All things pertaining to the Russian-Ukrainian-NATO conflict for February 26, 2022

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    • zero hedge – “Vodka Rebellion” Begins – Canada, US Bars, Liquor Stores Remove Russian Alcohol From Shelves

      North American liquor stores and bars are pulling Russian vodka off their shelves in solidarity with Ukraine.

      On Friday, Peter Bethlenfalvy, Ontario’s Minister of Finance, directed the provincial’s Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) to remove all Russian vodka from stores.

      “Ontario joins Canada’s allies in condemning the Russian government’s act of aggression against the Ukrainian people, and will direct the LCBO to withdraw all products produced in Russia from store shelves,” Bethlenfalvy said.

      more :

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vodka-rebellion-begins-canada-us-bars-liquor-stores-remove-russian-alcohol-shelves

  1. Misinformation online about the conflict in Ukraine

    … As Jasmine Vickaryous reports, you may want to think twice before retweeting or sharing information on the web.

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  2. CNN – See how Russian state TV is covering the war in Ukraine

    Russian media coverage looks very different than how CNN and other western news outlets are covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  3. sky news UK – Ukraine crisis: Civilians seen preparing Molotov cocktails

    Sky’s John Sparks also witnesses queues of people who are signing up to the country’s army.

  4. Fox News – ‘U.S. will need to get involved’ if Russia invades NATO countries, top House Republican warns

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  5. Zelenskyy: it’s time for Ukraine to join the EU

    “The people of Ukraine have already earned the right to gain membership of the European Union”.

    President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the “crucial” moment has come to decide whether Ukraine will join the EU.

  6. RT – We won’t lay down arms’ – Zelensky addresses the Ukrainian people

    Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said that Ukraine rejected Russia’s offer to negotiate.

    Earlier in a video message on Saturday, Zelensky denied reports that he had called on his country’s armed forces to lay down their arms.

  7. Czechia just went down. Massive shut down of alternative news sources. On the aniversary of the communist takeover in 1948, 25 February 1948.

  8. RT – Surrendered Ukrainian servicemen arrive in Crimea

    82 Ukrainian servicemen reach Crimea’s Sevastopol after voluntarily laying down arms on Zmeiniy Island.

    After going through short-term legal procedures, the soldiers of the Ukrainian army will be sent home to their families.

  9. All righty.
    The UA is beating the crap out of Russia.
    Russia does not have air control.
    Not committing balance of forces
    RuF forces in Ukraine don’t seem to know they’re in Ukraine, were told exercise or peacekeeping.
    Moldovan, Panamanian, Japanese and Turkish civil ships struck in Black Sea.
    Low stocks of PGM’s and ammo for long range fires systems.
    Russian units drunk, running out of fuel, not fighting, logistics broken.
    Khazakstan rejects russian req. for troops (!?!) Other RuF members also tell vlad to fcuk himself.
    Putin fired CDS, RuF commanders.
    Tense meeting ‘tween Putin and oligarchs, the ‘garchs more or less forced to attend at putins ‘wolfs lair’. Major bloodbath! Invasion was to be over in 4 days. Not going well for russia, they’re just about out of money.
    Russia now moving more forces in from western districts and belarus.
    Lots of hysterical screeching about UA nuclear and radiologic capability, suffice to say, is propaganda.
    Vlad is looking and sounding quite nuts and desperate.
    Analysis: Russian domestic support seems to be vested in a cabal, and perhaps not all forces under vlads control – think warlords. RuF, not unexpectedly, performing very poorly.
    The desperate rhetoric, and troubling reports CBRN gear being distributed to RuF and Chechen shithead rape-terror squads ( lets be serious about what they are ) suggest some asswad provocation comming up.
    Our assessment is is Putin cabal trying very hard for a wider war with NATO.
    Increasingly bizarre atrocities will mount.
    Very high possibility of nuclear use, and escalations. No fooling, it’s bad.
    Vlad will not quit. Quitting is only way he can loose.
    Only way out is russians remove Putin, or a wider and rapidly escalating conflict.
    I’d go on ‘yellow”, be ready to run in half an hour.

  10. Turkey closed Bosporus to Ru Naval ships. Montreux treaty vests full control in Turkey. It’s a major escalation, and cuts off significant Ru naval forces (they really don’t have much of a navy, a sea denial force, and so-so.) now at Latakia refueling.

  11. Correctio-confusion: Turkey deny’s closing Dardanelles.
    But, porn hub locks out Ru users. Total Global War seconds away, according to RuF ministry of manual release spokesperson Ivan Flexivjerkoff…

    😉

  12. Matthew Ehret Immune to Irony: Nazi Collaborators and Authoritarian Personalities Denounce Russia

    Those managerial technocrats processed through World Economic Forum training camps are generally entirely incapable of self-criticism or recognizing their own hypocrisy.

    “Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.”
    -Robert Burns

    This famous quote by the great Scottish poet Robert Burns stands as one of the clearest reminders of a precondition for any matured identity.

    Burns understood that without having learned to use our God-given ability to place ourselves in the shoes of another, then those powers needed to self-examine our false prejudices, exercise humility (upon which creative insight is premised) and correct our false motives, actions and beliefs would be completely lost.

    It is thus disappointing, albeit no small surprise that those basic tools of self-criticism are entirely non-existent when one listens to the gossipy make-believe speeches of so many helmsmen manning today’s ship of fools, sometimes known as the Trans Atlantic “rules-based international order”.

    A Clash of Paradigms

    After seven years of civil war in East Ukraine, 14 thousand casualties, broken peace deals and countless appeals by those living in the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics for independence from the Nazi-infested militias embedded in the Kiev defense forces, Russia decided to finally recognize the East Ukrainian republics as sovereign nations. A few days later, Russia unleashed a program of de-militarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine featuring targetted military strikes that (as of this writing) have annihilated over 74 military bases, US biolabs and entrenched radical neo-nazi forces that have been entrenched in the Ukrainian military since 2014.

    But despite this completely understandable humanitarian intervention which is provably NOT an annexation, we see endless instances of western sock puppet statesmen denouncing Russia’s imperial ambitions and antagonism to western democratic values.

    From Canada, where Justin Trudeau and his handlers have used an Emergency Measures Act to justify the violent crushing of peaceful protestors in Ottawa (including the freezing of bank accounts of hundreds of citizens who donated money to a freedom convoy), we hear only buzzing threats of anti-Russian sanctions and pompous condemnation of “Russian aggression” with more comparisons of Adolph Hitler to Putin than one can count.

    In response to Russia’s recognition of the East Donbass republics, Justin stated “Canada and our allies will defend democracy”. Referring to the wide array of sanctions and Canadian troop deployments to Latvia, Trudeau said “we are taking these actions to stand against totalitarianism.”

    He then stated “the people of Ukraine, like all people must be free to determine their own future”. This last remark implies that the people in East Ukraine who have been demanding independence are not actually people.

    These remarks are coming from a Canadian regime that had only days earlier arrested nearly 200 people for the terrible crime of “causing mischief” in Ottawa and freezing bank accounts using “secret information” which none of those representatives or Senators expected to vote for the act were allowed to see. Deputy Prime Minister Freeland herself (who has more than a few uncomfortable connections with outright pro-Nazi Ukrainian networks) has even publicly stated that many extraordinary powers created under ‘emergency conditions’ should be continued indefinitely after the emergencies act is revoked.

    Across the Trans-Atlantic Five Eyes cage, similar virtue signalling in defense of “democracy” has resounded with the USA, European Union and UK moving in lockstep to condemn Russian aggression, and impose similar sanctions on Russian parliamentarians, businessmen and banks, with the USA and UK joining Canada in sending troops to Russia’s border.

    While an energy crisis has already made a hard life harder for millions of Europeans struggling with a self-induced economic crisis under pandemic conditions, the German government has been pressured to accelerate its own self-destruction by cancelling the desperately needed Nord Stream 2 in order to “punish” Russia.

    Nazis and Operation Gladio

    European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans has demonstrated the typical level of over-exaggerated hypocrisy asserting that February 22 was “one of the darkest days in Europe’s history” apparently forgetting that WWI or WWII happened.

    Timmermans is a character who has distinguished himself as a technocratic sock puppet by pushing anti-Russian sanctions for 8 years beginning with the highly flawed MH-17 bombing investigation in 2014, while covering up the true Kiev-connected hands behind that atrocity. Amidst his current crocodile tears over the “darkest days” Europe has ever faced, Timmermans appears oblivious to the mass atrocities committed by Nazi “stay behinds” used by western intelligence operations under Operation Gladio during the Cold War. This is especially strange since it was during Timmermans’ time as Deputy Chair on the Commission of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands that an extensive 2005 report on Nazi stay-behinds was published by the Dutch Ministry of Defense.

    After having been established by the CIA, NATO and MI6 in 1956, Operation Gladio saw hundreds of terrorist cells deployed by former leaders of Nazi intelligence embedded across Europe who were used to kill civilians and troublesome politicians while stoking the fires of anarchy along the way. These acts of terror were in turn used to justify the excessive “emergency management” by oligarchically captured trans Atlantic nations throughout the Cold War based upon the logic that “the war against communism justifies everything… including fascism”.

    While some say that the Gladio Operations were cancelled when the Soviet Union disintegrated, evidence points to a very different picture.

    One particularly loud case is found in the figure of Andriy Parubiy, founder of the neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine who was appointed to serve as Secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee (RNBOU) in the post-regime change putsch managed by Victoria Nuland and overseen by Joe Biden.

    It is noteworthy that Parubiy, who has close ties to Freeland (herself the proud granddaughter of Hitler collaborator Michael Chomiak) cozied up to Justin in 2016 while seeking weapons, training and other logistical support from Canada. Meetings between Canadian politicians and leading neo-Nazi groups from Ukraine like the Azov Battalion continued to be so frequent that the Ottawa Citizen reported on November 9, 2021 that:

    “Canadian officials who met with members of a Ukrainian battalion linked to neo-Nazis didn’t denounce the unit, but were instead concerned the media would expose details of the get-together, according to newly released documents. The Canadians met with and were briefed by leaders from the Azov Battalion in June 2018. The officers and diplomats did not object to the meeting and instead allowed themselves to be photographed with battalion officials despite previous warnings that the unit saw itself as pro-Nazi. The Azov Battalion then used those photos for its online propaganda, pointing out the Canadian delegation expressed “hopes for further fruitful co-operation.”
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    https://www.strategic-culture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ehret2502201.jpg

    Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament, Andriy Parubiy, visited Ottawa in February 2016, meeting with the prime minister. At that meeting (from left) are Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Chairman Andriy Parubiy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj.

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    It is thus no small irony that among those “liberal democracies” of Canada, the USA, UK and EU, we have repeated evidence of actual neo-Nazi collaboration both past and present as well as fascist behavior deployed against the people living in and around those very liberal democracies. Among these self-professed bastions of freedom and democracy, we have numerous cases of torture (Guantanamo Bay), illegal arrests of dissidents who participated in January 6 Washington rallies or Ottawa anti-medical dictatorship mandates, unlawful freezing of bank services for those whose political views are deemed unacceptable to a governing elite, and the imprisonment of whistleblowers.

    What is clear is that those managerial technocrats processed through World Economic Forum training camps are generally entirely incapable of self-criticism or recognizing their own hypocrisy. They are wired to move in echo chambers of self-congratulatory flattery without every confronting points of disagreement that need be dealt with through dialogue or reason. The typical unipolarist automaton is entirely incapable of basic fundamental human character traits that allows each of us to see and judge ourselves from the standpoint of people outside of our class, group, or even cultural matrix choosing instead to expect everyone and even the universe itself, to fit into those ivory tower models and values which are wired into the mind of any Davos creature.

    At the end of the day, those statesmen who are unencumbered by such mechanical handicaps as those suffered by Davos creatures, have access to a much greater degree of insight, and creative flexibility to lawfully break the rules of rigged games in ways that those control freaks sitting in ivory can ever comprehend. It is precisely this incapacity to either comprehend creative human thinking or self-criticize their own false thinking that creates those systemic conceptual blind spots which will ultimately prove their own undoing.

    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/25/immune-to-irony-nazi-collaborators-and-authoritarian-personalities-denounce-russia/

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    europravda – Fighting for democracy against Russia is worth facing higher energy prices, says Timmermans

  13. sky news UK – Germany to help arm Ukraine

    Germany says it will supply Ukraine with 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger surface-to-air missiles to use against Russia.

    Berlin had been criticised for its refusal to give weapons to help Kyiv defend itself against the Russia invasion.

    In a reversal of its position, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point.

    “It is our duty to do our best to support Ukraine in defending itself against Putin’s invading army.”

  14. Dam blocking water supply to Crimea blown up

    Military engineers of the Black Sea Fleet destroy dam on the North Crimean Canal which has been cutting off water supply to Crimea since being built by Ukrainian nationalists in 2014. There was no damage to the canal itself.

  15. Russian & Ukrainian troops jointly guard Chernobyl nuclear power plant

    Russian troops strike a deal with Ukrainian soldiers to jointly maintain the safety of reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to Russian Defense Ministry.

    The ministry added that the radiation level had not changed, and the plant’s staff were continuing to monitor the situation as usual.

  16. RUSSIA DEMILITARIZES UKRAINE
    CAN THE WEST COME TO ITS SENSES OR DOES THE WEST HAVE ANY SENSE TO COME TO
    The West, of course, is screaming its impotent accusations, but the barrage of Western media lies will have no effect on the outcome. If the Western World had any intelligent leaders, what would they conclude? They would conclude that the days of baiting the bear are over. As I have reported for some time, Russia has had enough of the West’s lies, deceptions, insults, and provocations. Henceforth, when Russia tells them something, they would do well to turn their ears on. Putin has said that Russia will not permit Ukraine to develop nuclear weapons, and he has said that Russia will not tolerate US/NATO bases on her borders. The US and NATO had better believe it.
    Putin said Russia has no intention to occupy Ukraine. Russia does not want Ukraine, but Russia will not permit the continued militarization of the country by the US and NATO or the Ukrainian attacks on the Donbass Russians. The West had better understand this.
    The US and Germany have declared that no troops will be sent, a hopeful sign that sanity might return to the West. P C Roberts
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/02/paul-craig-roberts/russia-demilitarizes-ukraine/

  17. HYPOCRITES ON PARADE: JOHN PILGER CALLS OUT WORLD LEADERS FOR IGNORING DONBASS SHELLING FOR YEARS
    Pilger, based in the UK, took to Twitter to voice his view of the West’s condemnation of Russia’s special military operation aiming to defend the people of Donbass as well as “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine.
    The European and US leaderships have been called out on their “hypocrisy”…
    ‘The Hypocrites on parade. Watch them on CNN, the BBC, read them wall-to-wall. Now imagine a strategic enclave of Britons, or French, or Germans, or Americans under violent siege – shelled and terrorised – for eight years. Would this be tolerated by the rulers of the world?’
    — John Pilger (@johnpilger) February 24, 2022
    …it is “absurd” for Johnson and Biden “to lecture us on the ethics of world affairs.
    The decision was prompted by the deteriorating situation on the line of contact between Kiev’s forces and the Donbass republics, with the Ukrainian Army intensifying the shelling of cities and positions of the DPR and LPR last week.
    A monitoring mission of the OSCE spotted over 2,000 ceasefire violations, with the LPR saying that the organisation recorded Kiev violating humanitarian law. John Pilger
    https://sputniknews.com/20220224/hypocrites-on-parade-john-pilger-calls-out-world-leaders-for-ignoring-donbass-shelling-for-years-1093342503.html

  18. the conservative tree house The First Casualty of War is the Truth – The Current Western Propaganda for Ukraine is Epic in Scale

    When we shared yesterday that all interested observers should be very wary of the information from media sources around Ukraine, there was a reason for that. Question everything. Take nothing at face value.

    If you have never experienced the propaganda push surrounding war, the totality of the inbound bullsh*t can be destabilizing, overwhelming and unnerving. It’s one of the reasons why CTH doesn’t share immediate information. Everyone has an agenda.

    Everything we are seeing in U.S. media surrounding U.S. interests in Ukraine is a massive propaganda operation with the headquarters in the U.S. State Department and U.S. intelligence community. The sense of sympathy you are feeling is part of an intentionally manipulative operation from within this DC matrix.

    The images, pictures, videos, speeches, soundbites and the cinematography broadcast by U.S. corporate media are all purposefully intended to create a very specific outlook within the American people toward the issues in Ukraine. The leftist United Nations, and the leftist U.S State Dept, will work together on this just like they have done in the prior examples (Ukraine 1.0, Libya, Egypt, etc.).

    more :

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/26/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the-truth-the-current-western-propaganda-for-ukraine-is-epic-in-scale/#more-228606

  19. Ukrainian military convoy destruction – 15 km long. Crimea front line. Russia Ukraine War 2022 02 25