Sorry for the FluffTube link and some videos on Rumble. May be on Telegram too. But for direct on ground no MSM Bullsh1t reports from Ukraine, is Texan-American-Ukrainian Russell Bentley.
He reports on the Ukrainian Russians, and at times he’s had friendly Ukrainians and Ukrainian Germans telling EXACTLY what is happening. A good one for us to catalog and a fairly good Ukraine Red Pill reporter! He does lean of course, more on his Russian almost old-school Soviet side, rather than being more neutral, but he is also a Texas-American. So since being one of the only rare on-the-ground sources we have besides MSM, use your best trained Anon Discernment to decide what to take in and what to cast aside.
https://youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTexac
https://rumble.com/search/video?q=Russell%20Bentley
Regis Tremblay an American from Russia, I think, also gives good updates from the EU, Russia, and has Russell on his channel. Also in case Russell gets censored:
https://youtube.com/user/tremregi
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Bentley is a communist so don't expect him not to push his own narrative.
Yep, I know he does. But no one is fully neutral in this fight either. And I know of know other ground source we are getting besides MSM, and a few other very random streamers. We have Nazi’s, Communists, Socialists, Capitalists, Gangsters, and then everyone else that aligns one way or the other. Thank you though my fren,
This is NOT a neutral source. The flag behind this "Texan" is the flag of Donetsk, the region that is fighting the Ukraine government and wants to be aligned with Russia.
EDIT: He literally has a 5 point red star with a hammer and sickle on his cap.
And that region has been fighting Ukraine for 8 years since 2014. Russia wants Ukraine to comply with the terms of the Minsk agreements and allow Donetsk to determine its own future, which is why Russia took the step of recognizing Donetsk as an independent state.
How much longer should Russia wait? Was 8 years not long enough?
Should Ukraine and the Deep State sponsors be allowed to continue fighting a war against the people of Donetsk? Anybody who wants to remain with Ukraine has already left the region...
Russia didn't comply with the Minsk agreement either. There were numerous violations on both sides. I found this article very enlightening:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/11/explainer-what-are-the-minsk-agreements-a76327
Russia tried to claim they had no forces in the region, yet they then refused to remove said equipment until after the elections.
"Ukraine argues that point 10 of the Minsk agreement, which mentions the withdrawal of “all foreign armed forces” refers to Russia, while Russia denies having any military presence on the territories.
The implementation order of political and military steps is another point on which Russia and Ukraine disagree. While Russia argues that elections in the separatist republics should come before the withdrawal of military equipment, Ukraine insists on the opposite."
You ask how long Russia should wait? They are trying to take a chunk of Ukraine. You think Ukraine should just capitulate it like they did Crimea? Russia has been slowly gobbling up Ukraine piece by piece. Crazy thought, but why don't they just stop?
Why are you siding with George Soros, the WEF, the DeepState, and the MSM? That's the better question.
From your article-
In other words, complying with the Minsk accord means Russia wins. This shows the Ukraine never intended to comply with Minsk and used it as a way to stall Russia after it took Crimea in 2014.
I suppose you support Obama and the bioweapons operations as well?
Gimme a break, guy. I'm pretty sure I explained in the other thread of mine, where you seem to be attacking my other posts, that siding with Ukraine doesn't mean you are siding with Soros, WEF, Deepstate and MSM. It's a perfectly rational position to despise those things and still support Ukraine in this defensive fight. Why are you siding with Putin?
So you at least acknowledge that Russia is trying to take Ukrainian territory. Both you and Russia are trying to claim that those regions are "fighting for independence" when really Russia wins, and adds those to it's territory.
Do you support the return of the USSR as well?
Give it a rest. Do you support throwing children in jail for protesting against the war in Russia? Let's stop with the silly accusations.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/children-arrested-protests-moscow-embassy-war-russia-ukraine-b985596.html
You said siding with Ukraine is a perfectly rational position.
Why? Can you explain why it is?
After all, when you take the side of George Soros, you better have a damn fucking good reason.
Did you even read your propaganda article?
"Ms Arkhipova said on Wednesday that all been finally released."
Now let's compare the plight of those Russian prisoners (the children who were jailed WITH their parents instead of being put into state foster care to be abused by pedophiles like sometimes happens in the United States when parents are jailed), for starters, to what the January 6 prisoners are still going through.
Putin comes off smelling like a rose in that regard, does he not?
Let's keep the silly accusations coming so you can keep exposing your smooth brain thought patterns.
Is Trump a Soros stooge too?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/22/trump-weighs-ukraine-putin-russia-invasion-biden-speech/
Once again, you're missing any other reason why someone could side with Ukraine other than to be onboard with Soros. It's pretty silly. Soros has business interests in Ukraine, he doesn't give two shits for the people. But someone who does give a shit about the people, doesn't give two shits about Soros business interests. Yet both can support Ukraine for different reasons. Is this hard to understand?
Oh I see, so jailing children is fine as long as they get released? That's your position?
Holy moly, that's quite the pivot. How do you manage to pack so many nonequivalent comparisons in one sentence. You go all the way from pedos and Jan 6 just to NOT condemn Putin for jailing kids. Instead of using 'whataboutism' to support your argument, why don't you just take the logical position that jailing kids is bad, in all cases?
Oh wait, does Soros not support jailing kids, because then clearly, you'd use the argument that jailing kids was good because as we all know, "you need a really fucking good reason to side with Soros".
Your uninterrupted support for Putin is concerning.
You're answering a question with yet another question. Furthermore, your question "Is Trump a Soros stooge too?" is simply a deflection from your inability or refusal to answer why you actually support Ukraine.
You asked me if I support children being tossed in jail.
My answer actually explained what happened to those children, and included the fact they were jailed with their protesting parents and they were released after a few days.
Why should I take the position it's a great evil what Russia did to the families of protestors, when it obviously isn't the case?
Of course, when I asked you to compare how Putin treated the prisoners compared to how the United States is treating the January 6th political prisoners, all you could respond with was "Holy moly, that's quite the pivot" and once again talk down with Philosophy 101 tropes about "Whataboutism." This isn't Reddit, fren.
It's clear your arguments are based on emotion and not reason.
You say my uninterrupted support for Putin is concerning, yet you still can't even explain WHY you support Ukraine.
I wonder if you can even explain why supporting Putin is so concerning. What has he done that's so bad? Can you tell me?
Was his statement made at his inauguration speech in 2000 particularly troubling to you?
"We want our Russia to be a free, prosperous, flourishing, strong and civilized country, a country that its citizens are proud of and that is respected internationally."
Was it his public beef with certain Russian mafia businessmen and media tycoons who had largely taken control due to the corruption which abounded in the post-Soviet years, and the favoritism of others of similar ilk, that's the problem?
Was his strong stand against Muslim insurgents taking hostages in 2002 and 2004 what you have a problem with?
Was it his gaming the Russian political system after his second term ended by supporting the winning candidate Dmitry Medvedev, who turned around and appointed Putin as Prime Minister, that was so evil? Was it the fact Dmitry Medvedev stepped down in 2020 so Putin could run for President again that's particularly alarming to you?
Was it his support of the Russian family and strong stance against LGBT and the ban on homosexual and pedophilia propaganda or his statement that homosexual visitors to Russia during the Sochi Winter Olympics should "leave the children in peace" that's upsetting to you?
Or maybe you're upset Putin helped Trump take out ISIS?
Or maybe it's because Putin was accused of interfering in the 2016 US election?
Or maybe it's because Putin arrested communist sympathizers funded by the same groups who funded BLM and Antifa that's troubling you?
Or maybe it was because Barack Obama sanctioned businessmen who were accused of holding funds for Putin after the 2014 invasion of Crimea?
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/pages/jl23331.asp
I just did a dig into jailed Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption activist who is of joint Russian/Ukrainian descent.
Navalny created a website about Putin and his palace.
Here's the link (It's in Russian)- https://palace.navalny.com/
Here's the Google translation link-
https://palace-navalny-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Here's the Yandex translation link-
https://translate.yandex.com/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpalace.navalny.com%2F&lang=ru-en
Navalny seems really upset Putin took advantage of his position in the KGB to gain 15 lbs. while stationed in East Germany near the end of the Cold War. He also writes about Putin's ex-wife being given extravagant gifts such as premium chocolate from foreign leaders and reports Putin has taken luxury vacations in Cannes, France paid for by a German contact from his KGB days, while claiming he spent the time vacationing near the Baltic Sea to the Russian media instead. Navalny claims Putin hides his finances with the help of friends and family and has given favorable deals to friends.
There's no doubt in my mind Putin and many other former KGB agent thrived in post-Soviet years thanks to connections they had with the rich and powerful. According to Navalny, Putin carved out a role for himself by approving licenses for Russian mafiosos while serving in Moscow government before becoming Prime Minister and later President. And once he took power, he helped his KGB friends take control of the oil, natural gas, and construction markets. Navalny claims Putin has actual as well as secret shares in Gazprom (think Nordstream 2 pipeline), Rosneft, and various construction companies.
One of Navalny's biggest accusations is Putin secretly spent 100,000,000,000 rubles on a mansion, currently $988,707,966.32 ( https://rub.currencyrate.today/convert/amount-100000000000-to-usd.html) Keep in mind the value of Russian ruble has dropped since Ukraine invasion, but we're still looking at around $1 billion spent on a mansion.
Where did Putin get so much money? Navalny covers this on his website I linked to above but I found a 2010 Washington Post article which does a better job of summing up the scheme-
Sergey Kolesnikov is one of those brave souls a journalist meets occasionally, who decides to expose what he sees as wrongdoing, regardless of the personal risks. I met him this month and reviewed his notes and other documents supporting his charges. The Russian businessman, who became wealthy through various ventures, including a medical-supply company called Petromed, appears to have nothing to gain personally by attacking Putin - and much to lose. That boosts his credibility in my eyes.
The financing of Putin's hideaway, as Kolesnikov explains it, is a complicated story that centers on a man named Nikolai Shamalov. He is an old St. Petersburg friend of Putin's, with whom he shared a dacha cooperative property there during the 1990s. A Dec. 23, 2009, story in Novya Gazeta named Shamalov as one of Putin's 13 influential business "friends." An attempt to reach Shamalov through Putin's spokesman was unsuccessful.
Kolesnikov says he began working with Shamalov in 2000 after Putin became president. The initial plan was to use contributions from Russian businessmen to purchase medical equipment for clinics in St. Petersburg, with 35 percent of the contract payments diverted to offshore accounts. Millions of dollars of medical equipment was indeed purchased but more than $148 million of these donations allegedly wound up under Shamalov's control, according to the open letter. In 2005, Kolesnikov told me, he was asked by Putin's friend to form an investment company called RosInvest. The ownership was hidden by anonymous "bearer shares," with the bulk held on Putin's behalf, Kolesnikov says he was told by Shamalov.
The palace project began in 2005 with the acquisition of state land near Praskoveevka. Shamalov eventually owned this "Project South," as it was known, through several front companies, the letter alleges. Kolesnikov says that he regularly reviewed invoices and other financial records and that by October 2009 projected spending had reached $1 billion.
https://archive.ph/2QCsc
So, basically, Putin's business friends donated money to purchase medical equipment for St. Petersburg hospitals, 35% of the donated money was skimmed off the top and hidden in offshore accounts, and Nilolai Shamalov laundered the money through a company he formed called RosInvest and reinvested the money into the very same companies which donated the money, presumably for tax write-offs, in the first place.
Sounds like a typical politician to me, sadly.
Here's the bulk of the dirt I found on Putin after a brief dig-
Panama Papers -
https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/rossiya-putins-bank/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore
New York Times - Putin Faces Sanctions, but His Assets Remain an Enigma On paper, the Russian president appears to own very little. Yet estimates put his hidden wealth well over $100 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/world/europe/putin-sanctions-money-assets.html
Archive link - https://archive.ph/csDLM
479 leaked photos purporting to show Putin's secret palace, with an ice rink and pole-dancing room, published by Navalny foundation https://archive.ph/sRVRB
Russia is not a communist country, don't kill the messenger.
I actually hadn't considered this question, so I looked it up. Turns out there is a point to be made that it is no longer technically Communist.
However, I think the spirit of Communism is still quite strong given that the communist party is the second largest party in Russia and that it's aligned itself with Communist China, as a Nation. It also is fairly authoritarian.
The roots of Democracy are quite weak, given that Putin has near dictatorial powers.
The United Russia Party is fairly odd. This one article spelled it out in a way I agree with: "The nature of Russian politics confounds Western understandings of democracy. It is accepted by experts that Russia is not democratic, nor is it fully authoritarian"
https://geohistory.today/united-russia-house-divided/
Thanks for pointing this out. I feel like I advanced my learning today.
Yes I know he is not “neutral”, and never stated as such. But thank you for checking fren. No one is ever fully neutral.
Forget neutral. This guy is an idiot. Half of what he says is just wishful thinking. He doesn't even give any solid useful info.
Just to clarify, no where above does it say neutral. So don’t quote me as saying neutral please. I did clarify above he is Ukrainian-Russian. The war is between Ukrainian Russians, and Ukrainian-Nazi’s with which-ever-way leaning civilians in between. I’d rather take the side that’s destroying Nazis and The Cabal, than siding to help those evil turds.
I can’t take someone serious that has a Stalin coffee cup lol
This dude has a Stalin coffee cup? I missed that in the few videos of his I watched. That's a big deal.
https://youtu.be/JAEHz3yi_K8
Oof. What a moron.
This is giving me some serious Spanish Civil War vibes...
https://www.britannica.com/event/Spanish-Civil-War
Nazis vs Socialists with divergent cultural loyalties...
I know the video is propaganda but so is the "official" news from MSM - it's good to watch all of it to make sense. (political science = poop, history = manure)
I was checking his channel out and started a documentary that he had uploaded. Had to pause about 1.5 hrs ago for an appointment. When I get back to it, YouTube has deleted it for violating their community standards.
It was regarding the slaughter of civilians by the Ukrainians. Some of the video appears to be the same quality of the images captured in the 2014 attacks on Eastern cities.
Wonder which "community standards" were violated.. hmmm
Do you happen to remember the name of the video?
Not off the top of my head. When I get home I will check my browser history.
ThanQ fren
Checked my history and the link where the video should be is simply "www.youtube.com"
Strange...
I thought this might happen, it's the same thing that happened to me. Thanks anyway.
Found it on another post... another channel...
I get the feeling that clowns reading info on here are doing mass "violation reports" on YouTube so instead of sharing the channel that it is on, here is the link to the source.
https://rtd.rt.com/films/donbass-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/
You are awesome, thank you.
We have a joke here in Texas.
We basically say Russia / Ukraine are the Texas of Asia.
Which is funny cuz here in Houston there are massive amounts of both.
They joke they came here for the “no snow”
He is not who you think he is. Beware.
Youtube took it down already
Guys who want to discount this guy because he’s a socialist wannabe….. who tf else is going to give us the other side in country?
We can fight his socialist ass later in life, for now, let’s pay attention and measure information from him against the entirety of msm (both potentially our enemies).