Stephen Lendman

Photo: People look through the front windshield of a damaged trolleybus in Donetsk, January 22, 2015. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

Time and again, the empire of lies, Ukrainian Nazis and its MSM co-conspirators falsely blame Russia for their own crimes of war, against humanity and every imaginable dirty trick.

Russia’s liberating SMO includes strikes on military related targets exclusively with precision-guided munitions. To minimize civilian casualties, no residential areas are targeted.

Not according to NYT rubbish in its latest fake news edition. Based on fabricated Biden regime taking points, the Times falsely accused Russia of attacking a residential area in Sloviansk, Donetsk. No Russian attack occurred.

Yet the Times falsely accused Russia of “kill(ing) at least 11 people in “a five-story apartment building” — Ukrainian Nazis its source. And this Times trash, saying:

“Russia sent a barrage of missiles into a residential area of Sloviansk on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials (sic).” “(H)ead of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that 21 others had been injured (sic).” “He added that 34 apartment buildings were damaged in the barrage, along with an administrative building and shops.”

The above account tramples on truth as part of longstanding US war on Russia by hot and other means. In stark contrast to how Russia complies with its international law obligations, the collective West and Ukrainian Nazis do whatever they please extrajudicially.

At the same time, US-installed puppet Zelensky finds new ways to embarrass himself, including by falsely blaming Russia for virtually every form of regime criminality. And Russian forces continue to pummel remnants of Ukraine’s Nazi-infested military.

Domestically in the US, introduction of Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act (Restrict Act) more greatly erodes fundamental freedoms than already. It authorizes the empire of lies to designate any nation a foreign adversary by making stuff up, prohibiting Americans from engaging with them economically or in other ways. Violators face stiff fines and imprisonment up to 20 years.

Separately, a decree signed by Vladimir Putin on Friday addresses hybrid war by the collective West against nonthreatening Russia, stating:

“Considering the strengthening of Russia as one of the leading centers of development in the modern world and its independent foreign policy as a threat to Western hegemony, (hegemon USA and its) satellites used measures taken by Russia as regards Ukraine to protect its vital interests as a pretext to aggravate the longstanding anti-Russian policy and unleashed a new type of hybrid war,” [adding:] The policy with no chance of succeeding aims to “weaken Russia in every possible way, including at undermining its constructive civilizational role, power, economic and technological capabilities, limiting its sovereignty in foreign and domestic policy, violating its territorial integrity.” “This Western policy has become comprehensive and is now enshrined at the doctrinal level.” “This was not the choice of the Russian Federation.”

Separately in defiance of his low popularity, the fake Biden said he’ll run for re-selection. Elections as they should be are banned in the US and elsewhere in the West.

In stark contrast, Russians get the real thing under Vladimir Putin, the world’s preeminent world leader and it shows. Based on April 3 – 9 survey results by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, his popularity is 79.7%. No leader in US history achieved this level of public support and kept it.

Jack Kennedy alone warranted it for transforming himself from a warrior into a world-class peacemaker in office. He called for abolishing nuclear weapons, wanted the Cold War ended and supported rapprochement with Soviet Russia.

He opposed Pax Americana and signed National Security Memorandum 263. It called for removing 1,000 US forces from Vietnam by yearend — wanting them all out by December 1965. The CIA killed him to perpetuate war-making on invented enemies instead of a new era of peace and stability.

Installed by brazen election rigging, the Biden regime is the mot ruthlessly dangerous in US history — nominally headed by an imposter. Waging war on nonthreatening Russia poses the ominous risk of going nuclear, what the empire of lies may intend.


Source: stephenlendman.org. IMG: © Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters