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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (199485)	6/13/2023 8:04:53 PM
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To: maceng2 who wrote (199485)	6/13/2023 9:21:25 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217670

Re <<full, content, and happy great ... Just saying>> ... quick perusal of the Telegram, Youtube, and Twitter channels this day hit me hard, making me much more aware that all is not-well subjects covered include but not limited to ... - White House lawn party - Ukraine counter-offensive - Youngsters gang fights - Flash crowd robberies - Drugs - Migrants - Homelessness - European street festivals - Legislatures discussing stuff - EU everything - Woke everything ... all incredible, and am hoping that the various reports are either wrong, biased, and / or exaggerating, else seriously problematic and with no solution except zero-state-systemic-reset, that which we term TeoTwawKi and Darkest Interregnum, after which perhaps the lights shall flicker back on The most puzzling is not the below story set, but as example filler will have to do, and on the face of the story plot, absurd. I do not know what to believe ... any guidance from anyone on this thread appreciated OTOH, Team Ukraine the underdog David wishes a refill from Team Germany so as to bash bad bad Team Russia and liberate self and do the planet a favour OTOH, there appears to be an issue inside of and perhaps even with Team Ukraine itself The decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion. It also could give the symbols mainstream life after the West's decades-long efforts to eliminate them.https://t.co/TdhO6pKpFG — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 5, 2023 reuters.com Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem There’s no easy way to eradicate the virulent far-right extremism that has been poisoning Ukrainian politics and public life, but without vigorous and immediate efforts to counteract it, it may soon endanger the state itself. OTTH, either Team Ukraine is getting thrown under the bus Team NYT / Reuters for and on behalf of Team USA and Teak UK, and / or Team Nato got attacked and Team Germany did not invoke Article 5, and strange, Team German leading the Nato to de-industrialise, even as European nations choosing to take on Team Russia for yet another historic go. wsj.com U.S. Warned Ukraine Not to Attack Nord Stream CIA pressed Kyiv weeks before explosions sabotaged the natural-gas pipelines bringing Russian gas to Europe By Bojan Pancevski , Drew Hinshaw , Joe Parkinson and Warren P. Strobel Updated June 13, 2023 at 5:14 pm ET The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency warned the Ukrainian government not to attack the Nord Stream gas pipelines last summer after it obtained detailed information about a Ukrainian plot to destroy a main energy connection between Russia and Europe, officials familiar with the exchange said. The message, delivered by CIA officials in June, followed a tip the CIA received from the military intelligence service of the Netherlands, these officials said. While the CIA took the warning seriously, these officials said, it had questions over whether Ukraine had the capacity to carry out such an attack, which would require placing explosive charges deep beneath the Baltic Sea. The initial intelligence, from June 2022, suggested that the sabotage team was answering to Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhniy, the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to people familiar with it. This hypothesis was later played down by investigators in at least two European countries, who have been considering that a different Ukrainian commander might have ultimately helmed the operation. Zaluzhniy’s office didn’t return requests for comment. Weeks later, on Sept. 26, the pipelines were hit. Ukraine has vehemently denied that it had anything to do with the attack on the pipelines. Dutch military intelligence officials told the CIA that a Ukrainian sabotage team was looking to rent a yacht on the Baltic coastline and use a team of divers to plant explosives along the four pipes of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. The plan was to stage the attack after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s exercise called Baltic Ops that took place in the area above the pipelines and ended on June 17, European intelligence officials said. The CIA quickly notified a group of allied countries, including Germany, the landing site of the pipelines, via a secure cable sometime in June 2022. Other countries along the Baltic coastline were also warned, though not necessarily in the same detail. CIA officials asked their counterparts in Kyiv if they were mounting an attack. It couldn’t be determined how the Ukrainians responded. Nord Stream Explosions: What to Know About the Investigations Nord Stream Explosions: What to Know About the Investigations Investigators searching for answers behind explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines last year said a rental yacht may be linked to the incident, while some officials have ruled out Russian involvement. WSJ explores what we know so far. Photo composite: Danish Defence Command via Reuters/Uwe Driest The CIA then received information that Ukraine had called off the original plan, according to a U.S. official. In late summer, the CIA told Germany and other allied nations that the threat level from such an operation had diminished because the U.S. no longer believed Kyiv would undertake such an attack, said European officials who received or were briefed on that assessment. The following month, a series of powerful underwater explosions tore apart three of the four main Nord Stream pipes. Andriy Chernyak, spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, denied that Ukraine was involved in the blasts when asked Tuesday about the CIA’s inquiry. In a recent interview with the German newspaper Bild, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “I believe that our military and our intelligence did not do it, and when anyone claims the opposite, I would like them to show us the evidence.” Maritime territorial claims Exclusive Economic Zones The revelation appears to show that the U.S. intelligence agency—along with several Western governments—knew for months that the Ukrainian government had planned to sabotage the pipeline, a fact these governments kept under wraps after the attack itself. At a meeting with a European counterpart in October, CIA Director William Burns told his counterpart that available evidence didn’t point to Russia. When asked if it was Ukraine, he said, “I hope not,” according to an official present at the meeting. Western officials, including in the U.S. and Germany, have said they suspect a “pro-Ukrainian group” orchestrated and executed the sabotage. Some details of the CIA’s warning, including disclosing the role of the Dutch military intelligence in tipping off the CIA, were published earlier on Tuesday by a media consortium led by Germany’s Zeit newspaper. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that German investigators were examining evidence that suggested a Ukrainian sabotage team had used Poland, a European Union neighbor and NATO ally, as a hub for the logistics and financing of last year’s attack. Investigators haven’t accused Poland’s government or any Polish individuals of involvement. Previously, the Journal reported that German investigators believe those responsible rented the Andromeda, a 50-foot-long sailing yacht, using a Warsaw-based travel agency, to plant bombs along the pipelines. Its passengers returned the boat unwashed, allowing investigators to recover fingerprints, and traces of explosives—as well as DNA that they have tried to match to at least one Ukrainian soldier, through his son, who lives in Germany. Write to Bojan Pancevski at bojan.pancevski@wsj.com, Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com and Warren P. Strobel at Warren.Strobel@wsj.com