Reader’s Links for June 28th, 2023

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  2. WATCH: Brave Armed Citizen Guns Down Would-Be Mass Shooter In Las Vegas – Legal Analyst Reveals How Local Officials and Police Are Hiding the Truth from the Public
    By Cullen Linebarger Jun. 27, 2023 6:43 pm383 Comments

    A brave armed employee discharged his firearm to stop a mass shooting in Las Vegas on Friday, saving countless lives. But local government officials are covering up this vigilant citizen’s heroic action for unspecified reasons.

    As KTNV reported, an active shooter entered the Turnberry Towers and started firing off shots toward the front desk. A witness said the shooter was wearing a helmet and had an AR-15 and other weapons in his possession when he made entry.

    It was at that moment the would-be assassin got an unexpected surprise: an armed employee. The unidentified law-abiding citizen drew on the shooter and caused him to flee by shooting out the inner glass.

    The employee, who has not been identified, drew on the would-be mass murderer, causing him to flee by shooting out the inner glass. Right before the shooter reaches the outer door to escape into the street and potentially gun down other people, he collapses after taking several bullets in the back as noted by Redstate.com.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/watch-brave-armed-citizen-guns-down-would-be/

    (Richard: In most if not all states the armed citizen “must”/ stop shooting when the criminal turns and runs away. The reasoning is, the threat has been removed so you stop shooting. The left has applied the same reasoning to the battlefield and the soldiers must stop shooting when the enemy throws down their weapon and runs. In both cases you are letting the person who tried to kill you flee so they can come back and try again. I can see the reasoning for an armed robber, although the robber will just go and threaten, kill or injured other people later. The reasoning on the battlefield is pure insanity. And costs either lives or pain and suffering when the enemy returns.)

  4. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Signs Executive Order to Allow State Employee to Have Sex Change Surgeries Covered By Health Insurance
    By Cassandra MacDonald Jun. 28, 2023 8:15 am13 Comments

    Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has signed an executive order to allow state employees to get sex change surgeries covered by their health insurance coverage.
    “The Department of Administration shall remove the Exclusion from the State’s healthcare plan as soon as practicable and in compliance with State law,” the order declares, noting that “since 2017, the Plan has excluded coverage for ‘gender reassignment surgery.’”

    Hobbs also signed an order that bars state agencies from funding, promoting, or supporting “conversion therapy” treatment for minors.

    AZ Central reports, “While Hobbs’ aides say the orders preempt any such prosecutions or limits on healthcare

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/arizona-gov-katie-hobbs-signs-executive-order-allow/

  5. Gateway Pundit Readers Get Results: Protesters Gather Outside Prison After Gateway Pundit Reports on Horrific Abuse of J6 Protester Ryan Samsel (Audio)
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 8:00 am10 Comments

    Jan. 6 Political prisoner Ryan Samsel and Cush’Mir McBride – two friends and survivors of horrendous prison abuse.
    Recently, The Gateway Pundit reported on the horrible abuse taking place in American prisons today.

    J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel and his friend and Trump supporter Cush’Mir McBride were viciously beaten and nearly killed by prisoner guards in recent months.

    Cush’Mir shared his harrowing story recently with The Gateway Pundit earlier this month. He is determined to raise awareness about the plight of abused inmates and the need for reform. He hopes that by sharing his story he will shed light on the prevalent issue of abuse within the prison system.

    “I hope to spread awareness about abuse and mistreatment within these prisons and speak out for those who lack help and support and simply have no way to be heard. And I’m here to be a voice for us all today and hopefully can help save lives in the future, as I once was a victim of abuse within prison,” Cush’Mir told The Gateway Pundit.

    ** Please Help and Donate to Cush’Mir McBride
    Cush’Mir told The Gateway Pundit that during his time at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Philadelphia, he was targeted by correctional officers (COs) due to his support for former President Donald Trump and his refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine. He was subsequently placed in “the shoe,” a form of solitary confinement, where he was targeted by the prison guards.

    In 2021, the Federal Detention Center (FDC) guards in Philadelphia beat Cush’Mir after they caught him slipping food to January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel, who they were starving at the time.

    ** Please donate to Ryan Samsel here.
    During one beating, FDC guards knocked out his tooth with repeated kicks to his face. Cush’Mir’s legs were so badly beaten that his flesh was exposed. His ribs were sore and he thought they were broken. The guards dragged Cush’Mir back to his cell and banged his body on the walls as they continued their abuse. He was bleeding badly and denied medical attention.

    Cush’Mir later caught Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) due to unsanitary conditions. He thought he might lose his leg. This was all because he would not take the COVID vaccine, and he secretly slipped food to Ryan Samsel, a man he knew from his youth on the streets of Philly.

    The abuse suffered by McBride and and Ryan Samsel highlights the systemic abuse prevalent within the US prison system.

    ** Please Help and Donate to Cushmir McBride
    Last week TGP received a message from a friend at the prison where they are holding Ryan Samsel and Cush’Mir McBride.

    Since our Gateway Pundit report went up on the horrific prison guard abuse the authorities locked Ryan Samsel in isolation once again. Ryan no longer has access to phone calls or email privileges. Cush’Mir was moved.

    Last Thursday we heard from Ryan Samsel. Thanks to Gateway Pundit readers and Ryan and Cush’Mir’s supporters – Ryan was released from the hole today!

    Today we have more information on Ryan’s release from isolation. We want to share this with The Gateway Pundit readers.

    Ryan Samsel: I want to say thank you to the (Gateway Pundit) listeners and to those who took the initiative to make calls to the jail and to those who made calls to the US Marshals. I don’t know who you are, but I am extremely grateful. Not only that, apparently I didn’t notice, but there was a protest that took place out front – 20 to 30 people.

    This is enough to get me out of the hole. And apparently, I made a local hip-hop station in New York City, a pretty famous one. And I also made a famous hip-hop station in Philadelphia. And I guess that whole community had gotten together and did a protest. So I was once again in a horseshoe. The horse is like a super punishment. Where you’re stripped down naked, with no bedding, no nothing.

    A few days, later the guards had come by, say, here’s your clothes. You’re going back to a regular (cell). And I said why? And he says, I don’t know. You got some kind of uproar going on out front.

    So I came back down to the unit. I was able to look outside, and I seen a bunch of protesters – a whole bunch. And I was like, people were telling me that they’re for you, Ryan! And I was shocked.

    That is because of the Gateway listeners, that they all came. And somebody sent me a letter at the time and it said that the article that Jim had did had over 111,000 views. That’s a lot. Viral is considered 10,000. And it means a lot to me. Jim. They’re not just listeners. It’s almost like a family. It’s like the Gateway family. It’s pretty big.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/gateway-pundit-readers-get-results-protesters-gather-outside/

  6. IRS Whistleblower Tells CBS that DOJ Protected Hunter Biden and Obstructed Investigation on Money Trails Involving “Dad” or the “Big Guy” (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 7:45 am33 Comments

    Last week, House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) detailed MULTIPLE felony charges that whistleblowers said the IRS recommended against Hunter Biden.

    The investigation into Hunter Biden opened in November 2018 as an off-shoot of a separate, corporate investigation by the IRS.

    Rep. Smith said, “The investigation was in the ordinary course of work at the IRS. It was not ordered by any individual, any chairman or any political entity.”

    The IRS recommended charges against Hunter Biden that included:

    Attempt to evade or defeat tax – A FELONY
    Fraud or false statements – A FELONY
    Willful failure to file returns, supply information or pay tax
    Rather than charging Hunter Biden with felonies for evading taxes and providing false statements to the feds, Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ gave him a sweetheart deal

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/irs-whistleblower-tells-cbs-that-doj-protected-hunter/

  7. Now We Know Why Dr. Hotez Will Not Debate Robert Kennedy Jr – His Funding Is Linked to Controversial Chinese Communist Military Scientists in Wuhan
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 7:30 am49 Comments

    Dr. Peter Hotez made headlines the last two weeks for refusing to debate author, activist, presidential candidate, and attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. on the effectiveness of the COVID19 vaccines.

    Rather than accept the challenge Hotez lashed out at both Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan who invited the two to debate the facts on his show.

    Hotez refused and smeared Robert Kennedy, Jr. instead.

    A week ago Hotez actually said, “Science is not something that is typically debated.” What a fraud.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/now-we-know-why-dr-hotez-will-not/

  8. Judge Napolitano And Larry Johnson Discuss Prigozhin, Plus A Horrific Video Of Ukrainian Troops Trapped In A Minefield
    By Larry Johnson Jun. 28, 2023 7:00 am79 Comments

    I will apologize upfront that I made the mistake of wearing earbuds and did not have time to clear the cache. That means you will see the uneven video, including an occasional freeze and garbled voice. My fault. But I have now fixed the problem. I finally have a new fiber optic internet and can connect the CAT5e Ethernet cable direct to my computer. Going forward I should have 500 mbps up and down. I want to thank all of you who have kindly offered advice and guidance on this issue. Good to know that my readers are smarter than me. Sets a high bar and motivates me to try to excel.

    Now, here comes da Judge:

    I have one more video that is gripping and horrific. My wife emphasized that I must warn you that it is GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. Not recommended if you are younger than 18. I am not posting this to glorify the violence or pander to those enthralled with military porn. This video will educate you on what it means for an armored column to drive into a minefield and how a few casualties can disable a thirty man platoon.

    Regardless of your feelings about who should win the war in Ukraine, this video is heartbreaking and shows both the desperation and courage of men trapped in a field laced with anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. The soldiers who are not wounded do not abandon their buddies. They risk their lives and limbs, literally, to save the wounded. But this video also makes it clear, notwithstanding the bravery of the Ukrainian soldiers, why Ukraine is having so much difficulty penetrating the Russian defenses.

    You will observe that these beleaguered souls have been well-trained in one skill — how to self-apply a tourniquet to save their own life in combat. Again, WARNING, this is GRAPHIC and DISTURBING.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/judge-napolitano-larry-johnson-discuss-prigozhin-plus-horrific/

  11. FOI email shows the CDC Director lied to the public about COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs, had much earlier knowledge of occurrence.

    JUN 21, 2023

    A recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveals an email that shows that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was discussing and had knowledge of COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs at the very start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States in January 2021.

    This email is exceptionally important because it shows that Walensky, Collins, and Fauci knew almost right from the beginning of the vaccine rollout that there were vaccine breakthroughs happening but were telling the public differently and advocating for things like vaccine mandates and passports.

    https://thecanadianindependent.substack.com/p/foi-email-shows-the-cdc-director

  13. Donald Trump Files Defamation Lawsuit Against E. Jean Carroll Over Bogus Rape Claim
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 8:45 am145 Comments

    Turning the tables on his accuser, former President Donald Trump has hit back at E. Jean Carroll with a defamation lawsuit, saying she falsely accused him of rape. This countersuit comes after a civil jury found him “guilty of sexual abuse and defamation,” but not rape, in May.

    Filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Trump’s counterclaim cites Carroll’s post-verdict comments on CNN.

    He seeks a retraction as well as compensatory and punitive damages yet to be specified, according to The Guardian.

    According to the court filing, Trump “has been the subject of significant harm to his reputation, which, in turn, has yielded an inordinate amount of damages sustained as a result.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/donald-trump-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-e-jean/

  14. Coincidence? Biological Threat Mailed to GOP Lawmakers Who Also Stood Up to LGBT Agenda
    By Jack Davis, The Western Journal Jun. 28, 2023 10:15 am0 Comments

    Letters containing white powder have been sent to a number of Republican legislators across the country, including Montana, Kansas and Tennessee.

    According to ABC, similar letters with white power were sent to former President Donald Trump, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and various other people, but were intercepted.

    The FBI is now investigating the multi-state incident.

    Tennessee House Republican Caucus spokesperson Jennifer Easton said the letters “contained obvious threats made by a liberal activist specifically targeting Republicans,” according to the Associated Press.

    Receipt of the letter prompted a temporary lockdown of a Tennessee legislative office building. Earlier this year, Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill defining gender by biology and not preference.

    To date, none of the powder tested in any state has been a hazardous substance.

    In Montana, where a high-profile incident with a transgender lawmaker put the legislature the in the national spotlight, Republican state Rep. Neil Duram received the letter at his home, as did at least one of the other Montana Republicans to receive a letter. The latest target was Montana House Speaker Matt Regier.

    “It is important not to choke on your ambition,” the letter said, according to KECI-TV.

    The letter was signed, “your secret despirer.”

    The letters had local return addresses but were postmarked in Kansas City, according to KECI-TV.

    The flood of letters began in Kansas, where more than 100 letters with powder were received — all by Republicans, according to the Wichita Eagle.

    Although no direct motive was revealed, the Eagle noted that Kansas approved a ban on transgender athletes competing in female sports.

    “Time and effort was put into this,” Republican state Sen. Molly Baumgardner said.

    “I think it does give individuals pause simply because whatever individual or group decided to pursue this, the intention was to be threatening,” Baumgardner said. “The intention was to create a threat.”

    The letter received by Kansas Republican state Rep. Stephen Owens mirrored the text of the one received by Montana legislator Neil Duram.

    The letter said “it is important not to choke on your ambition,” and was signed “your secret despirer,” according to CNN.

    “There’s a question whether maybe it’s related to some of those vetoes that we overrode,” Owens said, referring to LGBT and abortion issues. “It’s really terrifying to think that because of someone’s political beliefs that they can be a target.”

    Republican state Rep. Tory Marie Blew of Kansas said that the envelope she received bore the name of a transgender woman who died.

    Owens said his letter had a return address of a church in his district.

    “It was very deliberate, very intentional to get us to open the letters,” Owens said.

    Owens said the letter will not change his votes.

    “Violence and acts of violence and threats do absolutely nothing, nothing to change one’s perspective. As a matter of fact, that strengthens the resolve of myself and my colleagues and of our party to continue the work that we’re doing,” Owens said.

    This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/coincidence-biological-threat-mailed-gop-lawmakers-also-stood/

  15. Bidenomics”: White House Launches Campaign to Gaslight Americans on Economy Just Weeks After Dementia Joe Said, “I didn’t realize I had Bidenomics going”
    By Kristinn Taylor Jun. 28, 2023 9:45 am44 Comments

    Three weeks ago Dementia Joe Biden said, “I didn’t realize I had Bidenomics going.” Today he is giving a speech in Chicago boasting about “Bidenomics.”

    Context via White House transcript: “One of the things that I decided to do — and I find that the Wall Street Journal — and I’m sure there is someone here from the Wall Street Journal and other publications that are talking about Bidenomics. I didn’t realize it was — I had Bidenomics going.”)

    This week the Biden administration is launching a campaign to gaslight the American people on the economy by embracing the term “Bidenomics” as a success story. Biden is set to speak at Noon CDT.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/bidenomics-white-house-launches-campaign-gaslight-americans-economy/

  16. First Week of Disbarment Trial of Trump Attorney John Eastman by Judge Who Contributes to Democrats Concludes

    LOS ANGELES, California – The first week of the disbarment hearing of Trump attorney John Eastman concluded on Friday, with State Bar of California (SBC) attorneys putting Eastman on the witness stand again along with Nevada Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Mark Waschin. The SBC continued to try and show that Eastman provided bad advice to President Donald Trump by telling him that one option for handling election fraud in the 2020 election would be to have Vice President Mike Pence reject certification of electoral votes from the disputed states.

    Mark Fitzgibbons, a First Amendment attorney, said he was skeptical about the merits of the trial. “‘They’ want him punished not for any Bar violation, but for articulating credible legal bases of election fraud, illegalities, and irregularities, hence the reason to question the legitimacy of the Biden presidency,” he tweeted. ‘They’ want to whitewash reality.” The Arizona Sun Times reached out to Fitzgibbons for further comment and he responded, “They want to intimidate lawyers so they don’t work for MAGA or conservative candidates and causes.”

    When SBC attorney Duncan Carling asked Eastman about remarks he’d made stating there was election fraud, Eastman did not try to back away from them. In one of his pleadings, Eastman said there was “ample fraud and illegality” in four states during the 2020 election.

    Carling asked Eastman about previous statements he’d made suggesting that ballots could be disqualified in Wisconsin since they were turned into a “Democracy in the Park” event, violating the law. Carling asked Eastman if it was voter fraud, prompting Eastman to explain the differences between voter fraud, election fraud, and illegal activity. He said voter fraud refers to when a voter does something illegal with their ballot, election fraud generally refers to when officials violate election law, and illegal activity doesn’t necessarily mean either. Carling repeatedly tried to get Eastman to admit that certain actions Eastman had questioned were voter fraud, but Eastman painstakingly pointed out that was the incorrect terminology.

    Carling attempted to persuade Eastman to reveal the names of statisticians and data analysts he’d spoken

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Farizonasuntimes.com%2Fjustice%2Ffirst-week-of-disbarment-trial-of-trump-attorney-john-eastman-by-judge-who-contributes-to-democrats-concludes%2Fralexander%2F2023%2F06%2F25%2F

  17. How Fake History Gets Made
    A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide the British with the racial history they desire.

    Helen Andrews
    Jun 27, 2023
    12:00 PM
    Over the weekend, a village in Lancashire celebrated the 80th anniversary of “the Battle of Bamber Bridge.” There was a dramatic reenactment as well as live musical entertainment, a history walk, and an academic symposium in collaboration with the U.S. embassy. In the American press, the anniversary was marked by long feature articles in both the Associated Press and NPR on the episode and its enduring significance.

    This was all a bit excessive considering that the Battle of Bamber Bridge was not a battle at all. It was a race riot. Its central incident was not much more than a bar fight.

    On June 24, 1943, two American military police on patrol in Bamber Bridge were told that there was a “disturbance” at Ye Olde Hob Inn. When they arrived at the inn, they found a black soldier not in proper uniform, Private Eugene Nunn, whom they attempted to arrest. A crowd of British civilians and a dozen black soldiers protested that Nunn wasn’t hurting anybody and menaced the M.P.s, who left in their Jeep. As they drove away, a beer bottle flew over their heads and broke on the windshield.

    Having been prevented from carrying out a lawful arrest, the M.P.s got backup and returned. They found a group of black soldiers, including Nunn, drunk and disorderly in the street. When they attempted to arrest the men, a brawl began. Stones and bottles were thrown, breaking the nose of one M.P. and the jaw of another. One black soldier was shot in the back while trying to grab the gun out of the holster of an unconscious M.P. who had been knocked out by a rock. Two others were shot while hurling projectiles.

    The black soldiers retreated with their wounded back to camp, where they started wild rumors that white M.P.s were on a rampage. A mob of 100 to 200 black soldiers gathered at the main gate. Their NCOs either refused or were unable to impose discipline. At midnight, a group of M.P.s arrived at camp in a Jeep equipped with a machine gun, which inflamed the mob. The commanding officer ordered the M.P.s to leave but the sight of the machine gun had already resulted in a panic. The black soldiers raided the armory, and some took their arms into town. One black private, William Crossland, died in the confused gunfire overnight, the night’s only fatality. Weapons were collected the next morning.

    Not much of a battle. Certainly not the glorious civil rights protest that AP and NPR try to make it out to be. Nunn and his friends were not staging a sit-in; they were drunk and disorderly and then spread wild rumors to fuel an angry mob. The NPR article, in its description of the fight, skips directly from the thrown beer bottle to the M.P.s coming back with a mounted machine gun, giving the impression that the M.P.s violently harassed the black soldiers for no reason and then overreacted. This version of events omits the soldiers’ escalating violent assaults, culminating in mutiny, a serious matter especially in wartime.

    No one in the U.K. had ever heard of the “Battle of Bamber Bridge” until a few years ago, when the British decided to rewrite their own history to revolve around race. Inconveniently for them, there were only about 8,000 black people in all of Great Britain in 1939, so naturally they have had to blow minor events out of proportion. The 2022 reboot of the children’s classic The Railway Children has a plot line based on the Bamber Bridge incident.

    What’s the problem with that? The Battle of Bamber Bridge may be a minor incident, but from the British perspective it was basically a nice one, emphasizing their national sense of fair play and sympathy for the underdog. Why rain on their parade?

    Because once you bend the truth about stories like this, the lies tend to get out of hand. That’s what has always happened before.

    In 1972, President Richard Nixon pardoned the one surviving member of the three companies of black soldiers discharged over the Brownsville Raid of 1906. The Army retroactively gave all 167 men honorable discharges and sent pensions to the surviving widows. The lone surviving veteran, Pvt. Dorsie Willis, was invited to Washington and presented with an official apology for the federal government’s handling of the episode under President Teddy Roosevelt.

    The problem is, there is no reason to doubt the original story in the Brownsville affair. Teddy got it right the first time.

    On the night of August 12, 1906, shots were fired in the streets of Brownsville, Texas, in a part of town adjacent to the army fort. For 10 minutes, bullets went through the windows and walls of residences, including one where women and children were sleeping. Amazingly, only one person was killed, a Mexican bartender. A police horse was also shot and the policeman wounded, resulting in the amputation of his arm.

    Within hours, everyone agreed that a group of about ten or twenty black soldiers from the 25th Infantry Regiment had done the shooting. There were eye-witnesses. There were ear-witnesses who heard the men shouting. Tensions had been building between the fort and the town, with the black soldiers resenting the way the white Texans treated them and the townspeople suspecting a soldier of a recent attempted rape. Shells and cartridges from military Springfield rifles were found in the alley where the shooting took place. This last piece of physical evidence convinced even the regiment’s white commanding officer that his men were guilty.

    To get around this overwhelming evidence, revisionists have to construct an elaborate conspiracy where the people of Brownsville framed the soldiers. The physical evidence was supposedly taken from a box of discarded shells from the firing range and scattered in the alley. The trouble with this version is that the box in question held shells from fifty different rifles, and the ones found in the alley came from only three. The townspeople would have had to pick out exactly the right shells from a box of a thousand.

    No one in any of the three companies suspected of the crime would testify and there was not enough evidence to identify individual culprits, so Teddy Roosevelt, thinking that the army should not employ men who cover for murderers, gave everyone “discharges without honor” (more neutral than a dishonorable discharge). The plight of the discharged soldiers was taken up by Senator Joseph Foraker of Ohio, a Republican business lawyer who hated Roosevelt for his economic populism and is generally thought to have used the Brownsville issue cynically. The black leaders who rallied behind Foraker did not argue that the soldiers were innocent, just that the mass discharge was unfair.

    Only in 1970 did a journalist publish a book arguing that the Brownsville shooting was not done by the soldiers at all. Nixon probably did not believe this revisionist version of events, with its allegations of an elaborate racist conspiracy. The White House probably just figured that it was all right to bend the truth a little, if there was a chance there could be votes in it. It all happened so long ago, it can’t hurt to print the legend.

    But there is a cost to printing the legend. The Houston Mutiny of 1917 was similar to the Brownsville incident, involving escalating racial tensions and a group of soldiers shooting at civilians. In 2021, the Houston Police Department tweeted a memorial to five of its officers killed during that 1917 riot, with the hashtag #NeverForget, as part of its “End of Watch” series. They deleted the tweet after social media users accused them of celebrating a “race massacre.”

    Once again, the activists were distorting history in order to paint a violent riot as a noble uprising. The actual facts of the Houston mutiny are not at all favorable to the black mutineers. There was very little connection between their grievance—racist treatment by Houston police—and their victims.

    On August 23, 1917, approximately a hundred soldiers left camp and marched armed through the streets of Houston shooting civilians almost at random. Their victims included a white teenager who came out onto his porch to see the commotion and a Mexican worker who had fallen asleep on a bench. One group of soldiers waylaid an ambulance, forced the driver and two medical officers to get out, and shot at the men as they fled. They shot Charles W. Wright as he raised his hands to surrender. One man was pulled from his car and beaten to death. In all, eleven civilians were killed, in addition to the five Houston police who died trying to halt the senseless shooting.

    A movie was recently made about the incident, The 24th, which thankfully got buried during Covid. The movie itself is well done (Trai Byers of Empire and Mykelti Williamson of Forrest Gump give excellent performances), but its message is evil.

    During the soldiers’ march through the streets of Houston, a white civilian comes out onto his porch and asks if they are on night maneuvers. For his curiosity, he gets a bullet through the chest. When our main character, Corporal William Boston (Byers), looks uneasy about this cold-blooded murder, one of his companions reassures him, “Ain’t nobody innocent here. Not them, not us, nobody.”

    The climactic monologue takes place when a friendly white officer (played by Thomas Haden Church) tries to convince Boston to testify at the court-martial in order to escape hanging. Boston refuses: “I wanted to kill them just as much as the others did. Every time they spit, they pissed, they beat us down, I could feel it. Hate. But when I aimed the gun…I won’t stay unheard forever. You keep pushing people down, sooner or later they rise up. And they won’t see a man, they’ll see murder. If death is the price for a night of justice, I’m ready to pay it.”

    Here we have the end result of all this historical revisionism: referring to the murder of innocent civilians as “a night of justice.” Again and again, activists are allowed to rewrite history because the rest of us can’t be bothered to insist on the truth. The activists care so much more than we do, and we don’t want to waste political capital relitigating what happened in a Texas alley 100 years ago. But energy spent fighting over history is not wasted. This revisionism has political consequences in the present day—as we will all be reminded the next time violent riots are depicted as “mostly peaceful protests.”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-fake-history-gets-made/

  19. BREAKING: Debris from Imploded Oceangate Titanic Sub Recovered
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 11:23 am0 Comments

    Photos of the debris left behind by the imploded OceanGate Titan submarine have been made public.

    The US Coast Guard on Thursday said an underwater robot found a “debris field” in search for the OceanGate Titan submarine.

    The submarine disappeared with five people on board on Sunday.

    The OceanGate submarine was on a tourist exhibition of the wreckage of the Titanic, which is 12,500 feet at the bottom of the Ocean.

    On Wednesday, debris from the submersible that imploded, killing five people aboard, was released to the public for the first time.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-debris-imploded-oceangate-titanic-sub-recovered/

  20. Biden SNAPS At Reporter Asking if He was Involved In Hunter’s “Chinese Shake-Down Text Message” (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila Jun. 28, 2023 10:42 am202 Comments

    Joe Biden on Wednesday stopped to chat with reporters on the South Lawn before he departed en route to Chicago, Illinois.

    A reporter asked Biden about Hunter’s threatening message to a Chinese business associate.

    IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley revealed Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese business associate over WhasApp messenger.

    Hunter Biden demanded payment and threatened Henry Zhao, a Chinese Communist Party official and director of Harvest Fund Management.

    Harvest Fund Management had previously invested in Hunter Biden’s firm, BHR Partners – a private investment fund founded in 2013 that is co-owned by the Bank of China.

    The July 2017 WhatsApp message Hunter Biden sent to Henry Zhao is as follows according to the IRS whistleblower:

    “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my directions. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/biden-snaps-reporter-asking-if-he-was-involved/

  21. Richard, can you help me out? I have been trying to find information on Deagle and have had no luck

    I question why Deagle spoke at Event 201.

    Where did they get their information about the population changes in countries worldwide and why was this discussed at Event 201. Are we to believe this is all part of the pandemic “simulation”?

    Did anyone attending ask about the staggering numbers Deagle presented that showed the population change from 2017 to 2025?

    What was the reasons given for the changes?

    Population 2017 Australia 23,230,000 Population 2025 15,196,600 -34.6%
    Bahrain 2017 1,410,000. 2025 837,800 -40.6
    Belgium 2017 11,040,000 2025 8,060,900 -29.8
    Cyprus 2017 1,220,000 2025 791,720 -35.1
    Canada 2017 35,620,000 2025 26,315,760 -26.1
    France 2017 67,100,000 2025 39,114, 580 -41.7
    Germany 2017 80,590,000 2025 28, 134,920 -65.1
    Iceland 2017 339,747 195,927 -42.3
    Ireland 2017 4,770,000 2025 1,318,740 -72.4
    Israel 2017 7,710,000 2025 3,982,480 -48.3
    Luxembourg. 2017 514,862 2025 199,020 -61.3
    Spain. 2017 47,370,000 2025 27,763,280 -41.4
    Ukraine 2017 44,570,000 2025 31,628,980 -29.0
    United Kingdom. 2017 63,390,000 2025 14,517,860 – 77.1
    USA. 2017 316,440,000 2025 99,553,100 -68.5

    Just a sampling of the countries’ numbers will look like in 2025 after, according to Deagle, on the 18th day of October, 2019 stated at Event 201, all these people would die.

    Do pandemic recognize borders?
    What killed all the people?
    Was it a Coronavirus?
    Vaccines?
    Or governments?

    Did the WHO people question the numbers?

    • China was interesting. Little to no change in population. Not that it’s related or anything, but China rejected the mRNA shots and used their own useless but not dangerous classical vaccine, Cinovax I think it was called.

      • Gave kids leukemia.
        Quite a scandal – govt wouldn’t pay to treat them, parents were begging. Then no more news.

    • When searching use Deagel you are spelling it wrong.

      Deagel looks the be done rent a spook outfit that does research on military and Intel subjects. They are connected (some how) with Stratford that use to be a reliable source of info.

      From the number of causalities they are predicting my guess is they are expecting some very nasty Bio weapons being turned loose. With the figures published they are either part of the Deep Ecology movement or are working for them. This evil movement wants the world’s population to be below 500,000,000. They are also pushing for government approval being needed for any and all babies brought into the world. Margery Dangers and the Nazi eugenics program in real life.

      Given the number of bioweapons labs Fauchi was funding and the amount of Soviet bioweapons material that is suppose to have gone missing a bio attack of this size is possible but not necessary probable.

      Thank you for giving me another potential data source.

  22. (Richard: This is the most thoughtful analysis if the mutiny that I have read.

    The only real question is “Was the armed rebellion in 2020 the rioting in the big Dem controlled cities”? That is the only violence I remember.

    Pay close attention to the requirements that are needed for a successful coup.)

    Big Serge Thought

    Russo-Ukrainian War: The Wagner Uprising
    Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wild Ride

    BIG SERGE
    JUN 26, 2023
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    The events of the past weekend (June 23 – 25, 2023) were so surreal and phantasmagorical that they militate against narration and defy description. On Friday, the infamous Wagner Group launched what appeared to be a genuine armed insurrection against the Russian state. They occupied portions of Rostov on Don – a city of over 1 million people, regional capital, and headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District – before setting off in an armed column towards Moscow. This column – replete with heavy military equipment including air defense systems – came within a few hundred miles of the capital – virtually unmolested by Russian state forces – before abruptly stopping, announcing that a deal had been brokered with the aid of Belorussian President Aleksandr “Uncle Sasha” Lukashenko, turning around, and heading back to Wagner bases in the Ukrainian theater.

    Needless to say, the spectacle of a Russian mercenary group making an armed march on Moscow, and of Wagner tanks and infantry cordoning off Ministry of Defense buildings in Rostov, sparked widespread confidence among the western commentariat that the Russian state was about to be toppled and the Russian war effort in Ukraine would evaporate. There were confident and outlandish predictions pushed out in a matter of hours, including claims that Russia’s global footprint would disintegrate as the Kremlin recalled troops to defend Moscow and that Russia was about to enter a state of Civil War. We also saw the Ukrainian propaganda machine kick into overdrive, with characters like Anton Gerashchenko and Igor Sushko absolutely bombarding social media with fake stories about Russian army units mutinying and regional governors “defecting” to Prigozhin.

    There’s something to be said here about the analytic model that prevails in our time – there’s a machine that instantly springs to life, taking in rumors and partial information in an environment of extreme uncertainty and spitting out formulaic results that match ideological presuppositions. Information is not evaluated neutrally, but forced through a cognitive filter that assigns it meaning in light of predetermined conclusions. Russia is *supposed* to collapse and undergo regime change (Fukuyama said so) – therefore, Prigozhin’s actions had to be framed in reference to this assumed endgame.

    On the opposite end of the spectrum, we saw some similar measure of aggressive model-fitting from “Trust the Plan” Russia supporters, who were confident that the Wagner uprising was just an act – an elaborate ruse concocted in concert by Prigozhin and Putin to fool Russia’s enemies and advance the plan. The analytic error here is the same – information is parsed only for the purpose of buttressing and advancing a pre-concluded endgame; except it is Russian omnicompetence which is assumed instead of Russian state collapse.

    I took something of a middle view. I found the idea that Russia faced civil war or state collapse to be bizarre in the extreme and completely unfounded, but I also did not think (and I feel that events have vindicated this view) that Prigozhin was acting in collaboration with the Russian state to create a charade. If indeed the Wagner uprising was a Psyop (Psychological Operation) to trick NATO, it was an extremely elaborate and convoluted one which hasn’t yet shown any clear benefits (more on this in a moment).

    My broad belief is that Prigozhin was acting of his own volition in an extremely risky way (which risked both his own life and a destabilizing effect on Russia). This presented the Russian state with a genuine crisis (albeit one which was not sufficiently severe to threaten the state’s existence) which I think they handled quite well on the whole. The Wagner uprising was quite clearly bad for Russia, but not existentially so, and the state did a good job containing and mitigating it.

    Let’s get into it, starting with a short look at the timeline of events.

    Anatomy of a Mutiny
    The amount of disinformation (particularly propagated by the Ukrainians and by Russian liberals residing in the west) that flew around throughout the weekend was extreme, so it might be prudent to review the progression of events as they actually happened.

    The first sign that something was amiss came with a few explosive statements by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin on the 23rd (Friday). In a rather long and erratic interview, he made the shocking claim that Russia’s pretext for the war in Ukraine was an outright lie and that the war had been fraught with corruption and the murder of civilians. Things then got even crazier when Wagner claimed that the Russian army had struck their camp with a missile. This was extremely weird – the video which was released (purporting to show the aftermath of this “missile strike”) did not show an impact crater, debris, or any wounded or killed Wagner personnel. The “damage” from the missile consisted of two campfires burning in a trench – apparently Russia has missiles that can start small controlled fires without destroying the surrounding plant life?

    The video obviously did not show the aftermath of a missile attack, but Prigozhin’s rhetoric escalated after this and he soon announced that Wagner would begin a “march for justice” to gain redress for his various grievances. It was not clear exactly what he wanted, but it seemed to center on personal grudges against Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

    Shortly thereafter, a few videos came from the Russian authorities (including one featuring General Surovikin) apparently pleading with Wagner to “stop the movement of their columns” and return to their posts, to prevent bloodshed and destabilization. This validated some of the rumors that Wagner was leaving the theater in force. News that Russian National Guard had been activated in Moscow and elsewhere seemed to vindicate the fear that an armed clash in Russia was imminent.

    By the end of Friday, armed Wagner convoys were in Rostov (bearing the red Z mark) and had taken control of several military offices in what amounted to a bloodless coup of the city. The scenes were a bit outlandish – tanks on the city streets and security cordons around key facilities, but seeming indifference from the population. People mingled among the Wagner troopers, street sweepers went about their work, Wagner bought cheeseburgers, and people took pictures with the tanks.

    A T-72 is the ultimate accessory
    That evening, Prigozhin had a tense but civil face to face meeting with two high level MOD officials – Yanus Evkurov (Deputy Defense Minister) and Vladimir Alekseev (Deputy Head of the military intelligence directorate).

    Things really got heated the next day (Saturday the 24th) with the news that two substantial armed bodies were on the move within the prewar Russian borders. One was a column of Wagner personnel and weapons who left Rostov for Moscow, and other was a Chechen force dispatched by the state to Rostov. Amid the news that Russian state forces were establishing roadblocks and defensive positions outside of Moscow, it looked like two separate battles might have been imminent – one by the Wagner column fighting state forces outside Moscow, and another fought between the Chechens and the Wagner remnants for control of Rostov.

    It was at this point that Ukrainian disinformation really began to run wild, with claims flying around that Russian military units and regional administrations were defecting to Prigozhin – in effect positing that this was not just an uprising by Wagner against the state, but a wholesale revolt of the Russian system against Putin’s government. In fact (and this is a key point to which I will return later) there were no defections in any regular Russian military units or regional governments and there was no civil unrest. The mutiny was confined to the Wagner Group, and even so not all of Wagner participated.

    Be that as it may, by the early evening hours on Saturday there were real reasons to worry that shooting might start outside Moscow or in Rostov. Putin issued a statement denouncing treason and promising an appropriate response. The Russian Ministry of Justice opened a criminal file on Prigozhin for treason. Two Russian MoD aircraft were shot down (an Mi-8 helicopter and an IL-22) by the Wagner column. The global atmosphere became notably more humid from the volume of salivation flowing from Washington.

    Can’t park there, buddy
    Then, the Wagner column stopped. The government of Belarus announced that a settlement had been negotiated with Prigozhin and Putin. Lukahsenko’s office claimed “they came to agreements on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia.” The column turned aside from the road to Moscow and returned to Wagner’s field camps around Ukraine, and the Wagner forces left in Rostov packed up and left. Aside from the crews of the two downed aircraft, nobody was killed.

    Of course, speculation immediately turned to the terms of the deal between Prigozhin and the state. Some speculated that Putin had agreed to remove Shoigu, Gerasimov, or both from their posts (perhaps this was the point all along?). In fact, the terms were relatively lame and anticlimactic:

    The treason case against Prigozhin was dropped and he was to go to Belarus

    Wagner fighters who participated in the uprising would not be charged and would return to operations in Ukraine

    Wagner fighters that did not participate in the uprising would sign contracts with the Russian military (essentially exiting Wagner and become regular contract troops)

    A vague reference to “security guarantees” for Wagner fighters

    So, this is all very weird. A genuine armed insurrection with tanks and heavy weapons (not a man in a buffalo headdress) with a takeover of military facilities brought to a sudden resolution by Lukashenko, and all that Prigozhin seems to have gotten out of it was… free passage to Belarus? Odd indeed.

    So let’s try to parse through what happened here using an analytical framework that is not pre-deterministic – that is, let us assume that neither Russian omnicompetence nor Russian regime change and neoliberal cuddliness are guaranteed.

    I’d like to start by addressing precisely these two ideologically predetermined theories. On one side we had those claiming that Russia was about to be plunged into civil conflict and regime change, and on the other those who think the whole thing was a pre-planned psyop by the Russian government. The former have already been discredited by virtue of the fact that all their dramatic predictions collapsed in 24 hours – Prigozhin did not, in fact, lead a metastasizing mutiny, overthrow Putin, and declare himself Tsar Eugene I. The other extreme theory – the psyop – remains viable, but I think extremely unlikely, for reasons I will enumerate now.

    Psyop Scenarios
    It’s relatively easy to simply say “the mutiny was a psyop” without elaborating. It’s trivially obvious that the Wagner uprising “fooled” western analysis – but this isn’t ipso facto evidence that the uprising was staged for the purpose of fooling the west. We have to ask for something more specific – to what end might the uprising have been scripted?

    I’ve identified what I think are four discreet theories that at least merit examination – let’s take a look at them and talk about why I think they all ultimately fail to explain the uprising to satisfaction.

    Option 1: Live Bait
    One potential explanation – which I have seen suggested quite frequently – is the idea that Prigozhin and Putin staged the uprising for the purpose of drawing out theoretical networks of seditionists, foreign agents, and disloyal elements. I suppose the thinking was that Prigozhin would create a controlled, but cosmetically realistic sense of crisis for the Russian state, making Putin’s government appear vulnerable and coercing treacherous and enemy parties across Russia into revealing themselves.

    Conceptually, this amounts to little more than Putin’s government pretending to be a wounded animal for the purpose of drawing out the scavengers so they can be killed.

    I think this theory has appeal to people because it posits Putin as an extremely crafty, Machiavellian, and paranoid leader. This is also why I think it’s wrong. Putin has derived a great deal of legitimacy from his ability to fight the war without disrupting day to day life in Russia – there’s no rationing, no conscriptions, no restrictions on movement, etc. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms of Putin has been from the war party, who allege that he’s fighting the war too timidly for fear and is too preoccupied with maintaining normalcy in Russia.

    It seems incongruous, then, that a leader who has taken great care to avoid putting Russian society on a war footing would then do something as destabilizing as staging a fake uprising. Furthermore, if indeed the Wagner revolt was a charade to smoke out other treacherous and terroristic elements, it failed badly – there were no defections, no civil unrest, and no denunciations of Putin. So for several reasons, the live bait theory does not pass the sniff test.

    Option 2: Masking Deployments
    A second theory is the idea that the Wagner uprising was essentially a giant smokescreen to enable the movement of military forces around Russia. I suppose the thinking here is that if armed columns are seemingly flying around wildly, people might not notice if Russian forces moved into position to, say, attack Sumy or Kharkov. This take was cosmetically bolstered by the news that Prigozhin would be going to Belarus. Was this entire thing a ruse to mask the redeployment of Wagner for an operation in Western Ukraine?

    The problem with this line of thinking is three fold. First, it misunderstands the complexity of staging a force for operations. It’s not just about driving a line of trucks and tanks into position – there are enormous logistical needs. Ammo, fuel, rear area infrastructure all need to be staged. This can’t be done in 24 hours under the temporary cover of a fake mutiny.

    Secondly, the “distraction” effect is mostly directed at media and the commentariat, not at military intelligence. Put another way – CNN and the New York Times were definitely fixated on the Wagner uprising, but American satellites continue to pass over the battlespace and western ISR is still functioning. Prigozhin’s antics would not stop them from observing staging to attack a new front.

    Third and finally, it doesn’t appear that much of Wagner will be accompanying Prigozhin to Belarus – his journey to Lukashenko Land looks more like an exile than a redeployment of the Wagner Group.

    Option 3: Engineered Radicalization
    This is the usual “false flag” sort of theory that circulates any time anything bad happens anywhere. It’s become rather blasé and trite: “Putin staged the uprising so he could escalate the war, increase mobilization, etc.”

    This doesn’t make any sense and is pretty easy to dismiss. There have been real Ukrainian attacks inside Russia (including a drone attack on the Kremlin and cross-border forays by Ukrainian forces). If Putin wanted to intensify the war, he could have used any of these opportunities. The idea that he would choose to orchestrate an internal uprising – running the risk of widespread destabilization – rather than focusing on Ukraine is ridiculous.

    Option 4: Consolidation of Power
    Of all the psyop theories, this is the one that probably has the most merit. There were two different strains to this, which we’ll treat in turn.

    At the beginning, some speculated that Putin was using Prigozhin to create a pretext to force out Shoigu and Gerasimov. I thought this was unlikely for a few reasons.

    First, I don’t think there is a valid case to be made that these men deserve to be fired. There were uneven elements of Russia’s war in the beginning, but there is a clear arc of improvement in the armaments industry with key systems like the Lancet and Geran becoming available in ever increasing quantities, and right now the Russian armed forces are making mulch out of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

    Secondly, if Putin wanted to remove either Shoigu or Gerasimov, doing so in response to a faux-uprising is the worst way to do it, because this would give the appearance of Putin bowing to the demands of a terrorist. Keep in mind, Putin has not publicly criticized either Shoigu or Gerasimov for their handling of the war. Publicly, they appear to have his full backing. Could the president really remove them in response to Prigozhin’s demands without appearing incredibly weak? Far better if Putin simply fired them of his own volition – making himself, and not Prigozhin, the kingmaker.

    Sure enough, it does not appear at this point that either Shoigu or Gerasimov will lose their posts. This led the “power consolidation” theory to pivot to a second line of thinking, that Putin wanted to use Prigozhin to essentially stress-test the Russian political system by seeing how regional administration and army leadership would respond.

    The objects of Prigozhin’s wrath?
    This treats the uprising like a fire drill – turn on the alarm, and see how everyone responds, and take notes on who followed instructions. To be sure, Russian political figures came crawling out of the woodwork to affirm their support for Putin and denounce Wagner – complete with some trademark Russian flair, like the Governor of Tver calling on Prigozhin to commit suicide. This perhaps lends credibility to the idea that Putin wanted to test his subordinates.

    Again, however, I think this theory misses a few key points. First off, Russia appeared to be internally very stable. Putin was facing no opposition or pushback, no civil unrest, no mutinies in the army, no criticism from high profile political figures – it’s not clear why he would feel the need to rock the country just to test the loyalty of the political apparatus. Perhaps you think he’s a hyper-paranoid Stalin figure who feels driven to play mind games with the country, but this really does not square with his operating pattern. Secondly, the trajectory of the war is overwhelmingly in Russia’s favor at the moment, with victory at Bakhmut fresh in the public memory and Ukraine’s counteroffensive looking more and more like a world historical military bust. It makes little sense why at this time in particular, when things are going very well for Russia, Putin would want to drop a grenade just to test reaction times.

    Ultimately, I think that all of these “Psyop” theories are very weak when evaluated in good faith in their own terms. Their errors share a common thread. Things have been going very well for Russia, with the army performing excellently in the ongoing defeat of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, no internal disorder or unrest, and a growing economy. The psyop line of thought presumes that, in a time where things are going well, Putin would take an enormous risk by staging a fake mutiny for negligible gains, risking not only civil unrest and bloodshed but also marring Russia’s image of stability and dependability abroad.

    The presumption is that the Putin team is omnicompetent and is able to game out a highly complex deception scheme. I don’t think the Russian government is omnicompetent. I think they are simply a normal level of competent – too competent to pull a high risk, low reward stunt like this.

    What Prigozhin Wants
    I sometimes like to think of western “end of history” predeterminism (in which all of history is an inexorable march towards global neoliberal performative democracy and the final liberation and happiness of all mankind is announced when the victorious pride flag flies in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and Pyongyang) as being essentially a geopolitical corollary to Jurassic Park – a poignant story of hubris and ruin (and one of my favorite movies).

    The analytic model of Jurassic Park’s creators presumed that the dinosaurs – creatures about whom they knew practically nothing – would over time submit to control routines like zoo animals. Blinded by the illusion of control and the theoretical stability of their systems (presumed to be stable because it was designed to be stable), there was no appreciation for the fact that the Tyrannosaurus had an intelligence and a will of its own.

    I think that Yevgeny Prigozhin is a bit like the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park. Both the western neoliberal apparatus and the Russian four dimensional plan-trusters seem to think of Prigozhin as a cog that exists to execute the function of their world model. Whether that model is the long march of history towards democracy and the last man or a brilliant and nuanced master plan by Putin to destroy the unipolar Atlantic world, it does not matter much – both tend to negate Prigozhin’s agency and turn him into a slave of the model. But perhaps he is a Tyranosaurus, with an intelligence and will that has an internally generated direction indifferent to our world models. Perhaps he tore down the fence for reasons of his own.

    A would-be Lenin? Or just a man with his back at the wall?
    We have to return to who Prigozhin is, and what Wagner is.

    To Prigozhin, Wagner is first and foremost a business which has made him a huge amount of money, particularly in Africa. Wagner’s value (in the most fundamental sense) comes from its high degree of combat effectiveness and its unique status as an independent entity from the Russian armed forces. Any threat to either of these factors represents a financial and status catastrophe for Prigozhin.

    Recently, developments in the war have evinced an existential threat to the Wagner group as a viable PMC. These are, namely:

    A concerted push by the Russian government to force Wagner fighters to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. In effect, this threatens to liquidate Wagner as an independent organization and subsume it wholesale into the regular Russian military.

    Wagner is losing the manpower surge from last year’s conscriptions (including convicts). These conscripts provided an enormous manpower buffer that allowed Wagner to shoulder the large-scale fighting in Bakhmut, but many have completed their tours of duty.

    This means that Wagner faces potential destruction from two fronts. Institutionally, the Russian government wants to essentially neutralize Wagner’s independence by folding it into the MoD. From Prigozhin’s point of view, this essentially means the nationalization of his business.

    Furthermore, a slimmed down Wagner (having shed much of the conscripts that fleshed it out to Army Corps size) is not something that Prigozhin wants to send into combat in Ukraine. Once Wagner is stripped down to its core of experienced wet work operators, casualties in Ukraine will begin eating directly into Wagner’s viability.

    In other words, Prigozhin and the authorities were at an impasse. What Prigozhin probably wanted most of all, to put it bluntly, was to use the fame won in Bakhmut to take Wagner back to Africa and start making lots of money again. What he did not want was to have his PMC absorbed into the Russian military, or to have his core of lethal professionals attrited in another major battle in Ukraine. The MoD, on the other hand, very much wants to absorb Wagner fighters into the regular army and use them to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield.

    So, we have a clear conflict of interests.

    But what can Prigozhin do about it? He has absolutely no institutional power, and Wagner is dependent on the Ministry of Defense for equipment, supplies, ISR, and so much more. Furthermore, Prigozhin’s personal wealth and his family are under the jurisdiction of the Russian state. He has very limited leverage. There are really only a few things he can do. He can record videos to embarrass, harass, and degrade the Ministry of Defense. Of course, it’s probably unwise to directly attack Putin in these rants, and it might not play well to insult ordinary Russian soldiers, so these attacks have to be properly targeted at precisely the sort of bureaucratic higher ups that the Russian public is predisposed to dislike – men like Shoigu and Gerasimov.

    Apart from these video tantrums, Prigozhin really had only one other play to stop the institutional absorption of Wagner – stage an armed protest. Get as many men as he could to join him, make a move, and see if the state could be rocked enough to give him the deal he wanted.

    It sounds weird, of course. You’ve heard of gunboat diplomacy – now we get to see tank-based contract negotiations. Yet it is clear that the dispute over Wagner’s independence and status vis a vis Russian military institutions was at the heart of this. Earlier this month, Prigozhin announced his intention to disobey a presidential order that required his fighters to sign MoD contracts by July 1.

    Prigozhin’s statement this morning (Monday, June 26), however, was extremely instructive. It focused almost exclusively on his central grievance: Wagner was going to be absorbed into the institutional military. He doesn’t take this to its conclusion and note that this would nationalize his highly profitable business, but his comments leave no doubt as to his motivation. Here are a few key points that he makes:

    Wagner did not want to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense

    Absorption into the MoD would mean the end of Wagner: “This unit was supposed to cease its existence on July 1.”

    “The goal of our campaign was to prevent the destruction of Wagner Group.”

    But what did Prigozhin think would happen? What was his optimistic scenario? Likely, he hoped that general anti-bureaucratic and anti-corruption sentiments, combined with Wagner’s popularity and fame, would lead to an upswell of support for the group which would put the government in a position to acquiesce to Wagner’s independence.

    It was a bold decision. Facing institutional absorption, Prigozhin gambled on a measured destabilization campaign that would rock the country just enough to spook Putin into cutting him a deal. Prigozhin might have convinced himself that this was a clever and decisive roll of the dice that could turn things in his favor. I rather think that they were not playing dice at all. They were playing cards, and Prigozhin had nothing in his hand.

    Russia’s Crisis Management
    This is the part of the article that I suspect will ruffle feathers and earn me accusations of “coping” – so be it. Let’s just get this out in the open:

    Russia handled the Wagner uprising extremely well, and its management of the crisis points to a high degree of state stability.

    Now, what I am not saying is that the uprising was good for Russia. It was clearly a net-negative in several ways. Russian aircraft were shot down by Wagner and Russian pilots were killed. Prigozhin was then allowed to walk away after causing these deaths – a stain on the government. There was widespread confusion which does nothing good for morale, and operations in the Southern Military District were disrupted by Wagner’s occupation of Rostov.

    On the whole, this was not a good weekend for Russia. It was a crisis, but it was a crisis that the state handled quite well overall and mitigated the downsides – perhaps even making a glass or two of lemonade out of Prigozhin’s lemons. It’s a bit fitting, perhaps, that Shoigu used to be Minister of Emergency Situations (essentially disaster relief). Disasters are never good, but it’s always better to handle them well when they happen.

    The state response was actually pretty straightforward: call Prigozhin’s bluff.

    Prigozhin drove toward Moscow with his column – but what was he going to do if he got there? Russian national guard was preparing to block them from entering the city. Would Wagner attack Moscow? Would they shoot national guardsmen? Would they assault the Kremlin or shell Saint Basil’s? Doing so would lead to the inevitable death of every man involved. Wagner, with no supply or procurement of its own, cannot fight the Russian armed forces successfully and probably could not supply itself for more than a day or two.

    The problem with Prigozhin’s approach is that pantomiming a coup doesn’t work if you aren’t willing to actually attempt a coup – and a coup only works if institutional authorities side with you. It’s not as if Prigozhin could drive a tank up to Lenin’s mausoleum and begin issuing orders to the federal ministries and armed forces. Coups require control over institutional levers of power – regional governorships, government ministries, and the officer corps of the armed forces.

    Prigozhin not only lacked all of these things, but in fact the entire apparatus of power denounced him, scorned him, and branded him a traitor. Having mutinied his way into a dead end, his only choices were to either start a firefight outside Moscow and guarantee that he would die and be known to history as a traitorous terrorist, or to surrender. It is probable that the Wagner column shooting down Russian aircraft (which Prigozhin later claimed was a “mistake”) spooked him and confirmed that he was going too far and did not have a good way out. When your opponent calls and you have nothing in your hand, there is nothing to do except fold.

    Consider then, for a moment, the actual scene in Russia. An armored column was driving towards the capital. What was the response from the Russian state and people? Authorities at all levels publicly denounced the uprising and stated support for the president. There were no defections, either from military units or civilian administration. There was no civil unrest, no looting, no loss of even basic government control in the country. Compare the scenes in Russia during an armed rebellion to the United States in the summer of 2020. Which country is more stable, again?

    In the end, the government managed to dissipate a crisis situation, which could easily have spiraled into substantial bloodshed, without any loss of life apart from the crews of the two downed aircraft (deaths that we should not minimize, and must be remembered as victims of Prigozhin’s ambition). Furthermore, the terms of the “settlement” amount to little more than surrender by Prigozhin. He himself seems to be bound for a sort of semi-exile in Belarus (potentially awaiting a Trotsky ice-pick moment) and it seems that the majority of Wagner will sign contracts and be absorbed into the Russia institutional military. Based on the speech that Putin gave this evening (fifteen minutes ago as of this writing), Wagner fighters have only three options: sign MOD contracts, disband and go home, or join Prigozhin in Belarusian exile (presumably without their gear). As it relates to the institutional status of Wagner, Prigozhin lost and the state won. Wagner as an independent fighting body is finished.

    We must be honest, of course, about the damages of the uprising.

    Prigozhin killed Russian servicemembers when his column downed those aircraft, and then had his treason charge dropped. One can say, of course, that bringing a peaceful resolution prevented further bloodshed, but this doesn’t change the fact that he killed Russian soldiers and gets to walk away. This is a failure with both a moral and an institutional legitimacy dimension.

    Additionally, this entire episode ought to serve as a poignant lesson about the inherent instability of relying on mercenary groups who operate outside of formal military institutions. There are many such groups in Russia, not just Wagner, and it will be malpractice if the government does not move decisively to liquidate their independence. Otherwise, they are simply waiting for something like this to happen again – potentially with a far more explosive outcome.

    On the whole, however, it seems rather undeniable that the government handled an extreme crisis rather competently. Contrary to the new western spin that the Wagner revolt revealed the weakness of Putin’s government, the unity of the state, the calmness of the people, and the coolheaded strategy of de-escalation suggest that the Russian state is stable.

    Conclusion: 1917
    One of humanity’s most universal and beloved pastimes is making bad historical analogies, and that process was certainly in high gear this past weekend. The most popular comparison, naturally, was to compare Prigozhin’s uprising to the fall of the Tsar in 1917.

    The problem is that this analogy is a perfect inversion of the truth.

    The Tsar fell in 1917 because he was at army headquarters far away from the capital. In his absence, a garrison mutiny in Petrograd (Petersburg) led to a collapse of government authority, which was then picked up by a new cabinet formed from the state Duma. Coups are not achieved through mindless bloodshed. What matters most is the basic question of bureaucratic authority, for this is what it means to rule. When you pick up a phone and give an order to shut down a rail line; when you summon a military unit to readiness; when you issue a purchasing order for food or shells or medicine – are these instructions respected?

    It was trivially obvious that Prigozhin lacked either the force, the institutional support, or any real desire to usurp authority, and the idea that he was attempting a genuine coup was absurd. Imagine, for a moment, that Wagner managed to bash its way through the Russian National Guard into Moscow. Prigozhin storms the ministry of defense – he arrests Shoigu and sits in his chair. Do we really believe that the army in the field would suddenly follow his orders? It’s not a magic chair. Power only comes up for grabs in the event of total state collapse, and what we saw in Russia was the opposite – we saw the state closing ranks.

    So in the end, both the neoliberal commentariat and the Russian plan trusters are left with an unsatisfactory view of events. Prigozhin is neither the harbinger of regime change nor a piece in Putin’s four dimensional chess game. He’s simply a mercurial and wildly irresponsible man who saw that his Private Military Corporation was going to be taken away from him and decided to go to extreme and criminal lengths to prevent this. He was a card player with nothing in his hand who decided to bluff his way out of a corner – until his bluff was called.

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    • Big story coming out today. Very confusing.

      Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
      Missile strike in Kramatorsk summarized:
      – Russian MoD reported today:
      “In the city of Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the point of temporary deployment of the commanders of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.”

      – Volunteers around the restaurant confirm that soldiers are under the rubble (video)

      – Videos from the rescue and instagram posts confirm that (former?) Canadian and US soldiers were on site. (Next Post)

      Some say S.African PMC too.
      Ukr AD missile gone astray?

      – The SBU arrested a “Russian spy” who have gave out the position for the strike in Kramatorsk. Now you don’t do that, if Russia randomly attacks civilians! You do that only if something important was hit. (Thread next post)

      https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1674023498904215555

      Lots more. To be continued…

    • Today’s Dima ~ One of his best ~
      Around the middle (~14m) there’s a fascinating look at mine strategy – potential to turn the map around.

      Kramatorsk: WAS a civilian town, but it sure looks like NATO central today. You won’t see so many Ukrainian men on the loose anymore. Guys speaking English, tattoos identify them as [at least former] U.S. military. I recognize emblems of a tough PMC based in South Africa – terrible reputation – we’re paying them.

      Poland and Lithuania have made noises about invading Belarus later this summer. Chomping at the bit to roll over territory for which they lust. Let’s hope scraps of Wagner and Uncle Vlad’s tactical nukes deter them.

      • The Prez Dudu of Poland and Prez Nausea of Lithuania make all sorts of noises.
        But at least in Poland, the people want NO part of it. We’re hearing about *extreme* pushback from the Polish people. Not our boots on the ground!

        I’m going to say the “Warsaw regime” if that’s what it is, rather than “Poland”. It’s only fair.

        I didn’t vote for war against Russia for “Ukraine”. I’m deeply offended to see Americans operating as terrorist mercenaries. May they find their roots in the black soil of that benighted place. And stay rooted forever.

      • Any active duty personnel in Ukraine has probably had a discharge inserted into their records. If they come out alive it will be destroyed.

        Poland wants to get more land and people to be strong enough to face down Russia after NATO falls apart. Everyone is making preparations for a future with a weakened possibly powerless US.

        If we fall asleep much as our enemies are predicting they will fall further. What is more likely is several years of chaos and internal fighting that will keep us busy. Once the internal threats are removed we can start worrying about the external mess.

  23. IT WAS ALL A LIE: Dirty Jack Smith Leaked Trump Milley Audio to Fake News to Taint Jury Pool and Smear Trump – But It IS NOT Part of Bogus Indictments Against President Trump
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 11:41 am205 Comments

    For weeks Special Counsel Jack Smith has been leaking allegations to the lemming media on alleged ‘classified’ information on a report discussed by President Trump to his associates and written by dummy Mark Milley, who surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban and turned over $80 billion in US weapons to the terrorist group.

    Milley wrote a report on his invasion plans into Iran that included the deployment of a “massive number of troops” into the Islamic State. This was obviously not taken seriously by President Trump or his staff. Trump was the first US president in decades to keep the US out of any new wars.

    This recent leak by dirty Special Counsel Jack Smith involved Mark Milley and some nonsense he wrote about invading Iran.

    The DOJ has been leaking the so-called classified information on the case to the mainstream media for weeks.

    Then on Monday Jack Smith leaked the audio to CNN to smear President Trump and taint the jury pool.

    The CNN report went viral.

    Legal expert and author Mark Levin called for Jack Smith to be jailed following his latest leak.

    And now, according to CBS News, the Milley memo on Iran is not part of the 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information charged in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president.

    Paul Sperry called this back on June 10.

    The leaks were only meant to damage President Trump in the eye of the public.

    CBS News reported:

    Washington — The Defense Department memo on Iran — at the heart of the now-public audio recording that captured a July 2021 meeting with former President Donald Trump — is not part of the 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information charged in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.

    In the recording of the meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, the former president can be heard apparently showing and discussing what he described as “highly confidential, secret” documents with aides. Sources say the documents were related to plans for a potential U.S. attack on Iran.

    “It is like highly confidential, secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump said in the audio tape obtained by CBS News. “See, as president I could have declassified, but now I can’t, you know…Isn’t that interesting? It’s so cool.”

    The document and recording are described in the indictment Smith’s team secured against Trump earlier this month, recounted as an alleged meeting with “a writer, a publisher, and two members of” Trump’s staff, “none of whom possessed a security clearance.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/it-was-all-lie-dirty-jack-smith-leaked/

    • Thank you Richard. I look around at the numbers of dead, many who have just dropped dead in my small community and the numbers of sick, blind, people with heart problems, tremors, Alzheimer’s and on and on …… I know none of this is normal.

      God bless you and keep you well.

      I keep in mind survivor rule “Whatever comes, this too shall pass away”. Stay strong.

      • Always remember what my Father always said, “Smile, it will get worse before it gets better.”

  25. Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Protect New York’s LGBTQ+ Community
    Governor Kathy Hochul – June 25, 2023

  26. Wisconsin Democrats Openly Defy State Election Law to Indefinitely Keep Election Administrator in Place for 2024 Election Cycle
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 2:20 pm68 Comments

    Guest post by Jefferson Davis
    Madison – It what can only be described as openly defiant and breath-taking behavior on behalf of the 3 democrats on the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC), state election law appears to have been deliberately and purposely ignored on June 27th at the WEC Meeting regarding the reappointment of the Administrator of Elections.
    The Wisconsin Election Commission’s 3 democrats voted to “abstain” and the 3 republicans, to move the appointment matter of the Administrator forward, voted “yes” on the appointment consideration of the Administrator of Elections Position thereby purposely causing a deadlock so that the current Administrator would, in the democrats’ mind, remain in place indefinitely.
    Wisconsin voters were invited by these 3 democrats to sue them in court if they don’t like their decision on the Wisconsin Election Commission to keep the Administrator of Elections in place indefinitely.
    The current Administrator of Elections, Meagan Wolfe (click here – meagan wolfe picture – Google Search), was legally and statutorily appointed to a 4-year term in 2019 that is, by law, scheduled to “expire” at 12:01 A.M. on July 1, 2023, per Wisconsin State Statute 15.61 (1) (b) (click here – Wisconsin Legislature: 15.61).
    The legal and publicly noticed June 27, 2023, WEC Agenda, (click here – Special Meeting 6/27/2023 | Wisconsin Elections Commission) specifically had as an agenda item the consideration of an Interim Administrator and Administrator for the 4-year Term “Expiring” on July 1, 2027.
    The 3 democrats on the Commission immediately extoled the many, what was in their mind, election administration virtues of the current Administrator and how Wisconsin is so fortunate to have someone of her stature to administer elections in Wisconsin that has become the envy of so many election officials across America.
    The Speaker of the Assembly, Robin Vos (R-Rochester), joined many other republican elected officials in calling for the resignation of Meagan Wolfe since 2021 due to, what was in their opinion and observation, the gross and negligent mishandling of the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin supposedly decided by 20,682 votes under very suspicious administration of elections activity (click here – Wisconsin’s elections chief speaks out amid GOP calls for her resignation (weau.com)).
    The 3 democrats then went on to stipulate in some fashion that they don’t have the “authority”, “jurisdiction” or “power” to address the appointment matter for the Administrator position on the agenda.
    The 3 democrats then went on to disclose that they believe there is no “vacancy” in the Administrator Position per Statute 15.61 (1) (b) and 17.03 (click here – Wisconsin Legislature: 17.03) and therefore, Meagan Wolfe, can remain Administrator indefinitely and no appointment vote is needed on behalf of the Commission.

    Democrats being democrats, purposely conflated the Administrator’s Term expiring on July 1, 2023, with the statutory language of “vacancy” in statute 15.61 and 17.03 to deliberately confuse the issue and control the narrative and optics for the press and media in Wisconsin to provide what appears to be cover for them and the current Administrator.

    Vacancy, per Statute 17.03, only applies to “public office”, not Agency Administrators.

    The democrats then went on to argue that the Prehn Decision (click here – In “Absurd” Prehn Decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinforces Gerrymandering – Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (wisdc.org)) would allow the current Administrator to remain in place indefinitely.

    The Prehn Decision involved a DNR Board Member and not the Administrator of a major Wisconsin government agency that just happens to have an effect on the administration of elections in Wisconsin.

    In an absolute act of arrogant defiance of State Election Law and specific statutory responsibilities for the Wisconsin State Senate, Democrat Commissioner Thomsen, a practicing attorney, then proudly stated:

    “I will take my shot with the courts rather than the Senate.” (click here – Commissioners fail to agree on Wolfe reappointment, leaving her in job as Wisconsin’s top election official – WisPolitics)
    To view the arrogant and condescending behavior and attitude of the democrats’ total disregard for state election law, please view the attached 43-minute video from yesterday’s meeting (click here – WEC Fails To Reinstate Meagan Wolfe (Dems Abstain) (rumble.com)).
    A wise man once asked, “Do you know what the difference is between a snake and a democrat? There’s just some things a snake won’t do.”
    What’s the pathway forward for democrat lawbreakers?
    Democrats seem to have a propensity to use the courts to find ways around the law.
    Republicans seem to only use the courts to have the laws enforced.
    Wisconsin needs to ask itself once and for all, “When is enough, enough with these law-breaking democrats who have unlimited resources and dare anyone to sue them in hopes of getting their way while everyone else just gives up and surrenders.”
    Wisconsin deserves better and hopefully some very wise and dedicated people will not give up and do the right thing by addressing the latest attempt of democrats to be in your face by openly breaking the law involving the administration of elections with integrity.
    t attempt of democrats to be in your face by openly breaking the law involving the administration of elections with integrity.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/wisconsin-democrats-openly-defy-state-election-law-indefinitely/

  27. Pizza-throwing New Yorker gets Mayor Eric Adams’ attention
    Fox News – June 27, 2023

  28. HUGE! 66% of American Voters or Two-Thirds Believe the 2024 Presidential Election Will Be Affected by Cheating
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 28, 2023 1:40 pm141 Comments

    Kari Lake’s chart topping hit “81 Million Votes My Ass”
    Earlier this month Kari Lake released her new hit single “81 Million Votes My Ass” describing the entirely unbelievable “results” from the 2020 presidential election.

    Kari’s new hit song, “81 Million Votes My Ass” with The Truth Bombers and Mailman Media, debuted on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart and hit number one on two Billboard Charts as it continues to skyrocket in sales.

    Mailman Media is the same production team that brought us “Justice for All,” featuring Donald Trump and the J6 Choir. The hit single featuring President Trump reached number one on the Billboard Charts and iTunes.

    Listen and share Kari Lake’s 81 Million Votes My Ass at this link!

    66% of American voters or nearly two-thirds of voters believe the 2024 election will be affected by cheating.

    Most voters are worried that next year’s presidential election could be affected by cheating, and nearly half agree with a popular song challenging the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election in 2024.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 66% of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned that the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be affected by cheating, including 40% who are Very Concerned. Thirty-two percent (32%) aren’t concerned about cheating in next year’s election, including 15% who are Not At All Concerned. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

    The poll makes sense. By running Old Joe in 2024 Democrats have already signaled they will “win” by cheating. Joe Biden has NO support.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/huge-66-americans-two-thirds-believe-2024-presidential/

  29. Yesterday, I posted about the Okhotnik combat drone:
    https://vladtepesblog.com/2023/06/27/readers-links-for-june-27th-2023/#comment-823051

    Today: RajBhaduriAviator @RajBhads90
    Russian armed forces for the first time struck military targets with the help of a stealth strike drone Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B Stealth Drone.
    Used to carry out airstrikes on the targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located on the territory of the Sumy region.

    https://twitter.com/RajBhads90/status/1674116524150521856
    …………….
    An important advance in combat drones.
    Twisted Ragheads + Russia, hand-in-hand.
    (The filthy Turk as Best Man.)

    • Horrible, horrible.
      Testing, refining this horror. Our own citizens are helpfully serving as ducks on a shooting range.

      Telegram, Slavyangrad

      “The entire Seversk district… is simply swarming with mercenaries. In a number of settlements they’ve occupied all the houses. Female and male terrorists, Americans and Poles. Blacks and Arabs. Very few Ukkainians…

      Total number of the mercenaries is at least 15 thousand + armor and “jihadmobiles”.”

      https://t.me/

  30. Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, according to the World Health Organization updated guidance. Florida’s Surgeon General was accused of “peddling conspiracy theories” by the White House Officials for making the same recommendation back in 2022.

    How many of the persecuted doctors worldwide told us Covid was never a threat to children?

  32. Tom Luongo gives his rather unique take on Jerome Powell’s quest to save the United States by opposing Janet Yellen and the globalist bunch by raising interest rates. I get it now. Not sure if I agree, but I get it. (Has much to do with opposing old Central European Nazis):

    https://youtu.be/B4dsDLrBZZ0

  33. M Files:

    The Turks gave their version of yesterday’s attack on Kramatorsk.

    The building of the hotel in Kramatorsk, where foreign mercenaries and volunteers are stationed, was subjected to Russian bombardment during daylight hours, the losses amounted to more than 100 people.

    The hotel housed a large number of former US soldiers, special forces and military personnel from various NATO countries, who, under the cover of volunteers, provided command and administrative support to Ukrainian forces in the region.

    There are fears that the number of victims will increase.

    https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1674083851667222530

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMAaKWMHIKc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zfWOwLFCs8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0iEenuyvg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-utJSJhpNbA

    • Moscow Times and Meduza are owned by expatriate Russian oligarchs. They’re worth a look for a different perspective, but their writers are not squeaky clean freedom fighters.