by Oui
Thu Apr 24th, 2025 at 11:54:08 AM EST
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Biden on Putin: "For God's Sake, This Man Cannot Remain in Power" | Bloomberg |
Biden On Russia's Putin: 'This Man Cannot Remain In Power'
Even as Biden's words rocketed around the world, the White House attempted to clarify soon after Biden finished speaking in Poland that he was not calling for a new government in Russia.
A White House official asserted that Biden was "not discussing Putin's power in Russia or regime change."
Time ran out for the old man ... 50 Years of fallacies of U.S. Foreign policy ... millions died.
Russia-Ukraine war: Blinken, Lammy to meet Zelensky and discuss bolstering defences | WION News - 11 Sept. 2024 |
Poland's FM Radek Sikorski an Age of Failures as CIA Point Man
You will never rule Warsaw or #Kyiv again, Polish FM #Sikorski tells #Russia
From today's news item ...
"The greatest threat to Poland would be the collapse of the Western community." That was the message from Poland's Chief Diplomat in the Polish Parliament on Wednesday, as he also delivered a blunt warning to Russia to stay within its internationally recognized borders and laid out his foreign policy goals for the coming year.
A no-show from the U.S. Secretary of State has triggered the cancellation of high-level Ukraine peace talks in London. Negotiations continued at a lower level with the decision prompted by Kyiv's unwillingness to discuss recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. At the same time, U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Moscow to sit down again with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
CIA Man, Former FM Radek Sikorski's Fall from Grace In Poland | Oui @BooMan - 30 Aug. 2015 |
War on Russia is Poland's bet for a strong European cushion for its security after centuries of Prussian, Nordic and Russian domination.
Diaries on tag team Radek Sikorski - Anne Applebaum
Mark Ames - eXiled blog
NOT A NATO PROXY WAR??
[Warning: Western media and especially the New York Times are noteworthy to be a propaganda outlet for MIC lobby in Washington DC and the Pentagon war hawks]
The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine | New York Times - 29 March 2025 |
This is the untold story of America's hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia's invading armies.
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Now, with negotiations beginning, the American president has baselessly blamed the Ukrainians for starting the war, pressured them to forfeit much of their mineral wealth and asked the Ukrainians to agree to a cease-fire without a promise of concrete American security guarantees -- a peace with no certainty of continued peace.
Mr. Trump has already begun to wind down elements of the partnership sealed in Wiesbaden that day in the spring of 2022. Yet to trace its history is to better understand how the Ukrainians were able to survive across three long years of war, in the face of a far larger, far more powerful enemy. It is also to see, through a secret keyhole, how the war came to today's precarious place.
With remarkable transparency, the Pentagon has offered a public inventory of the $66.5 billion array of weaponry supplied to Ukraine -- including, at last count, more than a half-billion rounds of small-arms ammunition and grenades, 10,000 Javelin antiarmor weapons, 3,000 Stinger antiaircraft systems, 272 howitzers, 76 tanks, 40 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, 20 Mi-17 helicopters and three Patriot air defense batteries.
But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood. At critical moments, the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden's mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv's counteroffensives. A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field.
One European intelligence chief recalled being taken aback to learn how deeply enmeshed his N.A.T.O. counterparts had become in Ukrainian operations. "They are part of the kill chain now," he said.
The partnership's guiding idea was that this close cooperation might allow the Ukrainians to accomplish the unlikeliest of feats -- to deliver the invading Russians a crushing blow. And in strike after successful strike in the first chapters of the war -- enabled by Ukrainian bravery and dexterity but also Russian incompetence -- that underdog ambition increasingly seemed within reach.
The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine | 12 Feb. 2010 |
By Mark Ames
If you've been wondering what ever happened to that wonderful Orange Revolution in Ukraine--because let's face it, it was probably the last feel-good moment America collectively experienced in an otherwise bummer-packed decade--Sunday's presidential elections in the former Soviet republic provided the answer: it went bad. Voters returned to power the same supposed villain, Viktor Yanukovych, whom they forced out in mass demonstrations the last time there presidential elections were held in 2004. The Orange Revolution's leaders were overthrown by the same voters whom they empowered....
Last month, shortly after Yushchenko's humiliating defeat in the first round of elections, he officially rehabilitated one of Ukraine's most controversial WWII-era figures, the ultranationalist leader Stepan Bandera--a move so fraught with danger down the road that it's as though he did it to punish his disloyal voters. Operating in the western region of Ukraine known as Galicia from the 1930s through the 1950s, Bandera's military organization adopted typical fascist symbols and trendy racist ideas promoting ethnic chauvinism and racial purity to pursue its goal of creating an independent Ukrainian state.
The move sparked angry reactions from Jewish groups in Ukraine and abroad, as well as Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Poland, among others....
Ever since its independence in 1991, Ukraine has had to grapple with the ethnic divisions, which some (including the CIA) have worried could tear the country apart if someone should exploit it. Making a hero out of Bandera, an ethnic chauvinist and arguably the most divisive Ukrainian figure of the past century, is exactly the sort of reckless move that could cleave Ukraine internally and set off its neighbors....
Dovid Katz, a professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University in Lithuania, said, "This is a plague over the entire anti-Soviet, anti-Russian part of Eastern Europe, this adoration of fascists and racists. It's an ultranationalism that is anti-Russian and anti-Semitic, that is a social illness." Katz said that in Lithuania, for example, the government has been moving to prosecute only Jews among surviving veterans of the anti-Nazi Soviet partisans for alleged 'war crimes' against Lithuania--but they have yet to punish a single Nazi collaborator, despite the mass extermination of Jews by the Lithuanian units that enthusiastically carried out most of the killing....
And to think we were going to plunge into a new cold war with Russia on behalf of Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia--who recently announced that he was imposing mandatory patriotic-military classes to be taught in schools across Georgia, something not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Coup d'Ëtat and the Maidan Square Massacre - February 2014
How the Events of Sniper Fire In Instytutska Street Unfolded | 7 March 2014 |
In Lithuania, Yiddish teacher becomes unlikely bulwark against far right | JTA - 24 Feb. 2015 |
Dovid Katz has become a target of scorn for speaking out against Holocaust distortion in a region where neo-Nazi groups thrive on anti-Russian sentiment.
Lithuania is also one of the few countries where neo-Nazis are free to brandish swastikas on the street. Its northern neighbor, Latvia, is the only European country where veterans of the Waffen SS are allowed each year to march on main streets and commemorate their comrades, who are venerated as freedom fighters against Russia.
Since 2008, Latvia and Lithuania have played host to three neo-Nazi marches annually. A fourth event began last year in the third Baltic nation, Estonia.
The Baltic nations, which have clashed frequently with Slavic peoples, share bitter memories from Soviet domination that have made them natural allies of Germany, according to Efraim Zuroff, a Nazi hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel office. The historic conflict led thousands of Lithuanians and Latvians to volunteer for armed Nazi groups.
Former Soviet satellite states through Ukraine are fighting a war of attrition ... not what the European Union is all about ... return to the era of Otto von Bismarck.
Should Western Leaders Attend Moscow's WWII Parade? | Carnegie Endowment for Peace?? - 15 April 2015 |
On May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin will preside over the Moscow Victory Day Parade in Red Square, which will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. Carnegie Europe asked a group of experts whether Western leaders should attend the event.
Ian Bond states: Western leaders do not need to attend Moscow's Victory Day Parade on May 9. Only twice, in 1995 [40th anniversary] and 2005 [50th anniversary], have many of them participated since the first such celebration was held in 1965.
This time, there are both contemporary and historical reasons to stay away.
Kissinger's Secret Trip to Moscow, April 19-25, 1972
Memorandum of Conversation | 20 April 1972 |
Total isolation of a major nuclear power is a foolish and senseless policy with high risk of war ...
VP Richard Nixon working on the cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union
Vice President Richard M. Nixon made an unofficial visit to the Soviet Union July 23-August 2. The main purpose of his visit was to open the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 25. Yuri Zhukov, Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, invited Vice President Nixon on December 5, 1958, to open the exhibition. A memorandum of that conversation is in Part 2, Document 7.
Nixon later recalled that Abbott Washburn, Deputy Director of the U.S. Information Agency, who was then working on the cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union, first suggested to Nixon the idea of his visit to the Soviet Union. (Six Crises, page 255) No further record of their discussion on this matter has been found, but when Nixon brought up the possibility of opening the American National Exhibition in Moscow with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, both of whom supported the idea, Herter also noted that USIA endorsed the proposed trip. (Telegram 1626 to Moscow, April 8; Department of State, Central Files, 033.1100-NI/4-859)
Under the Obama administration (VP Biden) and his four years 2021-2025 as President, US Foreign Policy moved back to Square One and the belligerence of Britain's PM Winston Churchill.
Peaceful Competition: Vice President Nixon's Mission to Moscow
Perhaps most neglected is Vice President Nixon's 1959 trip to the Soviet Union and, as Gellman further observed, "No scholar has evaluated the significance of that mission to Russia and Poland." While it is not feasible to investigate all of the intricacies of the Russia trip in this entry, the Vice President's reflections on the need for "peaceful competition" with the Soviet Union bear an uncanny resemblance to his Presidential orchestration of détente based on strategic interests.
Perhaps most noteworthy is the Vice-President's rejection of "peaceful coexistence" in favor of "peaceful competition:"
I reject the negative concept of co-existence, Soviet style, which means two worlds with two hostile camps, each struggling to impose its system on the other. I submit in its place the concept of one world where different people live under the different systems they choose, but where there is freedom of communication and exchange, and cooperation in achieving mutual goals.
The Vice-President's reflections can be further explored in typed copies of his handwritten notes:
Kaja Kallas EU's highest commissioner to protect Russophobia in VDL's Commission and foreign policy.
The EU diplomacy's vision for peace in Ukraine illustrates its Russophobia
The EU diplomacy's vision for peace in Ukraine illustrates its Russophobia. The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas expressed her consternation for the bilateral meeting between Russia and the US in Riyadh. She also called for military support for Ukraine and declared that Europe will not accept a negotiated agreement without its participation.
EU Censorship and EU-DisInfo
This disinformation story distorts the statements of HRVP Kaja Kallas to portray the EU's stance as warmongering and as wanting to continue the war in Ukraine while others want 'peace'. It also promotes a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative that portrays any action criticising Russia's illicit actions as "Russophobia".
