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pWotD Episode 2860: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 454,298 views on Saturday, 1 March 2025 our article of the day is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019, most notably during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022.Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, but never practised law and pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. He created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the TV show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.Zelenskyy announced his candidacy in the 2019 presidential election on the evening of 31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of then-president Petro Poroshenko on the TV channel 1+1. A political outsider, he had already become one of the frontrunners in opinion polls for the election months before he formally declared his candidacy. He won the election with 73.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating Poroshenko in the biggest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections.Zelenskyy has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption figure. As president, he has been a proponent of e-government and of unity between the Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking parts of the country's population.: 11–13  His communication style makes extensive use of social media, particularly Instagram.: 7–10  His party won a landslide victory in the snap legislative election held shortly after his inauguration as president. During the first two years of his administration, Zelenskyy oversaw the lifting of legal immunity for members of parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recession, and some limited progress in tackling corruption in Ukraine. A poll in May 2021 by the Rating Group gave Zelenskyy the highest trust rating out of all Ukrainian presidents, and ranked him as the second-best president after Leonid Kuchma.During his presidential campaign, Zelenskyy promised to end Ukraine's protracted conflict with Russia, and he has attempted to engage in dialogue with Russian president Vladimir Putin. His administration faced an escalation of tensions with Russia in 2021, culminating in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which is still ongoing. Zelenskyy's strategy during the Russian military buildup was to calm the Ukrainian populace and assure the international community that Ukraine was not seeking to retaliate. He initially distanced himself from warnings of an imminent war, while also calling for security guarantees and military support from NATO to "withstand" the threat. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy remained in Kyiv, declining international offers to evacuate him from the capital under attack; he declared martial law across Ukraine and a general mobilisation of the armed forces. Zelenskyy was named the Time Person of the Year for 2022. He has frequently visited frontline and newly liberated areas, and has regularly appeared unshaven and wearing an olive-green, military-style shirt instead of a suit.Zelenskyy's term was originally scheduled to end in May 2024, but the ongoing Russian invasion and the resulting ongoing martial law prevented the regularly scheduled presidential election from being conducted. He is expected to remain president for the duration of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Due to this extension of his term, Zelenskyy is the second-longest serving president in Ukrainian history, after only Kuchma.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:47 UTC on Sunday, 2 March 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Jasmine.

In today's war diary, Alexander Shelest and Alexey Arestovich discussed the main news on the 892nd day of war:➤ 00:00 Goals of Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in Kursk region of Russian Federation.➤ 03:16 Is the General Command of Ukrainian Armed Forces planning a second strike?➤ 06:20 Will Putin declare mobilization and state of war in response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in Kursk region?➤ 08:15 "Small" problem with armament of Russian and Ukrainian armies.➤ 10:46 Why escalate the war between Ukraine and Russia?➤ 13:41 Middle East: Iran's expected strike on Israel - possible global consequences and US involvement. The impact of the Middle East conflict on attention to Ukraine - a large-scale war is unlikely.➤ 18:27 Migrant protests in Britain and potential consequences.➤ 20:10 Economic recession and the fall of stock markets do not directly affect foreign policy.➤ 21:25 Martial law in Ukraine has been extended until November 9. Prospects for its end and peace talks. In the run-up to the talks, hostilities could be particularly fierce.➤ 25:00 Classification of parties by the mood of Ukrainians: the party of war, peace and capitulation. Analyzed narratives and political manipulations.➤ 27:05 Could Budanov be playing a political game?➤ 28:18 Readiness of Ukrainian people for negotiations with Russia. Possible scenarios for each of the parties in these negotiations and preparation for a potential "second round of war".➤ 35:00 How to hold elections and referendum in Ukraine? The basic condition is a ceasefire.➤ 41:05 Why is Poroshenko going to call Zaluzhny from Great Britain to help Ukraine?➤ 44:32 Evaluation of the decision to replace Zaluzhny with Syrsky. Problems in the Defense Forces of Ukraine.Olexiy Arestovych (Kiev): Advisor to the Office of Ukraine President : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_ArestovychOfficial channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWy2g76QZf7QLEwx4cB46gAlexander Shelest - Ukranian journalist. Youtube: @a.shelest   Telegram: https://t.me/shelestlive

On air with Vasil Holovanov we discussed the main news of the week:00:05 Kharkov: enemy attacks on the city center, on civilian infrastructure on May 25. Why have attacks intensified and how can we secure the city?02:36 Why are public places open in Kharkov?03:07 Will the ban on strikes by Western weapons on Russian territory be lifted?05:34 The West can force President of Ukraine to agree to a truce.06:19 United States threatened Russia with a powerful blow if nuclear weapons were used anywhere.08:13 Fundraising for Ukrainian armed forces.09:25 Campaign to stop the war: Western intelligence agencies sponsor articles that by the end of the year Ukraine may be facing more losses of territory.11:05 When might there be a peak of pressure on the President of Ukraine to stop the war?11:31 American officials are preparing for the possibility that North Korea may resort to provocative military actions against the United States before the US elections.13:05 Has the NATO Alliance learned to recognize, classify and respond to subthreshold actions of adversaries?15:53 Is it possible that Russian CABs will reach Dneper?16:10 How to carry out gradual demobilization in the Ukrainian army.16:49 Containing Russia: does Ukraine have enough trained specialists to use modern Western weapons?17:59 How will studying Antarctic penguins bring Ukraine closer to victory in the war?21:45 United States is solving three problems: transferring weapons to Ukraine, updating its weapons reserves, and creating more jobs.22:38 Are the First and Second World Wars among the causes of the war in Ukraine?24:47 Is a fully contracted army possible in Ukraine?25:38 Why doesn't Ukraine attract foreign military personnel to fight against Russia?27:29 Will Ukraine be provided with F-16 aircraft before mid-summer?30:19 Congress of Russian opposition in Lviv.31:16 How to get rid of the Soviet control system?34:05 Both US Republicans and Democrats want to help Ukraine.35:28 Why has the number of drones flying around Ukraine decreased?36:16 What could happen if some kind of peace treaty with Russia is signed at the beginning of 2025?36:39 Is China interested in continuing the conflict in order to weaken Russia and the West  to solve its geopolitical problems?37:39 Are the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Fico and the death of the Iranian President a coincidence?39:55 Are there Russian nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus?40:57 What do you think about utopias of anarchy and cosmopolitism?41:42 May 25, 10 years ago, Poroshenko won presidential elections in Ukraine in the first round. 44:30 People in the West don't like nationalists?45:11 I am 17 years old, studying abroad. I really want to come back after the victory and help the country. What steps does Ukraine need to take to prevent another invasion in the future?45:54 What does the name of the school “Apeiron” mean?46:20 How can a Ukrainian cope with painful disappointment and find creative self-realization while in Kharkov?47:41 Have there been any extraordinary events in your life?48:51 How can we unite our society?49:32 Why was Yanukovich brought to Belarus?50:12 Lukashenko received Putin at the same residence where he received Prigozhin.50:38 Most likely, there will be no opening of a second front from Belarus.51:40 What can Chernigov and the adjacent region expect in the near future?52:05 What to expect in Odessa?52:17 What will happen to people's property that is now in the occupied territories?53:01 Why is German Chancellor Scholz against the use of German weapons in Crimea?54:19 What is the United European Army?54:44 What will happen to NATO if Trump wins the US presidential election?56:15 What other weapons and military equipment can be transferred to Ukraine?57:05 Interests of American Democrats and Republicans during attacks by the Ukrainian army on Russian oil refineries.Join this channel to support our work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT3qCbfcPbnph7QS3CPBTMQ/joinOriginal in Russian: https://youtu.be/Jgm7FmIxyNoVasil Holovanov: https://youtu.be/Hb-_4E6LjGo Daily War Chronicles: Arestovych, Nikolay Feldman, Yuriy Romanenko @ALPHAMEDIACHANNELEnglish translation #PrivateerStation -Olexiy Arestovych (Kiev): Former Advisor to the Office of Ukraine President : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_ArestovychOfficial channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWy2g76QZf7QLEwx4cB46g --------------------------------------------------Privateer Station on Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/privateer-station-war-in-ukrainePS on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1582435PS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privateerstationPS on iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-privateer-station-war-in-uk-101486106/PS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iEdf0Jyw1Y3kN04k8rPibPS on ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/privateer-station-war-in-ukraine/id1648603352PS on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNTY0NzQzOS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVkPS on PadcastAddict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/4079993PS on PodChaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/privateer-station-war-in-ukrai-4860097PS on Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/show/4546617PS on Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id5162050If you like what we do and would like to support our channel, consider becoming a member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT3qCbfcPbnph7QS3CPBTMQ/joinBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/privateer-station-war-in-ukraine--5647439/support.

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In this episode, as Biden comes for guns, again, he doubles down with outrageous mass shooting claims. Never was a shot fired in J6 but it's equated to the Civil War and Pearl Harbor.

Today opens with Joe Biden's ongoing problem with the sheer number of emails written under fake email names. Now that the National Archives are involved, Biden wants to exert presidential privilege, but there is a problem with that. At the time of the emails writing, he was not the President. Barack Obama would have to grant that designation. But, if Joe Biden is to be believed, he never did anything wrong, so why not just release the emails? He's painted himself into a corner and now want Obama to come in and save him. Some are trying to soften the blow by saying Biden has a continued tradition of embellishing personal tales. Seems like a political correct way to say pathological liar. Maybe he was embellishing a bit with his demand to Ukrainian President Poroshenko to have the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired in six hours. But, two days later, Viktor Shokin was fired and now we have a phone recording of it. It seems Poroshenko's call to then-VP Biden to confirm the firing of Shokin was recorded. Since we are on the subject of lying and liars, let's remind you of the state of our public officials along with the Legacy/mainstream media. Let's first start with a little reminder of what Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the start of the pandemic and then what he tried to say two years later. Without a core or any sense of morals or ethics, he is fine lying to our faces. Maybe that's why he was also taken off guard when CNN just pointed out all of the mask studies showing they do not work and he was left stammering. At one point in time, before the propaganda talking-points were released, even Rachel Maddow understood Covid was going to be like the flu. She appeared on the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon just two weeks before lock-down. But, her common sense approach turned into 2 ½ years of fear porn for the country. Which brings us to the perfect microcosm of all that is wrong with the Legacy/mainstream media. Miranda Devine wrote a piece in the NY Post about a Washington Post writer named Philip Bump. He has one of the best track records of being so wrong on so many subjects it's almost laughable. He reveals how the Left think in the bulk of the media while on a friendly NY City based podcast. He doesn't want anyone to question him or his conclusions. Finally, we close with a sound bite from retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor who was with Tucker Carlson. He has also come to the conclusion that our current regime has an America-last mentality and it is going to send us into the abyss. In his mind, things are going to get much worse, before they get better and that is a sobering prospect given we are inching ever closer toward a hot war with Russia. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

5 (Simple) Questions About the Biden Crime FamilyDo we have the elements of a crime? 1 - Do we have evidence of a crime?2 - Do we have a victim?3 - Do we have suspects?4 - Do we have a motive?5 - Do we have opportunity?And, a bonus: how MANY suspects are there Joe Biden's obvious bribery and money-laundering scheme? Did John Kerry get a piece when he pressured Ukraine to fire their prosecutor? Rep. Dan Goldman from Levis-Strauss suggested Barack Obama's team made firing the prosecutor official government policy--did Obama get paid? This leads to another layer: why are FBI bosses so clearly committed to protecting the FigureHead and his cartel? What does God's Word say? Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.Episode 906 Links:Facts Of Biden Bribery Investigation Expose Old NYT Reporting As FBI-Fueled Fake NewsThis is the video where Joe Biden exposes what he did for a $5 million bribe. He got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was investigating Burisma. And who paid Joe & Hunter? A Burisma executive who kept secret recordings of their deal. Insane corruptionA few weeks after Burisma's chairman of the board, Vadym Pozhasrkyi, demanded from Hunter Biden that the cases against Burisma be shut down, then Secretary of State John Kerry gave Ukrainian president Poroshenko a heads up that Joe Biden really needed the prosecutor to be fired.Rep. Dan Goldman, D-Levis Strauss trust-fund, pretends Joe Biden got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired as official government business, NOT after accepting a $5 million bribePresident Biden turned and grinned — without saying a word — tonight when I asked about @ChuckGrassley saying alleged Ukrainian bribe-giver claims to have tapes A reporter asked Biden, “Why did the Ukraine and FBI informant file refer to you as the Big Guy?” His cowardly response: “Why'd you ask such a dumb question?" When will the GOP impeach this clown???Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky wasn't far from the mark when he said it would take 10 years to unravel the complex payment path that led to Joe Biden.Top Republican James Comer says new Biden bank records will show family accepted between $20-30 MILLION from foreign nationalsFBI Asks Judge to Delay Seth Rich Laptop Release for 66 YearsSenator Mike Lee: Why should we ever trust the @FBI & @TheJusticeDept to fix its own problems internally?Listen to this FBI Director Paul Abbate. Sen. Marsha Blackburn: "I am going to talk about Sen. Grassley's information from yesterday because when the FBI produced the document that you referred to earlier uhh relating to the Biden bribery allegations and you gave that to House Oversight you all redacted any reference to the fact that the Foreign National who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden had those 17 audio voice recordings. So first of all, why did you redact that part of the information?" 4Patriots https://4patriots.com Protect your family with Food kits, solar generators and more at 4Patriots. Use code TODD for 10% off your first purchase. Alan's Soaps https://alanssoaps.com/TODD Use coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price. BiOptimizers https://magbreakthrough.com/todd Use promo code TODD for 10% off your order. Bonefrog https://bonefrog.us Enter promo code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your subscription. Bulwark Capital http://KnowYourRiskRadio.com Find out how Bulwark Capital Actively Manages risk. Call 866-779-RISK or visit KnowYourRiskRadio.com Patriot Mobile https://patriotmobile.com/herman Get free activation today with offer code HERMAN. Visit or call 878-PATRIOT. RuffGreens https://ruffgreens.com/todd Get your FREE Jumpstart Trial Bag of Ruff Greens, simply cover shipping. Visit or call 877-MYDOG-64. SOTA Weight Loss https://sotaweightloss.com SOTA Weight Loss is, say it with me now, STATE OF THE ART! Sound of Freedom https://angel.com/freedom Join the two million and see Sound of Freedom in theaters July 4th. GreenHaven Interactive https://greenhaveninteractive.com Digital Marketing including search engine optimization and website design.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5674544/advertisement

Today I open with a short recount of our family vacation last week. It was a much needed break and turned out to be one of the best, multi-stop trips I have taken in a very long time. First, we stopped in Colonial Williamsburg. I could have spent three days exploring and talking to all of the people. The historical nature of how many founding members of our country who worked, visited and met there was incredible. To think I was walking through areas that existed hundreds of years before the American Revolution. Our next stop was to visit our nation's Capitol. We first met with our Congressman, Barry Loudermilk and then spent two hours enjoying a tour from some of his staffers. The history was fascinating, regardless of the kinds of politicians who are currently walking those halls. While D.C. may be a sewer, it is nonetheless an historic and incredible place to visit. Finally, we hit Gettysburg National Military Park. We really needed a full two or three days to fully appreciate just how big of an area this park really is. The historical significance of the Battle at Gettysburg cannot be overstated. I have already promised myself a return visit in the coming years. Moving into current news, I open audio on the corrupt Biden Crime Family Syndicate. To set the stage, I use a bite I brought to you over two years ago between then VP Biden and then President Poroshenko of Ukraine. Then I follow with a recent audio clip of Biden assuring Poroshenko that the FBI was not going to be investigating. Finally, I once again play the bite of Biden bragging about how he demanded a prosecutor investigating corruption through Burisma be fired or else not receive a $1 billion dollar payment from the U.S. Next, I cannot believe 20 Republicans in the House chose to NOT vote on Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's censure of Rep. Adam Schiff. The sheer damage caused by Schiff, both monetarily and in our faith of our system of government, cannot be ignored. Yet, 20 members of the GOP went weak-kneed. They all need to be primaried and replaced with citizen politicians. Merrick Garland continues to show the country (and the world) that he is not trying to restore faith in the DOJ, but rather to deepen the divide. His actions are so against the fair application of the rule of law, it makes us look laughable. He continues to weaponize the DOJ to attack the political opposition. And I close with a reminder that NASA has known since 1958, that climate changes on the surface of the Earth are caused by forces in the solar system, not mankind. However, they continue to choose not to discuss the science in favor of towing the state narrative in order to continue securing their annual budgets. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

Themen: Interview mam P. Poroshenko, Luxembourg Museum Days, nei Déieren an der Schlammwiss, de Film vun der Woch an en neie Projet vum Gast Waltzing.

Themen: Interview mam P. Poroshenko, Luxembourg Museum Days, nei Déieren an der Schlammwiss, de Film vun der Woch an en neie Projet vum Gast Waltzing.

David Gornoski starts the show by commenting on the news that Marilyn Manson's accuser is backing down. What does our ability to believe lies about people we don't like reveal about human nature? David is joined by Viktor Skuratovsky who gives us his insight into the Ukraine-Russia war and the root of the hatred in that region. Are we getting the correct image of the conflict from the American media? Why did Zelensky capitulate after wanting peace with Dombass separatists? What is the ultimate aim of persecution against the Church in Ukraine? Visit A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

President Biden says he will try to push for gun reform legislation in the lame duck following multiple mass shootings. NBC News Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube sits down one-on-one with the former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. The Georgia Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Republican party to block early voting. Adrienne Elrod and Carlos Curbello join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the challenges Rep. Kevin McCarthy could face as Speaker of the House. NBC News Business and Data reporter Brian Cheung discusses the impact of inflation on Black Friday shopping and Dr. Kavita Patel breaks down the "tripledemic" threat.

Days before reporting to Otisville Federal Correctional Institution to face his sentence for fraud and false statements, Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas chatted with The Knows about the 2017 inauguration as well as the Ukraine-related dealings he was tasked with alongside others like Kash Patel and John Solomon.

THE THESIS: The Party's Mockingbird Media Is hiding the most important stories of our time because they know, if people found out the truth, the politicians would be forced to turn on The Party bosses.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Luke 8:17 17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Matthew 10:26 26 “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. THE NEWS & COMMENT: The magnitude of the Covid crimes cannot stay hidden forever. Where will you be when this is all finally documented as history? What will you be able to say you did to fight this? If you are in “journalism” and healthcare, you will probably be left to either lie--”I didn't know”--or confess: “I knew and did nothing …”  Never did I think I would  watch as Naomi Wolfe came to agree with me on such a major issue. But, she has. Now, Naomi may be one of the most important figures in documenting the ongoing murder of people at the largest, most industrial scale ever in human history . . . the story her former colleagues in “news” and “journalism” refuse to touch: Facing the Beast; Can We Really Confront the Biggest Crime in Human History? (thank you to Podcast family member, Michelle who sent this to me!) Since I first started reading the reports produced by the 3000 medical and scientific experts of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers team, based on the 55000 Pfizer documents released under court order, I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong, not just a greedy pharmaceutical company and a regulatory agency that was fully corrupted, but rather, or additionally, I was seeing a massive act of war.  When I saw the eighteen months' worth of sudden deaths, slow deaths, encephalies, strokes, heart attacks, pericarditis, myocarditis, Guillain Barre, Bell's palsy, MS, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, blue-green breast milk, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, neonatal seizures, neonatal multi-organ system failure, liver damage, kidney damage, suppressed lactation, suppressed sperm count, disrupted menses, all detailed the Pfizer documents; when I saw the fact that 34,000 plus of the 42000 plus adverse events “cases” itemized in the worldwide rollout of the Pfizer injections, were sustained in the US — with the next largest group being sustained in Western Europe - and that the 56 countries around the world that also had Pfizer injections rolled out, amounted for only a bit over 7000 adverse events total — I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but rather that I was seeing an act of war. When I saw the doubling of neonatal deaths in country after country, the rise of 34% above normal in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions for vaccinated versus unvaccinated mothers; when I saw that 3816 vaccinated women in the VAERS database lost their babies — 57% of all the neonatal deaths in all the time that VAERS records had been kept — ; when I saw that of 36 pregnancies followed in the Pfizer documents, 28 of the babies died ; when I saw the rise of 40 per cent in death rates and the shocking rise in cases of disability in the West  I knew I was not seeing just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but that I was witnessing an act of war. And, the Propaganda of Silence [™] as I have named it is the most powerful weapon the Mockingbird Media has to help the rest of The Party achieve their goals. A Pew Research piece on the views of journalists vs. Americans reveals that most people who work in “news” do not believe they need to provide unbiased reporting by telling all sides of a story. That presents us with an obvious follow-up question: which side of the story do they tell?  This study shows why most Americans don't trust the media.  It's because the media doesn't trust most Americans.  Reporters today, especially younger reporters & media outlets whose audience leans left, don't believe in telling both sides of a story. . . . For me most part, people in “news” tell The Party's side of the story: Here's Why The Media Don't Want You To Know About The Massive Protests Going On Around The Globe But, that is not true of Mark Styen, now at GBTV. Mark has always been among the bravest people in media. Early on, he saw the climate catastrophe scheme--then called “global warming”--for the Covid style hoax it was and is to this day. Mark spent nearly a decade fighting a lawsuit all the smart people said he should settle. A suit against one the most vile and dishonest of the climate hustlers. Mark is continuing to fight and beat this liar in courts. Now, Mary Steyn is going where very few people in “news” will go; he is interviewing people injured by the mRNA and the family members of people killed by these gene sequencing concoctions.  [AUDIO] - God bless Mark Steyn for airing interviews with people injured by the mRNA gene sequencing concoctions Mark Steyn speaks to step-daughters of Lucy Taberer, who died after taking the Covid vaccine in March of 2021.  [AUDIO] - 'I'm really angry about it, she spent the last ten days of her life alone and I can only imagine absolutely terrified and scared.' Our medical establishment is injecting children with wrong sex homones, chemically sterilising and mutilating them. They are killing babies and selling their body parts on a massive basis. These are the same establishment medical organizations that allowed themselves to believe--and convinced “journalists”--that hammering an icepick through a person's skull and into their brain was a cure for depression. But, these people would never, EVER get fooled, conned, threatened and/or bribed into pushing deadly gene sequencing concoctions on the population---right?  Will 100 Million Die From the COVID Vax by 2028? An onslaught of reproductive and cancer cases related to the shots are also anticipated. “The fact of the matter is an enormous number of people who are injected are already carrying the seeds of their own demise,” Martin said.11 As for how many may die, Martin believes the numbers may have been revealed back in 2011, when the World Health Organization announced their “decade of vaccination”:12 “Based on their own 2011 estimate, and … this is a chilling estimate, but we just have to put it out there … When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chinese CDC, the Jeremy Farrar Wellcome Trust and others published The Decade of Vaccination for the World Health Organization back in 2011 their stated objective was a population reduction of 15% of the world's population. Put that in perspective, that's about 700 million people dead … and that would put the U.S. participation in that certainly as a pro rata of injected population somewhere between 75 and 100 million people.” When asked what timeframe these people may die in, Martin suggested “there's a lot of economic reasons why people hope that it's between now and 2028.”13 This is because of “a tiny little glitch on the horizon” — the projected illiquidity of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs by 2028. “So the fewer people who are recipients of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the better,” Martin said. “Not surprisingly, it's probably one of the motivations that led to the recommendation that people over the age of 65 were the first ones getting injected.”14 Other populations at risk are caregivers, including health care providers, and others in the workforce who were forced to be injected, such as pilots. “Why is it that we're suddenly having 700 flights a day being canceled because, allegedly, airlines don't have pilots? … the dirty secret … is there a lot of pilots who are having microvascular problems and clotting problems, and that keeps them out of the cockpit, which is a good place to not have them if they're going to throw a clot for a stroke or a heart attack,” Martin said. “But the problem is we're going to start seeing that exact same phenomenon in the health care industry and at a much larger scale, which means we now have, in addition to the problem of the actual morbidity and mortality, meaning people getting sick and people dying. We actually have that targeting the health care industry writ large, which means we are going to have doctors and nurses who are going to be among the sick and the dead. And that means that the sick and the dying also do not get care.”15 The same Mockingbird Media that promotes abortions at any time during--and nearly after--prgenancy … [AUDIO] - CNN: 10-Year-Old Rape Victims Crossing State Lines What Post-Roe USA Looks Like . . .  dutifully ignores the actions of The Party that lead to these circumstances (like allowing criminal illegal aliens to remain here), and the societal rot and that would have a mother defending a man who raped her 10 year old daughter:  [AUDIO] - Mother of 10-Year-Old Ohio Rape Victim Goes on Telemundo, Defends Rapist MARIA VARGAS PION, TELEMUNDO: Did the girl live here as well? MOTHER: Yes, but she's fine. Everything that they're saying against him is a lie. VARGAS PION: And the child- are you related to her, or her mother? MOTHER: She's my daughter. VARGAS PION: The woman, who refused to provide her name and concealed her face, states that she has not filed charges against 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes, who is charged with rape.  Per the authorities, he confessed to having vaginal contact on at least two occasions with the girl who recently turned 10, therefore it is estimated that she may have been 9 years old when she was raped and (then) became pregnant. . . . while they also ignore what appear to be the criminal lies of the abortionist:  ‘This story keeps getting worse': Abortionist lists ‘approximate age' of alleged adult rapist as 17 in official report . . . also ignore one of the most interesting components of Mitch McConnell's obsession with Russia and Ukraine, where Hunter Biden (a likely pedophile and clear drug addict, national security threat), helped fun bio-labs.  Well, OAN reminded me of another phone call the figurehead made, way back in 2016 and before Biden was himself utterly demented. In this call, Biden predicts exactly what came to pass. The world financial system is “about to collapse” and the United States is further draining our Treasury to give unlimited funds to Ukraine.  [AUDIO] - Leaked audio from days after the 2016 election, before Trump's inauguration—Biden calls Poroshenko, then head of state of Ukraine, and threatens him with assassination if he cooperates with the incoming Trump administration. But, the same Mockingbirds are ignoring that phone call and its massive implications, just like they are ignoring the Covid murders. God have mercy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The guys open talking about the #BidenBikeChallenge that sparked a movement of people staging photos of themselves falling off of their bikes in the exact location where Joe Biden fell off his bike in Delaware.  This leads into a discussion about another leaked phone call between Joe Biden and former Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, revealing Biden threatened the "economic and physical security" of Poroshenko if he allowed Trump to look into Ukraine's financial details.  This leads the guys to explore a rabbit hole theory of Biden being assassinated in order to usher in country-wide gun confiscation legislation.   The second half focusses on the fatal shooting of Tekle Sundberg and the controversy surrounding his death.  They end the show with a round of Dave's Tiktok videos.   Pardon My American podcast (PMA) is an opinion-based podcast that explores politics, entertainment, paranormal, and culture all while having a good laugh. They keep things lighthearted as they dive into subjects that inspire you to think and ask questions.   Support Our Sponsors ► Aura ► Ghostbed ► Fum   Support Our Show ► Website ► Buy Merch ► Patreon   Watch & Follow Our Show ► YouTube ► Rumble ► Rokfin ► Instagram

References: 1. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-forfeiture-complaint-proceeds-alleged-fraud-and-theft-privatbank 2. https://twitter.com/rhowardbrowne/status/1548107111061540864?t=sqv7IXJV3ZPEada3XWfexQ&s=19

Servidor del pueblo en YouTube, Netflix y HBO MaxLa serie de televisión que llevó a Volodymyr Zelenski a ser presidente de Ucrania.En YouTube: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEnGs-z02gl4zGEOFEbOkKHFu3_8ASPw6]La serie en Netflix: [https://www.netflix.com/title/80119382]En HBO Max con doblaje español americano, en HBO Max, pero solo la primera temporada: [https://www.hbomax.com/co/es/series/urn:hbo:series:GYmbi-g0FBYEWwwEAAAAE?countryRedirect=1]Volodymyr Zelenski es el sexto presidente de Ucrania (contando el período actual de Ucrania como nación, desde su independencia de la Unión Sovíetica en agosto de 1991). Antes de ingresar a la política, Zelenski fue comediante, actor, guionista, productor de cine y director.Antes de su carrera política, se graduó como licenciado en derecho y creó una productora: Kvartal 95, que produce películas, dibujos animados, programas de comedia para televisión, incluido “Servidor del pueblo”, en el que Zelenski desempeñó el papel de presidente de Ucrania. La serie se emitió de 2015 a 2019. En marzo de 2018, los empleados de Kvartal 95 crearon un partido político homónimo que lleva el mismo nombre que el programa de televisión.Zelenski anunció su candidatura para las elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania de 2019 la noche del 31 de diciembre de 2018. Zelenski ganó las elecciones con el 73,22% de los votos en la segunda vuelta, derrotando a Petró Poroshenko. — [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodímir_Zelenski?wprov=sfti1]Oye aquí el documental con la historia de Zelenski está relatada en un documental de Spotify y el diario Reforma: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kjpF9MQTn4aLzegRHkNbc?si=olsF2YnkRQmqFppE-T5Ygg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7GIjPB112ZItDWPcDSG5Ze]La serie “Servidor del pueblo” está disponible en Youtube, gratis y con subtítulos en inglés, que pueden traducirse a español con el sistema de traducción automática de Youtube.También está disiponible en Netflix, en el idioma original, ruso, con subtítulos, en sus 3 temporadas.Reseña de la serie en Cinema Escapist: [https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2017/06/ukraines-servant-people-hidden-gem-political-comedy/]Otros personajes que pasaron de las artes a la política:Ronald Reagan [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan?wprov=sfti1]Arnold Schwarzenegger[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger?wprov=sfti1]Rubén Blades [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubén_Blades?wprov=sfti1]Mario Vargas Llosa [https://www.vozpopuli.com/altavoz/cultura/premio-nobel-presidente-vargas-llosa.html?amp=1]

Servidor del pueblo en YouTube, Netflix y HBO MaxLa serie de televisión que llevó a Volodymyr Zelenski a ser presidente de Ucrania.En YouTube: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEnGs-z02gl4zGEOFEbOkKHFu3_8ASPw6]La serie en Netflix: [https://www.netflix.com/title/80119382]En HBO Max con doblaje español americano, en HBO Max, pero solo la primera temporada: [https://www.hbomax.com/co/es/series/urn:hbo:series:GYmbi-g0FBYEWwwEAAAAE?countryRedirect=1]Volodymyr Zelenski es el sexto presidente de Ucrania (contando el período actual de Ucrania como nación, desde su independencia de la Unión Sovíetica en agosto de 1991). Antes de ingresar a la política, Zelenski fue comediante, actor, guionista, productor de cine y director.Antes de su carrera política, se graduó como licenciado en derecho y creó una productora: Kvartal 95, que produce películas, dibujos animados, programas de comedia para televisión, incluido “Servidor del pueblo”, en el que Zelenski desempeñó el papel de presidente de Ucrania. La serie se emitió de 2015 a 2019. En marzo de 2018, los empleados de Kvartal 95 crearon un partido político homónimo que lleva el mismo nombre que el programa de televisión.Zelenski anunció su candidatura para las elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania de 2019 la noche del 31 de diciembre de 2018. Zelenski ganó las elecciones con el 73,22% de los votos en la segunda vuelta, derrotando a Petró Poroshenko. — [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodímir_Zelenski?wprov=sfti1]Oye aquí el documental con la historia de Zelenski está relatada en un documental de Spotify y el diario Reforma: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kjpF9MQTn4aLzegRHkNbc?si=olsF2YnkRQmqFppE-T5Ygg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7GIjPB112ZItDWPcDSG5Ze]La serie “Servidor del pueblo” está disponible en Youtube, gratis y con subtítulos en inglés, que pueden traducirse a español con el sistema de traducción automática de Youtube.También está disiponible en Netflix, en el idioma original, ruso, con subtítulos, en sus 3 temporadas.Reseña de la serie en Cinema Escapist: [https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2017/06/ukraines-servant-people-hidden-gem-political-comedy/]Otros personajes que pasaron de las artes a la política:Ronald Reagan [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan?wprov=sfti1]Arnold Schwarzenegger[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger?wprov=sfti1]Rubén Blades [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubén_Blades?wprov=sfti1]Mario Vargas Llosa [https://www.vozpopuli.com/altavoz/cultura/premio-nobel-presidente-vargas-llosa.html?amp=1]

Servidor del pueblo en YouTube, Netflix y HBO MaxLa serie de televisión que llevó a Volodymyr Zelenski a ser presidente de Ucrania.En YouTube: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEnGs-z02gl4zGEOFEbOkKHFu3_8ASPw6]La serie en Netflix: [https://www.netflix.com/title/80119382]En HBO Max con doblaje español americano, en HBO Max, pero solo la primera temporada: [https://www.hbomax.com/co/es/series/urn:hbo:series:GYmbi-g0FBYEWwwEAAAAE?countryRedirect=1]Volodymyr Zelenski es el sexto presidente de Ucrania (contando el período actual de Ucrania como nación, desde su independencia de la Unión Sovíetica en agosto de 1991). Antes de ingresar a la política, Zelenski fue comediante, actor, guionista, productor de cine y director.Antes de su carrera política, se graduó como licenciado en derecho y creó una productora: Kvartal 95, que produce películas, dibujos animados, programas de comedia para televisión, incluido “Servidor del pueblo”, en el que Zelenski desempeñó el papel de presidente de Ucrania. La serie se emitió de 2015 a 2019. En marzo de 2018, los empleados de Kvartal 95 crearon un partido político homónimo que lleva el mismo nombre que el programa de televisión.Zelenski anunció su candidatura para las elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania de 2019 la noche del 31 de diciembre de 2018. Zelenskiy ganó las elecciones con el 73,22% de los votos en la segunda vuelta, derrotando a Petró Poroshenko. — [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodímir_Zelenski?wprov=sfti1]Oye aquí el documental con la historia de Zelenski está relatada en un documental de Spotify y el diario Reforma: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kjpF9MQTn4aLzegRHkNbc?si=olsF2YnkRQmqFppE-T5Ygg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7GIjPB112ZItDWPcDSG5Ze]La serie “Servidor del pueblo” está disponible en Youtube, gratis y con subtítulos en inglés, que pueden traducirse a español con el sistema de traducción automática de Youtube.También está disiponible en Netflix, en el idioma original, ruso, con subtítulos, en sus 3 temporadas.Reseña de la serie en Cinema Escapist: [https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2017/06/ukraines-servant-people-hidden-gem-political-comedy/]Otros personajes que pasaron de las artes a la política:Ronald Reagan [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan?wprov=sfti1]Arnold Schwarzenegger[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger?wprov=sfti1]Rubén Blades [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubén_Blades?wprov=sfti1]Mario Vargas Llosa [https://www.vozpopuli.com/altavoz/cultura/premio-nobel-presidente-vargas-llosa.html?amp=1]

PC is reminding you that the criminal*traitor*cabal has done this game before. Remember Mena Arkansas, Oliver North, and the Clinton*crime families involvement. It is what elevated Bill and Hillary to top levels in global*criminal*cabal. We are acting as the brave reporter did and we ask the questions that others are scared to ask, "isn't this the same thing that is happening today with Ukraine, just different participants"? And we say, YES IT IS!!!The criminals destabilized Ukraine years ago (2013 is recent) to create chaos for The People of Ukraine, who are majority Russian, and The People of Russia by creating a civil war. When chaos rose, the criminals sprang into action with their wave of crimes: stealing billions of dollars, killing who opposed them, and taking the energy supply for one of their own criminal members (Poroshenko) who was installed by Hillary, Obama, Deep State, Defense Contractors, DOD, CIA, McCain, and others to steal from the country. The events that happen over time are either used in gaining more control of an area, stealing billions of dollars and resources, or it is old program reused by the same criminals. Remember Ali Alexander Akbar. Where is he now? ___________________________WE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!!!Arrest ALL the criminals!!!___________________________Please go back and listen to our previous episodes all on our website for free. The "dots" have been provided, and you can see exactly what is happening, who did it, why, and how to defeat the system.Listen and learn as we have an extensive coverage within our reporting and analysis.  The link is here http://neo420.com/talks-podcast/The link to our video channel is here. https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4IT IS TIME FOR WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TAKE DOWN the criminal cabal. WE know who they are, and now it is time to bring them to JUSTICE!!!________________________________________________________________________JOIN US TODAY IN EXPOSING THE CRIMINALS & ARRESTING THE CRIMINALS!!!"STAND FOR SOMETHING OR DIE FOR NOTHING"Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom. Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32)__________________________________________________________________________NEVER FORGET!!!9/11 was a day that global*cabal*conspired to take our freedoms!!!Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 Trillion missing from Pentagon.  https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4/rumsfeld-2.1Trillionunaccountedforb-ccriminalsstoleit:7Planes did NOT bring down the two towers.AE911Truth.orgGeorge Bush Sr was CIA director before being Vice President then President. MANY are a part of this crime against US.Towers that fell:-Building 1-Building 2-Building 7 (seldom reported even though BBC reporter reported building down before it happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VFMqinkcs

Dan and John uncover the new swastika, Russia, the Don't Say Gay bill, and the Justice system in another successful slaughtering of the M5M. As always, MMO guts the narrative and harvests the truth! Special Thanks to Founding Member Sharky for his donation. And congratulations to Charles Gehring for his win in this weeks album art competition. Consider donating to the show at namillennial.com/donate Stay Frosty

Power & Politics for Wednesday, March 2nd with former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (two-part interview), former Joint Task Force 2 commander Steve Day, Parliamentary Secretary Rob Oliphant, and the Power Panel.

Welcome to another MNMD and a great conversation with Ryan from Dangerous World Podcast and Ron from New England/The Wicked Planet Podcast. In this episode we discuss: Ukraine/Russia Situation and its ties to the: Polarization (pick a side) Poroshenko (corruption/treason) Neo Nazi's in Ukraine Misinformation coming out Elon Musk and Starlink connections Khazarian Mafia connections We touched on some other subjects like sports rivalries, C19 narrative falling apart, truckers/protests in US/Canada, and a little New England discussion to wrap it up. Enjoy and go support the guests at: Ron from Wicked Planet Podcast IG: @ronfromnewengland @thewickedplanetpodcast Ryan from Dangerous World Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DangerousWorldPodcast/posts IG: @dangerousworldpod Merch: https://dangerousworldstore.com/ Mat from The Great Deception Podcast https://altmediaunited.com/the-great-deception-podcast/ IG: @thegreatdeceptionpodcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/Barons44 Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/hPdLAyfQQ2DP/ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TheGreatDeceptionPodcast:6 Email: thegreatdeceptionpodcast@gmail.com

Bark of neem tree may protect against coronavirus variants   University of Colorado and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, February 28, 2022   Extract from the bark of the neem tree may help treat and reduce the spread of coronavirus, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata. The study, reported recently in the journal Virology, shows that components of neem bark may target a wide range of viral proteins, suggesting its potential as an antiviral agent against emerging variants of coronaviruses (including SARS-CoV-2). "The goal of this research is to develop a neem-based medication that can reduce the risk of serious illness when someone is infected with coronaviruses," said study co-author Maria Nagel, MD, research professor in the department of neurology and ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.   (NEXT)   Black Seed Oil Puts Deadly Asthma Meds To Shame   University College London, February 26, 2022    A new study published in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research reveals that a powerful little black seed known as nigella sativa-- once referred to as ‘the remedy for everything but death' -- may provide a powerful alternative to pharmaceutical medicine in the treatment of asthma. The new study  was a placebo-controlled RCT performed on 80 asthmatics, with 40 patients in each treatment and placebo groups. NSO capsules were administered 500 mg twice daily for 4 weeks. The placebo group received an equal dose of olive oil.   (NEXT)   Healthy gut microbiome improves success of cancer treatment   King's College London, February 28, 2022   The largest study to date has confirmed the link between the gut microbiome and the response to cancer immunotherapy therapy for melanoma. The study is published today in Nature Medicine and co-ordinated by King's College London, CIBIO Department of the University of Trento and European Institute of Oncology in Italy, University of Groningen in the Netherlands and funded by the Seerave Foundation. Dr. Karla Lee, clinical researcher at King's College London said that "preliminary studies on a limited number of patients have suggested that the gut microbiome, as an immune system regulator, plays a role in the response of each patient to cancer immunotherapy, and particularly in the case of melanoma. This new study could have a major impact on oncology and medicine in general."   (NEXT)   Physical fitness linked to lower risk of Alzheimer's disease   Washington VA Medical Center, February 28, 2022   People who are more physically fit are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than people who are less physically fit, according to a preliminary study released today. “One exciting finding of this study is that as people's fitness improved, their risk of Alzheimer's disease decreased—it was not an all-or-nothing proposition,” said study author Edward Zamrini, MD, of the Washington VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C.. “So people can work toward making incremental changes and improvements in their physical fitness and hopefully that will be associated with a related decrease in their risk of Alzheimer's years later.” The study involved 649,605 military veterans in the Veterans Health Administration database with an average age of 61 who were followed for an average of nine years. They did not have Alzheimer's disease at the start of the study. The group with the lowest level of fitness developed Alzheimer's at a rate of 9.5 cases per 1,000 person-years, compared to 6.4 cases per 1,000 person-years for the most fit group.   (OTHER NEWS)   The Mess that Nuland Made   Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine's “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July 13, 2015. The Mess that Nuland Made   Robert Parry.   Special to Consortium News   As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration's Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call “the mess that Victoria Nuland made.” Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn't really a coup but a victory for “democracy.” To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the U.S.-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts. So, for nearly a year and a half, the West's mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians. Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed “Russian propaganda” and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a “stooge of Moscow.” It wasn't until July 7 that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been called “brothers” of the hyper-brutal Islamic State. Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable military alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists as a positive, the reality had to be jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda about noble “pro-democracy” forces resisting evil “Russian aggression.” Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer keep the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been warning the civilian government in Kiev that they might turn on it and create a new order more to their liking. Clashes in the West Then, on Saturday, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the control of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a belt-fed machine gun, and police backed by Ukrainian government troops returned fire. Several deaths and multiple injuries were reported. Tensions escalated on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko ordering national security forces to disarm “armed cells” of political movements. Meanwhile, the Right Sektor dispatched reinforcements to the area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev. While President Poroshenko and Right Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest flare-up of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed authorities in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded last year's coup and have been at the front lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Ukrainian right-wing extremists feel they have carried the heaviest burden in the war against the ethnic Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safety and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko also fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky as governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the primary benefactor of the Right Sektor militias. So, as has become apparent across Europe and even in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the State Department's preferred narrative of the conflict that it's all Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault harder and harder to sell. How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks like a death spiral a possible two-front war in the east and the west along with a crashing economy is hard to comprehend. The European Union, confronting budgetary crises over Greece and other EU members, has little money or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos. America's neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere still rant about the need for the Obama administration to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine because it “shares our values.” But that argument, too, is collapsing as Americans see the heart of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine's new order. Another Neocon ‘Regime Change' Much of what has happened, of course, was predictable and indeed was predicted, but neocon Nuland couldn't resist the temptation to pull off a “regime change” that she could call her own. Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for “regime change” in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush's invasion. As with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his fellow neocons thought they could engineer an easy invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked client in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be “the guy.” But they failed to take into account the harsh realities of Iraq, such as the fissures between Sunnis and Shiites, exposed by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation. In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the eye by encouraging violent protests to overthrow Russia-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new regime hostile to Moscow. Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and an important interim step toward toppling Putin, who “may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.” For her part, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan square, reminded Ukrainian business leaders that the U.S. had invested $5 billion in their “European aspirations,” declared “fuck the EU” for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. “Yats is the guy,” she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Nuland saw her big chance on Feb. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis. On Feb. 21, in a desperate bid to avert more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accepted reduced powers and called for early elections so he could be voted out of office. But that wasn't enough for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Right Sektor and neo-Nazi militias overran government buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and many of his officials to flee for their lives. With armed thugs patrolling the corridors of power, the final path to “regime change” was clear. Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 agreement, Nuland and European officials arranged for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declared the new regime “legitimate.” Nuland's “guy” Yatsenyuk became prime minister. While Nuland and her neocon cohorts celebrated, their “regime change” prompted an obvious reaction from Putin, who recognized the strategic threat that this hostile new regime posed to the historic Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to take steps to protect those Russian interests. Ethnic Hatreds What the coup also did was revive long pent-up antagonisms between the ethnic Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War Two, and ethnic Russians in the south and east who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev. First, in Crimea and then in the so-called Donbas region, these ethnic Russians, who had been Yanukovych's political base, resisted what they viewed as the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a move that Russia accepted in Crimea but resisted with the Donbas. However, when the Kiev regime announced an “anti-terrorism operation” against the Donbas and dispatched neo-Nazi and other extremist militias to be the tip of the spear, Moscow began quietly assisting the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a move that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media called “Russian aggression.” Amid the Western hysteria over Russia's supposedly “imperial designs” and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War against Russia, reflected now in new U.S. strategic planning that could cost the U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars and risk a possible nuclear confrontation. Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-ground realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked client Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.S.-demanded “neo-liberal” economic plan slashing pensions, heating assistance and other social programs the chaos that her “regime change” unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial black hole. With few prospects for a clear-cut victory over the ethnic Russian resistance in the east and with the neo-Nazi/Islamist militias increasingly restless over the stalemate the chances to restore any meaningful sense of order in the country appear remote. Unemployment is soaring and the government is essentially bankrupt. The last best hope for some stability may have been the Minsk-2 agreement in February 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, but Nuland's Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the deal in March by inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels first surrender. Now, the Ukraine chaos threatens to spiral even further out of control with the neo-Nazis and other right-wing militias supplied with a bounty of weapons to kill ethnic Russians in the east turning on the political leadership in Kiev. In other words, the neocons have struck again, dreaming up a “regime change” scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to blame. Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new “star” in U.S. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just as most neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain “respected” experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an illegal, unjustified war against Ukraine and Putin himself is the only person who can stop the war immediately. In this episode, we seek to understand why President Putin has launched this horrific war in order to judge our country's ability to bring the war to a quicker end. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! 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Feb 25, 2022. “European Leaders Agree to a Second Wave of Russia Sanctions.” The New York Times. Congressional Response Joe Gould. Feb 22, 2022. “Emergency funding proposal for Ukraine gets bipartisan backing in Congress.” Defense News. Reuters. Feb 25, 2022. “U.S. providing $600 mln for Ukraine defensive weapons -House Speaker Pelosi.” Reuters. Images State Property Fund of Ukraine USAID Partnership Audio Sources House Speaker Weekly Briefing February 23, 2022 YouTube Version Overview: At her weekly briefing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), along with several of her Democratic colleagues, talked about the situation in Ukraine and President Biden's sanctions after Russia recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbas region. Clips 10:25 Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): Putin is terrified by the prospect of a democracy at his border. A democracy, giving an example to the Russian people of the kind of life and economy they might enjoy if they cast aside their own autocrat. This is, I think, one of the preeminent motivations of Vladimir Putin. 15:32 Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA): I chair the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign operations, which oversees many of the resources to assist the Ukrainian people through this crisis. This includes our economic assistance to Ukraine, including loan guarantees. Economic assistance would come through the economic support accounts for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, those of the accounts that would come through. Without getting in too many of the weeds, I wanted to just mention that because it's an effort that we're looking at now in terms of our funding. It also includes humanitarian plans, including funding for refugees, God forbid, and for those internally displaced by conflict. The administration has committed to us that in the event of conflict, there is a need over the next 12 months of at least $1 billion for humanitarian needs. So I support the efforts of the administration also to bolster Ukraine's economy, including the proposed $1 billion in loan guarantees to continue with Ukraine's economic reforms. 22:08 Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): I will just close by saying this: I had the privilege of going with President Clinton, who invited four members of Congress House and Senate, Democrat and Republican, the Senate Democrat was Senator Joe Biden. And we went to the expansion of NATO meeting in Paris. And it was all the heads of state of the then NATO countries who spoke and it was so beautiful because they all spoke in such a positive way about NATO. We thought like we were NATO and they were also NATO, they had ownership and agency in possession of the NATO possibilities. The representative of Russia who was there was Boris Yeltsin. And he was very ebullient, but he was welcoming to what was called was the expansion we had supported in our own country, the Baltic States, Poland, others countries becoming what was called the Partnership for Peace and it included many countries. Now Putin is saying push it back to pre-1997. Don't ever try to add another country and remove weapons out of Eastern Europe. That's what he wanted. No, that was not going to happen. 33:35 Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): What is this about? The people of Hung -- many of us have visited Ukraine and have seen that they love democracy. They do not want to live under Vladimir Putin. He does not want the Russian people to see what democracy looks like. And therefore he wants to bring them under his domain. 35:15 Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): When we talk about the president, he's doing the sanctions. He has a full picture of all this. As I said, he was present there the day of the expansion of NATO. I saw the respect he commanded then, and that was 1997, by the heads of state of all those countries, and of course, that has only grown over time, by his leadership, but also the expansion of NATO. I think we're very well served, I respect his judgement. And again, it's not just about when you do the sanctions, or how you support the people. It's about how the world views what Putin is doing. This is a very evil move on the part of Vladimir Putin. President Biden Remarks on Russia and Ukraine February 22, 2022 YouTube Version Transcript Overview: During an address, President Biden announced new sanctions against Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin sending Russian troops into separatist regions of Ukraine. Clips 1:57 President Biden So, today, I'm announcing the first tranche of sanctions to impose costs on Russia in response to their actions yesterday. These have been closely coordinated with our Allies and partners, and we'll continue to escalate sanctions if Russia escalates. We're implementing full blocking sanctions on two large Russian financial institutions: V.E.B. and their military bank. We're implementing comprehensive sanctions on Russian sovereign debt. That means we've cut off Russia's government from Western financing. It can no longer raise money from the West and cannot trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets either. Starting tomorrow [today] and continuing in the days ahead, we will also impose sanctions on Russia's elites and their family members. They share in the corrupt gains of the Kremlin policies and should share in the pain as well. And because of Russia's actions, we've worked with Germany to ensure Nord Stream 2 will not — as I promised — will not move forward. 3:23 President Biden: Today, in response to Russia's admission that it will not withdraw its forces from Belarus, I have authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe to strengthen our Baltic Allies — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Let me be clear: These are totally defensive moves on our part. We have no intention of fighting Russia. We want to send an unmistakable message, though, that the United States, together with our Allies, will defend every inch of NATO territory and abide by the commitments we made to NATO. 4:22 President Biden: Russian forces remain positioned in Belarus to attack Ukraine from the north, including war planes and offensive missile systems. Russia has moved troops closer to Ukraine's border with Russia. Russia's naval vessels are maneuvering in the Black Sea to Ukraine's south, including amphibious assault ships, missile cruisers, and submarines. Russia has moved supplies of blood and medical equipment into position on their border. You don't need blood unless you plan on starting a war. 6:25 President Biden: I'm going to take robust action and make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy, not ours. We are closely monitoring energy supplies for any disruption. We're executing a plan in coordination with major oil-producing consumers and producers toward a collective investment to secure stability and global energy supplies. This will be — this will blunt gas prices. I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me. 7:37 President Biden: Yesterday, the world heard clearly the full extent of Vladimir Putin's twisted rewrite of history, going back more than a century, as he waxed eloquently, noting that — well, I'm not going to go into it, but nothing in Putin's lengthy remarks indicated any interest in pursuing real dialogue on European security in the year 2022. 8:04 President Biden: He directly attacked Ukraine's right to exist. He indirectly threatened territory formerly held by Russia, including nations that today are thriving democracies and members of NATO. He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met. And there is no question that Russia is the aggressor. Russian President Putin Statement on Ukraine February 21, 2022 YouTube Version Transcript Overview: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced after a Security Council meeting that Russia would recognize the independence of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine's Donbas region. Clips 00:15 President Putin: I would like to emphasise again that Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. These are our comrades, those dearest to us – not only colleagues, friends and people who once served together, but also relatives, people bound by blood, by family ties. 1:22 President Putin: I would like to start by saying that the modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia. To be more exact, Bolshevist, partially communist Russia. This process started almost immediately after the 1917 revolutions, leading and planning and his group of supporters did it in a rough way. If we talk about Russia, they were alienating parts of historical territories of Russia. And millions of people who live there, obviously no one asked anything. Then before the Great Patriotic War, Stalin added to the USSR and handed over some lands that belonged to Poland and Hungary, and as a compensation gave some ancient German lands to Poland. And the 1960s crucial decision to take Crimea away from Russia and also gave it to Ukraine. That's how the territory of Soviet Ukraine was formed. 3:05 President Putin: We cannot help but react to this real threat, especially since I would like to reiterate that Western backers they can help Ukraine with getting this weapon to create yet another threat for our country because we can see how consistently they are pumping Ukraine with weapons. The United States alone starting from 2014 transferred billions of dollars including the arm supply training personnel. In recent months, Western weapons are sent to Ukraine given ceaselessly in front of the eyes of the entire world 7:05 President Putin: Actually, as I have already said, Soviet Ukraine is the result of the Bolsheviks' policy and can be rightfully called “Vladimir Lenin's Ukraine.” He was its creator and architect. This is fully and comprehensively corroborated by archival documents, including Lenin's harsh instructions regarding Donbass, which was actually shoved into Ukraine. And today the “grateful progeny” has overturned monuments to Lenin in Ukraine. They call it decommunization. You want decommunization? Very well, this suits us just fine. But why stop halfway? We are ready to show what real decommunizations would mean for Ukraine. 9:31 President Putin: Everything seemed to be working well in conditions of the totalitarian regime, and outwardly it looked wonderful, attractive and even super-democratic. And yet, it is a great pity that the fundamental and formally legal foundations of our state were not promptly cleansed of the odious and utopian fantasies inspired by the revolution, which are absolutely destructive for any normal state. 10:05 President Putin: It seems that the Communist Party leaders were convinced that they had created a solid system of government and that their policies had settled the ethnic issue for good. But falsification, misconception, and tampering with public opinion have a high cost. The virus of nationalist ambitions is still with us, and the mine laid at the initial stage to destroy state immunity to the disease of nationalism was ticking. As I have already said, the mine was the right of secession from the Soviet Union. 13:55 President Putin: Even two years before the collapse of the USSR, its fate was actually predetermined. It is now that radicals and nationalists, including and primarily those in Ukraine, are taking credit for having gained independence. As we can see, this is absolutely wrong. The disintegration of our united country was brought about by the historic, strategic mistakes on the part of the Bolshevik leaders and the CPSU leadership, mistakes committed at different times in state-building and in economic and ethnic policies. The collapse of the historical Russia known as the USSR is on their conscience. 14:39 President Putin: It was our people who accepted the new geopolitical reality that took shape after the dissolution of the USSR, and recognised the new independent states. Not only did Russia recognise these countries, but helped its CIS partners, even though it faced a very dire situation itself. This included our Ukrainian colleagues, who turned to us for financial support many times from the very moment they declared independence. Our country provided this assistance while respecting Ukraine's dignity and sovereignty. According to expert assessments, confirmed by a simple calculation of our energy prices, the subsidised loans Russia provided to Ukraine along with economic and trade preferences, the overall benefit for the Ukrainian budget in the period from 1991 to 2013 amounted to $250 billion. 21:24 President Putin: A stable statehood has never developed in Ukraine; its electoral and other political procedures just serve as a cover, a screen for the redistribution of power and property between various oligarchic clans. Corruption, which is certainly a challenge and a problem for many countries, including Russia, has gone beyond the usual scope in Ukraine. It has literally permeated and corroded Ukrainian statehood, the entire system, and all branches of power. Radical nationalists took advantage of the justified public discontent and saddled the Maidan protest, escalating it to a coup d'état in 2014. They also had direct assistance from foreign states. According to reports, the US Embassy provided $1 million a day to support the so-called protest camp on Independence Square in Kiev. In addition, large amounts were impudently transferred directly to the opposition leaders' bank accounts, tens of millions of dollars. 23:37 President Putin: Maidan did not bring Ukraine any closer to democracy and progress. Having accomplished a coup d'état, the nationalists and those political forces that supported them eventually led Ukraine into an impasse, pushed the country into the abyss of civil war. 26:30 President Putin: In fact, it all came down to the fact that the collapse of the Ukrainian economy was accompanied by outright robbery of the citizens of the country, and Ukraine itself was simply driven under external control. It is carried out not only at the behest of Western capitals, but also, as they say, directly on the spot through a whole network of foreign advisers, NGOs and other institutions deployed in Ukraine. They have a direct impact on all the most important personnel decisions, on all branches and levels of government: from the central and even to the municipal, on the main state-owned companies and corporations, including Naftogaz, Ukrenergo, Ukrainian Railways, Ukroboronprom, Ukrposhta , Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine. There is simply no independent court in Ukraine. At the request of the West, the Kiev authorities gave representatives of international organizations the pre-emptive right to select members of the highest judicial bodies - the Council of Justice and the Qualification Commission of Judges. In addition, the US Embassy directly controls the National Corruption Prevention Agency, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, and the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court. All this is done under a plausible pretext to increase the effectiveness of the fight against corruption. Okay, but where are the results? Corruption has blossomed as luxuriantly, and blooms, more than ever. Are the Ukrainians themselves aware of all these managerial methods? Do they understand that their country is not even under a political and economic protectorate, but reduced to the level of a colony with a puppet regime? The privatization of the state has led to the fact that the government, which calls itself the "power of patriots", has lost its national character and is consistently leading the matter towards the complete desovereignization of the country. 31:04 President Putin: In March 2021, a new Military Strategy was adopted in Ukraine. This document is almost entirely dedicated to confrontation with Russia and sets the goal of involving foreign states in a conflict with our country. The strategy stipulates the organisation of what can be described as a terrorist underground movement in Russia's Crimea and in Donbass. It also sets out the contours of a potential war, which should end, according to the Kiev strategists, “with the assistance of the international community on favourable terms for Ukraine.” 32:05 President Putin: As we know, it has already been stated today that Ukraine intends to create its own nuclear weapons, and this is not just bragging. Ukraine has the nuclear technologies created back in the Soviet times and delivery vehicles for such weapons, including aircraft, as well as the Soviet-designed Tochka-U precision tactical missiles with a range of over 100 kilometres. But they can do more; it is only a matter of time. They have had the groundwork for this since the Soviet era. In other words, acquiring tactical nuclear weapons will be much easier for Ukraine than for some other states I am not going to mention here, which are conducting such research, especially if Kiev receives foreign technological support. 33:47 President Putin: Foreign advisors supervise the activities of Ukraine's armed forces and special services and we are well aware of this. Over the past few years, military contingents of NATO countries have been almost constantly present on Ukrainian territory under the pretext of exercises. The Ukrainian troop control system has already been integrated into NATO. This means that NATO headquarters can issue direct commands to the Ukrainian armed forces, even to their separate units and squads. The United States and NATO have started an impudent development of Ukrainian territory as a theatre of potential military operations. Their regular joint exercises are obviously anti-Russian. Last year alone, over 23,000 troops and more than a thousand units of hardware were involved. A law has already been adopted that allows foreign troops to come to Ukraine in 2022 to take part in multinational drills. Understandably, these are primarily NATO troops. This year, at least ten of these joint drills are planned. Obviously, such undertakings are designed to be a cover-up for a rapid buildup of the NATO military group on Ukrainian territory. This is all the more so since the network of airfields upgraded with US help in Borispol, Ivano-Frankovsk, Chuguyev and Odessa, to name a few, is capable of transferring army units in a very short time. Ukraine's airspace is open to flights by US strategic and reconnaissance aircraft and drones that conduct surveillance over Russian territory. I will add that the US-built Maritime Operations Centre in Ochakov makes it possible to support activity by NATO warships, including the use of precision weapons, against the Russian Black Sea Fleet and our infrastructure on the entire Black Sea Coast. 36:54 President Putin: Article 17 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that deploying foreign military bases on its territory is illegal. However, as it turns out, this is just a conventionality that can be easily circumvented. Ukraine is home to NATO training missions which are, in fact, foreign military bases. They just called a base a mission and were done with it. 37:16 President Putin: Kiev has long proclaimed a strategic course on joining NATO. Indeed, each country is entitled to pick its own security system and enter into military alliances. There would be no problem with that, if it were not for one “but.” International documents expressly stipulate the principle of equal and indivisible security, which includes obligations not to strengthen one's own security at the expense of the security of other states. This is stated in the 1999 OSCE Charter for European Security adopted in Istanbul and the 2010 OSCE Astana Declaration. In other words, the choice of pathways towards ensuring security should not pose a threat to other states, whereas Ukraine joining NATO is a direct threat to Russia's security 38:10 President Putin: Let me remind you that at the Bucharest NATO summit held in April 2008, the United States pushed through a decision to the effect that Ukraine and, by the way, Georgia would become NATO members. Many European allies of the United States were well aware of the risks associated with this prospect already then, but were forced to put up with the will of their senior partner. The Americans simply used them to carry out a clearly anti-Russian policy. 38:41 President Putin: A number of NATO member states are still very sceptical about Ukraine joining NATO. We are getting signals from some European capitals telling us not to worry since it will not happen literally overnight. In fact, our US partners are saying the same thing as well. “All right, then” we respond, “if it does not happen tomorrow, then it will happen the day after tomorrow. What does it change from the historical perspective? Nothing at all.” Furthermore, we are aware of the US leadership's position and words that active hostilities in eastern Ukraine do not rule out the possibility of that country joining NATO if it meets NATO criteria and overcomes corruption. All the while, they are trying to convince us over and over again that NATO is a peace-loving and purely defensive alliance that poses no threat to Russia. Again, they want us to take their word for it. But we are well aware of the real value of these words. In 1990, when German unification was discussed, the United States promised the Soviet leadership that NATO jurisdiction or military presence will not expand one inch to the east and that the unification of Germany will not lead to the spread of NATO's military organisation to the east. This is a quote. They issued lots of verbal assurances, all of which turned out to be empty phrases. Later, they began to assure us that the accession to NATO by Central and Eastern European countries would only improve relations with Moscow, relieve these countries of the fears steeped in their bitter historical legacy, and even create a belt of countries that are friendly towards Russia. However, the exact opposite happened. The governments of certain Eastern European countries, speculating on Russophobia, brought their complexes and stereotypes about the Russian threat to the Alliance and insisted on building up the collective defence potentials and deploying them primarily against Russia. Worse still, that happened in the 1990s and the early 2000s when, thanks to our openness and goodwill, relations between Russia and the West had reached a high level. Russia has fulfilled all of its obligations, including the pullout from Germany, from Central and Eastern Europe, making an immense contribution to overcoming the legacy of the Cold War. We have consistently proposed various cooperation options, including in the NATO-Russia Council and the OSCE formats. Moreover, I will say something I have never said publicly, I will say it now for the first time. When then outgoing US President Bill Clinton visited Moscow in 2000, I asked him how America would feel about admitting Russia to NATO. I will not reveal all the details of that conversation, but the reaction to my question was, let us say, quite restrained, and the Americans' true attitude to that possibility can actually be seen from their subsequent steps with regard to our country. I am referring to the overt support for terrorists in the North Caucasus, the disregard for our security demands and concerns, NATO's continued expansion, withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, and so on. 43:05 President Putin: Today, one glance at the map is enough to see to what extent Western countries have kept their promise to refrain from NATO's eastward expansion. They just cheated. We have seen five waves of NATO expansion, one after another – Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were admitted in 1999; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia in 2004; Albania and Croatia in 2009; Montenegro in 2017; and North Macedonia in 2020. As a result, the Alliance, its military infrastructure has reached Russia's borders. This is one of the key causes of the European security crisis; it has had the most negative impact on the entire system of international relations and led to the loss of mutual trust. The situation continues to deteriorate, including in the strategic area. Thus, positioning areas for interceptor missiles are being established in Romania and Poland as part of the US project to create a global missile defence system. It is common knowledge that the launchers deployed there can be used for Tomahawk cruise missiles – offensive strike systems. In addition, the United States is developing its all-purpose Standard Missile-6, which can provide air and missile defence, as well as strike ground and surface targets. In other words, the allegedly defensive US missile defence system is developing and expanding its new offensive capabilities. The information we have gives us good reason to believe that Ukraine's accession to NATO and the subsequent deployment of NATO facilities has already been decided and is only a matter of time. We clearly understand that given this scenario, the level of military threats to Russia will increase dramatically, several times over. 45:07 President Putin: I will explain that American strategic planning documents confirm the possibility of a so-called preemptive strike at enemy missile systems. We also know the main adversary of the United States and NATO. It is Russia. NATO documents officially declare our country to be the main threat to Euro-Atlantic security. Ukraine will serve as an advanced bridgehead for such a strike. 46:00 President Putin: Many Ukrainian airfields are located not far from our borders. NATO's tactical aviation deployed there, including precision weapon carriers, will be capable of striking at our territory to the depth of the Volgograd-Kazan-Samara-Astrakhan line. The deployment of reconnaissance radars on Ukrainian territory will allow NATO to tightly control Russia's airspace up to the Urals. Finally, after the US destroyed the INF Treaty, the Pentagon has been openly developing many land-based attack weapons, including ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 5,500 km. If deployed in Ukraine, such systems will be able to hit targets in Russia's entire European part. The flying time of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Moscow will be less than 35 minutes; ballistic missiles from Kharkov will take seven to eight minutes; and hypersonic assault weapons, four to five minutes. It is like a knife to the throat. I have no doubt that they hope to carry out these plans, as they did many times in the past, expanding NATO eastward, moving their military infrastructure to Russian borders and fully ignoring our concerns, protests and warnings. Excuse me, but they simply did not care at all about such things and did whatever they deemed necessary. Of course, they are going to behave in the same way in the future. 47:46 President Putin: Russia has always advocated the resolution of the most complicated problems by political and diplomatic means, at the negotiating table. We are well aware of our enormous responsibility when it comes to regional and global stability. Back in 2008, Russia put forth an initiative to conclude a European Security Treaty under which not a single Euro-Atlantic state or international organisation could strengthen their security at the expense of the security of others. However, our proposal was rejected right off the bat on the pretext that Russia should not be allowed to put limits on NATO activities. Furthermore, it was made explicitly clear to us that only NATO members can have legally binding security guarantees. 48:35 President Putin: Last December, we handed over to our Western partners a draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on security guarantees, as well as a draft agreement on measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation and NATO member states. The United States and NATO responded with general statements. There were kernels of rationality in them as well, but they concerned matters of secondary importance and it all looked like an attempt to drag the issue out and to lead the discussion astray. We responded to this accordingly and pointed out that we were ready to follow the path of negotiations, provided, however, that all issues are considered as a package that includes Russia's core proposals which contain three key points. First, to prevent further NATO expansion. Second, to have the Alliance refrain from deploying assault weapon systems on Russian borders. And finally, rolling back the bloc's military capability and infrastructure in Europe to where they were in 1997, when the NATO-Russia Founding Act was signed. These principled proposals of ours have been ignored. 50:21 President Putin: They are again trying to blackmail us and are threatening us with sanctions, which, by the way, they will introduce no matter what as Russia continues to strengthen its sovereignty and its Armed Forces. To be sure, they will never think twice before coming up with or just fabricating a pretext for yet another sanction attack regardless of the developments in Ukraine. Their one and only goal is to hold back the development of Russia. 51:06 President Putin: I would like to be clear and straightforward: in the current circumstances, when our proposals for an equal dialogue on fundamental issues have actually remained unanswered by the United States and NATO, when the level of threats to our country has increased significantly, Russia has every right to respond in order to ensure its security. That is exactly what we will do. 51:33 President Putin: With regard to the state of affairs in Donbass, we see that the ruling Kiev elites never stop publicly making clear their unwillingness to comply with the Minsk Package of Measures to settle the conflict and are not interested in a peaceful settlement. On the contrary, they are trying to orchestrate a blitzkrieg in Donbass as was the case in 2014 and 2015. We all know how these reckless schemes ended. Not a single day goes by without Donbass communities coming under shelling attacks. The recently formed large military force makes use of attack drones, heavy equipment, missiles, artillery and multiple rocket launchers. The killing of civilians, the blockade, the abuse of people, including children, women and the elderly, continues unabated. As we say, there is no end in sight to this. Meanwhile, the so-called civilised world, which our Western colleagues proclaimed themselves the only representatives of, prefers not to see this, as if this horror and genocide, which almost 4 million people are facing, do not exist. But they do exist and only because these people did not agree with the West-supported coup in Ukraine in 2014 and opposed the transition towards the Neanderthal and aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism which have been elevated in Ukraine to the rank of national policy. They are fighting for their elementary right to live on their own land, to speak their own language, and to preserve their culture and traditions. How long can this tragedy continue? How much longer can one put up with this? Russia has done everything to preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity. All these years, it has persistently and patiently pushed for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2202 of February 17, 2015, which consolidated the Minsk Package of Measures of February 12, 2015, to settle the situation in Donbass. Everything was in vain. Presidents and Rada deputies come and go, but deep down the aggressive and nationalistic regime that seized power in Kiev remains unchanged. It is entirely a product of the 2014 coup, and those who then embarked on the path of violence, bloodshed and lawlessness did not recognise then and do not recognise now any solution to the Donbass issue other than a military one. In this regard, I consider it necessary to take a long overdue decision and to immediately recognise the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic. I would like to ask the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to support this decision and then ratify the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with both republics. These two documents will be prepared and signed shortly. 54:52 President Putin: We want those who seized and continue to hold power in Kiev to immediately stop hostilities. Otherwise, the responsibility for the possible continuation of the bloodshed will lie entirely on the conscience of Ukraine's ruling regime. Ukraine is 'longing for peace' says Zelensky at Munich Security Conference February 19, 2022 Transcript Overview: Western powers should drop their policy of "appeasement" toward Moscow, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky told a security forum Saturday, as fears mount of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Clips 13:37 Vladimir Zelensky: Ukraine has received security guarantees for abandoning the world's third nuclear capability. We don't have that weapon. We also have no security. 14:37 Vladimir Zelensky: Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for the last time. I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt. President Biden Remarks on Russia-Ukraine Situation February 18, 2022 YouTube Version Transcript Overview: Following talks with NATO allies, President Biden provided an update on Russia-Ukraine tensions and international efforts to resolve the crisis. Clips 3:04 President Biden: You know, look, we have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week — in the coming days. We believe that they will target Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people.War posturing - Biden US provided record security assistance to Ukraine 4:00 President Biden: This past year, the United States provided a record amount of security assistance to Ukraine to bolster its defensive — $650 million, from Javelin missiles to ammunition. And we also previously provided $500 million in Ukrai- — in humanitarian aid and economic support for Ukraine. And earlier this week, we also announced an additional sovereign loan guarantee of up to $1 billion to strengthen Ukraine's economic resilience. 7:24 President Biden: Well, I don't think he is remotely contemplating nuclear — using nuclear weapons. But I do think it's — I think he is focused on trying to convince the world that he has the ability to change the dynamics in Europe in a way that he cannot. President Biden Remarks on Russia and Ukraine February 15, 2022 YouTube Version Transcript Overview: President Biden gave an update on tensions between Russia and Ukraine, calling for diplomacy to resolve tensions. Clips 1:47 President Biden: The United States has put on the table concrete ideas to establish a security environment in Europe. We're proposing new arms control measures, new transparency measures, new strategic stability measures. These measures would apply to all parties — NATO and Russia alike. 2:14 President Biden: We will not sacrifice basic principles, though. Nations have a right to sovereignty and territorial integrity. They have the freedom to set their own course and choose with whom they will associate. 3:17 President Biden: And the fact remains: Right now, Russia has more than 150,000 troops encircling Ukraine in Belarus and along Ukraine's border. An invasion remains distinctly possible. That's why I've asked several times that all Americans in Ukraine leave now before it's too late to leave safely. It is why we have temporarily relocated our embassy from Kyiv to Lviv in western Ukraine, approaching the Polish border. 4:12 President Biden: The United States and NATO are not a threat to Russia. Ukraine is not threatening Russia. Neither the U.S. nor NATO have missiles in Ukraine. We do not — do not have plans to put them there as well. 4:26 President Biden: To the citizens of Russia: You are not our enemy. And I do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against Ukraine — a country and a people with whom you share such deep ties of family, history, and culture. 5:52 President Biden: Today, our NATO Allies and the Alliance is as unified and determined as it has ever been. And the source of our unbreakable strength continues to be the power, resilience, and universal appeal of our shared democratic values. Because this is about more than just Russia and Ukraine. It's about standing for what we believe in, for the future we want for our world. 7:25 President Biden: And when it comes to Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that would bring natural gas from Russia to Germany, if Russia further invades Ukraine, it will not happen. 7:35 President Biden: While I will not send American servicemen to fight Russia in Ukraine, we have supplied the Ukrainian military with equipment to help them defend themselves. We have provided training and advice and intelligence for the same purpose. 7:50 President Biden: And make no mistake: The United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power. An attack against one NATO country is an attack against all of us. And the United States commitment to Article 5 is sacrosanct. Already, in response to Russia's build-up of troops, I have sent additional U.S. forces to bolster NATO's eastern flank. Several of our Allies have also announced they'll add forces and capabilities to ensure deterrence and defense along NATO's eastern flank. We will also continue to conduct military exercises with our Allies and partners to enhance defensive readiness. And if Russia invades, we will take further steps to reinforce our presence in NATO, reassure our Allies, and deter further aggression. 9:12 President Biden: I will not pretend this will be painless. There could be impact on our energy prices, so we are taking active steps to alleviate the pressure on our own energy markets and offset rising prices. We're coordinating with major enersy [sic] — energy consumers and producers. We're prepared to deploy all the tools and authority at our disposal to provide relief at the gas pump. And I will work with Congress on additional measures to help protect consumers and address the impact of prices at the pump. Hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Russia Senate Committee on Foreign Relations December 7, 2021 Overview: Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy toward Russia. She addressed President Biden's earlier call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that Russia would suffer severe consequences if it attacked Ukraine. Other topics included the use of sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine, the cooperation of NATO and U.S. allies, Russia's use of energy during conflict, and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Clips 10:42 Victoria Nuland: Since 2014 The United States has provided Ukraine with $2.4 billion in security assistance including $450 million this year alone. 30:55 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have repeatedly indicated that they seek to deny any potential path to NATO membership for Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. Does the administration view this demand is a valid issue for negotiation? Victoria Nuland: No we do not and President Biden made that point crystal clear to President Putin today that the issue of who joins NATO is an issue for NATO to decide it's an issue for applicant countries to decide that no other outside power will or may have a veto or a vote in those decisions. Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden January 23, 2018 Clips 24:30 Former Vice President Biden: I'll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn't. So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I'm not going to—or, we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

Skandalen kring familjen Biden-familjens kopplingar till Ukraina började 2014, när dåvarande vicepresidenten Joe Bidens son Hunter tog på sig ett välbetalt no-show-jobb för det ukrainska energibolaget Burisma, enligt uppgift i utbyte mot tillgång till sin mäktige far. Donald Trumps försök att undersöka saken utlöste en riksrättsundersökning mot honom 2019. En tjänsteman från utrikesdepartementet uttryckte privat oro för sina kollegor under Obama-administrationens sista dagar att Hunter Bidens jobb med Burisma undergrävde Washingtons anti-korruptionsinitiativ i Ukraina, har ett hemligt e-postmeddelande som erhållits av Just the News avslöjat. E- postmeddelandet på två sidor , markerat som "konfidentiellt" av dåvarande ambassadören Marie Yovanovitch och skickat ut av den tidigare amerikanska ambassadens tjänsteman George Kent den 22 november 2016, gömdes enligt uppgift undan av utrikesdepartementet. Det offentliggjordes inte under kampanjen för att ställa Trump inför riksrätt och undanhölls bland flera begäranden från Freedom of Information Act om korrespondens med anknytning till Biden-familjens affärsförbindelser i Ukraina innan de slutligen släpptes. I e-postmeddelandet, adresserat till högt uppsatta tjänstemän från utrikesdepartementet i Washington, beskriver Kent transplantatfallet mot Mykola Zlochevsky, den ukrainske oligarken och före detta naturresursministern som grundade Burisma Holdings, företaget som betalade Hunter Biden 1 miljon dollar per år för en no-show jobb i bolagets styrelse. Ukrainska myndigheter inledde först en utredning av Burisma 2012, där företaget anklagades för penningtvätt, skatteflykt och korruption, och Zlochevsky anklagades för att ha försökt muta sig ur problem. "Den verkliga frågan för mig var att någon i Washington behövde engagera VP Biden tyst och säga att hans son Hunters närvaro i Burisma-styrelsen underskred anti-korruptionsbudskapet VP och vi gick framåt i Ukraina, eftersom ukrainare hörde ett meddelande från oss och såg sedan ett annat beteende, med familjeföreningen med en känd korrupt figur vars företag var känt för att inte följa reglerna i olje-/gassektorn”, skrev Kent. "Jag sa till Dan att jag gärna skulle dela allt detta med Sally om hon skulle ringa mig. Dan sa att han förstod att Sally gjorde due diligence i exakt den här frågan, för att tala om för Hunter. Jag har aldrig hört något från Sally”, tillade Kent och syftade på seniora tjänstemän från Obama-eran Sally Painter och Dan Fried. Kent fortsatte med att minnas att Painter ringde honom hösten 2016 och sa att hon "hänvisade till Zlochevsky med hans förnamn ... vilket gjorde det klart att förhållandet var mer än ett förbigående." Dagar senare, minns Kent, fick han reda på att USAID hade grönlyst en ny offentlig-privat sponsring med Burisma relaterat till "ett sammanhang för journalistisk integritet i energisektorn." Ett andra e-postmeddelande , också daterat 22 november 2016 och skickat till tjänstemannen Jorgan K Andrews från utrikesdepartementet och CCed till Kent, uppmanade till försiktighet från Atlantic Council (en kraftfull Washington-baserad tankesmedja) angående Zlochevsky mitt i oligarkens rapporterade försök att rehabilitera hans namn. "Zlochevsky är efterlyst i Ukraina för brott relaterade till korruption, men fallet mot honom har kantats av ännu mer korruption: ukrainska tjänstemän fryste kontroversiellt 23 miljoner dollar på ett bankkonto i London, och det försvinner in i offshore-systemet... Trots hans förstörda namn i Ukraina, Zlochevsky kämpar aktivt för offentlig rehabilitering, särskilt med oss”, indikerade mejlet, skrivet av en icke namngiven tjänsteman. Hunter Biden anställdes för att sitta i Burismas styrelse våren 2014 och stannade kvar i företaget till april 2019. År 2015 intensifierade riksåklagaren Viktor Shokin utredningen mot företaget, då dåvarande vicepresidenten Joe Biden reste till Kiev i slutet av 2015 för att varna honom att om Shokin inte fick sparken omedelbart, skulle Washington frysa 1 miljard dollar i lånegarantier. Senare, på ett Council on Foreign Relations-forum 2018, skröt Biden öppet om att hans personliga ingripande gjorde att den ukrainska åklagaren fick sparken. Jag hade fått ett åtagande från Ukrainas dåvarande president Porosjenko - att de skulle vidta åtgärder mot den statliga åklagaren. Och det gjorde de inte- Jag sa att jag säger att du inte får en miljard dollar. Jag sa att du inte får miljarden och jag kommer att åka härifrån och jag tror att det var sex timmar – jag tittade [på klockan] och sa att jag åker om sex timmar. Om åklagaren inte får sparken får du inte pengarna. Tja son till ab*tch! Han fick sparken och de satte in någon som var solid vid den tiden, skröt Biden. Efter Shokins uppsägning lades utredningen om Burisma ned. 2020 läckte påstådda ljudinspelningar av Biden och tidigare USA:s utrikesminister John Kerry som pressade Poroshenko att sparka Shokin på nätet . #CarlNorberg #DeFria #Realnews

Our guest this week on the podcast is Andreas Umland, a political scientist and an expert in modern Russian and Ukrainian history and politics. He lives in Kiev and teaches at the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Andreas is a senior expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv and a research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Relations in Stockholm. He has written extensively on the development of post-Soviet countries, including on the extreme right and on nationalism.The topics we discuss include: the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the situation on the borders, the threat of a Russian invasion, how decisions are made in Russia, reactions in Ukraine and the West, and what is to come.The questions we put to Andreas Umland include:1) What is the current situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border and on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border?2) What is the motivation for the concentration of Russian troops?3) What is the purpose of the "negotiations"?4) What is the decision-making process inside Russia?5) Are there divisions within the Russian elite?6) What is Russian public opinion and does it play a role?7) What reactions are there in Ukraine to what is happening?8) How is the West reacting?9) What do you think will happen next in the short term? And what will happen in the long term?This podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to the podcast on our website, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Anchor and YouTube. Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: Simon Cosgrove and I spent an hour in an interesting conversation with Andreas Umland, a political scientist who studies modern Russian and Ukrainian history and lives in Kyiv and who has a very interesting perspective on today's situation. “I think February will be a tense month,” Andreas says. “The Olympics are coming to an end, and these exercises that Russia is holding in Belarus – by the end of February it will be clear whether there will be a military escalation or not. I hope not.” Speaking about the future, Andreas says: “Ukraine's domestic and foreign policy will remain the same in the future regardless of whether Zelensky is re-elected or not, whether Poroshenko returns, or maybe Klitschko becomes president. Personalities may change, but the direction of policy will not change. In Russia it is rather the opposite. If personalities change there, the whole regime could change. It may, by the way, change for the worse. Anything is possible there, from fascism to liberalism.” Andreas Umland lives in Kiev and teaches at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Andreas has written extensively on the development of post-Soviet countries, including articles on the extreme right and nationalism.

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Latest news from 19 January 2022, as reported in the Ukrainian media. Contact us at: highlightsfromukraine@gmail.com

As the Russian military buildup continues on the Ukrainian border, diplomats from Ukraine, Russia, the UK, and the EU meet to avert catastrophe - to little effect thus far. A likely Russian or Belarusian-based hack of multiple Ukrainian government-connected websites was mostly just an inconvenience. But, it highlights the years-long trends of both cyber warfare and using false flags to try and hurt Ukrainian-Polish relations. Protests in Kazakhstan are met with lethal force by the government, who called in help from Russia and its other allies in the CSTO. Former President Petro Poroshenko returns to Kyiv, where a judge was waiting for him to answer treason charges.

Scott Ritter, former UN weapon inspector in Iraq, joins us to discuss the CIA's playbook for Russia. Ritter joins us to discuss reports that the CIA is training unconventional (terrorist) forces in Ukraine. Ritter argues that the operation may be a psychological operation aimed at deterring Russia from attacking Ukraine at best and a foolish plan doomed to failure at worst.Dr. David Oualaalou, author and international security analyst, joins us to discuss Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to Ukraine amid increased tensions and a destabilized government. Also, US Senators promise more weapons for Ukraine as the Eastern European nation is transformed into a weapons depot for the US empire. Dr. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, joins us to discuss the economy. The White House and some allies are split on the plans to address inflation. Also, President Biden has a new crop of nominees for the Federal Reserve. Mark Sleboda, Moscow-based international relations security analyst, joins us to discuss the security crisis in Eastern Europe. As she arrived in Moscow for talks, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated that her country sees no alternative to stable relations with Russia. Also, the US is claiming that Russia is planning a false flag operation in Ukraine, and Petro Poroshenko returns to Kiev to face treason charges.Laith Marouf, broadcaster and journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon, joins us to discuss the Middle East. Houthi fighters have launched a devastating drone and missile attack on the UAE city of Abu Dhabi. Also, the Israeli Prime Minister has said that he has no intention of pressing for peace with the Palestinians.Niko House, political activist, independent journalist, and podcaster, joins us to discuss the folly of the Democrats. Paul Begala, a former Clinton administration official and a media operative for the Democrats, is being chastised for recent comments on CNN. Begala argued that the blame for President Biden's failures should be placed on the voters rather than party leadership. Also, protesters ask Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to take concrete anti-war actions.Teri Mattson, Latin America coordinator for Code Pink, joins us to discuss the Global South. Venezeulan President Maduro doubled down on his nation's commitment to socialism and economic independence in his annual speech. Also, we discuss the role of Nicaragua in establishing the international poles in the new world order.Ramzy Baroud, media consultant, author, columnist and editor of Palestine Chronicle, joins us to discuss Palestine. A recent hunger strike by a Palestinian prisoner shined an international light on the Israeli practice of detaining Palestinians indefinitly without charges.

Latest news from the 17 January 2022, as reported in the Ukrainian media. Contact us at: highlightsfromukraine@gmail.com

Latest news from the 16 January 2022, as reported in the Ukrainian media.

On the morning of Monday, January 17, Ukraine's former president, lawmaker Petro Poroshenko, arrived in Kyiv after spending nearly a month abroad. An estimated 3,000-4,000 people met him at Kyiv's Zhuliany Airport; some of his supporters carried Ukrainian flags and posters with pro-Poroshenko slogans. At passport control, Poroshenko was met by officials from Ukraine's State Investigation Bureau. His passport was taken away for around 15 minutes, but then returned to him. The state investigators attempted to serve Poroshenko with a subpoena but he refused to take the document. Poroshenko then proceeded to hold an impromptu rally, addressing his supporters gathered outside the airport and urging them to support him in court. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/17/from-the-airport-to-the-courtroom

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko flies home to face charges of high treason. All this as tens of thousands of Russian troops mass on the border. What's the significance of the timing? Also in the programme: the UAE blames Yemeni Houthi rebels for a drone attack on fuel tankers in Abu Dhabi in which three people died; and the betrayal of Anne Frank- a new investigation names the man who gave her up to the Nazis. (Photo: Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko supporters hold posters "Poroshenko come back" "The country needs order" as they gather near the Pechersky district court in Kyiv. Credit: EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko.)

Latest news from the 12 January 2022, as reported in the Ukrainian media.

Latest news from the 6 January 2022, as reported in the Ukrainian media.

Ukraine President Zelensky accuses President Poroshenko of treason The Duran: Episode 1175 Ukraine accuses former president Poroshenko of treason https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/20/ukraine-accuses-former-president-poroshenko-of-treason Ukraine's former prime minister warns against arresting former President Poroshenko https://tass.com/world/1380775 #Ukraine #Poroshenko #Zelensky #TheDuran

Since the beginning of December, news outlets around the world have been covering a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this episode, get the full back story on the civil war that has been raging in Ukraine since 2014, learn what role our government has played in the conflict, and hear Victoria Nuland - one of the highest ranking officials in the Biden administration's State Department - testify to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee about the Biden administration's plans if Russia decides to use its military to invade Ukraine. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. 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Will the U.S.?” The Washington Post. Amanda Winkler. November 14, 2011. “'60 Minutes' Exposes Congressional Insider Trading.” The Christian Post. Images USAID and Ukraine Privatization Fund Bills S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Audio Sources President Biden White House Departure December 8, 2021 President Biden briefly stopped and spoke with reporters as he departed the White House for an event in Kansas City, Missouri. He began by addressing the Omicron variant, saying that the Pfizer vaccine is showing encouraging results against the COVID-19 variant. When asked about Russian President Putin and Ukraine, President Biden said if Putin were to invade Ukraine, there “will be severe consequences.” He went on to say that putting U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine is currently “not in the cards.” close Report Video Issue Clips Biden: We hope by Friday, we're going to be able to say and announce to you that we're having meetings at a higher level, not just with us, but with at least four of our major NATO allies and Russia to discuss the future of Russia's concerns relative to NATO writ large. And whether or not we can work out any accommodations as it relates to bringing down the temperature along the eastern front. Biden: We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies if they were to attack under Article Five, it's a sacred obligation. That obligation does not extend to NATO, I mean to Ukraine, but it would depend upon what the rest of the NATO countries were willing to do as well. But the idea of the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not in the cards right now. Biden: Meeting with Putin. I was very straightforward. There were no minced words. It was polite, but I made it very clear, if in fact, he invades Ukraine, there will be severe consequences, severe consequences. Economic consequences, like none he's ever seen or ever had been seen in terms of ease and flows. He knows his immediate response was he understood that and I indicated I knew he would respond. But beyond that, if in fact, we would probably also be required to reinforce our presence in NATO countries to reassure particularly those on the Eastern Front. In addition to that, I made it clear that we would provide the defensive capability to the Ukrainians as well. Hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Russia Senate Committee on Foreign Relations December 7, 2021 Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy toward Russia. She addressed President Biden's earlier call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that Russia would suffer severe consequences if it attacked Ukraine. Other topics included the use of sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine, the cooperation of NATO and U.S. allies, Russia's use of energy during conflict, and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline 00:20 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): As we meet here today Russia is engaged in one of the most significant troop buildups that we have seen along Ukraine's border. To nyone paying attention, this looks like more than posturing, more than attention seeking. The Kremlin's actions clearly pose a real threat of war. 00:40 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): I want to be crystal clear to those listening to this hearing in Moscow, Kiev and other capitals around the world. A Russian invasion will trigger devastating economic sanctions the likes of which we have never seen before. 00:59 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): I proposed a suite of options last month in an amendment to the NDA. The Russian banking sector would be wiped out, sovereign debt would be blocked, Russia would be removed from the Swift payment system, sectoral sanctions would cripple the Russian economy. Putin himself as well as his inner circle would lose access to bank accounts in the West. Russia would effectively be cut off and isolated from the international economic system. Let me be clear, these are not run of the mill sanctions. What is being discussed is at the maximum end of the spectrum, or as I have called it the mother of all sanctions, and I hope that we can come together in a bipartisan way to find a legislative path forward soon, so that we can achieve that. 1:51 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): If Putin invades Ukraine the implications will be devastating for the Russian economy but also for the Russian people. 2:24 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): But is the Kremlin really ready to face a bloody, persistent and drawn out insurgency? How many body bags is Putin willing to accept? 6:03 Sen James Risch (R-ID): This is a clearly clearly bipartisan matter. 7:40 Victoria Nuland: First, let me review what we are seeing. Over the past six weeks, Russia has stepped up planning for potential further military action in Ukraine, positioning close to 100,000 troops around Ukraine's eastern and northern borders and from the south via the Crimean peninsula. Russian plans and positioning of assets also include the means to destabilize Ukraine from within, and an aggressive information operation and an attempt to undermine Ukrainian stability and social cohesion and to pin the blame for any potential escalation on Kiev, and on NATO nations including the United States. Russia's military and intelligence services are continuing to develop the capability to act decisively in Ukraine when ordered to do so, potentially in early 2022. The intended force, if fully mobilized, would be twice the size of what we saw last spring, including approximately 100 battalion tactical groups, or nearly all of Russia's ready ground forces based west of the Urals. We don't know whether President Putin has made a decision to attack Ukraine or to overthrow its government. But we do know he's building the capacity to do so. 10:42 Victoria Nuland: Since 2014 The United States has provided Ukraine with $2.4 billion in security assistance including $450 million this year alone 12:00 Victoria Nuland: Diplomacy remains the best route to settle the conflict in Donbas and address any other problems or grievances. The Minsk agreements offer the best basis for negotiations and the US is prepared to support a revived effort if the parties welcome that. 15:16 Victoria Nuland: You might have seen a press conference today that commission Chairwoman van der Laan gave in Brussels in which she made absolutely clear that the EU would also join in very consequential economic measures of the kind that they have not employed before. 23:26 Victoria Nuland: It's also important, I think, for President Putin to understand as the President conveyed to him today, that this will be different than it was in 2014. If he goes in you will recall then that our sanctions escalated somewhat gradually as he didn't stop moving. This time the intent is to make clear that the initial sanctions in response to any further aggressive moves in Ukraine will be extremely significant and isolating for Russia and for Russian business and for the Russian people. 24:51 Victoria Nuland: As you know, energy is the cash cow that enables these kinds of military deployments. So Putin needs the energy to flow as as much as the consumers need it. But more broadly, we have been counseling Europe for almost a decade now to reduce its dependence on Russian energy, including our opposition to Nord Stream 2 and our opposition to Nord Stream 1 and our opposition to to TurkStream and TurkStream 2 and to have come to find alternative sources of hydrocarbons but also to continue their efforts to go green and end their dependencies. 30:55 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have repeatedly indicated that they seek to deny any potential path to NATO membership for Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. Does the administration view this demand is a valid issue for negotiation? Victoria Nuland: No we do not and President Biden made that point crystal clear to President Putin today that the issue of who joins NATO is an issue for NATO to decide it's an issue for applicant countries to decide that no other outside power will or may have a veto or a vote in those decisions. 32:22 Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH): Senator Portman and I offered an amendment to this year's NDAA in that vein to increase military assistance and raise the amount of assistance that could go to lethal weapons. 33:21 Victoria Nuland: But we will not be shy about coming to you as we as we need support and the bipartisan spirit here is really gratifying. 34:08 Victoria Nuland: At the NATO ministerial last week, there was a commitment among allies that we needed more advice and more options from our NATO military authorities with regard to the consequences of any move by Russia deeper into Ukraine and what that would mean for the eastern edge of the alliance and what it would mean about our need to be more forward deployed in the east. 34:44 Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH): Belarus now that it is seems to be totally within Russia's control also presents another front for the potential for Russia to invade Ukraine. Can you speak to whether we view what's happening in Belarus in that way? I know that Ukrainians view it that way because we heard that when we were in Halifax for the international security forum and met with some Ukrainian officials. Victoria Nuland: Well, as as you know, Senator, the situation in Belarus is just tragic and really concerning in many, many ways, which is why the administration along with the European Union in a multilateral way increased sanctions just last week, including blocking the sale to us or to Europe of one of the great sources of Lukashenko has money potash, etc, and sanction some dozens more Belarusians responsible for the violence and intimidation there and particularly now for the weaponization of migrants pushing you know, accepting them from third countries and then pushing them against the EU's border in a very cynical and dangerous way. But I think you're talking about the potential as Lukashenko becomes more and more dependent on the Kremlin and gives up more and more of Belarus is sovereignty, something that he told his people he would never do that Russia could actually use Belarusian territory to march on Ukraine and or mask, its forces as Belarusian forces. All of those -- Those are both things that that we are watching, and it was particularly concerning to see President Lukashenko would make a change in his own posture with regard to Crimea. He had long declined to recognize Russia Russia's claim on Crimea, but he changed tack a week ago which is concerning. 39:08 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): If there's one thing that Vladimir Putin aught to understand is how unified we are. I mean, there are many things that divide us politically in this country. But when it comes to pushing back on Russian aggression, supporting countries like Ukraine that are trying to develop their freedom, free themselves from their legacy of corruption from their former involvement with the Soviet Union, we are very strongly united. 39:56 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): What we impose on them and how and how harmful it would be to Russia, you know, unfortunately to Russian people. 40:36 Victoria Nuland: What we're talking about would amount to essentially isolating Russia completely from the global financial system with all of the fallout that that would entail for Russian business, for the Russian people, for their ability to, to work and travel and trade. 41:41 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): I can't think of a more powerful way to punish Russian aggression than by rolling back what progress has been made, and if at all possible, prevent the Nord Stream 2 from ever being completed. Is that something that is being discussed with allies is that something's being contemplated? Victoria Nuland: Absolutely. And as if, as you recall from the July U.S.-German statement that was very much in that statement that if that any moves, Russian aggression against Ukraine would have a direct impact on the pipeline, and that is our expectation and the conversation that we're having. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): So again, direct impact is one thing, but I'm literally talking about rolling back the pipeline. Loosely define that but I mean, taking action that will prevent it from ever becoming operational. Victoria Nuland: I think if President Putin moves on Ukraine, our expectation is that the pipeline will be suspended. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Well, I certainly hope that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would take up legislation to go beyond just suspending it but from ending it permanently. 44:28 Victoria Nuland: I think we can, and I know this is close to your heart as well, need to do better in our Global Engagement Center and in the way we speak to audiences around the world and particularly on these kinds of subjects. 55:04 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): But something different has happened in that country since what has been referred to as the Revolution of Dignity. I got the chance to be there on the Maidan during the midst of that revolution with you and Senator McCain. 58:56 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): The Three Seas Initiative is a really important initiative linking essentially the ring of countries that are either former republics or satellite states of the Soviet Union together. They're begging for US participation in their projects necessary to make them more energy independent of Russia. Isn't this an opportunity for the United States to step up and take some of these customers away from Russia's gas station? Victoria Nuland: Absolutely, as we have been doing with our support for more LNG terminals around Europe for many years, as we are doing now in our support for, you know, green alternatives, not just in the United States, but in Europe as well. And many, many US companies are involved with that. But that particular belt of three C's countries is absolutely crucial, as you've said. 1:11:19 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): I visited to Maidan in 2014. The tires were still smoldering and the Revolution of Dignity changed everything. You know, Ukraine decided to turn to us and to the West, and to freedom and democracy. And it was a momentous decision. They chose to stand with us. And now it's our turn to stand with them. And we've done that over the years. I mean, if you look at what happened with regard to the Ukraine security assistance initiative, which I co authored. Over the past six years, the United States has transferred defense articles, conducted training with Ukrainian military. We have been very engaged. 1:12:05 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): This week we have the NDAA likely to be voted on and likely it will include an increase in that lethal defensive funding. 1:12:14 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): What defensive weapons has Ukraine ask for and what is the State Department willing to provide them under an expedited process? 1:18:44 Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA): My concern is this: if the United States and the West's response to a military invasion is sanctions, but no military response, obviously, we're providing military aid to Ukraine. And we've been generous in that way. But if we are not willing to help a Ukrainian military, that's 50,000 people matched up against Russia, I would think that China would conclude, boy, the West sure, I'm going to come to the aid of Taiwan, if we were to do something on Taiwan. Because China would conclude, we're much more militarily powerful than Russia is. And the status questions about Taiwan and sovereignty are a little bit murkier than those about Ukraine. And there's no NATO in the Indo Pacific, we have allies in the Indo Pacific but we don't have a NATO with a charter, with a self defense article. I think China would determine, if the West responds to a military invasion went as far as sanctions but no further, that the United States and other nations would be extremely unlikely to use military force to counter a military invasion of Taiwan. And I think Taiwan would likely conclude the same thing. So I'm very concerned about that. And I wonder, is that a fair concern that I have about how the Chinese and the Taiwanese would view the West's unwillingness to provide more significant military support to stop an invasion by Russia? Is my concern a fair one? Or is my concern overwrought? Victoria Nuland: Senator, in this setting, I would simply say that this is a moment of testing. And I believe that both autocrats around the world and our friends around the world will watch extremely carefully what we do, and it will have implications for generations. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA): And those and those implications could go far beyond Ukraine. Victoria Nuland: They could go well beyond Europe. Yes. 1:22:00 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL): Then I would imagine that he's already been publicly messaging what his asks are. The first is that we would pull back NATO forces from anywhere near their western border. The second is to completely rule out the admission probably not just of Ukraine, but Georgia as a member of NATO. And the third is to stop arming Ukraine. Of those three conditions that he's publicly messaged already, would the United States agreed to any of those three? Victoria Nuland: All of those would be unacceptable. 1:41:11 Victoria Nuland: And in fact you could argue that in the Donbas he did take control of some 40% of Ukraine's coal reserves which were a major energy input 1:42:04 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): I hope the one thing that anyone in the world who is watching this hearing today takes away is that even on some of the most contentious issues of the day, on this one, there is overwhelming, broad, bipartisan support for Ukraine there is overwhelming bipartisan support for its territorial integrity, there is overwhelming bipartisan support for swift and robust action. And after conversations with some of the members of the committee, I look to galvanize that in some tangible way legislatively as we wait for the days ahead as to what may or may not happen. Ukrainian President Zelensky Meeting with Secretary Austin at the Pentagon August 31, 2021 Secretary Lloyd Austin: As you know sir, President Biden has approved a new $60 million security assistance package including Javelin anti-armor systems and more to enable Ukraine to better defend itself against Russian aggression. Secretary Lloyd Austin: Now this department is committed to strengthening our Strategic Defense Partnership. The US Ukraine strategic defense framework that Minister Tehran and I will sign today enhances our cooperation and advances our shared priorities, such as ensuring that our bilateral security cooperation continues to help Ukraine countering Russian aggression and implementing defense and defense industry reforms in support of Ukraine's NATO membership aspirations, and deepening our cooperation in such areas as Black Sea security, cyber defense and intel sharing. Russian President Putin Annual Call-In Program June 30, 2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual call-in question and answer session with citizens from around the country. During this 70-minute portion, he answered questions on relations with Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States, reiterating that whatever sanctions are imposed against Russia, his country's economy will prevail. Clips Putin: I have already said that it is impossible and it makes no sense to try to restore the Soviet Union by a number of reasons and looking at the demographic processes in a number of former Soviet republic, so it's unreasonable effort to do because we can face a lot of social problems that will be possible to resolve and some issues like the ethnic groups, in various regions, but what should we do about Russia itself without the geopolitical realities and about our internal development? Putin: Why is Ukraine not on the list of countries who are Russia's adversaries? Another question: are you going to meet with Zelensky? Well, why Ukriane is not on the list of adversaries? That's because I do not think that the Ukrainian people are our adversaries. I said it many times and I will say it again. The Ukrainians and Russians, that's one people, one nation. Putin: What I'm worried about is a fundamental thing. They are trying to open up military bases near or inside Ukraine. Making the territory of Ukraine, the territory that's close on the border with Russia a military platform for other countries is a threat to the security of Russia. And this is what worries us. This is what we have to think about. Discussion: Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden Council on Foreign Affairs January 23, 2018 Clips 00:06:15 Joe Biden: They cannot compete against a unified West. I think that is Putin's judgment. And so everything he can do to dismantle the post-World War II liberal world order, including NATO and the EU, I think, is viewed as in their immediate self-interest. 00:24:15 Haass: In the piece, the two of you say that there's no truth that the United States—unlike what Putin seems to believe or say, that the U.S. is seeking regime change in Russia. So the question I have is, should we be? And if not, if we shouldn't be seeking regime change, what should we be seeking in the way of political change inside Russia? What's an appropriate agenda for the United States vis-à-vis Russia, internally? 00:24:30 Biden: I'll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn't. So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I'm not going to—or, we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. Confirmation Hearing: Defense Secretary Confirmation Hearing Senate Armed Services Committee January 12, 2017 00:20:15 Sen. McCain: For seven decades, the United States has played a unique role in the world. We've not only put America first, but we've done so by maintaining and advancing a world order that has expanded security, prosperity, and freedom. This has required our alliances, our trade, our diplomacy, our values, but most of all, our military for when would-be aggressors aspire to threaten world order. It's the global striking power of America's armed forces that must deter or thwart their ambitions. Too many Americans, too many Americans seem to have forgotten this in recent years. Too many have forgotten that our world order is not self-sustaining. Too many have forgotten that while the threats we face may not have purely military solutions, they all have military dimensions. In short, too many have forgotten that hard power matters—having it, threatening it, leveraging it for diplomacy, and, at times, using it. Fairly or not, there is a perception around the world that America is weak and distracted, and that has only emboldened our adversaries to challenge the current world order. Daily Briefing: Nuland Tape Press Conference February 6, 2014. Jen Psaki, State Department Spokesperson 0:19 Reporter: Can you say whether you—if this call is a recording of an authentic conversation between Assistant Secretary Nuland and Ambassador Pyatt? Jen Psaki: Well, I'm not going to confirm or outline details. I understand there are a lot of reports out there, and there's a recording out there, but I'm not going to confirm a private diplomatic conversation. Reporter: So you are not saying that you believe this is a—you think this is not authentic? You think this is a— Psaki: It's not an accusation I'm making. I'm just not going to confirm the specifics of it. Reporter: Well, you can't even say whether there was a—that this call—you believe that this call, you believe that this recording is a recording of a real telephone call? Psaki: I didn't say it was inauthentic. I think we can leave it at that. Reporter: Okay, so, you're allowing the fact that it is authentic. Psaki: Yes. Reporter: “Yes,” okay. Psaki: Do you have a question about it? Phone Conversation: Nuland-Pyatt Leaked Phone Conversation February 4, 2014 Nuland: Good. So I don't think Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea. Pyatt: Yeah, I mean I guess, in terms of him not going into the government, just sort of letting him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking in terms of, sort of, the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate Democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok and his guys and I'm sure that's part of what Yanukovych is calculating on all this. Nuland: I think Yatz [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] is the guy with the economic experience, the governing experience. He's the guy. What he needs is Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] And Tyahnybok On the outside, he needs to be talking to them four times a week. You know, I just think Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] Going in he's going to be at that level working for Yatsenyuk it's just not gonna work. Pyatt: We want to get someone out here with and international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. And then the other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych. We'll probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things fall into place. Nuland: So on that piece, Jeff, I wrote the note, Sullivan's come back to me saying “you need Biden,” and I said probably tomorrow for an attaboy and get the deeds to stick, Biden's willing. Pyatt Great. Press Conference: Senator John McCain on Ukraine at the Atlantic Council C-SPAN December 19, 2013. 00:16:45 McCain: If Ukraine's political crisis persists or deepens, which is a real possibility, we must support creative Ukrainian efforts to resolve it. Senator Murphy and I heard a few such ideas last weekend—from holding early elections, as the opposition is now demanding, to the institution of a technocratic government with a mandate to make the difficult reforms required for Ukraine's long-term economic health and sustainable development. Decisions such as these are for Ukrainians to make—no one else—and if they request our assistance, we should provide it where possible. Finally, we must encourage the European Union and the IMF to keep their doors open to Ukraine. Ultimately, the support of both institutions is indispensable for Ukraine's future. And eventually, a Ukrainian President, either this one or a future one, will be prepared to accept the fundamental choice facing the country, which is this: While there are real short-term costs to the political and economic reforms required for IMF assistance and EU integration, and while President Putin will likely add to these costs by retaliating against Ukraine's economy, the long-term benefits for Ukraine in taking these tough steps are far greater and almost limitless. This decision cannot be borne by one person alone in Ukraine. Nor should it be. It must be shared—both the risks and the rewards—by all Ukrainians, especially the opposition and business elite. It must also be shared by the EU, the IMF and the United States. All of us in the West should be prepared to help Ukraine, financially and otherwise, to overcome the short-term pain that reforms will require and Russia may inflict. Discussion: Beyond NAFTA and GATT C-SPAN April 20, 1994 Arthur Dunkel, Director General of the UN 26:00:00 Dunkel: If I look back at the last 25 years, what did we have? We had two worlds: The so-called Market Economy world and the centrally planned world; the centrally planned world disappeared. One of the main challenges of the Uruguay round has been to create a world wide system. I think we have to think of that. Secondly, why a world wide system? Because, basically, I consider that if governments cooperate in trade policy field, you reduce the risks of tension – political tension and even worse than that.” Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

Former member of Parliament and Kyiv Post column writer Sergeii Leschenko discusses his front cover op ed piece. "How Poroshenko Saved Medvedchuk - And Kremlin Propaganda" Full transcript available on kyivpost.com

1-Algeria. Il presidente Bouteflika si dimetterà prima della fine del suo mandato il 28 aprile. Il punto di Esteri ..2-Turchia. Alle amministrative Erdogan perde Ankara e Istanbul. Il suo partito annuncia ricorsi per un nuovo conteggio...( Serena Tarabini)..3-Ucraina. Un comico al balottaggio con il presidente uscente Poroshenko. ( Emanuele Valenti) ..4-Stati Uniti: Joe biden fuori dalle primarie? ..l'ex vice di obama è accusato di comportamento inappropriato...( Roberto Festa) ..5-Los angeles. ucciso il rapper eritreo-americano Nipsey Hussle. ( Matteo Villaci) ..6-Serie TV. Crazy ex- Girlfriend( Alice Cucchetti)

Ed Butler reports from Ukraine ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for the end of March. With endemic corruption and ongoing conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east, what verdict will the voters give to the President Petro Poroshenko? Ed Butler speaks with MP Serhiy Leschenko who's recently left Poroshenko's Solidarity faction over concerns about corruption and nepotism.Other candidates include the former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko and comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky. Olesia Verchenko from the Kyiv School of Economics says she has doubts about all of them.And Deputy Minister of Health Pavlo Kovtoniuk explains measures taken within the healthcare service to clean up its act.This programme was produced by Anna Noryskiewicz.PHOTO: Anti-corruption protest in Kyiv, Ukraine. Copyright: Ed Butler, BBC

1-Russiagate: davanti ad una corte di New York l'ex avvocato personale di Donald Trump ..Michael Cohen si è dichiarato colpevole di aver mentito al senato per proteggere il presidente...( Roberto Festa) ..2-Crisi Russia - Ucraina: Angela Merkel tenta una difficile mediazione tra i presidenti Putin e Poroshenko. ( Emanuele Valenti) ..3-Panama Papers: perquisite le sedi tedesche della Deutsch Bank. ..Il colosso bancario avrebbe aiutato dei clienti a traferire i loro soldi in paradisi fiscali per evadere le tasse. ( Leo Sisti – Espresso) ..4-Migrazioni: il parlamento slovacco ha respinto oggi il Patto globale dell'Onu. Il Bundestag lo ha invece approvato. ( Flavia Mosca Goretta) ..5-Musica contro i muri: Il Reggae entra nel patrimonio dell'Unesco. ( Claudio Agostoni)

Is NATO behind a scheme to invade Crimea with Islamic Jihadists? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles will discuss the claim that Erdogan and Poroshenko have plot a Ukrainian Arab Spring. In part 2, Rick will expose the lies of Cyrus Ingerson Scofield and detail the power of walking in the true authority of Christ.

De Oekrainse minister-president Jatsenjoek heeft de vertrouwensstemming in het parlement gewonnen. Die vond plaatst nadat president Poroshenko het opstappen van zijn premier eistte. Aan de lijn onze Oekraïne - correspondent Michiel Driebergen.

Manipolazione dei tassi : negli Usa 5 colossi bancari patteggiano e pagano multe per circa 6 miliardi di dollari. ( Andrea Di Stefano – Valori ) ..2-Crisi Ucraina: tra Kiev e Mosca prevale la diffidenza. ..il presidente Poroshenko non esclude un intervento militare russo. ..3-Giustizia per Sankara: dopo 27 anni si apre il processo per l'assassinio di uno dei simboli per la gioventù africana. La storia di esteri. ..4-Ambiente: Barack obama lancia la campagna in difesa delle api. Per la prima volta la casa bianca parla ..della nocività dei pesticidi. ..( Federica Ferraio – Greenpeace Italia) ..5-Progetti sostenibili: a Barcellona la qualità urbana passa dal recupero di varietà di frutta tradizionali..6-Musica e nuove tecnologie: non solo canzoni, la piattaforme Deezer lancia i podcast di news.

1-L'Iran osserva con molta attenzione la crisi in Yemen e le mosse del nemico saudita. Ma in questo momento la priorità è l'accordo sul nucleare. Impossibile un intervento di Tehran (Abbas Qaidaari, analista iraniano).2-La guerra degli oligarchi che rischia di affossare definitivamente l'Ucraina...Questa settimana il presidente Poroshenko ha silurato il potentissimo governatore regionale Kolomòiski (Danilo Elia).3-Il governo cinese autorizza le danze di strada, ma vuole dettare la coreografia...Una nuova rivoluzione culturale? O solo maggiore attenzione alla sensibilità della classe media? (Gabriele Battaglia)4-“Manteniamo il nostro programma, ma il negoziato con l'Europa è sempre più difficile”...Intervista a Sotiris Martalis, esponente del Comitato Centrale di Syriza (Federico Simonelli).5-Gli appunti di Alfredo Somoza...Come garantire la sicurezza alimentare limitando l'uso di OGM ai tempi di expo.

1-Crisi Ucraina: a Milano Putin e Poroshenko promettono di rispettare gli accordi firmati a Minsk. ..La trattativa vista da Donestk più reportage ( Emanuele Valenti) ..2-Mobilitazione per Asia Bibi. ..La corte pakistana ha confermato la condanna a morte per blasfemia. ( Riccardo Noury Amnesty ) ..3-Hong Kong: gli studenti tentano di riprendere la piazza. Il governo punta sulla stanchezza dei manifestanti. ( Gabriele Battaglia) ..4-Mercato delle armi sempre florido e l'Asia supera la vecchia Europa. ( Alfredo Somoza ) ..5-Giornaliste coraggiose: premiata Brankica Stankovic. Da anni la cronista della tv di Belgrado B92 vive sotto scorta. ( da Skopje Luka Zanoni osservatorio Balcani Caucaso ) ..6-fiction: Trasparent,la serie tv di Amazon sull'identità di genere. ( Massimo Alberti) ..

1-ucraina: verso una tregua unilaterale. Il neo presidente Poroshenko lancia il dialogo con i russofoni. ( Emanuele Valenti) ..2-Iraq, la resa dei conti tra sunniti e sciiti. ..la soluzione non potrebbe che essere politica. ..( Chawki Senouci , Lorenzo Ghidini , Lorenzo Cremonesi) ..3-Francia: il ragazzo rom linciato sarebbe vittima della ..guerra tra poveri. ( Francesco Giorgini) ..4-Musica e nuove tecnologie: nessun intesa sui diritti d'autori. Youtube minaccia di oscurare le etichette indipendenti. ( Niccolò Vecchia) ..5-World Music: dal Brasile l'album “ Mestre Cupijo E Seu Ritmo “ ( Marcello Lorrai)   6-progetti sostenibili: vienna capitale della viticoltura biologica. ( www.fabiofimiani.it)