Telesur journalist Alejandro Kirk spoke to me about these weapons and vehicles that have been captured by the DPR and LPR forces, noting the many foreign made weapons sold to Ukraine. Western countries continue selling weapons to Ukraine. On March 20, journalist Alexander Rubinstein wrote of the West’s exorbitant shipping of billions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine over the years. He noted: “At least 32 countries have announced their intention to ship billions of dollars in weapons into Ukraine for use against Russian forces in Ukraine. Photographic evidence shows that these weapons have already ended up in the hands of neo-Nazi paramilitaries – units which have already received training and arms the US and its NATO allies. All of this builds on $3.8 billion in military aid from the United States to Ukraine, the training of 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers by Canada and the United Kingdom, and a longstanding CIA program aimed at cultivating an anti-Russian insurgency. …weapons furnished by NATO allies have been placed in the hands of the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi former paramilitary organization incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard. The governments of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have presided over a massive program to train and equip Ukrainian soldiers for a full-scale war with Russia. Trainees have included top commanders of the Azov Battalion. In late February, the European Union opened the floodgates of weapon shipments to Ukraine, approving financing through the aptly-named “European Peace Facility” to reimburse countries sending weapons to the country to the tune of $500 million USD. Another $55 million USD is earmarked for non-lethal military aid. This February, the State Department announced $350 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, bringing “the total security assistance the United States has committed to Ukraine over the past year to more than $1 billion.” Another $200 million was sent in early March, and following Zelensky’s March 16 appeal to Congress for more weapons, Biden is reportedly set to dole out another $800 in military aid including 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 9,000 anti-tank systems, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, 400 shotguns, 400 grenade launchers, 20 million rounds of ammunition, 100 tactical drones, 25,000 sets of body armor and 25,000 helmets. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. These figures add to the $2.5 billion in military aid the US delivered between 2014 and the summer of 2021, bringing the total to $3.8 billion.” https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/20/us-neo-nazi-ukraine-afghan-insurgency/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kq5dhWFIqc

Wedding and birthday party in hotel in Damascus' Old City, Apr 2014, Damascus... life goes on... Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/in-syria-life-goes-on-despite-everything/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/my-published-articles-and-other-musings-from-and-on-syria-20142015/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B06Csl3BLk

Michael Swifte is an independent activist and advocate residing in Brisbane, Australia. He is a part of the critical thinking collective Wrong Kind of Green. From a brief bio on him: "His work focuses on the non-profit industrial complex with a special interest in the development of the Galilee Basin coal complex, networked hegemony, the collateralization of nature for the 'new economy', and in highlighting the political will for fossil fuel driven industrial decarbonization." Follow his work: https://twitter.com/empathiser https://wesuspectsilence.wordpress.com/ https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org https://www.facebook.com/michaelswizswifte RELATED LINKS: Monica Smit Refuses to be Silenced: Chooses Jail over Unfair Bail https://xyz.net.au/2021/09/monica-smit-refuses-to-be-silenced-chooses-jail-over-unfair-bail *her arrest https://twitter.com/_Mrtdogg/status/1432585114333110274 https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/monicas-arrest/ CHO served https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/sutton-served Oz surveillance legislation https://insiderpaper.com/australian-government-new-surveillance-laws-modify-twitter-facebook-posts/ Increase of suicidal ideations https://www.rt.com/op-ed/519837-covid19-lockdowns-mask-wearing-isolation/ Phone call with a lawyer at Caxton Legal Centre https://sciencepublichealthpolicyqld2021.blogspot.com/2021/01/phone-call-with-lawyer-at-caxton-legal.html Denis Rancourt interview https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/interview-with-canadian-physicist-and:1 Mark Crispin Miller censorship https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1633-mark-crispin-miller-exposes-propaganda-in-the-academy/ https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/masks-dont-work-denis-rancourt-april-2020.pdf Karen Goori at Yuggera Original Sovereign opening People's Revolution Rally Meeanjin Brisbane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkyLwkGWg8w ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CR18fSy3vQ

En route to Idlib countryside last February, I spent a couple of days in Aleppo again, filming scenes of life, even reconstruction, going to a factory reopened within 400 metres of al-Qaeda snipers, and very enjoyably spending an afternoon wandering the beautiful Citadel, speaking with civilians, and filming the beautiful culture that has resumed in liberated Aleppo. This video shows the scenes I saw that Friday, families enjoying themselves at their historic Citadel as they could not do under the rule of al-Qaeda and other terrorists. Do note how freely the kids run and play...in the city that supposedly "fell", according to war propagandizing Western corporate media. Related Links: -Shops Re-Opened in Old Aleppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BbRgYhYDrk -old Aleppo shop owner: Just leave us in peace and we will re-build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfopq-QLYHQ -Reconstruction in Aleppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMgNbLDCG0 -Signs of Reconstruction Among the Destruction in Old Aleppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lKj5AeVm8 -Memory Lane, Old Aleppo: November 2016 Terrorist Snipers Vs Today's Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMTXEZcIiE -Lively Clothes Market, Aleppo--The City That Did NOT Fal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgq5uU5UVM -Aleppo Taxi Driver and Singer :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7UOaN214tQ -Fares Shehabi: Aleppo Factory Defying al Qaeda An Example of Rising Up Undefeated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2uyKdrpBLc -From A Main Square in Aleppo That Was Sniped & Bombed By "Moderate" Terrorists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHB0f3DdZ4 -Ibrahim, an Aleppo Resident, Speaks About Experiences as Syrian Army Volunteer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_f13cJGJrQ -Liberate Syria’s Idlib, precisely for the civilians that America fakes concern over https://www.rt.com/op-ed/460248-idlib-syria-liberate-terrorists/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whn4oNygopU