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US Investor Lynch Eyes Nord Stream 2 Purchase, Citing Strategic Value for US

American investor Stephen P. Lynch has expressed an interest in buying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if it is put up for auction as part of the bankruptcy proceedings in Switzerland, The Wall Street Journal reports.

“An American investor with a history of dealmaking in Russia has asked the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it comes up for auction in a Swiss bankruptcy proceeding,” the report said.

According to sources cited by the newspaper, Lynch expressed determination to buy the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline and applied to the US Treasury in February for a license to negotiate its construction with entities under US sanctions, noting that many investors might avoid the auction due to the difficult geopolitical situation.

Lynch has advocated to US officials and lawmakers that owning the pipeline would give the United States a powerful tool in negotiating peace with Russia to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, while also supporting broader American strategic objectives.

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‘The United States Is Pushing the Whole World Into Global Conflict… There Will Always Be a Response’ — Russian President Putin Releases Statement Following Launch of Hypersonic Missile Into Ukraine

Russian President Putin released a statement on Thursday following the escalating events this week in the war with Ukraine and NATO.

This came after Ukrainian and NATO forces launched long-range US and British missiles into Russia this week, just days after Joe Biden’s handlers approved of this maneuver.

The Biden regime and his handlers are determined to escalate this conflict into a global crisis just two weeks after President Trump won a decisive victory in the US presidential race.

Putin made the statement on Russian television after Russia launched a hypersonic ballistic attack on Ukraine on Thursday.

Putin said that six U.S.-manufactured ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles struck Bryansk on November 19, followed by a coordinated assault involving British Storm Shadow missiles and U.S.-made HIMARS systems on November 21.

In response, the Russian Armed Forces launched a combined strike on a Ukrainian defense industrial complex in Dnepropetrovsk on November 21.

Putin revealed that the attack included a combat test of a new hypersonic ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, capable of reaching speeds of Mach 10.

The Russian leader issued a stark warning to nations supporting Ukraine with military equipment, suggesting that any escalation could prompt retaliatory strikes on their military facilities.

Putin also criticized the United States for its withdrawal from the INF Treaty in 2019, blaming the move for destabilizing international security. He accused the U.S. of deploying advanced missile systems worldwide under the guise of military exercises, a development he called a grave error.

He emphasized that Russia would notify civilians and foreign nationals in targeted areas before conducting strikes, citing humanitarian concerns. However, he expressed confidence in the invincibility of Russia’s hypersonic missile systems, declaring, “There are no means of countering such weapons today.”

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Sweden, Finland warn residents to be ready for war: ‘Situation is serious’

Sweden and Finland have all begun warning their residents to prepare for the possibility of war as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine rages on.

Stockholm on Monday published its latest version of “In Case of Crisis or War,” a pamphlet instructing civilians on how to prepare for, and ride out, a national crisis that was last sent out in 2018.

The pamphlet, which has been issued five times since World War II, is now twice as long at 32 pages and focuses on war preparations as the Swedish government warns of the worsening situation in Ukraine.

“The security situation is serious and we all need to strengthen our resilience to face various crises and ultimately war,” said Mikael Frisell, director of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

An estimated 5.2 million copies of the pamphlet are set to be delivered to Swedish households in the next two weeks, with the text available in multiple languages online.

The text calls on citizens to be ready with a stockpile of food and emergency supplies, including baby food, medicine and hygiene products.

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Russia Strikes Ukrainian Defense Plant in Dnepropetrovsk Using Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles for the First Time in Warfare

As we stare into the future of the war in Ukraine, we now have daily escalations from both sides, each scarier than the next.

On  Thursday, Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with multiple non-nuclear re-entry warheads on the city of Dnepropetrovsk, in Ukraine.

This comes after Joe Biden approved the use of long-range US-made missiles to be fired by Ukraine into Russia – which they did earlier this week.

This strike marks the first time that an ICBM has been used in the history of human conflict.

It is believed that six RS-26 missile strikes completely destroyed the Yuzhmash defense plant, where the damaged American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and German Leopard tanks were being repaired.

At the same time of the main attack, Kinzhal missiles hit the local Patriot air defense system battery.

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The UK joins the US in launching missile attacks deep inside Russian territory – Russia prepares to carpet bomb Ukraine, including Kiev – destroying what little remains of its power generation

From this 28-minute video here:

Harvest Time🔥 ATACMS & Storm Shadow Strike💥 West Braces For Retribution🌏 Military Summary 2024.11.20

I will let you play the video – the opening segment details upcoming Russian retaliation for missile attacks by the Americans and British deep inside Russia – and looks ominous for the Ukrainian people as much as it does for the Ukrainian military.

No doubt Resident Biden and Obersturmführer Starmer factored in acceptable Ukrainian and Russian civilian casualties of around 250,000 in the decision to bomb the Russian mainland.

Brits and Americas may so be looking anxiously skyward for incoming hypersonic missile with a range of many thousands of miles – courtesy of the dead duck POTUS Biden and the clueless left-wing lunatic, UK Prime Minister Starmer.

No news on German, French and other EU countries missiles. Maybe the F-16’s supplied by the Netherlands will soon be put to use over Ukraine airspace against a few dozen Russian high attitude bombers.

The US embassy in Kiew has been shut, along with many other embassies.

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The Ukraine war is a war that should never have happened; who’s keeping it going and why?

“This is a war that should never have happened,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the beginning of the year.  “It’s a war the Russians tried repeatedly to settle on terms that were very very beneficial to Ukraine.”

“The big military contractors want to add new countries to NATO all the time,” he said. Why? “Because then that country has to conform its military purchases to NATO weapon specifications which means certain companies … get a trapped market,” he explained.

Few people understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business – namely, opportunity. It’s not just the weapons and reconstruction contracts. Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands-  among the most fertile in the world – are up for grabs, and American companies like BlackRock are at the front of the line.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“RFK Jr.”) deftly and clearly explains.

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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?

Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on October 29, the UN Special Rapporteur deviated from the typical line of other UN officials. She directed her statements to those in attendance.

“Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize with the Palestinians?” Albanese said in her statement about the need to “recognize (Israel’s war on Gaza) as a genocide”. “Those of you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room,” she added.

Was Albanese too idealistic when she chose to appeal to empathy, which, in her words, represents “the glue that makes us stand united as humanity”?

The answer largely depends on how we wish to define the role being played by the UN and its various institutions; whether its global platform was established as a guarantor of peace, or as a political club for those with military might and political power to impose their agendas on the rest of the world?

Albanese is not the first person to express deep frustration with the institutional, let alone the moral collapse of the UN, or the inability of the institution to affect any kind of tangible change, especially during times of great crises.

The UN’s own Secretary-General Antonio Guterres himself had accused the executive branch of the UN, the Security Council, of being “outdated”, “unfair” and an “ineffective system”.

“The truth is that the Security Council has systematically failed in relation to the capacity to put an end to the most dramatic conflicts that we face today,” he said, referring to “Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine”. Also, although noting that “The UN is not the Security Council”, Guterres acknowledged that all UN bodies “suffer from the fact that the people look at them and think, ‘Well, but the Security Council has failed us.’”

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PRC Espionage: Are Chinese Americans Their Top Recruitment Targets?

On November 1, 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of the “China Initiative” – a whole-of-government effort ostensibly designed to thwart espionage and technology theft by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Chinese American groups and activists immediately denounced the program as racially biased and its investigations improperly predicated, and in 2021 two studies provided them with ample proof that their allegations were correct.

The first was a study showing how rare it was for Chinese Americans to actually engage in espionage on behalf of the PRC. The second study chronicled the extremely high number of “China Initiative” cases that resulted in acquittals or dismissed cases. In late February 2022, the Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen announced the Department was ending the program, with Olsen telling a George Mason University crowd that he had “concluded that this initiative was not the right approach” to combatting PRC espionage and technology theft.

Three months later, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued a report that dealt in part with the question of whether or not PRC intelligence organizations prioritized the recruitment of Chinese Americans for spying or tech theft. That report, which was mandated by Congress, made a categorical statement about PRC intelligence asset targeting and recruitment strategy:

“It is the IC’s assessment that while the PRC promotes the false narrative that individuals of Chinese descent owe some allegiance to the PRC, neither race nor ethnicity is the primary criterion utilized by the PRC’s intelligence services in their recruitment of intelligence assets.”

But is this true? A recent trove of documents released to the Cato Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request leaves the question of whether the PRC targets Chinese Americans as potential agents.

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‘People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base

Seventy-five protesters gathered under threatening skies at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California at 6:30 am on Wednesday, November 20. Their mission: to speak out and briefly interrupt the shipment of weapons to Israel from this air base.

For 90 minutes, they showed banners such as “Stop Arms for War Crimes” and “Stop Travis: No US Weapons for Genocide. ” They delayed traffic on the busy six-lane roadway into the base by frequently pressing the button to allow pedestrian crossing.  Fliers were handed out to receptive drivers. The flyers asked “Why are we blocking access to Travis Air Base and messing up your day?”.  It was explained that while November 20 is World Children’s Day, weapons to Israel from Travis are being used to kill children. Bombs loaded onto planes at Travis and other US air bases have killed many thousands of children.

David Vidmar grew up on Travis Air Base. He said, “I am participating in the People’s Arms Embargo to honor my father as he would have been sickened by the indiscriminate targeting, slaughter and starvation of Gazan children and women in Israel’s genocide.”

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German military readying for NEW WAR with Russia, classified document reveals

A secret document called “Operation Plan Germany” has gone public, showing that the Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, is preparing for a new war with Russia.

The Bundeswehr launched a nationwide initiative to train German businesses in how to prepare for the coming crisis, which sounds as though it will become a full-scale military escalation between Germany and Russia.

The 1,000-page document outlines strategic steps that Germany can take to defend its critical infrastructure and maintain its national security amid rising tensions with Moscow over the situation in Ukraine.

Germany is going to try to bolster its economic resilience as part of the plan, which is a tall order considering the economic powerhouse of Europe no longer has access to cheap and abundant energy from Russia.

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