Russia’s Putin to NATO: Commit Suicide or Face All-Out War
By Soeren Kern, GATESTONE INSTITUTE • January 6, 2022
- The Russian demands, which effectively require NATO to commit suicide, are so obviously outrageous and unmeetable that Western analysts are split over interpreting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives. Some say he is using the impossible list of demands as a pretext to invade Ukraine. Others think he is playing a weak hand to try to divide the West and reorder Europe’s security architecture in Russia’s favor.
- Germany appears to be the West’s weak link the face of Russian pressure. On January 3, the German newspaper Bild reported that Scholz is seeking “a new beginning” in relations with Moscow. This has alarmed smaller European countries which fear that Germany will reach an accommodation with Putin behind their backs.
- “The Russian leader… believes he has a window of opportunity to act. He is worried that the risk of Kiev joining NATO will increase if a stronger U.S. leader… comes to power…. Regretfully, the Biden administration’s ‘experts,’ like Obama’s before them who fecklessly sought a ‘reset’ with Russia, are likely to fall into Putin’s trap.” — Rebekah Koffler, a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert.
- “A second Russian attack on Ukraine, should it happen, ought to serve as a long-overdue wake-up call for the West about Russia’s intentions to establish an exclusive sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and assert Moscow’s claims to exercising influence in Central Europe, within NATO’s perimeter…. Europe’s security would deteriorate dramatically. The zone of competition would shift from Eastern Europe to Central Europe and the Baltic states.” — Andrew Michta, geopolitical analyst
- “The West should immediately impose tough sanctions on Russia, provide serious defense assistance to Ukraine, demonstrate unambivalent support for Ukrainian sovereignty, and project moral and strategic resolve. Unfortunately, current trends and past behavior provide little cause for optimism that the ‘free world’ will rise to the challenge.” — Anne Pierce, foreign policy expert
- “Westerners do not seem to understand what is at stake. They think that only the fate of Ukraine is being decided, which is of less concern to them than that of Armenia…. They resemble those who in 1939 believed that Hitler’s demands would be limited to Danzig. However, one only has to look at the texts proposed by Moscow to understand that the stakes are quite different.” — Françoise Thom, French historian of Russia.
- “In 1946-7 we knew that freedom was worth dying for, something that is obviously forgotten today. After Munich in 1938, the West was ashamed to have abandoned Czechoslovakia into Hitler’s clutches. Today we are cowardly letting down Ukraine, but we do not even realize our dishonor, nor the danger of giving in to an aggressor. We are like the Byzantines who were discussing the sex of angels while the Ottoman forces were destroying the city walls.” — Françoise Thom.
Russia has threatened war if the United States and its NATO allies fail to comply — unconditionally — with sweeping demands for a new security arrangement in Europe.<
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The demands, issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry, require the United States to remove its nuclear umbrella from Europe and allow Russia to reestablish its Soviet-era sphere of influence over Eastern Europe.
The Russian demands, which effectively require NATO to commit suicide, are so obviously outrageous and unmeetable that Western analysts are split over interpreting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives. Some say he is using the impossible list of demands as a pretext to invade Ukraine. Others think he is playing a weak hand to try to divide the West and reorder Europe’s security architecture in Russia’s favor.
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So there was no fraud?
‘People Are Going To JAIL’ Over Massive Election Fraud Findings
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A year-long investigation into voter fraud in Georgia is set to become a reality with arrests and charges brought against those who harvested ballots illegally in 2020 on a scale never before imagined, says John Fredericks, host of “Outside the Beltway.” The evidence is provided by an investigation of dropbox surveillance video obtained by True the Vote.
“What you’ve got right now is a clear violation of Georgia law where people are going to go to jail. According to Georgia law (and Stacy’s law) only one ballot could be put in a drop box at a time, and that ballot had to be delivered either by the person filling out the ballot (the voter) or someone that was sanctioned to put the ballot in there, friend, family, relative etc. … Every single drop box in Georgia, part of the consent decree, they would have a video camera. True the Vote through FOIA requests got access to the video tapes.”
This interview continues by explaining that a whistleblower who dropped off ballots during the previous election was paid thousands of dollars by the Democrats, and this one individual dropped off more than 4,000 illegal ballots. Furthermore, True the Vote confirmed that as many as 240 ballots were being dropped off illegally, possibly amounting to as many as 1 million votes cast in error.
A Georgia law prohibits third-party organizers from going to polling places and picking up and delivering ballots on behalf of voters, a practice known in the liberal world as “harvesting” that many liberal activists have tried to pass in battleground states without any success. The United States Supreme Court rejected the Democrats’ attempt to challenge a law that outlawed harvesting in the battleground state of Arizona earlier this summer.
During the 2019 campaign season, Rauffensperger led a successful campaign to strengthen Georgia’s prohibition on harvesting in advance of the 2020 presidential election, and he defeated the effort by prominent Democrat campaign attorney Marc Elias to put an end to the harvesting ban. As a part of a series of contacts under investigation by a local district attorney in Atlanta and Congress’s select committee on Jan. 6, Rauffensperger looked at and rejected claims made by former President Donald Trump concerning widespread election fraud during the 2020 election.
As a result of interviews and documents reviewed, Raffensperger received a detailed complaint on Nov. 30 from the conservative voter integrity group True the Vote, alleging thousands of absentee ballots were collected and delivered by activists, often in the middle of the night, to temporary voting drop boxes in various locations around the state.
According to documents provided by the group, its evidence included video footage from cameras installed by counties outside the drop boxes as well as geolocation data for more than 200 activists whose cell phones were shown on the tapes showing purported drop-off dates and times.
According to the group, it also interviewed a Georgia man who admitted to harvesting ballots in the Atlanta area before the Jan. 5 runoff for Georgia’s two seats in the Senate, both of which Democrats won and ended the GOP’s control of Congress. To date, the group has not identified the cooperating witness to state authorities, referring to him simply as John Doe in the complaint.
The group doesn’t claim the ballots delivered by couriers were fraudulent. Nonetheless, third parties delivering ballots to drop boxes would violate Georgia’s law.
In an interview aired on the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday, Raffensperger said that his office had deemed the allegations credible enough to launch an investigation and perhaps issue subpoenas to the State Election Board to obtain evidence.
“We do have some information,” Raffensperger said. “And we are going to investigate that. We did deploy drop boxes that were under 24/7 surveillance, and because they were then that really, you know, can indicate who dropped that information off, and we’re really just going through that.”
In an interview Tuesday, Catherine Engelbrecht, the longtime head of True the Vote, said she wanted to allow the Georgia investigation to move forward.
A statistical analysis by the federally funded research center Mitre Labs found that there was “no evidence of ballot harvesting,” Raffensperger said. The secretary of state’s office did not review video footage from drop boxes after the 2020 election.
As a result, the allegation of a specific individual engaging in illegal harvesting warrants further investigation, he said.
“If people give us, you know, credible allegations, we want to make sure that we do that,” Raffensperger said in the report. “And we have that right now as an ongoing investigation.”
As a means of obtaining evidence, such as the names of suspected ballot harvesters, Raffensperger’s office is considering issuing subpoenas to the State Elections Board.
“That will be one of the processes we’re looking at if we have people that don’t want to come forward for whatever concern because we really need to get to the bottom of it,” he said in the interview. “We just can’t let it sit there and lie. So if it comes to that, then that’s probably the next step that we’d be looking at.”
Earlier this year, Raffensperger rebutted Trump’s claims of widespread fraud in Georgia’s election and asserted on “60 Minutes” that the vote was mostly secure and fair.
There have been many investigations into the sensationalized allegations made by Trump supporters in Georgia in the days following the November election. As an example, claims were made that thousands of dead voters voted, but a final tally revealed only four ballots cast in deceased voters’ names statewide.
Some have also suggested that suitcases of fake ballots were pulled out from under a table in the Atlanta voting center, based on video footage. In truth, the ballots were lawful absentee ballots cast by legitimate voters.
While Raffensperger’s office acknowledged widespread mismanagement and irregularities in Fulton County, Atlanta’s home county, in 2020, those problems were not enough to overcome Biden’s 12,000-vote margin.
As a result, as part of Georgia’s new election integrity laws, Rathensperger and the State Elections Board have taken dramatic steps to place Fulton County elections in receivership, which may mean that state officials, and not local officials, will be responsible for running the county’s elections after 2022. A majority of Fulton’s top election officials have stepped down since the 2020 elections. Raffensperger expects to submit a final recommendation on taking over the county’s election administration later this month.
“For the first time, if we have a county that continuously fails like we do in Georgia, it’s called Fulton County, that we have accountability measure that we can come in, and if they don’t improve, then you can actually replace that county election board,” Raffensperger stated. “And then they’ll hire a new election director to fix the process.”
A decision by Raffensperger to investigate the allegations and secure the video and phone evidence runs contrary to that of Georgia’s governor, fellow Republican Brian Kemp, who, after receiving a briefing from True the Vote last spring, chose not to pursue the matter further when True the Vote refused to divulge names of suspected ballot traffickers.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was entrusted with the case by Kemp, and it did not issue subpoenas to try to secure video surveillance, phone data, or suspected names from True the Vote.
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Tierney’s REAL News (1/5/22)
ELECTION FRAUD: Things are heating up down in Georgia – which has implications for Arizona & other swing states. There is new video footage of over 200 activists dropping ballots into ballot drop boxes. Additionally, a Georgia man has come forward and says he was paid thousands of dollars to harvest ballots and he is singing like a bird!
The man says he was paid $10 per ballot and, he alone, made $45,000. That means just one man dropped off 4,500 ballots. That means MILLIONS were harvested.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Wow, big news on Georgia election fraud. Many other states to follow!”
Read more...America isn’t just seeing less of Mike Pompeo because the Trump administration is no longer in the White House. We are seeing less of the former secretary of state because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.
The former director of the CIA has faced a lot of challenging situations in his long career, but he hesitates to talk about his weight loss because of a nagging fear he will put all the pounds he lost back on. But, in an exclusive interview with The Post, he revealed how he did it and why.
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A once great paper owes their survival to the man they hate and still harass. How sad.
NYT Editorial Board Admits They Are So Obsessed With Donald Trump That Their Calendar Never Left January 6th.
When people go through something never, or rarely before seen it is often referred to by a singular date. A date often has a nickname, but neither the date nor the nickname will convey the weight of everything that caused that date to happen. 9-11, Pearl Harbor, and now January 6th is one of those dates.
The New York Times editorial board is one of the driving forces behind ensuring that date is never forgotten. For some of their staff, their calendars never changed from that date. They found themselves trapped there. As the board writes in an op-ed “One year after the smoke and broken glass, the mock gallows, and the very real bloodshed of that awful day, it is tempting to look back and imagine that we can, in fact, simply look back. To imagine that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 — a deadly riot at the seat of the American government, incited by a defeated president amid a last-ditch effort to thwart the transfer of power to his successor — was horrifying but that it is in the past and that we as a nation have moved on.”
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