The Russian defense states all the killing of civilians are by those fighting them in Ukraine. The Russians will stick to that story line while they continue to massacre innocent civilians.
The Russians are gathering intelligence about the evacuation of civilians. It probably is not difficult with knowledge among the public to facilitate the evacuation. But, there maybe Russians traveling the evacuee route as well. Refugees will have to be cleared and issued papers to eliminate threats to the refugee camps.
I also find it odd timing that the USA uncovered Pakistani spies among the Secret Service at this time, too. The Pakistanis allowed the Taliban to be reconstituted. The Taliban are not a protected ethnicity, they are a militia. It is easy to say the Taliban are allied by Pakistan. The West’s efforts in Afghanistan was never going to succeed. It will never succeed now, as Pakistan has ensured the Taliban have their own sovereign authority. The question is what are the plans of Pakistan with Afghanistan now that the Taliban have governing authority? There are a lot of unanswered questions about the residence of Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, too. The ISI and Haqquani are in question.
The West needs to assess and continue to reassess the influence of wealth and/or money as a manipulative influence in their national security. Money and gifts are becoming weapons with influence, the worst of which was Trump. The 2016 elections and Dark Money as well as commercialized politics are no longer simply political problems, they are national security issues. The influence of money and gifts are now showing up in elite national security agencies. It reeks of coupe at a time when Trump stated he wanted to walk to the Capitol on January 6th.
There is too much coincidence.
Trump is a Russian puppet. Bannon is an oligarch that worships money, too. He was on a very comfortable yacht when he was arrested in USA waters. The parallels are astounding. How many political influencers work from yachts to be unreachable while in international waters?
