marathon @marathon0@qoto.org

Hopefully the message is getting through, and we can stop the unnecessary killing of Ukrainians who by and large don't want to fight this war. It's only the zealots of the Far Right Nationalist Parties that are rabid, Nazi followers.

https://www.ceasefire.ca/reality-seeps-into-ukraine-propaganda-fog-and-more-on-nato-summit-folly/

#Canada _and Ukrainian Diaspora. Eva Bartlett, Canadian Journalist, reports:_
Reality Theories, Eva K Bartlett, [2022-06-30 7:39 AM]
"...Some figures of Ukrainian nationalism from the Far East managed to emigrate to Australia. By the way, those who operated in the western regions of the USSR fled in the opposite direction - the United States and Canada. Basically, these are Bandera, who also participated in the Holocaust and fled from criminal responsibility.

🇺🇦🇨🇦 Today, the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada has a huge political weight and influences the formation of the international agenda of the Canadian government. There are so many Ukrainians in some parts of the country that they make up a significant part of the electorate and election candidates are forced to take into account their interests.

📌 For example, every year the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (“Congress of Canadian Ukrainians”) draws up its political demands to the government of Canada for the cultural and political development of the diaspora, in particular the requirement to pursue an aggressive and tough policy towards Russia, which was the norm even before the start of the special operation.

📌Today, the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada is conducting an active media campaign against Russia and is collecting significant financial resources for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

📌It is in Canada that a large number of research centers operate, which form the main historical and propaganda narratives used by modern Ukrainian nationalism.

So the publication of such archival documents about Ukrainian nationalism in the 1930s-1940s not archaism, but the actual historical heritage, which is alive to this day and explains the roots of many events."

#Music history, She once recorded an album with the Steely Dan boys before they were known as the 'Dan. It's been remastered and released now.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/07/linda-hoover-on-her-great-lost-lp-with-steely-dan-i-mean-to-shine

#interestingengineering
Strandbeesten are moving sculptures that may live their own lives one day.
https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/b3275397-4e20-4f8b-8a38-a9cb852e49f0

#NSFW Watch to the very end - recognize the emblem on the shirt?
Russian spec op troops ambush troops fighting on the Kiev side.

Opinion from some person FWIW:
“The option of creating a proxy state controlled by Poland, which will be 'under the protection' of the Polish armed forces, is being worked out. At the same time, a project is being considered to form a 'buffer zone' from the central regions of Ukraine, which, according to the Poles, will allow them to avoid an extremely undesirable direct clash with Russia," - the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reports.

WHOSE FAULT IS IT? A survey (https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_NORC_Ukraine_Poll_June_2022.pdf) funded by the Wall Street Journal in June finds that while 85% of Ukrainian respondents find Russia responsible for the WAR in Ukraine, more than two thirds ALSO BLAME their own government.

Warning: controversial! Not suitable for work.

But NATO is a defensive organization – innit?
https://scheerpost.com/2022/07/01/biden-says-us-will-beef-up-military-presence-in-europe/

I haven't seen Byden's statement, but some analysis of it by an analyst on the 🇷🇺 Russian side. _Interesting_.
https://t.me/intelslava/32303

Intel Slava Z, [2022-06-30 12:47 PM]
🇺🇲 About Biden's statements.

1. Only Russia is to blame for all the economic troubles of the United States. The Biden administration continues to stand its ground despite growing criticism of such a position within the United States and falling ratings ahead of the midterm elections. They cannot deviate from this line, as this will mean admitting that the administration in the economic field has completely failed, so they will hammer on the topic "Putin is to blame for inflation and rising prices for food, gasoline and gas", just like they hammered the topic earlier "Putin hacked the US election, and Trump is a Kremlin agent." At the same time, no improvements are expected - US residents, according to Biden, "should pay the price as much as necessary."
Let's look at the fruits of this information line in autumn.

2. The US and its satellites will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine.
This is, frankly, not news. Old supplies are gradually being ground down, so new supplies are needed. Their range will obviously expand - they will strive to focus on artillery, MLRS and air defense systems of short and medium range.
All this is an unnecessary reminder that in Ukraine we are at war with the US and NATO, if someone thought it was a "war with Ukraine." Ukraine is just an instrument of American policy here. They expect to use the same tool in the upcoming war for Taiwan, where the puppet government is defiantly heading for a military clash with the PRC.

3. Deliveries of F-16s to Turkey.
Here, the Biden administration actually made a serious concession to Erdogan in order to put pressure on Russia, removing one of the key demands on Erdogan - to abandon the use of the S-400 under the threat of cutting off arms supplies from the United States. This is again a demonstration of the weakening of US influence, when a formal overlord is forced to make concessions to his vassals in order to achieve what he wants. The times of directive control of the world are long gone.