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Biden to ‘surge’ U.S. funding of Ukraine war effort as U.S. military plans for major black swan event causing ‘civil disturbance’ here at home

With the swipe of his pen, Joe Biden announced another $425 million in military aid for Ukraine this week as he updated Ukrainian President Zelenskiy on his efforts to “surge” American funding of Ukraine’s war with Russia over the final months of his term in office.

The package includes air-defense weapons, air-to-ground missiles, armored vehicles, and critical munitions to meet the urgent needs of a badly outmanned Ukrainian army, according to a White House statement that said Biden spoke by phone with Zelenskiy about additional U.S. military aid to the country.

The statement reads:

“In the coming months, the United States will provide Ukraine with a range of additional capabilities, including hundreds of air-defense interceptors, dozens of tactical air-defense systems, additional artillery systems, significant quantities of ammunition, hundreds of armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, and thousands of additional armored vehicles, all of which will help to equip Ukraine’s armed forces.”

During the phone call, Zelenskiy updated Biden on his plan to achieve victory over Russia. A victory which any rational observer knows is impossible.

It’s impossible by the simple fact that Russia has a population that is nearly four times that of Ukraine and Russia has a defense industry that’s shown itself capable of out-producing all NATO countries combined when it comes to critical ammunition, such as 155mm artillery shells.

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German News Publication Claims Ukraine Could Have Nuclear Weapons WITHIN WEEKS — Report

German news publication Bild reported Thursday that Ukraine could have nuclear weapons within weeks, citing a statement they reported Ukrainian ruler Vladimir Zelensky said.

“Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and then they will be our defense. Or we have to enter into a kind of alliance. Apart from NATO, we do not know any effective alliances today,” Zelensky allegedly said while in a conversation with Donald Trump a few weeks ago, according to Bild and translated from German into English.

According to RT, Zelensky claimed that Trump agreed with him on the Ukrainian nuclear desire, although no evidence exists to indicate Trump actually agreed with it, as Trump only spoke of ending the war to avoid nuclear war, a contradiction to Zelensky’s claim.

According to Bild and translated to English from German, a high-ranking Ukrainian official specializing in arms procurement ‘hinted’ to Bild, politicians and officials a few months ago that the technical requirements to accomplishing this atomic goal are present.

“We have the material, we have the knowledge. If there is an order, we will only need a few weeks until the first bomb,” the source allegedly said according to Bild.

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Departing Russian ambassador to Washington warns of escalating U.S.-Russian tensions and rising risk of nuclear conflict over Ukraine

Russia’s former top envoy to the United States has concluded his term with a dire warning about the escalating risk of deteriorating tensions between Moscow and Washington that could potentially lead to a nuclear confrontation.

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov has been relieved after seven years of serving as Moscow’s top diplomat in the country. In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Antonov shared his concerns before stepping down after seven years of service.

During his tenure, Antonov became a prominent voice for the Kremlin’s stance on U.S.-Russia relations, which have steadily worsened amid the conflict in Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s increased military support for Kyiv.

In his final interview in the U.S., Antonov expressed concern that the ongoing conflict was drawing American leaders deeper into a dangerous situation. (Related: Preparing for WWIII? Thousands of French soldiers to join military exercise in Romania next year for simulated war with Russia.)

“‘Project Ukraine’ is dragging American politicians further into an abyss, from which it is increasingly difficult to escape,” Antonov told Newsweek. He criticized U.S. officials for responding to Russian military gains in the contested Donbas region and Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast with repeated commitments to continue supporting Ukraine “as long as we can.”

Antonov lamented that Washington had not signaled any interest in negotiations or attempts to reconsider its stance. “There are zero signals to [Ukraine] about the need to think over their position and sit down at the negotiating table,” he said. “Nor are there any hints about stopping the senseless flow of weapons at the expense of the local taxpayer.”

He further warned that U.S. discussions about potentially allowing Ukraine to use American-supplied ballistics to conduct long-range missile strikes in Russian territory were particularly dangerous due to recent warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin that such actions would amount to NATO’s direct involvement in the conflict.

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More Bad News For Ukraine: 90% Of It’s Thermal Power Capacity Is GONE

Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has said that almost all of Ukraine’s thermal power generation capabilities have been destroyed by Russian long-range strikes. Shmigal added that the country must now rely on substitutes.

The news continues to get worse for Ukraine as we head toward winter.

The prime minister added that Kyiv’s priority is to provide these regions with alternative sources of heat and electricity, noting that Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, has received dozens of energy equipment units, including powerful electricity generators.

While writing on Telegram on Tuesday, Shmigal said Kiev is doing its best to increase energy sustainability, especially in frontline regions and areas bordering Russia. He added that “cities that depend on large thermal power plants are especially vulnerable,” given that Russia “purposefully attacked” these types of facilities, “destroying or damaging almost 90% of all thermal power generation” in the country.

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NATO – US, UK and Germany – about to authorise direct strikes on Russia cities and military bases – North Korea to send a few hundred thousand troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine?

Selensky is about to return from delivering his “victory plan” to BATO leaders – seeking authorisation to use long-range missiles – controlled by NATO from targeting to launch – that can strike deep into Russia.

This will, presumably, provoke a direct response by Russia to return fire on military bases and cities in the US, UK ad Germany – plus other NATO countries.

Russia and China are engaged in anti-submarine ad is well prepared to invade Taiwan with other naval exercises around the whole of Taiwan.

The UK is active threatening European countries like Georgia to become more belligerent.

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Ukraine Appears Now to Have Lost Its War With Russia

Ever since a year ago, when Ukraine’s offensive against Russian forces failed, no possibility has existed for Ukraine to win its war unless the U.S. would violate Russia’s national-security “red lines” — such as by making Ukraine, which is a mere 300 miles away from The Kremlin, a NATO member, or else by allowing Ukraine to use NATO weapons to strike far enough into Russia so as to be able to bomb The Kremlin and decapitate Russia’s Government. On 12 October 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden, after a month of indecision (ever since September 13th) about whether to allow Ukraine to use NATO weapons so as to cross Russia’s national-security red line by using these weapons in that way, finally had his agent, the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, tell Ukraine’s leader Volodmyr Zelensky, that Zelensky will not get U.S.-and-allied permission to do that — use NATO-supplied weapons in that way. Consequently, the only way in which Ukraine can continue to receive support from The West is to avoid violating Russia’s national-security red line. To put this short: NATO has now, finally, refused to escalate Ukraine’s war into a nuclear war between Russia and The West if and when Russia is about to conquer (defeat) Ukraine. The West has given up on Ukraine.

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NATO’s NEXT Move Puts EVERYBODY In Danger

Russia President Vladimir Putin has issued a very unusual, late-night statement:

At approximately 3:30 AM Moscow, Russia time, the Russian President said: 

“The world is facing a fatal and irreversible turning point!” 

Nothing else was said and no explanation was offered.

UPDATE 10:50 AM EDT (SATURDAY)

It is now confirmed that President Putin was referring to the now-taking-place meeting of NATO countries, at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

At the now-taking-place meeting, a decision is expected to be taken GRANTING Ukraine the permission to use West-supplied, long-range missiles, to strike deep into Russia.

For months, Russia has warned against this, because taking this step will make NATO countries “Combatant participants” in the Ukraine conflict.

All of those West-supplied missiles REQUIRE active satellite guidance to reach their target.  Ukraine doesn’t have satellites; it would have to use U.S./NATO satellites.  Therein lies the explicit participation of NATO.   Actively guiding Ukraine-fired missiles into Russia makes the U.S. and NATO active, direct, participants in the conflict.

He pointed to a meeting of NATO which would allow Ukraine to fire missiles (with everything controlled by US/NATO TODAY.

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Ex-Russian Ambassador to D.C. Yeah Warns of Nuclear Risk, Says U.S. Won’t be Protected by Oceans

Russia announced last week that it has pulled its ambassador to the U.S. and the outgoing diplomat warned the West, again, of the growing risk of a nuclear confrontation between the countries.

Anatoly Antanov served in the post since 2017 and told reporters the relationship between countries was “arguably at the lowest point in their history.”

He said that there would be an “uncontrolled nosedive” if Kyiv get the green light from the U.S. to use long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia, the Daily Mail reported.

He said a global nuclear “catastrophe would affect everyone” and the U.S. “will not be able to sit it out across the ocean.”

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Biden’s plan calls for WW3 to start after Election Day.

U.S. President Joe Biden refuses to answer until after November 5th the question of whether the U.S. will officially be at war against Russia.

As I explained on September 27th, headlining “UPDATED: The U.S. Presidential election is now overwhelmingly about whether to go to WW3 for Ukraine. This dwarfs every other issue.”, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had announced on September 25th that any nation which would bomb anywhere “deep” in Russia (such as The Kremlin) or would allow Ukraine’s armed forces to use that nation’s weapons in order to do so, would immediately experience Russia’s retaliation for having done that. This report was a follow-on to my September 13th “Biden might decide today whether to initiate WW3 against Russia.”, which stated that Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer was to meet privately that day with Biden to request his permission to allow Ukraine to use in that way the missiles which Britain had supplied to Ukraine, and that the White House gave a clear indication that it was not going to say yes to Starmer’s request. On September 15th, I issued an “UPDATE #4” to that article, which indicated that Biden’s answer to Starmer had been to the effect of “not yet,” but that all of the UK’s top leadership were united in all Parties urging that he say yes as fast as possible.

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North Korea Wading Deeper Into Russia’s War Against Ukraine

North Korea appears to be getting more deeply involved in the Ukraine war, going beyond supplying Russia with munitions. Its military engineers “have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles” it provided to Russia, The Guardian reported, citing senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul.

Dozens of North Koreans are behind Russian lines, “in teams that support launcher systems for KN-23 [short-range ballistic] missiles,” a source in Ukraine told the publication. As we reported earlier this year, North Korea began supplying Russia with those missiles, also known as Hwasong-11s, but about half were defective, according to an analysis from Ukrainian state prosecutors.

South Korea’s Defense Minister, Kim Yong-hyun, told members of parliament in Seoul this week that it was “highly likely” that North Korean officers had been deployed to fight alongside Russians, and as we previously reported, several had died last week in an attack on a Russian base in the Donetsk region. He did not give further details.

The head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, concurred. In a post on Telegram, he said that some North Koreans had been killed in Ukraine. His organization is part of the National Security and Defense Council.

All this comes in the wake of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin where the two men bolstered their deepening ties with a secret arms deal. It was reported that, among other things, it called for Pyongyang to send construction and engineering forces to Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine for rebuilding work. There was no indication of how many personnel would be involved or the exact nature of their work.

The increasing evidence of North Korean troops in Ukraine marks a big escalation. Foreigners have fought as mercenaries for Russia, “but if North Koreans are on the ground it would mark the first time a foreign government has sent troops in uniform to support Moscow’s war,” the Guardian noted

“North Korea is likely to deploy members of its regular armed forces to Ukraine in support of Russia, South Korea’s defense chief said Tuesday, in the latest sign of deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow…

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