US is Not a Democracy – Putin
The US has become a global laughing stock by criticizing democratic processes in other nations while suppressing a presidential candidate in its own election, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has claimed.
Speaking to journalists in Moscow early on Monday morning, shortly after preliminary results indicated he would be reelected with 87% of the vote in the Russian presidential election, Putin stated that the “whole world is laughing at what is happening” in the US.
“We are behaving with more restraint than their opponents in other countries, but this is just a catastrophe, not a democracy – that’s what it is,” the Russian leader added.
Putin claimed that the current US administration is using all its resources to attack a candidate for this year’s presidential election, seemingly referring to Donald Trump. The former US leader is facing a litany of lawsuits despite being the presumptive Republican nominee for the vote in November.
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In a pre-election interview earlier this week, Putin insisted that Russia does not meddle in foreign elections and will work with any elected US president.
“I think it’s obvious to everyone that the American political system cannot claim to be democratic in any sense of the word,” he said in an interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselyov. Putin refused to comment further on the current presidential campaign in the US, but described the atmosphere as becoming “increasingly uncivilized.”
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Putin Wins Russian Election With 87% Of The Vote
PVladimir Putin has won his fifth term as Russia’s president following an election victory with nearly 88% of the vote. Putin won 87.85%, according to an exit poll which was broadcast on state television late […]
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SpaceX Reportedly Building Spy Satellite Constellation in Low Earth Orbit
SpaceX’s Starshield program has been building a constellation of spy satellites under a classified contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since 2021, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the program.
The spy satellite network will consist of hundreds of low-Earth orbiting satellites with Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a sat-swarm. SpaceX’s contract with the NRO, signed in 2021, totals $1.8 billion.
According to Reuters, if Starshield is successful, it would “significantly advance the ability of the US government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.”
The contract signals a strengthening relationship between Musk and national security agencies despite radical progressives in the White House who have weaponized federal agencies against SpaceX and other Musk-owned companies.
Reuters noted it “was unable to determine when the new network of satellites would come online and could not establish what other companies are part of the program with their own contracts.”
SpaceX describes Starshield as for “government use” only, while “Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use.” It also explains that Starshield is a “secured satellite network for government entities” that “supports national security efforts.”
Starlink needs to be a civilian network, not a participant to combat.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2023
Starshield will be owned by the US government and controlled by DoD Space Force.
This is the right order of things.
Last fall, SpaceX received a contract for the Starshield network from the US Space Force.
The planned Starshield network is entirely separate from Starlink, which has an expanding commercial broadband constellation of 5,500 satellites in low earth orbit that provides internet to consumers, companies, and government agencies worldwide.
Biden officials must be absolutely furious about Musk’s expanding relationship with the Pentagon to strengthen the nation’s defenses.
Musk is uncancellable – no matter how many federal agencies the Biden administration directs at the billionaire.
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Russian Forces Liberate Another Settlement in Zaporozhye Region
The Russian military has taken the village of Mirnoye in Zaporozhye Region from Ukrainian forces, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The settlement was “liberated as a result of successful offensive actions” by the units of the Vostok (East) group of forces, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
Mirnoye, which translates into English as ‘peaceful,’ had a population of about 500 before the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The village is located 14 kilometers southwest of the town of Guliaipole. and 77 kilometers southeast of the city of Zaporozhye. Both Guliaipole and Zaporozhye remain under Ukrainian control.
The ministry also said that several attempts by Ukrainian saboteurs and reconnaissance groups to enter Russian territory have been repelled in Belgorod Region over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian troops have been trying to cross into Russia in the area on an almost a daily basis over the past week, but all of their attacks have been intercepted. Kiev has lost more than 1,500 troops and dozens of military vehicles in the process, including tanks and APCs, according to Moscow.
President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with national media on Wednesday that Russia’s forces have recently been “moving forward along the whole frontline” in the Ukraine conflict.
In February, the Russian military captured Avdeevka, a major Ukrainian stronghold in Russia’s People’s Republic of Donetsk, while also taking control of a number of smaller settlements in other locations.
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US Looks to Interfere in Russian Elections – Ex-CIA Officer
When it comes to Washington’s attempts to intervene in Russia’s domestic affairs, the country’s intelligence community is capable of duly tackling these challenges, Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik.
Incumbent Vladimir Putin has won a landslide victory in the 2024 Russian presidential elections, praised by international observers as free and fair.
Western elites have always harbored personal animosity towards Putin due to a spate of factors, Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, said in an interview with Sputnik.
“One, when Putin broke up the oligarchs, many of them were in bed economically with people in the West. Number two, Putin’s embrace of fundamental Christian values has been a source of anger directed at him. But what he’s done is he’s insisted upon trying to protect Russia and insist on Russia’s national rights being respected. That has earned him the animosity in the West. It’s really crazy,” Johnson noted.
In this vein, the ex-CIA agent commented on Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergey Naryshkin’s statement that the US is looking to create a “fifth column” in Russia to meddle in the 2024 presidential elections and discredit the country’s leadership on social media.
Johnson stressed that “this notion of creating a fifth column has always been and will always be a pipe dream,” adding that America’s “ultimate goal of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs is “trying to create a Russia that will be obedient to the US and make it submit to the will of the West.”
The West sees itself as the world leader in terms of moral, economic, and military clout, with Russia perceived as “a thorn in Western side, which must be compelled to submit,” the retired CIA intelligence officer pointed out.
Dwelling on the primary methods that US intelligence employs when meddling in other countries’ election processes, Johnson explained that it all “starts off with funding.”
“You identify an existing opposition group and provide it funding, or you create an opposition group and provide it funding. You create propaganda or put articles into what used to be newspapers and magazines, and then you created documentaries, movies and news items for television. And now, with the advent of social media, you use it to try to develop memes and develop ideas,” he said.
As for Facebook*, Twitter, and Instagram*, Johnson added, those social media companies “actually, in some cases, were created or at least helped out in their creation by the [Western] intelligence community and are used by them to try to influence elections.”
In this regard, the retired CIA intelligence officer pointed out that “the Russian intelligence capability is really good at identifying these [ US interference-related] threats and dealing with them.”
* Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are banned in Russia for extremism.
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