WATERFORD man Marcus Cantwell remains confident that the conflict in Ukraine should be over and done with in a matter of days when Russian president Vladimir Putin realises the error of his ways ‘as any sane man would do’.
Although Cantwell erroneously maintained that Putin wouldn’t dare invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to Putin invading Ukraine, the 45-year-old is certain that the Russian premier’s talk of ‘nuclear this’ and ‘destruction that’ is just a distraction tactic to buy time, or something.
Although admitting that he possesses only a passing understanding of the machinations of geopolitics, the father-of-three is certain that the Ukrainian war will wrap itself up without any further escalation, based purely on that being his desired outcome.
“Putin isn’t a mad man,” stated Cantwell, based on absolutely fucking nothing.
“And yeah, okay I might have previously said that he wouldn’t amass forces along the Ukraine border and even if he did, he wouldn’t invade and even if he did that, he wouldn’t let the situation get to the point where the end of the world would become a stark possibility.
But y’know, come on. Let’s think about this. He wouldn’t push the button, right? Right? Somebody back me up on this, I need to be able to sleep at night and right now, denial is all I have”.
While Mr. Cantwell has chosen denial as his weapon of choice to get through the next few months, many more have understandably opted to go down the ‘shit-trousers-all-the-time’ route.
The US government has a long history of fun and interesting advice when it comes to imminent death.
By Tyler Durden, illustrations added. Shared with thanks.
Now they have backed Russia into a corner.
The only military area Russia has equality or superiority is that of Nuclear Weapons.
Now its partly banned from SWIFT, which they have said in the past is an Act Of War.
Yesterday they put their Nukes on Highest Alert.
Meanwhile, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has issued updated guidance to its “Nuclear Explosion” readiness public awareness website, which includes tips to avoid Covid!
“Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation. It takes time for fallout to arrive back to ground level, often more than 15 minutes for areas outside of the immediate blast damage zones.
“A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning,” reads the page, which was updated on Friday.
We’re only four days into Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and yet the propaganda cogs are whirring fast as lightning, churning out “news”, opinion and content grist for the media mill.
In just the last 48 hours dozens of stories, images, narratives and videos have circulated as being taken from the fighting in Ukraine, a huge percentage of which are fake.
Now, some of it could be attributed to misunderstandings, mistaken identity, misattribution…but many and most are likely deliberate deceptions designed to provoke a response. Let’s dive right in.
1. “The Ghost of Kiev”
Early Friday morning it was reported that a single Ukrainian plane, a MiG-29, was patrolling the skies above Kiev. The English speaking press called the unnamed pilot “The Ghost of Kiev”, and claimed he had downed 6 Russian jets in air-to-air combat in less than 2 days, making him an official Fighter Ace, and probably one of the fastest to ever earn that title.
The trouble is there is almost no evidence this happened at all. To quote Newsweek:
There is zero evidence the “Ghost of Kyiv” exists”.
Neither side can confirm Russia has lost six planes in total, let alone to one man inside a single day. And a video alleged to be “the Ghost” in combat – shared by the Ukrainian Armed Forces – is confirmed to actually be footagetaken from a video game.
Nevertheless, he already has his own Wikipedia page. A testament to how fast a lie can move while the truth is putting its boots on.
The problem with that is it’s not Kiev, it’s Moscow. And it’s not today, it’s two years ago. It’s footage of what is likely a rehearsal for the 2020 Victory Day Parade flyover.
3. “Zelenskiy visiting the troops”
Possibly no politician in history has had a PR makeover quite as fast as Vlodomyr Zelenskiy. Last week he was just some guy, this week he’s a war hero, there’s talk of building statues of the man. A (not at all staged) “leaked” phone call had him turning down the US offer of an airlift to safety.
Twitter is dotted with people sharing photos of him in combat fatigues, comparing him favourably to Trump and Trudeau and asking “what other leaders would fight alongside their troops?”
This is President Zelensky. He is a brave man fighting shoulder to shoulder with his people. This man was blackmailed and extorted by Trump, who is a corrupt criminal and a coward. So yes, if I have to pay more for a gallon of gas, democracy is worth it. #UkraineStrongpic.twitter.com/4J8x8FnTZH
More than a billion dollars are held in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s accounts abroad.
This was announced by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Opposition Platform – Party For Life Ilya Kiva.According to him, Zelensky has accumulated $1.2 billion in the Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika in Costa Rica during the two and a half…
”This war has been mercilessly murdering an innocent population for 8 years while everyone .. looked the other way. Your ‘No to War’ signs cruelly arrive too late and at the indirect service of NATO interests”.
by Ramiro Gómez at La Haine. rough translation by theFreeonline 02/26/2022 Article by a member of the Rubén Ruiz Ibarruri Brigade and participant in the Banda Bassotti Antifascist Caravan (la Caravana Antifascista)
I am writing this trying to contain the anger and indignation that the reactions of the western left and society in general produce in me about the Russian counterattack against Ukraine.
Honestly, I’m not expecting much from this. I have more than proven that there is no one more blind than the one who does not want to see, and that no matter how much you all repeat a thousand times that the TV…
”This war has been mercilessly murdering an innocent population for 8 years while everyone .. looked the other way. Your ‘No to War’ signs cruelly arrive too late and at the indirect service of NATO interests”.
by Ramiro Gómez at La Haine. rough translation by theFreeonline 02/26/2022 Article by a member of the Rubén Ruiz Ibarruri Brigade and participant in the Banda Bassotti Antifascist Caravan (la Caravana Antifascista)
I am writing this trying to contain the anger and indignation that the reactions of the western left and society in general produce in me about the Russian counterattack against Ukraine.
Honestly, I’m not expecting much from this. I have more than proven that there is no one more blind than the one who does not want to see, and that no matter how much you all repeat a thousand times that the TV manipulates, you continue dancing to the rhythm set by the Western mass media.
Since yesterday I have seen social networks full of NO TO WAR signs from which you have removed the almost 20 years of cobwebs since the Iraq war.
I could say that those same posters have been forgotten at the bottom of the drawer of infamy, while Israel massacred Palestine. While the US devastated Afghanistan, or Libya, in massive bombings that have caused the death of more than 150,000 people, including thousands of children.
Deaths that the US has refused to investigate. But saying all this would be too easy. I could say that when the media told you again, that as with Libya you had to intervene in Syria, you have kept quiet while the US attacked a sovereign country and plundered its oil reserves.
Sonia, 14, has experienced numerous attacks in and on her way to school in eastern Ukraine./ Unicef
I could also say that so far in February 2022, there have been deaths in Palestine, in Damascus due to Israeli bombing, as well as in Yemen or Somalia. And your anti war placards were still forgotten.
I could also say that Western policies have caused a constant genocide in Mediterranean waters, but it would be … demagoguery. It is obvious that there are deaths that matter, and others that do not.
As Malcolm X said, be careful with the media because if you don’t you will end up defending the oppressors.
But I want to focus on the war that broke out in Ukraine in 2014, to which your bland posters are 8 years late. Everyone can get confused, we can all make mistakes, but it is also possible that there is something more perverse than just”carelessness”.
Donbass ruins. 8 year siege.
Having memory is something very important, and more so in a society that manufactures throwaway conflicts for which most people only act by putting a fashionable avatar on their profile picture, which days later with the appearance of any news of the pink press, soccer or any bullshit expires on infertile soil.
First of all, it must be understood that a war today does not appear out of nowhere and that many of us understand that the global war began a long time ago. Another thing is that the media from which we feed, decides what the weather is like, or what conflicts exist or do not exist, but there are many corners of the world that have been at war for years and are made invisible because economic interests favor the US-NATO Western alliance.
For years, NATO-USA has been failing in its commitment and building military bases, establishing its troops there along the Russian border, with the intention of weakening and besieging the Eurasian countries that could compete with the dollar and the euro.
It’s as easy as looking for NATO bases around the world on a map and you’ll see how military harassment movements have been going on for years.
The Ukraine War is just one more chapter in a much longer series and it is essential to keep it in mind when analyzing the events of the last few days.
First of all, and to prevent the rat children from appearing, I will say that Putin disgusts me, and that Russia is not the USSR and its policies have nothing to do with its Soviet past, but I refuse to focus on Russia, because I consider that it is putting the axis of the balance in the wrong place and that it can only give rise to manipulated positions.
When the Maidan movement emerged in 2013 as a supposed social response to political corruption, the workers and miners of the Donbass viewed it with sympathy, despite the fact that they were involved in a coal strike, in cities long abandoned by the administrations, which was very far from the life of the capital.
From here we also saw the images of the massive demonstrations in Kiev and how they faced a lot of violence against the police.
So far, everything was going well. The red and black flags gave it a nice touch so that for a society of entertainment like ours, we would start applauding the symbols and supporting those movements.
Things started to go wrong when the protesters attacking the police were in paramilitary uniforms and Nazi symbols began to appear on their shields. Something was beginning to smell bad.
The red and black flag turned out to be the symbol of the Ukrainian insurgent army of the Nazi Stepan Bandera, who allied himself with the German Nazis in World War II, carrying out massacres of his Jewish Ukrainian compatriots, which even scandalized the Germans themselves.
It is curious to see how if someone throws a stone at the police in the Basque Country, Catalonia or Madrid, they are little less than a terrorist, and when someone burns a police officer alive in Venezuela or Ukraine, they are an activist for freedom.
The fact is that the events that followed were known to all. President Yanukovych (another corrupt one, like any other) left Ukraine and the coup installed a recognized fascist like Poroshenko.
The Nazis took to the streets. Little by little it would be discovered that such protests were supported by briefcases of American dollars that they inflated to raise that monster of war.
The violence since then has been savage and daily. The first thing they did was go to the communist and anti-fascist headquarters and destroy them. The armed Nazi groups came to all the assemblies, and said, either with us or we will kill you. Many fled and moved away, other so-called comrades joined the Nazi ranks in pursuit of the Unity of Ukraine. Horrible, but that’s how it was.
