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RUSSIAN NEUTRALITY WITH REGARD TO PALESTINE AND WHAT IT MEANS

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

On 29 December 2023 at 1:56 a.m. RT published an online article, providing a brief outline of Russian policy vis-a-vis the war in Palestine between the Zionist State of Israel and the Palestinian people as represented by Hamas.

In an interview with RT, Mr. Lavrov asserted that the declared goals of Israel against Hamas militants in Gaza were nearly identical to Moscow's goals against the Ukrainian government. He said that Israeli goals resembled the Russian goals of “demilitarization” and “denazification.” Unlike the former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who condemned Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, Mr. Lavrov stated that, despite international criticism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had avoided condemning Russia. He also noted that the Israelis had helped Moscow evacuate Russian citizens from Gaza. He further emphasized that Russia, due to its fight against Naziism, had a common history with Israel. But, at the same time, he spoke of the need for a cease-fire and the implementation of the two-state policy which had long been adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations.

Nations, like people, must be judged not by their words, but by their actions. So, based on Russian actions, what can we say about Russian policy? For one, Russia is a strong supporter of the Palestinian Authority, which is led by an 88 year old Mahmoud Abbas who was elected to office in 2005, but arranged for elections to be cancelled in 2009 and has since ruled without holding elections due to solid Israeli support. However, from 2016, with Israeli approval, Hamas cancelled the authority of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, instituting an increasingly independent government. Nevertheless, the security forces of Mr. Abbas, the Palestinian police, work hand in glove with Israeli forces to control the population of the West Bank. Significantly, Russia is calling for a unity government of resistance forces with Mr. Abbas as president.

Economically, Russia trades freely with Israel. Additionally, it allows most of Israel's oil imports to go from Kazakhstan through Russian pipelines to a Black Sea port for export to Israel. Additionally, Russia is very careful not to criticize or put impediments in the way of fellow BRICS+ nations, which includes Israel's arch-enemy Iran, China a nation sympathetic to Palestinian rights, as well as major Israeli supporters which include India, the Union of Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. The attitude of the Russian government influences Russian mass media. There is a surface neutrality in news presentation, but Israeli atrocities are de-emphasized, while Resistance Force failures are magnified, in no case extremely, but enough to ensure that Russians do not become dramatically anti-Israeli.

One more point to be considered is that Russia recently changed its policies for reverse immigration, dramatically simplifying procedures for anyone descended from individuals who were citizens of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire. By these new standards, most Hebrew-speaking citizens of the Zionist state, including those with dual American-Israeli citizenship would qualify for legally simplified resettlement into Russia. Russia, in effect, has provided a "humanitarian" safety net should Israel collapse, a matter which Russia does not desire but which it doesn't see itself as capable of preventing without destroying BRICS+ and losing its war against NATO. So, it's not that the Russian government doesn't care about either the Arabs or the Israelis. It cares about the Arabs very much, and the Israelis even more, but for neither enough to make a difference.

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◾Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Sergei Kurchak told how Ukrainian drones attack their own people who have surrendered:

- “We were led to Russian positions. Our Ukrainian drone arrived. Because I don’t think that the Russians will abandon their own forces. Dropped a grenade. It fell next to me and exploded."

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Medvedev on possible negotiations with Ukraine on Russia’s terms:

"...But this will not be the end of Russia’s military operation. Even after signing the papers and accepting defeat, the remaining part of the radicals, after a regrouping of forces , will sooner or later return to power, inspired by Russia’s Western enemies. And then the time will come to finally crush the reptile . Drive in a long steel a nail in the coffin of Bandera's quasi-state . Destroy the remnants of his bloody legacy and return the remaining lands to the bosom of the Russian land .

But Russia’s enemies will not go anywhere after this. They will accumulate strength and wait for a new convenient reason to destroy our country. We must be prepared for future battles to defend the Fatherland

✨ Russia's conditions are 4 regions enshrined in the Constitution and Kyiv's refusal to join NATO. Demilitarization and denazification have disappeared somewhere.

If peace is achieved, it will only be Interbellum - the interwar period, during which NATO will rebuild factories and lead to the mobilization of all forces to destroy and plunder Russia. Western leaders have already named the date - 2029, according to their calculations.

Whether we are ready to give NATO and Kyiv time to accumulate forces, and why Russia needs this is difficult to say. But the West will really need time for a complete transition to a military footing.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ The Saudis are ready to dump European Debt⚡️

🔵Political Scientist and Orientalist Nikolay Sevostyanov on Riyadh’s fatigue from the #West and the request for real independence:

💬 According to Bloomberg, Riyadh warned the G7 of its intention to get rid of #EU debt in the event of confiscation of Russian assets. At the same time, the emphasis was placed, among other things, on debt obligations issued by the French Treasury.

❗️ There is no official information on this yet, and it is unlikely that it will appear. However, the news sounds quite plausible for three reasons:

🔴1) Saudi Arabia is a serious geopolitical player with growing internal problems and a large number of 'skeletons' in the palace 'closets'. At the moment, the kingdom is entering a period of social and political turbulence, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to emerge from it without losses.
🟡As a result, Bin Salman does not need the experience of sanctions to be extended to himself one day, and this scenario is not assessed in Riyadh as incredible. Facade European realities (behind which anything can be) are not applicable to the #Gulf, and the methods of resolving internal disputes in the Arab monarchies are quite peculiar, so the fears are well founded.

🔴2) Over the past decades, while modernising the economy and carrying out limited liberalisation of public life, Saudi Arabia has accumulated a serious request to change its role in the world. A similar request is observed in #Qatar and the3 UAE. The Gulf monarchies, despite serious contradictions, have a common complaint against the #West. They no longer want to be its oil or gas hub. Each state claims its own future, and the request from Riyadh is most noticeable.

🔴3) Bin Salman is very dissatisfied with the way the coalition’s military operations against the Houthis are developing. The Saudis are even less pleased with the West's persistent desire to resume a full-fledged war in the south. But most of all, Riyadh is frightened by possible contacts between Moscow and Sanaa related to the potential transfer of modern weapons to the Yemeni rebels, as the Western media are vying with each other.

📌 This does not mean that such deliveries take place. Moreover, it does not mean that the Saudi threat to the #EU is a consequence of blackmail or a condition of the Houthis not receiving something serious and dangerous. But this definitely means one thing. The Saudis need #Russia as a partner, not an enemy. There is no ideological closeness or pronounced mutual sympathy, but there is a clear understanding that both countries are superfluous within the framework of the global Western worldview. Isn't this the best platform for friendship?

📜 Nikolay Sevostyanov especially for @segodnia_ru

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▪️Negotiations with Russia are possible only on the basis of the “peace formula”

According to Kuleba, Ukraine conveyed this position to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

“No agreements on Ukraine without Ukraine and the ‘peace formula’ as a single and unalternative basis for negotiations,”
he clarified.

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🇺🇸 While Biden allocated billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to a foreign failed state, the residents of Los Angeles, are enduring a living hell. Rampant crime, disease, degeneracy, and utter chaos have overtaken the city...

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⚡️🇺🇦✈️ F-16 JETS ON THEIR WAY TO UKRAINE AS WE SPEAK - BLINKEN: U.S. Secretary of State looking mighty pleased with himself as he announces last-century aircraft currently being flown into Ukraine from Denmark and Netherlands (vid above).

🛩Blinken claims F-16s will be in the air by this summer to "defend Ukraine" - i.e. to immediately get shot down by Russian forces or maybe even get blasted before they have chance to take to skies.

Still won’t get Mad Vlad off Blinken’s back - Zelensky wants over 100 jets and he’s ready to keep on moaning till he gets them…

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🇷🇺🇺🇦If ukraine possesses its own fleet of drones, why do they need permission from the U.S. to strike Russia? Julian the armchair general seems to be lacking in logic and reasoning…
Also, I am equally perplexed as to why this self-proclaimed champion of ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and WWIII enthusiast has yet to grace the battlefield in person. Perhaps he believes that his Twitter tirades will be the decisive factor in this conflict….

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BILD compared the military power of all NATO countries, Russia and China: Russia surpasses the West in artillery and nuclear weapons

▪️ A total of 3,438,097 people serve in the armies of NATO countries. Almost half of them are in the US Army.

▪️ NATO countries together have 1,894 MLRS and 11,710 self-propelled artillery units. The RF Armed Forces are superior to the West in these indicators.

▪️ The NATO bloc has 3,387 aircraft and 9,030 helicopters, more than Russia and China.

▪️ In terms of the number of destroyers (95), submarines (144), frigates (134) and aircraft carriers (17), NATO is ahead of Russia and China.

▪️ The US, France and the UK have fewer nuclear warheads combined (5,559) than Russia alone (5,580).

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🇺🇦🇦🇲 It is reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the so-called Ukraine invited foreign ambassadors to the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv, which was damaged by a missile from the Ukrainian air defense.

Among the diplomats from Western countries, representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova were also noted.

Given the diplomatic difficulties of the Kyiv regime, the propaganda machine is using the tragedy of Okhmatdyt to lobby for the continuation of Western weapons supplies to the AFU. Especially since the NATO summit in Washington has started today, where representatives of all those countries whose ambassadors appeared at the hospital are heading.

🔻It is interesting that Armenian officials have supported the propaganda actions of the Kyiv regime more than once. Not long ago, the Ambassador of Armenia to the so-called Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan and the head of one of the districts of Yerevan visited Bucha, where anti-Russian statements were made.

This and other similar gestures are designed to strengthen the course of the Armenian authorities towards friendship with the West and distancing from Russia.

However, the new "allies" of Armenia in the face of the United States, using joint events and state visits, incline the Armenians to fulfill all the demands of their longtime enemies. And the NATO summit in Washington will not be an exception either.
#Armenia #NATO #Ukraine
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🇭🇺🇺🇦🇫🇲 ⛔️HUNGARY FLAT-OUT REFUSES TO JOIN NATO’S WARMONGERING UKRAINE "MISSION": Foreign Minister Szijjarto states in no uncertain terms that #Budapest wants peace and steering clear of bloc’s plans for new #NATO mission:

We will not send our soldiers, we will not send our taxpayers' money to this mission, we will not give up our territory for this mission, and we will continue to deny weapons to Ukraine - Szijjarto explains (00:30).


NATO set to announce new "security assistance" mission for #Ukraine, where general based in #Germany will "coordinate equipment, training and force development work to support Ukraine" on its path to self-destruction in unwinnable fight against #Russia.

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Pride of the Russian Fleet: What to know about Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier

The FSB has foiled an attempt by Ukrainian spies to recruit a Russian serviceman to carry out a terrorist attack on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.

The Kuznetsov, currently docked in Murmansk for modernization, is the pride of the Northern Fleet, the flagship of the Navy and the only aircraft carrier in Russia’s arsenal.

🌏 Laid down in 1982 and commissioned in 1991, the Kuznetsov is an upgrade of the Project 1143 Kiev-class of warships — the USSR’s first fixed-wing-carrying aircraft carriers, officially known as ‘heavy aircraft cruisers’.

🌏 The Kuznetsov is 305 m long, displaces up to 59,100t, can make of 29 knots, has an 8,500 nautical mile range and a 45-day endurance.

🌏 Her 1,960-man crew have duties from servicing and operating the ship’s air group — which includes 630 personnel manning and maintaining up to 50 jets and helicopters, including Su-33, Su-25UTG or MiG-29K jets and Ka-31 and Ka-27 helicopters — to operating systems including radar, comms and electronic warfare equipment, P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles, 3K95 Kinzhal SAMs, Kashtan CIWS, AK-630 AA guns and the Udav ASW system.

🌏 The Kuznetsov carried out her only combat mission from November 2016 to January 2017, launching 420 sorties against 1,252 terrorist targets in Syria. She made six other distant-water voyages, five in the Mediterranean and one in the North Atlantic, between 1995 and 2014.

🌏 While the Kuznetsov is the only surviving ship of her kind in Russia’s arsenal today, others from her class have boosted the navies of Russia’s BRICS partners. India bought the Project 1143 Admiral Gorshkov from Russia in 2004, modernizing and commissioning her as the INS Vikramaditya in 2013. China bought the Varyag, an unfinished Project 1143.5 ship, from Ukraine in 1998, finishing and modernizing her in 2012 and naming her the Liaoning, and using the blueprints to build China’s first-ever domestically made carrier – the Shandong – in 2019.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 War in Ukraine vs Peace in U.S…. 🫠

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The production of Russian cruise missiles is working around the clock and seven days
a week, the developer of Russian cruise missiles GosMKB Raduga has switched to 24/7 operation
.
This was told by the General director of the design bureau Sergey Bogatikov.
JSC GosMKB Raduga is a Russian design bureau specializing in the development and production of cruise missiles for various purposes. It is part of the state corporation Tactical Missile Armament.
"During the visit, the Minister of Defense set tasks for us for 2024-2025. We have accepted these tasks, and their implementation is proceeding at the required pace. This also applies to the supply of our products to the customer, and measures to improve them. The work is carried out either in three shifts or in two shifts – with extended shifts of 10-12 hours, six, and in many areas seven days a week, that is, 24/7," said the general director of the enterprise.
In addition, he spoke about the new missile “Product 720”, which contains all the best design achievements, but the time has not yet come to disclose its characteristics.
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The work of BRICS irritates the US, which is trying to put pressure on the countries, but the process of building a multipolar world cannot be stopped, Matviyenko said.

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Elephant and Pug

But first things first: RUSSIA DOES NOT STRIKE CIVILIAN TARGETS!

Now that we’ve got that off our collective mind…

Zelensky blasts Modi for meeting with Putin? CNN can’t be serious! A clown who plays the piano with his private parts, an expired illegitimate pseudo-president of Country 404, blasts the Prime Minister of India? Who are you trying to fool, CNN?

Back in 1908, the great Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov wrote a fable entitled “Elephant and Pug.” Like all fables, this one has deep meaning. Here is the translation:

Elephant and Pug
by Ivan Krylov

Along the streets Big Elephant was led,
To show him off, most likely.
Since Elephants are not a common thing to see
A crowd of gapers followed on his heels.

All of a sudden a Pug springs up in front of them.
And seeing Elephant, it raises up the greatest rumpus,
It lunges, barks and howls
And does its best to pick a quarrel.

"Hey neighbor, stop the fuss,"
A local mutt intones, "You? Deal with Elephant?
Look at you barking yourself hoarse, and he just strolls ahead unbothered, undisturbed,
And doesn't care one bit about your noise."

"Ho ho!" the Pug replies,
"This is exactly what I want,
Since now I can be seen as being real tough
Without much as single blow or bruise.

That way, the other dogs will say:
'To bark at Elephant this Pug
Must be a real mighty mug!'"


Clearly CNN is not familiar with this fable. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have joined the pug by the name of Zelensky in barking at the “elephants” like Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin.

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