❗️Top commanders of Azov Battalion, the notorious elite neo-Nazi unit within Ukraine’s National Guard, surrender to Russian forces in Mariupol.

Azov Battalion commander Denys Prokopenko, his deputy Svyatoslav Palamar, and the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade Serhiy Volyna are among the 2439 Ukrainian fighters who surrendered to the DPR and Russian forces at Azovstal, Russian MOD confirms.

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History professor at Yale University argues that Russia is a fascist state.

“People disagree, often vehemently, over what constitutes fascism. But today’s Russia meets most of the criteria that scholars tend to apply. It has a cult around a single leader, Vladimir Putin. It has a cult of the dead, organized around World War II. It has a myth of a past golden age of imperial greatness, to be restored by a war of healing violence,” — writes Dr. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many books on fascism, totalitarianism and European history.

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The West has artificially separated the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, says former UN expert.

From Alfred de Zayas’s Twitter:

It is not Russia who wanted to be an enemy of NATO. It is NATO that needed an enemy for its raison d'être and unilaterally assigned this role to Russia.

NATO has done nothing but threaten and provoke since 1991. The Ukrainian tragedy is a direct consequence of our own behaviour as predicted by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen.

Peace in Europe and for the world requires that all Europeans look for and find their common ground. The Russians are very much Europeans and will remain so.

The West has artificially separated the Ukrainian and Russian peoples who have lived together in peace for centuries.

The Ukrainian and Russian languages are extremely close as the Ukrainian and Russian cultures. Their differences are artificially generated for geopolitical reasons.

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European Film Academy president calls for ban on Russian culture.

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Putin has “a black heart” and “Stalin’s taste for blood,” says Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) while explaining to his constituents why he voted for the $40 billion Ukraine aid package.

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Sanctions against Russia will not stop the war in Ukraine, they will only impoverish the citizens of the EU, says Croatian Member of the European Parliament Mislav Kolakušić.

If the EU was serious about preventing wars, it would impose sanctions on the United States, Kolakušić argues.

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“Your mission is to destroy as many Russian troops as you can,” former President Bush tells a Zelensky imposter while reassuring him of continued U.S. support.

George W. Bush was duped into believing he was on a call with the Ukrainian president when, in fact, he was speaking to Russian pranksters.

During the call, Bush also admitted that the U.S. had lied to Gorbachev about not expanding NATO and noted that Russia’s grievances would stop being an issue once Moscow was defeated in Ukraine.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks out against any kind of peace agreement in Ukraine, suggests end goal is retaking Donbas and Crimea, followed by regime change in Russia.

While speaking at WEF, Manchin also noted that he and the strategists he talks to have never seen an "opportunity" like this war to "do what needs to be done" against Putin.

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“What have I done for Ukraine today?” — Zelensky calls on world leaders at Davos to keep asking themselves that question despite the urge to focus on the problems of their own countries.

The crowd responded with a standing ovation, except for the Chinese delegation, which reportedly didn’t clap and remained seated.

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Kissinger: The West should push Ukraine to negotiate with and cede territory to Russia.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the former U.S. Secretary of State warned that attempts to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine will have disastrous consequences for the long-term stability of Europe.

After saying that Western countries should remember Russia’s importance to Europe and not get swept up “in the mood of the moment,” Kissinger also pushed for the West to force Ukraine into accepting negotiations.

Attempts to retake occupied territory from Russia “would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” the veteran statesman noted.

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❗️Hungary’s Orban declares state of emergency, says world is on the brink of an economic crisis.

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Americans are growing less supportive of the anti-Russia sanctions as the U.S. economy falters, a new AP poll finds.

From AP News:

Now 45% of U.S. adults say the nation’s bigger priority should be sanctioning Russia as effectively as possible, while slightly more — 51% — say it should be limiting damage to the U.S. economy.

In April, those figures were exactly reversed. In March, shortly after Russia attacked Ukraine, a clear majority — 55% — said the bigger priority should be sanctioning Russia as effectively as possible.

The shifts in opinion reflect how rising prices are biting into American households — surging costs for gas, groceries, and other commodities have strained budgets for millions of people — and perhaps limiting their willingness to support Ukraine financially.

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Somewhere in California.
“Viva a Rusia! Viva a México!”

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❗️Zelensky urges West to speed up heavy weapons deliveries and declares intention to take back all of Ukraine, including Crimea.

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YouTube has reportedly taken down a full-length version of the leaked phone call between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt that implicated US involvement in the events of 2014.

Other versions still remain on YouTube, and a full audio file can be found here.

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Is Russia causing a global food crisis?

Reports in the Guardian, Associated Press, and elsewhere claim that Russia is blockading shipping vessels in Ukrainian ports, preventing the export of grain amid a worsening global food crisis. The Washington Post has published “declassified US intelligence” to back these assertions, including heatmaps which show concentrations of Russian navy ships in the Black Sea, purportedly endangering shipping lanes. In a more recent article, the WaPo suggests that the US should intervene to end the alleged blockade. What’s going on?

According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Russian Federation has initiated attempts to establish corridors for the safe evacuation of civilian vessels. In Mariupol, officials report that the first cargo ships will be leaving in the coming days. Safety risks remain in other areas, however, as the IMO reports on sea mines threatening movement at this time. Local authorities in Ukrainian-controlled ports have also raised their maritime security (MARSEC) to level 3, preventing entry and exit.

The IMO writes:

“Ukraine also provided their preconditions for the safe evacuation of ships from their ports. These include an end to hostilities, the withdrawal of troops and ensuring the freedom of navigation in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, including carrying out mine-sweeping activities with the involvement of Black Sea littoral states.”

For more information, check out Moon of Alabama's analysis from May 21: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/no-the-ukraine-war-has-not-stoked-a-global-food-crisis.html#more

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❗️Biden: U.S. will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach Russia.

From Reuters:

The Ukrainian government has urged the West to provide it with more longer-range weapons in order to turn the tide in the war.

CNN and The Washington Post reported on Friday the Biden administration was leaning towards sending the MLRS and another system, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, as part of an upcoming military aid package.

The MLRS was under consideration, but nothing with long-range strike capabilities outside of battlefield use, a senior administration official said.

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Russia withdraws from a 1998 Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. on the Principles of Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Education, and the Mass Media.

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Military victory against Russia “unlikely” without MLRS long-range artillery from the U.S. and others, Ukraine official tells CNN.

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Global poll finds many countries maintain positive views of Russia.

From The Guardian:

The sharp polarisation between mainly western liberal democracies and the rest of the world in perceptions of Russia has been laid bare in an annual global poll of attitudes towards democracy.

The annual Democracy Perception Index, carried out after the invasion of Ukraine, covers 52 highly populated countries in Asia, Latin America, the US and Europe.

Majorities in a total of 20 countries thought economic ties with Russia should not be cut due to the war in Ukraine. By contrast, among the 31 countries that favoured cutting ties, 20 were in Europe.

The countries with a widely held most negative view of Russia included Poland (net negative 87%), Ukraine (80%), Portugal (79%), Italy (65%), UK (65%), Sweden (77%), US (62%) and Germany (62%).

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Scott Ritter: Russia will suffer a strategic and humiliating defeat in Ukraine unless it expands its military operation beyond the Donbas and removes the Zelensky government from power.

Vladimir Putin’s stated goals of demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine are unattainable without a third phase of the military operation, Ritter argues.

The “Nazification” of Ukrainian political life has expanded exponentially since Russia’s invasion, making denazification impossible to achieve without a new political leadership in Kiev that will aggressively pursue the eradication of neo-Nazi ideology in Ukraine.

Furthermore, massive military aid from the U.S. and NATO has enabled Ukraine to reconstitute combat power, which had been previously destroyed by Russian forces. Hence, meaningful demilitarization will also require a new political and military leadership in Kiev or Russia’s full control over Ukraine’s western borders.

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