Post by Henosis SagePost by MaplinPost by Henosis SagePost by Henosis SagePost by Henosis SageThe truth rarely matters .. here's proof.
https://cf2r.org/documentation/la-situation-militaire-en-ukraine/
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/
again reiterates how dysfunctional and corrupt (and incompetent as well) the MSM, news media, western media, social media and the extremely undemocratic western " democratic politics " has become.
the liars rule the day ... every day.
" Today we are in the management of perception, it is no longer the truth that matters ,”
"Americans will be able to access all the personal data of Europeans"
https://www-francesoir-fr.translate.goog/videos-lentretien-essentiel/eric-denece?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
– Western intelligence ignored by policy makers
The military documents found with Ukrainian headquarters in the south of the country confirm that Ukraine was preparing to attack the Donbass [with 60,000 plus troops inside the ukraine held donbass sector ] and that the shots observed by OSCE observers from February 16 announced an imminent outbreak in the days when the weeks.
Here, a reflection is necessary for Westerners: either their intelligence services did not see what was happening and they are very bad, or the political decision-makers have chosen not to listen to them. We know that Russian intelligence services have far superior analytical capabilities than Western services. We also know that the American and German intelligence services had understood the situation very well since the end of 2021, and knew that Ukraine was preparing to attack Donbass.
This allows us to deduce that American and European political leaders deliberately pushed Ukraine into a conflict that they knew would be lost, for the sole purpose of dealing a political blow to Russia.
The reason Zelensky did not deploy his forces on the Russian border and repeatedly asserted that his larger neighbor would not attack him was presumably that he thought he was relying on Western deterrence. This is what he confided to CNN on March 20 : he was clearly told that Ukraine would not be part of NATO, but that publicly it seems the opposite! So Ukraine was exploited to affect Russia. The objective being the closure of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline, announced on February 8 by Joe Biden during the visit of Olaf Scholz and which was followed by a shower of sanctions.
https://cf2r-org.translate.goog/documentation/le-point-sur-la-situation-militaire-en-ukraine-au-25-mars-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
best read the whole article .... now 2 weeks out of date ...
those 60k plus ukrainian troops/militias are now surrounded by russian, chechen and donbass military ..... caught in a trap .... the western politicians ... especially the usa/nato are lying through their teeth ...
and do read this in full if want to know the truth and not the fiction
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/
So to clarify... you believe this to mean that Russia's reason for
invading Ukraine was to prevent, or because of the threat of, Ukraine's
apparently imminent invasion of the Donbas region? (I'm assuming by
"Donbas/Donbass" the article means the short name for the Donets Basin area)
hey maplin, how goes it?
I can't know for sure of anything.
including russias specific reasons who what when why etc but the distorted massaged propaganda we've all been fed about ukraine is fairly clear to me. one doesn't need to dig very far to find the inconsistencies in the narrative. but helps to have solid grounding in the historical facts leading up to now and an ability to remain skeptical rather than having ones emotions manipulated by rhetoric and vision. hard to do ...
I guess it often depends on how much faith and belief people choose to place on the USA/nato/media pronouncements of what is.
because no matter how many times the US and the media have been caught out people continue to accept what they say at face value with nary a thought.
the idea that the mass grave in the church grounds is done by the russians or is a war crime is simply ludicrous. it defies credibility and all reason. there's photos of ukrainians medicos standing on the side of the pit when it was first being used, for dead people in body bags ..... it is as dangerous as hell to automatically believe what one is shown on social media and news reports during a war in a war zone. Syria included.
Post by MaplinIf so you're absolutely right that the whole appearance in the media of
the Russian invasion is totally distorted. But, they're right about one
thing, it's been a horrific and cruel way to run a war. I was expecting
the type of modern, precisely targeted operation that's over in a week,
and all the targets being critical institutions. But what's happening to
the cities and civilians is really shocking. Russia does have a long
history of using chaos against civilian targets, but I honestly expected
something more like the Iraq wars... a dagger in the heart of the
country, not this kind of Syria-style flattening of everything in sight.
I think the " modern, precisely targeted operations" only happen on tv. none of these wars are clean. they are heavily redacted for consumption imho. how much video have you seen of the us/saudi air strikes on yemen? or libya and in syria so on.
why do people assume the actions of the ukrianians causes no deaths or destruction of their own country? only assad does things like that? don't think so.
if our criminal justice system operated like political media hype about genocide war crimes who did what when in ukraine no one would be safe from false imprisonment anywhere.
the ' empire' and 'lies' truly rules the world today . apparently many really like it. i cannot see anything is going to stop it.
i believe the world has gone mad ..... those that rule it and the masses as well... especially in the west so dominated it is by empire.
as per
The Wise King
By Kahlil Gibran
Once there ruled in the distant city of Wirani a king who was both
mighty and wise. And he was feared for his might and loved for
his wisdom.
Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and
crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank, even the king
and his courtiers; for there was no other well.
One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured
seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, “From this
hour he who drinks this water shall become mad.”
Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord
chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, even as the witch
had foretold.
And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the
market places did naught but whisper to one another, “The king is
mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason.
Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him.”
That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the
well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
to his lord chamberlain to drink.
And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.
anyway .... shouldn't impact wa much, keep making music and ignore it is best.
cheers sean
No you're right of course, everything we see and read is all filtered
through someone's agenda. And yes, there's something inconsistent going
on with the footage of those mass graves. Of course war IS a messy,
dirty business and I guess there's no such thing as clean war. The
moment it starts, is a failure. It's never supposed to come to that.
WA is once again doing relatively well. The days of zero COVID were nice
but that ended by New Year. We're getting our wave now but even so, the
numbers aren't as out of control as we feared. People are dying but not
in the numbers they could have done. I guess having that chance to be
prepared was a help. I'm still glad it's not me having to make the big
decisions.
Last week I was able to get back to my live gigs, after just over a
month without. That's been a great feeling, doing what I enjoy for a
living again. Poor Melbourne is really the home of live music in
Australia, more so than Sydney, and they had the worst and longest
closures of all. I was worried there wouldn't be the crowds to make it
viable for the venues but we've actually been well attended, they should
be catching up with what they had to lose during that time.
I ordered yet more fancy mics and once again was lucky. I got what seems
to be the last matched pair of a type I really wanted and at a great
price. When I search for them now I can't find another pair in stock at
any supplier. I can't help thinking that they're going to have a hard
time getting any more stock out of Russia for a while; rightly or
wrongly they're not in the good books of world opinion. With sanctions
ratcheting up ever tighter I would expect the German distributor not to
be able to get much more stock.
It's amazing, I only sent the money just over 48 hours ago and the mics
just cleared customs in Perth after starting in Germany, and on Good
Friday too! Now I guess it'll be a week to travel the last 3 suburbs to
my place as before, never mind. I've been using the last ones I bought
in my live work and am amazed at what they can do. I bought them for the
new recording venture but for live music they give me a fresh sound for
rock bands that I just haven't heard on this small scale of show before.
It's a sound made fashionable by the rock revival of the early 2000's
and gives me a real advantage in my rather specialised trade. But more
importantly, it's just a pleasure. You know I love what I do, and here I
have this exciting and new facet of it to enjoy. I think the bands and
venues appreciate having someone who wants to do a good job and gets
involved, I just want to avoid what I call "grumpy old sound guy
syndrome". They can be difficult and unapproachable, I think because
it's easy to get jaded by too many years in the pubs with the drunks.
But I keep away from all that and just think about the music. To me it's
a privilege.
I've also been working installing the audio cabling in a friend's home
studio. He's a composer making music for TV, web ads and all sorts of
stuff, and he's young and positive and good at what he does. I met him
at my night job because he plays in a great little rock band on the
weekends. It's nice to work in good company doing something interesting
too. It's only a short job but a nice one to get.
Thanks Sean, hope you're keeping well. I appreciate our exchanges, here
we are with the whole world at our fingertips and mostly all I can find
is trolls, abuse and childishness. Who needs it, I say.