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Gonzalo Lira: NATO False Flag Coming Soon
Gonzalo Lira, on the ground in Kharkov, explains why he thinks a NATO false-flag is in the making. Well, in Victoria Nuland’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, she tacitly admitted the existence of germ warfare labs run by the US in the Ukraine, so the US and its Ukrainian puppet are going to have to answer questions about genocide in the Donbas. Putin is a lawyer, and he knows exactly what constitutes a genocide under international law, so this is no exaggeration. It is the palpable fear of being held accountable for this and other war crimes that drives US/NATO’s more and more hysterical moves, according to Andrei Martyanov. It was thus that we had the Mariupol hospital bombing allegation, on which I blogged, a relatively quick counter-attack on the psychological front. That was soon deconstructed, but it has bought time for NATO to come up with a more effective and dangerous false-flag employing chemical weapons, that will provide the pretext for NATO/US to intervene directly.
General Bakshi: Cheer Leading Ukraine is Futile and Dangerous
Major General G. D. Bakshi gives an Indian perspective on the escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine and explains how futile and dangerous Western cheer-leading is for Ukraine.
“American Journo” Brent Renaud Killed By Ukrainians, Not Russians
Another day, another media lie.
Fortunately, an intrepid alternative journalist caught out the liars.
“Our most important eyewitness is Juan Arrendondo, Renaud’s colleague, who was physically in the vehicle with him at the time they came under fire. Arrendondo was interviewed earlier in the day from a Ukrainian hospital, where he discussed what happened at the scene of the chaotic incident.
I’ve highlighted the significant portions of the brief interview, but feel free to watch it yourself below.
“We crossed the checkpoint and they started shooting at us,” Arrendondo started. “So the driver turned around, and they kept shooting at us … I saw him being shot in the neck, and we got split, and I got pulled into the … ambulance, I don’t know.”
This is a critical piece of information because it rules out the possibility that Renaud died from possible Russian shelling or a Russian sniper of some sort. Arrendondo, who is by far our most reliable source for this incident, makes it clear that the shooting came from the direction of the checkpoint. And The New York Times, backed by other sources, have established the area as a Ukrainian checkpoint. And in addition to that, the most recent maps of troop positions show the scene of the crime as an area that remains controlled by Ukrainian forces.
In all likelihood, Brent Renaud was killed by Ukrainian forces. And instead of taking responsibility for the tragic shooting, the Ukrainians used Renaud’s death as an instrument to advance a propaganda campaign against their enemy.
Rest In Peace, Brent Renaud.”
Lila: And apparently Brent Renaud was not working as a journalist when he went there. It seems he was there to gather intelligence.
Indian Missile Accident: Cui Bono?
I wonder if the Indian missile accident involved sabotage.
Who would want to provoke dissension and possibly war between India and Pakistan?
And why now?
The act could tie into the current unhappiness in the US with the Indian response to the Ukraine war; India, along with China, abstained from condemning the Russian action in the UN and has joined China, Brazil and others in calling for an inquiry into American bioweapons labs in the Ukraine.
Or it could tie into American unhappiness with India for continuing to buy Russian military technology.
Or it could be both.
New US sanctions on Russian banks will make it harder for countries to buy major defence equipment from Moscow, a US diplomat said, though no decision had been reached on Washington granting a waiver to New Delhi to take delivery of Russian surface-to-air missiles under an earlier contract.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, the assistant secretary (of the US State Department) for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu hinted that the US may reconsider its position on waiving sanctions against India.
“The Biden administration will consider CAATSA [Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act],” Lu said on Tuesday, March 2.
From the description of the missile by Pakistan [if that was accurate and not deliberately misleading, as I suspect], it was a BrahMos, one of the fastest anti ship supersonic cruise missiles in the world, a joint Russian and Indian venture. BrahMos is a portmanteau of the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra in India and the Moskva in Russia.
……. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar briefed the media about the incident, calling for an explanation from Delhi.
“On March 9, at 6:43pm, a high-speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory by Air Defence Operations Centre of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF),” he told media persons in Islamabad, adding the object suddenly manoeuvred towards Pakistani territory from its initial course and violated Pakistan’s air space, ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6:50pm.
“It was a supersonic flying object, most probably a missile, but it was certainly unarmed,” he said at the time.
“It is important to highlight that the flight path of this object endangered many international and domestic passenger flights — both in Indian and Pakistani air space — as well as human life and property on ground,” he added.
“Whatever caused this incident to happen, it is for the Indians to explain. It, nevertheless, shows their disregard for aviation safety and reflects very poorly on their technological prowess and procedural efficiency,” he further stated. [Dawn, March 11, 2022]
A report in Reuters gives more details, including the height of 40,000 ft, the speed [3 x speed of sound] and the distance into Pakistani territory, 77 miles. But the source is anonymous, a common technique by which the Mockingbird media seeds their reports with narratives crafted in the intelligence community. Thus, “One senior Pakistani security official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity….”]
The allegation that this is a BrahMos missile is actually speculative. Consider perhaps that a certain narrative needs this to be a BrahMos because the BrahMos has a range between 300 and 500 kms, which allows the Pakistani official to claim that Indian missiles are actually trained directly on Islamabad. It also damages the reputation of the Russian and Indian technology and sows suspicion of Russian bona fides.
The Pakistanis relied on a Chinese air defense system that was very accurate in spotting the missile.
Oddly, last year, there were reports of problems plaguing Pakistan’s Chinese made air defenses in the east.
But the system that tracked the wayward Indian missile was most likely the cutting-edge HQ 9/P HIMADS (High to Medium Air Defence System) procured from China in mid-October, 2021.
Pakistani media has speculated that this was no accident but a probe to test the new system, which performed as desired.
Another speculative report is that it was sabotage from within India and the saboteur wanted to discredit the BrahMos missile on behalf of those wanting to continue importing from other foreign manufacturers.
Last year, India was stunned by the crash of one of its safest helicopters and the deaths of General Rawat and more than half a dozen senior military personnel. Rawat was known to have been staunchly against the defense import lobby which profits from gargantuan kickbacks as middlemen.
He was a major proponent of self sufficiency in defense.
Rawat died in a suspicious accident over the Nilgiris in the south of India last year.
Now comes this mysterious BrahMos accident [if it was BrahMos], a PR disaster for Indian missile prowess, as the Pakistanis have been quick to point out.
On the other hand, it is a PR coup for Pakistan’s Chinese air defense system. Again, what message is sent? By whom?
Ukraine War: 16000 Middle Eastern Volunteers To Fight With Russia
At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight alongside Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
“If you see that there are these people who want of their own accord, not for money, to come to help the people living in Donbass, then we need to give them what they want and help them get to the conflict zone,” Putin said from the Kremlin.
Shoigu also proposed that Western-made Javelin and Stinger missiles that were captured by the Russian army in Ukraine should be handed over to Donbass forces, along other weaponry such as man-portable air-defense systems, known as MANPADS, and anti-tank rocket complexes.
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 cocktails, beating 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.
Israelis Going to Fight in Ukraine
And in completely expected news, Israelis are signing up to go fight for Ukraine, says Haaretz.
Ukraine War Updates: Drugs, Sanctions, Students, Cauldrons
Latest developments:
1. India may be sanctioned by the US for buying weapons from Russia, following her neutral position on the UN vote condemning Russia
2. Labs making combat drugs, including captagon, have been found in Mariupol, suggesting that the reckless and stupid defiance of the Ukie army and its president might be drug fueled. Captagon has been used by ISIS. I saw two videos of Zelensky supposedly high on alcohol or drugs, but in both he could just have been exhausted. However, it was Zelensky himself who challenged Poroshenko in the presidential campaign a few years ago on the issue and then when Poroshenko publicly took and passed a drug test, Zelenksy backed out and only tested himself later at a clinic owned by a friend. Poroshenko then used the drug charge against Zelensky in the campaign, from where Putin picked it it up. So there seems to be some truth to the charge.
3. Indian students trapped at Mariupol and planning to march on foot to the Russian border carrying Indian flags have deferred the march after the Government of India advised against it.
Video of Putin charging the Ukrainians with holding hostage citizens and students, especially Indian students.
4. The Russians have total control of the skies over Ukraine and are now closing off several cauldrons [encirclements] on the grounds, cutting off the Ukie army from reinforcements
5. The Atlanticists are so desperate, they have decided to cut off Russia from all internet services of all kinds, very likely including cloud services. As with the economic sanctions, which probably had less of an impact on Russia than was hoped and have since been back tracked by France, there is likely going to be back tracking on this too.
6. The issue of US funded and supported biological weapons labs in the Ukraine is backed by opposition members in Ukraine, although US outlets continue to dismiss it as conspiracy theory.
How do you expect the Russians to rise up against Putin, if they don’t know what’s going on and can’t communicate with each other?
What happens to all the Western companies doing business in Russia or to all the other people doing business with us who have ties with Russia?
Whom do you suppose all that will affect?
What is the point of bringing Putin down, if you also bring down the EU and America?
Or is that the whole point and Putin just the pretext?
Who wants a global reset?
Who profits from chaos and restructuring?