TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

A pardon from a co-conspirator is not valid

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/another-mess-is-brewing-for-donald-trump/59056/?utm_source=pushengage&utm_medium=pushnotification&utm_campaign=pushengage

Want to buy a Tesla - NO Way

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/elon-musks-price-of-power/59054/

Democrats need to learn to take credit and blame
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/democrats-need-to-learn-how-to-take?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Putin went into hiding again - his default crisis mode.
Putin stopped appearing in public amid escalation with the West.

Putin last appeared in public almost two weeks ago. After that, the Kremlin began to create the appearance of the head of state's work with the help of "canned" reports on his meetings, which in fact took place several weeks or even months earlier.

The practice of "deferred" publications, or, as journalists call them, "canned food", about Putin's meetings is not new: it is regularly used by the Kremlin to show the continuity of the president's work. But recently, the time between real meetings and the publication of reports about them has increased significantly, Faridaily noted.

The Kremlin reported that on November 12, Putin met with the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasilyev. At the meeting, Putin tells Vasilyev that his party is "actively involved" in the preparation of the budget, although it was submitted to the State Duma on September 30 and approved in the first reading on October 24.

Putin spoke about the work on the budget and its support in the first reading with the head of the New People faction Alexei Nechaev. According to the Kremlin, the meeting took place on November 19, but the budget had already been adopted in the second reading on November 14. Moreover, on the day of the alleged meeting, Nechaev visited an exhibition in the State Duma and in the photo from it looks completely different from the fake report presented by the presidential administration.

A similar story happened with the leader of the LDPR faction, Leonid Slutsky: he spoke in the State Duma on the day when, according to the Kremlin, his meeting with Putin took place. Moreover, according to the official report, Slutsky spoke with Putin at about the same time as his speech in the lower house of parliament.

According to Faridaily's sources, the delay in the publication of "canned" materials from Putin's meetings on the Kremlin website has already reached two months. Putin last appeared in public on November 7 at the Valdai Forum. Even his press parrot Peskov may not know where Putin is hiding at this time.

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Jong-un sent one of the highest-ranking generals to command the North Korean soldiers in Russia.

North Korea has sent the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the DPRK Ground Forces, Colonel-General Kim Yong-bok, to Russia, according to senior Ukrainian and South Korean officials.

It's expected, that the general will be engaged in the integration of North Korean troops into the Russian army, as well as collecting information from the battlefield for the possible future deployment of North Korean soldiers. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the number of North Korean soldiers sent to Russia could eventually reach 100.000 people. It is assumed that Kim Yong-bok will not take part in hostilities.

Previously, this general was a non-public person, as he commanded a special forces unit of about 200.000 people, which was supposed to carry out secret missions in the event of a war on the Korean Peninsula, said Chung Kyung-joo, a researcher at the South Korean Institute for Defense Analysis. Only after Putin's visit to Pyongyang, Kim Yong-bok began to appear in public more often. The leadership of the DPRK took this step to demonstrate to Russia that a reliable person was sent to the front.

"Up until this point, there were more reasons to hide his identity."

General Kim Yong Bok has long remained in the shadows throughout his career. The South Korean government's database of high-ranking North Koreans, which includes information on more than 680 officials, lists only his name and title. His age, hometown and other biographical data are still unknown.

This contrasts with the attention that is usually given to North Korea's military elites in its state media. Kim Jong-un's public appearances, which dominate all media, are often accompanied by a show of the top military command.

According to the US State Department, the combat experience of North Korean soldiers will help the DPRK update its military tactics by observing how modern warfare is fought. Russian troops have trained North Korean soldiers in key front-line skills such as artillery, trench clearing and drone handling. South Korean intelligence also reported that Moscow pays Pyongyang $ 2.000 for each soldier, which is equivalent to 83 annual salaries of an ordinary citizen of North Korea.

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Russia didn't really need this Syria, believes Z-propagandist Alexander Kots. Well, yes, they killed a lot of people, spent money, but it's nothing terrible. It happens to everyone:

"I thought for a long time about where we got such a passion for self-flagellation in connection with the events in Syria. I understand [the Ukrainians]. At least they have some kind of victory. They have already stopped our offensive in the DPR. Their front near Kurakhovo and Velyka Novosyolka is not cracking. Queues at the military registration and enlistment offices. European salaries and coffee at the Vienna Opera. There is a reason to make fun of the Muscovites.

Why should we be responsible for the failure of the Syrian army in the Iranian control zone? Who were we supposed to stop the bogeymen with? Urgently transfer the 810th and 155th from the Kursk region? Paratroopers from Chasy Yar? The 24th from Pokrovsk? In my opinion, it is absolutely obvious that today our military capabilities in Syria are very limited. At the same time, intelligence warned all interested parties about everything.

Damascus after 2020, let's be honest, gradually moved away from Moscow towards Tehran. It did not create anything for us in terms of investment attractiveness. And made itself much more dependent on Iran than on Russia. At the same time, the SAR army, which was not the most motivated, degraded along with the bureaucracy, special services and economy. But for some reason, some blame our generals for the failure in Aleppo.

To a greater extent, probably, from resentment. We spent so much effort, money and lives to achieve a tangible result. And it was squandered in a matter of hours, and this process will continue. And in the current conditions, I really don’t want to be saddled with the main burden of yet another rescue of a regime that does not learn any historical lessons. We have enough of our own concerns today.

…In general, the Russian president spoke exhaustively about today back in 2015: “From now on, we are not going to be more Syrian than the Syrians themselves,” - Kotsnews.

Meanwhile the insurgent forces are burning russian flags

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Addition to previous report
Big business in Georgia support the protesters against the rejection of European integration.

Two of the country's largest banks - Bank of Georgia and TBC Bank, telecom operators Magticom and Silknet, developer ORBI Group, as well as the country's largest car dealer Tegeta - opposed the government's decision to suspend European integration and supported the protesters.

"The European and Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia is the historical choice of the absolute majority of our people, which is enshrined in Article 78 of the Constitution of Georgia. We are firmly convinced that the temporary suspension of European integration is contrary to the will of the Georgian people and the Constitution of Georgia. TBC has always been and remains an unconditional supporter of Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic integration," TBC Bank said in a statement.

Magticom condemned the actions of the security forces to disperse the protesters, and Tegeta noted that the current crisis situation is detrimental to the future of the country and threatens "development and common goals."

According to Paper Katruli, Georgian ambassadors in different countries are resigning en masse due to the actions of the authorities. Diplomats in the United States, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Italy and Lithuania left their posts. One of the first to resign was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Bulgaria Otar Berdzenishvili.

"I condemn any violence and leave the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands," said Ambassador to the Netherlands David Solomonia.

According to Newsgeorgia, several dozen employees of the Georgian Defense Ministry, following the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed their commitment to the course of joining the EU and NATO. At the moment, the statement has been signed by 43 people - and they are employees of the departments of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia.

Some employees of the Constitutional Court of Georgia also called on the authorities to reconsider the decision to freeze negotiations on joining the European Union. They believe that this decision of the government "ignores the constitutional will of the citizens of Georgia" and contradicts the article of the basic law, according to which the constitutional bodies must take all measures to ensure Georgia's full integration into the EU and NATO.

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Journalists found a Russian filtration camp for Ukrainian prisoners in Belarus - Belarusian Investigative Center investigation

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military set up a filtration camp on the territory of Belarus. Journalists found out that it was located on the basis of one of the buildings belonging to the Belarusian state enterprise “Pripyat Alliance” in Narovla (Homel region).

Some human rights activists call this camp one of the most cruel camps for prisoners. Not only Ukrainian military, but also civilians, including minors, were taken there. For example, Larisa Yahodinskaya, a resident of the Kiev region, said that in March 2022 her two sons, one of whom was under the age of eighteen, were taken there: “They said that their sons were saboteurs and took them to Chernobyl. There it turned out that they beat them, and as [the younger son] Slava told me later, [the older one] probably even had his ribs broken, they beat him badly with a bat.”

Bohdan Lysenko, an AFU serviceman who was captured by the Russian military in late March 2022, also spoke about the torture of civilians: “Narovlya was such a propaganda picture that we [Russian military] are so, like, humane... But no one shows them how civilians were interrogated there. And the civilians there were beaten, God forbid... That is, there were constantly heard screams.”

According to human rights activists, some of the Ukrainians who passed through the filtration camp in Narovlya are still being held captive, in particular, in penal colonies in Russia.

Here is the "Road of Death"

This is small enough

I can't post the video. Its 41 megs.

The drone of 225 OSHB fighters recorded one of the roads in the Kursk region, which became a trap for Russian troops. The fields are mined, the road is shelled by Ukrainian artillery, and their every movement is carefully monitored. This is an example of how the tactics and coordination of the Ukrainian Army are deadly

Reuters
UK spy chief says Russia behind 'staggeringly reckless' sabotage in Europe

Britain's foreign spy chief accused Russia on Friday of waging a "staggeringly reckless campaign" of sabotage in Europe while also stepping up its nuclear sabre-rattling ...

Tulsi Gabbard's friend is collapsing since Russia pulled out
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-is-stuck-playing-defense-already/59051/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-red-white-and-black/59049/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-red-white-and-black/59049/

2 Grumpy old men

https://open.substack.com/pub/twogrumpyoldmenonukraine/p/brian-bonner-discusses-the-perilous?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/legal-af-ad-free-trump-hit-hard-with?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h