Well, golly gee, but creepy Joe and globalist-satanists, now seem forced to set-aside Ukraine war (and spending) in favor of kikes in Israel

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Russia Closing The Noose On Ukrainian Troops​

By Larry Johnson Oct. 12, 2023 7:00 am

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/russia-closing-noose-ukrainian-troops/

It is astonishing how quickly Western attention shifted from the war in Ukraine to the war in Israel. As I noted in some recent interviews, Ukraine’s Zelensky is frightened and stunned by this reversal and is trying desperately to stay relevant and attract Western attention. Good luck with that. The media prefers to focus on the new narrative of Arab hordes sweeping down on Israeli civilians rather than try to come up with excuses for Ukraine’s failure to even breach the first line of the Surovikin defense. One visible sign of Zelensky’s panic — he changed his wardrobe. Now, when he appears in public, instead of wearing his Fidel Castro costume (i.e., sporting an Army green t-shirt or sweatshirt and tactical pants) he is now outfitted like a younger, shorter version of Johnny Cash. Black is his new fashion choice.
With Western eyes glued to the Middle East, Russia is on the offensive a pushing Ukrainians back all along the line of contact. Russian war correspondent Marat reports:

For example, yesterday near Kleshcheevka, on the right front of the Bakhmut defense, our paratroopers from the 106th division, which had been holding the defense here for more than four months, unexpectedly launched a counterattack, occupying several enemy strongholds. The same is true in the Rabotino sector – the 1430th and 70th regiments, who heroically fought here for many days, have been conducting regular counterattacks for the third week.
On the one hand, this speaks of the good shape that our army is in, and on the other hand, it completely dispels the myths of Ukrainian propaganda about our great losses.
Units that suffer heavy losses are simply physically unable to instantly go from defense to offense. Even if they are regularly replenished with new recruits.
And now, in fact, this sends the Ukrainians into an ever greater panic – they are beginning to understand that with their tactics of endless suicidal counterattacks and obstinacy on every piece of land, they provoked Russia into creating an army of such power that is now beginning to roll them into flat cakes.
Once again, the enemy provoked this himself.

Ukraine can forget about any new mass infusion of weapons from the United States or NATO. Israel is now at the head of the line and gets first choice. One other sign that things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine — the Institute for the Study of War is admitting grudgingly that Russia is advancing. The ISW is still in the business of painting a pig’s lips with shiny gloss and are trying their darnedest to down play Russian success. But the facts are these. Ukraine’s forces have been decimated over the last four months and there is no ready reserve in sight to replace the killed and wounded soldiers that were bloodied as they hurled themselves against Russian defensive positions.

NATO is not ready to cut the cord, but it also is not in a position to shower Ukraine with a limitless supply of tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers and ammunition. What was once a flood of support is turning into a trickle.
The West is now caught in the trap of trying to sustain two proxy wars without the industrial clout to even fully supply one. I expect the U.S. Congress to act quickly to get military material to Israel. There is wide bipartisan support for that. Not so with Ukraine. A growing number of members of Congress, mostly Republican, are questioning the wisdom of sending precious Himars, Patriot batteries and tanks to a Ukrainian Army incapable of pushing the Russian backwards.

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West Realizing More Military Aid to Ukraine ‘Lost Cause’ – Ex-Pentagon Analyst​

20 hours ago (Updated: 20 hours ago)

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231025/w...t-cause--ex-pentagon-analyst-1114464415.html/

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Oleg Burunov

Kiev's botched counteroffensive has prompted the US to reconsider its policy of providing military assistance to Ukraine, David T. Pyne, an EMP Task Force scholar and former US Department of Defense officer, told Sputnik.
The size and rate of US military aid to the Kiev regime has drastically decreased, according to statistics.
The most recent package of assistance, the 48th of its kind, amounted to a mere $200 million, the same as the sum recorded in 2021 prior to the commencement of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.

The reason for the decrease in Washington’s military support to Kiev was that “the US appropriated a vast amount of foreign aid for Ukraine, including $47.9 billion in December 2022,” Pyne stated.
According to him, it was done because the Republican Party “was elected to majority control of the US House of Representatives and then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had declared before the election there would be no more blank check for Ukraine if the Republicans took control of the House.”
“This aid was the amount the Biden administration believed was necessary to fully support Ukraine’s military and financial needs through the end of fiscal year 2023 ending in September 2023. There is simply not very much money left which has been appropriated by Congress last year to give to Ukraine,” Pyne added.
He recalled that the White House “has just presented Congress with a $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Palestine totaling $61.4 billion for Ukraine alone which is the amount it views Ukraine will need to continue fighting Biden’s proxy war against Russia through the end of fiscal year 2024 through next September.”

When asked why the US shifted its focus towards providing Kiev with more essential and defensive weapons instead of so-called "hi-tech" and offensive ones, Pyne suggested that the move is “likely a recognition of the catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian summer counteroffensive.” The analyst stressed that the counteroffensive failed “despite Ukraine using its most elite Western trained brigades and its most capable Western supplied weapon systems including German Leopard 2A5 tanks and US M-1A1 SA tanks.”
“Senior Western government leaders and intelligence officials are confronted with the stark reality that Ukraine has exhausted its counteroffensive capabilities and thus its forces must be redeployed to more defensible positions to guard against an expected Russian winter offensive which they believe could succeed in taking back significant amounts of Ukrainian territory over the next few to several months,” Pyne noted.
He argued that while Kiev will continue to present a “wish list” for Western weapons, the West’s willingness to supply them “will depend both on how they think Russia might respond to providing those additional weapon systems an on whether the US and its NATO allies have sufficient weapons in their stockpiles to do so.”

“I would think that Ukraine can expect to receive far fewer artillery systems and munitions from the US in the future as those systems are now in short supply and the outbreak of the war in Israel has shown the need for the US to maintain a significant reserve stockpile of such munitions rather than ship them all to Ukraine to fight an unwinnable war against the Russian Federation,” the analyst underscored.
Touching upon a current decrease in deliveries of armored vehicles to Ukraine from the West, Pyne suggested that Western leaders “understand Ukraine is very unlikely to be able to retake additional territory from Russia due to the fact that it has suffered catastrophic losses during and previous to its counteroffensive and that it will most certainly fail to achieve its military objectives.”

“I think they are beginning to realize that further military aid to Ukraine is a lost cause and that the only way the war will end is with a negotiated compromise peace agreement. I think they understand that the time is fast approaching when Ukraine will have little choice but to seek peace negotiations with Russia to end the conflict as Western willingness to support Ukraine continues to decrease particularly in terms of the popular support of the American people to continue to do so,” according to Pyne.
Asked whether there will be a decrease or increase in US military supplies to Ukraine in the near future, he said, “assuming a Ukraine aid package is approved by Congress which is roughly the amount which the Biden administration has requested, I do not believe we will see either an increase or decrease in the US military supplies being provided by the Biden administration.”

“Only if the aid package is voted down by the US House of Representatives would we see a substantial decrease in the aid being provided by the US to Ukraine,” Pyne concluded.
Despite extensive military assistance from the West, Kiev's counteroffensive, which began in early June, proved to be a resounding failure, resulting in the loss of over 90,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

Shortly after Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, the United States and its allies stepped up their military aid to Kiev. Moscow has repeatedly warned that NATO countries are "playing with fire" by supplying arms to the Kiev regime, which the Kremlin said adds to prolonging the conflict in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that any shipment of weapons to Kiev would be considered a legitimate target for Russian forces.

 

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‘Not Going As We’d Hoped’: US Mercenary Says Over 500 Americans Killed in Ukraine​

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Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231103/n...0-americans-killed-in-ukraine-1114702443.html

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In an interview with a US journalist on Thursday, an American mercenary fighting for Ukraine said “quite a large number” of Americans have been killed wearing Ukrainian military uniforms.
Matthew VanDyke, an American who was serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces under a private contract, told independent commentator Andrew Napolitano that he was in an international unit with members from several other countries, including Americans, as well as some Ukrainians.
VanDyke said he had heard that up to 2,000 foreigners were serving in the Ukrainian military, including many from Latin America. He emphasized that non-Ukrainians are free to leave their military service at any time, but are paid the same salaries as Ukrainian soldiers.
“There’s nobody here who’s doing it for the money,” he asserted.

VanDyke said that “quite a large number” of Americans have been killed or wounded in the war, estimating “close to 510.”
Still, the mercenary said they still have new fighters “coming all the time.”

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Asked about how the war was going, VanDyke criticized Kiev’s decision to wait to launch the counteroffensive, which had been a disaster, but seemed optimistic about the new weapons coming into the country from the West, which he believed could potentially turn the tide of the conflict.
However, he noted high tech weapons by themselves aren’t enough, as the Ukrainians learned when Bradley infantry fighting vehicles got taken out by Russian landmines the same as Ukrainian vehicles twice their age.

“Now there is a deadlock, even the Ukrainian military has admitted this. Things are not going as well as we hoped,” he said.
“I think by next fall we’re going to know, essentially, how this war’s going to turn out,” VanDyke predicted, noting it would take some time for Ukrainians to get used to using the new weapons.
VanDyke said he had gone to Ukraine to fight Russian forces because it was his duty “to uphold the international system that my grandfather fought for in World War 2, that a lot of people died for for decades after, it needs to be preserved,” he said, “and I’m willing to fight and die to preserve that.”
Napolitano asked VanDyke about how he felt about serving alongside neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The gun-for-hire didn’t deny that such people existed, but said “as long as they shoot in the right direction, I don’t really care, I’m not the Thought Police,” adding that “I don’t want anything to do with people who have such ideologies.”

 

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U.S. WEAPONS TRANSFERS TO ISRAEL SHROUDED IN SECRECY — BUT NOT UKRAINE​

Link: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/07/israel-us-weapons-secret/?utm_medium=email/

The Biden administration put out a three-page list of arms for Ukraine, but information on weapons sent to Israel could fit in one sentence.


Ken Klippenstein
November 7 2023, 4:22 p.m.

ONE MONTH SINCE Hamas’s surprise attack, little is known about the weapons the U.S. has provided to Israel. Whereas the Biden administration released a three-page itemized list of weapons provided to Ukraine, down to the exact number of rounds, the information released about weapons sent to Israel could fit in a single sentence.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged the secrecy in an October 23 press briefing, saying that while U.S. security assistance “on a near-daily basis,” he continued, “We’re being careful not to quantify or get into too much detail about what they’re getting — for their own operational security purposes, of course.”

“The notion that it would in any way harm the Israeli military’s operational security to provide more information is a cover story.”

The argument that transparency would imperil Israel’s operational security — somehow not a concern with Ukraine — is misleading, experts told The Intercept.
“The notion that it would in any way harm the Israeli military’s operational security to provide more information is a cover story for efforts to reduce information on the types of weapons being supplied to Israel and how they are being used,” William Hartung, a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and expert on weapons sales, told The Intercept. “I think the purposeful lack of transparency over what weapons the U.S. is supplying to Israel ‘on a daily basis’ is tied to the larger administration policy of downplaying the extent to which Israel will use those weapons to commit war crimes and kill civilians in Gaza.”

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A retired Marine general who worked in the region, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized by his former employer to speak publicly, attributed the secrecy to the political sensitivity of the conflict. In particular, the retired officer said, weapons used in door-to-door urban warfare, which are likely to result in civilian casualties, are not going to be something the administration wants to publicize. (The National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment.)
In recent years, flare-ups of violence between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip have often entailed Israeli air wars with limited numbers of Israeli troops entering the besieged coastal enclave. The last time there was a large-scale ground incursion by the Israel Defense Forces into Gaza was during the Israelis’ 2014 Operation Protective Edge.

While the 2014 invasion saw Israeli troops in Gaza for less than a month, Israel’s defense minister recently told reporters the war would take at least several months. The goal of removing Hamas completely from power is widely expected to take a significant commitment to a long-term ground presence and heavy urban fighting. According to the New Yorker, Israeli officials told their American counterparts that the war could last 10 years. The Biden administration is reportedly worried that Israel’s military objectives are not achievable.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News, “Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it.”

“Delicate Matter Politically”​

Hamas’s attack on Israel, which took place on October 7, resulted in a cascade of arms assistance from the U.S. Though the Biden administration at first declined to identify any specific weapons systems, as details trickled out in the press, it has gradually acknowledged some. These include “precision guided munitions, small diameter bombs, artillery, ammunition, Iron Dome interceptors and other critical equipment,” as Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder has said.

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What “other critical equipment” entails remains a mystery, as do specifics about the quantity of arms being supplied, which the administration has refused to disclose. When a reporter asked for a “ballpark” figure for the security assistance during a background press briefing on October 12, the Pentagon demurred. “I’m not going to do that today and would defer you to the government of Israel,” a senior defense official told the reporter.
“To date, U.S. government reporting on arms transfers to Israel has been sporadic and without any meaningful detail,” Stimson Center research analyst Elias Yousif recently concluded. “Updates should be compiled on a single factsheet page, as is the case for Ukraine, and include details on the authorities invoked for the provision of assistance as well as the type and quantity of arms provided with enough specificity to enable public research and assessments.”
Hartung, the Quincy fellow, noted the contrast with the administration’s openness on military aid to Ukraine.
“Transparency on arms transfers to Ukraine came in large part due to the administration’s feeling that they were engaged in a noble venture,” Hartung said. “Although Israel certainly has the right to defend itself against the kind of horrific attack carried out by Hamas, its response — bombing and blockading a whole territory of 2 million people, killing thousands of innocent people in the process — has been described by independent experts as committing war crimes.”

“Transparency on arms transfers to Ukraine came in large part due to the administration’s feeling that they were engaged in a noble venture.”

“So even as the Biden administration backs Israel with weapons and rhetoric,” Hartung said, “it is a delicate matter politically to give all the details on U.S. weapons supplied to the Israeli military, some of which will certainly be used in illegal attacks on civilians if the war continues to grind on.”
Beyond just the quantities, there are specific weapons the Pentagon is providing Israel which have not been publicly disclosed, the Marine general told The Intercept.
As the arms continue to flow, dozens of C-17 military transport planes likely carrying munitions have criss-crossed the Atlantic traveling between the United States and Israel, open-source flight tracking data show, with most landing at Nevatim Air Base, an IDF base in Israel’s southern Negev desert. President Joe Biden has requested $14.3 billion in aid for Israel in addition to the over $3 billion in military assistance it already provides. Most recently, the Biden administration is planning to send $320 million in precision Spice bombs to Israel, as multiple outlets informed by Congress reported on Monday.

 

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Biden: ‘No Possibility’ Of Gaza Ceasefire as Death Toll Mounts​

Infowars.com
November 12th 2023, 11:39 am

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-no-possibility-of-gaza-ceasefire-as-death-toll-mounts/

Polls shows majority of Americans support U.S. government mediating a ceasefire agreement amid reports of tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza.

Joe Biden bluntly rejected overwhelming calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying there was “no possibility” of that happening.

A reporter asked Biden Sunday what the chances were of a Gaza ceasefire amid pleas by the United Nations, Middle Eastern countries, and hundreds of thousands of protesters from London to New York.


“None. No possibility,” Biden responded outside the White House.

“What are the chances of a Gaza ceasefire?”

Biden: “None. No possibility.” pic.twitter.com/iG9Tw7r6QH
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Biden’s remarks echo that of Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also rejected calls for a ceasefire on Saturday.
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“We will not stop until we complete this campaign,” said Netanyahu. “There is nothing other than a victory.”

He added that no “international pressure” or any “aspersions cast about the IDF and about what we’re doing” will deter Israel in its offensive against Hamas. “It is a decree, it is an imperative, it’s incumbent upon us to defend the only State of the Jewish people.”

According to a recent Data for Progress poll, most Americans both Democrat and Republican believe the U.S. government should call for a ceasefire amid reports of tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza.

 

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Kiev’s Top MP: Ukraine Conflict Could Have Ended in Spring 2022​

by RT
November 25th 2023, 11:07 am

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/kievs-top-mp-ukraine-conflict-could-have-ended-in-spring-2022/

David Arakhamia led Kiev’s delegation in the talks with Moscow.

Russia was ready to stop the fighting had Ukraine agreed to remain neutral, but the West advised Kiev to keep going, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction – and the chief negotiator at the peace talks in Istanbul – David Arakhamia admitted on Friday.

Arakhamia, who heads the ‘Servant of the People’ parliamentary group, told the TV channel 1+1 that Moscow had offered Kiev a peace deal in March 2022, but the Ukrainian side did not trust Russia.

“Russia’s goal was to put pressure on us so that we would take neutrality. This was the main thing for them: They were ready to end the war if we accepted neutrality, like Finland once did. And we would make a commitment that we will not join NATO. This was the main thing,” said Arakhamia.

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However, agreeing to neutrality and giving up NATO membership would have required changing the constitution of Ukraine, Arakhamia explained. “Secondly, there was no trust in the Russians that they would do this. This could only be done with security guarantees,” he told 1+1.
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During the talks, Arakhamia added, British then-PM Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev and told Ukrainian officials to keep fighting and not sign any agreements with Moscow.

Johnson’s role in scuttling the peace talks in Istanbul was revealed in May 2022 by the outlet Ukrayinska Pravda. However, neither the British politician – who was ousted as PM in June that year and eventually landed a job at an American think tank – nor the US government ever officially acknowledged pressuring Kiev into reneging on the draft agreement, which Arakhamia himself had signed with the Russians. Kiev had likewise never officially commented on the matter – until now.

Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed to African leaders that Moscow and Kiev had signed a draft agreement “on permanent neutrality and security guarantees for Ukraine” at the talks hosted by Türkiye.

As soon as Russia pulled back its troops from the vicinity of Kiev, as a gesture of good will, Ukraine reneged on the deal, Putin said.

The Russian withdrawal was presented by Western governments and media as a Ukrainian military victory and they began sending heavy weapons and equipment to Zelensky’s government, fueling the conflict for the next 18 months.