Foreign Affairs: Ukraine better forget about "bringing Russia to justice".

The publication of the US Council on Foreign Relations gives such advice https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russia-ukraine-justice-thwarting-peace because the 'tribunals' sought by Ukraine are of the same zero value as the 'ICC arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin'.

That said, references to the Nuremberg Military Tribunal "are highly resonant but also misleading". If only because Nuremberg targeted the defeated, it imposed conditions on them and could put them on trial.

▪️ It is unclear how the Ukrainian conflict will end, but Russia's capitulation is not on the horizon, stresses FA. The real options lie between a frozen conflict and a negotiated deal - which means Moscow will retain its position on the international stage, at the UN and beyond.

Of course, it is possible to go along with Ukraine's demands and set up a court against Russia. But its uselessness will be another blow to international criminal justice. It would be useless because the key international actors, including the US, are not interested in prosecuting "aggression".

▪️ In general, the US and its partners should make it clear to Kiev, writes FA, that it is completely pointless to start trials or tribunals before the end of hostilities. And in general, we should "refrain from taking bolder steps until the day when the goals of peace and justice are more compatible".

Elena Panina, a Russian analyst, added "that is why we must not lose in the conflict with the West. After all, contrary to the mantras about democracy and international rules, the main rule now is the right of the strongest. If we are weak, there will be tribunals and courts, confiscations and reparations against us. And many other things that our enemies can think of." https://t.me/EvPanina/9426

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🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the Victory Parade

🔻Key points:

▪️ Russia has rebuffed international terrorism, and we will protect the inhabitants of Donbass. For our state there are no unfriendly hostile peoples either in the West or in the East.

▪️ The West provokes conflicts and upheavals, destroys traditional values in order to continue to dictate its own rules, and in fact - a system of robbery and violence.

▪️ The goal of Russia's opponents is to achieve the disintegration and destruction of our country.

▪️ Any ideology of superiority is disgusting, criminal and deadly, but Western elites still talk about their exclusivity.

▪️ Memorials are being destroyed in the West, a cult of Nazism is being created, this desecration is also a crime, the revanchism of those who were preparing a new campaign against Russia.

▪️ The Ukrainian people became a hostage of the coup d'état and a bargaining chip in the hands of the West.

▪️ Today, civilization is again at a decisive turning point, a real war is unleashed against us.

▪️ Decisive battles for the fate of our Motherland have always become sacred, we are proud of those who participate in the special operation, now there is nothing more important.

▪️ It is important that the leaders of the CIS have gathered in Moscow today, I see in this a grateful attitude towards the feat of our ancestors. They fought together and won together
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The New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the "Bucha massacre", and Ukrainian photographers working for Associated Press won one for their coverage of the "Mariupol hospital bombing". To put it into context, i recommend this book by A.B. Abrams. https://www.claritypress.com/product/atrocity-fabrication-and-its-consequences-how-fake-news-shapes-world-order/

How Kiev Nazis turned sacred May 9 Victory Day into massacre in 2014

On May 9, 2014, the Kiev regime sent nationalists and the heavily armed military to prevent the citizens of the then-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol from holding a Victory Day parade. The move came as part of brazen Russophobic policies pursued by the post-coup Ukrainian authorities and their Western backers following February 2014.

Eight years after the Mariupol Victory Day massacre, the city was finally liberated by Donbass and Russian military forces in May 2022.

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Volete fare un giro in tram per Mariupol? Qualche giorno fa il servizio e' stato ripristinato. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsuDk-3Xy28&t=2s

Residents of the Estonian border town of Narva today heard Victory songs from Ivangorod, Leningrad Region, where a rally-concert was held.

"The festive concert in Ivangorod thundered not only for the residents of Leningrad region, but also for the residents of Estonian Narva, who came to the embankment to celebrate the Great Victory," the governor of the Leningrad region wrote in his Telegram channel. "Today, Victory Day unites everyone: both Russia and residents of Estonia, and the peoples of all those countries that were liberated from the brown plague by the Soviet army. Do not forget that during the liberation of Ivangorod and Narva, more than 100 thousand Soviet soldiers, including Estonians, died. We give our concert to Ivangorod, Narva, and the whole of Russia. We hope that this concert, which unites peoples, will become a good tradition for all of us. Happy Victory Day." (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

A Ukrainian media group (partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel and other Western outlets) polled readers on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb attack on writer Zakhar Prilepin. The Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s campaign of terror.

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/09/ukrainian-media-car-bombing-russian-writer/

Vorrei ritornare su un tema che ho gia' trattato al tempo dell'attentato terroristico in cui perse la vita Daria Dugina. Da subito circolarono strane illazioni, che definirei disinformazione coordinata, secondo le quali la sua morte, o quella di suo padre Alexander Dugin, sarebbe stata ordinata da apparati dello stato russo per colpire il movimento patriottico definito impropriamente ultra-nazionalista. Purtroppo tali veleni sono stati sversati a palate anche dopo il pacco bomba consegnato a Vladlen Tatarsky e piu' recentemente in occasione dell'attentato contro l'auto di Zakhar Prilepin in cui lo scrittore e' rimasto gravemente ferito e il suo amico fraterno Alexander Shubin e' stato ucciso. Anche questa volta invece di puntare il dito contro i veri responsabili, i servizi ucraini e i loro consiglieri occidentali, qualcuno ha cercato di riproporre la teoria assurda secondo cui lo scrittore avrebbe dato cosi' fastidio a Putin da dover essere eliminato. Questa narrazione complottista non solo esonera i veri mandanti degli omicidi spostando l'attenzione verso mandanti di fantasia, ma serve anche a rafforzare la tesi dell'Occidente che al Cremlino o al ministero della difesa siedano dei criminali senza scrupoli pronti addirittura ad eliminare dei patrioti russi per rafforzare il proprio potere. Chi diffonde e chi da' credito a questa narrazione e' uno strumento, consapevole o meno, della propaganda russofobica, quella propaganda secondo cui il Cremlino avrebbe avvelenato Navalny, Skripal e sua figlia a Salinsbury, ecc. Usiamo la logica, per una volta. Prilepin, come del resto Dugina e Tatarsky, non e' amato da tutti, visto che in Russia, a differenza di quanto vogliono farvi credere, coesistono posizioni politiche diverse, ma non rappresenta in nessun modo una minaccia per Putin. Il suo festival, Tradizione, ha il patrocinio del ministero della cultura, se fosse un oppositore, glielo avrebbero dato? Ha un programma tutto suo sul canale televisivo NTV, il suo partito ha potuto partecipare alle elezioni e ricopre seggi in parlamento, dove vota anche mozioni di Russia Unita, il partito di governo. Cercare di eliminare figure importanti del fronte patriottico mentre e' in atto una campagna governativa per rafforzare il patriottismo della societa' russa sarebbe non solo stupido, ma totalmente controproducente. Il Cremlino sta tentando di armonizzare sensibilita' diverse, far convivere i patrioti riluttanti con quelli piu' determinati. Secondo voi chi avrebbe l'interesse ad alimentare divisioni all'interno della societa' russa, gli apparati del potere russo o i nemici della Russia? @LauraRuHK

🇵🇰 "Private residence of Pakistan's PM Shahbaz Sharif torched by Imran Khan supporters."

⚡️Internet and mass communications channels are reportedly switched off in Pakistan, as authorities prepare for more unrest in relation to the arrest of former PM Khan.

Current PM Sharif is reportedly en route to London.

~ @IntelLana for @IntelRepublic