Saturday, April 9, 2022

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Anonymous said...

Another attempt to extract the VIPs from Mariupol happened last night.

On the evening of April 8, the Kiev regime made a new unsuccessful attempt to evacuate the leaders of the Ukrainian Nazis by sea.

At night, the Ukrainian cargo ship Apache, assigned to the Maltese port of Valletta, under the Maltese flag, followed in a caravan of ships from the Taganrog Bay to the Kerch Strait.

At 22:38 Moscow time, 30 km south-east of Mariupol, the cargo ship abruptly changed course and tried to break into the Mariupol seaport blocked from the sea by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Ukrainian cargo ship did not respond to the demands of the Russian border ships to get in touch via the international channel, continuing to move towards the port of Mariupol.

The warning artillery firing carried out by two border patrol ships on the course of the vessel's movement did not lead to a change in course and a slowdown in the speed of the bulk carrier.

During the movement to the port of Mariupol, the ship conducted a radio exchange, transmitting the messages "I'm a Maniac, I'm coming to you." At the same time, signal fires were observed on the shore.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation opened artillery fire on the Apache cargo ship from 22.53 to 23.30 to block the movement of the offending vessel, which broke through to the Ukrainian nationalists in Mariupol, from 22.53 to 23.30 by the ship of the Black Sea Fleet and border patrol ships.

As a result of a direct hit on the ship, a fire occurred in the aft part of the vessel.

After that, the Ukrainian cargo ship drifted, the crew contacted the border ships with a request to cease fire and confirmed their readiness to fulfill all the requirements of the Russian sailors.

As a result of the fire impact, there are no casualties among the crew members on the ship. By the forces of the ship's crew, the fire was extinguished independently.

After the inspection, the Ukrainian cargo ship Apache with its crew is escorted to the port of Yeysk.

If true this is the fourth such attempt in 11 days. Source is the Azmilitary telegram channel. https://t.me/azmilitary11

April 9, 2022 at 12:06 PM
Anonymous said...

Was there really a massacre at Bucha?

By Leo Goldstein

He makes some good points.

He also lived in Kyiv and would have an axe to grind. He does not grind it. That should give the reader pause.

April 9, 2022 at 12:39 PM
Anonymous said...

12:39 The problem with that analysis is this:

Some people on the Russian side say that the men were murdered by the Ukrainian paramilitary organization Azov or other forces after the Russian military withdrew. I did not find any evidence in support of this and thus consider it not true.

I find it hard to believe the author could not find the Ukrainian National Police's April 2nd announcement that they were performing an operation in Bucha to "clear the area of ​​saboteurs and accomplices of Russian troops"

https://www.unian.ua/war/bucha-u-zvilnenomu-misti-rozpochali-zachistku-teritoriji-vid-diversantiv-ta-rosiyskih-posobnikiv-novini-kiyeva-11770498.html

Another important puzzle piece, which has been too widely circulated to believe it slipped the author's notice, is the April 2nd video posted to Twitter by Sergei Korotkih, a member of Kiev's territorial defence battalions called the “BOATSMAN BOYS”. The video shows two fighters walking through the area of the massacre with the dialogue:

Fighter 1: "There are guys without blue armbands, can I shoot them?"

Sergei Korotkih: "Fuck yeah"

*gunshots*

Unknown voice 1: "Please"

Unknown voice 2: "I beg you"

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1510635133627514881 (Korotkih has deleted the original tweet and you cannot view the video yourself on archive.org)

These are two massive pieces of evidence that any serious investigation would take into account. The author claims he couldn't find it because, I assume, his closing words were about lessening rather than increasing divisions between Russians and Ukrainians. Regardless, documenting the truth is important, even if the truth does align with Russia's propaganda machine from time to time.

April 9, 2022 at 1:08 PM
Anonymous said...

those bodies were civilians. guess what that means

April 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
Anonymous said...

Russia has done here what they had done in previous wars...it is their DNA
why would Ukraine stage fake atrocities?

In Motyzhyn, west of Kyiv, four people appeared to Associated Press journalists to have been thrown into a pit after being shot at close range. Residents told reporters the mayor and their family members, bound and blindfolded, were among them.

Ukrainian officials identified the mayor as Olha Sukhenko.

"Nobody expected this," Ukrainian Denys Dniprovskyi, 36, told USA TODAY via phone Monday from Kyiv, about a half-hour drive from Bucha. "It was some rumors, but the reality is much worse."

Photos and news reports of dead civilians in areas around the capital Kyiv, which was retaken by Ukrainian forces after a Russian retreat, have ratcheted up global outrage, possibly marking a pivotal moment six weeks into Russia's war in Ukraine.

April 9, 2022 at 1:17 PM
Anonymous said...

Why is Am Thinker exonerating the Russians? At best, they could simply say "insufficient evidence" but they, an Am organ somehow "know" what has taken place.

April 9, 2022 at 1:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Fact Check: Did Russian Media Footage Prove Ukraine Faked War Casualties?

April 9, 2022 at 1:20 PM
Anonymous said...

"Why is Am Thinker exonerating the Russians? At best, they could simply say "insufficient evidence" but they, an Am organ somehow "know" what has taken place."

Mr. Goldstein did not exonerate anyone. He said there was no conclusive proof. I for one think there is enough reason to fight the Russians simply, because they invaded. If you persist and go over the top with your propaganda, you can be added to my naughty list.

I think Putin should be retired. If he is retired to an idyllic tropical island with endless mai tais and his beautiful mistress to live out another 20 years, it will be money well spent. I said the same about Kim Jong Il. There might be less tropical isles for the show "Survivor" to film out, but tough noogies.

Wilsonian principles should be used to determine the fate of Donbas. If you can hold plebiscites village by village along the Austrian Hungarian border to determine which state such villages belong to, then you can do it in Donbas and around Kharkiv.

There is no good reason for Moscow and Washington to fight just as there was no good reason for Rome and Carthage to fight. The Roman Republic prevailed against Carthage. Two generations after that the Republic was in its death throws. Four generations after that the Republic was dead.

If you believe in the Iron Law of Oligarchy the Republic was always doomed. You could assume that the doom of the Republic was certain and still question what the arc of mankind would be and if it would be have been better. Like not having to go through the Dark Ages *which were not so dark), not having to put up with a thousand years of "Divine Right".

I see the geriatric cases in the US as every bit as dangerous as Putin. Actually more so. Putin should still be gone, but hold off on the applause, because we would not be out of the woods for a long shot.

In other news the Gretchen Whitmer case fell apart yesterday. The whole venture shows how rotten America is. Those guys were Never Trumpers BTW.

April 9, 2022 at 1:40 PM
Anonymous said...

1:17 "why would Ukraine stage fake atrocities?"

Every time they do it results in hundreds of millions in free weaponry being donated to the country. As well, Zelensky uses them during his zoom calls to western parliaments to lobby for "closing the sky".

It's not that Zelensky literally orders the national police to go and shoot people eating Russian MREs for "collaborating with the enemy". They just do it on their own, either in a rogue calculated manner or in a self-justified rage. And then the politicians and their compliant media are there, hungry to take advantage. If these events (Bucha, Kramatorsk, maternity hospital) were pre-planned they would not be so sloppy as to literally post videos of themselves committing them online. The PR juggernaut behind NATOs information war simply has to spin the material that they're given.

April 9, 2022 at 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...

and the train station bombed was also fake

April 9, 2022 at 2:06 PM
Anonymous said...

The US and its allies are committed to supplying arms to Ukraine. Ukraine does NOT need to fake deaths to get those weapons.
time to stop being stupid

April 9, 2022 at 2:07 PM
Anonymous said...

The bodies of thousands of soldiers remained in Ukraine - "We will not receive" Online news
Russia will not accept many of their own dead!
and yes: pictures and names given Russia

April 9, 2022 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous said...

Bobo: "The US and its allies are committed to supplying arms to Ukraine. Ukraine does NOT need to fake deaths to get those weapons. time to stop being stupid"

NATO has not always been onboard. They are afraid of an escalation. So they did not supply the Polish Migs. They did not declare a no fly zone. Only after the situation stabilized have they committed to a little risqué toe dipping. Very daring I might add.

April 9, 2022 at 2:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Gretchen Whitmer case fell apart?

Considering the two acquittals, Kaleb Franks, 27, of Waterford, and Ty Garbin, 26, of Livingston County, could have plea-deal remorse. Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap and testified against former co-defendants.

Garbin is serving six years, three months in federal prison, which still is a lot better than life. Franks awaits sentencing. They’ll likely have to tell their story again. Eight others are charged in state courts and their plea deals require cooperation.

April 9, 2022 at 2:24 PM
Anonymous said...

@ 2:07

In the wake of the war crimes many more countries in western Europe have committed to increased arms shipments, as well as the US committing to supplying heavier weaponry than previously donated. The evidence for this is to be found scrolling down this blog for the past 3-4 days, I don't believe you missed it. Article after article saying that the warcrimes call for deeper intervention. You read them as did I.

And the deaths were NOT faked, nobody claims as such. That's a strawman to make questioning the orthodox belief seem like some goofy faked moon landing conspiracy. The tragedy here is that the deaths are very real and someone out there committed them. Folks like you seem completely uninterested in finding out who. You have blind faith and admonitions, I bring empirical evidence.

Time to stop outsourcing your critical thinking.

April 9, 2022 at 2:24 PM
Anonymous said...

2:24

State and federal. Getting around double jeopardy there. You did not mention it, so I assume you do not give two fucks.

Four the Feds to lose 4 cases, when they thought they would win them, shows H naught is false. Feds typically win something like 97.5% of cases.

So those guys pled out. Given that they had public defense and Uncles Same has a multi million dollar war chest that looks more like akin to an Alford plea.

They are showing fish, coyotes and other vertebrates count. Apparently, you cannot. You are a scientific curiosity. Or is it drugs in your case? Three feds for every "conspirator". Wow!

Meanwhile the Iranians and Pakistanis are infiltrating DHS for over a year. Those are just the ones we caught. Four secret Service are having their career ended. Again those Iranians and Pakis are just the ones we caught.

April 9, 2022 at 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...

you plead guilty you are guilty. period. name-calling changes nothing, not even the jail terms for those who got caught and are doing time.
Next dribble from you?

April 9, 2022 at 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Bobo: "you plead guilty you are guilty. period"

A fair number of people believe in the concept of an Alford Plea.

April 9, 2022 at 3:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Fact: they got caught. they were put on trial. They pled guilty. They are in jail. All the maybe this and maybe that does not count. Was it an Alford plea? show us. Perhaps all the people in all our jails are really innocent, right?

April 9, 2022 at 4:23 PM
Anonymous said...

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — There is a body in the basement of the abandoned yellow home at the end of the street near the railroad tracks. The man is young, pale, a dried trickle of blood by his mouth, shot to death and left in the dark, and no one knows why the Russians brought him there, to a home that wasn’t his.

There is a pile of toys near the stairs to the basement. Plastic clothespins sway on an empty line under a cold, gray sky. They are all that’s left of normal on this blackened end of the street in Bucha, where tank treads lay stripped from charred vehicles, civilian cars are crushed, and ammunition boxes are stacked beside empty Russian military rations and liquor bottles.

The man in the basement is almost an afterthought, one more body in a town where death is abundant, but satisfactory explanations for it are not.

A resident, Mykola Babak, points out the man after pondering the scene in a small courtyard nearby. Three men lay there. One is missing an eye. On an old carpet near one body, someone has placed a handful of yellow flowers.

--perhaps Ukraine cut out eyes to stage this, right?
and all those hospitals bombed and the train station just recently---all fake. All ok because
military all there and not civilians, right?

April 9, 2022 at 4:28 PM
Anonymous said...

The trial included chilling testimony, with Croft and others allegedly calling for another U.S. civil war. He allegedly said on Facebook that Whitmer ought to be hanged, while Fox allegedly said she should be put on display for photos after the kidnapping.

FBI special agent Thomas Szymanski, assigned to the Baltimore office, testified that Croft wrote on Facebook in April 2020 that “I believe all it’s going to take is one state to burn … and hang a governor and the dominoes will start falling.”

The investigator said Croft also wrote: “Which governor is going to end up dragged off and hanged the first?”

April 9, 2022 at 4:32 PM
Anonymous said...

Perhaps they did torture him and cut out his eye, yes. The Azov paramilitaries were performing a cleansing operation there on anyone labelled a collaborator, eating traded Russian rations, or wearing one of the white arm bands given out by Russian soldiers to signify friendly non-combatants.

Your appeal to outrage over evidence does nothing except further condemn the people you ignorantly continue to support long past their tactical expiration date. The perpetrators of that horrifying scene you've copy/pasted should be arrested and prosecuted.

April 9, 2022 at 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...

I did not say they used an Alford plea? I said the concept, psychology and circumstances are real. Learn how to read. That wi9ll put you that much closer to being able to reason.

April 9, 2022 at 4:58 PM
Anonymous said...

"The trial included chilling testimony, with Croft and others allegedly calling for another U.S. civil war."


"But a video circulating online shows accused plotter Brandon Caserta in front of an anarchist flag railing against Trump."

Caserta is an anarchist. He is one of yours. He is like you.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/09/alleged-kidnapper-posted-anti-trump-video/5940296002/


April 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
Anonymous said...

"A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump"

"The affidavit gave federal agents permission to search a Facebook account belonging to Barry Croft, 44, of Bear, Delaware, "

Croft belongs to your group too.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/28/militia-member-helped-feds-infiltrate-whitmer-kidnap-crew-fbi-says/6060368002/

April 9, 2022 at 5:06 PM
Anonymous said...


Joe Rogan says

iberals spray 'mental illness' like 'diarrhea all over the screen'

and

slams Democrats for treating politics like they're rooting for sports teams on Twitter

April 9, 2022 at 6:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Hunter

April 9, 2022 at 7:49 PM
Anonymous said...

Trump

April 9, 2022 at 8:55 PM
Andrew Jackson said...

Russian murderers had to do a hasty retreat with little time to hide evidence. They did it and you Putin BJ boys know it!

April 10, 2022 at 8:08 AM
Anonymous said...

my side is good
your side is bad

April 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM

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