WWIII looms as U.S. declares support for Lithuania; Russia vows retaliation

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • The West rises against Putin: Finland warns Russia it is ready to fight them and US declares NATO’s ‘ironclad’ support for Lithuania as Moscow’s fury grows over Kaliningrad blockade
  • Finland’s armed forces chief said the country has been preparing for war against Russia for decades
  • Lithuania blocked goods sanctioned by the EU from reaching the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad
  • US said it would defend fellow NATO member Lithuania if Russia launched attack
  • Russia vowed to retaliate with measures that ‘will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population’ after country blocked coal and metals from Russia

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Live fire drills near Kaliningrad as Lithuania blocks goods being transported into Russia

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Russia’s Baltic Fleet to launch live-fire exercises in Kaliningrad Region
  • “About 1,000 servicemen and over 100 units of combat and special equipment of artillery and missile units will take part in the maneuvers in the Kaliningrad region,” stated the report according to RBC.
  • The news follows Russia threatening to revoke the recognition of Lithuania as an EU state due to the blockade in the Kaliningrad region, as stated by the Chairman of the Provisional Commission of the Federation Council on Protection of State Sovereignty and Prevention of Interference in Russia’s Internal Affairs, Senator Andrei Klimov, on Monday, June, 20.

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‘Calm Before the Storm’ as Ukraine prepares for increase in attacks, EU cuts shipments to Russian outpost in Baltics

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Moscow fumes after EU cuts off shipments to Baltic outpost
  • Russia’s separatist proxies said they were advancing towards Kyiv’s main battlefield bastion. A Ukrainian official described a lull in fighting there as the “calm before the storm”.
  • The latest diplomatic crisis is over the Kaliningrad enclave, a port and surrounding countryside on the Baltic Sea that is home to nearly a million Russians, connected to the rest of Russia by a rail link through EU- and NATO-member Lithuania.
  • Lithuania has shut the route for basic goods including construction materials, metals and coal, which it says it is required to do under EU sanctions that took effect

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After Belarusian President asked UN to institute a New World Order, Putin says the West is clinging to shadows of the past

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Putin says Russia is building the new world order right now
  • The world will not be as it was before the ‘special operation,’ Russian President Putin said in his speech at the plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum
  • “It is erroneous to believe that one can sit and wait when the time of turbulent changes goes by, when everything goes back to where it was. It won’t,” Putin said.
  • According to him, the changes are fundamental, “crucial and inexorable”.
  • However, he said that Western countries “cling to shadows of the past”.
  • One month ago, almost to the day, Belerusian President and Putin cronie Alexander Lukashenko urged the Secretary General of the UN to consider instituting a “new world order” in which all members of the international community have “security guarantees,” because it would be in the UN’s interest to “prevent the conflict from becoming protracted with devastating consequences.

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Denmark’s Foreign Minister reports Russia entered into NATO Waters calling it irresponsible

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Russian warship violates NATO waters TWICE as Vladimir Putin issues nuclear warning
  • It comes after despot Vladimir Putin warned he was ready to use nuclear weapons to protect Russia’s sovereignty.
  • Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod tweeted: “A deeply irresponsible, gross and completely unacceptable Russian provocation in the middle of #fmdk (Democracy Festival of Denmark).”
  • Denmark’s armed forces said the warship left after the Danish navy established radio contact.

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After Kissinger says Ukraine needs to move toward negotiations: DC shifts to damage Control

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • DC shifts to damage control as Ukraine defense fades
  • Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, Biden blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for allegedly not heeding American warnings about a Russian invasion:
  • President Biden and his top officials are now focused on damage control – warning Ukraine through proxies that it will have to sacrifice territory for a ceasefire.
  • Kissinger told the World Economic Forum on May 23 that “movement towards negotiations and negotiations on peace need to begin in the next two months…[and] Ideally, the dividing line should return the status quo ante.”
  • The “status quo ante” implies that Ukraine will make territorial concessions to Russia—a phrase that Kissinger did not use.
  • One possible outcome that’s been floated in the American media and closely considered in Moscow is a Korean-style armistice, with an armistice line between East and West Ukraine but without a peace treaty.
  • An armistice would allow Ukraine to deny that it had given up claims on territory held by Russia.

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Russian Media keeps saying that nuclear war is an option. Can we really rule it out?

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Russian Officials Openly Discuss Using Nukes to Win War – Expert Warns, ‘Nobody Is Going to Refuse Putin’s Orders’
  • What was once unthinkable is now regularly debated on Russian state TV: Using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, NATO, or even against U.S. territory.
  • On one program, Russian Parliament Member Alexei Zhuravlyov said it would only take four nuclear missiles to destroy both coasts on the United States.
  • In one simulation of a full-scale nuclear war between Russia and NATO, casualties mounted at a rate of 10 million people per hour.
  • While some experts say that Putin would never risk a nuclear war that could also destroy Russia, others warn that with Vladimir Putin, nothing can be ruled out.

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Russia-Ukraine War: a war of attrition that has seen whole cities laid waste

Mark 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Important Takeaways:

  • Both sides say they have inflicted huge casualties in Sievierodonetsk, the largest city in Luhansk province still held by Ukraine.
  • Neither side is preparing to withdraw and street fighting rages
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the United States that Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine
  • Russia attacked Kyiv with missiles for the first time in more than a month on Sunday.

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Cyber Command, the US military’s hacking unit, has conducted offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine

Luke 21:9-10: [Jesus said] “When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.” Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”

Important Takeaways:

  • “We’ve conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum; offensive, defensive, [and] information operations”
  • Cyberspace is a domain in which the Biden administration feels comfortable countering Russia without fear of escalation
  • “Cyber warfare is a new domain … It hasn’t been around long enough for any one nation-state to dominate it.”

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100 days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine no end to bloodshed in sight

 

Important Takeaways:

  • The first 100 days of war in Ukraine could be just the beginning
  • Neither side is inclined to lay down its arms, and the battlefield advantage could soon swing back toward Ukraine.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is losing 60 to 100 soldiers per day, and Russia now controls 20% of Ukraine’s territory.
  • The U.S. is sending sophisticated rocket systems that will allow Ukrainian forces to strike from a distance.

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