Russian Presentation To UN Security Council on Biolabs [excerpt]

https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16nsx50dm

[via Saker.is] excerpted from transcript of the above.

We called this meeting because during the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, some shocking facts came to light: the Kiev regime is urgently concealing traces of a military biological program that Kiev implemented with support of the US Department of Defense.

[Lila: There is no mention of WHO being informed of these labs or having any input. So when WHO told Reuters that it had asked Ukraine to destroy the pathogens in case a hit during war accidentally releases them into the population, WHO could not have been the reason the Ukrainians themselves destroyed the stocks on Feb 24. It could only have been a decision taken by the US and their Ukrainian subordinates. The WHO statement simply bolsters the US case, by suggesting that fear of accidental release, rather than fear of discovery, was the reason for the destruction of the pathogens.]

Defense Ministry of Russia got hold of documents confirming that Ukraine developed a network of at least 30 biological laboratories that host extremely dangerous biological experiments, aimed at enhancing the pathogen properties of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other lethal diseases with the help of synthetic biology.

[Lila: This number is also supported by a Chinese statement to the media earlier, which I posted.  30 is twice the number indicated by other sources. Correction: In the report I quoted, the Chinese claim 27 biolabs in Ukraine, not 30]

This work is funded and directly supervised by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the United States, i.a. in the interests of Pentagon’s National Center for Medical Intelligence.

The key role in these programs was played by a BSL-3 central reference laboratory at the Mechnikov Scientific-Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa, Ukraine. Research centers in other cities also played a role – Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, Dnipro, Kherson, Ternopol, Uzhgorod, Vinnytsia. Research results were sent to US military biological centers, i.a. to U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infections Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, US Naval Medical Research, and US Army Biological Warfare Labs in Fort Detrick that used to be the key hubs of the American biological weapons program.

[Lila: If these are health stations, why are the results being sent to US military programs?]

All the materials are available at the website of Russian Ministry of Defense and are presented at daily briefings. Let me cite the most telling examples.

Russian military learned the details of UP-4 project which was implemented at laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa. It studied possibilities of spreading particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza (lethal to humans in 50 % of cases) and Newcastle disease. As part of another project, bats were considered as carriers of potential BW agents. Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses. Project documents clearly indicate that the United States actively financed bioprojects in Ukraine.

Besides, there were experiments to study spreading of dangerous infectious diseases by ectoparasites – fleas and lice. It is clear even to non-experts that such experiments are most reckless, as they give no opportunity to control how the situation is going to evolve. Similar research (using fleas and lice as BW agents) was carried out in the 1940s on the development of biological weapons components by the Japanese infamous unit 731, whose members later fled to the US to escape prosecution for war crimes.

Ukraine has a unique geographical location, where transcontinental migration routes of potential carriers of dangerous diseases intersect. Many of those routes pass through the territories of Russia and Eastern Europe. The research that I mentioned was done in the very midst of Eastern Europe and in close vicinity to the Russian borders. According to the data received, the birds that were ringed and released during biological research from the Kherson nature reserve, were caught in Ivanovo and Voronezh regions of Russia.

The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats from a biolab in Kharkov abroad. We do not know anything about the fate of those dangerous biomaterials and the consequences that may occur once they “dissipate” (possibly in Europe) in the absence of any international control. In any case, risks are high that they may be stolen for terrorist purposes or to be sold at the black market.

Several thousands of samples of blood serum of COVID-19 patients (most of them of Slavic ethnicity) were transported from Ukraine to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United Stated – allegedly for trials of treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

Everyone knows how sensitive Western states are when it comes to transferring biological samples of their citizens abroad. And there is a good reason for that – theoretically, samples may be used to create bioagents capable of selectively targeting different ethnic populations.

The activity of biolabs in Ukraine that we track back to 2014, and US-implemented program of so-called reform of Ukrainian healthcare system triggered uncontrolled growing incidence of dangerous and economically relevant infections in Ukraine. There is an increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis. Occurrence of measles has increased more than 100-fold. The World Health Organization said Ukraine runs high risks of having a polio outbreak. There is evidence that in Kharkov, where one of the labs is located, 20 Ukrainian soldiers died of swine flu in January 2016, 200 more were hospitalized. By March 2016, the total of 364 people had died of swine flu in Ukraine. Besides, outbreaks of African swine fever occur regularly in Ukraine. In 2019, there was an outbreak of a disease that had symptoms similar to plague……..

The materials that our Defense Ministry got hold of prove that all serious high-risk research in Ukrainian biolabs was directly supervised by US experts who had diplomatic immunity. Our Defense Ministry reports that at this moment the Kiev regime, as demanded by the Western sponsors, hastily covers up all traces so that the Russian side could not get hold of direct evidence of the US and Ukraine violating Article 1 of the BTWC. They rush to shut down all biological programs. Ukraine’s Health Ministry ordered to eliminate biological agents deposited in biolabs starting from 24 February 2022. We infer from the instructions to lab personnel that the order of elimination of collections suggested that they should be destroyed irrevocably. Having analyzed the destruction certificates, we can say that the Lvov lab alone destroyed 232 containers with pathogens of leptospirosis, 30 – of tularemia, 10 – of brucellosis, 5 – of plague. The total of more than 320 containers was eliminated. Pathogens’ titles and excessive amounts give reason to think that this work was done as part of military biological programs.

Now let me make a separate address to our colleagues from Europe………

At the same time, the Department of State sticks to the point that allegedly there are no US-controlled biolabs in Ukraine. Hence a question to the American delegation. How does this reconcile with 2005 Agreement between the US Department of Defense and Ukrainian Ministry of Health Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Prevention of Proliferation of Technology, Pathogens, and Expertise that could be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons? This document is available on the Internet. According to Article 3 of this agreement, the US Department of Defense may provide assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the area of “cooperative biological research, biological threat agent detection and response” with regard to “dangerous pathogens located at the facilities in Ukraine”.

We emphasize that biological threats defy all borders. No region of the world can feel totally safe today. The United States supervises several hundreds of biolabs in 30 countries, i.a. in the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, and along the perimeter of former USSR. Washington does not agree to subject them to international verification. Starting from 2001, it has been impeding elaboration of a binding protocol to the BTWC that should envisage a reliable verification mechanism to monitor states’ compliance with the Convention. This cannot but make us think that the United States has something to conceal. I call on the colleagues from those regions to think of what sort of activity Washington is carrying out on their territories and what consequences it may have for the population………

This risk seems rather real if we take into account considerable interest that Ukrainian radical and nationalist groups have in research of dangerous pathogens that was conducted in Ukraine in the interests of the US Department of Defense. We have information that Pentagon instructed its Ukrainian protégés that, should any incidents occur, they should instantly accuse Russian Armed Forces who allegedly launch strikes against research and medical facilities, or blame it all on “Russian subversive teams”….

 

 

WHO told Ukraine to Destroy Pathogens

The cover up begins.

Responding to an inquiry by the globalist intelligence mouthpiece Reuters, WHO claims it asked Ukraine to destroy its pathogens to avoid accidental spills, in the run up to the war.  Notably, it did not say when it told Ukraine to do this. And notably also, it didn’t explain why it hasn’t said so before.

When the Russian documents have been discussed in the media for a few days, WHO didn’t immediately and forthrightly claim it had given the instructions. Why?

Does that strike anyone as plausible?

Especially, as WHO does not seem to have had any direct input into those biolabs, in which the most dangerous pathogens were under the direct supervision of the US.

Mariupol Maternity Hospital Attack Looks Like Fake

As I warned in a previous post, a false flag or a staged atrocity or even some kind of trap was bound to occur at around this point that would go against the Russians. I believe the alleged bombing of a hospital in Mariupol might be that event.

Why? Because Ukraine and their Western backers have the motive and the opportunity.

MOTIVE 1

The Russians seized documentary proof and testimony that the pathogens [anthrax. tularemia, cholera, and plague] stocked at the biolabs in Ukraine, particularly Kharkiv and Poltava, were ordered destroyed on an emergency basis on the eve of the invasion, Feb 24. Their presence would constitute a violation of Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Prohibition of bacteriological and toxin weapons.

MOTIVE 2

The  second motive is the discovery of plans for an Ukrainian invasion of the Donbas intended for mid March. Russia’s special operation, which already had a casus belli in Ukie firing across the border, now has further justification in the proof of an imminent full scale Ukie invasion.

The two stories pose a huge problem for the Western propaganda narrative, because the discovery of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the plan for a Ukie invasion vindicate the Russian operation.

This propaganda problem explains Victoria Nuland’s quiet admission to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there were US biowar labs:

“uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities.” Any hope to depict such “facilities” as benign or banal was immediately destroyed by the warning she quickly added: “we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to, uh, gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainiahhhns [sic] on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach” —

Her immediate counter allegation signaled to me that a false flag or  complete hoax was in the offing, whose aim would be to distract from the two big stories of this week and  redirect the moral outrage of the public back toward Russia.

And so here we have it now: the alleged bombing of the children’s and  maternity hospital in Mariupol.

OPPORTUNITY

Besides motive, the Ukrainians also have the opportunity for a hoax of this kind because Mariupol is being squeezed by an encirclement of Russians and the neo Nazi forces among the Ukrainians are concentrated here.  From the start, the Ukrainians have been using people as human shields,  training citizens to throw Molotov cocktailsbeating and tear gassing foreign students,  and firing on civilians, as Russia has complained repeatedly.

Combat by civilians in crowded streets gives a perfect opportunity to blame any accident, self inflicted injury, or outright hoax on the opposing army.

On the other hand, the Russians have been unusually circumspect and even sustained losses to ensure fewer losses to the civilian population. They have zero motive to intentionally fire on civilians and give the West a propaganda bonanza.

The Ukrainians have the motive, the opportunity, and the profile.

Web research confirms the logistics of a hoax.

The Russians have shown documentary evidence that the maternity hospital there had already been converted into a military site.

Perhaps that is just a Russian claim?

But the Kremlin critical site Lenta.ru also reports that according to eye witnesses, Ukrainians nationalist soldiers had taken up positions inside the Mariupol hospital by the end of February.

Other articles indicate that many maternity wards had been relocated to the basement  [see also this] and to train shelters, where a strike would not have killed any women and children.

Finally, the blog WarOnFakes, started by a pro Russian group, has convincingly deconstructed some of the photos circulating of the alleged atrocity from a technical angle. They are images created by a beauty blogger and influencer.

The Times claims this is a conspiracy theory.

 

 

Russians fight back with WarOnFakes

A site started by some Russian government linked activists to counter the media blitz:

It’s called War on Fakes.

Here’s their deconstruction of the alleged bombing of a maternity hospital, a story even the human rights organizations ran with, without so much as a peek into its credibility.

This piece refutes the allegation that Russians will use chemical weapons.

I’m going to check them out any time something fishy surfaces. Here’s to TRUTH winning.

FALSE FLAG ALERT: US Warns Of Russian Chemical/Biological Attack

From The Times of India:

The Biden administration publicly warned Wednesday that Russia might seek to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as the White House rejected Russian claims of illegal chemical weapons development in the country it has invaded.

With Nuland’s admission yesterday that the US biolabs were indeed bioweapons labs and not simply health stations, and with the revelation by Russia of documentary proof that the Ukrainians government had ordered all stocks of those weapons/pathogens destroyed, the stakes have been seriously upped for NATO.

Thus the Biden announcement, intended as an inoculation against a Ukrainian biological attack that can be blamed on the Russians.

The Russians seem not have fully factored in the immense psychological and disinformation capacities of the concerted media of the West.

As always, those of us outside the realm of power must be cautious and trust the evidence.

The evidence was that Trump, while offering a point of resistance to the NWO within the US, although not outside it, was finally too much beholden to it to strike the necessary blows. But he made possible the rise of Ron de Santis. Who I think might.

Similarly, Putin himself might be too beholden to the oligarchs to actually become an effective locus of resistance to them, but he may well lead the way to those who will be. In any case, in the rest of the world, those who tried to remain neutral in this tragedy are taking notes.

 

 

 

US Biolabs Dot The Globe

I have excerpted articles from the Chinese and India media that substantiate Russia’s claims regarding US bioweapons labs in the Ukraine [will add to the list]:
List of Ukraine biolabs documents removed by the US Embassy

Up until recently, the existence and details of these bioweapons labs were public knowledge. The US embassy had previously disclosed the locations and details of these laboratories in a series of PDF files online. On February 26, 2022, the official embassy website shut down the links to all 15 bioweapon laboratories.

All the documents associated with these labs have been removed from the internet. If you click on any of the links, the PDF files are no longer available. Thankfully, these files have been archived and can still be accessed. What is the US embassy trying to hide?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170130193016/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-kharkiv-eng.pdf

The United States has pushed the creation of biolabs via its so-called ‘Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction’, as well as bilateral ‘Joint Biological Commitments and Joint Threat Reduction’ programmes with individual nations.

Washington has long insisted that these programmes, which started being implemented after the end of the Cold War, are designed only to reduce biological weapons proliferation and production.

However, Russia, China, politicians in some of the countries in which the labs are situated, and reporters – led by independent Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva – have questioned these claims.

Last year, Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk revealed to parliament that as many as 15 US-sponsored biological laboratories were operating on Ukrainian territory, with some of them said to be engaged in the storage of pathogens hazardous to humans and animals. Medvedchuk accused US and Ukrainian authorities of seeking to cover up the extent of these activities, and warned that some of the labs may be experimenting on human beings. He also highlighted repeated mysterious outbreaks of dangerous diseases in the country between 2009 and 2017, including haemorrhagic pneumonia, cholera, and hepatitis A. In 2016, he noted, at least 20 Ukrainian servicemen died from a strange flu-like virus, with 364 more people succumbing to swine flu the same year. Medvedchuk has been under house arrest since May 2021, ostensibly over an unrelated matter.

Along with Ukraine, the nation of Georgia has repeatedly come up in reporting on US military. In 2018, the country’s former minister of state security implored then-US President Donald Trump to open a formal investigation into worrying reports that personnel from the US’ Lugar Center biological lab outside Tbilisi were engaging in experiments on live human test subjects.”

 

The article noted that outbreaks of infections have begun to be observed in Uzbekistan in places where U.S. military biological facilities operated.

In August 2011, an unknown disease suddenly flared up in the Tashkent region, and the symptoms of the disease were very similar to cholera. In 2012, the country was hit by a new disease, which almost simultaneously killed more than 10 people.

In the spring of 2017, a chickenpox epidemic broke out in Uzbekistan, which affected a large number of adults. Since January 2019, 279 cases of measles have been reported. Also, meningococcal infections are rising in the Central Asian country.

Anna Popova, head of Russia’s consumer rights and human well-being watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, at a meeting of the heads of the Security Councils of the CIS countries, expressed concern over the outbreaks of previously unknown infections in places where the U.S. military labs had opened, the magazine said.

In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, there are no DTRA facilities, but Washington works on biosafety issues in the two countries through its structures, non-government organizations (NGOs) or “scientific partnerships.”

Through such “scientific” partnerships, the Pentagon and the intelligence services of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries have gained access to top-secret technologies, intellectual property products of scientists from former Soviet Union countries and promising areas for future research, the magazine said. ”

 

From OpIndia.com

“On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Tweeted a snippet from a press conference where he asked the US to release “relevant details as soon as possible” regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine. He captioned his Tweet as, “The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.”

US Changes Tune On Ukrainian BioWar Labs

The Russians have frequently alleged the existence of Ukrainian bioweapons labs. Now on March 7, Lt. Gen. Kirillov has stated publicly that they hold exhaustive documentary proof that the stock of pathogens in them was destroyed urgently on the eve of the Russian special operation/invasion.

Until now the Russian claim has been drowned in a tsunami of denials, counter narratives, and counter allegations by the US.

A google search for “Ukraine biolabs” would turn up dozens of sites, from Snopes [a left liberal propaganda site masquerading as a propaganda buster] to Euvsdisinfo.eu, the European version of the same] all denying that there were US biowar labs in Ukraine and all claiming that the facilities there were only fighting disease or monitoring the population’s health and were run by the Ukrainians themselves.

But it looks like the documentary evidence laid out by the Russian army yesterday was too convincing for simple denial.  Then there is the pending investigation of Igor Kolomoisky, President Zelenksy’s sugar daddy, a mafiosi Ukrainian billionaire who financed the ethnic cleansing  of Donbas Russians. Viruses specifically targeting ethnic Russians [Slavs], as the RF army chiefs have claimed, would be of immense help thee. With the Fed’s investigation tightening, Kolomoisky has moved closer to the Russians and may perhaps be in a position to confirm the biolab revelations.

Indeed, today, the US narrative has shifted. 

Now, US officials admit that there were indeed bioweapons research labs….

The new spin is that the biolabs need to be seized by the US before the Russians get to them, the same Russians whom they accused until today of being liars and propagandists for identifying innocent sanitation outposts as biowarfare facilities.

To wit.,

On Tuesday, the US government’s Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testified before a Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on Ukraine in Washington, DC, and said that the United States was working with Ukraine to prevent invading Russian forces from seizing biological research material. The State Department also stated that it was concerned that Russian forces are trying to gain control of biological research facilities within Ukraine. The committee was set to examine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the worldwide response.

At the hearing, State Department official Victoria Nuland was asked whether Ukraine has bioweapons. “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of”, she stated to the US lawmakers on March 8.

Ukraine War: List Of Useful Sites

There is a huge dearth of decent commentary on the war, or, when there is good commentary, it is scattered between blog posts and video, making it hard for busy people to get the gist of what is happening without an enormous expenditure of time.

For the self absorbed among us, for whom a war is just another excuse to update Facebook this hardly matters, but the rest of us need to know what we are supporting before we open our mouths…or the blood is on our hands too.

Sanctioning Russia implies the collective guilt of its citizens for not overturning Putin.

Well, what about the collective guilt of Americans in allowing into the White House a man in serious mental decline, incapable of handling international crises?

Shouldn’t ordinary Americans be punished for that too?

Or for Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and endless other interventions which had less justification than Putin’s?

But who will sanction the sanctioners?

With that, here is a list of sites that could help  understanding the war in Ukraine.

NOTE: I DO NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THEM.

I have serious problems with about 3/4 of what is on them, and likely most, if not all, have some intelligence ties, or toe the intelligence line, or they would not flourish. You can take that as you wish. I know nothing about the owners, funders etc., although in some cases I can take a good guess.

But from bitter experience I will keep those guesses mostly to myself.

I am not part of any organized resistance, communist, anti-communist, Russian, Prussian,  or anything else. The only resistance I am whole-heartedly part of is resistance to my own unwanted habits, weaknesses and failings. The only line I toe is, whether something is true and helpful or not. There are true things that are not useful.. such as the personal crimes or sins of some of our oligarch enemies and friends. Interesting, but not necessarily relevant.

However, where relevant and useful,  there is also another consideration. If I put this information up, will the blowback be worth it, for someone who has only her wits and a couple of hours of free time, to aid her?

Will I go under too, like a thousand other small blogs and sites in the great purge that began in 2015-2016 and has accelerated ever since?

So I hold my tongue, which is now black and blue from the effort.

WEBSITES/BLOGS

Michel Chossudovsky’s website, Center for Research on Globalization [Long-standing researchers on geopolitics from a parapolitics angle. Criticizes as pushing Chinese and Russian propaganda.]

GreatGameIndia: Shelly Kasli’s wonderful investigative site that hasn’t been given sufficient credit for the ground breaking work it did on Covid, and before that, on demonetization and the cash ban. Possibly vetted by Indian intelligence, but not certain.

Zero Hedge: Lots of good stories mixed in with some disinfo, as I am almost certain this site is a group effort.

Strategic-Culture Foundation [reportedly part of the pro-Russian ecosystem, allegedly linked to the Russian state, just as all other media is linked to the ecosystem of the US, UK, EU, and their allies]

Oriental Review  Ditto

Covert Shores: Good analysis of Moskva sinking, open source intel from a naval guy. Western viewpoint.

War Zone The Drive 

Very good analysis of  war and armaments. Western

Intel Slava Z on Telegram

Unz.com [Counterpunch writers and some others who’ve migrated to a site run by Ron Unz, a tech entrepreneur and smart Jewish dissident; likely to be some disinformation, intended to co-opt so-called anti-Semitic criticism]

Voltairenet [Theirry Meyssan is excellent]

Dissident Voice [left centered dissident opinion on a variety of topics]

Counter-currents [ed. Binu Matthews] Socialist, people oriented, pro-global warming.

Indian Punch-line [M. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat]

Life-site News [pro-life Catholic site]

The Saker.is – Orthodox Russian resident in the US, economically left, culturally right. Very pro Russian.

A Son of the American Revolution [American military analyst]

Andrei Martyanov’s blog [Russian military analyst. Very pro Russian]

The Gateway Pundit [pro-Trump right, conspiratorial]

National File [investigative, non mainstream right]

The Last Refuge [pro Trump Christian right]

Moon of Alabama

Lew Rockwell [Libertarian pro-market, antiwar site] Paleolibertarian and Christian libertarian

Revisionist Review, from Michael Hoffman, a so-called holocaust denial site, but I can vouch that it is entirely free of Nazi sympathy of any kind. Deep analysis of staged events, masonic conspiracy, and Talmudic influence.

Sputnik News  

and TASS

[Russian state outlets]

Srb.info [Serbia news] Pro Russian Serbian news site.

Gonzalo Lira [Chilean businessman on site in Kharkiv, has now gone missing]:  First-hand account of events in Kharkhiv, ear-to-the-ground reports of other areas.

Patrick Lancaster: Ex-US Navy, on the ground at battle fronts, with Russian army.

The Duran

[Have not watched this much, will add, when I find time to.]

That’s all for now. I don’t necessarily agree with the positions of these sites on other issues, or even with everything they say about the war, but they carry useful information to counter the incessant propaganda about Ukraine and Russia.

The best weapon against the media war is

Accurate information about the background and progress of the war

Clear understanding of the motivations and justifications of the different actors

Healthy skepticism toward the moral grandstanding of third parties with no skin in the game.

 

 

Ukraine: The Kleptocrats’ War With Putin

It’s been a year since I blogged here, but the war in Ukraine has drawn me out finally.

Here is a link to my comments at Disqus, made most recently at American Conservative, at Rod Dreher’s blog.

As he’s Orthodox, his posts usually carry themes and information I find useful, but, while he is against the US being drawn into the war, he still makes a moral equivalence between both sides. That equivalence is ultimately soft support of the NATO position.

A limited war to address a serious security threat on a country’s borders and enforce treaty obligations might very well not even be a violation of international law.

I would have to look it up.

But intervening to end the bloody oppression of civilians and get rid of a government that is essentially a kleptocrat front likely meets the definition of a just war. Certainly, Russia has more justification in the Ukraine than America ever did in Iraq, and if I recall right, scholars like Jean Bethke Elshtain managed to defend that war on just war grounds [erroneously].

As for Zelensky, what can be said of a president who, instead of making absolutely reasonable concessions and thus limiting the damage to the population, opens the prison doors and lets out hardened criminals and puts automatic weapons into the hands of women and children?  Who teaches ordinary people to make Molotov cocktails to attack the best trained special operations forces in the world.

Zelensky is trying to increase Ukrainian civilian casualties. No question.

Consider his invitation to mercenaries and volunteers across the globe to show up in Ukraine to fight for his corrupt regime with free equipment given by NATO? How is this not anything but reckless, selfish, and completely contrary to the behavior of a truly courageous and responsible leader who would try to limit, not exacerbate, the bloodshed?

But then. it may not after all be Putin who harbors  dreams of blood and soil. There was, indeed, little evidence of that in the pragmatic speeches the Russian President gave on the eve of war.

But the billionaire backers of Zelensky [a Ukrainian Jew himself],  Igor Kolomoisky and Hennady Bogolyubov, who ran one of the largest frauds in banking history via PrivatGroup and PrivatBank, while also sitting as board members of various Jewish ethnic organizations, have already given their money to Jewish non profits in the US, some, like Chabad, fostering Jewish ethnic identity.

One needs to ask if the rebirth of a Ukrainian or Crimean homeland might actually be the goal of the Ukrainian Jews’ own territorial ambition?

 

error: Content is protected !!