I respect Valentina hugely & love her playing. She's a formidable musician & person of great integrity.


"For me to go to Donbass, when I was invited by the Philharmonic, there was no question whether it was dangerous or not, because we come and go, and people live there! And the heroes, in fact, are not musicians, who come, but people who under the bombs, line up and buy tickets to the philharmonic and theaters to visit our concert."
https://t.me/dpr_mfa/2482

Canada is home to a hotbed of Banderites, for decades. Our Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, is the *proud* descent of her grandfather Nazi collaborator. Canadians are held hostage by our vile government, not only Trudeau but PMs past.

Most, if not the vast majority of, Canadians don't know our government actively supports Nazis in Ukraine (just like they supported al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists in Syria.)

https://t.me/MFARussia/15829

If you're on Twitter, consider jumping on Foreign Policy Canada's delusional thread...

https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1656218633113092096
https://twitter.com/CanadaFP/status/1655982270300160000

Overall excellent summary by Colonel Douglas Macgregor of US/West's anti-Russia propaganda & instigation of Ukraine coup, US/NATO moving east to Russia's borders, Ukraine & its backers' ignoring of Minsk agreements & pushing Russia to defend itself & its people.

"Russia is by no means the evil aggressor in this thing. If anything, Russia launched an operation that it felt it had to to secure its country. We have been working tirelessly for at least the last 20 years to undermine & weaken Russia in whatever way possible.

...In 2014, you had this coup that we helped to organize & implement, which put people in power that would otherwise never have gotten there. These people were violently anti-Russian, hostile to Russian national security interests. We encouraged that, we cultivated it. We began pouring money into this thing called the Ukrainian army.

In 2014, this fledging Ukrainian army began attacking Russians in eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk & Lugansk Republics. In the time between the 1st attacks by artillery in 2014 & the intervention by Russia in February 2022, they killed 14,000 people.

In the week or two just before the Russians finally moved in (Feb 2022), they fired over 2000 rounds of artillery ammunition. These were all being fired at Russian civilians. They were technically Ukrainian citizens, they just happened to be Russians....The Russians of eastern Ukraine have been third or second class citizens for years...

...(Re the Minsk accords) Merkel & Macron admitted the whole thing was a hoax, it was simply a device to buy time for the Ukrainians to build their forces up. It became very clear to the Russians that this large force that was well-equipped was poised to launch an attack at Russia, with the goal of crushing the Russians in Lugansk & Donetsk & then ultimately re-taking Crimea..."

Full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ETJA9g_zE

Borrowed from a TG channel:



"Festive Faces": "Crocodile" in May 1952 and the reaction of Western colleagues to Victory Day"

Последствия обстрела города Стаханов. Есть погибшие и раненые мирные жители.
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Psychological terror, another element of Israel's war on Palestinians. Children, adults, can be torn apart in relentless bombing (bombing almost never reported in mainstream media), can be maimed for life, or can be so terrorized they are psychologically-damaged...or even die.

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My Related:


"Nidal crouches by the front door, looks up and smiles with bright eyes as we walk past. Bright eyes, a large grin. Nothing strikes me as unusual in the 10 year old...

“He doesn’t speak,” says his grandfather. “And he can’t walk normally. His mind is gone. When the Israelis shelled our house, there was also heavy tank shooting in the area. There were Israeli tanks all around. So much noise, so much danger. Nidal couldn’t take it.”

Prior to the war on Gaza, Nidal was a normal young boy, running, as mischievous as the next. That much is evident in his smile.

He now walks with a wobbled gait, sits with a droop...

“We took him to doctors in Gaza, but they say he cannot be treated here. He needs to get help outside.”

...the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme: 91.4 % of children in Gaza displayed symptoms of moderate to very severe PTSD, only about 1% showed no signs of PTSD...."
[ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/tragic-smile/ ]

*Some other related:

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/out-of-sight/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/israeli-soldiers-target-gazas-poorest-including-children/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/while-eating-chips-and-chocolate-israeli-soldiers-murder-2-and-7-year-old/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/next-time-it-will-hurt-more-israeli-threat-against-surviving-family-members-of-white-phosphorous-attack/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/all-weve-got-left-of-him/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

It sickens me that many of the so-called Palestine movement or "Left" are throwing hands up in horror that Palestinian Resistance has been empowered to do real damage to the Zionist entity.

It worries me that movements ostensibly supporting the rights of any nation to defend itself against unlawful aggression, invasion, occupation, apartheid etc suddenly go silent or start mumbling anti-war-kumbaya slogans when the oppressed really rise up outside the Western-centric-NGO-bloc and begin the battle to restore their lands, their heritage and their dignity.

Those same mumblers, none of whom have lived through what Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis, Donbass people have endured for years, seem unable to assimilate that a bully only ever stops bullying when they come up against a force that does not bend, believes in a cause and has courage, integrity and faith in victory without Western Liberal interference.

The US, UK and Israel will never honestly come to any negotiation table until their supremacy has been broken into tiny fragments of hubris. Long live the Resistance!