Honestly? I feel sorry for these guys who probably did not chose to be there. But I am also extremely relieved that they were stopped and wiped out as their role was to completely encircle Novorussia and then mercilessly crush Resistance. Still, as the Russian poet Voloshin wrote “with all my heart, I pray for these and for the others“. The Saker
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The Twitter account @Novorossiyan has been presenting images of the results of Ukrainian bombing of civilians with the following text
#Ukraine does THIS. Do you think ANYONE should support such obvious bastards?
It is effective. Retweet.
That is some kind of hurt.
I read someplace today that it’s such a disaster that people are saying that pro-Russian officers order them to camp in open fields so that the Grads can zero in on them more easily. There are also reports that the Junta has already started treason proceedings on 3 officers.
It is solemn. But, it was done with ground troops, not the West’s air attack, cruise missiles and over the horizon warfare.
On the Ukie side, most of their commanders fled and the big brass made this decision to put them in jeopardy and then abandoned them there.
But, as a unit, they were ruthless with villages of unprotected civilians, so to hell with them.
If they lived, more innocents would die.
It is best to kill them all and pray for their souls later.
From what we know, the militia did it with some few GRADS and mortars. The Ukies use those, and in larger formations, on civilians. And they continue to do so. By definition, the junta is guilty of war crimes. Plus, cluster bombs and phosphorus bombs.
Now, these scum are killing Russians in their homes across the border.
So, while this is a solemn killing field, good riddance to a menace led by psychopathic criminals and paid by demonic global ghouls who carry Noble Peace Prizes and other ‘honors’.
Teach your children from this scene. Teach them well.
Choose sides people. Because the old way is over. I’m an American, I fully support the Russian Federation. If NATO wants to fight Vietnam 2 in Ukraine, let them come. If Europe wants to burn and fracture, let them learn how to understand. Ukraine will bring America to its knees.
This is the 72nd mechanised brigade.
http://twower.livejournal.com/1385555.html
Folks, these were people. Why can’t someone get serious about creating peace instead of war? How about you, Saker? What are you doing to create peace?
— Fed up!
Only the ignoble defeat of the illegal Kiev regime will galvanize Western Ukraine to not send their boys to die for Neo Fascists, crypto Nazis and Israeli oligarchs
http://rt.com/news/175632-shelling-ukraine-donetsk-rostov/
Bear baiting as last resort?
Nice, Truly. Well done. More like this one please. I will say this though, Stalin – haters, How’s that big USA freedomdemocracyfreemarketscapitalist BIG MAC sandwich tasting right about now ? The Soviet Union held a nuclear tipped straight razor to the throats of Britain Germany and France FOR A GOOD REASON. That reason ought to be appearing pretty obvious now. One simply MUST admit, it sure brought out the,polite, intellectual, social-democratic side of those degenerate, warmongering imperialist barbarians didn’t it ? One would think they would be grateful for the 40 awesome years of Peace, prosperity(good jobs), rock and roll, and sporty women they enjoyed as a result of that stability, and the keeping of their own grasping oligarchs in check, and in fear of Revolution… BUT NOOOOOOOOO..not only warmongering savages but ingrates as well.
This is the lady behind ISIS, and behind Israel, and behind Kiev.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtY47X1CYAAYNOT.jpg
Before and after:
http://cs7009.vk.me/c540101/v540101598/1515f/h1H4i-Tq8jk.jpg
After reading this report
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/25/mh17-verdict-real-evidence-points-to-us-kiev-cover-up-of-failed-false-flag-attack/
No doubt remains that the US-Kiev planned this event.
Here is the thing. Just like the Saker said at the beginning, no matter how overwhelming the evidence is, it won’t matter. Russia will somehow be blamed.
And so it is.
It means that the empire has complete control of the critical information over a critical mass of people.
It also means that at this juncture, the only option Russia has is to either look the other way, whistle and then roll over, or else fight.
I am beginning to agree with Larchmonter. The only way to confront the US is with force.
re: vaporized leftovers
Your comment Saker–right on. Please, No hearts of stone, folks, even if terrible deeds must be done. See Ezekiel and Jesus. This is one of the tests of the times
we are in.
I really don’t feel that sorry for them.They may be conscripts or not.But if they didn’t want to fight they should have deserted or surrendered.Unless we destroy them and many,many,more.They will end by killing us.I do think though we need to encourage them more by propaganda to surrender or desert.Tell them to cross into Russia.Tell them if they surrender or desert they will be safe.But that if they don’t they will be killed.Everyone of them surrendering or deserting is one less we have to fight.
Saker, I think you are sick, and many of the people that post on this blog are sick. You’re a bunch of war mongers who enjoy seeing people killed. You do nothing, absolutely NOTHING to bring peace. All you do is try to incite more violence. I thought you were some kind of religious person, Saker! I thought you were getting a theology degree. What does all this killing you support have to do with God. And how the hell can you live in the US and enjoy your lifestyle here while you inflict so much damage on the world. You hypocrit. I think you are CIA. I think you are baiting people into this, so the CIA can identify the real anti-Americans. I think you are seeing how far you can push this theme of hatred. Hatred for everybody. Hatred for the people of Donbass, since you are doing not a darned thing to help save their lives. You CIA warmonger.
I dare you to post this comment.
This will be my third and last War Warning. It is my opinion that the US government believes it can prevail in a war against Russia and is actively pursuing such a war which will include a nuclear first strike by one of the participants at some point. I think it is well to remember that ONE 1.3 megaton nuclear blast at an altitude of ~400 km over Kansas would create an EMP that would destroy every electric grid; every electronic device; and all of the transportation in the US, northern Mexico and southern Canada for months or years. It would not be difficult to do and we could not prevent it.
It is my further opinion that Ukraine shot down MH17 using missile batteries emplaced for the purpose shortly before the event and that Ukraine acted either in collusion or at the direction of the US government. I cannot prove that belief, nor will I attempt to defend it. I merely note that the US is actively and knowingly promoting untrue propaganda as factual information and has been caught and called out. The ‘Nightwatch’ report of 24 July is merely one of many examples: http://www.kforcegov.com/Solutions/IAO/NightWatch.aspx
It is my belief that the US cannot prevail in a nuclear war with Russia or anyone else, regardless of what the Washington establishment believes. ANY nuclear war will be one too many, even if there is no counterstrike. China would immediately grasp that they are next and would act, at minimum, by occupying Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines (or until the nuclear winter obliterated everything).
I do not see how any of this is preventable given that the fiber of society has been and continues to be riven asunder. I shall not delve into that other than to suggest that the citizenry of this country has been generally rendered powerless, even to complain.
The following report was kindly forwarded to me by a colleague. The content did not influence my opinion but it did prompt this email which I have been procrastinating over for two days. Please take the time to look it over as well as the link provided above.
I do not see a conspiracy of intent here – I see an overt, active prelude to an unwinnable war.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/25/mh17-verdict-real-evidence-points-to-us-kiev-cover-up-of-failed-false-flag-attack/
Confirmed!
Odessa massacre “burn-boy” fascist caught in Russia. The story is that this hairy bastard neanderthal was stupid enough to pose as a refugee and entered Russia (hoping to escape getting arrested or conscripted).
This moron is a classic Neanderthal – sloping forehead, huge nose, baby-chin, ape-like brow-ridges and one hairy unshaved bastard.
Now the bastard is getting a daily working over by Russian police and security.
See this video during the massacre where this idiot is repeatedly identified taking part in the violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtF_isWwFo
For those who want peace, they should support the armed forces of the Russian Federation. That is the only force giving us a chance for peace today.
Anonymous 02:29,
Uh, your peacenik pose sorta slipped a bit. And what’s underneath ain’t real clean. Time to go powder your nose, maybe work a bit on your reading comprehension and then re-emerge with a different approach, because this one’s not very alluring.
“This moron is a classic Neanderthal – sloping forehead, huge nose, baby-chin, ape-like brow-ridges and one hairy unshaved bastard.”
Do you have any photo of him?
As for the comments berating Saker to do something for peace. What is he supposed to do? Paint up a little sign and march around in circles in a free-speech cage? Send a telegraph to Poroshenko asking him to desist all armed attacks?
Sooo, the boys have been ordered back to finish their assigned tasks:
KIEV, July 25. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, or parliament, will hold an extraordinary plenary session on July 31 to consider a confidence vote to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who announced his resignation on Thursday.
The decision to this effect was passed on Friday at a meeting between President Pyotr Poroshenko, parliament speaker Alexander Turchinov , Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and leaders of parliamentary factions.
“The extraordinary session is planned to be held in a partially closed regime. The agenda will include a number of issues linked with the investigation of the crash of the Malaysian MH17 plane, for instance, the use of civil police forces,” the presidential website reports.
At today’s meeting, Poroshenko stressed that the collapse of the Verkhovna Rada coalition could not paralyze the work of the parliament and was not a reason for the government resignation. The Ukrainian president said he hoped for further joint work with Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his cabinet, the website said.
Anon 2:29 – Yeah, what about peace? Just how is it that the elite in a few key countries can cause so much mayhem while acting in public as if they are merely promoting democracy and human rights or are innocent bystanders? Who enables such behavior and what can be done about it? The Saker has found his answer it seems to me. What about you?
If the U.S. Senate passes bill 2277…The Russian Aggression Prevention Act…The U.S. Govt will be able to send troops to Ukraine as their ally and bypass NATO…but then NATO would almost be forced to become involved at that point…If Putin is going to intervene in Eastern Ukraine he needs to act before the U.S. Senate passes this bill into law…Once U.S. troops arrive in Ukraine it will be too late for Russia to intervene.
@anonymous 01:42
You can’t talk about peace when somebody is shoveling a gun down your throat. First, the criminals have to be wiped out then we can talk about peace.
The footage is new – I have not seen this before – but this is not the 79th Airmobile Brigade. It is the 24th Mechanized Brigade from Yavoriv in the west of Ukraine. This base near Zelenopillya on the E50 road from Novoshakhtinsk was hit by a GRAD attack on July 11th.
The video is from right after the attack; fires are still burning. It shows some soldiers but does not clearly state who they are. They look very relaxed, even posing for the video. Evidently they are not the wounded remnants of the 24th Brigade. GRAD can hit its targets from 20 km away. I never knew NAF was actually there! Well, this again shows the extremely poor propaganda skills of the pro-Rus’ side. No modern army should go to war without professional photographers and videographers on board. Just look at all the smiling babes ATO found in Slavyansk after they liberated it! Every modern* mobile phone takes extremely good pictures in bright sunlight. Originally we only got four thumbnail quality photographs through Rusvesna. Publishing high quality photographs and video right away would have had a devastating effect on Ukie moral.
Ukraine claims “19 solders” were killed. Other sources say some 200 were killed or wounded. A Ukrainian serviceman on Ukie TV says “4 truckloads” of solders were killed, with nothing but lose limbs left. Make your own judgement.
79th Airborne Brigade was decimated this weeks. Ukrainian media published photos of the destruction of the outpost on July 24th. (example) The damage was of almost equal magnitude; the published photos show one T-64, one BMP, and four trucks destroyed.
(* By “modern” I mean any mobile phone still in use. I still carry around the Nokia 6170 from 2004, but I am not modern. Besides, I would never go out on the field without some semiprofessional photographic gear.)
***
Ukraine noun yü-ˈkrān
The poor boy who killed his mother, hoping the rich family across the street would adopt him.
The events now unfolding in Ukraine could just as well be a short distance away in Poland 1939…
Anglozion has laid the groundwork that establishes the pretext for a catastrophic war with russia.
The thinking people of the ‘west’ (whatever that term at means) who have been monitoring events of the past months understand how this situation has been connected by ruthless maniacs in the US.
The hundreds of miles of underground tunnels, bases and mini-cities constructed in the US have not been created for nothing. There’s plenty of evidence of this available – an easy place to start is with Jesse Ventura’s report.
The US secret elite truly believe that a first strike will neutralize russia and China and that any consequences will only require a few weeks or months underground.
“The Russian government has finally realized that it has no Western “partners,” and is complaining bitterly about the propagandistic lies and disinformation issued without any evidence whatsoever against the Russian government by Washington, its European vassals, and presstitute media.”
See here for the rest – http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/25/russia-humanity-future-paul-craig-roberts/
If Putin/Russia (China also) don’t wake up immediately then they can expect to be 1. Attacked militarily 2. Overthrown by internal strife ginned up by US backed ‘NGOs’ and 3. The leaders (ie Mr Putin) put on trial as war criminals and executed.
If they think it can’t happen then all they need recall is Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc.
Time for trying to appease the sold out Europeans has probably come to an end…
Very sad to see all these pathetic trolls with their disgusting “concern” for peace. Earlier they were so afraid that Putin had given up on the fight, and urged massive cowboy adventurism. Anything to muddy the waters – difficult here because the sky shines so brightly.
Propaganda is everywhere now, and Andre Vltchek’s latest essay has something wonderful to say about this (my emphasis):
The New Cold War: MH17 – Sacrificed Airliner
“…these three disobedient parts of the world [i.e. Russia, China, Latin America], three cohorts – are now getting closer and closer together, forging an as yet undefined alliance, but an alliance nevertheless, increasing cooperation, signing treaties, creating alternative organizations, and saying “No!” to the world order. And more countries are looking at all this with hope; more are joining the club of the free. Not absolutely free, but free from Western colonial terror, which is now perhaps the worst kind of terror that exists on this planet
[…]
“To fight these dissident nations openly, to do it on ideological or moral grounds, is impossible. They would most certainly not lose! By now it should be too obvious, it should be too clear who is on the ‘right and wrong sides of history’.
“Therefore, the “smear” is the only way for the Empire to advance its destructive cause. Or at least it is the most effective way. The good old way of discrediting one’s enemy, was by dragging him through filth, by turning his achievements into failures, his heroic resistance into hideous crimes.”
The point is that the old empire does not dare challenge directly the three billion people already aligned against it in BRICS, with more countries coming on board inevitably. The only weapon it has is treachery and deceit.
Against this, Russia compiles the true record – maybe not to win with today, but already very powerful in the discourse as witnessed around the world outside the empire’s propaganda, diamond-strong as a cleansing basis for true communication and solidarity.
Meanwhile the actual, physical battles of war are being fought well enough – from what I can see, they’re being won at every turn by people whose hearts and minds are not clouded by deceit, treachery, and compromise. How can the forces of the empire win on any level playing field? And when it tilts the field, the world led by Russia is now beginning to record the tilt.
And one day reparation will be made. It has taken Latin America some 20-30 years to be able to begin to punish the evildoers installed by the US in the last century. It won’t take so long this time to punish the criminals in these current events that grip our narrow focus so tightly. I personally believe that Americans and Israelis will in the end not be able to escape paying for their many crimes in the decades to come, as simple criminals, nothing more or less, and deserving of nothing more than a simple grave in the dirt.
Given the tent this had to be a temporary, but stationary encampment [improvised repair station?]. My first impression was that this had to be the result of an airstrike, but with 1 plane… Nah.
As this is filmed right after the initial attack/ambush, my question is this; where are the bodies, blood and burned body parts?
One must now assume both Putin and the West have the very worst planned for Ukraine in the immediate future. Russia could end the war tomorrow by liberating Novorussia, and triggering the ‘Czechoslovakia’ solution, but clearly (by now) chooses not to do so. The West is dedicated to applying the ‘Gaza’ solution to the ethnic Russian regions.
Putin is saying to the monsters that rule the EU/USA/NATO “bring it on”. But it is the people of Novorussia (those that opt to stay) that are going to feel the full brunt of a merciless war by the USA and its mercenary hordes.
Once the EU and USA issue full legal immunity (imminent), every ‘soldier of fortune’ will think Novorussia nothing but a real-life scenario from the computer game “Battlefield 4”.
If Russia feels ‘confident’ because of its superior nuclear forces, and superior nuclear war preparations, it is insane, for the monsters that rule the West do not fear a nuclear confrontation but actually crave it, so long as such a nuclear exchange is ‘full blown’. Current US TV output focuses on the post-apocalyptic (a bit of a cultural clue), and in the last twenty years the West infinitely improved its underground facilities for the elites.
We know fighting an atomic war would be the final act of madness- and the highest monsters (every one a death cult member) crave the unthinkable destruction. But many of the higher-ups controlled by the ultimate elites are mad enough to think a nuclear war ‘winnable’ by the West, and the reduction of the Earth’s population to two billion a highly desirable outcome.
We need to see beyond the phenomenal bravery of the defenders of Novorussia, and perceive the larger picture while Humanity still has time to make a difference.
@Anonymous 1:42,
What do you propose for Saker or anybody to do when the fascists are slaughtering children and elderly people in their own villages?
How do you propose or how do you go about making peace with people who burn others alive in a building? Shell homes where babies, toddlers, elderly people live ?
I am willing to listen to your proposal/ ideas.
Are you contacting your representatives requesting to stop these aberrations against the innocents?
Are you fasting and praying, perhaps?
Give us your proposals. I repeat–I am willing to listen.
@Greived
For the sake of humanity at large and especially all those millions who have suffered at the hands of these tyrants and their collaborators over the decades – I truly hope you are right.
Most western ‘leaders’ – namely the ones that have participated to support the US in the scores of folly – must be brought to account for their misdeeds before the real international community.
I was wondering the same.Where are the bodies?Did they manage to mean a run for it?
The next escalation stage has been entered:
“Some 90 Australian Federal Police (AFP) personnel were dispatched to Britain and Netherlands earlier this week to prepare for deployment to Ukraine. Yesterday, Abbott announced that an additional 100 AFP officers would be sent. An unspecified number of the AFP personnel would be armed and accompanied by armed Australian soldiers…..
The Australian and Dutch-led operation is not about conducting an “independent investigation” or “bringing our people home.” The bodies of most of the dead have already been repatriated to the Netherlands for identification. Both countries have been in the forefront of the US-led campaign of lies and distortions blaming Russia and pro-Russian separatists for the MH17 crash and certainly have a vested interest in excluding evidence that might point to other causes, including the involvement of the Ukrainian military…..
The most sinister aspect of the international security force being prepared for Ukraine is that it provides a stalking horse for a US-led military intervention. The contingent will undoubtedly contain intelligence and other operatives who can be relied on to instigate a provocation to provide the pretext for a much larger armed force.
In comments reported in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, Peter Jennings, executive director of the government-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute, hinted at just such a scenario when he argued that any AFP contingent had to have military back-up. Whatever the make-up, he said, Australia would “have to be prepared to take casualties.” Of course, any casualties would immediately be exploited to mount a ferocious propaganda campaign demanding military action.”
WW3 is just around the corner !
sorry left out the relevant link:
Provocative Australian-Dutch push for security forces at MH17 crash site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/26/mh17-j26.html
REMEMBER ODESSA AND THINK NOTHING OF IT !!!!!!!!!!!
Because there will have to be a lot more where that came from.
@Anonymous 01:56:
Hard-hitting, highly perceptive comment, thanks. As you said, “not only warmongering savages but ingrates as well“. Yes, that sums up Western imbecility and depravity very accurately.
The fact of the matter is that Westerners seriously do believe that Russia (Stalin most notably) owes them endless apologies for “crimes against humanity”, accompanied by their equally deluded sense of entitlement to other peoples’ labour output and natural resources.
Conclusion: Parasitism and gratitude don’t fit together, especially not under the tutelage of the Ziomedia.
Video : Ukraine shells Donetsk as air force grounded
http://newsallthedayeveryhour.blogspot.com/2014/07/video-ukraine-shells-donetsk-as-air.html
Hi Grieved (@26 July, 2014 05:26)
The CounterPunch article you linked to, like every one I’ve read there, is a subtle form of disinformation. They all follow a pattern of detailing a long litany of atrocities without linking them together with any logic so no pattern emerges and no MO either.
There is no larger context given and no interest group(s) is identified nor any motivations given.
In other words, the information leads nowhere though it does leave the reader feeling somewhat vindicated in feeling their outrage but helpless never-the-less.
Vltchek (perhaps sardonically) even quotes another journalist decrying exactly what Vltchek himself is doing! Amazing!
““There is a tendency in the 21st century World of 24-hour rolling news coverage to overemphasize and dramatize individual incidents in a conflict, subjecting them to intense coverage, while at the same time failing to analyze the underlying causes and patterns of conflict. The task of analyses is to focus on the “signal”, not the “noise”, but most modern media do the opposite. It’s also clearly true that powerful global interests seek to control the narrative by staging events to drown out the signal with noise. Some opponents of this strategy seek to create their own “noise”, trying to undermine the dominant narrative. In many instances it is justified, but a focus on the noise rather than signal can be counterproductive.“
Exactly! To convey understanding of a situation, it is incumbent on a competent (and ethical) journalist to describe the facts and quoting reliable sources for them. Assemble them without internal contradictions using logic that is plain and open and drawing conclusions that are meaningful in a larger context that then point to a solution. Vltchek does not do that and bemoans the lack of solutions and meaning with he himself does not provide.
There’s lots of other counterproductive things he engages in in that article but the above at least should be held in mind when reading at CounterPunch.
It would be worth reading the article again with my points in mind.
My suggested renaming of the article would be “No Name, No Packdrill”
It is easy for us to point to the blatant propaganda aimed at the non-thinkers but we should become very aware at the more artful propaganda that is aimed at us here while we are distracted by the more obvious drivel.
Listen them arround 10:00. “Someone makes bilions and we play soldiers…”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4df_1406364854
Petri Krohn,
Ukraine noun yü-ˈkrān
The poor boy who killed his mother, hoping the rich family across the street would adopt him.
That really says it all. There is nothing that can be added except some summary if anyone besides that rich family cares to make one when this whole thing has spun out.
Also, what are your thoughts on this ISIS/Norway stuff, especially given NATO’s new figurehead?
Good job, separatists! I am an American who totally supports the Novorossiya movement and is ashamed and upset over US policy.I truly wish every day that Russia would just move in and destroy all of them and set the east free! Victory Donbass!
It’s not sick to see evil get its just desserts. I cheer this video. I cheer the slaughter of slaughterers. I also cheer news reports of armed citizens taking down armed thugs.
As to Christian this and that . . . talk to the hand. I’m not in that club, I do my own thinking.
I agree Saker, you never know, could be unemployed jobless youngsters which took this out of desperation. If that was the case to contribute with their death is better than killing kids women and civilian. Pity for their relatives. But is the specialty of the Empire, cousin kill cousin, brother kill brother. Has been shown over and over again (Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan) based on the model “Salvadorean Option”
The fires are burning but there are no bodies. Have these vehicles been destroyed rather than allowing them to be captured? It certainly wasn’t a column on the move. As I understood it, the Ukrainian Parliamentary forces advanced further than they expected and ran out of fuel.
Soarintothesky on another account.
The video is also available on YouTube here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9iCq0k0PEY