British and French Troops ON THE GROUND in Ukraine
The latest from the Ukrainian theatre of war
From Hal Turner
British and French Troops ON THE GROUND in Ukraine; Operating Cruise Missiles to attack Russian Troops
Shocking revelations from the British Press reveal the British General Staff, led by Admiral Tony Radakin, directly participated in the attack on Russian Black Sea Fleet ships, and that German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz confirmed British and French troops are in Ukraine operating Cruise missiles to hit Russian targets.
Russian reaction to these revelations has been blunt: "This proves Britain and France have attacked Russia; we have the right to respond militarily" said one high ranking Russian official.
A story in "The Times" (HERE) reveals:
The story makes clear that Admiral Tony Radakin and his General Staff have been key to Ukraine sinking Russian vessels.
Meanwhile, "The Independent" in Britain revealed comments made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who said Germany will not be sending Kiev any of Germany's "Taurus" missiles, Berlin’s version of the Storm Shadow missile, pointing to a risk of his country becoming directly involved in the war, referring to the UK and French assistance to Ukraine. (HERE)
On Monday, he said that German soldiers could not follow the lead of their British and French allies in “the way of target control and accompanying target control.”
By saying that, Scholtz revealed that French and British troops are, in fact, controlling the targeting and guidance-to-target of weapons (like cruise missiles) and are thus responsible for Russian targets being hit!
Stunningly, rather than try to walk-back what Scholz said, Norbert Rottgen, a senior lawmaker from the CDU, the former ruling party of Angela Merkel, said: “The chancellor’s statement regarding France and Britain’s alleged involvement in operating long-range cruise missiles used in Ukraine is completely irresponsible.”
From Britain, similar amazing reaction from Former Chairman of the Commons Defense Committee Tobias Ellwood, who said “This is a flagrant abuse of intelligence deliberately designed to distract from Germany’s reluctance to arm Ukraine with its own long-range missile system.”
(HT REMARK: So NATO troops taking part in ground operations and cruise missile targeting doesn't matter, it's only Scholz revealing it that is bad?????)
Scholz slammed for revealing UK troop presence in Ukraine
The chancellor said giving Kiev long-range missiles would require assistance from German troops, citing London’s example
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting on February 28, 2024 at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany © AFP / John MACDOUGALL/AFP
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has come under fire from the UK after he suggested that there were British troops operating in the Ukraine conflict. Explaining why Berlin would not supply Kiev with long-range Taurus missiles, Scholz said it would require German military personnel on the ground providing assistance.
He went on to say that Taurus “is a very long-range weapon, and what was done on the part of the British and French in terms of target-control and target-control assistance can’t be done in Germany.”
Commenting on Scholz’s remark, Tobias Ellwood, the former chair of the British Commons defense committee, said it was “a flagrant abuse of intelligence deliberately designed to distract from Germany’s reluctance to arm Ukraine with its own long-range missile system,” as quoted by The Telegraph. The British lawmaker was also sure that the statement would be “used by Russia to rachet up the escalator ladder.”
“German soldiers can at no point and in no place be linked with the targets that this system reaches,” Scholz insisted, even if operating from German soil, according to the DPA news agency.
The German chancellor stated that it would be “not very responsible” for his country to risk becoming a “party to the war.”
READ MORE: Germany still undecided on long-range weapons for Ukraine – FM
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Financial Times quoted an anonymous senior European defense official as saying that “everyone knows there are Western special forces in Ukraine – they’ve just not acknowledged it officially.”
Addressing the press following a summit of Kiev’s backers in Paris on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron noted that “in terms of dynamics, we cannot exclude anything,” referring to a potential ground deployment of Western militaries.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg however hastened to clarify that there were “no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.” This was followed by similar assurances by the leaders of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that such a development would mean that “we have to talk not about the probability, but rather the inevitability” of an all-out military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
⚡BREAKING: RUSSIA MOVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NATO ENTERING UKRAINE (CONFIRMED
West flirting with nuclear war – Putin
The Russian president said the escalatory rhetoric of US and EU officials betrays their lack of understanding of what is at stake
Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual address to the Federal Assembly at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, Russia. © Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov
Western officials indulging in escalatory rhetoric should realize that they are effectively invoking the specter of an all-out nuclear war, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in a speech to legislators in Moscow on Thursday. He also once again accused the West of instigating the Ukraine conflict.
Putin addressed the topic in the opening minutes of his annual state-of-the-nation speech, a key event in which the president declares his plans and priorities in a televised address to both houses of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the national legislature.
President Putin insisted that recent claims by Western officials, that Moscow is planning to attack NATO, are “nonsense.” At the same time, those same nations are “selecting targets to conduct strikes on our territory,” the Russian head of state claimed, adding that there is now talk of “deploying NATO military contingents to Ukraine.”
Putin reminded would-be aggressors that all previous attempts to conquer Russia have ended in failure, warning that “now the consequences for potential invaders would be far more tragic.” He pointed out that Russia has a massive nuclear arsenal, which is in a state of “complete readiness for guaranteed deployment.”
“Everything that they are thinking up now, that they are scaring the world with, it all really poses the threat of a conflict involving nuclear weapons, and therefore, the destruction of civilization. Don’t they understand this?”
The Russian president suggested that Western politicians making those escalatory remarks “have already forgotten what war is.”
Unlike Russians, who have faced “difficult trials” in recent decades, Westerners apparently “think that these are just some cartoons,” President Putin opined.
READ MORE: Germany has prepared Russia-NATO conflict scenario – Bild
His remarks came after his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, toyed with the idea of a potential ground deployment of Western militaries to Ukraine while talking to reporters on Monday, saying “in terms of dynamics, we cannot exclude anything.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg hastened to emphasize that “there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in turn, declared that there will be “no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil, who are sent there by European or NATO countries” in the future.
The leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland also chimed in with similar assurances.
Commenting on Macron’s remark, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that such a development would mean that “we have to talk not about the probability, but rather the inevitability” of an all-out military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
Sovereignty, US hypocrisy, nuclear warnings: Key takeaways from Putin’s Federal Assembly address
Russian leader spoke about issues like the Ukraine conflict, international relations, and the nation’s socio-economic development
From Israeli News Live
Putin Warns of Global Nuclear War
Russian Nuclear Documents Leaked - Peak Prosperity
NATO is prodding. The US and CIA are prodding. The West, for some reason, wants a larger reaction from Russia and finally they’ve laid their cards on the table; they are softening the world up to the prospect of ‘limited’ use of tactical nukes.
Terrifying leaked military files have revealed that Russia's threshold for unleashing nukes is lower than ever feared.
The Kremlin's forces have already rehearsed scenarios for tactical strikes at an early stage of a conflict with a global power, according to the documents.
A total of 29 secret Russian military files from between 2008 and 2014 are covered, including details on how war-gaming could play out and presentations for naval officers, which speak of operating principles for nuclear weapons use.
Russian Website Claims There Was an Attempted Assassination of Tucker Carlson—Here Are the Details
A young man has reportedly just been arrested in Moscow in connection with an attempted assassination of Tucker Carlson. According to reporter Simon Ateba, the man who has been arrested was reportedly being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device in a vehicle used by Tucker while he was there to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Here is the tweet by Simon Ateba, the chief White House Correspondent at Today News Africa in Washington.
A video has just been released showing a 35-yr-old man by the name of Vasiliev Pyotr Alexeieovich, who claims he was ordered by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukraine Ministry of Defense in November 2023 to take an explosive device to the parking garage of the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow and place it under the vehicle used to transport Tucker Carlson. Mr. Alexeievich claims he was going to be paid $4,000 for completing the task of attaching the explosive device to Carlson’s vehicle, but he was detained in the planning process. Near the end of the videotaped confession, the stone-faced alleged criminal admits his target was “American journalist Tucker Carlson” and says, “I’m sorry for what I did.”
Russia to BAN Gasoline Exports for 6 Months
Russia will impose a six-month ban on gasoline exports starting tomorrow, March 1, to meet rising domestic demand. It will also serve to severely increase costs for gasoline in all Western countries, presently helping Ukraine.
Demand for fuel inside Russia will grow because of summer vacation travel, spring fieldwork on farms, and planned repairs at oil refineries say oil industry executives. In order to offset the booming demand for petroleum products, measures are needed to help stabilize domestic prices.
Yet no one is blind to the fact that such an export ban will severely harm Western countries who are presently supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.
Russia can increase and decrease oil, gasoline, and Diesel fuel production at will because they have so much of it.
Europe was still getting gasoline, albeit thru secondary sources. Now, they get nothing. Nothing.
With Russia turning off the gasoline exports, the countries that need such fuel will have to find other sources, which are quite limited in the world. Like any other thing, supply and demand dictates price, and so prices for gasoline will rise again commencing tomorrow, March 1, as Russia punishes the West for supporting Ukraine.
It also means Russia is gearing up war mobilization abilities, while decreasing those of their antagonists.
Russia has gigantic reserves and the capability to mass produce diesel and gasoline for their Mechanized units for a long war.
Now , "the enemy" won't be getting the same reserves because here in the USA, Biden has emptied U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves as of this year.
So , America also won't be sending fuel to Europe as it has none to give, and cannot ramp-up production because the Biden environmentalists have crushed US ability to drill for more oil.