If the MOD were lying and the Ukrainian Nazis really were winning congressional leaders of both the Democrats and Republicans would not be demanding that the Pentagon send US planes to Zelensky and establish a US no-fly zone over Ukraine.
March 26 (EIRNS)—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during a meeting of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund in Moscow, charged that the U.S./NATO/EU combination is already waging a hybrid war on Russia and that its objectives are no different from those of Hitler in 1941. “Today we have been declared a real hybrid war, a total war,” he said, adding that the latter term “was used by Hitler’s Germany” and “is now voiced by many European politicians when they talk about what they want to do with the Russian Federation.” The goals are not hidden, they declared them publicly—to destroy, break, exterminate, strangle the Russian economy and Russia as a whole, he said.
Lavrov lashed out at the “sanctions spree” against Russia, pointing out that it is becoming clear that all values that those in the West have been preaching to Russia, like freedom of expression, a market economy, the sanctity of private property and the presumption of innocence, are not worth a red cent.
In this environment, the Kiev regime is being encouraged to continue to behave badly. Lavrov charged that the Kiev regime, in fact, has been getting away with bad behavior for years, with complicity of the Western corporate news media, particularly with respect to its crimes in the Donbas region. “All throughout these years, when the Ukrainian leadership evaded its obligations under the Minsk Accords, nationalists were openly wiping out civilian facilities, schools, hospitals. It was well-known and all facts were regularly reported by our mass media, but were swept under the rug by the Western media,” Lavrov said. “It included the slaughter of civilians and you may all know well that the death toll among the population exceeded 10,000,” he declared. “No one in the West cared at all about the inhumane economic, trade, transportation or food blockade of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.”
The Kiev regime’s bad behavior has extended into the Russia-Ukraine talks as well. Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation at the Russia-Ukraine talks, accused the regime of seeking to drag out the talks: “They are in no hurry, obviously thinking that time is on their side, and say it openly that they have many decision-making centers they have to agree on these or those solutions with. This is the reality we are in,” he said, reported TASS. “Regrettably, as far as we understand—they make no secret of it, they are limited in making independent decisions. So, the current state of things inspires little optimism,” he stressed, adding he doesn’t share the Ukrainian delegation’s optimism, when it speaks about “great progress.” He said that “So far, there is no progress on matters of principal importance the Russian side insists on.”
Biden Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
March 26 (EIRNS)—In a speech described by the New York Times as a “a forceful denunciation” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military operation in Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared at the end, apparently ad lib: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” He cast the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy. White House officials scrambled to walk Biden’s remarks back from what strongly appears to be a demand for regime change in Moscow. “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official said in a statement to reporters. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
“Russia’s choice of war is an example of one of the oldest human impulses—using brute force and disinformation to satisfy a craving for absolute power and control,” Biden declared before a crowd of hundreds of people. “In this battle, we need to be clear: This battle will not be won in days or months either. We need to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead.”
Biden was particularly incensed at Putin’s call for the denazification of Ukraine. Biden called that claim “a lie,” invoking the already-discredited argument that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and his father’s family was killed in the Holocaust. “It’s just cynical. He knows that. And it’s also obscene,” Mr. Biden said.
Aside from that, Biden described the war in Ukraine as an extension of the Soviet Union’s history of oppression and war against democracy going back to Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. “Today, Russia has strangled democracy and sought to do so elsewhere,” he said.
British Pushing Biden on Nuclear First Use Policy
March 26 (EIRNS)—The headline in the Daily Telegraph blared out yesterday: “Joe Biden Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons First in ‘Extreme Circumstances.’ ” The blurb reads: “U.S. President abandons plans to water down policy to ‘retaliation-only’ amid fears Vladimir Putin may deploy weapons of mass destruction.”
What this concerns, at least ostensibly, is the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and Biden’s earlier statements suggesting that he would dial down U.S. policy on nuclear weapons, if not to a no-first use policy, at least to a statement that, as he said in 2017, “The sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal is to deter and, if necessary, retaliate, for a nuclear attack against the United States and its allies.” Candidate Biden repeated this statement in 2020, making it part of his election policy.
While there has long been opposition from U.S. allies and from the Republican Party in Washington against going to a no-first use policy, in the present circumstances, clearly additional pressure is now on Biden not to go “wobbly” on Russia. “In the current situation, it’s very challenging to make the case for ‘sole purpose.’ The optics are extremely bad when Russia is being as threatening as it is. You don’t want to look weak,” an arms control expert who consulted with Biden’s nuclear policy officials told the Telegraph. “It was on the President’s desk, awaiting his decision, then Ukraine happened. Pre-Ukraine, there was a chance the President would have gone ahead and made a ‘sole purpose’ declaration. He wanted to do that, but he didn’t have a lot of support in the Pentagon.”
Biden’s new decision, made earlier this week under pressure from allies, holds that the “fundamental role” of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be to deter nuclear attacks, unnamed officials told the Wall Street Journal. That carefully worded formulation, however, leaves open the possibility that nuclear weapons could also be used in “extreme circumstances” to deter enemy conventional, biological, chemical and possibly cyberattacks, says the Journal. Such a formulation, coming in the context of threats now being made against Russia for supposedly considering the use of such weapons in Ukraine, is particularly ominous.
The NPR, whenever it’s finally finished, is expected to cancel the ship-launched nuclear cruise missile that Donald Trump’s NPR had mandated and retire the B83 nuclear gravity bomb but continue all the other modernization programs that have been underway since the Obama administration, including production of the B61-12 gravity bomb as well as the new ICBM, the B-21 stealth bomber, the Navy’s new ballistic missile submarine and the Air Force’s nuclear cruise missile.
Listen to Scott Ritter and Michael Hudson deliver analysis on the Ukraine situation.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-russia-proxy-war-revealing-signs-of-a-fading-america/5775462
If the MOD were lying and the Ukrainian Nazis really were winning congressional leaders of both the Democrats and Republicans would not be demanding that the Pentagon send US planes to Zelensky and establish a US no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Good info, thanks.
Thanks for this and the link to RT. This is Friday 25 March 2022, UK Column News, which if you have not not yet seen is an instant classic: https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=uk%20column%20news&kind=video&sort=new
Thanks for this, too... I like UK Column.
I'm hooked on it: 1.5 hours of low budget, no ads, high quality info with Brit understatement and chagrin.
Quality, in other words! Without the BS. ;)
Even US propaganda is getting its knickers in a twist....
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe/?utm_source=gettr&utm_campaign=android_nyp
March 26 (EIRNS)—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during a meeting of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund in Moscow, charged that the U.S./NATO/EU combination is already waging a hybrid war on Russia and that its objectives are no different from those of Hitler in 1941. “Today we have been declared a real hybrid war, a total war,” he said, adding that the latter term “was used by Hitler’s Germany” and “is now voiced by many European politicians when they talk about what they want to do with the Russian Federation.” The goals are not hidden, they declared them publicly—to destroy, break, exterminate, strangle the Russian economy and Russia as a whole, he said.
Lavrov lashed out at the “sanctions spree” against Russia, pointing out that it is becoming clear that all values that those in the West have been preaching to Russia, like freedom of expression, a market economy, the sanctity of private property and the presumption of innocence, are not worth a red cent.
In this environment, the Kiev regime is being encouraged to continue to behave badly. Lavrov charged that the Kiev regime, in fact, has been getting away with bad behavior for years, with complicity of the Western corporate news media, particularly with respect to its crimes in the Donbas region. “All throughout these years, when the Ukrainian leadership evaded its obligations under the Minsk Accords, nationalists were openly wiping out civilian facilities, schools, hospitals. It was well-known and all facts were regularly reported by our mass media, but were swept under the rug by the Western media,” Lavrov said. “It included the slaughter of civilians and you may all know well that the death toll among the population exceeded 10,000,” he declared. “No one in the West cared at all about the inhumane economic, trade, transportation or food blockade of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.”
The Kiev regime’s bad behavior has extended into the Russia-Ukraine talks as well. Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation at the Russia-Ukraine talks, accused the regime of seeking to drag out the talks: “They are in no hurry, obviously thinking that time is on their side, and say it openly that they have many decision-making centers they have to agree on these or those solutions with. This is the reality we are in,” he said, reported TASS. “Regrettably, as far as we understand—they make no secret of it, they are limited in making independent decisions. So, the current state of things inspires little optimism,” he stressed, adding he doesn’t share the Ukrainian delegation’s optimism, when it speaks about “great progress.” He said that “So far, there is no progress on matters of principal importance the Russian side insists on.”
Biden Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
March 26 (EIRNS)—In a speech described by the New York Times as a “a forceful denunciation” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military operation in Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared at the end, apparently ad lib: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” He cast the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy. White House officials scrambled to walk Biden’s remarks back from what strongly appears to be a demand for regime change in Moscow. “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official said in a statement to reporters. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
“Russia’s choice of war is an example of one of the oldest human impulses—using brute force and disinformation to satisfy a craving for absolute power and control,” Biden declared before a crowd of hundreds of people. “In this battle, we need to be clear: This battle will not be won in days or months either. We need to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead.”
Biden was particularly incensed at Putin’s call for the denazification of Ukraine. Biden called that claim “a lie,” invoking the already-discredited argument that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and his father’s family was killed in the Holocaust. “It’s just cynical. He knows that. And it’s also obscene,” Mr. Biden said.
Aside from that, Biden described the war in Ukraine as an extension of the Soviet Union’s history of oppression and war against democracy going back to Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. “Today, Russia has strangled democracy and sought to do so elsewhere,” he said.
British Pushing Biden on Nuclear First Use Policy
March 26 (EIRNS)—The headline in the Daily Telegraph blared out yesterday: “Joe Biden Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons First in ‘Extreme Circumstances.’ ” The blurb reads: “U.S. President abandons plans to water down policy to ‘retaliation-only’ amid fears Vladimir Putin may deploy weapons of mass destruction.”
What this concerns, at least ostensibly, is the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and Biden’s earlier statements suggesting that he would dial down U.S. policy on nuclear weapons, if not to a no-first use policy, at least to a statement that, as he said in 2017, “The sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal is to deter and, if necessary, retaliate, for a nuclear attack against the United States and its allies.” Candidate Biden repeated this statement in 2020, making it part of his election policy.
While there has long been opposition from U.S. allies and from the Republican Party in Washington against going to a no-first use policy, in the present circumstances, clearly additional pressure is now on Biden not to go “wobbly” on Russia. “In the current situation, it’s very challenging to make the case for ‘sole purpose.’ The optics are extremely bad when Russia is being as threatening as it is. You don’t want to look weak,” an arms control expert who consulted with Biden’s nuclear policy officials told the Telegraph. “It was on the President’s desk, awaiting his decision, then Ukraine happened. Pre-Ukraine, there was a chance the President would have gone ahead and made a ‘sole purpose’ declaration. He wanted to do that, but he didn’t have a lot of support in the Pentagon.”
Biden’s new decision, made earlier this week under pressure from allies, holds that the “fundamental role” of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be to deter nuclear attacks, unnamed officials told the Wall Street Journal. That carefully worded formulation, however, leaves open the possibility that nuclear weapons could also be used in “extreme circumstances” to deter enemy conventional, biological, chemical and possibly cyberattacks, says the Journal. Such a formulation, coming in the context of threats now being made against Russia for supposedly considering the use of such weapons in Ukraine, is particularly ominous.
The NPR, whenever it’s finally finished, is expected to cancel the ship-launched nuclear cruise missile that Donald Trump’s NPR had mandated and retire the B83 nuclear gravity bomb but continue all the other modernization programs that have been underway since the Obama administration, including production of the B61-12 gravity bomb as well as the new ICBM, the B-21 stealth bomber, the Navy’s new ballistic missile submarine and the Air Force’s nuclear cruise missile.
You can keep up with the Russian State TV station RT here:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/RTlivestream:8
Thank you for the information Frances.
Useful reports from Kharkov in Ukraine by Gonzalo Lira:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxpPT4b4vnDlX0sBGz3r4Q