
- 27, 31, Officersky Ave. - private residential buildings;
— Gvardeisky Ave., 15 “a” — multi-apartment residential building;
- st. Rostovskaya, 52 - a private residential building.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Victory, 29 - a private residential building.
n.p. Alexandrovka:
de-energized20 transformer substations, no power supply 2000 subscribers n.p. Alexandrovka.
- st. Gorky, 49 - damaged garage and car.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
16:13 As a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district at 14:00 on the street. Glebov found an unexploded shell. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
15:17 At 13:20, as a result of the shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka, a garage and a civilian car were damaged by Ukrainian rounds.
14:32 Russian air defense systems intercepted eight HIMARS and Alder MLRS rounds in the LPR and DPR, 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down - Russian Defense Ministry.
14:31 In the region of Kramatorsk (DPR), two temporary deployments of foreign mercenaries were hit - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
13:15 Petrovsky district was again shelled. The JCCC informs that at 12:50 three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired from Krasnogorovka.
12:09 As a result of the shelling of the DOK settlement in the Kuibyshev district, houses of the private sector were damaged. The impact caused a fire. Details are being specified.
11:13 Under the blow of the Ukrainians, the Kuibyshev region. The JCCC reports that at 10:20 three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired. In the risk zone, Azotny, Krasny Pakhar, Grabari, Gornyak, Lozovsky, 10-bis, Adminposelok, etc.
10:12 Shelling of the Kyiv region began. According to the JCCC, at 09:20, three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired from Orlovka.
09:47 Frontline summary on the morning of 03.12.2022
On the Donetsk front, Russian artillery strikes at the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Avdeevka. On the ground without significant changes. The Ukrainian army, in turn, hit Donetsk. (Fig. 1)
To the south of Bakhmut, PMC "Wagner" repulsed the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Opytnoye. We remind you that this is a village north of Donetsk, and not a settlement near the regional center. Artillery worked on Bakhmut himself. As well as in neighboring Soledar. (Fig. 2)
The Ukrainian army has stepped up in the Luhansk direction. Attack in the direction of Zhitlovka north of Kremennaya. A little north of the Armed Forces of Ukraine came to Krasnopopovka. Part of the R-66 highway is now in the "grey zone". Further, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have an obstacle in the form of the Red River. But so far they have a confident foothold on its right bank. In this area, Russian artillery hit Makiivka. (Fig. 3)
08:08 Arena of fierce battles - Artyomovsk: footage from a Ukrainian quadrocopter
Commentary taken from the Telegram post of Ruthless PR man.
[ColonelCassad] Today is a significant day in the USA. You could say the second coming of Edward Snowden. Elon Musk linked to a series of tweets released by journalist Matthew Taibbi explaining how Twitter hushed up the Biden laptop story in detail.
So, what's inside the tweets:
Almost from the very beginning, Twitter was engaged in internal censorship. Those materials that the company considered related to fraud and pornography were deleted or strongly pessimized in the feed, they could not be quickly retweeted, and the posts were also deleted.
However, this system of "checks and balances" soon ceased to apply only to commercial things and frauds. Famous people and politicians began to turn to Twitter to delete information about themselves: by 2020, this system was rebuilt and worked perfectly.
More than 96% of Twitter's employee policy donations ($309,722 in 2018) went to Democrats.
On October 4, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN'S SECRET LETTERS, an exposé based on the contents of Hunter Biden's lost laptop. And Twitter took "extraordinary measures to hide the story by removing links and posting warnings that it might be 'unsafe'." They even blocked its transmission via direct messages, a tool that until now has been used only in extreme cases, such as with child pornography.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was banned from her account for tweeting about the story, with a "violent letter" on Twitter about the matter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Khan, who fumed, "At least pretend you care for the next 20 days."
The laptop story was removed from EVERYWHERE for violating the company's "hacked content" policy.
The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey. Vijaya Gadde, former head of legal, political and trust at Twitter, played a key role in the story.
By this point, “everyone knew it was fucked up,” said one former employee.
Several employees tried to argue with management about the decisions made. Former VP of Global Communications (Partner) Brandon Borrman asks, "Can we honestly say this is part of the policy?"
Vice President and Consul General of NetChoice (this, as we understand it, is such an association that allegedly monitors the observance of freedom on the Internet, lol - an intermediary between Internet companies and the state) Carl Szabo, meanwhile, warned Twitter that at the upcoming hearings in Congress they are waiting for a "bloodbath".
Szabo's letter contains chilling passages reflecting the position of Democratic lawmakers. They want "more" moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights (the US constitution), it is "not absolute ," writes Szabo.
The funny thing about this whole story is that Jack Dorsey was allegedly not in the know and out of discussion (which we girls, frankly, do not believe in)
Girls, if we (you) love stories about REAL cannibals so much, and not these pathetic scumbags from Insider, enjoy. What a fucking asshole.
Now one can only imagine what has been and has been happening in the Russian segment of Twitter all these years.
Following commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin
Of course, there are no special openings here. Musk only confirmed what was already well known.
Well known on the right, well-denied on the left. Musk’s only confirmed is actually a big deal, though the left continues to deny that this is in any way interesting or important.
But now this information has been essentially verified by the new owner of Twitter. Along the way, for the narrow-minded, they show how the most common and banal direct political censorship is carried out under the guise of stories about "freedom of speech" and "the fight against disinformation."
And yes, Dorsey certainly knew about it.
Despite all the insistence about his ignorance thus far? How sweet. But if he knew, then he has legal liability. And if he did not know, then no doubt he is also legally liable — as chief executive officer of the company he has a fiduciary responsibility to put systems in place to prevent employees acting either unlawfully or in ways that drive away customers and thereby reduce shareholder value.
Just like the leadership of Facebook is well aware of the work of similar mechanisms of political censorship in its "no less free social network". Actually, these revelations replicated by Musk bring to life a stream of threats from the Democratic Party and part of the globalist establishment, who see this as a direct a threat to the built global mechanism of censorship and control over narratives.
Interesting that a Russian is waxing so indignant on behalf of the rights of Americans at the hands of an American company, given a certain dearth of such rights back home.
[AlAhram] Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine's Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.
Australia, Britannia, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling. Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap's European backers would come to rue their decision.
``From this year, Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... will live without Russian oil,`` Ulyanov tweeted. ``Moscow has already made it clear that it will not supply oil to those countries that support anti-market price caps. Wait, very soon the EU will accuse Russia of using oil as a weapon.''
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, called Saturday for a lower price cap, saying the one adopted by the EU and the Group of Seven leading economies didn't go far enough.
``It would be necessary to lower it to $30 in order to destroy the enemy's economy faster,'' Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy's office, wrote on Telegram, staking out a position also favored by Poland _ a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's war in Ukraine.
Under Friday's agreements, insurance companies and other firms needed to ship oil would only be able to deal with Russian crude if the oil is priced at or below the cap. Most insurers are located in the EU and the United Kingdom and could be required to observe the ceiling.
The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil ``will continue to be in demand`` and criticized the price limit as ``reshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.'' A post on the embassy's Telegram channel predicted the per-barrel cap would lead to ``a widespread increase in uncertainty and higher costs for consumers of raw materials.''
The price cap aims to put an economic squeeze on Russia and further crimp its ability to finance a war that has killed an untold number of civilians and fighters, driven millions of Ukrainians from their homes and weighed on the world economy for more than nine months.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that since Friday Russia's forces had fired five missiles, carried out 27 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and launched 44 shelling attacks against Ukraine's military positions and civilian infrastructure.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president's office, said the attacks killed one civilian and maimed four others in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. According to the U.K. Defense Ministry, Russian forces ``continue to invest a large element of their overall military effort and firepower'' around the small Donestsk city of Bakhmut, which they have spent weeks trying to capture.
In southern Ukraine's Kherson province, whose capital city of the same name was liberated by Ukrainian forces three weeks ago following a Russian retreat, Gov. Yaroslav Yanushkevich said evacuations of civilians stuck in Russian-held territory across the Dnieper River would resume temporarily.
Russian forces pulled back to the river's eastern bank last month. Yanushkevich said a ban on crossing the waterway would be lifted during daylight hours for three days for Ukrainian citizens who ``did not have time to leave the temporarily occupied territory.'' His announcement cited a ``possible intensification of hostilities in this area.''
Kherson is one of four regions that Putin illegally annexed in September and vowed to defend as Russian territory. From their new positions, Russian troops have regularly shelled Kherson city and nearby infrastructure in recent days, leaving many residents without power. Running water remained unavailable in much of the city.
The other regions annexed in violation of international law are Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian authorities also reported intense fighting in Luhansk and Russian shelling of northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which Russia's soldiers mostly withdrew from in September.
The mayor of the city of Kharkiv, which remained under Ukrainian control during Russia's occupation of other parts of the region, said some 500 apartment buildings were damaged beyond repair, and nearly 220 schools and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed. He estimated the cost of the damage at $9 billion.
#1
Price cap does nothing. EU will suffer the most. Russia has plenty of customers wanting their oil. Polar shift has occurred. Leadership is sorely lacking in the West. They have pushed the rest of the world into a new and dynamic union. Leadership by global corruption costs trillions and systemic corruption fails as it never lasts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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