kabe1: Is the video from Russia? Are you blind to see that source is Times?
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Excuse me Sir, do you really think i do not understand that this is a TIME video? Let me restate the problem: You are repeatedly trying to support the Russian "denazification" narrative in this current war (also by posting this video) while not understanding backgrounds of this topic.
Interesting that Russian propaganda that is targeted at Russian people internally works for uneducated folks like you. First of all let me say this: Russians are not brainwashed they are very well taught not to trust everyone even state propaganda. The Nazi narrative was put out to justify any actions on Ukrainian soil under the ideology of Eurasianism which became popular again by Alexander Dugin (a close friend of Putin). Russian Vice-President Medvedev said last week he believes Russia is taking first step in Ukraine "to create a free Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok." Similar to Medvedev, a comment by the state news agency Ria Novosti on Sunday questioned the right of Ukraine and Ukrainians to exist as a people. The author called for generational re-education under Russian control. "Denazification will inevitably mean de-Ukrainization," it said.
This war is about the extermination of Ukraine and Ukrainians - if this is not fascism, what then?
Photos for your entertainment: Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk region and member of Putin’s political party, United Russia, hands a medal to a Russian nazi. Putin's Wagner Group in east Ukraine. Neo-Nazi founder of Wagner Group, Utkin showing SS tattoos, & pictured with Putin. Denazification
Malian army forces + foreign soldiers – identified by several sources as Russians – summarily executed about 300 civilian men, some of them suspected Islamist fighters, in Mali in late March.
Mali: HRW condemns ‘deliberate slaughter’ of 300 men by military
Witnesses told HRW that the Malian army and foreign soldiers killed hundreds of people in the southern town of Moura.
International watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the summary execution of an estimated 300 civilians, including suspected members of armed groups during a military operation conducted by Malian forces and foreign fighters.
The alleged massacre, described in a Tuesday statement by HRW as “the worst single atrocity reported in Mali’s decade-long conflict”, happened in the central Malian town of Moura during a military operation that started on March 27.
“Abuses by armed Islamist groups is no justification at all for the military’s deliberate slaughter of people in custody,” said Corinne Dufka, HRW’s Sahel director.
“The Malian government is responsible for this atrocity, the worst in Mali in a decade, whether carried about by Malian forces or associated foreign soldiers,” she added.
Mass killing is a breach of international law that prohibits abuses against captured combatants and detained civilians, according to Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
On Friday, Mali’s defence ministry issued a statement saying that 203 “terrorists” were killed during an air-land military operation from March 23 to April 3.
The rights group gathered the account of 27 people, including community leaders, diplomats, security analysts and witnesses from Moura – a town of about 10,000 residents that has been the epicentre of violence waged by armed groups since 2012.
HRW concluded that Malian soldiers and foreign fighters, which several sources identified as white non-French speaking soldiers, executed several hundred people in the city in small groups, over the course of several days.
“Over the four days, the soldiers ordered the detained men in groups of four, six, or up to 10, to stand up and walk for between several dozen and several hundred meters,” the HRW report cited a witness as saying.
“There, the Malian and foreign soldiers summarily executed them,” the witness said, adding that some victims were shot in the head, while other groups of men were sprayed by gunfire.
“The sound of gunfire rang out in our village from Monday to Thursday,” one resident reportedly said.
Residents also told HRW that since January many armed foreigners, believed to be Russians, were taking part in military operations in and around the central Malian towns of Sofara, Ségou, Mopti, Diabaly, and Belidanédji among others.
The vast majority of those killed by the Malian military and allied forces, read the report, were men from the pastoralist Peuhl, or Fulani, an ethnic group from which armed groups have heavily recruited in the past.
“The Malian government should urgently and impartially investigate these mass killings, including the role of foreign soldiers,” Dufka said.
“For such investigations to be sufficiently independent and credible, the authorities should seek assistance from the African Union and the United Nations,” she added.
Ukraine is starting to look like Syria, rubble everywhere, Russia thought it would be an easy fight but now they are trapped for a few years.
Tactical withdraw from Kiew - spring mud season coming. Some Russian soldiers started looting on their way back and opened a market in Belarus selling washing machines they took from Ukraine. First world army
Lurker4Long: Murtala Muhammed is worse than last time I was here. My luggage is missing and nobody can tell me where it is. And considering there are holes in the conveyor belt, wouldn't be surprised it just fell off.
Trying to buy some clothes, and none of the shops accept non-Nigerian cards. ATMs can only dispense a maximum of 20 000 naira per transaction, and seeing that I've now withdrawn 5 times, my bank deemed it suspicious -considering the location and the highly unusual behavior; can't remember last time I withdrew cash - and blocked my card.
On a positive note, the local detail have fantastic in trying to iron out issues.
Postscript: My cards work at Shoprite, where I went for toiletries.
I go through Murtala Muhammed next Monday - can`t wait for the adventures that await me this time.
kabe1: The US & NATO attacked Iraq with 309,000 troops in an almost non-contested environment, while you think 130,000 Russian soldiers are supposed to take over all of Ukraine.
Because the RU intelligence service wrongly assumed that Ukraine will fall apart within days (like Afghanistan) when they attack UKR. Once things went out of hands they moved in unprepared troops that that were told to exercise at the border without providing them enough logistics, basic supplies and field engineering units.
And their tactics are just funny: They are still moving tanks on roads and enter urban areas without infantry. WTF? All they do now to minimize their causalities is to level cities with artillery as if this is WW2. As i said earlier this reminds me much of Yugoslavia in the 90s.
I was just a NCO in a mechanized battalion but it is clear that this campaign was a failure right from the beginning.
This is day 30 and since 10 days the Russian army offensive appears to be stalled. In other words this is not going according to their plan because you do not plan an war of attrition.
Kiev is not encircled Weapons reach UKR troops from the western border UKR command and control still effective Moral of the population is not broken Air Superiority?? If they would have they would use fighter bombers and not Cruise Missiles at this point.
It was not in favor for the Russian army to attack Ukraine from 4 directions. The RU Forces are dispersed now, they lack manpower and logistics to advance and take URK key cities (except Mariupol) or dominate contested areas.
Reminds me of the wars in former Yugoslavia. This can go on for months.
kabe1: Atleast 50 terrorists were killed as troops of Operation Desert Sanity successfully cleared Chingori and environs and Alafa, Darusalam, Arkam, Kuraba, Ukuba.
They also recovered many weapons and armoured vehicles in the insurgents enclaves.
Nemesis4you: Still looking for attention like a b*tch in heat , shameless as usual
Funnily wokes r too smart for their own good, dumbasses
Since no relevant counter, play nationality card , gonna be the brave man, play to the crowd to single out the different one, lol that is what street dogs do ( no offense to 4 legged street dogs )
If I were to be a Nigerian having posted the same comment
I guess going by wokie playbook the next card would have been ethnicity
So if I were Igbo or Yoruba or Fulani or Hausa the wokie counter would have been :
"Non of these shown here are uncommon practices in Igbo/ Yoruba/Fulani/ Hausa areas"
Wokies will be wokies dumb weak and pathetic , highly predictable
As for India whatever shiit ( including wokies ) happens around the world happens there too & whatever shiit happens in India (including wokies) happens around the world too, only a idiot or a wokie would think otherwise , don't mistake others for you own shiit self who hold one standard for their masters and another stand for others including own
Jeromejnr: The world is already been divided into two.
Many countries now after observing cancel culture from the west will diversify and come out from putting all their eggs in one basket. (I.e the west)
It's good tho..I hate that a country in the west could just wake up and cancel you, shut your means of livelihood, take possession of your assets e.t.c
Big Tech companies in the U.S have been very annoying and hypocritical with censorship and cancel culture.
Russia is too big and necessary especially to the EU to lose.
please take 2 mins on wikipedia and find what cancel culture is..
kabe1: I think after the first 7 days of the war, the Russians changed tactics. Instead of driving in long columns they have switched to smaller BTG sized movements.
I also notice they have reduced the use of Frontline aviation, instead favouring rocket assisted artillery strikes and cruise missiles.
I read that Russia organized their Army into 600-800 man “Battalion Tactical Groups” BTG of which only 200 are infantry, 200 are tankers and the rest AA/support/artillery. The low number of infantry per group has a real disadvantages in some situations.
In my opinion the commanders are not adapting to the situation fast enough. One example: Instead of dismounted infantry scouting ahead of the group they do armored recon with 1-2 MBTs that again become easy prey for ATGM squads. This might be Commanders incompetence or the RU army does not give them freedom to break the doctrine rules.
kabe1: From the war in Ukraine and our own operations in Nigeria. I have noticed our tracked vehicles are better in handling the terrain with less frequent break-downs.
They also handle mud and bad roads much better than wheeled vehicles.
From the war in Ukraine, we constantly see Ukrainian vehicles on tarred road and less on the dirt. The reverse is the case with Russian who deploy large number of tracked vehicles compared to wheels.
But one surprising observations i made from watching Twitter videos is that the Russians move their tracked vehicles mostly on roads making their operations very predictable for Ukrainian ATGM squads. Are they avoiding the dirt because the spring season that makes the ice melt and the ground too muddy? Is it because of they fear their logistics cannot follow? I wonder why they do not advance more often into enemy territory off road to gain more element of surprise.
The Russians always seem so vulnerable to ambushes, although in the case of this particular ambush, I think the attack was repulsed.
We can see a BTR-82 firing 30mm and 2 rear tanks firing on the Ukrainians.
This Anti-Tank Missile was fired from really close distance maybe 50m or so. Maybe it was kind of an IED were a booby trap triggered the AT to fire while the operators sit in safe distance.
Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
New York (CNN Business)A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon -- one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of Ukraine. The false claim: the United States is developing bioweapons in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin has stepped in to save the day and destroy the weapons. QAnon's core prophecy has always been that there is a "plan" and that former President Donald Trump will rid the world of an evil cabal, culminating in the unmasking, imprisonment or even execution of cabal members. But that prophecy dates back to when Trump was actually president -- now that he's not, believers have been convincing themselves there is evidence that the plan is still very much in place, maybe even more so than ever before. In the Kremlin's disinformation, some have seen that hope. There are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that much is true. But they are not building bioweapons. Actually, it's the opposite: Part of the reason for their creation was to secure old Soviet weapons left behind in the former Soviet republics. The State Department has described the claims as nonsense -- and the US and Ukrainian governments have repeatedly, and for years now, tried to bat down conspiracy theories about the labs and spoken about the work that is actually being done in them
Russia's falsehoods about labs like this have not been limited to Ukraine. Similar claims were made about a lab in Tbilisi, Georgia; those were proven false. Dr. Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science & Security Studies at King's College London, visited the lab along with other experts and debunked the Russian claims. She told CNN the Russians are spreading the same lies about labs in Ukraine.
There is a disinformation machine at work here. It goes a bit like this. The Russian government makes suggestive statements, leaving breadcrumbs that are dutifully repeated by official Russian state media -- and then, increasingly importantly, by dozens of faceless websites (some of which the US has alleged are tied to Russian intelligence). Social media accounts push the idea further, build on it, make it more fantastical -- and those more fantastical claims eventually end up getting picked up by official Russian media and the cycle begins again. Russia has been pushing various bits of disinformation about the US and biological weapons since the Cold War -- infamously publicizing, for instance, the false idea that the US manufactured the HIV/AIDS virus. Matt Field, an editor with the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences, told CNN disinformation about US-supported bio-labs seems to peak when Russia finds itself under increased international scrutiny -- the allegations about the Tbilisi lab, for instance, bubbled up in 2018 amid the international scandal after Russia was found to have poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England. The methods used to spread this kind of disinformation are not new, either. Former KGB agents have said the KGB would plant stories in obscure or small publications in foreign countries and then those stories would be cited as sources in official Russian media. That process can happen a lot more easily today. Instead of having to go to the trouble of convincing an editor at a newspaper to publish disinformation, Russia can push it out on seemingly independent websites that present themselves as news outlets but are no more than Kremlin cut-outs. The US government has identified websites working in tandem with Russia's FSB security service. Russia still plants stories in real outlets too -- for example, in 2017 the leftwing US magazine Counterpunch detailed how it had been duped into running articles under the byline "Alice Donovan," which the US government later confirmed was a fake identity run by GRU Russian military intelligence. Russia does not necessarily need to push its disinformation to QAnon adherents, because the two have enough shared interests. Today, many Americans find themselves in online groups and following accounts that mobilized around QAnon -- there, Russian disinformation is sometimes embraced with enthusiasm. On an American QAnon online radio show broadcast Monday, one host read verbatim from Russian state media reports about biolabs. Over on the show's online discussion forum a person who had intentionally misspelled the word "Patriot" so it would include the letter "Q" wrote, "I had a hunch that these bastards were getting ready to release another bio weapon and we needed SOMEONE to put a stop to it. Putin stepped up. IMO this was part of his deal with DJT." "A central element of conspiracy theory belief systems is the constant refining of narratives and reactions to wider events to support the grand narrative," Ciarán O'Connor, a researcher with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that analyses disinformation, told CNN.
Journalists and government officials have been trying to debunk the falsehoods and spread the truth. Big Tech companies have been trying to stop the conspiracy theory's spread on their platforms, too. But those measures have thus far been no match for the power of belief and the sustained campaign to promote this theory. On Tuesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman helped the Russian effort, making his own suggestion that the US was up to something nefarious at labs in Ukraine. The same official in 2020 promoted the idea that the US military brought Covid-19 to China.
Nemesis4you: News reports coming out regarding USA funding biological labs in Ukraine is upto 200 million dollars
But this I know that USA doesn't allow biological research of dangerous bio agents in own soil due to inherent risks , culpability in case of breakout and post cold war domestic laws forbidding dangerous bio research in US, So to circumvent it , they fund institutions , govt or private in other countries either overtly or covertly
They tried it in ind.. , last year gov almost cancelled the licence of a private institute which had recieved funding from USA for carrying out research on a dangerous bio agent with USA even knowing that the institute didn't have the necessary bio safety level facilities for containing such dangerous bio agents . Moreover the funding was hidden under the name of a different project.
To understand the gravity of such wrong & forbidden research by USA and west in other countries, know that 1 kg pf a highly refined bio agent is enough to kill all humans on the planet , if so engineered .
African countries are always quick to do what us and Europe tells them but if you read the sanctions carefully you will see that they have sanctioned Russian vessels but the oil is not.
The only thing you do with this post is feeding the western narrative of dump Africans. Every serious professional in Africa understands how these sanctions are knitted. African countries should buy OPEC-oil and directly support countries like Nigeria not Russia.
Stormtrooper11: Dailymail UK saying "shamelessly". Damn, I wish people could see the facts. I wish the Nigerian people understand that the western policies ain't in our interest. Nigerians are too pro-western. We believe anything CNN push into us.
I certainly believe our vote at the UN SC has always been our best interest. The fate Russia does not matter to much us because we import nothing of value from them what we could not get from EU or China. They are however an unwanted competitor on the Oil and LNG market because they did refuse to join OPEC. We condemned the US invasion in Iraq at the UN as we condemn the unprovoked attack by Russia on UKR - both actions are in full line with our values.
If African countries would demonstrated the same solidarity with each other as Europeans do in Ukraine we would have be better off. (Same goes for South America and Asia)
kikuyu1: BLM and Antifa were actually George Soros fronts to economically sabotage the unprecedented progress made by Black America. Black America made gains NEVER seen before under Trump. The evidence is OVERWHELMING!
Imo, the Real Rulers of America were panicked at the rising of the darker permanent under class which was accomplished with financial assets far less than Whites. If you or any reliable acquaintance has been to the Black areas of the US the lack of banks and high number of shylocks and usurious pay day loan outfits is striking. Political illiteracy, BLM/Antifa violence, emotional voting patterns and MASSIVE rigging put a handbrake on BA rising prosperity. Pls kill that ignorant noise!
Your immense fantasy is always entertaining. Keep it coming!