Why would we believe anything from them about Ukraine?
(New York Post) […] “There have been no consequences. Twitter and Facebook still censor information based on political bias, and Congress takes no action. Many of the letter signers continue to be used as “experts” by the media.” (read more)
When we wrote about the media effort in 2018 {Go Deep}, specifically the collusion between the intelligence and national security agencies of the United States government, I asked the question, “Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?” The answer then, as now, is the same, NO. Indeed, it has only gotten worse in the past four years.
For the past several days, I have been highlighting a simple question on social media about something missing in the Ukraine story.
Where are the social media posts, from Ukraine citizens, that would support the narrative, as it is being told by Western media, about events happening in Ukraine?
Seemingly, Ukraine is the only conflict in modern human history where a pop culture society of more than 40 million technologically connected people decided not to document every moment of it on social media.
Considering the scale and scope of the conflict, and considering the Ukraine population of more than 40 million is far larger than Canada, and considering that population is located in a country the size of Texas, and considering they are a western technologically connected society with tens of millions of cell phones, we should be seeing a great deal of footage, pictures and images from ordinary Ukrainian citizens. However, we don’t. Why?
I’m not talking about the professional war social media accounts, and/or military-centric accounts, which, to be fair do have lots of images and footage of Russian and Ukrainian conflicts. I’m talking about the ordinary man/woman in the major population centers, who under normal circumstances would be generating tens-of-thousands of social media posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube, etc.
Western media are telling us that Russia is randomly shelling, bombing and targeting all of these civilian targets in urban areas. Yet, there’s nothing visible. Almost everything you see is from Eastern Ukraine where a civil war has been ongoing for over a decade.
Whatever is happening in the rest of Ukraine is the least documented conflict in modern social media. It just seems odd. It’s as if there is a massive disconnect between the portrayal of western media, in comparison to the actual reality inside Ukraine.
(CNN Portugal) – [TRANSLATED] – Ukraine has opened the barracks to foreign fighters, who join an army that has to adapt those who have not been trained there. Some are Portuguese, “fighters in quotation marks”, as the government of the government Portuguese. Among these Portuguese there are former commandos, ex-paratroopers – and a 29-year-old mechanic, who spent 15 days at the Yavoriv military base, was bombed and left for not giving him weapons. I’ve never taken one before. It is the first account of a Portuguese about how the fighting lived at the military base and why he gave up fighting.
We call it n.s. The 29-year-old Portuguese mechanic had never taken a weapon of war in his life, but it was in the first waves of foreigners joining the Ukrainian military in the so-called international legion. He entered the Yavoriv military base on March 1. He left two weeks later – after the heavy Russian bombardments on this city of Ukraine, which caught him with the Ukrainians but unarmed.
N.S.’s account serves to realize an ongoing history in the war in Ukraine, which opened the borders, doors, barracks and arms to foreign fighters. Many continue to arrive, “knock on the door” at the border and say they want to fight. The first ones entered soon, now there are those who have signed up and are in hotels waiting to be called.
The international legion is seen with reservations by many experts and even governments – such as Portuguese – because there is everything: professionals and amateurs, mercenaries and volunteers, ex-military and people with no experience, who receive quick formations and weapons to hand.
They are “fighters in quotes”, so called them two days ago the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, without hiding their reservations. Portugal “does not agree with these procedures” of people, he stressed. “We understand that this is not the most effective way to support Ukrainians in their right to self-defense and is not part of the tradition or way of being of the Portuguese, nor is it the way Portugal contributes to international security,” explained the head of Portuguese diplomacy. Santos Silva commented on the news that at least seven Portuguese were in Ukraine with military objectives. Some of them were at the Yavoriv military base when it was attacked on Sunday by Russian troops
One of them was N.S.
From the couch to the war – What made N.S. take the car and go from southern France, where he has lived since 2014, to poland’s border with Ukraine to say he wanted to fight? One impulse: “I didn’t think it made sense to sit around and watch a country, civilians, including children, being killed. In addition, there is a risk that one day the Russians will attack the rest of Europe.” He made the decision and left overnight, leaving his wife and four-year-old son at home. “I left a letter explaining. It was a shock to her. It’s all right now.”
“When I got to the Ukrainian border I told him what I was going to. They then called some men who took me to the advanced command post. I was the subject of an interrogation. In the end, they took me to the military base, which was already active.” When he arrived, he signed an uncertain term contract “until the war was over” – that’s how he said it – and they gave him the uniform.
At first, he says, platoons with foreigners were not yet well organized and constituted. The volunteers walked around the base – a large structure, with several buildings and dressing rooms. He soon met Portuguese, a former paratrooper who, meanwhile, was placed on special forces teams that are on missions through Ukraine, to “clean up the cities attacked by the Russians”.
He spent 15 days at the base in training. He’d wake up at 6:30 a.m. and join the military parade in the courtyard to listen to the commander. At 7:00 a.m. they exercised and an hour later they had breakfast. The morning was then devoted to training. “They gave us lectures of various kinds. Some to know the Russian weapons and the weak points of the opponent, others about first-hand.” They had lunch and were still in training. In the second week he lived at the base began to have intensive training of combat tactics, offensive, lines of defense, among many other topics. “I learned the art of war,” says N.S., who at a young age tried to join the Marines but broke an arm, which prevented him from following his career.
N.S. was one of the Portuguese volunteers who were at the Yavoriv military base on Sunday when Russia bombed the land in that area, just 25 kilometres from the NATO border. A few hours later, at least 35 people were killed and 134 wounded in the attack on the base near Lviv.
Because he had no military experience, he did not have weapons assigned that day. Unlike other colleagues, I had never left the base on a mission. “It was planned that that day – when the bombing took place – my platoon would finally receive the weapons.”
It was a night of terror, he reports. “I was in bed when I was 4 in the morning I noticed from the noise that we were going to be attacked.” At the first explosion he jumped out of bed. Since he always slept dressed in his uniform, he just had to stick his boots on his feet – he didn’t even tie them – pick up his phone and get out of the dressing room.
Unarmed, he even made a first attempt to go to the area where the special forces were installed, to see if there were weapons, “but at that time everything was still locked.” He was in the middle of the explosions.
“I watched live two explosions and two buildings falling. About 100 meters away, a missile went straight into a barracks where people were, was destroyed, burned. The same thing happened in front of me in a building by the canteen.” I could feel the missiles going over him. “I’m not quite sure of the time, I think there were many for 30 minutes.”
Without weapons, he recalls, he went into hiding in the nearby forest, as the security protocol that was transmitted to them. He stood there, in the middle of the trees, where other colleagues were, until everything calmed down. “When the missiles were over, we returned to the base and were regrouped to see if there were dead, missing or injured. It took four hours to regroup and put together the defense plan.”
At the base there would be about 2000 in several companies, he estimates. These, based on the strategic plan defined, were spread over several points of defense of the base, that of N.S. was on the runway of helicopters. They were ordered to stay in line with the defense, “to defend the basis of the Russian attack that everyone believed was going to happen.” In the area where it was placed there would be about 200 volunteers, mostly unarmed. That’s when his distress and that of some other military personnel began. “We made ‘pools’ trying to get supplies and weapons.”
It was after he decided to abandon the Ukrainian army, leave the base and return home. “After the bombing, everyone in the army thought there was going to be a russian ground attack. And that’s why they told us to stay in lines of defense. I stood there, no gun, no vest, no helmet. I realized that I could not continue like this”, tells CNN Portugal the volunteer who prefers to keep discretion in his identification for fear of being confused with a mercenary, which he guarantees not to be. “My goal was to fight, and if I died, it would be a gun in my hand. So we were just cannon meat.” (read more)
https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1505019427112521730
IMHO,…
Russia has made a compelling case, in the U.N., that the U.S. Government was conducting illegal, both by U.S. law, and International treaty, BioWEOPONS research in Ukraine.
They point to papers, signed by U.S. Govt. officials, and challenge them to deny the signatures are valid.
And the U.S. Govt has not refuted the Russian allegations, beyond dismissing them as propoganda.
There is now more than enough to confirm COVID was created in a laboratory, I personally don’t need to see any more.
Given the timing of the release, and that it simultaneously killed the Trump-train economy, AND played an essential role in the 2020 steal, I am convinced the release was no accident.
“The coverup is worse than the crime”,…ceases to have relevance, when both the crime and the coverup are crimes against humanity.
WE must end them.
agreed, gain of function, EPPP, or whatever the daily revised NIH/WHO/DARPA acronym of the moment is for this dangerous work is, every effort must be made to abolish this “science” and study. It is entirely provable that this risk is a far greater threat and gamble (even if researched in level 4+ labs) to be allowed to continue.
This pandemic is tragic and terrible. But this is not the worse scenario. What happens when this technology becomes common knowledge to some rogue country run by a totalitarian or some world burner? It’s just a matter of time before that happens.
example: there is every reason to believe that at least 20 countries (undeclared) actually possess fissible nuclear component to assemble at least one nuclear working device. That’s a 8 million pound gorrila pacin around with bloor shot eyes, ready to throw furniture throw the wall.
with as little as 250,00o dollars in resources, and less than 6 weeks, a motivated rogue actor CAN recreate a SARS like virus that is novel and will produce pandemic trajectories. This IS the reality right now.
what happens when these same labs decide that the intelligence they glean from forming the next chimera is more than just a scientific wonder to be sold to drug companies for the next drug patent and find a buyer who is willing to pay 1-10 billion dollars to acquire the recipe?
this is the state of crisis the world faces…right now…
we are growing bioweapons in labs around the world and expecting PEOPLE to have unimpeachable discipline and moral standards.
we need to end this bioweapons research. IF even the worse case scenario involving intentional release does not happen, accidents do happen.
we cannot afford the risks given the “benefits” are clearly unremarkable and have not made a single difference in the trajectory of this pandemic.
it must end. otherwise, our entire human race faces a very real and predictable filter in the very short term future.
Not only what you said, it us just plain stupid. But, the greenies think it’s great. They want a large number of the population to die. Where they really screw up is, they are stupid and arrogant to think they can control it.
REMINDER – Joe Biden John Kerry Mitt Romney The Clintons Nancy Pelosi and George Soros All Have Connections to the Ukraine
What a coincidence!
AND their chldren?
Absolutely – all their children. There are videos of their dealings I got saved on my old hard drive – right now inaccessible because of its replacement. The parents themselves especially. As for John Kerry it goes way back to early 2014 causing the then president to flee to Russia when he offered S1 billion in ‘aid’ as well as having top campaign fundraiser Devon Archer visit Biden in the WH. History has it – Biden visited the campaign and Archer and Hunter were named to Burisma’s Holdings Ukraine’s largest gas producer. In summary – Next, the Russian advance into Ukraine was suddenly stopped by a
mercenary army put together by billionaire banker Igor Kolomoisky.
The Burisma hired John Kerry’s former chief of staff, David Leiter as a
lobbyist. Britain had frozen $23 million of Burisma founder’s money but
later dropped these charges.
Some suggest that Burisma is actually owned by banker Kolomoisky who
blew through $1.8 billion in 9 months in aid in a maze of offshore
accounts. Kolomoisky was placed on the US’s visa ban list but then was
soon lifted.
Archer in 2018 was found guilty in a scheme to defraud Native
Americans but his guilty plea was later overturned.
The month before Biden’s last trip to Ukraine, all investigations of
Burisma were closed. On Biden’s last day in office, Burisma and the
Democrat connected Atlantic Council signed cooperation agreements.
In addition, a video surfaced of Kerry bragging about himself, Obama and
Biden all wanting the Ukrainian prosecutor gone who was looking into
Burisma:
The Twitter link has the account permanently suspended – (of course!)
https://twitter.com/Gina4DJT2020/status/1225449356603592705
The infamous boast – “I’m-not-stupid-Biden” – what is quid pro quo :
Shortly after Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker,Paul Pelosi Jr., was hired by InfoUSA for $180,000 a year as its vice president for Strategic Planning in 2007. This firm is also connected to
the Clintons. From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
In 2008, Viktor Pinchuk, who made a fortune in the pipe-building
business, pledged a five-year, $29-million commitment to the Clinton
Global Initiative, a program that works to train future Ukrainian
leaders “to modernize Ukraine.” The Wall Street Journal revealed the
donations the fund received from foreigners abroad between 2009-2014
in their report …
Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi Jr., got paid thousands for a no-show job which he wasn’t qualified in an effort to buy influence with his politician parent. (The same company that paid him is connected to the Clintons as well.)
Pelosi : herself featured
As for Romney
Shortly after President Trump was inaugurated, a former top CIA official joined the board of Burisma –
which involved Biden with Hunter, on Burisma’s board. Joseph Cofer Black would be “leading the company’s security and strategic development efforts.” Black had served in various CIA positions under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
Cofer Black was a “top Romney aide.”
The Clintons and George Soros’ files – connected to Ukraine for a very log time would require books. Notably recent to never forget – Obama’s State and Justice Departments were assisting George Soros in his attempt to control Ukraine. Shocking? No. Soros was reportedly behind the airport protests after
President Trump’s election. A week before that Soros was reportedly behind 50 Groups involved in the ‘Women’s Protests’ the day after the inauguration. Before that, Soros was connected to the groups demanding election recounts after the November 8th election and Soros money was funding more protests during these efforts. And DC Leaks released information showing that Soros funded Black Lives Matter protests across the country. Epoch Times may still have their reports.
Soros and a group of wealthy donors from New York and California have paid $50 million to sustain an ongoing private Russia investigation conducted by former British spy Christopher Steele, research firm Fusion GPS, and a former staffer for Dianne Feinstein.
The revelation is part of the final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election released on April 27 by the House intelligence committee. The report concluded that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. A footnote in the report states that Daniel Jones, the former Feinstein staffer who runs the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), told the FBI in March 2017 that he is working on a project with Fusion GPS that “was being funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million.”
One thing that we now know that Soros might want to keep hidden is that there are reports he wanted to take over the oil and gas industry in Ukraine. Source :John Solomon at the Hill
Involves chasing a wide net of information from A-Z. Information is out there. There is no such thing as ‘disinformation’. To each his own. “W are born with a brain allowing us to process information” … who said that?
There should be no doubt now that the 2020 election was stolen!
There should have been NO DOUBT on November 3rd and its PATHETIC that WE allowed it to Stand!
It is not going to stand…TREASON all around.
It stands until taken down.
In the Spanish civil war, the socialist (Republican) side attracted leftists from around the western world.
ISIS/ISIL attracted Muslims from around the world with their promise of creating a caliphate (Islamic state) inside of Iraq.
What ideological magnet is drawing foreigners to Ukraine?
One trait shared by dilettante wandering warriors is affluence. The Taliban were irritated by Arab fighters in expensive cars who showed up to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. Bin-Laden and his Al-Queda poseurs were seen as such.
It’s now a well-known harbinger of trouble in the USA that when out-of-state people in expensive cars start appearing in your town, an Antifa riot will be close behind.
The knight errant is a long-understood concept. Don Quixote was presented as an eccentric, maybe crazy knight errant who wandered about, tilting at windmills.
And the Japanese remain fascinated by Samurai warriors who have lost their masters, just wandering the land looking for trouble.
Are there enough would-be shoguns wandering the globe to save Ukraine?
Perhaps the ideological magnet of $$$?
PROMISED?
First war since Korea that we couldn’t watch on TV.
Curious cat…very interesting.
That’s a very interesting point.
Some of the lack of cell phone generated social media posts could be from some cities not having electricity or wifi coverage from damage of infrastructure and power plants. Or not wanting to go outside basements and get a sniper round to the head when taking photos. I don’t know.
It’s a good bet that the Chechens that are now in the mix will now fight harder to get the chance to rape Ukrainian women and girls that they capture.
THAT, is a chilling visual.
Second paragraph.
The theory that not much is happening in Ukranian because of low social media volume from refugees is based on logic from “The Dog That Didn’t Bark” by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Fair enough, but a simpler explanation is that most Ukranians use VKontakte (aka VK), not Facebook. How many of us have signed up for VK? Also, within all of the Putin’s sphere of influence, including Eastern Ukraine, All Western social media has been banned.
Within Free Ukraine, Twitter is fairly popular, but is in the Ukranian language. It’s possible to get timely news, reports and photos days before they appear elsewhere if you don’t mind using a translate program. Here’s a post from yesterday as an example. Look for it in the news in a few days
In 2013, General Valerie Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, unveiled his classic paper on Hybrid Warfare. Prime rule is to convince the enemy that nothing much is going on. Here’s a link to his original article from 2013 in Russian. You can use translate or look it up in English.
https://vpk-news.ru/articles/14632
I’m waiting for the Ukrainian version of the White Helmets to show up. The White Helmet’s logo even used the same yellow/blue colors of the Ukrainian flag.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3088703/syrian-white-helmets-apologize-for-staged-war-zone-mannequinchallenge-video/
Looks like a good starter list for the SOCIALIST firing squads. Traitors, one and all.
Why would we believe anything from them about Ukraine?”
Excuse me? Why would we believe them about anything?
The Portuguese “volunteer” living in southern France, spoke how many languages? I found the “alleged” account strange because the article didn’t state how the Ukrainians communicated with all these volunteers. What languages? Even the article translation was odd interchangeably using “dressing rooms” and “barracks.”
Volunteers not issued guns, because maybe there’s no ammo for them. The whole N.S. story sounds like a fake made up story.
If the Russian attack on Ukraine has shut down the Ukrainian internet, how did Zelensky make his Zoom speech to Congress? So maybe he’s not in the Ukraine?
Maybe no social media posting by Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine, but why no Ukraine refugee social media posting outside of Ukraine (where internet is available)? You can take photos with your phone without internet, so why no photos posted after the civilian Ukrainian refugees left Ukraine? Especially the most recent Ukrainian refugees photographing war damage/atrocities? Maybe there’s not much to photograph in the civilian areas of Ukraine.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_new_york_times_signals_the_end_of_bidens_road.html
Meanwhile the political vultures are circling. Look at what Bernie Sanders is doing – in the event Biden does not run again. Would Kamala get the clue?
Exactly! For all of the conservatives that seem to think we should defend the Ukraine, why all of a sudden do you believe the media narrative on this one, when they spent the last few years lying about Covid, Hunter Biden, the 2020 election, Trump, Russian Collusion, an illegal impeachment, a January 6th non-riot incident fully instigated by government agents, people held without trial from January 6th, Pfizer, Moderna, “covid vaccine safety”, and much more? Do you not realize that this was all planned by the round table and is a designed distraction away from a deliberate destruction of the United States and its currency? Wake up!
Plus, US ‘Intelligence’= Oxymoron.
well as Earl used to say about those kind of people; “you couldn’t trust them in a $hit house with a muzzle on”.
“Spiked!” is a British online publication which I find helpful in getting perspectives outside the U.S. “box.” Try a variety of keyword searches to see a broader range of results. I remembered reading this article https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/06/poland-is-showing-us-what-solidarity-looks-like/ there, but did not find it in a “Ukraine” search. I found it with “not doing nothing”. 🙂
You’re completely misreading SD.
Maybe you’re new here, or a troll.