Ukraine: Putin, the Pope, and Wayne Gretzky
Larry Romanoff • February 28, 2022
I made that comment to myself after reading thousands (and I don’t exaggerate; I mean thousands) of articles in all the Western world’s media about Kamila Valieva and Russia at the Olympics. But I’d hardly gotten the words out of my mouth when Kamila fell to second place, replaced by Vladimir Putin and Russia (again).
For background, I generally peruse 30 or more publications each day, in 15 or 20 countries, to learn what different countries are saying on important topics, and I save all webpages with useful content. With these Western attacks on Russia, I stopped. I’ve been doing this for many years, but in this case I could no longer stomach the rubbish I was reading, and I quit.
The intensity of the attacks on Russia are breath-taking. The false and twisted reports are finding new highs of dishonesty, and the range of items assembled to “punish” Russia would have been beyond the limits of my imagination only a week ago. Looking at the entire landscape, it is obvious this is all being tightly orchestrated from a central source, the usual suspects who benefit most from all wars, but it is astonishing to see how wildly they are grasping and how useless many of their actions must be. There seems almost a desperation to inflict pain, no matter how trivial, and to give the impression of an international consensus of inflicting pain. Some of the Western actions are serious, some almost comical, and others absolutely ridiculous. I have attempted here to give you a small sample of what I have collected. The main thread through all of it is the intensity of the attacks and the lies being told.
On
the serious side, Switzerland, of all countries, suddenly abandoned its
history of neutrality to claim it will impose “EU-like” sanctions on
Russia, which means freezing or seizing all Russian bank accounts in the
country. That is almost unbelievable. How could such a thing happen?
Who put what kind of pressure on the Swiss government to effect this?[1]
Everyone is joining in. The UK now “fast-tracks law to
tackle Russian ‘dirty money'”, the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel
claiming, “Time is up for Putin’s cronies hiding dirty money in the UK”,
and Boris Johnson stating “there will be nowhere to hide your
ill-gotten gains.”[2]
No evidence the gains are ill-gotten, but it seems none
is necessary. The West appears unanimous in wanting to simply seize all
assets owned by Russia or Russians, having convinced itself that laws no
longer apply, that to punish disobedience you simply steal all of
another’s property and bankrupt him.
Roman Abramovich is having to turn the Chelsea club over to a custodian for fear it will be confiscated, and the UK media are mostly screaming to have his $200 million house confiscated as well, simply for the crime of being Russian.
We
have headlines telling us that all world leaders are determined to fight
Russia on these (financial) fronts because, even after another wave of
sanctions, many Putin associates “still remain untouched”. These people
have stated a determination to find and seize all assets belonging to
anyone who agrees with Putin on anything, his friends, colleagues,
business associates, family, everyone. They have already seized all the
assets of Russia’s Central Bank that are in the EU, which is about half
of all Russia’s foreign currency and gold reserves.[3]
[4]
There is no law to support this; sovereign funds are
untouchable. Unless you are a Western fascist criminal cabal
masquerading as a “democracy.”
The
UK Guardian has changed character from a newspaper to a disgusting
hate-mongering trash bin with sometimes as many as 20 or 25 articles on
Russia in one day that are almost breath-taking in their abysmal
dishonesty. I would never have imagined such a thing. “It’s
stomach-turning”, the Guardian tells us,[5]
of the mothers and babies taking shelter as Russian
invasion claims lives of ‘up to’ ten children.” Well, where the hell was
the Guardian when Madeline Albright was ‘claiming the lives’ of half a
million infants in Iraq? Where was the Guardian when the photos surfaced
of the tens of thousands of hideously-deformed babies born in Iraq from
the depleted uranium?
Many
of the Western media tried to present photo evidence of “Thousands of
Ukrainians rushing towards Polish border”, and “thousands of vehicles
packed with Ukrainian refugees trying to flee”. Where were they when
hundreds of thousands were fleeing portions of Yugoslavia on foot,
including limitless numbers of children? Where were they when millions
were fleeing the genocide in Iraq? The Guardian tells us “More than
360,000 people have fled war in Ukraine”, apparently counted by the UN.[6]
If this is true, why wasn’t the UN counting the refugees in all the US-instigated wars of recent past?
Then we had Reuters tearfully relating how Ukraine’s hospitals are all running out of medical oxygen,[7]
a bit surprising after only two days and with the
Russian military nowhere near the large cities. But where are Reuters
when even today Iran has a shortage of not only medical oxygen but of
almost everything medical, from no cash due to Western ‘sanctions’?
Also, courtesy of the BBC, we have “Powerful pictures of Ukrainians’ lives turned upside down by war”,[8]
and photos of “Ukrainians under fire”.[9]
Again, why didn’t we have pictures of lives in Iraq and
Libya “turned upside down by war”? Why not for Yugoslavia and Syria and
Yemen? Why not for Venezuela today? Why not some photos of the effects
of 60 years of brutal sanctions on Cuba?
The BBC told us tearfully of the “miles of queues to flee the invasion” of Ukraine.[10]
Well, where were the BBC and their tears to tell us of
the millions (rather than hundreds) of Iraqis fleeing their country?
Where was the BBC when we needed to know of the millions of refugees and
the horrific ethnic cleansing that went on in what was Yugoslavia?
Similarly, the BBC has a refugee “tearfully describe why she fled
Ukraine”.[11]
Where were the BBC reporters to interview some of the
millions fleeing Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and so many others?
Would the BBC, “the most trusted news source in the world”. like to shed
a public tear for Julian Assange?
If that isn’t bad enough, even the Pope got into this, with a statement that “Those who wage war in Ukraine ‘forget humanity'”.[12]
This is also without precedent. Who has the influence or
power to instigate such a provocative claim from the Pope? Forgive my
rudeness, but where the hell was this hypocritical SOB when Madeleine
Albright was killing 500,000 Iraqi infants? Where was he when the US was
firing millions of depleted-uranium shells into Iraq? Where was he when
the US was engaged in Serbia with “the most protracted bombing campaign
in the history of the world”? But Russia, wanting to prevent Ukraine
from becoming a nuclear bastion for the US, ten minutes from Moscow, has
no ‘humanity’.
Getting Tough With Putin the Killer
The UK Telegraph boasts that “The West has finally taken the gloves off against Putin, and redeemed our honor”.[13]
Well, good for us. And the Guardian tells us “It is a matter of life and death” that we provide weapons for Ukraine[14]
to make the war last as long as possible (and weaken Russia in preparation for a US declaration of war).
The
London Times concurs that we must “Confront the Warmonger”, and crows
that “the West is at last putting together measures to hurt Putin and
punish Russian aggression.”[15]
That’s nice, but why wasn’t anyone confronting the
warmongers of the US and Israel? Those involved many “life and death”
situations but the media were all silent.
Canada’s
CTV moans that Ukraine is “a humanitarian catastrophe”, with grave
concerns about capacity to replenish food and medicine.[16]
The last figures I saw, indicated several hundred
deaths. If this makes Ukraine “a humanitarian catastrophe”, what would
CTV like to tell us about Palestine? Where was Canada’s CTV when Iran
was so badly hit by US sanctions it still hasn’t the cash even to buy
COVID vaccines, much less basic medical supplies? Same with Venezuela,
another beneficiary of US sanctions. Those countries are genuine
humanitarian catastrophes while Ukraine is nothing. Where are these
people when we need them? Canada’s CTV network is deplorably dishonest,
blinded by some parasitic ideology.
Canada used to be a respectable country; not too many friends, but no enemies, and a reputation for integrity. Courtesy of recent psychopathic Zionists and pedophiles in its leadership, Canada now has no friends, plenty of serious enemies, a bad and worsening reputation, and has become a directionless US puppet-state with a mouth as large as that of Australia’s and a collective brain the size of a walnut. Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is not only painfully unintelligent but can be astonishingly stupid and gives a rather good imitation of a coward. To say nothing of beating the US at its own game of turning his country into the first genuine fascist state. It is unbelievable to me that neither Canada’s Trudeau nor Australia’s Morrison are able to look at Ukraine today and realise how dispensable they are. Both shoot off their mouths, taunting major nuclear powers – just as Ukraine did – and neither can see how freely their Washington puppet-master abandons its puppets when the going gets rough.
Canada is supporting, and even eagerly pushing, the elimination of Russia from Swift[17]
– as if the powers causing all this cared what Canada
thinks. Talk about a delusional intellectual midget punching above his
weight while hiding behind someone he believes will protect him. But
Trudeau will “punish” Russia by asking Canadian liquor stores to ban
Russian vodka. A statesman, if I ever saw one. But it gets much better:
Canada’s truly delusional, and almost certainly psychopathic, Foreign
Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly, is a real tough chick, who says
“Everything is on the table: Canada will “suffocate” “Russia.[18]
Not only that, she encourages Canadians to “join the Ukrainian foreign legion to fight Russia”.[19]
I want to write something here, but I can’t think of anything to say.
Trudeau
and Canada pride themselves on “Demonstrations in solidarity with
Ukraine”, but Trudeau had no such solidarity with the Freedom Protesters
in Canada against his insane COVID policies and in fact arranged with
the banks to seize the bank accounts of all the protestors.[20]
It seems that protests are good only when someone else is the target.
Australia’s Morrisson is equally as stupid, promising to supply “lethal arms” for Ukraine.[21]
I know this isn’t very nice, but both Canada and
Australia deserve to get nuked. They really do. When you are so small
and have a mouth so big, something bad will happen to you sooner or
later.
There
is much more that the ‘democratic’ West is doing to punish Russia.
Reuters reported a new EU law that will require all firms to check
suppliers for “human rights”.[22]
Sorry, Russia, but you no longer qualify for anything,
hence your exports will hopefully fall to zero. Natural gas supplies may
be protected from this law, at least until Putin shuts the pipeline.
Then we have the Western airlines banning all Russian flights to Western countries,[23]
which makes you wonder what some of these people think
about, if they think at all. The perfectly predictable outcome of these
bans was that Russia immediately retaliated, banning not only foreign
flights but all transit over Russian air space, which means many Western
flights will now be hours and potentially thousands of miles longer,
and quite a bit more expensive.
The
US Administration, no doubt thanks at least in part to Victoria Nuland
the Cookie Monster, the White House now wants “to Make China Pay for
Close Ties to Russia”. Never miss an opportunity to cause yet more
trouble; never fail to pour more fuel on the fire. The WSJ tells us that
“Sanctions and UN debates are aimed in part at making Beijing feel
discomfort . . . and dividing the two.”[24]
“One step, U.S. officials said, is making Beijing feel
pain over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Germany’s der Spiegel agrees
they should do this because “Xi Is, Along with Putin, the Most Dangerous
Man in the World”[25]
In the middle of all this the US even found time to
condemn Pyongyang’s latest missile launch, widening the Axis of Evil
even further.
And we have George Soros telling us Ukraine reminds him of the Siege of Budapest.[26]
It’s not clear why, because during the ‘siege of
Budapest’ Soros was busy taking part in the confiscation of property
from other Jews in Nazi-occupied areas, but claims he has “no sense of
guilt” for what he did. Perhaps he’s planning on confiscating yet more
property in Ukraine when the dust settles. In case you don’t know, Soros
and Madeline Albright “took over” the communications networks of Kosovo
after the US separated it from Serbia. The estimated value was $800 million.
Another bizarre feature of all this is that Israel offered its services as a “mediator” on Ukraine.[27]
Until this, I thought I’d heard everything. The European
Zionist financiers and industrialists who want a Third World War so
badly they can taste it, and who are certainly responsible for both the
geo-political events that have transpired, and for the intense media
flood of Russia hatred, have the nerve to offer one of their own to
screw things up even more. Not only that, Israel proclaimed to the world
(not that anyone was listening) that it remained “neutral” in the
Russia-Ukraine dispute (not that anyone cared). It is my opinion that if
Israel has delusions of becoming a “world power” and begins to stick
its neck out in areas like this, that head is begging to be chopped off.
Canada’s CTV news tells us that “Russia’s billionaires call for peace in Ukraine”.[28]
Well, where were Canada’s billionaires when Iraq and Libya were being trashed? Where were America’s?
Then
we have the Western governments rushing to our protection by blocking
RT and Sputnik News and cancelling their licenses so they will “no
longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war”.[29]
Worse has happened with the Russian News Agencies like
TASS and Ria Novosti, who have been subject to non-stop DDOS and other
attacks in attempts to take them off the air permanently. I guess that’s
good. Nobody wants fake news. Sadly, this news was given to us by the
UK Guardian who are rapidly becoming the most rabid fake-news source of
all.
This
one is important, and I was surprised the article ran, even though it
has its dirty side. The New York Times openly admitted that people
generally are “fed up” with Google and its clever de-platforming and
censoring of both any truth and any contrary narrative, and are turning
to DuckDuckgo.[30]
Of course, the NYT’s version is that it’s only the
“conspiracy theorists” who go there because Google eliminates all those
bad things from its search results. That’s an obvious lie, of course.
Even Bing is infinitely better than Google; for my own writing, Google
appears to have never heard of me, or at least nothing good, while Bing
will produce nearly one million hits and many many pages of listings of
my articles and archives. The Russian Yandex browser is also excellent
for some kinds of things. I would encourage everyone to abandon Google
almost entirely and go to Bing or DuckDuckGo.
Then
we discover that Google has disabled live traffic data in Google Maps,
ostensibly to prevent Russian tanks from navigating the streets of Kiev.[31]
Google said it disabled the maps “for the safety of
local communities . . . after consulting with . . . regional
authorities.” However, “A professor at California’s Middlebury Institute
of International Studies said Google Maps helped him track a “traffic
jam” that was actually Russian movement towards the border hours before
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the attack.”
In fact, Google disabled its functions because Ukraine doesn’t want the world to see photographic evidence that its Nazi troops are embedding themselves on the streets in purely residential districts, using the civilian population as shields and hostages and refusing them permission to leave. More detail below, and there is much evidence in the Russian News Agency reports, if you care to read them.
To
assist Google, we apparently have the Ukrainian government urging
citizens to remove street signs so the Russian tanks won’t know where
they are.[32]
Can you believe this? Russia initiates a military
operation in Ukraine that will involve the cities, but will depend on
Google maps and Ukrainian road signs for their navigation. Small world,
if true.
And
yet more bitter sanctions from all over the world. Siding with Canada,
US state governors want liquor stores to stop selling Russian vodka,[33]
and both UPS and FedEx are halting all shipments to Russia,[34]
which isn’t a bad thing. I believe UPS is famous for
delivering packages, especially those containing electronics, to the CIA
for “additions and amendments” prior to delivery to the now-spy-victim
customer.
Further to this, Google, Facebook and Twitter have dealt a serious financial blow to the Russian state purse by blocking all ad revenue from their platforms to “state-sponsored sources”. This would almost certainly be a killer. No need to remove Russia from the SWIFT banking system when we have these US platforms seizing all Russia’s ad revenue from Facebook.
There
is some good news. The sanctions appear to be having some effect.
Canada’s CTV news tells us that Russians are queuing for cash “as West
targets [Russian] banks over Ukraine”.[35]
They provide no evidence, but fake stories haven’t any evidence.
And
so much more punishment in the wings. For one thing, the International
Judo Federation has suspended Vladimir Putin’s position as Honorary
President.[36]
That has got to hurt. And Formula One will not have a race in Sochi, even though it is claimed to be “the best track in F-1”.[37]
Not only that, but FIFA has banned all matches in Russia, and there can be no flag or anthem for the Russian team.[38]
Russia is quickly being banned from all international
sports; the Olympics are next. Also, the Czechs will boycott all World
Cup matches that involve Russia.[39]
And to end with the most stupid of all, Wayne Gretzky says Russia should be barred from world junior hockey competition.[40]
[41]
It isn’t so much a question of what this man has in his
head: short answer, nothing at all, but who got to him and with what
pressure to make him say something so stupid as this.
When we think of some of the nations, organisations and people who have been co-opted into this frenzied attack on Russia, it begs the question of how this happened. It surely was not an accident. Someone got to these people with an offer they couldn’t refuse. How could the Pope, of all people, have said something so stupid when Putin made so clear he was targeting only military installations and that civilians were in no danger. In my mind, when you read about the immense tragedy of the Catholic Residential Schools in Canada (and the US), and the thousands of dead children, and when you recall the vast number of pedophile claims in all countries against the Catholic church, it seems to me it is the Pope who is “lacking in humanity”, not Putin.
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Some fantastic lies are being fabricated by someone, and then promulgated through the media. In one such, the London Times tells us:
“More
than 400 Russian mercenaries are operating in Kyiv with orders from the
Kremlin to assassinate President Zelensky and his government and
prepare the ground for Moscow to take control, The Times has learnt.[42]
The Wagner Group, a private militia run by one of
President Putin’s closest allies and operating as an arm-length (sic)
branch of the state, flew in mercenaries from Africa five weeks ago on a
mission to decapitate Zelensky’s government in return for a handsome
financial bonus.” No evidence is presented for such an astonishing
assertion, but where was the Times when the US government was employing
Eric Prince and his Blackwater Group to kill a great many influential
people. They were silent. It seems anything is okay if I do it, but evil
if you do it.
You
surely have all heard about the valiant and brave Ukrainian soldiers on
Snake Island. The island was approached by a Russian warship, the
Ukrainian soldiers addressed by the captain to lay down their arms and
prevent certain loss of life because the island would be shelled. These
loyal and patriotic men, almost certainly part of the special Nuland
Brigade, replied “F*** you, Russian warship.” You can’t be much braver
than that. The island was shelled, all the brave men died, and we know
it’s true because the BBC, “the world’s most trusted source of news”,
said so.[43]
And Italy’s Corriere della Sera gave us all the grim
details, even telling us they could hear the sounds on the tape of the
bombs that killed these brave men.[44]
Ukrainian President Zelensky awarded the men post-humous
gold medals for their conduct, and they surely deserved it, being
almost American in their valor and patriotism.[45]
That
was a good story. Too bad it never happened. In fact, the UK Guardian
almost immediately published a story claiming the men “may still be
alive”.[46]
And then the Washington Examiner ran an article stating that Ukraine said the men were alive after all.[47]
But
there was still drama to the story. Those not-so-brave-but-still-smart
non-Americans came very close to dying anyway – under attack from their
own Nazi compatriots who didn’t want them to surrender. According to
TASS,[48]
the Russian warship was attacked by “At least 16
Ukrainian naval boats . . . [when they] were evacuating the Ukrainian
troops who had laid down their arms and surrendered on Snake Island, the
small boats directed by US drones. Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov
said at a briefing that “some of the boats used civilian vessels as
shields”.” “According to Konashenkov, the [Nazi] Ukrainian boats
attacked to take revenge on those who had surrendered and to shift the
blame for the prisoners’ deaths on Russia.” He added further, “As a
result of the naval battles, 16 boats of the Ukrainian Navy were
destroyed. None of the 82 Ukrainian troops from Snake Island were
injured.” The famous audio (now viral) was apparently not genuine.
There are other rather alarming indications of the mental disposition of the Nazis in Ukraine. Putin offered amnesty to all Ukrainian soldiers agreeing to lay down their arms and avoid war and bloodshed, that they would not be harmed and would be permitted to return home to their families. It was also widely reported that any soldiers doing so were to be treated kindly by the Russian troops, that there was no animosity between them. The Nazis apparently were making deliberate efforts to identify and kill any soldiers planning to lay down their arms. There were many such reports from the Donbass areas, but none reported in the Western media.
More
alarmingly, Andriy Moshkalenko, deputy mayor of the city of Lviv,
denounced the Nazis, claiming they arranged “teams of saboteurs”, each
around ten in number, who would paint signs on schools and hospitals,
effectively marking them in Russian military code, to signal them as
targets for bombing or rocket attacks.[49]
This was to discourage the population from weakening.
The schools and hospitals were selected as targets because these were
the main locations where civilians would gather to avoid casualties,
since the Russians would target only military installations.
When Putin said his intention was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, it was these people he had in mind, the same people who had been shelling the Donbass for the past eight years, killing tens of thousands, and the reason the two areas declared independence and asked Russia for protection.
And
two engaging tales of courage and wit, courtesy of typical Ukrainians.
In the first, a Ukrainian woman confronts a Russian soldier and gives
him a package of sunflower seeds, saying to him, “Keep these seeds in
your pocket, when you die they will grow flowers”[50]
The next was equally as cute. A Ukrainian motorist drove
up to a Russian tank that was lost and out of gas, and said to the
occupants, “If you want, I will tow you and take you back to Russia.”[51]
The stories are false, courtesy of Italy’s Corriere
della Sera, no lie about Russia or China too big, too small, or too
ridiculous, to print. Rather like the New York Times.
On
another topic, Italy’s Corriere della Sera (again) tells us, and even
provides a video, purporting to show two Russian soldiers “looting” a
store in Sumy, Ukraine.[52]
It is by no means clear from the video that anything was
actually being stolen, and the soldiers may well have been Ukrainian
rather than Russian. Nevertheless, and I apologise for being repetitive,
but does anyone remember Iraq? That country, between the Tigris and
Euphrates, was the cradle of civilisation, or at least one of them.
Iraq’s museums contained hundreds of thousands of artifacts and relics
from the times of Babylon and Mesopotamia, irreplaceable treasures of a
history millennia old. It is not in dispute that today all of Iraq’s
museums are empty, bone-dry, stripped of every last artifact not only
from museums but from private homes. The US military blamed it on “rogue
soldiers” but that claim is clearly false. They would have no idea of
the importance or value of anything, and my information was that many of
the most valuable pieces ended up in Israel and in the homes of
European Zionist financiers. I would like to know where the Corriere
della Sera was when this was happening. Why is two soldiers taking a
bottle of soda from a convenience store more important than the vast
looting done in Iraq?
You
should also know that most, if not all, of the videos being circulated
about the events in Ukraine are fabricated, many being video clips or
screenshots from video games. Some are photographs from unrelated events
such as the chemical explosion in Tianjin, China, in 2015. But the
Western media promulgated them first and checked later, after they’d
been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.[53]
[54]
[55]
[56]
According to Reuters, they were merely “mis-captioned.”
Lastly,
and this is off-topic, Russia’s Maria Zakharova revealed that Italy,
France, and many other countries possess US nuclear weapons but do not
have access to them, that these nations do not have a nuclear arsenal of
their own, but that these consist of American missiles stationed in
those countries and accessible only by the Americans.[57]
These countries have been made hapless targets, and with no way to escape.
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Notes
[1] https://www.corriere.it/esteri/22_febbraio_27/svizzera-sanzioni-russia-come-ue-rotta-storica-neutralita-00bf2d96-9805-11ec-97aa-535db4de4386.shtml
Switzerland breaks the historic neutrality: announces that it will impose sanctions like the EU
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60549927
UK fast-tracks law to tackle Russian ‘dirty money’
[3] https://www.ft.com/content/526ea75b-5b45-48d8-936d-dcc3cec102d8
Russia’s FX reserves slip from its grasp
[4] https://eadaily.com/en/news/2015/06/18/austria-seizes-russian-government-assets-half-of-russian-foreign-currency-reserves-under-threat
Austria seizes Russian government assets; half of Russian foreign currency reserves under threat
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/children-caught-up-in-ukraine-war
‘It’s stomach-turning’: the children caught up in Ukraine war
[6] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/more-than-360000-people-fled-war-ukraine-so-far-un
More than 360,000 people have fled war in Ukraine, says UN.
[7] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/medical-oxygen-running-out-ukraine-war-rages-who-warns-2022-02-27/
Medical oxygen running out in Ukraine as war rages, WHO warns
[8] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/dqwtziap8e/ukrainians-under-fire
Ukrainians under fire
[9] https://tinyurl.com/yrt5w2tw
Powerful pictures of Ukrainians’ lives turned upside down by war
[10] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60539104
Miles of queues at borders to flee invasion
[11] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60549132
Refugee tearfully describes why she fled Ukraine
[12] https://video.corriere.it/cronaca/messaggio-papa-francesco-contro-guerra-ucraina-chi-fa-dimentica-l-umanita/bc755924-97d4-11ec-97aa-535db4de4386
The Pope’s message against the war in Ukraine: “Those who make it forget humanity”
[13] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/27/west-has-finally-taken-gloves-against-putin-redeemed-honour/
The West has finally taken the gloves off against Putin, and redeemed our honour
[14] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/27/eu-will-provide-weapons-for-ukraine-josep-borrell
It is a matter of life and death. So the EU will provide weapons for Ukraine’s armed forces
[15] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/the-times-view-on-sanctions-against-russia-confronting-a-warmonger-sxt33ngpq
Confronting a Warmonger: The West is at last putting together measures to hurt Putin and punish Russian aggression
[16] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-attack-feb27-2022-1.6366236
Kyiv ‘at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe’ as Russian troops advance, mayor says.
[17] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/eu-russia-swift-sanctions-1.6366084
Canada among countries moving to block Russian access to SWIFT
[18] https://globalnews.ca/news/8649359/russia-ukraine-conflict-canada-response-melanie-joly/
‘Everything on the table’: Joly says Canada will do more to ‘suffocate’ Russia; Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said.
[19] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-up-to-individual-canadians-to-decide-if-they-wish-to-join-the/
Canadians can decide if they wish to join the Ukrainian foreign legion to fight Russia, Joly says
[20] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ukraine-support-demonstrations-rallies-sunday-feb-27-1.6366456
Demonstrations in solidarity with Ukraine held across Canada on Sunday
[21] https://www.rt.com/news/550738-australia-lethal-arms-ukraine/
Australia to fund lethal arms for Ukraine
[22] https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/eu-draft-law-would-require-firms-check-suppliers-human-rights-environmental-2022-02-21/
EU draft law would require firms to check suppliers for human rights, environmental ethics _ Reuters
[23] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60539303
Ukraine invasion: EU shuts airspace to Russian planes
[24] https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-looks-to-make-china-pay-for-close-ties-to-russia-in-ukraine-crisis-11645992755
U.S. Looks to Make China Pay for Close Ties to Russia in Ukraine Crisis
[25] https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-half-century-after-nixon-s-visit-to-china-xi-is-along-with-putin-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-a-6de96bee-8b13-4268-bf19-5b1d0438516c
“Xi Is, Along with Putin, the Most Dangerous Man in the World”
[26] https://sputniknews.com/20220227/reminds-me-of-siege-of-budapest-soros-inadvertently-compares-ukraines-army-to-wwii-nazis-1093428334.html
‘Reminds Me of the Siege of Budapest’: Soros Compares Ukraine’s Army to WWII Nazis
[27] https://tass.com/politics/1412525
Israel’s prime minister offers Putin mediation on Ukraine – Kremlin
[28] https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/two-of-russia-s-billionaires-call-for-peace-in-ukraine-1.5798082
Russia’s billionaires call for peace in Ukraine
[29] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/27/eu-ban-russian-state-backed-channels-rt-sputnik
EU to ban Russian state-backed channels RT and Sputnik
[30] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/technology/duckduckgo-conspiracy-theories.html
Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo – The New York Times
[31] https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-temporarily-disables-google-maps-live-traffic-data-ukraine-2022-02-28/
Google temporarily disables Google Maps live traffic data in Ukraine
[32] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/26/ukraine-russia-roads-signs-facebook/
Ukrainian agency, urging removal of road signs, posts fake photo with a colorful message for Russia
[33] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/some-us-governors-order-state-run-liquor-stores-stop-selling-russian-vodka-2022-02-28/
Some U.S. governors order state-run liquor stores to stop selling Russian vodka
[34] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ups-fedex-halting-shipments-russia-ukraine-2022-02-27/
UPS and FedEx halting shipments to Russia and Ukraine
[35] https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/russians-queue-for-cash-as-west-targets-banks-over-ukraine-1.5798269
Russians queue for cash as West targets banks over Ukraine
[36] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/27/sport/judo-vladimir-putin-president-gymnastics-spt-intl/index.html
International Judo Federation suspends Vladimir Putin’s honorary president status
[37] https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/formula-one/f1-russian-gp-ukraine-invasion-latest-news-b984648.html
F1 cancels Russian GP in Sochi after invasion of Ukraine
[38] https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/fifa-bans-matches-in-russia-no-flag-or-anthem-for-team-1.5798216
FIFA bans matches in Russia, no flag or anthem for team
[39] https://www.bbc.com/sport/60543803
Ukraine invasion: Czechs to boycott any Russia World Cup match, Elina Svitolina donates prize money
[40] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/article-gretzky-says-russia-should-be-barred-from-world-junior-competition/
Gretzky says Russia should be barred from world junior hockey
[41] https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/wayne-gretzky-calls-for-russia-to-be-banned-world-juniors-1.6366687
Wayne Gretzky calls for Russia to be banned from world junior hockey
[42] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/volodymyr-zelensky-russian-mercenaries-ordered-to-kill-ukraine-president-cvcksh79d
Russian mercenaries ordered to kill Ukraine’s president
[43] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60522454
Snake Island: Ukraine says soldiers killed after refusing to surrender
[44] https://video.corriere.it/esteri/ultime-parole-13-marinai-ucraini-russi-andate-farvi-fe/dda5eae8-967e-11ec-ae45-371c99bdba95
13 Ukrainian sailors, stationed on Snake Island, surprised by the Russian military, preferred to die than surrender.
[45] https://manzilnews.pk/en-ca/zelensky-says-the-posthumous-heroism-award-will-be-given-to-the-soldiers-of-snake-island-who-violated-the-russian-warship-2/
Zelensky says the posthumous Heroism Award will be given to the soldiers of Snake Island who violated the Russian warship.
[46] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/ukraine-island-defenders-who-told-russian-officer-go-fuck-yourself-may-still-be-alive
Ukraine island defenders who told Russian navy ‘go fuck yourself’ may still be alive
[47] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/snake-island-defenders-may-still-be-alive-ukraine-says
Snake Island defenders may be alive, Ukraine says
[48] https://tass.com/russia/1412053
Ukraine’s boats attack ships evacuating Ukrainian troops who surrendered on Snake Island
[49] https://video.corriere.it/esteri/leopoli-denuncia-vicesindaco-sabotatori-marchiano-scuole-ospedali-come-obiettivi-bombardamenti/944bac9c-97f6-11ec-97aa-535db4de4386
Lviv, the complaint of the deputy mayor: “Saboteurs mark schools and hospitals as targets for bombing”
[50] https://video.corriere.it/esteri/donna-ucraina-affronta-soldato-russo-tieni-questi-semi-tasca-quando-morirai-cresceranno-fiori/8cfd7974-96f8-11ec-ae45-371c99bdba95
Ukrainian woman confronts a Russian soldier: “Keep these seeds in your pocket, when you die they will grow flowers”
[51] https://video.corriere.it/esteri/automobilista-ucraino-militari-russi-rimasti-senza-benzina-se-volete-vi-traino-indietro-russia/f650e7a8-9720-11ec-ae45-371c99bdba95
The Ukrainian motorist to the Russian military left without gasoline: “If you want I will tow you and take you back to Russia”
[52] https://video.corriere.it/esteri/soldati-russi-filmati-mentre-saccheggiano-grande-magazzino-sumy/94c9856e-97aa-11ec-97aa-535db4de4386
Russian soldiers filmed looting a department store in Sumy
[53] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-ukraine-compilation-idUSL1N2UZ3LQ
Fact Check-Compilation of footage purportedly showing attacks in Ukraine features miscaptioned clips
[54] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/politics/fake-ukraine-videos-fact-check/index.html
Fact-checking fake videos of Ukraine conflict
[55] https://www.rt.com/russia/550694-ukraine-defense-ministry-fake/
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted fake video as air battle
[56] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/propaganda-fake-videos-ukraine-invasion-051055022.html
Propaganda, fake videos of Ukraine invasion bombard users
[57] https://tass.com/world/1412847
Maria Zakharova recalled that Italy and many other countries possess the US nuclear weapons but do not have access to them
Source: The Unz Review
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