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Old 26th Mar 2023, 01:26
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It’s a shame we cannot seem to be able to disconnect Russia from the Web.

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chinese proverb

打落水狗
dǎ​luò​shuǐ​gǒu​ lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down

my wife (Chinese from Hong Kong) tells me of this Chinese proverb. She says Xi Jinping's recent trip to Moscow is to, behind the facade of Dear Friends, request the cancellation of the unfair 1858 Treaty of Aigun and the 1860 Convention of Peking that confirmed the cession of Outer Manchuria to Russia. (approx 600,000 sq kms, coincidentally about the same area as Ukraine)

Would no doubt be a great coup for Xi for his legacy if he returns Outer Manchuria to China.

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Ermmm desperation?……

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Macedonia is donating 12 Mi-24

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​​​​​​​Russian actress Maria Shukshina 🇷🇺 says that HIMARS hone in and hit those who received the “Sputnik” Covid vaccine.

This is part of the American 🇺🇸 biological weapons program to put chips in Russians so they can be struck by rockets.

If you watch 🇷🇺 TV, this must sound normal.…
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It’s a shame we cannot seem to be able to disconnect Russia from the Web.

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https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...DR1Yfln8EtAAAA
You could try to cut off "their web" from ours but that would not hurt Putin or his gang at all whereas it would hurt people trying to get alternate news.
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Latest being that Putin is threatening to put nukes in Belarus. Budapest round of the start NPT has that they are considered non nuclear states.
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This is a must, must, listen telephone exchange - trust me.

I wonder how many of the Moscow elite are thinking the same thing…

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“And there you have it Ladies and Gentlemen, truth and transparency at long last! Because as everyone, especially in the USA, knows. ‘if an Actress/Celebrity says something it must be correct’…right!”
I dislike the moniker “Celebrity” shouldn’t someone actually do something worth “celebrating” before being called one?

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👀👀👀👀

Russian actress Maria Shukshina 🇷🇺 says that HIMARS hone in and hit those who received the “Sputnik” Covid vaccine.

This is part of the American 🇺🇸 biological weapons program to put chips in Russians so they can be struck by rockets.

If you watch 🇷🇺 TV, this must sound normal.…
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It’s all coming together into a cohesive force.

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Well if they were not worried in Moscow before, this must be getting them thinking.. if everything is going so great why are we being told to pack emergency bags?

The screens show detailed instructions on how to assemble an emergency suitcase, make a gauze bandage, and what to do in case of chemical and nuclear attacks. If anything, the videos are officially posted by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Is the collapse starting?


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AS90 deliveries on route to Ukraine


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Another sacking..

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Originally Posted by NutLoose
Well if they were not worried in Moscow before, this must be getting them thinking.. if everything is going so great why are we being told to pack emergency bags?

The screens show detailed instructions on how to assemble an emergency suitcase, make a gauze bandage, and what to do in case of chemical and nuclear attacks. If anything, the videos are officially posted by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Is the collapse starting?
Seems to me memos to civilians to have an emergency bag packed, make bandages, and so on, were referenced earlier in the thread - the subtext being "YOU could be a mobilznik on a one-way trip to Mariupol - at any time!"
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/r...tage-v5fgl9tjn

Russian naval vessels ‘near Nord Stream’ days before attack

A convoy of six Russian naval vessels was detected around the site of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage five days before it occurred, according to a report….

Independent open-source intelligence researchers have highlighted unusual manoeuvres by a Danish patrol vessel and a Swedish warship that suggest they may have spotted suspicious activity in the area on September 22 or 23. At the weekend T-Online, a German news website, claimed that the ships had been tracking a Russian naval contingent that had broken away from a larger exercise three days earlier.

Citing sources in the security services, the report said a frigate and a corvette were accompanied by two rescue tugs, an Alpinist-class surveillance ship and a submarine rescue ship called the SS-750, with a crane and a mini-submarine of its own.

The AS-26 mini-submarine is… a deep submergence rescue vehicle from the Priz class. It can operate at depths of up to 1,000m — significantly lower than the 80m depth of the Bornholm Deep, where the pipeline blasts occurred…..


“It would absolutely make sense to use something like the AS-26 for this kind of attack,” Johannes Riber, a Danish navy captain and military analyst, told T-Online.

This account can be partially corroborated with navigation data from the public domain, which shows some of the ships named in the report heading towards Bornholm from Kaliningrad, a militarised Russian exclave on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.


However, the tracking data cuts out at about 2pm on September 21, probably because the ships switched off their electronic identification systems.….
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Old 27th Mar 2023, 07:37
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-...aine/102150952

This is interesting…being paid to advance the front line now..
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Seems to me memos to civilians to have an emergency bag packed, make bandages, and so on, were referenced earlier in the thread - the subtext being "YOU could be a mobilznik on a one-way trip to Mariupol - at any time!"
I suspect it is more about keeping the populace frightened and malleable by scaremongering about Western nuclear attacks - if they think they are under threat of WW3 they are far less likely to be protesting in the streets.
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I suspect it is more about keeping the populace frightened and malleable by scaremongering about Western nuclear attacks - if they think they are under threat of WW3 they are far less likely to be protesting in the streets.
Absolutely agree. It is an "Enemy at The Gates" message. They are struggling to find new cannon fodder, support for the war could be waning (from videos and tel calls being released), problems caused by the sanctions.
What better way to mobilise the Russian populace behind the war than saying the big bad Nato and Nazis are once again threatening Moscow.
It would seem that the Russian populace is still fighting WWII in their psyche - so start with the big brother messaging to really get things moving.
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