David Sheppard, The Financial Times, 04.11.2021Европу охопила газова криза. Ціни злетіли майже вп’ятеро вище, ніж торік, що сильно загрожує відновленню економіки після пандемії у Великій Британії та Евросоюзі. Запаси газу є настільки низькими, що зима, навіть трохи холодніша, ніж зазвичай, може призвести до суттєвого скорочення постачання газу для промисловості, а домогосподарства вже переплачують за газ.   Европа є одним із континентів, які найбільше залежать від газу — він використовується для постачання п’ятої частини її енергоносіїв — але більшість поставок надходить із-за меж Евросоюзу, зокрема, з Московії. Деякі европейські політики та галузеві аналітики звинувачують Владіміра Путіна в обмеженні поставок і запасів газу до Европи в останні місяці як у засобі тиску на цей континент, з метою щоби Европа врешті затвердила новий газопровід.   Президент Московії каже, що ці звинувачення є «політично вмотивованим шарлатанством», але більшість аналітиків вважають, що навмисно низькі поставки газу з Московії є основним фактором. Европа також переймається змінами на газовому ринку та конкуренцією з боку інших континентів, і водночас молиться про м’яку зиму. ДОМІНАЦІЯ МОСКОВІЇ Після розпаду Радянського Союзу більшість газу Московії до Европи надходила через існуючу ГТС (газотранспортну систему) в Україні [збудовану ще в 1950-1960-х роках для викачування українського газу до Московії -- прим. Radio Lemberg].   У 1990-2000-х роках "Газпром", державний монополіст-експортер Московії, почав диверсифікувати свою газову мережу, щоби зменшити свою залежність від сусідів [від України -- прим. Radio Lemberg], прокладаючи новий газогін "Ямал" через Білорусь та Польщу.   Довготривала напруженість між Московією й Україною загострилася в 2014 році, коли Москва анексувала Кримський півострів. Московія продовжила будувати газогони в обхід України — крок, який, як вважають у Києві та багато

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 12.02.2021 The Russian Federation tries out its hybrid warfare against Ukraine before deploying it against the United States. Disinformation attacks are honed against Ukrainians first because they’re a tougher target, inured to centuries of Russian imperialist aggression. Americans are a secondary target, more vulnerable because they have less experience of the depravity of Chekist violence. This is the way it was with the Russian response to two great democratic events in the life of Ukraine and the USA: the EuroMaidan revolution and the 2020 Presidential election. Kremlin information warfare mounted a massive disinformation campaign against these seminal moments. In Ukraine, Putin at war said that “Maidan was a coup!” In the USA, the campaign was “Stop the steal!” Disinformation lies at the heart of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and on America’s 2020 election. The Revolution of Dignity of 2013-14 was a genuine expression of the will of the Ukrainian people. But Russian information warfare outlets falsely called Maidan (as it was also know) a “coup.” Putin launched a massive disinformation campaign using the slogan “Maidan was a coup!” to justify his invasion of Ukraine. The early months of the invasion by the Muscovites were characterized by organized mobs seizing Ukrainian public buildings. The false front for these mobs were that they were made up of “anti-Maidan” protesters.The 2020 Presidential election was a genuine expression of the will of the American people. Calling the 2020 U.S. election “stolen” is false. But “Stop the steal!” became a Russian-backed disinformation effort to instigate the 6 January 2021 insurrection in Washington, D.C.. The false front placed on the mob organized to attack the Capitol was that it was a defence of the “real winner” of the election,

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 20.01.2021   The political career of Trump was crafted as an act of war by the Russian Federation against the United States, from beginning to end.   The Russians modelled this active measure on the one they first used with Yanukovych in Ukraine. Everything the Russians do through their agent Trump in the U.S. they tried first using their agent Yanukovych in Ukraine. Understanding what the Russians do in their war against the Ukrainian people gives insight into what they’ll do in their war against Americans.   In the end, Yanukovych escaped justice. He has never been punished for the crimes and treason he committed against the Ukrainian people. If Americans are unwise they’ll let Trump go unpunished for the terrible things he’s done to them and to their democracy. They will then have a similar fate to the one Ukrainians have endured.   Trump and Yanukovych are both past their peak of usefulness to the Russians. But useful they were, for the treachery of these two men helped expand the war the Russian Federation is fighting against Ukraine into a global war.   The crimes and treason of Yanukovych stretch over a long period. 2014 was their peak.   The greatest crimes of Yanukovych were ordering the Maidan Massacre and stealing billions of dollars from the Ukrainian state. The greatest treason was appealing to Putin to invade Ukraine and being the figurehead for Moscow’s war.   In January 2014, Yanukovych rammed the “dictatorship laws” through the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament. He sent the Berkut riot police, Internal Ministry troops, and organized gangs of thugs known as “titushki” to attack Ukrainians protesting in the centre of Kyiv. They were protesting for a better life, free of corruption, and for Ukraine to reach its rightful place in Europe and the West.   In February 2014,

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 12.01.2021   The story unfolding in the United States with the insurrection at the Capitol is one that’s been told before. The Russian Federation is at war with Ukraine, and its invasion began in 2014 with organized mobs seizing public buildings in Ukrainian cities. Whether they know it or not, Americans have become players in a familiar play.    Here’s the script of Putin at war. The time is the early months of 2014. The place is Ukraine. The conclusion, which is not yet written, will happen in 2021 in the United States.    The cast of characters:    VATNIKS: A vatnik is person completely indoctrinated by Russian disinformation. A vatnik is a zombie, believing the oligarchs who steal are benefactors and the foreign invaders who take the land are liberators. Vatniks make up the greatest number of people in the Russian Federation’s provocations against Ukraine but they are the least important. They’re there to make active measures seem to be something other than what they are. The equivalent of a vatnik in the United States is a “deplorable” or a MAGAt.   TITUSHKI: Titushki are violent, organized mobs, directed to break up any form of public expression the pro-Russian oligarchy doesn’t like. They’re usually under the protection of the police. Titushki were used extensively by the Yanukovych Clan to break up the Revolution of Dignity. They were unsuccessful in Kyiv but in Donetsk they overwhelmed the pro-Ukraine majority. The closest equivalent in the United States are the Proud Boys and other fascist paramilitary organizations friendly to the Trump regime.   AGENTS PROVOCATEURS: These are direct Russian agents, seeded in the mob, covered by the noise of the vatniks, directing the violence of the titushki. They are the fewest in number and the most dangerous. They were in the United States at the Capitol