by Leo Hohmann, Leo Hohmann:
As U.S.-sponsored war games get underway in the skies over Germany on a scale not seen since the founding of NATO in 1949, one well-positioned analyst says U.S. government has lied to us for years about the effectiveness of the Patriot system and other weapons
The United States is taking the next couple of weeks to hold massive war games over the skies of Europe that are meant to send a message to Russia.
by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
Though Western ‘news’ media have gotten their ‘explanation’ of this event from Ukraine’s Government, it never made sense that Russia would have wanted to flood, harm, and weaken, the entire western half of the territory that Russia now controls in the former Ukraine, including in Crimea (which was getting its water-supply from that dam).
The anonymous author of the “Moon of Alabama” website has a long and almost flawless record of accurately exposing realities that mainstream U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media had been hiding, and the latest such is his June 13th “Did Russia Destroy The Nova Kakhovka Dam?” His report there turns upside-down and inside-out the Ukrainian Government’s ‘explanation’ that the dam had been bombed not by a missile, but by an explosive device which had been placed there by saboteurs whom Ukraine’s Government assumes were from Russia. U.S.-Government-approved ‘news’-media accept and amplify that assumption, but “MoA” does not.
from RT:
Kiev coordinates all targets for the HIMARS rocket launchers with Washington, a top Russian diplomat has said
Washington was perfectly aware of Kiev’s plan to destroy the Kakhovka dam since US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers were used in the attack, high-ranking Russian diplomat Konstantin Gavrilov said on Wednesday.
from RT:
Before committing to limitless military aid, Kiev’s backers wanted to inflict maximum losses prior to any surrender, Aleksey Reznikov has said
In the initial days of the conflict in Ukraine, Kiev’s Western backers wanted its forces to make do without military aid and “kill as many Russians” as they could before admitting defeat, Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov has told Foreign Policy magazine.
Before NATO leaders pledged to back Ukraine’s war effort for “as long as it takes,” the quantity and quality of arms that the West was willing to send to Kiev was unclear in the days and weeks after Russian forces entered the country.
from Sputnik News:
Over the course of the past few days, Ukraine has thrown two of its best-trained, best-equipped mechanized brigades into offensive operations against entrenched Russian defenders in the Zaporozhye sector of the front lines.
by Jordan Schachtel, The Dossier:
On Nord Stream and Ukraine. The ruling class has no respect for your intelligence.
The Washington Post has published a new report, citing anonymous transatlantic intelligence sources, doubling down on the idea that Ukraine pulled off the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage attack without coordinating with a global major power in the process.
NEW – United States is reportedly preparing "evacuation plans" for American citizens living in Taiwan.https://t.co/LSuGOtt0yu
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 12, 2023
from Strategic Culture:
The blowing up of the Kakhovka dam is intended to bolster flagging public support for NATO’s geopolitical machinations in Ukraine. The fraud of “democracies” no longer holds any water.
The blowing up of the Kakhovka dam this week is a monumental war crime tantamount to using a weapon of mass destruction against a civilian population. The ultimate perpetrators are the United States and its NATO partners in crime.
by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
Video released on social media allegedly shows the Russians destroying a group of German-supplied Leopard tanks and US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles in Ukraine as they grouped together in an open field.
by Martin Jay, Strategic Culture:
NATO, which uses the word ‘de-escalation’ in such an abusive way it is almost comical, is forced to raise the stakes in Ukraine.
The law of unintended consequences can be marked by a week of media gaffes where so-called leading figures on the Ukraine war put their foot in their mouths and reveal not only how deluded and misinformed they are about the crisis but just how bad it is for the west.
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
Russia is accusing Ukraine of blowing up the Kakhovka dam as “revenge” for a failed offensive. The act of sabotage may lead to “very serious consequences,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov has warned.
The dam was partially destroyed early on Tuesday morning, sending a surge of water downstream and flooding towns and villages along the path of the Dnieper River. Over 1300 people were evacuated after the dam failed.
Ukrainian forces have sabotaged the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region in a bid to deprive Crimea of drinking water and distract from Kyiv’s faltering counteroffensive, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed on Tuesday according to a report by RT.
from State Of The Nation:
Now we see what Zelensky’s BIG counteroffensive is: BLOW UP THE DAM.
Really, what else needs to be said?
State of the Nation
Zelensky spent months trumpeting the supposedly game-changing Ukrainian Spring ‘counteroffensive’.
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
Ukrainian military intelligence considered detonating a “dirty bomb” on Russian territory, the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow has claimed. The FSB accused Kyiv’s military intelligence of plotting to smuggle a radioactive device using light aircraft.
A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive device covered with radioactive material, which contaminates a large area around it after detonating.
Preparations for the “terrorist attack” were revealed during an investigation into Kyiv’s use of light planes for clandestine missions against its neighbor, the agency said according to a report by RT.
from 21st Century Wire:
The US military is losing in Ukraine, and will continue to loose – despite blowing $1 trillion per year on so-called ‘defense.’
In this recent episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, guest Col. Douglas Macgregor explains why America’s bloated and ever-expanding Pentagon military budget. As it turns out, much of its $1 trillion per annum slush fund is wasted on top-heavy contracts and boondoggle projects which never see the light of day on the battlefield. What NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is now demonstrating as that the US is not even remotely equipped to fight a modern war of combined forces – and will not be for many years (assuming they attempt to revamp their forces to fight a 21st century ground war). Watch:
