Descent into Hell: Europe’s top diplomats are nearly at the journey’s end | On Friday, 31 March Vladimir Putin signed into law the new Foreign Policy Concept which will guide Russian diplomacy in the years to come. It replaces the existing Concept promulgated eight years ago and sets out on 43 pages in logically organized form what we have been witnessing in Russia’s behavior on the world stage since the launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine and subsequent nearly complete rupture of relations with the US-led Collective West. There are few surprises in this document though there are some very important new directions taken over from the USSR which I will tweak out in a separate essay later today or tomorrow. ● What I wish to call attention to here is how Russia’s new Foreign Policy Concept was greeted by the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell and by an unidentified spokesman for the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office. The UK spokesperson wrote: “April Fool’s Day tomorrow” with specific mention of the document released by the Russians. I have in front of me the respective news item in The Eastern Herald (India). Borrell, who is not known for originality, picked up this convenient insult and used it to remark on another Russia-related development of the same day. He wrote: “Russia taking over today @UN Security Council presidency is fitting for April Fool’s day.” ● When diplomacy degenerates into crude insults as the UK and EU showed yesterday, we are well on our way to total war. Our foreign policy is being conducted by intellectually challenged people who have had a bad upbringing, sad to say. The path before us is what the French call la déscente aux enfers. Whether we will emerge into a second life through Resurrection after hitting bottom depends on your religious beliefs.

■ The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation
(APPROVED by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 229, March 31, 2023)
■ Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees
(17 December 2021. This treaty draft was spurned by the U.S. – America wanted war.)

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🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: As soon as World War II ended and the Nazis were defeated, US intelligence agencies built ties with former Hitler collaborators to work… pic.twitter.com/fcYTjyGfoZ

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Synopsis: As soon as World War II ended and the Nazis were defeated, US intelligence agencies built ties with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and then Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed 'Aerodynamic'.

The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. They terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties, according to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner.

In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation ‘Prolog’ gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas. What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence?

Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Медведев) | Looking at what Zelensky & Co are doing in relation to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one realises particularly keenly what rabid bastards and vile scum they are. There is simply no other definition for them. ● I am sure they will appear not only before human judgment, but above all before His judgment. And they will receive [punishment] for all they have done. For it is written: "And the beast was seized, and the false prophet with him, who did wonders before him, by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast and worshipped its image: they were both cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Apocalypse 19:20). (DeepL.com)

■ Kiev-Pechersk Lavra crisis to be the moment of truth for Ukrainians — official