Russia Claims Delivery of Air Defense Systems to Venezuela

Russia has claimed it delivered Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2 air defense systems to Venezuela and is reportedly considering sending its new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, raising concerns of a potential standoff with the United States.

Russia Claims Delivery of Air Defense Systems to Venezuela

Previously:

How the US is preparing a military staging ground near Venezuela + the 160th SOAR(A)

[Armchair Analysis] Clausewitz, Mao, and the Long War in Venezuela

Civil War in Donbass 10 Years On

By Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | July 8, 2024

July 1st marked the 10th anniversary of a brutal resumption of hostilities in the Donbass civil war. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it passed without comment in the Western media. On June 20th 2014, far-right Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called a ceasefire in Kiev’s “anti-terrorist operation”. Launched two months prior following vast protests, and violent clashes between Russian-speaking pro-federal activists and authorities throughout eastern Ukraine, the intended lightning strike routing of internal opposition to the Maidan government quickly became an unwinnable quagmire.

Civil War in Donbass 10 Years On

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Euromaidan 2014 – Orange Revolution – War in Donbass

Ukraine is being sacrificed at the altar of Western values

US officials now suddenly announced that 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far. This Western state secret was revealed – but it was not a secret at all.

Ukraine is being sacrificed at the altar of Western values

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No More Boxers: Ukraine’s Military To Issue Field Uniforms Specially Designed For Female Soldiers

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Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight

Russia today says that it has intercepted a Ukrainian commando team, seeking to conduct sabotage operations in Russia’s Bryansk Region. Redacted correspondent Mike Jones is in Russia and he’s been speaking to members of the Ukrainian army that were captured and are now in Russia.

Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight via Redacted.

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[2019] Order From Chaos: What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

Editor’s Note: The degree of respect for LGBTQ people has increasingly become a measure of democratic health in former Soviet states. If Russia were a place where Pride parades were allowed, its quarrels with the United States, and ours with it, would possibly diminish, writes James Kirchick. This article originally appeared in the Washington Post.

What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

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Meet the true journalists: James Kirchick and Lawrence O’Donnell

*Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Ms. Cat’s Chronicles.

‘One of Europe’s top right-wing extremists’: Who is the neo-Nazi behind this week’s Ukrainian attack in Russia’s Bryansk Region?

On Thursday morning, a group of armed operatives crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia’s Bryansk Region. The so-called Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK; or Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus), consisting of Russians fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, claimed responsibility for the incursion. President Vladimir Putin branded the incident yet another terrorist attack, another crime… they entered the border territory and opened fire at civilians.”

‘One of Europe’s top right-wing extremists’: Who is the neo-Nazi behind this week’s Ukrainian attack in Russia’s Bryansk Region?

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