"Canadian govt is lying! These are the facts:
1. US helped w/ violent coup against Yanukovych govt 2014
2. #NATO trained & armed AZOV & militias for 7 years
3. NATO special forces are in #Ukraine
4. NATO is US-led aggressive alliance #Yugoslavia #Libya #Afghanistan #StandForTruth"
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 20 Dec 2023 by 18:51⚡️

🔹In #Kherson Direction, the AFU grouping is holding the springboard in #Krynki under our fire. An increasing number of AFU boats are sinking under our drone strikes. For the AFU group it is difficult to replenish reserves and supply, but they persist in their attempts. In addition to the boats, our military hit the enemy's deployment point in #Inzhenernoye, which is on the right bank of the #Dnieper River behind #Antonovka.

🔹In #Zaporozhye Direction, our forces have advanced in the wooded areas near #Rabotino. They also took control of several AFU strongholds near #Verbovoye. Our army has made also significant advances north of #Novoprokopovka. Counter fighting continues there.

🔹In #SouthDonetsk Direction, our units have taken control of an AFU stronghold near #Novomikhaylovka. There are successes in the south of the village. Our army has gained a foothold on Ak.Timiryazeva Street. From #Maryinka, our forces are moving towards #Kurakhovo, an important logistics centre of the AFU. The pace and activity of the AFU resistance is in the fog of war. The total distance from #Mariynka to #Kurakhovo is about 15 km.

🔹In #Donetsk Direction, the fog at #Avdeyevka is real, natural fog. Using its veil, our army is attacking in small groups. On the southern flank, the advance of our forces is recorded near #Tonenkoye and #Severnoye. On the northern flank, the powerful work of our artillery is aimed at suppressing the AFU on the territory of the Coke Plant.

🔹In #Bakhmut Direction, our army pushed the AFU back from the village of #Chernomorets. There are about 600 metres left to #Krasnoye (#Ivanovskoye). The AFU attempted an unsuccessful counterattack west of #Bakhmut. They lost two armoured vehicles and retreated under fire from our artillery. In #Kleshcheyevka, the front line is still without advances on our side. But the AFU cannot attack either. Ukrainian resources write that our army has increased the activity of artillery and the number of assault groups. On a video from the road between #Andreyevka and #Kleshcheyevka there are many burnt #NATO vehicles. The whole road is under fire control of our forces.

🔹In #Svatovo Direction, positional battles continue. Fierce attempts by the Russian military to breakthrough the AFU defence near #Sinkovka have so far failed.

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In response to 🇨🇦 GAC's post ("#NATO is a defensive Alliance and does not seek confrontation with Russia.."):

A quick reminder for @CanadaFP 👇

Canada affirms that NATO is a 'defensive alliance'. One may wonder who would swallow such propaganda.
NATO has an impressive track record of what was done for the sake of 'defence': In less than three decades, NATO and its members have started at least four major wars.

Aggression against Yugoslavia - the first war in Europe since WWII, that led to dismemberment of a sovereign state, and violated the letter and the spirit of Helsinki.

Aggression against Iraq, aggression against Libya, aggression against Syria.
The result - hundreds of thousands if not millions dead, huge humanitarian and migration crises, massive war crimes and human rights violations.

Oh, and, certainly, Afghanistan where NATO came under the banner of bringing democracy and modernization, but left this country in tatters.

Outstanding defensive performance.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS news agency (December 30, 2024)

Key points:

#Ukraine #USA

• We have not received any official signals [from the USA] regarding a settlement in Ukraine.

• We are not happy with the proposals made by members of the Trump team to postpone Ukraine’s admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine.

• What we need is reliable and legally binding agreements that would eliminate the root causes of the conflict and seal a mechanism precluding the possibility of their violation.

#RussiaUSA #NATO

• We are ready to renew the political dialogue which Washington terminated after the start of the special military operation, if the United States is ready for this. Since it was the Americans who cut it off, it is for them to make the first move.

• They [the West] have been long relying on efforts to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries, including our closest neighbours, as their foreign policy tool. For many years, Washington and its satellites have been acting this way in an effort to deter and contain their geopolitical rivals and do away with any unwanted actors, as confirmed by what happened in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.

#Georgia

• The developments in Georgia stem from the double standards when caring for democracy and human rights serves as a pretext for overturning election results after even the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights with its tainted reputation recognised the election as being free and fair. Why do they want to change the results? Just because the puppet masters in Washington and Brussels did not find the way people voted there to their liking.

• The United States and the European Union are trying to impose a distorted vision on Tbilisi which consists of dividing everyone into those who are with us and those who are against us. Meanwhile, it seems that Georgian authorities have opted for a sovereign policy which meets the country’s national interests. They refuse to act as pawns manipulated by the West in its effort to destabilise Georgia, undermine its economy and incite escalation in its relations with Russia.

#Syria #MiddleEast

• The Syrians’ hopes for improvements after a convincing defeat of international terrorism, including with the help of Russia’s Aerospace Forces, have not materialised.

• Washington, which has effectively occupied the resource-rich north-eastern part of Syria and is putting serious sanctions pressure on Damascus together with a coalition of its satellites, bears a great deal of blame for this. This line for strangling the Syrian economy stirred up social discontent.

• Trying to maintain its influence [in the Middle East and North Africa], Washington actively interfered in the internal affairs of Arab countries and aggressively drew new dividing lines there. Iraq and Libya are still trying to clear up the consequences of the Americans and their satellites’ reckless behaviour.

#China

• The Americans are taking inciting actions in the Taiwan Strait and supplying weapons to Taipei while forging a quasi-political dialogue with the local authorities.

• It is clear to us that this policy pursued by Washington in violation of its obligations to Beijing on Taiwan is part of their strategy to step up military and political pressure on the PRC and eventually undermine regional security at the eastern end of the Eurasian continent.

• Russia reaffirms its adherence to the #OneChina principle, recognises that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China, opposes any form of “Taiwan independence,” and firmly supports China’s measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity and achieve national reunification.

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The first "NATO wave" music videos were made by the most uncreative but well funded glowies. These videos were a product of a commission gathered to discover "what do the young men these days find cool?". The structure, the music choice, the footage - it is so perfectly soulless - one can guess that these videos are parodies.

The videos are not parodies. Neither are the NATO fanboys like Oprek and Vil. These two want others to "fight the good fight", while they themselves want to remain at home, and enjoy the benefits. They can't imagine how the authorities will eventually come after them for the "recruitment" - in the same way many young Ukrainian men also never believed that they will be shoved into busses and sent to the training centers in which they'll get a few weeks of basic combat training, after which they'll be sent to the frontline to catch FPV drones with their bodies.

Ukraine should have been a lesson for men like Vil. Instead it became a sports game of sorts.

#twitter #society #rant #NATO

Things are getting sillier with time it seems. The same country that forced (via diplomacy and business and politics) the entire EU to buy US made weapons and to subscribe to US maintenance services - now speaks about breaking up the NATO.

While the NATO was always an "America + friends" type of organization, and most of the NATO military hardware and software was indeed made in the USA, and most of the NATO servicemen are indeed Americans - the participation of all other NATO states can't be ignored, especially their help with the intel and the pacification of "liberated" locals via the "boots on the ground" method. And now the current USA speaks about leaving the NATO because the rest of the NATO refused to participate in the operation "AIPAC Fury".

Suppose this is some kind of 4D chess move to force the EU to get spooked and agree on everything the USA demands. Will this move work? Time will show.

#USA #politics #Marco #Rubio #NATO #Idiocracy

Orange wrecking ball

Donald Trump is the main protagonist of his own life. Nearly every day he wakes up, and chooses violence. The rest of the humanity has to adapt to Donald Trump, instead of the other way around. In a way - this is fascinating.

Basically, he caused a serious disruption in the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, during his remarks on the 2nd day of the summit, delivered jointly with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Trump declared that the ceasefire with Iran is over. He ordered a halt to trade with Spain. He renewed his demands that the USA must control Greenland. Only the Turkish president Erdogan heard good news that day: not only Turkey can keep the Russian S-400s - Turkey also can buy F35s, without sanctions.

Contrary to my hopes - Trump decided to continue the Sand War against Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is mostly closed, the insurance is up again, the traffic is down to about 35 ships, most of which risk getting hit en-route.

This is all so tiresome.

#USA #Iran #NATO #Turkey #Spain

✍️ A Reality Check on the "Successes" of Ukraine’s 35 Years of “Independence”

Article by Kirill Kalinin, Spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in South Africa, published in the Independent Online media agency (August 24, 2026)

This year marks 35 years since Ukraine proclaimed independence. For decades, the West presented it as a model of “democratic transformation”, promising prosperity, sovereignty and security through #EU and #NATO integration.

👉 Thirty-five years later, the balance sheet tells a different story.

Ukraine has suffered:

• the collapse of major industrial sectors and production chains;
• catastrophic demographic decline and mass emigration;
• growing dependence on foreign loans, grants and budget support;
• severe restrictions on political pluralism, media freedom and the Russian language;
• pressure on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church;
• persistent corruption despite billions in Western assistance;
• and, since 2014, transformation into a frontline of geopolitical confrontation with Russia.

⚠️ 2014 was the turning point.

▪️The Maidan events destroyed Ukraine’s constitutional order, followed by the war in Donbass and the rise of an increasingly nationalist, anti-Russian state identity.

▪️Historical figures associated with Nazi collaboration were rehabilitated, while Russian language, culture and political opposition came under growing pressure.

▪️The economic cost has been enormous.

☝️ Ukraine inherited one of the USSR’s largest industrial and scientific bases, yet strategic sectors such as aerospace, shipbuilding, machinery and metallurgy have dramatically declined.

▪️A country of more than 50 million people has experienced a profound demographic collapse, with the population falling to around 28 million by early 2026.

▪️The promised European prosperity never arrived. Instead, Ukraine became increasingly dependent on external financing and burdened by enormous debt, while millions of Ukrainians left their country.

▪️The same contradiction applies to democracy. Opposition parties have been banned, media outlets closed or blocked, journalists persecuted, and political and religious pluralism restricted. The treatment of the Russian language and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church provides further evidence of this trend.

❗️ The conflict itself did not begin in a political vacuum in 2022.

Its roots lie in 2014, the war in Donbass, the failure to implement the Minsk agreements and the transformation of Ukraine into a military and geopolitical instrument directed against Russia.

Russia has repeatedly stated that the objectives of the special military operation include addressing threats to Russia’s security, protecting the people of Donbass and achieving the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.

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