Even to say there may be another side to the Ukraine narrative will get you labeled as a purveyor of ‘Russian talking points’ & treasonous speech
THE RUSSIAN INVASION IS BRUTAL. There is no denying that fact. There are reports coming in of Russian troops targeting civilians. Ten killed standing in a bread line in the city of Chernihiv. The Guardian reported “Russian forces bombed Mariupol theatre sheltering hundreds of civilians.” FOX reported: “Ukrainian officials in the besieged city of Mariupol claimed that Russian forces bombed a theater in which thousands had taken refuge, even though satellite footage shows that the word for ‘children’ in Russian was written on the ground near the theater.” Between 1,000 and 1,200 people had taken shelter in the theater which contained a bomb shelter. By the next morning it was reported that “people were coming out alive.” A Ukrainian member of parliament wrote, “After an awful night of not knowing, we finally have good news from Mariupol on the morning of the 22nd day of the war. The bomb shelter [of the theater] was able to hold. The rubble is beginning to be cleared.” The Guardian: “There have been 43 attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities, infrastructure and workers since the beginning of the invasion, says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization.”
On Wednesday, March 16, The Guardian published portions of a Financial Times story regarding progress in the peace talks. “Ukraine and Russia have drawn up a tentative peace plan including a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal if Kyiv declares neutrality and accepts limits on its armed forces, the Financial Times is reporting, citing three sources involved in the talks. The proposed deal would involve Ukraine renouncing its ambitions to join Nato and promising not to host foreign military bases or weaponry in exchange for protection from allies such as the US, UK and Turkey.”[i] [ii] [iii] By mid-week UK Intel was reporting that the Russian advance had stalled. American intelligence was estimating that the Russians had lost about 7,000 troops. But, as in all wars, there is another side to this story. But we aren’t allowed to speak of it.
TRUTH IS ON TRIAL! Right here in America. We are being told what we can say and what we can think. Take the case of Tulsi Gabbard, the former Congresswoman from Hawaii, now serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserves. You be the judge. Here’s what she had to say about the reported biolabs in Ukraine. “Here are the undeniable facts. There are 25 to 30 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine. According to the U.S. government, these biolabs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens. Ukraine is in an active war zone with widespread bombing, artillery and shelling, and these facilities, even in the best of circumstances, could easily be compromised and release these deadly pathogens.” Here is what Senator Mitt Romney had to say about that on CNN. “Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.”[iv] Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called it, “Actual Russian propaganda. Traitorous.” [So, is this “false Russian propaganda?”] Let’s check.
Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed before a Senate committee that the labs existed. A Pentagon Fact Sheet – link here – issued March 11, 2022 confirmed “US funding of the facilities. The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The fact sheet said since 2005, the US has ‘invested’ $200 million in ‘supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.’” Pentagon official, Robert Pope, “the director of the DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, warned that the fighting in Ukraine could lead to dangerous pathogens being released from the labs.”[v] That sounds about what Tulsi Gabbard said. Finally, we present a Defense Department document from 2010. “USAF COUNTERPROLIFERATION CENTER; CPC OUTREACH JOURNAL, Maxwell AFB, Alabama clearly states that a US-funded biolab opened around June 17, 2010 in Odessa, Ukraine: ‘U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists. The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous pathogens.’”[vi] Now, even CBS News has confirmed that the US is supporting some of the research going on at the labs. So, stop with the lying and the false accusations! The biolabs are real. The pathogens are real.
But the character assassinations continue. Tucker Carlson is another target of these newly minted uber-patriots. For even raising questions about what actions we should take – for suggesting that we might want to resist taking actions that could lead to a shooting war with Russia, Carlson is being painted, by lawmakers, as treasonous and a propaganda-monger for Vladimir Putin.
So, now enter Lara Logan, with a long career as a war correspondent, formerly of CBS and now of FOX Nation. She was interviewed by Ed Henry on the satellite TV network, Real America’s Voice. What she had to say certainly runs counter to the official and approved narrative. It does however shed some very interesting light on the events in Ukraine. The Left has lost no time in excoriating Logan and labeling her remarks as an unhinged rant. To the historically uninitiated, some of Lara Logan’s claims can seem far-fetched, she does however give a historical context. I confirmed what details I could as noted in EDITOR’S NOTES. What follows is an edited version of her remarks. A transcript of the entire interview can be found here.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: She finishes off with a most reasonable conclusion….that won’t get her an invitation to the White House.] “Go back to Russia collusion. Go to Alexandra Chalupa, go to Eric Ciaramella, the whistleblower who went to work for Adam Schiff, who wasn’t really a whistleblower, and all those corrupt people in the deep state. And you know what, the deep state isn’t a theory. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s an actual deep state. Look at the SES, the senior executive service, because when that bureaucracy was ushered into law in the United States of America, that’s when we got a bunch of unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings behind the scenes. And these are the people that keep lying to us.”ED HENRY (HOST): “I wanted to start with this breaking news overnight that it appears – … The Daily Mail has a very interesting story that’s saying that Vladimir Putin essentially may be running out of bullets, that it might have a week and a half, two weeks max. He’s losing warplanes, tanks, all the rest of it. He obviously went into this thinking he was gonna bulldoze his way through Ukraine. He’s obviously caused a lot of destruction, don’t want to minimize the fact there’s over 2 million refugees. But this has not gone as well as Vladimir Putin expected.”
LARA LOGAN (FOX NATION HOST): “I don’t buy it for a second, and I’ll be honest with you. I really think that there’s so much misinformation. We’ve never really seen anything like it. I mean, I’ve been covering wars now for 35 years. And I have never seen people with their nails done in the Ukrainian flag. Right? I mean, we’re being corralled into this box where we either have to hate the Vladimir Putin and believe everything evil that’s said about him, and love Ukraine, and there’s no in between….”
“Vladimir Putin knew exactly what he was doing when he went into Ukraine. The Russian military isn’t perfect. They — for example, I’ve spoken to multiple defense specialists and intelligence specialists from a defense intelligence agency who’ve studied the Russian military for years. They do have difficulty mounting complex air operations because they do very little training hours in comparison to, for example, the United States. Air assets right now, fighter jet pilots, but Russia is not struggling.”
“What Russia has done from the very beginning has been very strategic. They didn’t go straight to Kyiv. They went to all those bioweapons laboratories that are scattered all over the country. Some of them they built. So they know where they are. They’ve known where they are since the Soviet Union, because under the defense threat reduction program, we went in after the fall of the Soviet Union, and supposedly they turned those facilities from bioweapons labs into public health labs. Although, you know, these days, it’s hard to believe anything that our leaders tell us because they’ve lied about COVID. They lied about Russia collusion. They lied about the Ukraine impeachment trial.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: We do know that the official narratives of Covid, Russian collusion & the impeachment were built out of whole cloth.]
“And there’s so much more going on in Ukraine that nobody is talking about. You see such dishonesty when it comes to the history of Ukraine. You see dishonesty when it comes to the Azov Battalion, which is funded by the U.S. and NATO. I mean, you can find pictures of them online holding up the NATO flag and the swastika. And at the same time, their own emblem contains the black sun of the occult, which was a Nazi SS emblem. And it also contains the sideways, you know, lightning insignia of the SS. I mean, this is on throughout the Ukrainian military you can see that black sun of the occult on their body armor, even on the female soldiers who are paraded in front of the world as being, you know, such an example of Ukraine’s independence and spirit and nobility. Even they are wearing the black sun of the occult. And, you know, we want — the White House wants you to believe, well, this doesn’t matter; it’s just a small number of troops. It’s not true. The Azov Battalion has been murdering its way through eastern Ukraine.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: I checked out the historic claims found here and found documentation for all her claims. The meaning of the black sun emblems on the uniforms of the Ukrainian military I was not able to check out.]
“We don’t want to admit this. This was why Crimea voted for independence. This is why Crimea wanted to be with Russia. Because we in the media, in the western media and in the west, won’t acknowledge the reality of what’s gone on: Western Ukraine backed the Nazis. It was a headquarters for the Nazis SS. The CIA under Allen Dulles actually gave immunity from prosecution to the Nazis of Ukraine from the Nuremberg trials. So, there’s a long history of the United States and our intelligence agencies funding and arming Nazis in Ukraine. These are not, like, new neo-Nazi groups that sprung up. These are the actual Nazis. ….And so you have to really wonder as you look at this, when you know that the CIA sponsored the color revolution in Ukraine in 2013 and ’14, that they selected Ukraine’s leaders; go to Victoria Nuland’s leaked phone conversation where she and the U.S. ambassador are deciding who can lead Ukraine.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: Historically accurate. Even NBC News ran an article on March 5th, headlined: “Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real, even if Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim isn’t. TIME covered the story too!]
“I mean, there’s as much interference here as you could possibly imagine, before we even get to Hunter Biden, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and Mitt Romney and all of their children who are employed — who earn millions — from Ukrainian gas companies…. I don’t like being lied to. And we’re being lied to on an epic scale. When we’re told your only choices, you have to be a hundred percent with Zelensky, who’s a puppet who you can find on the internet in black stilletos and leather pants, you know, shirtless, doing a spoof Dancing With The Stars kind of entertainment video that’s a mock of a Ukrainian group that does this kind of satanic, occult type of music video.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: If you want to see the dance LINK….I couldn’t watch more than a couple of seconds…NEWSWEEK also confirmed the existence of the video.]
“Zelensky was selected, like so many of our leaders. And honestly, with big tech and with election fraud these days, we don’t know how many leaders all around the world have been selected for us and weren’t actually voted in.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: Not proven, but a reasonable inference from the evidence we’ve seen.]
But that history is foreign to the majority of the American public. It is not allowed to be shared. It is ridiculed as propaganda and Russian talking points. And that Deep State beating of the War Drum has worked. Despite the devastating nature of any future nuclear conflict – any significant exchange between the US & Russia would likely render the Northern Hemisphere unlivable for the foreseeable future – a recent Pew Research poll found that over one-third of the American public has signaled their support of the US “taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.” 35%, to be exact.
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After Ukraine’s President Zelensky made his plea, President Biden promised $800 billion in military aid. The Hill reported, “The new aid will help provide 800 anti-aircraft systems to combat Russian planes; 9,000 anti-armor systems to help destroy Russian tanks and armored vehicles; 7,000 small arms such as machine guns and shotguns; and a total of 20 million rounds that includes artillery and mortar.”[vii] As reported on March 12th, HTR reported that Moscow would “treat western arms shipments to Ukraine as legitimate military targets.” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced that “We warned [the US] of consequences from the insane transfer to Ukraine of weapons like mobile anti-aircraft systems, anti-tank missiles, and so on.” This begs the question whether this means the Russians would target materiel only once it reached Ukraine – or would they strike targets in the countries preparing to – or in the process of shipping such equipment. This could be the spark that leads to direct military conflict.
@ByronYork
New Pew poll on Ukraine war: Thirty-five percent of Americans support the US ‘taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.’ (62 percent oppose.)
https://pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/15/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-u-s-response-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
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Finally, when Russia first launched the invasion of Ukraine the tactics they employed steered action away from civilian centers and seemed to try to limit civilian casualties. When the resistance stiffened – and granted – some civilians were taking part in their nation’s self-defense, Putin began ordering the bombing of civilian areas increasing both casualties and terror. This has had its’ effect on the world – but also on some Russian soldiers who were forced to participate in these attacks. The Daily Mail reported the story.
“Captured Russian soldiers have warned President Vladimir Putin ‘we’ll rise against you’ after they were made to carry out ‘terror attacks’ in Ukraine. Moscow’s troops labelled the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 9 an act of ‘perverse neo-Nazism’. Three air force pilots, speaking to CNN, warned the Russian strongman ‘you will not hide this for long’ because ‘many’ troops share the same feelings and ‘sooner or later, we will come home’. They laid the blame at the feet of Russian commanders for ‘horrifying’ crimes against ‘peaceful Ukrainian civilians’ – and warned ‘you cannot forgive such things’. ‘I don’t know, what can justify, f***, the tears of a child, or even worse, the deaths of innocent people, children,’ Russian fighter pilot Maxim said. ‘It’s not just about demilitarizing Ukraine or the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now cities of peaceful civilians are being destroyed.’…. CNN reported the three pilots appeared not to be speaking under duress, that they were not wearing handcuffs and that Ukrainian officials made no effort to direct the topic of the interview.”[viii]
[i] Russia-Ukraine war latest news, The Guardian, March 16, 2022
[ii] Russian forces bombed Mariupol theater despite signs warning children were sheltering inside, FOX News, March 17, 2022
[iii] ‘People are coming out alive’ following Mariupol theater airstrike, official says. FOX News, March 17, 2022
[iv] Tucker Carlson: Everything that Tulsi Gabbard said about biolabs in Ukraine is true, FOX News, March 14, 2022
[v] Tulsi Gabbard Smeared as ‘Treasonous Liar’ By Sen. Mitt Romney Over Ukraine Biolab Concerns, ANTIWAR.COM, March 14, 2022
[vi] US Defense documents (2010), Strange Sounds, March 15, 2022
[vii] Biden announces $800 million in new aid after Zelensky plea, The Hill, March 16, 2022
[viii] Russian soldiers warn Putin ‘we’ll RISE against you’ after they were made to carry out ‘terror acts’ in Ukraine, Daily Mail, March 17, 2022
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