Always remember, CNN is the official “fake news” narrative engineering effort of the U.S. State Department. The Washington Post pushes the Intelligence Community effort (CIA, etc.), and the New York Times push the FBI/DOJ (state police) effort.
Today in an effort to use Ukraine as a proxy state for war against Russia, the State Dept and CIA are claiming the Russians are amassing massive stockpiles of blood at the Ukraine border as they prepare for a protracted war. In response the Ukraine government tells the Biden crew to knock it off with the nonsense. This puts CNN journalists in Ukraine telling CNN journalists in the U.S. to stop telling ‘fake news’.
(CNN) – The US has seen indications that Russia has positioned supplies of blood near Ukraine’s borders, two senior US defense officials told CNN Saturday, as part of its accumulation of medical supplies, troops and military equipment in the area that US officials have said could signal plans for an invasion.
Reuters was first to report Russia’s movement of blood supplies to the border with Ukraine, which would be necessary to treat casualties in the event of a conflict. The development has added to US concerns that Russia has the capabilities in place to launch an attack on very short notice.
One of the officials who spoke with CNN cautioned that the presence of Russian blood supplies near the Ukrainian border is not an absolute indicator of an invasion. Instead, it is one element among many the US is monitoring as the build-up of Russian forces steadily proceeds. (read more)
As we noted yesterday, the entirety of the corrupt and manipulative Joe Biden administration, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and the U.S. Congress are all saying, “Nice country you got there, it’d be a shame if something happened to it“, while simultaneously poking the Russian bear to attack. Biden and the deepest state want them their proxy war, and they will not be denied.
Given the nature of how corrupt the U.S. administration is on a globalist scale; and considering that Biden Inc, which is really the Hillary Clinton foreign policy establishment, would give Zelensky the full Gaddafi treatment if it helped them gain wealth, power and influence; it really would be in Ukraine’s best interest for Zelensky to open a dialogue with Vladimir Putin.
Right now, on a geopolitical scale, Volodymyr Zelensky is more akin to Kim Jong-un in North Korea trying NOT TO be forced into a relationship with China. Ukraine is faced with the United States controlling them or embracing a closer relationship with Russia who would want to control them. It’s a hot mess of geopolitical manipulation on a mafioso scale.
If Zelensky does not allow himself to be a proxy for the United States in Europe, the people who control U.S. policy will create a war with Russia to get rid of him. Biden is really a stammering stupid doofus and tool of the deep state, who isn’t strong enough to battle his own corrupt policy team; and Biden Inc, which includes his entire family, is paid by the DC manipulators to shut-up and just read.
Zelensky has to pretend like Biden represents the U.S. interests, while knowing Biden doesn’t have any control over U.S. policy.
The war mongering crew deep in the U.S. government are in control. The Fourth Branch of the U.S. government and the national security apparatus are in full operational control over the dynamic. Zelensky is stuck between Russia and the U.S. Deep State. Quite frankly, he’d be better off embracing Vladimir Putin and coming to terms.
However, the problem is Zelensky doesn’t want to end up being Ukraine to Russia like North Korea is to China.
If Zelensky tells Biden to go spit, I mean really calls this baby ugly as it needs to be called, then the U.S. system (writ large) will withdraw any support or assistance for Ukraine, and Russia will absorb his country quickly. That’s the unfortunate dynamic.
Zelensky wants to stop being a hostage to the West by joining NATO. However, Russia will not allow a formal NATO relationship.
It’s a mess.
Truth. The first casualty of war.
More Old Joe drama, what is the IQ of all Libtatds that believe the S$@!+ Spewed everyday by the Stolen in Chief? Answer=0
Fake US Intel reports?
Is there any other kind?
Russians are stockpiling blood like Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. No, dear State Department pawns, we don’t believe you anymore. We don’t believe Fauci and the NIAID, anything from the CIA or FBI, BLS, etc, etc, etc. Go away and work diligently to reverse your reputation for spewing falsehoods. Learn about integrity, a virtue that big government lacks.
Blood?
Are we sure that’s not Vodka?
Tomato juice for the bloody mary’s maybe?
ready for war
Not to be funny, but if they are sent in first to the front lines it would do wonders when it comes to clearing out the ranks of much of what ails it.
I would expect that from someone who is likely on a first name basis with his counterpart in the PLA.
This guy used to share a locker room with “Admiral” Rachel “It puts the lotion in the basket” Levine as football players in High school. Word is their lockers were right next to each other. I wonder if they did the wiener tuck dance when no one was looking!
I was thinking the same thing.
for the rest of them… I have to ask once again – why are you going to take orders from this illegitimate regime? STAND DOWN and refuse to fight Chinese proxy wars.
My hubby’s ship is leaving Norfolk naval base on Monday, heading east. I have suggested the same thing.
I get dibs on the lower right group.
Why you so happy Eric?
coast guard??? ewwww… 😉
No! The very lower bottom right.
Dude, those Chinese women would slice and dice you/us.
I think that could be enjoyable with some of the ones I’m seeing.
You dirty, dirty , old man. 🙂
Hey I resemble that remark. Lord help me, it’s not a good thing.
Transgender troops, leading from the front”, lol.
Surprised theres not another group “And Queer contingent, coming in from BEHIND!”
Bendover for Uncle Sam!
no words, other than resorting in humor,…
BOHICA. Bend over, here it comes again! Literally as well as figuratively.
First observation, many of those people are not fit to serve, and I mean physically.
Secondly, who organized all those pride t-shirts?
Biden needs this war…. Simple as that
It was actually the band members of Pussy Riot, passed out drunk, on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
They don’t believe in feminine products because “misogyny.”
Ok Adrem, I know I deserve it… but SOMEONE had to say it.
Fascism requires foreign war.
Anarchism requires America lose any such war.
That summarizes the two wings of the Uniparty.
Exactly 💯
At some point, if any remnant of American democracy still survives, there will be an opening for a third party in opposing this madness.
Conservatives/Republicans/Libertarians even Liberals: when the opening comes they must embrace the third party that opposes this evil.
Perhaps we can sneak up on them?
Natasha must be very excited. She hasn’t had this must fun since aiding the Clowns In America during Russiagate. Hey Natasha, where’s Boris?
President Zelensky: PLEASE release the transcript!
Steve Bannon begged him the other day to do it.
Transcript:
Listen folks, I mean Vlad. C’mon. This isnt hyperbole. Listen Folks.
(whispers on phone) just…take.. the damn vaccine
oh i mean, well you what i mean
It seems CNN are infested with propagandists, warmongers, statists, pedos and just plain evil. s/
Well…..yeah…!!!!!
Foxnews.com is pushing a Russian cyberattack threat right now too. They’re all in it together.
maybe they can tie it into the russian truck drivers in canada
I just read that Canadian news programs are trying to tie the truckers convoy to putin.
I hope Canadians see through that BS and join in
You can tell the CBC news reader lies when she blinks too much.
Of course they are.
We know how the ruse works now, we can’t unsee it. Their warmongering words have no effect anymore.
“As we noted yesterday, the entirety of the corrupt and manipulative Joe Biden administration, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and … … “
Heads down alert as the Pentagon (aka, US Military) is to many a sacred cow.
one of my biggest pet peaves… fetishization of military and cops
The first thing I want to teach is disloyalty till they get used to disusing that word loyalty as representing a virtue. This will beget independence –which is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
– Mark Twain
Create a false narrative, which pushes buttons, causing SOME to experience a STRONG emotional responce, which causes their critical thinking to shut down.
For those with military training, or family with military, they have a button easily pushed.
We ALL have such emotional buttons, and while conmunists are absolute idiots at things like military doctrine, they are MASTERS of manipulation, and pushing emotional buttons is the key first step to manipulation.
The antidote to manipulation is understanding HOW it works, identifying YOUR individual emotional buttons, and learning to recognise when your buttons are being pushed, and NOT allowing yourself to be manipulated.
Man, Dutchman!
I had to copy that onto notepaper!
Will help me with my toxic, dysfunctional liberal in-laws.
Thank you !
Just watched “Wag the Dog” with our grandson!
The “rinse & repeat” bulbs have been exploding all day.
Retired Magistrate here: President Trump understood all of what you just wrote; that is why we had peace for four years. Now the Warmongers are back willing to sacrifice our military’s blood so they can get rich. It is just sickening once you understand what is going on.
No wonder the Deep State did everything they could to cheat so President Trump would not get back in office.
I remember at 3:00 A.M. on election night after President Trump was declared the winner, that George Soros stated that he would do everything he could to see that President Trump would not succeed and be kicked out of office. Soros tried everything, but President Trump prevailed. As we all know, they did prevail in the last election through major cheating. I want my President back!
A great TX rally tonight gives me hope. The return of the Snake parable!
“This puts CNN journalists in Ukraine telling CNN journalists in the U.S. to stop telling ‘fake news’. ”
Ha! I watched this earlier today via the tw*tsphere. You have pegged this exactly Sundance!
This bongo banging war beat has got me watching, and laughing as well.
Is it possible this is all theater? Perhaps they want Zelensky to talk to Vlad. Then the FJB admin will claim victory. It’s a crazy thing to do but I put nothing past these people anymore.
I think it’s theatre to distract attention away from domestic issues and lower the stock market for a time.
I think Biden needs a rising stock market going into midterms so that rise should start around August. The stock market drifts lower over the June/July period due to holidays. If news induces geopolitical fears into the stockmarket, it will get “soft”. Combine that with rate increases (supposed 6×25 basis points) and you can take air out of the market. Later in the year, you lay off the war talk and have fewer rate increases than previously sold. You will get a relief rally, timed for the midterms.
Talking about war with Russia will play with the oil price. Releasing the strategic reserve to the PPT will allow them some maneuver room in the futures market. Playing with the oil price gives a carrot/stick to Russia. Then again they both may be a dancing pair so this routine is for the masses.
He will go with Russia if he is smart. I am sorry, but Russia is no longer the Soviet Union. The real communist here is the occupier of the United States’ government. Believe it or not.
Orwell’s Animal Farm [updated] : “Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to
SnowballBad Vlad. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say thatSnowballBad Vlad had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced thatSnowballBad Vlaad had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal.”As in the transmutation described in Orwell’s Animal Farm, when it became almost impossible to tell the pigs from the men, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to detect any substantive differences between the ruling elites of Russia, China, the EU, and the United States. And, as the EU and the United States adopt more socialist policies and police-state measures, there is less and less distinction between our societies and the one ruled over by Putin and his Kremlin cronies.
Soros, Pinchuk, Putin, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Akhmetov, Firtash, and their ilk see themselves as the caesars or pharaohs in their long-schemed-for “new world order,” a term that Soros, Kissinger, Brzezinski, and their fellow globalists have frequently invoked to limn their vision of convergence into a one-world system of “global governance.”
https://thenewamerican.com/ukraine-unraveling-the-planned-chaos/
CIA has done this before in other countries in the past. In fact their revolution was foreign sponsored aka US meddling, because daddy Soros wants it. s/
If Biden and his team keep pissing off Zelensky, you never know, maybe all the Hunter and Big Guy stuff gets leaked by Zelensky’s team?
Rudy already has it. My guess would be Rudy is weighing the costs and methods vs the benefits of releasing hard evidence of the Criminally Corrupt Kenyan and the Demented Fraud’s past cash kickback schemes involving Ukraine. Any chance trader Vindman can get out in front of this thing so he can be fragged with his back turned?
Rudy Gulianni? Heaven forbid, while I like him for past good deeds, his is so discredited because he has gone… ??? in his old age (hookers, and other)
If the evidence exists an honorable man should take it to disburse. If RG does it, the media will immediately discredit. Is there an honorable man somewhere?
Unfortunately, US media would immediately declare that Russian disinformation agents had planted the papers and the Biden’s are as clean as new-fallen slow.
Bingo! If it hurts Biden or the Democrats, it gets A.) ignored; B.) censored; C.) heavily spun with lies, disinformation and out-of-context factoids.
That would be really something!
There is NOTHING the modern MSM/DNC won’t lie about. They are imitating North Korea and China. I wonder how many of then are already bought and paid for by China? I would ask that question of the GOP too. They have been less than worthless lately.
Natasha is a dumbass and has never been anything but a terrorist.
OMG,..
“The RUSSIANS are COMING!”
At its highest point, the Soviet Union was “a third world country with nukes”, and todays Russia is a far cry from the Soviet Union, might say todays Russia is “a third World country with OIL and Nukes.”
And yet they are capable of both invading Ukraine and Canada, simultaneously even though historically the ONLY Country to ever prevail in a two-front war, has been the U.S.
Point and laugh, its the ONLY appropriate responce.
DO NOT try to argue or debate them with facts and logic.
The second you start down that road, they WIN. We “conservatives” (how about ANTI-Conmunists?) always fall for their trap.
Its NOT about logic or facts, its about EMOTION.
Zelensky should take his family, with a camera crew, and go to the border just across from the “massed Russian troops” and have a PICNIC.
Have his children WAVE at the Russian troops. RIDICULE old Joe, and the warmongers.
Sounds like the name of a punk rock band,..”Old Joe and the Warmongers”.
Have a lead singer wearing a “Joe” mask, and another a “Liz”, have Joe wearing a depends outside his pants,…liz’s dad as drummer,..Old Joe alternating yelling and sinister whispering gibberish, then Liz screaming “Insurrection, insurrection!”
Have a band member in a Fauci mask, wearing 20 masks,…
I saw them last night…..
I was waited on by a cashier yesterday wearing 2 masks. I literally could not identify one word she said.
CONVERGENCE.
January 2022.
U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism.
Russia adds Putin critic Navalny and several of his allies to its list of “terrorists and extremists.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-adds-navalny-to-list-of-terrorists-/6411488.html
To be continued.
Panic in the media as they prepare for the non-war … getting U.S. ready for cyberattacks … any cyberattack will do and it will be blamed on the Russians, just as the current public unrest in Canada is being blamed on the Russians.
This script is getting old … the rise of Trump was blamed on Russia … panic in the streets of the ruling elite … the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!!
Quick, look under every bed and you’ll find a Russian … you’d think this is still the mid-twentieth century.
I have a few Russian friends. They are thoughtful, warm, and big hearted folks. I’m sick of all the bad PR the good people of Russia are getting!
I have met many Russians and I have a similar impression.
Of course they are jaded and cynical… also smart and good listeners and not war like. Shame on the media for pushing this garbage about how they are our enemy.
The Russian government is probably not warm and cuddly; but I believe they are more interested in economic growth and stability than conflict military domination and occupation (like you know who).
well, war with russia would probably meet TPTB population goal of under 500 million….
The report of seeing a truck marked “Baby’s Blood” being driven up to the white house has about the same chance of being true as the ‘blood’ being delivered to the future front line in Russia/Ukraine. (Perhaps even more so).
Right? Does the Russian military paint labels on their trucks “BLOOD CARRIER FOR WAR WOUNDED”. Knowing the scintilla of evidence on which our intel goons will build a mountain (I give you WMD) they probably saw a refrigerated truck, or a truck painted red, or someone wearing a white coat. Of course, making it up out of thin air is also a possibility (I give you Trump Campaign “collusion”). Of course, sending our own blood truck as evidence is also in their repertoire (I give you “Insurrection 2021”)
The art is to start a war and leave no fingerprints behind, not dirty great size 14 bootmarks all over the place. If there is a war is it really going to rescue Biden? It’s only cheerleaders, apart from those who instigated it, will be people who have made their dislike of the military all too clear. I wonder if this is the another prong of the attack to remove Biden, blame a disastrous foreign policy blunder on him, even though he’s clueless to the situation, and have a Presidential reset.
So are the deepstaters getting really bad at this stuff or am I just paying more attention?
They’re playing to the people who still watch mainstream media and get their news from it because it’s most people unfortuantely.
I don’t know about that. Their ratings are so low, it seems more like their viewers are the “fringe group with inappropriate ideas”
If we go to war, the FAKE NEWS is responsible for every American death.
And Milley and Austin, plenty of blood will be on those corrupt hands!
If it wasn’t for lies, and lack of intellectual discourse, cnn wouldn’t exist.
Trump rally.
https://watchnewslive.tv/one-america-news-network-live/
According to CNN, Kharkiv is already in Russia.
I agree with that, but I dont think CNN agrees with that.
There’s nothing more the average person can do to oppose the corporatist takeover of America than to utterly disregard TV news. That includes Fox.
The billionaires who rule our corporatist world use these mouthpieces as their mouthpieces. No one is watching CNN, and yet the talking heads are paid $millions. What more do you need to know?
Get your news from the Treehouse, and other conservative sites. Cherry-pick the headlines. God bless the internet and enjoy it while it lasts.
You cannot, you cannot rely on any one source for truth.
Mark Steyn despairs of people who want to rely on YouTube or Facebook. He long ago realized that you sell your soul to post there. To use these sites now, you must surrender to their definitions of truth. So many people won’t make the extra effort or step to find their news from the original source. Dopey Dan Bongino continues to strive to please these fascists. How can a man, so silly, be respected?
There are many sources of news and truth on our ephemeral internet. Get away from the accursed cable TV.
This is so dangerous can nothing be done? Where are the damn Republicans? Will anyone stand up to anything anymore!!
In Bill Clinton’s rules of engagement in Bosnia*, journalists and judges are legitimate targets of war.
*remember when we were ignorant of the deep shitstate and rallied to the flag that hates us?
How can the Russians be stockpiling anything at the Ukrainian border if they have dispatched ALL of their truck drivers to Cant-A-Do to take out “Justin from Canada”?
And how important do they think they are that Russia would have noticed Justin from Canada at all as they prepare to invade the Ukrainian border?
The U.S. Is more vulnerable than at any time in our history:
1) Biden’s handlers doing their best to start a war with Russia.
2) China threatening war with us if Taiwan continues their path to independence with U.S. Support.
3) Tens of thousands of unknown military age illegals being flown from our southern border to cities throughout the country.
4) Our military being gutted by the woke ideology, vax mandates that weaken them physically and likely our best ones being forced out.
5) Soros backed DAs releasing criminals back onto the streets.
6) Communist politicians releasing prisoners from prison.
We are now forced to provide our own security and if attacked will have to be our own armed forces. We have to purge this evil from us or perish. Any political candidate that does not adamantly rebuke this regime must be sent packing!
The United States on Thursday called for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the tense situation between Russia and Ukraine.
The meeting is to be held on Monday – one day before Russia assumes the rotating presidency of the Security Council.
Narrative Engineering:
(ForeignPolicyNews) The Biden administration is planning for a high-profile public showdown with Russia at the United Nations Security Council if Moscow intervenes in Ukraine. There is little concrete the United States can do at the U.N. to compel Russia, which wields veto power in the Security Council, to stand down in Ukraine. But the Security Council, with its iconic horseshoe-shaped table and seats reserved for the world’s big powers, has provided a visually powerful set piece for some of modern history’s most dramatic geopolitical confrontations, from the Cuban missile crisis to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The Biden administration wants to take advantage of that to highlight Russia’s diplomatic isolation and, if possible, to place a wedge between Russia and its most powerful ally, China, which has been one of the council’s proponents of defending the territorial sovereignty of U.N. member states.
The effort would present U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield with a major test of her debating skills, as she will go head to head with Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia. The United States has already been briefing key allies in Europe and in the U.N. Security Council on Russian military activities, and preparing for a potential public standoff, according to a senior U.S. official.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity given the confidential nature of U.S. diplomatic outreach, said Russia’s military threat strikes “at the heart of the U.N. Charter.”
“There is a value to bringing attention to the crisis,” the official added. “It would demonstrate how isolated Russia is in the Security Council, and on the world stage.” It would also provide an opportunity for American officials to counter what the United States expects will be a wave of Russian misinformation.
Staggering ignorance in this administration. They may as well “simplify” tic-tac-toe into an algorithm. They truly believe the narrative engineering, albeit more poorly written than smut porn novels, to be sufficiently entertaining to keep us all breathlessly awaiting their next strokes of brilliance. This has the fingerprints of a moron who’s been told he/she is intelligent all his/her life all over it. Jarret, Slobama, Rice ring any bells? Is this what they mean by being policy wonks? Effing pathetic excuse for smart diplomacy. Bad story, bad plot, poor plot twists. Two thumbs down, kill the entire cast and crew.
Conrad Black, one of the more knowledgeable commentators writing today, has an interesting and similarly developed article, “Biden’s Ukraine Scramble“, over on American Greatness. Not that I’m trying to push a competitor, but his thoughts, elegantly expressed as always, are worth perusing. How interesting would it be for both Russia and Ukraine to ignore this illegitimate regime, with no true authority whatsoever, and get together themselves directly to negotiate some more realistic and stable result, sending the howling wolves in charge over here back into the woods.
It would be glorious, and Black is a genius. Promoting good reading on other reputable sites is highly appreciated in this place.
I have four or five go-to sites for information; CTH and American Greatness are the top two.
Indeed.
I try to check ZeroHedge.com daily too. They promote both political and economic stories.
Pssst…all you little snowflakes and BLM and PAntifa bolsheviks that voted for Biden now your gonna get drafted as a reward for getting rid of mean orange man. Elections have consequences and one of tbose consequences is an inept doofus syphilis brained president that trips,stumbles and lurches into war. Ive waited 50 years so I can spit on your coffins and piss on your graves just like your grandparents did to my buddies. My only regret is that im not 50 years younger so I can hit on your girlfriends and fiancee’s gettin them high on merry ja wana and jack daniels and telling them to screw for peace just like your smelly hippie grandfather did to us. So Ill just settle for spitting on your coffins and pissing on your graves.
Amen Brother.
Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story – Full Documentary by Oliver Stone (Original English version)
It is disturbing we live in a world that Oliver Stone was right about all along
It’s Fake News. How does Uranium One Treason figure into this newest “Russia,Russia,Russia” psy-op ? Because our real president Donald J Trump is out and about? Or is it going to be a false flag to implement martial law and suspend elections?
“Joe will F** it up”. BH Obama.
The dementia patient in chief is beginning to fray around the edges.
His meds are not lasting as long as his body continues to build up it’s
tolerance to them. Soon his handlers will give him one too many and he
will drop dead or literally go full stupid, never to return.
Please, please, please stop using quotations of the Kenyan. His name should never be used. I love your posts and respect you greatly, but that disgraceful name must go the way of the dark lord. Oblahblah was and is pathetic and weak, not worthy of its fake name. Our own censorship of the foul lesser half of a prejudged semi racial being. A foul ValJar Wookie moron wedding.. Bad night losers
Why don’t they just throw a couple tomahawks at a baby milk factory in some god foresaking third world dictatorship?
It worked for about a day and a half to divert attention away from Clinton getting a Lewinski.
Ukraine is a haven for corrupt deep state U.S.A to pilfer and launder their dirty money.
How it started:
How its going:
The Navy has confirmed the authenticity of a photo and video making the rounds on social media of the crash landing of a $100 million F-35C stealth fighter on the USS Carl Vinson last Monday that resulted in the pilot ejecting and the plane going into the sea, with seven sailors reported injured. The pilot was safely recovered, the plane was not.
South China Sea
I think the pilot was a pregnant tranny.
All the corporate media would love a war. Big ratings. CNN needs a war to survive its lies.
It’s obvious that Biden’s dementia is getting worse, the meds aren’t working as well as they had, and the faux Biden look alike they send out is being noticed. This push for a war will help distract to keep failing FJB in office longer, which is at least another year. Of course the war with Russia would also be to protect the gravy train for special Congress Critters and the Deep State, along with the Military spending that this war would generate, so it’s a two-fer – friends with benefits type move.
If Biden doesn’t get us into a war, then our media will get us into a war! At what point are we going to stop it?
‘then our media will get us into a war!’
It happened before.
‘You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war” (William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898, Telegram to Frederic Remington)
and I’ll furnish the war.” – William Randolph Hearst, January 25,
Ukraine as a NATO member? What idiot thinks that is a good idea?
I hope President Zelensky has good security. Looks like he is not following the demonic cabal’s script
I am not sure he can win. Biden wants him dead and Russia… same?