💬 "...this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It is very simple, if this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa. Kiev, if we continue the way we're doing. This is a Biden project that goes back 10 years now, we'll completely destroy Ukraine. The idea that this is "siding with" Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine, we have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die, for more and more territory to be lost. — Jeffrey Sachs

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) |"The conflict in Ukraine will end after the U.S. Congress votes to provide new support for Kyiv," Biden said. One could recall for the hundredth time about the old man's dementia and the son's corruption. About the interests of the American military-industrial complex and the influence of the deep state. The war between Democrats and conservatives and the wedge between the states and the U.S. federal government. But I will say something else.

Biden's statement is downright evil. For, he said: Keep killing each other. The more people who die, the better. I want as many deaths as possible... Indeed, "And I looked, and behold, there was a pale horse, and upon it a rider whose name was death; and hell followed him." (Revelation of the apostle John the Evangelist, Apocalypse 6:8).

Therefore, the sooner the rider on the pale horse takes Joseph Robinette Biden with him, the better it will be for our suffering world...(Translation: DeepL + Grammarly)

■ Biden’s remark on Ukraine apocalyptic – Medvedev (RT.com)
■ Ukraine tightens mobilization in Verkhovna Rada vote (RT Telegram)
■ Ukrainian women should prepare for conscription – top Kiev official (RT.com)
■ Verkhovna Rada passes scandalous law on mobilization in Ukraine (TASS)
■ We really want to destroy Europe’s longest bridge – Zelensky (RT.com)

💬 "...this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It is very simple, if this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa. Kiev, if we continue the way we're doing. This is a Biden project that goes back 10 years now, we'll completely destroy Ukraine. The idea that this is "siding with" Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine, we have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die, for more and more territory to be lost. — Jeffrey Sachs

The day starts with a massive Russian missile strike that has wiped out another chunk of the remaining Ukrainian energy capacity. It’s now confirmed that Russia is hitting precisely the turbine rooms causing long-lasting, if not permanent, damage. [...] During all these urgent calls for new Patriots to be sent has anyone bothered to ask where the previously delivered Patriots have gone, by any chance? We were told they were totally unscratched after stopping all those Kinzhals. It seems perhaps that wasn’t entirely accurate.

Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Hg3qVzABBg

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 18, 2021

■ Julian Assange Gave America the Ugly Truth (The Free Press)

The head of the political bureau of Hamas says Israel’s assassination of his children will not make the Palestinian resistance group back down on its goals and demands in the latest round of talks aimed at reaching a truce in the Gaza war. | Ismail Haniyeh made the remarks in a phone interview with Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV network on Wednesday night, after an Israeli airstrike killed three of his sons — Hazem, Amir and Mohammad — and four grandchildren in the al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

💬 “Our demands are clear and specific and we will not make concessions on them. The enemy will be delusional if it thinks that targeting my sons, at the climax of the negotiations and before the movement sends its response, will push Hamas to change its position.”

■ “Israel” Murders 3 Sons of Hamas Chief Haniyeh in Gaza (Alahed News)
■ Death toll in Israeli airstrike on Hamas leader’s family rises to 7 (Anadolu)
■ Hamas Rejects US Truce Plan in Gaza, Will Present Its Own Plan (Sputnik News)
■ Israel killing Hamas leader’s sons proof of its brutality: Iran president (Iran Front Page)
■ Iran Top Gen.: Unable to Change Palestinians Calculations, “Israel” Resorts to Terror Crimes (Alahed News)

Swiss Policy Research | A brief overview of the situation in Ukraine and its geopolitical background | As predicted by SPR more than a year ago, the current US Administration and its foreign policy strategists are now continuing their geopolitical campaign in Ukraine where they left off in 2016. Russia, in turn, appears to be determined to defend ‘annexed’ Crimea (base of the Russian Black Sea fleet) as well as Russian-speaking parts of the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine (see map above). ■ To gain a deeper understanding of the current situation in Ukraine, the following resources may be of interest to some of our readers. ■ To learn more about the general geopolitical background and importance of Ukraine, read “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives” (PDF), the classic 1997 book by former US National Security Advisor and CFR director Zbigniew Brzezinski (excerpts in the annex below). Brzezinski predicted that between 2005 and 2010, Ukraine “should become ready for serious negotiations with both the EU and NATO”. In 2004/2005, the US helped organize the successful “Orange Revolution” in Kyiv; when its results were reversed in 2010, the US helped organize the more forceful “EuroMaidan” in 2013/2014. In response, Russia took control over Crimea and supported the de facto secession of Russian-speaking parts of Eastern Ukraine. ■ To explore the many “NGOs” that helped prepare the Ukrainian revolutions or regime changes, see our extensive list of 1600 organizations (including British “Bellingcat”) funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), essentially a civil society front of the CIA.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Muslims in Iran and many other countries are celebrating Eid al-Fitr at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, after the new moon of the lunar month of Shawwal was sighted the previous night. | Naqareh drums were played at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS), the eighth Shia Imam, in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad on Wednesday morning, and Muslim worshippers who had fasted for a month took part in Eid prayers there and across the country early in the morning of the occasion of the festive event, which marks the end of Ramadan – the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. ● In the capital, Tehran, people gathered at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla (Congregational Prayers Site) to perform Eid al-Fitr prayers. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei led the prayers.

■ Palestinians commemorate Eid al-Fitr amid oppression, genocide (Al Mayadeen)

The Israeli air force is reportedly training to strike “sensitive sites” | Israel will launch strikes against Iran’s nuclear program in the event that Tehran retaliates for the recent attack on its embassy in Damascus, a London-based Arabic outlet has reported, citing an anonymous Western security official. ● Two generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and several other officers were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus last week. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed that Israel will “receive a slap in the face” in return.

■ Israel Threatens To Strike Iran Directly If Iran Launches an Attack From Its Territory (HuffPo)

Unveiling Yemeni Naval Operations in Support of Gaza since Oct.7 | In a series of decisive actions, the Yemeni Armed Forces have undertaken 19 naval operations, targeting 22 commercial vessels, along with US and British military ships, en route to the Zionist entity in the occupied Palestinian territories. These operations were specifically aimed at intercepting vessels heading towards the ports in the occupied Palestinian territories. ● Earlier in November 2023, responding to severe attacks initiated by the Zionist entity on the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni Armed Forces made a resolute announcement, declaring their intent to target any vessel en route to the Zionist entity. This proclamation underscores the Yemeni Armed Forces’ unwavering readiness to counter the aggression, emphasizing both their capability and determination to retaliate against Israeli brutality against civilians in the Strip. The video [...] documents Yemeni naval operations since the onset of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood until the present day.

KILLED BY PFIZER VAX POISON INJECTIONS

The US and its allies received an unpleasant surprise in 2022 after the Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China, ripping a hole in Washington’s “Island Chain Strategy” for “containing” Beijing. As a local election looms, a Sputnik inquiry based on expert analysis and insider testimony reveals how the US Empire plans to strike back.
■ Residents of the Solomon Islands will go to the polls for general elections on April 17 to elect a new parliament and prime minister, with the vote expected to determine the country’s future both domestically and vis-à-vis the escalating security competition between the US and China in the Pacific region.
■ Manasseh Sogavare, a veteran Solomon Islands politician who has served as the island nation's prime minister for a total of about 11 years through four nonconsecutive terms going back to the year 2000, is running for reelection. Sogavare began to display an independent streak in foreign affairs in 2018-2019, when the Solomons signed on to China's Belt and Road Initiative, and ditched diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of formal relations with the People's Republic.
■ In November 2021, violent riots triggered by the Taiwan/PRC recognition switch saw an attempt by protestors to storm parliament and oust Sogavare, with rioters setting fire to a police station, burning down businesses and looting the Chinatown district in Honiara, the Solomons' capital. Sogavare blamed “foreign powers” for the unrest, accusing outside forces of feeding rioters “false and deliberate lies about the switch.”

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

‘You shall burn in Gaza’s alleys’: Hamas warns Israeli troops | Hamas stated early on Tuesday that Israel’s proposal, received via Qatari and Egyptian mediators, failed to meet the demands of Palestinian factions. However, the group stated that it would examine the proposal, characterized as “intransigent,” and communicate its response to the mediators. A Hamas official informed Reuters on Monday that the group had rejected the Israeli ceasefire proposal discussed in Cairo. [...] Another Hamas official, speaking anonymously, told Reuters that the negotiations had not progressed. “There is no change in the occupation’s (Israel’s) position, so there is no new development in the Cairo talks,” the official stated. “There has been no progress thus far.”

■ ‘You shall burn in Gaza’s alleys’: Hamas warns Israeli troops (Mehr News)

More decomposed bodies have been found inside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, amid operations to recover bodies of the victims of one of the largest massacres committed by Israel against the Palestinians, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says. | The founder and chairman of the group Ramy Abdu said in a series of social media posts that “operations to discover bodies executed by the Israeli army at al-Shifa Hospital continue.” ● He published a “shocking” video that showed rescue teams, civil defense, and forensic evidence finding more decomposed bodies. “It seems we are witnessing one of the largest massacres committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in history.” ● Abdu said the video confirmed the Geneva-based rights group’s report on field execution operations carried out by the Israeli forces during their recent attack on al-Shifa. ● “Horror: Doctors, nurses, displaced persons, administrators at the hospital, children, women. This is what is revealed after the Israeli army's withdrawal from al-Shifa Hospital. Dozens of bodies were executed in the field,” he said. According to his remarks, the Israeli army placed the bodies inside pits it had dug. [...] Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 33,207 Palestinians and injured nearly 75,933 others.

■ WCK Founder: ‘Israel’ Engaged in War against Humanity (Alahed News)
■ Killing humanitarian workers as a strategy: Israel’s endgame in Gaza (MEMO)

Nicaragua requests International Court of Justice to order Germany to cease providing support to Israel in its military assault on Gaza | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, accusing Berlin of facilitating “genocide” in Gaza by providing political and military support to Israel. ● Addressing the court, Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez said Germany is continuing its military support to Israel, although it is well aware that Israel’s violations may amount to an act of “genocide.” 💬 “The case before us involves momentous events affecting the life and wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of people, and even the destruction of an entire people,” he said. “Serious breaches of international humanitarian law, and other peremptory norms of international law, including genocide, are taking place in Palestine,” he stressed. “Nicaragua is requesting the court to order Germany to cease providing support to Israel in its campaign of destruction of the Palestinian people.” The ambassador underlined that Germany, as a party to the 1948 Genocide Convention, has to respect its obligations and stop sending weapons and military material to Israel.

Russia and China will continue their anti-terrorism cooperation, including via multilateral mechanisms, following the deadly terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in the Russian capital last month, Sergey Lavrov said. 💬 "I want to thank China for their condolences in connection with the terrorist attack in the Moscow Region on March 22, and for their support of Russia's fight against terrorism," Lavrov said speaking at a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, TASS reported. ● "All those involved [in the terrorist attack] will be certainly punished," Russia’s top diplomat stated. "Our [Russia-China] cooperation on counter-terrorism will continue, including within the framework of multilateral institutions. Speaking about the recent presidential election in Russia, Lavrov stressed that it was organized amid "severe external pressure from the West and a surge of terrorist attacks on behalf of the Kyiv regime."

■ Zelensky’s peace plan ‘divorced from reality’ – Lavrov (RT.com)

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives evaluated a series of notifications during the month of February proposing the transfer of 65 F-16A/B Fighting Falcon MLU fighter jets from Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands to Ukraine. | Despite the mentioned countries expressing their intention to donate the aircraft, the estimated cost of the initiatives amounts to $.683.5 billion, including spare engines, simulators, manuals, tools, and various materials for operating and sustaining the F-16s. ● From the summary of the Foreign Affairs Committee, it is revealed that Denmark will make available six F-16 Block 10, thirteen F-16 Block 15 aircraft, additional engines, and support equipment. The transfer is valued at USD 87.5 million. ● It is worth noting that the Danish government has not only been one of the promoters of the initiative to provide F-16s to Ukraine but is also one of the few countries training pilots and technical personnel.

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) |On accomplices in the terrorist act committed on March 22 in Crocus City Hall | As it is known, in criminal law it is customary to distinguish complicity in the commission of a crime, when several persons intentionally participate in it. Let's analyze who became accomplices of this gravest criminal act.

1. The executors. Everything is clear with them: these underdeveloped bastards are caught, and investigative actions are carried out with them. And it is obvious that despite multiple references to their belonging to ISIS/Wilayat Khorasan* (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), these scum are not religious fanatics ready to die for their faith. Neither external nor internal paraphernalia have they demonstrated. They are primitive hired killers, hired for relatively little money and trained to shoot. Just animals, human scum.

2. The organizers. They are a bit more complicated, for which the legend of IS responsibility was developed, which the extremists were happy to confirm. But they always do this, to increase their capital. And no one canceled the money, they probably got their money. But the true organizers are still hiding in the shadow of the IS. That's the plan. But already the first information published from the phones of hired freaks unambiguously testifies to the nationality of the organizers. As well as many other things — open (destination) and so far closed. These are the officials of the Nazi “Ukraine.” It was in their ugly brains that the idea to compensate for failures at the front with terrorist attacks was born, which, however, is not surprising. They will have to answer either according to the law or otherwise. The way terrorists are being dealt with all over the world. No statute of limitations.

3. The accomplices. There are many. Their circle expanded to include those who gave property, and money, organized the movement, taught them to shoot, etc. They will be held accountable. Everything is clear with them too, and they will answer. More interesting are other accomplices or international sponsors of terrorists. And here, alas, the situation is as follows: they include top officials of NATO countries. They vary. Macron, for example. His rhetoric, his actions, and most importantly — his sanctions for secret operations with the Bandera regime may well be qualified as aiding and abetting the terrorist attack of March 22. That is why the lover of oysters and champagne got so shitfaced that he had to deny publicly his own and his subordinates' involvement in the March 22 terrorist attack. That's why the champagne oyster lover is so shitfaced that he had to publicly deny France's involvement in the attack himself and through his subordinates. It is clear that Macron and several other Western leaders are the sponsors of this horrific terrorist attack. There is no forgiveness for this. There is no immunity here. And from now on, they simply are the enemies of Russia. (Translation: DeepL + Grammarly)

The UN World Food Program (WFP) has raised the alarm on the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip amid a genocidal Israeli war, saying children are starving to death in the besieged Palestinian territory. | WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain made the remarks in an interview with CNN on Sunday, as the Tel Aviv regime has been using food as a weapon of war and deliberately blocking aid deliveries to Gaza over the past six months. ● Asked about the impact of food shortage in Gaza, especially for children, McCain replied, 💬 “Well, children are dying as we speak.” ● “And those that are not dying or haven’t died yet are so emaciated and lacking so much in the way of important nutrients at this particular time in their life cycles, they won’t -- if they do live, they will never recover from it,” she added.

■ Denial of basic needs in Gaza inhumane, intolerable: WHO chief (Gulf Today)

Israeli troops pulled out of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Sunday after months of fierce fighting half a year into the war sparked by the attack against Israel by Hamas militants on October 7. | Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the withdrawal was because “Hamas ceased to exist as a military framework” in Khan Younis, just north of Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering. He also said the pullout was “to prepare for future missions, including ... in Rafah.” Israel said it had withdrawn more soldiers from southern Gaza, leaving just one brigade, as it and Hamas sent teams to Egypt for fresh talks on a potential ceasefire in the six-month conflict.

■ Israel prepares military operations in Rafah (Gulf Today)

💬 "The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control." ~ Nahum Goldman, founder of World Jewish Congress." ("AZ Quotes")

The PFLP affirms martyr Walid Daqqa's status as one of the prominent figures leaders, and thinkers of the Palestinian Captive Movement. | Palestinian Resistance factions mourned detainee Walid Daqqa, who was martyred inside the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital on Sunday due to the policy of medical neglect after a long struggle with illness. ● The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) described the martyr as "the revolutionary leader," affirming his status as one of the prominent figures, leaders, and thinkers of the Palestinian Captive Movement. ● In a statement, the PFLP emphasized that Daqqa had a rich and distinctive intellectual and literary experience unmatched in its impact on the lives and revolutionary spirit of the detainees. ● The Front added that the martyr was one of the most prominent symbols of prison literature and contributed significant intellectual and literary studies to the Palestinian, Arab, and international libraries. ● According to the PFLP, Daqqa was one of the prominent national leaders and detainees of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 who were on the front lines in confronting the practices and violations of the Israeli occupation, adding that he took part in all the battles of the Captive Movement.

■ Walid Daqqa on deathbed, over 750 other prisoners ill: Waed (1 Jun 2023) | Bone marrow cancer-stricken prisoner Walid Daqqa, whom the Israeli authorities refuse to release, is now in his final days after undergoing a lung resection and cardiac catheterization, and his body is not responding to chemotherapy, which was administered very late. Walid Daqqa has been detained since 1986 and was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of resisting the occupation. His sentence was later decreased to 37 years.

Israel's relentless aggression against the Gaza Strip has now stretched over six months, and shows no sign of abating despite international calls for a ceasefire. | Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity. This was in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of violence against Palestinians. ● At that time, the Israeli regime said attacking Gaza had two goals: eliminating Hamas and bringing back the hostages taken by the resistance group to Gaza. None of them have been achieved so far. ● About 130 of the 250 Israeli captives taken during Operation Al-Aqsa Storm are still in Gaza after a provisional truce deal in December saw the exchange of a number of prisoners between the two sides.