There are agreements and treaties regarding chemical and biological weapons.

The focus has always been to eliminate them and not propagate them. Why? Because these weapons do not only concentrate on military installations and results in large number of dead and sick civilians. Wars are not suppose to wipe out entire populations of people.

If Russia believes the USA was involved inappropriately and violated a treaty, there are methods to stop it. This propaganda strategy by Russia is to ignite the right wing media in the USA to bring sympathy for Russia and a degree of loyalty.

Many of the Soviet-era (click here) chemical and biological weapon programs date from an 17 August 1967 decree of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers, which directed preparations for chemical-biological war. This marked the beginnings of the secret "F" programs, which included the "Flute," "Fouette," and "Fagot" biological weapon programs, as well as the the "Flask," "Ferment," and "Factor" efforts. The "Flora" program was established by a 5 January 1973 decree of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers.

The Russian Federation is the home of the former Soviet stockpile of chemical weapons – consisting of a declared stockpile of nearly 40,000 metric tons of chemical nerve, blister and choking agents. According to some reports, the total stockpile exceeds 50,000 tons, with an additional 32,300 ton stockpile of phosphorus agents.

During World War II, production of all types of chemical agents increased dramatically. Yperite alone was produced by 30 plants with a total capacity of 35,000 tons/year, and Lewisite was produced by 13 plants. Industrial production of sarin began in 1958-1959, production of soman began in 1967, and industrial production of V-agents began in 1972. In the early 1980's special storage facilities were built at industrial sites in Volgograd, Novocheboksarsk, Zaporozhye, Pavlodar, Volsk, and a number of other cities.

Production of chemical weapons was discontinued in Russia in 1987. Russia has officially stated its commitment to destroy, and not replace, its declared CW stocks. The Russian Duma, on December 27, 1996, passed a law on the destruction of CW; however, the Federation Council voted it down on January 23, 1997, on the grounds that it did not provide sufficient guarantees for ecological safety.

On 23 September 1989 Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze signed the Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which called for a bilateral exchange of information and verification inspections for chemical weapons. Two phases comprise the Wyoming MOU.

Phase I consisted of a data exchange data pertaining to CW capabilities, including the aggregate quantity of CW, types of chemicals in CW, percentage of chemicals in munitions and storage containers, and locations of CW storage, production and destruction facilities. Moscow declared some 20 former chemical weapon production facilities and filling plants that were operational after January 1, 1946, including multiple buildings within the large chemical production complexes at Chapayevsk, Dzerzinsk, Volgograd, and Novocheboksarsk. Each side visited CW storage, production, destruction and industrial chemical production facilities from June-August 1990. Phase I concluded with expert visits during January-February 1991 to five U.S. and one Soviet facility....

Metabiota is an American company.

Putin is beginning a propaganda campaign that states it is a Ukrainian company sponsored with USA money by Hunter Biden. That is highly inaccurate. It has overseas labs (click here). All this information is public. There was a lab in Kiev, Ukraine according to the website. The company is contracted by the USA DOD.

The company is not without controversy, an article from "Wired."

A virologist (click here) helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.

...That night Wolfe told me he was forming a network of research outposts around the globe, in hot spots where potentially devastating viruses were poised to make the jump: Cameroon, where HIV likely passed from chimpanzees into local hunters; the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had seen human outbreaks of monkeypox; Malaysia, home to a 1998 emergence of the Nipah virus; and China, where SARS-CoV had crossed over, likely from bats, in 2002. Wolfe's hope was that by understanding what he called the “viral chatter” of such places, it would be possible not only to react more quickly to outbreaks but to forecast their arrival and stop them before they spread. The “100-year thing” he was thinking about was a global pandemic, and how history would judge humanity's efforts to prepare for it. His biggest fear, he said, was a virus unknown to human immune defenses starting a human-to-human transmission chain that would encircle the globe....

These are the people that provide front line information about emerging disease in the world. Who wouldn't invest in them? 

Metabiota (click here) has over a decade of experience partnering with industry and governments worldwide to build resilience to epidemics and protect global public health. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Washington DC, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Metabiota’s team includes global leaders in epidemiology, veterinary medicine, laboratory science, data science, actuarial science, social science, and political economics, and serves some of the most respected customers in the corporate, insurance, government, and multilateral sectors.

Beside Putin, there are three Russian generals now known responsible for genocide.

This image is from  the "Daily Mail." They made a televised presentation to the Russian people. They claim the loses are about 1300 soldiers. That is inaccurate according to NATO (click here). 

Regardless the actual number of Russian soldiers killed the reporting to the Russian people have been vastly under reported. There is a reason for that. It is far easier to lie to the Russian people if Putin's generals admit there were losses. There is no official number in Russia. There is no counter reporting of facts. So, the statements of Russian military generals will be considered accurate. The families and friends of those lost in combat are talking to each other about the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian people in most cities know of losses the city is seeing, but, without accurate official accounting every city can believe their war dead are the highest in number. 

Moscow will consider their sacrifice the greatest while other Russian cities consider their sacrifice the greatest. Without comparison of the number of soldiers now considered dead in any one city, there is only the understanding that the losses were greatest in certain cities. 

It is easy for Russian propaganda to create misinformation through isolation of any other truth.

Virginia Thomas, wife of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, rather a dictatorship to democracy.

Why is it Mark Meadows won't cooperate and talk? Virginia Thomas had direct access to the White House and this is the advise she renders.

I initially wanted to think it is "always about money" when it comes to Republican activists. But, this? This is very surprising and threatening. Basically, how far will Republicans go to vindicate their donations. Are Republican donors expecting quid pro quo in a dictatorship?

Her access directly to the White House only affirms she has crossed legal and ethical lines. How much of a threat is Ginny Thomas? She was never elected, hired or assigned, but, she has direct access to the White House. It is disquieting to reality.

By the way Mark Meadows is being investigated for falsification of his voter registration. He never even visited the property he claimed to be his physical residence (click here). How was he elected to the House of Representatives when he never lived in the district he represented?

March 24, 2022
By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa

Virginia “Ginni” (click here) Thomas and her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arrive for a state dinner at the White House on Sept. 20, 2019.

Virginia Thomas, (click here) a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in a series of urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.

The messages — 29 in all — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and President Donald Trump’s top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to negate the election results.

On Nov. 10, after news organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals, Thomas wrote to Meadows: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”...

Carlson allies Putin in USA propaganda campaign.

Practice hard-hitting journalism with confidence (click here)

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The claims of biological weapons in Ukraine fostered by Urkaine is false. More of the Big Lie.

March 14, 2022
By: Jeff Cercone and Jon Greenberg

Gutted cars following a night air raid in the village of Bushiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia’s unsubstantiated theory that the U.S. has been operating biological weapons labs in Ukraine has been gaining traction in China, where the government has amplified the claim with its own allegations in an escalation of what American officials have dubbed an “information war.”

Russia, China and right-wing American media (click here) have been spreading false stories about U.S.-backed bioweapon labs in Ukraine.”We confirm facts, unearthed as part of the special military operations, which testify to an emergency attempt to erase evidence of military biological programs,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said March 9.

China’s Foreign Ministry tweeted March 8, “The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.”

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson joined in March 9, saying, “We never imagined Ukraine would have biological weapons.”

But as Carlson described it, his eyes were opened when Victoria Nuland, U.S. undersecretary of state, had this exchange with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla....

The United Nations has been assessing the violence in Ukrine by Russia.

UNDP (United Nations Development Program) (click here) works in more than 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.

16 March 2022

War in Ukraine risks seeing 90 per cent of the country “freefall into poverty” and extreme vulnerability, nearly three weeks since Russia invaded its neighbour, a new UN report said on Wednesday.

UNDP warned )click here) that if the conflict drags on – and if more support to the country is not forthcoming quickly – it could wreck almost two decades of economic progress.

In addition to dire development setbacks, the UN agency explained that the environment is expected to suffer, while societal inequalities are likely increase....

March 16, 2022

The immediate humanitarian assistance (click here) to the people of Ukraine is of utmost importance and at the center of global attention. Early estimates by the Humanitarian Country Team indicate that nearly 30 percent of the population are likely to require life-saving humanitarian assistance. In its current scale and direction, 18 million people are projected to become affected and more than 7 million people internally displaced.

The development impacts of the war in Ukraine remain too much below the waterline of public visibility, in Ukraine, regionally and globally. Early UNDP projections suggest that already in the short- to medium term, the development setbacks for Ukraine will be significant. Poverty and inequalities will rise; the country’s economy, its social fabric, and the environment will suffer....

President Joe Biden is the one most qualified person to be president of the USA in this time in history.

Ten million refugees, half are children, is 25 percent of the 44 million population of Ukraine.

Ukrainian refugees (click here) arrive at Hendaye train station, southwestern France, on March 9. 

The war continues with approximately four deaths of civilians with more injured in Kharkiv. The population in Ukraine has been disastourly lowered between deaths of civilians and the refugee migration. This is what genocide looks like. I hope part of the discussions in Brussels included holding Russians in prison for the genocide they have conducted and continue to conduct.

March 24, 2022

The U.S. has announced (click here) new sanctions against Russia and said it would welcome 100,000 refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine as President Joe Biden met with world leaders for a series of emergency summits.

The war has caused a humanitarian and refugee crisis, with more than 10 million people displaced, including 4.3 million children — more than half of the country's child population, according to the U.N.

Biden said Thursday that Russia should be removed from the G-20, the group that represents 20 of the world's largest economies, as Western allies gathered in Europe to discuss new support for Kyiv.

That includes imposing further punishment on Moscow one month after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Europe's biggest conflict since World War II....

Chechen fighters suffered severe losses in Ukraine. They currently are holding the town hall in Mariupol as a morale and propaganda campaign.

22 March 2022

...His fighters (click here) were part of the first wave assault on the country, and died in large numbers around the Hostomel airbase, with one key commander among those killed.

Elite Chechen squads were also reportedly recruited for failed attempts to assassinate key Ukrainian leaders in the first 48 hours of the invasion, western intelligence said....

Russians began shelling the city where workers at Chernobyl live. Shift rotations have stopped once again within that nuclear facility and it is unknown if shift rotations will return as the check points of that city are held by Ukrianian forces are repeatedly attacked by Russian missiles. This is Russia and it's pathetic nuclear practicds.

25 March 2022
By Rachael Bunyan

...Concerns have been raised of a nuclear disaster (click here) after Russian troops began shelling the Ukrainian town where staff working at the Chernobyl plant live. 

The continued Russian shelling of Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych,  home to many Chernobyl nuclear workers, is preventing worker rotations in and out of the plant.

The bombing comes just a few days after Ukrainian technicians who were being held by Russian forces to maintain the defunct nuclear plant for nearly four weeks without being rotated were finally able to go back to their homes in Slavutych....

There is also global support for the Ukrainian President Zelensky in demonstrations he called for to support peace and democracy. There were demonstrations globally and within Russia (click here).

There is a report of mutiny (click here) in protest of Russian soldiers dying. The tank driver ran over his colonel for having killed his friends. Some Russian soldiers are defecting. Assassins invoked by Putin to enforce loyalty aren't going to work against tanks.

The Russian soldiers never bargained for this. They went on maniveurs that turned into an attack on Ukraine. There were not prepared for war. 

Heroes are erupting in Europe.

...Fluri (click here) has so far rescued more than 300 Ukrainians so far. He says it is an “obligation” for him. When you are fortunate later in life, you have to learn to take responsibility for people who are suffering, says Fluri...

There are reports stating Russia has prevailed in Mariupol with 400,000 taken hostage including 84,000 children. The hostages have been moved inside Russia. Evidently, a general is emerging at the face of the new directive by Putin called "Butcher of Mariupol" (click here). With tactics deployed resembling the same used in Syria, there is reason to believe it is the same leadership.

There has been a prisoner exchange of 11 Russian sailors rescued from their sinking ship for 19 Ukrainian sailors taken from Zminyl (Snake) Island. To the right is the location of Zminyl Island.

It appears 300 people died in the Mariupol theater (click here).

China is engaging in diplomacy.

March 25, 2022
By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani

New Delphi - India said on Friday (click here) ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi.

Both nations have deployed thousands of troops on the high-altitude border since hand-to-hand fights killed 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers northern Himalayan region of Ladakh in June 2020. Talks between senior military officers have made little progress....

China appears to be looking for an alliance with the Afghanistan Taliban while eyeing a larger war with Russian alliance. No one should be surprised that brutal dictators, including Putin, are feeling worried about the future of the NATO alliance, but, China would be sacrificing economic Western ties. I guess that is okay with China.

More than likely China is also interested in mining Afghanistan. What will emerge in Afghanistan is the same two class struture noted in most dictatorships, the elite and the poor/workers.

March 25, 2022

China’s foreign minister (click here) made a surprise stop on Thursday in Afghanistan’s capital to meet with the country’s new Taliban rulers — even as the international community fumes over the former insurgents’ broken promise to reopen schools to girls beyond the sixth grade.

The official Bakhtar News Agency announced that Wang Yi will meet with Taliban leaders “to discuss various issues, including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation.”

The Taliban, who seized power in August 2021 during the last, chaotic weeks of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, have been seeking international recognition in order to open up the country’s economy, which has been in free fall since their takeover.

China has not shown any inclination to recognize the Taliban government but has avoided criticizing the new rulers despite their repressive rules directed particularly at women, who are denied the right to work and full access to education....

I will be traveling for a few days.

I think it is time Russia leave Ukraine. It has been a disasterous and unprovoked war. The deaths will only escalate. There is no reason for this to continue. This entire mess is a travesty. 

March 22, 2022
By Dominic Nicholls

Ukraine's peace negotiators (click here) may not be prepared for the belligerent KGB tactics of their Russian counterparts, a senior government adviser has warned.

Luliia Osmolovska, an adviser to the Ukraine government, said Moscow's team was taught to belittle opponents and would not engage constructively in talks with Kyiv until there was a “moment of ripeness”.

She told The Telegraph: “This moment appears when both parties understand the status quo is intolerable for both of them and they can't resolve issues unilaterally without communicating and engaging in cooperation with the other side.

“The Russians still don't feel this sense of ripeness for them, despite the fact that they are obviously underperforming heavily on the battlefield.”

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesman, said on Tuesday that the negotiations were "going a lot slower" than Moscow hoped. Putting the results before a referendum, as Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has promised, would only "undermine the process", he said....

What happens when the goon squads decide to defect?

22 March 2022

Russian troops (click here) are being ordered to kill defectors trying to flee the war
Execution squads are reportedly being drawn up to kill attempted defectors
Ukraine have been bombarding Russian soldiers' phones with a guide to surrender

The Russian military has a real opportunity. They can surrender before they kill anyone and ask for asylum. That isn't a bad deal at all.

The wind would drive any nuclear explosion over Ukraine right back over Russia.

 Global Loop (click here) But, Putin is full of surprises. He irresponsibly entered into war without any prior plan for invasion. Never once has he consulted with others regarding his activities, so it is only best if others who are worried about Ukriane speak up to allow Putin to see how his agenda is not only ill conceived, but, dangerous for the entire planet. The radiation over the Pacific would contaminate the food chain.

A nuclear winter could occur over Russia with potential jet stream contamination for China, the Pacific and Alaska. There would be significant damage in Ukraine, but, the poison wouldn't stay in one place. 

The world is looking at uncontained environmental radiation that would pollute water and air and begin an entire issue with cancers 20 years from the day of detonation. Not to mention birth defects.

This is the year 2022 where the world population, even with COVID deaths, is nearly 8 billion. China and India alone sequester 2 billion of that number. The idea Putin would release a nuclear weapon in a war that is he sorely losing is grossly incompetent. This, however, is typical of Putin's escalation technique in that when the early weapons don't work simply increase the size of the destruction by more and more deadly weapons.

Earth cannot sustain these explosions and the idea there would be contamination that would travel to countries not involved in this war is an outrage. The world of 2022 should be the year when ALL nuclear weapons are disarmed and the idea of ever using them filed into history. Don't think for one minute Putin cares about anything except his own agenda. He does not care if the world is contaminated, lord knows, Russia already is.

The Ukrainian people have retaken Makariv from Russian occupation. It is time Vladimir Putin withdraw all his troops.

This is a ridiculous war based in fiction and myth. The Russians need to go home.

March 22, 2022

By John Ismay

The Pentagon (click here) has assessed that Russia’s “combat power” in Ukraine — comprising more than 150,000 troops massed in Belarus and western Russian prior to the invasion — has dipped below 90 percent of its original force for the first time, reflecting the losses Russian troops have suffered at the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.

A senior defense official, who was not authorized to discuss details of Russia’s actions in Ukraine publicly, said Tuesday morning that Russian forces were “struggling on many fronts,” including routine supply lines and logistics, and that the Pentagon had seen indications that some Russian troops had been evacuated because of frostbite....

The hotel stated the video surveillance of the floor showed no one entering the room after Bob Saget did. The coroner's report states he was COVID-19 positive. 

There is obviously a fall. But, the question is what caused the fall. The greatest impact is at the occipital area of the head with a linear fracture. There seems to be minimal blood loss, so the pictures of the shower show some blood in the shower that appear in the picture to be brown streaks. There was also impact of the face. None of the injuries at the back of the head and front explains the three hemorrhages that are subdural, subarachnoid and subgaleal. I suppose there could be some tearing after the initial impact of the head, but, there is also a chance the head bleeds were caused by the virus which may have caused imbalance and a fall. Unless all the head bleeds can be attributed to the impact of the fall, that is a viable explanation.
 

Another Osprey failure.

March 22, 2022

By Thomas Leffler

A foray into the depths of severe freezing conditions (click here) has led to the death of four United States Marines.

On Friday, March 18, the four assigned to the Second Marine Aircraft Wing were killed due to a crash of an American MV-22 Osprey aircraft, with the plane crashing in northern Norway during a NATO military exercise. Harsh weather conditions were occurring at the time of the crash, and in the aftermath, an array of weather hazards has hindered the investigation of the crash site.

“The Osprey belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps and is taking part in the Norwegian military exercise Cold Response in Norway,” said a statement by Norway’s Armed Forces Friday. “The aircraft has a crew of four and was out on a training mission in Nordland County, northern Norway.”

Every war crime committed needs to receive heavy fines, assets seized and sold at auction for a Ukraine Trust Fund established for muntions and survival.

Ultimately when Russia is defeated, any trust fund can be used to rebuild the country of Ukraine. As of right now, any Russian assets are the property of the nation of Ukraine.

Include in that any offshore accounts of any Russian, including Vladimir Putin.

22 March 2022
By Martin Robinson

Roman Abramovich's UK private property portfolio (click here) - and the amount of London he has been able to buy up in 20 years - is far larger than imagined as it today emerged the oligarch and his family has amassed a bank of 53 luxury British homes worth more than £250million.

The sanctioned billionaire, 55, who also owns £3.1billion Chelsea, is also said to be linked to a further 17 commercial properties and pieces of land in the capital, nicknamed 'Moscow on Thames' due to the amount of Russian cash pumped into the city.

This extraordinary global property empire, comprising more than 70 UK assets alone, raises questions about how effective sanctions against him really are because of opaque and arms-length ownership structures used by rich Russian to frustrate efforts to freeze bank accounts or even seize their homes....

This is why there is an exodus by the young Russia brain trust.

His clothes don't fit him anymore. Nothing of what he is accused of is true and if it were never needs this level of incarceration. This man is in priosn because Putin wants it that way.

Russian opposition (click here) leader Alexei Navalny, accused of fraud and contempt of court, his lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev are seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the IK-2 corrective penal colony in the town of Pokrov in Vladimir Region, Russia March 22, 2022.

There is no hope for the future for the next generation of Russians. The elections are corrupt to bring about a repeat of the rule of the old communist party.

How is Alexei Navalny an opposition leader when he is chronically in prison. He represents a different Russia, but, he is hardly leading anything that will bring about a system of governance that is free of corruption.

When are Russians going to be arrested and tried for their crimes?

March 2, 2022

A recent alleged assassination plot (click here) against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was foiled over the weekend and the Chechen servicemen sent from Russia were “destroyed,” a Ukrainian security leader said Tuesday....

Every Russian that can be captured needs to be incarcerated until trials at the World Court.

Every attack in this video is a human rights violation and a war crime. The trials of Russians should begin at The Hague.

What a great judge she is currently.

She will be a great Supreme Court Justice. I think this is especially nice that Justice Breyer is retiring and able to see a woman that was once a member of his staff become the Justice to fill his vacancy. That is really special.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s (click here) nomination to a federal appeals court was approved by the Senate last year on a 53-to-44 vote.

I want to apologize to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the ill behavior of some Republicans Senators. The worst of the bunch is the US Senator that was proud of the January 6th insurrection. I think his name is Hawley. He always is running at the mouth with political dogma at the center of his inability to be a real human being. 

The sex offender and preying on children thing comes directly from the Senator's followers that state Democrats are pedophiles and eat children. It is all political. I am not surprised Hawley was able to work the questions enough to get his points across to the extreme right political wing of the GOP that Senator Grassley thinks is above doing such a thing. Well. They did such a thing.

I am looking forward to her place in the Supreme Court. What a great and humble person she is for placing each case in the heart of the USA Constitution and being certain it is upheld for the depth of freedom it brings to every American. I thank her for her time as a judge to date and for the many hours she will spend in the future. 

Credit..

Regardless of the success Russia had in WWII, they didn't achieve it alone.

Will the Russian people hear it?

Nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers dead.

Putin doesn't even have respect for his own people. He won't tell the truth. He dishonors the soldiers that died for his campaign and he won't even admit they are dead.

A war of attrition. That is the answer in the age of nuclear weapons. The suffering of innocent people at the hand of a genocidal Russian president to what end is undeniably full of grief. 

Nearly two centuries of time saw several wars of attrition with Russia. Putin has his country of people primed for such a war. They are after all Russians and the world hates them according to their president. Long suffering may very well be in the Russian genome. If Vladmir Putin doesn't care about Ukrainians as he kills at will whether soldier or citizen what makes anyone believe a war of attrition is going to end this?

Russians don't care about morality, ethics or the truth. They only care about the bottom line. 

March 22, 2022
By Matthew Goldstein and David Enrich

In July 2012, a shell company (click here) registered in the British Virgin Islands wired $20 million to an investment vehicle in the Cayman Islands that was controlled by a large American hedge fund firm.

The wire transfer was the culmination of months of work by a small army of handlers and enablers in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. It was a stealth operation intended, at least in part, to mask the source of the funds: Roman Abramovich.

For two decades, the Russian oligarch has relied on this circuitous investment strategy — deploying a string of shell companies, routing money through a small Austrian bank and tapping the connections of leading Wall Street firms — to quietly place billions of dollars with prominent U.S. hedge funds and private equity firms, according to people with knowledge of the transactions....

When dealing in wealth, the oligarchs are not reliable investors as Putin can remove monies from them for his own priorities whenever he darn well pleases. Now, if Wall Street can't understand OR CARE about whether they have ethical partners, where does anyone think ethics and respect for life is coming from?

In order for a war of attrition to work it requires one thing and that is eventually there is a party that decides the struggle is not worth the bloodshed or the sacrifice. What makes anyone think Russia is going to care about the cost of the war either in human life or the integrity of a country to be able to feed and clothe it's people?

CNN's reporting clearly shows Russia is carrying out propaganda to keep the war out of the minds of Russians.

The report (click here) from the tabloid originally read, "According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces lost 9861 people killed and 16153 wounded."

CNN analyzed the HTML code in the website which indicates that the article was published on Monday at 12:09 a.m. Moscow time.

Seconds after CNN read the original article — at 9:56 p.m. Moscow time according to the HTML code — the story was updated and removed all references to the death count. That update on the outlet's website came shortly after the article began to get attention from social media posts, which referenced the death count. 

Some background: Since March 2, Russia has not reported a military death count. The original report from the tabloid is in line with US Department of Defense estimates, which say that there have been up to 10,000 Russian military deaths.

Vladimir Putin is engaged in a genocide of Ukrainians. He has no conscience. He lives in a bubble where life is always perfect for him. If a Russian raises an adverse word about him they receive punishment. He has no idea what the people of his country think of his leadership, if you can call it that.

Vladimir Putin will never understand that a war of attrition will be so devastating to the people that he will have to find the moral compass to end it. That isn't going to happen. He has no moral compass and he will do what he feels necessary to inflict suffering in Ukraine for as long as it takes. He will never concede a loss or believe that he will never win. It will be nothing but a scorched earth outcome and he is fine with that.

The word win doesn't exist in the Russian language except when athletes are denied wins for the motherland because they use drugs not allowed in international sports. That is the only time when win will mean anything because the suffering of the athletes is typical for the way the world treats Russians. That is the national dialogue that creates the idea that Russians will suffer as long as necessary because that is what life perscribes for them.

This genocide by Putin will last years and he doesn't care. He doesn't care how many boys he will lose in combat or the tanks that will be destroyed or the missles that will destroy every inch of Ukraine. Putin has no conscience and he has protected criminals in Russia that have killed for him by poisonings in Europe. Those criminals are national heroes to Putin. That is the level of deranged reality Putin carries out and has for a long time.

War of attrition? Putin says, bring it on. He problably had dinner with Satan every night which is why he is no longer married regardless of the children he brings into the world.

Putin has no conscience. Remember that when talks fail time and again. President Zelensky has been attempting to engage in dialogue with Satan's spawn for two years already.

The Ukrainian people need a solution for their homeland. Anybody have one because a war of attrition is nothing to Putin.

It appears Soldier of Fortune wannabees are as qualified as any Russia in the field. Perhaps more so.

March 21, 2022
By Sudarsan Raghavan

Kyiv - Before he decided to buy a one-way plane ticket to Ukraine, (click here) Adam worked two jobs, as a security guard and as a cashier at a dollar store. He owned guns and fired them at shooting ranges, but the only fighting he had ever done was in mixed martial arts classes.

That didn’t stop the tall, lanky 24-year-old from Thousand Oaks, a Los Angeles suburb, from flying to this war-torn capital earlier this month. He joined a new international legion set up to fight Russian forces about 15 miles outside the city.

Adam, sporting camouflage pants, is unfazed by his inexperience in combat. He will rely, he said, on sheer determination — to save Ukraine and protect American values.

“Democracy and freedom are very important to the whole world,” said Adam, seated in the lobby of a Kyiv hotel, along with other foreigners dressed in their new military camouflage who have joined his unit. “What [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is doing is simply wrong. And Ukraine is the underdog, so they need help.”...

There is more to the grit in Ukraine than just patriotic love for country. The alternative must be horrible and intolerable. Russia is losing it's young brain trust.

March 20, 2022
By Jane Arraf

Yerevan, Armenia - At the Lumen cafe (click here) in the Armenian capital, Russians arrive as soon as the doors open, ordering specialty coffees, opening up their sleek Apple laptops and trying to navigate a dwindling array of options for starting their lives over.

The background music and the sunlit interior are calming counterpoints to the frantic departures from their country, where they left behind parents, pets and the sense of home that all but vanished when Russia invaded Ukraine last month....

According to the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, (click here) the arrival of refugees has been 300,000 in three weeks. The city's infrastructure is holding but stretched. He is worried about the continued influx of refugees, many are children and in school in Warsaw. There needs to be a plan in Europe and the USA has to do it's part in accepting refugees from Ukriane. And this is just Warsaw, the rest of Poland is receiving the refugees as well. No one should be turned away.

Between the refugees from Ukraine there is also young Russians arriving in Europe. It is a continuing crisis The West has to decide how best to handle all those leaving to save their own lives and that of their families.

The hospitals are still care for COVID-19 patients. The new variant has spread rapidly in Europe. It is in the USA and spearding here as well. This is a sincere challenge for The West.