"Russia will stop 'in a moment' if Ukraine meets terms - Kremlin" by Reuters via Yahoo News...but Reuters suddenly cut out the balanced part of the story.

[frankfurter + 562]

1 hour ago, surrept33 said:

talk about fake news and ignorance, no bigger peddlers in the world than the Chinese and Russian governments:

https://twitter.com/paulmozur/status/1507158336726175744

https://twitter.com/yaling_jiang/status/1506942831679533058

Difficult to converse with people who are drugged-up dumbed-down hysterical. Are you?  I must assume you comprehend English. I know the Brits, Aussies, Yanks etc have great difficulties comprehending facts, but shall we give it a try?

1/ The Expose is a British media channel, not Chinese. I am mystified why you claim the article is published by the China govt.

2/ The article presents extracts from a signed agreement dated prior to the Covid outbreak, which indicates, in black and white, Moderna knew the Covid sequence before the outbreak. Additionally, Moderna patented their science.  This is prima facie evidence Moderna was intimately involved in the creation of Covid. Why develop a vaccine for a pathogen heretofore unknown, allegedly?  That is not how big pharma operates.

3. Moderna is an American company. It developed the science, and patents, in America. Nothing to do with China.

4. I have reported many times prior the first patent for SARS-CoV was filed by Americans in 2007. Not by China.

5. Twiter is banned in China. Twitter is a platform devoted to fools, giving them a means to post whatever fiction they desire. Is anybody, is any information, ever verified independently and subjected to review for factual basis? USA has millions of people with Chinese surnames, with millions born in the USA. Are you suggesting these millions work for the China govt? In any case, the twitter poster is not the author of the Expose Article. So if a yank posted the article on Twitter, that would be ok with you?

6. If a China media publishes or refers to an article from a British media, why are you claiming the Chinese wrote the article?  Standard media practice is to 'borrow' stories from other sources: this is called syndication, exemplified by Reuters.

Bro, your hysteria is causing you to become a bigot. Perhaps you should get a grip on reality.

 

[Boat + 1,323]

11 hours ago, Tomasz said:

Yeap. Last full-year year profit only about  40 bilion dollars from selling NG at historic high price. It looks like bankrupcy IMHO.

$ 100 crude oil for the next few years.

Besides, I say Russia's ally is now China, not the West. And you will continue to buy raw materials because you have no other choice.

Russia has opted for an alliance with China - if someone does not believe it, I recommend meeting Putin Xi Jinping on February 4, 2022.

Yeap there is going to be bifurcation. Chiamerica - global economy of China and America combined is going to be divided between 2 antagonizing  blocks.

Russia is China junior partner so it will trade more with China than the West of course. 

High time for Europe to buy more expensive commodities all over the world. 

Its end of globalization. In near future you will have 2 blocks against each other and probably even 2 internet systems with firewall. 

But I still dont understand why should I worry about my Gazprom shares when there is going to be some real huge dividend in next couple of years.

 

Don’t think of two blocks as a bad thing. Think of it as a good thing. Without the west to sell goods to can China they keep from imploding. Or maybe they take over Russia. Lol

 

[surrept33 + 609]

6 hours ago, frankfurter said:

Difficult to converse with people who are drugged-up dumbed-down hysterical. Are you?  I must assume you comprehend English. I know the Brits, Aussies, Yanks etc have great difficulties comprehending facts, but shall we give it a try?

1/ The Expose is a British media channel, not Chinese. I am mystified why you claim the article is published by the China govt.

2/ The article presents extracts from a signed agreement dated prior to the Covid outbreak, which indicates, in black and white, Moderna knew the Covid sequence before the outbreak. Additionally, Moderna patented their science.  This is prima facie evidence Moderna was intimately involved in the creation of Covid. Why develop a vaccine for a pathogen heretofore unknown, allegedly?  That is not how big pharma operates.

3. Moderna is an American company. It developed the science, and patents, in America. Nothing to do with China.

4. I have reported many times prior the first patent for SARS-CoV was filed by Americans in 2007. Not by China.

5. Twiter is banned in China. Twitter is a platform devoted to fools, giving them a means to post whatever fiction they desire. Is anybody, is any information, ever verified independently and subjected to review for factual basis? USA has millions of people with Chinese surnames, with millions born in the USA. Are you suggesting these millions work for the China govt? In any case, the twitter poster is not the author of the Expose Article. So if a yank posted the article on Twitter, that would be ok with you?

6. If a China media publishes or refers to an article from a British media, why are you claiming the Chinese wrote the article?  Standard media practice is to 'borrow' stories from other sources: this is called syndication, exemplified by Reuters.

Bro, your hysteria is causing you to become a bigot. Perhaps you should get a grip on reality.

 

1. Chinese government officials and people connected to the Chinese government, as well as Chinese state media took information from a british tabloid and published it in Weibo, amplifying it. That's why I said "peddlers".

2. This has nothing to do with bigotry. You are conflating the Chinese government with the Chinese people.

Edited March 29, 2022 by surrept33

[surrept33 + 609]

Russian state media TASS reports that Russia is reducing military presence near Kyiv and Cherniv as per the Istanbul negotiations, which they refer to as "Treaty on the Neutrality and Non-Nuclear Status of Ukraine." According to TASS, Russia is doing this as a sign of goodwill for the negotiations.

Comical. The reason is definitely not troop exhaustion/depletion, supply chain issues and Ukrainian counterattacks. And it was mostly militia that was defending Kyiv since a lot of the best Ukrainian units were elsewhere. 

this kind of reminds me of when Deng Xiaoping said China would 'spank' Vietnam to protect the Khmer Rouge, invaded Vietnam with 200000 troops, and withdrew after a month after facing higher than expected resistance and getting spanked themselves. They declared victory and ran. 

[Rob Plant + 2,756]

Russia cant climb down quick enough it seems

Russia drops calls for Ukraine to be 'denazified' and is prepared to let it join EU -report

In further indications that Russia is scaling down its aims in the conflict, a report this morning has suggested it it willing to make two key concessions.

Calls for Ukraine to be "denazified" - widely understood to be code for regime change - have been dropped by Russia as part of ceasefire negotiations, sources have told The Financial Times.

Four people briefed on the ongoing talks told the newspaper that the Kremlin was also prepared to let Kyiv join the European Union if it abandoned its drive to join NATO.

One of the sources claimed Russia was changings both its military pressure and its demands every day.

It comes as Ukraine and Russia prepare to begin more peace talks in Turkey later today.

Several rounds of talks have already taken place on the Belarus border, but there has not yet been any agreement on a ceasefire.

 

[frankfurter + 562]

2 hours ago, surrept33 said:

1. Chinese government officials and people connected to the Chinese government, as well as Chinese state media took information from a british tabloid and published it in Weibo, amplifying it. That's why I said "peddlers".

2. This has nothing to do with bigotry. You are conflating the Chinese government with the Chinese people.

Are not all media peddlers?  When a Chinese media 'borrows' from a British one, why is that worse than a US media borrowing likewise?

Well, if you follow Weibo, and comprehend the language, you are certainly worth a credit or two.

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

8 hours ago, surrept33 said:

Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say

Russian scientists who have looked at the documents Russia calls proof of “bioweapons labs” in Ukraine say there is no evidence for such claims.

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/17/russia-ukraine-bioweapons-misinformation/

The U.S Funds BioLabs around the world, including Ukraine.

https://community.oilprice.com/topic/26101-biolabs-in-ukraine-who-are-metabiota’s-investors-by-rhoda-wilson/

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

8 hours ago, surrept33 said:

Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say

Russian scientists who have looked at the documents Russia calls proof of “bioweapons labs” in Ukraine say there is no evidence for such claims.

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/17/russia-ukraine-bioweapons-misinformation/

The U.S. has BioLabs around the world, along with many covert CIA (NGO) operations.
 

 

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative journalist, Middle East correspondent and founder of Arms Watch. Over the last years she has published a series of revealing reports on weapons supplies to terrorists in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Her current work is focused on documenting war crimes and illicit arms exports to war zones around the world.
http://armswatch.com/

EXCERPT: …These US bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program– Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa…

…The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in the former Soviet Union Country Ukraine, bordering on Russia….

April 29, 2018 – Dilyana
The Pentagon Bio-weapons
http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/
[Lots of info and graphics in article.
Lots of stuff on UKRAINE…]

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rand-report-prescribed-us-provocations-against-russia-predicted-kremlin-retaliation

Rand Report Prescribed US Provocations Against Russia & Predicted Kremlin Retaliation In Ukraine

by Tyler Durden

Monday, Mar 28, 2022 - 09:20 PM

Authored by Rick Sterling via AntiWar.com,

According to a 2019 Rand report titled "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia", the US goal is to undermine Russia just as it did the Soviet Union in the cold war. Rather than "trying to stay ahead" or trying to improve the US domestically or in international relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia. Rand is a quasi-US governmental think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military.

The report lists anti-Russia measures divided into the following areas: economic, geopolitical, ideological/informational, and military. They are assessed according to the perceived risks, benefits and "likelihood of success".

Image: Azov Battalion detachment

The report notes that Russia has "deep seated" anxieties about western interference and potential military attack. These anxieties are deemed to be a vulnerability to exploit. There is no mention of the cause of the Russian anxieties: they have have been invaded multiple times and had 27 million deaths in WW2.

Significance of Ukraine

Ukraine is important to Russia. The two countries share much common heritage and a long common border. One of the most important leaders of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, was Ukrainian. During WW2, Ukraine was one of Hitler’s invasion routes and there was a small but active number of Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi Germany. The distance from the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, to Moscow is less than 500 miles.

For these same reasons of geography and history, Ukraine is a major component of a US/NATO effort to undermine Russia. Current Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said that over 20 years the US invested $5 billion in the project to turn Ukraine. The culmination was a violent coup in February 2014. Since 2015, the US has been training ultra nationalist and Neo-Nazi militias. This has been documented in articles such as "U.S. House admits Nazi role in Ukraine" (Robert Parry, 2015), "The US is arming and assisting neo-nazis in Ukraine while the House debates prohibition."(Max Blumenthal, 2018), "Neo Nazis and the far right are on the march in Ukraine" (Lev Golinken in 2019) and "The CIA may be breeding Nazi terror in Ukraine" (Branko Marcetic Jan. 2022).

Rand suggested provocations

Prior to 2018, the US only provided "defensive" military weaponry to Ukraine. The Rand report assesses that providing lethal (offensive) military aid to Ukraine will have a high risk but also a high benefit. Accordingly, US lethal weaponry skyrocketed from near zero to $250M in 2019, to $303M in 2020, to $350M in 2021. Total military aid is much higher. A few weeks ago, "The Hill" reported, "The US has contributed more than $1 billion to help Ukraine’s military over the past year".

The Rand report lists many techniques and "measures" to provoke and threaten Russia. Some of the steps include:

• Repositioning bombers within easy striking range of key Russian strategic targets
• Deploying additional tactical nuclear weapons to locations in Europe and Asia
• Increasing US and allied naval force posture and presence in Russia’s operating areas (Black Sea)
• Holding NATO war exercises on Russia’s borders
• Withdrawing from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

These and many other provocations suggested by Rand have, in fact, been implemented. For example, NATO conducted massive war exercises dubbed "Defender 2021" right up Russia’s border. NATO has started "patrolling" the Black Sea and engaging in provocative intrusions into Crimean waters. The US has withdrawn from the INF Treaty.

Since 2008, when NATO "welcomed" the membership aspirations of Ukraine and Georgia, Russia has said this would cross a red line and threaten its security. In recent years NATO has provided advisers, training and ever increasing amounts of military hardware. While Ukraine is not a formal member of NATO, it has increasingly been treated like one. The full Rand report says "While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development."

The alternative, which could have prevented or at least forestalled the current Russian intervention in Ukraine, would have been to declare Ukraine ineligible for NATO. But this would have been contrary to the US intention of deliberately stressing, provoking and threatening Russia.

Ukraine as US client

In November 2021, the US and Ukraine signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership. This agreement confirmed Ukrainian aspirations to join NATO and rejection of the Crimean peoples decision to re-unify with Russia following the 2014 Kiev coup. The agreement signaled a consolidation of Washington’s economic, political and military influence.

December 2021 Russia red lines followed by military action

In December 2021, Russia proposed a treaty with the US and NATO. The central Russian proposal was a written agreement that Ukraine would not join the NATO military alliance.

When the proposed treaty was rebuffed by Washington, it seems the die was cast. On February 21, Putin delivered a speech detailing their grievances. On February 24, Putin delivered another speech announcing the justification and objectives of the military intervention to "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine.

As Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov later said, "This is not about Ukraine. This is the end result of a policy that the West has carried out since the early 1990’s."

Afghanistan again?

As earlier indicated, the Rand report assesses the costs and benefits of various US actions. It is considered a "benefit" if increased US assistance to Ukraine results in the loss of Russian blood and resources. Speculating on the possibility of Russian troop presence in Ukraine, the report suggests that it could become "quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan." (p 99 of full report)

That historical reference is significant. Beginning in 1979, the US and Saudi Arabia funded and trained sectarian foreign fighters to invade and destabilize the Afghan government. The goals were to overthrow the socialist inclined government and lure the Soviet Union into supporting the destabilized government. It achieved these Machiavellian goals at the cost of millions of Afghan citizens whose country has never been the same.

It appears that Ukrainian citizens are similarly being manipulated to serve US goals.

A "disadvantageous peace settlement"

The Rand report says, "Increasing US military aid would certainly drive up the Russian costs, but doing so could also increase the loss of Ukrainian lives and territory or result in a disadvantageous peace settlement."

But who would a peace settlement be "disadvantageous" for? Ukrainian lives and territory are currently being lost. Over fourteen thousand Ukrainian lives have been lost in the eastern Donbass region since the 2014 coup.

A peace settlement that guaranteed basic rights for all Ukrainians and state neutrality in the rivalry of big powers, would be advantageous to most Ukrainians. It is only the US foreign policy establishment including the US military media industrial complex and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who would be "disadvantaged".

Since Ukraine is a multi-ethnic state, it would seem best to accept that reality and find a compromise national solution which facilitates all Ukrainians. Being a client of a distant foreign power is not in Ukraine’s national best interest. The Rand report shows how US policy focuses on actions to hurt Russia and manipulates third party countries (Ukraine) toward that task.

 

 

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

If you don't know about RAND, then you haven't been keeping informed...

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-175-the-rand-corporation-exposed/

The RAND Corporation Exposed

Corbett • 02/13/2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Running Time: 55:40

Description:What is a think tank and how can a mere research institution actually shape the society it claims to be studying? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we head down into the nuclear bunker with the boys from RAND to unearth the secrets of the research institution that has molded our world for the past 60 years.

Documentation

Documentation - ParadigmShift.tv
Time Reference:	02:14
Description:	The home page of Paradigm Shift TV, which now broadcasts Corbett Report videos on Sky Channel 201 Friday nights at 7:00 PM UK time.
Link To:	ParadigmShift.tv

 

Documentation - RAND corporation homepage
Time Reference:	04:23
Description:	Palatable pap and pimply politically-correct hyperbole about everyone's favourite think-tank!
Link To:	Rand.org

 

Documentation - Dr. Strangelove's survival plan
Time Reference:	08:40
Description:	From Stanley Kubrick's 1964 classic, Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Link To:	YouTube

 

Documentation - Herman Kahn's Doomsday Machine
Time Reference:	11:56
Description:	Yes, Strangelove was based on a real RAND researcher.
Link To:	tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk

 

Documentation - Herman Kahn's Escalation Ladder
Time Reference:	15:31
Description:	This is not the work of a sane mind.
Link To:	TexasChapBookPress.com

 

Documentation - The Trap
Time Reference:	17:55
Description:	Adam Curtis' (inevitably one-dimensional, surface-level) examination of RAND's rational choice theory and its infiltration into our society.
Link To:	Google Video

 

Documentation - Soldiers of Reason
Time Reference:	27:44
Description:	Alex Abella's book on what he found in the RAND corporation archives.
Link To:	Amazon.com

 

Documentation - Alex Abella Homepage
Time Reference:	28:20
Description:	Alex Abella's website.
Link To:	AlexAbella.com

 

Documentation - Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act Raises Fears of New Government Crackdown on Dissent
Time Reference:	42:32
Description:	DemocracyNOW discusses RAND's influence on the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.
Link To:	DemocracyNOW.org

 

Documentation - The Global Technology Revolution
Time Reference:	49:19
Description:	Beyond the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the past, a global technology revolution is currently changing the world. This book discusses the broad, multidisciplinary, and synergistic trends in this revolution, including genomics, cloning, biomedical engineering, smart materials, agile manufacturing, nanofabricated computation devices, and integrated microsystems.
Link To:	RAND.org

[surrept33 + 609]

10 minutes ago, Tom Nolan said:

If you don't know about RAND, then you haven't been keeping informed...

 

also see Dr. Strangelove:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Thermonuclear_War

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by surrept33

[Tomasz + 1,608]

So lets continue with sanctions on Russia as one bridge to far

Think about China nowadays

Freezing Russia's assets is, in the words of Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard economics professor and former IMF chief economist), a "break the glass" moment that will have "very big, longer-term ramifications" It's the financial equivalent to the U.S. dropping nuclear bombs on Japan.

[Tomasz + 1,608]

To countries all over the world, China first and foremost, this crystallizes the fact that a very significant part of their sovereign wealth isn't truly theirs but very much conditional to U.S. goodwill.

And just like dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to a global race for countries to develop nuclear weapons on their own, this likely triggered a global race to reduce vulnerability this "financial WMD" or to find a "mutually assured destruction" answer to it.

What exactly this unleashed is unclear as of yet. The obvious answer would be to reduce dependency on the Western financial system and assets but the issue is that it remains by far the biggest game in town: over 95% of global reserve assets are held in Western currencies!

All this means that whatever it unleashed, just like the development of nuclear weapons took some time (the 2nd country to develop them was the Soviet Union in 1955, 10 years after the U.S.), it will take a long time to see it concretize. The cogs have started to turn though.

[Tomasz + 1,608]

One think is clear - $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this

Its high time to get prepared you will now have to leave much poorer in USA. Sorry but no more printing dollars anymore or face huge inflation from printing dollars staying in USA.

Ukrainie was really worth it?

Because sorry IMHO it looks like wet dream for Chinese in their struggle for global domination with USA.

[Tomasz + 1,608]

The West, representing 10% of the world's population and 3% of it's children, is wealthy and powerful.

It's got money and hi-tech weapons.

The countries of other 90% also have weapons, but provide energy, minerals, manufactured goods, and food supply. Something has to give.

Heard on a podcast today that the decision to steal Russia's reserves was made by a small subset of WH staff members who never consulted the Fed Reserve. They just decided to do it without seeking any formal authority.

[TailingsPond + 1,006]

12 hours ago, surrept33 said:

talk about fake news and ignorance, no bigger peddlers in the world than the Chinese and Russian governments:

0R0 and Tom give them a run for their money.

 

[Tomasz + 1,608]

By imposing sanctions on Russian central Bank and stealing 300 bilions dollars you didnt give Russian any chance

Only option left for Putin if he doesnt want to loose power and be killed is selling all comodities from NG to oil uranium wheat palladium and whatever you want in 2 currencies

Only sensible options for russia

You can pay buy roubles or by gold but not paper but only phisical one that which cant be frozen

From 1 Aprill 2022 you pay for NG for oil or NG or you are cut off.

Time to decide because by imposing sanction on $ or euro you simply didnt not give Russia any other chance

 

 

[notsonice + 1,255]

4 hours ago, Tomasz said:

One think is clear - $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this

Its high time to get prepared you will now have to leave much poorer in USA. Sorry but no more printing dollars anymore or face huge inflation from printing dollars staying in USA.

Ukrainie was really worth it?

Because sorry IMHO it looks like wet dream for Chinese in their struggle for global domination with USA.

One think is clear - $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this????

what a joke...........You really have lost it......

you think the Ruble will be the world reserve currency????? ha ha ha it is now worthless..........

or the Chinese Yuan????? ..........Dude I have a bridge to sell you.......

Dollar is finished???? ha ha ha....How much is Putin paying you.?????? as no one can be so slow to actually post....... $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this

 

Still laughing my ass off.......You have zero credibility when you post BS garbage......

 

PS your beloved Gazprom has taken another hit today.....HA HA HA

GAZP • MCX

Gazprom PAO

 

 

₽208.00

4.85%

-10.60 Today

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by notsonice

[Andrei Moutchkine + 828]

6 hours ago, surrept33 said:

also see Dr. Strangelove:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Thermonuclear_War

 

 

 

 

[notsonice + 1,255]

1 minute ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

Babbling is all Russians are good at.....

Putin is now waving the white flag in Ukraine

Enjoy burying your fellow dead Russians that are being sent home in body bags

[notsonice + 1,255]

Russian Forces Driven Away From Kyiv as Ukraine Regains Territory and Kills Top Commander

Allison Quinn

Tue, March 29, 2022, 6:41 AM·2 min read

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERGEI SUPINSKY

Ukraine’s military says they have “eliminated” another Russian colonel, adding to a long list of high-ranking Russian military personnel wiped out in Putin’s war against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Tuesday that Colonel Denis Kurilo, the commander of the 200th separate motorized rifle brigade, was killed outside Kharkiv.

Kurilo’s reported death, on the 34th day of the Kremlin’s “special operation,” comes after at least seven Russian generals were killed in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian and Western officials.

It also comes as the Ukrainian military announced several territorial gains, with the northeastern town of Trostyanets liberated from Russian troops and several areas outside Kyiv reported back in the hands of Ukraine. The military said territories in the Chernihiv region were also liberated.

‘They’ll Give Me a Medal’: The Dark Reality of Russian Troops’ Alleged War-Crime Rapes

The mayor of the town of Irpin outside Kyiv—which has been decimated by Russian bombs as Putin’s troops sought a foothold over the Ukrainian capital—said Russian forces had been completely pushed out.

Authorities there have begun the grim task of clearing out the dead, he said, adding that some of the bodies of those killed by Russian troops had apparently been mined.

Meanwhile, perhaps in light of these setbacks, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced a decision Tuesday to drastically reduce operations around Kyiv and Chernihiv.

The announcement came as Kyiv and Moscow held renewed peace talks in Istanbul, where Vladimir Medinsky, the Putin adviser appointed the head of the Russian delegation, described the troop reductions as “two steps toward deescalation of the conflict.”

Red-Tape Nightmare Has American Baby Trapped in Ukraine

CNN’s Jim Sciutto, citing two senior U.S. officials, reported that Russia had already begun to withdraw troops from around the capital, with Battalion Tactical Groups seen moving out.

But Western officials were largely skepti

cal of the announcement, with many pointing out that Moscow seemed to only be promising de-escalation in areas where they were already losing ground.

A U.S. official cited by Reuters went even further, describing Russian troop movements around Kyiv as a “redeployment, not a withdrawal,” and warning that other areas of Ukraine should still expect to be bombarded.

Tellingly, even as Russian officials touted their supposed military pullback on Tuesday, the administrative building of Mykolaiv was struck by Russian missile fire that left at least nine people dead and 28 others injured, according to local authorities.

Hours later, Russian forces attacked an airfield in Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytskyi region, though there were no immediate reports of injuries.

Edited March 29, 2022 by notsonice

[Tomasz + 1,608]

6 minutes ago, notsonice said:

One think is clear - $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this????

what a joke...........You really have lost it......

you think the Ruble will be the world reserve currency????? ha ha ha it is now worthless..........

or the Chinese Yuan????? ..........Dude I have a bridge to sell you.......

Dollar is finished???? ha ha ha....How much is Putin paying you.?????? as no one can be so slow to actually post....... $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this

 

Still laughing my ass off.......You have zero credibility when you post BS garbage......

 

PS your beloved Gazprom has taken another hit today.....HA HA HA

GAZP • MCX

Gazprom PAO

 

 

₽208.00

 

4.85%

-10.60 Today

 

 

All I know from next month 8 milions barrels and nearly 250 bilion cubic meters are no longer sold on world market by using petrodolar

World 1 NG exporter and world second oil export dont want your greenback anymore

A significant step in dedolarization of world economy just took place. Its high time to decrease your printing machine and it just took place last week.

[Andrei Moutchkine + 828]

20 minutes ago, notsonice said:

One think is clear - $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this????

what a joke...........You really have lost it......

you think the Ruble will be the world reserve currency????? ha ha ha it is now worthless..........

or the Chinese Yuan????? ..........Dude I have a bridge to sell you.......

Dollar is finished???? ha ha ha....How much is Putin paying you.?????? as no one can be so slow to actually post....... $ as world reserve currency and petrodollar is basically finished after this

 

Still laughing my ass off.......You have zero credibility when you post BS garbage......

 

 

The share of the dollar in various countries reserves and its share in SWIFT transactions is dropping like a stone as we speak. I hope you live long enough to experience living according to your actual means. You won't like it a bit.

It does not have to be ruble, but it is going to be commodity-backed financing next. The dollar is backed by absolutely nothing, but goodwill. Which you broke big time. Ruble is trading at 87 today, which is almost back to prewar level.

Edited March 29, 2022 by Andrei Moutchkine

[Andrei Moutchkine + 828]

16 minutes ago, notsonice said:

Russian Forces Driven Away From Kyiv as Ukraine Regains Territory and Kills Top Commander

Allison Quinn

Tue, March 29, 2022, 6:41 AM·2 min read

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERGEI SUPINSKY

Ukraine’s military says they have “eliminated” another Russian colonel, adding to a long list of high-ranking Russian military personnel wiped out in Putin’s war against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Tuesday that Colonel Denis Kurilo, the commander of the 200th separate motorized rifle brigade, was killed outside Kharkiv.

Kurilo’s reported death, on the 34th day of the Kremlin’s “special operation,” comes after at least seven Russian generals were killed in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian and Western officials.

It also comes as the Ukrainian military announced several territorial gains, with the northeastern town of Trostyanets liberated from Russian troops and several areas outside Kyiv reported back in the hands of Ukraine. The military said territories in the Chernihiv region were also liberated.

‘They’ll Give Me a Medal’: The Dark Reality of Russian Troops’ Alleged War-Crime Rapes

The mayor of the town of Irpin outside Kyiv—which has been decimated by Russian bombs as Putin’s troops sought a foothold over the Ukrainian capital—said Russian forces had been completely pushed out.

Authorities there have begun the grim task of clearing out the dead, he said, adding that some of the bodies of those killed by Russian troops had apparently been mined.

Meanwhile, perhaps in light of these setbacks, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced a decision Tuesday to drastically reduce operations around Kyiv and Chernihiv.

The announcement came as Kyiv and Moscow held renewed peace talks in Istanbul, where Vladimir Medinsky, the Putin adviser appointed the head of the Russian delegation, described the troop reductions as “two steps toward deescalation of the conflict.”

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CNN’s Jim Sciutto, citing two senior U.S. officials, reported that Russia had already begun to withdraw troops from around the capital, with Battalion Tactical Groups seen moving out.

But Western officials were largely skepti

cal of the announcement, with many pointing out that Moscow seemed to only be promising de-escalation in areas where they were already losing ground.

A U.S. official cited by Reuters went even further, describing Russian troop movements around Kyiv as a “redeployment, not a withdrawal,” and warning that other areas of Ukraine should still expect to be bombarded.

Tellingly, even as Russian officials touted their supposed military pullback on Tuesday, the administrative building of Mykolaiv was struck by Russian missile fire that left at least nine people dead and 28 others injured, according to local authorities.

Hours later, Russian forces attacked an airfield in Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytskyi region, though there were no immediate reports of injuries.

They haven't really regained any territory. The place called Irpen, for which it is claimed, has been contested for a while and still is. (A lot of massive WWII-era fortifications there) As in never really been under full Russian control to start with? Trostyanets was a hit-and-run, not a territorial gain. Various Russian generals proclaimed dead by Ukraine have a very high propensity to turn up alive. Not obvious that they killed none, but certainly not as many as they claim.

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14 minutes ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

They haven't really regained any territory. The place called Irpen, for which it is claimed, has been contested for a while and still is. (A lot of massive WWII-era fortifications there) As in never really been under full Russian control to start with? Trostyanets was a hit-and-run, not a territorial gain. Various Russian generals proclaimed dead by Ukraine have a very high propensity to turn up alive. Not obvious that they killed none, but certainly not as many as they claim.

Sore Losers never admit defeat........Love it when you have nothing left but babbling BS.

Edited March 29, 2022 by notsonice