Perception is reality. Or so I have been told. I believe in the truth and make decisions based on critical thinking instead of social mandates designed to control us. The above example shows how pitiful their tactics have become and how little credit they give the people to discern the truth. Today is a good day to face reality and discard perception based on shifting sand.

David DeGerolamo

 the empire is doing all it can to start ww3 and this article presents some of the evidence;

A source in the French intelligence community has claimed that elite special forces from both the UK and the US have been present in Ukraine since the start of hostilities with Russia in late February.

The source reportedly told the French newspaper a Le Figaro last week, that the SAS and Delta Force were in Ukraine and Russia was well aware of the “secret war” being waged against its troops by foreign commandos.

The claim was reported on Saturday by the newspaper’s senior international correspondent Georges Malbrunot. This was the same day that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his surprise visit to Kyiv.

Le Figaro is the oldest national newspaper in France and one of the most respected in the world.

RT reports: The British leader was reportedly surrounded by guards from the elite SAS force, though this claim was not officially confirmed.

SAS units “have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, as did [sic] the American Deltas,” Malbrunot tweeted citing a French intelligence source. He added that according to the source Russia was well aware of the “secret war” waged against its troops by foreign commandos. Le Figaro included his report in their updates on Ukraine.

The UK and the US have been among the most active military supporters of Kyiv. Johnson reportedly personally urged his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to keep on fighting against Russia and not settle for peace until better terms are offered.........read and tweet more......

 i'd like to say i'm surprised but i ain't. its only a matter of time till the ukraine game becomes the third ww;

Americans are directly "in charge" of the war in Ukraine, according to Le Figaro senior international correspondent Georges Malbrunot.

UK special forces are also reportedly on the ground.

The only English coverage of the Le Figaro report I can find is from Fars News Agency, "Report: US, UK Conducting 'Secret War' in Ukraine":

Elite special forces from the UK and the US have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of hostilities with Russia in late February, a source in the French intelligence community reportedly told Le Figaro.

The claim was reported by the newspaper's senior international correspondent Georges Malbrunot on Saturday, the day when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his surprise visit to Kiev. The British leader was reportedly surrounded by guards from the elite SAS force, though this claim was not officially confirmed.

SAS units "have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, as did [sic] the American Deltas", Malbrunot tweeted citing a French intelligence source. He added that according to the source Russia was well aware of the "secret war" waged against its troops by foreign commandos..........read and tweet more.......

 pcr presents his current thoughts on the ukraine game;

Ukraine Update #10

Paul Craig Roberts

No useful information about Ukraine can be obtained from Western media. The Russian military operates without the need of news releases, so little information is provided.

Last week Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, “Of course they [Ukraine] can win this. The proof is literally in the outcomes that you’re seeing everyday.” Kirby must get his information from CNN. I don’t know of any battles the Ukrainians have won. I don’t know of any Ukrainian forces that are not surrounded and trapped, cut off from supplies. There are no offensive actions being conducted by Ukrainian military or Azov militia. Ukrainian military infrastructure and command and control systems have been destroyed. When the West delivers weapons, the weapons are destroyed on arrival as was the S-300 air defense system from Slovakia.

The Kremlin appointed a new commander of the operation, and the change in command has been presented by the Western media as an attempt to free Russian forces from a stalemate.
As there is no stalemate, the commander might have been replaced because of objection to the restricted use of Russian heavy weapons, which have mainly been restricted to the destruction of the Ukrainian military infrastructure. The Kremlin’s strategy means casualties among Russian troops who have to clear the surrounded areas in street fighting. Most generals don’t like this use of troops when heavy weapons can eliminate the opposing force.

It is necessary to understand that there has been no Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops are operating only in eastern and southern Ukraine. The troops served the purpose of preventing a large Ukrainian army, now encircled and trapped, from conquering the two Donbass Russian republics recently recognized by Russia after an eight-year delay. The other task assigned to the Russian troops is to exterminate the neo-Nazi Azov militia that has committed atrocities against the Donbass Russians. The process has gone slowly, because the fighting is mainly in Donbass, which is populated by Russians, and the Kremlin wants to rescue the people, not kill them........read more.......

 this is a summation of where we are and how we got here centered on the empire and russia;

Once again thousands have died, communities have been terrorized and destroyed, and as usual it’s somebody else’s fault. But Karma may be approaching. 

It bears reflection that a long list of countries including Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, and Iran – none of which ever attacked or threatened the US or Europe in any way – have all been ruthlessly sanctioned while the US has never been sanctioned for flagrant attacks on Vietnam, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and innumerable “color revolutions” and regime overthrows by the CIA, JSOC et al, including Iran, Indonesia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Congo and Operation Condor in South America, all in flagrant violation of the UN Charter.  Sanctions are a modern update of siege warfare and as such violate the UN Charter prohibition of “the threat or use of force against the territorial sovereignty or political independence of any state.”  This fundamental treaty document, we should be ashamed to say, was drafted in San Francisco, and its abrogation violates Article VI of the U.S. Constitution that declares our treaties “the supreme law of the land.”  Thus, America, we are a nation of serial dishonor and must look in the mirror before frowning upon any aggression abroad.  The current one in particular.

Some Ukrainians in WWII fought with the Nazis, collaborated in the regional Holocaust, and afterwards have been maintained and supported by the CIA initially as part of Operation Gladio.  The Bush-Gorbachev agreement in 1991 permitting reunification of Germany upon assurance that NATO would move no closer to Russia has been repeatedly violated by the West, admitting three new states in 1999 and another seven in 2004, with NATO announcing its intention in 2008 to bring in both Georgia and Ukraine right up to Russia’s borders. This would be comparable to Russian or Chinese bases in Quebec or Baja California, and a vastly greater existential  threat to Russia than the Cuban Missile Crisis was to us. Russia swatted down Georgia’s attempted invasion through South Ossetia later that year.

In 2014 US-backed neo-Nazis overthrew the elected East-West neutral Yanukovich Ukrainian gov’t at a cost of $5 billion over about a decade as publicly boasted by arch-neocon Victoria Nuland, including installation of her hand-picked, pro-Western successor as she distributed cookies to Nazis in the Maidan.  This exposes Russia’s 1200-mile border with Ukraine to unrestrained NATO border threats and opened a gold-rush for Ukrainian resources including gold prospector Hunter Biden.  Putin has been watching this with alarm as neo-Nazi paramilitary units (e.g., Right Sector, Azov Battalion) have been shelling, terrorizing and ethnic-cleansing Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Russian nationals in the Donbass for 8 years, killing at least 14,000 to date.  Having lost an estimated 27 million Russian citizens to the Nazis while winning WWII in Europe, how must Russians feel about seeing Nazis again at their doorstep flying swastika-bearing battle flags?

Through a growing alliance with China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and extensive bilateral trade in their own currencies, Putin finally feels strong enough to put a stop to it.  China immediately inked a contract for massive grain purchases from Russia, and can buy all the oil Russia wants to sell supplied cheaply through pipelines.  SCO member India has declined to censure Russia.  Russia has announced the ruble is now gold-based (as had Ghadafi for an African development bank to wrest control of Africa from the IMF but without the muscle to protect his country from US/NATO fury).  Iran was provisionally accepted into the SCO last September, which will close the geographic circle giving all of Eurasia to the SCO – the crown jewel of Brzezinski’s global chessboard – excepting Afghanistan in the middle, which was one of several motives for our illegal invasion and occupation. It may now be free to join the club which represents 40% of the world’s population with a land mass dwarfing the North Atlantic imperium.  The petrodollar is now facing serious threat as the world’s reserve currency.

The two Donbass states requested annexation by Russia along with Crimea, which Putin declined.  As late Princeton and NYU Russian scholar Stephen Cohen observed, Putin is not interested in more pensions to pay.  War is horrible, but this didn’t just begin with Russian invasion. It began 8 years ago following the Nuland-orchestrated coup with violent and sadistic Neonazi attacks against the Donbass (see 2016 French documentary film, “Donbass”). Their elimination is one of Putin’s primary objectives along with NATO guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO and will resume the Minsk accords, both of which the Trump and Biden administrations have steadfastly refused.

The US/NATO cabal has forced this on Russia, with the more realistic DOD now trying to put brakes on the fanatic neoconservative Blinken-Nuland State Dept. Strong hints of a false flag bioweapons attack blamed on Russia may be looming to justify NATO intervention, which would produce a precariously dangerous situation. To deter the worst outcome, Americans must first be honest and knowledgeable about who has brought this about.  As Putin stated in his speech, we have backed him into a corner.  And as Sun Tzu advised in “The Art of War,” always leave the enemy a path of escape or they’ll bite and claw you to the bitter, bloody death.

East and West are poised for divorce and resumption of the Cold War, and I doubt the West will come out ahead this time.....https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-apology-prediction-world-power-shift/5777104

 i think that the empire had set up the ukraine/russia gambit in such a way that either way putin went it would be a challenge for the russians. now the question becomes whether putin can pull it off and defeat the empire;

In America’s secret 2006 change-over to now planning to use its nuclear weapons in order to blitz-attack Russia so fast that Russia’s retaliatory weapons would be destroyed and disabled within just five minutes or even less, “M.A.D.” became replaced, in U.S. planning, by “Nuclear Primacy” — the plan to attain ultimately that extreme degree of nuclear supremacy so as to then blitz-invade and, basically, just annihilate, Russia.

Putin was fooled by Obama, and therefore he was almost totally unprepared for Obama’s February 2014 coup (run by Victoria Nuland) that grabbed Ukraine, whose nearest border to Moscow is within just a five-minute missile-striking distance from hitting the Kremlin — beheading “The Bear.”

The intended future from this is, of course, a world in which the U.S. Government will be the dictator to ALL countries, and the castrated United Nations that U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s Administration shaped, will become totally replaced by whatever America’s aristocracy — the billionaires who effectively own all successful U.S. national politicians and thereby control that Government — want.

It will be like a vast corporation, that’s controlled by its top few stockholders. This will be the world that coming generations will be living in, unless the main countries that are trying to prevent that — Russia and China in particular — will, somehow, become enabled to reverse the direction that the world now seems to be hurtling into (regardless of what the publics everywhere might want).

Our descendants will, now, likely be experiencing that world. This is what is actually now at stake, for everybody, and especially for their descendants. It is at stake now in Ukraine, and, sadly, everywhere. The future is at stake there, for everywhere.........read more.......