What can I add to this?
Nothing but my firm support for Vanessa and her good friend Eva Bartlett who have both been reporting for many years from war zones where the lame stream media fear to tread.
British politicians should be criticising the EU for permitting this outrage but they are too busy with their warmongering to even notice that several of their citizens are on the Ukrainian Kill List (myrotvorets) which is published in Langley…. yeah, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, USA…. home of the CIA.
Pink Floyd’s bassist, Roger Waters was also listed in August.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/roger-waters-pink-floyd-ukrainian-website-nato-cia-kill-list/
Eva Bartlett has produced a response via EIR.
https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4938-myrotvorets_is_a_threat_to_jou.html
The Executive Intelligence Review held a conference to discuss the list because very many of their members are also threatened!
DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO DELIBERATE CONFERENCE!
Vanessa chats with Matt Ehret about her experiences in Ukraine/Russia.
https://youtu.be/YBTgbebydfI
Thank you for posting this Frances! Although I had planned a whole different morning.........
Listened to almost all of it..... I've had way too much interpersonal drama since posting Putin's speech to a few family members last Saturday. Not for any reason other than I was fascinated by it. And for that alone I was excoriated. I am ashamed to report that after many emails back and forth, the last line I emailed to my darling #3 son was, "Go fuck yourself". He did apologize "for being a butt" and I apologized for my unmotherly language, which I have been known to be provoked into using on the rare occasion.......
My sister's brother in law is one of Putin's men. He wrote a book, 'Wladimir Putin. Der Deutsche im Kreml' noting that Putin is quite the Germanophile. This curried much favor for my brother in law's entire expat Russian Orthodox family 22 years ago. So I have an odd, possibly less hostile view of the man than I would have otherwise. But I have not been in contact with that side of the family for years, so have no idea what their current status or views are.
Riley Waggaman (https://substack.com/profile/2738999-edward-slavsquatfor) has been interesting.
And Putin does remind me a little of Musk. Creepy. Baby Bush looking into Putin's eyes and "seeing his soul" has also, unfortunately, been imprinted in my memory.
Putin's speech had plenty of lies of omission and a whole lotta truth, pravda?