According to NetEase publication, Russian nuclear submarine of the Borey project (according to other sources, it was an Akula project submarine), approached the US coast unnoticed. It was possible to establish the whereabouts of the nuclear submarine with up to 160 nuclear warheads on boards after the sub started going back to the base. A submarine of this class is capable of destroying most of the territory of the United States of America in minutes.
Russian nuclear submarines will be able to constantly patrol the waters near the US coast in the event thatRussia decides to build a naval base in Cuba or Venezuela, as representatives for the Russian Foreign Ministry earlier said.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150057-russian_submarine/
Economic Times, India, cites the sanctions watchlist site, Castellum.AI [New York] on the most- sanctioned country in the world, Russia:
The site said that 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Russia before February 22 and 2,778 additional were imposed in the days following the assault, bringing the total to 5,532……
Russia’s number now outranks Iran’s 3,616 sanctions, displacing Tehran from the top position, reports the BBC citing Castellum.AI as saying.
According to the site, the countries and regions targeting Russia with sanctions are Switzerland (568), the European Union (518), Canada (454), Australia (413), the US (243), the UK (35) and Japan (35).”
Why are sanctions still regarded as effective responses to military and political threats? They are diplomatically provocative, politically ineffective, economically wide-ranging and unpredictable in effect, and ONLY serve to escalate dangerous situations.
There is no brain failure in these verbal bombs someone’s feeding the president.
They are deliberate provocations.
The world is on the brink of nuclear war over a NATO proxy state in eastern Europe and the only way out is for NATO to back off and give Russia a reason to negotiate.
Instead, the slavering wolves driving this war throw their heads back and bay louder, escalating tension and making the possibility of an accident or a paranoid reaction even greater.
NATO has activated its “chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence elements” amid fears Russia could launch a biological strike in Ukraine.
Following an emergency summit of the military alliance on Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels the decision comes as the allies move to equip Ukraine with its own biological defences.
“Our top military commander … has activated NATO’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence elements,” he said.
“And allies are deploying additional chemical and biological and nuclear defences to reinforce our existing and new battlegroups, so we are taking measures both to support Ukraine and also to defend ourselves.”
On Democracy Now, Professor Alfred McCoy explains why the Ukrainian war will give birth to a new world order. That is, a new New World Order.
Lila: Perhaps it is in this sense that the predictions since 2015 from various Rabbis that we are living in messianic times and that the moshiach has arrived/is arriving can best be understood. After all, if this new order, diminishes the United States and NATO, which it seems to be doing, then the fall of Edom/AntiChrist, associated in the minds of the Rabbis with Western Christianity/Europe/North America, must be accompanied by the rise of the Messiah, which in this geopolitical reading, is the new NWO, led by Russia and China, ostensibly, with Israel playing a mediating role.
CLARIFICATION: I doubt that a senior Pentagon official is going to be perfectly candid about US military capabilities in public at any time, let alone now. The same goes for a Russian official.
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Colonel Douglas McGregor, former advisor to the Secretary of Defense and once one of NATO’s top strategists, talks with the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the Ukraine war.
McGregor says the Russians have done what they intended to do, which is destroy the Ukrainian military [for the most part], without too many civilian casualties. The war is over as far as that goes. He says Putin has tried to minimize civilian casualties, the diametric opposite of what the Western media reports. He adds that both the Ukrainians and international volunteers are now simply cannon-fodder used by NATO to prolong the war in any way to destablize Russia, but that isn’t working, because polls show 70% popular support for Putin.
McGregor thinks about 2000 Russian soldiers dead is a plausible figure, although there is no confirmation, but the Ukie numbers for their own dead are propaganda. A large quantity of foreign military equipment has been captured. Whatever foreign equipment is shipped in is useless anyway as the Ukrainians cannot use it.
Russia’s demands are minimal: Ukraine must renounce their claim on Crimea [which is historically Russian anyway], recognize the Donbas as Russian, stay out of NATO and refrain developing nukes.
The Russians have tried to avoid the central portion of Ukraine, which is the agricultural region where the spring planting is about to begin. The Russians don’t want to destroy the wheat and barley. In Mariupol, however, the Ukrainians are not allowing 3000 civilians to leave through humanitarian corridors, so a disaster is in the making. McGregor argues that any Western interference in Ukraine, including the imposition of no fly zones, will lead to horizontal and vertical escalation of the war and the use of nuclear weapons, whose fall-out will spread by wind as far as Japan and Korea. He says the strike on a NATO base near the Polish border was a message by Putin to Poland to stay out of the conflict or become a target themselves.
McGregor says the Russians are behind the USA in detection capabilities so they tend to be paranoid and might make a mistake and believe a launch was imminent, when it was not, especially as it is not possible for them to know if US B52’s are carrying nuclear or non-nuclear devices. The unraveling of arms control treaties has also fueled distrust of the US.
Nonetheless, McGregor points out that the president has made good decisions in saying no to a no-fly zone or to boots-on-the-ground and most of the top brass also do not want war, as they know the US military is not up to the task. But the donors run the uniparty, and they, as well as the neocons and the “bombs-away club,” the American exceptionalists, do want war. McGregor doesn’t see why the winning side, Russia would want a false flag, but Ukraine or NATO might well engineer one as a last-ditch effort to widen the war.
Unlike the British empire which practiced “economy of enemies” and tried to see whom they could work with, American elitist Marxists believe in their supreme virtue and demonize and bully anyone who doesn’t fall in line, such as China. They are Wilsonians to the extreme.
Russian Ministry of Defense said a secret project to study the ways bats can transmit diseases to humans has been carried out under US control at a laboratory in Kharkov, Ukraine for many years…….
….As part of the project, the Kharkiv State Veterinary Academy studied wild birds as vectors for the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza, Konashenkov said, adding that the conditions were assessed under which the transfer processes can become unmanageable, cause economic damage, and create food security risks.
The spokesman added that the ministry will present new documents on the export of a large amount of human biomaterials from Ukraine to the UK and other European countries in the near future.”
Highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks have been plaguing several states in India, including Kerala, in recent years, and it has resulted in the large -scale culling of chickens. In my earlier post about Ukraine, Soros and the Omidyar network, I mentioned the connection of the Omidyar’s Roshan Foundation to researchers working on avian flu and its pandemic potential.