Come sapete, la guerra cognitiva mira, tra gli altri obiettivi, a creare caos, confusione mentale e a minare la fiducia non solo all'interno delle società sotto tiro, ma anche tra gli individui scomodi. Siamo tutti bombardati da fake news, ma quelli di noi che scelgono di stare in prima linea nella guerra dell'informazione ricevono anche minacce attraverso messaggi, e-mail e telefonate. A questo mix tossico si aggiungono impostori che si dichiarano "amici" o funzionari di Paesi amici e che continuano ad avvicinarci (mi viene in mente la falsa lettera di Maria Zakharova e i messaggi di persone che affermano falsamente di lavorare per i media di Stato russi); altri impostori cercano di impersonarci dopo aver hackerato le nostre comunicazioni. Il loro obiettivo è quello di rendere sempre più difficile per chiunque capire chi è chi, cosa è vero e cosa no e quindi disturbare la nostra attività o minare la nostra credibilità (no, non sono una escort e non mi rivolgo agli iscritti al canale con strane offerte). Sono molto vigile, ma ovviamente le mie capacità e i miei mezzi sono limitati e non possono proteggermi dagli hacker. Inoltre, recentemente ho scoperto che molti email ricevuti dagli iscritti a questo canale sono finiti nella casella spam. Per questo motivo invito coloro che intendono contattarmi a utilizzare questa indirizzo email alternativo e ad evitare di inviare allegati. Vi ringrazio per la vostra comprensione. lauraru852@yandex.ru

Immediately after China-Australia trade disputes were resolved and China decided to lift anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on Australian wine, Voice of America (VOA) published an article in Chinese claiming that Australia's compromise is not worth the gain. Quoting some so-called observers (not independent by any stretch of the imagination), this media outlet accused Australia of adopting an appeasement policy toward China in exchange for trade. American media routinely denounce any improvement of relations between China and US allies, this particular case is an attempt to exercise more pressure on Australia and smear China with the usual accusations. Washington wants its allies to be blind to its gaslighting techniques, and continue irrational policies to show their obedience to the US, as Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan University, told the Global Times. @LauraRuHK https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1309989.shtml

🇨🇳🇮🇷🇵🇸⚡🇮🇱 China on the Israeli terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus:

"This is a grave violation of the UN Charter and international law and a breach of the sovereignty of both Syria and Iran. This attack is of an extremely vicious nature... 25 years ago, China's embassy in Yugoslavia was bombed by a US-led NATO airstrike... we feel the grief and pain of the Iranian government and people...

To allow impunity for such reckless acts would send a seriously wrong signal and would encourage even more risky acts... the red line of international law and the basic norms of international relations has been breached time and again, and the moral bottom line of human conscience has been crushed time and again."

🚩 @ResistanceTrench

A bit crude, but sadly very accurate.

ARMENIA - "Yerevan made decisions on Karabakh precisely under the influence of NATO, and the statements that Moscow and the CSTO allegedly did not help Armenia during the period of aggravation of the situation in the region are lies. The West wants Armenia to lose its sovereignty — this is their long-standing trick, which they used against many countries", the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said. ▪️The EU has been lavishing money on Armenia, and we know perfectly well that money buys influence. The EU is the largest donor in the country and has targeted areas such as the justice system (so-called "rule of law and anti-corruption"), education, green transition, women, LGBT+ rights, etc. The February 2024 report on EU-Armenia relations stated a "shared ambition to strengthen cooperation, including further engagement on new areas, e.g., security and defence" (!) ▪️Just to give an idea of how the EU is buying influence to further steer Armenia away from Russia, the EU is providing Armenia with a EUR 32 million budget support programme for the implementation of a new "education strategy and action plan". ▪️The ongoing EU4Innovation programme doled out EUR 23 million (it focuses on young people). ▪️Further, Armenia participates actively in the territorial cooperation Black Sea Basin programme which benefits of EUR  85 million for the 2021-2027 period to support joint projects between partners from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova, Türkiye and Georgia. ▪️The Resilient Syunik Team Europe Initiative, launched on 18 January 2023, a joint effort of the EU, the European Investment Bank, Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden, with Switzerland as an external partner, has a five-year budget starting at EUR 116 million. ▪️The EU is a key donor of Armenian "civil society", that is pro-West NGOs and activists: the on-going portfolio of EU civil society support for Armenia is EUR 33.95 million. ▪️The EU is the largest donor to Armenia’s justice sector, including via an ongoing budget support programme (2021-2023) with a total amount of EUR 30 million in this initial 3-year period and EUR 11 million planned for the second phase (2023-2025)... And this is just the tip of the iceberg! @LauraRuHK

The Ministry of "Infernal Affairs" of Ukraine brags about preparing a new attack on the Crimean Bridge. The Ukrainian spy agency GUR openly talks about its intention to destroy a civil infrastructure object, which is an act of terrorism. It is no coincidence that the Russian Foreign Ministry recently demanded from Kiev the immediate arrest and extradition of all persons involved in terrorist attacks on Russian territory, including the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, during which five people were killed. @LauraRuHK https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/ukraine-eyes-kerch-bridge-crimea-drone-attack

Ukrainian drone attack on the Alabuga Polytechnic hostel injured 14 students from 9 countries - Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Sudan. The student dorm is located in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, in Tatarstan, 900 km east of Moscow.
This was clearly a terrorist attack committed against civilians deep inside the territory of the Russian Federation. ▪️According to the latest data received by Russian competent authorities, the enemy carried out an attack on the Alabuga SEZ using a UJ-22 Airborne unmanned aerial vehicle. This is a multi-purpose attack drone developed by a Ukrainian company and used by the Ukrainian armed forces since 2020. ▪️In the video a student from Kenya described the attack as barbaric and added "they want to scare us but they won't succeed." https://t.me/AussieCossack/15271

France is preparing to send a military unit to Ukraine, and approximately 2,000 service people will be deployed at the first stage, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin says.

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Western allies there would be no need for NATO or US forces to step into the Ukrainian battlefield if Russia targeted French soldiers deployed in the area, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed US officials. (Source: Sputnik) @LauraRuHK

Just look at how China has aggressively pushed its territory towards American military bases! Here is a map of the US military infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, presented to the US Congress by its own Research Service in 2023: it lists 66 American "defensive facilities located in four US states, three US territories, eight countries and one British overseas Territory". And these are just the big ones. @LauraRuHK

(Source: Elena Panina) https://t.me/EvPanina/13368

Armenia continues to prepare for a trilateral meeting with EU representatives (von der Leyen) and the USA (Blinken). Over the past few weeks, statements by Armenian politicians have been broadcasted in news feeds saying that the main purpose of the upcoming meeting is economic support for Yerevan. However, now there are data that indicate that the parties will discuss not only the development of the economy.
1. Military assistance. It turns out that the United States wants to establish supplies to Armenia of advanced air defense systems, anti-drone installations, as well as the latest military technologies. What exactly these technologies are is not reported, but the mentioned training courses for the Armenian military are worth special attention. I.e., the same scheme as with the Ukrainian military: a business trip to the United States for several months, location in the American army center, training, equipment management and more. The United States also wants to train special forces: special forces of the National Security Service of Armenia, which will take part in secret operations.
2. Money. The EU wants to expand trade relations with Yerevan, include it in the Global Gateway strategy, and develop investments and green energy. All this is very good, however, from now on Armenia will also work with the European Peace Foundation which is famous for financing the armament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – that the West sends to Kiev. It turns out that the money that Ukraine spends buying missiles to shell Russian cities will now be used to buy missiles for Armenia.
3. Armenian CIPsO. On April 5th, the parties intend to discuss cooperation in another important matter - cybersecurity. The United States wants rapid response units to cyber threats to appear in Armenia. Probably, all these threats should come from Russia. There is a clear impression that under the guise of solving issues of protecting critical infrastructure, Yerevan simply wants to make another CIPsO that will spread Russophobia on the Internet with renewed vigor.
Russia and Azerbaijan have already opposed Armenia's negotiations with the EU and the United States. Despite the statements of the Armenian side, the true goals of the upcoming meeting are to shake up the situation in the region, the resumption of the war and the anti–Russian agenda.

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🇦🇲🇬🇪🇺🇸 At the end of March, the American USAID held a regular meeting on the topic of “energy security” in Armenia.

The goal of the program is to reduce Armenia’s dependence on Russian gas supplies.

▪️ The Americans also organized a working group between Armenia and Georgia, during which the three parties discussed “ongoing market liberalization reforms, electricity supply contracts, and other projects to promote cooperation.”

▪️ In February, USAID announced “additional funding for a long-term program to ensure the security of the energy sector in Armenia.”

▪️ At the time, USAID stated that the Armenian and US governments were concerned that “Russia could use leverage in the energy sector to jeopardize the stability of the region's remaining democracies.”

▪️ As per the terms of the additional funding, the contractor must “directly respond” to calls from Armenian authorities to the United States for assistance in the energy sector to “mitigate harmful economic impacts while Armenia attempts to expand its geopolitical ties.”

📌One of the USAID contractors for the “energy security” program in Armenia is the controversial American company Tetra Tech, whose shareholders are the equally controversial globalists Vanguard and BlackRock. The latter are systematically taking over the global financial and infrastructure markets, with BlackRock having acquired nearly half of the land in Ukraine.

Tetra Tech has also secured contracts for “energy restoration” in Ukraine and “energy security” in Moldova.

🔻Formally, the company is focusing on implementing projects to create renewable energy sources in the post-Soviet space, but the primary objective is to push Russia out of its traditional spheres of influence, establish new logistics routes controlled by the West, and dominate the energy market of the involved states.

#Armenia #Georgia #USA
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🇷🇺 🇺🇸🇺🇿 Regarding the Cooperation Between Uzbekistan and the USA

After reviewing another set of intercepted confidential documents from DPR Joker, we once again noticed the active development of cooperation between the United States, Britain, and the countries of Central Asia.

While the West's efforts to establish a strong presence in Central Asia are not new, the willingness of our allies to engage in not only economic but also military cooperation sends a significant signal that deserves attention.

🔻The level of funding provided by the Americans through the military cooperation office under the US Central Command is quite revealing, increasing from $218,000 in FY 2018-2019 to $16.5 million in FY 2023.

Quite a substantial growth, isn't it? Of particular interest is the Uzbek Ministry of Defense's request to keep quiet about the agreement signed between the countries, which involves personnel training and equipment supply.

In 2022, for instance, the Americans agreed to transfer 13 RQ-20 Puma UAV systems to Uzbekistan. Despite vehemently denying drone purchases at the start of 2022, by August 2023, two systems had already been delivered for operator training.

❗️Furthermore, the documents outline a detailed cooperation plan between Uzbek and American military personnel, including last summer's preparations for Uzbek Armed Forces representatives to participate in Southern Strike 2024, an exercise that recently concluded in the United States.

Curiously, there is no information available about the Uzbek participation, despite previous discussions. It is possible that they once again requested non-disclosure to avoid a repeat of last year's incident during Southern Strike 2023, which involved 13 military personnel.

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#Russia #USA #Uzbekistan
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Mainland authorities offered to provide disaster relief assistance to Taiwan after the island was hit by a 7.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday morning that left nine people dead and 1,011 people injured as of 10 p.m. Following the earthquake, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said that relevant parties in the mainland are highly concerned and express their sincere condolences to the Taiwan compatriots affected by the disaster. ▪️Now let's see how the Taiwanese authorities respond to the mainland's offers of help. @LauraRuHK

"US media reports claiming that Washington warned Russia about the Crocus City Hall terror attack two weeks in advance are false", Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. ▪️The Washington Post (WaPo) citing unnamed American officials reported that the US informed the Russian security service FSB in early March that Crocus would be attacked. This claim contradicts what other unnamed American officials told the New York Times (NYT) about how the US withheld specific information about that planned terrorist attack in order to not burn their sources. ▪️The WaPo narrative, relaunched by many Western media, had the clear objective of discrediting the Russian security services and stirring up distrust towards Russian authorities inside Russia. The NYT report may have been a conduit for US officials who disagreed with their government's handling of information - withholding it has de facto made the US an accessory to a barbaric terrorist attack that killed nearly 150 people in Moscow. ▪️Why are US officials and mainstream media outlets contradicting each other? The most likely reason is that there are deep internal divisions over this issue. As Russian investigators have discovered a trail of evidence that links the Crocus City Hall terrorists to Ukraine, it's worth remembering that GUR, the Ukrainian spy agency, is supervised by the CIA. @LauraRuHK

"La notizia riportata dai media statunitensi secondo cui Washington avrebbe avvertito la Russia dell'attacco terroristico al Crocus City Hall con due settimane di anticipo è falsa", ha detto la portavoce del Ministero degli Esteri russo Maria Zakharova. ▪️ Il Washington Post (WaPo) citando anonimi funzionari americani ha riferito che gli Stati Uniti avevano informato il servizio di sicurezza russo FSB all'inizio di marzo che Crocus sarebbe stato attaccato. Questa affermazione contraddice ciò che altri anonimi funzionari americani hanno raccontato al New York Times (NYT) vale a dire che gli Stati Uniti avrebbero omesso informazioni specifiche riguardanti il piano dei terroristi per non bruciare le loro fonti. ▪️ La narrazione del WaPo, rilanciata da molti media occidentali, aveva il chiaro obiettivo di screditare i servizi di sicurezza russi e fomentare sfiducia nei confronti delle autorità russe all'interno della Russia. La versione dei fatti pubblicata dal NYT potrebbe invece essere spiegata come un tentativo da parte di alcuni funzionari dell'intelligence USA di esprimere il loro disaccordo con la gestione delle informazioni da parte del loro governo - nascondere informazioni specifiche che potevano prevenire la tragedia ha di fatto reso gli Stati Uniti complici di un barbaro attacco terroristico che ha ucciso quasi 150 persone a Mosca. ▪️ Perché i funzionari statunitensi e i media mainstream si contraddicono a vicenda? La ragione più probabile è che ci siano profonde divisioni interne su questa e altre questioni. E siccome gli investigatori russi hanno scoperto una serie di prove che collegano i terroristi del Crocus City Hall all'Ucraina, vale la pena ricordare che il GUR, l'agenzia di spionaggio ucraina, è supervisionato dalla CIA. @LauraRuHK

Those who claim that calling for the dissolution of Israel as a State is "anti-Semitic" conveniently forget that much worthier States ceased to exist in fairly recent times. Did they shed a tear when the USSR and Yugoslavia were dissolved? Or when the German Democratic Republic was swallowed by West Germany? Of course they didn't, many of them cheered when it happened and some even played an active role in the destruction of these countries. @LauraRuHK

Coloro che lanciano accuse di "anti-Semitismo" contro chiunque chieda la dissoluzione dello Stato di Israele dimenticano che Stati ben più meritevoli hanno cessato di esistere in tempi abbastanza recenti. Hanno versato una lacrima quando l'URSS e la Jugoslavia sono state sciolte nell'acido? O quando la Repubblica Democratica Tedesca fu inglobata dalla Germania Ovest? Naturalmente non l'hanno fatto, molti di loro hanno applaudito quando è successo e alcuni hanno persino giocato un ruolo attivo nella distruzione di questi paesi. @LauraRuHK

After banning Russian media in the EU, they want to silence European MPs suspected of disseminating "hostile narratives" - According to a draft document seen by POLITICO, the Renew group linked to French President Emmanuel Macron will next week present legal amendments in Parliament that, among other measures, propose barring the use of the chamber's facilities for the purpose of undermining "EU values or for the purposes of disseminating hostile information by authoritarian regimes." Question: who will detect these mysterious "authoritarian state narratives" in parliamentary debates and speeches ? The Thought police? @LauraRuHK

🇰🇷 The cost of being a US vassal - In 2020, Hanwha Ocean Co., then still called Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) signed a contract with the Russian "Sovcomflot" for the construction of a batch of LNG tankers with a volume of at least 172 thousand cubic meters each. Now, due to sanctions, Hanwha Ocean Co. is saddled with 6 LNG carriers that can no longer be sold to Russia. Koreans cannot sell them to anyone else because they were originally designed and built for the Russian Arctic.
As of 2022, the cost of building one Arc7-class polar LNG carrier at a South Korean shipyard averaged $290 million, which means Koreans suffered a loss of almost two billion dollars. As to Russia, the construction of this type of LNG tankers has been undertaken by the shipyards of the Zvezda plant though their cost is going to be higher. @LauraRuHK

A big applause to Henry Johnston for revisiting the work of Giovanni Arrighi, an Italian political economist and historian of global capitalism. Arrighi demonstrated how the turn to financialization, which is initially quite lucrative, can provide a temporary and illusory respite from the trajectory of decline, but only defers the onset of the terminal crisis. https://swentr.site/business/594432-financialization-death-empires/

"NATO will create a mission to support Ukraine", Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

“This doesn’t mean that we’re entering the war, but rather that we’ll now be able to utilize NATO’s coordinating, training and planning capabilities to support Ukraine in a better manner,” he said following a meeting of the military bloc’s top diplomats in Brussels.
He noted that the mission will not participate in combat in Ukraine. (Source: TASS) ▪️Given that NATO is already supporting, coordinating and training Ukrainian forces, this proposal speaks volumes about NATO's desperation. More NATOids on the ground are necessary to keep an eye on Ukrainians and make sure that they keep fighting even when doing so is suicidal. @LauraRuHK