KYIV, Ukraine — Hackers brought down dozens of Ukrainian government websites on Friday and posted a message on one saying, “Be afraid and expect the worst,” a day after a breakdown in diplomatic talks between Russia and the West intended to forestall a threatened Russian invasion of the country. The attack crippled the sites of the Cabinet of Ministers, and the ministries of energy, sports, agriculture, veterans’ affairs, and ecology, along with many other government websites. The websites of the president and the defense ministry remained online. Ukrainian officials said the attack targeted 70 government websites. Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of NATO responded to the cyberattack by saying that NATO would increase its coordination with Kyiv on cyberdefenses. from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/world/europe/hackers-ukraine-government-sites.html Amir Tsarfati CNN reports that the United States has intelligence that Russia is trying to carry out an exercise in Ukraine to create a pretext for invading the country. According to the senior official quoted in the news, the Russians are trying to present a false representation in which the Ukrainian forces are allegedly attacking their forces - and to invade Ukraine following the same exercise. And from a later post: https://t.me/s/beholdisraelchannel CNN reports that the United States has intelligence that Russia is trying to carry out an exercise in Ukraine to create a pretext for invading the country. Consider the source ----> CNN. :negative: Methinks the pretext is rather the other way around. So does Hal Turner. If the US truly has intelligence, our pretender in chief clearly missed his rations when the wagon came around, remaining intelligence-free, and suffering from lack-trust intolerance. Much like CNN. :yes: Do you suppose Hal Turner is related to Ted Turner? :unsure: Maybe this all could be HalTed somehow. :scratch: Yes, MyWhiteStone, we can't tell what is true anymore. We can't trust the government and we can't trust the news. We used to, but things have changed so much. Since the last election, it seems the world has been turned upside down. Footsteps of the Messiah! From the Hal Turner Radio Show website: Just three days after Sweden let it be known they were thinking of asking to join NATO, Russia has sent an Amphibious Assault fleet into the Baltic Sea near Sweden. And, get this . . . . the ships . . . . . ARE LOADED! With landing craft, armor, and troops! Russian President Vladimir Putin said recently any other nations that move to join NATO would "be dealt with immediately to protect Russia's security." Now there's a large number of amphibious landing ships near Sweden at a time when 100,000+ troops are massed on the Ukraine border and Russia's leadership has declared its "patience has finally run out." When the dots are connected, it's clear to see exactly what is about to happen, and it isn't pretty. In response to these LOADED amphibious landing ships off their coast, Sweden has made an emergency deployment of troops. Military troops are driving on the E4 north of Stockholm: Some troops have also been airlifted to Gotland Island, where locals are stunned to see armored military vehicles and armed soldiers patrolling the streets! 
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Following the breakdown of diplomatic talks between NATO and Russia, and in light of alarming intelligence of espionage plans and continued military build-up, we are upgrading our assessment. We believe major fighting is likely within 2 weeks.
