Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke with Scholz and Macron for 75 minutes. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
The Guardian: Putin did not show willingness to end Ukraine war during call, French official says
German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron called for an immediate ceasefire on call
Vladimir Putin did not show a willingness to end the war with Ukraine during a call on Saturday with French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz, a French presidency official said.
Scholz and Macron called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine during the 75-minute phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin, a German government spokesman added.
Their demand echoed a statement made by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, earlier on Saturday, who said negotiations must begin with a suspension of hostilities.
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Update: Putin showed no willingness to end war in talks with Macron, Scholz: France (The Week/PTI)
WNU Editor: I was afraid that this would be Putin's position. It tells me that he believes he is winning this war, and he feels confident that in the weeks to come the EU and the Ukraine government will accept his conditions to end the war.
As to the bigger question .... is Russia winning the war?
I do not know the answer to that question.
But I have observed and noticed the following:
While Ukraine media shows videos everyday of Russian armored vehicles and aircraft being destroyed, Russian media is showing nothing (and I mean nothing) on Ukraine military targets being destroyed. Am I the only one who finds this strange? If you are losing a war you would then show nothing but battlefield victories to rally your supporters back home, not stay silent.
I am also closely following the maps and where the fighting is occurring and progressing. It seems that once the Russian military has advanced about 40km to 60km, it then waits for its supplies to catch up, and then they resume another advance. This is particular the case in the southern front, where each advance is now happening in a predictable manner.
I have also noticed that once territory has been taken by the Russian military, Ukrainian efforts to recapture territory have been few and far between. It looks like the Ukraine military has lost it's offensive capability.
The Russian military is also bypassing major urban centers. Preferring to surround these urban areas with enough troops to keep the Ukraine military and militias inside to be dealt later, while the bulk of the Russian military proceeds to the next target.
It remains to be seen if this is a good strategy.
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https://m.youtube.com/c/WarGonzo/videos
^ pro Russian YouTuber in Ukraine who usually has a lot of videos from the frontlines.
Funker 530
https://funker530.com/ also has combat videos from both sides.
I see a lot of misinformation on both sides so like you, I use sources not really party to the conflict with the maps to see the progression.
Don't stop Mr. Putin. Takeover all those biolabs and expose the US dirty laundry.
"While Ukraine media shows videos everyday of Russian armored vehicles and aircraft being destroyed, Russian media is showing nothing (and I mean nothing) on Ukraine military targets being destroyed. Am I the only one who finds this strange?"
I don't think Russia has much to show, unless it wants to show the destruction of civilian infrastructure and dead civilians.
"so like you, I use sources not really party to the conflict with the maps to see the progression." - For your information, the WNU Editor has been using RT sources at the beginning of the conflict, which was pointed out by a few commentators to not be reliable. Most of his sources don't tend to be reliable. (Dailymail for example)
Anonymous he's a news aggregator every conflict has biases. You need to report on both sides and foreign sources to draw your own conclusion about the conflict. He has a pretty good idea on the political biases of the various media he's referencing.
An isolated tyrant surrounded by terrified yes men.
Not a new scenario.
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All western news outlets are acting like state media right now. For 3 weeks now, the bio labs were being reported on in Russia and China and all the major western networks declared it to be a conspiracy theory and "debunked" it despite having no possible way to send reporters into the area to do so. They just repeat what the white house says and declare it as fact.
That is state media.
It's in fact more pernicious than Russian state media because they at least don't hide behind a veneer of independence; riding Woodward and Bernsteins coattails 25 years removed from the integrity and truth based reporting of that era.
Furthermore the censorship on our side has become dangerous and reputation shattering. The MSM has always been guilty by omission of not reporting on inconvenient topics to the empire, such as the nearly decade long war against the civilian areas of Donbass, but now we've also firewalled off entire sections of the internet like China does. Are our ideas and positions so hollow that they can't stand up to scrutiny from amateurish, poorly funded, barely viewed, foreign state media?
11:45 has been brainwashed of the most ignorant, easily disprovable version of events; where history began on Feb 24th. Duped yet again into throwing his entire soul into a spurious cause, a crack in the MSM narrative is now a crack in the ego. It's no wonder then, that those ordinary people alreadt in that bubble become soldiers in the cause of censoring their own access to critical coverage.
Which countries do not have biolabs?
Which countries do not investigate infectious diseases?
I assure you Brasil has biolabs.
The University of Sao Paulo definitely has a biolabs. For no other reason than it was an extension of the work on snake and spider bites.
Fifty-Nine Labs around World Handle the Deadliest Pathogens – Only a Quarter Score High on Safety
Add in the biolabs ran by the Russians, Chinese and Europeans and we might almost have a 200 or 300.
I do not have a problem with biolabs in the world.
I do have a problem with safety records.
I do have a problem with gain of function research.
I do have problem with other methods. There are things you can learn faster via immoral methods that you can eventually learn in a decade or two. IMO the latter is better. Gain of function research is one of them.
Ötzi the 5,000 year old ice mummy had Lyme's disease or some other tick borne disease. If people have survived thousands of years with mosquito and tick borne diseases, there is no reason to make immoral shortcuts a la Dr. Fauci.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi
Tucker Carlson: The questions about the biolabs in Ukraine that everyone should be asking
"And the truth is, we're not interested in what Russian propagandists say about these Ukrainian biolabs. We're not interested in what the propagandists at CNN say about these biolabs. We're Americans, so we would like, in fact, we think we have a right to demand the Biden administration to answer simple questions, straightforward questions."
"Ok, secure, not eliminate, which raises the question: what does it mean to secure a bioweapon? And again, why has it taken 17 years to do it?"
Of course the blogmaster of ExtraBadShit does not want to ask these questions.
Russia will lie. The Biden administration will lie, because it is congenital. This makes the Russian lies more believable. The way I see it is "Clowns To The Left Of Me Jokers To The Right"
If this research was nefarious or more nefarious than the Russian or Chinese, the Russians would have already been hit.
Fifty-nine labs around world handle the deadliest pathogens – only a quarter score high on safety
Published: June 14, 2021 8.45am EDT
National Biosafety Systems - Johns Hopkins Center for ...
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2016/National%20Biosafety%20Systems.pdf
Such labs will do everything from crop research, sanitation research, to disease research ...
It is getting to the point where only small, corrupt countries subjected continual coups are the only NPCs.
"the number of high-level biosafety labs operated by governments, universities and others to study potentially lethal pathogens has been expanding rapidly. According to a 2013 report to Congress, the number of these labs grew by almost 10 percent, from 1,362 to 1,495, between 2008 and 2010 alone." - Daily Beast
so 59 BSL-4
1,495 total
~ 194 countries
(193 members of the UN plus the Vatican [Holy See])
Or greater than 7 2/3rds labs per country
When you throw out the small postage stamp countries in the Pacific Ocean or Andorra, Sna Marino and others, you are into the double digits.
So Ukraine had a lot of labs? And?
WNU is reasoning as dishonestly and as shoddily as Parrot. That is really low. So low, WNU is playing tennis solo against a curb.
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Has anyone looked at the wikipedia entry for the Wuhan lab leak theory? they are all in for dismissing it. The theory has gained more traction among PhD scientists, but the unemployed, semi-employed or whatever that do freelance gate keeping ( r are some of them paid state actors) spilt barrels of ink poo pooing it.
Just the food miles necessary to get the bats from the bat cave to the Wuhan markets puts a question mark on the wet market theory.
"The caves are 1,000 miles away from Wuhan, the Chinese city which is now infamous for having been the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wuhan-lab-was-experimenting-bats-21853263
My point is this.
If the inbred Russians of the FSB (DC is inbred too) think that they will gain traction with the Ukraine biolabs issue, they are mistaken. There is too much goose stepping in the MSM. The most they can hope for is Europe. You know the Europe that is being flooded wit angry Ukrainian refugees, who are going to setup shop and stick to the Russians.
During the Cold war, if you met an American of Ukrainian ancestry, you knew it. Why is that? WNU never learned that lesson.
The Truth About Bio Labs!
As to whose winning the war, the editor admits he does not "know." As he has family and friends in the region, he would be in a much better position to "know" than someone such as myself.
We can make inferences based upon our own experiences and careful study of those involved. We also have our "gut" as the editor refers to. Based upon this and my "gut" I think the war going nuch worse for Ukraine and much better for Russia than is generally known
As to the Russian decision not to broadcast this, US policy with regards to this is based 100% on Russia losing or at least not fully achieving their goals and being weaker when the war finally does end. If the assumptions the policies are predicated on are wholly inaccurate, the end result is disastrous for us. Since Russia views the US and it's people as adversaries, when the adversary is making poor decisions you don't want your adversary to change course hence the lack of battlefield reporting from the Russian media.
I've seen some of Funker's stuff over the years. They have had some interesting, imo videos and footage of war footage on and off.
Interesting take WNU. To me especially about the lack of certain coverage on Russian media.
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