MessageInABottle
622 subscribers
3.24K photos
2.15K videos
8 files
2.23K links
News - Geopolitical in scope, some humour too
Download Telegram
Forwarded from Masno
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
AFU militant surprised by the small supply of food they were given for 4 days

According to the Ukrainian Nazi, they were given this supply of food for four for 4 days.

It is possible that the Ukrainian command is coming out and knows that the "defenders" of Ukraine will not live longer. Well, what's so surprising, why feed the dead?
😁1😢1
THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF EUROPEAN SURFACE NAVAL WARFARE EVER WRITTEN


Up to the 1400s naval warfare is a species of land warfare. Fire your guns a few times and board the enemy.

Warships have very high forecastles and after castles because it is advantageous to hold the high ground.

The distance of your “bang” is quite short – an arrow’s range, a musket ball or the end of your sword.

Sometime in the 1500s the English get the idea that ships are floating gun platforms but don’t fully understand how to do it and so in the Armada battle they bang away at the Spanish fleet without doing much damage.

It takes a while to standardize guns, work out tactics and it all comes together at Trafalgar.

The bang/distance ratio is still short – a thousand yards is pretty good shooting – and most engagements are much closer.

But as guns get bigger and more accurate the bang/distance ratio grows until at Jutland battleships are hitting smudges on the horizon.

Enter the airplane.........

#navy
#carrier
#zircon
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
For all the #Europeans out there ..... 😂

#Winter is coming ........ time to move to #Russia?
😁3
Beyond Satire: You couldn't make it up!

A political cabal at #Wikipedia changed the definition of the word "#Recession" to favor the #Biden regime,

Then all hell broke lose because of the redefinition and as a result not only was the "Recession" page locked to prevent furter changes, but the Wikipedia page for "#Definition" was edited to redefine the meaning of the word "definition" (adding the word "#fluid")
😁7
Forwarded from M
Forwarded from TheNebulator
Here's a quick Kosovo primer: Province of Serbia, occupied by NATO in 1999 after the 78-day (illegal, illegitimate) air war. Serbia's sovereignty was guaranteed by UNSCR 1244, which the US and NATO ignored. Ethnic Albanian separatists, to whom NATO handed over power, declared independence in February 2008; it was first recognized by the US-backed puppet government of Afghanistan.

Serbia, Russia, China and about 100 other countries — including five EU members and even Ukraine — do not recognize Kosovo as independent. Even so, the US and EU are trying to pressure Belgrade to do so. The preferred method is "frog-boiling," having the ethnic Albanian government impose "constitutional order" by abolishing Serb documents and institutions, replacing them with "Kosovian" ones.

Most of the occupied province has been ethnically cleansed of Serbs (and other non-Albanians), with several major enclaves remaining around medieval monasteries in the south, and a chunk of territory in the north where the local Serbs basically self-organized in 1999, and have prevented Albanian control ever since. These people set up roadblocks back in 2011-13 and even held a referendum to rejoin Serbia, but the government in Belgrade sold them out.

The most recent attempt by "Kosovo" to impose its documents on the north, in September 2021, led to Serbian military being placed on alert and fears a war might break out. So now, Pristina authorities spiced their move up with accusations that Serbia was staging some kind of attack, on behalf of Russia, hoping the Western public high on Ukropium would buy it.

The latest news is that the US ambassador asked Pristina to back off for a month, and they agreed. This suggests the move may have been their own, and not orchestrated by Washington. Or that they need to buy time to prepare better...
👍3
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
#Utopia S01 E06

Reality mimicking Art
Predictive Programming


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(British_TV_series)

"The closer people come to understanding what's truly going on, the more dangerous things become.

As rumors of "Russian flu" proliferate worldwide and a variety of groups and individuals close in on the protagonists, they try to solve the web of mysteries and conspiracies around them."

#C4
#virus
#vaccine

To Watch
Episode 5 click here
SRI LANKA’S ARREST OF AEROFLOT PLANE WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA’S BACK

..... On July 6, the Kremlin agreed to take the Sri Lankan call.

Rajapaksa was desperate; Putin non-committal.

“Had a very productive telecon with the #Russia President, Vladimir Putin,” Rajapaksa tweeted.

“While thanking him for all the support extended by his gvt to overcome the challenges of the past, I requested an offer of credit support to import fuel to #lka [Sri Lanka] in defeating the current econ challenges.

Further, I humbly made A request to restart
@AeroflotWorld operations in #lka. We unanimously agreed that strengthening bilateral relations in sectors such as tourism, trade & culture was paramount in reinforcing the friendship our two nations share.”

“The presidents,” reads the Kremlin communiqué, “discussed current matters of bilateral trade and economic cooperation, in particular, in energy, agriculture and transport… It was agreed to continue contacts at various levels.”

In Moscow the Russians interpreted Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa to be making a public show of asking for Russian help in order to persuade Washington to rescue them instead.

The Kremlin was convinced the Sri Lankans were scheming and bluffing.

The reason was that on June 2, at Colombo’s airport, an Aeroflot Airbus Flight SU-288, with more than two hundred Russians returning to Moscow from holiday in the country, had been prevented from departing;

The aircraft had been stopped by an order from a judge of the Commercial High Court.

Ostensibly, the court was acting on a lawsuit filed against Aeroflot by an Irish(registered) aircraft leasing company called Celestial Aviation Trading 10 Limited.

In fact, that entity was a front for AerCap, the dominant global aviation leasing corporation in the world, controlled by General Electric of the US.

Celestial Aviation is an AerCap special purpose vehicle; its claim against the Aeroflot aircraft in Sri Lanka was part of Washington’s sanctions war — and Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe were immediately told so by Russian officials.

The Sri Lankans claimed the court order was a “commercial dispute” with “no involvement of the state”; the Russians didn’t believe them.

The aircraft was released on June 6 and a Sri Lankan court official charged with corruption

But a month later, by the time Rajapaksa was appealing to Putin, Aeroflot had not restarted its flights.

There would also be no Russian oil nor credit to save Rajapaksa.
👍3
WEST TOOK $12 BILLION IN GOLD FROM UKRAINE SINCE FEBRUARY

Since the 1990's the
#Ukrainie #economy has been plundered by the #corrupt #oligarchs.

The country experienced a severe brain drain, leading to complete degradation of its once word-class scientific potential, despite the fact that the country’s scientific institutions were essential in endeavors like space exploration, which was of prime importance for the entire mankind
.

Ukraine’s vast natural resources are being stolen to this day, while the population of the country has suffered tremendously, being subjected to various forms of brutal exploitation.

Millions of Ukrainian girls and women have been forced into prostitution, providing a constant supply of #sex #slaves for decades.

All this led to a catastrophic decline in population, which dropped from 52 million in 1991 to 41 million in 2021, a staggering 21% decline in just 30 years.

At present, as Ukraine is left with very little to be plundered, the #Kiev regime decided to give up the country’s last vestiges of national wealth – its #gold reserves.

According to Gold Seek, the Kiev regime has recently handed over at least $12 billion of Ukrainian gold reserves to the #US. It appears those might be the last gold reserves the country has left.

Since #Russia began its special military operation in February, the political West, led by the US, has appropriated tens of billions of dollars of Ukraine’s foreign exchange and gold #reserves.

After receiving tens of billions of dollars in so-called “#military #aid”, as well as financing for its government institutions, the Kiev regime was forced to give up its gold reserves as a condition for all US and #EU “assistance”.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
A sincere thanks to Peter Hitchens - clearly we have different views on many things, definitely on Russia, however he is literally the only mainstream British journalist to stand up for me. Actually he's not even standing up for me, he's standing up for the point of principle, as established by the Magna Carta in 1215 - if there are criminal charges against a British subject, those charges must be made, and proceed in a court of law.

Sanctions are basically nothing when the UK government applies them against some random Russian official who would likely have never visited the UK anyway. But when they apply them against their own citizen, seize all bank accounts, funds, assets, access to funds, even prohibit anyone from giving or accepting funds from you, it's a severe criminal punishment..... but without any criminal charges. And Liz Truss is just hoping that people in the UK are so into Ukraine they don't care about the fact that as it stands, she has just abolished British law.
👍2
Forwarded from Pepe Escobar
Groundbreaking.

IRANIAN turbines are replacing Siemens turbines from Germany in Russia.

West Asia technologically AHEAD of the EU in power plant parts.

Russia will use Iranian MAPNA turbines to produce electricity.
👍3
Iranian cargo planes have made more than 40 mysterious flights to Russia.

Against the background of the emergence of information that Iran can provide Russia with its unmanned aerial vehicles of various types, it became known that Iranian aircraft have already made more than 40 mysterious flights to Russia, while the intensity of flights of Iranian cargo aircraft over the past month and a half has increased significantly .

Waiting for official information.
GERMAN MAYORS WANT NORDSTREAM 2 GAS PIPLINE OPENED

#Berlin’s policy of trying to give up imports of Russian natural #gas is likely to create hardship and spark unrest, seven mayors from the German island of Ruegen wrote in a letter sent to the regional and federal governments on Wednesday.

They also urged the federal government to allow gas imports via the
#NordStream 2 pipeline, given the current technical difficulties with NordStream 1 – something Berlin has steadfastly rejected.

In the letter addressed to federal economy minister Robert Habeck and Manuela Schwesig, prime minister of #Mecklenburg-#Vorpommern, the mayors “strongly condemn” the current conflict in #Ukraine but urge the government to consider the damage its policy could do to the German population and the economy, according to the news agency DPA.

The seven mayors wrote: “We are of the opinion that the path taken by the federal government to disconnect from Russian energy sources is not the right one,” .

Initially drafted by the leaders of Bergen, Binz and Sassnitz, the letter was later signed by four more jurisdictions on #Ruegen, Germany’s largest island and a popular tourist destination..... More
👍3😁1
WHY THE SOVIET BRIDGE IN KHERSON SURVIVED AMERICAN MISSILE ATTACKS

The Ukrainian military continues to attack, using #US #HIMARS systems, a key infrastructure facility in #Kherson – the #Antonov #Bridge.

Its destruction is necessary for Kiev to start the so-called battle for Kherson.

However, the structure, built during the Soviet era under Gorbachev, has so far withstood numerous hits of missiles sent to Ukraine from the United States.

Why is it that the UAF, despite multiple attempts and overseas assistance, still cannot destroy the strategic bridge?

The strikes on the bridge have a huge media significance for the UAF, since in recent weeks in Kiev and in the West they have only been talking about the upcoming “battle for Kherson”.

The battle itself, for objective reasons, is simply impossible without destroying the bridge.

“As far as we can see, the UAF manages to damage only the road surface of the Antonov Bridge. And in the next three days our engineering troops will restore it. In general, after several strikes, the UAF fails to bring down even one span of the structure,” Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Military and Political Journalism Centre, told the “Vzglyad” newspaper.

The Ukrainian command “really wants to destroy the Antonov Bridge, but, as we see, even after a series of strikes, it was not possible to do this,” the expert says.

“This is due, among other things, to the reliability of the Soviet-built structure. In the USSR, bridges were built with a margin of safety, counting on it for a potential military conflict.

This is a distinctive feature of many bridges. And strikes on such structures cannot lead to an instant result,”
he noted...... MORE
👍3
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🇩🇪 #Germany 🇩🇪

#Greta will be livid......

+++++++++

GERMANY RESTARTS COAL POWER PLANT AFTER GAS SUPPLY CUT

Mothballed facility in Lower Saxony gets emergency permission to run until April 2023.
😁4
🇩🇪 #Germany🇩🇪

#BASF cuts #ammonia production in response to soaring gas prices


BASF AMMONIA PRODUCTION CUTS ARE SET TO STOKE FOOD PRICE INFLATION

BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, has announced cuts to ammonia production that are likely to put pressure on supplies of #fertiliser and #CO2.

BASF, headquartered in
#Germany, said a quarter of its #natural #gas use went into ammonia production and falling supplies from #Russia had prompted the decision.

Ammonia is used mainly in the production of fertiliser, the company said.

If ammonia production is curbed, pressure will be immediately felt by agriculture, leading to “declining yields in food production”.

A spokesperson for BASF told Supply Management: “[A cut in ammonia production] would put additional pressure on an already extremely tight market. Russia is a major exporter of ammonia and fertilisers. Exports from Russia are currently in sharp decline. A reduction in gas supplies in Germany would further exacerbate the shortage of fertilisers worldwide, reduce food production and lead to further price increases for basic foodstuffs.”


https://www.agricensus.com/Article/BASF-cuts-ammonia-production-in-response-to-soaring-gas-prices-23597.html
希望很快
👍10