EDITOR—Case studies in Western propaganda. Everything you see here—including the attached official description of this video by DW— is a cynical, often insidious distortion of history in favor of unrepentant anti-communism and reckless Russophobia.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—Ukraine’s offensive is headed toward week 6 – at one and a half months, Ukraine still has not breached any of Russia’s primary defense lines; The US and its allies are attempting to replace lost Ukrainian equipment amid the ongoing offensive; The US is sending an unspecified number of 155mm cluster munitions due to a shortage of 155mm artillery ammunition; The US is also sending additional 155mm artillery pieces as Ukraine suffers heavy losses of equipment amid its now 5 week-long offensive; The US is also sending additional Bradley and Stryker vehicles in its most recent assistance package; Discussed “security guarantees” for Ukraine are simply ways of rephrasing existing support and another example of NATO weakness spun as “strength;” Western media hails Azov leaders’ return to Ukraine despite previous coverage of their extremist ideologies.
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MK BHADRAKUMAR—What we do not know is at what point Russian intelligence got wind of it. The Kremlin acted forcefully, decisively and with foresight in real time to scotch the coup attempt within hours. By Saturday evening, the foreign intelligence chief Sergey Narishkin announced that the coup attempt had failed. The Russian authorities were waiting for Prigozhin to make his move. It is only natural that Russian intelligence kept a strong presence right inside the Wagner tent all through. Damn it, it is a war zone where Russia’s fate is hanging in the balance. The lyrics of the famous Sting song come to mind: ‘Every breath you take / And every move you make / Every bond you break / Every step you take / I’ll be watching you…’
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MIKE MIHAJLOVIC—The primary injury mechanisms of thermobaric weapons are blast and heat. Secondary injury mechanisms are flying fragments created by the interaction of the blast with structures (e.g. flying debris) and suffocation through the generation of toxic gases and smoke. The most dangerous and far most effective means of incapacitating the enemy troops in the field and urban fortifications is the primary effect of the shock wave causing damage by enormous compression forces in the body. The effects of various fragments are considerably less, as the rocket shell has less fragmentation, but fragments can be from the surrounding objects that disintegrate under extreme pressure.
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GLENN GREENWALD—If you go and study fascism in any first-year undergraduate college, you’re going to learn that one of its defining hallmarks, as implemented by Mussolini and then by Hitler, is the merger of corporate and state power, so that there’s no such thing as a private sector ever working at odds with the public sector. The government and corporate power are always merged to control the population: exactly what the Democratic Party, the liberals who support it, and largely the left that supports it as well, are in favor of doing.
