Posted on 08/01/2022 9:10:23 PM PDT by FarCenter
Kyiv, Ukraine – Oleksiy Vadatursky was known as a “grain tycoon” who helped make Ukraine a key wheat exporter.
A Russian missile killed him and his wife Raisa in their house in the southern city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, raising suspicion among Ukrainian politicians and pundits who called their death a calculated murder aimed at stalling the resumption of exports.
Unlike other oligarchs – a group of super-rich and unpopular Ukrainians with immense political clout who gained control of key industries after privatising Soviet-era plants and factories – Vadatursky was widely respected as a self-made man.
“He worked. He didn’t exploit the Soviet industrial heritage. He built his empire in the field,” Vadim Karasev, a Kyiv-based political analyst, told Al Jazeera. “He was one of those who created the Ukrainian miracle of grain exporting.”
Employees, partners and even business rivals called Vadatursky, who was 74, “grandpa”.
His companies owned hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile “black earth” land in 10 Ukrainian regions.
He grew wheat, one of the pillars of Ukraine’s agriculture that contributes 15 percent to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) – and provides about a tenth of the global share of grain exports.
His Nibulon consortium raised cows, produced sunflower oil and owned a network of grain elevators and terminals.
Nibulon also built a fleet of ships that helped revive river navigation in post-Soviet Ukraine – and delivered grain, oil and steel to ports on the Black and Azov seas.
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Other politicians immediately declared that Vadatursky’s death was not just an accident.
“A precise hit not just on his house, but on a specific wing, on the bedroom, leaves no doubt the hit was targeted and corrected,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Telegram.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Obviously, only in Putin’s dreams are the Russians that accurate with missiles. Russia was probably aiming at a school, hospital, or shopping center and hit the grain merchant by “mistake”.
I’ve heard that HIMARs are that accurate...
This is Putinism. Assassination, murder, thuggery.
Or the WEF?
Stop the grain and start the crickets!
“ I’ve heard that HIMARs are that accurate...”
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They certainly are. Things that make you go HMMMMMMM.
Was not logical. Same for the prison missile strike.
From my favorite Pro-Ukrainian site (contact in the OP) Looks like more Americans will be joining the fight.
Resident
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source in the OP confirmed the information of colleagues that there is now a problem with the officers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this is precisely what Zaluzhny’s initiative is connected with to take control of the movement of Ukrainians. The shortage of specialists is felt most of all at the front, their list includes: junior officers, pilots, artillerymen and tankmen. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes a tough position on mobilization, considers it necessary to call on experienced military personnel first of all.
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Our source in the OP said that the General Staff is asking the Office of the President to strengthen the mobilization case, due to a lack of officer personnel. Negotiations are underway to replace them with NATO retirees or mercenaries.
Will Schryver:
This is a STUNNING statistic.
US interests literally OWN Ukraine.
Quote Tweet Pelham
· Aug 1
In 2014 Ukraine borrowed 17 Billion from the World Bank (IMF). In return they had to lift the ban on private sector land ownership in the country. Since then Monsanto, BlackRock and Vanguard have purchased over 20 million hectares or 70% of all Ukraine farmland.
https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1554136682986778624
Please see #9.
It wasn’t Russia.
Gee...... now who had motive to kill him and make it look like the Russians did it ?
Maybe Zelenskyy should put a missile on Putins mistress and his four kids.
“Putins mistress”
Putin’s male or female mistress type?
And which Putin age group 7-12, or 13-17?
Going beyond the following article, yes, Russian systems have become far more precise since the early 1990’s, at least due to shared US missile tech.
Clinton and Obama gave the Kremlin very significant US weapons tech, including hypersonic propulsion, redundant precision guidandance systems, laser, cyber, etc...
Intentional POTUS level espionage and treason - for money from big Kremlin donors
https://whatisreallygoingon.substack.com/p/russian-project-to-steal-us-technology?s=r
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/27515-hillary-clinton-and-our-hypersonic-missile-gap-russia
The real Russian connection—
Too bad we can’t get amplified nightly coverage for years...
🇺🇸 Dovetailing with previous response, this is an interesting window.
First a few more background thoughts -
As everyone here should know, this is NOT a land border war, as Taiwan is approximately 100 Miles from the shoreline of CCP Red China.
If the US doesn’t block China’s possible planned naval blockade effort, only then could China put a blockade all the way around Taiwan. AS WELL, Japan has security forces around their islands close to Taiwan’s ENE/NE.
Additionally, beyond a naval blockade, some believe a large scale missile strike strategy could be in the works.
THE REASON WHY -
As we are aware, China cannot move it’s armor and infantry into Taiwan without massive Chinese Politburo destabilization level CCP/PLA losses.
WHY -
Taiwan has been building and maintaining a coastal super fortress since 1948/1949 when Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese government and KMT forces and Mao Zedong’s Moscow backed Communist CCP entered their last battles.
A 300,000 Chiang Kai-shek KMT force was airlifted to Formosa (Taiwan), as Mao’s CCP forces (backed by Moscow), absolutely crushed the Chinese people.
Eventually, (depending on the author), Mao’s CCP forces and policies would be responsible for the deaths of somewhere between 80 to over 100 Million Chinese people. Millions of Chinese people tried to float to Formosa (Taiwan), to escape Mao’s blood soaked Communist army.
As Taiwan is nothing less than a super fortress, a modern CCP blockade and missile strike strategy are CCP’s only real immediate options, unless Chairman Xi wants to lose (arguably) an estimated 1.5 to 1.7 million CCP troops in a kinetic and land invasion of Taiwan.
There are also multiple economic issues facing China. One example would be the largest semiconductor/chip manufacturer in the world being in Taiwan.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) provides chips to mainland Chinese based global tech and auto companies which China depends upon for exports. If China attacks Taiwan, the president of Taiwanese TSMC has stated he will destroy the massive semiconductor/chip making plants on the ground. There are many other examples.
This would absolutely crush major Chinese exports, and the Chinese economy is already collapsing.
Conversely, the fraud puppet in the US White Hut, has just indicated the US no longer recognizes Taiwan independence from China.
Never since 1949 has any US administration taken this formal and reckless capitulated posture toward a Communist beast. (It is actually another indication we have like minded Communist and policy people controlling our own country)
The Pentagon puppet show may have tried to walk the White Hut statement back, but this cat is out of the bag, and the statement only reveals White Hut positions, while motivating/green lighting China that much more, to try and pull off a debilitating blockade, or to possibly act to destroy Taiwan remotely.
China knows it only has a window to crush Taiwan with their friendly and DCM corrupted US fraud puppet in the White Hut, but also knows it will likely lose millions of troops trying to invade Taiwan, which may unseat Xi.
Its only option is to try and place a blockade around Taiwan, and or to launch a heavy missile strike on Taiwan.
This would lead many observers to conclude nothing will happen.
However, Winter is coming, and there are going to be shifts in Western political structures globally. These are much more likely to impede China going forward, even if leftist continue to control election results, as leftist are reprobate narcissists, and don’t often play well with other leftist narcissists attempting to control them. Think WWII Russia/Germany
Both Xi and Putin know this window.
Putin already acted in UA with much stronger support from the CCP Politburo than most in the West are willing to admit.
Consistant with the 2009 RusFed/CCP joint economic and defense agreement and successive posture (albeit the world only formally read about it in 2021), Putin has also outwardly indicated he politically supports a Communist CCP take down of Taiwan, and would support CCP with his navy and military, and has threatened the US and Japan if we try to intervene against CCP’s efforts against Taiwan.
Therefore, while we don’t know what happens next, we are in a plausible window of action.
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While other corrupted twists and turns have been abridged since 1955, for those interested in how far our leftist compromisers of evil will go for bribery money, to the point of being willing to hang our allies from the highest lamppost, consider this impending backstabbing event, contradicting another previously trusted US Declaration and position —
Formosa Resolution, January 29, 1955*
Adopted by both houses of the U.S. Congress | January 29, 1955 | Print
Joint Resolution (ratified by the House and Senate and signed by Pres. Eisenhower)
Authorizing the President to employ the Armed Forces of the United States for [H.J.Res.159] protecting the security of Formosa, the Pescadores and related positions and territories of that area.*
Whereas the primary purpose of the United States, in its relations with all other nations, is to develop and sustain a just and enduring peace for all; and
Whereas certain territories in the West Pacific under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China are now^ under armed attack, and threats and declarations have been and are being made by the Chinese Communists that such armed attack is in aid of and in preparation for armed attack on Formosa and the Pescadores,
Whereas such armed attack if continued would gravely endanger the peace and security of the West Pacific Area and particularly of Formosa and the Pescadores; and
Whereas the secure possession by friendly governments of the Western Pacific Island chain, of which Formosa is a part, is essential to the vital interests of the United States and all friendly nations in or bordering upon the Pacific Ocean; and
Whereas the President of the United States on January 6, 1955, submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification a Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China [Formosa/Taiwan], which recognizes that an armed attack in the West Pacific area directed against territories, therein described, in the region of Formosa and the Pescadores, would be dangerous to the peace and safety of the parties to the treaty: Therefore be it Resolved the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be and he hereby is authorized to employ the Armed Forces of the United States as he deems necessary for the specific purpose of securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack, this authority to include the securing and protection of such related positions and territories of that area now in friendly hands and the taking of such other measures as he judges to be required or appropriate in assuring the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores.
This resolution shall expire when the President shall determine that the peace and security of the area is reasonably assured by international conditions created by action of the United Nations or otherwise, and shall so report to the Congress.
Approved January 29, 1955, 8:42 a.m. 🇺🇸
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