FRINGE MINORITY

"Freedom Convoy is technically polling higher than the Liberal Party of Canada right now . A new Abacus Data poll found that 32 per cent of Canadians “have a lot in common with the protesters and how they see things.” That’s not a lot, but the latest Nanos poll had the Liberals polling at just 28.2 per cent if an election were to be held tomorrow. Another interesting takeaway from the Abacus Poll? Of Green Party supporters, 57 per cent are on board with the truckers."

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-military-tells-ottawa-to-find-someone-else-to-evict-the-truckers

#FreedomConvoy #Canada #opinion_polls #Trudeau #LetsGoJustin #Liberals #covid19

🎙 #Opinion by María Zakharova:

BioBiden

💢We can get a rough idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine if we rely on open sources as well as leaked documents. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
✔1991 – the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon's Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.
✔1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.
✔2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists' hands.
✔2000s – large US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.
✔2005-2014 – Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”
✔2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently - Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.
✔2009 – Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
✔2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.
✔2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
✔2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.
✔2014 - Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to "assert Ukraine's cultural & economic independence from Russia".
✔2014 - Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine".
✔2014 - Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
✔2014-2016 - Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
✔2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.
✔2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.
✔2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.
✔2016 – EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
✔2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.
✔2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.
✔February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 America’s reputation following the exposure of the Pentagon’s involvement in developing biological weapons and testing them on people in Kiev has finally become a matter of concern for Washington. The White House seems to have ordered an information campaign, which enabled American journalists, with the consent of the Ukrainian government, to visit one of the biological weapons laboratories.

To prove that the US never went beyond civilian research projects in Ukraine they organised a visit to one of these laboratories for CBS reporters who had to put together a story that would reassure America, as well as the international community.

How ridiculous, right?

What did they show these propaganda mouthpieces that allowed them to reassure everyone that the Pentagon’s biological programmes are safe? An obsolete sterilizer and Rambo the dog guarding the entrance to the building. What else do you need? The dog survived, so you will all survive, too. After all, there was nothing unusual about this dog, it didn’t grow a second head or anything, so you won’t either.

While we’re at it, I suggest we take a closer look at how they scripted this would-be report. With military-grade precision, it runs exactly 200 seconds. In it, we have:

- a 20 second introduction by the presenter about “Russian propaganda” which America believes for some reason

- another 20 seconds ridiculing Americans who believe “Russian propaganda”

- and 5 more seconds on “Russian disinformation,” probably to make sure everyone gets the message

- a 15 second sequence showing artillery strikes and a column of Russian tanks (what are they doing in a report on US biological research?)

- 10 seconds from Sergey Lavrov’s interview

- a 5 second recording from the Red Square parade (what does a Russian parade have to do with the Pentagon’s biological weapons programmes, especially considering that Moscow and Washington are quite far apart when it comes to defining notions like parades and pride?)

- for 30 seconds, the journalist talks with the laboratory’s chief researcher Dr. Natalia Vydaiko

- 10 seconds are devoted to a closed refrigerator and another 5 to an old sterilizer

- 3 seconds highlighted Rambo the dog.

But not a word about the Pentagon’s involvement in these programmes.

Why didn’t CBS show the fragment from Sergey Lavrov’s interview where he said that any involvement by the US Department of Defence in biological research is unacceptable? This is exactly what he said in the interview. What was the message of this report? And what was Russia lying about?

What kind of myth does this report debunk if no one even mentions the Pentagon?

By the way, Natalia Vydaiko’s English language proficiency was quite impressive. Of course, English language proficiency is the first thing that comes up during an interview for recruiting virologists in Ukraine, and Ms Vydaiko has been in the business for quite a while now. Back in 2010, she was asked to comment on the US opening a new reference laboratory in Odessa,
although back then she shied away from saying anything, probably because she had yet to get her English up to par. However, when the Pentagon sponsored a research conference in Ternopol in 2018, Ms Vydaiko attended it and even presented a report. It seems that by that time her language teachers had done their job.

In short, if the US media need someone they can talk to on biological security in Ukraine, Ms Vydaiko is their best option. I think this might not be the last time you hear about her from us.

According to available polls, a quarter of Americans believe that the US is developing biological weapons in Ukraine. I think this number rose to one third after this outstanding report.

Great job CBS. Keep up the good work!

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 German priest and theologian Martin Niemöller is known for being one of Nazism’s most principal foes. He was a hero as a submarine commander during the First World War. After the war he became a priest. As a nationalist and an anti-communist he joined the Nazis and welcomed Hitler’s rise to power. Nevertheless, he was arrested by the Nazis in 1938 and sent to, first, a Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then to Dachau where he was freed by the Americans. Imprisonment had a major impact on him: for many years Niemöller, who lived until 1984, condemned the Nazi ideology.

The phrase with which he described the mood among German intellectuals, who were dismissive of the evildoings happening at the time, has become well known (recently we recalled it).

First, they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

And now let’s go back to the present, to Ukraine, where the ideologic successors of the Nazis have paid visits to most diverse places over the last several years. The chronology is as follows:

April 30, 2014
The Kyiv Court banned (https://is.gd/4mDPP8) the activity of the political party, Russian Unity, in Ukraine.

May 13, 2014
The Russian Block party was (https://is.gd/cKLqJb) banned by a Ukrainian court for its appeals to overthrow the constitutional order.

December 16, 2015
The Kyiv Court ruled that the activity of the Communist Party of Ukraine be prohibited in the country for decommunisation purposes (https://is.gd/MsjrAV).

February 25, 2021
There were reports of searches being conducted in the office of the Opposition Platform – For Life! party during which its employees were detained by the Ukrainian Security Service.

March 19, 2022
The Kyiv leadership suspended the activity of the following political parties: The Opposition Platform – For Life!, the Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Leftists, Derzhava, Progressive-Socialist Party, The Socialist Party of Ukraine, The Socialists, and The Volodymyr Saldo Bloc.

May 14, 2022
Zelensky signed a law (https://is.gd/8UgI8T) banning the activity of political parties taking a pro-Russian stance.

June 1, 2022
According to Oleg Sinyutka, a member of Poroshenko’s party, European Solidarity, Ukraine is steadily moving toward an authoritarian government; by granting MPs the right to vote remotely the country’s parliament is becoming a “pocket” body.

So, what do you think– is history repeating itself?

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Maria #Zakharova: Do you remember the recent incident when Sergey Razov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic, filed a lawsuit at the prosecutor’s office in Rome against the Italian newspaper La Stampa and its journalist Domenico Quirico for the publication of an article called “If Killing a Tyrant is the Only Option,” which discussed in all seriousness the possibility, expediency and hypothetic perpetrators of the Russian President’s assassination?

The Italian Criminal Code contains Article 414, Clause1 and Clause 3 on incitement to commit a crime.

The Russian Ambassador cited these clauses in the court case. But the wonders of democracy never cease to amaze.

That same daily published an article the other day reporting that the lawsuit by the Russian Ambassador had been dismissed at a preliminary hearing in Turin. Despite the established procedure, we have not received any official response so far. According to the newspaper, the court cited the absence of a constitutional principle confirming that a criminal offence had been committed, while descriptions of an assassination constitute no threat to state security (whose security – Russia’s or Italy’s?) and do not constitute incitement to commit a crime since “there are no essential elements of an offence.”

Isn’t that great?

Based on these conclusions, La Stampa editor-in-chief proudly stated that the newspaper has its own beliefs which it fights for: the beliefs of liberal democracy.

No doubt about that. This is clearly a case of liberal totalitarianism.

This is not the first time we see that liberal democracy in the modern western interpretation does not exclude but in fact encourages a discussion on the pages of a national newspaper with a huge circulation on the possibility and expediency of assassinating the head of a foreign state.

The cancel culture has become the foundation of liberal thought. If it is possible to cancel entire nations as a class, as a historical phenomenon, the assassination of statesmen certainly fits into this logic.

Nazism, which was quite democratic by Western standards, first burned books in the squares, banned dissent and then took up exterminating people in gas chambers. This is the same philosophy. This school of thought justifies the cancellation of the native language, the cancellation of those who oppose the cancellation of the native language, the cancellation of the defence of one’s own values if they don’t fit into the current environment of scoundrels of every hue hiding behind the banner of neo-liberalism.

Incidentally we never found a question mark in the title of the article, despite the newspaper’s statement to the contrary, and we didn’t need the help of a qualified translator for this, which the newspaper recommended. Now that there is a court ruling (surprisingly fast despite the expectations), the conclusion is obvious: both moral and legal limitations to distributing such provocative materials have been lifted in modern Italy.

By the way, Italy’s Criminal Code stipulates a harsh punishment – up to 1.5 years in prison – for insulting the honour and dignity of the Italian president.

In my humble opinion, no one should be insulted, no matter if he or she is the Italian president, an Italian citizen or a citizen of another country. What does liberalism think about that?

Let me give you a hint. Freedom is the opportunity to create and implement worthy and useful things.

Today’s liberalism stems from the opposite ideology, one that glorifies freedom as impunity to commit abominations.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) posted a consolidated list of grain production data for the 2021/2022 season on its website.

The figures provided by experts show that according to the 2021/2022 agricultural year results, the global grain production is expected to reach 2.8 billion tonnes, which is more than in the 2019/2020 season. The grain carryover will amount to a record high of 850 million tonnes (much higher than last year). According to the results of the current agricultural year, the stocks-to-use ratio will amount to 30.5 percent, which is above average as well.

That means there will be more grain in the world.

Now, let's take a look at the trade transaction data. Anticipated grain trade volumes are higher than in the 2019/2020 season at 439.2 million tonnes. Separate data for wheat are available. The physical level of stocks and the volume of trade in this commodity will increase to 192 million tonnes (up by 1.5 percent compared to the previous period). Similar dynamics are anticipated in feed grain and rice production and trade.

Here's why this is important.

Representatives of the West are using every platform, including the UN, to accuse Russia of reducing the amount of grain available on the market through its actions, allegedly throwing a wrench in grain operations which, according to the West, has sent prices for wheat and other grains up.

In reality, though, there’s more grain on the market than in previous years, and trade is up as well.

It turns out that the price (which is growing, indeed) is not growing because of Russia's actions. The cause of that is a separate matter, and experts are coming up with different explanations.

However, general conclusions can be drawn:
1. Systematic errors made by the West when making forecasts for its agricultural policy.
2. Global inflation caused by short-sighted financial and monetary mechanisms that the West used during the pandemic.
3. The ill-conceived transition of Europe and North America to green energy based on the forced introduction of bio fuel technologies.
4. Illegitimate sanctions that have disrupted the established commodity-money chains.

With regard to whether famine is a realistic scenario, experts increasingly foresee a pessimistic outcome. They believe that many nations will be impacted and even more will become destitute.

The Western regimes that instigate and cause destruction should be blamed for that.

💬 #Opinion by Maria #Zakharova:

News about Berlin's ongoing pressure on the Telegram messenger app has been leaked to Der Spiegel. According to the information obtained by the magazine, the German criminal police forced the company to hand over users’ personal data under various vague pretexts, as well as to block channels at the request of law enforcement agencies.

I must say that the Germans have been putting up pressure on Telegram for a long time.

👉 https://telegra.ph/Opinion-by-Maria-Zakharova-06-23

And now this “no pressure” has forced the company's management to enter into a nexus dialogue with the German police. Regular consultations are held, and, according to Der Spiegel, the head of Telegram attends them “wearing a hoodie.” As a result, the Germans have forced the messenger app to leak user data to them.

What hypocrites! If you read the coalition agreement between the German parties on forming the government – the main document defining Germany’s internal politics for the next five years – the protection of personal data is high on the government agenda. It says, we promote anonymisation methods, establish legal stability through formalised standards and introduce criminal liability for illegal deanonymisation. The Germans have voted for this believing their government would uphold their rights to privacy and freedom. In reality though, the German justice and law enforcement agencies are giving their citizens less and less freedom online, reinstating the worst traditions of the “police state” (Polizeistaat).

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

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💬 The British establishment never tires of preparing for a nuclear apocalypse and inventing non-existent Russian statements on this matter. This is convenient topic is designed to divert attention away from the internal political collapse of the British monarchy in the context of endless conspiracies, crises, and corruption scandals. British Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey claims that Russia may use "tactical nuclear weapons" during its special operation in Ukraine. British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace promised our pranksters Vovan and Lexus (though he thought he was talking to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal) to discuss the creation of Ukraine's nuclear missile programme. Our favourite, Liz Truss, could not but rise to the occasion, talking about a potential conflict between Russia and NATO, to which even Russian President Vladimir Putin had to respond.

Someone may think that all of this is a new invention, that only recently has London started frightening everyone with the Russian threat. But only those who are not well-versed in the history of the subject.

I have a book that is a bibliographic rarity now, but that was almost a bestseller back in its time. It was written by an assistant professor at Lancaster University, Dr. Magnus Clarke, with the catchy title "The Nuclear Destruction of Britain", which went on sale in the early days of 1982. It has been translated into Russian and is now available at the Russian State Library.

The book provides a detailed reconstruction of the outcome of the Soviet Union's nuclear attack on the British Isles. It can be said that they have been preparing for this a long time.

Everything is very precise, from the well-reasoned choice of targets for destruction to the date of the actual attack. The Reds, they say, will hit the monarchy during the Christmas holidays because it is at this time the Kingdom will be most vulnerable.

In fact, the Kingdom is most vulnerable at times when professionals like Boris Johnson, Ben Wallace, and Liz Truss are appointed to the country's key offices. Long live the Queen, Clarke had no idea who would be running his country, otherwise he would have launched what he himself had written.

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The book also contains sober assessments, for which Clarke would definitely be "cancelled" today. However, they are all but forgotten today. For example, he writes in the distant 1980s: "in essence, there has never been any Soviet threat to the West. The creation of NATO was not a response to the Soviet threat. The Soviet "military threat" was an invention of the United States, which from 1946 to the present has harboured a deep suspicion of the USSR, mainly because of its refusal to agree to American plans to "redraw the map of the world" ..."

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The book ends just as paradoxically, if not schizophrenically. Clarke seems to long for a quick nuclear apocalypse (which, by the way, fully explains the choice of the title), claiming that it will benefit the already-ruined Great Britain, and regrets that Britain is not destined to be around to enjoy the post-nuclear economic boom.

The book does contain parts that justify having to read the mental waste of Western propaganda. Clarke writes: "Whatever British estimates there are, they are most likely wrong." An excellent epigraph to the vast majority of such studies.

So what about all the nuclear ash over London, has it managed to scatter over the last 50 years?

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 It’s been fun to watch the government crisis in Britain unfold, with two key ministers resigning yesterday and five other high-ranking but less important politicians resigning shortly after.

The scandal revolves around recent drunken misconduct by former Minister of State for Europe and the Americas Conservative Christopher Pincher. Prime Minister Johnson now stands accused of being fully aware of Pincher's checkered past when he appointed him Deputy Chief Whip of the Conservative Party in parliament.

Many in Britain and elsewhere were shocked.

But those in the know saw it coming.

One of our diplomats who worked in Britain attended as an observer the Conservative Party conventions that traditionally brought together top Tories led by the prime minister. Our diplomat’s eyes were wide with amazement when he returned. The party convention looked more like a drunken frat party. A Russian diplomat is unlikely to be spooked by excessive alcohol consumption, but British party officials didn’t just lose their spatial orientation – it was their human orientation, including sexual, too.

Well-dressed party activists start their mornings with high-end champagne. Then they switch to beer, which they drink in mind-boggling quantities. The parties start later in the afternoon with Tories going around the city emptying the liquor shelves of every bar.

The ruling Conservative Party has created nearly insurmountable economic hardships for ordinary hardworking Britons.

No matter how often they repeat their “Moscow, Kremlin, Putin” mantra, they are unable to distract the public. People know who brought the situation in Britain to the brink of collapse and even the risk of disunion. Some “party.”

Looks like Robbie Williams needs to sit down and write a new hit titled “Party like a Tory.”

This problem is not ours. It’s a British problem. But London is trying to resolve its domestic problems by looking abroad and engaging in anti-Russian activities, provocations in Ukraine, global economic destabilisation, and financial piracy.

P.S. While I was writing this post, Children's Minister Will Quince resigned.

💬 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock:

“The fact that the Russian Foreign Minister spent most of his time during the talks not in the room, but outside it, highlights the fact that the Russian government is not a single millimetre closer to having talks.”

Can you even make any sense out of what she said? Outside what room? Utter nonsense.

The German public should be aware of the fact that their Foreign Minister Annalena is lying to them. Lavrov was among the audience the moment the G20 meeting started and about two hours later he began to hold bilateral talks with his colleagues who attended this forum in a room next door. This is what other ministers did as well, since in-person forums are held exactly for the purpose of holding meetings and having contacts. Otherwise, everyone would have gone online or sent out their speeches.

Or, maybe Baerbock thinks that the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil and other countries also were in the wrong room?

On the other hand, Germans are already beginning to realise who is in power in their country. More than half of the German citizens (58 percent) believe that German Foreign Minister Baerbock should have personally met and held talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial which is taking place on the Indonesian island of Bali. On Friday, Der Spiegel published a survey by Civey pollster to that effect.

Now, the truth about Baerbock. She said this because the G7’s plan to boycott Russia at the G20 failed. Nobody supported the Western regimes. That is why they are fuming now.

Lavrov made his schedule in advance, including in it the G20 meeting and a dinner on behalf of the hosts, as well as numerous bilateral contacts and communication with international media. The materials, photos and videos are available on the Foreign Ministry’s website and on social media. And neither Annalena nor anyone else can change reality with their lies.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 The Danish authorities have adopted a despicable and illegal position on the explosions at Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. The act of sabotage was perpetrated in Denmark’s exclusive economic zone near the island of Bornholm in the early hours of September 26.

First, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod instructed his representatives in New York not to attend a UN Security Council special meeting convened by Russia on September 30, which was supposed to provide a venue to discuss this situation.

Second, in an interview with the media, Mr Kofod explained this move by saying that Russia was allegedly trying to “set the course” for discussing the act of sabotage ... and divert attention from the events in Ukraine. The Danish minister went as far as to accuse Russia of spreading false information about the West’s alleged involvement in blowing up the gas pipelines (!). In addition, he said the government was determined not to let Russia participate in the investigation of the act of sabotage and identifying the culprits.

Well, Mr Kofod, let's get something straight.

1. Russia cited nothing but facts and direct quotes from statements at the top and high levels, indicating that a number of foreign states, primarily the United States, had a motive to destroy the gas pipelines. Nothing but direct speech, quotes and dates.

2. Russia got involved in the discussion of this incident only after member of the European Parliament from Poland and former Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski publicly thanked the United States for what happened to Russian gas pipelines on social media shortly after news of the explosions had become public.

3. Like Denmark, Poland is a NATO member, and NATO forces fully control the maritime zone with the gas pipelines. NATO naval exercises are regularly held there as well. Just a few days after the act of sabotage on the gas pipelines, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin praised US underwater drones’ disruptive capabilities.

4. Analysts and representatives of the establishment in the United States have suggested that US special services may have been involved in this act of sabotage. For example, former Senator Richard Black bluntly stated: “[German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] seems to show very little allegiance or affection for the German people, or concerned for the threat to fiscal stability that they face. Under his leadership, they have cut off natural gas supplies, and I honestly cannot imagine that he would permit the CIA or go along with the CIA destroying the German gas pipelines. I don't think the US would have done it without his concurrence.”

By the way, may I ask Denmark “what kind of course” has Copenhagen set in finding out the truth about the so-called Skripal case? What about Britain, the United States, and the other NATO members, who, in the very first week after the incident, named Russia as the culprit and expelled Russian diplomats as punishment? Did you say anything at the time about Theresa May's groundless statements in the parliament on this matter?

No, all your country did was go along with it.

What about other issues, when accusations against Russia and other countries were pouring like rain, without any evidence? Remind me, what did the West say about the provocation in Douma, Syria, and who did it blame?

By the way, leading Danish international lawyers criticised Kofod's position saying there were no norms of international law that would support removing Russia, as the owner of gas pipelines, from the investigation.

https://t.me/MID_Russia/23378

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

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💬 This article is dedicated to NATO members who have been crying wolf about violations of international law like no one else.

Extract

Throughout the 1990s, Kosovo sought to have its independence recognised internationally, which resulted in an open standoff with the Serbs in 1998-1999, the Kosovo War, unleashed by the militants from the Kosovo Liberation Army, supported and encouraged by the West, including its intelligence services, resulting in multiple civilian casualties. In March 1999, NATO openly interfered in the conflict by bombing Yugoslavia. On June 9, 1999, under an international Military Technical Agreement signed by NATO representatives and the Yugoslav army in Kumanovo, the NATO-led international Kosovo Force (KFOR) was put in charge of the territory.

The next day, the UN Security Council convened for its 4,011th meeting and adopted a binding resolution, known as Resolution 1244, which reaffirmed then Yugoslavia’s territorial integrity, and accordingly Serbia’s, when it became Yugoslavia’s successor in 2006, while also providing for an international civilian and military presence in Kosovo. The resolution also stipulated that the Kosovo crisis must be resolved based on the coordinated principles contained in the annexes to the resolution.

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo’s “parliament” approved a bill unilaterally proclaiming the territory’s independence from Serbia effective as of February 18.

Serbia responded by asking the United Nations on August 15, 2008, to review this step from a legal perspective. On October 8, 2008, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 63/3 in which it called on the International Court of Justice in The Hague to render an advisory opinion on the following question: “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?”

Eighteen months later, on July 22, 2010, the International Court of Justice released its advisory opinion concluding that “the declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on February 17, 2008, did not violate international law” because international law contained no prohibition of declarations of independence, nor did it violate UN Security Council Resolution 1244, since the authors of the “declaration” were not bound by the framework established under Resolution 1244.

Led by the United States, the Western countries welcomed this International Court’s advisory opinion by giving it a broad interpretation as approving secession, despite the fact that UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which the Russian Federation adheres to, among others, remains at the core of the Kosovo settlement and calls for a compromise taking into consideration Belgrade’s interests.

During the proceedings, Washington officially advised the Court to accept the opinion it issued arguing that the territorial integrity principle did not rule out the emergence of new states within the territory of the ones that already existed.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman

Frankly, I do not care who obtained this information and how. I'm interested in London's answer to the following question:

“Did UK Prime Minister Liz Truss send a message to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying “It’s done” immediately after the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion?

Millions of people around the world are now waiting for an official response to this question and they have a right to know what happened to global energy security and what role the Anglo-Saxons played in the terrorist attack.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

💬 What kind of Nazis are they?! (rephrased from the Western media mantra There are no Nazis in Ukraine)

Canada legalised physician-assisted suicides in 2016. The number of people who wish to be euthanised has been growing annually. In all probability, Canada will reach 50,000 such deaths a year – an achievement worthy of a country that took care, gave refuge to the surviving Nazi scum.

I will remind you that the Third Reich with its Aktion T4 programme (Tiergartenstraße-4) was the first state to introduce euthanasia on a mass scale. Apart from racial prejudice, the Nazis proceeded from economic considerations. It was expensive to pay for people requiring treatment. This was a tax burden. According to a document found in the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre in Nazi Germany, 70,273 people were killed under the Tiergartenstraße-4 programme by September 1, 1941. An unknown Nazi clerk noted with chilling pragmatism: “Considering that these patients could live for another 10 years, this is a saving of 885,439,800 Reichsmarks in total.”

Is the motivation of neoliberal Ottawa different from that of the Reich? Judge for yourselves.

According to a recent study by Daily Mail, an increasing number of people resort to euthanasia not because they are suffering from an incurable disease but because they are simply homeless (whose upkeep is a burden for the state) or people with diabetes. Last year, physicians approved a suicide of a young man with diabetes simply because he asked them. Later on, the commission dismissed their decision as unfounded.

Considering that the suicide rate is growing, journalists already believe that Canada is the easiest place in the world for parting with life with the help of doctors. This is how the Spectator puts it in its article “Why is Canada euthanising the poor?”: “Since last year, Canadian law, in all its majesty, has allowed both the rich as well as the poor to kill themselves if they are too poor to continue living with dignity. In fact, the ever-generous Canadian state will even pay for their deaths. What it will not do is spend money to allow them to live instead of killing themselves.”

The abhorrent Nazi interpretation of eugenics was reincarnated in neoliberalism and received an official seal of approval in Canadian law. This is what all the progressives are appealing for today.

I’d like to recall a sentence from the Hippocratic Oath: “Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: “We cannot afford Russia win this war. Otherwise, the US and European interests will be very damaged. It's not a matter of generosity alone. It's not a matter of supporting Ukraine because we love Ukrainian people. It’s in our own interests, and it’s also in the interests of the US as a global player – someone who has to be perceived as a reliable partner, a security provider to the allies.”

💬 Maria Zakharova: This is the first time that a representative of the Western regimes has been so explicit about the nature of current developments. It’s not about love for the Ukrainians, whom the West has practically wiped out. It’s about the United States being eager to maintain its hegemony and preserve its diminishing role in international affairs. There is hardly any trace left of the former constructive approach of the US towards international relations. The liberal democrats can only bring ruin, seeing this skill as a guarantee of domination. As for the EU, its task at this stage is to obediently fetch the ammunition bought with the money of its own citizens, whose opinion has not been asked.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova

Israeli Ambassador to Russia Simona Halperin: Israel expects Russia to condemn Iran’s large-scale missile attack on the country.

💬 Simona, remind me when was the last time that Israel condemned at least one of Kiev’s attacks on Russian regions? You can’t recall that, can you? Neither can I.

What I do recall are routine statements by Israeli officials in support of Zelensky’s actions. The very same criminal and terrorist actions committed by the thugs from Ukraine’s Presidential Office that have for years been killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.

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