Since the Krokus attacks occurred, the West has been in utter overdrive to pin the blame on ISIS while absolving Ukraine from any responsibility. The heavy-handed desperation with which they’ve gone to lengths in doing this reveals the game and tells us everything we need to know about the nature of the attacks.
« The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin » by John Evans
A very clear minded first hand account of the then young assistant to the Mayor of St Petersbug, from a career US diplomat, from 1995 onwards
Untainted by the present day general vilifications nor by the scale of his achievements – this represents a very even minded portrait of an efficient legal minded reputedly incorruptible.. well you have here that rara avis – a straightforward even affectionate sketch which takes care to state just what is or can be known from an un baised witness – who does express mildmannered incredulity that no one else in the US bureaucracy was then prepared to take him seriously, apart from President Bush
This admiration shines through the bureaucratese in President Bush’s White House Press Confernce statements and in the q/a joint session during his first meeting with President Putin at Brdo Castle in June 2001 – in which the range of discussions and the evident enthusiasm display great optimism
To read this now is to regret all that since has come to pass
John Evans- « Putin is what Russians call a “gosudarstvennik,” a man of the state. He is not motivated primarily by money, although St. Petersburg friends of ours acknowledge that he has not failed to take advantage of opportunities that have come his way. When I and other Americans in St. Petersburg knew Putin, he had the reputation as the only bureaucrat in the city who did not take bribes (this is an exaggeration; there were others). He was well regarded on the whole, and devoted to his mentor and then-boss, Sobchak, one of the great democrats of the new Russia. A former law professor, Sobchak was a fine writer and orator, but not the most effective manager. Putin largely ran the day-to-day operations of the city, and was credited with bringing some order into the chaotic crime-ridden business world. As Russians said in those days, “if you have crime, isn’t it better that it be organized?” I cannot recall Putin personally saying that, but he might have.
Unlike Yeltsin, Putin was never a heavy drinker. Nor was he a teetotaler. He would deliver a toast when required, which was often, and do it well. Toasts in Russia are a way of communicating, of showing respect, and of honoring people, especially on birthdays and career anniversaries or other milestones. Toasts are offered also (without clinking glasses) to the dead, and there were unfortunately many such occasions in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, not to mention the tragic memories of World War II, in which the city was besieged for 900 days, claiming members of Putin’s own family. The entire city and Consular Corps turns out without fail for the memorial to those who died in the Siege of Leningrad and lie in mass graves at the Pushkaryevskoe Cemetery.
Those of us who knew Putin in the 1990s recall that his formula for the recovery of Russia consisted of three elements: rebuilding the economy, dealing with the crime problem, and reforming the courts. That was a pretty good prescription for what ailed Russia at the time and is still a good basic recipe. Note that he was concerned exclusively with domestic problems: nothing about geopolitics here.
I am not going to attempt to prove it, but I assure you that Putin 1) was not anti-American (although he felt more comfortable with Germans); 2) was not a communist (at least by that time) or hostile to private business; 3) was not anti-Semitic; 4) and was not intolerant of gay people. I have already noted that he had a legal bent. You may take my word for these assertions or not. I have concrete examples to back each of them. »
Subsequent to this attack, there is yet more and more tired clichés about RF taking the gloves off and fighting a war etc
This looks unlikely for many reasons – one is that this kind of terrorism merely confirms RF analysis that it is the Ukrainian régime which needs to be defeated, not the people, and that this is best achieved by the conduct of the SMO as until present
Besides as S points out – President Putin is more inclined to take this opportunity to show reasonable willingness to negotiate – after all the US is notably tired of the Ukie régime and their terrorist attacks on RF oil refineries
It is unlikely that the calls to adopt the western cowboy style, and the press provocations as for example supplied by that French TV report, will do anything but confirm a judgement that the Uk régime, and the western press, is on it’s last legs
US trying to blame ISIS since most don't know ISIS in Syria was a well-paid and supplied US Client. And these weren't Jihadists - they were well-paid mercenaries. One even invoked Allah with his left hand - something anathema to devout Muslims.
Will Ukrainian left, finally flee the country if Russia destroy 90% their infrastructures? Or they still simply cannot get out because border checks are so strict... Or will Ukrainian left started uprising against Zelensky? With moral already so low? Or will they welcome Russian Army in Kyiv with flower? Must be sucks to be ordinary Ukrainian now. I mean civilians. Not those people in Kyiv night clubs.
True North on Crocus City Hall & Concert Massacre by Mercenaries posing as Islamists by Scott Ritter 27Mar’24 https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/true-north "By the art of deception thou shalt do war" Mossad motto. "Permit me to issue & control the money of a nation, & I care not who makes its laws!" Thank you Scott, Excellent research by Russian intelligence as well as the capture of 4 terrorists & Cell-phones. For many decades Israel has been training, arming, supplying & financing so-called ISIS. In this case the left-hand (used to wash the anus after defecation) oath taking falsely appealing to Allah (forbidden in Islam), the Massacre of innocents (forbidden in Islam) plus other aspects of the story point to total imposters posing as Islamists.
Our Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') controlled world requires that we resolve this huge 7000 year dystopia & restore the original worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') system of time-based, equivalency accounting on the String-shell value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands) in RELATIONAL ECONOMY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
With Bibi Netanyahu having financed Hamas & arranging for 7thOctober 2023, we can understand his orchestration of the massacre of some 40,000 Gazans for genocide & for expanding Israel's borders. Netanyahu (Milekowsky) as a western Oligarch puppet-leader, needs to diminish Islamic unity & sow dissension at this particular time, so having Russia or China, blame imposter Islamists, leaves Palestinians without the sophisticated Nuclear allies, which they need to avoid total annihilation by Israelis.
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION A most important military approach would be to bring thinking & plans to the surface through Both-Sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues, among all people in family, community, work, institutions, school, government, organization. As people formally dialogue in Both-Sides-Now, Equal-time, Recorded & either Published or confidential dialogues issues are resolved & understanding developed. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors cultivated constant communication formally through this process of COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Understanding, Constructive Agreements, Working Contracts & Conflict Resolution. These Dialectic Rights culturally provided that every person could call for formal dialogues with anyone they’re affected by in words or actions. Modalities include grouping of 'debates' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') within Stakeholder groups to choose Spokespersons. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
All the MSM are asserting that ISIS-K has "claimed responsibility." But even that is plainly false. For example, Politico boldly and unambiguously states as fact that “The Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for Friday’s deadly massacre at a concert hall in Moscow.” https://www.politico.eu/article/islamic-isis-khorasan-concert-hall-attack-russia-terrorist/
Politico doesn't even explicitly state its source. However, following a hyperlink way further down in the article reveals that this supposed claim of ISIS responsibility is sourced to a tweet from an anonymous account called The Khorason Diary (read: CIA), which itself claims that someone else anonymously posted a “pamphlet” somewhere else on the internet. (Comments on the CIA account blocked, natch).
This referenced “pamphlet” itself isn’t quoted or linked by the "Khorasan Diary" front account. Nor does the Twitter account (which, remember, is Politico's sole source for this "fact"), even assert that ISIS has actually claimed responsibility. Rather, the CIA account merely characterizes the pamphlet as a "30 page polemic on the attack," and opines that its “tone” is implying that the Taliban can't control ISIS operations on its territory. It even states that “apart from rhetorical arguments there are no details of the attack in Moscow.” In short, Politico is relying on an anonymous tweet that doesn't even support the claim it is making.
What pathetic crap journalism. Apparently, this "ISIS claimed responsibility" is just a manufactured lie that all the MSM are repeating without evidence.
One point that makes no sense... Islamic militants would not stage an attack during their religious time of atonement Ramadan, on the other hand, is a month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn until sunset, refraining from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sinful behavior. The practice of fasting during Ramadan is also one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Doesn't fit the profile.
Excellent (very long interview 2h50) of former Swiss intel, former nato, excellent knowledge of Donbass, J Baud on the duran (in English).Probably the only one in the West who understands RU Art of war.
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Putin is all talk and no action
He does nothing to the west
27 March 2024 Understanding Putin
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/key-understanding-vladimir-putin-82391#disqus_thread
September 21, 2019
With thanks to Will Schryver for posting this - https://nitter.poast.org/imetatronink
« The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin » by John Evans
A very clear minded first hand account of the then young assistant to the Mayor of St Petersbug, from a career US diplomat, from 1995 onwards
Untainted by the present day general vilifications nor by the scale of his achievements – this represents a very even minded portrait of an efficient legal minded reputedly incorruptible.. well you have here that rara avis – a straightforward even affectionate sketch which takes care to state just what is or can be known from an un baised witness – who does express mildmannered incredulity that no one else in the US bureaucracy was then prepared to take him seriously, apart from President Bush
This admiration shines through the bureaucratese in President Bush’s White House Press Confernce statements and in the q/a joint session during his first meeting with President Putin at Brdo Castle in June 2001 – in which the range of discussions and the evident enthusiasm display great optimism
To read this now is to regret all that since has come to pass
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010618.html
John Evans- « Putin is what Russians call a “gosudarstvennik,” a man of the state. He is not motivated primarily by money, although St. Petersburg friends of ours acknowledge that he has not failed to take advantage of opportunities that have come his way. When I and other Americans in St. Petersburg knew Putin, he had the reputation as the only bureaucrat in the city who did not take bribes (this is an exaggeration; there were others). He was well regarded on the whole, and devoted to his mentor and then-boss, Sobchak, one of the great democrats of the new Russia. A former law professor, Sobchak was a fine writer and orator, but not the most effective manager. Putin largely ran the day-to-day operations of the city, and was credited with bringing some order into the chaotic crime-ridden business world. As Russians said in those days, “if you have crime, isn’t it better that it be organized?” I cannot recall Putin personally saying that, but he might have.
Unlike Yeltsin, Putin was never a heavy drinker. Nor was he a teetotaler. He would deliver a toast when required, which was often, and do it well. Toasts in Russia are a way of communicating, of showing respect, and of honoring people, especially on birthdays and career anniversaries or other milestones. Toasts are offered also (without clinking glasses) to the dead, and there were unfortunately many such occasions in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, not to mention the tragic memories of World War II, in which the city was besieged for 900 days, claiming members of Putin’s own family. The entire city and Consular Corps turns out without fail for the memorial to those who died in the Siege of Leningrad and lie in mass graves at the Pushkaryevskoe Cemetery.
Those of us who knew Putin in the 1990s recall that his formula for the recovery of Russia consisted of three elements: rebuilding the economy, dealing with the crime problem, and reforming the courts. That was a pretty good prescription for what ailed Russia at the time and is still a good basic recipe. Note that he was concerned exclusively with domestic problems: nothing about geopolitics here.
I am not going to attempt to prove it, but I assure you that Putin 1) was not anti-American (although he felt more comfortable with Germans); 2) was not a communist (at least by that time) or hostile to private business; 3) was not anti-Semitic; 4) and was not intolerant of gay people. I have already noted that he had a legal bent. You may take my word for these assertions or not. I have concrete examples to back each of them. »
Means, motive, opportunity implicate fascist Ukraine. Russia will ignore Western blather and create facts on the ground. As usual.
Subsequent to this attack, there is yet more and more tired clichés about RF taking the gloves off and fighting a war etc
This looks unlikely for many reasons – one is that this kind of terrorism merely confirms RF analysis that it is the Ukrainian régime which needs to be defeated, not the people, and that this is best achieved by the conduct of the SMO as until present
Besides as S points out – President Putin is more inclined to take this opportunity to show reasonable willingness to negotiate – after all the US is notably tired of the Ukie régime and their terrorist attacks on RF oil refineries
It is unlikely that the calls to adopt the western cowboy style, and the press provocations as for example supplied by that French TV report, will do anything but confirm a judgement that the Uk régime, and the western press, is on it’s last legs
Thank you. I wondered what you'd put together on this.
US trying to blame ISIS since most don't know ISIS in Syria was a well-paid and supplied US Client. And these weren't Jihadists - they were well-paid mercenaries. One even invoked Allah with his left hand - something anathema to devout Muslims.
Will Ukrainian left, finally flee the country if Russia destroy 90% their infrastructures? Or they still simply cannot get out because border checks are so strict... Or will Ukrainian left started uprising against Zelensky? With moral already so low? Or will they welcome Russian Army in Kyiv with flower? Must be sucks to be ordinary Ukrainian now. I mean civilians. Not those people in Kyiv night clubs.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...
True North on Crocus City Hall & Concert Massacre by Mercenaries posing as Islamists by Scott Ritter 27Mar’24 https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/true-north "By the art of deception thou shalt do war" Mossad motto. "Permit me to issue & control the money of a nation, & I care not who makes its laws!" Thank you Scott, Excellent research by Russian intelligence as well as the capture of 4 terrorists & Cell-phones. For many decades Israel has been training, arming, supplying & financing so-called ISIS. In this case the left-hand (used to wash the anus after defecation) oath taking falsely appealing to Allah (forbidden in Islam), the Massacre of innocents (forbidden in Islam) plus other aspects of the story point to total imposters posing as Islamists.
Our Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') controlled world requires that we resolve this huge 7000 year dystopia & restore the original worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') system of time-based, equivalency accounting on the String-shell value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands) in RELATIONAL ECONOMY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
With Bibi Netanyahu having financed Hamas & arranging for 7thOctober 2023, we can understand his orchestration of the massacre of some 40,000 Gazans for genocide & for expanding Israel's borders. Netanyahu (Milekowsky) as a western Oligarch puppet-leader, needs to diminish Islamic unity & sow dissension at this particular time, so having Russia or China, blame imposter Islamists, leaves Palestinians without the sophisticated Nuclear allies, which they need to avoid total annihilation by Israelis.
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION A most important military approach would be to bring thinking & plans to the surface through Both-Sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues, among all people in family, community, work, institutions, school, government, organization. As people formally dialogue in Both-Sides-Now, Equal-time, Recorded & either Published or confidential dialogues issues are resolved & understanding developed. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors cultivated constant communication formally through this process of COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Understanding, Constructive Agreements, Working Contracts & Conflict Resolution. These Dialectic Rights culturally provided that every person could call for formal dialogues with anyone they’re affected by in words or actions. Modalities include grouping of 'debates' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') within Stakeholder groups to choose Spokespersons. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
CONVERTING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM MONO TO DIALOGUE Implementing online Debate options in Chat rooms & Comment sections. 'Media' (L. 'medium' = 'middle') implying the publishing of diverse points of view. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
All the MSM are asserting that ISIS-K has "claimed responsibility." But even that is plainly false. For example, Politico boldly and unambiguously states as fact that “The Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for Friday’s deadly massacre at a concert hall in Moscow.” https://www.politico.eu/article/islamic-isis-khorasan-concert-hall-attack-russia-terrorist/
Politico doesn't even explicitly state its source. However, following a hyperlink way further down in the article reveals that this supposed claim of ISIS responsibility is sourced to a tweet from an anonymous account called The Khorason Diary (read: CIA), which itself claims that someone else anonymously posted a “pamphlet” somewhere else on the internet. (Comments on the CIA account blocked, natch).
This referenced “pamphlet” itself isn’t quoted or linked by the "Khorasan Diary" front account. Nor does the Twitter account (which, remember, is Politico's sole source for this "fact"), even assert that ISIS has actually claimed responsibility. Rather, the CIA account merely characterizes the pamphlet as a "30 page polemic on the attack," and opines that its “tone” is implying that the Taliban can't control ISIS operations on its territory. It even states that “apart from rhetorical arguments there are no details of the attack in Moscow.” In short, Politico is relying on an anonymous tweet that doesn't even support the claim it is making.
What pathetic crap journalism. Apparently, this "ISIS claimed responsibility" is just a manufactured lie that all the MSM are repeating without evidence.
https://twitter.com/khorasandiary/status/1772247698168520762?s=20
Why not Israel?
They have the motive, connections and ability.
One point that makes no sense... Islamic militants would not stage an attack during their religious time of atonement Ramadan, on the other hand, is a month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn until sunset, refraining from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sinful behavior. The practice of fasting during Ramadan is also one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Doesn't fit the profile.
Excellent (very long interview 2h50) of former Swiss intel, former nato, excellent knowledge of Donbass, J Baud on the duran (in English).Probably the only one in the West who understands RU Art of war.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RIzKxXR5pvA?si=5eMXEdO7-Z5xDrkC
Is there any possibility that it was a cyberattack (maybe by Russia) that disabled the ship and brought down the Baltimore bridge?
Putin is a war criminal and only attacks weak countries like Ukraine
He would never attack NATO as he is a Cowardly dictator