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Baldric Eggling
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02.24.2022 | 1:13 AM ET

I'll post what's happening as it comes through for purposes of posterity. Doubt the veracity of what is posted here. Having lived through the Iraq war, I am sure that the vast majority of what gets reported will turn out to be either misinformation or outright ********. Posting because a lot of non-Australia members will be asleep, now. I'll report as much as I can.

So far the g****vine is:

Russia has indeed embarked on a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Air attacks, and ground forces. There has been at least one missile strike, there have been front-line Ukranian casualities ( have seen video, cannot post it here, too graphic).

Footage of an airstrike hitting Lutsk:

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/1496721271907889155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1496721271907889155%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatriots.win%2Fnew


Belarus has thrown in with Russia/is issuing support.
Reports of Ukrainian air defence having shot down multiple Russian planes, either drones or fighters. 


Some other info:



* Edited at 02.24.2022, 1:29 AM ET *

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05.04.2022 | 6:12 PM ET

@TARTARA ...... KURZHAR



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05.13.2022 | 7:54 AM ET



"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

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05.15.2022 | 7:25 AM ET

DO YOU KNOW HOW CRIMEA, DONBAS ETC. GOT TO BE PART OF UKRAINE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev - he of taking his shoe off and banging it on the table "fame" - arbitrarily stole Crimea, the Donbas, Luhansk, and Kharkiv (all of whose populations are at least 75% Russian) from what was then known as the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (the present Russian Federation) and gave these territories to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (which became independent Ukraine when the Soviet Union broke up on Christmas Day of 1991).

And why did Khrushchev do this?

As part of his "destalinization" program!

But Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian - so why should Russia have been punished for Stalin's Holodomor - the intentional starvation of possibly as many as 10 million Ukrainians in the early 1930s?

This is like if we would have invaded Denmark instead of Afghanistan after 9/11.

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05.15.2022 | 8:58 AM ET

with your way of thinking Austria should probably not exist by now

"****."

AnthonyBrancato
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05.15.2022 | 9:03 AM ET

Poll after poll has shown that about 40% of all Austrians would jump at the chance to become part of Germany.

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05.15.2022 | 9:20 AM ET

Can we give Texas back to Mexico. You know they had it first

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05.15.2022 | 9:29 AM ET

" Get Your Minds Out Of The Gutter " 

It's a staged trick like all the others ! 

@TARTARA 


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Moorlady
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05.15.2022 | 11:08 AM ET

I'm in Illinois, and I would like to be part of Mexico.  Can we vote on that?
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05.15.2022 | 3:55 PM ET

If the results of the 2020 Presidential election are any guide, about 47% of all Americans wouldn't mind if we let Mexico have California back.

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05.15.2022 | 5:25 PM ET

ANCHLUSS 

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.

Baldric Eggling
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05.16.2022 | 4:46 PM ET

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05.16.2022 | 5:13 PM ET

@Moorlady *** you talking about! You dont wanna join Mexico! Theres reasons so many people try to leave there

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05.16.2022 | 5:21 PM ET

What the ******* flying man on a bicycle in the **** is this 

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05.16.2022 | 5:29 PM ET



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Baldric Eggling
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05.16.2022 | 6:33 PM ET

300 or so Azov militants holding out in Azovstal have surrendered. This is a major blow to the Ukrainian war effort, especially in terms of morale. Zelensky is expected to make a statement in the next few hours, perhaps after he lifts his beak from a line of blow.

Earlier this year, Zelensky embarked on a spree of banning rival political parties, citing the possibility they might be pro-Russian or favourable to Russia. This week he signed a Bill into law, by decree, that grants him the power to ban or dissolve any political party at any time for any reason. This is unprecedented in the History of the nation and there was no legal basis, nor entitlement, to do it. He had previously abolished all media platforms and established one media outlet for public broadcast that is under state control. No dissenting views, nor attitudes which reflect a push to negotiate, sure for peace or otherwise end the war, are given airtime. He is officially now a categorical despot, and Ukraine is under a classical form of dictatorship.

https://www.leftvoice.org/president-zelenskyy-bans-opposition-parties-in-ukraine/


https://t.me/intelslava/29002
Baldric Eggling
Baldric Eggling

05.17.2022 | 1:57 AM ET



The level of stupidity expressed in the general American population is truly remarkable. This is amazing.



This retired USA General actually retweeted this. He thinks it's real. It's actually just a video capture from the game Arma 3. This guy is MSNBC's 'military analyst' FYI.

Yeah....





Baldric Eggling
Baldric Eggling

05.17.2022 | 8:54 PM ET

Meanwhile in Sri Lanka...

the entire nation is on the verge of absolute collapse and it appears disaster cannot be averted at this stage.

Not a hint of a word of any aid being sent to the Sri Lankans.


* Edited at 05.17.2022, 9:00 PM ET *

Baldric Eggling
Baldric Eggling

05.18.2022 | 5:33 PM ET

Interesting.





Turns out the freshly appointed (and very recently deposed) 'Disinformation Czar' Nina Jankowicz worked for the Ukrainian leader Poreshenko--an oligarch regarded as the most corrupt leader in the history of the nation, who was ousted by Zelensky who promised to 'clean up' Ukraine. She went on to work for the Zelensky campaign.

She also fairly recently released a statement describing the Hunter laptop being Russian disinformation 
(We now know for a fact this isn't true, and that it is in fact authentic) and defended Hunter's role on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma--a role for which he was not qualified, and performed no discernibly useful task whatsoever whilst also being at the height of his meth addiction.  She also has been trying to sugar-coat the reality of just how corrupt Ukraine truly is--which is profoundly. This is no secret.

Biden admitted to leveraging out aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor investing his son, Hunter Biden, was fired. He did this live on camera. You can watch him do this here:




You can hear Nina talk about the above here:

https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1520763318503415808


Hmmm....

I mean, it's pretty clear she's a spook. Absolutely reeks of it. Very likely CIA and probably planted in Ukraine to help usher in regime change. She's also quite obviously invested in protecting Biden.And that's what's scary. Because it means that the executive is both corrupt, and has weaponized its powers to protect the corruption of itself and the legislature.

That's the world, America, you are living in.


How long has the US been meddling in Ukraine? Well, at least since 2014, when it along with the EU backed a coup against the democratically elected President Yanukovych using far-right muscle like Azov battalion.

The more I dig into this thing, the more certain that my original assessment that Ukraine being basically a huge slush fund and money-laundering operation for EU and US politicians, and their kids, and entities is accurate. That, and it's absolutely, 100% being used as a base of operations for US intelligence who have been working for years and years to push it into the locus of NATO. We now know that yes, there are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. This is no longer a contested issue, despite it first being denied by the US government, and the rhetoric has since moved now 'Well yes they are there, but we're not working on pathogens/bioweapons in them'. Which may or may not be true. So far the US is slated to have spent over 50 Billion dollars in Ukraine. There is no chain of custody or itemisation of these funds, and nobody really has any idea where it's going or what it's doing or who is getting it.


Before her work advising the Ukrainian government, Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs for Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She holds an MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Jankowicz tweeted on Wednesday that she was "Honored to be serving in the Biden Administration @DHSgov and helping shape our counter-disinformation effort




* Edited at 05.18.2022, 10:57 PM ET *

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05.18.2022 | 5:50 PM ET



"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

Baldric Eggling
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05.18.2022 | 6:14 PM ET

You know, I think it's worth explaining how much a billion dollars truly is, relativistically.

If you spent 1000$ per day, you would need 2,740 years to spend a billion dollars.

So far the US has spent around 50 of those things in Ukraine.

Now think about how that money could have been put to task domestically in the US.

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