>>15969012, >>15969016, >>15969037, >>15969077, >>15969082 Dan Scavino - Moments after 45’s hole-in-one…

This quote from POTUS’s announcement from his hole in one made me chuckle. He said the same thing at the Al Smith charity dinner or something close!

“I am a very modest man”

Kekkity even more:

“I dont like people thar brag!”

Who’s he talking about? Probably Bidan

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brag (brăg)

v. bragged, brag·ging, brags

v.intr.

To talk or write about oneself in a proud or self-impressed way. See Synonyms at boast1.

v.tr.

To say (something about oneself) boastfully.

n.

1. A boast.

2. Arrogant or boastful speech.

3.Games A card game similar to poker.

adj. brag·ger, brag·gest

Exceptionally fine.

>>15969219 Ukraine's Military Intelligence Chief Says "Total Guerrilla Warfare" Coming Next

Good thing Ukraine told the Russians what they were going to dolast I heard Ukraine has a bigger fighting force than Russia

Strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare

The main strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare tend to involve the use of a small attacking, mobile force against a large, unwieldy force. The guerrilla force is largely or entirely organized in small units that are dependent on the support of the local population. Tactically, the guerrilla army makes the repetitive attacks far from the opponent's center of gravity with a view to keeping its own casualties to a minimum and imposing a constant debilitating strain on the enemy. This may provoke the enemy into a brutal, excessively destructive response which will both anger their own supporters and increase support for the guerrillas, ultimately compelling the enemy to withdraw. One of the most famous examples of this was during the Irish War of Independence. Michael Collins, leader of the Irish Republican Army, often used this tactic to take out squads of British soldiership. Mainly in Munster, such as Cork.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_and_tactics_of_guerrilla_warfare

Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

PROBLEMS OF STRATEGY IN GUERRILLA WAR AGAINST JAPAN

Anti-Guerrila Warfare

May 1938

[In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, many people inside and outside the Party belittled the important strategic role of guerrilla warfare and pinned their hopes on regular warfare alone, and particularly on the operations of the Kuomintang forces. Comrade Mao Tse-tung refuted this view and wrote this article to showthe correct road of development for anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare. As a result, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which had just over 40,000 men when the War of Resistance began in 1937, grew to a great army of one million by the time Japan surrendered in 1945, established many revolutionary base areas, played a great part in the war and thus, throughout this period, made Chiang Kai-shek afraid to capitulate to Japan or launch a nation-wide civil war. In 1946, when Chiang Kai-shek did launch a nation-wide civil war, the People's Liberation Army, formed out of the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies, was strong enough to deal with his attacks.]

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_08.htm

29 Mar, 2022 12:00

Russia to ‘drastically’ cut military activity near Ukrainian capital

Moscow said the move was for the sake of successful peace negotiations

Interesting is this in response to the Ukraine Guerrila Warfare statement?Russia probably knew where they would employ those tactics?

Russia has “drastically” reduced its military activity near Kiev and Chernigov as talks with Ukraine enter the “practical” stage, the deputy minister of defense Alexander Fomin announced on Tuesday.

Speaking to the press following the talks with the Ukrainian delegation, Fomin said that “a decision was made to drastically, in several times, reduce the military activity on the approaches to Kiev and Chernigov.”

“We expect that relevant key decisions will be taken in Kiev and the conditions for further normal work will be created,” he said.

Fomin called on Ukraine “to fully abide by the Geneva Conventions, including with regard to the humane treatment of prisoners of war.”

He explained that this decision was taken due to the fact that “negotiations on the preparation of an agreement on the neutrality and non-nuclear status of Ukraine, as well as on the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine” are entering “the practical phase.”

Reduction of Russian forces’ activity is poised “to increase mutual trust and to create the necessary conditions for the further development of negotiations and the achievement of the ultimate goal of agreeing and signing the agreement,” Fomin said.

Further details will be announced by the Russian General Staff upon the return of the Russian delegation from Istanbul, where the negotiations were taking place, to Moscow.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552902-moscow-reduce-military-activity-kiev/

29 Mar, 2022 15:03

Russia blames US for massive cyberattacks

Moscow repels hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks every day, the Foreign Ministry has said

The US and its allies have put together international “offensive cyber-forces” and unleashed them on Russia in response to its military offensive in Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has said.

Russian government institutions, media outlets and critical infrastructure are “subjected to powerful blows with the use of advanced information and communication technologies,” the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of such attacks are being registered in Russia on a daily basis. They’re carried out by a sort of “offensive cyber-forces,” which were put together by the US at the suggestion of Kiev, it added.

According to Moscow, the “unprecedented scale” of the attacks suggests the operation is being conducted not only by Ukrainian cyber-units that are trained by the Americans and NATO, but also by “anonymous hackers and provocateurs” who answer to the backers of the Kiev government.

The statement said the actions of this “army of cyber-mercenaries” who are assigned special missions against Russia “border on open terrorism.”

The Russian agencies have so far been able to “effectively resist” those attacks, it added.

Such aggression against Moscow is going to lead to “grave consequences for its masterminds and perpetrators.”Those responsible for the cyberattacks will be tracked down and held responsiblefor their actions in accordance with the law, the Foreign Ministry warned.

https://www.rt.com/news/552914-cyberattacks-ukraine-us-nato/

29 Mar, 2022 14:53

Ukrainian priest kidnapped by group of armed men – reports

Videos emerge from a Moscow-affiliated church in Ukraine, where a priest was dragged away by Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces

A priest in the town of Smila in central Ukraine was kidnapped by a group of armed men on Monday. The incident occurred in the middle of service and was captured on video by stunned churchgoers. The footage quickly made its way across social media, with many reporting it as Ukrainian nationalists assaulting and kidnapping a pro-Russian priest.

In the video, alleged members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces can be seen assaulting and forcefully dragging away the priest, as well as another man who was reportedly trying to aid him in the confrontation.

The incident occurred at the Church of the Intercession, which is part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is still loyal to the Moscow Patriarchy.

It comes amid an ongoing rift between Ukrainian churches. Since the early 1990s, some clerics have been breaking away from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and joining the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine under the Kiev Patriarchy (OCU), rejecting historic ties with Russia.

In recent years, the rift has been characterized by forceful takeovers of some temples in Ukraine by Kiev-allied worshipers and activists, which the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has decried as “wild.”

Last week, Ukrainian lawmakers introduced a bill to parliament calling for the complete ban of the Moscow Patriarchy on the territory of Ukraine and the seizure of all its assets within the country.

A representative of UOC-MP, Archpriest Vasyl Vozniuk, who is the secretary of the Cherkasy Diocese, issued a statement regarding the kidnapping, saying the provocation was carried out at the behest of a group of local priests, led by Father Nikolai Seredich, who has been inciting “schismatic actions” by demanding the temple break away from its Russian counterpart and join the OCU.

“In recent weeks, several priests from Smila, without consulting or informing their colleagues – most of the clergy of the Smila denomination and their own parishioners, began to incite each other and readers from the internet to schismatic actions,” he said.

Vozniuk claims that the church tasked Father Vasyl Miroshnychenko with quelling the discord in the Smilan church, however, the insurrectionists apparently accused him of harboring pro-Russian sentiments and invited a group of armed men to forcefully remove Father Vasyl. Some of these “people with weapons” are reportedly still “on duty” near the temple.

The statement from the secretary goes on to claim that Father Vasyl is currently “alive and well” and “continues the service and confession of the clergy of the Smilansky denomination,” while Seredich, who has been accused of inciting armed people to use violence against the priest, has been banned from the priesthood pending an investigation into this incident.

Nevertheless, the video of the incident has quickly gone viral, and many have been expressing outrage over the actions of the Ukrainian territorial defense forces members. The head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, has issued an investigation into the matter, which has been declared a kidnapping, with the goal of “identifying the persons involved.”

The incident comes as Moscow is currently carrying out a military operation in Ukraine. However, the village of Smila has not seen any combat during this period, although some parts of the Cherkasy region have experienced shelling from both Russian and Ukrainian forces.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552915-ukrainian-priest-kidnapped-video/

How the Bolsheviks tried to destroy the Russian Orthodox ChurchHISTORY

MARCH 29 2022 ALEXANDRA GUZEVA

Religion and the Orthodox Church in particular were serious obstacles for the creation of the new Soviet man. That’s why the Bolsheviks declared war on the “opiate of the masses.”

Even before the Bolsheviks had fully established power over the entire country, they set about eliminating everything that belonged to the “old regime.” The priesthood and traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church were perceived by the new regime as part and parcel of the old system of values. In fact, the Bolsheviks wanted to destroy the people’s old religious dependence in order to create a new one: faith in communism and its leaders.

Opiate of the masses

The Church was an important part of life in Imperial Russia. It was in charge of birth and death statistics, the institution of marriage, and maintaining the parishioners' morals. In many ways the Church had transformed from a guardian of spiritual life into a rigid bureaucratic institution integral to the functioning of the state system….

https://www.rbth.com/history/334890-bolsheviks-destroyed-orthodox-church

29 Mar, 2022 14:38

EU threatens to block Russian oil supplies to Serbia

Croatian pipeline operator says sanctions don’t allow it to provide oil shipments to Serbian oil company owned by Russia’s Gazprom

Croatian state-owned oil pipeline operator JANAF said it will halt oil supplies to Serbian oil and gas company NIS starting mid-May, due to the latest sanctions introduced by the EU against Russia.

Russia’s Gazprom owns a 56.15%-share in NIS, which is one of the largest oil and gas companies in southeast Europe. The corporation is focused on exploration, production and processing of oil and gas, as well as the production and retail of petroleum products. The Serbian government owns a 29.87% stake in the company.

In January, JANAF signed a crude-oil transportation deal with NIS for 2022. The Serbian company reserved JANAF capacities for transportation of around 3.2 million tons of crude oil for the full year. However, JANAF will be unable to continue transport to Serbia after May 15 under this contract unless EU sanctions on Russian companies are lifted, the Croatian operator said in a filing to the Zagreb bourse.

It is not possible at the moment to estimate the potential duration and the future intensity of sanctions against Russia, and so it's hard to evaluate all the effects of these measures on JANAF’s performance and whether they are going to jeopardize its financial position in 2022, the company added.

One of the sanctioned Russian companies is Gazprom Neft, together with the subsidiaries in which it has more than 50% ownership. The ban on cooperation with Gazprom Neft impacts Serbia because its oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) is majority-owned by the Russian company.

The ban implies NIS cannot continue to buy Russian oil from European companies like the big traders such as Glencore and Vitol.However, the new sanctions do not prevent EU members from importing Russian crude.

NWO strategy take from the poor and give to the rich

https://www.rt.com/business/552917-eu-blocks-russian-oil-serbia/

29 Mar, 2022 15:01

Italian official fired for supporting Russia

Group think enforced

Stefano Gizzi has had his powers revoked after he published a photo of the letter ‘Z’ and expressed solidarity with Moscow

Stefano Gizzi, the Councilor for Culture in the commune of Ceccano, Italy has had his powers revoked after sparking outrage by publicly expressing support for Russia in a now-deleted Facebook post.

The official shared a picture of the letter ‘Z’, which is now associated with Russia’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine, as it has appeared on Russian tanks and vehicles participating in the operation, and wrote: “Solidarity with Russia, the Ribbon of St. George, victorious over the Dragon.”

The post was apparently taken down by Facebook shortly after it was published, but it nevertheless managed to spark a wave of outrage, as several of Gizzi’s fellow politicians, including from his own ‘Lega’ party, called for him to be fired and for the Mayor of Ceccano to distance himself from Gizzi and his “shameful” and “intolerable declaration.”

Regional councilor Mauro Buschini wrote that Gizzi, “Must apologize. To the Ukrainian people, to women raped and killed, to children who are terrified, killed or abandoned, to all those who have lost their lives or forced to flee to other countries.”

Ceccano Mayor Roberto Caligiore has now officially revoked the powers of Gizzi, in what some have described asa witch hunt against pro-Russian sentiments, as most Italian politicians have taken a harsh stance against Russia amid the ongoing conflict in

Last week, Italian officials seized over $882 million in assets belonging to wealthy Russians that were placed on the EU blacklists, as relations between the two countries have been sharply deteriorating.

Anti-Russian statements in the Italian media have meanwhile been boiling over to the extreme, with one newspaper, La Stampa, receiving a formal complaint from Russia’s ambassador to Italy last week over its headline questioning the possibility of assassinating Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the ambassador claiming it was a violation of the Italian criminal code, as incitement to commit a crime is a punishable offense.

https://www.rt.com/news/552919-italian-official-fired-russia/