#aleksandr dvornikov

[qqueenofhades]

I was doing some reading on the bombings of Grozny earlier, and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Putin also known as the Butcher of Grozny?

Technically, I believe that title is held (or also held, it's unclear) by Russian general Aleksandr Dvornikov, who presided over the wholesale destruction of Groznyy (in Chechnya) and Aleppo (in Syria), and then was also appointed to head up the war in Ukraine in 2022. However, since this was also done on Putin's orders and under Putin's regime, it is certainly a title/responsibility he shares in.

I wrote a post last year about the deliberate strategy of genocide and genocide denialism in post-Soviet Russia, including Chechnya and Syria, and how that was applied to the war in Ukraine, which might shed some light on how what they're doing in Ukraine was directly informed by previous undertakings, including the total destruction of Groznyy and the constant targeting of civilians in Syria (and then lying about it later). So yes, that might also be useful.

[tomorrowusa]

Putin is appointing a war criminal to oversee his faltering war in Ukraine. 

The Kremlin has tapped Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov, who commands Russia’s forces in the southern military district, to lead the war in Ukraine, U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with CNN on April 10.

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Dvornikov, 60, served in Chechnya in the 1990s and in 2015 became the first Russian commander to lead military operations in Syria.

Since 2016, he has overseen the southern military district, which includes Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.

Dvornikov has a notorious reputation for his conduct of the war in Syria, where Russia bombed civilian districts. Putin awarded Dvornikov the Hero of Russia medal, one of the country’s highest awards, for his work in Syria.

Russian involvement in Syria, starting under Gen. Dvornikov, has been synonymous with war crimes.

Russia showed its playbook in Syria. Here's what it may mean for civilians in Ukraine

Russia's military intervention contributed to untold suffering for millions of Syrian civilians beginning in 2015, when the country first entered the fight on behalf of Syria's President Bashar Assad. With the Russian military's might now trained on Ukraine, the lessons of Moscow's involvement in Syria stand as a specter of the heavy-handed playbook experts fear could unfold on an even larger and deadlier scale the longer the conflict in Ukraine drags on.

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"Most of their actions in support of the Syrian army was to exact a high civilian death toll in order to break the morale of the people. And eventually they succeeded in basically dismembering the Syrian opposition as a result," said Randa Slim, a senior fellow and director of the conflict resolution program at the Middle East Institute. "I think that's what they would like to do — they're going to go with extreme force, partly to break down the morale of the Ukrainian people and try to prevent any kind of organized resistance forming together against them."

Some of Russia's most intense bombing in Syria came in 2016 during the battle for Aleppo, where a monthlong assault by the Russian/Syrian coalition resulted in the deaths of more than 440 civilians, including more than 90 children, according to Human Rights Watch. The campaign amounted to war crimes, the organization said, writing in a December 2016 report that "airstrikes often appeared to be recklessly indiscriminate, deliberately targeted at least one medical facility, and included the use of indiscriminate weapons such as cluster munitions and incendiary weapons."

That all sounds awfully familiar.

Putin is growing increasingly desperate. In less than 50 days, Russia has suffered more fatalities than in the 9+ year Soviet-Afghan War. He certainly doesn’t care how many Ukrainian civilians die, and he cares just as little about how many of his own troops are killed or seriously wounded in a futile war.

The only way to end the war is to make Russia pay such a high price that it simply won’t be able to continue the conflict.

[usnewsrank]

Putin ‘culls six generals’ as he plans ‘deadly new assault’ on Ukraine

Putin ‘culls six generals’ as he plans ‘deadly new assault’ on Ukraine

Ministry of Defence officials warn Putin is planning a new assault after his generals purge (Picture: EPA/Getty) Vladimir Putin is thought to have purged six generals over ‘poor performance’ amid warnings his forces are amassing in south Ukraine for a fresh assault. The Ministry of Defence believes commander Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov – known as the ‘Butcher of Syria’ who was appointed…

[cgvijesti]

Putin postavio novog zapovjednika: Korumpiran i brutalan

Putin postavio novog zapovjednika: Korumpiran i brutalan

Britansko ministarstvo odbrane saopštilo je da je Rusija ovog mjeseca vjerovatno povukla nekoliko generala s ključnih zapovjednih pozicija u ukrajinskom sukobu. Među onima koji su smijenjeni je, tvrde Britanci, zapovjednik Vazdušno-desantnih snaga (VDV) general-pukovnik Andrej Serdjukov, kao i zapovjednik Južne armijske skupine (SGF), general Aleksandr Dvornikov. Dvornikov je takođe neko vrijeme…

[kramlabs]

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/megalopolis-x-russia-total-war/

After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”.

Operation Z is the first salvo of a titanic struggle: three decades after the fall of the USSR, and 77 years after the end of WWII, after careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”. No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system.

The U.S. and its NATO puppies cannot possibly come to grips with their perplexity when faced with a staggering loss: no more entitlement allowing exclusive geopolitical use of force to perpetuate “our values”. No more Full Spectrum Dominance.

The micro-picture is also clear. The U.S. Deep State is milking to Kingdom Come its planned Ukraine gambit to cloak a strategic attack on Russia. The “secret” was to force Moscow into an intra-Slav war in Ukraine to break Nord Stream 2 – and thus German reliance on Russian natural resources. That ends – at least for the foreseeable future – the prospect of a Bismarckian Russo-German connection that would ultimately cause the U.S. to lose control of the Eurasian landmass from the English Channel to the Pacific to an emerging China-Russia-Germany pact.

The American strategic gambit, so far, has worked wonders. But the battle is far from over. Psycho neo-con/neoliberalcon silos inside the Deep State consider Russia such a serious threat to the “rules-based international order” that they are ready to risk if not incur a “limited” nuclear war out of their gambit. What’s at stake is nothing less than the loss of Ruling the World by the Anglo-Saxons.

Mastering the Five Seas

Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the 6th economy in the world, right behind Germany and ahead of both the UK and France. Its “hard” economy is similar to the U.S. Steel production may be about the same, but intellectual capacity is vastly superior. Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the U.S., but they are much better educated.

The Mossad attributes Israel’s economic miracle in creating an equivalent of Silicon Valley to a base of a million Russian immigrants. This Israeli Silicon Valley happens to be a key asset of the American MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex), as indelibly named by Ray McGovern.

NATOstan media hysterically barking that Russia’s GDP is the size of Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts; that and Russia’s superior engineers is why their hypersonic weapons are at least two or three generations ahead of the U.S. Just ask the indispensable Andrei Martyanov.

The Empire of Lies has no defensive missiles worthy of the name, and no equivalents to Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat. The NATOstan sphere simply cannot win a war, any war against Russia for this reason alone.

The deafening NATOstan “narrative” that Ukraine is defeating Russia does not even qualify as an innocuous joke (compare it with Russia’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone” strategy). The corrupt system of SBU fanatics intermingled with UkroNazi factions is kaput. The Pentagon knows it. The CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media “victory” for the UkroNazis, not a military victory.

Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov, of Syria fame, has a clear mandate: to conquer the whole of Donbass, totally free up Crimea and prepare the advance towards Odessa and Transnistria while reducing a rump Ukraine to the status of failed state without any access to the sea.

The Sea of Azov – linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal – is already a Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the Mediterranean. The Five Seas system – Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White – enshrines Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters?

Moving “at the speed of war”

The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality – as in facts on the ground – will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse.

The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years. That’s nonsense. The Russian Armed Forces may afford to be quite methodical and take all the time needed to properly demilitarize Ukraine. The collective West for its part is pressed for time – because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious.

Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any NATO vehicles bringing weapons to Kiev will be destroyed as “legitimate military targets”.

A report by the scientific service of the Bundestag established that training of Ukrainian soldiers on German soil may amount, under international law, to participation in war. And that gets even trickier when coupled with NATO weapons deliveries: “Only if, in addition to the supply of weapons, the instruction of the conflict party or training in such weapons were also an issue would one leave the secure area of ​​non-warfare.”

Now at least it’s irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies “moves at the speed of war” – as described in public by weapons peddler turned Pentagon head, Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin. In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial “official” as “a combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers.”

The Pentagonese “battle rhythm” offered to a supposedly “credible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military” is fed by a EUCom system that essentially moves weapons orders from Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in Europe and then to the NATO eastern front in Poland, where they are trucked across Ukraine just in time to be duly incinerated by Russian precision strikes: the wealth of options include supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, two types of Iskander, and Mr. Khinzal launched from Mig-31Ks.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed Moscow is perfectly aware the U.S., NATO and UK are transferring not only weapons but also loads of intel. In parallel, the collective West turns everything upside down 24/7 shaping a new environment totally geared against Russia, not caring for even a semblance of partnership in any area. The collective West does not even consider the possibility of dialogue with Russia.

Hence talking to Putin is “a waste of time” unless a “Russian defeat” in Ukraine (echoing strident Kiev P.R.) would make him “more realistic”. For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week.

The neo-Orwellian Hitlerization of Putin reduces him, even among the so-called Euro-intelligentzia, to the status of dictator of a nation chloroformed into its 19th century nationalism. Forget about any semblance of historical/political/cultural analysis. Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic.

At best the Europeans preach and pray – chihuahuas yapping to His Master’s Voice – for a hybrid strategy of “containment and engagement” to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland.

Yet in fact the Europeans would rather “isolate” Russia – as in 12% of the world’s population “isolating” 88% (of course: their Westoxified “vision” completely ignores the Global South). “Help” to Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or – the ultimate wet dream – there’s regime change in Moscow.

The Fall

UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.

Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia’s “total isolation”. It’s idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse.

Then there’s the “progressive” embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022. As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia’s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master’s Voice continues and will continue to import Russian oil.

And of course 58 “personal” sanctions also show up, targeting very dangerous characters such as Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church, and the wife, son and daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.

This stunning display of stupidity will have to be approved by all EU members. Internal revolt is guaranteed, especially from Hungary, even as so many remain willing to commit energy suicide and mess up with the lives of their citizens big time to defend a neo-Nazi regime.

Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what’s goin’ on, offered in Russian by a Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: “Megalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis – it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.”

Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in Ukraine is “a great catastrophe for Orthodox civilization” – mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities.

Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: “The key difference between the former West and today’s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.”

So now “it is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy” because of a “trivialization of knowledge”. What’s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, “filled by promoting terms such as ‘posthumanism’ and ‘transhumanism’.”

And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: Russia fiercely opposes the Great Reset concocted by the “hackable”, self-described “elites” of Megalopolis.

Sergey Glazyev, now coordinating the draft of a new financial/monetary system by the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) in partnership with the Chinese, adapts Vladusic to the facts on the ground (here in Russian, here in an imperfect English translation).

Glazyev is way more blunt than in his meticulous economic analyses. While noting the Deep State’s aims of destroying the Russian world, Iran and block China, he stresses the U.S. “will not be able to win the global hybrid war”. A key reason is that the collective West has “put all independent countries in front of the need to find new global currency instruments, risk insurance mechanisms, restore the norms of international law and create their own economic security systems.”

So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, Total War – as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: “Russia needs to stand up to the United States and NATO in its confrontation, bringing it to its logical conclusion, so as not to be torn between them and China, which is irrevocably becoming the leader of the world economy.”

History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire.

[eugene-v-dabs]

Russia Taps New General To Oversee Ukraine Invasion

U.S. officials confirmed that General Aleksandr V. Dvornikov, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Syria, will now lead Russian forces in Ukraine, which up until now had no central war commander. What do you think?

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[listinsemanal]

Quién es el carnicero de Siria, que según EE. UU., lidera guerra en Ucrania

Quién es el carnicero de Siria, que según EE. UU., lidera guerra en Ucrania

Tras admitir que ha sufrido “pérdidas significativas de tropas”, Rusia ha designado a un nuevo general para continuar con su siguiente fase en la invasión de Ucrania. Se trata de Aleksandr Dvornikov, un experimentado militar que jugó un papel clave en la guerra de Siria, liderando tropas que fueron acusadas de perpetrar abusos generalizados contra la población civil e incluso de cometer crímenes…

[tomorrowusa]

Russia is importing barrel bomb specialists from Syria to help with its faltering war in Ukraine. Russian forces, by committing war crimes, have helped keep Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in power.

Barrel bombs – crude explosives packed in to a drum and dropped from a helicopter – were used to devastating effect throughout the Syrian war. The regime was also regularly accused of filling canisters with chlorine and dropping them on opposition held towns and cities, causing hundreds of deaths and sparking widespread alarm.

With no anti-aircraft weapons, the anti-Assad opposition had little to counter the Syrian military’s air supremacy, which was a big factor in the regime clawing back parts of the country after 10 years of war.

The situation is very different in Ukraine, however, where Ukrainian troops armed with lethal ground to air missiles can bring down Russian jets and helicopters, stalling advances and exposing ground forces to withering artillery fire.

The barrel bomb folks are not the first Syrian import by Russia into the Russo-Ukraine War. In April, Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov, known as the “butcher of Syria”, was put in charge of the Russian military fighting in the current war.

But the thing about barrel bombs is that they are usually dropped from helicopters. The Syrian resistance never had much in the way of anti-aircraft weaponry. On the other hand, Ukrainians have been shooting down Russian helicopters at a steady rate. As of today, they’ve blown 170 Russian helicopters out of the sky. That’s in addition to 204 airplanes and 476 UAVs shot down.

So Russia is getting desperate. It wants its helicopter pilots to go on suicide missions against Ukrainian forces. When the first Russian helicopters carrying barrel bombs get hit by Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire, we’re going to see some spectacular fireworks. 💥

[inspire-by-desirec]

Russia Taps New General To Oversee Ukraine Invasion

U.S. officials confirmed that General Aleksandr V. Dvornikov, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Syria, will now lead Russian forces in Ukraine, which up until now had no central war commander. What do you think?

Read more...

[kristablogs]

Russia Taps New General To Oversee Ukraine Invasion

U.S. officials confirmed that General Aleksandr V. Dvornikov, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Syria, will now lead Russian forces in Ukraine, which up until now had no central war commander. What do you think?

Read more...

[kayjay63]

Aleksandr Dvornikov: New Russian general to oversee Ukraine war

Aleksandr Dvornikov: New Russian general to oversee Ukraine war

Dubbed the ‘butcher’ of Aleppo and Grozny, Dvornikov, used to be honoured with a Hero of Russia medal in 2016…Read More

[newshubnaija]

Aleksandr Dvornikov: New Russian general to oversee Ukraine war

Aleksandr Dvornikov: New Russian general to oversee Ukraine war

Dubbed the ‘butcher’ of Aleppo and Grozny, Dvornikov, was honoured with a Hero of Russia medal in 2016.

[annettekaiser3]

'BUTCHER OF SYRIA': Putin appoints ruthless general to lead Ukraine war | World Israel News

[hjhb-the-hdgp]

It's only getting worse

[elefapt]

Nbc General Aleksandr Dvornikov Becomes Russia’s New Ground Commander in Ukraine

Nbc General Aleksandr Dvornikov Becomes Russia’s New Ground Commander in Ukraine

https://ift.tt/f9wF72j from NBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qGbJA341Y