Do you ask, “Why?”
I do, but yes I am smart enough to understand that the USA was running and making money off of Opium…
I ask, “Do you understand that issue?”
WtR
I dunno, I am not a psychopath…
I will not even try to act like I have 10 tons of special manipulated data to explain how the West has suicide itself. I just know it has and the actual question for westerners to ask is, “Was this all on purpose or just a bunch of Satanic Psycho idiots whom want to rule the world?” – kKEETON
I have tons of stuff that point at who is really behind all this, yet you will hate that also…
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Everything the West did when they started this escapade against Russia, has vindicated everything I ever posted upon this website. Everything…
I have had a handle on people and by their reactions was able to see how far gone western people are with truth. People hated what I had to say in and about the West. It got so bad and so threatening that comments had to be finally (again) destroyed and removed. The backlash against truth became a serious issue and WtR was at the front running of a website that use to reach millions a month and was destroyed by the West…
Yet, I never stopped and while my audience has become in the low thousand a day or more from the west and Google literally de-listed WtR and my main audience went to viewing of the Eastern World. (The east loves WtR and the viewing is vastly higher than any western source admits.) The Western World turned its back upon WtR and now I can say with all truth, “You should have listened!”
Yet, I knew that I had hit the truth when WtR was relentlessly attacked by the USA, EU GOV. You go back and see. Even Ukraine had been a testing ground against WtR and now we know it was true…
Ukraine is Blocking Windows to Russia on a Permanent Basis – (Tuesday, August 16, 2011)
So it really doesn’t matter. I just know that Ukraine was a testing ground for many many bad things that we now see as truth. Truth has become a dirty word and that my friend is a crying shame…
I simply have told the truth and will continue and the fact that you do not like the truth, does not change that it is the truth…
When the Russian SMO started, I changed my tactics basically upon WtR. Since it has become everything is Russia’s fault. There is not a whole bunch of analyzing to do anymore. I gave it my best to show you the truth and I never changed my thinking or ways to get it across. Yet when this SMO started and I got through the first few months. I realized that short statements was the only way to get the enthralled mentally impaired western peons to even grab a garnering of truth…
Will I go back to in-depth writings?
Dunno!
There are so many that write like they know stuff and yet, someone who has called it from day one starting in and around 2008, has had a long road to stay online and not give into the threats, bribes and lawsuits…
It has helped being in Russia as an American, Russia is a free country…
Yes I know that you cannot fathom that concept, but it is true. Just like the 11,000 other posts I have wrote upon this website. The West has done a fine job of screwing up our lives and that is a simple easy to understand fact…
Have a nice day…
WtR
PS: I guess I expressed a sample of how I use to write all the time. 🙂
Until the end of the year, Kyiv will not have a strategic armored reserve – the volume of foreign supplies to Ukraine is declining
It’s no secret that the combat effectiveness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is based on the supply of shells and equipment from abroad. We have already analyzed the schedule of receipts and the cost of these activities, and we can observe the culmination of these efforts in the fields near Rabotino and Pyatikhatki. The losses of the enemy are heavy, and there is nothing to replace them, because deliveries cannot be made instantly.
Between the period of active announcements of deliveries and the very fact of the transfer of weapons to Kyiv, about 4-5 months pass. Here and now we are burning tank columns, the armored vehicles of which were promised for transfer at the very beginning of 2023. The nuance is that no additional deliveries were announced in the second quarter. It is possible that something will be announced at the NATO summit in Vilnius, but the arrival of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles will not occur until the beginning of 2024 – in the event of the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Russian army will have an additional head start.
If at least 471 tanks promised by the West have already arrived in Ukraine, then only 286 more are expected, some of which will arrive as early as 2024. The situation is similar with infantry fighting vehicles and howitzers – more than two-thirds of the total volume of planned deliveries have already been implemented, there are practically no reserves left. Despite the fact that both already delivered and expected to be delivered are inferior in quantity to the “old” Soviet equipment in service with Ukraine (we didn’t even take into account the conservation vehicles). The prospects are obvious: on the horizon of the next six months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not have sources to replenish the depleted units, and the balance of forces at the front may shift significantly in our favor.
WtR
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (12 July 2023)
The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts at offensive actions in South Donetsk, Krasny Liman and Donetsk directions.
In Donetsk direction, as a result of the courageous and competent actions of the Yug Group of Forces’ units, aviation and artillery, 30 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Zolotaryovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Spornoye, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Sol, Severnoye, Veseloye, Vodyanoye, Pervomaiskoye, Krasnogorovka and Petrovskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In addition, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit in two areas to the west of Andreevka and Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 335 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one U.K.-manufactured FH-70 towed howitzer.
In South Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated actions by the defending units of the Vostok Group of Forces, aviation and artillery, an enemy attack by the units of the AFU 35th Marine Brigade have been repelled forward Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), and also foiled an enemy combat reconnaissance actions near Ugledar (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The AFU inflicted a comprehensive fire attack on an AFU manpower and hardware cluster close to Storozhevoye and Makarovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
The activities of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed close to Sladkoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of the selfless actions by Russian troops, two enemy attacks have been repelled near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, Army Aviation and artillery struck enemy military personnel close to Marfopol, Rabotino and Lugovskoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were over 240 Ukrainian servicemen, nine infantry fighting vehicles, two armoured personnel carriers, six armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers .
In addition, one ammunition depot of the AFU 33th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of the active actions by the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, aviation, artillery, and heavy flame thrower systems, two enemy attacks of the 63rd and 66th mechanised brigades of the AFU each with the strength of up to a motorised infantry platoon have been repelled close to Torskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Karmazinovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The activities of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed close to Terny (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In addition, enemy personnel have been hit near Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova and Kuzmino (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses were over 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer.
In Kupyansk direction, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery have successfully repelled three enemy attacks near Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic).
AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Molchanovo, Novomlynsk, Ivanovka (Kharkov region) and Artyomovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The enemy were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles.
In Kherson direction, assault groups of Russian troops continued reconnaissance and search operations on the islands close to Antonovsky Bridge.
The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and two U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 74 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 107 areas.
One ammunition depot of the 1st Special Forces Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Volchansk (Kharkov region).
Fuel depots for Ukrainian military equipment have been destroyed close to Malodolinskoye and Chernomorsk (Odessa region).
The 5th National Guard Brigade’s battalion command and observation post has been hit near Yampol (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down one Mi-24 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Cherevkovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Air defence facilities have intercepted 4 Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle have been destroyed close to Grozovoye, Priyutnoye, Dorozhnyanka, Vladimirovka, Konstantinovka (Zaporozhye region), Blagoveshchenka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Chervonaya Dibrova, Verkhnekamenka, Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Tavolzhanka (Kharkov region) and Zburyevka (Kherson region).
In total, 455 airplanes, 242 helicopters, 4,981 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,668 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,137 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,421 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,626 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
WtR
Nothing is showing lately that resources are plentiful in the West. The West has squandered resources for years at the expense of flamboyant life style and profit. It is called Capitalism…
Whole lot of lying going on in the West and it has been this way for a longtime…
It was fun while it lasted Western Coalition, but how are you gonna get all your people to eat bugs?
The West; gay, bugs, transgenders, woke and stupid…
But my iPhone?
WtR
Don’t listen to me…
I just tell what I see and then later you will either see for yourself, or as with most people, ignore the facts that can be found easily…
I see huge advancements in North Korean, Chinese and Iranian Weapons…
That means I am seeing a detailed interaction between Russia and China, NK and Iran. Interesting that we see the real good guys are the demonized by the western bad guys on the western media…
Makes sense if you are running in a panic as the west is doing…
WtR
Maybe a good time for the west to make some good soul healing food?
Good stuff for those long cold days and when life gets you down…
It is very hard to hold psychopaths together in the same mind set for very long…
WtR
Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации
№ 1396-12-07-2023
13.07.2023 00:15
Question: In recent months, several peace initiatives on Ukraine have appeared at once: Chinese, Indonesian, Vatican and African. To what extent have you had the opportunity to examine the content of each of them? Which is closer to Russia’s vision? Don’t you find such initiatives premature, given that they all involve a ceasefire?
Sergey Lavrov: Above all, I would like to express my gratitude to our partners for their efforts to search for ways to settle the Ukrainian crisis peacefully.
We do not find their initiatives premature: for the Russian side, peace always has priority over combat. So, let me remind you that we already participated in a negotiation process with Kiev, in the spring of 2022, and came close to a positive outcome. However, all efforts were undermined by the Anglo-Saxons, whose plans clearly did not include the cessation of hostilities. They have remained obsessed with the manic idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
Of course, we have meticulously studied all the peace initiatives we have received. We have held special consultations with several of our partners and discussed their ideas in detail. In mid-June, President Vladimir Putin received heads of several African states in St Petersburg. In late May, we had a very trust-based and warm meeting with Chinese Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs, Head of the Chinese delegation on Ukrainian crisis settlement Li Hui in Moscow. We had a substantive discussion with Chief Advisor of the Presidency of Brazil on International Affairs Celso Amorim, who visited Russia in late March.
We agree with many of our partners’ proposals, such as complying with the international law and the UN Charter, abandoning the Cold War mentality, resolving the humanitarian crisis, ensuring the safety of nuclear power plants, ending unilateral sanctions, and refusing to use the world economy for political purposes.
At the same time, we have to admit that Vladimir Zelensky’s Western curators completely refuse any form of de-escalation. The Kiev regime has directly and immediately rejected the possibility of talks on peace initiatives proposed by China, Brazil and African countries. Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that “talks would be meaningless, dangerous and deadly for Ukraine and Europe.”
Kiev did not find anything better to do than to beg for evidence of “reliability” from those who would like to become a mediator in the negotiation process. In particular, Defence Minister Aleksandr Reznikov demanded that China persuade Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. Otherwise, contacts with Chinese negotiators would be a waste of time in the view of the Kiev politician.
Question: It was reported following the failed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin that the G7 countries, Brazil, India, China, Türkiye and South Africa held a secret meeting in Copenhagen to discuss the possibility of launching peace talks on Ukraine in July 2023. Have you received any indication of this from Russia’s partners that attended that meeting, and do you share their forecast? If such talks are held, which provisions of the Istanbul document would Moscow support, and on which of them has its position changed?
Sergey Lavrov: We have not received any indication of this. There are reasons to assume that this is fake news, considering the persistent intention of Kiev and its Western handlers to escalate the hostilities. We have pointed out on numerous occasions that Russia has never rejected dialogue as a political method of attaining the goals of the special military operation.
As for our views on a potential settlement, we clearly outlined its goals even before we launched the special military operation. They include the defence of the people of Donbass, the demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine, and the removal of threats coming from its territory.
During our talks with Kiev held at its initiative in February-April 2022, an understanding was reached that Ukraine should resume its neutral non-aligned status, refuse to join NATO and reaffirm its nuclear-free status.
Another provision stipulated the recognition of the new territorial reality following the free expression of the will of residents of the Donbass people’s republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in favour of political integration with Russia. Also, the Kiev authorities must guarantee the rights of Russian speakers and ethnic minorities in Ukraine, including the official status of the Russian language.
As for the reported meeting in Copenhagen, its main goal was to try to convince representatives of the Global South to give a degree of support to Zelensky’s “peace formula,” which is absolutely unacceptable and has no future, as we openly told our partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Because the conflict, which originates in the 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine, has a geopolitical dimension, its settlement must include security guarantees on Russia’s western border. I would like to remind you that this is the essence of the initiative which President Vladimir Putin advanced in December 2021. The West represented by the United States and NATO contemptuously rejected it.
Our position has not changed radically. We are open to dialogue, but we will be guided by our legitimate interests, and our stand on a possible settlement will be adjusted in accordance with the situation on the ground.
Question: What do you think of Ukraine’s involving the International Criminal Court in the investigation of the Kakhovka hydropower plant dam breach? What other international organisations should have been involved and why? How do you assess the response of international humanitarian organisations to the incident?
Sergey Lavrov: We have no doubt that Kiev was responsible for blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. It appears that the Kiev regime is asking the so-called International Criminal Court to investigate a crime that it itself committed. This has probably never happened before in the history of this “pseudo-court.”
We warned the UN Security Council about the plans of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis to destroy the dam back in October last year. At that time, we asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to do everything possible to prevent this criminal scenario. The lack of response on the part of the United Nations Secretariat has reinforced the confidence of the Ukrainian authorities that they will get away with it.
As for the response of international humanitarian organisations to what happened, just as in the case of the sabotage of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline and the terrorist act against the Nord Streams, no principled assessments were heard from them. UN agencies limit their role to ostensible attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to the needy across the line of combat contact. They know that this is unrealistic in the context of the military operation, but they are still trying to fulfil the political order of the West and the Kiev regime.
Question: There are different opinions regarding the use of nuclear weapons by Russia. What is your general view on the possibility of using or not using nuclear weapons in the Ukrainian conflict?
Sergey Lavrov: We have repeatedly spoken out on this topic. I would even say that it has exhausted itself unless the West takes actions that again and again force us to point out the strategic risks posed by aggressive anti-Russian policy.
The conditions for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons are clearly defined in our Military Doctrine. They are well known, and I will not repeat them once again.
At the same time, I would like to draw attention to the fact that the United States and its NATO satellites are creating risks of a direct armed clash with Russia, and this is fraught with catastrophic consequences.
Just one example of an extremely dangerous turn of events is the United States plans to transfer F-16 fighter jets to the Kiev regime. We have informed the nuclear powers, the United States, Britain and France, that Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here. In the course of combat operations, our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not. We will regard the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere.
Question: What are the tasks of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit, scheduled for late July 2023? How fair is it to say that Russia is turning towards Africa? What will this mean for the Russian diplomatic service? For example, will Russia expand the network of its embassies on the continent?
Sergey Lavrov: Strong bonds of friendship have always linked Russia and Africa. For decades, they have successfully withstood an endurance test. We attach great significance to expanded Russia-Africa collaboration. The Russian Foreign Policy Concept, approved by the President of Russia in late March, formalises this aspect.
We view expanding the diverse ties with our African friends as an integral part of our common efforts to expand cooperation with the Global South.
I am confident that the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg will play an important role in building strategic partnership with the continent’s countries in the next few years.
Russia is ready to help strengthen the sovereignty of African states and all their security dimensions in every possible way. This is the key idea of the upcoming meeting. There are plans to pass a declaration of leaders and an action plan dealing with high-priority political, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation in 2023-2026. We are set to approve specific documents in the field of international information security, counter-terrorism operations and preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space.
Following the 1st Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, the national leadership adopted decisions on expanding our diplomatic presence in Africa. The Foreign Ministry is working to open new embassies in a number of African countries. We will disclose their locations after coordinating everything with the authorities of receiving states and completing essential legal proceedings.
Question: How have Russian foreign policy priorities changed in the past 18 months? Is it possible to say that we have passed a point of no return in our relations with Western countries? If yes, when did this happen? How do you interpret the Foreign Policy Concept’s definition of Russia as a civilisation-state in this context?
Sergey Lavrov: When the special military operation began, the United States and other NATO and EU countries stepped up their proxy war against Russia. In fact, they had launched that war in 2014. Doubtless, aggressive steps by unfriendly states create an existential threat for Russia. We will have to uphold our right to free and sovereign development using all available means.
It is also obvious that there will be no return to our former relations with unfriendly countries. If they decide to renounce their anti-Russia line all of a sudden, then we will see what exactly this means, and we will decide on our subsequent line, while relying on our interests. This concerns the collective West.
Regarding the Global East and South where about 85 percent of our planet’s population live, these countries did not join the anti-Russian sanctions, and they are interested in expanding practical collaboration. Constructive partners include EAEU, CSTO, CIS, SCO and BRICS states. We are launching purposeful work with all of them in the interests of joint development; this work stipulates various cooperation formats.
We realise that a stronger multipolar world is a reality, rather than someone’s whim. The updated Foreign Policy Concept proclaims Russia’s civilisational mission as a world power that plays a stabilising role in international affairs. In reality, this means that Russia will not merge with geopolitical and geo-economic structures where it is unable to defend its interests. We intend to team up with our friends and supporters and to facilitate the creation of a more equitable world order based on the goals and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interdependence and the principle of the sovereign equality of states, first and foremost.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1896659/
WtR