15 Aug, 2023

No pressure for peace from West – Kiev

Ukraine will not engage in talks with the Kremlin, security chief Aleksey Danilov has stated, adding that Russia “must be destroyed”

Kiev is under no pressure from Washington and its allies when it comes to potential peace negotiations with Moscow, Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has claimed.

The Ukrainian authorities will deal with this issue on their own, he told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper in an interview published on Tuesday.

The security chief claimed that all reports of Kiev being allegedly pressured into striking a peace deal with Moscow by its Western backers “exist only on the internet” and are not supported by any real evidence. He also suggested that “Russian trolls” might be behind such rumors.

Danilov’s comments come just days after Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba admitted that Kiev’s foreign backers might push the nation toward negotiations with Moscow as early as this autumn. “These voices [calling for talks] are getting louder,” he told Ukrainian media last week.

Germany’s Die Welt daily also reported in early August that “the West will pressure Ukraine into a ceasefire” at some point in the coming winter.

Ukraine does not need Western nations to deal with the issue of potential negotiations with Russia, the security chief said, adding that Kiev would never hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Danilov maintained that the conflict between the two neighbors can only have a military solution.

“Russia must be destroyed like a modern-day Carthage,” he stated, referring to the infamous proverbial phrase used by Roman Senator Cato the Elder to demand a third war with the ancient Mediterranean state of Carthage. “You cannot leave your enemy standing behind you,” Danilov added.

Danilov has been known as a hardliner when it comes to Ukraine’s dealings with Russia. The security chief, as well as other top Ukrainian officials, have repeatedly made derogatory remarks about Russians during – and even well before – the conflict broke out in February 2022.

In early August, he called Russians “Asians”and claimed that “humanity” is the key difference between them and Ukrainians. Danilov also repeatedly promised to “kill”Russians anywhere across the globe.

Moscow has stated throughout the conflict that it is ready to start peace talks with Kiev immediately, as long as its security interests and the new status quo on the ground are respected. In autumn 2022, four former Ukrainian regions, including the two Donbass republics, formally joined Russia following referendums.

Kiev has demanded the unconditional Russian withdrawal from territories Kiev claims as its own, including Crimea, and called it the only acceptable framework for talks. Russia has rejected these conditions as unrealistic.

In October 2022, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky banned any negotiations with Putin. Last week, Kuleba insisted that Zelensky will “never be able” to sit down at the negotiating table with the Russian leader.

(These people are suicidal, they’d rather have their country destroyed and decimated instead of a truce or peace. Nazi’s will never change. Hopefully the Ukrainian people stop going along with this.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/581314-west-pressure-ukraine-peace-talks-russia/

15 Aug, 2023

Ukraine struggles to intercept Russian missiles – Kiev

The rockets Moscow uses to strike targets in Ukraine are capable of rapidly changing course, Kiev’s Air Force spokesman has said

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Ukrainian troops to intercept and shoot down Russian missiles, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yury Ignat told Radio Liberty on Tuesday.Projectiles launched by Moscow’s forces are capable of changing course in a matter of seconds, thereby becoming “invisible” to Ukraine’s air defenses, he admitted.

The Russian military is now employing more sophisticated tactics, “planning their strikes, programming the [missile] courses … to bypass air defenses in the most effective way and use weak spots,” he said.

The projectiles “are constantly changing course,” he explained, adding that a Ukrainian air defense serviceman can barely “write three words” to describe the incoming rocket’s trajectory before it has already changed. “Then, it changes direction once more, and again, and again,” he said.

In one such case, the Russian missiles flew as far as Ukraine’s westernmost Lviv Region before turning back and striking a military airfield in Khmelnitsky Region in the country’s center. Additionally, at some point, a Russian rocket “can disappear from the radars and become invisible to radio locators for a certain period of time,” he pointed out.

According to the Air Force spokesman, Russian drones are now also “going in circles”to make Ukrainian air defenses lose track of them.

Kiev is currently employing some of the supposedly top-notch air defense systems supplied to it by Washington and its allies. The list includes the US-made Patriot and German-made Iris-T air defense systems. Over the course of the ongoing conflict, the West has poured extensive military and financial aid into Ukraine, with the US alone allocating around $100 billion. Western nations have also repeatedly stated that they consider air defense a priority when providing military aid to Kiev.

In late July, Ignat admitted that Moscow had a significant advantage over Kiev in terms of electronic warfare. Russia had “plenty” of “powerful systems,” he said at that time, conceding that Ukraine “started late” in this regard.

Such systems are especially good at intercepting an enemy’s drones and forcing them to go down. The Russian Defense Ministry regularly reports downing Ukrainian drones without firing a shot.

(This is so cool)

https://www.rt.com/russia/581323-ukraine-struggle-intercept-russian-missiles/

15 Aug, 2023

Ukraine could give up territory to Russia – NATO official

The idea of trading land for peace is already being discussed within the bloc, Stian Jenssen told Norwegian media

Kiev could end up relinquishing some of its former territory in exchange for NATO membership, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s chief of staff, Stian Jenssen said at a debate on Tuesday. In his own statements on the issue, Stoltenberg has insisted that Kiev will set its own terms for “victory.”

“I think that a solution could be for Ukraine to give up territory, and get NATO membership in return,”Jenssen said at the debate, according to Norway’s VG newspaper. This discussion is already underway within NATO, he said, suggesting that it could be a “possible solution” to the conflict.

No NATO leaders have publicly endorsed the idea of Kiev giving up its claims to the territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, or Zaporozhye, which were incorporated into the Russian Federation following referendums last September. Likewise, while Western officials have cast doubt on Ukraine’s ability to seize Crimea – an historical Russian territory which rejoined the Russian Federation in 2014, none have urged Kiev to abandon its claim to the peninsula.

Such an idea has apparently been floated behind the scenes, however. Swiss outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung claimed in February, citing sources, that CIA Director William Burns had offered Russia a “land for peace” deal in which Moscow would keep “20% of Ukrainian territory.” The White House, the CIA, and the Kremlin all denied that such a proposal had been made.

Whether such a deal would be accepted by Kiev or Moscow remains doubtful. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated last year that securing the military neutrality of Ukraine was a key factor behind his decision to send troops into the country, and that having a NATO-aligned Ukraine on Russia’s borders would present an unacceptable security risk.

Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council chief Aleksey Danilov stated on Tuesday that Kiev will never negotiate with Putin’s government, that none of Ukraine’s Western backers are pushing for peace, and that “Russia must be destroyed like a modern-day Carthage."

Achieving this goal is proving extremely difficult for Kiev. Two months into its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, the Ukrainian military has lost more than 43,000 men and nearly 5,000 pieces of heavy equipment, according to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry.

Stoltenberg insists that NATO will “ensure that Ukraine gets the weapons it needs to be able to retake territory, liberate the lands and win this war and prevail as a sovereign, independent nation.”

While he has delivered variations on this statement throughout the conflict, NATO has been more evasive on when Ukraine can join the military bloc. After a summit in Lithuania last month at which Kiev was denied an offer of membership, NATO’s 31 members put out a joint statement explaining that Ukraine can join only “when allies agree and conditions are met.”

(This will never happen, the whole point is the US promised Ukraine will never be part of NATO. They could give up land and as part pf NATO the countries could attack Russia and steal it back and ultimately steal Russia.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/581322-ukraine-surrender-land-russia/

Mike Davis SLAMS ‘Ridiculous’ Charges Brought by Fulton Co. DA Fani Willis Against President Trump

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“This latest indictment down in Georgia… is going to help Trump win the presidency by 2 or 3 percentage points, comfortably.”

Article III Project’s Mike Davis breaks down the “lawfare” being brought against President Trump by the Democrats and Fulton County DA Fani Willis and how the indictments are actually backfiring. #TrumpIndictment

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Jack Posobiec: President Trump Remade the Republican Map

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Big Data Poll Director Richard Baris joins Jack Posobiec to discuss how President Trump remade the Republican map after Democrats claimed during the Obama years that the GOP would be relegated to being a regional party.

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