Important Takeaways:
- Putin ordered a national nuclear alert for Wednesday; exercises will be held in 11 time zones
- They are preparing for the fact that 70 percent of the country will be destroyed in a Western nuclear attack, and a general state of emergency will have to be ordered
- Before, there was never such a comprehensive preparedness, extending from the Ukrainian border to Kamchatka, only region-by-region tests simulating a nuclear attack were held, reports the British newspaper Metro
- The test also models the secondary threat of damage to nuclear power plants and other key facilities.
- State and regional authorities must organize emergency rescue teams to provide food and health care and to protect against radioactive radiation.
- The population must be permanently relocated from the zone that has become life-threatening, similar to Chernobyl, which means an internal population exchange on an unprecedented scale.
- Meanwhile, Putin is moving away from nuclear Armageddon to one of his nuclear bunkers in various parts of the country, and he also has at his disposal a fleet of “Doomsday” Il-80 Maxdome aircraft that can act as an air control center.
- The exercise is being held four days before Putin’s 71st birthday.
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- Is Russia Preparing to Wage WWIII? Putin’s Nuclear Missile Forces Conducting War Drills
- Vladimir Putin had thousands of troops from the nuclear missile forces conduct exercises that showcased the “highest degrees of combat readiness,” amplifying concerns World War III could be imminent, according to a new report.
- The tactical exercises took place in the Sverdlovsk region and the Daily Star reported they included 3,000 soldiers and deadly Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles on mobile launchers. The Tagil Rocket Division drills were captured on camera by Russian defense ministry TV channel Zvezda.
- The exercises involve maneuvers on combat patrol routes in the Ural Mountains and are being carried out during “active electronic suppression and intensive actions of saboteurs,” according to the report.
- “The missile regiments equipped with mobile Yars ground-based missile systems are actively changing their field positions,” Russian defense ministry TV channel Zvezda reported.
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Important Takeaways:
- Retired Russian Major ‘I am sure that nuclear weapons will be used in this war …’The sooner our politicians and leadership realize this, the sooner we start to train troops and the population for this
- Nuclear war is the ‘inevitable’ conclusion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Russian general who wrote the nation’s ‘war bible’ has warned.
- The chilling forecast came from retired Major General Alexander Vladimirov, who penned Russia’s three volume book called the ‘General Theory of War’.
- ‘For the transition to the use of weapons of mass destruction, only one thing is needed – a political decision by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [Vladimir Putin],’ the veteran commander warned in an interview with journalist Vladislav Shurygin.
- ‘The goals of Russia and the goals of the West are their survival and historical eternity.
- ‘And this means that in the name of this, all means of armed struggle available to them will be used, including such a tool as their nuclear weapons.’
- He warned: ‘I am sure that nuclear weapons will be used in this war – inevitably, and from this neither we nor the enemy have anywhere to go.
- ‘The sooner our politicians and leadership realize this, the sooner we start to train troops and the population for this – the more chances we will have for survival, which means victory.’
- ‘If you want peace – fight until you win,’ he said. ‘If you want a long and strong peace, bury the hatchet on the territory of the enemy along with him.
- ‘So, we need to be prepared. Prepare the Army, the State, the Economy and the population of the country.’
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘The war is coming home to Russia’: Ukraine turns the tables on Moscow as drone warfare intensifies
- A dramatic uptick in drone attacks targeting Russian territory is likely to continue and could be a game changer in the next phase of the war, analysts say.
- Russia has seen a sharp rise in unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, targeting western, central and southern Russian regions as well as the capital Moscow.
- Mostly Ukrainian-made drones have provided a way for Kyiv to strike back at Russia itself with military bases, airfields and fuel depots among the recent targets.
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Important Takeaways:
- The BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will add six nations to its ranks next year, as Beijing and Moscow push for the loose collection of emerging economies to evolve into a robust counterweight to Western global dominance.
- Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will join as members in January
- For Beijing and Moscow, adding members is part of a long-running — and often frustrated — effort to turn a largely symbolic grouping into a vehicle for remolding international trade and finance structures to protect their interests against future sanctions from the United States and its allies.
- Sanctions targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine have added urgency to China’s effort to create alternative global financial structures and supply chains resilient to Western disruption.
- China and Russia have found some developing nations more receptive to their concerns about American dominance, which is part of the motivation for more members
- The war and China-U.S. trade tensions mean that Washington has shifted its focus to the Group of Seven and is less interested in the Group of 20, creating an opportunity for BRICS to become a better platform for large developing countries to speak up
- The “China-U.S. contest may still be locked in a stalemate, but the end result is inevitable”
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Important Takeaways:
- With Prigozhin’s death, there’s no sign Putin is losing control
- Putin’s longtime associate and the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, was most certainly eliminated on the orders of the Godfather of the Kremlin.
- Prigozhin and Chekalov, were both listed on the manifest of the doomed flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg, where the Wagner Group is headquartered, that killed 10 passengers.
- There are reports that the plane was shot down
- Prigozhin may or may not actually have been on the plane, however. He, and perhaps Chekalov as well, may simply have been assassinated elsewhere. For convenience sake, a plane crash would have provided excellent cover for their elimination.
- Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death hardly comes as a surprise; the only issue was when it would occur.
- It perhaps it is no coincidence that, a few hours before Prigozhin’s death, the Kremlin announced that General Sergei Surovikin (whose nickname is “General Armageddon”), viewed by many observers as a Prigozhin ally, had been fired as head of Russia’s Air Forces.
- The combination of Prigozhin’s death and Surovikin’s firing are certainly a message to Putin’s potential internal opponents that they should think twice before acting against him.
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Important Takeaways:
- De-dollarization is irreversible – Putin
- BRICS will become economically more powerful than the G7, the Russian president said in an address to the Johannesburg summit
- The US dollar is losing its global role in an “objective and irreversible” process, Russian President Vladimir Putin told participants at the BRICS summit in South Africa on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin spoke via video link, after choosing not to attend the event in person.
- De-dollarization is “gaining momentum” Putin declared, adding that members of the group of major emerging economies are seeking to reduce their reliance on the greenback in mutual transactions.
- The Russian leader claimed the five BRICS members – Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa – are becoming the new world economic leaders, adding that their cumulative share of global GDP has reached 26%.
- He noted that if measured by purchasing power parity, BRICS has already surpassed the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations – accounting for 31% of the global economy, compared to 30% for the G7.
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Important Takeaways:
- North Korea’s Kim, Russia’s Putin exchange letters vowing stronger ties
- North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged letters on Tuesday pledging to develop their ties into what Kim called a “long-standing strategic relationship,” Pyongyang’s state media KCNA said.
- The letters mark the 78th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule, which is also celebrated as a national holiday in South Korea.
- In his letter to Putin, Kim said the two countries’ friendship was forged in World War II with victory over Japan and is now “fully demonstrating their invincibility and might in the struggle to smash the imperialists’ arbitrary practices and hegemony,” KCNA said.
- “I am firmly convinced that the friendship and solidarity … will be further developed into a long-standing strategic relationship in conformity with the demand of the new era,” Kim was quoted as saying in the letter.
- “The two countries will always emerge victorious, strongly supporting and cooperating with each other in the course of achieving their common goal and cause.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s escalations in Ukraine show that any fear of NATO is diminishing
- Putin has continued to escalate his attacks against Ukraine and the West.
- He has sent Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus, the first time Russia has sent nuclear weapons to a foreign country since 1962. The Wagner forces too are relocating to Belarus. These moves have led Poland to take precautionary defense moves and, as a result, Putin launched threats against Poland that resemble those made against Ukraine before 2022. He said that Poland covets former territories in Ukraine and Belarus, owes its current statehood to the Soviet Union and any attack on Belarus equates to an attack on Russia.
- Beyond that, Putin withdrew from the grain accord with Ukraine supervised by the United Nations and Turkey. Russia has also launched massive bombardments of Ukraine’s ports, infrastructure and grain infrastructure.
- Russia’s defense minister declared that not only Ukrainian ships, but any ship in the Black Sea delivering or taking cargo to and from Ukraine, is liable to be attacked as a ship working on behalf of Ukraine. Thus “any attempt to bypass the blockade might be seen as an act of war.”
- By escalating, Putin is demonstrating that he believes NATO will not respond forcefully. Furthermore, these concerted actions go beyond efforts to strangle Ukraine’s economy to threaten global hunger, particularly in poor countries. They also claim an unlawful, exclusive Russian dominance over the Black Sea, violate the principle of freedom of navigation and implicitly brandish the threat of nuclear strikes.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Speaking outside the White House on Wednesday, reporters asked Biden if the mercenary insurrection last week, reportedly against the Russian defense department, weakened Putin domestically.
- “It’s hard to tell,” Biden responded.
- “He is clearly losing the war in Iraq,” Biden said. “He’s losing the war at home and has become a bit of a pariah around the world.”
- Biden was on his way to Chicago to deliver an address on what his White House is calling “Bidenomics,” amid a struggling economy when he made the gaffe.
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