Chancellor Scholz promotes militarisation of Europe under German leadership in Prague speech

In the coming weeks and months, Ukraine will receive from Germany “new, state-of-the-art weapons—air defense and radar systems, for example, or reconnaissance drones,” stated the chancellor. The last package of arms supplies alone had a value of over €600 million. “Our goal is a modern Ukrainian armed forces that can permanently defend their country,” he declared. He could imagine that “Germany would take special responsibility for building Ukrainian artillery and air defense.”

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) promised Ukraine on Sunday that she would continue to indefinitely support Ukraine with heavy weaponry. One must “expect that this war could last for years to come,” she told the Bild am Sonntag. Like Scholz, Baerbock explicitly declared her support for the goal of recapturing the Crimean peninsula by military force and thereby inflict a total military defeat on Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

The German government already supported the right-wing coup in Ukraine in 2014, which brought a pro-Western puppet regime to power and sowed the seeds for the current war. But it hesitated for a long time to completely break off economic relations with Russia, which had been supplying Germany with cheap and secure energy since Soviet times.

Despite significant pressure, Chancellor Angela Merkel refused throughout her time in office to stop the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would have doubled the capacity of the existing pipeline. The Scholz government only took this step after the outbreak of the war. Even then, his government came under sustained fire for allegedly acting too hesitantly and delaying promised arms deliveries.

Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, expressed concerns that relations might deteriorate in comments to reporters shortly before Truss was announced as the winner of the Tory leadership race.

“I wouldn’t like to say that things can change for the worse, because it’s hard to imagine anything worse,” Peskov said when asked if Moscow expected any shift in relations with Britain. “But unfortunately, this cannot be ruled out.”

Reacting to Truss’s victory in typically bombastic style, one host on Russian state TV declared: “Stupidity has triumphed: Liz Truss has become the new prime minister … If Boris Johnson achieved Brexit, she wants to achieve something entirely different – the end of the world.”

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This Tucker Carlson clip on the devastating present & future effects of the Russia sanctions and uselessly prolonging the war in Ukraine at the expense of ordinary European & American citizens is an absolute must-watch. 🔥

"This is not just bad policy - this makes no sense."

🇫🇷🇩🇪Emmanuel Macron called on the French population to reduce energy use by 10% in the coming months to "avoid the risk of rationing and electricity cuts."

He also reported that energy rationing plans are being prepared "in case" they are necessary.

"The best energy is the one we don't consume" said the French president.

Furthermore, Macron promised to help Germany with gas this winter in exchange for electricity from Germany.

⚡Main gas pipeline to EU will be closed until sanctions lifted – Kremlin
https://www.rt.com/news/562205-kremlin-nord-stream-gas-sanctions/

Russian oil price cap requires global commitment, France says, will be difficult to implement

From CNBC

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday that efforts by G-7 nations to introduce a price cap on Russian oil would require commitment from the wider international community to be successful.

The G-7 economic powers announced Friday that they had agreed on a plan to impose a set price on Russian oil.

"You need an outreach because we don't want this measure to be only a Western measure," Le Maire told CNBC

"It should not be a Western measure against Russia, it should be a global measure against war," he added.

"We know that we need the unity from all the 27 member states if you want to get the green light for introducing that cap," he said, referring to the EU bloc of nations, a non-enumerated member of the G-7.

More than that, however, Le Maire said the policy would require participation by other major global economies.

Meanwhile in America....

‘No no no no no no no no no no no don’t! Let him go! Let him go!’ It looks like US President Joe Biden's voice jammed and skipped when he was criticized by a member of the audience. Speaking to Democrats in Wisconsin, Biden insulted a citizen who disagreed with his position, calling him an idiot.

🚛📦 Central MD servicemen provide humanitarian aid to residents of Lisichansk, Lugansk People's Republic

◽️ Personnel of Humanitarian Aid Coordination Centre, in co-operation with military police units, have organised targeted delivery of alimentary goods to Lisichansk. The distribution point was protected by military police units. Military motor tankers operated in the city to deliver drinking water several times a day.

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Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers launched a missile attack on an oil depot in Krivoy Rog. The fire has not yet been contained. X-101 missiles were launched over the Caspian Sea.

Thousands of Germans at an anti-government rally in Magdeburg chant: “Nord Stream! North Stream!"

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pursued by a Russian quadcopter, aiming artillery at them.

Vessels with Ukrainian grain go not to Africa, but to Western ports

MOSCOW, August 11 - RIA Novosti. The destinations of ships that leave Ukrainian ports with grain as part of a food deal cast doubt on the sincerity of the West's intentions to fight hunger, Ivan Nechaev, deputy director of the Information and Press Department of the Foreign Ministry, said at a briefing.
“Unfortunately, so far not a single ship with grain has reached the starving countries of Africa, they go mainly to Western ports, and the range of exported goods is mainly not wheat, but corn grain, sunflower oil, which makes one doubt the sincerity of the theses voiced in the West that world food security depends on the grain deal," the diplomat said.

He recalled that the agreements signed in Istanbul were included in the package, but the part concerning the promotion of Russian food and fertilizers on the world market is not being implemented.
According to Nechaev, Moscow expects that "all package agreements will be fully implemented and Western countries will create the necessary conditions for access to world markets for Russian fertilizers and food."

Representatives of Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN on July 22 signed two agreements in Istanbul. The package of these documents provides for the removal of restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers, and also defines an algorithm for the safe exit of commercial ships from Ukrainian-controlled Black Sea ports along specially created humanitarian maritime corridors.
According to UN Deputy Secretary General, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe, the implementation of the "product deal" will allow 23 million tons of Ukrainian grain to be supplied to world markets.
The UN has repeatedly stated the threat of a food crisis due to a shortage of grain. The West, in turn, accused Russia of the fact that cereals from Ukraine do not enter the world markets. Moscow categorically denied these accusations. Later it turned out that the Ukrainian military set fire to grain in the port of Mariupol, and also mined part of the Black Sea.

POW exchange.

About the Ukrainian landing at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - Rybar's analysis

On September 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to land troops on the southern shore of the Kakhovka reservoir.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the landing took place in two waves: part of the group of up to 60 people (according to our data, 64 people) landed three kilometers northeast of the ZNPP, and the other part, 40 minutes later, on two barges, attempted to land in the area Vodyany.

The biggest problem is that, in view of the lack of objective control personnel, the version of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation seemed too fantastic to be true. All versions from that Ukrainian side are always supported by at least fake photo and video materials, if there is no real evidence.

Video footage of Ukrainian corpses washed up on the shore, which appeared today on the Web, was allegedly found near Nikopol. But if this is not enough, then there is one more small nuance. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Barges
We have found an interesting information, which indirectly confirms the fact that barges were used for the landing of Ukrainian troops.

In the village of Kamenskoye, on satellite images, 12 barges have been moored along the pier for a year now. This is confirmed by images from April 2021 and August 30, 2022. A preview image from PlanetLabs on September 1 shows the two barges separating from the moored group. This happened for the first time in a year.

Despite all the skepticism, we do not believe in the version about the insidious Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group that crossed the Dnieper, stole barges in Nikopol and drove them to the south coast to simulate the landing of Ukrainian troops on the south coast.

Sometimes the simple truth that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not know how to be creative and creative in its approach to information tasks can serve as sufficient reason to believe official press releases.

As we at @TrFormer believe, Russian MOD is not very good at presenting the results of its own actions. However, it is BIG and CLUMSY and can not LIE - just because of that. Trust Russian MOD!
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Russian servicemen are not allowed to have phones or any connected gadgets. One mobile phone can cause a destruction the the whole unite!
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Kiev continues to play the victim. Such events held daily in various cities.

Each flag supposedly have a “fallen defender” name written on it.

For it to be more realistic, we suggest adding thousands more of those little flags without names, to be inclusive of the bodies rotting in open fields which have not been identified or collected yet. But hey, who cares 🌚

🇷🇺"The guys built everything in three months, in three months!".

This is the reaction of a resident of Mariupol to the construction of a new hospital in his hometown.

The complex is equipped with modern medical equipment.

Russian military engineers were engaged in its construction.

"Here you learn, not to launder money, but to build!" the man concludes.

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Translated from Tacticalnecktie:

All day today we have been monitoring the situation in the city of Balakleya, Kharkiv region and its environs, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as expected by everyone, attempted a counteroffensive. Parts of the 14th brigade were able to enter the village of Verbovka northwest of Balakleya. Parts of the NM of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces, defending the city, withdrew in an organized manner, blew up the bridge across the river Balakleyka, dividing the village in half, and did not allow the Ukrainian militants to build on their success. Artillery and army aviation are actively working in the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In Chuguev, the Russian Airforce hit the headquarters of the group that controlled the entire offensive operation.

However, it is still premature to rejoice, since the Kyiv regime still has enough cannon fodder and Western weapons. Therefore, this is not the last attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to counterattack in this direction. We continue to watch.