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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 14, 2023, 11:24 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arZznXG9yQ
Time for the US to destroy Russia's entire Black Sea fleet! Such
a move would also make food exports easier henceforth:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/why-war-in-ukraine-is-causing-apocalyptic-famine/
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 23, 2023, 8:12 pm
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Can this event finally bring China to its senses regarding
Russia?
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/witnesses-unravel-chinese-mass-murder-085649436.html
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> EKOK, Cameroon—It was just before 5 a.m. local time when two
pickup trucks allegedly carrying mercenaries from the Russian
Wagner Group pulled up in front of Zaza and five other men, who
were patrolling the areas near the Chimbolo gold mine in the
Central African Republic.
>
> The vigilantes—who are among hundreds of men drawn from the
Chimbolo village to prevent hoodlums and robbers from attacking
the buildings and electrical installations in the high-crime
area—were on the street leading to the gold mine near the
eastern town of Bambari on Sunday. They described the men in the
pickup trucks as “white soldiers” who were dressed in the same
military regalia often worn by the Russian mercenary group.
>
> “One white soldier in one of the vehicles came down from the
car and ordered us to leave the area,” Zaza, the leader of the
vigilante unit who prefers to be identified by his nickname,
told The Daily Beast. “He said he and his colleagues were going
to be responsible for securing the area.”
>
> About 10 minutes later, the vigilantes said they heard a loud
explosion at the Chimbolo gold mine, manned by Chinese workers
after opening last week. They said the explosion was followed by
gunshot sounds that lasted for more than an hour. “We could even
hear the sounds of people screaming at the gold mine,” said
Zaza. “It sounded as if they were crying for help.”
>
> At past 6 a.m., according to the vigilantes, the same vehicles
that transported the Russians to the gold mine were allegedly
seen leaving the premises, driving out on the same street they
had driven in on to get to the mine, the witnesses told The
Daily Beast. “In the cars were the same people we saw earlier,”
said Zaza.
>
> The vigilantes then rushed into the gold mine where they
allegedly found the security guards, local Central Africans,
tied up—with dead bodies littered around them on the ground.
>
> “We counted nine dead bodies of Chinese men,” another
vigilante, who was at the scene after the attack, told The Daily
Beast. “Two other Chinese men, as well as a Central African
soldier, had bullet wounds mostly on their hands and legs but
were still alive when we saw them.”
>
> Without providing any evidence, the Russian-allied CAR
government said shortly after the incident that the attack was a
“terrorist act” carried out by militants from the Coalition of
Patriots for Change (CPC)—a fusion of major rebel groups created
in December 2020 to disrupt the 2020–21 Central African general
election. Their objective, according to government spokesperson
Ghislain Djori, “is to discourage investors wishing to support
the efforts undertaken by the President of the Republic Faustin
Archange Touadera.”
>
> Following the attack, the government promised that
“perpetrators of this crime will be hunted down to their last
entrenchment,” but the fact that it puts the blame on the CPC,
which in turn accused the Wagner Group of carrying out the
killings, has led some to suspect a cover-up to protect the
Russians.
> ...
> “Rebels typically don’t kill foreigners, but kidnap them and
request for ransom to be paid for their release,” Ali, a former
fighter for the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group who also
previously worked for the Wagner Group in CAR, told The Daily
Beast using an alias. “This is an attack only the Russians can
carry out.”
>
> Even CAR’s national assembly, which usually aligns with the
position of the government, isn’t pointing fingers at the
rebels. Rather, it has accused foreign mercenaries of being
behind the attack (although a statement released by the first
vice-president of the National Assembly, Évariste Ngamana,
didn’t mention any country in particular).
> ...
> China’s recent attempt to make inroads into the lucrative
sector may have been viewed as a threat to Russia’s mining
business in the country, according to those who’ve worked
closely with the Wagner Group.
>
> “The Russians don't want anyone else to gain control of any
mining site [in CAR] except you are Russian,” said Ali, the
ex-member of Wagner’s local wing, known as the ‘Black Russians.’
“It is worse if you are a foreigner. They’ll make sure you’re
dead so you don’t find a way of coming back in the future.”
> ...
> Reports of Russian paramilitaries targeting foreign miners in
CAR aren't new. Last June, a dispatch by The Guardian revealed
that dozens of migrant miners were slaughtered, with some buried
in mass graves, in at least three attacks by Wagner mercenaries
last year. That was followed by a Middle East Eye report in July
that some 100 gold miners from Sudan, Chad, and Niger were
killed during a massacre by Wagner troops in CAR’s eastern
Andaha region in what was reportedly a desperate Russian attempt
to gain control over the flow of gold and diamonds that could
help Moscow manage the blow of sanctions brought on by Putin’s
unprovoked war in Ukraine.
>
> In Chimbolo, two locals who live near the gold mine run by the
Gold Coast Group, a Chinese company, told The Daily Beast that
they had seen vehicles carrying “white soldiers” patrolling the
area days before the attacks took place, including on the day
the mine was opened last week.
> ...
> “If Touadera doesn“t handle this very well, we could be
witnessing a fallout between CAR and China on one hand, and
tensions between China and Russia on the other hand, especially
if China is convinced Wagner carried out the killings,” Wilfried
M'Vondo, a member of the ruling United Hearts Movement party,
told The Daily Beast. “At the moment, many people are pointing
fingers at Wagner and that could lead to a disaster.”
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Our message continues to spread in the comments:
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> Siberia would be tough for the Russians to defend. There
isn't any infrastructure except railroads and the Chinese can
swiftly immobilize them. No roads anywhere and no means to
transport their troops via air. I think the Chinese are merely
biding their time, waiting for Russia to become severely wounded
with their misadventure in Ukraine.
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> My thinking is China will grab lands straight up to the Artic
to exploit that region.
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> Siberia is losing population along with the rest of russia as
their birth rate is negative and their young men are getting
killed by the thousands. So, since Siberia was already thinly
population it's ripe for the picking by china.
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> I've wondered how long it would be before China started
looking north @ the abundant resources of Siberia. It possesses
all the things that China will need in the future.
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> Nothing would please me more than seeing China turn on Russia.
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Not that Eurocentrist Xi will be the one to do it:
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> China definitely knows who is responsible and decided it’s
more important to appear close to Putin and Russia.
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 22, 2023, 11:29 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_VZKtGudVc
Contrast with:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/msg19707/#msg19707
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 19, 2023, 8:09 pm
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Fiction:
HTML https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Devastator
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> The Devastator is a vehicle used by House Harkonnen
> ...
> capable of self-destructing to cause a massive explosion in an
attempt to take out nearby enemies.
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HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fU7xRRQcuzw/maxresdefault.jpg
Reality:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGe0j3ky15w
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 30, 2023, 10:02 pm
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An accurate description of Russia by our enemies:
HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/06/the-mexican-standoff/
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> Which brings me to this war in general. It’s amazing how
consistent it is historically. Every ruler of Russia would act
exactly the same. Peter and Catherine the Great, Nicholas II
(currently an orthodox saint!), Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and
now Putin. The whole lot of them.
> ...
> They all worked to extend and secure Russia’s borders as far
as possible. The cost in human lives is always irrelevant. Nor
did time matter very much. It took Peter the Great decades to
conquer the Swedish territory where he planned his new capital
Saint Petersburg to be. Once he secured it, many thousands died
building that capital. The conquest of Ukraine took centuries.
> ...
> Russia’s policy over the centuries has always been the same:
try to secure natural borders and warm-water ports. The cost in
human lives doesn’t matter. A defeat, unfortunate as it is,
doesn’t matter, either. It may cost the autocrat of the day his
head or crown, but it’s only a temporary setback. Eventually
they will win. The defeat is used to strengthen the army and
resupply for a next attempt. Russia always comes back,
especially if it matters strategically.
>
> Even if some kind of a peace agreement can be reached with
Ukraine, it will be just another temporary setback. Control over
Ukraine is too important for them. It won’t happen immediately,
depending on the circumstances.
> ...
> A peace solution is utterly impossible because of what Putin
did: he annexed parts of Ukraine he didn’t even fully occupy
(Zaporizhia, Kherson and Donbass) and changed the constitution
to include them. Again, this is nothing new. Peter the Great did
exactly the same with the Saint Petersburg territory. Okay, he
didn’t write it in a constitution because they didn’t have one
at the time. But he did formally declare it an integral part of
the Russian empire, right from the start of hostilities. It
guaranteed decades of war. But it also rallied his people to
fight for Mother Russia. In the end Russia won that battle.
Russia never gives up.
> ...
> Ukraine cannot afford to lose the now-occupied parts of their
country. Without Crimea Ukraine is a landlocked country
depending entirely on the goodwill of Russia for international
trade. Without Luhansk and Donbas they don’t have much industry.
Any peace agreement — and make no mistake, Russia will demand
keeping those territories — is impossible. What’s left of
Ukraine would be taken over by Russia within a decade. Possibly
within five years. Which is exactly what Putin would like, given
the fact that the war at the moment is unwinnable for him.
>
> I’m pretty certain this war will last for years to come. Putin
likely won’t see the end of it. Hopefully neither will Prigozhin
(as soon as possible, please!) Putin can’t retreat without
losing everything. He already did, when Sweden and Finland
joined NATO. Sweden isn’t a member yet, but they will be.
Ukraine could have been a new Finland in perpetual neutrality.
If not for Putin… However, as it stands now, Russia will not
give up anything unless forced to at gunpoint. Even then as
little as possible, and they will come back. That’s not Putin
dictating his terms, but history. Russia never gives in easily,
and gives up as little as possible.
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Re: Duginism
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 12, 2023, 2:25 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/11/russia-vetoes-un-vote-to-extend-key-syria-aid-route
Russia vetoes UN vote to extend key Syria aid route
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>
>
> Russia has blocked a nine-month extension of a key Syria aid
route at the United Nations Security Council, throwing the vital
mechanism that provides life-saving support to millions of
people into doubt.
>
> The UN-brokered agreement that allows for the delivery of aid
overland from Turkey into rebel-held areas of Syria expired on
Monday, but a vote scheduled for the same day to extend the
authorisation was postponed.
>
> On Tuesday, however, Russia exercised its veto to prevent a
nine-month extension, and instead suggested a six-month
extension.
>
> Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia, signalled that
the aid operation would not continue if other countries pressed
forward with attempts to extend authorisation beyond six months.
>
> After casting the veto and before the council vote on Russia’s
proposal, he told the body: “If our draft is not supported, then
we can just go ahead and close down the cross-border mechanism.
… The technical rollover for any period of time we’re not going
to accept.”
>
> United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield called the
veto “an act of utter cruelty”.
>
> The cross-border authorisation has for years been renewed for
six-month periods, but the short timespan leaves Syrians in
opposition areas fearful that they are liable to be cut off from
lifesaving aid at short notice.
>
> In a statement, International Rescue Committee President and
CEO David Miliband condemned Russia’s veto, saying that the
critical lifeline resolution has no “viable alternative”, and
the Security Council members’ refusal to maintain access to aid
avenues “defies reason and principle”.
>
> “Council Members should be guided by humanitarian imperatives
rather than politics, and ensure Syrians in need, wherever they
are, can be reached through the most direct routes,” he said.
>
> Russia has been chipping away at the aid mechanism for years.
>
>
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 13, 2023, 6:02 pm
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Fiction:
HTML https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Hand
--- Quote ---
> The missile is associated (even recognized as a signature
super weapon) with House Harkonnen. The missile is constructed,
maintained, and launched from the Palace (of Harkonnen or
Sardaukar design) to any place in the battle theater, sending a
large powerful blast, with some versions sporting poisonous or
radiating "additionals".
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GnB-4oxVX8U/maxresdefault.jpg
Reality:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55c9hPlycsM
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Re: Ukraine
DIR By: WaterSupply
Date: August 23, 2023, 1:06 pm
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Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on passenger list of plane
that crashed, killing 10 on board
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> Prigozhin had led a rebellion against Russia earlier this
year.
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> Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger
list of a plane that crashed in Russia's Tver region on
Wednesday, according to the press service of the Federal Air
Transport Agency.
>
> Ten people were killed in the crash, but it is not yet clear
whether he was actually on board the plane.
>
> "An investigation has been launched into the crash of the
Embraer aircraft, which occurred tonight in the Tver region.
According to the list of passengers, among them is the name and
surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin," the department said in a
statement...
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://abcnews.go.com/International/wagner-group-leader-yevgeny-prigozhin-passenger-list-plane/story?id=102497445
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Re: It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
DIR By: Romney
Date: September 15, 2023, 11:00 pm
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Mitt Romney: Damage caused to Russia makes Ukraine investment
worth it | Exclusive
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> Republican Senator Mitt Romney says he no longer recognises
large parts of his party, because its “foundational principles”
have changed under Donald Trump, who should not run for the
presidency.
>
> Mr Romney, who announced on Wednesday that he will not stand
for re-election as Senator for Utah, sat down with the Telegraph
in his Washington office for a wide ranging interview,
discussing Mr Trump, Britain, Ukraine, China, and the Royal
family.
>
> The 76-year-old Republican grandee was his party’s nominee for
president in the 2012 election, where he lost to Barack Obama.
This week he said he wanted to step aside to allow for a younger
generation of leaders and said that American politics would be
better off if Joe Biden, 80, and Donald Trump, 77, did not run
for the White House in 2024.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptl8qlsvf3s
Comments:
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> One of the few 'sane' Republicans. It is disappointing to see
him retire.
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> So refreshing to see not everyone in the Republican party has
went insane.
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> This interview made me want to vote for mitt Romney, and I’m a
democrat. I never vote Republican.
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> So refreshing to hear a republican speak with such clarity.
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> I remember him saying that America`s number one enemy is not
China, but Russia several years ago. He was absolutely right
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Re: Ukraine
DIR By: SodaPop
Date: December 29, 2025, 5:26 am
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Ex-Russian scientist warns Putin is developing deadly chemical
weapons
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> They have often been dismissed as Cold War relics or Western
paranoia. But some of the starkest warnings now come from inside
Russia’s own scientific past.
>
> One former state chemist says the most dangerous work may not
belong to history.
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HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-russian-scientist-warns-putin-is-developing-deadly-chemical-weapons/ar-AA1TczFQ?ocid=BingNewsSerp
I helped create Novichok in a secret Russian lab but fear
Putin's building worse weapons
HTML https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/i-helped-create-novichok-in-a-secret-russian-lab-but-fear-putins-building-worse-weapons/ar-AA1Td8TG?ocid=BingNewsSerp
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