Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Links — 2 Mar 2022 Part 1

Greek City Times
Greek in Mariupol: “The fascist Ukrainians would kill me, they don’t let us leave the city” (VIDEO)
Athens Bureau
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/01/greek-in-mariupol-fascist-ukrainian/

Reminiscence of the Future
Kherson Is Taken.
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/kherson-is-taken.html

Moon of Alabama (Putin's approval rating in Russia rises 11 point to 71%)
Disarming Ukraine - Day 7
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/disarming-ukraine-day-7.html

From the comments at MoA. Translation of Telegram post from Russian.
Emergency statement of the official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR at 15.30 02.03.2022

According to operational information received in the city of Mariupol, on the territory of the Azov-Stal plant, the commander of a separate special forces detachment "Azov" of 12 armored units of the National Guard of Ukraine is preparing for a mass provocation with the death of civilians. For this purpose, the civilian population is brought into the territory of the Azov-Steel plant, which is placed in mined workshops and office premises. Military equipment is placed in the courtyard of the enterprise. In the event of a breakthrough in the defense of the city of Mariupol by units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the nationalists plan to blow up the plant's buildings, with further accusation of the Russian side of destroying civilians and civilian infrastructure with artillery fire.

In the basement and premises of school No. 34 on 17 Gastelo Street, more than 60 civilians are forcibly detained, of which more than half are women and children. All civilians who tried to leave the city through the provided humanitarian corridors are forcibly brought to the school. According to information from the teachers of the Priazov State Technical University, located along Universitetskaya Street, 7, militants from the Azov unit began to mine the building, as well as the approaches to it with controlled explosive devices.

Posted by: alaff | Mar 2 2022 14:57 utc | 5
The Vineyard of the Saker
Russian MFA: The Truth Behind Events in Ukraine and Donbass
http://thesaker.is/russian-mfa-the-truth-behind-events-in-ukraine-and-donbass/

Latest Comments from the Russian MFA
http://thesaker.is/latest-comments-from-the-russian-mfa/

Has Putin Miscalculated? | With Pepe Escobar | Part 1/2 (video)
Pepe Escobar
http://thesaker.is/has-putin-miscalculated-with-pepe-escobar-part-1-2/

India Punchline
Why Russian operation focuses on Donbass, Black Sea regions
https://www.indianpunchline.com/why-russian-operation-focuses-on-donbass-black-sea-regions/

The EU Eyes New Horizons (German re-armament will tip the balance of power in Europe as German nationalism grows. This was never supposed to happen.)
Originally appeared in the Moscow website Strategic Culture Foundation
https://www.indianpunchline.com/the-eu-eyes-new-horizons/
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

Asia Times ("The heart of the matter is that they think this is another crusade of the Christian countries – cloaked as values and “rules-based order” – which they’ve experienced so often." I would say that they view as another imperialist war, too.)
Why Middle East won’t join US in isolating Russia
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
This article was produced in partnership by Indian Punchline and Globetrotter, which provided it to Asia Times.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/why-middle-east-wont-join-us-in-isolating-russia/
 
Dances with Bears
OPERATION BARBAROSSA IN SLOW MOTION — THIS IS THE OFFENSIVE CAPACITY THE US WAS PREPARING IN THE UKRAINE UNTIL LAST WEEK
John Helmer
http://johnhelmer.net/operation-barbarossa-in-slow-motion-this-is-the-offensive-capacity-the-us-was-preparing-in-the-ukraine-until-last-week/

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
U.S. has its knee to the neck of Europe in the form of NATO: an interview 1 March with Radio Belarus
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/02/u-s-has-its-knee-to-the-neck-of-europe-in-the-form-of-nato-an-interview-1-march-with-radio-belarus/

SouthFront
https://southfront.org/ukrainian-nationalist-battalions-prepare-mass-murder-provocations-in-mariupol/






































5 comments:

lastgreek said...

Any mention in the above-mentioned greemcitytimes article about the ethnic Greek towns/villages taken over by the Russian-speaking separatists?

Economist Thrasos Eftychidis, who has been living and working in the former Soviet Union for the last 28 years, expressed enormous concern for the large Greek communities of the wider Mariupol area.

“Things are very difficult for the Greeks in the area,” he told Ethnos.
“The Russian-speaking separatists of the eastern provinces took control of four other Greek villages.”

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He described the Russian invasion as a “huge mistake”, as Putin’s “security law” was lost in the invasion of Ukraine.

“I think the invasion is a huge mistake,” Eftychidis said.

“With this, Putin has put his country and the whole world on adventures.

“With the invasion, Putin has managed to lose the right he had and the whole compromising part of the West.

“I also consider it a great mistake for Putin to recognise the two Donbass republics. With this decision he opened the bag of Aeolus.

“Any right of the Russian positions was lost with the first bomb on Ukrainian territory.”


https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/03/ukraine-war-russian-greek-mariupol/

lastgreek said...

In the Odyssey Aeolus gave Odysseus a favourable wind and a bag in which the unfavourable winds were confined. Odysseus' companions opened the bag; the winds escaped and drove them back to the island. Although he appears as a human in Homer, Aeolus later was described as a minor god.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aeolus-Homeric-character

Peter Pan said...

Aeolus was Kevin Sorbo's sidekick.

lastgreek said...

who the hell i he? no way i'm googling that funny name

Peter Pan said...

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys was an action adventure series that ran in the 1990s.