Ukraine SitRep – Catastrophic Losses, Failing Wonder Weapons, NATO Escalation

The Russian military is still integrating most of the mobilized 300,000+ men and volunteers. According to Putin 25% of the mobilized forces are in combat units, 25% in rear positions, while 50% train in Russia. It does not look like an imminent all out attack on the Ukrainian front lines is in the cards. The expected large winter attack may not be coming at all. Instead the new forces will rotate through the frontline and only attack locally whenever they see an opportunity.

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Demons creep up from Europe’s attic

Saturday, 10 December 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

‘Reichsbürger’ at a rally in Berlin: Neo-Nazi, or just a crackpot?

The visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to New Delhi had an anti-climatic ending. Baerbock waxed eloquently about Germany as a paragon of democratic values and claimed affinity with India. She hoped to persuade Modi government to disengage from strategic partnership with “authoritarian” Russia.

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Ukraine News Links 8-10 December 2022

Saturday, 10 December 2022 — The New Dark Age

Captivity, Inequality, Familiarity
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/captivity-inequality-familiarity/

How Bigotry Weakens A Country
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/how-bigotry-weakens-a-country/

Iran against the West’s hybrid warfare
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/10/iran-against-the-west-s-hybrid-warfare/

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Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking

Saturday, 10 December 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

Gary Webb with his exposé about the CIA and crack. [Source: educateinspirechange.org]

On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”

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Italy distances from ‘cancellation’ of Russia

Friday, 9 December 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni arrives to attend the gala premiere in the country’s most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala, which opened its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” Milan, Italy, December 7, 2022

Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap.

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