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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Washington has started recruiting “cyber warriors” for the army. On August 27, Brian Vile, Commandant of the US Army Cyber School (by the way, Vile stands for evil or foul) announced on his official Twitter account that they were hiring “nation state hackers”.
In fact, the United States has been doing this recruitment for a long time, but the term “nation state hackers” – hackers who serve the state and carry out attacks on its behalf – was openly used for the first time.
While earlier, Washington at least made an effort to keep such malicious activity quiet, preferring to remain in the background, now American officials are more open about their own “cyber exploits.” Major General Paul Stanton recently shared that America was training “offensive cyber personnel” to carry out hacker attacks. In turn, four-star General Paul Nakasone, head of the US Cyber Command, admitted on Sky News that US military hackers actually existed and were conducting offensive operations against Russia, in support of the Kiev regime.
This is all part of the US strategy to establish global offensive cyber forces and prepare for a full-scale war in cyberspace. We have mentioned more than once that they were working on this. Obviously, the West’s militarisation of the information space and attempts to turn it into an arena of interstate confrontation can lead to the most unpredictable consequences.
By the way, we reported in March that Russia – and even specifically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – has been targeted by a series of cyberattacks on an unprecedented scale. State institutions, critical and social infrastructure facilities, and servers that store the personal data of our citizens and foreigners living in Russia are being attacked.
Their attempts to cover the tracks and deflect blame onto others by attacking Russian targets through Chinese computer networks have led to no avail. We know that the West is behind this. This is cyber aggression, and part of it involves the capabilities of the Kiev regime. Washington and its satellites are cynically using Ukraine, its infrastructure and human potential as a tool in their confrontation with Russia.
All this is unfolding against the backdrop of the third substantive session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes that began in New York. The Russian delegation is attending despite the obstacles put up by the Americans.
💬 Washington has started recruiting “cyber warriors” for the army. On August 27, Brian Vile, Commandant of the US Army Cyber School (by the way, Vile stands for evil or foul) announced on his official Twitter account that they were hiring “nation state hackers”.
In fact, the United States has been doing this recruitment for a long time, but the term “nation state hackers” – hackers who serve the state and carry out attacks on its behalf – was openly used for the first time.
While earlier, Washington at least made an effort to keep such malicious activity quiet, preferring to remain in the background, now American officials are more open about their own “cyber exploits.” Major General Paul Stanton recently shared that America was training “offensive cyber personnel” to carry out hacker attacks. In turn, four-star General Paul Nakasone, head of the US Cyber Command, admitted on Sky News that US military hackers actually existed and were conducting offensive operations against Russia, in support of the Kiev regime.
This is all part of the US strategy to establish global offensive cyber forces and prepare for a full-scale war in cyberspace. We have mentioned more than once that they were working on this. Obviously, the West’s militarisation of the information space and attempts to turn it into an arena of interstate confrontation can lead to the most unpredictable consequences.
By the way, we reported in March that Russia – and even specifically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – has been targeted by a series of cyberattacks on an unprecedented scale. State institutions, critical and social infrastructure facilities, and servers that store the personal data of our citizens and foreigners living in Russia are being attacked.
Their attempts to cover the tracks and deflect blame onto others by attacking Russian targets through Chinese computer networks have led to no avail. We know that the West is behind this. This is cyber aggression, and part of it involves the capabilities of the Kiev regime. Washington and its satellites are cynically using Ukraine, its infrastructure and human potential as a tool in their confrontation with Russia.
All this is unfolding against the backdrop of the third substantive session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes that began in New York. The Russian delegation is attending despite the obstacles put up by the Americans.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Keystone Pipeline 2 oil spill
Latest ecology news:
- Greenpeace applauds the introduction of a Cryptocurrency Transparency Bill.
- Over 3,500 took to the streets to join the Great March for Life, which began at 13:00 at the statue of Mont Royal despite severe frost.
- Surveys show 88 percent of respondents believe that the whole of society should work together to focus on biodiversity issues.
- St Louis region has the potential to become a world hub of no-soil farming innovation thanks to the collaborative efforts of dozens of experts over the past two years.
- Farmers Business Network and Environmental Defence Fund announce major expansion of regenerative ag operating lines.
Toto, where is the news about our beloved Kansas and the Keystone Pipeline oil spill?
💬 Keystone Pipeline 2 oil spill
Latest ecology news:
- Greenpeace applauds the introduction of a Cryptocurrency Transparency Bill.
- Over 3,500 took to the streets to join the Great March for Life, which began at 13:00 at the statue of Mont Royal despite severe frost.
- Surveys show 88 percent of respondents believe that the whole of society should work together to focus on biodiversity issues.
- St Louis region has the potential to become a world hub of no-soil farming innovation thanks to the collaborative efforts of dozens of experts over the past two years.
- Farmers Business Network and Environmental Defence Fund announce major expansion of regenerative ag operating lines.
Toto, where is the news about our beloved Kansas and the Keystone Pipeline oil spill?
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
“The Russians are dying... it’s the best money we’ve ever spent,” US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said with a pleased smirk during his meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
💬 During the Nuremberg trials, Reichsminister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht claimed that the Third Reich was sponsored, among others, from abroad, naming two major American corporations – Ford and General Motors. An unspoken deal was made with Schacht: freedom in exchange for keeping silent. Despite Soviet representatives’ protests, he was released and lived to the age of 93.
Just to remind: the man who embodied the American dream, the legendary Henry Ford, was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle. His plants operating in Germany not only produced up to 70,000 lorries per year for the Wehrmacht, but also used prison labour to this end, including in Auschwitz.
Opel, the icon of the German automotive industry, was owned by General Motors. Researcher Bradford Snell described the corporation’s role as follows: “General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland. Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM.”
At its Germany-based plant, the Kodak company manufactured fuses for aerial bombs, without shunning the use of POW labour.
The Coca-Cola plant in Cologne, even before it was nationalised by the German government, regularly supplied German soldiers with drinks, while the famous Fanta was invented by the Nazis.
The oil giant Standard Oil, through its subsidiaries, supplied Hitler with petroleum products amid shortages, and was involved in the development of synthetic rubber and synthetic fuels. IBM, a company popular with IT specialists across the globe, manufactured accounting and monitoring devices for the Nazis, including those for oil production. The company's equipment was used, among other things, to monitor schedules for trains destined to extermination camps.
And, of course, how can we not mention banks: JPMorgan Chase & Co – Chase National Bank back then – was also involved, performing multibillion dollar transactions, while Berlin had the opportunity to purchase dollars and carry out transactions overseas. Chase National Bank even cooperated with the German bank Allianz in providing insurance for facilities and workers at concentration camps during the time of the Third Reich.
So, Senator Graham has something to make comparisons with. One of the US investments led to World War II and the Holocaust.
Now, billions of US dollars are pouring down the insatiable throat of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. In this regard, I would like to remind the senators and all US beneficiaries how the previous venture ended.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/5521
“The Russians are dying... it’s the best money we’ve ever spent,” US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said with a pleased smirk during his meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
💬 During the Nuremberg trials, Reichsminister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht claimed that the Third Reich was sponsored, among others, from abroad, naming two major American corporations – Ford and General Motors. An unspoken deal was made with Schacht: freedom in exchange for keeping silent. Despite Soviet representatives’ protests, he was released and lived to the age of 93.
Just to remind: the man who embodied the American dream, the legendary Henry Ford, was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle. His plants operating in Germany not only produced up to 70,000 lorries per year for the Wehrmacht, but also used prison labour to this end, including in Auschwitz.
Opel, the icon of the German automotive industry, was owned by General Motors. Researcher Bradford Snell described the corporation’s role as follows: “General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland. Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM.”
At its Germany-based plant, the Kodak company manufactured fuses for aerial bombs, without shunning the use of POW labour.
The Coca-Cola plant in Cologne, even before it was nationalised by the German government, regularly supplied German soldiers with drinks, while the famous Fanta was invented by the Nazis.
The oil giant Standard Oil, through its subsidiaries, supplied Hitler with petroleum products amid shortages, and was involved in the development of synthetic rubber and synthetic fuels. IBM, a company popular with IT specialists across the globe, manufactured accounting and monitoring devices for the Nazis, including those for oil production. The company's equipment was used, among other things, to monitor schedules for trains destined to extermination camps.
And, of course, how can we not mention banks: JPMorgan Chase & Co – Chase National Bank back then – was also involved, performing multibillion dollar transactions, while Berlin had the opportunity to purchase dollars and carry out transactions overseas. Chase National Bank even cooperated with the German bank Allianz in providing insurance for facilities and workers at concentration camps during the time of the Third Reich.
So, Senator Graham has something to make comparisons with. One of the US investments led to World War II and the Holocaust.
Now, billions of US dollars are pouring down the insatiable throat of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. In this regard, I would like to remind the senators and all US beneficiaries how the previous venture ended.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/5521
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💬 Το αρθρο "«Γλωσσική δικτατορία» στη σύγχρονη Ουκρανία: Το «απαρτχάιντ» κατά της ρωσικής γλώσσας σήμερα"
💬 Το αρθρο "«Γλωσσική δικτατορία» στη σύγχρονη Ουκρανία: Το «απαρτχάιντ» κατά της ρωσικής γλώσσας σήμερα"
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«Γλωσσική δικτατορία» στη σύγχρονη Ουκρανία: Το «απαρτχάιντ» κατά της ρωσικής γλώσσας σήμερα
Όχι σε βάρος των υπολοίπων εθνών, αλλά δίπλα τους και με σεβασμό σε όλες τις ιστορικές, πολιτιστικές και γλωσσικές ταυτότητες του πολυεθνικού λαού της περιοχής.
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💬 Το αρθρο "Όλες οι αποχρώσεις του γκρι" της κλασικής φιλολόγου Ευγενίας Κριτσέφσκαγια για το βιβλίο του M.Galeotti "Μικρή ιστορία της Ρωσίας. Από τον παγανισμό στον Πούτιν": http://avgi-anagnoseis.blogspot.com/2023/07/blog-post_30.html
💬 Το αρθρο "Όλες οι αποχρώσεις του γκρι" της κλασικής φιλολόγου Ευγενίας Κριτσέφσκαγια για το βιβλίο του M.Galeotti "Μικρή ιστορία της Ρωσίας. Από τον παγανισμό στον Πούτιν": http://avgi-anagnoseis.blogspot.com/2023/07/blog-post_30.html
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#Opinion
✍️ Article by Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy Vice-Rectors Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky
The end of the era of hypocrisy
• The explosive intensification of the crisis in Gaza has once again revealed the depths of the decline of the US-EU establishment, which is sacrificing the last shred of its respectability right before our eyes and parting with its liberal image as “citizens of the world” concerned with human rights and the common good.
❗️Instead of working toward de-escalation and steering the process to a negotiating track, politicians, primarily from Anglo-Saxon countries (followed by others), have begun to support Israeli authorities in their more forceful actions against Palestinians.
• We believe that manipulating UN Charter principles in the process is absolutely unacceptable, especially as the United States and its satellites quite recently were conveniently using this trick to unilaterally and selectively leverage some of the UN Charter principles to promote their own interests.
• Importantly, we fully understand and share the sorrow of the Jewish people who endured a horrible tragedy on October 7. However, in a situation where many decisions are made emotionally, responsible global players should attempt to de-escalate the situation, rather than pit the sides against each other.
• The West has all too willingly turned a blind eye to the suffering of civilians time and again, and is taking an extremely irresponsible approach to international crises.
• We can only hope that the tragedy of Israel and Gaza will serve as an important lesson for the collective West that got entangled in its own games and machinations and is losing credibility with the Global South right before our eyes.
☝️ The era of double standards that underpin the “rules-based order” is fading into the past.
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✍️ Article by Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy Vice-Rectors Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky
The end of the era of hypocrisy
• The explosive intensification of the crisis in Gaza has once again revealed the depths of the decline of the US-EU establishment, which is sacrificing the last shred of its respectability right before our eyes and parting with its liberal image as “citizens of the world” concerned with human rights and the common good.
❗️Instead of working toward de-escalation and steering the process to a negotiating track, politicians, primarily from Anglo-Saxon countries (followed by others), have begun to support Israeli authorities in their more forceful actions against Palestinians.
• We believe that manipulating UN Charter principles in the process is absolutely unacceptable, especially as the United States and its satellites quite recently were conveniently using this trick to unilaterally and selectively leverage some of the UN Charter principles to promote their own interests.
• Importantly, we fully understand and share the sorrow of the Jewish people who endured a horrible tragedy on October 7. However, in a situation where many decisions are made emotionally, responsible global players should attempt to de-escalate the situation, rather than pit the sides against each other.
• The West has all too willingly turned a blind eye to the suffering of civilians time and again, and is taking an extremely irresponsible approach to international crises.
• We can only hope that the tragedy of Israel and Gaza will serve as an important lesson for the collective West that got entangled in its own games and machinations and is losing credibility with the Global South right before our eyes.
☝️ The era of double standards that underpin the “rules-based order” is fading into the past.
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✍️ Article by Mikhail Rostovsky, MK media-group columnist under the Editor-In-Chief
Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East
🔹 Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones - both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world.
🔹 It is in Moscow's best interest to pursue a balanced line in the Middle East because any tilt in one direction or another will seriously jeopardize its national interests.
🔹 Big politics in the Middle East has consisted, and continues to consist, of such nuances hidden from prying eyes, secret layers. Ignoring this fact in an attempt to pursue a policy in the region based on binary logic, where there are those who are for us and those who are against us, dooms even a great power to the role of an object that is manipulated by everyone.
🔹 When choosing between the conflicting sides in the Middle East, Moscow must invariably choose itself, no matter how this might hurt the feelings of its partners in the region and beyond.
🔹 The view that what happened on October 7 was a colossal failure by Israel’s intelligence services is just a banality now. Lying behind this failure is an even bigger catastrophe - a failure of political strategy, erroneous long-term calculations by the top Israeli leadership.
🔹 Israel has no idea how to strategically solve the problem of the Gaza Strip. The military action it has taken is just a strategic improvisation.
🔹 Based on its status as an influential global and regional player, Russia must contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, and at the same time prevent itself from becoming another "Middle East."
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✍️ Article by Mikhail Rostovsky, MK media-group columnist under the Editor-In-Chief
Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East
🔹 Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones - both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world.
🔹 It is in Moscow's best interest to pursue a balanced line in the Middle East because any tilt in one direction or another will seriously jeopardize its national interests.
🔹 Big politics in the Middle East has consisted, and continues to consist, of such nuances hidden from prying eyes, secret layers. Ignoring this fact in an attempt to pursue a policy in the region based on binary logic, where there are those who are for us and those who are against us, dooms even a great power to the role of an object that is manipulated by everyone.
🔹 When choosing between the conflicting sides in the Middle East, Moscow must invariably choose itself, no matter how this might hurt the feelings of its partners in the region and beyond.
🔹 The view that what happened on October 7 was a colossal failure by Israel’s intelligence services is just a banality now. Lying behind this failure is an even bigger catastrophe - a failure of political strategy, erroneous long-term calculations by the top Israeli leadership.
🔹 Israel has no idea how to strategically solve the problem of the Gaza Strip. The military action it has taken is just a strategic improvisation.
🔹 Based on its status as an influential global and regional player, Russia must contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, and at the same time prevent itself from becoming another "Middle East."
Read in full
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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
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✍ Kirill Shevchenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Russian State Social University
From Galician Rus' to Western Ukraine: Galician-Russian figures on the Ukrainian movement In Galicia in the 19th – early 20th century
"Even in the first quarter of the 20th century, Ukrainian identity was not fully shaped as such among Galician Russians. Researchers believe that at that time, half of the Galician peasantry did not possess a clearly expressed national identity in its modern sense and served as an object of struggle "for souls."
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✍ Kirill Shevchenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Russian State Social University
From Galician Rus' to Western Ukraine: Galician-Russian figures on the Ukrainian movement In Galicia in the 19th – early 20th century
"Even in the first quarter of the 20th century, Ukrainian identity was not fully shaped as such among Galician Russians. Researchers believe that at that time, half of the Galician peasantry did not possess a clearly expressed national identity in its modern sense and served as an object of struggle "for souls."
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