30 May, 2023 19:05

UK backs Ukrainian terror attack on Moscow

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said it’s Kiev’s “legitimate right” to strike within Russia’s borders

In the aftermath of a drone attackon residential buildings in Moscow, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said that Ukraine has a right to “project force” beyond its borders. Among Ukraine’s Western backers, Britain has led the charge to arm Kiev with long-range weaponry.

Speaking to reporters in Estonia on Tuesday, Cleverly said that Ukraine has a “legitimate right to defend itself,” and can “project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia's ability to project force into Ukraine itself.”

Striking “legitimate military targets” within Russia is a viable self-defense tactic for Kiev’s forces, Cleverly added.

None of the eight drones usedin Tuesday morning’s attack on Moscowhit military targets. Three were suppressed by electronic warfare measures and deviated from their intended course before crashing, while five were shot down by Pantsir-S air defense systems outside the city, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, describing the drone raid as “a terrorist attack” by “the Kiev regime.”

Several residential buildings were damaged and two people suffered minor injuries in the attack.

In a separate incident on Tuesday morning, the Ukrainian militaryshelled a civilian shelterin Russia’s western Belgorod Region, leaving several people dead and injured, the region’s governor said in a statement.

The attacks came afterRussia launched a heavy barrage of missiles and dronesat Ukrainian airfields, ammunition dumps, and “decision-making centers” responsible for plotting similar terrorist actions, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday that the headquarters of the Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) was among the decision-making centers hit.

In Washington, the White House issued a more cautious response to the drone attack. “As a general matter, we do not support attacks inside of Russia,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement.

(No one in any of these countries ever cared that Ukraine Nazis were killing innocent civilians since 2014, now they pretend it’s justifiable. These people love death.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/577166-uk-drone-attack-moscow/

(It’s pretty clear with that choice of DeSadist picture, RT doesn’t think it’s possible he can do it)

30 May, 2023 21:50

DeSantis (the Clown) vows to ‘destroy leftism’ in US

The Florida governor promised his constituents he would do what former president Donald Trump couldn’t

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vowed to wipe out the Left if elected president of the US in 2024 during an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday.

“I will defeat leftism in this countryand leave woke ideology on the dustbin of history [sic],” the Republican candidate promised in response to a question from one of the hosts regarding why he didn’t simply wait until former president and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump finished what his supporters assume would be an easy second term to win without the Florida governor’s interference.(He sounds like he’s wants to be Cultural President of the US, not President of the US and Commander in Chief, how are this policy goals, it’s bullshit.)

Boasting about his “ability to win huge swathes of voters that Republicans typically can’t win while also delivering the boldest agenda anywhere in the country,” DeSantis vowed to not only triumph over incumbent Joe Biden but to serve two terms in office as president. (That statement makes absolutely NO SENSE. His polling has him at 12% to max 16% what large swaths could he win?)

He also referenced his lawfare crusade against Disney, reminding his hosts that Trump had taken the side of the entertainment giant and declaring, “A multibillion-dollar company that sexualizes children is not consistent with the values of Florida.”

The Republican candidate has attracted considerable conservative support by depicting himself as a moral crusader against the rising tides of wokeness, pushing back against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, critical race theory and gender ideology in schools after winning the loyalty of Floridians by keeping their state largely open during the Covid-19 pandemic. (But can he negotiate with World Leaders and prevent a war)

However, he has struggled to set himself apart from Trump ideologically, so much so that political ads his campaign released when he was running for governor lightly mocked his platform’s resemblance to that of the 45th president. His decision to run for president has also polarized Republicans living in Florida, some of whom believe he is prioritizing his national campaign over finishing out his second term as governor.

DeSantis launched his campaign last week in a Twitter Spaces event widely panned as a failure, though the technical difficulties that plagued the event were presumably no fault of the candidate’s. On Tuesday, he followed up with a real-world launch in Iowa, the site of the first primary of the election season.

A poll published on Friday revealed Trump is still the odds-on favorite for the Republican nomination, with 43% of likely primary voters favoring the former president. DeSantis trails with 18%, and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who also announced his candidacy last week, is gaining on the Florida governor with 12% of the vote. Another 10% favored former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

https://www.rt.com/news/577172-desantis-destroy-left-trump-candidacy/

30 May, 2023 21:57

UK spy chief names Russia ‘biggest threat’

Pivoting to China should wait until 2030, military intelligence head Adrian Bird has said

Moscow will remain the principal threat to London until the end of the decade, UK Defence Intelligence chief Adrian Bird said on Tuesday, in a rare public appearance at a Royal United Services Institute event.

“The UK’s non-discretionary security priority must be our home region of the Euro-Atlantic, and here we assess that Russia will remain the greatest threat to the UK mainland out to 2030,” Bird said.

He did not elaborate why the spies thought Russia would stop being a threat after that point. From 2030 onward, Bird argued, “China will present the greatest challenge to the UK’s overseas interests and economic security.”

London should be “alive long-term to the challenges being presented by China,” said Bird, because it will “compete more directly with the UK across our areas of interest and will be capable of disrupting supplies of key technologies and materials,” such as semiconductors, microchips and rare earth minerals.

He described China’s military, intelligence, space and cyber capabilities as posing an “increasing threat” to the UK.

Bird told the audience at the influential think-tank that the security of Europe is “indivisible from that of the wider world,” citing issues such as climate change and disease. He argued that Britain was facing interconnected and increasingly complex threats, driven by geopolitical instability, state competition, and “rapidly accelerating technological advances” such as artificial intelligence.

AI technology will drive “faster decision making in future conflicts,” Bird argued, and revealed that DI is already using machine learning in some capacity. British military intelligence is hoping to use the AI to process the raw information fast enough, something its human employees have been struggling with, according to Bird.

Last May, Ukrainian media outlets reported that Kiev had scuttled peace talks with Moscow after a visit from Boris Johnson, who was the British PM at the time. Johnson had reportedly told Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that the West had no intention of making a deal of any kind with Russia, causing the collapse of the negotiations in Istanbul.

In December, when current PM Rishi Sunak spoke about an audit of UK financial aid to Ukraine,Whitehall insiders leaked to the press that Johnson had been the driving force for the US-NATO policy on Ukraine, and that London had repeatedly “stiffened the US resolve” through “friendly” pressure.

https://www.rt.com/news/577173-uk-defense-russia-threat/