IDF confirms to Wolf Blitzer that they hit Jabalia refugee camp k*lling and injuring hundreds of civilians.
"IDF confirms to Wolf Blitzer that they hit Jabalia refugee camp k*lling and injuring hundreds of civilians".
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Col Douglas Macgregor - "Israel has LOST no matter what they do! WW3 is HERE!
"Colonel Douglas Macgregor delivers a provocative and concerning message about the ongoing situation in Israel, with a strong assertion that Israel has reached a critical turning point, irrespective of its actions. Macgregor's declaration that "Israel has LOST" underscores the gravity of the situation and raises questions about the future of the region. His warning that "WW3 is HERE!" adds a sense of imminent global crisis to the discussion. Macgregor's words will undoubtedly stimulate intense debate and reflection on the complex dynamics of the Middle East and their potential repercussions on a global scale. This statement serves as a stark reminder of the ongoing geopolitical challenges faced by nations in the region and around the world".
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🔥"“Genocide”: Top U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber Resigns, Denounces Israeli Assault on Gaza"🔥.
"A former top United Nations official in New York joins us for an in-depth interview about why he has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. His resignation letter has gone viral. In one of his first interviews since leaving his post, Mokhiber tells Democracy Now! the U.N. follows a "different set of rules" when addressing Israel's violations of international law, refusing to utilize its enforcement mechanisms and thus "effectively" acting as "a smokescreen behind which we have seen further and worsening dispossession of Palestinians." He says it is an "open secret inside the halls of the United Nations that the so-called two-state solution is effectively impossible," and calls for international actors to push for a "new paradigm" in the region based on "equality for all." We also discuss the inaction of the International Criminal Court, global suppression of pro-Palestinian advocacy, bad-faith accusations of antisemitism and more". 1/11/2023
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The Israel and Palestine conflit 1917 - 2022.
The Israel and Palestine conflict - by History Basket.
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Israel & Palestine map history every year.
"Israel & Palestine map history every year" - H. Basket. Time frame: 1930 - 2022.
(1 May 2023).
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Ultraorthodox Jews spit towards Christian pilgrims leaving Church of the Flagellation.
Ultraorthodox Jews spit towards Christian pilgrims leaving Church of the Flagellation.
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NATO chief confessing how they rejected Putin peace deal in 2021 before the war in Ukraine started.
Some say that NATO 'wanted' the war in Ukraine. This is NATO chief confessing how they rejected Putin peace deal in 2021 before the war in Ukraine started.
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BREAKING NEWS: HHS Whistleblower Claims US Government Is 'Middleman' In Child Trafficking Operation.
"BREAKING NEWS: HHS Whistleblower Claims US Government Is 'Middleman' In Child Trafficking Operation".
"Tara Lee Rodas, the HHS whistleblower, gives her opening statement on the child migrant crisis to the House Judiciary Committee" - Forbes Breaking News.
(Apr 26, 2023).
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Tim Ballard: Pedophiles 'salivating' at media outlets ripping 'Sound of Freedom'.
Tim Ballard: Pedophiles 'salivating' at media outlets ripping 'Sound of Freedom': Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard reacts to media outlets smearing 'Sound of Freedom' on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.' - Fox News (Jul 12, 2023).
#soundoffreedom
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Hollywood Star Admits Elites Traffic Children For Adrenochrome: ‘Worst Horror I Have Seen’
Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel, who played the role of Jesus in Mel Gibson’s epic Passion of the Christ, has admitted that children are being kidnapped and trafficked by Hollywood elites.
The entertainment industry elite are “raping and murdering” children for adrenochrome, according to Caviezel who addressed the issue of child trafficking in Hollywood during an appearance at the Clay Clark’s Health and Freedom Conference near Tulsa, Oklahoma while promoting his new film.
According to Caviezel, who is currently promoting his new movie Sound of Freedom, Hollywood elites are addicted to adrenochrome and “gut kids alive” to get their fix of the drug which is released as a chemical in the body of terrified children.
Sound of Freedom tells the story of Tim Ballard, a former CIA operative, who quits his job as a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Early reports indicate the film exposes VIP pedophilia and child trafficking.
Caviezel also revealed that Tim Ballard, the author who he portrays in the film, is “down there saving children as we speak, because they’re pulling kids out of the darkest recesses of hell right now, in dumps and all kinds of places. The adrenochroming of children, look…”
Caviezal is a Hollywood veteran, with leading roles in blockbuster films including Pay It Forward, The Thin Red Line, the Count of Monte Cristo, and Frequency. The man clearly knows his way around Hollywood, which is why it is so impressive that he is coming forward and risking his career – and even his life – to expose the evil at the top of the industry.
It’s not the first time Caviezel has exposed the horror of child trafficking by Hollywood elite, describing it as “the worst horror I have ever seen.”
“Essentially, you have adrenaline in your body and when you are scared you produce adrenaline. If you are an athlete in the fourth quarter, you have adrenaline that comes out of you. If a child knows he is going to die, his body will secrete this adrenaline and they have a lot of terms they use, but umm… It’s the worst horror I’ve ever seen. It’s screaming alone, even if I never saw it. These people that do it, there will be no mercy for them.”
Jim Caviezal not the only one who is coming forward and exposing the elites. Mel Gibson, who directed Caviezal in The Passion of the Christ, has also gone on record denouncing Hollywood as a “den of parasites” who “feast on the blood of kids.” - thepeoplesvoice.
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The Hidden War - Documentary on Global Child Trafficking (Presentation).
"THE PEDOPHILE WAR: There is a movement right now to desensitize the world to the sexualization of children. There is a movement to normalize, accept, allow and welcome Pedophilia. It is being taught in mainstream therapy conferences. This is the hidden war against our children.
They are raping 2 year olds and 5 year olds hundreds of times a week. Every year approximately 2 million children are trafficked for rape, torture and sacrifice.
It is a multi billion dollar business that has already surpassed the illegal arms trade and drug trade because unlike a bag of cocaine that can only be sold one time, a child can be sold 5, 10, 20 times a day over and over every year.
Tim Ballard the founder of Operation Underground Railroad which is fighting this hidden war on child trafficking and Pedophilia worked for the CIA for one year and then worked for Homeland Security when he was asked to form a child trafficking task force.
Not able to achieve the results he wanted in order to save the children, he left Homeland Security and formed Operation Underground Railroad which has saved thousands of children and put behind bars thousands of child predators and pedophiles.
The Hidden War is a 4 Part Documentary on Global Child Trafficking that is soon to be released worldwide in 2023. Mel Gibson did the final editing of the Sound of Freedom which portrays Tim Ballard's life in this true story movie that will be released July 4th. Mel Gibson was also involved in the making of The Hidden War.
But this is not only Tim Ballard's war, this is our war, humanities war, this is the final war of good versus evil. The enemy is the Elite Pedophiles who rule our world. This is the war that will define humanity and our future. We must organize, we must expose, we must arrest, we must win this war for the sake of humanity and for the sake of all children on this earth"
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The US also has about 100 nuclear warheads stored across the european continent.
"Explained: Who has nuclear weapons in Europe and where are they? France, Russia and the Uk are the only European countries to have nuclear weapons. But the US also has about 100 nuclear warheads stored across the (european) continent.
The West has warned that nuclear threats by Vladimir Putin should be taken seriously but that they will not be intimated with NATO allies scheduled to carry out a joint nuclear deterrence exercise next month.
The Russian President has said he is willing to use "all means available" to protect Russian territories, including the four parts of Ukraine that were illegally annexed earlier this month following sham referendums.
In Europe, the threat is deemed "serious" by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
"And at the same time, as with any of his quotes, we're not being blackmailed by what he says. We have a very clear stance on how we want to proceed," she stressed last week.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia owns 5,977 nuclear warheads — the highest tally in the world although about 1,500 are retired warheads awaiting dismantlement.
Some 1,588 are deployed which means they have been placed on missiles or are located on bases with operational forces.
In Europe, France and the UK are the only countries with nuclear weapons. Together they are estimated to have 515 nuclear warheads, of which 400 are deployed, according to SIPRI.
The US also has an estimated 100 nuclear warheads stored across Europe on air bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey, according to the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. These are among the 5,428 nuclear warheads the US owns, of which 3,708 are operational, with the rest meant to be dismantled.
NATO will next week proceed with its annual week-long nuclear deterrence "Steadfast Noon" joint exercises despite the Russian threats with Julianne Smith, the US ambassador to NATO stressing that "it is not in response to what's happening in Ukraine."
"Nuclear deterrence is a key feature of NATO's defence and deterrence posture. As such, the allies do conduct these types of exercises on a regular basis. And so this is not out of cycle."
"This is something that NATO would be doing irrespective of what's happening on the ground inside Ukraine," - Euronews (13/10/2022).
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19-second video of Zelensky goes viral. See what was edited out.
(Mar 2, 2023).
"A viral video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky takes his remarks out of context to wrongly make it sound like he demanded that Americans send their sons and daughters to fight in the war in Ukraine. CNN's Daniel Dale breaks down why the dramatic excerpt is not what it seems" - CNN News.
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Ever Heard of Petrodollars?
"Why they may in fact be the real cause of the wars we've seen in the last 30 years and not what we are being told! 🤔
Yesterday I came across a very interesting trailer on a book entitled "The Colder War" by Marin Katusa (which was published 7 years ago in 2014!) that breaks down the why behind all the seeming aggression by the USA against regimes like Ghadaffi and Saddam Hussein.
Yes both were dictators and the latter had some terrible human rights atrocities against him (gassing the Kurds), but was he worse than others we know?
Well, these petrodollars are the bigger deal at play. And in four minutes, you'll get the gist of why the establishment must protect this status quo at all costs and if it means going to war with Russia, then this may be it!
This video gives some serious food for thought!
PS: Just don't buy wholesale anything you see on mainstream media. That's my advice and hence why I am neutral.
I mean, here is a book and documentary from 7 years ago that pretty much nails it and explains where we are today.
Though the video is too short to state it, the Petrodollar is a brainchild of the Council on Foreign Relations - a very powerful shadow organization that ensures it protects the interests of the USA when it comes to ensuring it's dominance as a world superpower.
As such, I'd rather wait and see. Time always brings out the truth when it no longer matters.
The truth is always the first casualty of war, and I am of the view that there is a lot of information that both sides of this Russia Ukraine war aren't letting out 🤔" - Rev. Walter Mwambazi.
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Ukraine: New media law sparks division.
"Some say Ukraine's new media law will combat Russian disinformation, others denounce an affront to freedom of the press.
A new Ukrainian media law expanding the powers of the nation’s media regulator has sparked a heated debate. Some say it will combat Russian disinformation, others denounce it as censorship.
The law “On Media”- first presented by President Zelenskyy in 2019 - came into force on 31 March. Ukraine’s media standards previously revolved around six media laws which have remained largely unreformed since 1991. Media reform is a key requirement which Ukraine must fulfil as an official EU candidate state.
What does the bill do?
The decree imposes stringent transparency standards, pushing media outlets to disclose clear information on their stakeholders and owners.
“This is a positive move towards limiting the influence of stakeholders and owners on editorial independence,” Marianna Perebenesiuk, Ukraine project lead for Reporters Sans Frontières, told Euronews.
Lawmakers have also claimed the bill will facilitate the battle against Russian disinformation.
The regulator also holds the power to block both state-registered and unregistered online media after multiple violation notices. Critics of the measure include international journalists’ unions - such as the European Federation of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists - as well as national unions.
I am doubtful as to how the National Council for Television and Radio will maintain political independence, given that the body has been handed unprecedented powers in the field of media regulation.
Dr. Serhiy Shturkhetskyy
Chairman, Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine
Reception in Ukraine
A month after the law came into effect, is it working as expected?
Dr. Serhiy Shturkhetskyy, chairman of Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine thinks not.
“I am doubtful as to how the National Council for Television and Radio will maintain political independence, given that the body has been handed unprecedented powers in the field of media regulation,” he said in an interview with Euronews.
Half of the members of the state media regulatory body are appointed by the Ukrainian President and the other half by Parliament. The fact that President Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party currently commands a Parliamentary majority has been posited as a further obstacle to the regulator’s independence.
However, certain platforms welcomed the law.
“I am glad that the war did not halt the process of passing the law,” said Galina Petrenko, director of Detector Media, a media watchdog and NGO. Detector Media has moved swiftly to begin registering its activities.
Edging towards European integration
The European Commission welcomed the passing of the law, stating that the reform aligns with the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Ukraine formally applied for membership to the European Union in February 2022, four days after Russia’s full-scale invasion. The nation was granted formal candidate status in June of that year.
European Commission spokesperson, Ana Pisonero Hernandez, told Euronews: “The Council of Europe and Commission provided a series of recommendations to Ukrainian authorities which they took into account - in order to implement progress and ensure the independence of the media regulator.”
Over 282 pages of amendments have been made to the 2019 draft law.
Nevertheless, the Commission also underlined that “some media aspects of the law still need to be addressed”, in order to ensure “economic competitiveness in the media sphere, as well as media freedom and pluralism”.
Opponents of the law denounce the use of European integration as a bargaining chip used to forcefully push through the law.
“If you are against this law, you are presented as being against European integration”, said Dr. Serhiy Shturkhetskyy, chairman of the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine.
He underlined that opposition to the law does not equate to hostility to Europe, adding “much of the media community wishes to join the European community”" - By Estelle Nilsson-Julien & Ilaria Federico - Euronews (03/05/2023).
"Ukraine: IFJ calls on the government to revise new media law:
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a controversial bill that expands the government's power to control the media, endangering press freedom and media pluralism in the country. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Ukrainian affiliates, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine (IMTUU), in calling on the government to revise the new legislation and to start a broad inclusive dialogue with journalists’ unions and the media sector.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on January 11, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Credit: Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP
Media freedom and pluralism are at stake in Ukraine under the law ‘On Media’, submitted to the Parliament in 2020 and approved on 13 December 2022, which increases government control of information. The law empowers the regulator, the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council, whose members are appointed by the President and the Parliament, with a broader authority over the Ukrainian media landscape.
According to the recently passed legislation, signed in to law by Zelensky on 29 December, the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council will be able to temporarily ban the work of online mass media and demand internet providers block access to online publications without a court hearing, issue binding orders to the editorial offices of media, regulate the work of cable and online television operators, and cancel the registration of print media, among others.
In July 2022 when Ukraine was granted the status of an EU candidate country, the IFJ affiliates, NUJU and IMTUU, together with the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), called on the Ukrainian authorities to bring the draft media legislation in line with European standards of press freedom.
A statement published by NUJU on 13 December warned that freedom of speech was under threat in Ukraine and branded as “excessive” the broader power given to the national regulator. The union said that “the law does not envisage the regulation of the media sphere, but in fact, the establishment of relations of subordination, when the media become under the control of the authorities.”
In a statement issued in early January, IMTUU warned that the law does not contain restrictions on the creation of linear media services by the state, allowing the monopolisation of airwaves with content created exclusively by state-owned media. “This actual state of affairs does not contribute to limiting the political influence of the pro-government political force on the media and contradicts the principle of pluralism, which will create systemic problems with democracy.”
In addition, the union noted that, according to the law, the cancellation of licences and the banning of media activities can take place without a decision of the regulator and the court, which “nullifies the role of the regulator and puts media owners in full political and economic dependence on the personal decisions of the country's president, which will create problems for democracy,” it added.
IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger warned that the law will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression. “We are extremely concerned about the authoritarian drift of the Ukrainian government towards the media and journalists. While the new legislation is intended to implement the European Directive, it could create systemic problems for democracy in Ukraine as it expands state control over the media,”Bellanger stated.
“We are calling on the government to rewrite the law, and open a discussion with journalists’ organisations and the media. There cannot be a democracy without independent journalism,” he added.
The IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in 146 countries".
(12 January 2023)
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Zelensky Rejected in Austria: Lawmakers Walk Out in Middle of Speech.
"Austria’s FPÖ party accuses Zelensky of warmongering and authoritarian tendencies in Ukraine while also saying his appearance in Austrian parliament violates the country’s neutrality stance" - Remix News & Views.
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Courageous journalist confronts Antony Blinken about the NATO expansion.
Courageous journalist confronts about the NATO expansion.
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Zelenskyy on Bakhmut, Putin and the future of Ukraine (Full Interview).
"Journalists from The Associated Press spent two days traveling by train with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he visited the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, which still faces regular shelling from Russian forces, and northern towns in the Sumy region that were liberated shortly after the war began a year ago. Here is Zelenskyy's full interview with AP Executive Editor Julie Pace" (Mar 31, 2023).
Mail Online: "President Zelensky admits he will be under pressure to 'compromise' with Putin if Russian forces take the city of Bakhmut, as Ukrainians start to 'feel tired' after a year of war Zelensky said that losing Bakhmut to Russia would push 'society to feel tired', He warned Putin would use a victory in Bakhmut to 'sell his victory to the West' He also invited China's President to Kyiv after Xi met Putin in Moscow.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned defeat in the battle for Bakhmut would enable Russia to start building international support for a deal that would require his nation to make unacceptable compromises.
Zelensky said if the eastern city of Bakhmut fell to Russian forces after a protracted battle, president Vladimir Putin would 'sell this victory to the West, to his society, to China, to Iran'.
'If he will feel some blood - smell that we are weak - he will push, push, push,' he told the Associated Press, adding that a loss anywhere at this stage in the war could put Ukraine's hard-fought momentum at risk.
'We can't lose the steps because the war is a pie - pieces of victories. Small victories, small steps,' he said.
'Our society will feel tired. Our society will push me to have compromise with them.'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried that a loss in Bakhmut would mean 'our society will feel tired. Our society will push me to have compromise with [Russia]'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried that a loss in Bakhmut would mean 'our society will feel tired. Our society will push me to have compromise with [Russia]'
Some in the West - including former president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump - have questioned whether Washington should continue to supply Ukraine with billions of dollars in military aid and Zelensky worries the war could be impacted by shifting political forces in Washington. 'The United States really understands that if they stop helping us, we will not win,' he said.
The Ukrainian president also extended a diplomatic invitation to China's President Xi Jinping, who just weeks ago met with Putin at the Kremlin for a day of talks, calling him a 'dear friend' and signing a slew of agreements designed to strengthen the Sino-Russian relationship.
'We are ready to see him here,' Zelensky said of Xi.
'I want to speak with him. I had contact with him before full-scale war. But during all this year, more than one year, I didn't have.'
China, economically and politically aligned toward Russia, has provided Putin diplomatic cover by staking out an official position of neutrality in the war.
Xi has been clear about wanting to bring about an end to the war and has proposed a peace plan, but it was dismissed by Ukrainian authorities because it suggested that Kyiv cede territory to Russia to achieve a ceasefire.
While Zelensky acknowledged the war has 'changed us', he said it has made his society stronger.
'It could've gone one way, to divide the country, or another way - to unite us,' he said. 'I'm thankful to everybody - every single partner, our people, thank God, everybody - that we found this way in this critical moment for the nation.
'Finding this way was the thing that saved our nation, and we saved our land. We are together.'
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Scott Ritter: Zelensky Said "If We Lose Bakhmut, I Will End This War !!!".
"Zelensky Said If We Lose Bakhmut, I Will End This War !!!".
🔈 SPEAKER : Scott Ritter - Finance Mail (Apr 4, 2023).
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Putin Suspended the Last Remaining Nuclear Pact With the U.S.
Putin Suspended the Last Remaining Nuclear Pact With the U.S.:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended his nation’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement with the U.S. on Tuesday, condemning the West in a nearly two-hour speech that sharpened tensions over the war in Ukraine.
The announcement, which came a day after President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine, shows how the confrontation between Russia, the U.S., and Europe is approaching a perilous crossroads one year after Putin ordered Russian forces to invade. From the start of of the war, the U.S. and NATO have raised fears about the risks of wider war and sought to avoid escalation even as they provided Ukraine with billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry and military aid. The possible collapse of the last arms control pact between the world’s two nuclear superpowers illustrates how the security situation is growing more precarious, not less, as the war enters its second year despite Russia’s struggles to gain ground in Ukraine.
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Around 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads belong to Moscow and Washington. To remind the world of the high stakes, Putin has continually chosen to rattle his nuclear saber at the U.S. and NATO as they try to pressure him to abandon his military campaign. During Tuesday’s state-of-the-nation address, Putin announced he’s placed strategic missile forces on “combat duty,” while declaring the suspension of the arms-reduction treaty known as New START.
The 2010 agreement limits the U.S. and Russia each to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads—strategic weapons that can be placed on submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and long-range bomber planes. It also includes monitoring and on-site inspection elements to help ensure compliance, which Putin blasted in his speech.
“The United States and NATO are directly saying that their goal is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Are they going to inspect our defense facilities, including the newest ones, as if nothing had happened?” he said. “Do they really think we’re easily going to let them in there just like that?”
Read More: Inside the $100 Billion Mission to Modernize America’s Aging Nuclear Missiles
In announcing that Russia would suspend its participation in the treaty, Putin is ending bilateral communication, data exchanges, and nuclear site visits that give both the U.S. and Russia detailed insights into the day-to-day operations of one another’s strategic nuclear forces. The U.S. can continue to collect information on Russia’s nukes via “national technical means,” including orbiting spy satellites and other intelligence-gathering measures, but these procedures pale in comparison to New START’s monitoring and verification regime. Putin also declared Russia is ready to resume nuclear-weapons tests should the U.S. carry one out first—something that hasn’t been done in more than 30 years.
Olga Oliker, the International Crisis Group’s director for Europe and Central Asia, says Putin is trying to force the U.S. to choose between supporting Ukraine and maintaining a key nuclear-arms agreement. “Arms control, however, is not a prize for the U.S., but something that is very much in both Russia’s and the U.S.’s interest, and in the interests of the world as a whole,” Oliker says. Putin’s choice of “suspending” the treaty, rather than “withdrawing” from it, may indicate “that he plans for Russia’s arsenal to stay under treaty limits,” she says.
It would take time for Russia to increase its deployed nuclear warheads beyond current limits, and both the U.S. and Russia already have more than enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over, anyway. But Putin’s declaration is a blow to the stability of global security, says Rose Gottemoeller, a retired U.S. diplomat who served as chief negotiator for New START. “If all limits go away, we will be on the cusp of a nuclear arms race,” she says. “Nobody—not the Russians, nor Chinese, nor any other country—should be interested in that outcome.”
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New START is the last remaining legacy of international arms-control agreements hammered out during the Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet Union identified certain weapons deemed mutually menacing and worked to eliminate the threat. Before that, the two sides would manipulate each other’s nightmares of nuclear annihilation in order to maneuver for advantage in times of relative peace, amassing tens of thousands of nuclear arms pointed at one another’s major cities.
The treaties helped support an uneasy peace that has gradually unraveled, casting the stability of the global nuclear balance in doubt. Several Cold War-era arms control agreements have been torn up, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019. U.S. President Joe Biden and Putin agreed to extend New START for five years just days after Biden took office in 2021, but its future looks bleak.
During a visit to Greece, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the speech “really unfortunate and very irresponsible.” Added Blinken: “We’ll be watching carefully to see what Russia actually does.”
Read more: Why NATO is Giving Ukraine Air Defense Systems, Not Fighter Jets
Even though Putin officially declared the treaty’s suspension Tuesday, the U.S. believes he’s just publicly declaring a policy that his government has been carrying out in private for more than two years. The State Department said on Jan. 31 that Moscow is in “noncompliance” with the treaty because inspections have been suspended since March 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the U.S. has been unable to get Russia to resume them. Therefore, the U.S. can’t determine whether Russia’s warhead numbers are accurate. The agreement also includes what’s called a Bilateral Consultative Commission, which is designed for the two nations to discuss treaty implementation. Moscow has refused to meet since October 2021.
While Putin’s announcement doesn’t necessarily mark the end of the treaty, arms-control experts agree that it may foreshadow its ultimate demise. It seems unlikely there will be a follow-on agreement when New START expires on Feb. 5, 2026. That would leave the nuclear stockpiles for both the U.S. and Russia unrestrained for the first time since 1972.
“Arms control reflects the status of the relationship,” says Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva. “The goal is, in my view, to show that Russia is not planning to seek improvement. I don’t think it will build beyond the limits. It can deploy more warheads, but that will have no practical value… Besides, everyone will suspect it of doing it anyway.” - Time, By W.J. Hennigan
February 21, 2023
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Douglas Macgregor: Russia Alerted Ukraine Longback !!!
Douglas Macgregor: Russia Alerted Ukraine Longback !!!
(Feb 25, 2023).
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