The US leader should acknowledge his “failure” in Ukraine and focus on domestic issues, the presidential candidate has said | By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said.

💬 “Biden has lost his way,” Kennedy tweeted on Friday, arguing that the president should focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to achieve “global military dominance.” “I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia,” he said. The idea of defeating Moscow in its conflict with Kiev is a “futile geopolitical fantasy” of the Biden administration, the Democratic presidential candidate added. Thousands of Ukrainians have already lost their lives because “America’s foreign policy establishment manipulated their country into war… Now, rather than acknowledge failure, Biden admin prepares to sacrifice American lives too,” Kennedy said.

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■ Biden Order Activates 3,000 Reservists for Europe Deployments (bringing US troop levels on the continent to over 100,000 for the first time since 2005). (07/14/23)

Maria Zakharova: "This is a False Flag War." | Question: The results of the NATO summit held in Vilnius on July 11-12 once again demonstrated that the alliance, in which the Anglo-Saxons play the main fiddle, makes decisions aimed, in fact, at sponsoring terrorism in the region. One gets the impression that the supply of prohibited weapons by the member countries of the alliance to the Kyiv regime is aimed at preparing for war with Russia. Do you agree with these statements?

Maria Zakharova: In fact, NATO is already waging a hybrid war with Russia, the instrument of which is the Kiev regime. It is pumped up with weapons, military equipment. The countries of the alliance are actively involved in the training of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine according to their standards, they plan to train and then transplant Ukrainians to Western fighters. All this is complemented by economic blackmail and illegal sanctions against both Russia and other countries that have not caved in to the Anglo-Saxons. It is no secret that the states of the North Atlantic bloc share intelligence with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, take part in the planning of military operations. At the same time, formally, NATO stands aside. Declares that he is not a party to the conflict and does not seek confrontation with Russia. Actually, this is a false flag war. In pursuit of an attempt to maintain some kind of superiority, and, in fact, neocolonialism, Washington and its allies consistently use the population of Ukraine as cannon fodder. They are methodically working to destroy the economies of European states in order to eliminate them as competitors in world markets. At the same time, they are solving the problems of enriching American companies and enterprises, including the military-industrial complex, whose products will be purchased by Europeans.

We categorically reject the logic of the Westerners, which is that military assistance to Ukraine is designed to bring a political and diplomatic settlement closer. They are simply not interested in the end of hostilities, but, on the contrary, benefit from the ongoing crisis of the security system in the European space. The main goal of Washington and its satellites is to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia and maintain its dominant influence in the international arena. For the sake of it, they are ready with all their might to seek from the puppet regime of Zelensky the continuation of the "war to the last Ukrainian." One gets the impression that at the NATO summit a decision was made and even declared - to unfold a major European war.

However, no supply of Western weapons and equipment can change the course of the special military operation, the goals and objectives of which will certainly be fulfilled, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated. [Original in Russian]

Earlier in the day, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained members of a neo-Nazi group plotting to kill Margarita Simonyan, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency's editor-in-chief, plus liberal journalist and socialite Ksenia Sobchak, at the behest of the Ukrainian military. | The latest suspected Ukrainian plot to assassinate Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak "once against demonstrates the terrorist essence of Volodymyr Zelensky's regime, which is already responsible for a series of terrorist attacks," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday. Zakharova said Moscow doesn't really expect any real response from international organizations over the foiled plot, due to the "pathological hypocrisy [which] has long been a political tradition of Western liberalism and its unconditional reflex." Zakharova added that the "Kiev regime" plotting this and similar attacks against civilians continues to enjoy the "thorough support of Western curators." More here

New guidance states ‘withholding money for transitioning’ or refusing to use a preferred name or pronoun, would be seen as abusive behaviour | Spouses who refuse to fund their partner’s gender surgery may be domestic abusers, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says in new guidance. The CPS has listed nine types of behaviour which could amount to abuse of trans or non-binary people by their partners or members of their family. These include “withholding money for transitioning,” which would include either spouse refusing to pay for gender surgery, counselling or other treatment in a way that "amounted to coercive control or abuse." [???] ● Other behaviours could be “criticising the victim [sic] for not being ‘a real man/woman’ if they have not undergone reassignment surgery,” or “threatening or sharing pre-transition images,” or refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun. ● The guidance has, however, been criticised by the Women’s Rights Network (WRN), which campaigns for the sex-based rights of women.The group has written to Max Hill, the head of the CPS, citing the guidance as “detrimental to women’s trust and confidence” in the service. [Paywall]

■ 'Ideologically captured' CPS for guidelines stating parents could be charged with DOMESTIC ABUSE for refusing to pay for their child's transgender treatment or not using their preferred pronoun (Daily Mail)

Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | In principle, why not? Since another boxer is the mayor of Kyiv, the Defense Ministry is headed by the person responsible for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council is headed by a veterinarian, and the country as a whole is headed by a comedian with a habit of illegal substances. Ukraine is a country of opportunity. Isn't that what Maidan stood for? Especially since, from the Western point of view, it makes no difference who sits on the native throne and reports to the suzerain. (Translation: DeepL.com)

This report details misconduct by the FBI that is unconstitutional. | The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the bedrock of our political system and guarantees every American the right to speak his or her mind freely and without interference from the government. It is predicated on the under-standing that no government official has a monopoly on the truth and that every American is capable of evaluating competing claims and deciding what to believe. ● On February 15, 2023, as part of its investigation into the federal government’s role in censoring lawful speech on social media platforms, the Committee on the Judiciary issued a subpoena to Meta,2 the parent com-pany of Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet,3 the parent company of Google and YouTube. Documents obtained in response to those subpoenas revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on behalf of a compromised Ukrainian intelligence entity, requested—and, in some cases, directed—the world’s largest social media platforms to censor Americans engaging in constitutionally protected speech online.

■ REPORT: FBI Colluded With Ukrainian Intelligence to Silence American Voices On Social Media (Trending Media)