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The American World Socialist website has affirmed that the United States and its allies in the West are pursuing escalatory hostile policies towards Russia and China and invoking the crisis in Ukraine with the aim of turning NATO into a war machine used directly against these two countries.

The website said that NATO countries are using the pretext of the Ukrainian crisis as a cover to intensify their military presence near the Russian border. Under this argument, the alliance has mobilized its 40,000-strong rapid reaction force against Russia, but all these moves are only the beginning of a much broader transformation of the alliance.

The website indicated that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was not embarrassed, during an interview he gave to the British Daily Telegraph, to talk about the transformation of the alliance which took Ukraine as a primary excuse for Western hostile moves against Russia and China, and he also admitted that the United States and the West carried out the largest military reinforcement operation since the Cold War.

Missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ was evacuated after an alleged “ammunition explosion” incident.

The entire crew of the missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ was evacuated after an ammunition explosion caused by a fire, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a brief statement on Wednesday night, as quoted by multiple Russian news agencies, including RIA, TASS and Interfax.

The cruiser suffered “serious damage,” the Russian military reportedly said, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation. The Defense Ministry, however, has yet to confirm the incident on its official website, or share further details.

The Atlant-class missile cruiser, launched in 1979, is armed with 16 anti-ship missiles and many more air defense missiles, torpedoes and guns. It is part of the Black Sea Fleet, and has been engaged in operations off the coast of Ukraine since February.

The source of ignition on the cruiser "Moskva" is localized
There’s no confirmation from Russia that this was done by Ukraine
1) Some very preliminary thoughts on the destruction of the Moskva +
2) Some very preliminary thoughts on the destruction of the Moskva +
3) Some very preliminary thoughts on the destruction of the Moskva
Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Flagship Moskva Experienced Explosion Of Ammunition (South Front)

The Bucha false flag scenario is inexorably falling apart just days after it was noisily launched. Not tarrying far behind the “international community” political clowns, whose boiler plate “assessments” of what supposedly happened hit the airwaves within an hour of the alleged occurrence, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague also made it known that it was interested in the case. And that is where the above referenced Karim Khan comes into the picture.

Under the circumstances, dereliction of duty would in fact be the most benign explanation for Khan’s and ICC’s negligent conduct. The reality may be far worse. There is substantial evidence of ICC’s systematic investigative bias and selective focus over a period of many years, in the Ukrainian situation at least, that practically rules out oversight as a viable explanation and suggests deliberate adherence to political directives. The brutal dismissal of former prosecutor Bensouda leaves little doubt that Khan’s refusal to follow marching orders would have led to his professional demise also, as it did to his predecessor’s. That is why the sordid Bensouda affair bears careful re-reading to better understand not just Karim Khan’s otherwise professionally inexplicable conduct but also the embarrassingly narrow limits of International Criminal Court’s actual “independence” from politics.