Re: #95 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[刘汉]

Ongoing clashes between Palestinians and ISF at Al Aqsa Mosque Yard

https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2022/29-april-ongoing-clashes-between-palestiniansg

[Mr Badger]

Greece is going to pay Russian gas supplier Gazprom in Rubles. - Minister Kostas Skrekas.

— MI NEWS (@SNMilitary) April 29, 2022

[khnum]

This man is well worth watching outlines all the US bs in Syria to the present day,it is 1hr 10 minutes but worth it.

[Mr Badger]

"At first we did not want to publish this video - it's hard to watch it. But we decided nevertheless that these shots are also important for the chronicle, as they show the heroism of our guys who are fighting for a dead comrade." pic.twitter.com/wdtlJ9FXMW

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 29, 2022

[Zambeezi]

BH ((( )))
@Bleakhouse12  (April 26, 2022)

Elon Musk sure seems to be on the same page as the WEF 🧐

https://nitter.net/Bleakhouse12/status/1519037593450655747#m

[Zambeezi]

[Zambeezi]

the next new thing...

If only people knew about the real Ukraine, the Nazi movement, the corruption, the tortures and assanations of dissent voices...
It makes look Saudi Arabia respectable and yet have Ukrainian flags in their profile and cheer with WW2 Nazi slogan "slava ukraini'
We are doomed. https://t.co/xddyiqga4S

— Angelo Giuliano / living in (@Angelo4justice3) April 29, 2022

[Zambeezi]

EU began as a Peace Project but now looks more like a Military Project. How sad that voices for War are triumphing over those for Dialogue + Peace. Sadly the more Military hardware we pour into Ukraine, the more Ukrainians will die - Happy days for Military Industrial Complex.... pic.twitter.com/6zbT6EBcck

— Mick Wallace (@wallacemick) April 28, 2022

[Zambeezi]

[KneelB4Zod!]

MI NEWS
@SNMilitary
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BREAKING: Bulgarians want Russian gas back and will pay for it in Rubles. - Minister K. Ninova.

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

"...Russian push in Lyman [area], 2.5 km from the village of Yampol, the entire 79th airborne brigade was surrounded. Ukrainians are surrendering en masse"

[East flank of Lyman Pocket reduced?

If so, Svyatogorsk-Slavyansk may become Falaise-like] https://t.co/PNKjRfU36x

— Matt Davies (@MNormanDavies) April 29, 2022

#Ukraine military convoy tried to counter attack in #Kharkov area and was completely destroyed pic.twitter.com/SbhbLAFOdz

— Middle East Update (@islamicworldupd) April 29, 2022

First civilians come out from AzovSteel pic.twitter.com/643OkxhWye

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 29, 2022

27.3 they went on shift and could no longer leave factory pic.twitter.com/mTRBZoXSU1

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 29, 2022

They all went to work together because city become unsafe and factory has a bunker. Father has interesting pictures from 2012 pic.twitter.com/IrXRupg4wN

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 29, 2022

[KneelB4Zod!]

What? pic.twitter.com/pTZIFmxbUy

— APOCTOZ (@Apoctoz) April 28, 2022

[KneelB4Zod!]

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

Read the full story: https://t.co/ZitXQ5ZXzh pic.twitter.com/1G6Vrm2xHj

— The Intercept (@theintercept) April 29, 2022

[Pirata]

Nabiullina/Bank of Russia Rejects Ruble-Gold Peg Idea, Differs With Kremlin

IF TRUE... she must be put in her place, because this is the right way to go. If she is not able to serve the Russian people [and consequently the Russian state], she might as well quit or is removed from this position.

Why not have a variable rate depending on the value of the Ruble in the exchange market, but can't go lower then the 5000 per gram, for example?

President Putin recently re-approved her as head of the Russian Central Bank [who actually owns and controls that joint?]. You'd think this kind of matter wouldn't be an issue. "If we need you to make a drastic change to how the Ruble is valued and how the bank operates, will you do it?"

Of course it came up. Now, what I'm guessing is she is, if anything, an expert on fiat [fake] currencies, she will be hesitant to switch to a commodity-backed currency. And of course all her pals at the BIS will be calling her up insisting NOT to do this, because the peasants cannot EVER find out that there is even an ALTERNATIVE to fiat [fake] currency!

Despots and "democratic majorities" are drunk with power. They only reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. They reject the very notion of economic law, economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics …

On the market it is not mankind, the state, or the corporative unit that acts, but individual men and groups of men, and their valuations and their actions are decisive, not those of abstract collectives.

—Ludwig von Mises, in Austrian Economics: An Anthology

[KneelB4Zod!]

The result of today's missile strike in Kiev on the Artyom defense plant pic.twitter.com/i0xgBPItul

— AZ OSINT(Military news) (@AZmilitary1) April 28, 2022

[KneelB4Zod!]

With a woman who left "Azovsteel" together with her family, it's not easy either. pic.twitter.com/ePPSTpkhyH

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 29, 2022

[KneelB4Zod!]

Twitter's 'chief censor' making $17M per year could be fired by Elon Musk https://t.co/R8zJLPWNIM pic.twitter.com/Mi1zbm5sNz

— New York Post (@nypost) April 29, 2022

[Pirata]

Crap! I can't manage to buy paper or silver Rubles, they're just too fucking expensive, or maybe I'm too jewish...

[KneelB4Zod!]

Crap! I can't manage to buy paper or silver Rubles, they're just too fucking expensive, or maybe I'm too jewish...

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

Wow...

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@Navsteva
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RUBLE 68.85

[KneelB4Zod!]

[Talos]

Video of Hamas ambush on Israeli checkpoint that killed 1 Israeli soldier and injured 2 near Jenin west bank today

Video

https://mobile.twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1520145876030742530

[Mr Badger]

[Mr Badger]

This man is well worth watching outlines all the US bs in Syria to the present day,it is 1hr 10 minutes but worth it.

Cheers for this, Khnum, just finished watching it.

Everyone should watch this. I've downloaded it for keeps.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Canada secretly tracked 33 million phones during lockdown: https://t.co/UWPEAxrBGN

— conspiracybot (@conspiracyb0t) April 30, 2022

[when]

Reports now of another Ukie plane launched munitions hitting Russian territory. Now how is it that after 2 months Ukies have any planes left to attack Russia itself? Where do they fly from? Where do they fly back to? With all the S-300, S-400 systems, how are they able to fly at all? Why aren’t the Pantsir systems taking them down?

[Slovák]

Reports now of another Ukie plane launched munitions hitting Russian territory.  Now how is it that after 2 months Ukies have any planes left to attack Russia itself?  Where do they fly from?  Where do they fly back to?  With all the S-300, S-400 systems, how are they able to fly at all?  Why aren’t the Pantsir systems taking them down?  

NATO has been depleting the Eastern EU countries from their Soviet made SUs and MIGs, one of the answers.

[where]

Reports now of another Ukie plane launched munitions hitting Russian territory.  Now how is it that after 2 months Ukies have any planes left to attack Russia itself?  Where do they fly from?  Where do they fly back to?  With all the S-300, S-400 systems, how are they able to fly at all?  Why aren’t the Pantsir systems taking them down?  

I was wondering about the same thing for a while and reached the conclusion there may be several scenarios.

1. Russian AD systems are much weaker and ineffective than we thought. The same standing for EW systems since all Ukraine communications systems seem to be fully functional as well as some of their AD's.
2. After the first week of conflict it became clear that Ukraine regime will not back down even if militarily is strategically defeated and will use the civilians as a shield while Russia aims to avoid massive destruction and extensive civilian casualties Giving them the opportunity to strike Russian targets on Russian territory, may serve as a justification to use a different approach and extend targets from military to administrative and civilian objective which will be more effective from a tactical perspective.
3. Russia preserves its AD systems and munition stocks in case of upcoming extensive conflict. Since a full blown war, even nuclear is on the cards, every system and missile available counts and it is not worth spending them on low significance targets. Some of their more advanced weapons may be also purposely not used in order to prevent inherent technological advantage loss.
4. Russia is deliberately trying to create an image of vulnerability and incite a real NATO direct involvement, then show it's real abilities and causing a global shift in power.

I think the answer is a combination of all but more concerning is that Russia does not seem to be able to gain air superiority advantage. From everything I have seen so far it seem Russian aviation is not able to provide close air support due to high vulnerability to manpads. Relying only on long distance precision munition is not as effective as close air support. The large amount of western weapons influx which Russia doesn't seem able or interested to prevent will not help either.

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