🇺🇸/🇷🇺🇨🇳 The US always appears most diplomatic just before driving the dagger in deepest.

Remember US Secretary of State John Kerry dining with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad even as the US prepared to stage protests as cover for launching a proxy war against Syria in 2011? Or President Barack Obama meeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as proxy war was being prepared to destroy his nation?

Washington's most recent overtures toward China and now Russia regarding APEC amount to cheap words all while every action the US commits to centers on preparing the ground for wider conflict against both nations.

The idea is to appear to pursue diplomacy so that when adversaries react to your actual hostility, it appears they are at fault.

❗️The procedure for Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was completed at midnight on November 7, the document ceased to exist for Moscow - Russian Foreign Ministry

No agreements with NATO countries in the field of arms control are possible at the moment, the department said in a statement.


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@Slavyangrad

How the US and UK governments push their propaganda in Russia and try to make it look like it's not them. It's happening in your country, too.

Zinc Network is a British communications company. On their website they say:

We help our clients deliver meaningful, measurable change around some of the most complex social issues facing the world today.

It also indicates that the company uses "academics, civil society groups, influencers, media companies and brands" to achieve the set goals.

Zinc Network has been receiving money from the US Department of Defense. For example, in 2020, the amount of money Zinc Network received from the US was over $3 million (listed under sub-awards)

In 2018, Zinc submitted a report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on a propaganda campaign inside Russia which involved establishing a "YouTuber network in Russia and Central Asia".

The report specifies that Zinc helped these YouTubers hide the fact that they are being funded by the UK, to avoid complying with the Russian law on foreign agents.

Among other things, Zinc did the following:

supporting participants make and receive international payments without being registered as external sources of funding; managing their online profiles to reduce their exposure to cyber attacks, trolling and abuse; connecting YouTubers with local pro-bono legal support; supporting them to develop editorial strategies to deliver key messages

Each YouTuber - member of this program received training in best ways of influencing people through social media and, basically, what they are supposed to be saying (and showing) and how. Other training included reducing libel risk, legal issues, crisis communications and cyber security.

The report includes Curricula Vitae of the people who worked on this project. For some reason it indicates their nationalities, e.g. British, Ukrainian, Estonian, Lithuanian, American, Dutch. There are a couple of Serbian names, too.

The Russian state is called an "adversary" in this document. The whole essence of this project is against "Kremlin"

The report emphasizes that the campaign was organized in such a way as to target a variety of audiences in Russia and Central Asia, reaching people of different ages, different regions etc. The influencers need to be perceived by the audience as "one of us" and as "independent".

At the end, the report lists potential risks of the project and algorithm of response to them. This one is fun:

Risk: Project interpreted as UK-sponsored disinformation or 'troll-factory', seriously undermining UK reputation and agenda in this space.
Impact: High
Likelihood: Medium
Mitigation: - Position the project in- and externally as being within the established and accepted sector of media development and pluralism and fact checking; - Be explicit that Members are independent and bake this into operation model

It is not revealed who these Russian YouTubers are that have been trained and funded through this project. The Russian audience can only make educated guesses.

The document also includes references to other similar projects in other countries such well as other NGOs that are doing the same kind of work.

@thecoppermountain

Assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny, Major Gennady Chestyakov, died as a result of careless handling of a grenade in his house in the village of Chaiki, Bucha district, Ukrainian media report

His 13-year-old son was injured. 5 mire grenades were found in his house.

Russian hacker group "Joker DNR" writes that Chestyakov was secretly working for Russia and blew himself up to avoid being caught by the SBU (Ukrainian security services)

Others say he received a birthday gift in which there was a grenade.

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The parisioners of St.Nicholas church in Triskini, Rovno region, Ukraine, women and children, are being expelled from their church by force.

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New batch of surrendered Ukrainians

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🇮🇪✊🇵🇸"Ceasefire Now! Stop the Slaughter'

New mural on The International Wall, Falls Rd. West Belfast.

Really impactful 💔 We echo the demand for an immediate ceasefire and start along the necessary hard road to a just peace for Palestinians.

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◾UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday demanded an urgent humanitarian ceasefire as he described Gaza becoming a "graveyard for children" while speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters.

◾The UN chief also used his speech to demand Hamas to return Israeli hostages and paid tribute to 88 UN employees killed by Israel in Gaza.

◾Separately, at least 150 health workers have been killed in Gaza – 16 while on duty – and 18 emergency-service workers for Gaza’s civil defence, according to the UN. More than 100 health facilities have been damaged.

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◾South Africa recalls all its diplomats from Israel over Gaza Genocide. SouthAfrica has announced that it is recalling all its diplomats for consultation from Israel. In a news conference Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, said: "Israel is threatening the stability of the global system by its conduct against the Palestinian people."

◾Adding that the US is enabling Israel's actions, she warned that this "makes a peaceful global order sit on tenterhooks."

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◾AntiZionist Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim wave Palestine flag in solidarity with Gaza.

◾ Members of the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood are seen carrying the Palestinian flag in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.

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◾AFU servicemen have been left without the promised high payments.

The soldiers are losing their nerves - the level of payments directly depends on where the front line lies today. When retreating, AFU soldiers complain that their salaries are cut 3 times, although in their opinion the level of risk remains the same. It comes to the point of absurdity - servicemen of the Ukrainian army have to refuel equipment for their own money. “We are essentially left to the mercy of fate,” the man shares in the video.

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◾ Israelis give their opinion about their Palestinian "neighbours":

- Jews shouldn't marry Arabs... Israel have to take over and kick them away... There's no need to try, there's no need to talk... The Arabs, may their name and memory be obliterated... I would carpet bomb them... These places are rightfully ours... We need to kill the Arabs.

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🇺🇦 Somewhere in Ukraine:

- Daddy, what did you bring me?

- A lesson, my darling. I brought you a lesson.

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☠️🇮🇱Israeli journalist Ephraim Mordechai was reportedly arrested after he reported seeing the bodies of dozens of IDF soldiers in a Tel Aviv hospital where the IDF army has not handed over the bodies to their families.

🔴 Source: DDgeopolitics

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