Posted by Utkin RIP along with Prigozhin. Financial Times 26/27th August wrote succinct piece on Utkin; he started with Moran Security and Wagner was created. His experience since his retirement from the Russian GRU was in Iraq, Syria, Africa, Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin
https://moran-group.org/en/about/index
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https://youtu.be/-I8kBh-D0ek
3 quotes but worth engaging further
“Bout eventually came to be seen as the world’s biggest weapons smuggler. The media dubbed him the “Merchant of Death” and in 2006, he inspired the movie “Lord of War,” which starred Nicholas Cage.“
“He clearly was very important. And it’s my understanding that President [Vladimir] Putin himself was involved in trying to get him home,” said Zachariasiewicz, the former DEA agent.
“Viktor Bout has already been in prison for 15 years,” Reed told ABC in May after his release. “He’s no longer a threat.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/viktor-bout-convicted-arms-dealer-held-us-prison/story?id=86543907
https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/russia-viktor-bout-arms-01-gty-llr-220710_1657459060414_hpMain_16x9_608.jpg
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https://youtu.be/fzb2IY6m7hk
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https://youtu.be/PXnQUOgnBGs
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Enter Geopolitics
Quote:
Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
China … imagine no more China tourists and then add all the other impacts. Freezing out China will have worldwide repercussions.
14,403 views Aug 30, 2023 While the West is calling for China to launch a massive stimulus program, China is still tiptoeing around the situation by only cutting interest rates. While China might try to lower mortgage rates, they likely won’t bail out their real estate developers to protect their economic future. Here’s why China is defying the West and why their refusal for a full stimulus bailout could crash the global economy.
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Ukraine … tweets, youtube
Peace song chosen:
This song was one of the first Motown tracks to get political and directly challenged intolerance and racial injustice (“hate is not answer, because only love can conquer hate.”)
It was this song – partly inspired by Gaye speaking to his brother who’d just returned from the Vietnam war – that opened the floodgates for others such as Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and others to start voicing their opinion on the state of things.
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30th August 2023
says that Orban understands Russia and Ukraine. I can say that Orban only understands the language of Russian money. He definitely does not understand Ukraine.
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Imagine being this naive and delusional. Not only is China not doing its part to combat climate change (it’s building more coal plants than any other nation), it uses this desire for cooperation as leverage. What concessions have the US ever extracted in exchange for… Show more
30th August 2023
Vladimir Solovyov wonders whether the drones that hit a Russian military airfield in Pskov last night were launched from nearby Estonia “If it’s true then Estonia must be wiped off the face of the earth!”
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29th August 2023
China has declared part of Russia as its territory on new official maps #China‘s state-owned Standard Map Service has presented a set of geographic maps for 2023, on which for the first time part of #Russia‘s territory is indicated as part of China. It is about the Bolshoy… Show more
#Iran – Tehran Last night, a young woman was attacked by a morality police agent with a “wheel lock” for not wearing the compulsory Hijab The world needs to stand by the Iranian people & their demand for a free, democratic, & secular republic.
Russia’s having to imprison more & more of its cannon fodder soldiers for refusing to fight (die) in #Ukraine. Mediazona news outlet reported Russia’s convicting close to 100 soldiers a week for refusing to fight. That’s almost 5,000 this year. https://theguardian.com/world/live/2023/aug/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-drone-attacks-russian-planes-pskov-black-sea-boats?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with%3Ablock-64eeea108f083bb275c20c51#block-64eeea108f083bb275c20c51
30th August 2023
#Ukraine‘s military intelligence confirm “four IL-76 transport planes were destroyed” at Pskov military airfield, 600km north of + “several other (aircraft) damaged.” Video footage of planes burning & large plumes of smoke & exploding ammo indicate airfield was hit hard.
30th August 2023
Meanwhile in Europe, to allow children to attend school without Russian bombs butchering them, #Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv has built 60 classrooms in its metro stations. This will allow 1,000 pupils to return to in-person teaching in Sept. https://theguardian.com/world/live/2023/aug/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-drone-attacks-russian-planes-pskov-black-sea-boats?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with%3Ablock-64ef12868f08a108316d32bd#block-64ef12868f08a108316d32bd
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Documents show Putin’s order to move superyacht before Ukraine invasion
29th August 2023
Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko(
) investigated the Russian army’s crimes against Ukrainians in #Ukraine. Then she was poisoned in Germany, where she thought she had found a safe refuge. She tells RSF about it ↓
I am grateful to all American people, the Congress and personally to President Joseph Biden
for the new defense assistance package for Ukraine. Artillery, missiles, ammunition for HIMARS, demining equipment – that’s what our warriors need. Freedom needs protection, and this protection is growing strong.
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I was honored to be received by
following his contacts with
. Discussed further military support, expanding the Peace Formula coalition and our grain exports to countries in Africa and beyond. I thanked him for reaffirming France’s continued support.
29th August 2023
#OpEd The Moscow Conference on International Security showed how Russia tries to appeal to the Global South despite its own neo-imperialist actions, argues Samuel Ramani.
themoscowtimes.com With Allies Scarce, Russia Paints Itself as the Enemy of ‘Western Colonialism’ Opinion | The 11th Moscow Conference on International Security brought together leading figures of the Russian security apparatus wit
30th August 2023
Western countries can no longer afford to integrate Ukraine into NATO, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with Tucker Carlson: https://vk.cc/cqwAFb
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Press review: Great Grain Game inches toward deal redux and US wobbly on Kiev security vow. Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, August 30th: https://vk.cc/cqwxvs
Who said “I think therefore I am”?
Whoever we are submerged in disinformation, propaganda
Recommend Jeffrey Sachs … a little history that speaks Truth about NATO
Who Watches the Watchers? 
