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Repost by Permission: “Reality TV” Soviet Show Trial Of Trump Begins To “Keep The Masses Entertained”

April 15, 2024

Reality TV” Soviet Show Trial Of Trump Begins To “Keep The Masses Entertained

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting the leftist American media establishment has begun pumping out fear-drenched articles like “The World Stands On The Brink Of All-Out War”, “The West Must Remember How To Fight. It May Already Be Too Late” and “The US Army’s Power To Rapidly Defeat Enemies May Be A Thing Of The Past”, says this avalanche of leftist media fear caused Director Maxim Suchkov of the MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs to assess: “The US presidential campaign is not only a central event in the country’s social and political life, but also a time for reflection on the big issues: where America is going, its place in the world…And what it should be…Uncle Sam doesn’t know whether to look for affection or to coerce other states into toeing the line…The elites need to make up their mind”.

As it pertains to the mindset of the warmongering socialist elites ruling America, this report notes, it’s evidenced in the just released article “19 Retired Generals, Admirals File Supreme Court Brief Against Trump Immunity Bid” and the news: “Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin”.

Facing President Donald Trump today, this report continues, is an indictment brought against him by radical socialist Democrat Party prosecutor Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who alleges that the Trump Organization made false entries in its general ledger to make hush money payments—in total Bragg alleges 34 such false entries were made, all of which are misdemeanors if proven true—instead of misdemeanors, however, Bragg charged these 34 false entries as felonies by linking them to a federal crime he has yet to reveal—if convicted on all of these alleged false entries into the general ledger it would see President Trump jailed for 136 years—and the Wall Street Journal, in its article “The Trump Trial Spectacle Begins”, observed:

The facts are these: Ms. Daniels has said that in 2006 she and Mr. Trump had one, er, intimate encounter.

A decade later, as the 2016 election neared, Mr. Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet.  A nondisclosure agreement isn’t illegal.

Mr. Bragg’s complaint is about the paperwork.  Mr. Cohen was reimbursed through 2017 via a monthly retainer “disguised as a payment for legal services”. the DA said.

He padded his indictment by separately charging each invoice, check and ledger entry to get 34 counts.

Falsifying business records in New York can be a misdemeanor, but the statute of limitations on that has expired.  Mr. Bragg therefore must charge felonies, which under New York law means showing that Mr. Trump cooked the books with “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof”.

Even that requires special dispensation.  The 2017 payments are outside the five-year felony window, but state judge Juan Merchan ruled that Mr. Bragg enjoys an extra year of leeway after emergency Covid-19 executive orders stopped the clock on legal cases.

The crucial question is Mr. Trump’s alleged second crime.  To bring bookkeeping felonies, Mr. Bragg needs an underlying offense that Mr. Trump intended to commit or conceal, even if it isn’t prosecuted.

Mr. Bragg didn’t charge the second crime and didn’t clearly identify it in last year’s indictment.  His court filings since have advanced four theories of what that crime might be, three of which the judge blessed.

One theory is that the Stormy payoff was effectively a donation to Mr. Trump’s campaign, in excess of federal limits.  Two, he says the payment broke a New York law against promoting a candidate “by unlawful means”.  Yet this loops back to No 1., since the “unlawful means”, Mr. Bragg said, include busting the federal donation cap.

It’s a dubious argument. Is paying a mistress a bona fide campaign expense?  Brad Smith, a former member of the Federal Election Commission, has argued persuasively that the answer is no.

The DA’s third theory: Since the reimbursement was treated as payment for services, the amount was “grossed up” to ensure Mr. Cohen would “be left whole after paying approximately 50% in income taxes”, as Mr. Bragg told the court.  Filing a false return, he added, is tax fraud.  But it’s an odd kind of fraud if the result was Mr. Cohen overpaying taxes on illusory income.  Perhaps such a distinction is legally irrelevant, as the judge suggested, though it matters to whether the case is worth bringing.

Such problems help explain why this case wasn’t pursued by the feds or Mr. Bragg’s predecessor.  Yet the newly elected Democratic DA was under political pressure to do something.  His top Trump prosecutors quit in a huff, and the media scorched him for failing to charge Mr. Trump in his first months on the job.

Now the country is on the brink of an extraordinary moment, as Mr. Bragg uses a weak and untested legal premise to put the other party’s presidential nominee on trial during the 2024 campaign.

Last Wednesday, this report details, President Trump posted the message: “LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND!…WILL THE FAKE NEWS REPORT IT??”—and what he found that the fake news leftist media didn’t report one single word about was the officially signed legal document:

Official Statement of Stormy Daniels

January 30, 2018

To Whom It May Concern:

Over the past few weeks, I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago.

The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017, and now again in 2018.  I am not denying this affair because I was paid “hush money” as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids.  I am denying this affair because it never happened.

I will have no further comment on this matter.  Please feel free to check me out on Instagram at @thestormydaniels.

Colliding with the “Official Statement of Stormy Daniels”, this report notes, is the just released Politico article “Michael Cohen Is An Admitted Liar. He’s Still Going To Be The Star Witness Against Trump”, wherein it revealed: “By his own admission, he has lied in court…He has lied to the media…And he has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress…Now, he’s set to be state prosecutors’ key witness against Donald Trump…Michael Cohen, the former president’s fixer-turned-foe, is expected to tell jurors in the criminal trial starting Monday that Trump directed him to pay $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn’t go public in the final weeks of the 2016 election with an allegation about a sexual encounter with Trump”.

Along with the Wall Street Journal warning today: “Picking an impartial jury on Democratic turf, where President Biden won 87% of the vote in the 2020 election, will be challenging, say trial consultants…“I can’t think of another place where he is more loathed than his hometown of New York City”, litigation consultant Alan Tuerkheimer said of Trump”, this report continues, world-renowned American constitutional law expert Professor Jonathan Turley at Georgetown University previously most factually observed: “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has long been searching for a crime in the criminal code to fulfill his pitch during his campaign that he was the man for voters who wanted to bag Trump”—a factual observation exactly reminiscent of Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in the former Soviet Union, who bragged: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”—and was a Beria brag followed by “The Moscow Show Trials” and the political genocide in the former Soviet Union of all opponents to Stalin.

As the real life Soviet Show Trial of President Trump beings today, this report concludes, Republican Party leader Governor Chris Sununu assessed about this socialist kangaroo court travesty of justice yesterday: ”The average American just thinks it’s more reality TV”—and was a fitting and accurate assessment not surprisingly quickly followed by the article “Bread And Circuses: What It Means For Once-Great Nations”, wherein it observed: “Keep the masses stuffed and entertained, and they won’t utter a peep against you”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Repost by Permission: Beyond Staggering Over $1.3 Billion Missile Defense Show Lights Up Israeli Skies

April 14, 2024

Beyond Staggering Over $1.3 Billion Missile Defense Show Lights Up Israeli Skies

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A worrisome new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today providing further evidence that the lunatic childish leaders ruling over the socialist Western colonial powers need urgent mental health care and adult supervision, says while the world fearfully awaited a response to Israel grossly violating the United Nations Charter to strike the Iranian Embassy in Syria on 1 April, on Friday it saw demented and deranged Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden ordering Iran about a possible military response: “Don’t”.

Quickly following Socialist Leader Biden’s “don’t” order to Iran, which came in place of him joining the rest of the world in condemning Israel’s blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, this report notes, the Financial Times in London revealed: “The US has asked China and other countries, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to urge Tehran not to launch a retaliatory attack on Israel for its air strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria”, then it was observed: “Persian Gulf countries have reportedly told the United States not to launch any attacks against Iran from their territory or airspace amid seething regional tensions…Sources, including a senior US official told the Middle East Eye that Gulf monarchies have been working overtime on the diplomatic track to shut down avenues that could link them to a US reprisal against Tehran or its proxies from bases inside their kingdoms…The countries include regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait, with their leaderships reportedly raising questions on the details of US basing agreements, and taking steps to prevent the use of their Iran-adjacent bases against the Islamic Republic…NATO member Turkiye has also reportedly barred the US from using its airspace for strikes against Iran”.

In response to Socialist Leader Biden’s “don’t” order issued on Friday, this report continues, Iranian commandos seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday—Iran then launched its operation “His Promise Is True” massive strike against Israel—at 6:06 PM in New York City on 13 April (1:36 PM in Tehran on 14 April), the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations issued the statement: “Conducted on the strength of Article 51 of the UN Charter pertaining to legitimate defense, Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus…The matter can be deemed concluded…However, should the Israeli regime make another mistake, Iran’s response will be considerably more severe…It is a conflict between Iran and the rogue Israeli regime, from which the U.S. MUST STAY AWAY!”—President Donald Trump then posted the warning message: “ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK!…This should never have been allowed to happen – This would NEVER have happened if I were President!”—and this morning, Iranian Armed Forces Chief-Of-Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri issued the statement: “Israel’s actions could not have gone unanswered…The Supreme Leader also said that this punishment should be carried out and, thank God, this operation was carried out with the efforts of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the help of other armed forces…We see this operation as a complete result, and this operation has ended in our opinion, and we have no intention of continuing the operation…If Israel takes any further action against Iran, the next operation will be much more extensive”.

Greeting the Iranian operation “His Promise Is True” massive strike, this report details, were the Israeli air defense systems Iron DomeSCHILKABarak MX SystemArrow Missile FamilySky Capture and the secretive Eagle Eye IIIand are Israeli air defense systems even Western nations are spending billions-of-dollars to buy after watching the American ones continue to fail in Ukraine.

After Israeli air defense systems greeted Iran’s operation “His Promise Is True” massive strike, this report notes, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced: “The Israel Defense Forces intercepted 99% of about 300 Iranian missiles that flew towards it…Iran launched 170 drones toward Israel, but none of them reached Israel’s borders – they were shot down by the Israeli military and its allies…In addition, Iran fired 30 cruise missiles at Israel, and the IDF managed to intercept 25 of them…Iran also fired 120 ballistic missiles at Israel…Some of them overcame Israel’s anti-missile defense system and reached the Nevatim airbase…The base sustained minor damage”—the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued the statement: “The Islamic Republic’s military managed to hit and destroy important military targets”—all of which was joined by the Israeli news service Ynet article “The Staggering Cost Of Israel’s Defense Against Iran’s Missile Attack: ‘4-5 Billion Shekels Per Night’”, wherein it revealed: “Iran’s massive missile attack overnight between Saturday and Sunday on Israel was stopped by Israel’s sophisticated defense systems…It obviously cost a lot of money, and the question, among others that arise the next morning, is how much?…Brig. Gen. Reem Aminoach, former financial advisor to the IDF chief of staff, tried to estimate…”The defense tonight was on the order of 4-5 billion shekels””—and is an amount that equals over $1.3 billion.

Following the most expensive in human history missile defense show that lit up Israeli skies, this report continues, Politico revealed: “G7 leaders will hold a videoconference Sunday afternoon to coordinate a united response to Iran’s attack on Israel, which threatens to spark an escalation in the fighting in the Middle East”—the just released Axios article “Scoop: Biden Told Bibi U.S. Won’t Support An Israeli Counterattack On Iran” also revealed: “President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won’t support any Israeli counterattack against Iran…Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran’s attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences…”You got a win. Take the win”, Biden told Netanyahu”—and the leftist New York Times revealed today: “Two Israeli officials said some war cabinet members had urged a retaliatory strike, but that was called off after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spoke by phone with President Biden on Saturday, and because the strikes caused relatively minor damage…The officials did not elaborate on the contents of the call between the leaders…Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said early Sunday that the confrontation with Iran was “not over yet””.

With the Israeli “not over yet” threat now hanging over the world, this report concludes, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres fearfully warned: “I am deeply alarmed about the very real danger of a devastating region-wide escalation…I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East…I have repeatedly stressed that neither the region nor the world can afford another war”—the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued the urgent demand: “The ongoing situation is the latest spillover of the Gaza conflict…There should be no more delays in implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2728 and the conflict must end now”—and the Russian Foreign Ministry most factually observed:

On the night of 14 April, a large number of missiles and drones were launched into Israel.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, this attack was carried out within the framework of the right of self-defense, in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, in response to attacks on Iranian facilities in the region, including the attack on the building of the consular department of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus on 1 April, which our country strongly condemned.

Unfortunately, due to the position of its Western members, the UN Security Council was unable to adequately respond to the attack on the Iranian consular mission.

We express our utmost concern about another dangerous escalation in the region.

We have repeatedly warned that the failure to resolve numerous crisis in the Middle East, especially in regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, will lead to increased tensions.

We call on all parties involved to exercise restraint.

We hope that regional countries will solve existing problems through political and diplomatic means.

We believe it is important that constructive international players contribute to this.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Repost by Permission: Russian Orthodox Church Declared “Terrorist Organization” After Baptizing Thousands Of Black Africans

April 13, 2024

Russian Orthodox Church Declared “Terrorist Organization” After Baptizing Thousands Of Black Africans

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A beyond troubling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting the Russian Orthodox Church baptized thousands of Christians in the East African nation of Malawi this week, says the eternal salvation of these Black African peoples was swiftly followed by socialist European Union and NATO member leader Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets demonically declaring: “I have no choice but to propose to the parliament that they declare the activities of the Patriarchate operating in Moscow as a terrorist organization and supportive of terrorism”—is an Estonia that welcomed white master race Nazi Germany into their country during World War II and whose peoples willingly participated in the Roma Holocaust of whom the Nazis branded subhuman vermin like Jewish and Black peoples—Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vladimir Legoyda observed: “Läänemets statement takes Estonia back to the dark ages of religious wars, St. Bartholomew’s Night and witch hunts…It is obvious to any sane person that the Moscow Patriarchate is not engaged in terrorist activities…The fight against the Russian Church and Russian culture has become some kind of mental drug”—and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described Läänemets declaration as bearing “all the signs of a mental illness”.

When the former Ukrainian residents of DonetskLuganskKherson and Zaporozhye regions were incorporated into the Russian Federation to liberate them from socialist Western colonial tyranny and genocide because of their Slavic heritage, this report notes, President Putin warningly observed: “Western elites not only deny national sovereignty and international law…Their hegemony has pronounced features of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid…They brazenly divide the world into their vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest, who, according to the designs of today’s Western racists, should be added to the list of barbarians and savages…It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade…What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals…This is contrary to human nature, truth, freedom and justice…Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves…This is a challenge to all…This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a religion in reverse– pure Satanism”.

As an example of socialist Western colonial white master race “pure Satanism”, this report continues, top Ukrainian negotiator David Arahamiya revealed about former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “The Russians were ready to end the war if we took neutrality—as Finland once did—and made commitments that we would not join NATO…This was the key point…But while the negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow were underway in Istanbul, Johnson unexpectedly arrived in Kyiv on 9 April 2022, telling Zelensky that he shouldn’t sign anything with them at all—and let’s just fight”.

Now joining former Prime Minister Johnson’s socialist Western colonial powers order to its corrupt puppet state Ukraine to “let’s just fight”, this report details, in addressing students of Georgetown University, one of the leading breeding grounds of American political elites, the British leader declared to them this week: “The Ukrainians are fighting the West’s fight with Russia and do not ask for much, so the money and resources put into the country generate fantastic value”—and earlier today, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed the true cost of this “fantastic value” for the socialist Western colonial powers when it announced: “In the Donestk region, Russian forces of Battlegroup Tsentr took more advantageous positions, repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with Ukrainian losses in the past 24 hours amounting to over 500 servicemen and one tank, three armored combat vehicles, 23 cars, and a Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system…During counter-battery combat, two US-made 155 mm M777 howitzers, a 152 mm D-20 howitzer, and a 122 mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed…Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok struck formations of two Ukrainian brigades over the past day, with the enemy’s losses exceeding 110 soldiers…In addition, Ukrainian forces lost four pickup trucks, a 155 mm Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer, a 155 mm US-made M777 howitzer, and a NOTA electronic warfare station”.

In further describing the “fantastic value” the socialist Western colonial powers are reaping from the war in Ukraine, this report notes, Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief General Oleksandr Syrsky fearfully declared today: “The situation on the eastern front has deteriorated significantly in recent days…This is primarily due to a significant intensification of the enemy’s offensive after the presidential elections in Russia”—the leftist Washington Post also assessed today: “As Ukrainian officials plead for more Western arms and a U.S. aid package remains stalled in Congress, Russia is advancing on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, seizing new territory and intensifying attacks to capture the town of Chasiv Yar and others in the Donetsk region…Away from the front line, Ukraine’s dwindling air defense capabilities are showing vulnerabilities, as more Russian missiles and drones are able to hit targets such as critical infrastructure facilities…Outside Kyiv — considered Ukraine’s best-protected city — the largest power plant serving the capital was destroyed Thursday, stoking concerns that Ukraine might be running out of surface-to-air missiles to counter the Russian airstrikes”—all of which was joined by former United States Marine intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter observing: “There will be no great Ukrainian counteroffensive, as Russia has entirely changed the game…What is going on between Russia and Ukraine today is that Russia is making Ukraine lose ‘Jenga blocks’ at a rate far greater than NATO can replace them…Ukraine’s Jenga block structure is becoming weak, and may collapse at any moment on the battlefield”.

With the socialist Western colonial powers “fantastic value” conflict in Ukraine now causing more European nations to prepare their populations for war, this report concludes, these preparations for war would also be advisable for Americans, specifically because the Russian military just tested a top secret nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, about which the Ministry of Defense announced: “The Strategic Missile Forces successfully launched ICBM of a mobile ground-based missile system from the interservice test facility near Volgograd…The test was successful and indicated the high reliability of domestic missiles, ensuring the strategic security of the country”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Fulton County (GA) Elections Board Supervisor Voted Against Certifying 2020 Election Because Signature Verifications Were NOT Performed on 147,000 Ballots! (VIDEO)

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Exposing the DNC Plan to Rig the 2024 Election – Former WA State Democrat Operative Blows the Whistle on Dems

 

 

 

 

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Repost by Permission: Trump Seeks Protection From Late Justice Ginsberg’s Landmark Stuart Kings Ruling

March 19, 2024

Trump Seeks Protection From Late Justice Ginsberg’s Landmark Stuart Kings Ruling

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin assessing: “I have every reason to believe that no democracy, at least when it comes to electoral campaigning, can be seen in some Western nations, including the United States”, says he then observed: “What is it like to vote by mail in the United States of America?…Who is in control there?…No one…They bought a vote for $10, and then they bought thousands of votes, came in droves, threw them in until midnight, and that’s it…Here you have democracy…We do not have anything like that”—an observation joined by the world’s most watched and popular podcaster Joe Rogan assessing about the socialist persecution of President Donald Trump: “It’s crazy how many times they’ve indicted him because it seems like what happens in banana republics, but just somehow or another, it’s okay?…Is it possible that you’re doing this because this guy’s running for president?…Because it kind of seems like it to the world…It looks like you’re trying to prosecute your political opponents…360-something million dollars…That’s insane…It’s a lot of money…Where does it go?… Because there are no victims, right?…That’s a problem…Elon tweeted that…It’s just kind of bonkers”.

The “360-something million dollars” referenced by Rogan, this report notes, is the “uncharted territory” civil fine slammed on President Trump by radical socialist Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron in a case masterminded by leftist lunatic New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who made a “trophy pledge” during her election campaign to “bag” her quarry President Trump, whom she branded “illegitimate”.

In what’s factually called a “Kafkaesque Civil Trial” that denied President Trump a jury, this report continues, legal experts shockingly observed: “The New York State laws used to go after Trump have NEVER been used in this way, historically, and while Trump may owe some back state taxes, if Judge Engoron is right, not a single bank claimed that it had been defrauded by Trump in the loans it had made to him…This is truly a victimless crime….Ms. James and Judge Engeron have essentially turned a vaguely worded New York State law into a modern day Bill of Attainder targeted at Donald Trump both for political gain and because they despise his political views and desperately want to call his truthfulness into question as he runs for President of the United States in 2024…The civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump is a travesty and an unjust political act rivaled only in American politics by the killing of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton by Vice President Aaron Burr”.

Under New York State law, this report details, President Trump most post a bond before he can appeal the outrageous ruling, but would require him to post 120% of what he owes with collateral — amounting to $557.5 million—President Trump employed the world’s largest privately held insurance brokerage firm Lockton Companies to secure the bond he needs, but whose President Gary Giulietti of the Northeast for the Lockton Companies revealed in an affidavit yesterday: “Based upon my more than 50 years in the insurance industry as well as my actual experience over the past several weeks during which I have been in contact with some of the largest insurance carriers in the world in an effort to try and obtain a bond for Defendants, it is my opinion that obtaining an appeal bond for $464 million (the “Judgment Amount”) is not possible under the circumstances presented…Despite scouring the market, we have been unsuccessful in our effort to obtain a bond for the Judgment Amount for Defendants for the simple reason that obtaining an appeal bond for $464 million is a practical impossibility under the circumstances presented…Simply put, a bond of this size is rarely, if ever, seen…In the unusual circumstance that a bond of this size is issued, it is provided to the largest public companies in the world, not to individuals or privately held business…In the surety world, a bond of $100 million is considered large; an appeal bond of $464 million is commercially unattainable for a privately owned company…Such would be the case even for a company with billions of dollars in real estate unless they have cash or cash equivalents approaching $1 billion so as to collateralize the bond and have sufficient capital to run the business and satisfy its other obligations”.

Upon receiving the Lockton Companies affidavit yesterday, this report notes, the attorneys for President Trump filed a 29-page motion to stay the need for a bond, wherein it pleaded:

In deciding whether to enter a stay, the Court may consider “any relevant factor, including the presumptive merits of the appeal and any exigency or hardship confronting any party“.

Here, Defendants’ ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is “a practical impossibility“.

These diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers.  A bond requirement of this enormous magnitude-effectively requiring cash reserves approaching $1 billion, is unprecedented for a private company.

Even when it comes to publicly traded companies, courts routinely waive or reduce the bond amount.  Enforcing an impossible bond requirement as condition of appeal would inflict manifest irreparable injury on Defendants, and defeat or impair this Court’s appellate jurisdiction.  By contrast, waiving the bond requirement will impose no cognizable harm on the Attorney General.

The case involves no actual victims and no award of restitution, and she is fully protected by Defendants’ real-estate holdings.  This factor alone warrants a stay.

The manifold errors in Supreme Court’s judgment further warrant a stay.  Among other errors, Supreme Court disrespectfully disregarded this Court’s previous ruling in this case that the statute of limitations applies and that “the continuing wrong doctrine does not delay or extend these periods“.

Moreover, the Supreme Court ridiculously valued Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, as being worth “between $18 million and $27.6 million“, understating its actual value by about 50 to 100 times.  Supreme Court imposed a massive disgorgement award in the absence of any evidence that the alleged misrepresentations caused the supposedly ill-gotten proceeds, in violation of the black-letter requirement that the disgorged amount must be causally connected to the violation.  Supreme Court double- and triple-counted damages, and committed elementary errors in the process, such as conflating the proceeds of a sale with the profits from that sale.  Such basic mistakes would have been prevented if this case had been allowed to be adjudicated in the Commercial Division, where it belonged.

These errors establish that the disgorgement award is unconstitutional.

It is “grossly disproportional” in violation of the Excessive Fines Clause of the United States Constitution and a parallel clause of the New York Constitution, as well as basic principles of due process and selective prosecution.

Because the judgment is unconstitutionally excessive, the bond requirement violates the Eighth Amendment as well, because it imposes an irrational, punitive sanction.

This case has no victims, no damages, and no actual fmancial losses.  None of Defendants’ sophisticated business partners testified that they would have changed any transaction in light of the alleged “misrepresentations” and all of these sophisticated parties, along with their law firms and other service providers, were well aware of the ironclad disclaimers present in all of the financial statements at issue.

With President Trump’s attorneys invoking the Eighth Amendment in their motion to stay yesterday, this report concludes, it placed the outrageous socialist ruling in the cross hairs of the landmark “Timbs v. Indiana” case decided unanimously by the United States Supreme Court on 20 February 2019, which concluded: “The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the States”—Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion: “The Eighth Amendment’s prohibi­tion on excessive fines applies in full to the States”—Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in his concurring opinion: “There can be no serious doubt that the Fourteenth Amendment requires the States to respect the freedom from excessive fines enshrined in the Eighth Amendment”—and whose majority opinion on behalf of the entire Supreme Court was written by the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who wrote in her landmark unanimous ruling:

The Excessive Fines Clause traces its venerable lineage back to at least 1215, when Magna Carta guaranteed that a Free-man shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault; and for a great fault after the greatness thereof, saving to him his contenement.

As relevant here, Magna Carta required that economic sanctions “be proportioned to the wrong” and “not be so large as to deprive an offender of his livelihood”.

No man shall have a larger amercement imposed upon him, than his circumstances or personal estate will bear,taking no position on the question whether a person’s income and wealth are relevant considerations in judging the excessiveness of a fine.

Despite Magna Carta, imposition of excessive fines persisted.  The 17th century Stuart kings, in particular, were criticized for using large fines to raise revenue, harass their political foes, and indefinitely detain those unable to pay.

For good reason, the protection against excessive fines has been a constant shield throughout Anglo-American history: Exorbitant tolls undermine other constitutional liberties.

Excessive fines can be used, for example, to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies, as the Stuarts’ critics learned several centuries ago.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Repost by Permission: Russia Notifies United Nations To Prepare For “Unconditional Surrender” Of Ukraine

April 12, 2024

Russia Notifies United Nations To Prepare For “Unconditional Surrender” Of Ukraine

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A critically informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin revealing: “The strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine are part of the process of demilitarization”, says he then observed about the so-called Ukraine peace summit the socialist Western colonial powers will hold in Switzerland on 15-16 June that excludes Russia: “They think that we have nothing to do there, and at the same time they say that nothing can be solved without us…Since we are not going there it has now turned into a kind of nonsense…They say, we refuse to negotiate…We’re not invited, but they say that we refuse”.

In accordance with provisions outlined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter for self defense, that Russia invoked on 24 February 2022 to launch the “Special De-Nazification Operation” for the liberation and demilitarization of Ukraine, this report notes, Russian Permanent Representative Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya to the United Nations notified the United Nations Security Council yesterday: “This is how it will go down in history: an inhuman and misanthropic regime of terrorists and Nazis who betrayed the interests of their people and sacrificed them for Western money and handouts for Zelensky and his inner circle…Under these conditions, the attempts of the head of the Kiev regime to promote his “formulas” and convene “summits” cause nothing but bewilderment…Soon enough, the only topic for any international meetings on Ukraine will be the unconditional surrender of the Kiev regime…My advice is that everyone should prepare for this in advance”.

Also as per the provisions outlined in Article 51, this report continues, Permanent Representative Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya informed the United Nations Security Council: “As for the massive precision strikes against Ukrainian fuel and energy facilities, they are a response to attempts by the Kiev regime to damage Russian oil and gas and energy infrastructure…The strike did achieve its goal, having disrupted the work of Ukrainian military industry enterprises and the transfer of reserves to combat areas…It also hampered the supply of fuel to the Ukrainian Armed Forces…As in all previous cases, the civilian population was not threatened by the Russian military, no matter how much Zelensky’s regime and its Western sponsors try to prove the opposite”—the Kiev Post then revealed: “The nation’s largest thermal power station that supplies electricity to three regions has lost 100 percent of its generating capacity, the company said on 11 April, following an overnight Russian airborne attack…“The scale of destruction is terrifying”, Centrenergo’s chairman Andriy Hota told BBC News”—and it was observed: “Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, DTEK, said that two of its power stations had been seriously damaged…The company added that it had already lost 80 percent of its generating capacity as a result of Russian attacks between 22 March and 29 March”.

Quickly following the news: “The latest intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine has resulted in the European Parliament taking the unprecedented decision to delay approval of the council budget until EU leaders get fully on board with approving additional Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine”, this report details, military analysts factually assessed that all of the Patriot air defense systems in the world can’t defend Ukraine, specifically because Russian military forces obliterated Ukrainian energy targets using its latest X-69 missile, that flies at an altitude of only 20 meters (65 feet), skirting the surface, which makes it invulnerable to air defense systems.

Though the socialist Western colonial powers continue to rage about their failed proxy war against Russia using its corrupt puppet state Ukraine, this report notes, Permanent Representative Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya also most factually revealed to the United Nations Security Council yesterday:

What also gets in the way of Western propaganda makers is the opinions of ordinary Ukrainians, which they share on social networks, urging their compatriots to fear not Russian precision strikes but the consequences of the work of Ukrainian air defense systems that are deployed in residential areas in violation of IHL norms.

Since Ukraine has fewer air defense systems, there have also been fewer incidents due to their use.  Ordinary citizens of Ukraine also noticed that.

Incidentally, the Ukrainian military have begun to complain openly that local residents in Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and other cities and regions of Ukraine have started to actively share with Russian military the coordinates of UAF arms depots and whereabouts of military reserves, which clearly demonstrates the real attitude of the civilian population to what is happening.

Ordinary Ukrainians have come to realize more clearly who their real enemy is and who poses a real, not an imaginary, threat to their lives.

We can understand them, because they are concerned about things that our Western colleagues did not mention today.

For example, they have not said a word about violations of the rights of Ukrainian men of conscription age during their forced mobilization.  This is a real scourge for Ukrainian families today.  More and more evidence is being published on the Internet that military commissions mistreat Ukrainian men.

In violation of all norms and laws, they seize them in the streets as if they were wanted criminals and send them straight to the front without any special training where the only way to survive is to surrender to the Russian troops.

The latter is not that easy though, because of barrier squads consisting of nationalists, who try to avoid direct combat with the Russian troops, preferring to shoot their compatriots in the back.

At the same time, whoever has money and connections, like MPs and officials, evade conscription themselves and take their relatives of conscription age abroad.

In Vinnitsa region, a ban was imposed on the entry of men of conscription age into the areas bordering Moldova in order to prevent them from fleeing.

As we see from a video report published recently by the German Deutsche Wellein many Ukrainian villages there is simply no one left to conscript.  In the village of Luzanovka Cherkassy Region, with the population of 400 people, about 50 men have been conscripted.  Head of the local Council complains that they do not have anyone to do the grave digging.

And this happens all across Ukraine against the backdrop of the frank unwillingness of the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians to fight for Western geopolitical interests.

As President of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology admitted the other day, only 8% of men who had been surveyed are ready to voluntarily join the Ukrainian Armed Forces.  The Kiev regime rightly sees this as a lethal threat to its power and therefore “tightens the screws” in every possible way.

Thus, at the beginning of the month, the conscription age for Ukrainians was lowered from 27 down to 25, and, judging by the progress of Ukrainian troops at the front, it may soon be 17-18 years old.

In his moment of agony, Hitler is known to have relied on “Hitlerjugend” for the defense of Berlin.  Zelensky’s agonizing regime is ready to do the same, and sacrifices not only Ukrainian men, but women too for the interests of others.

The law on mobilization, which is about to be adopted, will completely turn Ukrainians into serfs whose lives are at the disposal of Zelensky and his clique.  However, our Western colleagues prefer to keep silent about this.  Just as they never admit how they were preparing Ukraine for a war with Russia for many years under the cover of the Minsk Agreements; and how they did not allow Ukrainians to make peace with Russia.

Of course, no one said today that the human rights situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate rapidly.  None of Western sponsors dares to criticize the head of the Kiev regime, who has usurped power, canceled elections and thrown into prison everyone who disagrees with his dictatorship.

Meanwhile, neo-Nazism is being more and more blatantly promoted in Ukraine, where accomplices of the Nazis are glorified; nationalist and racist sentiments are being cultivated among the population.

Large-scale persecution of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues.  The Kiev regime takes pains to create an image of the UOC and its ministers as “collaborators of the enemy” and encourages illegal seizure of churches.  Everything Russian, language, culture, education, media, is automatically subjected to cancellation.

Following Ukrainian Chief Military Advisor Oksana Grigorieva demonically proclaiming: “The Ukrainian government should leave its old-school mentality behind and implement true equality in its armed forces…Our constitution states that it is the duty of every Ukrainian to protect their homeland, so it is only right that women serve too”, this report continues, the leftist New York Times revealed: “The roughly one million men who serve in Ukraine’s army are battered and exhausted…Many soldiers have been on combat duty for two years…Tens of thousands have been lost to death or serious injury…New recruits are desperately needed….But Ukraine is running up against a critical demographic constraint long in the making: It has very few young men…Healthy men under age 30, the backbone of most militaries, are part of the smallest generation in Ukraine’s modern history”—a revelation that joined Supreme Allied Commander Europe United States Army General Christopher Cavoli informing American lawmakers yesterday: “Russia is reconstituting its military forces far faster than our initial estimates suggested…Over the past year, Russia increased its front line troop strength from 360,000 to 470,000…The army is actually now larger — by 15 percent — than it was when it invaded”.

Along with the Ministry of Defense (MoD) observing: “With Ukrainians unwilling to volunteer for the cause of Zelensky’s madness, Kiev has updated its mobilization rules to recruit new cannon fodder”, this report details, one of its top officials told reporters about puppet leader Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s comical plan for a new counteroffensive: “I would remind you that the implementation of the previous counteroffensive plan in 2023, which Commander-in-Chief Zelensky has delicately called ‘not successful’, resulted in the death and serious injury of more than 166,000 members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the loss of 789 tanks, 2,400 other armored vehicles and 132 aircraft”—the just released American economic article “In Latest Humiliation For Biden Admin, Russian Oil Is Trading Above The G7 Price Cap Everywhere” also revealed: “Russian oil is trading far in excess of a Group of Seven price cap that’s supposed to deprive Moscow of revenue for its war in Ukraine, suggesting significant non-compliance with the measure, which anyone with half a working brain would have expected to happen, which of course excludes virtually all “democratic” bureaucrats who implemented this idiotic sanction which only ended up making the Vitol oil traders billionaires”—all of which was joined by the news: “The World Bank has revised its outlook for Russian GDP growth in 2024-2025 upward”.

After Bloomberg reported yesterday, citing unnamed officials: “The US has run out of options to help Ukraine beyond hoping Congress ultimately passes a $60 billion aid package before the frontline starts to crumble under Russian pressure”, this report concludes, Axios revealed: “House Democrats are engaged in a widespread whip operation aimed at persuading progressive stragglers to sign onto a discharge petition to force a vote on the Senate’s Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid bill…But more than a dozen pro-Palestinian progressives have refused to sign on in protest of the military assistance for Israel in the Senate bill”—and was a revelation joined by the leftist New York Times publishing the open letter “The Math On Ukraine Doesn’t Add Up” written by top Republican Party conservative lawmaker United States Senator J.D. Vance, wherein he warningly observed:

President Biden wants the world to believe that the biggest obstacle facing Ukraine is Republicans and our lack of commitment to the global community.  This is wrong.

Ukraine’s challenge is not the G.O.P.; it’s math.

Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies.  And it needs more material than the United States can provide.  This reality must inform any future Ukraine policy, from further congressional aid to the diplomatic course set by the president.

The most fundamental question: How much does Ukraine need and how much can we actually provide?

Mr. Biden suggests that a $60 billion supplemental means the difference between victory and defeat in a major war between Russia and Ukraine.  That is also wrong.  $60 billion is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor.  But this is not just a matter of dollars.  Fundamentally, we lack the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.

Consider our ability to produce 155-millimeter artillery shells.  Last year, Ukraine’s then defense minister assessed that their base line requirement for these shells is over four million per year, but said they could fire up to seven million if that many were available.  Since the start of the conflict, the United States has gone to great lengths to ramp up production of 155-millimeter shells.  We’ve roughly doubled our capacity and can now produce 360,000 per year — less than a tenth of what Ukraine says it needs.  The administration’s goal is to get this to 1.2 million — 30 percent of what’s needed — by the end of 2025.  This would cost the American taxpayers dearly while yielding an unpleasantly familiar result: failure abroad.

Just this week, the top American military commander in Europe argued that absent further security assistance, Russia could soon have a 10-to-1 artillery advantage over Ukraine. What didn’t gather as many headlines is that Russia’s current advantage is at least 5 to 1, even after all the money we have poured into the conflict.  Neither of these ratios plausibly lead to Ukrainian victory.

Proponents of American aid to Ukraine have argued that our approach has been a boon to our own economy, creating jobs here in the factories that manufacture weapons.  But our national security interests can be — and often are — separate from our economic interests.

The notion that we should prolong a bloody and gruesome war because it’s been good for American business is grotesque.  We can and should rebuild our industrial base without shipping its products to a foreign conflict.

The story is the same when we look at other munitions.  Take the Patriot missile system — our premier air defense weapon.  It’s of such importance in this war that Ukraine’s foreign minister has specifically demanded them.  That’s because in March alone, Russia reportedly launched over 3,000 guided aerial bombs, 600 drones and 400 missiles at Ukraine.  To fend off these attacks, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and others have indicated they need thousands of Patriot interceptors per year. The problem is this: The United States only manufactures 550 every year.  If we pass the supplemental aid package currently being considered in Congress, we could potentially increase annual production to 650, but that’s still less than a third of what Ukraine requires.

These weapons are not only needed by Ukraine.  If China were to set its sights on Taiwan, the Patriot missile system would be critical to its defense.  In fact, the United States has promised to send Taiwan nearly $900 million worth of Patriot missiles, but delivery of those weapons and other essential resources has been severely delayed, partly because of shortages caused by the war.

If that sounds bad, Ukraine’s manpower situation is even worse.  Here are the basics: Russia has nearly four times the population of Ukraine.  Ukraine needs upward of half a million new recruits, but hundreds of thousands of fighting-age men have already fled the country.  The average Ukrainian soldier is roughly 43 years old, and many soldiers have already served two years at the front with few, if any, opportunities to stop fighting.  After two years of conflict, there are some villages with almost no men left.  The Ukrainian military has resorted to coercing men into service, and women have staged protests to demand the return of their husbands and fathers after long years of service at the front.  This newspaper reported one instance in which the Ukrainian military attempted to conscript a man with diagnosed mental disability.

Many in Washington seem to think that hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians have gone to war with a song in their heart and are happy to label any thought to the contrary Russian propaganda.  But major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic are reporting that the situation on the ground in Ukraine is grim.

The White House has said time and again that they can’t negotiate with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.  This is absurd.

The Biden administration has no viable plan for the Ukrainians to win this war.

The sooner Americans confront this truth, the sooner we can fix this mess and broker for peace.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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April 11, 2024

Russia Issues Historic “Holy War” Decree Vowing Victory Over “Fallen Into Satanism” Globalist West

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A forewarning new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting demented and deranged Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden declared about the stalled Ukraine military aid bill in the United States Congress yesterday: “The war in Ukraine comes to an end by the House Leader allowing a vote”, says in quick response, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev most factually observed: “Biden’s words amount to saying keep killing each other…The more people die, the better…I want more deaths”.

During a United States Congress hearing on the stalled Ukraine military aid bill yesterday, this report notes, Supreme Allied Commander Europe United States Army General Christopher Cavoli warningly proclaimed: “The severity of this moment cannot be overstated…Ukraine will run out of artillery shells and air-defense munitions without additional US support…The side that can’t shoot back loses”—a warning proclamation joined by top socialist Biden Regime official Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander further warning American lawmakers: “The US has provided Ukraine with over $113 billion in various forms of assistance since the start of hostilities in February 2022, including more than $62 billion in military aid funneled through the Pentagon…However, more funds are urgently needed to protect this investment…What we need right now to prevent Russian success and Ukrainian defeat is passage of the supplemental…None of that work that we’ve done for two years in investing in Ukraine’s future will pay off, unless we get them through the next few months”.

Though Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander failed to explain exactly how the deaths of hundreds-of-thousands of Ukrainians is an “investment”, this report continues, she did reveal to American lawmakers during her testimony yesterday: “The strikes that we have seen against Russian energy sources have not significantly altered Russia’s ability to prosecute the war…The evidence we’ve seen is that the Russians have been able to rapidly repair the facilities that were struck”—a revelation followed by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announcing earlier today: “In response to the Kiev regime’s attempts to damage Russian oil and gas industry and energy facilities, last night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted a massive precision strike using long-range air and sea-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, on the fuel and energy complex objects of Ukraine…The strike objectives have been achieved…All targets have been hit”—an announcement followed by the Kiev Post revealing: “Russian forces launched yet another mass aerial attack against Ukraine on Thursday morning, 11 April, firing missiles, including hypersonic Kinzhals, from more than nine strategic bombers, targeting critical infrastructures in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Kharkiv regions…As a result of the attack, the Trypillya Thermal Power Plant (TPP) was completely destroyed in the Kyiv region”—and as it pertains to the massive strike on the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske Storage Facility in Ukraine. which can store four times the volume of the largest German natural gas facility and forms part of the European continent’s largest underground cavern network capable of storing vitally needed natural gas, Western military analysts observed: “At least eight Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and four Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles early in the morning of 11 April attacked the largest Bilche-Volitsko-Uher gas storage facility with a capacity of 17 billion cubic meters, which is more than half the capacity of all underground gas storage facilities in the country…The attack on this underground gas storage facility is confirmed by the Ukrainian company Naftogaz…In order to take an underground gas storage facility out of the game, it is not necessary to undermine it directly…It is enough to destroy the entire infrastructure that allows gas to be pumped in and taken out…Based on the number of arrivals, such destruction is very likely…Attacks with such devastating consequences for Ukraine’s failing energy system serve as a kind of response to the intensified terrorist attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian refineries and other strategic industrial facilities…Moscow’s hint in this case is more than transparent: don’t stop, it will be even bigger and worse”.

Joining the government of Switzerland announcing yesterday it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine that will exclude Russia, this report details, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis most factually observed: “Any diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict will be fruitless unless Russia is involved in the process”—and was a factual observation followed by the news: “This week Germany has begun deploying troops to the Baltic state of Lithuania on the border with Russia, which marks the first such external deployment of its kind for Germany’s military since World War II — and which is the result of Berlin adopting a firmer ‘counter-Russia’ posture after more than two years of war in Ukraine”.

In knowing the truth that the socialist Western colonial powers have no intention of ending its proxy war against Russia using the Ukrainian Nazi Regime, this report notes, American leftist journalist Mark Toth and neocon warmonger retired United States Army Colonel Jonathan Sweet just released their open letter “‘No Ordinary Time’ — The World Is At War, And No One Will Lead”, wherein they fearfully warned: “The world is increasingly at war and yet, House Republicans and President Joe Biden are unwilling to rise above the flames…They are crassly prioritizing electoral calculus ahead of national security…We are running out of time…The U.S. needs to be placed on a war footing”—a fearful warning joined by American conservative icon Hugh Hewitt, who, in his just released open letter “We Are In A War. Biden Doesn’t Know It. Trump Does”, gravely assessed: “Is the United States at war this April, 2024?…Was it at war in November, 1941?…Of course we are, just as we were on the eve of Pearl Harbor…Just as then, many Americans including the president were unaware of it….Though President Biden may not fully grasp it because he is increasingly and obviously infirm (and our enemies know it)— the triumvirs he rules in the name of —Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Austin and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan— surely do know this fundamental fact…If they don’t they are stupid, and they are not stupid…They do seem, however, afraid…Former President Trump may disagree on the details of how to wage this war, but he knows it is ongoing and many of the people he will bring back to a new administration he heads will get it exactly right”.

What is known by President Donald Trump, but everyone in the socialist Biden Regime is afraid to truthfully admit to the American peoples, this report concludes, is that Russia is a Christian theocracy like Iran is an Islamic theocracy and Israel is a Jewish theocracy—is a Russian Christian theocracy headed jointly by President Putin and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia—at the plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council convened nearly four months ago on 28 November 2023, all of Russia’s top political, religious and military leaders were ordered by President Putin to create a legal document chartering the path forward for the Russian Federation, with him declaring: “Russia is fighting for the freedom of the whole world…We openly say that the dictatorship of one hegemon is becoming decrepit…She has become, as they say, a double-dealing peddler and is simply dangerous to those around her…This is already clear to the entire world majority…I want to emphasize: without a sovereign, strong Russia, no lasting, stable world order is possible…It is our country, the Russian world, as has happened more than once in history, that has blocked the path of those who claim world domination”—and a fortnight ago, on 27 March 2024, the Moscow Patriarchate published its final decree “Order Of The XXV World Russian People’s Council “The Present And Future Of The Russian World”” legally binding on all Russian political, religious and military leaders, wherein it declared and ordered:

During the cathedral congress, which took place on 27 March 2024 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow under the chairmanship of the head of the VRNS, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, the Order of the XXV World Russian People’s Council “The Present and Future of the Russian World” was approved (Moscow, 27-28 November 2023).

This document, summarizing the most significant proposals put forward within the framework of the work of expert platforms and during the Plenary session, is a program document of the XXV World Russian People’s Council, as well as an order addressed to the legislative and executive authorities of Russia.

1. Special military operation

The special military operation is a new stage in the national liberation struggle of the Russian people against the criminal Kyiv regime and the collective West behind it, waged on the lands of Southwestern Rus‘ since 2014.  During the SVO, the Russian people, with arms in hand, defend their lives, freedom, statehood, civilizational, religious, national and cultural identity, as well as the right to live on their own land within the borders of a single Russian state.

From a spiritual and moral point of view, a special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, defending the single spiritual space of Holy Rus‘, fulfill the mission of “Holding”, protecting the world from the onslaught of globalism and the victory of the West, which has fallen into Satanism.

After the completion of the Northeast Military District, the entire territory of modern Ukraine should enter the zone of exclusive influence of Russia.  The possibility of the existence in this territory of a Russophobic political regime hostile to Russia and its people, as well as a political regime controlled from an external center hostile to Russia, must be completely excluded.

2. Russian world

Russia is the creator, support and defender of the Russian world.  The borders of the Russian world as a spiritual, cultural and civilizational phenomenon are significantly wider than the state borders of both the current Russian Federation and greater historical Russia.  Along with representatives of the Russian ecumene scattered throughout the world, the Russian world includes everyone for whom the Russian tradition, the shrines of Russian civilization and the great Russian culture are the highest value and meaning of life.

The highest meaning of the existence of Russia and the Russian world it created – their spiritual mission – is to be the global “Holder”, protecting the world from evil.  The historical mission is to over and over again destroy attempts to establish universal hegemony in the world – attempts to subjugate humanity to a single evil principle.

Building a thousand-year-old Russian statehood is the highest form of political creativity of Russians as a nation.  The division and weakening of the Russian people, the deprivation of their spiritual and vital forces have always led to the weakening and crisis of the Russian state.  Therefore, the restoration of the unity of the Russian people, as well as their spiritual and life potential, are key conditions for the survival and successful development of Russia and the Russian world in the 21st century.

The family is the basis of Russian national life and the internal stronghold of the tradition of the Russian World.  This is the most stable, conservative institution of society, responsible for transmitting from generation to generation basic ideas about the world and about man, for instilling the most important social skills and roles (men and women, father and mother, citizen, etc.), for preserving and transmission of a civilizational worldview, national idea, as well as traditional spiritual and moral values.  Being the most important school for personal development, the family not only helps a person to understand the world around him, but also teaches him love, kindness and compassion, and provides the most important moral ideas and guidelines.

3. Foreign policy

Russia must become one of the leading centers of the multipolar world, leading integration processes and ensuring security and stable development throughout the post-Soviet space.  As the geopolitical center of Eurasia, located at the intersection of the global axes West-East and North-South, Russia must regulate the balance of strategic interests and act as a bulwark of security and a fair world order in the new multipolar world.  The reunification of the Russian people should become one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy.  Russia should return to the doctrine of the trinity of the Russian people, which has existed for more than three centuries, according to which the Russian people consist of Great Russians, Little Russians and Belarusians, who are branches (sub-ethnicities) of one people, and the concept “Russian” covers all the Eastern Slavs – the descendants of historical Rus‘.  In addition to recognition and development in domestic science, the doctrine of the trinity should receive legislative codification, becoming an integral part of the Russian legal system.  The Trinity should be included in the normative list of Russian spiritual and moral values ​​and receive appropriate legal protection.

Russia must become a refuge state for all compatriots of the world suffering from the onslaught of Western globalism, wars and discrimination.  In addition to our compatriots, our country can become a refuge for millions of foreigners who defend traditional values, are loyal to Russia and are ready for linguistic and cultural integration in our country.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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