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And a Happy Stugots to each and all!
Next, moving along to our real topic for the day, the semantic connection is that this story also includes a murderous gangster, namely Kirill Budanov!
So, Rafael Grossi must be feeling a tad foolish right around now. As Chief Inspector for the IAEA, he kept persistently believing (or pretending to believe) Ukrainian lies; and giving them a clean bill of health. While some unknown entity out there (maybe Martians?) was persistently attacking the Zaporozhie Nuclear Plant.
Well, speculate no more: Ukrainian Chief Military spy Kirill Budanov finally came out and admitted that, “Yeah, it was us, the Ukrainians.” Fuhgeddaboutit. Why would Budanov admit to this? I mean, aside from the fact that it’s obvious even to an untutored blastocyst. I don’t know. Maybe for the same reason that a serial killer feels the urge to carve his signature onto the corpse of his latest victim?
So, according to reporter Olga Nikitina, Budanov admitted/claimed that the Ukrainian Spetznaz made three separate attempts to attack and seize the nuclear plant. All three attacks were fended off by the Russian army.
Russian Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova reminded people, in her Telegram tweet, that the United Nations kept shrugging their shoulders and insisting “they had no idea” who was shelling and attacking the plant. All the while implying that it was the Russians. See, some Russian troops were shelling and attacking the plant; while other Russian troops were busy defending the plant and repulsing the attackers. It all makes sense if you just switch off your brain.
Maria wondered out loud if Budanov’s admission will wake the population of the NATO countries “out of their hypnotic sleep.” Since they have been indoctrinated with the thought that Russia represents a nuclear threat to their well-being. On the contrary, Maria insists: It is Saint Ukraine that blackmails Europe with the threat of a dirty bomb and nuclear explosions.
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April 30th is an important date in American politics. This is the day 100 for the American President in the White House, and all attention will be on the reports of his achievements and failures. But nothing can be more critical than Peace…
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Russia’s invasion has made ordinarily outspoken critics of antisemitism wary of criticizing Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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Richard Sakwa has for many years been one of the most distinguished and insightful observers of relations between the West and Russia, and one of the leading critics of Western policy. In this talk with Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, Sakwa discusses his book, The Culture of the Second Cold War (Anthem 2025). The book examines the cultural-political trends and inheritances that underlie the new version of a struggle that we thought we had put behind us in 1989. Sakwa describes both the continuities from the first Cold War and the ways in which new technologies have reshaped strategies and attitudes.
