{"id":250203,"date":"2022-03-01T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250203"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:32:04","slug":"analysis-what-weapons-is-russia-deploying-in-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250203","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: what weapons is Russia deploying in Ukraine invasion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Feb 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The western mainstream media has long had ties to the intelligence community. It is a relationship of reciprocal benefit: journalists frame this organisation, individual or nation in a favourable or unfavourable light, depending on whatever the intelligence asset wants. In return they feed the journalist in question some insider info that is not public knowledge.<\/p>\n

The end result being that the mainstream media has become an effective means with which to shape and guide public opinion, often without the public or the journalist even realising.<\/p>\n

The following article may be a case in point. From what we can gather much of the information in it was obtained from Bellingcat, which the Guardian describes as an \u201cinvestigative website\u201d.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one way of putting it. Others, however, have suggested that Bellingcat is far from neutral or independent. According to Alan Macleod:<\/p>\n

Bellingcat\u2026\u201dis funded by Western governments, staffed with former military and state intelligence officers, repeats official narratives against enemy states, and serves as a key part in what could be called a \u201cspook to Bellingcat to corporate media propaganda pipeline,\u201d presenting Western government narratives as independent research.\u201d (How Bellingcat launders National Security State talking points …<\/a> )<\/p>\n

In other words, Bellingcat is used to feed sanitised intelligence to the public to help reinforce the official narrative.<\/p>\n

In this particular case, the Guardian reports that Russia is deploying all sorts of formidable weapons into Ukraine, with the implicit suggestion that they will be used against civilians. Up until now that has not been the case. That may soon change however, as more recent reports claim that the Russians have been urging Ukrainian civilians to leave Kyiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From this we conclude that the Russians are trying to minimise civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

In essence, intelligence contractors pass on sanitised information to journalists who, to further their career prospects, present that information in accordance with the prevailing narrative. Twenty years ago it was the evil Saddam Hussein, his torture chambers<\/a> and Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n

We now know that they were phantoms created by government spokesmen and journalists. But today we have a new personification of evil incarnate and now we are supposed to believe that it is Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

We can only wonder if we are heading down the same path to conflict? After all, the Covid pandemic appears to have failed. Is war with Russia (and China and probably Iran too) now on the agenda instead? Ed.<\/p>\n

Analysis: what weapons is Russia deploying in Ukraine invasion?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Peter Beaumont \u2013 The Guardian Feb 27, 2022<\/h2>\n

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Footage captured by a CNN crew of the deployment of a T0S-1 heavy flame thrower system which was filmed being transported towards the Ukrainian<\/a> border on Saturday has focused increased attention on what weapons Russia is beginning to deploy and how indiscriminate they are.<\/p>\n

The TOS-1, nicknamed the \u201cBuratino\u201d \u2013 the Russian<\/a> version of Pinocchio \u2013 for its big nose, is one of the most feared weapons systems in Russia\u2019s conventional armoury, a multiple launch rocket system mounted on the chassis of a T-72 tank capable of firing thermobaric<\/a> rockets which use oxygen<\/a> from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion.<\/p>\n

First deployed by the Soviet military in Afghanistan, the TOS-1 was used most recently in Syria. The deployment of the TOS-1 comes as Russian forces and separatist allies have already used the indiscriminate BM-21 \u201cGrad\u201d multiple launch rocket system during the course of their invasion of Ukraine<\/a> including in the country\u2019s east and in the country\u2019s south. They appear to have been deployed around Kharkiv where images of a destroyed BM-21 and a dead Russian serviceman have circulated.<\/p>\n

The Bellingcat investigative website has also been collecting evidence of the suspected use of Uragan and Smerch cluster rockets and their submunitions from the current fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The use of both multiple launch rocket systems and cruise missiles against civilian areas during the invasion has already been condemned. \u201cThe Russian military has shown a blatant disregard for civilian lives by using ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with wide area effects in densely populated areas,\u201d said Agn\u00e8s Callamard, Amnesty International\u2019s secretary general.<\/p>\n

She warned: \u201cSome of these attacks may be war crimes. The Russian government, which falsely claims to use only precision-guided weapons, should take responsibility for these acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many of the weapons systems so far used during the Russian invasion have been largely conventional \u2013 including versions of the T-72 tank and BMP3 armoured fighting vehicles \u2013 and Mi8 and Ka-52 helicopters, concern has been raised over the Russian use of Kalibr cruise missiles, particularly against built up areas.<\/p>\n

There have been reports of Kalibrs \u2013 which can be fired from ships, aircraft and submarines \u2013 being used against Kyiv and also against the southern port city of Odessa.<\/p>\n

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The Western media once demonised Saddam Hussein and his WMD, they are now doing the same with President Putin. This article from the Guardian prompts us to wonder, has it been decided that there will be war with Russia? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250203"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250240,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250203\/revisions\/250240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}