It has to be stated that distortions, subjects in the wrapper of pseudo-historicism, sometimes seem convincing to some people, therefore, the importance of the struggle on the ideological front should not be underestimated. As practice has shown, the historical truth must be defended, otherwise we risk losing in the information field. Who is behind historical revisionism? What goals do revisionists set? Olga Chetverikova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of MGIMO, answered these and other questions live on KM TV. On the air of KM TV the program “Conference” and I, its host, Dionysus Kaptar.

Today we have a guest Candidate of Historical Sciences, associate professor of MGIMO Olga Nikolaevna Chetverikova. We will talk about such a problem as revisionism of the results of the Great Patriotic War. Hello, Olga Nikolaevna.

WHY ARE THEY REVIEWING THE RESULTS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR ?

Dionysus Kaptar: Hello. Not so long ago, the holiday ended. The 65th anniversary was celebrated very grandly, loudly, but the problem, nevertheless, remained the same as it was in previous years. Every year, practically, the same forces say the same thing – they try to undermine, let’s say, the role of our country, our Soviet Union in people’s minds. They are trying to throw mud on our successes at the front, and then our successes in the post-war reconstruction of the world. We are monitoring this topic carefully. We had experts who talked about what was happening on the fronts, and I would like to talk to you about the diplomatic side of the issue. It is about what happened after the war, and whether the problem is really as serious as some experts say, whether revisionism really raises its head.

O.Ch.: Indeed, you know, I would like to say that the problem is extremely acute now, and we can say that this is only the beginning of a serious, deep revision, a deep revision not only of the results of the Second World War, but we are talking in general, we can say, about a change of ideological guidelines. The fact is that this problem, it is multilevel, it includes many aspects, but I wanted to highlight only two aspects, these are geopolitical and global. I would like to start by recalling this famous phrase of Brzezinski, who expresses the essence of American geopolitics in relation to Russia, which is that “the new world order that is being built now is being built without Russia, in spite of Russia and on the wreckage of Russia.” That’s the key phrase. That is, in the order that Western elites are creating now, Russia is not envisaged as something independent, a whole. By this very active expansion, which is carried out (financial, economic, political, ideological), Russia is considered as an object and in no way as a subject of any policy.

D.K.: What is the expression of revisionism? In what theses? Specifically, what is revisionism expressed in – you see, the fact is that we are being integrated into Western civilization, that is, into this new world order, as, I say again, an independent whole, so now, as you know, the policy of rapprochement with NATO, rapprochement with the Vatican is being implemented very actively (this, by the way, all links of the same chain). And in these conditions, when there is such an active embedding of us into structures completely alien to us, a total restructuring and breaking of our consciousness is necessary. That is, it is necessary to remove some fundamental, leading, reference points that justify our geopolitical thinking. In this regard, it is necessary to present those forces that have traditionally been associated with expansion in our geopolitical consciousness: NATO is a military expansion, the Vatican is an ideological expansion, they are presented today as allies, as friends. Therefore, it is no coincidence that on May 9, a parade with the participation of NATO troops took place on Red Square.

D.K.: Your assessment.

O.Ch.: I’ll give it to you now. Naturally, my assessment is harsh and negative – the participation of NATO troops. And this is a very important stage, a very important milestone, first of all, very symbolic for breaking our consciousness. The same significance will be the crowning achievement of the Vatican’s rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church, with us, that is, with the heretical church, the meeting of our Moscow Patriarch with the Pope, which is being prepared by the West, for them it will have the same significance. As for the direct participation of NATO troops. I must say that this plays (as I have already said) the role of a milestone, an important stage. Why – because for us, May 9 is Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, it is the Victory Day of our people in the war that began on June 22, 1941.

D.K.: Do you think that the NATO troops on Red Square are a kind of blurring of our victory?

O.Ch.: Of course, of course, this is a blurring, because this time we were celebrating not the victory in the Great Patriotic War, but we were celebrating the victory in the pan-European war that had begun…

D.K.: In World War II.

O.Ch.: The Second World War, after all, ended in September 1945, so we celebrate the Second World War in Europe, which began on September 1, 1939. That is, we celebrated the day of the pan-European victory over Nazi Germany, and our victory, it seems to be eroding, that is, it is a victory for Europe and Russia. This substitution has already occurred – we have already celebrated not Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, which is very important, it was a mix-up. Meanwhile, preparations are very active in the West – it is such an implicit, one might say, but very consistent, very purposeful preparation for the formation of a completely new view of the results of the Second World War. And what happened last year, I mean the resolution of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which equalized the role of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in unleashing the Second World War, is the first very important step, because what it has done, what it leads to – the fact is that if we are assessed as the perpetrators of the Second World War, so we have no right to win. Right? You can already absolutely put it that way.

D.K.: But it is unclear what arguments they operate with.

O.Ch.: Now we will come to this, too. So, since we have no right to win, and Russia is the successor of the Soviet Union, that is, accordingly, we are responsible for everything that happened in the Soviet Union, we are the successors of the Soviet regime, and the Stalinist regime is part of the Soviet regime, so, accordingly, all those claims that will be made and they are already preparing for the Stalinist regime, we will be responsible for all this. That is, the soil is being prepared.

D.K.: And financial as well. Definitely. And this is one of the most important elements, that is, the ground is being prepared so that we do not have the right to fight against the revision of the results of the Second World War, which is being carried out at all rates. This is a revision of territories, borders, and this, of course, is also a financial contribution that Russia will have to pay. In fact, that is, since we are equated with Germany, the Soviet regime is equated with absolutely the same position as the Nazi regime, so, accordingly, preparations are underway to recognize on a general legal scale – this is very important – at the legal level the criminal nature of the Stalinist regime, and, accordingly, the Soviet regime. That is, its criminal nature, its non-legitimacy.

D.K.: This is the main goal of the revisionists?

THE INVISIBLE WAR: LEADERSHIP AND RESOURCES OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

O.Ch.: Sure. That is, to make a kind of different version of the Nuremberg process in order for this regime… This year, what we had – the 65th anniversary – it seemed that we needed to remember, we need to remember Nazism, neo-Nazism and everything else. What they remember is the famine that Stalin allegedly arranged, and the Stalinist regime (this is very important), he was condemned, PACE condemned that the Stalinist regime was guilty. Katyn – is the Stalinist regime guilty? Guilty. That is, preparations are still underway to condemn the Stalinist regime as not legitimate. A lot has been written about Katyn – this is, of course, a terrible thing, because in fact the reaction to Katyn is like a Holocaust in Polish for Russia, that is, historical guilt is being driven into us for what we did not carry out, but for this historical guilt, for this fact we will have to pay, respectively, and politically, and financially. And at the same time, again, the question of the responsibility of the Poles for the extermination of 80,000, according to the most conservative estimates, of our Red Army soldiers captured during the Soviet-Polish war, 210,000 were captured, 120,000 were taken away and placed in concentration camps, and exactly 80,000 of them were exterminated in Polish camps.

D.K.: This is already a proven fact?

O.Ch.: Yes, there are documents, but the Polish side just completely ignores it. Katyn is presented as the main crime of the twentieth century, I say again that they drive an inferiority complex into us, although there are documents, there are studies, I turn you to the book of the Swede, to his materials that are available and available, where this problem is perfectly described. Those documents, supposedly the newest ones, which have now been thrown on the Internet, are all old falsified documents from 1992. All this has also already been described. So the West is preparing such a radical reassessment, rethinking. In this regard, I want to say that they even have a formula that they are beginning to implement on a general scientific, general educational scale, it is called “to form a unified understanding of European history.” This is the official approach of the European intellectual elite to the Second World War, which will be taught in schools and institutes.

D.K.: To everyone, to the whole European Union?

O.Ch.: Yes, that is, it is an official position, outside of which everything else will be considered as something marginal, having no right to exist. Corresponding to this point of view is Russia, it is responsible for the criminal regime, and accordingly, all Russians, Russians, they are the heirs of criminals and must pay for this idea. This is a strategy.

D.K.: This is what they want to prescribe in textbooks, according to which children will be taught, and in a couple of generations we will get a new generation completely.

O.Ch.: Naturally, the textbook we already have, which is there, in the West – in fact, the role of Russia is either completely scanty, or it is presented as an occupier who came here, defeated Nazism, but came here as an occupier.

D.K.: Who is the main “skirmisher”? This is Britain, Italy… Which countries?

O.Ch.: Now we are moving on to the most important aspect, the second one I am talking about – the ideological one. The fact is that behind all this there is actually one very important process, which, again, is going on secretly, but it is going on very intensively. We are talking about the rehabilitation of Nazi ideology as an ideology that justifies the right of elites, a certain part of the elite, to establish control over anything – over territory, over resources, over people, over human consciousness, and, I say again, in fact, this is the main, main trend today. But precisely due to the fact that the rehabilitation of the law is being secretly prepared, an ideological justification is being created, the right of these elites to rule, the West is very actively hiding, or rather, it does not hide, it does not put it on a prominent plan, as if it ignores, glosses over the fact that, firstly, we did not fight with Nazi Germany, we were at war with Europe, which was under Nazi control, under the control of Nazi Germany. It was actually a single whole – an economic, political, ideological mechanism. The Third Reich was really going against us, that is, the whole of Europe, we were at war with it, with Nazi Europe. And the second very important point that is hidden is who really prepared this Nazi regime, who ensured the rise to power of the Nazis, who ensured the prosperity of Nazi Germany.

ANGLO-AMERICAN OWNERS OF MONEY AS ORGANIZERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Naturally, Anglo-American financial circles are behind this. A lot of literature has been written on this topic, relatively a lot. At least – Heim “Trade with the enemy”, this is Sutton’s book “Wall Street and the rise of the Nazis to power”, this is a book that recently also appeared with us, the drug “How Great Britain and the United States prepared the Third Reich”, this is the book “Secrets of the Federal Reserve”. They show very well, quite reasonably, with documents, based on open sources about who and what and how exactly the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-American financial elite, the banking elite, prepared this whole project. That is, we can call the project – “Nazi Germany” – exactly as a project of the world financial circles. We need to pay the main attention to this now, we need to talk about it, and we need to bring it to the center of all research in general. Because, I think, since they bring our responsibility, which does not exist, into the international legal plane, then we should not take a defensive position, and constantly be in the role of a whipping boy, who will, you know, report every time for what he did not commit, and we should go on a large-scale offensive and indeed, to raise the question of the responsibility of those forces that ensured the rise of the Nazis to power, which gave rise to this terrible World War II, and, accordingly, the Patriotic War, and their responsibility.

D.K.: Are the same forces behind revisionism now that created the Nazi project?

O.Ch.: Of course, absolutely the same forces. The two specific structures that we are pointing to are the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System. It comes from them, and absolutely all the threads stretch from them, and it is no coincidence that the last meeting at which the decision was made on Hitler’s coming to power, where the banker Schroeder, the main financial structure, and, by the way, in the presence of the Dallas brothers, played a key role. A very rarely mentioned fact, a hidden fact, is that the Dulles brothers, one of whom will then create, will be an active participant in the Bilderberg Club of 1953, which currently, as is known, unites the Western elite and which is responsible for making key strategic decisions on the development of the world economy and world politics.

D.K.: Absolutely all the same forces.

O.Ch.: Therefore, by the way, now in the Western, in the German press, in science, in scientific literature, it dominates what they are trying to do – they are now actually trying to rehabilitate Nazism, putting all the blame on Hitler and his entourage. So to say, yes – individual character traits, individual personality behavior – everything else is legitimized. Why this is being done – the fact is that at present the Western elites have already actively begun to create this new world order, which they have been talking about for so long. The specific reason for this was the very economic crisis that was deliberately unleashed in the fall of 2008, and in fact the development of events currently reproduces the very scheme and logic of events that preceded the Second World War.

D.K.: That is, one second – unleashed this crisis, the same thing the Fed and the Bank of England?

O.Ch.: Naturally, the Central Reserve System played a key role in this. It means that everything follows the same logic – the Great Depression of 1929-1933, social unrest is growing, then the rise of totalitarian regimes to power and total war.

D.K.: What is all this being done for now?

O.Ch.: Why this is being done – here, I am specifically reading out to you the positions of representatives of this elite. Rockefeller is the author of the idea of private power: “Something should replace national sovereignty,” he says, “and this is the idea of private power.” That is, excuse me, we are talking about the fact that at present, when they are already preparing this new project, a new world order, we are talking about the fact that national state sovereignty itself is subject to destruction, because it is simply unthinkable in this scheme. Therefore, as Rockefeller said, the private power of transnational elites must be opposed to national sovereignty. And so, back in the late 1990s, they were told the following phrase: “We are on the threshold of global change. All we need is a large-scale crisis, and then the people will accept the new world order.”.

D.K.: Where did he say that? Immediately a question…

O.Ch.: It was he who spoke at the trilateral commission, this is one of his speeches, it was recorded. D.K.: Can I find out where this information came from? How did it get leaked? O.Ch.: It was given by several sources. This, in particular – you can see my article “Modern Catholicism in the transition to a globalized world order“, which was published in the magazine “Russia XXI century”.

D.K.: It’s just strange – such information, in theory, should not be widely available. Why do they actually disavow themselves?

O.Ch.: The fact is that they do not disavow, they prepare, you know, informational and psychological ground. We are talking about the fact that there is an active preparation for the fact that national state sovereignty in modern conditions, when everything is so interconnected and when, so to speak, nothing can be done within the national scale, it is already ineffective, it does not work. Therefore, this is just an ideological preparation, it is not some kind of secret and a project that is being hidden.

D.K.: Just such propaganda.

O.Ch.: Naturally, I say again, this is preparation for the adoption of this project, so the stronger, the more terrible the shocks, the more conditions are created in order to justify the need for a single supranational interstate government. Absolutely everyone is talking about it. Sarkozy talked about it, Blair talked about it, Jacques Attali wrote about it in his latest book, which is called “What after the crisis?”, so we can translate it, in which he also criticizes this financial speculative system, which means that speculators are such and such, they are cracked to pieces, all this is criticized and it shows the whole fraudulent nature of the creation of the financial system. But the way it ends, it ends up saying that a supranational government is needed that can control absolutely everything, since it is impossible to do this on a national scale. Here he says: “I’m afraid that when…” – and when they say “I’m afraid”, they express their plans – “… that such a mistake…” – that is, the mistake of 1929-1933 – “… will happen again, we will first fight, we will kill 300 million, and then reforms will follow in the world the government…”

D.K.: 30 million.?

O.Ch.: 300 million, of course, including China, that’s all the little things for them. In his latest book, he already openly says that “… in any case, a military conflict is imminent, which will lead to very serious consequences, because only after that the elites will understand that it is necessary to create a world government.” That is, everything is already quite frank. And the last meetings of the Bilderberg Club, about which information is already reaching, and in particular, the most recent meeting was in 2009, which was described by Time – but again, Time cannot allow information to leak just like that, right, so for some reason it is necessary – he wrote that in the spring last year, a meeting of the richest people in the world took place, these are Rockefeller, Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg – the mayor of New York, media magnate Turner, and what problem did they discuss – the problem of overpopulation of the Earth, that the problem of overpopulation, too many people live, and we want to solve it. There was a discussion behind closed doors, but still this information about what they discussed, it came out. It is characteristic that before this meeting Ted Turner gave an interview in which he said that the cause of global warming of the Earth, the climate problem, which is also turning into a key problem today, is too large a population. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the population by 2/3 and bring it to 2 billion. human. He said, “There is too much human material.”

ENDGAME. THE GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT PROJECT

D.K.: Olga Nikolaevna, let’s fix it, it’s just that a lot of theses have been expressed by you. Do I understand correctly that the world elites themselves are preparing a big major provocation, as if plunging the planet into a crisis, not even as it were, but in the literal sense, and not only into this crisis that is now underway, but something even more terrible awaits us, and then, under the guise of saviors, they will they come out and reformat the world political space in the way that is beneficial to them? Right?

O.Ch.: In fact, yes.

D.K.: In this case, revisionism is part of this general program, and Russia, to some extent, it turns out, lies like a barrier in the way of these plans?

O.Ch.: Russia is the only one who can apparently resist this, due to the fact that there are ideological, spiritual foundations and supports that do not integrate in any way, do not fit into this ideology, into this worldview of the new world order. Therefore, now they are striking the main blow precisely at our ideological foundations, in order for us to accept this new world order and this civilization, which is being created as completely natural, as inevitable, as without alternative. That’s the thing. And they are embedding at all levels, even breaking the main and basic, our thinking, which has deep roots, whether we want it or not, naturally, in the foundations of Orthodox, Christian, truly Christian. Because if we talk about today’s modern Catholic Church, there is very little left of Christianity there.

D.K.: What can Russia then oppose to these forces? In particular, if we talk about revisionism.

O.Ch.: You know, this is a very difficult and long question. If we talk about revisionism, then, as I have already said, we have no right to be in retreat all the time. Because when we are in retreat, we get the impression and the feeling that we are really to blame, and, by the way, with Katyn – when this happened, apparently, we thought that this would be the end of it, we recognized everything, but this just caused a very powerful Russophobic wave in Poland. Russian Russians, as one of the Polish researchers, or rather, writers, said, that we were always told that they were Germans, it was forbidden to say that they were Russians, and now that they have finally admitted that this is the case, they will now begin to say, now for every descendant of the victim, Russians will be children executioners. That is, it is claimed, this thesis. When we are in such a retreat every time – naturally, they do not like the weak, and here the thesis is that they hate the weak Russia, but they are afraid of the strong – in this case it will only worsen the situation and create the ground for further this ideological expansion, when there will be no more supports. Therefore, our task is to go out and play an independent role, not to be an object, but to be a subject of politics both ideologically and ideologically.

D.K.: How can this be achieved if there are such powerful forces on the other side that you are talking about?

O.Ch.: Firstly, in the international arena, to act from our positions, from the positions of our interests, and not from the position of adapting to those interests that are constantly imposed on us. Because on this board we play black all the time, not white.

D.K.: And without half the figures.

O.Ch.: Yes, already without half the pieces, there are probably a few pawns left. Therefore, the situation can be changed when there is political will, probably, and many are already talking about it, and when we know, when the strategy is clear to us, then we connect the appropriate necessary forces in order to implement it all. Because the methods we use, they are conditioned by the goals we set. Now, since we have no goal to justify, to give the whole truth (now we are talking about the Second World War), methods are not involved. As soon as such a goal is set, then, accordingly, all schools, both scientific and educational, they will work in this direction.

D.K.: Were such goals set in Soviet times? Somehow I don’t really remember – I studied, let’s say, back in the Soviet period, at the end of the Soviet Union, and for some reason we were told almost nothing about either the Bank of England or the Fed in schools. They were silent about it somehow.

O.Ch.: You know, this was partially discussed. By the way, there is a wonderful “History of Diplomacy” six-volume book, which was written in the 1960s and 1970s. There you can find this material, how in the 1920s and 1930s there was active cooperation between American, British and German capital, both before and after the Nazis came to power. It is there, look through it, there are sources, but it did not seem to come to the fore. As for the Eastern countries, since they were our allies, since we created friends and the Warsaw Pact, it was impossible to talk about much of what was in reality, in particular, about the fatal role Poland played in unleashing the Second World War, since it was an ally. And what has surfaced now, in particular, the already published documents of the FSB on the role of Poland in the preparation, together with Nazi Germany, of aggression against the Soviet Union, of course, it was impossible to talk about it then. Now they are talking about it, but again, it is not that it does not exist, it is ignored, you see, it is pretended that it does not exist. Although all these documents just say that Poland played an active role. In particular, even the fact that when Germany withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, Poland represented it in the League of Nations, not to mention all those joint projects that they developed, how they divided the Soviet Union, what role Poland had to play in the future providing sabotage and intelligence work against the Soviet Union – it’s all not showing.

WHO HITLER STUDIED WITH. HOW WESTERN “DEMOCRACY” GAVE BIRTH TO NAZISM

I’m not talking about her role in the Munich partition of Czechoslovakia, after 1938 – it was also impossible to say – and accordingly, as she hindered, she did everything to ensure that no agreement was concluded in 1939, when negotiations with Britain and France were already underway, this is also well known. Therefore, right now, I think, is the most favorable time to give all this material, all these sources that exist, because it just turns out a strange thing – in the West they are going on the offensive, and they refer to the fact that we are hiding documents that could expose, although at the same time, on the contrary, those documents are just hiding, a huge layer, which, if we open it, everything will appear in a completely different form.

D.K.: They expose the West just.

O.Ch.: Why, for example, are archives concerning the Second World War banned and classified in both England and the USA? Here they demand to declassify all archives that relate to hunger, allegedly the device of hunger – well, then declassify your archives of the Second World War, so that it becomes clear that…

D.K.: By the way – one moment – do you know the situation with the fact that a significant part of Mussolini’s archive was stolen, his correspondence with Churchill?

O.Ch.: Yes.

D.K.: And this, by the way, is also a question – were these documents found later?

O.Ch.: They are, of course, stored in these secret archives.

D.K.: They were stolen just during the 40s, but they were never made public?

O.Ch.: Naturally, they were not made public. As well as a lot of documents have not been made public, they are classified, they can be made public only after several decades.

D.K.: It is very interesting to read Mussolini, what could he have written to Churchill and why it should be kept secret, the question immediately arises, suspicion – was Churchill standing for Mussolini, no matter how seditious it sounds.

O.Ch.: Naturally, especially considering the active financial ties between the USA and Italy, and England and the USA. Why, for example, did Italy become the only country that was mowed down, not touched, actually reduced the debt to other states, England and France, which they had to pay after the First World War? This is $13 billion that the United States has already provided state loans to Western European countries, and Italy was the only one that had these conditions extremely relaxed. The others all paid the entire bill.

D.K.: Apparently, they were given such an indulgence for some serious services.

O.Ch.: Apparently, yes. As for other states, it was all woven into this system of indemnity, which Germany had to pay, over which, with the help of the Dulles plan, the Americans were able to establish total financial control over the economy using all these financial mechanisms.

D.K.: In general, if you pull this thread, it will turn out, as it probably follows from your words, that almost all the key states of the West will be smeared in the so-called Nazi project, and it turns out that this is the core of the European Union.

O.Ch.: Yes, that’s right.

D.K.: And it turns out that to raise this topic in our country – I now understand why it’s scary. We will have to break off economic and trade relations, in fact, with these countries.

O.Ch.: And complete continuity, especially pronounced… Although, you see, this is no longer a secret, there is already a lot of this information about the activities of the trilateral commission and the Bilderberg Club, why is this still treated as something conspiratorial and so on? This is by no means conspiracy theory, these are real projects, these are real plans.

D.K.: Don’t you think that the term “conspiracy theory” itself is such a moronizing term, discrediting any mentally normal person who is just trying to understand the undeclared springs of politics. So in order to discredit him, such a normal, sane person, they label him a conspiracy theorist. Do you agree with this?

O.Ch.: Absolutely right, of course. You know, it’s like in politics – “conspiracy – conspiracy” – a well-known conspiracy is being prepared so that it does not go the way that is directed against the ruling elite, and she is preparing a conspiracy within this conspiracy. It was the same with conspiracy theory. Often the authors of many conspiracy theories, such as completely senile ones, are just those people…

D.K.: My own people. Agents.

O.Ch.: Those people who work for that force to bring this idea to the point of absurdity. As you know, if you want to discredit, bring the idea to the point of absurdity. So it is brought to the point of absurdity. Meanwhile, serious, calm research that is based on documents, facts and sources, they are simply ignored. And therefore, it is no coincidence that both Sutton’s book and the book of Munes, who worked for several years at the Library of Congress, was in the library himself, checked every document from the creation to the secrets of the Federal Reserve System, where he talks about their role in World War II, these books too, and by the way, were not translated

D.K.: Who is this person, what position does he hold?

O.Ch.: He is an American researcher, now he is already a professor. Then he could not publish his book, four publishing houses refused, his friend, a friend, who had the appropriate funds, published it to him. Then, for example, when this book was published in Germany, its entire circulation was liquidated, it was never translated in our country. That is, I think it is necessary, if we go on the offensive, to raise the whole layer of real, this scientific and historical, and not just the one that the neoliberal part of historians suggests, we now have an emphasis on this wing, and the whole layer that speaks about the real role of the ruling circles of the West, and then we will really see this complete continuity, and then we will understand this double standard that is so characteristic of international European and American politics in everything and everywhere. Against this background, of course, you understand, the role of exposing the Stalinist regime is the Stalinist regime, it should be, so to speak, that bogeyman, against which absolutely everything should be cute, that is, attention should be focused on this.

D.K.: This is their goal, the revisionists.

O.Ch.: Yes, and all the little things will suck – everything else does not exist. Even Katyn is the “most terrible” crime of the twentieth century, against which everything pales. So is the Stalinist regime – even the Nazi regime should fade on it.

D.K.: So they will serve. I want to fix it. That is, this is not your point of view, you are not asserting this, you are quoting revisionists. O.Ch.: Naturally, of course, I am setting out their strategic plans. It is no coincidence that in this book, “Russia in the twentieth Century”, a two-volume edition edited by Zubov, it is already openly stated there that the Stalinist regime and Stalin, of course, are worse than Hitler.

D.K.: The second edition, actually at the end of the “Gorbachevshchina”. This is the 80s, the beginning of the 90s – there came to completely absurd, Russophobic statements, and now it turns out the second round.

O.Ch.: Yes, the second round, but they already want to integrate it into educational programs.

D.K.: Olga Nikolaevna, unfortunately, I must state that our broadcast is ending. What can be summarized, what is the main conclusion from your conversation, from your thoughts can be drawn – probably the one that Russia should advance ideologically.

O.Ch.: Naturally.

D.K.: God grant that the authorities will listen to you. Olga Nikolaevna Chetverikova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of MGIMO, was in our studio.

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Conspiracy practices: the 9/11 Nuclear demolition

The official story of September 11 is like a bag full of lies, and this seems to be a proven fact for the alternative community. So what really happened? A new series of revelations by a former Russian nuclear intelligence officer is shocking even those who believe they have a clear idea of what is going on behind the scenes.

When ordinary people saw how two planes hit the twin Towers of the world Trade Center in new York on September 11, and how the Twin Towers collapsed in clouds of dust, they were too shocked by these events to criticize the events themselves. And so since then, strange ideas have been imprinted in their heads: that hollow aluminum planes can allegedly punch through steel buildings, while completely disappearing into them, and that aviation fuel (kerosene) allegedly can “melt” these steel buildings into microscopic volatile steel powder…

Sooner or later, these ridiculous delusions had to be discarded. The destruction of the Twin Towers has absolutely nothing to do with” planes”, as well as with the fire allegedly caused by”planes”. This is an obvious fact that has occupied the minds of millions of Americans who are dissatisfied with the official interpretation of the destruction of the world Trade Center for the past 6 years, at least. When the initial shock caused by the events of September 11 passed, many people began to realize that there were simply too many inconsistencies in the official version.

The first thing that caught their attention was that the order of destruction of the Twin Buildings did not coincide with the order of their destruction by aircraft. The South Tower, which was hit by the second plane, collapsed first. While the North Tower, which was hit by the first plane, collapsed the second. This means that the “fires” took 1 hour and 42 minutes to destroy the first tower and only 56 minutes to destroy the second. Given that the fires in both Towers were caused by approximately the same amount of kerosene, and given that the towers were Twin (i.e. absolutely identical in strength), this discrepancy was the first clear indication that their destruction had nothing to do with the fire.

The next realization came when researchers on September 11 began to consider the fact that building 7 of the world Trade Center (an exceptionally strong modern 47-story skyscraper on a steel frame) also collapsed in a similar way in the early evening of the same day, but it did not hit any aircraft. If the destruction of the Twin Towers was officially blamed on kerosene, which was brought by “planes”, the destruction of WTC-7 was inexplicable to such an extent that the official Report Of the Commission of inquiry on September 11 preferred not to mention the destruction of building 7 at all – as if the fact of the destruction of a 47-story modern skyscraper did not deserve even mention.

A comparison of all these events and the many absurdities surrounding the destruction of the WTC led the first researchers on September 11 to realize that the authorities were just fooling them and that the destruction of the world Trade Center had nothing to do with kerosene or “planes”, because planes were simply not needed. The very fact that building 7 of the WTC collapsed in the early evening of September 11, 2001, successfully proved that the terrorist planes were unnecessary and that the destruction of the world Trade Center would have happened in any case – regardless of the “planes”. Someone just wanted the world Trade Center to collapse, and that’s why it collapsed. From this moment, the so-called “movement for the truth about September 11″was born.

People began to accuse the US government of deliberately destroying the world Trade Center in a method that is widely used in the construction industry and is known as “demolition.” More and more people in America are beginning to blame their own government for being the main culprit behind the September 11 attacks, and in the end, more than 65% of the US population expressed their disbelief at the official explanation for the September 11 attacks and the destruction of the world Trade Center.

In fact, anyone who watched the news videos of that time closely enough will be able to remember these freeze-frames where the “third explosion” is mentioned»:

CAPTIONS ON THE SCREEN: “SIENEN 10.03 BREAKING NEWS – THE THIRD EXPLOSION SHATTERED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK” AND ” SIENEN 10.13 BREAKING NEWS – THE THIRD EXPLOSION DESTROYED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK»

Here it is-the same seditious video report by CNN, which showed lines of text claiming that there was a “third explosion” that first “shattered” and then “destroyed” the South Tower of the world Trade Center. The North Tower (the one with the antenna) had not fallen by then – it would fall a little later from the “fourth explosion” – but CNN would already have received a severe reprimand from “good people” by then and would no longer mention such seditious things as “explosions”. The twin towers of the world Trade Center will be declared “destroyed by kerosene”, and the building of the WTC number 7 (which did not hit any aircraft of the so – called “terrorists”) – “destroyed by diesel fuel” (the stock of which was stored in the building for emergency diesel generators).

For obvious reasons, most people who disagree with the official “kerosene” theory accuse the US government of deliberately demolishing the world Trade Center.

However, these people do not have a sufficient understanding of the industrial processes of demolition of buildings in General, and the actual demolition of the world Trade Center in particular. For this reason, a certain number of “conspiracy theories” have emerged, which range from claims that the WTC was allegedly “booby-trapped with conventional explosives”, to claims that it was allegedly demolished using the so-called “nano-termite” (some mystical and hitherto unheard-of substance), which was allegedly used in the form of “spraying” on every metal part of the supporting structures of the Twin Towers.

There are also more bizarre conspiracy theories – the theory of WTC demolition using laser beams from space, for example. Of course, the authors of these various conspiracy theories cannot yield to each other, and thus they spend precious time not only accusing the US government of being the main culprit of September 11, but also accusing each other of trying to “muddy the waters of truth”. The common problem with all these conspiracy theorists is that they simply don’t know what really happened to the world Trade Center, and most importantly, they don’t know why it happened.

The author of this article tried to present the reader with something different. Instead of offering another “conspiracy theory”, he offers his expert opinion, in addition to his testimony, which goes along with his personal experience and knowledge gained as a result of serving in the relevant post in the Soviet Army. I hope that as a result of this approach, the reader will get a much better explanation about the demolition of the WTC, compared to what he could get on some Internet forum specializing in conspiracy theories about September 11.

«Ground Zero» and «ground zero»

First, I would like to remind everyone that the site of the former world Trade Center in new York is called “Ground Zero” in English [“ground zero” or “epicenter” in the understanding of the Russian-speaking reader]. Many people don’t seem to realize exactly what the words “ground zero” mean or how important evidence they are.

Many people seem to think of” Ground Zero ” as a proper name – as if it were the name of a city or a ship. However, few people remember today that the strange name ” ground zero “was assigned to the site of the former WTC too quickly to be a”Proper Name”. Almost immediately after the Twin Towers collapsed (a few hours before the WTC building 7 collapsed)-that is, around noon on September 11, 2001 – almost all officials and some reporters already began calling the site of the former WTC the strange words “ground zero”. All the newscasts that were printed the next day also referred to the site of the former WTC as “ground zero”, and these strange words were still written in lowercase letters at the time.

This use of the term “ground zero” in reference to the area of the former WTC continued throughout September 12, 2001. And some news outlets continued to use the lowercase term “ground zero” throughout September 13, 2001. And only then, as if someone realized their mistake, the status of this strange name suddenly suddenly increased to “Ground Zero” with Capital Letters and as such, it finally turned into a Proper Name. But what did the words “ground zero” mean while they were still written in lowercase letters – that is, in English? at the moment when they have not yet acquired the status of a Proper Name?

Why, almost immediately after the destruction of the Twin Towers, were these strange words used to refer to the place of the WTC? Was this a mistake caused by the confusion in the midst of the unprecedented events of September 11? I would say Yes. This was undoubtedly a mistake caused by the General confusion and confusion.

However, this was not a mistake in the sense that an inappropriate name was chosen to mark the site of the WTC’s demolition – if only because it was too early at the time to choose a proper proper name at all. In fact, Civil Defense experts were absolutely right when they designated this zone with the words “ground zero”. There was absolutely no mistake about it. It was, in fact, “ground zero” in the very sense that civil Defense experts understand The term. However, this was a mistake in the sense that these strange words “ground zero” were inadvertently “leaked” to journalists, and through them – to the General public. After that, it was too late to try to hush up the widespread use of this strange designation for the Civil Defense service. And so desperate American officials simply had no other chance than to “Title” these seditious words and thus transform this own definition of the Civil Defense service into a Proper Name.

First, I would like to quote something about one of the heroes of September 11-police detective John Walcott (John Walcott), one of the volunteers of “Ground Zero”. He had spent a fair amount of time in that very spot, sorting through the wreckage of the world Trade Center. He spent enough time there to earn a strange disease: myeloma in the last stage. Just two paragraphs of his statements, published in an article with the frightening title “Death by Dust”, managed to contain and show us all these strange and” inexplicable ” things – which the reader will need as a basic prerequisite for understanding the main points of this article – both about dust and about radiation:

“…Due to the fact that Walcott was a detective, he spent five months of his life not only at Ground Zero, but also at Fresh Kills [new York city’s main landfill located on Staten island]. And as much as the air of Lower Manhattan suffocated him, he was terrified of the Staten island dump. Walcott knew that all the contents of the towers had collapsed with them – tables, lights, computers. But with the exception of occasional steel beams, the detritus he sifted consisted entirely of tiny particles of dust – it contained no pieces of furniture, no lighting fixtures, not even a computer mouse.

Sometimes detectives took shelter in wooden sheds, in an attempt to escape what Walcott calls “all that weird bad air.” One day, he was sitting in such a shed with his colleagues over a meal of cookies and soft drinks when some FBI agents entered. They were dressed in full chemical protection kits, complete with gas masks, which they also gave extra tightness by gluing them with adhesive tape to protect them from fumes. As Walcott surveyed the scene, comparing highly protected FBI agents to new York cops wearing respirator masks, the question flashed through his mind: what exactly was wrong with this picture?…”

Yes, Mr. Walcott, unfortunately, there was something really “wrong”, quite “wrong” in this strange picture…

The FBI agents, who did not hesitate to appear in full chemical protection kits, and even additionally taped, in the face of unprotected “plebs”, knew the truth. That is why they do not suffer from leukemia or any other type of cancer in the last stage. These FBI agents will clearly live a long and happy life, despite their brief visit to ” Ground Zero»…

If you had opened a modern dictionary and looked at what exactly this strange term meant then, you would not have needed to ask your question; you would have understood immediately what was “wrong” with this ” Ground Zero»:

GROUND ZERO-A POINT ON THE GROUND VERTICALLY BELOW – OR VERTICALLY ABOVE-THE EXPLOSION POINT OF AN ATOMIC OR THERMONUCLEAR BOMB

All possible meanings of the term “ground zero ” described by Webster’s New international Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language (encyclopedia Lux 1999, ISBN 1-888777796), page 559.

It should be noted that John Walcott finally managed to survive, unlike many of his colleagues who also worked on “Ground Zero”, but who were much less lucky… on December 17, 2007, a brief news flashed on the Internet that John Walcott had finally undergone a truly strange (and extremely painful) operation-a bone marrow transplant. From this point on, he can really live on (on immunosuppressants that will prevent rejection of the transplanted bone marrow; and without the ability to leave their home because their immune system has ceased to exist and the slightest infection can become fatal for them).

In case you don’t know what “bone marrow transplant” means, I have to explain

Bone marrow transplantation is required for patients who have suffered from heavy doses of penetrating or secondary radiation (or both) and whose bone marrow (the bone marrow responsible for blood regeneration) has been completely killed by this radiation. Radiation has a strange property – it always affects the bone marrow cells to the greatest extent in comparison with all other cells of the body. This is why the vast majority of radiation victims suffer from leukemia. The higher the dose of radiation that affected them, the more bone marrow cells were killed and the more severe their leukemia. John Walcott was clearly suffering from the most severe form of leukemia. Because until the moment when he was lucky enough to receive a bone marrow transplant, he lived solely on constant infusions of donor blood, due to the fact that his own blood was not regenerated completely.

In addition to the fact that radiation kills or very seriously damages the bone marrow, it also causes various forms of cancer that affect different organs or even several organs at the same time – especially in cases where the victim was exposed to radioactive dust that got into the respiratory or digestive organs. However, in the latter case, it is very easy for dishonest doctors and other health officials to find plausible “explanations” for these cancers. They can easily claim that this is allegedly the result of exposure to” asbestos dust”,” toxic fumes”,” toxic dust particles ” and the like. But when it comes to bone marrow damage, these liars are caught red-handed. Bone marrow damage can only be caused by radiation.

And that’s why those same FBI agents were given full chemical protection kits, along with gas masks, and additionally taped “to protect against fumes” during their visit to “Ground Zero”. Because they chose not to suffer later from leukemia and other cancers. And so when they also covered their outfits with duct tape, they didn’t do it to “protect themselves from fumes,” as John Walcott thought. They did this in order to protect themselves from flying radioactive dust and, especially, from radioactive vapor, which they did not intend to inhale or swallow.

VOLUNTEERS ON “GROUND ZERO” AMONG THE WRECKAGE OF THE TWIN TOWERS AND AMONG THE CLOUDS OF RADIOACTIVE VAPOR RISING FROM THE WRECKAGE ABOUT FIVE WEEKS AFTER THE EVENTS

Yes, I suspect that many readers will be shocked by this revelation and may not believe me – assuming that I am simply speculating on unproven facts. However, the above-mentioned story of John Walcott and the FBI agents dressed up in chemical protection during a visit to ground zero has nothing to do with me personally. They exist on the Internet as a fact, and they exist completely independently of the modest personality of the author of these lines. They exist as independently of it as the legal definition of the term “ground zero”, which in pre-9/11 dictionaries was as follows

GROUND’ ZE’RO” – A POINT ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH OR WATER DIRECTLY BELOW -, DIRECTLY ABOVE -, OR WHERE AN ATOMIC OR HYDROGEN BOMB EXPLODED

Webster’s unabridged Encyclopedia of the English Language (1989 edition, printed in 1994, ISBN 0-517-11888-2).

“GROUND ZERO” = A POINT ON THE GROUND DIRECTLY BELOW THE EXPLOSION PRODUCED BY A NUCLEAR WEAPON

Dictionary of Military Terms (Peter Collins publishing, 1999, ISBN 1-901659-24-0).

“GROUND ZE-RO”/,. ’ .. / NOUN [UNCOUNTABLE] THE PLACE WHERE THE NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLODED, WHERE THE GREATEST DESTRUCTION OCCURRED

“GROUND ZERO” NOUN 1 [A NOUN; USUALLY SINGULAR] THE EXACT LOCATION WHERE A NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLODED

Cambridge advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition. (2nd Edition 2006, ISBN-13 978-0-521-60499-4 is the post-9/11 edition, widely available).

Above were full, unabridged interpretations of the term “ground zero”. This was the only definition and the only one that carried its true meaning…

However, if you do not believe your eyes and prefer to rush to the nearest bookstore to buy some English dictionary, then take your time. When you run into the store, you will be even more surprised, because it is no longer possible to find any dictionary containing the only and only correct interpretation of this strange term. Those dictionaries that were published before September 11, such as those mentioned above, and that contained a single definition of the term “ground zero”, were long ago removed from the bookshelves and replaced with new editions. Unfortunately, the English language itself was one of the earliest victims of September 11…

The six photos below were not in the original version of the article in Nexus, but for clarity, I decided to add them to the online version. These photos compare similar dictionaries of the same firms printed before and after the name “ground zero” was inadvertently assigned to the site of the nuclear demolition of the world Trade Center:

INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM “GROUND ZERO” IN THE MICROSOFT ENCARTA DICTIONARY-1999 RELEASE

INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM “GROUND ZERO” IN THE ENCARTA DICTIONARY OF MICROSOFT -2001

Above is the Microsoft Encarta dictionary, released in 1999 and 2001

INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM “GROUND ZERO” IN THE ADVANCED DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH LONGMAN FIRST 2000 ISSUE

INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM “GROUND ZERO” IN THE ADVANCED DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH LONGMAN FIRST 2007 ISSUE

Above-the Advanced Dictionary of American English Longman first and second editions (2000 and 2007) respectively

MERRIAM-WEBSTER STUDENT DICTIONARY 1999

MERRIAM-WEBSTER LEARNER’S DICTIONARY 2010

Above is the 1999 Merriam-Webster Dictionary and the 2010 Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary. (the first dictionary was not reissued, and the second dictionary was not published before the events of September 11, but the two dictionaries are approximately equal in status and in the number of words and pages).

So don’t be surprised that almost all new English dictionaries printed after September 11 have started to interpret “ground zero” as supposedly having more than one meaning. At least three to five new meanings have been assigned to this term, which range from the alleged “greatest destruction”, “great disorder”, and “fuss” to the alleged “base level” and “starting point”. Others preferred a different approach: the publishers of the new Dictionary of Modern English Longman, for example, describe ” ground zero “as” the place where the bomb exploded”, without specifying that the” bomb ” in this case would have to be exclusively nuclear or thermonuclear. In addition to all this, now almost all dictionaries – both large and small-have begun to include this (or rather “these”) interpretation. Previously, before September 11, the term “ground zero”, because of its specificity, existed only in very large dictionaries of English – such as Webster’s Unabridged, full of Collins, full of American Heritage, and the like (and in them it had a single definition). This term was not previously included in smaller dictionaries – such as those intended for students and advanced learners (the only exception was the Longman Dictionary of American English – mentioned above). For example, “ground zero” was not included in the Oxford advanced Learner’s Dictionary 4th, 5th, and 6th issues published before September 11, 2001. Even the special 4th “encyclopedia” edition of this dictionary, which was 50% larger than the regular edition, did not include a definition of the term “ground zero”. It was only the 7th edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, first published in 2005, that finally began to define the term.

After 9/11, the Macmillan Advanced English Dictionary and the Longman Modern English Dictionary, all kinds of new Meriam-Webster dictionaries, most of The new American Heritage dictionaries, the new Collins English dictionaries, the Microsoft encart dictionary, and many other new dictionaries, as well as encyclopedias – all of them, after the events of September 11, began to include the term “ground zero” and interpret it as if it had more than one meaning, trying their best to distract their readers from the former nuclear (and only nuclear) nature of this term.

By the way, the publishers of the last Cambridge advanced Learner’s Dictionary mentioned above deserve praise for not deceiving their readers. They had the courage not to include the confusing definitions of “ground zero” in their post-9/11 dictionary. This is in sharp contrast to the behavior of publishers of all other dictionaries who have entered the service of those who lie to the people about September 11. There were even attempts to “prove” that the name “ground zero” was allegedly used to describe the area [where the WTC stood] even before the events of September 11. All these linguistic attempts concerning “ground zero” are actually easy to explain. This strangely transparent name, which was hastily given to the site of the demolition of the former world Trade Center in new York, was too transparent to leave its former only interpretation directly “as is” in the new English dictionaries…

Nuclear demolition of the WTC

The author of these lines was a career officer in the Soviet military unit 46179, which was also known as the”Special Control Service of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR”. The 12th General Directorate, in turn, was the organization that was responsible in the USSR for the safe storage, production control, routine maintenance, etc.of the entire nuclear Arsenal of the country. While the Special Control Service was responsible for detecting nuclear explosions. It was also responsible for monitoring compliance with international treaties related to nuclear testing. This is particularly important in light of the existence of the so-called “Treaty on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions” of 1976 between the USSR and the United States of America [known in the USSR as the “Treaty between the USSR and the United States on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes of 1976”]. In accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, the parties were obliged to inform each other of all nuclear explosions for non-military purposes.

During my service with the aforementioned organization in the late ‘ 80s, I learned of the existence of a so-called “nuclear emergency demolition system” built into the twin Towers of the world Trade Center in new York. The actual “nuclear demolition system” was based on powerful thermonuclear charges (about 150 kilotons in TNT equivalent), which were located at a depth of 50 meters below the lowest point of the Foundation of each of the Towers. At the time, it seemed strange to me, to be honest, because it was hard to believe that the US authorities could be crazy enough to demolish buildings in the middle of a populated city using underground nuclear explosions. However, if I understood this correctly, no one was actually going to demolish the world Trade Center. It was just a way to avoid certain bureaucratic obstacles. The terrifying imaginative nuclear demolition system was built into the Twin Towers not to demolish them in reality, but simply to get permission to build them at all.

The problem was that the new York city building code at the time (as well as the Chicago building code) did not allow the Department of Buildings to issue permits for any skyscraper until the designer also provided the Department with a satisfactory way to demolish such a structure, both for future demolition and for demolition in the event of an emergency. Since in the late 60s (when the construction of the Twin Towers was first proposed), this type of steel-framed building was a fundamentally new concept, no one knew how to demolish such buildings. Traditional (“normal”) demolition methods were only applicable to buildings of the old type. Something new was needed for the incredibly strong steel Twin Towers, Something new that could convince officials From the Department of Buildings to grant permission for their construction. And this “something new” was finally found: nuclear demolition.

Brief history of the concept of nuclear and nuclear demolition

The initial idea of using nuclear charges to demolish various structures was born almost simultaneously with the appearance of nuclear weapons themselves in the early 50s. In the beginning, nuclear weapons were not called “nuclear”, but “atomic”, and therefore the concept of demolishing buildings using these weapons received the appropriate name – “atomic demolition”. These words managed to survive half a century and, despite the renaming of the former atomic weapons to “nuclear weapons”, these words have remained in the language to this day. They are still found in the names of special engineering devices – “SADM” and “MADM”. [That there are portable nuclear charges, also known in the USSR as “nuclear suitcases”, “nuclear mines” and”nuclear satchels”.] The first of the two stands for “Special Atomic Demolition Munitions” (“Special Atomic demolition Munition”), the second – as “Medium Atomic Demolition Munitions” (can be translated into Russian as “medium-Caliber Atomic Demolition Munition”). Many people mistakenly believe that the first of them is the so – called “new world”. “SADM” – allegedly means “Small Atomic Demolition Munitions”, not “Special…” (that is, “Small Atomic demolition Munition”, not “Special…”).

In fact, this is not a particularly big mistake – to call this device “small” instead of” special”, since the so – called” SADM ” is really very small-its explosive power does not exceed 1 kiloton in TNT equivalent. Given that all modern portable nuclear devices have a variable power, which can be set to the lowest level of 0.1 kilotons, and in some products even 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 100 and 10 tons of TNT, respectively), they really have every right to be called “small” ammunition.

Other popular names for these “Special Atomic Demolition Munitions” are: “mini-nuke “(it is difficult to translate it into Russian verbatim, but let’s translate it as” nuclear mini-charge”) and” suite-case nuke “(“nuclear suitcase”), although the second is probably a logical misnomer. In reality, most of these weapons are similar to large pots that weigh about 50-70 kilograms, and are designed to be carried on your back – like satchels. Therefore, it is unlikely that such devices will fit in a suitcase. However, there are also modern portable nuclear weapons that are made from plutonium-239 instead of uranium-235. As a result of a much smaller critical mass of plutonium, their dimensions can be significantly reduced – some of the later portable nuclear charges based on plutonium can actually fit in a “briefcase”.

“Medium-caliber Nuclear Demolition munitions” (“MNDM”) are much larger in both size and explosive power. Their power can reach up to 15 kilotons in TNT equivalent [translator’s note: 15 kilotons is the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima], weight – up to 200 kilograms, and size – approximately the size of a large gas cylinder used in a household.

Any of the above-mentioned “atomic demolition munitions” can be successfully used to destroy large objects that cannot be destroyed with a reasonable amount of conventional explosives – especially in the event of an emergency, when there is neither time nor opportunity to carefully prepare a” normal ” demolition procedure using conventional means. For example, it can be bridges, dams, tunnels, underground structures, large buildings of high strength, and so on.

However, the Efficiency (efficiency coefficient) of such demolition using “SADM” and “MADM” is very low. As you probably know, the main purpose of demolition (controlled destruction) of buildings by the “implosion” method is not just to destroy these buildings with explosions so that their fragments fly around, but to collapse them as clearly and accurately as possible, and with the minimum possible damage to extraneous structures.

[Translator’s note: “implosion” – as opposed to” explosion ” – is when the explosive energy is directed inwards, not outwards. To make it clearer, the grenade explodes because it is torn apart by the explosives inside it. While a typical plutonium-based nuclear charge contains a plutonium core, around which conventional explosive charges are located, which, when simultaneously detonated, “compress” this core from all sides, transferring plutonium by increasing the density of the material from a sub-critical state to a super-critical one at the same mass of plutonium. If in the case of a grenade we are dealing with an” explosive charge”, then in the case of the atomic bomb described above, we are dealing with an”implosive charge”. In the West, the word “implosion” is used not only to describe the construction of an atomic bomb, but also in the construction industry: demolition explosives is so that the debris of the buildings are not scattered in different directions, and Vice versa, as if they “evolved” into the building so that the building collapsed vertically and to mount the debris would take less space.]

Therefore, engineers who calculate the demolition of buildings must clearly identify the points of load-bearing structures on which to place explosive charges – in order to break these load-bearing structures in the right places. In almost all cases, explosives are attached at more than one point, since it is almost impossible that such structures have only one load-bearing beam or a single load-bearing column.

Demolition workers who are supposed to use nuclear weapons to demolish structures in an emergency cannot have sufficient time or engineering training to perform such complex calculations as in the case of conventional demolition of buildings with explosives. The maximum that such bombers can have is basic sapper training and basic skills in the use of nuclear weapons in General. The use of nuclear weapons in such cases is not intended to destroy the structure as carefully as possible, but to destroy it at all, and to destroy it at any cost.

The explosive power of an atomic munition used for such purposes will in any case be superfluous, and most of its explosive energy will be wasted – as in the case of any other nuclear explosion. Therefore, most of the energy released by a nuclear explosion of such an “atomic demolition device” will be spent on well-known factors of the nuclear explosion, such as light radiation, shock wave, penetrating radiation, and electromagnetic pulse.

As you can probably guess, none of these known damaging factors of an aerial nuclear explosion has the slightest relation to the actual task of demolition and can not contribute to it in the slightest way. However, all these destructive factors of a nuclear explosion will certainly contribute to the destruction of the surrounding area of the building being demolished – and the damage they will cause to the surrounding area can be very significant, most likely exceeding the cost of the actual demolition procedure.

Therefore, it is safe to say that nuclear demolition in the above sense will have a significantly lower Efficiency Compared to a well-calculated demolition using conventional explosives. Since in the case of the latter, almost all the energy of the explosion will be spent on interrupting the supporting structures, and not on creating a shock wave or light radiation.

In addition, an atomic demolition munition is quite expensive in itself. The cost of such a mini-device based on uranium is at least a couple of million us dollars, if not more (a similar device based on plutonium will cost much more). It is obvious that a thousand tons of TNT will cost less than a kiloton of nuclear ammunition. And at the same time, it is possible to use this thousand tons of TNT to demolish at least several buildings, while using a nuclear mini-charge can destroy a single building (and at the same time damage many others around).

Given all this, it can be concluded that it is not a reasonable solution to use small – or medium-caliber nuclear weapons to demolish any civilian infrastructure in peacetime, that is, in conditions where there is enough time to prepare for their demolition by conventional means. And in any case, “normal” demolition of buildings will cost less than nuclear. Nuclear charges can only be used to demolish structures in extreme circumstances.

So why was this most ancient concept of nuclear demolition, despite its low Efficiency compared to demolition with conventional explosives, and despite its high cost, finally brought back to life and used in the World Trade Center nuclear demolition system?

This was due to the emergence of a new generation of buildings that appeared in the late 60s. Namely, buildings on a steel frame. Despite the widespread misconception, there has never been a single case of a steel-framed skyscraper being demolished by a conventional “implosion” anywhere in the world. At least, before the destruction of the WTC Towers. Because almost all skyscrapers are relatively new buildings and their time to be demolished for uselessness has not yet come.

The tallest building ever demolished was the singer building in new York city, which was built in 1908 and demolished in 1968. This building was very stunted compared to the improbably strong modern skyscrapers, which used hollow steel beams in their supporting structure.

Therefore, despite the widespread misconception, it is actually impossible to destroy such a building on a steel frame using typical demolition methods. In the past, when buildings were brick or panel, their supporting structures were concrete pillars and concrete supporting beams. Sometimes these concrete supporting structures were reinforced by inserts of metal reinforcement, sometimes they were purely concrete. But in any case, it was possible to calculate the necessary amount of explosives that should be attached to these supporting structures in the right places (or explosives that should be placed inside holes drilled in such structures) in order to ensure that all these carriers are interrupted simultaneously, and thus ensure the collapse of the building exactly down and within the outline of its perimeter.

However, all this is no longer possible when it comes to modern buildings on a steel frame – such as, for example, the Twin Towers of the world Trade Center in new York, or the building number 7 WTC, or the Sears tower in Chicago.

Here is what the steel structure of one of the WTC Twin Towers looked like, for example:

STEEL STRUCTURE OF ONE OF THE WTC TWIN TOWERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

There are no “load-bearing structures” in the former sense of the word – the tower Itself, as such, is a “load-bearing structure”. The steel frame in the shopping center consisted of exceptionally thick double-walled steel columns located in the center and around the perimeters. This so-called “hollow beam pattern” was a fundamentally new approach in construction, which allowed for spacious floors in which the ceilings were no longer supported by internal columns, traditionally used in previous structures. The Twin towers consisted of supporting hollow steel columns (square in cross-section) located on all four facades at a distance of one meter from each other and thus forming an exceptionally strong structure that also withstood all horizontal loads (for example, due to winds) and which took part in maintaining the weight of the Towers themselves on a par with the Central columns.

The structure of the Towers perimeters consisted of 59 such columns on each of the four facades. The Central core of the Towers consisted of 47 rectangular steel columns, which were a single unit from the granite base of Manhattan to the tops of the Towers. What all these columns looked like, you can see in the photo below, which shows the remains of such columns found on “ground zero” after the demolition of the WTC, following the September 11 attacks:

REMAINS OF STEEL COLUMNS FOUND ON “GROUND ZERO” AFTER WTC DEMOLITION

Note that these Central (rectangular in cross-section) and external (square in cross-section) columns clearly did not belong to the lower parts of the Twin Towers, but to the upper parts. So they were spared the strange process of pulverizing the steel into a powder, which was subjected to the lower parts of the structure of the Towers, of which nothing remained but microscopic steel dust.

And here is another photo-this is from the published report of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) – about September 11. This photo clearly shows how the steel columns of The towers perimeters looked during their construction:

STRUCTURE OF ASSEMBLIES OF PERIPHERAL COLUMNS OF LOAD BEARING WALLS OF WTC

These steel columns were improbably thick-walled – each wall was 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) thick, so the total thickness of each of the columns was 5 inches (12.7 cm).

WTC STEEL COLUMNS: EACH WALL IS 2.5 INCHES (6.35 CM) THICK. THE TOTAL THICKNESS OF EACH OF THE COLUMNS WAS 5 INCHES (12.7 CM)

To imagine how much this is, here is a good example for comparison: the frontal armor of the best of the world War II tanks – the T-34-was only 1.8 inches (4.5 cm) and it was single-wall.

However, at that time there was practically no artillery armor-piercing projectile that could penetrate this armor. Of course, no explosive will ever be able to break through the front armor of a tank (with the exception of only shaped charges; but even shaped charges will not be able to break through such armor in the sense in which we are considering it here – such charges will only be able to burn a narrow hole in the armor plate).

Taking into account that the steel frames of the Twin Towers consisted of double-walled columns that were almost three times thicker than the frontal armor of the T-34 tank, it is safe to say that it was impossible to find any way to simultaneously break such columns in many places to ensure the effect of “implosion” – which is the main goal of controlled destruction of buildings (demolition).

Of course, it was technically possible to destroy some of these columns in certain places, using exceptionally large shaped charges attached to each column, but even this improbable solution would never have led to the desired result. The towers were simply too tall and too strong – their steel frames would have to be broken in too many places on each of their floors – a solution that no one could afford. And even if someone could afford it, there would be no guarantee that such a high-rise structure would collapse right within the outline of its perimeter. Its wreckage could easily have been scattered for half a mile in the vicinity, given the sheer height of the buildings themselves [415 meters]. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible to demolish these buildings using traditional methods of demolition.

The same can be said of the WTC building 7 and the Sears tower in Chicago

Both buildings were constructed using similar thick double-walled steel frames, which were impossible to break at the same time in many places for the reasons discussed above. However, according to US laws governing the construction of skyscrapers, their architects must submit a satisfactory demolition project in order for the construction project to be approved by the Department of Buildings at all. No one can be allowed to build a skyscraper that cannot be demolished in the future. This is the main reason why such nuclear demolition systems are generally built into skyscrapers. This may sound ironic, but such systems of nuclear demolition of skyscrapers were not designed to demolish these very skyscrapers in fact, especially given that no one yet has practical experience in such an industry. The nuclear demolition systems were designed simply to persuade the Buildings Department to allow the construction itself. Apparently, the developers and apologists of such systems sincerely hope that their bold plans will not be put into practice during their own lives.

Как это работает?

First of all, the modern nuclear demolition system has nothing in common with the former idea of atomic demolition, which uses the “SADM” and “MADM” devices described above. This is a fundamentally new concept. In the process of modern nuclear demolition, a charge designed to destroy a building does not produce an atmospheric nuclear explosion – with its well-known atomic mushroom, light radiation, shock wave, and electromagnetic pulse. It explodes quite deep underground – almost exactly like a nuclear charge explodes during a typical underground nuclear test. Therefore, its explosion produces no shock wave, no light radiation, no penetrating radiation, no electromagnetic pulse. It can only cause relatively small damage to the environment due to subsequent radioactive contamination, which, however, the developers of such projects consider an insignificant factor that can be ignored.

What is the main difference between atmospheric and underground nuclear explosions?

At the initial stage of any nuclear (as well as thermonuclear) explosion, all its energy is released in the form of so – called “primary radiation”, which for the most part (almost 99%) is in the x – ray spectrum (and its remaining part-about 1% – is represented by gamma radiation, which causes radiation damage, plus radiation in the visible part of the spectrum, which produces a white flash).

Therefore, almost all the energy of a nuclear explosion, represented by x-rays, is spent on heating the air within a radius of tens of meters around the epicenter of the nuclear explosion. This is because x-rays cannot travel far in the air, due to the fact that they are quickly absorbed by the air.

Heating such a relatively small area of air around the epicenter leads to the fact that there is a known fireball, which is nothing but hot air. This luminous ball is the cause of the main striking factors of a nuclear explosion-light radiation and shock waves, since both of these factors occur exclusively due to high temperatures around its epicenter.

When it comes to an underground nuclear explosion, the picture is completely different. Since there is no air around the “end box”, all the energy instantly released at the moment of a nuclear explosion in the form of x-rays will be spent on heating the surrounding rock.

As a result, the rock will overheat, melt, and evaporate. The disappearance of the vaporized rock will cause the appearance of an underground cavity, the size of which directly depends on the explosive power of the nuclear munition used.

You can get an idea of how much rock can evaporate in an underground nuclear explosion from the table below, where the amounts of evaporable and molten rock of different types are represented by the principle of “tons of rock per kiloton of explosive power»:

Example: an explosion of a 150-kiloton thermonuclear charge placed deep enough in a granite rock will cause an underground cavity about 100 meters in diameter – similar to the one shown in the figure below

THE MECHANISM OF THE EXPLOSION OF A 150-KILOTON THERMONUCLEAR CHARGE AND THE CREATION OF AN UNDERGROUND CAVITY WITH A DIAMETER OF ABOUT 100 METERS

All skyscrapers have a Foundation, the lower point of which is located at a depth of 20-30 meters below the surface of the earth. Therefore, it is possible to calculate the position of the “end box” so that the nuclear explosion creates an underground cavity, the upper border of which would not reach the surface of the earth, but would reach the lower border of the Foundation of the skyscraper that is to be demolished.

For example, In the specific case of the twin Towers of the world Trade Center in new York, their foundations were located at a depth of 27 meters. While the 150-kiloton thermonuclear charges intended for their demolition were located at a depth of 77 meters (counting from the surface of the earth), or 50 meters below the underground bases of the Towers.

Such a thermonuclear explosion at a depth of 77 meters will create an exceptionally super heated underground cavity, the upper border of which will just reach the bottom point of the base of the Tower to be demolished. However, it will not reach the surface of the earth, which is still 27 meters away – so the surrounding buildings will not be exposed to the known damaging factors of a nuclear explosion (with the possible exception of only radioactive contamination). The demolished tower should lose its support point due to the disappearance of the Foundation, and sink into an overheated cavity, the temperatures inside of which should be high enough to melt the Tower building completely. The nuclear demolition systems for building 7 of the world Trade Center and the Sears tower in Chicago were also designed in a similar way.However, there is another factor that must be taken into account when calculating the system of nuclear demolition of skyscrapers

This is actually evaporated rock (in this case, granite), which is located inside the underground cavity. Where should all this former rock, converted to a gaseous state, go? The picture of physical processes in an underground nuclear explosion is very interesting. Let’s look at it.

Typical physical processes during a perfectly deep underground nuclear explosion:

TYPICAL PHYSICAL PROCESSES DURING AN IDEALLY DEEP UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSION

1) a Nuclear explosion begins to heat the rock around the epicenter.

2) the Rock evaporates. As a result of the disappearance of the evaporated rock, a so-called “primary cavity” appears, filled with former rock that has passed into a gaseous state. Exceptionally high gas pressure inside the cavity tends to expand it. The expansion of the cavity is due to the surrounding layer of still solid rock.

3) the Cavity reaches the final “secondary” size due to the fact that high gas pressure expands the cavity from its primary size (shown by the dotted line) to its secondary size. Since the expansion was due to the surrounding rock layer, this surrounding rock layer is very tightly compressed.

4) the Final picture: white shows the cavity (its secondary size); blue – the so – called “crumple zone” – i.e., the rock completely turned into a microscopic powder with a particle size of about 100 microns [comparable to the diameter of a human hair]; green – the so-called “crushing zone” – i.e., the zone of partially or completely crushed rock.

The diagram above shows all the important physical processes in a perfectly deep (i.e. located at a sufficient distance from the earth’s surface) underground nuclear explosion. It shows that the exceptionally high pressure of the vaporized rock inside the cavity does at least two important things. 1) it expands the cavity itself from the “primary” size to the “secondary” size. 2) because the expansion is due to the surrounding layers of solid rock, it produces two damage zones around the cavity; each of these two zones represents a different degree of damage to this rock.

The area immediately adjacent to the cavity is called the “crumple zone” in nuclear jargon. The thickness of this zone can be compared to the diameter of the cavity, and this zone itself is filled with a very strange material: rock completely crushed into powder. The powder is microscopic, with an average particle size of about 100 microns [slightly less than the thickness of a human hair]. Moreover, this state of matter inside the “crumple zone” is unique – it is not found anywhere in nature except after underground nuclear explosions.

If you pick up a stone from this area, but do it very carefully, it will still stick together as a whole and will resemble a stone in shape and color. However, it is only necessary to squeeze this “stone” with your fingers and it will immediately crumble into the microscopic powder that it consists of. The area next to the “crumple zone” is called the “crushing zone” in professional jargon. This zone is filled with rock, broken into various pieces-from very small (the size of millimeters), to relatively large fragments. The closer to the border of the “crumple zone”, the smaller such pieces will be, and the further away from the epicenter – the larger. Finally, there is almost no visible damage to the surrounding rock beyond the boundaries of the “crushing zone”.

However, above we have considered the physical processes that are true for a “perfectly deep” underground nuclear explosion. When the nuclear charge is not buried deep enough, the picture will be slightly different. The zones of “crushing” and “crumpling” will no longer be perfectly round, as in the previous case. They will be more elliptical – that is, comparable in shape to an egg, the sharp end of which is aimed up, or even more elongated up in comparison with the egg. This is due to the fact that the pressure of the vaporized gases meets less resistance towards the earth’s surface (because in this case the surface is too close), and therefore both the “crumple zone” and the “crushing zone” extend upwards much further than in any other direction.

ILLUSTRATION OF THE RESISTANCE OF THE SURROUNDING ROCK IN THE CASE WHEN THE CAVITY IS AT A SHALLOW DEPTH

The figure above is an illustration of the resistance of the surrounding rock when the cavity is at a shallow depth. It is obvious that the resistance of materials from the surface of the earth will be less than the resistance of materials in any other direction. And since everything always spreads only along the path of least resistance, it becomes clear why such a cavity extends mainly towards the earth’s surface and why it will never be perfectly round. The shape of such a cavity will always be elliptical.

When the upper boundaries of the “crushing zone” and “crumple zone” extending upwards meet the Foundation of the demolished Tower, the picture will differ even more. Because the materials that make up the Tower differ from the surrounding granite rock in terms of material resistance. In addition, there is a lot of empty space inside the Tower itself, while the granite rock in any other direction (to the sides and down) is solid. Therefore, the distribution of the upper boundaries of the zones of “crushing” and “crumpling” on the body of the Tower will be the greatest. In the case of the Twin Towers and the Sears tower ,the ” crushing zone “may well extend to a height of 350-370 meters, while the” crumple zone”, which moves immediately after, may reach 290-310 meters. However, in the case of the shorter building # 7 of the WTC, it completely falls into the” crumple zone ” – that is, it turns into powder completely. The ability of a nuclear explosion to pulverize steel and concrete is equally one of its unique features.

AN EXAMPLE OF THE FORMATION OF A MICROSCOPIC POWDER THAT COVERED THE WHOLE OF MANHATTAN AFTER THE DEMOLITION OF THE WTC

The photo above shows an example of this same microscopic powder that covered all of Manhattan after the WTC was demolished. Many mistakenly believed that it was supposedly “concrete powder”. No, it wasn’t concrete powder. It was the “powder of everything” – mostly represented by steel powder. Despite a common misconception, concrete was almost never used in the construction of the WTC. Concrete was used in very limited quantities in the very thin concrete slabs of the floors of the Twin Towers and nowhere else. The WTC Twin towers were mostly steel, not concrete.

And that’s why this tiny powder was mostly made of steel. Although, of course, it was not purely “steel powder” – there was also “furniture powder”, “wood powder”, “carpet powder”, “computer parts powder” and even “human powder”, since the people who remained in the Towers were just as much reduced to powder as steel, concrete and furniture.

Many people wonder why building 7 collapsed straight down quite neatly and completely, while each of the Twin Towers collapsed, scattering not only powder, but also quite large debris in a significant radius around. This question is quite easy to answer – if you look at the distribution of zones of “crumpling” and “crushing” on the buildings of the Twin Towers and building 7, the answer is obvious:

APPROXIMATE DISTRIBUTION OF DAMAGE ZONES IN CASE OF NUCLEAR DEMOLITION OF A SKYSCRAPER USING A 150-KILOTON THERMONUCLEAR CHARGE LOCATED AT A DEPTH OF 50 METERS BELOW THE FOUNDATION BASE

The figure above shows the approximate distribution of damage zones in the case of a nuclear demolition of a skyscraper using a 150-kiloton thermonuclear charge located 50 meters below the base of the Foundation. Don’t forget that the demolition charges in this particular case were buried not “ideally deep”, and therefore form zones of “crushing” and “crushing” would not “perfectly round” – they are elliptic, with a sharp point directed upwards, i.e. in the direction of least resistance of materials. From this it is easy to understand why building 7 fell completely into the “crumple zone” and why in the case of the demolition of building 7 there was no heavy intact top, which could cause an effect similar to what we see in the case of the fall of the Twins.

WORLD TRADE CENTER RUINS WITH COLLAPSED OUT CENTER OF FOUNDATION

The distribution of damage to the buildings of demolished skyscrapers can be understood much better if you view the details of the destruction of Gemini and WTC-7 on the corresponding video clips, which are available in a variety of YouTube.

The North Tower started falling a moment ago

These two photos show how the North Tower fell (it fell the second in a row). It is clearly visible that the Tower has turned into the smallest dust. At the bottom right, you can clearly see that building 7 (a beautiful brown glossy edition) was not damaged in the least. In the photo above, it seems that the WTC-7 is “shorter” than the one in the photo below, but this is not because the building was allegedly destroyed, but simply because the helicopter with the photographer was in motion, and the second photo was taken from a different angle and from a greater distance. The building of WTC-7 in reality will fall only 7 hours after this moment.

VIDEO:

Video (taken from three different points) of the fall of the North Tower of the world Trade Center. In this video, it is very clear that the intact top of the tower suddenly began to fall down, almost without encountering any resistance in its path – as if there were no fragments of steel structures under it, but a fine powder that could not resist more than just air. In fact, it was – the top of the tower here falls at a speed equal to the speed of free fall.

Video of the fall of the South Tower of the world Trade Center. This video also clearly shows the details of the fall – the intact top of the tower falls down at the speed of free fall, not meeting any fragments of structures in its path, but meeting only fine steel powder, which it throws on all sides as it falls.

This is a video of the fall of the North Tower. Here it is very interesting to notice a strong earthquake exactly 12 seconds before the start of the fall of the tower, which consisted of one main shock and one “aftershock”. According to the degree of concussion, it is clearly visible that the magnitude of the earthquake clearly exceeded five and a half points on the Richter scale – which indicates that this earthquake itself was caused by at least a 100-kiloton underground explosion. In fact, the magnitude of this earthquake was much higher – it was close to 5.8 on the Richter scale, since the earthquake was caused by the explosion of a 150-kiloton nuclear charge. In addition, after the fall of the Tower on the right side of it (after passing the truck) it is clearly visible as one of the surviving peripheral load-bearing assemblies (which looks like a steel “peak”) is crumbling into powder, which was missed by the falling top of the Tower

A DETAILED VIEW OF THE SAME SURVIVING STEEL BEARING PERIPHERAL ASSEMBLY, WHICH CRUMBLES INTO POWDER, BUT SHOT BY ANOTHER VIDEO CAMERA AT A SLIGHTLY MORE FAVORABLE ANGLE

And this is a well-known video recording of the fall of the North Tower made by Etienne Sauret, which, if you look closely, clearly shows the shaking of the top of the Tower exactly 12 seconds before the start of its fall. This is the same earthquake caused by the explosion of a 150-kiloton nuclear charge deep underground, which is seen in the previous video. These 12 seconds were needed for a nuclear explosion deep underground to vaporize enough rock and create the necessary gas pressure in the cavity, which eventually overcame the “ultimate strength” of the materials surrounding the cavity, and created a “wave of crumpling” that spread with supersonic speed through the body of the tower, turning it into a powdery structure.

THE “WAVE OF CRUMPLING” SPREAD AT SUPERSONIC SPEED THROUGH THE BODY OF THE TOWER, TURNING IT INTO A POWDERY STRUCTURE

To see the moment when the tower is shaken, try to fix your gaze fixedly on the tower itself and not be distracted, otherwise you may not pay attention to this shake

TURNING THE SOUTH TOWER INTO POWDER

And these are the details of turning the South Tower into powder (it fell first in a row, despite the fact that it was hit by the second “plane” of the so-called “terrorists” and the fire in it lasted for a much shorter period of time).

It should be added that, despite the obvious insufficiency of a 150-kiloton charge to pulverize the tallest skyscrapers to the top (as can be seen from the drawings and photos above, the Twin Towers were pulverized only at 80% of their full height, and their tops were intact and heavy), nuclear charges of greater power cannot be used in the nuclear demolition industry for purely legal reasons. The problem is that according to the “Soviet-American Treaty on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions of 1976”, the power of nuclear charges used for non-military purposes is limited to 150 kilotons for each individual explosion and one and a half megatons [1500 kilotons] of aggregate power for group explosions.

Therefore, the nuclear demolition industry had to fit into this legal framework: in the case of the world Trade Center demolition, as many charges as necessary could be used, but each of the charges should not exceed 150 kilotons. Therefore, the WTC nuclear demolition system consisted of three such charges – with an aggregate capacity of 450 kilotons. Those readers who have a hard time imagining how powerful a 150-kiloton charge is, may be reminded that the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was less than 20 kilotons.

«Planes»

Now, since I think the reader has already realized how strong the Twin Towers were, which could not be demolished by conventional explosives, but only by an underground thermonuclear explosion of high power, it seems to me that it will be very interesting to consider another question. Could aluminum passenger planes have pierced through these Twin Towers, as shown to us on TV?

VIDEO:

This is one of the most famous videos showing the ease with which an aluminum plane breaks into a steel tower – without slowing down and without the slightest detail of the plane falling back into the street

A PERSON ACCIDENTALLY CAUGHT IN THE FRAME DOES NOT REACT TO THE SOUND OF AN ALLEGEDLY “APPROACHING PLANE”

The most telling thing about this particular video is that a person who accidentally gets caught in the frame does not react to the sound of an alleged “approaching plane” or to the sound of an [aluminum] “plane” breaking through the [armor] of the South Tower [like a knife through butter]. This person begins to react only to the explosion itself inside the Tower.

By the way, in this video, although not as clearly as in the last video at the end of this article, but we still see the same external aluminium cladding, blown out and flying off to the outside, just ahead of the fireball, and flying off in the direction diametrically opposite the direction of motion struck Tower “plane”.

THE SECOND “PLANE” OF THE TERRORISTS AN INSTANT BEFORE IT [WITHOUT EVEN SLOWING DOWN] BREAKS THROUGH THE THICK DOUBLE-WALLED STEEL PERIMETER AND DISAPPEARS WITHOUT A TRACE INSIDE THE SOUTH TOWER OF THE WTC

Therefore, many thinking researchers on September 11 began to question the claims of the US government that there were any “planes” that allegedly hit the Twin Towers. Many of their works are available on the Internet (in particular, the popular series ” September clues “and” FOXED OUT “available on YouTube), which contain detailed analysis of various videos for September 11, showing”planes”. These works more than satisfactorily prove that “planes” were digital.
The author of these lines, however, prefers a different approach. Instead of criticizing the absurdities of the videos mentioned above (since the very attempt at such an analysis will undoubtedly cause a lot of criticism), the author of these lines prefers to immediately take the bull by the horns: aluminum can not break through steel. Point.

To believe that aluminum Boeing 767s could actually break through the thick double-wall steel perimeters shown in the photos above is the same as to believe that the laws of physics decided for no reason to take a day off on the eleventh day of the month of September, two thousand and one of the year of Christ…

Some might think that because aircraft, even if they are made of aluminum, fly at almost 500 mph [~805 km/h], because of their huge mass and speed, they have enough kinetic energy to punch through the Twin Towers, even though the latter are made of steel.

However, this is an illegal approach. Yes, purely intuitively, it seems that a huge fast-moving plane carries a huge amount of energy, and someone may think that the plane can actually cause damage to the building it crashes into. But what do you think will happen – hypothetically-if the plane is stationary in the air, while some giant takes an exceptionally massive steel tower of the WTC swings it properly and hits it with a swing at 500 mph on such a stationary [aluminum] plane? Will such a blow flatten this very plane? Or do you think that the plane will pass completely through the building – so that not a single detail of this aircraft will remain outside the shell of the Tower (which is twice as thick as the frontal armor of the tank)?

To make it even easier for you, imagine that you are hitting a stationary fly with a fly swatter at a speed of 1 meter per second, then 10 meters per second, and then 100 and 200 meters per second. Can you achieve such a” necessary ” speed at which the fly, instead of flattening out, suddenly passes unharmed through the fly swatter, leaving a hole in the latter corresponding to its silhouette? No? And now imagine all the same, but a stationary fly swatter, which crashes into a flying fly consistently at speeds-1 meter per second, 10 meters per second, and finally – 100 and even 200 meters per second. Can it happen that a fly will break through the fly swatter?

Think about this hypothetical question, because whether it is a moving plane crashing into a stationary Tower, or, conversely, someone crashes a Tower into a stationary plane, the physics of this event remains identical. Therefore ,the” purely intuitive “opinion about the alleged armor-piercing capabilities of a” fast-moving aircraft “is not so “intuitive” in the light of the above example.

DAMAGE CAUSED BY PERIPHERAL ASSEMBLY FROM THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE COLLAPSED WTC NORTH TOWER TO THE OUTER WALL OF THE NEIGHBORING VERIZON SKYSCRAPER (“VERIZON-BUILDING”)

The photo above shows the damage caused by peripheral Assembly from the upper floors of the collapsed North tower of the WTC to the outer wall of the neighboring Verizon skyscraper (”Verizon-building”). Please note that the damaged wall of the neighboring skyscraper was not “decorative” at all.

Look at the photo above and imagine that this steel peripheral Assembly would collapse from above onto a Boeing-type plane parked under the building. What happened to this plane? Correctly. It would have flattened. There is no doubt about it. You will lose all doubts about how passenger planes are flattened.

Many of those who at first did not pay due attention to the actual design of the Twin Towers and initially believed that the outer facades of the Towers were made of only window glass (which, of course, would allow aircraft to break in), later learned, to their great dismay, that the Twins were actually made of thick steel columns-which did not differ from the inner steel columns, and were located in a palisade around the perimeters of the Towers. And as soon as it became obvious, something else became obvious. That no plane could ever crash its entire body (including even the tips of its wings and tail, let alone the huge turbines under the wings) through such a steel palisade and disappear completely inside the Towers so that not a single part of the plane would remain outside and fall back into the street.

Those readers who are older in age will probably be able to recall the effect of Japanese kamikazes hitting American battleships, if such an aircraft hit the battleship in the side: the plane simply broke apart (without breaking through the side of the battleship) and fell down. And in the case of an unarmored ship, the maximum that could get inside was the steel engine of the aircraft, but never any other part of it – whether it was the wings, tail, or fuselage.

PHOTOS FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE RESULT OF A KAMIKAZE HIT ON BOARD AN UNARMORED AMERICAN SHIP

Note that the armored side of a typical battleship could not be penetrated by an aircraft at all.

Well, now make up your own opinion by looking at these columns of the WTC:

PROFILES OF THE PRESERVED CENTRAL COLUMNS OF THE WTC, FOUND ON “GROUND ZERO”

Profiles of the preserved Central columns of the WTC found on “Ground Zero”; their thickness can be easily estimated: they were 2.5 inches [6.35 cm] in thickness. Such thick-walled columns made of steel were used both in the construction of cores and in the construction of the perimeters of Towers. Although, be sure to mention (to avoid confusion and attacks decoy ducks of the American FBI) that in those places, anywhere planes, the profiles of the peripheral steel columns were not “square”, and H-shaped so that one side (the crossbar of the H) was perpendicular to the course “aircraft”, but two walls (stand H) – just as in the case of “square” cross-section of the column was parallel to the flight path of aircraft. The thickness of all the walls of these H-shaped steel columns in the places of explosions was still 2.5 inches (6.35 centimeters) – as in the case of the Central columns at the same height (closer to the ground, the walls of both the peripheral and Central steel columns were thicker

THE OFFICIAL DIAGRAM ALLOWS YOU TO SEE HOW THICK STEEL COLUMNS WERE LOCATED IN REALITY NOT ONLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOWERS, BUT ALSO ALONG THEIR PERIMETERS

In this official diagram, you can see how these thick steel columns were located in reality – not only in the middle of the Towers, but also along their perimeters.

Are there those who are ready to seriously believe that an aluminum Boeing can actually break through the entire (along with the tail, wings and engines) through the steel columns shown below? Located a meter apart on the facades of the Towers?

STEEL COLUMNS LOCATED A METER APART ON THE FACADES OF THE TWIN TOWERS

It may seem difficult for some to understand that aluminum can’t break through steel. Therefore, just to understand this, here is a small hint – as a basic premise: it is known that artillery armor-piercing shells are made of materials that are stronger than the armor they are designed to penetrate. Usually they are made of tungsten (the Americans, instead of expensive tungsten, also use depleted uranium-238, which is a useless material, although it is quite capable of piercing armor due to its large specific gravity and density, which exceeds the density of steel).+

Armor-piercing projectiles made of aluminum do not exist – this is obvious. Just as there are no aluminum sabers, as well as other piercing and cutting objects made of this metal. The idea that an aluminum tool can supposedly cut steel is somewhat “strange”, if not crazy.

It should also be noted that armor-piercing projectiles fired at armored targets fly towards them at a speed at least three times the speed of sound. Because the fact that they are made of tungsten is not enough to ensure their armor-piercing ability – high speed is also required as a second factor.

The speed of a typical armor-piercing shell fired from an anti – tank gun is at least three times the speed of sound-it is at least 1000 meters per second, and usually much more. While the speed of a passenger Boeing is subsonic-less than 250 meters per second, at best.

It will be useful to take another look at these columns. And imagine that to break through the thick double walls of these columns will be quite a difficult task for an armor-piercing shell fired at point-blank range from a long-barrelled anti-tank gun.

But the most interesting thing is that such an example (the concept of a “double-walled column” that needs to be pierced through) is true for an armor-piercing projectile. Since the task of a tungsten armor-piercing projectile is to break through two walls of armor one after the other, located perpendicular to the direction of flight of this projectile. However, the aluminum plane faces a much more difficult task. In addition to the two walls of armor that are located perpendicular to the course of its flight, the aircraft also needs to break [or “cut” their aluminum wings] two more walls of armor-located parallel to the course of its flight. We somehow forgot that the steel columns of the WTC actually had four walls, not two. And these two walls, which are located parallel to the plane’s flight path, will obviously have a much greater “thickness” than two and a half inches.

OFFICIAL DIAGRAMS SHOWING THE PROFILES OF TWO TYPES OF PERIPHERAL COLUMNS OF TWIN TOWERS AND THE THICKNESS OF THEIR WALLS AT HEIGHTS CORRESPONDING TO THE HIT OF SUPPOSEDLY “PLANES”, WITH ARROWS ADDED BY ME ILLUSTRATING THE THICKNESS OF THE PIERCED/CUT STEEL ALUMINUM AIRCRAFT WING AND ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE FOR COMPARISON

The image above shows official diagrams showing the profiles of the two types of peripheral columns of the Twin Towers and the thickness of their walls at altitudes corresponding to the hit of the alleged “planes”, with arrows added by me illustrating the thickness of the pierced/cut steel by the aluminum wing of the aircraft and the armor-piercing shell for comparison.

Now, it seems to me that the reader will be somewhat easier to reflect on the notorious armor-piercing capabilities of aluminum Boeing-767 – after comparing the latter with artillery armor-piercing shells.

We can only wonder why the infamous “Commission of inquiry on September 11” or those “engineers” from the aforementioned “National Institute of Standards and Technology”, do not want to put such an armor-piercing experiment using a decommissioned passenger Boeing-767 and several similar steel columns? Such an experiment would be a great way to convince some doubters that these were indeed “terrorist planes” that destroyed the world Trade Center.

The realization of all this has led many people to believe that if the aluminum type of aircraft could not have been involved in such a feat, then it must have been a digital type of aircraft that managed to break through the very steel double-wall perimeters of the now-deceased Twin Towers…

A DETAILED VIEW OF THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ALLEGED “PASSENGER BOEING-767” TO THE STEEL COLUMNS OF THE PERIMETER OF THE NORTHERN TOWER OF THE WTC

A detailed view of the damage caused allegedly by a “passenger Boeing-767” to the steel columns of the perimeter of the Northern Tower of the WTC.

Here it is very clear that the outer columns were cut by several absurdly straight lines, moreover, parallel to each other, so that the shape of the “hole punched by the plane” does not even remotely correspond to the silhouette of the plane.

In principle, the explanation for this ridiculous phenomenon is very simple. As you can see in this photo, the perimeters of the Twins did not consist solely of steel columns. They consisted, in addition to them, of an aluminum coating that was attached to the outer sides of the columns. But unlike the steel columns themselves (which were one from the granite base of Manhattan to the tops of the towers), these aluminum linings consisted of much shorter vertical segments.

If you look closely, then in the photo above you will see some horizontal lines parallel to each other, which are repeated at regular intervals. These lines are visible on undamaged parts of the Tower’s facade. These lines are nothing more than the joints of aluminum linings. They show us the actual size of the vertical segments of these very aluminum linings.

The problem with September 11 criminals was that they needed to place shaped charges (designed to simulate holes from aircraft hits – i.e., silhouettes of planes) OUTSIDE of the Towers, rather than inside them. That is, the shaped charges had to be positioned so that their explosive energy was directed inside the buildings – so that the very idea looked plausible. Because if they placed the charges inside the buildings, then the entire section of the Tower, “knocked out by the plane”, would fall not inside the building, but outside. It would have been blown out from the inside and so, instead of those “landing gear” and “airplane engines”, the dupes would have found parts of the facades of the Towers themselves lying on the streets of Manhattan.

Of course, this could not be allowed. It was also impossible to attach charges to the outside of The tower facades – they would be visible. Therefore, the clever organizers of September 11 placed shaped charges between the outer aluminum coating and the actual steel columns. Their explosive energy was directed inward to cut through the steel columns in exactly the right places. And it really worked.

Of course, this could not be allowed. It was also impossible to attach charges to the outside of The tower facades – they would be visible. Therefore, the clever organizers of September 11 placed shaped charges between the outer aluminum coating and the actual steel columns. Their explosive energy was directed inward to cut through the steel columns in exactly the right places. And it really worked.

You can see it for yourself-the internal steel columns (which seem “rusty” in color as opposed to the shiny bluish aluminum linings) were actually cut in the right places so that the hole exactly matches the silhouette of the aircraft. Moreover, the cut ends of these steel columns are slightly bent inward – that is, exactly as it should be logically. But, unfortunately, the organizers of September 11 did not calculate something. Although most of the explosive energy of these shaped charges was directed inward-toward the steel, a small portion of the energy of the explosion was directed in the opposite direction-creating the effect of “recoil”. And it was this recoil that tore out the aluminum cladding. However, instead of carefully cutting the aluminum linings in the right places, the uncontrolled explosion simply tore out solid pieces of aluminum along the length of the vertical segments and threw them out into the streets.

P.S. (this insert was not in the original magazine article in the “Nexus” – and two photos of flying aluminum linings below with explanations were added only for its online version). You can see in detail how these aluminum linings fly out in the most recent video, which is located at the end of this article and aims to demonstrate the absence of turbulence from aircraft turbines – at the very beginning of that video, you can clearly see these numerous aluminum linings that fly out, slightly ahead of the fire cloud from the explosion caused by the alleged “hit of the plane” in the North Tower of the WTC. Here is a freeze-frame from the same video, which shows flying off aluminum pads of the same length:

FREEZE FRAME FROM THE VIDEO, WHICH SHOWS THE FLYING ALUMINUM PADS OF THE SAME LENGTH

In addition, on July 16, 2011, I accidentally came across an issue of the English-language magazine “Life” called “Brought to JUSTICE” (“Appeared before JUSTICE”), entirely dedicated to the infamous propaganda “operation” for the alleged “murder” of Osama bin Laden. In addition to several high-quality portraits of Osama himself and several openly propagandistic photos, pages 8-9 of this magazine contained a remarkable high-quality image of the explosion in the South Tower of the WTC, belonging to a certain Naomi Stock. I can’t deny myself the pleasure of putting here a color scan from the pages of this magazine, because this unique picture is much better than all the others shows in detail the same flying aluminum plates of the same length. Some of these overlays can be seen on it in great detail. It is also interesting that the pads here fly off in both directions – both to the right (i.e. according to the direction of the flight course of the “plane”, which allegedly hit the Tower “at an angle”), and to the left – i.e. directly towards the direction of approach of the “plane”. Note that if the first photo (freeze frame from the video) showed the flying pads in the case of the North Tower, then here we are talking about the second steel tower of the WTC – the South – the one that entered like a knife into oil [and without even slowing down] the “second” aluminum plane of the so-called “terrorists”. Here’s a photo

THE EXPLOSION IN THE SECOND STEEL TOWER OF THE WTC – YUZHNAYA – THE ONE INTO WHICH HE ENTERED LIKE A KNIFE INTO BUTTER (AND WITHOUT EVEN SLOWING DOWN) THE “SECOND” ALUMINUM PLANE OF THE SO-CALLED “TERRORISTS”

In this photo, by the way, you can also clearly see the same parallel lines on the undamaged parts of the perimeter of the Tower, repeated at the same intervals – they are especially noticeable in the shadow fall zone. These lines show the length of vertical segments aluminum plates – those already flying away from the explosion that you see on the foreground, where they have much larger because it is closer to the camera lens.

Let’s go back to the first photo above, which shows a detailed view of the damage and a hole punched by an alleged aluminum plane in the North Tower of the WTC, showing a strange “stepped” structure and even “slits” punched by the tips of aluminum wings. Or even here is another photo of the same place, even clearer:

A DETAILED VIEW OF THE DAMAGE AND THE HOLE ALLEGEDLY PUNCHED BY AN ALUMINUM PLANE IN THE NORTH TOWER OF THE WTC

Since we have already understood all about the aluminum linings (arranged in segments of the same length) and the solid steel columns under them, we can now clearly understand what really happened. Depending on the vertical position of the shaped charges (located between the aluminum and steel, but directed towards the steel), in some places one vertical length of the segments of the aluminum plates was torn out, in other places-two such lengths, in other parts-three such lengths, etc. That is why the “holes punched by planes” look so idiotic because of their stepped shape instead of the ideal profile of the “plane”, which could have turned out if there were no aluminum linings, and there would only be one steel column:

EDNA CINTRON DESPERATELY HOLDING ON TO ONE OF THE PROTRUDING COLUMNS, WHO DIED DURING THE FALL OF THE NORTH TOWER

In addition, this photo clearly shows a woman holding on to one of the protruding columns in desperation. She was later identified as Ms. Edna Cintron. The woman clearly hoped to be saved at this very last moment before the building collapsed. Unfortunately, she was killed when the North Tower fell. However, in these last moments of her life, she demonstrated to the whole world (by the very fact of being in a supposedly ” hot ” spot – where steel was supposed to “melt”) that the American government was blatantly lying to the people.

Of course, many innocent people reading these lines will ask a reasonable question: but what about the witnesses who saw “planes” with their own eyes? The answer is: that the number of witnesses who did not SEE any PLANES is approximately equal to the number of witnesses who allegedly “saw” these “planes”.

Note: On my personal YouTube channel, there are several “seditious” news videos related to the very first minutes of the 9/11 tragedy. These videos show that none of the earliest witnesses saw or heard any planes, and only saw and heard explosions on the upper floors of the Twin Towers. Here are direct links to these videos (all of them in English, of course):

However, the media preferred to include in their reports for the most part only those “witnesses” who allegedly saw “planes”.

It should be realized that the presentation of September 11 was the greatest deception. And if someone managed to create video images of “planes” cutting the steel perimeters of the Twin Towers with the same ease as if the planes were made of steel and the Towers were made of oil, and even managed to feed these videos to all the media, would it not be reasonable to assume that he also took care in advance and that a sufficient number of ” witnesses “declared that they” saw “these” planes ” with their own eyes? Of course, we must assume that this “someone” did just that. All these “witnesses” who saw with their own eyes how aluminum planes pierced the double-walled steel columns of the Twin Towers were just ordinary actors hired by the organizers of September 11, in order to deceive the media and the public.

How numerous aluminum linings of the same length fly out during an explosion in the North Tower of the WTC (and these linings fly off in the direction diametrically opposite to the direction of movement of the “plane”). We were talking about these very external aluminum linings a little higher – when we were analyzing the strange “stepped” structure of holes from “aircraft hits” and a freeze frame was also given there.

The laws of physics did not take a day off on September 11, 2001. However, it seems that the common sense of people who somehow trust the TV decided to take the same day off…

However, the old English dictionaries printed before September 11 that defined the strange nuclear term “ground zero” may serve as the best means to overcome the illusory nature of September 11 and recall common sense from an illegally taken vacation…

OLD ENGLISH DICTIONARIES PRINTED BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, WHICH DEFINED THE STRANGE NUCLEAR TERM “GROUND ZERO”»

Along with old English dictionaries, these photos can be used for the same purpose, showing how and where the molten granite flowed. The photos were taken after the underground cavities left by nuclear explosions under the three buildings of the world Trade Center finally cooled down, and were finally cleared of the remaining radioactive materials

MELTED GRANITE IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

MELTED GRANITE IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER – ANOTHER ANGLE

The picture of September 11 that I have drawn in this article is likely to be incomplete without mandatory formal testimony. Probably, the testimony of at least one witness is really needed. There are many testimonies available, but I have chosen the most important and most convincing ones available.

There is a notable article called ” Rudy Tuesday “published by the new York times magazine. This article is notable not so much for the fact that the term ground zero in relation to the Manhattan “Ground Zero” is used in it without any quotation marks and without capital letters – that is, exactly as it would be used in a textbook on civil defense, but thanks to the statement of former new York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

It seems to me that this is such a valuable copy of the September 11 evidence, and such important witness testimony, that I must quote this part of this article in its entirety, without omitting anything.

The most important points that should never escape your attention are highlighted in bold. Be sure to note that immediately after the unprecedented “kerosene-pancake collapse” of the world Trade Center, the mayor of new York city, for no apparent reason, fell into nuclear speculation and began his speech with feeble-minded comments about nuclear reactors and continued it with claims that he KNEW WHAT EXACTLY the ground zero volunteers were standing on top of (which he himself sent to clear ground zero, forgetting to give them full sets of chemical protection):

The picture of September 11 that I have drawn in this article is likely to be incomplete without mandatory formal testimony. Probably, the testimony of at least one witness is really needed. There are many testimonies available, but I have chosen the most important and most convincing ones available.

“…Yes, 9/11. In the dining room, after the salads are served, Delaware Congressman Mike castle takes the microphone. He talks about Rudy and the cleaners. The black Barry [a type of phone with scrolling and a mini keyboard often used by journalists] continues to beep. But then castle started talking about the ground-zero tour that the mayor had arranged for him and other congressmen a few days after the terrorist attacks. The people are beginning to listen. ”He was present at almost all funerals; he was there, which was just in time,” says castle. “I don’t think we can Express enough gratitude for what he did.”And here comes Rudy on the podium. The audience rises. Jackets at cheap tables stand up, and a man who looks like a banker puts his fingers in his mouth and lets out a loud whistle. At first, Giuliani wastes the goodwill with which he is greeted. First he talks nonsense about immigration. He notes that China has built more than 30 nuclear reactors, while we have built just one. “We should probably emulate China.”What? You can already see bubbles of perplexity over the heads of listeners: could this be the same guy we see on TV? The guy who looked so much like the President when our real President went missing? But, finally, Rudy begins to feel at ease…… And here he States this: Iraq led to September 11, which, in turn, led to a sacred picture – construction workers raising the flag over ground zero. “I know what they were standing on top of,” Giuliani says. “They were standing on top of the cauldron. They were standing on top of a 2,000-degree fire that had raged for a hundred days. And they risked their lives raising that flag.”The hall fell silent. Not a single fork clattered on the plate, not a single gold bracelet rattled. “They raised this flag to say, ’You can’t beat us because we are Americans.'” The mayor paused and, as if on purpose, a woman sniffed. He continues. “And we don’t say it arrogantly, or rattling our weapons, we say it spiritually: Our ideas are better than yours.”»

I am not sure, of course, about whether “their ideas” are “better than ours”, because I am not sure that it was at all smart to demolish skyscrapers in the center of the city with thermonuclear explosions, each of which exceeded the power of the Hiroshima bomb by 8 times, but, in principle, I agree with Mr. Giuliani. The poor ground zero volunteers were actually standing on top of the cauldron, and they were actually risking their lives – as you might have guessed, this may be the case when trusting people visit the epicenter of a recent nuclear explosion without wearing personal protective equipment.

From this point on, I think the reader has a more or less complete picture of events – what actually happened on the Manhattan “Ground Zero”, and what exactly the term” ground zero ” meant in English before September 11, and this is now confirmed by the testimony of an important witness.

BEFORE OUR VERY EYES FAKE WARS AND BIG LIES FROM 9/11 TO DONALD TRUMP

I think many readers will have a lot of questions. What got into the Pentagon? If the planes didn’t hit the Twin Towers, where did the planes go? What happened to their passengers? What happened to the alleged “hijackers”? What happened to Flight 93? Why was the so-called “doomsday Plane” in the air on September 11? Why couldn’t the North tower be demolished before the South Tower? Why did American officials demolish the Twins and building 7 in the first place? Why were there not so many cases of acute radiation sickness among ground zero employees? Who sent the anthrax letters and why? Why did the monitoring services of other countries – for example, Russia, India, or China-choose not to “notice” that the US government demolished the world Trade Center with three thermonuclear 150-kiloton explosions and this action has nothing to do with either Afghanistan or Iraq? Why did the IAEA choose to remain silent? And, most importantly, who organized September 11 and why?

As you can probably guess, September 11 was such a complex operation, and its various aspects are so intertwined, that it is simply impossible to describe the whole thing “in brief”, paying a little attention to each of the aspects. I did not have the slightest chance to fit a more or less lucid explanation of the entire September 11 scenario into such a small volume as this article offers.

In September 2009, I created a video presentation that runs for more than four hours and explains all the events of September 11 as a whole, and makes it very clear. This video presentation can be found on the Internet by searching for the keywords “Dimitri Khalezov video”. In addition, I have written a book that is more than 500 pages in A4 format. I explain all this just to make it clear that it is really impossible to explain in a clear manner everything that happened on September 11 in such a small article. It is likely that explaining the technical details of the missile attack on the Pentagon and all the circumstances of this attack will require about the same length of the article. However, I hope that this story can be continued in the pages of this magazine.

And of all the potential questions listed above, I will answer only the most recent: September 11 was organized by those who wanted to plunge the United States, along with other countries, into an absurd war against Afghanistan and Iraq. And those who wanted to deprive the citizens of all these States of their last remaining civil liberties and human rights. It should be remembered that neither al-Qaeda nor any other Muslim organization could afford to feed falsified videos of  “planes” to the American media, and even hire false witnesses who “saw” how aluminum planes pierce through steel, and simultaneously demolish the world Trade Center with three 150-kiloton thermonuclear explosions, each of which was 8 times more powerful than the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

AFTERWORD

The diagram you see below was not in the original article published in nexus magazine. Still, I can’t deny myself the pleasure of putting this stupid diagram here for the last time. There is nothing particularly “secret” in it – it is publicly available on the Internet, because it was used by the authors of the article about nuclear tests in Wikipedia.

What you see below is the most common diagram of the early 70s-i.e., the time when nuclear explosions were not yet declared so-called “evil” and it was considered quite acceptable to use them for both military and industrial purposes.

DIAGRAM OF types of NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS SINCE the EARLY 70s

Here you can see (if you look clockwise): typical air nuclear explosion (1), high-altitude nuclear explosion in the stratosphere (3), an underwater nuclear explosion (4)… and an underground nuclear explosion (2). The uniqueness of this chart is that in the 70s the system of nuclear demolition of skyscrapers was a secret as of now and therefore, in the case of (2) underground nuclear explosion depicted sending some waves in the surrounding rock, and directly above the epicenter on the surface (aka “ground zero”) is shown, Oh, the horror, the skyscraper.

Dmitry Alekseyevich Khalezov-a career officer of the “military unit 46179″, also known as the ” Special Control Service of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR»

Author: Dmitry Alekseevich Khalezov, former citizen of the USSR, former career officer of the so-called “military unit 46179”, also known as “Special Control Service of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR”. The Special Control service, also known as the Soviet atomic (later “nuclear”) intelligence service , is a secret military unit designed to detect nuclear explosions (including underground nuclear tests) of various opponents of the former USSR, as well as to monitor compliance with various international treaties in the field of nuclear tests and nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes. After the events of September 11, Khalezov conducted an extensive 9/11 study and proved that the Twin Towers of the world Trade Center, as well as its building #7, were demolished by three underground thermonuclear explosions – which, in fact, earned the name “ground zero” for the WTC demolition site. Moreover, he testifies that he knew about the existence of the so-called “nuclear emergency demolition system” of the Twin Towers long ago – back in the 80’s, i.e., when he was a soldier of the Soviet Special Control Service.

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And if you take into account?

Of course, the search engines did not give out all the photos, but, in any case, those that interested journalists. What can I say. A lot of things confused me. For example, here is a photo of an engine fan of an unfortunate Boeing 777.

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. FAN PHOTO

and here is a photo of the engine itself

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTO OF THE DESTROYED ENGINE

These photos are good because there are people standing near the fan and engine, and their height can be used for scale. And here’s what a real GE90-115B engine installed on a Boeing 777 looks like compared to a human

PHOTO OF A REAL GE90-115B ENGINE INSTALLED ON A BOEING 777 COMPARED TO A HUMAN

And so the engines of the 777th look in comparison with the engines, and the fuselage of the Boeing 737

FLIGHT MH 17. THE PHOTO OF THE ENGINES OF THE 777 LOOKS IN COMPARISON WITH THE ENGINES, AND THE FUSELAGE OF THE BOEING 737

(The diameter of the Boeing 777 engine is only 30 cm less than the width of the 737 cabin). I don’t want to start with statements, but don’t you find that the remains of the engines at the crash site are somehow very different in size from the engines of a real Boeing 777?

Further, in my life I had to load scrap metal into railway gondola cars and onto platforms. Of course, I can make a mistake, but, in my opinion, there is no more than 20-25 tons of black and non-ferrous scrap metal from the Boeing 777 in all photos and videos. Moreover, the scrap metal is very dimensional – there are no very large pieces, although the dimensions of the Boeing 777 even of early modifications are 67 by 65 meters of very strong structures. And the dry weight of the Boeing 777 is up to 160 tons. Where are the rest of his designs? Burned down?

Yes, the main structural material of the airframe is rolled (sheet, beams, pipes) made of alloyed aluminum.

When heated in the air to the melting point, such a material can burn, but it is necessary to organize this gorenje – it is necessary to heat and supply oxygen (air) with understanding. First of all, it is necessary to organize as large an oxidation surface as possible (for which, when it is necessary to oxidize all aluminum, it is sometimes crushed into powder). After all, you have both frying pans and aluminum pots in your kitchen, and the temperature of the blue flame of the gas stove burner is about 2000 degrees. Well, how many frying pans have you disappeared, like a Boeing 777, burned on the stove? They will melt, but they will not burn – they have a small oxidation surface. And the gorenje temperature of aviation kerosene in the air is only 800 degrees.

It can be agreed that such favorable conditions for the oxidation of aluminum to smoke (from the smallest particles of aluminum oxide) in CERTAIN CASES are created in the places gorenje kerosene fuel tanks of crashed aircraft.

We can agree that when the whole plane falls nose down, and the wing fuel tanks fall on the crumpled nose part, and the tail part falls on them, then a well-organized bonfire turns out, hot gases from which rise up, drawing in new and new portions of air from the sides. But even in this case, the wings behind the fuel tanks will remain intact. And according to our version of the case, the plane fell to pieces in the air, and its fragments fell in a strip, according to some evidence, 60 km long. That is, we can agree that in the places where the fuel tanks fall, part of the aircraft structures will burn, but the rest of the airframe will remain intact!

But all this, of course, is not for A. Sharia, who does not consider moronic-fantastic versions. However, let him forgive me, but I will allow myself to consider this version further.

Information that the Boeing passengers were dead even before the accident was first received from Strelkov on July 18 at 11:53.

He told the correspondent: “According to the people who collected the corpses, a significant part of the corpses are “stale”. People died up to a few days ago. I cannot vouch for the complete reliability of this information – of course, the conclusion of forensic experts is necessary.” There is no, say, propaganda background in the information, for example, to blame their responsibility on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The information that there were corpses in the liners will not harm Kiev. The correspondent did not understand, and asked for details: “Someone else has to pilot such an aircraft, which will also be impossible to leave. The version with an airplane full of dead people is exciting, of course, but somehow it doesn’t make sense.”

And Strelkov answered in more detail at 12:40: “Firstly, not all the people on the plane were dead before the fall. Secondly, a large amount of medicines, blood serum and other things were found on the plane, which is uncharacteristic for a conventional airliner. It seems that there was a medical special cargo. Thirdly, I do not insist on anything (yet). Just now I was talking to two people who personally collected the corpses immediately after the fall (both were from Shakhtersk and arrived at the scene less than half an hour after the disaster). I write from their words. They stressed that many corpses turned out to be “completely bloodless” – as if the blood had coagulated long before the disaster. They also noted the strongest corpse smell, noted by many locals – such a smell could not be formed in any weather for half an hour, and the weather yesterday was cloudy, not too hot. Fourthly, I myself am extremely suspicious of all kinds of “conspiracy theories”, but 18 of our fighters poisoned with chemicals at positions in Semenovka, the executions of members of militia families and other “little joys of well-known patriots” convinced me that the Ukrainian authorities are capable of any meanness.” Here Strelkov is mistaken, such a scam is beyond the junta’s shoulders – the junta is nothing more than the executor of certain actions of the American plan. Strelkov finished: “The pilots, of course, were quite alive – the whole cabin (and the front part was well preserved) was literally flooded with their blood.”

Let’s remember this information – the militia saw the cabin well preserved – this information will be useful to us later.

And now about the bodies and their fragments. The video from Sharia’s website shows about three dozen bodies, several of them burned, but the rest did not get into the fire. And there are no traces of blood on any of them. By the way, the victims are almost all dressed as if they fell not from the cabin of an air-conditioned plane, but directly from the tropics, that is, they beat their naked bodies on the ground. And the blood is not visible! A leg torn off at the ankle is shown, without a sock… and without traces of blood. And how so? Shari believes that it is not worth paying attention to. And if you do?

There are a lot of questions. For example, everything is fixed firmly enough on the plane, but I didn’t see a single device or object attached to the structures – everything is separate.

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF CHAIRS DISCONNECTED FROM THE FLOOR AND APPLIANCES

Here is a hydraulic cylinder of some kind of drive with fingers carefully removed from the eyelets

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTO OF A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER OF SOME KIND OF DRIVE WITH FINGERS CAREFULLY REMOVED FROM THE EYELETS

The “black boxes” are touching – the impression is that they were only brought from a dusty warehouse at all

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF “BLACK BOXES” – THE IMPRESSION IS THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY ONLY BROUGHT FROM A DUSTY WAREHOUSE

Did the crew take the plane apart during the fall? If it was a passenger plane, then it was carrying people and their luggage. But in the photo we see a pile that leaves the impression of an unloaded garbage truck.

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTO ON A PILE THAT LEAVES THE IMPRESSION OF AN UNLOADED GARBAGE TRUCK

There are also peacocks

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTO. PEACOCKS

And where are the suitcases and bags, which should be about six hundred, given the flight distance? They are there, but in a very, very modest amount

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF SUITCASES AND BAGS, WHICH SHOULD BE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED, GIVEN THE FLIGHT DISTANCE? THEY ARE THERE, BUT IN A VERY, VERY MODEST AMOUNT

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF SUITCASES AND BAGS, WHICH SHOULD BE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED, GIVEN THE FLIGHT DISTANCE? THEY ARE THERE, BUT IN A VERY, VERY MODEST AMOUNT

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF SUITCASES AND BAGS, WHICH SHOULD BE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED, GIVEN THE FLIGHT DISTANCE? THEY ARE THERE, BUT IN A VERY, VERY MODEST AMOUNT

And this is all the luggage of almost 300 passengers? They will tell me that the luggage was stolen by the militia. It’s you, being at the crash site, who would definitely have stolen luggage, and I will believe it. But I can’t believe that the luggage was stolen by the militia, overloaded with weapons, bulletproof vests and shooting their comrades for looting. And here is a question for Shariy, who is sure that it was impossible to load corpses into the plane in Amsterdam. And where is at least one material proof at the crash site that the passengers found dead near Donetsk boarded the plane in Amsterdam?

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF PERFECTLY PRESERVED PASSPORTS OF SOME PASSENGERS

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF PERFECTLY PRESERVED PASSPORTS OF SOME PASSENGERS

But their safety and appearance have already caused such a wide discussion on the Internet that I will leave the passports without comment. Cash and various paper products have been preserved.

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF CASH AND VARIOUS PAPER PRODUCTS

But among these papers there is not a single boarding pass, half of which is stored at the airport, and half at each passenger. And there is not a single baggage tag or receipt, and these baggage tags are not visible on those suitcases and bags that were photographed at the crash site. But these tags are attached to the luggage very firmly.

So how can we prove that the dead people found in the Donbass boarded the plane at Amsterdam airport? The fact that they are dressed the way they dress in the tropics? Or by the fact that dead peacocks were found, and to prove by further reasoning that it was the Dutch who deported peacocks to their historical homeland due to the lack of visas?

There are a lot of oddities, but I will stop discussing the details and deal with the cabin, as promised.

FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF THE CABIN OF THE BOEING 777

FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF THE CABIN OF THE BOEING 777

And when the militia reported to Strelkov that the cabin was well preserved, then, indeed, it should not have burned down. In general, the entire front part of the aircraft should have been well preserved up to the wings with fuel tanks (and this is a third of the fuselage of the aircraft), if the 777, as legend or version says (as it seems more convincing to anyone), fell apart into several pieces in the air.

THE CABIN OF THE BOEING 777 IS IN FRONT AND VERY FAR FROM THE ENGINES AND KEROSENE TANKS

But did the militia, reporting on the cabin, imagine what size the Boeing cabin was? Here’s the question.
But there is nowhere to go – the militia actually saw something similar to the cockpit, because he reported that it was covered with blood. It remains to find a photo of the cabin, fortunately, its location is known – near the settlement of Rassypnaya.

However, the search did not yield anything – not a single photo of anything similar to the cockpit of the Boeing 777 was found in the photo from the crash site. Unless, of course, the militia was not talking about this fragment:

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE HAVE NOT FOUND A SINGLE PHOTO OF ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THE COCKPIT OF THE BOEING 777. UNLESS, OF COURSE, THE MILITIA WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS FRAGMENT

or this

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE HAVE NOT FOUND A SINGLE PHOTO OF ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THE COCKPIT OF THE BOEING 777. UNLESS, OF COURSE, THE MILITIA WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS FRAGMENT

But these fragments are definitely not the cabin of a Boeing 777, even if they are covered in blood. How so? The cabin was of no interest to journalists, or is there really no real 777 cabin on earth? In aviation, the Boeing 777 is not one of the last giants – it has a fuselage with a diameter of 6 meters. And not a single piece of an airplane of this size has been found at the crash site so far. Yes, I repeat, it’s hard to believe, but suppose that such a giant plane could fall apart in the air. But it couldn’t shatter into small pieces in the air, even if it exploded from the inside! The head of the aircraft, the tail, 15-20 meter wing tips – all this would have to be on the ground. But there is no such thing!

Moreover, even what is there cannot be accurately identified as fragments of the 777th. I have already written about the engines, but here is the only and deliberately bad photo of a piece of skin, allegedly from the cockpit of this unfortunate Malaysian Boeing 777.

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTO OF A SINGLE AND DELIBERATELY BAD PIECE OF SKIN, ALLEGEDLY FROM THE COCKPIT OF THIS UNFORTUNATE MALAYSIAN BOEING 777

We will not pay attention to the holes, in my opinion, punched with a pickaxe, both from the outside and from the inside. But is it possible to say for sure that this part of the extreme left frame of the cockpit glazing is from the Boeing 777:

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY FOR SURE THAT THIS PART OF THE EXTREME LEFT FRAME OF THE COCKPIT GLAZING IS FROM THE BOEING 777

and not from a Boeing 737?

UKRAINE. THE CRASH SITE OF THE BOEING 777. FLIGHT MH 17. PHOTOS OF THE BOEING 737 COCKPIT

What is the result. Near Donetsk there is no most of the design of the Boeing 777, but there is a dump of a small part of the fragments of the fuselage and equipment, as if from a Boeing 777, a dump that stretches for many kilometers. There is a lot of garbage of various contents. There are about three hundred corpses, but by the complete absence of boarding passes and baggage receipts with them, it can be argued that these people did not board the plane at least at some European airport. There are few suitcases and bags about which it can be said that they were not accepted on board the plane at any European airport. So what’s the point of speculating about whose and which missile shot down not a Boeing 777, but these couple of gondola cars of scrap metal and an air morgue?

A reliable and unconditional conclusion is that the Malaysian Boeing 777, which took off from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on flight MH17, has disappeared.

And once it has disappeared, then you need to turn to a country that is a professional in the field of aircraft disappearance – the United States. For them to “disappear” the plane, it’s like a spit.

UKRAINE. FLIGHT MH17. INFORMATION FOR REFLECTION

Let’s remember at least September 11, 2001 in the USA – the day when two planes crashed into two New York skyscrapers in front of the public, and these skyscrapers collapsed in front of the people. But on the same day, the third Boeing 757 (length – 54.07 m, wingspan – 38.05 m, height – 13.56 m, fuselage width – 3.7 m) disappeared without a trace in the Pentagon, slipping inside into a hole comparable to the window of the building, and leaving neither the wings nor a piece of skin outside:

THE BOEING 757 (LENGTH – 54.07 M, WINGSPAN – 38.05 M, HEIGHT – 13.56 M, FUSELAGE WIDTH – 3.7 M) DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE IN THE PENTAGON, SLIPPING INSIDE INTO A HOLE COMPARABLE TO THE WINDOW OF THE BUILDING, AND LEAVING NEITHER THE WINGS NOR A PIECE OF SKIN OUTSIDE

The fourth Boeing 757 crashed in Pennsylvania. Fell without a trace. Journalists were shown from afar a burnt place with some garbage (in which, of course, the “investigating” this disaster found the passports of terrorists). Here is a top view of the place of his fall:

THE BURNT CRASH SITE OF A BOEING 757 IN PENNSYLVANIA. HE FELL WITHOUT A TRACE, WITH SOME GARBAGE (IN WHICH, OF COURSE, THE “INVESTIGATING” THIS DISASTER FOUND THE PASSPORTS OF THE TERRORISTS). HERE IS A TOP VIEW OF THE PLACE OF HIS FALL

And if you consider that the third skyscraper in New York is the 47-storey “Seventh Tower” of the shopping center

THE THIRD SKYSCRAPER IN NEW YORK IS THE 47-STOREY “SEVENTH TOWER” OF THE SHOPPING CENTER

– which was supposed to get that Boeing, which crashed in Pennsylvania, as it were, – five hours later it collapsed by itself from grief, and just like the first two skyscrapers (which the planes hit), the degree of illusionism of the United States is off the scale.

The lights of world democracy are such magicians that it’s amazing how Copperfield hasn’t hanged himself with envy yet, and the UN hasn’t declared September 11 World Illusionist Day. Of course, the United States owes all these tricks to stupid and vile journalists, but this is by the way.

As an example of American tricks, I want to cite the very first, already ancient, but practically similar case with the “shooting down” of a Korean Boeing 747 by a Soviet fighter over the Sea of Okhotsk on September 1, 1983.
But about this and the rest of the facts of the “moronic-fantastic” version – at the end of the article.

The United States as specialists in provocations

So, in the first part it is noted that not a single witness of the disaster in Donbass saw a falling plane – everyone saw only falling debris. But if a real Boeing 777 collapsed and fell in the air, then there must be complete fragments of the fuselage on the ground and, most importantly, two of the world’s largest turbojet engines, 3.2 meters in diameter and weighing 9 tons each. There are none.

If it was flight MN 17 from Amsterdam, then baggage tags must be on the luggage, and baggage receipts with the bodies. For some reason, they were not photographed. And why can’t you see several hundred mobile phones, tablets and laptops of passengers? Well, okay.

Now, from the point of view of the disaster near Donetsk, let’s consider the case of a Korean airliner that was allegedly shot down by Soviet air defense in the sky over Sakhalin almost 30 years ago – September 1, 1983.

THE MYSTERY OF THE KOREAN PHANTOM

The official and generally accepted media legend: the brutal Soviet scum shot down a peaceful defenseless Boeing-747 passenger plane that was flying from the United States to South Korea on flight KAL-007. In addition to the crew members and unaccounted persons, 269 passengers were killed in this plane. Thanks to the “free” democratic press and, by the way, the press of the USSR, the whole world knows about this.

A significantly smaller number of people knew that this plane was not flying on its usual safe route, but specifically flew into the territory of the USSR and flew over it with a spy mission. He was supposed to provoke the inclusion of Soviet air defense radars, and the American satellite above him to determine the parameters of these radars. (In this regard, the Boeing took off from Anchorage specifically 40 minutes later than the schedule in order to be over the territory of the USSR simultaneously with the satellite). The Americans needed radar data so that, in the event of war, they could launch their bombers along a route where it would be impossible to detect them with our detection means. Accordingly, it did not occur to the Soviet air defense that a passenger plane was flying, everyone believed that it was an American RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

Today, the obviously mean behavior of the then US President Reagan and his administration in all matters related to the investigation of this case is no longer surprising. For example, the investigation of this disaster, like any plane crash, in the United States should have been handled by the National Transportation Safety Administration – since this is a direct matter of its specialists. But the agency was immediately banned by the US government. The “investigation” was taken up by the US State Department (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in our opinion), although there are no specialists in sight there. As a result of such an “investigation”, the records at the tracking stations for this aircraft were destroyed, the negotiations of American and Japanese dispatchers disappeared, the tape recording of our pilot’s negotiations with the guidance stations was forged so rudely that even American journalists noticed it at the first time it was voiced, etc., etc.
And now evaluate the story of the Malaysian Boeing. Ukraine should investigate the accident, but it has transferred its responsibility to the Netherlands, and that “black boxes” have already been sent to England. And already on July 27, the press happily reported that the data of the “black boxes” confirmed the missile hit the Boeing, as they confirm “decompression as a result of a powerful explosion.” And who would doubt that they would “confirm”?

However, when in 2001 the Ukrainian air defense with an even more powerful missile shot down a Tu-154 flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk at the same altitude over the Black Sea, the pilots turned on the radio transmitter three times for another 45 seconds of its fall and all the dispatchers on the ground heard their screams. And then silence… Moreover, Ukraine does not transmit recordings of its air traffic controllers for investigation, but this fact does not bother the British-Dutch “investigators” at least. Well, okay, let’s go back to that Korean Boeing.

How a Korean was shot down

Evaluate how competently the Boeing pilot flew the plane over our territory, who, by the way, before serving in this civilian Korean airline was a pilot with the rank of colonel of the South Korean Air Force. See. A Boeing flew into our territory from Kamchatka. He was spotted by ground-based radar stations (radars), a couple of our fighters took to the air, but the Boeing pilot dropped from 10 to 3 km and entered the radar-impenetrable zone of the Kamchatka volcanoes. The guidance stations of our fighters lost it and could not bring the pair into the air. She, having used up fuel, sat down. Boeing appeared on the radar screens again, then a couple more fighters were lifted into the air, but it was already so far away that they did not have enough fuel to catch up with it. Then the Korean flew to Sakhalin, 2 more of our fighters were lifted into the air there, but the Boeing maneuvered again and entered an area inaccessible to ground-based radar, and our guidance stations lost it again, that is, they were again unable to direct fighters at it.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich, who was lifted into the air on his Su-15, still managed to spot the impudent on-board radar and find him. However, on approach, when Osipovich wanted to show himself to Boeing and demand landing from him, he made another maneuver – the Boeing dropped the speed from 900 to 400 km/ h. The Su-15 cannot fly at such a speed, he missed the Korean and had to do new maneuvers to turn around and approach the Boeing, after which there was little fuel left in the tanks of our interceptor, and the Korean was already close to the border. As a result, without having time to gain altitude, Osipovich lifted the nose of the aircraft and fired two missiles after it from an atypical position – from the bottom up, from a distance of 5 km. So let’s say a word of praise to the late Boeing pilot: he was “that kind of thing”: he knew how to fly and was able to evade combat with fighters.

I will not be distracted by the question of why, the Soviet side immediately confirmed the fact of the destruction of the Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter. As expected, the Korean Boeing crashed in neutral waters off the island of Moneron. The USSR began searching for the wreckage a week later, and deep-sea vehicles for bottom surveys and lifting bodies and debris were able to deliver to the scene of the event only a month later. All this time, American and Japanese ships and ships freely sailed through this area of the sea, American planes flew.

What have you found

Indeed, deep-sea vehicles found something at the bottom. Not the fuselage of a huge Boeing, not its wings, not hundreds of seats, etc., but a few very small aircraft debris, flattened by some kind of explosion. And not a single burnt thing was found among the wreckage. And what was found, not only from experts, but already from divers caused a lot of questions. Here is the story of one of them: “I didn’t miss a single descent. I have a very clear impression: the plane was filled with garbage and there were no people there. Why? Well, if a plane crashes, even a small one. As a rule, there should be suitcases, handbags, at least handles from suitcases… And there was something that, I think, normal people should not carry on the plane. Well, say, a roll of amalgam – like from a garbage dump… The clothes are all like from a landfill – pieces have been torn out of it… We’ve been working for almost a month! There were also few wearable things – there were jackets, raincoats, shoes – very few. And what they found was some kind of rags! Here we found, say, a scattering of compact boxes. They remained intact, opened. But what is strange is that everyone has broken mirrors inside. The plastic cases are completely intact, and the mirrors are all broken. Or umbrellas: all in covers, in whole covers – not even torn. And they themselves are crumpled, non–working… Knives, forks are twisted.”

But the main thing is not that, the main thing is that out of almost 300 people who flew on this Boeing, not a SINGLE body was found! But they should have been there, strapped to their seats like anchors, or surfaced if they had time to put on life jackets. For the entire time of the search, a clump of hair and an allegedly torn hand in a sleeve and glove were photographed by deep-sea vehicles. That’s it! And where are the passengers? After all, the fact that they died is for sure, but where are their bodies?

To what extent this “crash site” reeks of a fake, one can judge by such examples.

2 years later, exactly the same Boeing 747 of an Indian airline exploded in the sky over the Atlantic at an altitude of 10 km. On the first day of the search, the bodies of 123 passengers were found, the next day 8 more and 4 months later, during a deep–sea study, another one was strapped to the seat.

5 years later, in 1988, the Challenger exploded with 7 astronauts on board at an altitude of about 15 km. 254,000 fragments of the spacecraft, 90% of the fragments of the cockpit and the bodies of all astronauts were lifted from the ocean floor. And there’s not a single passenger here?

Both our and Japanese rescuers collected a total of 1,020 fragments of this Korean airliner disaster, among which the Japanese picked up 13 fragments of bodies, but not at the search site – more on this below.

Inconsistencies of facts

There is a natural question that the Soviet press, leading an “irreconcilable ideological war”, unanimously did not discuss – was this Boeing shot down by a Soviet fighter? After all, Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich, having fired two missiles at him and presumably hitting one in the fuselage and the other in one of the 4 engines, said: “The target has been destroyed,” only because, firstly, he had already turned to the airfield on the remnants of fuel and did not see the plane crash, secondly He believed that he had launched an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, which could have had enough missiles (“dry weight” – 45 tons). But in order to shoot down such an aircraft as this Boeing-747 (“dry weight” – 162 tons), it is required by calculation at least 7 such missiles as were on the Su-15!

Further, the Americans calculated the time of the Boeing’s fall from the marks on their radars after it was hit by missiles. Up to a height of 300 m (when the mark disappeared from the radar), it fell for 12 minutes. Compare: if he was just going to land, it would take him 15 minutes, but if he was falling out of control, then 30 seconds. So was he falling or flying? That is, the Boeing was not shot down, the pilot simply dropped to a height at which normal pressure was established in the depressurized cabin. But if the plane didn’t crash in the place where some debris was found, then where did it go?

Facts from a specialist

In the case of the Korean airliner, there was indeed a specialist – a person whose profession is the investigation of plane crashes – Frenchman Michel Bran. He, as a specialist, investigated not only those facts that the owners of the “free” press and the then Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU liked, but also those about which they are silent. And he came to conclusions for which, naturally, he was considered a visionary and an idiot.

Looking ahead, I must say that Bran was wrong in believing that Osipovich shot down not a passenger Boeing-747, but a reconnaissance aircraft, but Bran was not mistaken about what really happened to the Korean airliner. In 1991, M. Bran gave an interview in the book by A. Illem and A. Shalnev “The Secret of the Korean Boeing-747” (“fantasies” in their terminology), in which I shortened the part in which Bran assumes a battle between Soviet fighters and an American intelligence officer. (The wreckage of this scout, in his opinion, was examined by our divers, mistaking it for the wreckage of a Boeing). M. Bran reported (highlighted by me): “In this case, the most important thing is the specific details, which an amateur can pass by, but which a professional will certainly cling to. I once took part in the investigation of a number of major disasters in civil aviation and I remember when I first heard about the loss of the South Korean Boeing, I said to myself right away – it will be found within two weeks. Well, on the strength of a month – after all, the world’s largest “passenger” cannot get lost at shallow depths with a bottom as flat as a plate, when even much smaller planes were found in ocean crevices at a depth of one and a half to two kilometers. Alas, I made a mistake in my forecast, some kind of secret leapfrog began with the participation of many “influential parties” and with the presentation of such justifications that could not withstand any criticism. They lied not only in the Soviet Union – they lied in the USA, in Japan, in South Korea. What for? I don’t know, I’m not a politician. I am an expert who is only interested in facts.

…The official version cannot explain the behavior of the Boeing on Japanese radars, but if we assume that Osipovich shot down not a “passenger”, but some other plane, then everything falls into place: the liner continued to fly, and in this case another obvious “mystery” associated with the flight becomes clear “KAL-007” – the release of its pilots on the air 50 minutes after the Boeing was “buried” by a Soviet fighter. (This is also not fiction, but an official record of the negotiations of the KAL-007 pilots, which appears as an official “document” both in Japan and in the USA.)

…As you know, 8 days after the tragedy, pieces of skin, debris, remnants of luggage in large quantities were thrown onto the Japanese coast of Honshu Island, they were found in Hokkaido. The explanation was given as follows: “material evidence” from the deceased Boeing drifted with the current and thus “sailed” to the Japanese shores from the north, from the place where the downed plane fell. Everything seems to be logical. With the exception of one very significant circumstance that no one has bothered to check until now – at the end of August and in September, there is not a single current in the area of Moneron Island and Sakhalin that would drive waves from north to south. Only from south to north! And, let’s add to this, according to weather reports, at that time a steady wind was blowing towards the mainland. Now, please explain to me how the pieces of the Boeing and the evidence could have sailed to Japan against the wind and against the current?

After all, nature does not play political secrets, so there can be only one explanation: the wreckage of the passenger Boeing was brought to the Japanese shores and Sakhalin really by the current, but not by a fictional one – from north to south, but by the real one – from south to north. Therefore, the liner broke into the sea much to the south of Moneron.

Until now, the mystery of another find that sailed to Wakkanai in Hokkaido along with the wreckage of a South Korean Boeing – the remains of the tail of a combat missile marked by no means Soviet – has remained unanswered. Even an official press release was drawn up about this find, but it was never issued, and the physical evidence itself is kept under seven seals in the Department of Maritime Security in Wakkanai. For some reason, there are no questions about such an unprecedented fact as the direction of a special aircraft of the American Navy, which is usually used in rescue operations, to a square of the Sea of Japan far from Moneron. This flight, recorded by Japanese radars, took place at the same time and in the very place where, according to my calculations, the South Korean Boeing really lies – off the Japanese island of Kyurokushima, not far from Sado Island…

There are a lot of questions in order to believe in a “simple solution” and agree with the established version. But the most important thing, of course, where are the corpses, where are the remains of 269 unfortunate people who were on board the South Korean Boeing? The more time passes and the more facts related to the disaster appear, the firmer I become in my guesses – as it seems to me, the real Boeing is still lying on the seabed where it fell seven and a half years ago – off Sado Island, along with all the crew and passengers. I calculated this place by taking as a basis the speed of local currents and the characteristics that were recorded by radars.

Honestly, I can only guess about the causes of the death of the liner. It is possible that the Boeing was really fired upon during the leapfrog that was going on in the Sakhalin sky, and received damage and cracks, which then “smashed” the plane. It is possible that the KAL-007 was actually shot down, but not by Soviet fighters, but by an American missile, the same one whose part of the plumage was found in Wakkanai. (As the analysis shows, it was a combat missile with infrared guidance, which “worked” by entering the nozzle). I understand that such an assumption may sound ridiculous, but, firstly, Captain Turner wrote in US Force Jor-nel a few years ago that the death of the Boeing was one of the operations of American intelligence, and secondly, I have my own interpretation on this account.

I want to be understood correctly – I do not insist on my assumptions about the causes of the death of the liner, the role of the special services, some kind of high agreement between the Russians and the Americans about this incident, probably. In the end, this is not so important, although, probably, it is insanely interesting for fans of the detective. It’s just that, being a professional, I come across obvious contradictions of that beautiful and slender version, which has been persistently believed all over the world for almost eight years. After the first publications devoted to my investigation, the CIA, as far as I know, specifically found out whether I, Michel Bran, was a KGB agent. I am not an agent of this venerable department, I just want to get answers to my naive questions on the merits of the case.”

M. Bran’s version that ours shot down an American reconnaissance plane off Moneron Island does not stand up to criticism with the same arguments with which he refutes the downing of the Boeing – there are no corpses, and there are things uncharacteristic of a passenger plane. After all, the scout has a crew of about 20 people, and their bodies are also missing. In addition, our divers found a lot of atypical junk, for example, a lot of old, out–of-fashion and torn clothes, but zipped and buttoned – as if from a warehouse. Why is she on a reconnaissance plane, why umbrellas, compact bags?

The Korean could not fly in any case

But, as you can see, M. Bran reported facts that the CPSU Central Committee stubbornly did not react to – that Boeing contacted Japanese dispatchers even 50 minutes after the “official” death, and that the stabilizer of an American missile was found in the wreckage of the aircraft, which directly indicates that the Boeing-747 was finished off by American fighters.

You can see that Bran is definitely afraid to speak, that he evades certainty – this is the trouble of narrow specialists. He can put himself in the place of a Boeing pilot, but not in the place of President Reagan. And to understand this case, you need to put yourself only in Reagan’s place, only in this case you can get answers to all questions.

Let’s do it we

So, Reagan coordinated a spy action to fly a Boeing 747 with unsuspecting passengers over Soviet territory. Let’s take his place and calculate the options for the development of events.

1. The plane safely completes the task, the pilot conducts it through the air defense, and if he meets interceptors, they will be afraid to attack the passenger plane. This option is good for the crew, but bad for Reagan. Passengers will raise a howl when they find out what risk they were exposed to. The airline will begin to interrogate the crew, etc., etc. Oddly enough, but the espionage essence of the flight will be difficult to hide – you can’t remove, say, the National Agency for Transport Safety from the investigation. If there are no corpses, then all the attention of the public will focus only on the flight route itself. By the way, have you noticed that the passengers of the Malaysian Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam somehow have suspiciously few relatives and friends, and they somehow behave very passively? Okay, then about Reagan.

2. Our pilots shoot down a Korean and he dies. I think it must have seemed most likely to Reagan. After all, American reconnaissance planes regularly provoked our air defense – they demonstrated their intention to violate Soviet airspace and, after waiting for our fighters to rise into the air, turned aside. Suffice it to say that Lieutenant Colonel Osipovich, who shot down the Boeing, over 10 years of service on Sakhalin, took to the air more than a thousand times to intercept. The troops were angry at the American arrogance, and they probably knew it. And this option is the best for Reagan. In addition to espionage, he gave political dividends – it was easier to persuade NATO allies to deploy additional missiles in Europe.

3. The most disgusting, most unacceptable option is if the Boeing is shot down, people are killed or injured, and it still reaches the airfield in Japan or Korea or makes an emergency landing. Here it will not be possible to hide anything: passengers will not give. And there was even a US Congressman among them. They cannot be set against the USSR, they will focus on who sent them to this minefield. And this would not only be Reagan’s political death, but in its development, perhaps, both NATO and the role of the United States in the world. Because, after all, the cynicism of the United States in the case of the Korean airliner is simply incomparable.

Therefore, you must agree that we, in Reagan’s place, should have hedged against undesirable options.

First of all. To have fighters ready, which, of course, will not allow a downed Boeing to reach the airfield, and possibly an undamaged one.

Secondly. Hide the crash site, if possible, because during rescue work it may turn out that, by pure chance, it turned out whose missile shot down the plane. And for this it is necessary to simulate a false accident site, where rescuers would work, picking up something related to the plane. At least, such a false place would distract forces for a long time from the search for the real crash site. To do this, an airplane or its parts were blown up into small pieces, some of the debris, along with rags and junk, was loaded into a cargo plane and dropped where the Boeing was descending, and where the debris that fell from it during the explosion of Soviet missiles floated on the surface of the sea. This, by the way, explains that the debris found at the bottom was very small. The Boeing 747 was at that time the largest aircraft in the world. Its integral fragments could not fit into the transport plane, and it was impossible to throw them into the sea from the aircraft. The USA was like this 40 years ago, do you think they have improved?

Let’s go back to Donbass and 2014

Let’s start with the answer to the question, do Americans have a transport plane capable of dropping such cargo from a height? For the answer, let’s estimate the weight of these loads. In the first part of the article, I wrote that I estimate the weight of aviation scrap metal at 20-25 tons, well, let’s say 30. And 30 tons of bodies, garbage and luggage. And even 10 tons of kerosene in combustible containers to simulate a fire. Total 70 tons. In principle, the Boeing S-17 Globmaster will do, which, with a payload of 77 tons, can fly 4.5 thousand kilometers without refueling. Actually, the IL-76 of the Ukrainian Air Force, if it is refueled at 2000 km, will also work.

But I think the Lockheed S-5 Galaxy was chosen. This aircraft has dimensions and speed comparable to similar parameters of the Boeing 777, and it takes 120 tons of cargo, that is, it can load almost the entire 777, if the latter, of course, is chopped into dimensional pieces. In general: “On June 7, 1989, the C-5B set a kind of record by landing four Sheridan tanks (weighing 19 tons each) and 73 parachutists over North Carolina. At the same time, the total weight of the cargo on board was 86,293 tons. Galaxy also holds the unofficial world record for the heaviest parachute landing on two 27-ton platforms.” As of today, there are 94 C-5 vehicles of various modifications in the US Armed Forces.

The “moronic-fantastic” version

Thus, according to the “moronic-fantastic” version, at the time of the flight of the Malaysian Boeing over Ukraine, a C-5 crossing him rose from some Ukrainian military airfield, giving Ukrainian dispatchers signals of a civilian charter flight. At Donetsk, his mark on the radars came up to the Boeing mark, and they exchanged signals. The C-5, starting from Donetsk, replaced the Boeing 777 on its route, starting to signal flight MH17 from Singapore, and the Boeing 777 flew according to the charter flight plan, for example, to Georgia. Or where the Boeing 777 of the same company, which disappeared in the Indian Ocean on March 8 of this year, also flew. At a given point, C-5 dropped a pre-prepared cargo of dead and scrap metal over the DPR. Without much fear – after all, the provocateurs themselves will still “investigate” and give out through their media the necessary “non-feeble-non-fantastic” version to the world about the destruction of the 777th “Buk”. A correct or more correct theory has a peculiarity – it explains those facts that the previous theory cannot explain. I will point out some explanations of the “moronic-fantastic” version of the facts, in addition to those that were discussed in the first part.

Explains a lot, if not everything

To begin with, such an operation cannot be performed without collusion with the crew of a Malaysian Boeing. And here’s what the British newspaper The Daily Mail reported on July 19, 2014. It turns out that the Malaysian crew, which was obliged to perform this flight according to the schedule, did not fly on July 17. The next crew, which was obliged to replace the first one in this case, also did not fly, but the third crew flew, it must be understood, “the one that was needed.” According to the newspaper, the first two crews explain their refusal to fly, allegedly, by the fear of flying over the territory of the DPR. However, until July 17, the planes of this Malaysian company carried out all flights on this route past Donbass! What were they afraid of and were they afraid of?

Thus, the fact remains that on the Malaysian Boeing on July 17 there was not a regular, but some “particularly brave” crew.

Next, well, let’s say, well, Ukrainian air traffic controllers were driving this Malaysian Boeing, well, the DPR militia or the Ukrainian Air Force or Russia shot it down (what’s the difference?), and flight MN 17 disappeared from the screens. What does air traffic controllers have to do with it? Why hide their negotiations with Boeing and its mark on the radar? But after all, the SBU immediately seized all records and began to issue fake videos on the Internet about the “buks” of the militia. So, there is something that completely destroys the version of the destruction of the aircraft by a rocket. Isn’t it?

Further. The S-5 has a very peculiar design and military coloring, and other passenger planes were flying along the route (only at the time of the action there were three more planes in this part of the air corridor). Their pilots and passengers could see a military transport unloading over the Donbass and blab about it. And the Russian dispatchers, who monitored the planes flying up to the borders, noted that “the plane followed the established corridor to Donetsk, and then deviated from the route to the north. At the same time, the maximum distance from the left border of the corridor was 14 kilometers.” That is, C-5 got away from possible witnesses. But neither the dispatchers nor the Ministry of Defense of Russia at the press conference did not find an answer, what does this maneuver of leaving the corridor mean? Why was he needed?

Further, it was impossible to dump the cargo from the transport aircraft in a whole bundle at once, the crew had to push the cargo into the rear hatch along the cargo ramp in parts. And this explains the spread of fragments and bodies over the range. Explains why, for example, a large fragment of the fuselage lies in Petropavlovsk, fragments of the nose – in the Placer, and fragments of the tail – in Grabovo. When the C-5 was loaded with scrap metal and corpses, they didn’t bother much about what to ship at the beginning and what at the end.

Further, the C-5 cannot drop cargo at cruising speed, it is forced to drop speed. And at a press conference of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, data from Russian civilian radars are reported: “At 17 hours 20 minutes at a distance of 51 km from the state border of the Russian Federation, at an azimuth of 300 degrees, the aircraft abruptly began to lose speed, which is clearly visible in the scoreboard of the characteristics of the air object. When the speed drops to 200 km / h at 17 hours 21 minutes 35 seconds, a new mark about the air object appears at the place of destruction of the Boeing. This aerial object was steadily observed by the radar posts of Ust-Donetsk and Buturino for four minutes. The dispatcher, requesting characteristics from the newly appeared object, cannot receive data on its parameters, since, most likely, the aircraft is not equipped with a secondary identification system, which is typical for military aircraft,” said the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Igor Makushev.

Neither air traffic controllers nor Lieutenant General Makushev, who held a press conference, did not explain this speed drop before the “destruction” and the sudden transformation of the passenger Boeing 777 into a military aircraft instead of wreckage. And what does it look like from the standpoint of the “moronic-fantastic version”? C-5 gave signals to the place of cargo ejection (before its “death”), like a Malaysian Boeing, then slowed down to drop the cargo, and after dropping it, turned off the device signaling that it was a Malaysian Boeing, by this shutdown simulating the death of a Boeing.

But the plane was flying! Nothing happened to the plane itself (in this case, the C-5) – its mark did not fall down, the plane did not disappear from radar screens. And Russian radars saw it for another 4 minutes, but already as an unidentified military aircraft. Seen going deep into Ukraine. So who was “shot down by a rocket”?? Why talk about the destruction of the Boeing, if the radars did not see the death of the aircraft, but only its transformation into an unidentified target?

In my opinion, a serious question that is asked immediately – why is it so difficult? Why not simply shoot down any passenger plane over Donbass with a missile? But in fact, the rocket does not give a 100% guarantee of either hitting the plane or destroying it in the air, but it leaves a clearly visible trace in the sky for a long time, according to which the launch site of the rocket is easily calculated. Yes, and satellites are watching missile launches, and they are visible on radars, and about a hundred people of the anti–aircraft guided missile battery are witnesses. Well, and why this risk, if Americans are recognized magicians in matters with the disappearance of airliners?

(By the way, it would be necessary to return to the quickly forgotten “destruction” on June 14 of the long-decommissioned Il-76 at the Lugansk airfield. There, judging by the remains, the entire plane also burned almost completely, and the tires of its chassis, and even some spare tire, are completely intact in the fire, causing a natural question – how did these “fireproof” tires burn the maydowns in Kiev? Much like a rehearsal…).

But make no mistake – all the media in the world will be hammering and hammering only about the fact that the Boeing-777 was shot down by a Russian militia missile over the Donbass

And not only because journalists are scum in their profession and do what they are ordered to do. They, like Shari, will not want to repeat the “moronic-fantastic” version themselves. Why? Because of professional cretinism.

Recently, an American journalist quit the RT TV channel. Why? She explained that she could not work on a channel that doubted that the Boeing was shot down by the militia, ALTHOUGH ALL the media IN the WORLD CLAIM that they shot down. But since she was accepted on RT, then she looked quite smart. However, under this intellectual tinsel, stupidity was hidden, which did not allow journalists to think independently on any issue, except for grub and sex, and even then, the journalists themselves would eat “like everyone”, and choose poses “like everyone”, and drink viagra “like everyone”.

I will finish the topic with this, although, of course, I will be asked the question – where did that Malaysian Boeing that took off from Holland go? I will answer in Odessa – with a question to the question – and where did that Malaysian Boeing 777, which disappeared from radar over the Indian Ocean on March 8 this year, go?

But is this the main thing? After all, if the Malaysian Boeing was not shot down, then what about the passengers of flight MH17?? After all, THEY MAY STILL BE ALIVE! And they are waiting for salvation.

And everyone is busy discussing the not-so–fantastic version – who knocked him down with a Beech Tree, becoming accomplices of criminals.

PS: The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has banned the declassification of documents related to the Boeing crash in eastern Ukraine

THE HAGUE, October 25. /tass/. The Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands may not declassify a number of documents related to the Boeing crash in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. The Dutch Broadcasting Corporation (NTC) announced on Wednesday that the relevant decision was made by the State Council of the country.

The Almaz-Anteya experiment. A new presentation of the concern with the most likely version of the Boeing crash, TASS publishes a detailed description of the version of events that occurred in the sky over the Donetsk region of Ukraine. According to the decision of the organization, which is the highest judicial body of the Netherlands, “the government’s right to secrecy of its activities, the unity of state policy and the sensitivity of the issue outweigh the importance of disclosure of information.” Thus, the State Council overturned the decision of the lower court, which had previously ruled that the data should be made public.

Shortly after the crash of the Malaysian Boeing, NTK, together with RTL TV channel and the Volksrant newspaper, on the basis of the law on freedom of access to information, requested data from the government in order to restore the sequence of actions of the authorities following the tragedy that occurred on July 17, 2014. In February and April 2015, the Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands published several hundred documents, but most of the information in them was retouched to such an extent that it was even unclear what it was about. In addition, it turned out that a number of documents have not been declassified. The agency explained its actions by saying that the publication of these data could “lead to a complication of relations with other countries and international organizations” and “will hinder the free exchange of opinions between employees.”

With this in mind, the media decided to file a joint lawsuit in court. The lower authorities confirmed their right to receive information, but the country’s highest judicial body sided with the government and ministers, “who should have the right to freely communicate with each other and not be afraid that the details of their conversations will be made public.” In the coming weeks, the NTC, RTL and Volksrant will decide whether it makes sense to appeal this decision to the European Court.

The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 passenger plane operating flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014 in the east of Donetsk region. All 298 people on board were killed, 196 of whom were Dutch nationals. A joint investigation team, which includes representatives of Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, is engaged in the criminal investigation of the tragedy. In July of this year, its experts decided that the trial of the suspects would take place in the Netherlands under Dutch law.

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Throughout the modern history of Ukraine, carrying the most weight have been the clans of Ukrainian oligarchs, such as Rinat Akhmetov, Victor Pinchuk, Dmytro Firtash and PrivatBank represented by Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov, each acting for rival City bankers or originally U.S. transnational elite groups. With external factors and litigations taking a toll, triggered by U.S. agents of influence , there are tectonic shifts in power relations and the division of influence between Ukrainian clans which, in the inertial scenario, threaten to destroy Ukrainian national elites.

Victor Pinchuk is at the core of Ukraine’s ruling American center-left interest group associated with the Clintons, Pritzkers, Dragon Capital, George Soros’ philanthropic network, arms lobby and The BlackRock Foundation. Funded by JP Morgan Bank, BlackRock Financial Market Advisory (BlackRock FMA) became the country’s main pledge-holders through the mediation of The Ukraine Development Fund (UDF) established by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In the event of default, creditors will receive key industrial assets and lands. The nationalization of oligarch-owned assets is along the lines of collateral expansion amid exponential growth in the national debt. Penny Pritzker will build a top-down colonial operation by reforming the Ukrainian government, including “deoligarchization.”

Locked in confrontation with Pinchuk, the PrivatBank clan run by Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov is integrated into the power system of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement and systemically linked to GOPers and the Lauders. Privat was behind a probe into the corruption scandal around Burisma Holdings, responsible for discrediting the Bidens and the Atlantic Council. As outspoken opponents to Soros, oligarchs faced numerous lawsuits. Additionally the majority of their assets were seized. They have pushed Zelenskyy since the start of his campaign but lost political control along with their financial influence.

The structure of Dmytro Firtash’s connections reveals the influence of non-formalized elite groups of the British aristocracy tightly linked to the City and their subordinate British intelligence services who are very close to the Conservative Party. The British sought to gain shadow political influence in the resource-based and energy sectors. Although hailed from professional intel officers, the role of the Asquith family is not fully in line with that of agents of British influence. They, however, are strategic intermediaries for British elite groups throughout the country. With British influence within the country at its peak, Dmytro Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov teamed up to place Viktor Yanukovych in power. The growing British influence in Ukraine went downhill along with the Maidan in 2014. Austrian right-wing political groups associated with Raiffeisen are now covering up for Firtash whose assets have largely been nationalized in his U.S. extradition case. The lawsuits were filed in the State of Illinois, a zone influenced by the Chicago-based Pritzker family and home to Boeing eyeing the oligarch’s titanium deposits.

Rinat Akhmetov’s position in elite connections does not appear to be well defined. With the outbreak of war with Russia and as a result losing most of his assets, the oligarch made a U-turn to support the U.S. left-wing radicals. Previously close to the City as well as to Scottish and Dutch elites, he now seeks greater public rapprochement with those U.S. transnational democrats behind Pinchuk who showed aggressive interest in his assets, DTEK and Metinvest. The oligarch’s assets are run from the Netherlands, a zone influenced by the Danish aristocracy, the Wallenbergs (among the major BlackRock shareholders) and Sachses. ING Bank, Akhmetov’s long-standing partner and creditor, is part of the banking cartel Inter­Alpha Group established by Jacob Rothschild, a member of the renowned family’s British branch. It appears that a contact within the political institutions of BlackRock’s influence led to a consensus, as all attempts to have Akhmetov’s assets nationalized were put on hold.

The above facts indicate, albeit with a non-negligible assumption given the transnational nature of globalist foundations, that we are seeing a struggle in Ukraine between the U.S. neoconservative and British influence (which is more powerful in Brussels) with the consolidated United States clearly gaining the upper hand. Oligarchs who refuse or fail to navigate as dictated by the U.S. neoconservative groups are eliminated by means of unsavory information and lawsuits, lose capitals and have restrictions of rights based on legal grounds. If events continue unfolding, the influence of Ukrainian oligarchs as self-sufficient participants in the political process will soon be over. Success in the fight for influence will be directly proportional to the extent of financial support that Ukraine maintains and the influential strength of each minion group. At this time, the project of U.S. influence in the region is getting stronger.

RINAT LEONIDOVYCH AKHMETOV

Born on 21 September 1966, Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.

RINAT LEONIDOVYCH AKHMETOV

Top-1 Forbes Ukraine with a capital of $ 5.7 billion.¹

Known for his long-standing ties to criminal groups. Despite considerable asset losses since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, his position as the country’s top oligarch remains unchanged.

Family:

His spouse, Liliya Akhmetova (nee Smyrnova; born in 1965), was a chairperson of the auditing commission at JSC SCM until reorganization of Akhmetov’s assets in 2017. In the meantime, Nyakiya Akhmetova (most Likely, his mother) lost her position as chairperson of the supervisory board at her son’s company.

His son, Damir Akhmetov (born in 1988), graduated from Bayes Business School (formerly known as Sir John Cass Business School), an elite London institution. In 2015, he married Diana Kostic, daughter of the Serbian “sugar king” Miodrag Kostic, CEO of agricultural holding company MK Group. They studied together at Le Rosey boarding school in Switzerland.

Son Almir Akhmetov (born in 1997)

Assets:

Rinat Akhmetov is still Ukraine’s richest businessman. His fortune is estimated at $6.9 billion. He runs his business empire from the Netherlands.

These assets are amassed in System Capital Management (SCM) holding company, the most important of them being Metinvest (Ukraine’s largest iron ore and steel producer) and DTEK (dominating the national heat power industry and deemed an important renewable energy producer). SCM companies employ about 300,000 people.

SCM’s main investment company is Cyprus-based SCM Holdings Limited. It has consolidated investments in the steel and mining industries (Metinvest B.V. (Netherlands)); energy (DTEK B.V. (Netherlands)), minerals, banking, and finance (FUIB); mass media; telecommunications (Ukrtelecom); retail (TSUM Kyiv), agriculture (HarvEast), transportation and logistics (Lemtrans and Portinvest).

Despite huge losses due to the war in Ukraine, DTEK holds a monopoly on the Ukrainian heat power industry. Among subsidiaries also located in the Netherlands are: DTEK ENERGY B.V. (coal extraction and processing, heat generation, mining equipment production), DTEK RENEWABLES B.V. (wind and solar power generation), DTEK OIL&GAS HOLDING B.V. (gas production), DTEK GRIDS B.V. (electric power distribution and power grid operation), D.TRADING B.V. (coal, electricity, gas and petroleum products sales), D.SOLUTIONS B.V. (power supply, photovoltaic power systems, power services and energy audit).

• SCM Ukraine Development (Rinat Akhmetov Foundation since 2018). Key focus areas include national health, family, targeted aid, culture, and education. Starting in March 2008, the foundation has been separated from the company and operates as Rinat Akhmetov’s personal charity, maintaining partnership with SCM. It is one of the most well-known charitable organizations in Ukraine.
• UMGInvestments investment holding company².
• ESTA Holding (real estate): Donbas Palace (Donetsk), Opera Boutique Hotel (Kyiv), Central Department Store (Kyiv), Trading chambers in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan.
• United Minerals Group (UMG, clay mining): Druzhkivka Quarry (Druzhkivka Ore Administration), VESKO, Ogneupornerud (Fire Resistance Non-Ore), Portinvest (Marine transportation)³.
• Lemtrans transportation company.
• First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB).
• HarvEast agribusiness holding company.
• Metinvest iron and steel company.
• Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk.
• Life National mobile operator.

Paul John Manafort

In the 2000s and 2010s, Akhmetov employed U.S. national Paul Manafort as his chief political scientist and campaign aide, whose fees totaled $12.7 million for 5 years from 2007 to 2021, according to secret ledgers of the Party of Regions. These figures were later revealed by Ukrainian politician and journalist Serhiy Leshchenko. In 2016, Manafort closed down his office in Ukraine and joined Trump’s election campaign.

Manafort was convicted by a U.S. court for being an unregistered agent of the Ukrainian government and President Viktor Yanukovych, his Party of Regions and later Opposition Bloc. A report drafted by Paul Manafort and Trump’s former aide Rick Gates along with Skadden Arps lobbying firm was intended to justify the imprisonment of Tymoshenko. This led to the retroactive registration of Skadden with FARA, and compensation of $4.6 million for the refusal to register with the Department of Justice as well as the indictment of former Obama White House counselor Greg Craig.⁴

James Kenneth Glassman

There is currently a connection between Akhmetov and high-ranking U.S. neoconservatives. GOP lobbyist Douglas Goodyear of DCI Group (IO, 05.05.21) signed a subcontractor agreement with SCM Consulting, while the latter, SCM Consulting, signed with Glassman.⁵

The papers that DCI Group submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice show large-scale action by Glassman Enterprises to disseminate information about Russia looting Ukrainian grain, steel, and minerals.

James Kenneth Glassman served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in 2008-2009. In the U.S. political sphere, he is particularly close to the Bush family, as he is the founder of their family think tank in Washington. The George W. Bush Institute is focused on developing solutions in the best interests of the Democratic Party and provided support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.⁶

Glassman gained extensive influence in the U.S. media by traveling a long way from journalist and publisher to economic policy maker. He is considered a father of “journalistic lobbying” characterized by drops of promoted stories in the information space – “independent” op-eds confirming the necessary position in favor of lobbyists. As Chairperson of Glassman Enterprises, LLC, a Washington-based PR firm, he is particularly active in health and energy lobbying.

Qorvis

In May 2022, SCM Consulting contracted Qorvis, a Washington-based PR firm, to promote Akhmetov’s philanthropy.

According to the agreement, “Qorvis will specifically engage in earned media efforts, including but not limited to pitching to media, client-identified spokespeople, press releases, photos and video provided by client.” The important nature of such a collaboration is further evidenced by the fact that the company’s CEO and Executive VP, Matt Jay Lauer, leads Qorvis’ five-person team for SCM⁷:

• Lauer worked at the U.S. State Department under Colin L. Powell, America’s Promise, Envision EMI, LLC, South Carolina Democratic Party, under John Edwards in the United States Senate and the Democratic National Committee.⁸
• Brad Klapper, a head of Qorvis Washington office, was a reporter of the U.S. State Department under John Kerry and Hillary Clinton with a focus on the Middle East, nuclear nonproliferation, sanctions policy, U.S.-Russia tensions, and U.S.-China relations.⁹
• Kristina Baum served as a senior communications officer at the White House, both houses of Congress, a chief spokesperson for Chevron Phillips, and Qorvis VP. In previous positions, she dealt with national security matters and still holds Top Secret/SCI security clearance.¹⁰
• Nicolla Hewitt is the owner of a consulting firm maintaining media communications with first tier media giants, such as Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NBC, CNBC, Fox, ABC, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, and others.
• Anthony Carl Dykes is Qorvis Senior Advisor for Corporate Strategic Communications.

The FARA report highlights the maintenance of public relations and public policy strategy regarding SCM-related matters, preparation of press releases, newsletters, and analytical materials. Qorvis’ mission through Nicola Hewitt was to host interviews and engage media to participate in SCM events and projects in an attempt to influence American audiences and officials, and to that end, the firm has connections with major media outlets in the U.S. and Europe, such as Washington Post, Washington Life, Politico, and others.

For SCM, Qorvis arranged an interview with Yuriy Ryzhenkov about Mariupol events for the Akhmetov Foundation and Museum (ABC News/GMA, USA Today, CNN). In addition, the firm set up interviews with USA Today, LA Times (Laura King), and Business Insider (Sam Tabahriti) about Ukraine’s recovery and Rinat Akhmetov.

They also worked with representatives of political think tanks. Qorvis engaged Hudson Institute (Ann Marie Hauser) and Brookings Institution who were offered to meet the DTEK and Metinvest top management for “third-party outreach.”

Qorvis Communications acting on behalf of Akhmetov brokered cooperation with American strategic think tanks, such as CEIP, CSIS, Atlantic Council, Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, World Affairs Council of Atlanta, Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Aspen Institute, Baker Institute, and RAND Corporation in connection with a request for an event.

Akhmetov took the initiative in communicating with SigmaBleyzer/Daar through Qorvis to schedule a personal meeting with leadership, company interaction, acquaintance and exchange of information about possible cooperation. This looks pretty spectacular, as SigmaBleyzer is a long-standing member of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council along with Akhmetov’s SCM and belong to the same financial industry group.

The Bleyzer family are Ukrainian-American immigrants from Kharkiv Oblast (which makes them close to the Akhmetov clan). DAAR, a U.S.-registered globalist non-profit charity focused on Ukraine, has been working for over twenty years.¹¹ Ustenko, Head of the Bleyzer Foundation, took part in various projects of the World Bank, OECD, governments of CIS member countries and leading universities, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2019, the Bleyzers faced a wave of lawsuits launched by UkrGasVydobuvannya to seize their assets. Michael Bleyzer poses as a Ukrainian corruption fighter and advocates functional capitalism which is “a reliable defense against Russia.” He has been linked to pro-Trump Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, who appointed Bleyzer to serve on the committee overseeing Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Bleyzer was first on the list of candidates to be offered a seat on the management board of Naftogaz of Ukraine. UGV, a Naftogaz company, was named plaintiff in the lawsuit against Ukrainian Energy LLC (Texas, USA) incorporated to tap into the Ukrainian oil and gas sector.

In 2018, Aspect Holdings, LLC and Sigma Bleyzer Investment Group, LLC established the International Fund for Ukrainian Energy (IFUEL) to invest in Ukraine’s energy sector (the first fund approved over $100 million).

Also, Akhmetov communicated with Worldbridge Group and the Royal Government of Cambodia regarding invitations to the DTEK event at WEF.

Qorvis is owned by Publicis Groupe, a company of French origin and transnational in terms of geographical presence. Top management of Publicis Groupe reveals the influence of those within the asset management circles of Edmond de Rothschild¹² such as Michel Cicurel and Gerard Worms, scions of SAS owned by the Wallenberg family. The company is open for cooperation with any American client regardless of political affiliation. In turn, Publicis Groupe is owned by Leo Burnett and London-headquartered Saatachi&Saatachi associated with British conservatives and linked to attacks on laborists.¹³

Qorvis has an extensive record of using questionable methods to deal with tainted reputation. Qorvis is perfect for reshaping the oligarch’s image in the eyes of Western audiences in order to avoid possible blows to reputation of forces willingly cooperating and providing support. The company is known for solving fairly complex opinion management problems, particularly formed by the propaganda of dictatorships ranging from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. Qorvis has been repeatedly accused of manipulating Wikipedia data, as the team of sockpuppets sought to whitewash the pages of its clients by taking down embarrassing information.

Qorvis has an extensive record of using questionable methods to deal with tainted reputation. Qorvis is perfect for reshaping the oligarch’s image in the eyes of Western audiences in order to avoid possible blows to reputation of forces willingly cooperating and providing support. The company is known for solving fairly complex opinion management problems, particularly formed by the propaganda of dictatorships ranging from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. Qorvis has been repeatedly accused of manipulating Wikipedia data, as the team of sockpuppets sought to whitewash the pages of its clients by taking down embarrassing information.¹⁴

Jock “Farquhar” Mendoza-Wilson

Mendoza-Wilson is a key figure for Akhmetov’s long-standing, strong lobbying ties. He is a British national of Irish descent, Chairperson of the United Nations Global Compact in Ukraine, Director of International and Investor Relations at System Capital Management. He oversees philanthropic initiatives of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation; spoke about the expansion of aid to Donetsk Oblast as an element of influence on the region. He is in charge of organizing contacts with foreign institutions on behalf of Rinat Akhmetov.

He served as Regional Director at MMD, an Eastern European public affairs and communications consultancy previously deeply integrated into the extraction industry, including the Russian oil and gas sector, with offices in New York, Washington and Brussels, where he worked until 2005.

He also worked as Regional Director at Weber Shandwick PR, covering the Middle East and North Africa, on government-related projects. Based in Dubai, the company was included in public diplomacy initiatives of the U.S. Department of State.

Mendoza-Wilson is linked to key dialog venues for lobbying European and U.S. arms suppliers, energy companies, agriculture, and the international non-profit sector in Ukraine. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the EU-Ukraine Business Council with close ties to James Wilson, MMD Founder, from the time of his work at the consultancy. He also serves as Director of the British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and is a counselor to the President of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.¹⁵

EU-Ukraine Business Council. Akhmetov-owned SCM is a member of a group representing interests of the international financial sector and companies providing services in offshore jurisdictions in the Ukrainian market. The group includes both representatives of the World Bank, such as European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and sponsors of the International Finance Corporation, Visa and Mastercard, and boutique companies acting as mediators in shady deals and holding the oligarchs’ money.

The following indicates Akhmetov’s links to the British group of influence similar to the one that supervised and patronized Firtash. In addition to Jock Mendoza-Wilson, the Board of Directors of the British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce includes Petr Baron, a British banker of Russian descent, a business angel and entrepreneur, who served as Director of VAB Bank previously owned by Oleh Bakhmatiuk. There was a high-profile embezzlement scandal, as Oleksandr Pisaruk, Chairperson of the Management Board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, linked to Dmytro Firtash was suspected of misappropriation of UAH 1.2 billion in the case of VAB Bank.¹⁶

PHOTO FROM MENDOZA-WILSON’S FACEBOOK ACCOUNT, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: CORY EGO, RICHARD BRADY, ANTHONY NICHOL, JOCK FARQUHAR MENDOZA-WILSON, RAYMOND DAVID MC ROBBIE, IGOR TKACZENKO

Among Mendoza-Wilson’s close associates are representatives of the European lobbying establishment with an accentuated British influence:

For example, Mendoza-Wilson’s close friend, Richard Brady (born in 1951), has strong ties with the City of London. He is reportedly expanding the circle of influence of the latter by means of Legal English classes, recruiting potential legal lobbyists for the City’s financial groups all over the world. Richard Brady’s biography had an abrupt turnabout when he decided to establish the British Legal Centre in order to teach Legal English and Law to foreign lawyers. This came following fast-tracked professional conversion from a City banker (formerly a prosecutor) into an English teacher. Initially, Richard’s educational activities were travel-related and centered in Eastern Europe, before expanding into MENA countries, similarly a high-priority region of influence for British financial circles. The organization also has offices in Brazil, Pakistan, UAE, Dublin, and Barbados.¹⁷

Mendoza-Wilson vigorously advocates Akhmetov’s interests by means of the EU-Ukraine Business Council in partnership with James Wilson. Wilson is a British communications expert with more than 25 years of experience in international business in Europe and Asia and in governmental relations. He is part of the Brussels-based pool of politicians, journalists and lobbyists and offers governments and businesses expert PR and strategic communications services.¹⁸ Over the past year, he has been active in fostering dialog around the extension of the grain deal and energy lobbying.

Wilson helped Gary Cartwright and Colin Stevens in promoted stories using resources of EU Reporter, EU Political Report, and EU Today. One of Cartwright’s partners was the Brussels Energy Club established by his personal friend Marat Teterev in which defended the leadership representing the corporate fossil fuel lobby.

Between 2015 and 2016, his political consultancy, MacMillan Public Affairs, along with a separate trading firm (which he founded), signed two contracts for an overall amount of €143,000 with Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom. These contracts were made to host public events and provide “strategic policy consultations,” according to the energy agency. He published one of the articles under a separate title as Director of the EU-Ukraine Business Council, a Ukrainian industry lobby group that was awarded one of Energoatom’s contracts.

Akhmetov-owned DTEK colluded with Energoatom (SE NNEGC Energoatom). Companies “sold air” in Ukraine’s spot electricity market. Energoatom intentionally set an inflated price for electricity in the day-ahead market. As a result, a part of its resources was not sold and went to the balancing market where such electricity was purchased by DTEK, an energy company owned by Rinat Akhmetov, at one kopiyka per megawatt hour. This was offered to consumers at around UAH 3,000 per megawatt hour. Consequently, Energoatom lost about a billion hryvnias which DTEK earned. Among the side effects of this scheme were high electricity prices even in a situation of surpluses.¹⁹

Wilson has been at the helm of FIPRA International since 2017 with a focus on country operations in Ukraine and was appointed partner of the agency along with Marcus Stober (representing Sweden’s interests and affiliated with the German Marshall Fund of the United States) and Ivan Poltavets directly linked to Akhmetov.²⁰

He is Director and Founder of the EU-Ukraine Business Council established in 2006, in Belgium, to facilitate trade and investment between the EU and Ukraine. He has been General Director of Kyiv Brussels Network since 2015. International Foundation for Better Governance, a non-profit organization established by Wilson, promotes aid for Ukraine in cooperation with the Akhmetov Foundation.²¹

As a founder of EU Political Report, he is known for his practice of blurring the lines between journalism and paid advocacy. Not long ago, he hosted grain deal lobbying events with a focus on the fertilizer problem in an attempt to alert EU authorities (European Commission, European Parliament), governments of EU member states, global media, and international organizations to the problems of production and export of Ukrainian agricultural products amid Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine in order to improve the current status quo of the Ukrainian agricultural industry.

FIPRA

FIPRA (Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers) is an extensive European network of public relations advisers specializing in policy and regulatory consulting and advice. According to FIPRA, they are the only consulting firm with Brussels public relations advisers in all EU and CIS member countries and China.

Founded by James Wilson, the Ukrainian FIPRA office is represented by Sweden- incorporated Stober, Poltavets & Associates AB (SP&A). According to official data, the office is headed by Karl Johan Marcus Stober and a former Ukrainian employee of Akhmetov’s think tank Ivan Poltavets.²² As part of their activities in partnership with FIPRA, he managed numerous public relations projects serving multinational corporations. He monitored, analyzed and advised on economic policy at the Bureau for Economic and Social Technologies established by System Capital Management.²³ In 2023, Poltavets was appointed Senior Strategy Manager of Regulatory Affairs at Canada-based TELUS Communications.²⁴

Akhmetov has been creating his own think tank, though, little is known to the general public regarding its activities. Judging by the data available, however, it becomes clear that the SCM Bureau for Economic and Social Technologies (BEST) was established to build stable connections in Brussels for the promotion of European integration and liberalization of trade with Ukraine²⁵. Former BEST employees are currently representatives of the largest lobbying networks. These networks have a tangible influence on the course of trade cooperation²⁶ and the development of the EU-Ukraine comprehensive support policy²⁷. For example, SP&A partner Ihor Poltavtsev is a former BEST adviser. Svitlana Taran (a former BEST researcher) and Amanda Paul (Senior Eurasia Adviser for Stober, Poltavets & Associates, Turkey and Ukraine Expert) are expert team members at the European Policy Center (EPC) providing information research for decision-making in the European Parliament. EPC is financed by the King Baudoin Foundation which, in turn, is under the financial patronage of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.

According to Marcus Stober²⁸, Managing Partner at SP&A facilitating Sweden-Switzerland- Ukraine cooperation, Ukrainian companies should be more active in Brussels for efficient lobbying. Stober is also the head of Switzerland-based division of Alpine Global Counsel and Non-Executive Director of Belgium’s OpenForum Europe. Stober was previously a Brussels lobbyist and for more than a decade has managed international outreach programs. His areas of expertise include open source and cybersecurity, digital supply chains and public policy in international digital governance.

SP&A Senior Eurasia Adviser Amanda Paul also works as a Senior Policy Analyst in the “Europe in the World Program” at the European Policy Center (EPC).²⁹ EPC is one of the largest think tanks and lobbying organizations in Europe. It is operated by high-ranking representatives of EU institutions, whose members are top managers of multinational corporations and banking elites who finance EPC through the King Baudouin Foundation³⁰. Amanda Paul has well-established expertise on matters related to Turkey, Ukraine, security and conflict resolution in the Black Sea region, Russian foreign policy in former Soviet regions, and EU enlargement. At the EPC, Amanda leads the Ukraine’s European Future and Global Turkiye projects, Security and Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus. She also serves as Senior Associate Research Fellow at the International Center for Policy Studies in Kyiv.

Connections of the parent company in FIPRA’s Belgium location indicate a dominant British influence and are of some interest from the viewpoint of financial flows of the lobbying conglomerate. The Fipra International parent company has several related entities:

• Fipra International B.V. under control of British national Laura Beatrice Sinclair Batchelor who is in responsible for health and biotech communications and overall governance.
• UK-based Fipra International Holdings Ltd. was previously 75% owned by its Brussels­based parent company. Officially, the related defunct company was managed and owned by Rory Bryan Duncan Chisholm, an offspring of the Hennessy of Windlesham family³¹, who bought back shares in Fipra International Holdings Ltd. in 2016 and became its beneficiary owner. His brother, Alexander James Chisholm, was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).
• Rory was one of the FIPRA founders in 2000. Until 2016, he was a partner in both FIPRA and Finsbury, a strategic and financial communications consultancy. From 1988 to 2000, he worked as a political consultant at GJW Government Relations Ltd in London.
• He gained extensive NATO contacts under the leadership of Peter Tulkens: The Polit Bureau BVBA (now Politics Matters (BV) with assets estimated at €800,000 as of 2022.32

Trident Trust

Trident Trust is an offshore registrar offering asset management services around the world. According to Panama Papers, the trust was a long-standing intermediary for Akhmetov.

The record shows Akhmetov as a “well-known client” for international registrars and often commissions their services, for example, taking out a loan from an international bank to buy a luxurious jet. Another case, in a letter to Trident Trust, as of 29 October 2014, Akhmetov’s representatives insisted that two new offshore companies, Inglen Investments Limited and Pluscom Holdings Limited, should be registered as soon as possible. They refused to provide any further information, “as the parent companies and beneficiary owner are all well-known to the agent.” The providers accepted the order with no further questions asked. Lawyers, filing incorporation papers, stated “jet ownership” as the object of new companies, the investigation says. Two months later, on 16 December 2014, one of these shell companies obtained a loan from Credit Suisse to purchase a Falcon 7X executive jet with the tail number P4-SCM. The market value of this jet easily surpasses $50 million.³³ Journalists also revealed that Trident Trust had been cooperating with Akhmetov up until 2018 at least.³⁴

RINAT AKHMETOV’S PERMANENT GROUP OF LOBBYISTS

Dutch Financial Network

In 2022, an investigation led by Investico, based on annual reports, Leaked papers and interviews with former FBI agents, revealed that Akhmetov had a Long-standing relationship with the Dutch banking sector, especially ING Group, cemented by large-scale financial schemes. By using the Dutch financial sector, he borrowed whopping amounts and conducted sensitive offshore transactions unchecked.

On 21 May 2001, Akhmetov established his first Dutch company, Metinvest B. V. 16 incorporated by the law firm and notary public Houthoff Buruma to consolidate his steel and mining businesses. A few years later, he registered DTEK with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry which became the 17th energy division of his rapidly expanding empire. Additionally, he worked with Dutch banks, ABN Amro and ING, which granted him multibillion-dollar loans, as well as with the Amsterdam branch of Deutsche Bank.

Foreign banks, Barclays in particular, began distancing themselves from Akhmetov around 2015 after he was repeatedly linked to money laundering and corruption schemes. These reports and circumstances, however, did not require the oligarch to leave the Netherlands. According to the FinCEN files, ING also received numerous payments. In May 2014, Akhmetov, over a course of five days, transferred $145.5 million from a personal BVI company to ING Bank. Despite these suspicious transfers, ING Bank did not question Akhmetov regarding the origin of funds.

Fully aware of the high risks, ING Bank granted Metinvest steel and mining company 1.5 billion dollars in 2018, only three years after Barclays blocked the company’s bank accounts. In the same year, ING, Deutsche Bank Amsterdam, and a few other banks provided Metinvest with a loan for over $2.2 billion for restructuring its outstanding debt. Until recently, at least five Dutch pension scheme providers, including retail, POSTNL, and KLM, had outstanding loans extended to Akhmetov’s companies.

Though not at all surprising, ING had a reputation for participating in corrupt money laundering schemes in Eastern Europe. Reports exist of a high-profile money laundering case involving the questionable earnings of Russian oligarchs, amounting to hundreds of millions of euros, being siphoned off through the bank’s Russian subsidiary as part of the laundromat organized by Troika Dialog.³⁵

Commercial companies owned by Akhmetov and his business partner Vadym Novynskyi are registered in the Netherlands. In 2019, ITPS, a trust office which managed several companies, obtained the so-called “aanwijzing” from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) over failed customer audits and, according to one of the owners, has since been dissolved. Since last year, Akhmetov’s Dutch companies have been run by several former trust office employees meaning that these companies are effectively out of any DNB control.³⁶

Atlantic Council

The leadership of the Atlantic Council includes an extensive list of former U.S. military commanders and government officials. The Atlantic Council is an analytical center funded by NATO, the defense industry and Gulf monarchies.

One of Akhmetov’s major assets, System Capital Management, makes an annual donation to the center in an amount ranging from $500,000 to $999,000.37 Anders Aslund, an influential member of the Atlantic Council, changed his stance from fierce criticism of Akhmetov to active cooperation due to the influence of Jock Mendoza-Wilson. The financial support of the Council and countering Russia contributed to the development of a joint strategic line with Akhmetov’s official representatives well received within its close circle of associates.

The controversial role of the Atlantic Council in relation to interests in the region and the corrupt nature of its actions is insightful for understanding the style and philosophy of working with Ukrainian oligarch clans. From 2017 to 2019, the organization was engaged to whitewash Burisma’s tarnished reputation for the benefit of the U.S. Democratic Party after a bribery probe into the firm and owner, Mykola Zlochevskyi. During these few years, Burisma offered the Atlantic Council an annual $100,000. As part of their partnership, the Atlantic Council and Burisma held several events in Washington, New York, and Kyiv. Zlochevskyi, a Burisma owner, served in the Yanukovych administration and left Ukraine following the revolution, and thus, losing any effective control of the company.

Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings in May 2014 despite his lack of experience in the Ukrainian gas industry and was in charge of international orders. He also participated in the merger of Burisma with a U.S. consulting firm systemically linked to the Clinton Administration, Blue Star Strategies, established by two board members of the Atlantic Council. Joe Biden was a chief liaison between the Obama Administration and Ukraine. Burisma invited several high-ranking Europeans and Americans to join its board, including Aleksander Kwasniewski, former Polish President, and Cofer Black, former CIA top staffer. ³⁸

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL)

A Florida-based consultancy, now dissolved, potentially served as Akhmetov’s principal intermediary in financing Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), who won in Florida, hence, returning her party to the 222-seat majority it previously held following the November 2020 elections.

In 2021, the main source of the representative’s income was SCM Consulting Group LLC. Her income in consulting fees from SCM was listed as $5,745,793. This was “the reported amount of consulting fees and profit sharing fees received for work at Trinity Health Care Services Inc.,” as stated in papers. Links between SCM Consulting Group and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s financial network⁵⁹

LINKS BETWEEN SCM CONSULTING GROUP AND SHEILA CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK’S FINANCIAL NETWORK

On March 12, SCM Consulting Group LLC filed as a business and health consulting firm and Cherfilus-McCormick was listed as a registered agent, according to state corporation records.⁴⁰

Representative Cherfilus-McCormick takes a very active stance in support of Ukraine, Advocating for the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, which reduces bureaucratic hurdles and expedites the delivery of military aid.⁴¹ Along with Congressman Ted W. Lieu, she presented the “Russia is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act,” bipartisan legislation officially designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Based on the sanctions initially adopted by the Congress, the bill further isolates Russia and toughens economic repercussions for Putin’s regime.⁴²

VADIM VlLADYSLAVOVYCH NOVYNSKYI

VADIM VLADYSLAVOVYCH NOVYNSKYI

Vadym Novynskyi was seen as a major figure in the alliance with Rinat Akhmetov. Novynskyi-owned Smart Holding Group held a 24% interest in Metinvest mining company. Though previously having Russian citizenship, he made the decision to swap it for a Ukrainian passport. He was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of the Party of Regions. In the Last convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, he was elected as an Opposition Bloc candidate. Forbes estimated his fortune at $1.4 billion.⁴³

In February 2022, Novynskyi and Akhmetov visited Mariupol to only briefly return to Kyiv. A few hours before Russia’s invasion, however, he fled the country. He is currently believed to be residing in Estonia. He was placed on the sanctions lists and all his accounts with Ukrainian banks are blocked. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested “hidden assets” of the former deputy Vadym Novynskyi worth UAH 10.5 billion which included 230 real estate properties allegedly owned through offshore companies. Among them a luxurious hotel in downtown Kyiv, Port Ochakiv, facilities of the agricultural holding company and shopping malls in several regions of Ukraine.

Smart Energy’s oil and gas division includes Ukrgazvydobutok gas producing company (Kharkiv Oblast) and UK-based Enwell Energy having listed assets in Poltava (a representative office of Regal Petroleum Corporation Limited and Arkona Gaz-Energia LLC) and Kharkiv Oblasts (Prom-Energo Produkt).

In January 2023, Smart Holding released a statement that as part of the company’s restructuring efforts Novynskyi decided to sell his shares in the company by assigning his interest to a trust. He signed respective agreements with Smart Trust and Step Trust in November 2022 which then were registered by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. Novynskyi does not have any beneficial interest in the Group, nor does he exercise any control over the Group’s activities or processes.⁴⁴

In 2011, Akhmetov and Novynskyi created an agricultural holding company from agricultural assets of Mariupol-based Illich Steel and Iron Works. In 2018, the company acquired Agro­Holding MS, specialized in crop farming in Kyiv and Zhytomyr Oblasts.

HarvEast Holding is owned by Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM and Vadym Novynskyi’s Smart Holding. The holding company lost almost all land due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ordained as a deacon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Novynskyi has repeatedly criticized the Ukrainian authorities over their attitude towards the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Conclusions

Rinat Akhmetov looks like a consensus figure closer to the British-Dutch group. Strategic communications are currently shifted towards the more influential pro-American transnational elite. Akhmetov has effectively lost all domestic allied support. A heterogeneous confederation of the Donetsk-based clans around Akhmetov at feud with each other, yet united in the face of a threat, became a thing of the past as a result of Russia’s occupation of territories. These clans no longer act in any sort of coordinated fashion. Oligarch consigliere Novynskyi retired after having transferred his interest in Metinvest to a blind trust.

Akhmetov’s attempt to establish a liaison with the Bleyzers close to Trump who repelled a production site attack on their Naftogaz subsidiary could be considered a step to consolidate efforts to fend off a rising wave of privatizations and asset grabs. Similarly, it could be seen as a form of intermediary for a dialog with British stakeholders.

Financial circles of the U.S. Democratic Party, with strategic institutions with which Akhmetov is building bridges, seek to nationalize the oligarch’s assets that survived after Russia’s occupation of the Donbas region. Akhmetov continues to carry on a dialog with European partners, Brussels, through his personal “minister of foreign affairs,” Jock Mendoza-Wilson who has links to FIPRA, one of the largest British-born lobbying and intelligence networks in Europe. Multidimensional contacts maintained by the above­mentioned intermediary highlight his status, not as a mere partner for Akhmetov, but in an overseer’s role acting on behalf of the City of London seeking to influence energy and mining industries in the country as is the case with Raymond Asquith. Through FIPRA and James Wilson’s media and intelligence circles, Akhmetov has access to dialog with Brussels. Previously, Akhmetov had active contacts with European think tanks through the aforementioned FIPRA to promote a free trade zone in the EU in the best interest of his business. Mendoza-Wilson is also part of the leadership of large lobbying entities, such as, the British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, EU-Ukraine Business Council, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.

Firtash’s and Akhmetov’s connections in the City meet thanks to an existing chain: Mendoza- Wilson – British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce – Petr Baron – VAB Bank – Raiffeisen. Previously, Akhmetov had impressive leverage in the Ukrainian government, while Firtash dominated the Yanukovych-Lyovochkin presidential administration and was one of the main sponsors for the Party of Regions, also linking him to Poroshenko.

The Russian aggression is defining lines of communications with international organizations, strategic centers and political lobbyists and is obviously aligned with the public line of the arms lobby. Actions taken by Akhmetov and representatives of the Democratic Party are all about coordinating efforts, financing of joint initiatives and their advocacy against the Russian aggression in public space. They are, however, far from being designated as a fully functional alliance. Besides, Akhmetov actively sponsors the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also promotes the condemnation of Russia’s war crime and terrorism and placement on the FATF list, including with the help of congressmen. It is most likely that Akhmetov’s most active emissary promoting similar initiatives in the Congress is Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) whose electoral campaign was generously sponsored by SCM Consulting. Influential Americans advocate confiscation of currently frozen Russian assets and the oligarch uses these sentiments as a great opportunity to regain influence.

The goal of rapprochement has been achieved, since Akhmetov is in no immediate jeopardy of facing “deoligarchization,” as an administrative tool to contain figures deemed to be a threat to the establishment of the U.S. control over Ukrainian assets. Despite generally positive strategic relations with the U.S. elite of real power in Ukraine, Akhmetov’s large assets can only mean that escalation against the BlackRock stakeholders is delayed for the time being. Akhmetov remains at the top of the Forbes Ukraine rankings and ambitiously demonstrates the desire to regain dominance of his political will in Kyiv despite unfathomable losses. The oligarch’s political influence is currently at its lowest in the last years of the decade, as he has no media or lawmakers.

DMYTRO VASYLOVYCH FIRTASH

Firtash’s empire consists of chemical, banking and media assets. He is considered to be one of the oligarchs closest to Viktor Yanukovych.

DMYTRO VASYLOVYCH FIRTASH

In 2021, Ukraine sanctioned him for alleged titanium shipments to Russian defense companies and his personal assets and bank accounts were frozen.

Oleh Arestarkhov, Head of Communications at Group DF, claimed that hearings regarding contested charges in enforcement of sanctions and

Ukrainian security services failed to provide any evidence on the decision.

Firtash previously controlled RosUkrEnergo, a joint venture formed in partnership with Raiffeisen Investment and Russia’s Gazprom, overseeing supplies of Russian gas to Europe across Ukraine, and Centragas which held the exclusive right to sell Turkmenian gas in Ukraine. Initially, RosUkrEnergo was established by Firtash, Rothschild, British entrepreneur Robert Shetler-Jones and Jewish businessman, linked to criminal activity, Semen Mohylevych. According to WikiLeaks files, Firtash told the U.S. ambassador that he had employed services offered by Semen Mohylevych to protect his business from competitors.

The most prominent group among Dmytro Firtash’s connections is British conservative elites seeking to slow down Brexit and retain control over the EU and Chinese financial operations. It is these forces behind Jeremy Hunt who replaced Boris Johnson as the UK Foreign Secretary. Formally, MI6 (SIS) reports to him. This group is closely linked to the Asquith family known for its many-sided partner relations with the oligarch. The Asquith family used Firtash to create an extensive network of influence in Ukraine. The role of transnational enforcer in one of the largest privately-owned oil and gas companies, operating in the post­Soviet space, allowed Asquith to ensure control over Ukrainian assets and political processes by using Firtash’s resources and influence.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) eventually ousted the oligarch. Numerous lawsuits against Firtash followed the struggle for influence of the U.S. and UK globalist elites for control over gas, telecommunications and mining industries in Ukraine.

The U.S. defense industry (whose interests in Ukraine are promoted by Pinchuk) adopted a strategy to seize critical resources in Ukraine by opening criminal cases. The U.S. titanium imports have soared to 90% which is a vulnerability in supply chains. Titanium is used in modern airplanes and helicopters, tanks, submarines and ships, missiles and other munitions. Ukraine’s colossal titanium reserves are estimated at 184 million tons, worth over $300 billion, and making up 20% of the world’s supply. Mezhyrichenskyi Mining and Beneficiation Plant, a Firtash’s Group DF company, is the owner of the Selyshchanskyi titanium deposits with an area of 1,857 hectares located in Zhytomyr Oblast.

On 12 March 2014, Firtash was arrested in Austria on a U.S. warrant issued by the State of Illinois, which could be considered a step taken by the Chicago alliance of Barack Obama and John Kerry⁴⁵. Prior to the arrest, discussions took place regarding titanium supplies to Boeing headquartered in Illinois. Firtash was charged with bribery for an overall amount of $18.5 million, as he sought permissions for titanium ore extraction in India for the further sale of finished products to the U.S.

The Austrian court resumed hearings on the case of Ukrainian businessman Firtash, having blocked his extradition to the U.S. His defense is led by former Austrian Minister of Justice Dieter Bohmdorfer representing the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO). The interests of the oligarch were also represented by Lanny J. Davis & Associates. In 2021, Dmytro Firtash was appointed Adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Belarus to International Organizations in Vienna. As a result, he demands extradition to the U.S. be suspended due to his diplomatic immunity. Firtash was also an intermediary acting on behalf of Gazprom and the Kremlin in arranging the gas transit across Ukraine.⁴⁶

Over 70% of gas distributions in Ukraine is locked in at Dmytro Firtash owned Regional Gas Company. Every month, operators of gas distribution networks (Zakarpatgaz, Lvivgaz, Vinnytsiagaz, Dnipropetrovskgaz and Khmelnytskgaz) withdrew 120 to 150 million cubic meters of gas without pay which siphoned off about $550 million of liquidity from the GTS operator.

SBU conducted mass searches in 14 gas distribution companies of the businessman’s Regional Gas Company whose board includes former British spy Raymond Asquith. SBU did not make any official announcements but mass media mentioned searches claiming that law enforcers were investigating a scheme of illegal withdrawal of funds paid for consumed gas. The company issued a statement that searches “were carried out on preposterous charges of allegedly stealing public funds,” “RGC considers searches followed by blatant human rights violations to be coercion of employees of critical infrastructure enterprises. We believe that the criminal case which became the reason for the searches was opened only to put pressure on the enterprises which NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, represented by NJSC Chornomornaftogaz, is trying to grab.” As a result, Gas Distribution Networks of Ukraine, a Naftogaz Group company, took over Firtash-owned distribution networks in several Ukrainian regions.

The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office also investigated Firtash’s involvement in the infamous privatization of the monopolistic ISP Ukrtelecom carried out without competitive bidding and accompanied by financial fraud.

There were reports that the Tory party received nearly £200,000 from Firtash-linked associates and the Harlow Conservative Party received £40,000 from Shetler-Jones who had been the CEO of Firtash’s holding company Group DF. He had given in his own name and via a company called Scythian.⁴⁷

DMITRY FIRTASH’S PRIVATE FINANCIAL NETWORK

Asquith Family

The Asquith family opened all doors leading Firtash to the British elite, making sure he was welcome in the British elite circles. Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, Lord Oxford, is an ally of Dmytro Firtash, peer of the realm, former spy, and post-Soviet elite expert. Asquith headed the MI6 resident agency in Moscow. He rose to prominence in the secret services in 1985 when he exfiltrated KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union hidden in a car trunk. Asquith is the 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith and a member of the House of Lords. He is the great-grandson of former WWI British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

Following his diplomatic service, Asquith worked for Firtash-owned JKX Oil & Gas as Director of the largest British investor in Ukraine⁴⁸ from 10 November 1997 until his resignation on 28 January 2016. The company also had a large interest owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi. According to some sources, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko is Asquith’s protege.⁴⁹

In addition to his partnership with Firtash, Asquith pursued his own interests in the region, developing financial and biotech companies, such as Zander Corporation, Dessna, Asset Management⁵⁰. Asquith founded and headed The Ukrainian Catholic Foundation.⁵¹ He is also a member of the Council on Geostrategy. Curiously, the Council on Geostrategy is a member of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Center’s “Global Strategic Partnership” run by RAND Europe. This consortium provides academic and analytical support to the UK Ministry of Defense. The Council on Geostrategy attended the Trilateral Commission’s Warsaw Dialog.⁵²

In 2005, Firtash invested $1 million in Asquith-run green company to get a 25% stake in the business. The next year, Shetler-Jones combined his Ukrainian business with the Firtash- owned company and became Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Council at Group DF. The picture of British connections would be incomplete without the fact that Prince Philip, the husband of then British Queen Elizabeth, honorary chancellor of Cambridge University, appointed Firtash as one of the university’s honorary patrons.⁵³

The assets of the oligarch have become a landmark target for globalist elites, by all accounts linked to the Asquith family both historically and currently. Raymond’s brother, Dominic Asquith, was a co-founder of Macro Advisory Partners, a firm with close ties to the intelligence circle in the Bilderberg Club – Jake Sullivan, John Sawers, and William Burns. The board of Macro Advisory Partners included Kofi Annan, who through his wife is linked to the Swedish Wallenberg family, and are also permanent members of the financial bloc of the Bilderberg Meeting.⁵⁴

Prior to his peerage as Lord Oxford, he ran a lobbying firm, Asquith & Granovsky (later Asquith & Granovski) Associates, for several years.

Isabel Asquith, Raymond’s daughter, has been a member of the Raedars board ever since. Its connections stem from cooperation with the Oak Foundation and Soros’ Open Society Foundation through Financial Investigations For Non-Profit Design (FIND) set up as a spin­off of Raedars.⁵⁵

British Ukrainian Society (BUS)

The mission of the British Ukrainian Society established by Anthony Fisher and Dmytro Firtash is to strengthen relations between politicians of the two countries and to represent Ukrainian business and culture in the UK. The society does not carry out any public activities, although it is quite active as a legal entity. It is logical to assume that the British Ukrainian Society is only a cover for MI6 agents of influence in the region – Robert Shetler-Jones, Lord Oxford and Lord Risby. Simply explained, BUS was set up in February 2007 as a privately- owned entity with two directors – Robert Shetler-Jones and Richard Spring. The latter was created a life peer as Lord and Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk. Since March 2015, he has also been mentioned as the founder of the Ukraine Modernization Agency.

Robert Shetler-Jones is one of the closest associates of Dmytro Firtash and deemed to be his financial consigliere. He was CEO of Group DF, a Firtash-owned parent company, from its inception in 2007 to August 2012 and he still runs the group through the intermediary company, GENTECH Holding GmbH. Currently, he is a Member of the Group Supervisory Council chaired by Firtash. BUS shares the same office building in Knightsbridge with Scythian Limited, a company run by Shetler-Jones (he is listed as its CEO in BUS constituent documents) and specializing in acquisition of Eastern European assets. One of Shetler- Jones’s top priorities is to build business relationships with Ukrainian contractors in the best interest of the City and British intelligence agencies.

According to the UK Electoral Commission, Scythian Limited financed conservative electoral campaigns. Among its contacts were such Conservative MPs, as Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby, John Whittingdale and Robert Halfon.

Anthony Fisher is a strategic communications expert and CEO of several nonprofit organizations, such as BUS, Founding Director of the EU-Ukraine Business Council, Head of Bonita Trust, former CEO of Granovski Associates. Fisher is deeply integrated into intelligence proxy structures.

On 15 February 2008, Anthony Fisher, Alex Walsh and Jack Wakefield established a charity on behalf of Firtash, DF Foundation. Jack Wakefield, brother-in-law of⁵⁶ Dominic Mckenzie Cummings, is a political strategist who served as Chief Adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Fisher is a founder of Global Strategy Limited providing institutional and private clients with strategic and communications advice. He is also Director of Scythian Limited, a consultancy focused on structuring corporate acquisitions in former Soviet Union countries. He advised several governments, was posted to the Government of Gibraltar as its first Director for Development of the Financial Center and served as an advisor to the Maltese Government.

Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, is a patron of the arts and a member of the BUS Advisory Council. In 1995, she was created a life peer as Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill. As an Advisory Council Member of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, she has a special interest in Russia and CIS member countries. She embarked upon a career at the Great Britain – USSR Association, which was later renamed the British East-West Center (BEWC),⁵⁷ maintaining dialog and contacts with countries of the then Soviet Union and funded mainly by the British Foreign Office. Working in close rapport with Sir Fitzroy Maclean, President of the GB-USSR Association, she realized the importance of defying stereotypes by bringing people together while sharing mutual experiences.⁵⁹

The baroness directed several major festivals of British culture and is currently President of the Scottish Opera and Trustee of the Mariinsky Theater Trust⁵⁸. In addition, she also serves on the boards of several organizations with interests in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union. She is a member of the management board of the Center for European Reform. Baroness Smith heads the John Smith Fellowship Trust funding young professionals from Ukraine and other countries to come to the UK to study the democracy and good governance. The program is sponsored by the British Foreign Office.

Terry Sandell is a founder of the British Council in the Soviet Union. Between 2005 and 2008, he opened and served as Director of the British Council Ukraine. Mr. Sandell was a trustee of several arts and cultural organizations and actively cooperated with the Council of Europe and the European Union, working on cultural policy, as well as on projects of cultural and capacity development in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries.

Ihor Mitiukov served as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Ukraine when he joined BUS. Today, he is the Senior Adviser. He also holds a position on Ukrposhta’s Supervisory Council⁶⁰. His political and diplomatic career included posts of the Minister of Finance and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. From 2002 to 2005, he was the Ukrainian Ambassador in the United Kingdom. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Mitiukov served as Ukraine’s Special Representative to the European Union in Brussels, with Vice Prime Ministerial status. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Minister of Finance of Ukraine. While in office, he ensured that Ukraine entered international capital markets in 1997.⁶¹ Until 2018, he was a permanent member of the Yalta European Strategy sponsored by the Pinchuk Foundation.⁶²

John Whittingdale was Minister of State for Media under Boris Johnson responsible for protecting Great Britain from misinformation and Secretary of State for Culture under David

Cameron. Previously, he served as Chair of the influential Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons. In May 2023, he assumed office of the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries. Sir Whittingdale along with six other ministers voted against Brexit during the referendum. He is Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and was appointed by OSCE PA President Margareta Cederfelt Special Rapporteur mandated to report on war crimes perpetrated in Ukraine.⁶³ He is a member of the Conservative Friends of Ukraine group.⁶⁴

Richard Spring, Lord Risby, served as Merrill Lynch VP before he was elected to parliament. He is also former Vice Chairperson of the Conservative Party and Shadow Minister for the Treasury. Currently, he is Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Algeria and Lebanon and BUS Chair. He is President of the Association for Decentralized Energy and Deputy Chairperson of the Small Business Bureau. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the EU External Relations Committee in the House of Lords. From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the International Agreements Committee. Risby is Co-Chairperson of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ukraine.⁶⁵ In his capacity as the then Chairperson of the British Ukrainian Society, he co-chaired the Scenarios for the Ukraine program of the World Economic Forum in Davos organized by Pinchuk.⁶⁶

Raiffeisen

Austria was the headquarters of Centragas Holding GmbH, a company officially holding a 50 percent interest in RosUkrEnergo. Here, the oligarch established close contacts with Raiffeisen, local elites, politicians and bankers.

Dieter Bohmdorfer, Austrian Minister of Justice from 2000 to 2004, is a personal attorney for the oligarch and the team of lawyers under his leadership received a court ruling not to grant the U.S. extradition request against Firtash. Like former Minister of Justice Dieter Bohmdorfer, Daniel Kapp, an oligarch PR manager, has close ties to the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) via its leader Josef Proll who runs Leipnik-Lundenburger, an investment company owned by Raiffeisen Holding. Previously, Raiffeisen covered Firtash when he was still hiding his involvement in RosUkrEnergo.⁶⁷

Michael Spindelegger was Proll’s former colleague from the Austrian Government and former Chairperson of the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) and also served as Vice Chancellor of Austria and Minister of Finance. He was engaged in whitewashing the tarnished reputation of the Ukrainian oligarch as Chairperson of the Ukraine Modernization Agency at Palais Ferstel⁶⁸ in order to invest $300 billion in the Ukrainian economy and attract prominent politicians to join the initiative. The potential list included EU Commissioners Gunter Verheugen, Stefan Fule and Peter Mandelson, former German Minister of Finance and Chancellor Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Peer Steinbruck and former French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner. The campaign was a failure as no one was willing to offer support.⁶⁹

Raiffeisen’s interests in Ukraine continue to expand. Raiffeisen Bank International took its digital banking business out of the European jurisdiction by moving from Austria to Ukraine.⁷⁰

RAIFFEISEN’S INTERESTS IN UKRAINE

Conclusions

Until recently, Dmytro Firtash has been a top player in Ukrainian gas, chemical and titanium industries. BUS, a powerful geostrategic group mainly composed of elite representatives from the North of England advocating Brexit and funded by the oligarch, created opportunities for implementation of the Global England concept temporarily strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe.

Firtash was a key element in the intelligence network of influence set up by Lord Raymond Asquith of MI6 whose assistance made it possible for the oligarch to obtain the British patronage as an adviser and local agent of interest. The allies in the City of London stayed away from the “dirty schemes” in exchange for an opportunity to make use of Firtash’s mediation in their dealings with Gazprom for the purposes of resources and political expansion in Ukraine.

Prior to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych, a minion of Dmytro Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov, in 2014, the British energy-linked interests enjoyed extraordinary power and influence in Ukraine, especially by one shady company, RosUkrEnergo. Firtash controlled about two thirds of the gas supply market in Ukraine through regional gas companies. He gained fame as an oligarch who earned capital at the expense of Russian gas and was a key mediator of UK-Ukraine-Russia interests.

Under U.S. pressure, Firtash lost his positions in the oil and gas sector – Naftogaz expropriated his gas distribution business. The interest of U.S. elites towards the oligarch’s assets is further stressed by the fact that the seizure request and the lawsuit filed to seize Firtash’s titanium deposits came from Chicago, as Chicago-based elite groups have ties to Penny Pritzker, a BlackRock representative in Ukraine.

Representatives of the Firtash clan served as Head of the Presidential Administration, Minister of Energy and Vice Prime Minister for European Integration of the country. The projection of British influence is gradually weakening giving way to U.S. hegemony. The efficiency of British support and the protection of their groups of influence in the region could have been largely affected by changes in the attitudes of British intelligence agencies over Brexit prompting a more global vision of cooperation and disposition to compromise at the elite level due to growing consolidation of the largest BlackRock and Vanguard assets.

VICTOR MYKHAILOVICH PINCHUK

Born on 14 December 1960, Jew.

VICTOR MYKHAILOVYCH PINCHUK

Victor Pinchuk’s fortune is estimated at $2.1.⁷¹ He began his business empire in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) with a pipeline company, Interpipe Group. Later, he moved into the banking industry (Kredyt Dnipro) and launched a diversified business in the media sector.

Pinchuk’s main foreign partners are George Soros and his International Renaissance Foundation.

Pinchuk has a sizable influence on business in the country by manipulating the system for personal gain and on the gas market acting through his partners. Victor Pinchuk-owned Interpipe Inc. colluded with the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine to introduce extra duties of 52% for Vorex pipes. Naftogaz already awarded significant contracts to U.S. firms for oil and gas equipment. One of these companies, Pennsylvania-based Vorex, has been supplying Naftogaz with drill pipe and casings since 2017 and is the largest overseas supplier of pipe and equipment to Ukraine.⁷² The oligarch’s financial rise is attributed to his marriage to Leonid Kuchma’s daughter.

Pinchuk funded the 2012 report on imprisonment of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. It was over this, which the former White House Counsel Greg Craig and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom ended up in the crosshairs of Special Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Robert Mueller.⁷³

From 1998 to 2006, Pinchuk was a member of the parliament. In his 2005 book, “Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World,” Andrew Wilson of the University of London claims that in 2002, Pinchuk created a fake political party seeking to attract young people. Pinchuk’s TV stations aggressively promoted the party using it as a tool to steal opposition votes.

Pinchuk’s conflict with the Privat Group run by the duumvirate of Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov was marked by accusations stating they paid $100 million to a foundation established by Kuchma for election campaigning and by their claims that Pinchuk eventually stole the money. Pinchuk refuted these statements, having accused the duo of seeking to exclude him from a deal to buy an iron ore mining company, KZhRK, one of the largest enterprises in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

On 4 March 2015, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, another Ukrainian oligarch, attending the hearings of the Special Control Commission on Privatization of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accused Victor Pinchuk of accepting a bribe of $5 million per month for running Ukrnafta, a company in which state-owned Naftogaz of Ukraine had a 50 + 1% interest. According to Kolomoyskyi, the money was transferred to offshore companies, “whose ultimate owners have been identified” as Victor Pinchuk and Leonid Kuchma.⁷⁴

He is linked to Rinat Akhmetov through the establishment of the Investment Metallurgical Union, an industrial and financial consortium which acquired the Kryvorizhstal steel plant for $800 million. After the Orange Revolution, however, the Kyiv Commercial Court declared the sale of the plant illegal. In 2005, Kryvorizhstal was re-privatized and resold to UK-based Arcelor Mittal for 4.8 billion.

Pinchuk also gained a reputation as a philanthropist by having made his namesake foundation a discussion venue for Soros-linked organizations, NATO, IMF, Aspen Institute, Atlantic Council, and other influential political institutions. The boards and advisory councils of these organizations include BlackRock representatives carrying out a step-by-step takeover of the country. The largest foundations, BlackRock and The Vanguard Group, are owned by one another on a circular ownership basis. These foundations bring together the world’s richest families – Rockefeller, Rothschild, du Pont, Mellon⁷⁵, Wallenberg. Among BlackRock top managers are several retired CIA officers.⁷⁶

On 8 May, Zelenskyy and Fink signed a development agreement to establish the so-called Ukraine Development Fund (UDF) with BlackRock Financial Market Advisory (BlackRock FMA) funded by JP Morgan Bank. Under the program for privatization of the most profitable and liquid private, public and municipal assets, Black Rock planned to invest about $100 billion in UDF, which is more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s annual GDP.

According to the deal’s terms, BlackRock will manage Ukrainian assets, including the funds provided as part of “foreign aid.” Thus, Ukrainian strategic enterprises, including “nationalized” ones, will most likely end up under transnational control. This scheme will also be used to manage Ukraine’s foreign debt which, according to the Ministry of Finance, is approaching $150 billion, or 100% of the national GDP. Officially, the agreement is intended to attract investments in energy, infrastructure and agriculture, but due to the weak subsidized economy destroyed by the war, it leads to the seizure of Ukraine’s major assets on account of debt repayment – from ferti le black soi l to power grids.

Joe Biden appointed Penny Pritzker (a representative of Europe’s top-10 richest families from the Chicago group⁷⁷) as the United States Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery at UDF, known for a failed initiative to create a single free trade area in the Pacific Ocean. Ms. Pritzker will build a top-down colonial operation by reforming the Ukrainian government “in the sphere of transparency and accountability of the country’s recovery, including total control of law enforcement, judicial system in the fight against corruption, management of state-owned enterprises.”

It should be emphasized that the Chicago-based Pritzker billionaire family are historically Jewish immigrants from Kyiv. The Pritzkers generously funded Obama and Biden. However, Penny Pritzker is in opposition to the Clintons who were supported by her brother⁷⁸ and allied with Pinchuk.

Pinchuk gained the trust of global philanthropists, and as an act of solidarity signed the Giving Pledge initiative backed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett under which the ultra wealthy promise to give away at least half their assets by the time they die.

Family:

Victor’s parents worked in the science and steel-making industry. Among his ancestors are rabbis and melameds.

His spouse, Olena Pinchuk, is a daughter of the former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, and a founder of the ANTIAIDS Foundation. For nine years, she served as Deputy Marketing Director at the mobile communications provider, Kyivstar. In 2009, she took over the supervisory board of StarLightMedia operating STB, ICTV, Novyi, QTV, M1, M2, TV channels and some other media companies.

His daughter, Maria Viktorivna Pinchuk, went to Oxford. She is a shareholder of Dime Firm, a ferrous and non-ferrous metals trader co-owned by her grandfather, Mykhaylo Aronovych Pinchuk.

Assets:

• London-based EastOne Group.
• A branch of EastOne Equities, former EastOne Capital, a U.S.-based company purchasing, developing, redeveloping and managing properties, and providing property bonds. Established in 2016, the company purchases hotel, industrial, multi-purpose, office, retail and apartment properties in the northeastern and southeastern parts of the United States with a major focus on New York, Massachusetts, Florida, and New Jersey.
• EastOne controls Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant in partnership with Privat, a rival informal group run by Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov.
• Interpipe Group, a steel and pipe maker in Ukraine.
• Most of Pinchuk’s links with European and American NGOs and clubs are organized by means of his charity, Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The foundation hosts the annual Philanthropic Roundtable during the World Economic Forum in Davos and cooperates with the Aspen Institute.

Atlantic Council

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is one of the largest sponsors of the aforementioned Atlantic Council with annual donations of $249,000 to $500,000.79

Amicus Europae Foundation

Amicus Europae is a foundation established by the former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Its mission includes promotion of the European integration, neighborhood policy, Polish products, strengthening democratic principles and Ukrainian-Polish relations with a special focus on energy transition and energy security.

Executive Director of the Amicus Europae Foundation Ireneusz Bil worked at the National Security Bureau and the Office of the President of Poland as Director of the Office of International Cooperation and at the Office of the President for European Integration. In this capacity, he took part in negotiations about Poland’s NATO and EU membership. He is a member of the International Association of Energy Economics, a participant of numerous study programs and fellowships, including the U.S. Department of State, Bertelsmann Foundation, Zeit Foundation, Koerber Foundation – Munich Security Conference, a permanent YES panelist.

The foundation is forging relations with European national elites operating as part of the sustainable development model which is closest to the U.S. democratic elites. Competition with pro-Trump conservatives in the Ukrainian energy sector is characterized by the fact that the Ukrainian government reversed its decision No. 79-r as of 5 February 2020 to appoint Ireneusz Bil to the supervisory council of Naftogaz and instead added Robert Bensh as the U.S. representative.⁸⁰ Thus, causing Rick Perry, U.S. Secretary of Energy under Trump, to gain control over Ukraine’s oil and gas industry and force Kyiv to launch an investigation into the son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Best known to the public is GEM Managing Director for Europe Robert Bensh working in Ukraine since the 2000s. Furthermore, he is involved as a Pelicourt Managing Partner acting as a shareholder of one of the largest privately-owned Ukrainian gas producers, Cub Energy, and an interest holder of Donbasenergo.

In partnership with FMS, FJJ, Karl-Renner-Institut, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Ukraine, and Kalevi Sorsa Foundation, FEPS, Amicus Europae has launched the project, “Progressive Paths to Rebuild Ukraine.”

Amicus Europae joined the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Burisma known for its corruption scandal with the Biden family⁸¹ to establish The International Forum on Energy Security for the Future: New Sources, Responsibility, Sustainability (ESF) in 2016. The initiative is intended to promote alternative sources of energy in Europe and worldwide.

Among its founders are Mykola Zlochevskyi and Aleksander Kwasniewski. Vadym Pozharskyi of Burisma is the Head of the Organizing Committee of the Forum.

Brookings Institution

Victor Pinchuk sits on the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institution is one of the most influential analytical centers in the United States.

In 1948, the institution played a key role in developing the administrative plan for the European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan) which distributed aid to the war-stricken economies in Europe.

The Brookings Institution conducts influential research on a wide range of public policy topics from domestic issues in the United States to foreign relations.

The organization is chiefly funded by families and foundations associated with the Rockefellers.⁸²

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Victor Pinchuk is a board member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The institute is associated with IMF.

In 2006, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, at the suggestion of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, launched its Eastern European and Ukrainian program to raise awareness among international political, social and business elites of the economic challenges facing Ukraine.

Rothschild

At the time, Pinchuk owned Kredyt Dnipro Bank and placed on its board Dominique Strauss- Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, Swedish economist of the Atlantic Council Anders Aslund (mentioned earlier over contacts with Akhmetov), and Jean-Pierre Saltiel, president of Rothschild Conseil International. The bank also appointed Alex Munteanu, Managing Director of Europe Virgin Fund, a regional $57-million private equity fund sponsored by Soros-linked Kyiv-based Dragon Capital.⁸³

The bank may well have been used for money laundering and questionable operations, as many initially interested buyers refused to make the purchase on the pretext of its poor condition.

Giovanni Salvetti⁸⁴ is a Managing Director at Rothschild & Cie in Central and Eastern Europe and currently serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Kredyt Dnipro Bank. He also managed Petro Poroshenko-owned Roshen as part of the blind trust when the latter was elected president.

Giovanni Salvetti has been representing the interests of one of Europe’s oldest banking houses, Rothschild & Cie, in Ukraine for 12 years. He took part in the sale of Pravex Bank for $750 million, debt restructuring of Kredytprombank and Nadra Bank and carried out over 20 M&A transactions. Salvetti is a financial adviser to the Bondholders Committee of Mria agricultural holding company.

David Petraeus – Arms Lobby

David Petraeus, a partner of the investment fund, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), board member of the Bilderberg Club, former Commander of United States Central Command who oversaw U.S. and NATO military efforts in Afghanistan and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has repeatedly addressed the Yalta European Strategy (YES) meetings on military assistance to Ukraine since 2011.⁸⁵ Sir Roger Carr, Senior Adviser at KKR, was also the CEO of BAE Systems until March 2023. The company is the main beneficiary of the war in Ukraine – in 2022, its stock soared +41%, while sales rose 9.7% with MBDA subsidiary revving up missile production funded by the EU.⁸⁶ The KKR foundation has grown 25% over the past year and 196.2% over the past five. These facts, together with close interaction with Hogan Lovells and the Clinton family, show that VPF’s efforts are aimed at promoting public debate in the interests of the defense lobby in Brussels.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has been hosting roundtables on Ukraine’s national security since 2017. In 2022, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the Yalta European Strategy (YES) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation hosted the Fifth Munich Ukrainian Lunch, titled “Europe’s Security is Decided in Ukraine.” The aim of the Munich Ukrainian Lunch is to promote support for Ukraine as a necessary factor of Europe’s global security and international order. The meeting participants justified the need for expanded arms supply support and David Petraeus outlined the key needs of the Ukrainian military to be met by the U.S. and EU assistance in line with Biden’s principle of “as much as it takes.”⁸⁷

Hillmont Partners

In 2016, James Hart, another Pinchuk adviser, established Hillmont Partners which would serve as the pillar for informal contacts between London-based stakeholders and Kyiv. Hart was an adviser to the former Prime Minister of Ukraine and former First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. He advised the Ukrainian government on reform, trade and investment matters. Hart also attended YES and was an active sponsor of Pinchuk’s Ukrainian platform in Davos.

Andriy Lysiuk, Head of Hillmont Partners in Ukraine, worked in senior positions in the SBU Main Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in Kyiv, and was a member of the Servant of the People party, but eventually withdrew from a mandate. Among the clients of Hillmont Partners was Kvartal 95 Studio founded by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.88 Denys Monastyrskyi who fought the influence of his predecessor, Arsen Avakov, was a former adviser to Hillmont Partners.

James Hart was appointed adviser to Quintel Intelligence (QI) when the company received a new shareholder, an anonymous BVI foundation, Capital Compliance.⁸⁹ QI was founded by a former British SAS officer, John Holmes, specializing in litigation support.⁹⁰ Nicholas Connon, a former British military intelligence officer, is a Director and CEO of Quintel Intelligence. In addition to Hart, among Qi’s advisers is a retired UK Court of Appeal judge, Anthony Hooper, and James Ramsden, KC, a cybersecurity expert who was involved in disputes with Russian and Ukrainian oil and gas companies as Founder of Astraea Group and the lead Queen’s Counsel for Chambers UK and Chambers Global in commercial disputes and civil fraud.⁹¹

Not so long ago, QI had Matrix Chambers among its members⁹², a company overseeing British interests on the Ethics Council, a body that approved nominations of judges to the Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine.

George Soros (Open Society Foundation)

Pinchuk has been cooperating with Soros’s organizations since 2006.

Just one year prior to the presidential campaign, which Zelenskyy won, and the parliamentary elections, Pinchuk and the Soros-linked Dragon Capital launched the New Leaders public media project⁹⁴. Dragon Capital also founded and brought into the parliament the Vakarchuk- led Holos (“Voice”) party⁹⁵ composed of graduates from Soros organizations. Their presence in the parliamentary mono-majority of Zelenskyy’s party severely undermined the monopoly of influence on Zelenskyy, which was enjoyed by the Privat Group who placed him into power.⁹⁶

The Soros and Victor Pinchuk foundations are partners in financing numerous NGOs and projects in Ukraine and abroad. Soros also attended Yalta European Strategy (YES) meetings held by Pinchuk. YES conferences and meetings were attended by current and former presidents, prime ministers, power brokers, bankers, corporate executives, and celebrities.

Chrystia Freeland, a trustee of the Aspen Institute in Kyiv, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada, is a key OSF figure. Chrystia Freeland joined the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and his partner George Soros to promote Ukraine’s own strategic interests. In 1992, she established the Ukrainian Legal Foundation (ULF) at the behest of Ukrainian and Western lawyers to facilitate the state building process in Ukraine which immediately received Soros funding. She is linked to IMF schemes designed to indirectly/covertly obtain billions of dollars from non-EU states.⁹⁷

One of the major projects funded by Soros and Pinchuk is the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, a venue for cooperation of Ukrainian public relations corporation and journalists, which is headquartered at the Ukraine Hotel in Kyiv. Allegedly, it was established to counter the propaganda attack of Putin’s Russian media cartel. Most “independent news” we get from Ukraine is produced and marked by the propaganda brand approved by Pinchuk and Soros. This includes the approval or cover-up of the fact that the “new” government in Kyiv is just another rotation of the former staff with established corrupt patterns of interaction.⁹⁸

Interestingly, Ukrainska Pravda, a news outlet owned by Tomas Fiala and controlled by George Soros,⁹⁹ published the results of a poll in which President Zelenskyy was named as the main corrupt official.¹⁰⁰ This fact heralds the intentions of the Democratic Party to nominate another candidate in the coming elections.

Alex Soros, a son of George Soros, reached a deal with Zelenskyy’s team to develop the Ukrainian economy and confiscate frozen Russian assets.¹⁰¹ On the day of his visit to Ukraine, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs backed the bill to transfer Russian assets to Kyiv.

Soros-linked organizations created the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU). This is a group which worked to help Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and silenced the Biden- Burisma scandal after prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk, who opened the case, was dismissed. Later, Head of NABU Artem Sytnyk was involved in several corruption cases that were closed¹⁰², while his First Deputy Hizo Uhlava, acting through his assistant Polina Chyzh, provided information to the U.S. Embassy upon request.¹⁰³

Clintons

The Pinchuk Foundation was a large donor to Clinton-run non-profit organizations. Pinchuk is close to Doug E. Schoen, a representative of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a longtime Clinton associate and political consultant whom, according to the New York Times, Victor Pinchuk hired as an adviser in 2000 for a monthly fee of $40,000. Pinchuk leads the Clintons’ trusted circle in the region as a sponsor of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Not only did he generously support the Clinton Global Initiative, but he also donated more than $13 million to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Pinchuk sits on the CFR Global Board of Advisors (GBA) which can be considered a non­partisan consensus group of American banking elites who are at the managerial core of the Federal Reserve System.

BILL CLINTON WITH VICTOR AND OLENA PINCHUK IN 2007 (SOURCE: VICTOR PINCHUK FOUNDATION)

The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Founded in the U.S. in 2005, CEPA seeks to strengthen the transatlantic alliance. Among CEPA’s donors are corporations, foundations, organizations and governments, including the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, U.S. Department of State, Pentagon, Government of Estonia, Poses Family Foundation, Hirsch Family Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and several defense contractors from NATO member countries, including FireEye, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Bell Helicopters, and BAE Systems.¹⁰⁴

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells supports the Soros projects. For example, the S.T.O.P. website1⁰⁵ which advocates privacy is funded by the Soros-owned Open Society Foundation and actively cooperates with Hogan Lovells, who is also listed among sponsors of the said NGO.¹⁰⁶

According to the FARA filings, former U.S. senator Norm Coleman, Senior Counsel with the law firm Hogan Lovells, is a lobbyist for the Pinchuk Foundation. Coleman is relatively indifferent to intra-clan relations of Ukrainian oligarchs and also known for working on a full-time basis for Akhmetov’s Metinvest. In addition to Coleman, Metinvest also engaged lobbyists, such as Charles Garrison, Nicholas Laneville, steel market expert Craig A Lewis¹⁰⁷, Senior Counsel at CSIS Kelly Ann Shaw¹⁰⁸ and Jared R Wessel, Assistant General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Coleman’s work for Pinchuk included a successful attempt to force President Joe Biden to abolish steel duties in Ukraine after the war began. The project has already been given the green light by his former colleague, U.S. Senator of Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar and U.S.

Senator Chris Coons. The initiative was further backed by Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)¹⁰⁹

Coleman, who has extensive experience as a foreign interest lobbyist via his longstanding role as an agent for Saudi Arabia, is already busy at work for Ukraine. Previously, Coleman also participated in raising and spending over $260 million in funds supporting Republican congressional candidates in the 2022 midterm elections.¹¹⁰

Coleman also cooperates with Urenco, a supplier of uranium for nuclear power plants. Urenco has uranium enrichment plants in Germany, Netherlands, UK, and U.S.

Ukrainian nuclear company Energoatom and Urenco Group reached an agreement on long­term enriched uranium supplies for Ukrainian nuclear power plants starting in 2026 to replace Russian supplies.¹¹¹ The company paid Hogan Lovells about $600,000 for services in 2023.

Hogan Lovells pursues the interests of its major clients and in cooperation with Pinchuk worked pro bono with members of Congress to help host an exhibition of the Pinchuk Foundation dedicated to the Russian aggression. This work included the organization of contact with Sen. (D-Minn.) Amy Klobuchar and an exchange of e-mails with chiefs of staff of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Thom Tillis. Coleman asked for the event to be hosted at the Capitol “to give members of Congress a better understanding of the horrific loss of life and the tragic agony that the people of Ukraine have experienced over the course of the last year as a direct result of Russian war crimes” and to “do as much as possible to ensure continued, strong, bipartisan support for the truly heroic efforts that this administration and Congress have made to provide essential military and economic assistance to Ukraine.” This October, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation opened the Russian War Crimes exhibition at The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut (USA).¹¹² Pinchuk addressed the Summit at The Dodd Center and spoke about strengthening air defense with F16 fighter jets (manufactured by Lockheed Martin).

With pro bono work for the Pinchuk Foundation, this benefited the company’s major clients interested in the conflict in Ukraine. Looking Glass Cyber Solutions¹¹³ and HawkEye 360¹¹⁴ are also Norm Coleman’s clients with extensive contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Looking Glass, which paid Hogan Lovells $200,000 in 2022, holds a five-year contract with the Department of Defense “to provide tailored cyber threat intelligence data and enhance the mission effectiveness of US military cyber threat analysts and operators.” The company website describes the role of such threats in Russia’s military strategy.

HawkEye 360, which also paid $200,000 to Hogan Lovells in 2022, similarly is a defense department contractor specializing in detection and geolocation of radio signals. Their detection network conducted analysis in Ukraine and their website boasts the identification of GPS interference in Ukraine, appearing to be part of Moscow’s “integration of electronic warfare tactics into Russian military operation, meant to further degrade Ukraine’s ability for self-defense.”¹¹⁵

Coleman and Hogan Lovells working on the Saudi account engage in what he calls “specific advocacy assignments with regard to US Government officials, Members of Congress and their staffs, representatives of media organizations and/or other individuals involved in legislative, regulatory, public policy or public affairs matters, and/or in other activities of interest to the foreign principal.”¹¹⁶. The aforementioned Privat case describes the work of Hogan Lovells in terms of conflict of interest in relation to Ukrainian clients and confirms the company’s role as a channel for attracting attention and informing third parties among the U.S. policy makers.

In December 2016, interestingly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gave the nod to seize PrivatBank from Ihor Kolomoyskyi under the pretext of nationalization and with the help of Hogan Lovells¹¹⁷. The company’s audit revealed coordinated, large-scale fraud at PrivatBank over a ten year period and found a “shady bank” formed from a network of offshore companies. The Kroll audit took place as part of Ukraine’s commitments to the IMF.¹¹⁸

Tracking Kolomoyskyi’s assets, Hogan Lovells hired the British private intelligence agency Diligence, founded by former MI5 officer Nick Day and his friends from the CIA¹¹⁹.

VIKTOR PINCHUK’S CONNECTIONS

The Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute (USA) funded by the Pinchuk Foundation has been developing ideas and values of communities and civil society organizations since 2006. Partners have been holding seminars for the Aspen-Ukraine Alumni Association in Ukraine since 2008.

It is important to emphasize that the Aspen Institute is initially associated with the U.S. military and strategic vector. In terms of clans, Aspen is linked to the Pratt family who, in turn, have ties to Standard Oil and the Rockefellers. The Institute was established with the support of a Cold War strategist Paul Henry Nitze (his brother-in-law Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Skiing Company). Mr. Nitze is a former Wall Street banker with Dillon, Read and Co. He was married to Phyllis Pratt¹²⁰. He is said to be part of the influence group of German arms companies in the U.S. defense industry in Colorado. Conclusions made by his intelligence think tank, Team B, regarding weapons capabilities and aggressive nuclear war strategies were exaggerated.¹²¹ Paul Nitze acted on behalf of the Baruchs, an influential American-German family at the core of the U.S. economy reorientation, to serve the defense industry beginning in the 1930s and the U.S. arms development.

Today, Aspen is publicly associated with the Clintons and defending Hunter Biden’s reputation in the Burisma corruption scandal. In the 2020 report of the Center for International Policy, the Aspen Institute ranked fifth on the list of U.S. think tanks receiving foreign funding. Among its major donors is Craig Newmark, Craigslist Founder and a private sponsor of Democratic candidates, as well as the parents of Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos.¹²²

In 2021, the Aspen Institute established the Commission on Information Disorder to counter “malicious” actors “sowing distrust and discord in the civil society” by spreading false information.¹²³ The Commission was slammed for its left-wing political bias, censoring news critical of the Democratic Party and left-wing interests. Currently, AI technologies are developed by the Aspen Institute at the so-called censorship and industrial complex working in tandem with various tech giants and government agencies to attack free speech online, especially during election periods.

In Ukraine, the Aspen Institute has partnered with leaders promoting the social capitalism model, Luminate (Omidyar Network) and Impact Hub, the Klitschko Foundation and OSCE.¹²⁴

Conclusions

The real power in Ukraine has effectively been taken over by transnational banking groups. And with the U.S. represented by BlackRock Foundation dominating the landscape, the public policies of which are maintained by the Clinton and Biden families. The oligarch Victor Pinchuk is a local managing intermediary of this group of influence in Ukraine. For many years, he has been developing a narrow circle of high-level contacts with anti­corruption organizations, intelligence agencies, strategic global centers, and the non-profit shadow policy sector. These organizations make up the core for lobbying the U.S. defense industry and shaping strategic policies on the Western support for Ukraine.

Victor Pinchuk’s role is to serve the interests of large center-left political institutions associated with BlackRock. Zelenskyy’s team came up with an administrative “deoligarchization” tool at the behest of the White House to deter figures who pose a threat to the U.S. control of Ukrainian assets. This causes the hijacking of the political landscape, but will not affect Pinchuk who has connections and status to provide immunity. The anti­corruption political agenda is a stable strategic narrative advocated by the globalist elite, used as a way to get rid of opponents. If we take a broadside approach to such a phenomenon, it is more than just fighting criminal schemes and nationalizing assets. The anti-corruption system is well monetized.

This benefit is further demonstrated by the actions of Kangaroo Group, the largest network lobbying firm. In addition to members of the European Parliament, this organization brings together and maintains informal contacts with more than 50 corporate participants from different sectors that make up BlackRock’s portfolio, including Goldman Sachs, BP, Volkswagen and such defense contractors, as EADS, Thales, Saab, Boeing¹²⁵. The organizations provide the informal dialog with the Ukrainian establishment, that is necessary to promote its own interests in the region.¹²⁶

The President of Kangaroo Group is German politician Michael Gahler, a member of the European Parliament since 1999, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, and the European People’s Party. He has considerable influence on the political landscape.

In July, Michael Gahler addressed parliamentary hearings and was backed on his report, Establishing the Ukraine Facility¹²⁷, according to which the Facility should provide €50 billion in EU financial aid to Ukraine based on current prices for the period from 2024 to 2027. The funds are intended to facilitate Ukraine’s future membership in the European Union. The paper places great emphasis on monitoring and anti-corruption functions which require Europe to provide greater assistance and more resources, without which reconstruction and direct funding of Ukrainian institutions would be vulnerable to embezzlement.

Based on the paper, these funds will benefit defense contractors, legal lobbyists, private intelligence organizations, developers of special software for investigations, cybersecurity and data collection, non-profit organizations, and civic groups associated with BlackRock and its satellites, represented by Soros-linked institutions and experts. Victor Pinchuk offers a discussion platform, funding for relevant NGOs and the agenda for Ukraine’s military funding. At the core of the lobbying is Hogan Lovells, the Aspen Institute, the Atlantic Council and David Petraeus whose ties are closely bound with the arms lobby and permanent members of the Bilderberg Club.

On 8 May, Zelenskyy and Fink signed a development agreement to establish the so-called Ukraine Development Fund (UDF) with BlackRock Financial Market Advisory (BlackRock FMA) funded by JP Morgan Bank. Under the program for privatization of the most profitable and liquid private, public and municipal assets, Black Rock planned to invest about $100 billion in UDF, which is more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s annual GDP.

BlackRock and The Vanguard Group are owned by one another on a circular ownership basis. These foundations bring together the world’s richest families – Rockefeller, Rothschild, du Pont, Mellon¹²⁸, Wallenberg. Among BlackRock top managers are several retired CIA officers.¹²⁹

According to the terms of the deal, BlackRock will manage Ukrainian assets, including the funds provided as part of “foreign aid.” Thus, Ukrainian strategic enterprises, including “nationalized” ones, will most likely end up under transnational control. This scheme will also be used to manage Ukraine’s foreign debt which, according to the Ministry of Finance, is approaching $150 billion, or 100% of the national GDP. Officially, the agreement is intended to attract investments in energy, infrastructure and agriculture, but due to the weak subsidized economy destroyed by the war, it leads to the seizure of Ukraine’s major assets on account of debt repayment – from ferti le black soi l to power grids.

BlackRock’s satellites have already gained control over Naftogaz, having Europe’s second largest gas reserves through the mediation of Lazard Investment (the Lazards are a family of bankers known for their competition with the Rothschilds in France) and Lazard Freres & Co., a SAS representative (owned by the Wallenberg family), who restructured Eurobonds. The foundation has launched large-scale seizures and buyups of Ukraine’s ample agricultural lands at discounted prices in connection with companies’ debts to the IMF. This is a major creditor of companies going bankrupt.

Joe Biden appointed Penny Pritzker (a representative of Europe’s top-10 richest families from the Chicago group¹³⁰) as the United States Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery at UDF, known for a failed initiative to create a single free trade area in the Pacific Ocean. Ms. Pritzker will build a top-down colonial operation by reforming the Ukrainian government “in the sphere of transparency and accountability of the country’s recovery, including total control of law enforcement, judicial system in the fight against corruption, and management of state-owned enterprises.”

It should be emphasized that the Chicago-based Pritzker billionaire family are historically Jewish immigrants from Kyiv. The Pritzkers generously funded Obama and Biden. Penny Pritzker’s brother supported the Clintons¹³¹ who are allied with Pinchuk.

THE PRIVAT GROUP: KOLOMOYSKYI-BOHOLUBOV

Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi

Nationality: Israel, Cyprus. In 2022, he was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship.

IHOR VALERIYOVYCH KOLOMOYSKYI

In 2022, Kolomoyskyi’s fortune ranked him eleventh on the Forbes list. After the nationalization of oil assets last year, Ihor Kolomoyskyi lost $1 billion. He is now neither a billionaire nor on the list, as he was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship. From 2014 to 2015, he was Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He is also a defendant in several criminal cases in the United States and Ukraine.

Hennadiy Borysovych Boholiubov

Nationality: UK, Israel, Cyprus, Ukraine (he renounced his citizenship in 2017 but it was reinstated in 2021).

HENNADIY BORYSOVYCH BOHOLIUBOV

Starting 1999, Boholiubov has been President of the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community and traditionally accompanied Israeli top-level officials visiting Ukraine. He also regularly donated large amounts to synagogues in Israel.

In 2022, Boholiubov’s fortune ranked ninth on the Forbes top-20 list of the richest Ukrainians. Boholiubov is Chairman and Founder of the Jewish charity, Simha Foundation. He provides assistance to Jews all over the world and has donated more than $80 million to Chabad. On behalf of his foundation, Boholiubov funded the excavation near the Temple Mount conducted by the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society¹³².

Privat is an informal umbrella name for Ukraine’s largest financial and industrial group. Its principal owners are two oligarchs: Hennadiy Boholiubov, who keeps a low profile, and Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who is politically and media active. Boholiubov deals with the banking side of the business, while Kolomoyskyi – the steel companies. The Privat Group, directly or indirectly, includes over 100 enterprises in Ukraine and worldwide.

Ihor Kolomoyskyi has made numerous scandalous connections and faced multiple charges. He is reportedly involved in contract killings and corporate intimidation in Ukraine. He also has a reputation as a dangerous man willing to resort to violence and is considered one of the first oligarchs to act as a warlord. In the past, Kolomoyskyi had been accused of contract killings and embezzlement.

Kolomoyskyi and his business partner Boholiubov are known regionally as “The Raiders,” and maintain a “quasi-military force,” or “army of thugs,” to “effect violent seizures of their opponents’ assets.” Kolomoyskyi and his partner Boholiubov used these forces, armed with various weapons, as a component of “strong-arm tactics” to advance their business interests and counter Russian influence in 2014.

Information about the FBI investigation into Kolomoyskyi is linked to possible financial crimes, including money laundering. This investigation was launched less than two weeks before the presidential elections in Ukraine. Kolomoyskyi was linked to a leading candidate in the election.

Just weeks before Zelenskyy’s accession to presidency, the FBI launched an investigation into Ihor Kolomoyskyi, suspecting him of money laundering. In this case, he is represented by the influential lobbying firm, Ashcroft Law Firm¹³³, closely affiliated with the Republican Party and the Bush Jr. administration. Mike Sullivan, an attorney handling the case for Kolomoyskyi, is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and chiefly works for the GOPers.

Meanwhile, the oligarch stayed in Tel Aviv, as the influence of Chabad-linked Prime Minister, Netanyahu, gave Kolomoyskyi every reason to believe he would not be extradited to the U.S.

On behalf of Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, two Florida businessmen, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas¹³⁴, flew to Israel to meet Ihor Kolomoyskyi to negotiate aid for Giuliani’s efforts to reopen the Burisma Holdings case. Their visit to Kolomoyskyi ended up in Giuliani meeting the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Chabad representative, Moshe Reuven Azman, in Paris¹³⁵.

Later, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas were arrested on charges of campaign finance violations, specifically donating $325,000 to a political action committee supporting Trump’s re­election. It is also important to emphasize that Fruman and Parnas have ties to the Friends of Anatevka and could play a role in donating funds for the benefit of the said organization. As part of the same scandal, it transpired that Fruman and Parnas were linked to efforts to replace the United States Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch¹³⁶.

From 2017 to 2019, Ihor Kolomoyskyi financed Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign for the House of Representatives in Florida. In 2018 and 2020, he also financed the election campaign in the 26th Congressional District in Miami and donated about $10,000 through its employees and agents. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is a member of the Democratic Party and volunteered for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Barack Obama.

Uriel Laber, who contributed $2,500 to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign, and Mordechai Korf are American businessmen with stakes in some of the Privat companies who played an important role in connections with Ihor Kolomoyskyi and his financial operations. Laber is also named in PrivatBank’s civil suit and is implicated in not only Kolomoyskyi’s fraud and money laundering scheme, but in racketeering and civil conspiracy as well. Mordechai Korf and Uriel Laber are sponsors of various Jewish organizations and yeshivas. They are passionate philanthropists and support the Chabad movement. This religious group connection and charitable activities offer them a handful of dependable money laundering schemes using charities.

Chabad uses Privat’s financial resources to gain influence with both U.S. parties.

From 2017 to 2023, Soros-affiliated Hogan Lovells, one of the largest U.S. lobbying firms, represented Ukraine-based PrivatBank on behalf of Petro Poroshenko in his actions against the former owners, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholi ubov. They also advocated Victor Pinchuk’s philanthropy on behalf of the arms lobby connected with Soros’s interests in Ukraine.¹³⁷

A long struggle for control over Ferrexpo and Poltava Mining between the Privat Group and another Ukrainian oligarch, Kostyantyn Zhevaho, had several stages, as a series of court hearings ended in favor of either one side or the other. Eventually, Zhevaho won the case in the court of last resort, upon which the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Kniaziev, was arrested on charges of bribery. Due to the seizure of all Zhevaho’s assets back in 2020, however, the ultimate beneficiary of the trial was the famous BlackRock Foundation, the second largest Ferrexpo shareholder, and Soros-linked Dragon Capital managing Ferrexpo.

The struggle for control of assets in Ukraine between the Chabad-associated Privat Group and Soros-linked organizations is the embodiment of a systemic confrontation reflected in other countries as part of the global trend:

• in Hungary, the Orban Government is at war with Soros-linked organizations all while building relationships with the local Chabad community;¹³⁸
• Trump and Netanyahu, who are also affiliated with the Lubavitch Hasidic Jews, are outspoken opponents of Soros;
• Soros’s support of HAMAS.¹³⁹

The aforementioned situations show signs of a systemic confrontation between two global groups of influence, pursuing their political and economic goals amid the global crisis. The conflict between the Privat Group (Chabad) and groups who can loosely be labeled Soros- linked groups in Ukraine is a specific manifestation of this trend and plays into the logic of confrontation between global projects.

Let’s take a closer look at the richest history of conflicts among Ukrainian oligarchs revolving around Kolomoyskyi and his assets in order to understand the strength of opponents and alliances.

PrivatBank. In 1992, Boholiubov and Ihor Kolomoyskyi established one of the largest banks in Ukraine. From 2003 to 2016, the bank accounted for about 25% of the country’s banking sector and held deposits worth over $6 billion which amount to around 33% of the total deposits in Ukraine. As a result of a massive fraud and theft, PrivatBank was nationalized in December 2016.

2016: Large-scale investigations launched by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) uncovered a scheme created by the bank owners to steal over $5 billion by issuing fraudulent loans. The National Bank of Ukraine declared PrivatBank insolvent. The Ukrainian Government backed the proposal to nationalize PrivatBank.

Weeks before nationalization, Boholiubov signed an agreement to sell Consolidated Minerals to China Tian Yuan Manganese Limited, a subsidiary of Ningxia Tianyuan Manganese Industry Co., Ltd. The nationalization of PrivatBank in 2017 was greeted by IMF, EBRD, UK and U.S. governments.

In April 2019, the Kyiv District Administrative Court satisfied Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s lawsuit on the grounds that the nationalization had been carried out in breach of the law. Interestingly, the ruling came days before the second round of presidential elections, when it was crystal clear that Zelenskyy had won. The National Bank of Ukraine announced plans to appeal the court ruling, considering it a threat to the national financial stability.

Erlan tried to prove collusion between PrivatBank and NBU. However, PrivatBank won the case in the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court. PJSC Erlan is linked to former PrivatBank owners. The company tried to oblige the bank to repay debts to NBU. The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court reaffirmed Kolomoyskyi’s defense points.

In 2019, former PrivatBank incorporators were sued in one of the U.S. courts over the largest ever alleged money laundering scheme of $470 billion, carried out between 2006 and 2016.¹⁴⁰

2020: Legal action filed with the Kyiv Commercial Court demanding the return of a 33.25% stake held by Hennadiy Boholiubov prior to the nationalization of PrivatBank.

2021: Satisfaction of PrivatBank’s petition and rejection of the legal action filed by the former shareholder of the bank, Hennadiy Boholiubov, for the return of a 33.25% stake in the financial institution. In 2021, Forbes estimated his fortune at $1.7 billion.

Ferroalloys. The Privat Group took an active part in the Ukrainian steel industry operating through mining, beneficiation and ferroalloy plants. In 2007, the group gained control over a 99.25% stake in Sukha Balka Mining and Beneficiation Plant. After the acquisition of the world’s largest manganese ore producers, Consolidated Minerals (Consmin), with major assets in Australia and Ghana in 2008, the group controls approximately 30% of the global ferroalloy market. Privat-Intertrading dominates the Ukrainian manganese ore market.

In 2009, the duo gained indirect control over a 3% stake in Ferrexpo (Switzerland) and Poltava Mining acting through Fayver Properties (Belize). Later, Boholiubov and Kolomoyskyi bought a 10% stake and attempted to get seats on Ferrexpo’s supervisory board. They, however, walked into significant opposition from the company owner Kostyantyn Zhevaho. With these attempts thwarted, Boholiubov and Kolomoyskyi had to sell their Ferrexpo stock. Thus, their new role in the situation was to attempt to gain influence over Ferrexpo’s management and their involvement in company stock transactions.

In 2021, Trimcroft Services, Gilson Investments, Calefort Developments, and Emsworth Assets, companies with links to Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov, won a lawsuit against Zhevaho in the Kyiv Commercial Court which ruled that a 40.19% stake in the mining company must be transferred to plaintiffs.

In early 2023, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv City seized the property of PJSC Ordzhonikidze Mining and Beneficiation Plant, PJSC Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, PJSC Marhanets Mining and Beneficiation Plant in a case of the misappropriation of public funds by PrivatBank officials.

In September 2022, the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal annulled agreements for the purchase and sale of a 40.19% stake in Ferrexpo-owned Poltava Mining made 20 years before. In March 2023, the ruling of the commercial court of appeal was reversed. The aforementioned equity stake remained in Ferrexpo’s ownership. The final judgment of the Supreme Court finally foiled all attempts by Privat-linked offshore companies to seize the stake in Poltava Mining from Ferrexpo. The case was on everyone’s mind in business and mass media and was considered an attempt to raid a major industrial asset.

In May 2023, Chairman of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Kniaziev, was arrested for a $3 million bribe from the oligarch, Kostyantyn Zhevaho, in the case of privatization of Poltava Mining.

A 50.3% stake in Ferrexpo plc. is owned by Luxembourg-based Fevamotinico Sarl incorporated by the Ukrainian oligarch Kostyantyn Zhevaho; the famous globalist foundation BlackRock, Inc. holds 6.0% of ordinary shares; Schroder Investment Management Limited has an interest of about 5.8% in the company. BlackRock is the company’s Largest shareholder second only to Zhevaho, who is currently under arrest in France over the case of JSC Finance and Credit Bank, where Zhevaho and top managers of the bank are accused of stealing $113 million. Zhevaho is under house arrest in France and the property of Zhevaho-affiliated companies was also seized. In October 2020, all seized assets were handed over to the Ukrainian asset recovery agency. Currently, Ferrexpo plc. is managed by Soros-linked Dragon Capital.¹⁴¹

Among the Cyprus-based offshore companies which started this case litigation 20 years ago are:

Trimcroft Services Limited, Emsworth Assets Limited, Gilson Investments Limited, Calefort Developments Limited.

Sofia Isidorou Siachinian is Director of the four aforementioned Cyprus-based companies and reportedly has ties to the Privat Group. In this case, we see that the Privat Group is feuding with George Soros affiliated companies in the steel industry and the facts around this conflict indicate that both opposing factions have and use influence on the Ukrainian government to advance their cause.

At Hogan Lovells, PrivatBank’s Lawsuits against Hennadiy Boholiubov and Ihor Kolomoyskyi were handled by Chris Hardman, Richard I. Lewis, Jenna Ralfe and Michael Davison, the latter of whom is Deputy Director of Hogan Lovells.

The same attorneys represent Victor Pinchuk,¹⁴² giving an extra context to the conflict between different financial and political interests, as Victor Pinchuk is a Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist, whose activities are linked to international foundations, including foundations linked to George Soros and hostile to Kolomoyskyi.

Like Kolomoyskyi, Pinchuk is regarded as a supporter of the Chabad religious movement. But unlike the Privat top figures, in business and politics, Pinchuk cooperates with another global sponsor competing with Chabad for influence.¹⁴³

1+1. In 2009-2010, CME held several transactions to transfer the ownership of 1+1 TV channel to its minority shareholder, Ihor Kolomoyskyi. The overall value of these transactions exceeded $400 million. The sale was eventually closed in April 2010.

Today, 1+1 Studio is controlled by more than ten offshore companies incorporated in Cyprus, Belize, and BVI. As of 31 December 2017, Ihor Kolomoyskyi has been the ultimate beneficial owner, while Ihor Surkis the owner of a substantial stake.

The TV channel waged an information campaign against Poroshenko. This conflict was part of Kolomoyskyi’s struggle for power and property after 2014. The release of “Servant of the People” TV series heralded the launch of an information campaign to nominate Zelenskyy and fanned the flames of hostility between Kolomoyskyi and Poroshenko’s chief of staff, Borys Lozhkin.

In October 2023, Kolomoyskyi assigned his corporate rights for 1+1 Media to incumbent General Director of the company, Yaroslav Pakholchuk, for a period of five years.

Ukrnafta is the largest oil and gas producer in Ukraine, producing approximately 62% of the country’s oil and 6% of the country’s natural gas in 2019. Ukrnafta-owned gas processing plants are the leading liquefied gas producers in Ukraine.

Until 2015, the majority stake in the state-owned company Ukrnafta was held by the government, but the actual management was carried out by Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s companies. Zelenskyy was unhappy with the situation, so in March 2015, regulation changes brought down the quorum for shareholders’ meetings from 60% to 50% + 1 share which allowed the government to gain control over the company.

This situation triggered litigation and a conflict over control of Ukrnafta. This is when the British seizure mechanism powered on. The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) ruled that disputable provisions of the shareholders’ agreement regarding the management of Ukrnafta were unenforceable. The government tried to shuffle Ukrnafta management which only led to a violent confrontation over control of the company. The situation escalated into a public confrontation with the president. Later, the conflict was resolved at a meeting between Kolomoyskyi and Poroshenko in the presence, and with the active participation, of the U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt. As a result, Kolomoyskyi was dismissed from his post as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

In 2016, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office launched a probe into the appropriation of the property and funds of PJSC Ukrnafta for an overall amount of UAH 13.8 billion. In August 2021, charges were aligned, while the investigation came to an end in August 2023. As a result, law enforcers charged eight individuals, including the company’s former top management controlled by Kolomoyskyi. The law enforcement investigation revealed the violation of a government decree on full payment for oil supplies and that the funds spent were transferred abroad to the accounts of several offshore companies.

In November 2022, stakes in the largest companies of the Privat Group, including Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta, were transferred to the owners of state-owned companies which, for the time being, meant the loss of a significant part of the group’s assets due to martial law. Initially, Hennadiy Boholiubov and Ihor Kolomoyskyi were the owners of 60% of shares in these companies (with the rest of shares held by Naftogaz). Ukrtatnafta’s major asset was Kremenchuk Refinery which was damaged in Russian missile attacks in May. In 2015, the law enforcement investigation found that Ukrnafta shipped more than UAH 10.7 billion worth of raw materials to companies affiliated with Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s Privat Group before full payment was made. Currently, the investigation is complete; most of the funds have gone into offshore jurisdictions; NABU had the court annul 60 such agreements for almost UAH 3 billion.

DniproAzot. 2012: Acquisition of shares in DniproAzot, Ukraine’s sole liquid chlorine producer. Leveraging water treatment systems, Privat put pressure on water service companies and the government to gain preferences or other favorable terms for the plant. In early 2023, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv City arrested PJSC DniproAzot as part of the case of appropriation of public funds by PrivatBank officials.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) was Ukraine’s largest airline prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Cyprus-based Ontobet Promotions Limited amassed 25.83% of UIA shares. In turn, Capital Investment Project owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi increased its stake from 51.64% to 74.16%.

In 2014, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Aron Mayberg fought for control of the aviation industry with the aviation service provider Swissport in Switzerland after they acquired a partner enterprise in 2011. This conflict ended with a change in the shareholding structure and although, on paper, Swissport obtained a 70% stake, the company was still controlled by the oligarchs. Litigation is ongoing even though such a long time has passed. Kolomoyskyi even said that he would suspend all his business affairs until he leaves political office. This situation tarnished Ukraine’s investment reputation.¹⁴⁴ Pavlo Ovcharenko, Ukrtatnafta CEO, is a shareholder of the company just as Mayberg and Kolomoyskyi.

In April 2023, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Aron Mayberg retired from the list of founders of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA). As a result, Aron Mayberg was recalled from the UIA supervisory board by its shareholder, Capital Investment Project. Hanna Borysonnyk who earlier worked for Kolomoyskyi-linked companies was appointed the new UIA President. Aron Mayberg’s more than ten-year reign at UIA, beginning when the company was first privatized in 2011, came to an end. The Kyiv court declared UIA bankrupt upon request of the state-owned Ukreximbank.

Warren Steel Holdings is a U.S. based steel plant of Ihor Kolomoyskyi. The U.S. government accused him of creating a sophisticated scheme to launder money by acquiring real property and industrial assets in the Midwest. Warren Steel was one of these assets. According to the federal government, Kolomoyskyi and his companies invested borrowed funds into U.S. assets, including about $9 million, which was invested in Warren Steel. Later, Warren Steel used its plant as security to borrow mortgage loans of $110.7 million, a part of which was linked to Kolomoyskyi. However, after the plant temporarily reopened, it was shut down permanently in 2016 and the U.S. government confiscated several Kolomoyskyi-owned properties. Warren Steel left nearly $750,000 in property tax debt.¹⁴⁵

Asquith Family

This is the point where the Firtash-Asquith alliance collides with British interests in Kolomoyskyi’s assets. JKX Oil & Gas plc. is UK-based, listed on the London Stock Exchange while operating assets in Russia, Ukraine and six other countries. In 2011, VTB Capital plc., a VTB Bank company, increased its interest in JKX Oil & Gas to 6.4%, while Ihor Kolomoyskyi of the Privat Group became its largest shareholder with a 27.06% stake. In 2016, Ronald Asquith left the company under pressure from Kolomoyskyi and his partners.

JKX Oil & Gas is focused on projects in Ukraine and Russia producing most oil and gas outside state-owned companies. They have licenses for oil fields in Poltava Oblast and acquisition of Yuzhgazenergie with a license for the gas field in Koshekhablsky District in Southern Russia. Currently, the company’s board consists of Ukrainian managers from Ukrnafta.

Chabad-Lubavitch – Lauder Family

In May 2019, PrivatBank filed a lawsuit against Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Hennadiy Boholiubov and three American agents for Kolomoyskyi, Mordechai Korf, Chaim Schochet and Uriel Laber. The lawsuit was also filed against twenty companies owned by Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov, located in the United States. According to PrivatBank’s lawsuit, Uriel Laber directly or indirectly owned Georgian American Alloys, Inc. and its subsidiaries, such as CC Metals and Alloys, LLC, Felman Production, LLC, and Felman Trading, Inc. All these companies were also linked to Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Uriel Laber also has ties to Optima Acquisitions, Inc., Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. and Niagara LaSalle Corp. Robert Powell, also linked to Kolomoyskyi, acted as the General Counsel or Chief General Counsel for all of these businesses.

Mordechai Korf and Uriel Laber acted as intermediaries for Ihor Kolomoyskyi by transferring around $4 billion of his tainted income to buy properties and companies in the United States. This information is based on three civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.¹⁴⁶

Mordechai Korf and Uriel Laber are accused of laundering billions for the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, as they generously shelled out more than $11 million to nearly 70 yeshivas and religious charities in New York. Some of these organizations include: Colel Chabad (Chabad Lubavitch) receiving $466,647 and The Federation of Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) receiving nearly $1 million.

These organizations include many charitable institutions, such as yeshivas and religious educational media in Brooklyn and across the state.¹⁴⁷

Until 2015, Korf and Laber held 7% of shares in PrivatBank’s foreign branch¹⁴⁸ and co-owned PrivatBank’s subsidiary in Latvia.

Uriel Laber is also seated on the supervisory board of Ukrnafta, a Ukrainian oil and gas company, in which the Privat Group (Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov) holds a substantial stake.

Korf is a member of one of the most renowned families from the Chabad movement. His parents, Abraham and Rivka, arrived in Miami from Brooklyn in the early 1960s as emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.¹⁴⁹ Laber has served as a director for Jewish Educational Media, a non-profit organization that promotes the works and ideas of Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the founder of the movement. They have donated large amounts to this organization as well as the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and one more charity, Colel Chabad.

From 2009 to 2010, Central European Media Enterprises sold 1+1 TV channel to its minority shareholder Kolomoyskyi.

Central European Media Enterprises was established by the billionaire Ronald Lauder, one of the owners of the Estee Lauder Companies incorporated in Bermuda. He is a member of the famous Lauder family. His mother, Estee Lauder, is the founder of the U.S.-based cosmetics company.

In 1984, Ronald became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense and served as the United States Ambassador to Austria.

Lauder is the President of the World Jewish Congress, a member of the U.S. Republican Party, a representative of the Israeli lobby, a vocal supporter of the Likud party, with long­standing ties to Benjamin Netanyahu and close ties to Chabad. In Austria, the Jewish educational institution, Lauder Chabad Campus owned by the Chabad movement, bears his family’s last name. Lauder is its permanent sponsor.

Lauder’s son-in-law, Kevin Warsh, was an FRS board member from 2006 to 2011. He was the youngest FRS board member, nominated by Bush Jr. , a former steering committee member of the Bilderberg Group. He is also a former executive director of Morgan Stanley and worked in New York to sort out details with Goldman.

U.S. Democratic Party

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative for Florida’s 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. In 2023, she announced she would be running in the 2024 United States Senate election in Florida against incumbent Republican Rick Scott. She volunteered for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Barack Obama and ran unsuccessfully for the Florida Senate in 2016.

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell received about $10,000 for her election campaign from the employees and agents of the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

The known facts and contributions to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign from the employees and agents working for Ihor Kolomoyskyi include: In September, 2017, Robert Powell contributed $2,700 to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign, listing his employer as Georgian American Alloys, Inc.

• Between December 2017 and August 2018, Uriel Laber contributed $2,500 to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign, and lists his employer as Felman Trading.
• In September 2017, Thad Florence, who listed his employer as Optima Specialty Steel, contributed $1,500 to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.
• Daniela Rost, Georgian American Alloys Associate General Counsel, contributed $100.
• In both September 2017 and June 2019, Frank Rodriguez contributed $1,000 to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign, for a total of $2,000.

The aforementioned Robert Powell is Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s spouse, and, according to the information provided, had ties to companies affiliated with the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Robert Powell acted as the General Counsel or Chief General Counsel for the businesses associated with Kolomoyskyi and financial shenanigans.

CONNECTIONS OF THE KOLOMOISKY – BOGOLYUBOV CLAN

Conclusions

Ihor Kolomoyskyi appeared to be one of the unsinkable figures among the Ukrainian business and political elites – he was a representative of the informal post-Soviet Dnipropetrovsk clan in the Ukrainian establishment, also including former President Leonid Kuchma and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The Privat Group is backed by the influential global Jewish orthodox movement, Chabad, whose members acted as intermediaries in laundering Kolomoyskyi’s money.

The PrivatBank Group is at war with the Soros-Pinchuk alliance. Until recently, Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov have been among the most influential players in the finance, oil industry and ferroalloy market, and waves of lawsuits are rapidly stripping them of key assets. The group faced consolidated forces of Soros-linked anti-corruption individuals and organizations with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine at the heart of this alliance. The Privat Group had many corruption schemes. They financed and protected Zelenskyy.

Kolomoyskyi’s media empire, 1+1 media, established by the Chabad member and U.S. conservative Ronald Lauder and his Central European Media Enterprises, became a powerful tool of influence in the campaign of the now incumbent president. The Lauder family are Chabad members and sponsors. Also, Kolomoyskyi was tied to Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who volunteered for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Barack Obama, and her husband Robert Powell.

In March 2021, the U.S. sanctioned Kolomoyskyi and his associates. Zelenskyy openly supported Washington’s decision despite Kolomoyskyi’s help in the election campaign.

Stripping citizenship and lack of strategic alliances or protection of the British and U.S. structures, having influence in Ukraine, means seizing assets effectively blocks the Privat Group’s comeback to big politics in any of the alternative political scenarios in the foreseeable future.

Maksym Lytvyn and Oleksiy Shevchenko (Grammarly)

Max Lytvyn (Maksym Lytvyn) is a Ukrainian programmer and billionaire, a co-founder of Grammarly.

In addition to his work in the tech industry, Max Lytvyn is also passionate about social and environmental issues. He has been a supporter of several charitable organizations and non-profits, including the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation and the Nature Conservancy.

• The project was funded by Sax Capital. In 2021, Max Lytvyn was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Goldman Sachs for his exceptional work as the co-founder and CTO of Grammarly.
• In 2021, Max Lytvyn was named among the Top 40 under 40 by Silicon Valley Business Journal.

He was among the bidders to buy Chelsea FC.

Alex Shevchenko (Oleksiy Shevchenko)

In 2001, he received a bachelor’s degree from the Kyiv International University. It was during this time that Shevchenko met his future co-founder Max Lytvyn.

In addition to Grammarly, he also serves on the board of FarmTogether, a tech investment platform for farming lands, where he is a seed investor.

Lytvyn and Shevchenko met during their studies at the International Christian University (ICU).

A minority shareholder (1%), Dmytro Lider oversees Grammarly’s social initiatives in Ukraine.

Grammarly’s funding of philanthropic initiatives includes:

• United24 Foundation
• KOLO Foundation is a charity which has transferred 140 pieces of equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Territorial Defense, cooperates with and implements projects with companies and non-governmental organizations, including PLAST, Ukraine’s national scout organization. PLAST operates in nine countries across the world (including the USA, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Austria, UK, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia). Back in the day, many leaders and active members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) were brought up by PLAST, including the nationalist Stepan Bandera and UPA general Roman Shukhevych.
• The Hospitallers (Hospitaliery) are a Ukrainian volunteer medical battalion, a unit of the nationalist Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps.
• Come Back Alive Foundation (romanized: Povernys’ zhyvym) is a foundation that provides all sorts of support to service members in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• The New Ukraine Foundation (Nova Ukraine) is a U.S.-based non-profit organization established in March 2014 as a successor of the Maidan San Francisco movement and incorporated in California to raise awareness of Ukraine in the United States and all over the world.
• The Razom Foundation is a Ukrainian-American non-profit advocacy group established in 2014 by the Euromaidan supporters. The organization is engaged in propaganda activities in other countries (chiefly, in the United States) to draw attention and provide comprehensive assistance to the existing Ukrainian regime. The foundation has raised about $71 million since the outbreak of war.
• The Your Support Foundation is one of Ukraine’s largest foundations established in 2014 providing humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the country.
• Mason Wasz Foundation is a foundation helping sick children.
• Greater Manhattan Community Foundation is an organization dedicated to improving life in Greater Manhattan.

Grammarly is the most expensive company with Ukrainian roots. By the end of 2022, the overall capital of Grammarly founders exceeded Rinat Akhmetov’s fortune.

Grammarly, a startup whose software pinpoints problems arising when people write in its web application and other programs.

In 2011, Bradley Hoover, the company’s current CEO, joined Grammarly. Hoover helped the founders turn the program into a company that guided everything they did going forward. According to him, the company has been profitable practically “since its inception.” Grammarly also has offices in Vancouver, New York, and Germany. In 2022, Grammarly moved most of its staff from Kyiv to Berlin.

Grammarly raised funding from General Catalyst Partners, IVP and private investors. The company value is estimated at $13 billion after raising new funding of $200 million from Baillie Gifford, General Catalyst, foundations and accounts managed by BlackRock, Founders Circle Capital, and other investors.

Curiously, Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover is a former investor of the venture company General Catalyst Partners. There he worked with fast-growing consumer internet, SaaS and mobile communications companies as a management board member and an adviser. General

Catalyst is also a strategic investor of defense projects, such as Helsing AI for different military-grade equipment – tanks, submarines, warplanes in cooperation with Saab, a Sweden-based aircraft and defense company owned by the Wallenberg family.¹⁵³

Unaten24 – Richard Brandson – Omidyar Network

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Grammarly founders have become active participants in charity events in support of the Ukrainian government’s humanitarian and military mission. They have also called for rallies against the Russian aggression.

Among Ukrainian organizations and foundations to which Grammarly sent donations are the government foundation established by Zelenskyy, Unaten24, with which Grammarly has the closest ties. As noted above, it is Unaten24 that gained funds from proceeds received from Russia since 2014.

Also, Grammarly’s representatives attended charity events hosted by the foundation which also raised funds for the Ukrainian government.

The foundation has established an extensive international network of ambassadors consisting of public figures, celebrities and businessmen lobbying the interests of the Ukrainian government abroad.

The most active Unaten24 ambassador is Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson who is closely tied to Pierre Omidyar, the founder of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic network at the core of the capitalism “reset.¹⁵⁴” The Ukrainian branch of the Aspen Institute is funded by Luminate Omidyar.

Branson’s circle of acquaintances includes founders of the world’s largest busin ess empires and lobbyists. Among them is George Soros whom Branson, as he says, considers a friend. Branson supported the Euromaidan.¹⁵⁵

Branson also condemned the Hungarian government after they attempted to close the Central European University established by Soros in Hungary in 1991¹⁵⁶.

Conclusions

Grammarly founders whose wealth is comparable to Rinat Akhmetov’s capital are not directly involved in the Ukrainian political strife, nor are they oligarchs in the conventional sense. However, connections with globalist investment organizations, such as BlackRock and General Catalyst, recognition by Goldman, indirect ties to Omidyar Network, generous funding of Ukraine’s defense, including nationalist groups, may indicate possible protection and potential for political advancement into the field cleansed by anti-corruption activists.

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After the Watergate scandal, a Congressional committee and other related investigations found that the country’s intelligence services had extensive surveillance powers and were involved in a number of illegal or unconstitutional actions.

They secretly undermined and killed foreign leaders. They have engaged hundreds of journalists and many media outlets around the world to spread false narratives. They spied and infiltrated political and human rights groups. And they manipulated public discourse to protect and expand their powers.

Senator Frank Church himself warned that the power of the intelligence community could at any moment “turn against the American people, and no American will have any privacy left, such is the ability to monitor everything… there will be nowhere to hide.”

Since then, the technological possibilities for invading privacy have increased dramatically, and the capabilities of the intelligence services, especially after September 11, have expanded in ways that Church could never have foreseen.

That’s why it’s high time to create a new church committee. And finally, in the most contradictory circumstances and for the most biased reasons, some kind of revival can finally happen.

The protracted struggle within the Republican Party over the election of Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker of the House of Representatives last month forced him to yield to the demands of the right wing of his party. Last but not least, he agreed to create a committee on what is called “arming” the federal government.

It held its first meeting last week. The group said its task would be to address “the politicization of the FBI and the Department of Justice and encroachments on American civil liberties.”

Earlier, in his speech to the House of Representatives about the new committee, Republican Representative Dan Bishop said it was time to cut out the “rot” in the federal government: “We pay attention to the deep state. We’re coming for you.”

Democrats have already condemned the committee as a tool that will be used in the interests of Donald Trump and his supporters, saying that right-wing Republicans want to discredit the security services and hint at abuses in the treatment of the former president.

A snowball of power

But while the committee will almost certainly end up being used to settle political scores, it could still shed light on some of the appalling new powers that the security services have acquired since the Church Committee report.

The extent to which these forces have grown should be obvious to everyone. Documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden ten years ago testify to illegal mass surveillance at home and abroad by the NSA. And Julian Assange’s transparency organization Wikileaks has published dossiers revealing not only US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also a huge global hacking program of the CIA.

It is noteworthy that both Assange and Snowden have suffered terrible consequences, which may be a sign of the ability of security agencies to retaliate against those who challenge their might.

Snowden was forced to leave Russia, one of the few jurisdictions where he cannot be extradited to the United States and locked up in custody. Assange has been jailed because the US authorities are seeking his extradition, so he can disappear in a maximum security prison for the rest of his life.

THE DEMOLITION OF “9/11” – AS IT WAS IN NEW YORK…

Now, in an unexpected turn of events, the billionaire has opened another window for covert manipulation by the security services — this time in relation to social media platforms and the electoral process in the United States. The key players this time are the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), created by the administration of former President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks.

After Elon Musk bought the social network Twitter last year, he gave several independent journalists access to its corporate archives. In an ongoing series of investigations called “Twitter Files”, published as long streams on the platform, these journalists found out what happened under the previous owners of Twitter.

The bottom line is that after Trump’s election, the US security services — with the help of political pressure, especially from the Democratic Party — aggressively penetrated the decision-making processes on Twitter. It seems that other major social media platforms have taken similar measures.

“Nothing burger”?

The Twitter files suggest a rapidly emerging but covert partnership between government intelligence agencies, Silicon Valley, and traditional media to manipulate the nationwide dialogue in the U.S. as well as much of the rest of the world.

WESTERN MEDIA POWER AS IT IS: ROCKEFELLERS, ROTHSCHILDS AND MORGANS

The sides of this alliance justify to each other their interference in US politics — hidden from public view — as a necessary response to the rapid growth of a new populism . Trump and his supporters began to dominate the Republican Party, and a left-wing populist led by Senator Bernie Sanders made limited penetration into the Democratic Party.

The special services were particularly concerned about social networks, as they were seen as a means of causing this wave of popular discontent. According to the Intercept, one of the FBI employees last year noticed that “subversive information on social networks can undermine the support of the US government.”

It seems that the national security state viewed the alliance with the big tech private sector as an opportunity to protect the old guard of politics, especially in the Democratic Party. Figures such as President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were considered a reliable pair of hands capable of preserving the legitimacy of turbocharged neoliberal capitalism and eternal wars, which were the lifeblood of the intelligence community.

CENSORSHIP IN THE AMERICAN WAY: THE MAIN CONSPIRACY THEORIST OF THE UNITED STATES WAS REMOVED FROM THE NETWORK

This partnership has served all parties well. Silicon Valley has been the chosen career for many liberals who believe that progress is best achieved through technological means dependent on social stability and political consensus. Populism and the polarization it generates naturally cause them discomfort.

And both intelligence agencies and more centrist politicians in the Republican and Democratic parties understand that they are in the firing line in populist politics due to years of failures: the growing polarization of wealth between rich and poor, the creaking US economy, depleted or non-existent social security services, the ability of the rich to buy political influence, the constant loss of treasure and lives in seemingly meaningless wars that are being waged in distant countries, and the media, which rarely touch on the problems of ordinary people.

Instead of focusing on the real causes of the growing anger and sentiment against the establishment, the security services offered politicians and Silicon Valley a more comforting and convenient narrative. Populists — both on the right and on the left — did not express dissatisfaction with the failure of the US political and economic system. They worked to sow social discontent in the interests of Russia.

Or, as recorded in the minutes of the DHS meeting last March, a new emphasis was placed on curbing “subversive data used to drive a wedge between the population and the government.”

This strategy reached its climax with Russiagate, years of unsubstantiated hysteria promoted by the intelligence community and the Democratic Party. The main claim was that Trump was able to defeat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election only because of collusion with Moscow and Russian influence operations through social networks.

As in the game “Hit the Mole”, any signs of illegal actions or criminal actions on the part of the special services or systemic failures of the US political class were now regarded as “Russian disinformation”.

POVERTY AS A SYMPTOM

Snowden’s expulsion to Russia — the only choice left to him — was used to discredit his denunciations of the NSA. And the disclosure by Assange and Wikileaks of war crimes and violations of the law by the intelligence community was actually negated by the alleged collusion with “Russian hackers” in uncovering corruption in the Democratic Party during the 2016 elections.

In practice, statements about “Russian disinformation” simply further polarized US policy.

The key issues raised by the Twitter files — the collusion of the state with the technology and media industry, interference in elections, as well as manipulation and distortion of the narrative — were classified as political bias and obscured by them.

Interest in Twitter files has been mostly limited to the right. Reflexively, the Democrats mostly dismissed the revelations as “nothing burger.”

Climate of fear

Perhaps coincidentally, after taking over Twitter, Musk turned from a liberal favorite—because of his Tesla electric cars -into almost an outcast. In October, the Biden administration denied reports that it was considering vetting his business for national security in the face of Musk’s “increasingly friendly stance.” His status as the richest man in the world quickly collapsed along with his reputation.

The irony is that the same special services that fanned the hysteria around the “Rashagate” are now being exposed in Twitter files as guilty of the very interference they accused Moscow of.

DEATH OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

It was reported that during the 2016 presidential election, Russia colluded with Trump and helped him, using social networks to sow discord and manipulate the American electorate. The subsequent official investigation by Robert Mueller did not confirm these allegations.

Instead, I believe that the Twitter files indicate that not Russia, but the FBI, DHS and CIA — the very agencies claiming that Russia threatens the political order in the United States — aggressively and secretly sought to influence American public opinion.

The Twitter files suggest that the real threat to democracy in the US is the US security state, to a much greater extent than Russia. The atmosphere of fear fueled by these agencies over alleged “Russian disinformation” not only influenced public opinion, but also gave the intelligence community even more leverage over social networks and an additional license to accumulate more power. Whether it’s Russiagate, Skripal or Syria, the media has lost touch with reality

Statesmen are increasingly responsible for deciding who is allowed to be heard on social media — even Trump was banned when he was president — and what can be said. These decisions are often made not to prevent crimes or enforce laws, or even for the public good, but to tightly control political discourse in order to marginalize serious criticism of the establishment.

The fact that the collusion between the social media platforms and these agencies was secret in itself indicates the nefarious nature of what is happening.

Latent pressure

The Twitter files open a window into a phenomenon that seems to be playing out across all social networks. Traditionally, liberals have defended the use of censorship on social media on the grounds that these platforms are private companies that can do whatever they want. Their behavior allegedly is not a violation of the First Amendment to the protection of freedom of speech.

However, the reality revealed by the Twitter files is that networks have often responded to covert pressure either directly from the federal government or through its intelligence agencies by limiting what can be said. As it was repeatedly noted in the Files, Twitter, like other social networks, began to function not so much as a private company, but as “a kind of subsidiary of the FBI.”

In 2017, at the height of the panic around the “Rashagate”, the FBI created a Task Force to study foreign influence, the number of which soon increased to 80 agents. His alleged job was to keep in touch with various networks to stop alleged foreign interference in the election.

Soon, Twitter executives began meeting and communicating regularly with senior FBI officials, while receiving an endless stream of demands for the removal of content to prevent “Russian disinformation.” It seems that the CIA also attended the meetings under the pseudonym OGA or “another government agency.” Although the task of the task force was foreign influence, it reportedly became “a channel for many internal requests for moderation, from state governments and even from local police.”

It is reported that under growing behind-the-scenes pressure from intelligence agencies and publicly from politicians, social networks have begun to compile secret blacklists using information from security services to restrict access to accounts or stop the appearance of topics. The effects were often hard to miss since Trump said he was investigating the practice in 2018.

In response, Twitter executives publicly denied that they practiced a “shadow ban” — a term denoting when posts or accounts are difficult or impossible to find. In fact, Twitter just came up with another phrase for exactly the same speech suppression mode. They called it “visibility filtering.”

Such censorship was applied not only against accounts suspected of bots, or those who spread obvious misinformation. Even prominent public figures who had the right to speak on the topic were secretly persecuted if they challenged the key narratives of the establishment.

Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, for example, suffered from “visibility filtering” during the Covid-19 pandemic after criticizing blockages for harming children. He was put on the “black list of trends”.

Due to recent mass layoffs on Twitter, Middle East Eye was unable to contact the company for comment on these and other allegations made in Twitter files. The CIA had not responded by the time of publication, while the FBI sent a response stating: “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter shows nothing but examples of our traditional, long-standing and ongoing obligations of the federal government and the private sector… As can be seen from the correspondence, the FBI provides important information to the private sector so that they can protect themselves and their clients.”

The files found that other leading doctors who questioned the government’s orthodoxy were also suspended from Twitter, often under direct pressure from the White House or lobbyists for vaccine companies.

But the most notable victim of the Twitter censorship regime was Trump himself. He was banned on January 8, 2021, although employees reportedly agreed behind the scenes that they could not base such a decision on any direct violation of their rules.

Russian “influence”

The consequences of the “Rashagate” further dragged Twitter into the arms of the special services. In early 2018, Republican Representative Devin Nunes submitted a secret memo to the House Intelligence Committee detailing alleged abuses by the FBI while monitoring a figure associated with Trump.

The FBI allegedly relied on the so-called Steele dossier, which was partially funded by Clinton and the Democratic Party, but was initially presented to the media as an independent intelligence investigation confirming collusion between the Trump team and Moscow.

The news of the memorandum provoked a storm on social media among Trump supporters, giving rise to a viral hashtag: #ReleaseTheMemo. Nunes ‘ allegations were confirmed almost two years later by a Justice Department investigation . However, at that time, Democratic politicians and the media were quick to ridicule the memorandum, describing any demand for its publication as a “Russian influence operation.”

The heat was scored on Big Tech. Twitter’s own investigations failed to reveal any Russian involvement, suggesting that the hashtag was trending naturally thanks to VIT – very important tweeters.

But Twitter executives weren’t in the mood for a fight. Instead of engaging in a fight with the Democratic Party — and, most likely, the FBI, concerned about the revelations of the memorandum — Twitter followed a “slavish scheme not to challenge Russia’s statements in the protocol,” said Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists who worked on this report. Twitter files.

Soon, major media outlets blamed Russia for all the embarrassing hashtags that went viral, such as #SchumerShutdown, #ParklandShooting and #GunControlNow. As Russiagate’s campaign of statements intensified, Twitter came under increasing pressure to act. In 2017, he manually checked about 2,700 accounts marked as potentially suspicious. The vast majority have been cleared. Twitter blocked 22 accounts as possible Russian, and another 179 were found with “possible links” to these accounts.

Democratic politicians were outraged, apparently relying on intelligence sources to confirm their claim that social networks were flooded with Russian bots. Twitter responded by creating a “Russia task force” to investigate further, but again found no evidence of a Russian influence campaign. All that was discovered were a few lone posters who spend limited money on advertising.

Nevertheless, Twitter plunged into a PR crisis, and politicians and official media accused it of inertia. Congress has threatened to pass draconian legislation that would deprive Twitter of advertising revenue. Twitter’s inability to find accounts of Russian influence led to an accusation from Politico: “Twitter deleted data potentially important for investigations against Russia.” Twitter’s initial investigation of 2,700 accounts sparked ridiculous claims in the media that a “new network” of Russian bots had been discovered.

In the midst of this firestorm, Twitter suddenly changed course, publicly stating that it would remove content “at our sole discretion,” but in fact it was much worse. As Taibbi reported in one of the Twitter files, this happened when the company privately decided to “take off board” everything that was “identified by the US intelligence community as a state-sponsored organization conducting cyber operations.”

Twitter was increasingly under siege. A Twitter file published last month claims that a well-known online lobby called Hamilton 68, with ties to the intelligence community, committed “fraud” against Russian disinformation.

The site caused endless headlines in the American media after a report that it revealed a campaign of Russian influence on social networks, in which hundreds of users participated. The media published these claims as proof that social networks are flooded with Russian bots. Hamilton 68 employees were even invited to testify before senior Congressional politicians.

However, despite this furore, Hamilton 68 has not released a list of bots that, according to her, were discovered. Internal Twitter investigations revealed that almost all of those on the list were regular users.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), which hosted Hamilton 68 and its successor Hamilton 2.0, published a “help” in response to Twitter files refuting the allegations and suggesting that its data was “constantly misunderstood or misrepresented” by the media and lawmakers, despite “extensive efforts to correct misconceptions at that time.” ASD noted that they never assumed that all the bots were Russian, but tracked some of them.

It is noteworthy that Hamilton 68 was headed by a former senior FBI official. Twitter executives did not publicly resist the pressure of the media and faced being brushed off when they tried to privately express their concerns to journalists.

FBI “navel”

In a sign of how close the relationship between the FBI and Twitter has become, Twitter has hired James Baker, the former chief lawyer of the FBI, as legal counsel. Baker has been one of the central figures in attempts to paint a picture — now discredited again — of collusion between Trump and Moscow.

Many others who left the FBI went straight to Twitter. Among them was Dawn Burton, the former deputy chief of staff of the head of the FBI James Comey, who initiated the investigation of the “Rashagate”. In 2019 , she became Twitter ‘s director of strategy .

Similar connections existed with the British special services. Twitter has hired Gordon McMillan as its chief editorial adviser on the Middle East. This was a part-time position, as at the same time he was serving in the psychological warfare unit of the British Armed Forces, the 77th Brigade.

By 2020, when the pandemic broke out, other government agencies saw their chance to launch a parallel campaign against Twitter, focused on China’s alleged efforts to spread misinformation about Covid-19. The State Department’s intelligence arm, the Global Engagement Center, used federal government data to claim that 250,000 Twitter accounts were amplifying “Chinese propaganda,” once again sowing unrest. These accounts included the Canadian military and CNN.

Correspondence between Twitter executives shows that they had their own views on the goals of the campaign. State Department officials wanted to “fit in” with a consortium of agencies like the FBI and DHS that were allowed to delete Twitter content.

Significantly, Twitter objected to the inclusion of the State Department—and in terms that strongly contrasted with their approach to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Executives viewed the staff as more “political” and “Trumpian.”

In the end, it was proposed that the FBI serve as a “navel” through which Silicon Valley would inform other government agencies. As a result, according to the Files, Twitter “accepted requests from every conceivable government agency,” often en masse. The platform has almost never refused to respond to requests to delete accounts accused of being Russian bots.

As Twitter became increasingly passive, even senior US politicians tried to intervene. Adam Schiff, then the head of the House Intelligence Committee, asked a journalist he doesn’t like to de-report. Although Twitter has been reluctant to agree to such requests, it is “deamplifying” some accounts.

As the 2020 election approached, the flood of security demands turned into a torrent that threatened to overwhelm Twitter. Many of them had nothing to do with foreign influence — an obvious target of the FBI task force. Instead, the submissions often concerned internal accounts. They rarely detailed threats of lawbreaking or terrorism, which appear to be the FBI’s primary area of interest, but instead focused on much less clearly defined violations of Twitter’s “terms of service.”

Often accounts were subjected to “digital execution” not because what was said was verifiable disinformation, but because the tweets crossed political red lines: noting the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine or being too sympathetic to Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro or Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Laptop Revelations

It is reported that after the introduction of Big Tech, the security services used their powers to secretly form a nationwide dialogue around the 2020 presidential election.

Perhaps the biggest revelation so far, confirming the suspicions of the right, is that social networks and state security agencies played a role in hiding the so-called Hunter Biden laptop story a few weeks before the 2020 election.

On the eve of the vote, the FBI task force prepared the ground by telling Silicon Valley executives that Russia would try to “dump” hacked information in order to damage Democratic presidential candidate Biden. Presumably, this was a repeat of the 2016 election, when the publication of internal Democratic Party emails damaged then-candidate Hillary Clinton.

After Trump’s election, much of the “Rashagate” narrative grew out of unsubstantiated claims by the security services that these embarrassing emails pointing to political corruption in the leadership of the Democratic Party were hacked by Russia.

HOW DEMOCRATS LAUNDER MONEY IN THE USA AND UKRAINE

Evidence suggesting a different explanation— that the emails were leaked by a disgruntled insider—has been widely ignored. The furor caused by this story overshadowed the fact that the emails and their damning revelations about the Democratic Party were all too real.

Based on warnings from the intelligence community, social media platforms hastily blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story, which alleged problematic ties between the Biden family and foreign officials in Ukraine. Joe Biden’s officials denied any wrongdoing on the part of the then presidential candidate, and Hunter himself evaded the question.about whether the laptop belonged to him. The story, which was published by the right-wing New York Post newspaper, was immediately declared a Russian influence operation by dozens of former intelligence officers.

But in fact, the FBI knew almost a year before this story became public that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden and that the information contained in it was unlikely to have been tampered with or hacked. The owner of a computer store in Delaware, whom Hunter Biden asked to repair his laptop, reported his concerns to the FBI. The agency even subpoenaed the device.

This chain of events raises questions about whether the FBI decided to pre-empt the impact of the laptop story, which threatened Joe Biden’s chances in the 2020 election, before the right-wing press could publish the information. It appears that they manipulated the media, including social media, to suggest that any story harming Biden before the election is Russian disinformation.

At the time, Big Tech had other reasons to believe that this story was probably true. The New York Post conducted the usual checks. Other reporters soon confirmed that the information came from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

However, Twitter hastily accepted the statement that this story violates its policy regarding the publication of hacked materials, repeating the FBI’s statement that this is Russian disinformation. Others, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, agreed with the FBI’s demands for trust too, as he later admitted.

Social networks have taken the unprecedented step of blocking attempts to share this story on their platforms, which could affect the outcome of the 2020 election — something that most right—wing Republicans consider a crime against democracy, and many supporters of the Democratic Party consider a crime against democracy.

Psychological warfare

Collusion between social media platforms and the US security service over the “Rashagate” was not a deviation from the norm. According to the files, Twitter gave the Pentagon special permission, in violation of its own policy, to create accounts to conduct a “digital execution.”

Twitter helped the military to whitelist 52 fake accounts in Arabic in order to “expand certain messages.” These accounts promoted U.S. military objectives in the Middle East, including reports of attacks on Iran, support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and claims that U.S. drones are striking Iran.

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By May 2020, Twitter had discovered dozens more accounts that the Pentagon had not disclosed, which wrote in Russian and Arabic on topics such as Syria and the Islamic State. According to Li Fang, one of the journalists who worked on the Twitter files: “Many emails sent during 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of the extensive network of fake accounts and covert propaganda [of the Ministry of Defense] and did not suspend the accounts.”

Another study revealed the Pentagon’s extensive propaganda network in other social media apps such as Facebook and Telegram.

Twitter’s leniency towards these secret Pentagon accounts stands in stark contrast to its treatment of the media and individuals accused of having ties to countries the US government considers hostile states. They are widely known as such, including Western dissident journalists and academics who allegedly worked with Russian, Chinese, Iranian or Venezuelan media.

According to a study by the FAIR media monitoring group, Twitter continues to conceal the nationality of accounts funded by the US government, including those that promote its propaganda goals in Ukraine and other countries. FAIR was unable to find any examples of accounts identified as “US state media” or accounts labeled as such in the UK or Canada.

The group concluded: “Twitter allows American propaganda agencies to maintain the appearance of independence on the platform, tacit approval of US soft power and influence operations… Twitter acts as an active participant in the ongoing information war.”

A dense veil of secrecy

After the Twitter files began to be dumped in December, the FBI responded not by verifying the authenticity of the documents, but by playing the same game as before. He accused the journalists of spreading “conspiracy theories” and “disinformation” aimed at “discrediting the agency.”

Hillary Clinton, an elder of the Democratic Party establishment, continues to blame Russian disinformation for her country’s troubles.

The truth is that both the security services and the political establishment have invested too much in their current secret arrangements with social networks to agree to changes.

And it is unlikely to increase while the United States continues to rush from crisis to crisis: from the “war on terror” to the Trump presidency, the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All these crises — it should be noted that in different ways — are the legacy of political decisions made by the same actors, who now reject control and supervision.

These crises serve as a pretext not only for inaction, but also for ever closer and tighter control of the state over the digital public space — and not transparently, but under a dense cover of secrecy.

As Church warned almost half a century ago, the biggest threat facing the United States is the possibility that its security services will direct their huge forces inward, against American society. And this process is exactly what the Twitter Files document is.

They show that the intelligence community has come to reconsider its main role — protecting American society from external threats — and has included American society itself in this threat.

THE STUDY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE INTERESTS OF US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

In 2021, one of the first priorities of the Biden administration was the promulgation of a National strategy to Counter domestic terrorism. It says the loss of faith in the government and extreme polarization is “fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation, often channeled through social media platforms.”

It seems that the growth of discontent among US citizens is not the fault of a failed political leadership or an arrogant deep state. Instead, the same failed establishment considers the negative reaction of the population and discontent with voters solely for selfish purposes, as proof of foreign interference.

In the Twitter files, Musk opened a small window to show a little what’s going on behind closed doors. But even that window will close again soon. And then the darkness will return—unless the public demands their right to know more.

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The fact is that Russia suspended inspections of its nuclear weapons by American specialists back in 2020 due to the pandemic. However, despite our accusations of violating the terms of RLSOA-3, the Americans really want further cooperation.

At the beginning of February, at the site of the American Arms Control Association, where Russian experts were present via video link, the American side called for the immediate start of negotiations on the new RLSOA-4 treaty, since the previous one expires in 2026. Of course, the pacifism of the Americans has nothing to do with it, they are afraid of a strong lag in the nuclear arms race, if it does begin.

Mass production of nuclear warheads in the United States was suspended in 1989

Then the FBI descended on the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado. Leaks and contamination by radioactive materials of the nearby territory at this plant were recorded back in the 1960s, including a large fire, the elimination of the consequences of which took two years. Due to violations at the plant, chromic acid got into the sanitary water reservoir of the city in 1989. The FBI launched its own investigation, which ended in 1992 with the admission of the Rockwell company operator guilty of 10 environmental crimes and the largest fine at that time for environmental crimes of $18.5 million.

ЗАВОД РОКИ ФЛЭТС В ШТАТЕ КОЛОРАДО ДО И ПОСЛЕ ЛИКВИДАЦИИ

In the same year, the plant was closed, the scale of pollution was so huge that it was necessary to demolish more than 800 buildings, move more than 21 tons of radioactive materials, remove more than 1.3 million cubic meters of waste and recycle more than 72 million liters of water. The cleaning process was completed only in 2005, at a cost of $7 billion, turning the former territory of the plant into a wildlife sanctuary.

At the moment, the United States has only one laboratory left in Los Alamos, where it is possible to manipulate nuclear warheads. From 2007 to 2011, a total of 29 upgrades of nuclear warheads for missiles launched from submarines were carried out there, and since 2013, all work has been suspended due to non-compliance with the rules for working with radioactive materials.

URANIUM-235 IS THE ACHILLES’ HEEL OF THE USA

In 2021, the work was resumed and in June of the same year, the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) announced that it had successfully completed the first modernization of warheads for missiles carried by submarines, although a year late and several hundred million dollars over budget.

The essence of the modernization was that a new electronic fuse, fuse and a high-explosive substance for activating the charge were installed for the 1988 nuclear charge. According to NASA estimates, the total cost of the modernization program will amount to $2.8 billion until 2026.

The number of charges subject to modernization is not specified in open sources. However, it was stipulated that the modernization would affect the entire nuclear triad, so in 2022 the modernization of aerial bombs was to be carried out, in 2025 the modernization of nuclear warheads for cruise missiles is planned, and in 2030 – for mine-based intercontinental missiles.

According to the bulletin of atomic scientists, there are about 3,800 nuclear warheads in the United States, whose age ranges from 30 to 40 years. American scientists have repeatedly conducted studies on the durability of existing nuclear weapons. In 2003, after the conducted research, NASA estimated the minimum service life of nuclear charges for 45 years from the date of manufacture. A 2012 article by the Livermore National Laboratory indicated that a plutonium charge can retain its combat properties for 150 years. However, these conclusions were not considered final and the NNSA created a ten-year research program in 2020 to establish the aging nature of plutonium nuclear warheads.

In 2019, at the initiative of the administration of US President Donald Trump, NNSA was instructed to resume the production of nuclear weapons up to 80 pieces by 2030. At that time, the organization’s press release stated that it would restore such production “due to the aging of plutonium charges and the need to modernize the nuclear arsenal, since for almost three decades the United States had not been able to produce warheads in quantities necessary for the accumulation of nuclear weapons.”

In a 2019 report by the Institute for Defense Analysis, a nonprofit organization that manages several federally funded research and development bureaus, these NNSA plans were initially called unfeasible. The actual completion of such a project would require much more money and time.

The first new location for the production of nuclear weapons was chosen unfinished MOX fuel plant in Savannah River, South Carolina. This plant has been under construction since 2007, as part of the Russian-American agreement on the disposal of plutonium, but the $4.8 billion project was stopped in 2018 because it required an additional $13 billion and was 32 years behind schedule. Although according to the plan, the plant was 70% ready, but it would take from $30 to $50 billion to complete construction, correct the identified design flaws and maintain functionality, as it turned out at a meeting of the subcommittee on strategic forces of the US Congress. It should be noted here that Russia built such a plant with a BN-800 reactor for MOX fuel in Zheleznogorsk in 5 years, the launch was carried out in 2015.

The second plant for the production of nuclear weapons will be an expanded part of the existing laboratory in Los Alamos. However, new buildings will require additional seismic protection, as it turned out, this area is tectonically unstable. The builders of the first top-secret nuclear laboratory in the United States did not take into account this important point.

The same American Arms Control Association in June 2020 indicated that the expansion of the laboratory in Los Alamos is not the best option, since various violations of the safety of handling radioactive materials were recorded there regularly. So in the radiological laboratory, built in 2010 for one billion dollars, in 2019 there was a leak associated with a structural flaw in the pipeline system. Of course, this could be considered a joke, but it is indicated that the laboratory lacks qualified personnel “who would know how to handle plutonium so that it does not accidentally gain critical mass and start an uncontrolled chain reaction.”

Initially, NASA was supposed to develop a detailed cost estimate and schedule for the production of new nuclear weapons as early as September 2025, with the launch of an experimental production line in 2024. By 2026, at least 30 nuclear charges per year were to be produced in Los Alamos, and in Savannah-​​​River – at least 50 by 2036.

However, in January 2023, the State Accountability Office, estimating the cost of the plants at $ 30 billion, reported that the NNSA does not meet the deadlines and the project estimate is constantly increasing. On February 8, US Deputy Secretary of Energy responsible for nuclear Safety Jill Ruby admitted that plans for the production of new nuclear weapons by 2030 are unattainable. “New production facilities and innovations are needed as we replace more and more components,” she said.

On February 14, Jill Hruby, speaking as a representative of NASA at the annual nuclear deterrence summit, announced the difficult nuclear situation in the world in connection with Russia’s launch of its own in Ukraine. Therefore, the current moment requires the United States to be active and able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. It should also be taken into account that China is rapidly developing its nuclear program and is going to increase the number of nuclear charges from 400, at the moment, to 1,500 units by 2035.

However, the industry is experiencing difficulties, as the focus of NNSA has shifted from production only to maintenance of the nuclear arsenal “many of our production facilities have atrophied, become obsolete or completely disappeared over the past thirty years“, said Jill Hruby. “The current international situation and the growing age of our nuclear weapons stocks make the situation unstable.”

In the past, the United States expanded nuclear infrastructure to the maximum, and when the Cold War ended, “there were large and old buildings, a polluted environment and the problem of resuming production from scratch of critical elements such as plutonium nuclear charges.” – Jill Hruby explained.

This process is associated with serious problems, to which the NNSA official attributed the shortage of labor. In 2022, staff layoffs exceeded the usual figure by 10%. About 16% of NNSA employees are eligible to retire now, and this number is expected to grow to about 36% by the middle of the decade. “The departure of experienced senior employees, some of whom held several positions at the enterprise at once, means the loss of institutional memory, technical skills and leadership abilities,” she said. In addition, problems with supply chains and increased inflation have already led to disruption of the schedule and increased costs for ongoing infrastructure projects.

Jill Hruby reported that over the past two years, for the first time, it was possible to modernize a nuclear warhead for a sea-based missile and an air bomb, and both programs are proceeding in accordance with the schedule of the Ministry of Defense. Developments are continuing on options for upgrading a nuclear warhead for cruise missiles, and for intercontinental ballistic missiles, the modernization project is at an early design stage.

RUSSIA HAS A CONTROLLING STAKE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY

It is quite obvious that now the United States is in a rather difficult situation, although not critical

PUTIN’S NUCLEAR SURPRISE

According to the bulletin of American atomic scientists “US Nuclear Forces – 2020”, their arsenal contained about 5,800 warheads. Of these, 1,750 were on combat duty, 2,050 were held in reserve by the Pentagon, and approximately 2,000 were decommissioned. However, there are other data, so at the end of 2019, Peter Fanta, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Affairs, said that America’s nuclear arsenal is just under 4,000 warheads.

Nevertheless, according to the bulletin of atomic scientists, 3,800 American nuclear warheads were produced from 30 to 40 years ago, and the NNSA set the minimum service life of nuclear charges at 45 years. Of course, they are currently working on the issue of extending the service life, however, if they had full confidence in success, they would not have created a ten-year research program on this issue.

It turns out that in the next few years, a significant part of the US nuclear arsenal may not be combat-ready, and that is why NNSA wants to build plants for the production of new nuclear charges, but it is recognized that they will have to do this “from scratch”, even in conditions of a decrease in the qualifications of the workforce. Given the skepticism in such plans even among American experts and the unsuccessful attempt to build a plant for MOX fuel, we can say that the United States is not ready for a new nuclear arms race, if one begins.

That is why the American Arms Control Association insists so stubbornly on negotiations with Russia on the RLSOA-4 treaty, where restrictions and inspections would be extended not only to nuclear charges on combat duty of strategic forces, but also to tactical nuclear ammunition and charges that are in storage.

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Back in the 1990s, the US Congress approved the “Joint Threat Reduction Program” (JTRP, also known by the surnames of American senators Samuel Nunn and Richard Lugar), the purpose of which was to help the countries of the former USSR in matters of nuclear, biological and chemical disarmament. The program is still being implemented by the Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the US Department of Defense. But today, in a strange way, the reduction of the threat to the United States is associated with an increase in the number of bacteriological laboratories and epidemiological centers controlled by the Pentagon around Russia. There are such in the post-Soviet space today in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.

MAP OF THE LOCATION OF US MILITARY BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA

Interception of “sovereignties” in the field of biological developments

If we consider only the aspect related to biological weapons of mass destruction, then at the end of the last century, the US “assistance” to the post-Soviet republics was taking control of orphan institutes and laboratories. Moreover, the Soviet period of the work of these institutions had to be perceived by the public exclusively in a negative light.

Therefore, in the reports of the US Congress, for example, such as the “Evolution of the JTRP” of June 13, 2014, anti-plague institutions created during the Union in 11 Soviet republics are called almost exclusively “places of production of bacteriological weapons”. Interestingly, the Americans attribute complete ignorance about the danger of such objects to the nationalist regimes of the post-Soviet republics. The “salvation” of which was allegedly provided only by the intervention of the United States in the framework of the Nunn-Lugar program.

But it would be naive to believe that Americans will enter such facilities solely as guards or utilizers. They are still actively developing them, multiplying both the number of laboratories and ongoing research. At the same time, the US presence in the regions of Transcaucasia and Central Asia helps, according to Washington analysts, to prevent the threat of radical Islamist groups. After all, the latter can take control of laboratories and use pathogenic viruses and strains for their terrorist activities!

The report also notes that by 2014, “the JTRP program has completed the modernization of 39 “secret laboratories” in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense continues to support the modernization of these facilities and the training of specialists. JTRP will work in this region to improve safety and disease surveillance.”

This is, so to speak, the “white and fluffy” version of Washington. However, opponents of American “bacteriological altruism” reasonably believe that the United States “seeks to master all possible biological secrets of its competitors and opponents in order to create prerequisites for global “biological blackmail“. The purpose of all this may be as follows: “… having at its disposal all the noted information and samples, to be able, if necessary, to disguise a biological attack under the activation of a natural focus of infection in the states of the South Caucasus or Central Asia.”

Bacteriological laboratories of the USA are located in 25 countries of the world

From 1997 to 2014, they were funded by DTRA in the amount of 2.1 billion dollars.: as you can see, considerable funding allows you to deploy both kickbacks and bribes in the interaction of the American and local bureaucracies.

And as history shows, the allocated funds are more than enough to ensure that the developed biological weapons of mass destruction destroyed a lot of people. So, researcher Alexander Nikishin, referring to a partially declassified report of the US Army from March 1981, gives the following data: “American scientists conducted a number of experiments on insects. These operations were part of the entomological warfare of the United States as part of the biological weapons program. The report reported two scenarios: 16 simultaneous attacks on the city by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes (yellow fever mosquito) infected with yellow fever, as well as an aerosol attack of tularemia, and assessed their effectiveness in money and human losses.

The results were very cynical. Pentagon specialists managed to “kill” 625 thousand people at a cost of $0.29 per “unit”. Further, Alexander Nikishin notes: “It is assumed that the same species of mosquitoes are carriers of dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika virus, which causes genetic malformations in newborn children, which has recently occurred in Latin America and the United States.”

If you read the DTRA website itself, you get the impression that you are dealing with an institution that surpassed both Mother Teresa and the Pope in humanity at once: “DTRA works hard to protect American servicemen and their allies from the threat of chemical and biological weapons. They provide a wide range of support to military services, combatant commands and international partners, from the introduction of advanced technologies to detect chemical and biological threats, to the development of new capabilities to protect them.”

USA MILITARY BASES AROUND THE WORLD

Reader, have you noticed the phrase “command of combatants”? These are the very American “sons of bitches” who act in the interests of Washington. In the same Ukraine. Against the same Donbass.

More and more politicians, journalists, doctors, public figures, people of different professions want to know what more than 400 American biological laboratories are actually doing, “packaged” around the world, often in close proximity to the borders of strategic opponents of the United States. The era of “hybrid confrontations” throws us a lot of such non-random coincidences as a medicine for the California flu supplied to Ukraine by a company whose director was ex-Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld.

In the era of “hybrid confrontations”, the staff of the American laboratory Fort Detrick can be aware of what the biolab is doing, created in 2014 on the basis of the Sericulture Institute in Meref near Kharkov. And residents of the Kharkiv region can only wonder why in 2014-2015 outbreaks of atypical influenza among children were recorded in some places here. And, for example, residents of Finland may wonder what the hybrid center of NATO, whose activities are not subject to Finnish laws, is doing in their neutral country in such a “useful” way.

Donor – US Department of Defense

What do the biological laboratories of the US Department of Defense do on the territory of Ukraine? At least 5 out of 14 biolabs in the USA work in Ukraine on the basis of veterinary clinics and institutes. It is possible that strains of deadly viruses are being studied there. Including those causing such atypical pneumonia as covid.

US MILITARY BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES IN UKRAINE

Evil tongues slander that the sanitary inspection station was closed and given to the Americans by the Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine Ulyana Suprun. So that the owners of the current Ukraine would immediately have a suitable base for their research and experiments.

For sure, there was a similar story with the Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences on Donetsk Street in Kiev. And with the Dnepropetrovsk State Regional Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine. As well as with the Central Reference Laboratory of the Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa, and with the Lviv Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene.

And then to say – is it up to cats here, the Russian aggression is walking in the yard for the eighth year! Before the plague and the whole epidemiology with medicine! I wouldn’t get under a Russian tank…

Maybe because of this, each of the institutions indicated in the certificate has a brief inscription – “Donor: US Department of Defense”?

Journalists of the Ukrainian portal “Strana” provided on their website some details of the agreement of August 29, 2005, concluded – attention! – between the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. And this agreement stipulates Kiev’s obligations to send strains of dangerous pathogens to the Pentagon, which – more attention! – they will appear as a result of research in laboratories in Ukraine. Which, however, is natural: “Donor: US Department of Defense”…

Question: Why does the US Department of Defense need biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine?

Well, an informed person will only chuckle: for the same reason that he needs secret prisons in Lithuania and Poland. Because US laws prohibit the placement of such objects on the territory of the States. Secret prisons – because you can’t torture in America the way you want – with gouging out eyes, rapes and drilling knees with an electric drill. And with biolabs it is even easier: they are dangerous. Why should Americans risk meeting with their products when there is no social medicine there, and half a dozen states have not just refused to give up a vaccine with their own hands, but prohibit it at home!

And I don’t feel sorry for Ukrainians. The same Russians, only in profile. It is not a pity for citizens of other countries, Georgians, Kazakhs, Moldovans, and we will not mention the inhabitants of Africa at all, they can be killed by millions, because they are not Americans…

But still, what have Americans forgotten in Ukraine? What kind of experiments are being conducted? Is it really worth listening to the Chinese, who, through the mouth of the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, demanded that an international inspection be allowed into American biological laboratories in Ukraine, because they believe that the covid virus was born here? And only then was it transported and put into operation in Wuhan, China?

And the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, is not the figure to make a statement from scratch about the possibility of producing and testing biological weapons in American biological laboratories on the borders of the Russian Federation.

Again, it is officially recognized by the US government itself that these institutions are funded by the Pentagon. And, as reported in the press, only Americans work in them.

And there are already more than 50 such laboratories located in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, as well as along the borders of China in Southeast Asian countries! What kind of strange geographical reference characterizes the passion of the American military for virology and microbiology?

Geography features

But this geography has several other notable features. So, in 2009, hemorrhagic pneumonia suddenly broke out in Ternopil, from which 450 people died. The virus that caused it turned out to be of unknown origin. However, there is an interesting point in the reference book above:

Ternopil Diagnostic Laboratory. It is located at the address: Ternopil, Fedkovicha str., 13. Donor: US Department of Defense…

The following year, cholera ran through Ukraine, and for several years they could not cope with it in any way. Then swine flu was noted, again hundreds of people died. An outbreak of hepatitis A in Nikolaev, in Zaporozhye and Odessa, again in Kharkiv…

And we still do not recall similar “oddities” on the territory of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova…

And characteristically, many people were buried without autopsy and forensic examination.

And what is remarkable is that everyone is being investigated and investigated, but they failed to make decent vaccines. Maybe because it’s not a military matter to design vaccines? Or, perhaps, simply because the behavior of dangerous pathogens was studied precisely in these specific regional conditions? Are they not American?

Here, by the way, is the place for one much-talking quote:

The United States remains the only country that still blocks the creation of a verification mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction of 1972.

Here, by the way, is the place for one much-talking quote:

SECRET BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES OF THE USA IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

Regional peculiarities can also be ethnic

We must not forget about one more side of this dark business. Those former republics of the Union, with which the Pentagon began to cooperate, transferred dozens of dangerous and deadly strains of bacteria to the United States, which, of course, were successfully able to fight in the Soviet Union. These are pathogens of plague, anthrax, cholera, and a number of other dangerous diseases. And now all of them are at the disposal of the Institute of Pathology of the US Armed Forces in Washington. How are the US military going to dispose of all this dangerous wealth? Especially if you remember that it was the United States that started more than 80% of the wars of the entire twentieth century and the self-confident aggressiveness of the local warriors is happily combined with the fear of direct combat clashes with an equal opponent?

And although we know that there are collections of pathogenic microorganisms in every self-respecting specialized institute, viruses and bacteria affect people in different ways. Just biology – nothing, as they say, personal. And human biology is determined not only and in general not so much by his innate state of health and attitude to his state of health, as by heredity, genetics, climatic adaptability, immunity to pathogens characteristic of a given area, and even morality and culture relevant at this historical moment. That is, medicine – of course, but also local and regional peculiarities of people’s health, too, any decent doctor always takes into account.

Well, since this phenomenon exists, then you can think about developing such biological or genetic effects on this population group so that these effects affect only it and would be harmless to everyone else. Why didn’t the Americans unleash a biological war? Because it’s not a selective weapon. So covid-19, whether it is of natural origin or artificial, has shown this.

And here it becomes extremely curious why – returning to geography – Americans put their biolabs around Russia and China. The genome of a Russian person was deciphered back in 2009; genomes are now generally deciphered on the stream. Russian and Ukrainian are genetically the same thing. I mean – according to statistics, of course. Because genetic affiliation has nothing to do with nationality: nationality is a sense of self, and genetics comes from ancestors. But for the most part, the genetics of the Russian ethnic group differs only in an insignificant fraction of a percent from the genetics of the Ukrainian or Belarusian ethnic group – so little that it is necessary to talk about one ethnic group.

And if so, then what an abyss of experimental possibilities opens up for inquisitive minds who wished, for example, to introduce some small genetic correction into this large all-Russian ethnos! This ethnic group is killing in the long run. Or – since this is a long way, for generations – on the contrary, to withdraw. To bring out such a strain of virus that fatally affects only this ethnic group? That’s how much experimental material for this lives in Ukraine! Or – while he lives?

U.S. BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES FUNDED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

American facility in Tbilisi Alekseevka

In Georgia, the main laboratory supervised by the Americans is the Richard Lugar Center, a central research (reference) laboratory (CRL) operating since 2011, opened on the basis of a former anti–plague station in Alekseevka on the outskirts of Tbilisi, right next to the international airport. The PR specialists of the Lugar Center constantly have to fend off the attacks of the media: “At the same time, over the past decade and a half, the republic has experienced one epidemic after another: the avian flu, the African plague.”

But the lab insists: it’s a coincidence. “There is nothing secret. We only conduct scientific research. We invite our Russian colleagues to come and work together,” said Amiran Gamkrelidze, Director of the Center for Disease Control.” By the way, in Russia, some researchers believe that African swine fever (ASF) came to the territory of the Russian Federation from Georgia.

It is also unclear how Georgian epidemiologists are going to explain the following fact. In 2007, Georgia changed its policy on compulsory annual vaccination against anthrax. Despite the outbreak of the latter, vaccination of the population has not been carried out for seven years. As a result, the incidence of anthrax peaked in 2013, and NATO began human trials of a new anthrax vaccine at the Lugar Center in Georgia.

Some documents that confirm the military-biological activities of the Pentagon on the territory of Ukraine

The document contains a response (24.05.2013) from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine to the appeal of People’s Deputy I. Shvayts on the implementation of the biological threat reduction program by Black & Hiv.

RESPONSE (24.05.2013) FROM THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE OF UKRAINE TO THE APPEAL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTY I. SHVAYTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAM BY BLACK & HIV. 1 PAGE

It is reported that in January 2013, the US Embassy asked the Ministry to re-register the project in connection with its continuation until 09/20/2017 (expired 05/31/2013). The Ministry of Economy refused, because the submitted documents did not meet the requirements of the Cabinet of Ministers resolution, and notified of the need for applications from the beneficiaries of the project.

RESPONSE (24.05.2013) FROM THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE OF UKRAINE TO THE APPEAL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTY I. SHVAYTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAM BY BLACK & HIV. 2 PAGE

The following describes the results of the evaluation of the work performed during the biological threat reduction program:

The State Veterinary Service of Ukraine reported that the laboratories have not been put into operation, there are no design and reporting documentation, certificates of work performed. According to the agreed opinion of the State Veterinary Service and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, it is impractical to continue the project.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine notified about the completion of all work at subordinate laboratories, focused attention on the problem of the non-compliance of the actions of the American company “Black & Vitch” and its subcontractors with the current legislation, the absence of design and reporting documentation, acts of work performed. The Ministry of Health proposes to suspend the project until the adoption of appropriate amendments to the agreement with the US Ministry of Defense.

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

MEMORANDUM ON PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AGRARIAN SCIENCES.CONTRACT HDTRA1-08-D-0007

The plan of providing technical assistance to the beneficiaries of the State Committee of Veterinary Medicine and the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine within the framework of the program of the Ministry of Defense of the USA to reduce the biological threat (dated 6.10.2010) is presented.

Among the final tasks and activities are listed including:

• promotion of joint research projects in the field of biosafety and biosecurity;
  introduction of molecular diagnostics technologies;
  integration of the pathogenic pathogen control system (transmitted by the USA).

Within the framework of joint biological research projects, it is reported that first pathogens are obliged to consolidate in a single central reference laboratory, and then the weakened strains are transported outside the laboratory for research purposes.

In addition, the document lists brief information about the contractor and beneficiaries of the project: contact person, address, obligations under the contract, etc.

ДОКУМЕНТ О ПРИОБРЕТЕНИИ МАТЕРИАЛОВ КОМПАНИЕЙ BLACK & VEACH SPECIAL PROJECTS. DTRO-21-057

The document is an appeal from the Head of the Threat Reduction Department at the US Embassy in Ukraine to the State Tax Inspectorate of Ukraine. The appeal notifies that all purchases of goods and services carried out by Black&Veatch for the tasks of the Threat Reduction Department (in particular, within the framework of the Program to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction) are carried out in a preferential tax regime.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has revealed the scheme of movement of biomaterial from US laboratories in Ukraine (documents)

The financing of military biological activities allowed the United States and its allies to export at least 16 thousand biological samples outside Ukraine.

— So, in accordance with the UP-8 project in Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to hantaviruses, 400 for the presence of antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.

— Such a large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous for the population of a certain region.

— Analysis of the documentation shows that not only tissue samples and human blood serum were exported abroad, but also dangerous pathogens, as well as their carriers. Thus, more than 10 thousand samples were sent to the Lugar Center in Georgia. Among the recipients are also: reference laboratories in the UK, the Leffler Institute in Germany.

SCHEME OF MOVEMENT OF BIOMATERIAL FROM UKRAINE TO OTHER COUNTRIES

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has shown a scheme by which the United States exercises control over biological laboratories in Ukraine

The incoming materials allow us to trace the scheme of interaction of US government agencies with Ukrainian biological objects. Attention is drawn to the involvement in the financing of these activities of structures close to the current leadership of the United States, in particular the Rosemont Seneca investment fund, which is headed by Hunter Biden.

— At the same time, the foundation has a close relationship with the main contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is the main supplier of equipment for Pentagon biolabs around the world.

— The scale of the program is impressive. In addition to the military department, the US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved in its implementation.

— Scientific supervision is carried out by leading research organizations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

— All this activity is carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.

COORDINATION OF BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF UKRAINE WITH THE USA

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation submitted the documents of the UP-2 project

One of the tasks of this project was to identify the burial sites of dead animals, the selection of soil samples from anthrax cattle burial grounds.

— This project is one of the priorities of American customers, while the causative agent of anthrax is characterized by high damaging ability and resistance in the environment.

— The interest of American military biologists in the study of insect vectors in the locations of animal burial grounds is also not accidental – apparently, they analyzed the results of the outbreak of anthrax in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of transmissible transmission of the disease through flies and horseflies were recorded.

— Given that the epidemic situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains safe, the question arises about the need for research conducted by the Pentagon and their true goals.

IMPLEMENTATION OF ANTHRAX RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Russian Ministry of Defense has revealed the contents of documents found in secret Ukrainian biological laboratories after American specialists escaped from there. There, as one might expect, was a full assortment: pathogens of anthrax, plague, cholera, diphtheria. All this was stored in commodity quantities and was successfully destroyed when fleeing.

BRIEFING BY IGOR KIRILLOV, CHIEF OF THE RADIATION, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROTECTION TROOPS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES IN UKRAINE

Tasks solved by the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (UNTC)

The Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (UNTC) was a distribution center for grants for conducting research of interest to the Pentagon, including in the field of biological weapons.

ACTIVITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER

In recent years alone, Washington has spent more than $350 million on the implementation of UNTC projects. The customers and sponsors of the UNTC from the US side are the State Department and the Ministry of Defense. Funding is also provided through the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Agriculture, Health and Energy.

Officials involved in the implementation of military biological programs by the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (UNTC)

OFFICIALS OF THE UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER: BJELAJAC CURTIS MICHAEL, HOOD ANDREW ANTHONY, PAUWELS NATALIE, MAIER EDDLIE ARTHUR

The documents confirm the connection of the UNTC with the American military department. The slide shows the official recommendation of the US State Department approving the cooperation of the UNTC with the main contractor of the Pentagon – the company “Black & Veatch”. The correspondence expresses the readiness of the vice-president of this company, Matthew Webber, to work with the UNTC within the framework of military biological research conducted on the territory of Ukraine.

The post of executive director of the UNTC is occupied by a US citizen Curtis Belayach, born in 1968. He was born in California and studied at the California University of Management. Anderson. He has a Master’s degree in International Finance and has been working in Ukraine since 1994.

The Chairman of the Board of the UNTC from the EU is Eddie Arthur Mayer. From the United States, the work of the center is supervised by Phil Dolliff, who holds the position of Deputy Adviser to the Secretary of State for International Security and nonproliferation programs of weapons of mass destruction in the State Department.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has a correspondence from the vice president of this company, Matthew Webber, where he expresses his readiness to work with the UNTC in the framework of military biological research conducted on the territory of Ukraine. In total, in the period from 2014 to 2022, more than five hundred research projects were implemented by the UNTC in the post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan).

Directions of research activity of the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (UNTC)

In the period from 2014 to 2022, the UNTC implemented more than 500 research projects in the post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan).

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER (UNTC)

The American curators were primarily interested in dual-use research, for example, Project 6166 “Development of technologies for modeling, assessing and predicting the impact of conflicts and threats of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”, project 9601 “Transfer of Ukrainian technologies for the production of complex dual-use materials to the European Union”.

Many of them are aimed at studying potential agents of biological weapons (plague, tularemia) and pathogens of economically significant infections (pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever). Directly in the interests of the military department, the Center funded projects P-364, 444 and 781 aimed at studying the spread of pathogens of dangerous infections through insect vectors, wild birds, and bats. The document prepared by the curators of the UNTC dated March 11, 2022, emphasizes the main activity of this organization.

Study of the spread of dangerous infections by waterways of Ukraine

Ukrainian specialists, under the supervision of American scientists, systematically conducted water sampling in a number of major rivers of Ukraine, including the Dnieper, Danube, Dniester, as well as in the North Crimean Canal.

The aim was to establish the presence of particularly dangerous pathogens, including pathogens of cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and E, and to draw conclusions about the possibility of their spread by water. Within the framework of project 3007, the damaging properties of the selected samples were evaluated, and the strains themselves were deposited in the collection and subsequently exported to the USA.

STUDY OF THE SPREAD OF PATHOGENS OF DANGEROUS INFECTIONS BY WATERWAYS OF UKRAINE

Image analysis shows that the results of the work carried out by the CNTC can be used to create an unfavorable biological situation not only on the territory of the Russian Federation, but also in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, as well as in the countries of Eastern Europe – Belarus, Moldova, Poland. Contrary to its international obligations, the United States has retained norms in national legislation that allow for work in the field of biological weapons. Persons with mental disorders were selected for experiments taking into account their age, nationality and immune status. The results of round-the-clock monitoring of patients’ condition were taken into account on special forms. No information was entered into the hospital database, the staff of the medical institution gave a non-disclosure subscription. In January 2022, the activity of the laboratory in Meref was stopped, all equipment and drugs were taken to the west of Ukraine. There are testimonies of a number of witnesses to these inhumane experiments, whose names are not disclosed in the interests of ensuring their safety.

Biological experiments on residents of Ukraine

American scientists from the laboratory in Merefa (Kharkiv region) in the period from 2019 to 2021 tested potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients of the regional psychiatric hospital No. 3 in Kharkiv.

FEATURES OF US LEGISLATION IN THE BIOLOGICAL FIELD. CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS OUTSIDE OF NATIONAL JURISDICTION

How exactly did the United States preserve in its legislation the norms allowing for the possibility of carrying out work in the field of biological weapons:

1. The United States accompanied the ratification of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 with a number of reservations, one of which allows the retaliatory use of chemical and toxin weapons;

2. In accordance with the US Federal Law “On the Unity and Cohesion of America in the Fight against Terrorism”, research in the field of creating biological weapons is allowed with the approval of the US government. Participants in such studies are not criminally liable for the development of such weapons;

3. Taking into account the blocking by the United States of any international initiatives to verify the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological (Toxin) Weapons, prerequisites are being created for the violation of international agreements on the non-proliferation of biological weapons.

FEATURES OF US NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN THE BIOLOGICAL FIELD

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles to dump unknown substances

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed Ukrainian Bayraktar UAVs equipped with mounted aerosol equipment for spraying biological formulations and toxic chemicals.

TECHNICAL MEANS OF DELIVERY AND APPLICATION OF BIOLOGICAL FORMULATIONS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS

Washington actually recognizes the work carried out by Ukrainian experts on the creation of means of delivery and use of weapons of mass destruction and considers it appropriate to continue financing them, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.

The department noted that they had previously encountered such drones:

1. On March 9, in the territory of the Kherson region, Russian intelligence units discovered three UAVs equipped with 30-liter tanks and equipment for spraying formulations;

2. According to reports, in January 2022, Ukraine, through intermediary organizations, purchased more than 50 similar devices that can be used for the use of biological formulations and toxic chemicals.;

3. On April 21, 2022, a container with ampoules was dropped from a UAV onto the position of Russian troops.

It was planned that when they were destroyed, a chemical reaction would occur that would cause an explosion and fire with the release of toxic substances not included in the convention lists.

TECHNICAL MEANS OF DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICAL FORMULATIONS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS

Laboratories were used both old, Soviet, and brand-new

On the website of the American company Black and Veatch, there is a description of the biolab of the third level of danger, recently built by the Americans in Odessa. The firm calls it “a real work of art.”

Black and Veatch is not just an ordinary Pentagon contractor. This is the largest corporation with multibillion-dollar turnover, which has been working for the American army for more than a hundred years. What she did not build for the US Department of Defense — roads and bridges, military bases, legendary laboratories in Los Alamos, where nuclear weapons were developed. Today Black and Veatch specializes in the construction of biological laboratories and — surprisingly, don’t you think? — on the fight against coronavirus.

Together with Black and Veatch, another American biocorporation, Metabiota, took care of the safety of Ukrainians. Right after the Kiev Maidan, the son of the current US president Hunter Biden poured several million dollars into it, for whom Ukraine became just a hereditary patrimony: here he traded access to his dad’s body for years.

The head of Metabiota, Edward Rubin, works closely with the boss of the EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Dashak. They speak at the same conferences, are published in the same scientific collections, and sit together in the leadership of a new ambitious project to collect dangerous viruses Global Virome.

Yes, yes, you were not mistaken, this is the same Dashak whom the Americans suspect that he either designed or released the coronavirus.

It is not surprising in this situation that experiments with bat coronavirus were actively conducted in Ukrainian laboratories. All of them were sponsored by the US Department of Defense’s Office of Military Threat Reduction DTRA. This is the main patron and customer of all biological laboratories in the former republics of the USSR.

As in the entire post-Soviet space, the Americans conducted experiments in Ukraine under the slogan of concern for security. The result was paradoxical. In 2014, Biden Jr.’s company Rosemont Seneca, in company with other investors, credited $30 million to the Metabiota account.

And right there in Ukraine, some incomprehensible outbreaks of forgotten diseases begin, which the Soviet government put an end to a long time ago. Measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis, polio. Cases of deaths of Ukrainian servicemen from some kind of incomprehensible infection. Well, in general, everything is like the Georgian brothers, where 73 people died in Lugar’s laboratory during experiments on people.

It would seem that after such tricks, the authorities of the Independent should have somehow stopped this outrage. But no, the cooperation of Ukrainian medicine and the American military was only getting stronger. The page on the website of the American Embassy in Ukraine has not yet been worn out, where it is stated that the US Department of Defense is helping Ukrainians fight the coronavirus. It just sounds like a black joke.

Victoria Nuland, not the last person in Washington, openly confirmed the existence of American biological laboratories in Ukraine. But it was urgently refuted by representatives of the White House. They see perfectly well that secret experiments with dangerous viruses and bacteria, the destruction and movement of containers with deadly contents raise big questions about how the United States complies with the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons.

But here new problems loom

Firstly, the United States does not allow anyone to control whether they comply with the convention at all. This is the only country out of all the participants that simply said that it would not let anyone into its laboratories, and that’s it. Secondly, the Pentagon deliberately places laboratories on the territory of third countries. There you can ensure complete secrecy — as it was in Ukraine — and get rid of the surveillance of any regulatory authorities, even the American ones.

And finally, the convention, which is observed by all decent countries of the world, will be fifty years old this year. It is hopelessly outdated. During this time, there have been many ways to bypass it.

The American military is not without reason so fond of experiments with viruses. There was no genetic modification fifty years ago and, accordingly, there was no way to edit the virus so that it was transmitted from animals to humans. Well, the Pentagon began to send its combat zoologists and virologists around the world. They are looking for new dangerous viruses in wild animals, and before they passed to humans. Then they are moved to the laboratory — and the “editing” begins.

The whole operation with the bat coronavirus is completely on this line, no matter what they tell us about unsanitary conditions in Chinese markets. The Russian military has just received evidence that similar dangerous experiments were conducted in Ukrainian laboratories. But this is not just a violation of the Biological weapons Convention. Considering that the experimental here was the population of Ukraine, which was “treated” for the coronavirus by the US Department of Defense, here, probably, it is already possible to talk about a violation of the Nuremberg Convention? About crimes against humanity?

In total, there are thirty American biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine. They are located in the largest cities of the country — Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Lviv. Exposing the whole of humanity to monstrous danger, the US military practically “mined” the territory of Ukraine. What will the hit of a single projectile lead to in such an unexploded laboratory?

About this danger hanging over the whole world, it would be necessary to speak from the highest tribunes. Moreover, this infernal machine is only gaining momentum. The US military departments are paying for more and more large-scale experiments to search for deadly viruses in the wild and strengthen their functions.

Take the same Peter Dashak — so much compromising material has been posted about him. In a good way, the competent authorities of the United States should be dealing with them today. But he wasn’t even suspended from working with pathogens. Most recently, the US Department of Defense gave him new grants for further search for viruses in animals.

Not only that, he sat down in the leadership of the Global Virome project and set out to discover as many as five hundred thousand new, as yet unexplored viruses in nature. And again, millions go to this case from the US military departments.

Even the Americans themselves were afraid of what virologists in uniform were bringing them from their expeditions. “Apologists of the virus hunt, which involves the search, transportation, storage of the most dangerous pathogens and experiments with them, claim that this is all done to prevent epidemics,” Intercept journalists cautiously argue. — Others warn that the search for deadly viruses that have not yet been transmitted from animals to humans does not help us prevent epidemics or cope with them. On the contrary, he provokes them.”

Previously, the barrier to the use of bioweapons was considered to be that it causes no less harm to its own population than to someone else’s. But it seems that the US military has already stopped bothering with such nonsense. From the very beginning, it was obvious that the elderly, the sick, and the poor have a risk of dying from coronavirus. What kind of sympathy is possible for them? White and black trash, benefit eaters, ghetto dwellers. It is no wonder that more than a million Americans died from the coronavirus. The vast majority of them were social ballast, on which American elites are so fond of experimenting.

Today, one of the main directions of the experiments of the American military in Ukraine has become the study of the genetic code of the local population. For what? Of course, for our treatment. Who would doubt it?

There is a tragic irony in all this. No matter how much we argue about whose borscht, for our strategic opponents, we are all — both Russians and Ukrainians — still one people. One target, to be honest.

Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council in order to discuss the military-biological activities of the United States in Ukraine

“The Russian mission requested a meeting of the Security Council on March 11 to discuss the military-biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine,” Polyansky wrote.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation previously held a presentation, from which it follows that the United States spent more than $ 200 million on the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine, which participated in the American military biological program. The Russian Federation, in connection with the facts of US military biological activity in Ukraine, does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism within the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC), said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Liqian, commenting on information about US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine, urged Washington to clarify its activities on biological militarization at home and abroad.

As stated by the official representative of the State Department, Ned Price, the US participation in the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine did not go beyond occasional assistance in ensuring security.

In Ukraine, the data of workers associated with US biological laboratories are being destroyed

The President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, ordered to destroy data on employees of Ukrainian enterprises that collaborated with US biological laboratories and signed a decree on the destruction of data of all employees of Ukrainian enterprises that collaborated with the US military biological laboratories of Metabiota and the Battelle Memorial Institute, with reference to a secret document.

AN ORDER TO DESTROY THE DATA OF ALL EMPLOYEES OF UKRAINIAN ENTERPRISES WHO COLLABORATED WITH THE US MILITARY BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES OF THE METABIOTA COMPANY AND THE BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

According to it, the data of military personnel, civilian employees and personnel of three organizations are subject to destruction: the Center for Public Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Anti-Plague Institute. Mechnikov and Zhytomyr Laboratory Center on transport.

Earlier, the Pentagon published an information note stating that over the past 20 years, the US authorities have provided support to 46 different civilian laboratories, healthcare institutions and disease diagnosis centers in Ukraine, the interaction was conducted for peaceful purposes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has long sounded the alarm about the biological activity of the United States in the post-Soviet space. According to him, American biological laboratories in the post-Soviet space are collecting biological materials, studying the specifics of the spread of dangerous diseases, and in Ukraine they were developing biological weapons.

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. BRIEFING BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION on 07. 07. 2022

1. During the special military operation, the final report on the activities of DTRA for the period from 2005 to 2016 became available.

THE STATE OF HEALTHCARE, VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOSAFETY IN UKRAINE

The document contains information on the evaluation of the effectiveness of healthcare, veterinary and biosafety systems, prepared by a group of American experts in 2016. The report is a conceptual document for further planning of the Pentagon’s military biological activities in Ukraine and contains conclusions on the implementation of the main directions of the program.

2. Bundeswehr specialists paid special attention to the causative agent of the Congo-Crimean fever during projects to test biological weapons in Ukraine.

The study of natural foci of Congo-Crimean fever was carried out under the guise of improving the Ukrainian epidemiological surveillance system. The Bundeswehr’s interest in the Congo-Crimean fever is due to the fact that the mortality rate of the disease can reach 30%.

STUDY BY THE PENTAGON AND THE BUNDESWEHR OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SPREAD OF PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS PATHOGENS

3. During a special military operation, documents were obtained indicating the plans of the Metabiota company and the Ukrainian Scientific and Technical Center for the study of the Ebola virus in Ukraine.

The research was planned to be conducted on the basis of the Mechnikov Anti-plague Institute in Odessa, while the Ministry of Defense clarified that the disease had never been recorded on the territory of Ukraine, so there is a natural question about the need for such studies and the true purpose of their conduct.

PENTAGON CONTRACTORS’ INTEREST IN STUDYING EBOLA

4. African swine fever was of particular interest to American military biologists.

Two projects are devoted to this pathogen: The TAP-3 project is aimed at studying the spread of the ASF pathogen through wild animals, within the framework of which the migration routes of wild boars in Ukraine were studied. The TAP-6 project has scaled this process to Eastern European countries. The study of the population of carriers of dangerous zoonotic infections was carried out by the staff of the Institute of New Pathogens of the University of Florida in the Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv regions of Ukraine, as well as in the territories bordering Belarus and Russia.

UKRAINIAN PROJECTS ON THE STUDY OF ECONOMICALLY SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASES

5. The US tried to refute the fact of the use of biological weapons in China and Korea.

At that time, Americans considered pathogens of brucellosis and economically significant infections, including wheat stem rust, as priority biological agents. Thus, a comparative analysis of the activities of the United States during the Korean War and currently on the territory of Ukraine indicates the immutability of the American policy of building up its own military-biological potential, bypassing international agreements.

U.S. DENIAL OF THE USE OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS DURING THE KOREAN WAR

5. The results of the analysis of blood samples of Ukrainian prisoners of war were published by the Russian Defense Ministry.

According to the Ministry of Defense, 33% have been ill or have hepatitis A, more than 4% have fever with renal syndrome, 20% have West Nile fever.

RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF BLOOD SAMPLES OF UKRAINIAN PRISONERS OF WAR

“These figures significantly exceed the average figures. Given the fact that these diseases were actively studied by the Pentagon within the framework of Ukrainian projects, there is reason to believe that servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine were involved as volunteers in experiments to assess the tolerability of dangerous infectious diseases,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Briefing theses of the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, General Igor Kirillov (September 3, 2022) (documents)

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. BRIEFING OF THE MINISTRY of DEFENSE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 03. 09. 2022

At the initiative of the Russian Federation, a meeting of the States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons will be held next week on the issue of non-compliance by the United States and Ukraine with obligations under this international treaty. During the event, documentary evidence of violations of articles I and IV of the Convention will be presented.

We want the organizations responsible for compliance with the Convention and the world community to pay attention to a number of biological threats.

Firstly, there are currently more than 50 biolabs modernized at the expense of the Pentagon and controlled by it in close proximity to the borders of the Russian Federation. In total, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries of the world are under the control of the US military department.

At the same time, their activities are accompanied by a worsening of the epidemic situation for particularly dangerous and economically significant infections, as well as the appearance of infectious diseases atypical for a particular region.

Thus, since 2010, in the territories bordering Ukraine, the Russian Federation has recorded an increase in the incidence of brucellosis, Congo-Crimean fever, West Nile fever, African swine fever, as well as an uncharacteristic expansion of vector ranges.

The Russian Federation, as a responsible party to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC), is fully aware of the full range of threats associated with the possible consequences of its violation during work in Ukrainian biological laboratories.

We have become aware of information about US-funded biological research on the territory of Ukraine. The order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated February 24, 2022 on the emergency destruction of collections of pathogenic microorganisms increased our concerns about a possible violation of the requirements of Articles I and IV of the BTWC in the course of work commissioned by the Pentagon. The materials obtained served as the basis for the Russian Federation to investigate the biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine.

CONDUCTING BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE BY ORDER OF THE PENTAGON

Research in Ukrainian biological laboratories was carried out in accordance with the Agreement “On Cooperation in preventing the spread of pathogens, technologies and knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons” of 2005 between the US Military Department and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

INCONSISTENCY OF UKRAINIAN PROJECTS WITH CURRENT HEALTH PROBLEMS

Total U.S. spending on biological programs in Ukraine exceeded $ 250 million

The work was coordinated by the Department of Threat Reduction of the US Department of Defense (DATA), the research was conducted in secrecy with limited access of Ukrainian specialists to information and premises.

At present, we are witnessing a change in the tactics of the American administration in an attempt to take out of harm’s way this department, whose activities have become the subject of international proceedings. So, according to available information, the functions of the customer of military biological programs in the Central Asian region have been transferred to civilian specialized organizations, whose work will be under the control of the US Navy service, which is the most closed structure.

In addition, the Pentagon intends to transfer the unfinished programs in Ukraine to other post-Soviet countries as soon as possible, as well as to Eastern European states (such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic) and the Baltic states.

THE SCHEME OF MOVEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM UKRAINE TO OTHER COUNTRIES

The expansion of the network of biological laboratories, on the basis of which it is possible to create and store components of biological weapons, poses a threat to the military security of the Russian Federation. Unlike nuclear weapons, which the United States places on the territory of NATO partner countries, such a policy of the Alliance in the biological sphere allows it to approach our borders uncontrollably. This is the first thing we would like to focus on.

Secondly, the direction of the work carried out by the Pentagon does not correspond to the current health problems of Ukraine, the main of which are socially significant diseases: measles, rubella, tuberculosis, AIDS.

At the same time, American customers are interested in a completely different nomenclature, namely: cholera, tularemia, plague, Congo-Crimean fever, hantaviruses. These pathogens were studied within the framework of the so-called Ukrainian projects “Yu-Pi” and “Tep”. The interest of US military biologists is due to the fact that these pathogens have natural foci both on the territory of Ukraine and in Russia, and their use can be disguised as natural outbreaks of diseases.

The activities of biological laboratories and the program of the so-called “reform” of the Ukrainian healthcare system implemented by the United States have led to an uncontrolled increase in the incidence of particularly dangerous and economically significant infections. On the territory of Ukraine, an increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis is recorded. The incidence of measles has increased more than 100 times. The situation with African swine fever has deteriorated significantly, the total losses of the agricultural industry in Eastern European countries from this disease exceeded 2.4 billion. euro.

Within the framework of the fight against infectious diseases declared by the US military department in Ukraine and ensuring sanitary and epidemic well-being, humanitarian assistance is not provided, vaccination of the population and treatment of the sick are not carried out.

Moreover, the volume of measles and rubella vaccination activities decreased by 70% compared to 2008. This raises the question of the true goals of the research.

The third. We have repeatedly stressed that one of the priority tasks of Ukrainian laboratories is to collect and send to the United States strains of pathogens of dangerous infectious diseases – cholera, anthrax, tularemia. At the same time, the movement of pathogens was not controlled within the framework of WHO, BTWC or other international institutions.

In accordance with the Act of checking the collection of strains of microorganisms at the Scientific Research Anti-Plague Institute named after In Odessa, 654 containers with the causative agent of anthrax, 422 containers with the causative agent of cholera were stored. The document notes that there is no need to contain a large number of test tubes with the same strains. At the same time, the nomenclature and the accumulated number of dangerous pathogens call into question the preventive, protective or other peaceful nature of the activities carried out.

According to the testimony of one of the employees, the collection of the Odessa Institute was exported to the USA in February 2022. Taking into account the fact that 46 laboratories participated in the American program, the total number of exported strains may be more than ten thousand.

The available documents confirm numerous cases of transfer abroad from Ukraine of human tissue samples and serum, as well as dangerous pathogens and their carriers. The United States and its allies managed to export at least 16 thousand bioassays outside Ukraine, which creates risks of transferring sensitive genetic information abroad, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for all those regions where the samples were transferred.

Fourthly, in accordance with the available documents, within the framework of the Yu-Pi-8 project, blood samples were taken from four thousand servicemen in Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Kiev for antibodies to hantaviruses, from four hundred for the presence of antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus. Such a large-scale immunity screening could be carried out in order to assess the susceptibility of the population of the region to certain biological agents.

Attention is drawn to the decision signed by the head of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Public Health of Ukraine on June 12, 2019 within the framework of this project. The document testifies to the conduct of research with an unknown risk to the life and health of the participants, as well as the concealment of the identity of the subjects. The research program of this project assumes only a standard procedure for blood sampling.

TESTING OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL AND SOCIALLY UNPROTECTED CATEGORIES OF UKRAINIAN CITIZENS

It is necessary to think about what consequences for the life of the tests we are talking about, if the document prescribes, quote “… minor incidents with volunteers must be reported to the US Bioethics Committee 72 hours after the incident, and serious ones, including the death of the subjects – within 24 hours …”?

We do not exclude that the official research program is just a “visible part of the iceberg”, while in practice, volunteers were infected with the Congo–Crimean fever virus, hantaviruses and the causative agent of leptospirosis.

The facts of conducting tests on military personnel and socially unprotected categories of Ukrainian citizens are confirmed by the testimony of eyewitnesses interviewed as part of the parliamentary investigation conducted in the Russian Federation.

Fifth. There is information about the development and patenting in the United States of technical means of delivery and use of biological weapons based on UAVs. Thus, the US Patent and Trademark Agency issued document No. 8,967,029 for an unmanned aerial vehicle for the spread of infected insects in the air. The description of the patent states that with the help of this device, enemy troops can be destroyed or disabled without risk to US military personnel.

As you know, in accordance with American law, a patent in the United States cannot be granted in the absence of a real device. Thus, it can be concluded that the container as a means of delivering biological agents was developed and produced.

Taking into account the development in the United States of technical means of delivery and the use of biological weapons, Ukraine’s interest in the supply of unmanned aerial vehicles is of particular concern.

We have at our disposal confirmation of Ukraine’s request to the Turkish manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles “Bayraktar” dated December 15, 2021 on the possibility of equipping this UAV with systems and mechanisms for spraying aerosols with a capacity of more than 20 liters.

TECHNICAL MEANS OF DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICAL FORMULATIONS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS

With a UAV flight range of up to 300 km and equipped with biological formulations, a real threat of large-scale use of biological weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation is created.

In this regard, the question arises: for what purpose did the United States develop and patent technical means of delivering biological weapons and what is the reason for Ukraine’s interest in acquiring such technical means?

And of particular concern, along with the Pentagon’s supervision of biological research, is the fact that since 2001 the United States has blocked any international initiatives to verify the BTWC. This excludes the possibility of checking the activities of laboratories both in the United States and outside of national jurisdiction.

Since 2016, the moment the implementation of Ukrainian law enforcement projects began, the United States and Ukraine have deliberately kept silent about them in the annual reporting on the implementation of the Convention as part of confidence–building measures, despite their obvious military-biological orientation. The documents do not reflect the financing of Ukrainian laboratories by the US military department. Such secrecy, as well as the secrecy of sensitive information, is another reason to think about the true goals of the Pentagon.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) AND TOXIC WEAPONS AND THEIR DESTRUCTION

The Russian Federation has consistently made efforts to create a legally binding mechanism for verifying the BTWC

The measures proposed by a number of countries to strengthen the Convention, in particular the initiative of France on voluntary visits to biological laboratories, while attractive, do not provide comprehensive monitoring of their activities.

The lack of clear verification procedures, as well as control lists of microorganisms and toxins, allows Western countries, led by the United States, to subjectively interpret the provisions of the BTWC. I would like to remind you that the collective West ignores the so-called “ten principle”. In accordance with this principle, the decision should be made taking into account an alternative point of view, even if it is expressed by only one State.

A good example is the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) site, where the decision to grant attributive powers to the organization was made at the request of the United States, contrary to the opinion of most countries. Such a mechanism allows you to “fabricate” the necessary evidence and appoint the perpetrators at your discretion, which has already been repeatedly implemented during investigations of chemical incidents in Syria.

We believe that there is a need to review the approaches to decision-making in the investigation of chemical and biological incidents at the UN Security Council site.

After the unfulfilled promises of the collective West about the non-proliferation of NATO to the East, we have no right to take the word of the US assurances about the peaceful nature of the biological research conducted by the Pentagon.

DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE STATED AND TRUE GOALS OF THE PENTAGON IN CONDUCTING BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The Russian Federation has repeatedly appealed to the United States and Ukraine on various international platforms with a request to clarify the following questions: why the work was carried out specifically by order of the Pentagon, and their subject matter did not correspond to current health problems in Ukraine; what the Americans were hiding by carrying out work in conditions of secrecy and restricting access to information and premises by Ukrainian specialists; why were strains of pathogenic microorganisms – potential agents of biological weapons and biomaterials of Ukrainian citizens exported from the territory of Ukraine without a clear declared purpose; why were the facts of cooperation in the military-biological sphere kept silent in international reporting under the BTWC, and the United States has been blocking the development of its verification mechanism since 2001; why are US officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, so concerned about the possibility of transferring the results of the activities of the US Department of Defense in Ukraine and the materials in biological laboratories under the control of Russian specialists?

We have voiced only a part of the issues that cause us extreme concern

Meanwhile, we would like to answer the question why the research was conducted outside the national territory ourselves.

In a memorandum prepared by the US State Department in order to address Russian concerns expressed since October 12, 2018 regarding the United States’ compliance with the BTWC, Washington emphasizes the strict implementation of the provisions of the Convention, once again offering to take “the word”.

In addition, this note refers to the “noble tradition of participation of United States military scientists in public health research, which has lasted for more than 100 years.” Examples of such “participation” are well known to us – Vietnam and Cuba.

I would like to focus separately on another document that we have at our disposal concerning the testing of the tularemia vaccine developed by the Walter Reed Research Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army in 2004 on United States military personnel. During the trials, which involved 1064 people, 468 cases of complications were registered.

In many ways, this explains the fact that such high-risk studies have been transferred outside the national territory. This is evidenced by the agreement signed on August 29, 2005, a year after these studies, between the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defense.

DOCUMENTS CONFIRMING THE DESIRE OF THE UNITED STATES TO TRANSFER THE TESTING OF BIOLOGICAL DRUGS OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL TERRITORY

Currently, we are witnessing the appearance of publications in the foreign press with Washington’s nervous reaction to extremely sensitive documents released by the Ministry of Defense. Journalists note that American intelligence agencies are taking unprecedented measures so that the Russian side does not have potential witnesses close to the implementation of the Pentagon’s closed military-biological projects in Ukraine.

Such concerns of the White House once again confirm to us the threatening nature of the US military biological program disguised as peaceful purposes, both for Russia and for the entire world community.

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THE ROOF OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE AT THE ZAPOROZHYE NPS DAMAGED BY SHELLING

Fuming Jiang, a nuclear safety specialist at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was last checked at the NPS on January 16, 2020.

ENTRANCE TO THE DRY STORAGE SITE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL AT THE ZAPOROZHYE NPS

Mr. Fumin probably walked around the station with his eyes closed or his pockets full.

SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN CONCRETE CONTAINERS AT THE OPEN STORAGE SITE OF THE ZAPOROZHYE NPS

After all, it is impossible not to see what actually happened at the nuclear power plant. There is an official letter from one of the station’s technical specialists. The man ran after Fumin literally the whole check and warned about the approaching disaster at the nuclear power plant – the expiration date of nuclear reactors came out five years ago (unit No. 1 and No. 2 in 2015, unit No. 3 in 2017, unit No. 4 in 2018, the fifth in 2020). The work of all the reactors had to be stopped urgently, and the Soviet equipment (the units were launched in the 1980s-1990s) had to be inspected by the designers of the station – Russian nuclear scientists, the specialist warned.

Fumin together with the management of the station pretended that the inspection was calm and there was no itchy employee with a panic mood. The official verdict of the 2020 IAEA inspection is “no violations have been detected, the equipment is working properly”.

Then the management of the NPS reprimanded the employee for “taking the trash out of the hut” and promised to deprive him of his job for such antics. However, the man’s concern turned out to be stronger – his wife and children live in Zaporozhye, and the reactors can explode at any moment. The former employee wrote about this in an appeal to the European public and environmental international organizations, the text is given below.

“The danger of disaster is hidden from the public! Such work [extending the service life] costs billions of US dollars. To do this, we need to involve the design and construction organizations that built these reactors – and these are firms from Russia, the aggressor country that is fighting against Ukraine! Cooperation with the Putin regime is out of the question. Ukraine is part of Europe, and we must solve such problems together. I don’t want my city to become a second Chernobyl or Fukushima!” – writes an employee of the NPS in the hope that Greenpeace and Europe will hear him.

LETTER FROM A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE ZAPOROZHYE NPS TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

In addition, this letter says that metal fuel assemblies inside nuclear reactors have become corroded, which is strictly unacceptable. Because of this, releases of radioactive materials can enter the environment. Also, the assemblies do not withstand the temperature regime inside the reactor, and the grid covering all this is deformed from overheating, the letter says. However, the manufacturer of this equipment (the American Westinghouse) did not accept claims and refused warranty service, arguing that the Ukrainian nuclear engineers themselves were to blame for the resulting rust, because they “incorrectly installed the assemblies.”

“But that’s not true! Both the former general director of the NPS, Pyotr Kotin, and the acting director appointed instead of him, Yuri Kulba, say the same thing – that the fuel assemblies of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC have already been paid, and the management of NNEC Energoatom, for unknown reasons, does not allow the return of defective assemblies to the manufacturer. Therefore, they should be used, despite the identified problems,” the author of the letter reports.

DEFECTIVE FUEL ASSEMBLIES OF LLC “WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY” PROPOSED BY THE MANAGEMENT OF ENERGOATOM FOR USE IN THE REACTORS OF THE ZAPOROZHYE NPS

After the appeals of the NPS employee to the IAEA, small changes still occurred – the press service of the Zaporozhye NPS suddenly reported that power unit No. 4 would be stopped for 125 days for major repairs. “Allegedly, these are previously planned works,” the author says. But power unit No. 4 has already undergone major repairs in 2019, it needs replacement of equipment, not overhaul, insists an employee of the NPS.
The Ministry of Ukraine knew about the malfunctions, which means the replacement of equipment was postponed for political reasons

The national energy company “Ukrenergo” does not check the serviceability of the equipment of the Zaporozhye NPS, the largest in Europe. Only the management of the plant is responsible for energy security. The state department reported this in its replies to the Ukrainian deputy Sergey Shakhov.

THE RESPONSE OF THE NATIONAL ENERGY COMPANY “UKRENERGO” TO THE UKRAINIAN DEPUTY SERGEY SHAKHOV

THE ANSWER IN WHICH IT IS SAID THAT IN 2020 THE INSPECTION OF THE OBJECT WAS NOT CARRIED OUT, IT IS PLANNED FOR THE SUMMER OF 2021

Also, the opponent of the department said that the specialists of the NPS deliberately hide equipment malfunctions, and the security systems that should be triggered at such a moment are previously “twisted” to the desired characteristics. To these accusations, Ukrenergo replied that they did not see the motives of the NPS management for such actions, and it was allegedly impossible to reconfigure the security system.

“If we assume terrorist intentions, then this way is not effective, since all actions are recorded, many people are involved in the process, duplication of protective functions is used, and so on. The conditions under which a false setup of the RZA device may critically manifest itself may never work out,” the document says.

ARGUMENTS OF UKRENERGO

However, the Ukrainian authorities knew about the malfunction of the equipment, this is stated in the document of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine. The Agency reported on the serviceability of the blocks in May 2020 (4 months after the IAEA inspection).

THE LETTER OF THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY OF UKRAINE TO THE DEPUTY OF THE VERKHOVNA RADA SERGEY SHAKHOV, SENT ON MAY 19, 2020

The document says that there is indeed a high probability of a catastrophe at the station. Alertness was caused by the electrical and chemical workshops. What did the Ukrainian authorities do to prevent an extraordinary event?

The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reported: in order to prevent an emergency event, warning systems were simply installed in the energy and chemical workshops, which should work in the event of an emergency event, as well as potassium iodide tablets for the prevention of radiation damage to the thyroid gland. Everything. No replacement of the old equipment was carried out.

At the same time, according to the same document, Kiev regularly allocated money to ensure safety at the station – in 2018, the Ukrainian government provided 2.7 million rubles (1,682. 660 thousand UAH without VAT) to the enterprise, in 2019 – 4.9 million rubles (3,014. 641 thousand UAH without VAT), in 2020 – 3.3 million rubles (2,009,462 thousand UAH without VAT). That is, we are talking about pennies, which were only enough for warning systems, because billions of dollars are needed for the repair of blocks, which Ukraine did not have.

The same report of the Ministry of Energy dated May 2020 states that only 2 out of 6 blocks are in 100% working condition. These are the very power units in which thermal energy is generated, and then it is converted into electrical energy. Unit No. 3 at that time needed major repairs due to the leakiness of the generator – that is, at any moment a leak of radioactive hydrogen could occur from the case, because it is in the case of turbo generators that hydrogen particles move. Block No. 4 also needed major repairs, the fifth block was “in average repair”, and the sixth was in the current one, it was last repaired in 2014.

REASONS FOR STOPPING THE POWER UNITS OF THE ZAPOROZHYE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Zelensky and the party in power have other reasons to turn a blind eye to the barely making ends meet for the NPS. The fact is that nuclear power generation is much cheaper than thermal power plants. It would be more reasonable to give leadership in providing nuclear power plants with energy, but then where would the director of UTPP, the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, get money from?

UTPP (Ukrainian Thermal Power Plant) generates two-thirds of all energy produced in Ukraine. Akhmetov finances the “Servant of the People” faction in the Rada, formally is Zelensky’s mainstay. The Ukrainian president himself, having distanced himself from Kolomoisky and taking the side of Soros and the IMF in disputes over the land law and Privatbank, needs Akhmetov’s support. The oligarch is prevented by nuclear energy from earning.

Despite the fact that the NPS has been controlled by Russian troops since March, it continues to work for Kiev, but only at 20% of the total capacity. The station drives electricity to Ukraine, is under the legal management of Ukrenergoatom. Ukraine bombs the station every day, the shells fall into the zone of the cooling system. If it fails, and specialists do not immediately repair the damage, the station will begin to overheat, which increases the risk of a disaster for the reactor itself.

These attacks actually have two calculated goals

Firstly, by firing at the station, the Kiev regime expects to hide from the world community the real state of affairs at the NPP, which will cause big questions to the responsible persons, first of all to Zelensky.

Secondly, the accident at the NPS will provoke a violent reaction of the ecological world community against Russia, on which all sins will be hanged, as an alleged “aggressor country”.

The Russian Defense Ministry believes that Kiev plans to carry out another provocative shelling of the station on August 19 during the visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to Ukraine. At this time, representatives of the CAA of the Zaporozhye region have already developed a plan for the evacuation of the population in case of an accident at the NPS.

Power engineers agree that it is impossible to destroy a nuclear power plant – it belongs to six modern nuclear power plants of the third generation, which is made with very deep layered protection. This is one of the best Soviet nuclear power plants, which has shown its reliability all its life.

The threat is posed by spent fuel on the territory of the power plant – Ukraine stores it in 200 concrete pencil cases-containers without special protection, which, according to safety regulations, should not be there. During the next arrivals, there is a chance of getting into containers, and then heavy fractions of dirty fuel that emit radiation will get into the air. There is a huge chance of infection. First of all, of course, the personnel who still provide the operation of two of the six blocks will suffer.

GENERAL PLAN OF THE ZAPOROZHYE NUCLEAR POWER STATION

Thus, in the event of an impact at a certain location of the station, a radioactive leak will occur. This will lead to an ecological catastrophe of a regional scale – pollution of the Dnieper groundwater and air, said Sergey Kondratiev, Deputy head of the Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance.

ZAPOROZHYE NUCLEAR POWER STATION – SATELLITE VIEW

But the consequences can be severe depending on the scale of this leak – a radio wave can travel a radius of up to 845 km and cover Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Volgograd, and even Smolensk. From Zaporozhye NPS to Moscow 900-950 km.

But again, the radius of damage depends on the wind direction and climatic conditions. Emissions can also cover eastern Europe – Bulgaria, Slovakia, Turkey. Or settle on the coast of Turkey, Krasnodar Krai, Romania. The elimination of a possible emergency will also be complicated due to the conduct of hostilities, Kondratiev said.

Treasures of the Zaporozhye NPS

The last World Economic Forum in Davos presented several interesting surprises to the world and they are connected, you won’t believe it, with Ukraine. The first person who caused Zelensky’s hysteria was former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who advised Kiev to make concessions to Russia. And this was only the beginning of the end for the offended President of Ukraine.

The West is slowly beginning to merge Ukraine. Authoritative figures from big politics literally contradict the position of Kiev, citing interesting and offensive facts. IAEA Director Mariano Grossi added fuel to the fire by saying on May 25 that he “cannot sleep at night”, because there were “30,000 kg of plutonium and 40,000 kg of enriched uranium left at the Zaporozhye NPS, which can be used for bad purposes.”

True, Grossi forgot, but rather deliberately missed one extremely important point — the Zaporozhye NPS is controlled by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which means that its reserves will be used for their most direct purpose — they will be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants and used for the production of warheads. In the name of the balance of nuclear forces on the planet, of course.

To understand the amount of capital acquired, let’s take a look at the official data of the US Department of Science — they estimate one gram of plutonium at $ 5000-11000 (depending on the type). There are 30 million enriched grams left at the Zaporozhye NPS. Multiply by the average cost, say $8000 / gram, and we get = 240.000.000.000 bucks.

Once again: $240 billion for plutonium alone! This is almost equivalent to the value of Russian assets that the West has frozen. Maybe Mr. Grossi got the numbers mixed up? No, the report is still on the IAEA website. Not a bad cashback for Russia, right? Although it is forbidden to sell plutonium, but HOW much will our nuclear and military industries be able to save thanks to this…

If the entire Russian nuclear power industry consumes ~5,500 tons of natural uranium per year, then 40,000 enriched uranium will be able to power our nuclear power plants for decades! However, in addition to this, there is also plutonium. A nuclear bomb takes from 6 to 10 kg of reactor plutonium, i.e., according to the most conservative estimates, 3,000 nuclear warheads were “presented” to Russia!

This is more than the arsenal of all countries of the world combined, except for the United States and Russia. Why did Ukraine make such huge reserves? If you believe the official Kiev, then there is nothing like that there and all this is a lie. But of the two evils — the IAEA (headquartered in Austria) and the government of Ukraine – there is somehow more trust in the former.

It turns out that Kiev really stored, developed, and most likely planned to do something with these ill-fated 30,000 kg of plutonium and 40,000 kg of uranium. Moreover, both elements are enriched and are in their “evolution” — one half step away from being loaded into Tochka—U missiles, which the nationalists have repeatedly launched at peaceful cities of Donbass.

Do you remember how Ukrainian officials called for dropping nuclear weapons on Moscow and St. Petersburg back in 2020? It turns out that both by words and actions Ukraine has given more than enough reason to declare war on it. Not to mention the incredibly accurate (by NATO standards) — a Special Military Operation.

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But how is Joe Biden connected with this and where did his family’s investment activity come from in general? To begin with, the current American leader is not directly involved in commercial affairs, only his youngest son appears in the contracts. At the same time, Hunter Biden organized transactions not alone, but together with his friends: the adopted son of former Secretary of State John Kerry and the heir to the billion-dollar fortune of the Heinz family food company Christopher Heinz, as well as the financial adviser of the Kerry family Devon Archer. All these people were familiar from the time of studying at Yale University, which they graduated from in 1995 – 1996.

FORMER US SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY (RIGHT) WITH HIS ADOPTED SON CHRISTOPHER HEINZ (LEFT)

And if everything is very clear with Biden and Heinz, then Archer took his place in the nascent money laundering scheme not by chance. At Yale, Archer was not only an athlete (the best player on the varsity lacrosse team in 1994), but also a good student. Having gained experience in serious law firms, in 2004, he passed the test when, on Heinz’s recommendation, he helped organize the presidential election campaign of then-Democratic Senator John Kerry.

JOHN KERRY SPEAKS TO VOTERS DURING THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Despite the failure in the 2004 elections, where Republican George W. Bush wins, Devon still enters the trusted circle of the Kerry family and becomes their financial adviser. And here the time comes for the second act of this theatrical production.

Rosemont Capital Group of Companies

In 2005, Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer founded Rosemont Capital LLC. It becomes the so-called “family office” (family office), that is, a private company providing services for the management of family property and other assets. The assets of the Kerry and Heinz families are transferred to her jurisdiction.

ROSEMONT CAPITAL’S NEW YORK OFFICE IS LOCATED ON THE 47TH FLOOR OF THE PRESTIGIOUS CARNEGIE HALL TOWER IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN

The name Rosemont was not chosen by chance – the Heinz estate of the same name is located near the city of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Christopher spent part of his childhood there.

THE ESTATE OF THE HEINZ FAMILY ROSEMONT FARM IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

In 2007, Heinz and Archer register Rosemont Capital Management LLC, a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital, designed to manage companies and firms owned by the Heinz family.

In turn, in August 2008, Hunter Biden founded Seneca Global Advisors, a “boutique consulting firm” that was supposed to help small and medium-sized companies enter the markets of the United States and other countries. This is not Hunter’s first experience in business. Before that, he had already tried to create his own business, but failed because of his addictions.

After the victory of Barack Obama in the presidential election in 2008, the political weight of Joe Biden, who becomes vice president of the United States, has grown noticeably. His party colleague, Senator John Kerry, becomes Biden’s successor as chairman of the Senate Foreign Policy Committee. Realizing the opening prospects of earning easy money, Hunter and the company begin to act.

In 2008 – 2009, Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer agree to create a joint business with far-reaching goals.

On June 25, 2009, just six months after the inauguration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they register the firm Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, which is 50% owned by Rosemont Capital, and 50% by Biden (combining the names Rosemont – Heinz and Archer, Seneca – Bidens). A month later, on July 29, 2009, another joint firm, Rosemont Seneca Advisors LLC, opens.

The firm is doing very well and in January 2010, to promote their interests, the partners open an office in Washington, DC, just a few blocks from the White House.

THE WATERFRONT CENTER BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, DC, WHERE ROSEMONT SENECA PARTNER RENTS SPACE ON THE TOP FLOOR, IN OFFICE 705

In addition, in 2010 Hunter receives a stake in Rosemont Realty LLC, founded by Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer. At that time, another graduate from Yale, Daniel Barrel, was already working there. He is a very good manager and with his direct participation in 2010 Rosemont Realty LLC acquired BGK, which owns 135 commercial buildings in 22 states.

PARTNER OF THE ROSEMONT GROUP OF COMPANIES DANIEL BARREL

In 2011, Biden, Heinz and Archer opened the firm Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners LLC, which also became a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital LLC. Moreover, the addresses of the branches of Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC and Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners LLC in Washington are the same. The company has been investing in the technology sector and in biotechnology. Hunter Biden holds the position of Managing Director of the RSTP branch in New York.

All these organizations have become a platform for the Rosemont Capital Group of companies. It is worth noting that the companies opened by Hunter and partners were registered in the state of Delaware. There are several reasons for this:

1. Low tax rates in the state. All registered organizations by structure are LLC (Limited Liability Company) – a limited liability company. This form of business allows for greater flexibility in terms of taxation. In addition, LLC, unlike corporations (Corp.), has a less standardized and rigid operating structure, as well as fewer reporting and accounting requirements.

2. Strict corporate rules (data on beneficial owners are not collected, which allows politicians to maintain their anonymity).

3. Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 before being elected vice president.

4. Hunter’s older brother, Beau Biden, served as Delaware Attorney General from 2007 to 2015.

Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners and Metabiota

In 2013, the management of Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners LLC decided to invest in the biotech company Metabiota Inc., as a promising company, whose founder Nathan Wolf has a reputation as a serious scientist, virologist and infectious disease specialist, has repeatedly received grants from foundations and US government agencies.

THE FOUNDER OF METABIOTA IS VIROLOGIST NATHAN WOLFE

On March 20, 2014, a round of investments is taking place, following which Metabiota company attracts at least $3 million.

Metabiota is becoming such a well-known company that the Government of Sierra Leone and the World Health Organization at the end of March 2014 appealed to Metabiota for help in connection with the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

A FIELD HOSPITAL IN WEST AFRICA EQUIPPED IN CONNECTION WITH THE EBOLA OUTBREAK

Metabiota responded to the help and immediately got to work. As the witnesses of those events note, questions immediately arose about the work of Metabiota employees. So, there were a large number of questions about their compliance with safety requirements, as well as the work regulations. Moreover, as WHO Ebola Coordinator Philippe Barbosa noted in an email dated August 2014, Metabiota employees “systematically hinder any attempts to improve the existing epidemiological surveillance system.” He even said that WHO should withdraw its staff from the city of Kenema, writing that he was “very concerned about the potential risk to the reputation of WHO.”

The logical continuation of the work in Sierra Leone was that Metabiota employees “messed up with Ebola.” This was stated by a medical historian from the University of Paris, Diderot Guillaume Lachenal, who followed the epidemic in West Africa. Surprisingly, the activity of Metabiota was eventually marked for the better. The company is publicly thanked by the WHO leadership, and in December 2014, the company even received a grant from the European Union to develop new methods of treating Ebola.

According to sources familiar with the situation, the management of Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, through its considerable connections, put pressure on officials of the World Health Organization so that all complaints and accusations remain unanswered. Moreover, the company even managed to participate in the development of the federal budget and received even more contracts.

Interestingly, in the same year 2014, the company receives carte blanche for full-scale activities in Ukraine, related, as it turned out later, not only to the biotechnological sphere. So, on April 4, 2014, the vice-president of Metabiota, Merry Gutteri, writes Hunter a famous email thanking him for organizing the meeting and offering to continue discussing how they could “defend the cultural and economic independence of Ukraine from Russia.” The company turned out to be extremely useful for the Biden clan and the pro-Ukrainian lobby in the American establishment. Moreover, it was quite easy and not expensive to organize activities in Ukraine: by that time, connections had already been established through Burisma, in which Hunter Biden was on the board of directors.

Moreover, to consolidate the success in Sierra Leone, Metabiota planned to carry out research in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the proposal of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (USTC) with a proposal to finance measures to improve laboratory diagnostics of particularly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine, including the Ebola virus disease.

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER (USTC)

The study was planned to be conducted at the only laboratory suitable for studying such a dangerous disease in Odessa, on the basis of the Anti-plague Institute. Mechnikov. It was during this period that Metabiota was actively involved in Ebola. It was at this time that Metabiota, with the help of Hunter Biden’s connections, actively enters Ukraine.

COORDINATION OF BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF UKRAINE WITH THE USA

It seems that the Ukrainian officials bribed by Metabiota once again intended to conclude a cooperation agreement on the study of Ebola without any reason. The disease has never been recorded on the territory of Ukraine. In addition, the Ukrainian authorities were not confused by the “stunning” successes of Metabiota in Sierra Leone. Most likely, the priority was their own enrichment, and not concern for the population, which may face a new epidemic due to the fault of Western experts who are not quite competent in this matter. Ukraine has miraculously avoided an epidemic of the Ebola virus in its country.

Rosemont Seneca and companies from China

In 2013, Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz, together with the largest Chinese funds, create the BHR Partners investment fund or Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. In this very long name, the abbreviation RST stands for R – Rosemont (Heinz and Archer), S – Seneca (Biden) and T – Thornton Group (consulting company of the son of the ex-chairman of the Massachusetts Senate). Hunter Biden “magically” becomes a member of the foundation’s board.

It is noteworthy that all the agreements were concluded against the background of the official visit to China of the American delegation headed by Joe Biden. According to some rumors, rich and influential offspring arrived in China on the same board of Air Force Two with the American vice president. To make settlements with the Bohai Foundation, Archer, Biden and Heinz found the company Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC.

DEVON ARCHER WITH CHINESE PARTNERS

In 2015, the Chinese investment fund Gemini Investment, which has long intended to enter the American real estate market, acquires 75% of the shares of Rosemont Realty LLC, and the company is renamed Gemini-Rosemont Realty LLC. At the same time, 20% goes to Daniel Barrel, and 5% remains to managers from Rosemont.

In 2016, BHR Partners, on whose board Hunter sits, facilitated the purchase of one of the largest cobalt mines in the world, Tenke Fungurume in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by the Chinese state-owned company China Molybdenum. The deal amounted to almost $4 billion. Cobalt is one of the strategic materials for the US industry, so the deal caused a negative reaction in the United States. However, there was no responsibility for such a strategic mistake for anyone. Attempts to investigate this case and the role of Hunter Biden were severely suppressed.

TENKE FUNGURUME DEPOSIT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

The public rift between Hunter and Christopher

In 2015, Hunter Biden leaves the post of a member of the board of directors of Rosemont Seneca Partners. A number of media outlets claim that Hunter’s removal from the management of the company was due to a positive test for cocaine in February 2014, after which he was discharged from the US Navy reserve.

However, at that time, more than a year had passed since the incident, and this version looks unconvincing. Officially, the reason was not named, but it probably happened due to excessive media attention to Hunter’s appointment to the board of directors of the Ukrainian company Burisma. Then many representatives of the American establishment saw this as a conflict of interest. The fact is that the United States promoted Ukraine’s independence from Russian gas, as well as the fight against corruption. But at the same time, the son of the current vice president held a post in the company of a Ukrainian oligarch, which was regarded in society as double standards.

Interestingly, in the same 2015, Christopher Heinz also stated that he has not been on the board of directors of Rosemont Seneca Partners since 2014 and has no business relationship with Hunter Biden. There is nothing strange in this, if you understand that corruption scandals were already gaining momentum and none of the management of Rosemont Seneca planned to tarnish their name.

Moreover, by 2016, the management of Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, paying attention to possible reputational risks, is rebranding, changing the name to Pilot Growth Equity.

In 2017, Seneca Global Advisors, as well as the Rosemont Seneca Partners office in Washington, DC, will be liquidated. However, a legal entity registered in Delaware continues its activities to this day. Moreover, it is reliably known that from 2014 to 2016 Hunter Biden, through the Rosemont Seneca Bohai company, received financial contributions from Burisma, which he probably gave to strengthen the reputation of the US Democratic Party.

Results

Despite the fact that according to the laws of the state of Delaware, information about the shareholders of the Rosemont group of companies is not collected and cannot be found in the public domain, Hunter Biden clearly maintained contacts with his former partners after 2014. As the owner of shares in various LLC related to Rosemont, he could influence the transactions being conducted. At least the financial transfers in the period from 2014 to 2016 testify to his continuing ties with the Rosemont group of companies.

He also influenced the management of Metabiota and, accordingly, was involved in the military biological activities of the United States. Moreover, using his father’s connections, he participated in promoting the interests of Metabiota and helped conceal negative information about the results of its work in Sierra Leone.

There is also a completely conspiratorial theory that indicates that Hunter did not receive money from participating in Metabiota projects, since he extracted exclusively political dividends from the company’s activities and contributed to the development of biological weapons in the interests of the special services and the US Defense Ministry.

The public rift in the relationship between Biden Jr. and Rosemont is nothing more than a PR move designed to reduce possible reputational risks for the company and personally for Christopher Heinz. This is evidenced by the fact that Heinz did not declare the termination of working relations with Devon Archer. At the same time, they were preserved between Archer and Hunter, as indicated by accounts and correspondence, kindly merged from laptops.

From all that is available, it can be unequivocally concluded that Joe Biden’s activities as a senator, vice president and president of the United States to this day have signs of a conflict of interest, since his son was a member of the board of directors in Chinese and Ukrainian companies located in foreign jurisdiction.

HUNTER BIDEN’S CONNECTION WITH THE ROSEMONT GROUP OF COMPANIES, WHICH ALLOWS HIM TO MAKE A PROFIT AT THE PRESENT TIME (OF ALL THE COMPANIES REPRESENTED IN THE SCHEME, ONLY ONE HAS BEEN LIQUIDATED)

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I quote: “In the US state of Georgia, a monument was demolished, which was called the American Stonehenge”, Business Insider reports.

THE DESTROYED “GEORGIA TABLETS”THE DESTROYED “GEORGIA TABLETS”

The six-meter granite monument “The Tablets of Georgia” was installed in Albert County in 1980 by order of an unknown client hiding under a pseudonym. This fact, as well as mysterious inscriptions in twelve languages, four of which are ancient, contributed to conspiracy theories arising around the monument.

THE TABLETS OF GEORGIA ON RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

The message called on the inhabitants of the Earth to limit their number to half a billion people – in order to live “in constant balance with nature. Conspiracy theorists believed that the monument was proof of an elite conspiracy calling for the violent depopulation of the planet. The monument also served as an astronomical calendar: every day at noon sunlight penetrated through a narrow hole in the structure and illuminated the engraved dates.

Two-sided vertical plates with inscriptions in eight active languages contained the ten “commandments” of the so-called “Age of Reason”, which should come after certain shocks that will cover all of humanity. Languages were distributed on the plates in pairs: Russian and Chinese, English and Spanish, Hindi and Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew. The upper plate, on the ends of which there were inscriptions in four dead languages — Babylonian, ancient Greek, Sanskrit and ancient Egyptian, contained a call to recognize and accept these “tablets” as the covenant of the “reasonable age”. These are, so to speak, the “commandments”:

First: let the earth’s population never exceed 500 million, being in constant balance with nature.

Second: intelligently regulate the birth rate, increasing the value of life preparation and diversity of humanity.

Third: we will find a new living language capable of uniting humanity.

Fourth: show tolerance in matters of feelings, faith, traditions and the like.

Fifth: let fair laws and an impartial court stand up for the protection of peoples and nations.

Sixth: let each nation solve its own internal affairs by bringing national problems to the world court.

Seventh: avoid petty litigation and useless officials.

Eighth: maintain a balance between personal rights and public responsibilities.

Ninth: above all, value truth, beauty, love, striving for harmony with infinity.

Tenth: don’t be a cancer for the Earth, leave a place for nature!

The monument was blown up on Wednesday at dawn by unknown vandals

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation tweeted a video of the explosion captured by a surveillance camera and footage of a car driving away from the scene.

DEMOLITION OF THE “GEORGIA TABLETS”

The rest of the structure was demolished by the decision of the authorities later that day for security reasons, since the restoration required too much money.

DISMANTLING OF THE “GEORGIA TABLETS” BY AN EXCAVATOR

A local politician, a former candidate for governor of Georgia, Candice Taylor made the dismantling of the monument part of her election platform, promising to demolish it if she won. After the news appeared that the “Tablets” were blown up, Taylor wrote in social networks: “God is God in Itself. He can do WHATEVER he wants. This includes destroying satanic landmarks.” The monument was located 666 km from the UN building. It weighed 119 tons, consisted of 6 granite slabs, on which the same inscription was made in 8 modern languages. The message about the explosion was made by the local FBI, the footage from the video cameras was posted on Twitter. The monument was under round-the-clock video surveillance from all sides.

There are a lot of incomprehensible things in this story, but let’s try to analyze it

The date of July 6, 2022 is very difficult from the point of view of the gematria used by Satanists to calculate the dates of key events. Firstly, July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days left until the end of the year.

In the XX and XXI centuries, it corresponds to June 23 according to the Julian calendar, and 236 (239) is a very popular code among THEM, as we already know. And it means something like “Events with our (Satanic) participation”, or you can also say “We had a hand here”. This is my own interpretation based on my observations.

Secondly, there are several more bundles for this date considered by gematria researchers:

GEMATRIA OF THE “GEORGIA SPIRALS”

The language of “anti—Western” is very close to the ideas of “sustainable development”, although the monument appeared on the vernal equinox, March 22, 1980, and the term “sustainable development” – in 1987, in the report of the UN Commission on Environment and Development “Our common Future” (Gru Commission Harlem Bruntland). This indicates that such ideas have been wandering in globalist circles for a long time, long before their conceptual design. Actually, it is no secret that for the first time the question of “regulation”, but in fact restrictions and population reduction was raised back in 1972 in the first report to the Rome Club “Limits of Growth” (the authors are the Dennis Meadows group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It was said about the need to freeze the volume of industrial production and the birth rate at the level of 1975 — no more than two children in a family. In order not to interpret it freely, we will give the justification for these actions directly from the text of the “Limits of Growth”. “Excessive population growth is a recent phenomenon, the result of a decrease in mortality. …There are only two ways to correct the imbalance that has arisen — either to reduce the rate of population growth and bring them into line with the low mortality rate, or to allow the mortality rate to rise again.” As they say, no comment! At the same time and in the same report, the term “global equilibrium” was first used, subsequently replaced by “sustainable development”.

Informally, it is also known that since 1952, the topic of population reduction has been actively developed by the Population Council, a global NGO that is closely linked, on the one hand, with the Rockefeller Foundation, and on the other, has consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

At the same time, high-ranking sources in the Masonic order, periodically revealing some stories related to it, claim that we are talking about compensating filling in certain “gaps” of knowledge and norms of behavior of people and humanity as a whole, due to the alleged “insufficiency” of state and religious commandments. It follows from this that the “anti-Western beliefs” of the destroyed “tablets” were opposed to states and traditional religions. If we turn to the trends, documents and institutions of modern globalism, then, indeed, it is easy to make sure that their sum is aimed at the erosion of states that are listed in the UN documents on “sustainable development” in the list of subjects of global change separated by commas with global business and global civil society. Judging by what is written in these texts, it is the last two forces united by the imperatives of globalism that are assigned the role of replacing state influence with some private one.

The globalization project itself contains two components — civilizational and geopolitical

The first is associated with “fragmentation” — a combination of fragmentation with integration. We are talking about the destruction of civilizational identities with their religious foundations and the integration of the society atomized in this way into a new global community, a set of “citizens of the world” devoid of ethnic and confessional roots. Or, according to Jacques Attali, “new nomads”. The geopolitical part of the project calls for “glocalization” — a combination of global and local. That is, the transfer of state powers and subjects of competence up to global and regional structures, and down to provincial (regional) and municipal (local). It should be noted that the term “regional” in globalism has a different interpretation than in state constitutions. Here he appeals to the principle of regionalism — the division of humanity into ten regions with appropriate specialization, headed by REC — regional economic commissions included in the structure of the aforementioned ECOSOC, one of the main UN bodies (see Report to the Club of Rome by Michael Mesarovich — Eduard Pestel “Humanity at a Crossroads”, 1974). The entire UN system and other international organizations included in its structure are built on the basis of the regional principle.

A small digression

Why exactly ten regions? The answer is simple: the mythological Atlantis was divided into ten kingdoms, which the collective West considers its sacred ancestral homeland. Atlantis — Atlanteans — Atlantic — Atlantic civilization — all this is a single logical and understandable series that forms the real foundations of the West, not Christian, but occult. For Atlantean mythology, having migrated through ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece, formed one of the foundations of hermetic philosophy, from which Freemasonry then emerged. Modern geopolitical projects of the world order are built according to ancient myths.

The close connection with the UN is also not accidental

The customers of the Georgia Stonehenge, whose real names were known only to the contractor who signed the relevant contract and the banker who carried out the transaction of payments, located it by buying land from a local farmer, exactly 666 km in a straight line from the skyscraper of the UN Secretariat in New York. John Rockefeller II bought the land for it in Manhattan at one time and allocated it to the UN. This is the only offspring of the founder of the John Davison Rockefeller dynasty, the creator of Standard Oil, from which came the multicolored half of modern American oil companies. He himself actively participated in the creation of the Fed. He is the father of five Rockefeller brothers, with whom, like their cousins, the Dulles, a significant part of the American history of the XX and even the XXI centuries is connected (the most successful in politics, David Rockefeller, died in March 2017 at the age of 102). John Rockefeller II got into history with a famous correspondence polemic with V. I. Lenin: “If ideas become a material force, mastering the masses, then the task is to create masses incapable of perceiving any ideas.”

In connection with all this , several hypotheses arise:

Hypothesis 1: The explosion was made by the “Forces of Good” to warn Satanists building a “New World Order”. This is the most pleasant version, and then the silence of the mainstream media, which has been working for these conspirators for a long time and without alternative, becomes logical. But here it looks suspicious that the FBI cannot, allegedly, find the attacker and asks for help from eyewitnesses. And it is also suspicious that the monument was completely demolished so quickly, although the destruction was not so significant, and it was easy enough to restore it. Well, for me, the most weighty argument against this version is the code 239 in the date of the event (“We have a hand in this”).

Hypothesis 2: The explosion was made by the conspirators themselves. The code 239 in the date shows this to all “his”. But why was it blown up? Perhaps to conceal evidence, since this monument has already played its role, and there is no need for this evidence to exist further. The silence of the media is just so that those who are not in the know will continue to remain out of the know. And then they will begin to show interest, but they will understand something.

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