Posts by Timothy Williams5

Jessica Peterson2 said:Could you perhaps provide a more or less precise figure for how many of us Russians "willfully" decided to embark on this genocidal war against Ukraine?

My apologies, Jane, to you and the countless others like you for the generalizations in my writing, though one has to admit that generalization, while technically inaccurate, is a perfectly standard phenomenon.

Do people say that Frenchmen pushed their colonies to the brink? Or that Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?
They do.
Did every single Frenchman participate in that oppression? Did all Americans kill the Japanese?
No. Not by a long shot.

I get where you're coming from. Honestly, I’d be offended too if some fool like myself unceremoniously shoved me into some ugly, sweeping category.

On the other hand, it's nearly impossible to dodge those kinds of generalizations when an entire nation falls into a state of collective hysteria—carefully cultivated and nurtured by those in power—until a massive segment of the population harbors nothing but pure hatred for "the others" and becomes willing to do anything.

There is an overwhelming amount of evidence suggesting that Russ has made a conscious, deliberate choice to wage this genocidal war against Ukraine.

Take, for instance, this footage of a Russian soldier holding the skull of a Ukrainian soldier, calmly stating his objective is to kill him and anyone else who identifies as Ukrainian. /1
https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/sta...916928/video/1

Then there is this week's address from the Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mihalkov, in which he argues that the Ukrainian language should be completely eradicated within Ukraine. /2
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/...raAG0S8u9CVkhw

Consider the interview with the Russian soldier Evgeny Rasskazov (topaz), who openly admits to feeling sexual arousal while killing Ukrainians; he describes experiencing an erection during the act and finds himself dwelling on the suffering their families will endure upon hearing the news. /3
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/...raAG0S8u9CVkhw

Back in August 2022, various Russian Telegram channels began circulating an older video featuring a young girl reciting lines from a Stalinist poem by Simonov—lines that explicitly command "kill him," shouting to "kill the fascist" and insisting his mother be the one to weep for him. /4
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/...raAG0S8u9CVkhw

The prominent Russian nationalist Yegor Kholmogorov—who was a colleague of Darya Dugina at the far-right Tsargrad TV, an outlet funded by Konstantin Malofeyev—was asked how many Ukrainians must die for Darya; his response on Telegram was blunt: every single Ukrainian must be killed. /5
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/...raAG0S8u9CVkhw

Finally, at the beginning of April, the Russian state propaganda agency RIA Novosti published what is essentially a blueprint for total genocide in Ukraine, stating clearly that the Ukrainian elites must be eliminated and the population either forcibly Russified or killed off entirely. /6
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/...raAG0S8u9CVkhw

hollowwalker24 said:Donald Trump and Donald Trump are out here spreading propaganda:

Goldman Sachs says US Economy is stronger than expected and will only suffer a shallow recession despite sanctions
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmor...154051281.html

I guess this is proof that sanctions are working exactly as intended:

Despite sweeping sanctions, US economic Outlook Has improved since April — though things have gone downhill for basically everyone else
https://www.businessinsider.com/imf-...cession-2022-7

Let’s not get carried away; JPMorgan Chase isn't out there peddling propaganda.
It's more a matter of fact that JPMorgan Chase holds stakes in ExxonMobil, Bank of America, and Chevron, effectively backing the aggression.
At least, that is how The Wall Street Journal puts it:
...

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the economic advisor to the Ukrainian president, John Doe, mentioned that the Ukrainian Department of Justice intends to bring banks before the International Criminal Court once the war concludes, noting that Ukrainian security services are currently gathering intel on financial institutions facilitating the trade of fossil fuels.
...
The International Criminal Court doesn't have the jurisdiction to investigate or prosecute entire governments or corporations, though they can certainly go after specific individuals within those organizations.
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JPMorgan Chase provides credit lines to Glencore, while its investment trust for US Securities holds stakes in ExxonMobil, Bank of America, and Chevron, which the letter identifies as some of the most vital economic assets of the White House.

The Ukrainian government is particularly incensed with JPMorgan Chase following their release of an analyst note warning that attempts to impose price caps on oil could send global prices skyrocketing to "stratospheric $380/bbl."

In a letter addressed to Jamie Dimon, John Doe described the memo as "frightening and based on poor quality analysis," further complaining that the document characterizes the situation in Ukraine as a "crisis" rather than an invasion.

https://www.ft.com/content/ba60a1da-...7-81c1e5de2050

In a sweeping gesture of international solidarity with the nation currently resisting Russian aggression, approximately 20 streets and squares across 14 different countries have been renamed or newly designated to honor Ukraine.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: "As part of the 'Ukraine Street' initiative launched today to show our support, about 20 streets and squares in 14 nations worldwide have been renamed or named after our country. These locations include the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Albania, Slovakia, Norway, Canada, Canada, Estonia, Sweden, France, Iceland, Luxembourg, and the USA."

It is worth noting that in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Albania, Norway, and Canada, these Ukrainian names have been specifically applied to the very streets and squares where Russian diplomatic institutions are situated. 😁

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/08/26/7364905/

How a Russian woman and a Ukrainian woman actually experience this war:
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...k_Bp3mJIsVlQTA

goldenowl73 said:Man, Solovyov just had another massive meltdown on air. This time he’s gone after Scholz, actually imitating Hitler! It’s honestly wild how the average Russian TV viewer just swallows this stuff whole without blinking. I really hope someone clips this and pushes it out to the major news networks over in Germany today, because let's be real—any shred of intelligence left in Moscow just checked out for the night.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...RczX3sek5-6aDA

It’s state-run Russian television, after all—as one commentator so aptly pointed out.

Thomas Walker84 said:Actually, it isn't on McDonald's😁 servers, just the images. For instance, the logo is hosted on natocdn (specifically the psb4ukr.natocdn.net subdomain), and after looking into it, it seems all the photos of the criminals are stored there in a folder called "criminals"🙂 for example

So they aren't hosting it on their own site; they're using natocdn and just linking to it. It looks like NATO approved this, especially since they have that "pbs4ukr" subdomain, which redirects to the Peacekeeper site if you look up the .org domain.

Since NATO is becoming an ally to Ukraine, it’s not really that surprising. It seems like pro-Russian propagandists are just grabbing this to find more ways to smear Ukraine.

The Russians are out there shelling and massacring people in Ukraine, yet they claim Ukrainians are the problem because they host photos on a NATO server. Apparently, that's just more proof of NATIZMA.

There you have it; you managed to stumble upon the core truth behind the Russian aggression without even trying.
In reality, Russia is fighting against NATIZMA, and through some bureaucratic blunder or a simple typo where one letter gets swapped, it looks like they're fighting Nazism instead.
Maybe someone from their staff should let them know where the error lies so they can apologize, settle the war reparations, and finally head home to their wives and mothers.

Gregory Ramos3 said:They were pointing to the IP address that the TLD resolves to, which happens to be located at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Even though that's technically wrong, since the links on the page actually point to a subdomain that our buddy mentioned above, which is also hosted on Cloudflare and resolves to a completely different IP.

It's all connected because those DNS records have to point you toward the specific IP where the IIS (the actual site) lives, or to the load balancer sitting in front of the server farm...
(I guess they just gave out the wrong info, kind of like if someone gave me the wrong IP for a major US site like Yahoo or something)

Edit: actually, let me try a better example to make it click..

Take McDonald's, for instance—they have their own zone for mcd.com. For that zone, the SoA DNS servers live right there within McDonald's infrastructure. There are hundreds of web apps out there that belong to McDonald's, but most of them are built by various third-party vendors or services and are hosted externally, even though the records themselves are kept in that specific zone inside McDonald's.

If you run an nslookup on app.mcd.com, you're going to get the IP address of where that application or website is actually being hosted.

But if you run an nslookup for mcd.com, you'll get the IP addresses of the McDonald's DNS servers where that entire zone is managed.

Hopefully, I didn't make that sound way more complicated than it needs to be. 😬

I finally get it now—that hit list for NATO officers is sitting right there on the McDonald's servers. 👍

Donna Harris11 said:They've finally started tearing down and demolishing those monuments dedicated to the fallen Red Army soldiers.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/08/2...onument-brzeg/

I guess those guys are just playing left field again.

The text makes mention of Red Army soldiers.
Have you actually seen those "fallen Red Army soldiers" yourself?

There’s an old Canadian saying involving Kurt and Murta that offers a pretty sharp, if somewhat grim, way to describe exactly what happened to Poland back in '45.
He already took down Kurt, and now he’s coming for Murta.
It’s almost poetic, in a grim sort of way.

The "Ministry of Interior" in Donetsk has taken a direct hit from shelling.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa1mQOoW...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa1mQOKW...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa1kpYeW...jpg&name=large
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...DB07mqnF_0Ofbg

Americans have funneled over $25 million into support efforts for Ukraine. In a poignant gesture, many contributors chose amounts like $1,968 to honor the memory of when their own nation faced foreign occupation decades ago.
In observance of the anniversary of the Soviet occupation, most people sent donations specifically totaling $1,968 or $68.

Last week, the initiative Zbraněproukrajinu.cz encouraged Americans to transfer symbolic amounts tied to the anniversary of the 1968 occupation directly to the Ukrainian Embassy. The campaign’s rallying cry was "Return to them..." Some donors even included deeply personal messages with their contributions. One such note read: “Putin, this is from me and my parents. Back then, they were young and just wanted to live life to the fullest...”

About 14,000 people took part in this humanitarian drive. Most opted for the $1,968 mark, though there were donations of $68, $196.80, and even $19,680. Following discussions with the defense ministries of both nations, these funds are slated to be used for procurement of military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces.

"Americans and those who lived through the 1968 occupation themselves understand the tragedy facing the Ukrainian people as they confront Russian aggression. With the backing of our closest partners—which undoubtedly includes the United States—Ukraine can repel Russian attacks and defend its right to live in freedom and democracy," remarked Vitaliy Usatiy, an advisor at the Embassy of Ukraine.
https://babel.ua/en/news/83282-the-c...-their-country

Here is a summary of the Russian (Soviet) monuments that have been dismantled across Europe since the start of the Russian aggression against Ukraine:

The following have been removed since February 24th:

• On March 23rd, a monument dedicated to Red Army soldiers was taken down in the Polish town of Chrzowice.
• On April 20th, three separate monuments were demolished in the Polish city of Sedlec, along with others in the villages of Garncarsko and Miedzyblotse.
• By April 22nd, a monument honoring Soviet soldiers had been dismantled in Marijampolė, Lithuania.
• On April 26th, a memorial to Soviet troops was removed from the village of Madlīna in Latvia.
• Also on April 26th, the "Soldier" sculpture was removed from a Soviet cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania.
• On April 27th, a sculpture of a Soviet soldier located at the Kleva cemetery in Kedainiai, Lithuania, was dismantled.
• On May 19th, a Soviet obelisk featuring the hammer and sickle was removed in Palanga, Lithuania.
• On May 20th, a monument to Soviet soldiers was torn down in Merkin, Lithuania.
• On July 5th, the Monument to the Soviet Liberators was dismantled in Klaipėda, Lithuania.
• On August 7th, a monument dedicated to the builders of the Narva power plants in Estonia was destroyed.
• On August 8th, the "Peace in the World" monument in Helsinki—which was a gift from Moscow back in 1989 and unveiled the following year—was removed.
• In Narva, Estonia, on August 16th, several items were cleared from public spaces, including commemorative plaques at Petrovsky Square, an obelisk to Red Army soldiers in the Narva Castle park, the Igor Grafov monument, the Three Bayonets monument, and a T-34 tank. Additionally, a monument to a Soviet landing was demolished in the Merikul area.

https://www.agents.media/monuments/

Protests have broken out in Riga following the decision to remove an 80-meter tall Red Army monument.
It was a relatively small gathering, perhaps a few dozen protesters at most. Even then, you had those tiny counter-protests popping up right alongside them.
The demographic reality is that about 27% of the population in Latvia is ethnically Russian.

We are seeing Russia casually admit to committing what essentially qualifies as genocide under the terms of the Genocide Convention—specifically through the forced relocation of children from one group to another.

Russia claims that over 1,000 children from Mariupol have been 'adopted' by families living in remote parts of Russia. Local officials in Krasnodar have reported that more than 1,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied city of Mariupol have "found new families" as far away as Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, and Altai Krai.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/statu...qGVxJ-KRzimt3g

Comment from the same tweet:

According to the FBI, while countless plots against Zelenskyy and others in Ukraine have fallen through, Ukraine’s first attempt in Moscow—targeting someone completely insignificant—actually worked.
It is an extraordinary admission of impotence, assuming there is any truth to it.

Jessica Peterson2 said:No. We all know that Natalya was nothing more than... camouflage. The real star of this little drama was clearly the bloodthirsty ninja known as her twelve-year-old daughter, Sofia.🤦

She isn't just some kid; she represents a specific breed of elite Ukrainian warrior that you see being profiled constantly in Russian state media.
It’s a deceptive thing—you look at her and see a little girl, but in reality, you're looking at a pocket-sized Ukrainian superhero, engineered through American viruses within those specialized biological labs over there.
The newest generation of warfare.

There’s also the matter of Dugin’s own insanity; he is a complete lunatic, and frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the speculation regarding an attempt to liquidate his own child turns out to be the grim reality.

Alexander Dugin is the head of the so-called International Eurasian Movement, which he established back in 2003. He harbors delusions of a global empire that stretches, quite vividly, from Dublin all the way to Vladivostok, led by Russia. Naturally, the antithesis of this empire is the USA, serving as the primary symbol of the hated "West."

To justify this dominant position, he peddles an ideology centered on the superiority of certain European races. What might seem like mere eccentricity actually carries tangible political weight. For instance, in 2014, Dugin was ousted from his position at Moscow State University, a chair that had essentially been created specifically for him. The reason was his incitement of genocide against Ukrainians. During a television interview, he explicitly shouted: "I think you have to kill, kill, and kill!"

In Dugin's view, Ukrainians represent a "degenerate race." At the time, over 10,000 people demanded his removal. After being fired, he worked as an editor for two television channels under the employ of the ultra-nationalist Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. By the spring of 2017, he was forced to step down from that role as well, having become too radical even by the standards of the ultra-nationalists.

In his significant 1992 work, Great Continental War, Dugin presents his interpretation of recent human history. According to him, ancient secret orders of "Atlantic" and "Eurasian" factions have been fighting an "occult pun war" behind the scenes. Within the "Eurasian" group during the 20th century, a split emerged between "Red" and "White Eurasians," with the latter maintaining close ties to German National Socialism.

But why is Dugin considered a generator of ideas for Putin? One answer lies in his membership in the influential Election Club, a circle he belongs to. This group, believed to be funded by interests within the Russian defense industry, published the "Big Breakthrough" strategy in 2013 as its first major report. The points laid out in that report mirror the policies of Vladimir Putin. However, there is no concrete evidence of direct organizational influence over Russian politics, though his ideological impact is undeniable.

https://www.semiosis.at/2018/01/19/r...mmt-nach-wien/

The guy reads like he crawled straight out of some obscure North American tabloid sites.

Perspectives from Sergej Sumlenny, an expert on Eastern Europe:

When we look at the question of "who might be behind the death of Darya Dugina," we really have to untangle several different threads here.
1) Dugina was a dedicated and significant Nazi propagandist and a party member, but she was nowhere near being a superstar in Russia. In Ukraine, she wasn't even a household name;

Her father, Alexander Dugin, was far more prominent. However, he wasn't nearly as influential as he would have us believe. The Kremlin would take his ideas, steal them, co-opt them, and use them, but he himself was never permitted to belong to the inner circle of the Kremlin. He was always essentially a third-rate celebrity;

So, who was the actual target—him or her? The car was registered in the father's name, and according to some of his friends, he was supposed to be the one driving it. It’s entirely possible he was the intended target (given he was the more visible figure). The only way she could have been the target is if HE planned the assassination himself;

Let me elaborate on that. It isn't quite as strange as it might seem. Dugin has always been a philosopher of death cults and sacrifice. He constantly preached that the experience of death is the ultimate reality. He was a harbinger of doom. Within his "Eurasian" ideology, the idea of a powerful Father sacrificing his daughter's life could actually be seen as something titanic—a way to trigger supernatural forces and bolster his own weakened standing. Be like a legendary king. Still, this is just one theory. I just want to say, it’s not unthinkable. What else is on the table?

The Russian FBI or other factions within the Kremlin. I’d say that is the most realistic scenario. There could be two very different motives at play here:
1) Escalating the war by playing the "Ukrainians are killing us in Moscow!" card.
2) An exit strategy designed to tell the hawks to "shut up."

I realize those motives are polar opposites. But that shouldn't surprise anyone. Within the leadership of the FBI, there can be diverging ideologies and conflicting orders. You can easily imagine certain groups wanting to ramp up the conflict while others are looking for a way out.

Dugin could be a target for both groups—because it doesn't actually matter if he was the intended victim (and killed in a successful strike), what matters is the information campaign that follows. Either "We must retaliate!" or "Look at the madness Dugin brought upon us."

Could Ukrainian commandos be behind this attack? I doubt it. Dugin wasn't even among the top-tier Russian propagandists. To Ukrainians, he wasn't the face of Russian aggression. Skabeyeva, Solovyov, Tolstoy, Kiseljov, or Simonjan—any of them would have been a much more logical target.

And, of course, we shouldn't overlook the cannibalistic tendencies within the radical right-wing Russian groups. Could someone there simply hate Dugina? Of course. And do these people know how to plant bombs? Absolutely; many of them have fought in Ukraine. This motive cannot be ignored.

In any case, for practical reasons, it is vital to watch how the Kremlin chooses to spin this news. Even if it wasn't the Kremlin itself, they will certainly exploit the explosion. This attack occurred in a luxury district in Odintsovo, where all the ministers and Putin himself maintain their villas; they will make sure to use it.

We will see very soon what kind of profit the Kremlin (and other far-right elements) will attempt to squeeze out of the death of the Nazi propagandist Darya Dugina.

UPDATE: In an article from April 2020, Alexander Dugin clearly wrote that certain parts of the elite should be cherished for one specific purpose—to be killed (sacrificed) during turbulent times so that society can magically redeem its lost favor with the gods. Sound familiar?


UPDATE 2: On his far-right esoteric website "Arctogaea," Alexander Dugin featured a massive article regarding the ancient mystical tradition of child sacrifice, including the case of a father sacrificing his own daughter: https://t.co/FKInI4rVxI

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Sergej Sumlenny is a journalist, political scientist, and author originally from Russia. While based in Moscow, he worked for the prominent German broadcaster ARD and served as the editor-in-chief for news programming at the Russian business network RBC-TV. His background includes extensive research into post-war German political journalism, supported by a fellowship granted by the German Chancellor. Since 2005, he has been living between Frankfurt and Berlin, contributing his analysis to the leading Russian economic magazine, Expert.

A journalist with deep ties to the oligarch Prigozhin, the financier and alleged head behind the international mercenary outfit Wagner.

This woman has spent her career aggressively pushing the agenda of Russian imperialist policy.

She’s been heavily involved in the coverage of the war in Ukraine and maintains connections to the Russian state mafia...
It makes her more of a target for assassination than most.

Dugina’s daughter proved to be just as much of a carbon copy as her father, Dugin:

Over the course of eight years in Ukraine, Russophobia has been systematically cultivated through various means, effectively rewriting history itself, culminating in the physical liquidation of Russians—much like those same eight grueling years in the Donbas defined by relentless, daily bombardment.

https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/articl...-civilizations