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Topic: Code BLACK ???? NATO-Russia war ????
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Subject: Code BLACK ???? NATO-Russia war ????
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 9:33pm

DJ

CODE RED IS HIGH RISK OF MAJOR ESCALATION OF CONFLICT

CODE BLACK IS MAJOR WAR BROKE OUT

[url]https://southfront.org/dozens-of-drones-targeted-crimea/[/url] or https://southfront.org/dozens-of-drones-targeted-crimea/ - https://southfront.org/dozens-of-drones-targeted-crimea/ ;

On the night of March 1, ten unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Crimean peninsula. The attempt of a massive UAV attack on Crimea was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“An attempt by the Kiev regime to conduct a massive drone attack on the objects of the Crimean Peninsula has been prevented. Six Ukrainian unmanned strike vehicles were shot down by air defense and four more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were disabled by electronic warfare. There are no casualties and destruction on the ground,” Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, said at a briefing on March 1.

The footage revealed that at least one of the UAVs was likely the Chinese-made commercial Mugin-5 UAVs packed with explosives. They were already used for the attacks on the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol before.

During the drone attack, a US reconnaissance drone “RQ-4B” was spotted in the Black Sea region. The NATO military is always coordinating Ukrainian attacks on the Russian territory.

According to the Russian military sources, the UAVs were intercepted in the northern and western regions of Crimea, near the towns of Krasnoperekopsk, Tarkhankut and Yevpatoria. The UAVs were reportedly launched from the Shkolny airfield in Odessa and the Krasnoglinsky near the village of Artsiz in the Odessa region.

The attack was carried out immediately after the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine claimed that Kiev allegedly was not behind yesterday’s massive drone attack on the Russian regions.

“Ukraine does not strike at the territory of the Russian Federation. Ukraine is waging a defensive war with the aim of de-occupation of all its territories. This is an axiom,” the Ukrainian official said.

Moscow’s reply to another lie from Kiev was short and clear:

“We don’t believe him,” the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said.


and [url]https://southfront.org/drone-war-over-russia/[/url] or https://southfront.org/drone-war-over-russia/ - https://southfront.org/drone-war-over-russia/ ;

In recent days, numerous drone attacks targeted various regions of Russia and Belarus. The Kiev regime and its accomplices are undoubtedly behind the massive attempts to strike at the Union state. However, so far none of the attacks has resulted in any significant damage.

On February 26, there were reports of a drone strike at the Machulishchi military airfield located near Minsk. Belarusian oppositional resources, sponsored by Poland, claimed that the Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft was hit. However, satellite imagery did not confirm any damage to the aircraft. The incident at the airfield also was not officially confirmed by Belarusian authorities.

On February 27 and 28, Ukrainian forces launched several drone strikes on the territory of Russia.

One of the UAVs crashed in the Surazhsky district in the Bryansk region, without reaching its target.

Four Ukrainian UAVs, packed with British-made PE8 I23A1 explosives, were intercepted by Russian electronic warfare over the city of Belgorod. The drone fell into the streets, damaging parked cars and a shopping center.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that two enemy drones were intercepted in the southern regions. The UAVs were suppressed by electronic warfare units, lost control and deviated from the trajectory.

One of the targets of the attacks was an oil depot in the city of Tuapse, where one of the outbuildings was damaged. According to unconfirmed reports, the facility could have been attacked by an Israeli-made tactical Aerostar UAV packed with explosives.

The second UAV was the Soviet-made Tu-141 Strizh, which crashed near the village of Novy in Adygea, damaging a local farm.

For the first time, a Ukrainian UAV reached the Moscow region. The Ukrainian-made UJ-22 Airborne crashed near a gas station in the Kolomenskoye district. Probably, the device was going at a low altitude in an attempt to bypass Russian air defenses and caught on branches, or lost its way.

The airspace was temporarily closed in the Leningrad region. According to unconfirmed reports, a NATO UAV simulator was spotted in the air. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry explained the incident as a readiness check and training.

Later, local sources reported a fire near the Yeysk airport in the Krasnodar region. However, reports of another UAV attack were refuted. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia reported that exercises were being held on the training ground.

During the attacks on the Russian territory, several aircraft of the US Air Force and its NATO allies operated simultaneously over the Black Sea. On February 28, an American RQ-4B drone, British RC-135 accompanied by two Typhoon tactical aircraft, a French E-3F and an Italian G-550 AWACS aircraft were spotted in the area.

This is more evidence that the Ukrainian military is not only using NATO weapons to strike Russia but these operations are also closely coordinated by Kiev’s western patrons.



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein



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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 9:41pm

DJ, Drone attacks on Russia(/Crimea) by drones. With (lots of) NATO planes over the Black Sea guiding those drones. NATO satellites being used to find targets inside Russia. 

Does it matter if those drones were launched from Ukraine or from NATO planes flying over the Black Sea ? 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rXOzQtpkY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rXOzQtpkY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rXOzQtpkY (a.o.) Military Summary earlier claimed;

-US HIMARS did get coordinates for targets from the US...DJ-The only Ukraine involvement may be an Ukrainian pushing the button for launch...

-Russia picked up radio communications in non-Ukraine languages in eastern Ukraine frontline

-Poland sending in Leopard-2 tanks, a major repair place for damaged military goods

-NATO countries providing hospital care for wounded Ukraine military (and after recovery those military may return on the frontline). 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 10:07pm

DJ-I am NOT !!!! an expert-hope to be very wrong !!!! Just making up my mind...trying to form an opinion...

I put a lot of  ?????? with "Code BLACK"...

Military Summary/MS is linking a possible Ukraine (and/or AZOV neo nazi-western backed, not always following Kiev orders) attack on Transnistria with the fall of Bakhmut.

-In Transnistria the Russian peace keeping force (400 persons) already worked with around 1000 Transnistria-"militia". Russia is now mobilizing more of the Transnistria population. 

DJ, Both Moldova and Romania may -by now- try to limit escalation (as far as I followed that part). Moldova no longer -for now- thinking of joining NATO...Also-DJ (my view only...) Russia may be able to strike on Ukraine/AZOV fighters near Transnistria (from the air, ship artillery).

A (NATO) goal for "taking over" Transnistria could be shorter logistic lines between NATO-Romania and Ukraine...The stored Soviet-era weapons in Transnistria may be "old" and of limited -direct- use/high risk. 

Moldova population around 4 million (lots of Moldovans however left the -very poor- country. The "expat Moldovans support pro western politics...the people in Moldova itself dislike the pro-western government.) Transnistria population 0,5 million...no direct links with the Black Sea (via river/Ukraine it may be reached over water...) also a major air base (under Russian control). 

Transnistria is the most eastern-and most Russian- zone of Moldova. Moldova was one of the SSR in the USSR, part of the Soviet Union since 1945. Before that however it was part of Romania....

-Bakhmut is part of the "zelensky line" -a defenseline in eastern Ukraine with fortified positions to stop (pro)Russian forces moving west...The "defense line" often is 30 kilometer/20 miles "deep/wide" with lots of (concrete) defense positions...It stretches from Siversk 9north) all the way to Vuhledar (south). 

Russia is encircling Ukraine forces not only in Bakhmut but might be in the process of doing so also in Marinka and Avdivka. Russian strategy -by now- means 75% of Ukraine deaths from artillery. Ukraine deaths somewere between 400 and 1000 each day....

Basiccally the Ukraine defenseline in eastern Ukraine is destroyed slowly. Russia is "very flexible"; pulling back from some positions only to shell Ukraine forces moving in and then Russia retakes the position. 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 10:31pm

[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1286483.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1286483.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1286483.shtml  


DJ, China claims "make trade-not war"....Belarus a "strategic partner" for China-in words-also for China-Europe trade. In fact Belarus will become a China-Russia link...but a lot of "export" will go via (rail)road from China into Russia. 

[url]https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/02/699151/US-approves-more-arms-sales-to-Taiwan,-including-missiles-for-F-16[/url] or https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/02/699151/US-approves-more-arms-sales-to-Taiwan,-including-missiles-for-F-16 - https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/02/699151/US-approves-more-arms-sales-to-Taiwan,-including-missiles-for-F-16 ; 

The United States has approved more arms sales to Taiwan, including hundreds of missiles for F-16 fighter jets, in yet another move that would likely infuriate Beijing.

The State Department said in a statement Wednesday night that it had approved the arms sales, including $619 million worth of missiles for the self-governing island's fleet of F-16 jets as well as equipment to support those missiles. 

The new package includes AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles, as well as air-to-air missiles and launchers. 

Taiwan’s defense ministry said in a statement that “the Air Force has full combat capabilities in the two types of missiles that the United States agreed to sell this time,” adding that the new package of weapons “also helps us stock weapons and boost our defensive resilience.”

DJ...US is pushing for war with China....

[url]https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482225/Iran-is-the-major-game-changer-in-West-Asia[/url] or https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482225/Iran-is-the-major-game-changer-in-West-Asia - https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482225/Iran-is-the-major-game-changer-in-West-Asia ;

TEHRAN – A Brazilian professor of Arab descent says Iran is a game changer in West Asia and the larger region.

"Iran is the balance and the game changer for West Asia,” Bruno Beaklini tells the Tehran Times.

Beaklini, who holds PhD in political science, believes that without Iran, the Zionist regime “would have destroyed the totality of most Muslim countries in the entire region." 

DJ, Egypt FM visiting Assad in Damascus, Saudi/Egypt talks with Iran...Iran as a link between Türkiye and Pakistan in a TIP link between China and Europe/Africa...Iran also a major link between "exploding" India-Russia trade....

-"Asia is booming", over half of the global population lives in Asia...most relatively young...Western sanctions against "RIC" -here- Russia-Iran-China (the RIC in BRICS has India) resulted in an increase of trade inside Asia -a lot of it over land....Using local currencies further lowering costs of trade/increasing the value of those currencies...

OPEC+ is also trying to "dump the US$" for global energy trade...

DJ-US population around 335 million-global population 8 billion...so the US population around 4,5% of the global one...Both India and China population just above 1,4 billion...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity ;

Purchasing power parity (PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity#cite_note-Krugman2-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [1]  is a measurement of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Purchasing power - purchasing power  of the countries'  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Currency - currencies . PPP is effectively the ratio of the price of a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_goods" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Basket of goods - basket of goods  at one location divided by the price of the basket of goods at a different location. The PPP inflation and exchange rate may differ from the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Exchange rate - market exchange rate  because of tariffs, and other  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Transaction cost - transaction costs . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [2]

DJ, in other words PPP stands for what money can buy in a country....Some Russian anti-tank weapons cost around of 5% of US ones...and in the "field" do a "better" job...

looking at PPP China economy is #1, EU #2...the US #3...with India-#4- booming and the US-debt based-in recession...

DJ-The "Ukraine war" is just one frontline for the US to "try to stick to being #1" [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) ...

Some describe both the US and UK as "poor countries with a rich elite"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 10:55pm

DJ, A view shared by most non-western countries...Also both in the US, UK, EU a growing part of the population AND military !!!! see confrontation is making the west weaker...NOT stronger...

European interests, € are not (always) the same as US (or UK) interests...The EU was a major trading partner with Russia for energy, China/India for lots of consumer goods...The US-biden-provoking the Ukraine war -for now- did change this agenda...

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2023/02/24/iran-and-israel-the-counter-strikes-continue-and-will-not-stop/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2023/02/24/iran-and-israel-the-counter-strikes-continue-and-will-not-stop/ - https://ejmagnier.com/2023/02/24/iran-and-israel-the-counter-strikes-continue-and-will-not-stop/ ; 

Written by – Elijah J. Magnier:

Neither Iran nor Israel has any choice but to exchange blows in various theatres as the ideological war is wide open and not expected to end shortly. Many countries in the Middle East have learnt from Israel’s belligerent method of pre-emptive strikes. They have concluded that imposing a deterrence strategy on Israel is necessary. Indeed, Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah are striking back to prevent Tel Aviv from getting away with its strikes, as it did with Iraq and has been doing for several years with Syria.

For many years, Tel Aviv has violated Iran’s security by assassinating Iranian scientists, directing attacks inside Iran and organising systematic and deliberate unrest under various slogans and pretexts with the West’s support and the mainstream media. The latest Israeli sabotage operations were drone attacks on one of the Iranian Ministry of Defence buildings, causing minor damage, to which Iran responded on the high seas. Iran has become strong enough to retaliate.

DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#History[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#History ;

With the German invasion of Russia in 1941,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Joseph Stalin - Joseph Stalin reversed his long-standing opposition to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Zionism - Zionism and tried to mobilize worldwide Jewish support for the Soviet war effort. The  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee - Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was set up in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Moscow - Moscow . Many thousands of Jewish refugees fled the Nazis and entered the Soviet Union during the war, where they reinvigorated Jewish religious activities and opened new synagogues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [9] From late 1944, Stalin adopted an openly pro-Zionist foreign policy apparently in the belief that the new country would be  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Socialism - socialist and would speed the decline of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="United Kingdom - British influence in the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Middle East - Middle East . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [10]

In May 1947, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Gromyko" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Andrei Gromyko - Andrei Gromyko told the United Nations that the Soviets supported the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [11] The Soviet Union and its  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_states" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Satellite states - satellite states voted in November 1947 for the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - UN Partition Plan for Palestine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [12] On 17 May 1948, three days after  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Establishment_of_the_State_of_Israel,_May_14,_1948" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948 - Israel declared its independence , the Soviets officially recognized Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Golda Meir - Golda Meir was appointed Israel's ambassador to the Soviet Union, with her term beginning on 2 September 1948 and ending in March 1949. She attended  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Rosh Hashanah - Rosh Hashanah and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Yom Kippur - Yom Kippur services at the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Choral_Synagogue" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none;" title="Moscow Choral Synagogue - Moscow Choral Synagogue . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-autogenerated131-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [14] However, once Israel had been established, Stalin reversed positions, favoured the Arabs, arrested the leaders of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and launched attacks on Soviet Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [15]

A lot of westerners do not know the major role Russia played in Israel...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Israel[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Israel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Israel ; Russian is the third most common native language in Israel after  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Modern Hebrew - Modern Hebrew  and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Arabic - Arabic

DJ, Netanyahu and Putin are friends...however they disagree on lots of things...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ashdod[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ashdod - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ashdod ; The new terminal is being constructed by Pan Mediterranean Engineering (PMEC, a subsidiary of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Harbour_Engineering" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="China Harbour Engineering - China Harbour Engineering ).

Ashdod is the main seaport of Israel (and with that a major port in the Middle East...) 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_North%E2%80%93South_Transport_Corridor[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_North%E2%80%93South_Transport_Corridor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_North%E2%80%93South_Transport_Corridor on Iran-India trade...

China is  THE major investor in Africa and a major player in Latin America...Russia is selling lots of military "things" from "weapons to Wagner-PMC" , Iran a major partner for Cuba, Venezuela...

Main point;

The US now trying to "stay #1" is insane....DJ-my view-in Europe support for more US wars is dropping fast...the price is very high (energy crisis, housing crisis, inflation, Europe dealing with millions of refugees caused by US wars...) ..



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 11:17pm

One major problem is a few countries want war...

US-UK-Poland seem to be obsessed with war with Russia...They also think;

-They are supported by a lot of other countries; DJ Baltics, Finland...but in a military sense not that relevant...

-US-UK still "strong" ...spending a lot on weapons DJ very likely created a lot of corruption...

DJ-Poland has a (long term) border issue with both Ukraine and Belarus...After 1945 the Polish borders moved west...included parts of Germany. Before World War 1 Poland was divided between Germany and Russia...after the 1917 Russian revolution Poles and Ukrainians ended up fighting each other...In 1923 the Russian civil war was over-Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union-before that it was part of Russia. Poland finally did get their own country...till 1939...(Germany september 1-Russia/stalin september 15) again split up Poland...

Poland (catholic) and Ukraine (orthodox) share a lot of history - but from different sides...they have a love-hate relationship. Hate against Russia (going back centuries...) may unite them -but may not be last long enough to end up in "Polish-Ukrainian friendship"...

Korea was a Japan colony till 1945...Japan also colonized a lot of China...hatred against Japan may be a "stronger glue" between China (including Taiwan...) and Korea than hatred against Russia is between Poland and Ukraine...

-The US$ as a global currency may be the US goal in this global conflict...De-dollarization and US massive debts may push the US into hyperinflation...

-The UK for me is a big ?????....trying to stay "united" as a "kingdom" ? Brexit also as a sign of a national identity crisis ? Once-a 100 years ago- the UK was the major global dominant player.

Both reunification of Ireland and Scotland going its own way-both as EU members-may leave a UK made up of England and Wales...

Brexit was turned into a disaster by bojo....other UK politicians failed to come up with good ideas...London as "the financial center" of the world is at risk with a lot of "bankster trading" simply fraud and criminal tax evasion...Shanghai may replace London soon as the new "global financial center"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 01 2023 at 11:47pm

So...what is next ? 

US, UK, Poland -NATO- did follow NATO drones on their way into Russia...also followed Russian air defense/Electronic Warfare (EW). 

Further escalation here could see US/UK using more drones attacking Russian military/logistics -still from Ukraine-maybe some Ukrainian on guard...trying to claim "Ukraine now is attacking Russia" or "Belarus/Russian partizans"....

[url]https://southfront.org/the-u-s-to-unleash-chemical-war-in-donbass/[/url] or https://southfront.org/the-u-s-to-unleash-chemical-war-in-donbass/ - https://southfront.org/the-u-s-to-unleash-chemical-war-in-donbass/ following the Syria-scenario...Western propaganda claiming "Assad used chemical weapons" when he was winning...In Syria h.clinton was involved in sending chemical weapons from Libya to Syrian -western backed- terrorists...

Like in Ukraine also in Syria "western supported fighters" often lack training....Still in Syria NATO attacked Syrian Army positions in reaction to "Syria using chemical weapons"...Allthough there most like will have been US bio-labs in Ukraine "bio-weapons" may not be very usefull/controlable....

And of course-for now-"the west" may go for more sanctions against Russia-Iran-China...in fact pushing non-western trade, excluding the west from global trade...

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Since there is a limit to "western weapons" to be send to Ukraine frontlines "double down" may see more western fighters as "volunteers" in Ukraine...Polish divisions may already be fighting in Ukraine as "volunteers"...Western/NATO tanks, fighter jets with "volunteer staff" ...maybe turning Polish airbases into "Ukraine airbases in Poland"...Russia attacking them a "sign of Russian agression/article 5"...so Russia has to bring down western planes above Ukraine...

[url]https://southfront.org/head-of-cia-enters-media-war-with-russia/[/url] or https://southfront.org/head-of-cia-enters-media-war-with-russia/ - https://southfront.org/head-of-cia-enters-media-war-with-russia/ ;

The meeting of the head of the US CIA William Burns and the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin on the possible use of nuclear weapons took place in November 2022 in Istanbul, but it turned out that the counterparts evaluated its results differently.

In his interview with CBS News, CIA Director Bill Burns claimed that the meeting was “pretty dispiriting.”

“There was a very defiant attitude on the part of Mr. Naryshkin as well. A sense of cockiness and hubris,” Burns said. “A sense, I think, reflecting Putin’s own view, his own belief today, that he can make time work for him, that he believes he can grind down the Ukrainians, that he can wear down our European allies, that political fatigue will eventually set in.”

The arrogant claim of Mr Burns was not left unanswered by his Russian counterpart.

Director of the Russian SVR Sergei Naryshkin, commented on the issue explaining that the conversation lasted more than 2.5 hours took place in a comfortable atmosphere and was informative.

“And that alone suggests that the meeting could hardly last for so long if one of the parties behaved boldly, rudely, arrogantly,” the head of the SVR told reporters.

Naryshkin added that he respects Burns “both as a very experienced, skilled diplomat, and as his colleague, who may not have very much experience as director of the Central Intelligence Agency yet.”

In mid-January, Moscow also made it clear that it was open for talks with the US CIA. Mr Naryshkin then claimed that he did not rule out that he could talk to Burns again, calling the previous conversation “meaningful”. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said that the talks in Istanbul “played a key role in preventing “uncontrolled escalation,”

Burn’s claims were nothing but another media provocation against Russia and Russian top officials made in an attempt to assure the Western public of the allegedly “evil essence of Russian elite”. In fact, such an image is nothing but a fairytale created by the Western propaganda in order to support the bellicose policy of the NATO countries themselves.

Western diplomacy has long turned into populist shouts and media performances.

DJ, will the US/NATO war with the "rest of the world" become a nuclear war ? 

North Korea, Israel have nuclear weapons and "maybe not the most clever leaders"....however both countries have "limited usefull targets" and face destruction if they use nuclear weapons on their own...

US, UK, may be desperate for "a win"...Ukraine just another lost NATO war after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. may be "to much" for these two elite run/two political party countries...

-Tactical nuclear weapons are battlefield used weapons...a sea-battle (blowing up an enemy fleet) maybe most likely ? 

-Strategic nuclear weapons -much stronger-meant to destroy enemy cities, bases...intercontinental if need be...

-"Dirty weapons"-depleted uranium hardened ammunition is in use by the US. Ukraine may go for a "dirty -nuclear waste- bomb" -Russia made it clear both kinds of weapons -used against Russia-would be seen as a "nuclear attack"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 12:13am

Since a NATO-Russian open war is very serious I take the time to describe my views on it...

[url]https://southfront.org/russias-lavrov-discussed-turkish-syrian-normalization-process-with-cavusoglu-in-india/[/url] or https://southfront.org/russias-lavrov-discussed-turkish-syrian-normalization-process-with-cavusoglu-in-india/ - https://southfront.org/russias-lavrov-discussed-turkish-syrian-normalization-process-with-cavusoglu-in-india/   ; 

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the Turkish-Syrian normalization process with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in India’s capital New Delhi, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on March 1.

The normalization process between Ankara and Damascus gained momentum last December, when the defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of the two countries met in Moscow.

“A number of international issues were discussed, including the situation in Syria. Special attention was paid to the efforts of the countries in the region aimed at normalizing Turkish-Syrian relations, and intensifying joint efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat in Syria,” the ministry said in a statement.

In a Twitter post, Cavusoglu said he discussed regional issues with Lavrov. He also thanked the minister for Russia’s support after the February 6 earthquake, which claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

The earthquake delayed the normalization process, but didn’t lead to a full halt. Last week, Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s special representative for the Middle East, revealed that work is underway to organize a quadripartite meeting between the foreign ministries of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria.

The Turkish-Syrian normalization process was initially sponsored only by Russia. However, an agreement to involve Iran in the process was reached in February.

The upcoming quadripartite foreign ministers meeting could mark the relaunch of Turkish-Syrian relations and help set the ground for a meeting between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad. Both leaders voiced their readiness to meet in the past.

A recent poll in Türkiye (still in NATO) did see 70% of the Turkish population see Russia as "friend of Türkiye"....Erdogan was saved by Russian military in a  -failed- US coup in 2016...In northern Syria Turkish forces are fighting US backed Kurdish forces...If Türkiye did kill US military in Syria both countries may "blame others"...at least for now...

-Germany very likely may go for de-escalation. The US attack on Nordstream did "not go well" ...in the propaganda war no one believes Russia blew up its own multi-billion Gazprom Russia-EU energy link....(The MH17 flight being shot down -in western propaganda- still blamed on Russia. Türkiye, Saudi Arabia may come with radar images giving another story...)

Also Italy, France facing growing social unrest may try "to de-escalate" ...however US-UK-Polish hard liners so far are "out of contact" with any other views then their own...

Ignoring warnings on sanctions, kicking Russia out of SWIFT, military aid limits a "group of political idiots" still keeps pushing for further escalations...

So can other western countries "stop/limit" hardliners ? Maybe by leaving EU/NATO ???? Going their own way-like Hungary, Türkiye.... 




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 1:42am

Another aspect of the present crises is "intel"...The idea was western sanctions against Russia would push Russia into a major crisis....DJ-what I did read so far that plan may have worked...

but;

-Russian central bank reacted high speed-limiting damage to the Ruble

-Russia had enough capacity to increase export of energy to non-western countries

  -Pipelines to China are still being build-pipeline export capacity to China is (still) limited

  -However tanker-Caspian Sea- via Iran-tanker to India transport did increase a lot...

  -Also over land enough transport capacity was available to increase export to non-western countries to deal with less -direct- energy trade with "the west"

  -Western sanctions excluded a lot of energy trade with Russia...

-Also Russia used its own oil to make more diesel, kerosine, increase its own petro-chemical industry...

Also excluding Russia from western banking resulted in Russia and "partners" further increasing a non-western banking system....

DJ-The west ignored they also had sanctions against Iran, China....so "major sanctions" against Russia pushed Russia towards Iran, China

Also the west ignored land/sea routes from Russia...(Moscow has riverlinks with lots of seas....!) 

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The "west" expected a short "push over" conflict with Russia but ended up in a long war....

Russia expected a "limited operation" against "still very Russian Ukraine" would be enough for talks...That idea was correct. Russia and Ukraine almost made peace in Türkiye within two months after the escalation of the already ongoing conflict february 2022...Bojo dropped by in Kiev to tell zelensky NATO would support a longer war....

But NATO was not ready for such a war....NATO "helping Ukraine self destruction" only pushed Russia towards a harder line....

In the international arena non-western countries were NOT supporting the west....often seeing it as another NATO war....Maybe the position of countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, African countries may have come as another unwelcome surprise for the "west"....

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Germany invaded a neutral NL on may 10-1940...hitler expected a short war-a bit like the "two hour war" with Denmark april 1940....NL had friendly relations with Germany till may 10-1940...There had been lots of warnings that Germany this time would also include NL in an offensive in the west of Europe. In 1914 Germany "respected" NL neutrality...NL trade with Germany "boomed"...from patatoes to German army uniforms came from NL. Fokker -Dutch- became the major aircraft builder in Germany during world war 1.....

Spring 1940 did see nice weather...lots of German military went on a break in NL...also visiting Dutch defense lines....NL had a "limited army"...but infantery riding bikes -relative high speed/high flexibility ( crossing a water with bike on the shoulder...air defense guns on bikes)  was seen with surprise by the Germans...

The airborne German operation in the west of NL was a total disaster-ending with the bombing of Rotterdam may 14....NL military pushed back German para-troopers in the north part of that city...The Hague German landings did see a lot of German P.O.W. 's ending up on ships to the UK...In the north of NL Germans could not cross the "Afsluitdijk"....

The fighting in NL ended the end of may when French forces pulled back from the SW part of NL-most of NL surrendered may 14....

DJ-Point of the story is conflicts do not always go a "stronger party" expects it to go....Lack of communications made NL cavalery attacking Germans in a wooded "Grebbelinie"...to the horror of the Germans...Invading NL did not only unable plans to invade the UK via air landings...Also a lot of Germans were against Germany invading "friendly NL"....(There were a lot of Danish-German conflicts over the northern Danish-German border...Germans did see the Dutch as "Germans denying to be German"....a lot of Germans did speak a dialect close to Dutch...

Russia and Ukraine are very closely linked in history....During the German occupation of NL there was a German idea to deal with NL as they had done in 1938 with Austria-including NL in Germany...However Dutch fascists wanted a "larger NL" including Flanders (both Belgian and French Flanders-Dunkirk) next to Germany....Over 40,000 NL joined German forces fighting the Soviet Union....

DJ-Is Ukraine a "real country" in my view is up to Ukrainians to decide....There are lots of "created" countries (Panama, Kuwait, Israel)...the Kurds so far the largest nation not able to get their own country....

Zelensky was elected in Ukraine to bring peace....a neutral Ukraine could have been a bridge between Asia and Europe...it is the west that destroyed that perspective in 2008 Bucharest...with bizarre ideas of Georgia, Ukraine joining NATO....ignoring Russian security concerns.... 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 7:09am

[url]https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-terrorists-launched-attack-on-russian-border-villages-killed-civilians/[/url] or https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-terrorists-launched-attack-on-russian-border-villages-killed-civilians/ - https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-terrorists-launched-attack-on-russian-border-villages-killed-civilians/ ;

On the morning of March 2, a group of Ukrainian saboteurs crossed the Russian border in the Klimovsky district in the Bryansk region. Ukrainian terrorists shelled civilian car near the village of Sushany.

As a result of the attack, a man who was driving children to school in the morning was killed. The 10-years child was wounded. The local authorities denied the preliminary reports that the child died.

Some Russian sources shared the following claims of the local civilians:

According to the children’s claims, there was a driver and three children in the car: a boy Fedor from the third grade and two girls, Zlata and Lena. The children were being taken from the village of Brakhlov to Novy Ropsk, where a school bus was supposed to pick them up.

On the way, they were unexpectedly attacked by a group of unknown men — the driver died immediately, and Fedor was wounded in the chest. Nevertheless, he took the girls out and told them to hide in the woods.

Later, the wounded boy was able to catch a car on the same road, which took the children away from the scene of the attack. Fedor was immediately called an ambulance. According to doctors, a splinter or bullet passed along the rib. The guy has already had an operation, now his life is not in danger.”

Ukrainian UAV dropped an explosive device on a private house in the same village. As a result of the attack, the building caught fire.

According to unconfirmed report,  Ukrainian saboteurs blew up an electrical substation and a gas station in the village of Sushanny.

One of the residents of Sushany described how the Ukrainian group entered the village. According to a woman, seven people with machine guns went down one street, the others went on the other. In total, several dozen people entered the village, completely burned the house, now they are reportedly holding hostages in residential buildings. The locals are panicking — a woman with a trembling voice talks about what is happening right now.

“I saw everyone with my own eyes… [They are] with grenade launchers, machine guns, leaflets. They shot at a woman who was standing near the house,” a resident told the Russian media.

A paramedic who escaped from members of the Ukrainian sabotage group told the Russian media about the first minutes of the attack :

Soldiers in balaclavas stopped cars by the road. They forced people to get out, took their mobile phones, tied men’s hands with tape, sat them on a bench at a bus stop. They spoke Ukrainian. At the stop, petal mines were scattered. In the process, an explosion sounded, and the members of the DRG fled towards the border with Ukraine. People were able to escape.

The driver of one of the cars that was taking the children to the school bus was killed, the child — 10-year—old Fedor – was wounded. Despite the injury, the boy helped two more girls to hide in the woods, and then was able to hitch a ride and drive away to a safe distance, where an ambulance was called for him.

About 15 people were operating in the Klimovsky district, all were in white camouflage coats.

The Russian military launched an operation to eliminate the Ukrainian sabotage group. Clashes broke out in the village of Sushany near the border.

At the moment, the FSB is conducting a special operation to eliminate the sabotage group:

“In the border Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region, the FSB of Russia and the attached forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are taking measures to destroy armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border,” the message says.

The operation of the Ukrainian sabotage group is accompanied by the active work of Ukrainian “media troops”, in an attempt to spread panic among the Russian population according to the best terrorist traditions and immediately shared a lot of unconfirmed information. So far, there were reports that the girl died in the hospital, that the school bus was shot by Ukrainian fighters, that hundred civilians were allegedly taken hostage in a local school or in a shop (despite the fact that there is no school in Sushany and the population of the village only counts several dozens of people), that about 70 Ukrainian saboteurs are taking part in the assault.

Reports about the hostages were not confirmed.

“No one told us that there were hostages. I am 18 km from the village of Sushany and there are problems with communication. The border guards and the military are working [on the spot],” said the head of the Novoropskaya rural administration, where the settlement is located.

The local authorities are yet to reveal the details of the incident and officially assess the damage.

The village of Lomakovka of the Starodubsky district in the Bryansk region was also subjected to mortar fire. As a result of the shelling, there were no casualties, two households were damaged. Russian security services are working on site.

The villages of Tetkino in the Kursk region is also being shelled. Another civilian was killed by Ukrainian Nazis.

Today’s attack on a small border region accompanied by the ruthless killing of innocent civilians has purely terrorist goal, with a political and psychological effect.

The risky operation of Ukrainian saboteurs are purely demonstrative and have no military goal. It is probably dedicated to the recent meeting of the FSB board, at which the President of Russia demanded to close the border and strengthen measures to counter enemy sabotage groups.

In the coming hours, Putin will hold an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Despite the hypocritical statements of the Ukrainian officials that they allegedly do not target the Russian territories and only need the Western support to “protect their homeland”, the Nazi Kiev regime is impotent to fight on the battlefield following the rules of war. Supported by hypocritical NATO countries, the Ukrainian terrorist leadership and its Western accomplices can only use terrorist methods of struggle, hoping that the Russians will be threatened so much that they will overthrow the “Putin regime” in their country.

The shelling of the Russian border settlements and the operations of the Ukrainian sabotage groups in border areas are expected to continue. They are the result of the Russian concession and withdrawal of Russian troops from the northern districts of the Ukrainian Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions.

and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cross-border-terror-attack-russia-involved-dozens-armed-saboteurs-attacking-villages[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cross-border-terror-attack-russia-involved-dozens-armed-saboteurs-attacking-villages - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cross-border-terror-attack-russia-involved-dozens-armed-saboteurs-attacking-villages ;

The Kremlin has condemned what it called a new terrorist attack on its soil Thursday carried out by Ukrainian saboteurs who allegedly breached a border region. 

Russian presidency spokesman Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said militants entered the Bryansk Oblast in Western Russia and attacked villages there, resulting in the death of one civilian and another wounded. "This is an attack by terrorists," Peskov  https://tass.com/defense/1583831" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - said .

Conflicting initial reports indicated Russia’s Federal Security Service engaged in a gun battle with  the infiltrators, with the Kremlin saying "Measures are currently underway to eliminate these terrorists."

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The incident comes after Monday into Tuesday a series of drone attacks on Russian facilities, believed launched by the Ukrainians, triggered air alert sirens in various locations across the country. One or more even reached to within 100km of Moscow. 

Concerning the drone attacks, Russia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has charged that the Ukrainians had covert help from the United States in carrying out the https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-drone-attack-unleashes-chaos-air-raid-sirens-inside-russia" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - sophisticated drone operations , one of which damaged an oil facility some 500km inside Russian territory. "Attack of drones on aviation facilities in Saratov and Ryazan could not have been carried out without the active assistance of the United States," Ryabkov said in a https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1631261067526406149" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - press statement .

DJ, Some groups push for further escalation....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 7:56am

More on the "Russian volunteers" killing people in Russia [url]https://southfront.org/proxy-of-ukrainian-intelligence-directorate-claimed-responsibility-for-bloody-pr-operation-in-russia/[/url] or https://southfront.org/proxy-of-ukrainian-intelligence-directorate-claimed-responsibility-for-bloody-pr-operation-in-russia/ - https://southfront.org/proxy-of-ukrainian-intelligence-directorate-claimed-responsibility-for-bloody-pr-operation-in-russia/  

DJ-Russia may now go for a "security zone" south of its border with Ukraine...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-admits-russia-captured-american-weapons-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-admits-russia-captured-american-weapons-ukraine - https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-admits-russia-captured-american-weapons-ukraine ;

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/pentagon-admits-russia-captured-american-weapons-in-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - - Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute,

American weapons provided to Ukraine have been captured by Russia on the battlefield, a top Department of Defense official https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/28/pentagon-republicans-weapons-ukraine-00084779" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - told Congress on Tuesday. Over the past year, Washington has provided Kiev with nearly $45 billion in military aid. 

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl claimed Moscow was capturing American weapons and selling them on the black market. “Our assessment is if some of these systems have been diverted it’s by Russians who have captured things on the battlefield, which always happens,” he said.

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Kahl went on to assert that “no evidence” has surfaced to suggest Kiev was responsible for the weapons finding their way to the black market

In the early months of the war, CNN reported that the US lacked oversight over the arms sent to Ukraine. A source told the https://libertarianinstitute.org/news-roundup/white-house-has-almost-zero-ability-to-track-weapons-it-sends-to-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - outlet in April, “we have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero. It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time.”

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In May, the Washington Post https://archive.is/kCIsC#selection-1395.0-1395.157" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - reported Ukraine is infamous for black market weapon sales. “The US government is well aware of the country’s challenges with weapons proliferation, though it has been vague in describing the precautions it’s taking,” the outlet wrote. 

Kahl was https://archive.is/7RhBv" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - confronted by Congressman Matt Gaetz over the weapons ending up in the hands of neo-Nazis. Gaetz cited a 2018 article from Global Times that found American arms were being used by the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia that was absorbed into Ukraine’s national guard. Kahl dismissed Gaetz’s question by asserting the claim was “Beijing’s propaganda.”

DJ....Ukraine has a very bad reputation for corruption...the war did not improve controls....But the US rather claims Russia taking US weapons from Ukraine then Ukraine selling them on the "black market" ? (Russia does not need to sell those weapons on such illegal markets...more likely they would show them to the Russian people...). 

The Azov Battalion has been photographed with Western-made anti-tank weapons. In March, NEXTA https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1501171543371665408" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - tweeted , “A shipment of NLAW grenade launchers and instructors from #NATO countries arrived in Kharkiv. The Azov regiment was the first to learn about new weaponry.” The post included photos of Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi patches on their uniforms. 

In July, the Stimson Center – an American organization – https://www.stimson.org/2022/the-risks-of-u-s-military-assistance-to-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - warned  US arms could flow to “avowed neo-Nazis.” “[The Azov Battalion’s] role in key Ukrainian theatres creates risks that arms could be diverted to Azov troops in contravention of US law,” the report said. 

Kahl claimed the weapons are tracked by Ukraine with scanners provided by Washington, and the data is transferred to American officials at the embassy in Kiev. He added the officials complete some inspections outside of the embassy. 

DJ, from the "contra's" ReNaMo to IS, alquaida the US has been supporting all kinds of extremists....

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/sanctions-on-russia-come-back-to-bite-their-issuers.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/sanctions-on-russia-come-back-to-bite-their-issuers.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/sanctions-on-russia-come-back-to-bite-their-issuers.html ; 

Unlike 'western' politicians I try to think ahead of the consequences certain foreign relation policies might have.

On March 9 2022 I  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/the-sanction-backlash-will-push-the-west-to-accept-russias-demands.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - predicted :

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/the-sanction-backlash-will-push-the-west-to-accept-russias-demands.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - The Sanction Backlash Will Push The 'West' To Accept Russia's Demands

For years the U.S. committed policies that have left a lot of countries grumbling. Now, as the U.S. needs support to milden the consequences of 'punishing' Russia, those policies come back to bite. So will the secondary effects of sanctions the 'west' has imposed on Russia.
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The first [map] shows the countries which banned Russian airplanes from their airspace. Russia in turn denied its airspace to operators from those countries. It will cost quite a bit for U.S. and EU airlines as their flight times and cost to and from Asia, which typically fly through Russian airspace, will now increase. Carriers from Asian countries will now easily out-compete U.S. and European airlines on these routes.

DJ, there is a growing gap between realists and hard liners....It will also increase tensions in western countries....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 11:11pm

DJ, 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfYRJb93O4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfYRJb93O4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfYRJb93O4 ; 'Gas station masquerading as a country,' must be running out of ammo"

also MS/Military Summary describing latest NATO actions in the Ukraine war as distraction from Bakhmut being lost...

Ukraine keeps sending in forces towards Bakhmut only to get them killed/destroyed...but admitting the loss of Bakhmut could mean losing a lot of "western" support...The (UK-bomb carrier) drone attacks -not doing much damage- in Russia/Belarus, terrorist nazi's -western propaganda claiming they are "Russian/Belarus" "rebels" meant as distraction from Ukraine losing the war...

In Syria Russia showed "to pick its battles"...allowing Israel to attack certain targets in Syria, staying out of the Kurdish/Türkiye conflict focussing on destroying (US created) IS....DJ, We may see more activity of IS in Russia-Iran-China...no doubt CIA/NATO transport is available....

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-soldiers-enter-russia-attack-school-bus-kill-children-now-russia-has-actually-said-it-we-regard-you-as-participants[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-soldiers-enter-russia-attack-school-bus-kill-children-now-russia-has-actually-said-it-we-regard-you-as-participants - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-soldiers-enter-russia-attack-school-bus-kill-children-now-russia-has-actually-said-it-we-regard-you-as-participants ;

Also, - today's events have shown who the US, NATO, and the EU really support. It's not the "freedom-loving people of Ukraine" who don't want to return to the "Muscovite sovok" They are just Nazi bastards, terrorist scum who attack civilians while waving a stinking zhovto-blakit rag. Let them now be exonerated in London, Paris, Berlin, and Washington.

They are your pacifiers, Messrs. Sunak, Macron, Scholz, and Biden! And our attitude toward you is now the same as toward themNow your countries are participants in the terrorist acts of the Ukrainian regime, and you are direct accomplices of terrorists."

DJ, So far Russia limited the war to Ukraine....Now NATO is pushing for escalations in Moldova, Belarus....

On top of that [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-claims-iran-12-days-away-nuke-material-bomb[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-claims-iran-12-days-away-nuke-material-bomb - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-claims-iran-12-days-away-nuke-material-bomb ; 

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/01/us-official-falsely-claims-iran-is-12-days-from-nuke-material-production/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Speaking to the US House Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Colin Kahl falsely https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-02-28/iran-can-make-fissile-material-for-a-bomb-in-about-12-days-u-s-official" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - testified that Iran could make enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb in "about 12 days."

Kahl claims that Iran’s enrichment capacity has increased sufficiently over the course of the past five years — since the US abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka the "Iran nuclear deal" — to reduce that timeline from more like a year, and regrets that the JCPOA is "on ice."

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He continued: "And so I think there is still the view that if you could resolve this issue diplomatically and put constraints back on their nuclear program, it is better than the other options. But right now, the JCPOA is on ice."

But other officials concede that Iran is not stockpiling any uranium enriched beyond 60%, well short of weapons grade, and also doubt Iran’s other technical capacities to build nuclear weapons.

Getting a bomb’s worth of 90% uranium is no small task, even before trying to make it into a deliverable weapon. Iran’s weapons development capabilities would be in doubt even if they were stockpiling uranium, which again they aren’t.

Pentagon officials still maintain that getting back into a deal with Iran is preferable to not having one.

DJ [url]https://www.debka.com/pentagon-iran-can-make-fissile-material-for-a-nuke-in-12-days-israel-we-are-ready-for-final-steps-of-irans-nuclear-issue/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/pentagon-iran-can-make-fissile-material-for-a-nuke-in-12-days-israel-we-are-ready-for-final-steps-of-irans-nuclear-issue/ - https://www.debka.com/pentagon-iran-can-make-fissile-material-for-a-nuke-in-12-days-israel-we-are-ready-for-final-steps-of-irans-nuclear-issue/ ;

Behrouz Kamalvandi, member of Iran’s nuclear commission, claimed that the 83.7pc purity was an anomaly due to an accumulation of unforeseen incidents, not the result of the regime’s intention. IAEA officials were highly skeptical of this claim.
In his report, Gen. Basyuk disclosed that Israeli operations had succeeded in preventing Tehran from establishing Hizballah No. 2 in Syria. The armed drones intended for attacking Israel are now flying over Ukraine as well as striking merchant shippin gin the Gulf, he said. “We are coming close to the final critical stages of the Iranian nuclear issue. We have made the relevant preparations and if need be, we’ll activate them.”

In the US lots of politicians and military know NATO may be running out of conventional weapons for "helping Ukraine to selfdestruction"....Israel may see Iran an to big of a risk...

New Atlas [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGpUC9KQ0yY&t=19s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGpUC9KQ0yY&t=19s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGpUC9KQ0yY&t=19s ;

Update on US-Chinese tensions and specifically developments regarding the island province of Taiwan: 

- Western media claims China is making “incursions” into Taiwan air defense zones, however the UN decades ago declared Taiwan as a province of China and only through unwarranted US influence has a contrary narrative sustained itself to today; 

- Taiwan’s “air defense identification zone,” like all ADIZ’s, has no basis in international law with the additional fact that Taiwan’s ADIZ actually includes part of mainland China; 

- Despite China entering into the supposed ADIZ, it does so along the edges in the least provocative way possible, asserting its sovereignty over Taiwan under international law, but without triggering possible hostilities;   

- Despite the US inferring that Taiwan is an autonomous, independent entity from China, Taiwan depends entirely on the US for political and military support without which Taiwan will fully reintegrate with the rest of China; 

- The US State Department officially recognizes Taiwan as part of China and explicitly does not recognize its independence, yet unofficially deliberately undermines China’s sovereignty over Taiwan; 

- US announced a recent arms sale to Taiwan forces including weapons for its fleet of US-made F-16 fighters; 

- US policy think tanks admit that Taiwan forces both in the air and at sea will be eliminated almost immediately in any conflict with the rest of China and will not play a role in subsequent fighting; 

- The US sends weapons to Taiwan to override both its official stance on Taiwan as well as the UN’s stance in enduring contravention of international law; 

- The US is rushing to provoke a conflict with China over Taiwan before the 2025-2030 window closes after which the US will be unable to win any armed confrontation with China; 

- The US desire to use Taiwan as a proxy against the rest of China follows the same foreign policy template as its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine; 

DJ, US (UK and EU will follow) already in a sanctions war with China; banning Tik Tok, HuaWei...

The "west-rest" confrontation is only worsening...total insanity...Will the "west" try to take "the rest" in hostage with nuclear weapons ? 

[url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/03/inflation-supermarkets-peak-summer-earliest-economists-say[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/03/inflation-supermarkets-peak-summer-earliest-economists-say - https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/03/inflation-supermarkets-peak-summer-earliest-economists-say ; 

Groceries in the supermarket, and activities like dinner at a restaurant or going on vacation will likely continue to become more expensive in the coming months. Economists from ING and ABN Amro tell ANP that it will take at least until the middle of this year before inflation on food products will reach its peak. "And for services like hotels and restaurants, it will probably only happen later on, because their prices are mainly driven by wages," says ING economist Marcel Klok.

For the time being, both economists are sticking to their earlier predictions concerning inflation throughout the year. Due to the depressing effect of energy prices and the expectation that the inflation peak for groceries and services will be reached at some point, they expect a substantial decline in annual inflation compared to last year. "Last year inflation was around 10 percent. This year it will probably be 4 or 4.5 percent. Definitely lower, although that means inflation still remains quite high," Klok points out.

Van de Kerke adds that these projections are still subject to considerable uncertainty. This uncertainty, he says, also affects entrepreneurs. "Many businesses are reluctant to pass on price decreases in raw materials, if there are any, to consumers because they don't know what might happen to them in the future.

DJ, Consumer spending for now may increase...during the pandemic (not over yet...) consumer did spend less...but also a lot of consumer expect prices to go up further-so better buy now...

Lots of bussinesses did not translate their increase of prices in increase of consumer prices-yet...(NL news had a bakery their prices +15% but for now they only increased consumer price 10%...otherwise consumer would go for alternatives...). 

Public support for "western wars" may drop high speed...still some "insane politicians" in the west want more war...Crazy....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 02 2023 at 11:53pm

DJ, 

From the Duran/AM;

-Russia is using 20,000 shells per day and able to produce (DJ more) than enough to keep using it at such a high level...

-The west is thinking of increasing shell production...but it is highly specialized work...In Russia weapon-industry state owned...In the west "for profit"...so even doubling of western weapons will not do much of a job...

DJ-So the west now likely will increase claims China, Iran "must be supporting Russia" -to explain why NATO is slowly kicked out of Ukraine...

AM also mentioned Ukraine army now 200,000 soldiers...

DJ-If Ukraine losses would be 1000 per day this war -since february 24 -2022- could have seen over 370,000 Ukraine fighters killed...

Ukraine is running out of people able to fight...(DJ) Other countries may have "a lot of volunteers" in Ukraine...but (my view) it is supposed to support Ukraine-not take over all of the war...

The west likes to claim it is still an Ukraine-Russian conflict...when Russia can prove most of the "Ukraine army" ends up being Polish, Romanian, US/UK...the west is even in bigger problems...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxL8ziuMzc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxL8ziuMzc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxL8ziuMzc Hindustan Times-India;

Vladimir Putin vows to avenge an alleged attack by Ukraine on the Russian city of Bryansk. Ukraine's battlefield witnessed carpet bombing as Russia says it is seeking to destroy ‘terrorists’ behind the purported Bryansk attack. Non-stop 'rocket rains' hit Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia. Amid massive Russian shelling, Ukraine lost one of its armoured depots in Donetsk. In Kherson, attacks launched by Russian aviation and artillery resulted in the neutralisation of a munition depot of a Ukrainian territorial defence brigade. According to the Russian defence ministry, Moscow's aerospace forces also shot down one Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft and one Mi-8 helicopter

DJ Also Military Summary wondering if Russia is planning to start an operation in the direction of Moldova. (DJ-A navy operation towards Odessa ???)



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 03 2023 at 8:47am

DJ Both [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyna1aoWOyY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyna1aoWOyY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyna1aoWOyY Weeb Union and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives indicate Bakhmut has fallen-Ukraine trying to pull out...

Some suggestians Ukraine fighters refused to die in a useless further battle...

[url]https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/3-march-pressofficer-of-93rd-mechanized-brigade-says-the[/url] or https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/3-march-pressofficer-of-93rd-mechanized-brigade-says-the - https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/3-march-pressofficer-of-93rd-mechanized-brigade-says-the  

several hours old...still claiming "Ukraine keeps fighting"...

Military Summary linked the fall of Bakhmut with possible Ukraine/Azov attack on Transnistria/Moldova...but lots of things here are unclear. 

-Does Moldova want to get involved in this war ? 

-Does (NATO-member) Romania support Moldova ?

-Does NATO/US want an attack on Transnistria ?

-What if (pro)Russians simply do not go for a battle over Transnistria..."Ukraine can claim victory" because Russia does not want a battle there now ? 

-Will there now be a coup against zelensky in Kiev ? 

We soon will learn more...

[url]https://southfront.org/corruption-scandals-in-ukraine-might-spill-over-biden-family-and-democratic-party/[/url] or https://southfront.org/corruption-scandals-in-ukraine-might-spill-over-biden-family-and-democratic-party/ - https://southfront.org/corruption-scandals-in-ukraine-might-spill-over-biden-family-and-democratic-party/ ;

The corruption factor in Ukraine and its American connection is not merely of interest to the police authorities: it has geopolitical and geoeconomic implications.

Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts

Even though there is as of now not much prospect of the conflict in Ukraine coming to an end (and US interests actually  https://infobrics.org/post/37389/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - profit from making it perpetual), there is much talk already about “rebuilding” the country. In a November video address, Ukrainian President  Volodymyr Zelensky claimed it would take  https://infobrics.org/post/37226/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - no less than $1 trillion to rebuild it .

It is strange to talk about rebuilding anything when the West itself rejects any peace plan, but, be it as it may, under such a “reconstruction” banner, lots of cash have been flowing into Ukraine, a nation infamous for being  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Europe’s most corrupt country . Much the same way a large part of the weaponry sent to Kiev has been  https://infobrics.org/post/37226/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - ending up in Africa and the Middle East, through  https://infobrics.org/post/35966/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - black markets , (and, in fact  https://infobrics.org/post/37191" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - the Pentagon could not account for billions worth of arms ), one could only  http://infobrics.org/post/35750" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - suspect from the very beginning that something similar may occur when it comes to huge amounts of cash. By December 2022, the total amount of US dollars sent there totaled about $68 billion or even more, and  https://infobrics.org/post/37263/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - the funds should keep coming this year.

According to Ukraine’s media reports, the Ukrainian investment company Dragon Capital and American multinational investment company BlackRock are involved in shady businesses. US giant BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, gained a strong foothold in the country in November upon signing a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Economy on marshaling funding aimed at the nation’s reconstruction. The company has some history: it was the target of accusations pertaining to corruption and environmental damage in  https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/09/blackrock-the-financial-giant-accused-of-corruption-and-environmental-damage-is-amlos-ally-on-the-mayan-train/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Mexico ,  and its CEO,  https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/blackrock-ukraine-and-the-davos-gang/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Larry Fink , has been  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/07/blackrock-ceo-faces-call-to-step-down-amid-claims-of-hypocrisy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - under a lot of controversy since December.

DJ...without biden we would not have this war...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 03 2023 at 11:15pm

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stop-killing-major-antiwar-protests-held-germany-france-italy[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stop-killing-major-antiwar-protests-held-germany-france-italy - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stop-killing-major-antiwar-protests-held-germany-france-italy public support for yet another US/NATO war may drop high speed...

Who will pay for yet another insane war...WE will have to pay for it...making a few very rich people even more rich at the cost of hundreds of thousends of more lives...Ukrainians voted for peace and talks...The US pushed for war....[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jfks-remarkable-peace-speech-sealed-his-fate[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jfks-remarkable-peace-speech-sealed-his-fate - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jfks-remarkable-peace-speech-sealed-his-fate  

DJ-The military industrial complex -owning mass media, linked with banks may be running the US...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bakhmut-practically-surrounded-wagner-chief-tells-zelensky-surrender-save-lives Bakhmut battle over will bring more battles...unless politics change...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-post-lets-hershs-dangerous-cat-out-bag[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-post-lets-hershs-dangerous-cat-out-bag - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-post-lets-hershs-dangerous-cat-out-bag ...DJ-It may be hard to accept a crazy US president and a small -cult like- group around them blew up the European energy link with Russia...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/von-greyerz-prepare-10-years-destruction[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/von-greyerz-prepare-10-years-destruction - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/von-greyerz-prepare-10-years-destruction ;

THE STRUCTURAL DECLINE OF THE WEST

All empires are ephemeral and this is what the US and Europe are currently experiencing.

The final stages of empires, like the Han, Roman, Mongol, Ottoman, Spanish and British always include the same ingredients some of which are: 

  1. Excessive Debts and Deficits

  2. Currency Collapse

  3. Collapse of asset prices including property, bonds and stocks

  4. Hyperinflation in the final stages, especially in food, commodities & services 

  5. Migration

  6. High Crime Rates & Breakdown of Law & Order

  7. Moral Decadence

  8. Social Unrest, Civil War  

  9. Wars 

As the West is now falling (& failing), we can tick all the above events also in the current collapse. 

Global debt has exploded since 1971 to $2-3 quadrillion as I have explained https://goldswitzerland.com/2-quadrillion-debt-precariously-resting-on-2-trillion-gold/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - If it wasn’t for the Petrodollar, the US would have collapsed years ago. But as more countries are considering trading oil in other currencies like Yuan, the dollar will first Gradually lose its value and then Suddenly to paraphrase Hemingway.

But remember that since Nixon closed the Gold Window in 1971, all currencies have lost at least 97-99% of their value in real terms which is against gold.

DJ...UK global domination ended with World War 2....we did not have nuclear weapons till 1945...US domination is over...Diplomacy could have limited damage...But pushing for confrontation with "the rest" only is increasing damage...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 04 2023 at 5:13am

DJ [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L_sCjABnic[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L_sCjABnic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L_sCjABnic ; Hindustan Times - India;

Russia claims to have captured a Ukrainian Leopard 2 battle tank near Bakhmut. Russian deputy envoy to the UN retweeted a purported showed the battle tank stuck in a puddle near Bakhmut. The tweet seems to have been deleted now but the claim was that the Russian troops had captured the battle tank supplied to Kyiv by its NATO backers. It is the most advanced tank currently in the arsenal of the Ukrainian forces.

It may not be the same tank as in [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/leopard-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine-get-stuck-in-the-mud[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/leopard-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine-get-stuck-in-the-mud - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/leopard-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine-get-stuck-in-the-mud (or is it an older photo ?) 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to ; Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner to discuss the fall of Ukraine. Putins next moves against Ukraine. The political corruption festering in Washington DC. The Afghanistan withdrawal. DC is abusing the American people as they cause chaos around the world. Colonel Douglas Macgregor also agrees with Scott Ritter on how this war will end and Moscow's big move on the Ukraine capital of KYIV. Ukraine is reeling from the targeted strikes from Russia. Bahkmut has fallen as of today.

Timestamps:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=1s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 0:01  Colonel Macgregor discusses whether Zelenskyy is a good war time leader or a puppet  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=229s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 3:49  Major Corruption in Ukraine with donated money and weapons  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=410s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 6:50  Why is the media covering for Biden on the Afghanistan withdrawal?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=915s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 15:15  Is US Congress abusing the military for money and power?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=960s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 16:00  Congress will push for war with China to get more money  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=1095s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 18:15  Does DC want war or peace? Lots of money in war  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=1240s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 20:40  Russia with crush Ukraine and Europe will back out of war to survive and get back to normal life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=1440s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 24:00  Judge Andrew Napolitano says this war has become personal between Biden and Putin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to&t=1500s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 25:00  DC is the principle reason for misery and hardship in the United States

DJ Some claims;

-30 to 50% of "help" gets stolen by corrupt  Ukraine "leaders"

-Up to 20,000 Polish fighters in Ukraine uniform

A.o. You Tube video's claim of protests against US/NATO in 30 French cities...

[url]https://southfront.org/breaking-seymour-hersh-dicusses-nord-stream-bombshell-with-gerald-celente-and-much-more/[/url] or https://southfront.org/breaking-seymour-hersh-dicusses-nord-stream-bombshell-with-gerald-celente-and-much-more/ - https://southfront.org/breaking-seymour-hersh-dicusses-nord-stream-bombshell-with-gerald-celente-and-much-more/ ; 

Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist whose report on the Nord Stream pipelines bombings sent a shockwave through Washington, discusses the sabotage with  https://trendsjournal.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Gerald Celente , the publisher of The Trends Journal.

The in-depth interview sheds new light into his original report on the pipeline bombing and when and why it was launched. While the White House has disputed Hersh’s report, he provides details that this was a U.S.-staged attack.

Mr. Hersh goes far beyond the Nord Stream pipeline by shedding light and information on other pertinent issues. This is a once-in-a-lifetime interview that you won’t want to miss., 

DJ, Discussion on personal motives of biden for his hatred of Putin...I think it is both-strategic, Russia-China replacing the US as dominant global factor but also personal...biden blaming Putin for the trump -presidency...

-With what looks like the fall of Bakhmut I expect more discussion in "the west"...Some may "double down" go for further escalation...a lot of countries (I hope) may start pushing for talks and peace...Ukraine did deserve better !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 04 2023 at 11:07pm

DJ, I reopened an old news item from 2009 Ukraine "Swine Flu"....Ukraine has long term health issues. Multi resistant TB is one of them. CoViD spread may be linked to refugees seeking safety in western Europe. Most of the Ukraine people voted for peace only to be betrayed...Now see their country destroyed with "western help" ....

Of course the "west-rest" conflict is only using Ukraine as one of the battlefields to "weaken Russia"...[url]https://southfront.org/u-s-main-proxy-group-in-syrias-al-tanf-is-expanding-photos/[/url] or https://southfront.org/u-s-main-proxy-group-in-syrias-al-tanf-is-expanding-photos/ - https://southfront.org/u-s-main-proxy-group-in-syrias-al-tanf-is-expanding-photos/ Syria is another battle field to "weaken Russia"....Like Ukraine Syria did not ask for this US made war....

Bakhmut has fallen -only some propaganda denies it- so how will  the "west-rest" conflict develop further ? 

DJ-my non expert view, trying to make up my mind....

The "west" did "invest" hundreds of billions in the Ukraine war...also lots of money in creating a "civil/regime change war" in Syria since 2011.  The "west" is still involved in Iraq, Libya...supporting protestors in Iran...(DJ-Iran protestors may have good points - but should realize the west is NOT their friend !) 

Of course the "main enemy" is China...in many ways already #1; economy, foreign investments (by PPP)...In a military sense Russia is the major player...

Iran can work with the UN for its nuclear plans...For the US Iran linking Russia with India, China with Europe and Africa will remain the "strategic enemy"...If not nuclear activities the "west" will claim to "defend" human rights...Poverty is increasing...there is a worsening food crisis...somehow "the west" still believe they "stand for human rights"....

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[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-deploys-doomsday-plane-to-europe-russia-issues-nuclear-clash-warning-to-its-military[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-deploys-doomsday-plane-to-europe-russia-issues-nuclear-clash-warning-to-its-military - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-deploys-doomsday-plane-to-europe-russia-issues-nuclear-clash-warning-to-its-military has been warning for nuclear war maybe for over a year...

The United States has transferred an E-6B "Looking Glass" nuclear war command and control aircraft to Europe.  In response, Russian Armed forces were issued a "nuclear clash warning" (The U.S. equivalent of DEFCON-2) by the Ministry of Defense.

The transfer of the American "doomsday plane" to Europe is allegedly a "signal" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  On Tuesday, the U.S. European Command moved the E-6B Mercury, also known as the "Doomsday Aircraft," to Iceland. It refueled and continued on to Europe.

It is an airborne command post designed to control armed forces in a nuclear war.

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For those unaware, the DEFCON level is an indicator of how close we are to nuclear war.   It has a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being everything is normal, have a nice day.  One is "nuclear war."

The Russians are now at the equivalent of 2.   Just one step away from actual nuclear conflict.

Earlier this week, reports started coming in indicating US Senators and perhaps other American Officials, are leaving to "The Hotel" tomorrow (Sunday, March 5).   That phrase, "The Hotel" is a reference to the underground nuclear bunkers built decades ago for US officials to survive a nuclear war.  (Story https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/rumint-subscribers-only" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 69, 191); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; transition: color 400ms ease 0s, background-color 400ms ease 0s; -  HERE ) 

Given the possible relocation of US Officials to nuclear bunkers, and the deployment of a US E-6B "Doomsday Plane" to Europe, this coming week seems primed for the worst week in human history.

Make certain you have "preps" of emergency food, water, medicine, communications gear, flashlights, a generator with fuel to run it, and so forth.

DJ...We did see NATO drone attacks against targets in Russia, Belarus...very likely these drones still were launched from Ukraine...Terrorist attacks - western propaganda trying to paint it as "Free Russians", "Belarus partizans" while it is NATO sponsored terror...

The "Ukraine army" may be 200,000 soldiers...at least 20,000 of them are Polish in Ukraine uniform...

"The west" is unable to go for diplomacy...that "west" in one way or another dominated the globe the last 500 years if not more...The debt based US$ is the foundation of the US...if "the rest" droppes the US$ in many ways it is the end of the US....

So-the "west-rest" conflict is "existential" -in my view- for "the west"....Russia, China would be willing to go for diplomacy, real fair global trade...It is a (neo-colonial...or just old-style colonial ?) "west" not willing to give up its dominant position...

Earlier changes in global dominance always were western internal conflicts...Spain was "beaten" by the Dutch...but the English did beat the Dutch (maybe 1648-1672 as "peak-Dutch global era ?). France, Germany tried to play a global role...The UK global position switched to the US after 1945...

So...now Asia wants to "dominate the globe" with over half the global population...To keep things "simple" I go for 10% of global population = "west", rest = 90%...others go for 20-80...

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Escalation scenario's;

1 "Conventional means", tanks, fighter jets, soldiers are "running out" for "the west" (most NATO + Australia)...increasing production has its limits...lots of basic materials are only limited under western control...When "the west" invaded Iraq in 2003 it had an army of 1 million...(including from Arab countries). In Europe it might be possible to "mobilize" a large army...but lots of tanks, fighters etc are not ready for such a war...

The basic idea was a defensive war...putting a price tag on agression. Also limited foreign interventions...invading Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan...biggest challenge was logistics...

The goal of the wars in Ukraine, Syria was to "weaken Russia"...Russia now very likely is stronger then it was in early 2022....

So doing more of the same is weakening the west more then it weakens Russia...

2 Give up the conflict...I think joe biden hates Putin...there is a "US cult" blaming Putin for trump his presidency...Not willing to look at the US election problem itself ...(h.clinton may have gotten millions more votes...trump ended up with more electors...We did see US election problems three times this century...The US has to correct its election-rules...stop blaming others...). DJ-It would be wise to step out of a confrontation that is destroying you...

If I end up in a fight I can not win I would try to end that fight....(I try to avoid a fight...another risk is doing much more damage then you can live with...). 

3 Nuclear blackmail....The "west" is unable to accept "non white/non-christian" global dominance...There are racist, religious aspects..."The west" believes it is "better then the rest"...They tell others how to live...people seek safety in the "west"...The "west" simply seems unable to understand it is that "west" spreading poverty and war to the rest...keeping them poor...Only a small group of the west profits from this way of organizing "the globe"...maybe 0,1% of the people claim to "own" over 50% of the planet...

Still that "west" speaks of "democracy"....

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So...how realistic is a "nuclear war scenario" ? Part of a "nuclear war strategy" is a surprise first strike...That first strike -in theory- should avoid the MAD-scenario...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction  

DJ...joe biden provoked the Ukraine war believing "Russia is weak"...sanctions would bring regime change in Moscow....I think joe biden is demented...others "made" him US president...still joe biden is the "POTUS" [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States#Commander-in-chief[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States#Commander-in-chief - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States#Commander-in-chief ;

The president is the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-chief" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Commander-in-chief - commander-in-chief  of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="United States Armed Forces - United States Armed Forces  as well as all federalized  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Militia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="United States Militia - United States Militia . In this capacity, the president may exercise supreme operational command and control over military and militia; and has  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary_power" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Plenary power - plenary power  to launch, direct and supervise  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_operation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Military operation - military operations , order or authorize the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_deployment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Military deployment - deployment of troops , unilaterally launch  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Nuclear weapons of the United States - nuclear weapons , and form military policy with the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="United States Department of Defense - Department of Defense  and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="United States Department of Homeland Security - Homeland Security . However, the constitutional ability to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Declaration of war by the United States - declare war  is vested only in Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States#cite_note-USConstArt1Sec8WarPowers-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; - [2]

So...I think joe biden and a small team around him blew up Nordstream energy links between Europe and Russia...biden provoked the Ukraine war...

Will this old demented biden NOT go for nuclear escalation ? "To prevent Russian agression"....

DJ-I would love to believe people, countries could get a grip on biden...He is the "man behind the button"...US politics ended up with an anti Russian cult in power, pulling along Europe...a Europe also afraid of "non western dominance"...

So...what could stop a nuclear scenario is regime change not only in Moscow but also in Bejing, Tehran...North Korea....Their position only grew stronger in this conflict....

I hope to be very wrong....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 05 2023 at 1:59am

Maybe some video links...DJ-I only notice how they avoid the question -for now- what is next...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTlBvstOw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTlBvstOw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTlBvstOw The Duran; Modi insists Blinken meet Lavrov at G20. QUAD begins to unravel


DJ, On how the G20 -again- was sabotaged by the US pushing for an anti-Russia agenda...India/Modi forced blinken to talk with Lavrov but -since the US only wants global domination- nothing came out of it....The US is blowing up the UN....BRICS, OPEC+, SCO only grow in importance...G7, G20 is being sabotaged by the "west" in fact the US...

Alexander Mercouris (AM) (minute 29) notices even around Obama the question is "what is the plan"....(if there is any plan...)

Quad used to be an anti-China coalition of US-Japan-Australia-India... DJ-India is trying to improve relations with China...both are in the SCO and BRICS...both are major energy importers...both welcome more global trade...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1kB3EMQ1o[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1kB3EMQ1o - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1kB3EMQ1o Scott Ritter  (SR) on the history of the Ukraine conflict. How Russia hoped to keep it all limited-the west did go for escalation....

Russia so far did use limited forces....In World War Two the US did see 300,000 of its military die in both Europe and Asia...4 years. Ukraine losses by now could be 350,000 killed...and Russia has not even started an all out war...SR expecting a "surge"... DJ-maybe now one Ukraine soldier is facing one Russian...soon the Ukraine soldier could be facing five Russian ones...

(Just like a tsunami is NOT a wave but waterlevel going up...it will result in a wave going over land...) 

DJ So what options does "the west" have...who is "that west" ? 

- US "trapped" Europe in an anti Russia, anti-China conflict. Europe may try to "limit" that conflict...the "joe biden cult" will not accept that...

-Is Israel involved ? Going for a major attack against Iran targets (in Syria...Iraq ? Iran itself ?) 

-NATO may be ready for imited escalation" only...Poland may be willing to send in forces...a lot of other countries may not be willing to do so or simply does not have an army able to play a role (at that moment at that time)

-US -a few other countries- could go for missile/drone strikes against Russian targets...Using heavier explosives...Russia already stated such an attack would be answered...

-A "false flag" scenario was mentioned often in proxy war scenario's....So far false flags of "bad Russians killing babies and old women" had an effect on getting public support-NOT on the battle field...less and less on international support ( US lies have limited use...)...

-"Game changer" weapons limiting Russia to keep on fighting would need a large scale preparation from the west...

So what options does the west -de facto the US...biden...have ? 

-The US can not afford to lose more allies....it is only a matter of time before most of Europe will go for talks with Russia and/via China...

Is the only way to avoid a US nuclear attack on Russia regime change in the US ???? And very soon ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 05 2023 at 11:43pm

DJ, 

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/today-is-the-day-allegedly[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/today-is-the-day-allegedly - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/today-is-the-day-allegedly ;

***** TODAY is the day *****

If, as we reported earlier this week, Big Shot Officials are going into the "Hotel" (i.e. Bunkers), we ought to be able to see some signs.

Is it non-sense, "fake news"? Is it a drill ? 

[url]https://southfront.org/u-s-general-general-milley-makes-unannounced-visit-to-syria/[/url] or https://southfront.org/u-s-general-general-milley-makes-unannounced-visit-to-syria/ - https://southfront.org/u-s-general-general-milley-makes-unannounced-visit-to-syria/ ;

United States Army General Mark Milley made an unannounced visit to an undisclosed base in northeastern Syria on March 4 to assess the mission against ISIS and to review safeguards for American troops against attacks.

During the visit, Milley, who serves as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with the commander of the U.S.-led coalition, Army Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane.

DJ, Not only Syria, Iraq want US (NATO) forces out...Iran, Türkiye, Russia, China "may reactivate actions" against US/IS coalition...

Military Summary  (MS) keeps mentioning "Ukraine planning a major offensive"...DJ-Since Ukraine itself ran out of even soldiers...NATO soldiers in Ukraine uniform may "pretend" to be the Ukraine army...They know how to handle NATO-US weapons...NATO planes could go for a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine...(R2P claims...Right To Protect...US often first starting a crisis then moves in to "protect civilians"...). 

Some high risk zones;

-Transnistria...could pull Moldova/Romania in the fight...NATO could claim "Russia attacked Moldova" -art.5 activated "because of risks for NATO member Romania"...

-Russia-Crimea landlinks...NATO offensive towards the Sea of Azov

-More attacks on Russia/Belarus to "decrease public support"...

-More grip (submarines ?) on the Black Sea also would fit in US/NATO plans...

-Another coup in Türkiye...a pro NATO military fascist puppet regime (since most Turkish now are very anti US the US has to find "US-Turks" as puppets...). 

DJ-There is still fighting in Bakhmut MS estimates Ukraine is able to get 2500-3000 of its fighters out of Bakhmut per day...A few days back there were 12,000 Ukraine fighters in the area...

DJ-my view-The US can not give up its proxy war against Russia...The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y2l_FPGYY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y2l_FPGYY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y2l_FPGYY discussing Belarus-China ties, Xi coming visit to Moscow. 

There may be working towards an "anti-US coalition" in some way...China may be the main player...Russia, Iran, Belarus very likely to join such a "group"...Very likely (DJ-my view) it will not be as "strict" as NATO -de facto NATO members follow US orders....[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization could be part of that larger "coalition"...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Military_activities[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Military_activities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Military_activities the SCO may move towards more military cooperation...BRICS+ very likely more and more buying Russian and Chinese weapons...

The Duran its conclusion "we are in a new cold war" DJ...I think we are already in a "hot war"....AM two points;

-Do not attack Moscow

-Do not bluff China 

both are ignored...so a much weaker west is now facing a China dominated global coalition against them...

DJ-So 10% west against 90% rest...with the rest in control over most energy, resources..."who will win"...This is utter stupid western self destruction...ignoring history...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 06 2023 at 9:40pm

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-vast-expanse-us-military-hardware-positioned-polish-port[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-vast-expanse-us-military-hardware-positioned-polish-port - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-vast-expanse-us-military-hardware-positioned-polish-port ;

A Baltic monitoring media outlet has published footage of an enormous amount of American military equipment being prepared to move from the Port of Gdynia in Poland

The expanse of military hardware is being described as equipment belonging to the US Army's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Some Eastern European media reports are claiming that at least a portion of the equipment, which looks multiple football fields in length, are bound for Kiev.

and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/reader-listener-intel-from-romania-restaurants-ordered-to-prepare-to-feed-troops-daily[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/reader-listener-intel-from-romania-restaurants-ordered-to-prepare-to-feed-troops-daily - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/reader-listener-intel-from-romania-restaurants-ordered-to-prepare-to-feed-troops-daily  

DJ-Yet more indicators NATO will further increase its role in the NATO-Russia war now limited to Ukraine...

IF (!) NATO/US further escalates this war (trump claimed correctly this war could be over in a day if the west stopped funding it...) China, Iran may decide to "make more clear their position"....

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/israel-attacks-aleppo-airport-syria-again[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/israel-attacks-aleppo-airport-syria-again - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/israel-attacks-aleppo-airport-syria-again Yet another attack from Israel on what Israel claims to be Iranian targets in Syria...

DJ-Often also Syrian get wounded/killed during those -illegal- Israeli actions...Syria allows Hezbollah, Iran, Russia to have military within Syrian borders. It would like to see NATO forces move out...Turkish forces inside Syria may be part of ongoing talks between Assad and Erdogan...

US forces have NO legal ground to be in Syria (or Iraq)...US claims of "fighting IS" ; it created IS....as a proxy/excuse...

[url]https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230306-france-braces-for-strikes-that-could-bring-the-country-to-a-standstill-for-days-on-end[/url] or https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230306-france-braces-for-strikes-that-could-bring-the-country-to-a-standstill-for-days-on-end - https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230306-france-braces-for-strikes-that-could-bring-the-country-to-a-standstill-for-days-on-end and [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/06/six-ten-dutch-households-trouble-making-ends-meet[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/06/six-ten-dutch-households-trouble-making-ends-meet - https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/06/six-ten-dutch-households-trouble-making-ends-meet  

Who is paying for the hundreds of billions for NATO wars ? We are ! Inflation is high-lots of prices only go down in political "hope" ...not based on realism...

DJ-The gap between a political western elite and the population may have become that large we can not escape a major political crisis in most of the west...France, Greece may indicate it could get violent...

I will take a few day-break to refresh my look at events...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 11 2023 at 9:32pm

Two major events the last few days may indicate the US is losing its global position;

1. [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/it-s-official-silicon-valley-bank-failed-due-to-a-run-42-billion-in-withdrawals[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/it-s-official-silicon-valley-bank-failed-due-to-a-run-42-billion-in-withdrawals - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/it-s-official-silicon-valley-bank-failed-due-to-a-run-42-billion-in-withdrawals ;

Prior to its collapse, Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank by assets in the U.S. Federal Reserve data  https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/lbr/current/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 69, 191); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: color 400ms ease 0s, background-color 400ms ease 0s; font-family: "Roboto Slab", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>shows  the bank had $209 billion in assets as of December 31, 2022.

DJ, This bank may be big enough to create a shock wave in the financial world...trust is the basis for any trade...

2. [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/mediated-by-china-iran-and-saudi-arabia-restore-ties-there-are-winners-and-losers.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/mediated-by-china-iran-and-saudi-arabia-restore-ties-there-are-winners-and-losers.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/mediated-by-china-iran-and-saudi-arabia-restore-ties-there-are-winners-and-losers.html and The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgpzgrPYPhw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgpzgrPYPhw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgpzgrPYPhw ; HUGE China brokered deal, Iran & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties

Among others...

The US/west may run out of finances for any conflict...lots of countries would not mind the US financial collapse...The de-dollar-ization must affect fiat currencies based on debt...

OPEC+ was already a major change...China diplomacy ending the Iran-Saudi "cold war"  DJ-could start a reunification of the Islamic World...with lots of countries now still somewhat "pro-western" (Jordan, Morocco, Nigeria) "going for Asia"....further isolating the "west"...

Again-in that west-support for a "never ending other proxy war"  is dropping fast...Ukraine is still seeing massive losses each day [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-is-lying-about-casualty-ratios-to-justify-holding-of-bakhmut.html[/url] or  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-is-lying-about-casualty-ratios-to-justify-holding-of-bakhmut.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-is-lying-about-casualty-ratios-to-justify-holding-of-bakhmut.html  ;

When I was in officer school the number estimated for a big war in Europe was 75% of casualties due to artillery and aerial bombing.

Data from the European Commission, quoted by El Pais, says that Russia has a  https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-03-01/ukraine-outgunned-10-to-1-in-massive-artillery-battle-with-russia.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - 10:1 advantage in artillery :

According to data from the European Commission to which EL PAÍS has had access, Russia fires between 40,000 and 50,000 artillery shells per day, compared to 5,000-6,000 Ukrainian forces expend. The Estonian government, which has been one of largest contributors to Kyiv’s war effort, puts the average use of artillery at between 20,000 and 60,000 Russian shells per day, and 2,000 to 7,000 Ukrainian rounds, according to a document sent to EU Member States by Tallinn, to which this newspaper has had access.

The Russian forces fire ten times the number of shells the Ukrainians can fire. In a modern war artillery fire causes 65+% of all casualties. It is thus impossible that Ukraine is losing less soldiers than the Russians.

The total ratio may well be 7 to 1 but it will certainly be to the advantage of the Russian forces side.

DJ, Maybe by now over half of the "Ukraine army" is made up with "volunteers" from Poland, Romania etc. ? Using more modern weapons...but trying to keep the war limited to Ukraine...So without air cover and the ability to limit Russian supplies Russia has no reason to change its strategy..."Ukraine"forces come to frontlines to be destroyed...the west keeps sending more...Russian losses may be very limited by now...(DJ-maybe 100 to 1 ???? For every 100 "Ukraine" deaths-most killed from long distance there is only 1 Russian killed...most in close fighting...

Another idea; China could not mind Russia getting a bit weaker and involved in Ukraine and Syria...China can increase its role in central Asia and the Islamic world...Russia made some progress in Syria-Türkiye talks...

DJ-Diplomacy is winning from confrontationism...real currencies beat debt based fiat "fake" money....

A change is ongoing and "we" in the west may not know what hit us...Expect hyperinflation for the west soon...(this summer ?)



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 1:15am

DJ, Politics in many countries simply deny the pandemics, climate change problems etc....

To fight a war you need money with value; [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-takes-leading-role-de-dollarization[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-takes-leading-role-de-dollarization - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-takes-leading-role-de-dollarization ;

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/03/india-takes-a-leading-role-in-de-dollarization" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Reuters reported on Wednesday that “ https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-03-08/indias-oil-deals-with-russia-dent-decades-old-dollar-dominance" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - India’s Oil Deals With Russia Dent Decades-Old Dollar Dominance ”, which informed their audience that the growing trend of those two using national or third-party currencies like the UAE’s is something significant for everyone to pay attention to. To that outlet’s credit, it also reminded readers that IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath foresaw in the month after Russia’s https://astutenews.com/2022/03/russia-is-waging-an-existential-struggle-in-defense-of-its-independence-sovereignty/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - special https://korybko.substack.com/p/20-constructive-critiques-about-russias" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - operation began that the West’s sanctions “could erode the dollar’s dominance”.

Lo and behold, that’s precisely what happened, with India of all countries accelerating de-dollarization through its non-dollar-denominated energy deals with Russia. About them, Russia has since become India’s largest supplier https://m.economictimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/indias-oil-buy-from-russia-surge-now-more-than-one-third-of-total-imports/articleshow/98425002.cms" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - over the past year and now provides a https://m.economictimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/indias-oil-buy-from-russia-surge-now-more-than-one-third-of-total-imports/articleshow/98425002.cms" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - whopping 35% of that country’s needs, which is also the world’s third-largest oil importer and https://www.rt.com/business/562111-india-overtake-uk-biggest-economy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - fifth-largest economy . Their new energy ties, and particularly the growing de-dollarization dimension of their deals, are thus globally important.

None of what was just described is driven by any anti-American animus on India’s part since everything is purely motivated by the pursuit of that country’s objective national interests. Delhi had no choice but to gradually diversify away from dollar-denominated energy deals with Moscow due to Washington’s illegal sanctions. Its multipolar leadership wasn’t going to let the world’s most populous country slip into an economic crisis just to please the US by eschewing the import of discounted oil from Russia.

By defying American pressure upon it to unilaterally concede on those aforementioned objective national interests, India’s economy ended up growing at https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-oecds-latest-report-showed-that" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - twice the pace of China’s , which contributed to https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-rajagopalan-indias-principled" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - catapulting that country to the forefront of the https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-russian-foreign-ministry-comprehensively" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - global systemic transition to multipolarity . Amidst the https://korybko.substack.com/p/towards-tri-multipolarity-the-golden" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - impending trifurcation of International Relations , India is now poised to de facto lead the https://korybko.substack.com/p/indias-global-south-summit-is-the" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Global https://korybko.substack.com/p/prime-minister-modis-4r-global-agenda" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - South in helping fellow developing countries balance between the https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-correctly-described-the-us" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Golden https://korybko.substack.com/p/russias-national-security-council" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Billion and the https://korybko.substack.com/p/theres-no-sino-russo-propaganda-collusion" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Sino-Russo Entente .

Had India complied with the US’ illegal sanctions, then the New York Times wouldn’t have recently https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-just-admitted" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - admitted that those restrictions failed https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-admitted-that" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - just like the West’s efforts to “isolate” Russia did as well. It was largely due to that South Asian Great Power’s https://korybko.substack.com/p/indias-top-diplomat-shared-some-politically" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - truly independent grand strategy that this latest phase of the https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-properly-framing" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - New Cold War didn’t decisively end in the Golden Billion’s victory over Russia and the restoration of unipolarity, which would have been detrimental to India and every other developing country’s interests.

DJ, With Mexico (!!!!), Indonesia, Argentina, Saudi Arabia moving towards BRICS the position of the US$ is close to collapse...just a matter of time...

[url]https://www.debka.com/saudis-and-iran-restore-diplomatic-relations-and-defense-pact/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/saudis-and-iran-restore-diplomatic-relations-and-defense-pact/ - https://www.debka.com/saudis-and-iran-restore-diplomatic-relations-and-defense-pact/ ;

A major setback for the US – less for Israel – was delivered on Friday, March 10 by the Saudi-Iran decision to restore diplomatic relations, seven years after they were cut off. Their mutual defense-military pact,  severed in 2001, was also resumed and their embassies are to reopened within two months. The announcement came from the two national security advisers, Ali Shamkhani for Tehran and Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban for Riyadh, joined by Beijing’s senior diplomat Wang Yi. It wound up the sixth round of talks leading up to the accord in Beijing following earlier rounds in Oman and B. It is now up to the two foreign ministers to name their respective ambassadors.


In his statement, Shamkhani commented that the accord will contribute to the strengthening of Iran’s ties with the Gulf Arab nations and the Muslim world at large.


And indeed, the breakthrough will cool security tensions in the Middle East as a whole in the sense that it obligates Tehran to rein in the Shiite military satellites –  Hizballah in Lebanon, Iraqi militias and the Yemen Houthi rebels – from continuing their aggressive actions against  its Saudi neighbor. For China, the deal is a diplomatic coup strengthening its foothold in the Gulf. Just four months ago, President Xi Jinping was welcomed in Riyadh and a month ago, Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi visited Beijing.


The full resumption of diplomatic and defense ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a major slap for US President Joe Biden’s aspirations in the Gulf region. The administration has been working hard to persuade Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman to cool Riyadh’s ties with Moscow and Beijing, focusing heavily – and unsuccessfully – on getting him to abandon his deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to keep world oil prices at a high level. Washington has also been eying with concern Chinese weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia, including nuclear technology. All in all, Riyadh’s alignment with Moscow and Beijing is the source of sleepless nights in Washington.


As for Israel, aside from its propaganda value, the new Saudi pact with Iran does not change much on the current state of ties between Israel and Riyadh, which anyway has been wary of following the UAE and Bahrain into joining the Abaham normalization accords. The Saudi Crown Prince is a force unto himself and will not be deterred by his accord with Tehran should he decide to jump aboard the Abraham boat after all.  

DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords ; The Abraham Accords are a series of joint normalization statements initially between  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Israel - Israel , the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="United Arab Emirates - United Arab Emirates , and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Bahrain - Bahrain , effective since September 15, 2020

My view; For Israel it may be more important to keep good/working relations with the region; Egypt, Jordan, Gulf States...maybe improve relations with Türkiye...DJ-I think Netanyahu may try to "balance" between US, EU, Russia, China and Middle East/North Africa (MENA)....(US involved in protests against Netanyahu ?) 

Israel may try to "limit" Iran...but diplomacy may be more effective then confrontation. So Israel-in west Asia-may go for national interests more then US interests...distancing itself more from the US. 

So-by now- the US could be pushing for more escalation with Iran, Israel now could try to seek Saudi, Russian mediation...

DJ-Another economic issue is the very likely unfolding banking crisis....unclear what to expect and if "solutions" only make matters worse...

The healthcare-crisis is only worsening....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 14 2023 at 12:16am

DJ, In short;

China seems to be going for a "peace offensive" willing to talk on Middle East peace, even Xi -Zelensky (tele)talks are planned...Russia and China have been talking on Korean unification for years...

The US is seen more and more as a (neo-colonial) problem....DJ-Even the EU, UK may "switch" to doing deals with Asia....

US economic problems. "peak-debt" may unable any further continuation of US wars....Israel, Ukraine may go for peace...

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NATO can not fight "half-a-war" with Russia in Ukraine...and expect to win. Russia is keeping the war close to its borders so supplies/logistics, air support, reserves are NATO-problems not Russian ones...NATO does NOT (yet) want to go for "total" war with Russia...so by now "western help sinks in an Ukraine very deep swamp".....

Israel needed US, NATO, Saudi cooperation to "stop Iran"....also here "the west" does not give the help Israel needs...

South Korea may have more problems with Japan than with Russia, China...SK companies-like EU companies-are not blind for the -booming, young- Asian markets....

So when faced with a choice of "US led wars" or "China-make trade not war" the China/SCO/BRICS alternative simply looks more realistic...

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DJ...joe biden is a US disaster...the "uni-party" of a US elite turned the US into a democrazy....It is not just one person-but all of the system-that needs to change...

For me democracy means access to healthcare, education, transport...not only for the rich...It is more then voting...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 15 2023 at 1:11am

DJ, [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boRRZLFHCkc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boRRZLFHCkc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boRRZLFHCkc Douglas Mcgregor; Poland wants to do trade with China...so zelensky knows he can not ignore China...Again-Putin believed he could live in peace with "the west"...he decreased the Russian army..but now did rebuild it into a very strong army...

Both Russia -in Ukraine-, Iran, China-Taiwan- would be wars in wich NATO faces logistic nightmares...fighting thousends of miles from US/NATO soil...close/in Russia-Iran-China...NATO simply is not able to fight that kind of wars...(DJ-if RIC was the agressor NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in self defense...but it is the US still trying to dominate the globe...)

DJ-In Ukraine a growing number of people start realizing Ukraine is being used for US-biden-goals...[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-media-start-to-acknowledge-reality.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-media-start-to-acknowledge-reality.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-media-start-to-acknowledge-reality.html ;

Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-those-guns-unknown-to-me.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - again and  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/why-bakhmut-is-falling.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - again .

As the Washington Post provides:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow

I'll leave out the propaganda bits and go for the factual beef. The quotes are long but needed to grasp the depth of horrible situation.

The opening paragraph:

The quality of Ukraine’s military force, once considered a substantial advantage over Russia, has been degraded by a year of casualties that have taken many of the most experienced fighters off the battlefield, leading some Ukrainian officials to question Kyiv’s readiness to mount a much-anticipated spring offensive.

That spring offensive is as likely to happen as the announced relief campaign to unblock Bakhmut. The later is bogged down in mud which will only become worse over the next few weeks.

The spring campaign will be made up of green recruits which will use a wild mix of weapons they are not familiar with. Unless there are some 'western' surprises I see no way how it can overwhelm the well prepared Russian defense lines.

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It is over for the Ukraine. The Russian forces are enveloping Ukrainian units in several small cauldrons. Bakhmut is only one of them. South of it is the New York agglomeration which will become another one. Anviivka, further south, is also in big trouble and may even become the first of the three to fall.

DJ, Ukraine NEVER had a chance...NATO was NOT willing to go for World War Three over Ukraine...because NATO had no chance of winning such a war...

In a few weeks, after those three cauldrons have collapsed, the Ukrainian army will be on the run. It will be summer by then and the mud will have dried up. The Russian forces will then become more mobile which may even allow for wider 'big arrow' moves.

The only way for the Ukrainian army to counter those moves will be the use of the forces it currently prepares for a 'counteroffensive' as defense formations.

But even that will only give it another three month or so before the inevitable collapse arrives.

DJ, One of the reasons zelensky might want to talk to Xi/China is simply to stay alive....Ukrainians voted for him to bring peace-but he went for an insane war-destroying Ukraine....

Ukraine population was over 30% "Russian" -speaking/identifying themselves that way...It may have been that way for the last 200-300 years....It was "useable" in all kinds of proxy wars...divide and rule...But like in Yugoslavia lots of people in Ukraine want to live in peace...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcD1N7LynI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcD1N7LynI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcD1N7LynI ; How might the reactivation of a trade route linking Russia, Iran and joining India affect the world economy?

DJ, Eventough full of some western propaganda lies-Russia is beating Ukraine-a good overview of Russia-India links via Iran since 1830....

It does NOT mention TIP; Türkiye-Iran-Pakistan (rail)road links between China and Europe/Africa...

It also ignores BRICS, SCO...India-China-Russia in both...Pakistan, Iran in the SCO....Saudi Arabia, Türkiye soon also could join the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation ...

Xi will visit Moscow/Putin next week...one of the many points of discussion will be defense cooperation....

[url]https://www.debka.com/irans-khordad-15s-to-upgrade-syrian-air-defenses-after-two-israeli-strikes-pinpoint-secret-locations/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/irans-khordad-15s-to-upgrade-syrian-air-defenses-after-two-israeli-strikes-pinpoint-secret-locations/ - https://www.debka.com/irans-khordad-15s-to-upgrade-syrian-air-defenses-after-two-israeli-strikes-pinpoint-secret-locations/ "RIC" (both India and Iran, Russia, China) wants peace in the middle east/north Africa (MENA)...

Lots of countries-including Korea- see the US now as the motor as keeping conflicts going to "make profits out of it"....

DJ; China "make trade not war" goes against everything the US stands for since 1991...US went for make war...not (fair) trade...trying to become the global dominant country...

Diplomacy could have given us a "Pax Americana"...lack of diplomacy may result in the end of the US...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 16 2023 at 12:28am

DJ, The Roman empire had lots of crazy rulers....a lot of "civil servants" and laws however limited the damage....

We now have an insane group ruling the US....[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dcFDY2-yY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dcFDY2-yY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dcFDY2-yY ; Hindustan Times - India

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who created ripples with his Nord Stream blasts expose has made yet another sensational claim about the Ukraine war. Washington could directly clash with Moscow if Kyiv starts to lose, says American journalist Seymour Hersh, citing government sources to back up his claims. He stressed the fact that the U.S. has dispatched units of its 82nd and 101st elite airborne divisions close to the Ukrainian border, while a lot of weapons and arms are coming to Europe. Seymour Hersh has alarmed the world with his potential "U.S. Plan B' claim. Hersh made these stunning claims without disclosing his sources. In February, Hersh released a bombshell report on last September’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline blasts, accusing Washington of orchestrating the attack. Watch this report to learn the full story.

DJ, [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJ4NDfIe2M[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJ4NDfIe2M - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJ4NDfIe2M Military Summary describing how Ukraine could have 12,000 soldiers being isolated in Bakhmut, running out of supplies...just north of Bakhmut 4 incomplete Ukraine tank brigades are stuck...Russia on higher ground soon will start destroying Ukraine tanks...

Other Ukraine positions also getting encircled....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgUigOl0fEs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgUigOl0fEs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgUigOl0fEs a further Military Summary update; Russia may go for a sort of no fly zone over (part of) the Black Sea....US is using Ukraine to attack Russia...US drones are part of that strategy. Russia has had enough of that.

DJ-NATO/US is in a war with -for now- Russia-for now- limited to Ukraine. The US also is in a -still separate- war with Iran, conflict with China....these "conflicts" are not yet linked with each other...Alexander Mercouris in The Duran recently mentioned Japan-december 1941-from a war with China escalating into a war with most western colonial powers; US, NL, UK, France...

(During W.W.2 supplies to Russia not only went via a nothern route-Iceland-Murmansk but also via Iran. China did get western aid via Burma/Myanmar, (British)India)

-Saudi Arabia made clear it will not accept oil-price caps

-New Atlas [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsyyWJ-G70[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsyyWJ-G70 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsyyWJ-G70 ; Thailand plans elections for May 2023. Because Thailand's close & growing relations with China, the US seeks to interfere and install an anti-China client regime into power. Just as the US destroyed peace & prosperity in Europe through similar interference, it has targeted all of Southeast Asia in a bid to press nations into service for its conflict with China. 

DJ, maybe as a reminder "who paid for the rise of hitler/nazi's ?" The Bush-banking, western industry and royals put hitler into power....In the Soviet Union stalin did bring fear to "the west" but the "west" did NOT support democracy in Germany...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 17 2023 at 11:39pm

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-russia-to-practice-sub-launched-nuke-strike-against-u-s-a-from-subs-in-pacific-ocean[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-russia-to-practice-sub-launched-nuke-strike-against-u-s-a-from-subs-in-pacific-ocean - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-russia-to-practice-sub-launched-nuke-strike-against-u-s-a-from-subs-in-pacific-ocean DJ, I expect not only US-Russia may "look at" nuclear options ....Israel may look at "nuclear options" against Iran...North Korea may look at nuclear options against Japan, US bases...

Poland, Slovakia sending Mig-29 fighterjets to Ukraine, Finland one step closer into NATO are other escalations...the ICC becoming another US tool -further destroying international organizations...Western wars are OK, Russia stopping NATO is a "war crime"....

Xi wil visit Moscow monday till wednesday. Xi may not only be representing China but -in some ways- also BRICS, SCO...in fact most of the global population and economy...

China still would love to "make trade not war" but by now may feel frustrated by western insanity...

The New Atlas (in a long video) [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE linking the financial war with the global power struggle...

[url]https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230317-bitter-pension-battle-turns-to-democratic-crisis-as-macron-bypasses-french-parliament[/url] or https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230317-bitter-pension-battle-turns-to-democratic-crisis-as-macron-bypasses-french-parliament - https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230317-bitter-pension-battle-turns-to-democratic-crisis-as-macron-bypasses-french-parliament in "the west" cracks are showing up...

DJ-Wars are very expensive...The US/NATO may no longer be able to fight a major conventional war...so if the US -joe -crazy-biden- is pushing for more escalation, more war he is pushing for nuclear war....

I think China alone is not able to stop biden and his group of maniacs...Xi may try to come up with "an offer" the west may find hard to refuse...But that "offer" could also be an ultimatum...

Maybe it will be something financial...with lots of openings. Accept an end to the Ukraine war-Ukraine (and Finland ?) out of NATO and talks...if the US is willing to accept that offer China/BRICS/SCO/OPEC+ may still keep the US$ "alive"...

If the US is NOT willing to act responsible DJ-I think BRICS/SCO/OPEC+ can "collapse" the west at record speed...

-The "banking crisis" is costing the west billions per day....When "the rest" has found a position inside that western banking/financial system a "collective pull out" may cost the "rest" trillions...however the western financial system is "gone"....

-In combination with cyber warfare -disabling any military relevant response- the "west" may be pushed back to the dark ages...

DJ-The "west" is unable to understand the scale of the conflict it is moving into...Blind for its weak spots...

Any further western -biden- escalation is destroying the "west" much more then it is hurting the rest...Without a war we could end up with a "western UN, ICC etc"-even "the west" can have their own olympics...The rest of the world will create new organizations...sooner or later the west may come to its senses...

But with this conflict-basic about US$ global domination-I am not very hopefull...We need new leadership in the west...Enough people in the west are aware of the major risks...

Both the EU and UK soon may face widespread unrest...the US may go for massive repression...fighting their own citizens...

Hope to be very wrong again...(DJ-I hate it to see at least some of my scenario's come much to close...)



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 19 2023 at 2:38am

DJ, 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pOHpOOsaQ[/url] or  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pOHpOOsaQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pOHpOOsaQ  

Telegraphing the spring offensive

describing the utter insanity of a "west" -let me be clear; joe biden and his "gang" of maniacs-pushing even more "help" to keep the Ukraine mass murder going on...Even "western media" (Politico, etc) no longer able to hide Ukraine did loose over 100,000 of its best trained soldiers...90% of Ukraine deaths from Russian artillery/air attacks...

DJ-On most of the frontlines "kill ratio" could be 100 "Ukraine" deaths for 1 Russian death...Russian artillery/air superiority means western aid/Ukraine forces are simply getting destroyed at the front lines...Russia is not even at "full power"....Keeping this war going on -onthis basis- is criminal insanity....

Military Summary mentioning Russia now attacking Ukraine/NATO build up of forces -all over Ukraine....DJ-Lots of info a.o. Polish soldiers now on their way to the frontlines...in NATO transport vehicles, tanks etc...

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DJ-Another frontline [url]https://www.debka.com/assad-offers-putin-expanded-permanent-bases-in-syria-some-200-syrian-mercenaries-die-in-ukraine-war/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/assad-offers-putin-expanded-permanent-bases-in-syria-some-200-syrian-mercenaries-die-in-ukraine-war/ - https://www.debka.com/assad-offers-putin-expanded-permanent-bases-in-syria-some-200-syrian-mercenaries-die-in-ukraine-war/ ;

In two days of talks in Moscow on March 15-16, Syria’s Bashar Assad gave President Vladimir Putin the option of expanding or increasing Russian bases in his country as well as reiterating his full backing for Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.”

DEBKAfile’s military sources note that Russian forces already maintain a large air base at Khmeimim, a naval facility at Tartus on the Mediterranean and, in the last three months, acquired another northern air base at al-Jarrah in Aleppo.

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Regarding their military cooperation in the Ukraine conflict, neither of the two leaders referred publicly to the fact that Syrian military personnel are fighting alongside Russian troops in the capacity of mercenaries. Western sources estimate that Syria has contributed 2,500 and 3,000 men under arms, hailing mainly from the Liwqa al-Quds (the “Jerusalem Brigade) of the Syrian army’s 4th armored division, its “Tiger forces” and Palestinians. Each is believed to earn $3,000 per month. They are to be found on the front lines of the battles in Donetsk and Kherson, where, according to the same estimates, Syrian forces have lost around 200 dead.

DJ, NATO did send IS-terrorists, neo-nazi's in support of Kiev...

[url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/kissinger-chinas-mid-east-role-complicating-factor-for-israeli-iran-strike/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/kissinger-chinas-mid-east-role-complicating-factor-for-israeli-iran-strike/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/kissinger-chinas-mid-east-role-complicating-factor-for-israeli-iran-strike/ ; Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote this week that China’s role in brokering the Saudi-Iran rapprochement means that Beijing’s deepening Mid-East involvement must complicate Israel’s decisions for preventing a nuclear-armed Iran. “Israel’s leaders have viewed a preemptive military strike against Iran as a last resort as Tehran moves ever closer to becoming a nuclear-weapons state,” Kissinger noted. “However, he said: “Pressure on Iran will now have to take into account Chinese interests in the region.”

DJ, Egypt is building a Russian-design nuclear reactor, Syria, Iran are improving air defense...Not only Saudi-Iran but also Türkiye-Syria "deals" are in progress...In other words; Israel will try to "get most" out of a deal with Russia, India, China....Go for trying to improve relations with its Arab neighbours...on Israeli terms...

Again; New Atlas long but very good info [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZBXkuRwqE on how "the west" is fighting to keep its debt based economy dominant...China investing in a "New Silk Road" and BRICS means the END !!!! for debt based western currencies...The petro-$ is gone....

DJ-The only way to "limit damage" for the west was diplomacy, talks....But the "west"keeps pushing for confrontation-not only with Russia, also with China....

The Xi-Putin talks -starting tomorrow in Moscow- DJ-Xi may represent not only China but also BRICS, SCO..."the rest" of the world...I think will be on "enforcing peace"...Again, the rest of the world -90% of the global population- is now in conflict with a neo-colonial racist "west"....

From financial war to cyber war...."regime change" is needed to get "new leaders" able to go for reasonable diplomacy in the "west"....(DJ-I have no idea what trump is planning....I do think most of "influential US groups" may be totally fed up with a demented biden....



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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 20 2023 at 1:02am

DJ, The unfolding financial crisis in the west may be part of the "west-rest confrontation".....The US-joe biden-may simply run out of financial means for most of his regime change wars (against Russia, Iran, China, Syria, Venezuela etc.). The bad part however is the US/NATO -driven in a corner- could go for nuclear war...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqNCpVX2kY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqNCpVX2kY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqNCpVX2kY Hindustan Times-India;

NATO Nation makes an explosive statement as Russia corners Ukraine in the battlefield. Poland may end up 'joining' the ongoing war if Ukraine fails to protect its 'independence,' said the Polish Ambassador to France, Jan Emeryk Rosciszewski. The envoy said that if we don't join, our principal values, which are the basis of our civilization and our culture, will be in fundamental danger, so we will have no choice. The hawkish statement appears to be Poland's 'admission' that Warsaw is ready to go to war with Russia and is not just merely supporting Ukraine. However, hours after the remarks, the Polish mission in France issued a clarification following a warning from Moscow. Watch this report for more.

DJ, Poland very likely has tens-of-thousends of its military -as "volunteers" -fighting in Ukraine (in Ukraine uniforms). Poland did see its borders changed after 1945-still claims part of western Ukraine...(Poland annexation of those parts could start an Ukraine-Poland war...Ukraine-Poland is a long term love-hate relationship). The present Polish government is "catholic conservative extremists" with most rural backing...In Polish cities a more liberal pro-EU view is dominant...Like many other western countries Poland is -in fact- in a long term political crisis...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/modern-western-aircraft-ukraine-open-thread-2023-65.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/modern-western-aircraft-ukraine-open-thread-2023-65.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/modern-western-aircraft-ukraine-open-thread-2023-65.html DJ-Mig-29 or F16 fighter jets to "support Ukraine" will mean those planes (40 y/o+)  being shot down...It is like using World War 1 planes in World War 2....very limited use...

Xi visits Moscow start today...

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DJ, I do not think it is a coincidence Xi visit to Moscow when there is also an Africa-Russia top-meeting...[url]https://tass.com/world/1591115[/url] or https://tass.com/world/1591115 - https://tass.com/world/1591115  

DJ-I noticed western media try to claim China as "one of few Russian friends"...simply ignoring BRICS+, SCO, OPEC+ ...Russia-Iran-India booming trade...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-03-19/wests-contempt-truth-leading-us-ruin[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-03-19/wests-contempt-truth-leading-us-ruin - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-03-19/wests-contempt-truth-leading-us-ruin ;

But it was Sir Tony, and many others like him, who have proven detached from reality. As Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, "Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be - and are ruined." Meanwhile, the truth was easily discernible for anyone who wanted to see things as they are. On 25 March last year, a month into the Ukraine war I wrote that, "If today's geopolitics were a tennis match, this would be a 6:0, 6:0 for Russia."

Two centuries of Russophobia formed the western mindset

The problem was that for decades, and especially since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Western media relentlessly demonized him and treated Russia with utter contempt, disallowing almost any objective reporting. Sadly, many in the West happily swallowed the Russophobia hook, line and sinker, perfectly content to nod approvingly at nonsense

DJ, In western MSM/political elite view China is a "third world country like India"...Russia "a gas station"...totally blind for reality...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 22 2023 at 12:49am

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzx0QfcWaog[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzx0QfcWaog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzx0QfcWaog ; China-Russia meeting; deepening economic, energy and military cooperation

DJ, The Xi-Putin meeting in Moscow coincides with a Russio-African top on a new global order....Xi will meet Lula -Brazil visiting Bejing after Xi returns from Moscow...a 5 day visit...

Cuba, Iran, Indonesia moving toward Mir/UnionPay (Russia/China) payment system...Even India is "fed up" with biden/west insanity...

DJ-"China may face western sanctions" if they do arm deals with Russia...in NL news mixed with government ban on Tik-Tok...NL NOT selling chip-maker machines to China...(so China will make their own chip-making machines...). China already is facing western sanctions...US wants regime change in Bejing (a.o.) in the Chinese perspective...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/geopolitical-rumblings-leave-us-behind.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/geopolitical-rumblings-leave-us-behind.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/geopolitical-rumblings-leave-us-behind.html a.o. Saudi Arabia reopening diplomatic ties with Syria, inviting Iran head of state for a visit...

.......UK will send depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine...US refusing peace talks...EU "governments-out of contact with voters" close their eyes for the US blowing up Nord stream...(I am not even wasting time on yacht/fishermen explosives non-sense...)

From MH17 to "China started the pandemic" the "west" is frustrating real investigations...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-china-to-officially-arm-russia-if-kiev-refuses-peace-plan[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-china-to-officially-arm-russia-if-kiev-refuses-peace-plan - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-china-to-officially-arm-russia-if-kiev-refuses-peace-plan ;

China will officially join Iran to arm Russia, "if Kyiv does not accept the Chinese peace plan."

That is the information coming directly from the China delegation accompanying President Xi Jinping during his ongoing state visit to Russia.

Xi is expected to call Ukraine President Zelensky later this week; perhaps FROM MOSCOW during Xi's state visit!

Washington's response was like lightning:  The Free World officially rejects China peace plan for Ukraine: "China's ceasefire initiative is an attempt to give Russia time to launch a new offensive." - The White House.

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The Pentagon may soon announce measures for the possible delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine earlier than expected, White House spokesman John Kirby said.

DJ...NATO did get itself stuck in another criminal war...I expect "the rest of the world" -90% of global population-will try to unable "the neo-colonial west" to be able to fight more wars...

I think risks for escalation towards nuclear war comes from the US...NATO is-again-losing the war...

[url]https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/brak-de-navo-een-belofte-aan-rusland/?[/url] or https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/brak-de-navo-een-belofte-aan-rusland/? - https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/brak-de-navo-een-belofte-aan-rusland/? (Dutch link-translate does a good job !) A "western"view on NATO moving east; basic

-There was never a treaty signed stopping NATO moving east

-Eastern European countries "have a right to NATO protection"-Russia as a risk...

DJ-Confrontation in stead of diplomacy is "killing the west"....Indeed-there never was an official treaty prohibiting NATO moving east...(On Finland joining NATO there were agreements of neutrality after 1945...). But one may claim ;

-There was a sort of understanding/agreement NATO would NOT move east...Russia would be respected..

-Creating a "neutral zone" between Germany and Russia was another option...countries could join the EU...get some safety guarantees from the west...

-Russia, China and many others see NATO as a risk...so why move east if that will be seen as provocation...

DJ-In France another night of unrest...not only about pension plans but also over inflation, housing, healthcare...In many countries in the west we face a growing political crisis...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/700-nypd-riot-cops-mobilized-steel-barriers-deployed-ahead-potential-trump-arrest[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/700-nypd-riot-cops-mobilized-steel-barriers-deployed-ahead-potential-trump-arrest - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/700-nypd-riot-cops-mobilized-steel-barriers-deployed-ahead-potential-trump-arrest and [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election november 5-2024 will be the next US election...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/where-biden-stands-vs-trump-obama-6-major-issues-gallup[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/where-biden-stands-vs-trump-obama-6-major-issues-gallup - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/where-biden-stands-vs-trump-obama-6-major-issues-gallup both trump and Obama have more support then  the "biden-cult"....So arresting trump now is a political act removing a last illusion of US democracy....

It would increase further US tensions-however fit in with a total incompetence biden and his "groupies" keeps showing....

The "biden goal" for provoking the Ukraine war was regime change in Moscow...however it may result in lots of regime change in the west...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 22 2023 at 1:03am

DJ, As far as I know Poland, Ukraine still has mink farming...The largest poultry farm in Europe is in Ukraine [url]https://arnika.org/en/hotspots/vinnytsia-region[/url] or https://arnika.org/en/hotspots/vinnytsia-region - https://arnika.org/en/hotspots/vinnytsia-region ;

DJ [url]https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/letters/2022/drug-resistance.html#[/url] or https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/letters/2022/drug-resistance.html# - https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/letters/2022/drug-resistance.html# ; The data from CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate a prevalence rate of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB among Ukrainians who had culture-confirmed TB in the United States or in Ukraine of 13% to 32.6%. These rates underlie concerns that have been raised that drug resistance could be common among persons coming from Ukraine who have latent TB infection.

So-this war did see up to ten million Ukrainians looking for a safe place outside their country...

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-what-really-happening-in-ukraine-about-the-h5n1-outbreak-promed-says-it-is-fake-news-but-more-reports-emerging-coverups[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-what-really-happening-in-ukraine-about-the-h5n1-outbreak-promed-says-it-is-fake-news-but-more-reports-emerging-coverups - https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-what-really-happening-in-ukraine-about-the-h5n1-outbreak-promed-says-it-is-fake-news-but-more-reports-emerging-coverups  

Ukraine denies a H5N1 outbreak in Kherson...Russia claims it has proof of such an outbreak....

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- Bird flu updates

With an RT-clip....

DJ-Ukraine has a long term health problem. Vaccinations are limited. Due to the war there may hardly be any testing left...So-yes-a possible H5N1 outbreak in (western) Ukraine-not far from Moldova/Romania is a worry !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 23 2023 at 1:33am

DJ, The US/UK/Israel -west- strategy has been supporting seperatist movements in countries NOT under western control...

The New Atlas [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXh5fabezkI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXh5fabezkI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXh5fabezkI ; As US-Chinese tensions rise ahead of a feared conflict,  it should be noted that the US has been waging a violent proxy war against China both within its borders and along them for years. This includes direct and indirect support for terrorist organizations including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Despite admittedly being a terrorist organization, the US delisted it from its FTO list, allowing support to flow to the group. 

DJ, Some of the ETIM/TIP (Turkestan Islamic Party) fighters joined IS in Syria, Iraq...airlifted by US (earlier on Türkiye, Saudi help...)-IS fighers "for sale" later on were fighting in Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen...now also on the Kiev-side in Ukraine...active in Iran...

Maybe newer is western support for [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement trying to "break up" India..

DJ-India has decades old friendship ties with Russia...Is a motor behind BRICS...The "west" did exploit the Kashmir conflict to "control" India, Pakistan-put pressure on China...

Against Iran the west is not only supporting the MEK [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran but also Baluchi seperatism in SE Iran/SW Pakistan; attacking a.o. Chinese working in the region...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/azerbaijan-army-moving-toward-armenia-border[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/azerbaijan-army-moving-toward-armenia-border - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/azerbaijan-army-moving-toward-armenia-border Azerbaijan used to have US/Israeli military "presence"...is strategic on the Caspian Sea-now in use as a link between Russia-Iran-India...Azerbaijan is getting US support in claiming NW parts of Iran...

Maybe even more "bizarre" is the US supporting Japan on its claims on the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute ...Japan also would love to see (oil rich) [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin#Claimed_by[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin#Claimed_by - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin#Claimed_by ...Till 1945 Japan also colonized Korea, Taiwan...

DJ-Disagreement on borders, borders not always very clear defined is not new...trying to use them in conflicts also is "old school"....divide & rule...

Maybe the basic outcome of the Putin-Xi meeting in Moscow the last three days is; The west -10%- is going for war with the rest -90%- of the global population...

When I look at "cocaine" bojo lying on his "corona-parties" ex UK-PM, a demented joe biden in the US-close to arresting fraud former US president trump..."The west may not have the best leaders"....This does not make me a fan of putin or xi...I love the freedoms my country offers me...But confrontation in stead of diplomacy from a weak spot is simply a bad strategy...

[url]https://southfront.org/sino-russian-technological-and-military-cooperation-exponentially-strengthens-both-superpowers-capabilities/[/url] or https://southfront.org/sino-russian-technological-and-military-cooperation-exponentially-strengthens-both-superpowers-capabilities/ - https://southfront.org/sino-russian-technological-and-military-cooperation-exponentially-strengthens-both-superpowers-capabilities/ ;

China and Russia will further expand their cooperation in areas such as information technologies and advanced AI, involving approximately 80 new projects assessed at over $165 billion. This includes aircraft and machine tools manufacturing, space research and strengthening of military cooperation, including further unification of Moscow’s and Beijing’s know-how.

DJ, Russia will increase energy exports to China...no doubt further (rail)road/shipping infra structure on its way...[url]https://thecradle.co/article-view/22818/columns[/url] or https://thecradle.co/article-view/22818/columns - https://thecradle.co/article-view/22818/columns ..DJ-I expect Russia and China further prepare steps for the conflict with the "west"...most likely, via BRICS+, SCO, OPEC+ further increase de-dollar-ization...Asian-land-links with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...

In Türkiye elections may also decide on the Turkish position in "the region"...will Türkiye break with NATO-find enough "balance" between lots of parties in Asia to go for a "Turkish agenda" in "the region"? 

DJ-The west is NOT in a strong enough position for a conventional war with Russia-Iran-China...A nucluar war will see the west destroyed...Russia-China may have good enough protection to "limit" damage in a nuclear conflict. Both in shelters/underground cities as in air defense...Hypersonic missiles (20.000 km/h) may hit US/west targets even before US ICBM's hit Russian targets if the US would decide to go nuclear...

Any nuclear "first strike" could bring an "all out nuclear attack" from the other side...enough explosive power to blow up the world several times...However the west has created that many enemies "most of the world" soon could be "enemy territory"...US/NATO nuclear attacks would hit some strategic area's -in itself a lot of Asia/world will not be hit directly by NATO nuclear attacks...Russia and looking at numbers North Korea may target the US and UK...(Maybe Pakistan would join Iran in "ending" Israel if Israel does not distance itself from an insane west...) 

We-as western citizens-have to ask ourselves how did we end up with idiots, criminals as biden, trump, bojo, blair as "western leaders"...how does our free press do its job..owned by defense industry...WE are doing a very bad job defending democracy !




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 24 2023 at 1:29am

On the US/NATO vassels war against Russia-Iran-China in Ukraine [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-tank-hits-car-from-5060-meters-away[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-tank-hits-car-from-5060-meters-away - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-tank-hits-car-from-5060-meters-away ; 

A Russian T90M tank struck a vehicle 5060 Meters away with its main gun in Ukraine yesterday.  That's 16,601 feet or 3.144 MILES away!  Video below . . .

DJ, NATO armies are trained in "mixed combat". So if enemy tanks are out of range for NATO tanks NATO drones/airpower could be used...

Also [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaphhuEG7qI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaphhuEG7qI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaphhuEG7qI Weeb Union, (WU)

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ikijyr4BY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ikijyr4BY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ikijyr4BY   Military Summary (MS).

MS describing Ukraine would have increased its reserve army for attack on Bakhmut from 50,000 to 80,000 soldiers, 

DJ-Ukraine maybe did get all of its reserves-plus lots of "NATO volunteers" - together for an operation to end the Russian (Vagner) siege of Bakhmut. Russia no doubt may be preparing counter actions to destroy/limit the (pro)Ukraine/NATO forces....In my view this is a NATO suicide mission...increasing Ukraine deaths with extra tens-of-thousends and for what ? 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYik0hUCrso[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYik0hUCrso - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYik0hUCrso Judge Napoletano/Scott Ritter...

-Russia wants a cease fire...Russia was the only "Minsk-talks" partner taking the talks serious...Germany, France, Ukraine used the talks for re-arming/training Ukraine to NATO standards...

-China/Xi -like BRICS/SCO/OPEC+ -would like to see an end to this -insane- war...If NATO keeps escalating conflicts both Iran, China will provide more aid to Russia...

-Scott Ritter made the -correct- point; what does the US expect from further continuation of this criminal war ? It only will get worse...

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[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-air-force-attacks-allegedly-iranian-assets-inside-syria-numerous-dead[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-air-force-attacks-allegedly-iranian-assets-inside-syria-numerous-dead - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-air-force-attacks-allegedly-iranian-assets-inside-syria-numerous-dead  

DJ-20 years ago the US invaded Iraq...Somehow "western free media" owned by the war-industry tries to sell as a "good war"...The US created IS for regime change in Syria...IS-like jihadi fighters now active in Africa, Asia "to stop Russia-Iran-China"....

[url]https://southfront.org/explosions-hit-large-base-of-iranian-forces-in-syrias-deir-ezzor-monitoring-group/[/url] or https://southfront.org/explosions-hit-large-base-of-iranian-forces-in-syrias-deir-ezzor-monitoring-group/ - https://southfront.org/explosions-hit-large-base-of-iranian-forces-in-syrias-deir-ezzor-monitoring-group/   DJ, The US and Israel are "limiting" Iran in Syria...However Israel is in contact with Russia in Syria...the US (illigal) forces in Syria are NOT in contact with Russia (other then fire-contact)...

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[url]https://southfront.org/west-leads-towards-global-nuclear-war/[/url] or https://southfront.org/west-leads-towards-global-nuclear-war/ - https://southfront.org/west-leads-towards-global-nuclear-war/ ;

On March 21, 2023, Great Britain announced that they would supply ammunition manufactured using depleted uranium, designed to more easily penetrate tank armour, albeit highly toxic.

The modus operandi of the West demonstrates that the next step will probably be to send NATO troops to the Ukrainian front, or to supply nuclear weapons to the Kiev regime.

Russian President Putin and Xi Jinping of China reacted sharply to London’s announcement:

“While the Chinese President and I were discussing the possibility of implementing the Chinese peace plan – and the Chinese President devoted considerable attention to his peace initiatives during our one-on-one conversation yesterday – the UK deputy defense minister announced that the United Kingdom would supply not only tanks to Ukraine, but also depleted uranium shells.

It seems that the West really has decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian – no longer in words, but in deeds. But in this regard, I would like to note that if all this comes to pass, then Russia will have to respond accordingly. What I mean is that the collective West is already starting to use weapons with a nuclear component.”

The leaders of China and Russia objectively assess the risk of the conflict in Ukraine escalating into a global war. Their joint statements and signed documents are filled with theses on the need to jointly counter the aggressive imperialist policy of the United States and NATO. In fact, the talks between Moscow and Beijing were the first real step in the formation of a new military-political alliance in Eurasia. London has well contributed to this process.

DJ, Europe now facing large scale protests and strikes...Workers want/need compensation for high inflation...In the US support for demented joe biden may be at an all time low....

Does the "west" need to see its soldiers dying in crazy wars ? Do biden and his "cult" want to "blow up the world" because they have gone mad ? 

How long people will buy this level of insane destruction ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 24 2023 at 2:00am

DJ, 

Scott Ritter mentioned Russia stopped storage/production of depleted uranium  (DU) ammunition around 2000 when it did see the damage-for public health- DU ammunition used in Yugoslavia, the 1991 Gulf War-in Iraq-did bring. Thousends of cases of leukemia, miss-cariages, birth defects...like some other (chemical, biological) weapons Russia did decide use of these weapons was to unpredictable...

So UK/US tanks with DU shells will be the first target for Russia once they show up in Ukraine. 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/seymour-hersh-cia-planted-nord-stream-cover-story[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/seymour-hersh-cia-planted-nord-stream-cover-story - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/seymour-hersh-cia-planted-nord-stream-cover-story ;

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/22/seymour-hersh-cia-planted-nord-stream-cover-up-story-in-the-media/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-cover-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - an article on Substack on Wednesday that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit.

The cover-up story was created to shift blame from the US after Hersh’s https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - bombshell report published on February 8 that said President Biden ordered the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. "It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story," Hersh was told by a source within the American intelligence community.

DJ, US blowing up EU energy-links, pushing the EU into a sanction war with Russia-Iran-China...I think lots of European citizens, and companies, by now must be totally fed up...

China may take the initiative to "end the war" via SCO, BRICS+ increasing de-Dollar-ization....[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/saudi-arabia-unloading-u-s-treasuries-lowest-level-in-7-years[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/saudi-arabia-unloading-u-s-treasuries-lowest-level-in-7-years - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/saudi-arabia-unloading-u-s-treasuries-lowest-level-in-7-years ;

Loss of confidence in the US Dollar is growing. Saudi Arabia has begun earnestly dumping US Treasuries, with the Oil-rich nation now having fewer US Treasuries than anytime in the past 7 years.

This trend with Saudi Arabia is being mirrored by many other countries which are fearful the US has already over-spent itself (into oblivion) and will NOT be able to actually repay the money it owes.

Other countries have also been unloading US debt notes.

As the US sees it's hegemony over the world slipping away, they are becoming more and more warlike; seemingly TRYING TO START WW3.

Such a war would result in tens of millions of Americans killed, which is exactly, precisely what the US NEEDS TO HAPPEN, so they can cry for debt relief and get out of the debts they owe.

DJ, Western economy, a rich elite, is based on creating trillions of dollars, Euro's, Pounds out of thin air...And as long as other countries were willing to "buy debt" that "system" worked...

The "US/west" sanction war against "to many" countries did push Russia-Iran-China to help each other...with now many countries joining the "EurAsian" integration idea...

[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287860.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287860.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287860.shtml ;

China and the Philippines have reaffirmed their commitment to properly managing differences through friendly consultations and keeping to the general direction of friendship in the first face-to-face talks between the two foreign ministries since the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On Thursday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong co-chaired the 23rd China-Philippines Foreign Ministry Consultations with Undersecretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines Maria Theresa P. Lazaro in Manila. 

The two sides agreed to fully implement the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders to continuously deepen cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure, energy and people-to-people exchanges to promote both countries' development and rejuvenation, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry press release. 

and [url]https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/latest-news/brazil2019s-president-lula-will-visit-china-alongside-a-record-number-of-businesspersons[/url] or https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/latest-news/brazil2019s-president-lula-will-visit-china-alongside-a-record-number-of-businesspersons - https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/latest-news/brazil2019s-president-lula-will-visit-china-alongside-a-record-number-of-businesspersons ;

Brazil’s President Lula will visit China alongside a record number of businesspersons

DJ...Lula did not forget the US was responsible for putting him in prison on false corruption charges...The Philippines did not forget they were "second class" during the US occupation/colonization...

Many countries-including Europe-simply can not ignore the 1,4 billion Chinese consumers...The SCO, BRICS+...If you want to do trade the US only offers debt and wars...

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How bad is the situation ? 

China may no longer accept US navy crossing the sea between China and Taiwan...One of the things discussed between Xi and Putin may be a joined-more clear- stand on Taiwan...No more US "jokes"...if the US wants confrontation-war...The US can get its war...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/romania-moving-to-annex-moldova-and-parts-of-ukraine[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/romania-moving-to-annex-moldova-and-parts-of-ukraine - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/romania-moving-to-annex-moldova-and-parts-of-ukraine DJ Poland, Romania (a.o.) claim parts of western Ukraine...

In recent history Ukraine was in conflict with Poles, Hungarian-Ukrainians...not only with the Russian population in Ukraine...DJ-my view-IF Poland, Romania also want to "eat up" their "part" of Ukraine it may push Ukraine nationalists towards Russia...

There must be a lot of questions inside the Ukraine elite on what this war is "good" for...Is Ukraine used by biden for regime-change in Moscow ? What price is Ukraine willing to pay for that-total destruction ? 

Poland, Romania=NATO moving into western Ukraine may "switch" Ukraine nationalists...If Ukraine wants to survive its best chance may be in a neutral status-link between the EU and China...

For now the US is able to use its Kiev puppets...DJ-I think time for the US in Ukraine is running out...The price of this war is getting to high with nothing in return for Ukraine on the long term...the west is going broke, bankrupt...So -like South vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq...we may soon reach a point where Ukraine may tell NATO to get out...if need be with Russian/Chinese help...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 25 2023 at 12:06am

DJ-Of course US/western banks collapsing are part of the big story...on the financial aspects see US bank-collapse-you pay, latest news...

Two major frontlines;

-Ukraine

Military Summary  (MS) mentions Ukraine did put together an army of around 80,000 soldiers to end the siege of Bakhmut...facing around 60,000 (pro) Russian soldiers...DJ-I did not expect Ukraine would be able to gather such an army...MS mentioned daily losses could be 0,5-1% of that Ukraine army...Russian attacks killing up between 400 to 800 Ukraine soldiers per day..

Part-if not most- of the Ukraine army may be made up from Polish, other NATO/western countries "volunteers" and Belarus/Russian "opposition" forces...

[url]https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-british-reconnaissance-aircraft-rrr7224-in-the-black[/url] or https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-british-reconnaissance-aircraft-rrr7224-in-the-black - https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-british-reconnaissance-aircraft-rrr7224-in-the-black ; 

British reconnaissance aircraft (RRR7224) in the Black Sea, protected by 2 Eurofighter Typhoons (DREAD012 and DREAD011)

and [url]https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-explosions-were-reported-in-sevastopol[/url] or https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-explosions-were-reported-in-sevastopol - https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-march-explosions-were-reported-in-sevastopol ;

Explosions were reported in Sevastopol

DJ no doubt related; NATO coordination so NATO long distance weapons can target Russian positions from inside Ukraine...maybe somewhere there may be some Ukrainian involved...

To limit Ukraine plans for a major attack in the east Russia increased military activities in the north and south...Most of Ukraine/NATO fighting capacity is in the east..

-Syria

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-numerous-stratotankers-just-went-up-over-iraq[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-numerous-stratotankers-just-went-up-over-iraq - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-numerous-stratotankers-just-went-up-over-iraq  

[url]https://www.debka.com/iranian-drones-and-us-fighter-jets-in-first-ever-duel-over-east-syria/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/iranian-drones-and-us-fighter-jets-in-first-ever-duel-over-east-syria/ - https://www.debka.com/iranian-drones-and-us-fighter-jets-in-first-ever-duel-over-east-syria/ ;

Iran challenged the US for their first gloves-off duel on Friday, March 24, by hitting back  at the Americans for retaliating when their facility in East Syria was struck by armed drones operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and their proxy militias on the Syrian-Iraqi border. This military clash between Iran and the US is unprecedented on Syrian soil.
The event was set off on Thursday when IRGC-backed Shiite militias launched suicide drones against the US military facility guarding the Al Omar oil field (see photo) in the east Syrian province of Deir Ez-Zor, killing an American contractor and injuring five US military personnel. US retaliation was defined by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as “precision strikes on multiple targets in Deir Ez-Zor.”

DEBKAfile names those targets as a militias arsenal which was razed, an intelligence base outside the town of Mayadeen and a third facility near Abu Kamal. At least 10 people were killed, including Iranian officials, according to Syrian opposition sources.

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Some straight talk on the subject was heard for the first time in Washington: It came from US Central Command chief Gen. Michael Kurilla, who said: “We are postured for scalable options in the face of any additional Iranian attacks.” Addressing the Armed Forces Committee in Congress, Kurilla said: “Iran’s drone fleet has become the largest and most capable unmanned aerial vehicle force in the region.”
This statement must have switched on some red lights in Israel too, given its own highly sophisticated UAV fleet. But even more so, since Tehran has clearly become  brazen enough to challenge the US military head-on.  This over-confidence may derive from the diplomatic rapprochement Iran recently achieved with its senior Gulf rival Saudi Arabia with China’s backing.

 [url]https://syria.liveuamap.com/[/url] or https://syria.liveuamap.com/ - https://syria.liveuamap.com/  

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-contractor-killed-5-service-members-wounded-syria-airstrikes-ensue[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-contractor-killed-5-service-members-wounded-syria-airstrikes-ensue - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-contractor-killed-5-service-members-wounded-syria-airstrikes-ensue ; 

Update(20:00ET): US forces occupying Syria's northeast are in a high state of alert, and there are reports of ongoing gunbattles with Iran-backed militias into the night hours. It's being widely acknowledged as the most serious fighting involving American forces there since 2019, with some of the latest rocket launches targeting Omar oil field, which has long been held by US and Kurdish forces.

"The conflict in northeast Syria escalated on Friday as Iran-backed militias launched a volley of rocket and drone attacks against coalition bases after American reprisals for a drone attack that killed a U.S. contractor and injured six other Americans,"  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/syria-us-contractor-killed-iran-drone.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); -


DJ, My view; Iran is testing what its "agreements" with a.o. Saudi Arabia mean...Qatar did get Turkish, Iran "protection" in a conflict with Saudi Arabia but Qatar is also housing the major US west Asia base...(Incerlik/Türkiye [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incirlik_Air_Base[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incirlik_Air_Base - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incirlik_Air_Base is more NATO-still...) 

NATO/US still has "military facilities" in the Middle East...both Syria and Iraq want US/NATO out...Jordan may see growing pressure...Qatar/KSA-OPEC+ may try to "balance" military presence of various countries (Russia, China...maybe India/Pakistan/Türkiye...) 

There also are claims of Syria/Turkish fights in NW Syria...

[url]https://southfront.org/syria-returns-to-the-arab-world/[/url] or https://southfront.org/syria-returns-to-the-arab-world/ - https://southfront.org/syria-returns-to-the-arab-world/ ;

Israel appears to be getting more frustrated as Syria inches closer towards reclaiming its leading position in the Arab World.

The recent Israeli attacks on the war-torn country coincided with major breakthroughs in Damascus’ relations with key Arab players in the Middle East which were once seen as sympathetic with Tel Aviv’s case against the so-called “Axis of Resistance.”

DJ...Syria is in between the Arab world-Türkiye and Iran...Lebanon in the west could get rich from Mediterranean oil/gas...Better defenses would limit Israel/US/NATO in MENA (Middel East North Africa)....with that western control over oil/gas in the region is decreasing...further undermining the US-petro-$....

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[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/based-on-remarks-today-war-it-will-be[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/based-on-remarks-today-war-it-will-be - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/based-on-remarks-today-war-it-will-be ;

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council (Senate) Dmitry Medvedev made remarks today that seem to confirm war with the West is the choice that has, in fact, been made.

When analyzing public remarks of any leader, one must always take into account errors in translation, and more importantly, nuances in culture/language that may exist in one culture, but do not precisely translate to other cultures.   So interpreting remarks of foreign officials is a delicate task that must be undertaken with very great care.

Having said that, sometimes the meaning of a foreign officials remarks translate very precisely, and say what we actually think is meant.  Such was the case today.

Today, Dmitry Medvedev said the following:  "The consequences of the collision of the world's most powerful armies will be terrible and there will be no victor at all."

Pretty hard to not understand the plain meaning of that.   Let's dissect:

"The consequences of THE collision . . . ."  Not "a collision" but rather "THE" collision.  His use of the word THE rather than "a" indicates to me that a collision IS, in fact, coming.

". . . WILL be terrible . . ."  Not "would" or "could" but rather "WILL."  His use of the word "WILL" rather than "would" or "could" reinforces my interpretation above that the decision to go to actual war has been made.

Lastly,  ". . . there WILL be no victor at all."    Again, his use of the word "WILL" is now double reinforcement of the reality that the decision for an actual shooting war is already made, and worse, since ". . . there will be no victor"  that tells me it is also decided that the coming war WILL be nuclear.   After all, a nuclear war is the ONLY war that has no victor.

Medvedev is not in any way careless with his use of language.  He is clearly a highly educated man, who says what he means and means what he says.

He went on: "Russia is not fighting the Ukrainian regime, but rather the 3.6 million-member NATO army."

That.     That right there . . .  is the hideous, ugly reality.   Medvedev knows what's what, and he just said it publicly.   When a top elected official of a country, publicly declares that war is being waged against his land by an identified combatant, the only expected course of action is for his country to engage that combatant directly.   So this remark reinforce my interpretation of earlier remarks above.  

Medvedev's choice of words today, terrifies me.  Not because I am afraid to die -- I'm not.   But because his words seem to indicate (to me) that tens of millions of us are going to die, and our world will __never__ be the same.  The good will perish with the evil.  Cities and towns will be flattened.  Disease and death will run rampant.

This is a catastrophe that does not have to be.  Yet our U.S. government, and its NATO vassals, are pursuing this course to the exclusion of almost all else.  It seems like insanity to me.

In related news, Estonia's Foreign Minister has decided to expel one Russian diplomat.  Moscow will respond to Estonia's decision to expel Russian diplomat — Russian Foreign Ministry.

So what little is left of "Diplomacy" is also being intentionally wrecked by our NATO vassals.

DJ, One outcome of the Putin-Xi Moscow talks early this week is -very likely- "If the west want war the west can get war"....[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/the-junior-partner-meme-gives-no-insight-to-real-changes.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/the-junior-partner-meme-gives-no-insight-to-real-changes.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/the-junior-partner-meme-gives-no-insight-to-real-changes.html ...

Reflecting more "western (lack of) thinking"...Russia and China are "strategic equal partners" NOT a copy of US ordering its "NATO slaves" what to do...DJ-The same western stupidity/blindness is made in Ukraine "with Russia not gaining ground" -simply the west ignoring the total destruction of the Ukraine military...because "western media follow Ukraine propaganda"....

Russia has been very clear on its Ukraine goals; Ukraine neutral, safety for Russians living in Ukraine..no (new) nuclear weapons in Ukraine...The US goal seems to be regime change in Moscow..via a.o. the Ukraine -provoked- war...

This -insane- war did see over 300,000 Ukraine deaths, Ukraine destroyed, but also slowly "the west" running out of options while Russia increased Asian trade via shorter (CaspianSea-Iran, Russia-China land-routes...). 

DJ The "western war psychosis" is increasing the risk for an all out war between "the 10% west" and "90% global rest"...with even India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico moving towards Russia, China...Somehow "western leaders" are blind/stupid/insane ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 25 2023 at 5:20am

DJ, [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/g7-vs-brics-races[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/g7-vs-brics-races - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/g7-vs-brics-races ;

Rather than accept the IMF’s rosy outlook as gospel, Dias did what analysts are supposed to do — dig through the data and extract relevant conclusions.

After rooting through the IMF’s https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2022/October" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - World Economic Outlook Data Base , Dias conducted a comparative analysis of the percentage of global GDP adjusted for PPP between the G7 and BRICS, and made a surprising discovery: BRICS had surpassed the G7.

This was not a projection, but rather a statement of accomplished fact:

BRICS was responsible for 31.5 percent of the PPP-adjusted global GDP, while the G7 provided 30.7 percent.

Making matters worse for the G7, the trends projected showed that the gap between the two economic blocs would only widen going forward.

The reasons for this accelerated accumulation of global economic clout on the part of BRICS can be linked to three primary factors:

Growth Disparities

It is true that BRICS and G7 economic clout is heavily influenced by the economies of China and the U.S., respectively. But one cannot discount the relative economic trajectories of the other member states of these economic forums. While the economic outlook for most of the BRICS countries points to strong growth in the coming years, the G7 nations, in a large part because of the self-inflicted wound that is the current sanctioning of Russia, are seeing slow growth or, in the case of the U.K., negative growth, with little prospect of reversing this trend.

Moreover, while G7 membership remains static, BRICS is growing, with Argentina and Iran having submitted applications, and other major regional economic powers, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, expressing an interest in joining. Making this potential expansion even more explosive is the recent Chinese diplomatic achievement in normalizing relations between Iran and Saudia Arabia.

Diminishing prospects for the continued global domination by the U.S. dollar, combined with the economic potential of the trans-Eurasian economic union being promoted by Russia and China, put the G7 and BRICS on opposing trajectories. BRICS should overtake the G7 in terms of actual GDP, and not just PPP, in the coming years.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for mainstream economic analysts to reach this conclusion. Thankfully, there are outliers such as Richard Dias and Acorn Macro Consulting who seek to find new meaning from old data.

This should not be a surprise...The "west" is going for wishfull thinking and "creating more money" =debts as an answer to all problems...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDrUheoEYQE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDrUheoEYQE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDrUheoEYQE The New Atlas,

DJ...The "west" has been claiming "Russia running out of weapons" for months...without any proof or logics...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 25 2023 at 11:51pm

DJ, The Ukraine war may cost the west maybe up to a billion $/€ per day...when you include all the costs...From paying Ukraine teachers, medical staff, transport, to weapons, to 10 million refugees...How does the west pay for it ? Creating money....

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/president-of-kenya-urges-citizens-to-get-rid-of-u-s-dollars-soon-operation-sandman[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/president-of-kenya-urges-citizens-to-get-rid-of-u-s-dollars-soon-operation-sandman - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/president-of-kenya-urges-citizens-to-get-rid-of-u-s-dollars-soon-operation-sandman ;

This stunning announcement gives credibility to a RUMOR that has been circulating for over a year, that 142 countries around the world have secretly agreed to what they call "Operation Sandman."

According to the RUMOR, Operation Sandman will "put the US Dollar to sleep" by having all 142 countries repudiate the currency on the same day, and refuse to continue accepting it for payment in Trade.

Countries around the world began planning this when they witnessed the then-Democrat-Controlled US Congress, go on a spending spree of several TRILLION Dollars in Omnibus Bills. Those countries realized there is nothing backing the value of US Dollars and they saw that the US Congress has no plans at all to reign-in spending.

DJ, The US$ is a share in debt, NEGATIVE VALUE !!!  If the $ was a "private system" owning dollars is owning debts...You have to pay others in oil, gold, real goods...NOT get oil, gold etc...

One country's Finance Ministry recently told the US, "We are no longer willing to accept ones and zeros in a bank computer as actual payment for real goods."  

The countries agreed that holding US currency was becoming foolish because it was becoming worthless on its face, thanks to all the rampant over-spending by the US Government.

Now, it appears those countries may actually take action "within a couple weeks."

DJ...dumping fiat-currency on this level is unseen in history...BRICS may want to move towards Chinese Yuan, digital currencies or a "mega-mix" of currencies replacing the US$...

Among the business nitwits are also those who pushed for "Free Trade" claiming it would improve sales of American-made goods overseas if America agreed to halt Tariffs on all imported items.  The government bought-into the idea, not realizing - or not caring - that these very businessmen weren't at all interested in selling more American goods overseas.  What they were interested in was shipping American JOBS overseas, taking advantage of cheap labor, then shipping those exact same products back to the USA to sell at the same high prices . . . . while pocketing the profit from the new, foreign, cheap labor without having to pay Tariiffs.

The Businessmen, their corporate Boards of Directors, and Commerce Organizations who touted "Free Trade" were the ones who moved American jobs overseas and now, the country barely manufactures anything, anymore.

So here we are, years later, and thanks to those businessmen, and the federal politicians who foolishly believed their lies about "Free Trade," we have almost no manufacturing. Countries around the world seem to be actually planning to stop accepting the US dollar as payment, so we won't be able to buy anything because it's all made overseas now!

Retaliation against the people who did this should be swift and ferocious when Americans can no longer buy even life's basics because corporate titans and certain others stripped our country of manufacturing.

DJ...as good as all major politicians likely believed "outsourcing jobs" was "good, wise" for profits...greed driven insanity...

So...the west may simply run out of money for any wars...What only increases risks for nuclear war...

(The Euro, UK-Pound etc. are also debt-based...maybe Europe is doing a bit better in real value to back their currency-maybe more real industry...Also Russia, China, India may still want to do bussiness with an always divided Europe...They could "take over" the Euro...simply by dumping trillions of dollars and buying trillions of Euro's..."free market"....)

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DJ-Middle East frontlines;

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/new-attack-u-s-army-logistics-convoy-blown-up-in-iraq[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/new-attack-u-s-army-logistics-convoy-blown-up-in-iraq - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/new-attack-u-s-army-logistics-convoy-blown-up-in-iraq ;

A strike drone attacked a US logistics convoy in Babil Governorate (Iraq).

No word yet on deaths or injuries.   No indication if this is the start of large new attack(s).

Word from Intel circles is already saying "Iran."

More if I get it, but not too much more is expected tonight.

Military Summary mentioned Russian forces in Syria ended up fighting US forces in Syria....and that is bad...

[url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/third-day-of-iran-backed-militia-attacks-on-us-forces-in-syria/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/third-day-of-iran-backed-militia-attacks-on-us-forces-in-syria/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/third-day-of-iran-backed-militia-attacks-on-us-forces-in-syria/ ;

US and Iran-backed militias again traded fire early Saturday in East Syria with an exchange kicked off on Thursday by a militia drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded five US troops in the Deir Ez-Zor province. US fighter jets retaliated by hitting three bases of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards-backed militias. Refusing to let the Americans have the last word, Iran’s proxies were at it again early Saturday loosing another round of armed drones against US military targets in East Syria – but not before President Joe Biden said that while the US doesn’t seek confrontation with Tehran, it is determined to defend its military personnel.

and [url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/moscow-reported-ready-to-hand-tehran-24-su-35-fighter-jets/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/moscow-reported-ready-to-hand-tehran-24-su-35-fighter-jets/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/moscow-reported-ready-to-hand-tehran-24-su-35-fighter-jets/ ;

US intelligence sources reported on Saturday that the Russians agree to hand Iran 24 Sukhoi-35 Flanker-E fighter jets in a transaction worth $10bn. This is pay for the suicide drones Iran is providing for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

see also [url]https://southfront.org/iran-says-any-attack-on-its-bases-in-syria-will-be-met-with-swift-response/[/url] or https://southfront.org/iran-says-any-attack-on-its-bases-in-syria-will-be-met-with-swift-response/ - https://southfront.org/iran-says-any-attack-on-its-bases-in-syria-will-be-met-with-swift-response/ ;

The Iranian warning came amid rumors of an imminent U.S. strikes on IRGC affiliates in Syria in response to the recent attacks on the Green Village and Conoco. While Tehran does not appear to be planning to escalate, there is no doubt that it will strike back in case of any new attack on its allies.

DJ...basic story however is Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Türkiye, Russia, China...and by now Arab Gulf states may want to see the US "out of the MENA" Middle East North Africa...The US only causing chaos and war...NOT a constructive partner...BRICS is the better alternative...

So I think -maybe still not open war- but cutting supplies to the US, increase pressure on the Kurds to stop working with the US, will make the position of US (and NATO) in the region impossible...Besides that...money is running out...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 28 2023 at 1:41am

DJ, Some items (see also banks/latest news);

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/polish-nukes.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/polish-nukes.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/polish-nukes.html ;

Polish Nukes

I was busy today but had a good laugh over this entity of the "When 'we' do it" versus "When 'they' do it"  collection.

The Poles are (again) allowing the Anglo-Saxons to push them into rabbit hostility against Russia and Germany. Not that there is much pushing needed but still.

That won't end well.

DJ, the person behind MoA is German- so "rabbit" should be "rabid" ? Weeb Union (Denmark), Military Summary (Belarus) -both on you tube- also trying to follow the Ukraine war...with very limited news the last few days...Russia attacking targets deep inside Ukraine...may end up killing NATO military, stop transport of German, US tanks/vehicles on their way to frontlines (with Polish and trained crew ?) ...Belarus soon may have Russian nuclear weapons based there, Poland may see US nukes...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nordic-countries-create-mini-nato-pact-linking-air-forces[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nordic-countries-create-mini-nato-pact-linking-air-forces - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nordic-countries-create-mini-nato-pact-linking-air-forces ;

A new, historically unprecedented defense pact has been signed by Scandinavian countries which is sure to evoke the anger of Moscow, at a moment NATO is on the cusp of admitting at least one of the countries (Finland) as a new member.

Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland have issued a joint declaration, stating their intent to combine their air defenses, to the point of their respective air forces joining into a single fighting unit.

DJ, I would not be surprised if Baltic States -as far as they have an airforce- would join that Nordic group...

As for numbers of fighter aircraft which could be integrated into a broader Scandinavian force, Maj. Gen. Rolf Folland, the chief of the Norwegian Air Force (NAF), has floated a figure of nearly 250 advanced aircraft. He also suggested that a joint air operations center that could additionally feature United States and Canadian commanders providing their guidance and coordination.

"There is obvious interest in a regional initiative for a joint air command on NATO’s northern flank. We know the conditions in the High North well, and we have a lot to learn from each other. With a total of almost 250 modern combat aircraft, this will be a large combat force that must be coordinated," Folland  https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nordic-countries-move-toward-linking-205125752.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - said .

DJ, Since Denmark also "defends" Greenland one could see this as a formation of an "Arctic frontline" -with Alaska/Canada on "the other side" of Russia...

From the Middle East frontline;


-underlining this is a global "west-rest" conflict...


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DJ, One could also claim an East Asia frontline; most risky in Korea...But in general Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines may "try to limit" the conflict because they need the Asian market, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, Russia...So "more room" for US military there may be part of a "national interest first" strategy...US military welcome today, gone tomorrow...in exchange for good (energy/trade) deals with Russia, China...


and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/uh-oh-both-cnn-and-fox-news-do-stories-about-de-dollarization-if-msm-is-covering-this-it-s-because-fedgov-knows-what-s-coming[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/uh-oh-both-cnn-and-fox-news-do-stories-about-de-dollarization-if-msm-is-covering-this-it-s-because-fedgov-knows-what-s-coming - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/uh-oh-both-cnn-and-fox-news-do-stories-about-de-dollarization-if-msm-is-covering-this-it-s-because-fedgov-knows-what-s-coming and

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

DJ; There is no doubt the US$ is "under pressure"...however the speed of "de-Dollar-ization" is complex. 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-willing-work-china-peaceful-solution-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-willing-work-china-peaceful-solution-ukraine - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-willing-work-china-peaceful-solution-ukraine ;

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/26/france-says-willing-to-work-with-china-to-look-for-a-peaceful-solution-in-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic adviser https://archive.is/xHNGy" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - has told China’s top diplomat , Wang Yi, that Paris is willing to work with Beijing to find a "peaceful solution" to the war in Ukraine.

"France is ready to make joint efforts with China to facilitate the cessation of hostilities and seek a peaceful solution," Emmanuel Bonne told Wang, https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202303/t20230324_11048436.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - according to a Chinese readout of a phone call that took place on Thursday.

DJ, The main reason why the west -so far- is NOT in a major energy crisis is because the west still is buying a lot of Russian energy via Türkiye, India, China...(Industrial)demand decreased (20%),  mild winter meant households did not need that much energy in Europe last winter...However;

-Russia will be able to export more to Asian partners soon -so less will go to Europe/west

-Stocks/storage is running out...(Even US strategic storage is at a low). 

Seymour Hersh claims biden ordered the US attack on Nordstream because otherwise-on the longer term-Germany/EU still would go for Russian energy...

Another "strategic development", Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan -so far- did NOT become second NATO-Russia frontlines...Syria/Iraq did...

With lots of -growing- unrest, strikes the "west" is facing a growing crisis inside their countries. Israel, France now dealing with major-long lasting-unrest...other countries NL, Germany, Italy, US, UK soon may follow...In Poland there is a major long term conflict between modern EU oriented cities and conservative, catholic rural area's...

The west is NOT able to keep this conflict with Russia going...A furtther conflict with China, escalation in the Middle East simply will destroy the EU...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 28 2023 at 10:26am

DJ-Is the US planning B52 carpet bombing of Russian positions in South Ukraine-in preparation of a NATO/Ukraine offensive on the "land bridge" between Crimea and Russia ? Also US/UK Navy "plans" from the Black Sea ???????

[url]https://southfront.org/us-politicians-urge-biden-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-kiev/[/url] or https://southfront.org/us-politicians-urge-biden-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-kiev/ - https://southfront.org/us-politicians-urge-biden-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-kiev/ ;

Once again, American politicians are pushing for new escalations in the Ukrainian conflict. Now, lawmakers want the Biden government to supply cluster munitions to the Ukrainian armed forces. This type of measure would be seen as a serious provocation by Russia and would certainly have strong impacts on the battlefield and in the current diplomatic crisis.

DJ, Because "losing this war is not an option"  the US "would have decided" to take a major role in this war...

[url]https://southfront.org/calm-before-the-storm-in-ukraine/[/url] or https://southfront.org/calm-before-the-storm-in-ukraine/ - https://southfront.org/calm-before-the-storm-in-ukraine/ ;

In the Zaporozhye region, there is calm before the storm. On March 23, another Ukrainian attempt of offensive was thwarted. The Ukrainian military tried to concentrate forces of up to one reinforced battalion in the Orekhov area. However, the Russian artillery hit the site of their manpower accumulation, causing them significant damage and violating the plans of the Ukrainian command.

DJ...no confirmation on what the -short term US plans- are...Time is not on the side of NATO.



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 29 2023 at 12:01am
Sinnaig

@Sinnaig
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🇷🇺🇪🇪 Τhe Prime Minister of Estonia asked Russians to take anti-Russian sanctions more seriously.😂 “Russians allow themselves to joke on the Internet about each new package of sanctions, they openly mock our work. I beg them to take this seriously and show at least some respect

DJ, For the first time since the end of the Soviet Union inflation in Russia is lower then inflation in the US, UK, EU...."We" stay out of recession by "playing with statistics" and buying lots of Russian energy via third countries...not in US$...

https://twitter.com/wyattreed13" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Wyatt Reed
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[url]https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-documents-depleted-uranium-impacts-on-children-in-iraq/[/url] or https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-documents-depleted-uranium-impacts-on-children-in-iraq/ - https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-documents-depleted-uranium-impacts-on-children-in-iraq/ ..."NATO now using DU weapons in Ukraine"...the rest of the world only can watch in horror...


By now it should be clear the US needs wars to keep the US$ "rule the world"...untill it does no longer....

https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Hassan Mafi ‏

and


DJ...confrontation on the basis of weakness is the wrong strategy....

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Next;

My idea; US, UK and "a coalition of the willing" is preparing for a major NATO role in the Ukraine war;

-1 Attack Russian air defense "in the region"

-2 Carpet bombing South Ukraine (B52's -with counter air defense actions)

-3 Navy (US/UK) landing to take some ports in South Ukraine while

-4 The major NATO offensive will come from the north to destroy the "land bridge" between Crimea and Russia

Result; World War Three...thank you joe biden ! Thank you "german greens"...

[url]https://southfront.org/strikes-hit-rear-areas-on-the-eve-of-offensive/[/url] or https://southfront.org/strikes-hit-rear-areas-on-the-eve-of-offensive/ - https://southfront.org/strikes-hit-rear-areas-on-the-eve-of-offensive/  

There by now is lots of proof of Polish, Georgian fighters getting killed in Ukraine by Russian artillery...[url]https://southfront.org/in-video-18-international-mass-graves-in-ukrainian-trenches/[/url] or https://southfront.org/in-video-18-international-mass-graves-in-ukrainian-trenches/ - https://southfront.org/in-video-18-international-mass-graves-in-ukrainian-trenches/ with "the west elite" pushing for more deaths...

US himars hitting a school [url]https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-shelled-melitopol-in-zaporozhie-region-local-college-full-of-students-was-damaged/[/url] or https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-shelled-melitopol-in-zaporozhie-region-local-college-full-of-students-was-damaged/ - https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-shelled-melitopol-in-zaporozhie-region-local-college-full-of-students-was-damaged/  

DJ-The west is not even willing to look for a cease-fire...How do you think "the rest" of the world will see "the west"?



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 30 2023 at 2:26am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI ;

Former CIA Ray McGovern sits down with Stephen Gardner to talk about the Russia Ukraine War. Why Putin is gearing up for a long war. Why Biden and Scholz are in trouble for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline and why they are covering it up with silly stories. Plus Ray McGovern reveals China is much more involved in the Russia Ukraine war that anyone is admitting. 

Timestamp:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=5s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 0:05  Ray McGovern former CIA and Security advisor to Ronald Reagan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=385s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 6:25  How NATO provoked Ukraine Russia war for over a decade with 2022 being the final straw  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=439s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 7:19  Current CIA head is lying about Russia  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=540s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 9:00  Real Reason Putin moved on Ukraine  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=680s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 11:20  China signed off on the Russia Ukraine war at the Olympics  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=950s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 15:50  China much more involved than we knew  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=1260s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 21:00  Ray testified to UN Security Council about the NORD STREAM pipeline  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=1500s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 25:00  Sweden knows who did the blast but refuses to say because of national security.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=1620s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 27:00  USA screwed over Germany and German economy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=1860s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 31:00  How the RUSSIAGATE hoax was pulled off  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI&t=2010s" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - 33:30  US knew the Russia Sancations weren't working

DJ, An important point Ray McGovern (RmG) makes; US leaders do not want to know reality....so "they follow their dreams/illusions"....

In general discussion I try to get a picture of how real a high speed de-Dollar-ization could be and its goals...BRICS may go for regime change in the US...maybe not all for the same reasons...But an economic/financial war may be better then a nuclear one...

[url]https://southfront.org/iran-u-s-clash-in-northeastern-syria/[/url] or https://southfront.org/iran-u-s-clash-in-northeastern-syria/ - https://southfront.org/iran-u-s-clash-in-northeastern-syria/ ...Both Iran and Syria get more modern weapons and Russia/China support for kicking out the US...Türkiye seems to have some problems-still-with pulling out Turkish forces from Iraq/Syria land...Pressure on the Kurds may change the perspective there...

DJ-The biden/US attack on Nordstream -in the longer term- may blow up NATO...A further US/biden attack on Turkstream could "push" Türkiye towards open war with the US...linking the wars in Ukraine and Syria...pushing Türkiye further towards Iran...These US attacks did also damage US relations with India, Brazil etc...

[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1288138.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1288138.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1288138.shtml ;

US democracy Illustration: Liu Rui/GT

US democracy Illustration: Liu Rui/GT


As the US will hold its second "Summit for Democracy" from Wednesday to Thursday, Chinese experts said that compared to the first summit in 2021, the latest event shows nothing new in nature - fake democracy but real hegemony, as the standard for inviting the guest countries is based on Washington's diplomatic preferences and serves its hegemonic strategy to split rather than unite the world with ideological bias.

The US is a country with messy internal governance, and the human rights situation in the country is in deep trouble. The US political system, with endless partisan struggles, continues to divide the nation and fails to solve problems of grave concerns to Americans, analysts said. Therefore, Washington is totally unqualified and is in no position to lecture others about democracy and "human rights," and the event will only make the US look even more awkward and embarrassed. 

DJ, Both Russia and China now have stopped contact with the US.....The US only in name still goes for a "One China-policy" but the US is seeking war with China...

My view; Economic/cyder/info warfare are meant to "limit damage" but both Russia [url] https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/urgent-300-russian-mobile-nuclear-missiles-on-the-move - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/urgent-300-russian-mobile-nuclear-missiles-on-the-move or  https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/urgent-300-russian-mobile-nuclear-missiles-on-the-move - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/urgent-300-russian-mobile-nuclear-missiles-on-the-move  now are preparing for war...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 30 2023 at 11:42pm

DJ, Lets keep it short;

-Russia, China are preparing for war with the US...if NATO members want to join the US in that defeat they are welcome...

-The Kiev puppet regime is now openly attacking the orthodox church...pushing for a religious civil war inside Ukraine...

-biden pushing the US deeper in a major crisis with his arrest-plans for trump...of course political agenda...

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Energy -further destroying sea life deep sea mining [url]https://allseas.com/activities/deep-seapolymetallicnodulecollection/[/url] or https://allseas.com/activities/deep-seapolymetallicnodulecollection/ - https://allseas.com/activities/deep-seapolymetallicnodulecollection/ showing how "dirty clean energy is"....With metals also deep sea life-most not yet known- will get sucked up and killed...

Humans are self destructive....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 01 2023 at 12:02am

April 1,

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQEsDXQjdE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQEsDXQjdE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQEsDXQjdE The Duran;EU peacekeepers in Ukraine. Spy games. Lukashenko, Belarus invasion being prepared

and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSwGWg-heuI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSwGWg-heuI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSwGWg-heuI  

Peacekeepers in Ukraine. The new Foreign Policy of Russia. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.31

 (MS) among others,


DJ, Two major developments and some background;

1-NATO "peacekeepers" moving into Ukraine...as if the world does not know NATO is the problem...NOT the solution. 

2-Belarus claims that (a.o.) Poland (and Baltics ??? no doubt with US/UK "help") would be preparing another coup/invasion...MS mentioning Belarus "rebel forces" (and "Russian rebel forces") now fighting with NATO in Ukraine...

Background; Is there a split in "hard core hawks" US, UK, Poland/Baltics and other NATO members (France, Italy, Germany moving that way) on further escalation of the war against Russia-Iran-China ? 

MS mentions Russia could go nuclear if NATO moves in at full force...DJ, I doubt that idea, crossing a nuclear treshold will unleash unwanted consequences...

A NATO attack/invasion of Belarus, Ukraine however is a very major escalation. It would make Russia need Chinese support to deal with such a large war...

I did see also discussion on the US-China conflict-often leaving out Russia as the major partner of China in East Asia (with North Korea as an extra). 

-An all out open attack/invasion from NATO would bring in NATO air forces. Russian air defense will do a lot of damage but may not be strong enough to provide Russian air superiority...Russian air strikes on NATO air bases however also will "limit" the NATO air force...

So the "battle over Ukraine/Belarus (and Poland/Baltics) sky" may end up undecided...with both NATO and Russia/allies able to attack ground targets...very likely both trying to NOT go nuclear...

Another aspect will be Black Sea/Türkiye. NATO may have limited naval power in the Black Sea...allthough some NATO ships may be able to reach the Black Sea via rivers-so not using the Bosporus [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits  

DJ-If Türkiye does not want to join the hard-line NATO members it can deny NATO a major Southern front...Long range missiles still could hit targets in Crimea, Ukraine/Russia from the Mediterranean...Special naval/air forces could attack some ports in the south of Ukraine...

However Türkiye joining the NATO hawks could open the door to major NATO Navy attacks from the Black Sea...however here also Russia will be able to sink a lot of ships...

For Türkiye joining NATO hawks (US,UK, Poland/Baltics) the price will be war with Iran, Iraq, Syria...In that scenario Israel could join NATO hawks...

-So far Russia was very succesfull in destroying the Ukraine army...Ukraine keeps sending forces to "battle/killing zones" not far from Russia...hundreds of thousends of Ukraine forces very likely have been killed...New western tanks arriving on the front lines mostly will be destroyed this april...

Poland, Georgia, Romania, UK did send "thousends of volunteers"...to fight on the side of Kiev. Over 20% of the Ukraine army may be non-Ukrainians...

[url]https://www.pronews.gr/amyna-asfaleia/enoples-sygkroyseis/ektakto-tromaktiko-ktypima-se-120-metra-vathos-me-rosiko-yper-yperixitiko-vlima-kinzhal-sto-kentro-dioikisis-tou-nato-stin-oukrania/[/url] or https://www.pronews.gr/amyna-asfaleia/enoples-sygkroyseis/ektakto-tromaktiko-ktypima-se-120-metra-vathos-me-rosiko-yper-yperixitiko-vlima-kinzhal-sto-kentro-dioikisis-tou-nato-stin-oukrania/ - https://www.pronews.gr/amyna-asfaleia/enoples-sygkroyseis/ektakto-tromaktiko-ktypima-se-120-metra-vathos-me-rosiko-yper-yperixitiko-vlima-kinzhal-sto-kentro-dioikisis-tou-nato-stin-oukrania/ ;

Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile with a target impact speed of Mach 12 (twelve times the speed of sound) managed to hit the Ukrainian-NATO joint command, control and communications center installed at a depth of 130 meters!


The underground headquarters (built 400 feet underground) housed a number of NATO officials and reportedly housed over 300 people.


The Russians say they have pulled 40 dead from the wreckage of the underground headquarters so far, but most will never be recovered as they were buried by the debris.


It is unknown how many Westerners and how many Ukrainians were killed in the attack, but it is the first time that the West has counted so many dead, including officers and non-commissioned officers.

Most are British and Polish, but among them were Americans and members of private companies supporting communications and data transmission.

DJ, Reminds me of a smaller Russian attack on a NATO base in Aleppo-Syria. NATO-IS "rebels" in a command post got killed in 2016 (?)

-My view on this likely escalation is it may bring a repeat of what allready is going on but on a larger scale...The US, UK know any nuclear attack will bring all out nuclear war...but NATO is not strong enough to "win" the war in any other way...

-Of course de-Dollar-ization will speed up further; the rest of the world will lose the last trust it had in a "sane west"..

-In Ukraine already there are religious tensions with zelenski attacking the Orthodox Churches...Nationalists may NOT welcome NATO forces possibly taking over/annexing western Ukraine..

-In the US the "biden-cult" now going after trump for political reasons may face an uprising if it pushes the world into World War Three...(even if we can avoid a nuclear war...it will be total disaster...)

-Both NATO and EU may break up...most NATO countries do NOT support starting world war three because "biden hates Putin"....

DJ-Chances for peace ? 

A major question is who is in power in Kiev/Ukraine ? Is zelensky a 100% US puppet or is he going -still- for some Ukraine interests ? 

Russia, China, India a.o. do NOT want this war...this is yet another US/NATO war defending the US$...

However a collapse/massive dumping of that US$ would make the war a punitive operation...NATO soon may run out of means to keep fighting...

The New Atlas a.o. trying to get a view [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ew5S1S8u0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ew5S1S8u0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ew5S1S8u0 on the Ukraine "end game"...

[url]https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/[/url] or https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/ - https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/ ;

Consequently, if  Finland or Sweden join NATO, then that nation’s likelihood of becoming annihilated if and when a Third World War starts, will enormously and suddenly increase, merely on account of that nation’s having become a NATO member.

(DJ-Finland is breaking agreements made after 1945 with the Soviet Union on neutrality...) and [url]https://southfront.org/us-not-ready-for-war-against-russia-and-china/[/url] or https://southfront.org/us-not-ready-for-war-against-russia-and-china/ - https://southfront.org/us-not-ready-for-war-against-russia-and-china/ ;

Written by  https://t.co/0FdHwxeEZ3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Apparently, the most realistic wing of the American armed forces is beginning to distrust its own combat capacity in the face of the bellicose plans of their government. In a recent speech, a US top general warned that it would be “very difficult” for Washington to face Russia and China at the same time. The officer believes that major changes would be needed in US military doctrine to face this scenario. It remains to be seen whether pro-war politicians are really interested in this kind of realistic analysis.

DJ..present western policies are destroying the west...."Our leaders have gone insane"....we live in "interesting times"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 01 2023 at 10:41pm

DJ,

Finland (elections today) joining NATO is against an agreement-on neutrality- Finland had with the Soviet Union after 1945. But "the west" does not care for agreements or diplomacy...

Both [url]https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/[/url] or https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/ - https://southfront.org/bidens-big-win-in-ukraine/ and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/as-finland-enters-nato-revelations-that-nato-nukes-could-be-put-on-russia-border[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/as-finland-enters-nato-revelations-that-nato-nukes-could-be-put-on-russia-border - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/as-finland-enters-nato-revelations-that-nato-nukes-could-be-put-on-russia-border make a WRONG point that Finland joining NATO means a "biden-win"...

DJ, For "the rest" of the world Finland joining NATO only underlines "the west" only makes agreements to break them...so "the rest" has to "break" the west...

Putin his position in Russia (like Assad in Syria) only getting stronger...it is "western leaders" that face uprisings...may go for "state of emergency" rules...

From diseases now out of control, economic collapse to another -this time major- "endless" war...

Western "media"  seem to "stupid" to link the financial crises with the sanctions war...


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DJ...what is wrong with "our leaders"...????


link [url]https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/31/germany-us-soldiers-nuclear-weapons/[/url] or https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/31/germany-us-soldiers-nuclear-weapons/ - https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/31/germany-us-soldiers-nuclear-weapons/ ;

A member of parliament from Germany’s Left Party has called for the thousands of US soldiers and nuclear weapons in her country to leave.

“After 78 years, it is now time for US soldiers to go home. All other allies left Germany a long time ago”, said Die Linke MP Sevim Dağdelen on the floor of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag.

“The US nuclear weapons must go”, she added, in a  https://www.youtube.com/live/Ghq69-tOloo?feature=share&t=12409" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); opacity: 1; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(145, 0, 0) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; - March 31 parliamentary event on the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.

As of 2022, the United States had  https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-03-15/us-forces-record-high-europe-war-ukraine-5350187.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); opacity: 1; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(145, 0, 0) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; - 38,500 troops in Germany , in dozens of bases and other military installations.

DJ, Both in Europe and US/Canada left- and right-wing opposition groups may join forces against insanity...

A few other items from WSWS (World Socialist Web Site...very LEFT !!! wing )

[url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/pers-a01.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/pers-a01.html - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/pers-a01.html ;

Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in on Tuesday for arraignment on indictments handed down by a New York grand jury, reportedly in connection to payouts made on Trump’s behalf to a former porn star. The first-ever charges against a former president of the United States mark a new stage in the degradation of American politics.

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The indictment has nothing to do with the many grave crimes of which Trump is clearly guilty—above all, the January 6, 2021 fascistic insurrection that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and establish a presidential dictatorship. The Post notes that “a failed prosecution over the hush-money payment could put” all other investigations into Trump’s actions “in jeopardy.”

Indeed, this may be the intention on the part of a section of the Democratic Party establishment. It would certainly conform with the stated aim of the Biden administration to “look forward” rather than backward, as part of Biden’s efforts to establish a bipartisan consensus for the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia and preparations for war against China.

and [url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/ybyt-a01.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/ybyt-a01.html - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/ybyt-a01.html ;

According to a study published in January, there will likely be more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms. The study entitled, “The Future of Super Cells in the United States,” and published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society also says that lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states.

While no individual storm can be connected directly to global warming, the recent powerful storms and destructive tornadoes fit the more dangerous pattern anticipated by the study, including more nighttime strikes in a southern region with more people, poverty and vulnerable housing than where storms hit in the twentieth century.

The study also says the storm season will start a month earlier than it used to. Among the statistical projections, derived from computer simulations, that the report makes, are that there will be a nationwide 6.6 percent increase in supercells and a 25.8 percent increase in the area and time the strongest supercells twist and tear over land under a scenario of moderate levels of future warming by the end of the century.

DJ...maybe someone could tell politicians it is their job to SOLVE problems...not create them...




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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 12:20am

Let me make up my mind on what is World War Three-but most on an economic front...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze9PndaalAU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze9PndaalAU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze9PndaalAU ;New Atlas

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for April 3, 2023: -Russian forces continue encirclement of Bakhmut and Avdeevka; - Western media continues to measure Russia's strategy of attrition by territorial gains; - Over the past month there has been an uptick in Russian precision airstrikes along the line of contact; - Reports indicate that one of the munitions used is the GLONASS-guided UPAB-1500B glide bomb with a range of 40-50km; - The UPAB-1500B is released out of range of most of Ukraine's mobile force protection air defense systems, most of Ukraine's S-300s are either destroyed or deployed far behind the line of contact opening an opportunity for the glide bomb's use; - Further degradation of Ukraine's air defenses will lead to Russian military aviation becoming a more decisive factor; 

DJ, As always New Atlas/NA also has links...

In Syria Russia did destroy the logistic supplies lines of IS and other "moderate terrorists-backed by NATO" from Türkiye...Somehow western "media" ignore both how IS did get its supplies and its fighters...NATO supplied both....IS even held its slave markets in Türkiye...

In Ukraine air defense means Russia needs to use missiles against Ukraine/NATO supplies...Ukraine using schools, hospitals, shopping centers-human shields-for military storage...

NA mentions Ukraine may start another offensive-but the costs of such an offensive will destroy not only Ukraine but will outdo what NATO can give...

DJ-In de-Dollarization I put some links to OPEC+ cutting oil production...So the US not only sees its $ going down...also it may run out of fossil fuel...Renewables and much lower energy consumption leave the US still a lot of room...

But countries like Kuwait, Iraq, Kazachstan decreasing oil production...with Russia, Saudi Arabia the main countries-simply means OPEC+ now "turning against the US"....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anti-russia-alliance-splinters-japan-buys-russian-oil-price-above-cap-others-follow[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anti-russia-alliance-splinters-japan-buys-russian-oil-price-above-cap-others-follow - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anti-russia-alliance-splinters-japan-buys-russian-oil-price-above-cap-others-follow since renewables only can do a limited job more countries will go for Russian energy-openly...not hiding it any longer via indirect buying Russian energy via Türkoye, India etc...

-[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/here-we-go-iran-alerts-citizens-to-leave-azerbaijan-immediately[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/here-we-go-iran-alerts-citizens-to-leave-azerbaijan-immediately - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/here-we-go-iran-alerts-citizens-to-leave-azerbaijan-immediately  (HT)

DJ-The US has been pushing for more frontlines against "RIC" Russia-Iran-China...so will we see Azarbaijan in a war with both Russia and Iran ? A danger for the Caspian Russia-Iran-India sea/land links ? The US goal may to "push" India towards the US....very likely it will make matters only worse...

HT mentions a possible -open- Israel attack on Iran...However DJ-I doubt if Israel is willing to seek further escalation if the risks for Israel only grow.

Both in Europe and the US support for more war is dropping...the price is getting beyond crazy...However this may only push biden more towards nuclear war....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 11:16pm

DJ, 

-Finland now #31 NATO member...I am NOT a NATO-supporter...I see NATO as promoting wars, selling US weapons...NATO and nazi's have the same "evil roots" of military industrial and finance...Finland was part of Russia till the end of World War One. It did fight two wars with the Soviet Union-in World War Two Finland ended up in an alliance with nazi-Germany...the agreement made with the Soviet Union forced Finland to remain neutral...But the "west" only makes agreements to break them...

-[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dont-talk-about-nord-stream-details-wapo-report-upend-official-narrative[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dont-talk-about-nord-stream-details-wapo-report-upend-official-narrative - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dont-talk-about-nord-stream-details-wapo-report-upend-official-narrative DJ The US-by blowing up Nordstream-declared war on the EU...Ukraine soon may learn they are being used-by the US- in a war for US global dominance...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4IErrOQhU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4IErrOQhU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4IErrOQhU The Duran;BRICS rising as neocons destroy the west w/Jeffrey Sachs (Live)

DJ, Jeffrey Sachs (JS) recently visited China, Japan, Korea...JS expected Korea, Japan may be next in breaking with the US after Saudi Arabia...

-[url]https://southfront.org/israel-escalates-against-syria-lebanon/[/url] or https://southfront.org/israel-escalates-against-syria-lebanon/ - https://southfront.org/israel-escalates-against-syria-lebanon/ DJ, Israel keeps attacking (Iran) targets in Syria (some of those attacks from Israeli aircraft over Lebanon). In Israel/Palestine Israel keeps attacking Palestinians...

Maybe more general;

-US-biden going for criminal laws for political reasons against trump...(BOTH terrible presidents...)

-In Ukraine US puppet zelensky attacking the orthodox church, Hungarian minority in western Ukraine

-In Israel netanyahu escalating conflicts with Arab, Palestine, and progressive Jewish groups

-In Europe strikes because of high inflation, governments/politics out of contact with voters very likely to get worse...

-OPEC+ production cut=higher energy costs, bird-flu increasing food prices...

DJ [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/here-are-7-signs-global-de-dollarization-has-just-shifted-overdrive[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/here-are-7-signs-global-de-dollarization-has-just-shifted-overdrive - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/here-are-7-signs-global-de-dollarization-has-just-shifted-overdrive ;

#1 The BRICS nations account for over 40 percent of the total global population and close to one-fourth of global GDP.  So the fact that they are working to develop a  https://thecradle.co/article-view/23132/brics-nations-working-on-fundamentally-new-currency-russian-official" style='box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>“new currency”  should greatly concern all of us…

my view; GDP by PPP means BRICS is the largest economic factor...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table Brazil #8, Russia#6, India#3, China#1, South Africa-large informal economy-#33

See also de-Dollarization...

DJ-The economic war, OPEC+ going against the US on energy, BRICS+/SCO against the US in a currency (gold) war IS the major frontline...The west STILL is paying Russia for energy-only now indirect and at a higher price...

[url]https://southfront.org/nato-prepares-for-air-battles-with-russia/[/url] or https://southfront.org/nato-prepares-for-air-battles-with-russia/ - https://southfront.org/nato-prepares-for-air-battles-with-russia/ DJ, There are lots of stories on a major Ukraine offensive...Some hard-line NATO members (US,UK, Poland) may still think of further escalation...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5yeBHCKiY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5yeBHCKiY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5yeBHCKiY Israeli News live a.o. with a video of Leopard-tanks being destroyed while they were still on tank-transporters...

DJ-Russia is moving towards more air strikes -new weapons keepin aircraft out of reach from NATO air defense. Ukraine may not be able to concentrate enough forces long enough to start a major offensive. Even when they would go for a major offensive logistics/supplies are a major problem...(DJ-NATO will allready be the major player in logistics, getting fuel, ammunition, food to the frontlines).  So far melting snow/rain = mud is in the way of any major offensive...



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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 06 2023 at 12:23am

DJ-again-pandemics need to be viewed against their background. Mosr historical pandemics did see wars as a background-worsening also economy...Climate change also is NOT new...

The fall of the West Roman Empire may partly be explained by pandemics and higher water levels making Roman roads/fortresses less useable...

I follow pandemic news in the general discussion-monthly section. I will start a topic on seismic/climate here as well...extreme weather and increase of seismic events are both climate change linked-just as pandemics...the "mega-mix" is worsening the health crisis...

-In this section-Code Black ???? we are still not in an OPEN NATO-Russia war...but in fact we are already in a major "west-rest confrontation" with economy (energy currencies) as very major frontlines...The 'rest" trying to limit the west-mostly the US-to continu its wars against Russia, Iran...even more covert China...

A look at the frontlines for an update;

Ukraine [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dNQ1wMJc0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dNQ1wMJc0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dNQ1wMJc0 Military Summary;MS;

Zelenski visits Poland. Russian defense line in Zaporozhye. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.05

DJ Maybe the major part of the MS evaluation/claim is Poland stating Poland and Ukraine should be seen as a form of union...[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stoltenberg-pledges-ukraine-will-become-member-nato[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stoltenberg-pledges-ukraine-will-become-member-nato - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stoltenberg-pledges-ukraine-will-become-member-nato  

MS-in short/my view; Ukraine preparing offensives-wants Polish guarantees if Ukraine losses get to high...In fact Poland may have given zelensky a (signed) promise Polish  (a.o.) forces move in if Ukraine offensives go wrong...DJ-Poland may already have tens-of-thousends Polish volunteers fighting in Ukraine...The main reason Ukraine is still able to fight is Polish/via Poland NATO support...

My view; IF (!) Ukraine would be able to start a major offensive Russia could attack from/with Belarus. Poland/Baltics may start a war with Belarus...

NATO still -officially- NOT involved; it is a Polish(and Baltics)-Ukraine deal...De facto NATO/US is pushing for this deal pulling Poland into this war...

One of Ukraine major problems is supplies, modern weapons...Poland getting openly involved could change that picture...It would be a very serious escalation...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/subscribers-only-classified-secret-military-planning-docs-leaked-ukraine-war-invade-russia-itself[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/subscribers-only-classified-secret-military-planning-docs-leaked-ukraine-war-invade-russia-itself - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/subscribers-only-classified-secret-military-planning-docs-leaked-ukraine-war-invade-russia-itself ;

Both the US and NATO repeatedly claim they are not "participants" in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.  Documents classified as "SECRET"- shown below- tell a very different story.  These documents also reveal PLANS TO INVADE RUSSIA ITSELF!

DJ-Hal Turner is trying to get more subscribers/donations...but I think he may have a point...Ukraine could be used by NATO to start an "Ukraine" invasion into Russia...In fact most of the weapons and soldiers may be not from Ukraine...To start a major war you need energy, money...that part is under attack from "the rest"...(De-dollar-ization...)

-[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/idf-chief-israel-is-ready-to-attack-iran-and-does-not-need-u-s-help[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/idf-chief-israel-is-ready-to-attack-iran-and-does-not-need-u-s-help - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/idf-chief-israel-is-ready-to-attack-iran-and-does-not-need-u-s-help  

[url]https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/[/url] or https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/ - https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/ and 

[url]https://southfront.org/syria-warns-of-total-escalation-after-fourth-israeli-attack/[/url] or https://southfront.org/syria-warns-of-total-escalation-after-fourth-israeli-attack/ - https://southfront.org/syria-warns-of-total-escalation-after-fourth-israeli-attack/  

DJ-Iran is a strategic ally of Russia, China and de facto India, Pakistan, Türkiye...Saudi Arabia is moving towards BRICS/SCO...so the US needs to "break" EurAsian integration...

Blowing up Nordstream was one part of the plan, destroying Russian-Iran-India, China-Iran-EU trade route is another part of the US "strategy"....

Part of the US plans may be a second front against Russia/Iran-Azerbaijan could fit in such a plan however Moldova and Georgia already refused to be destroyed for US goals...Azerbaijan also may think twice...it has its conflicts with Armenia but escalating it would mean war with all major powers in the region...

Can Israel destroy Iran nuclear installations ? DJ-YES...however Israel "could face total destruction" as a price...the only ally it has for such an action would be the US. But the US may NOT be in a position to limit much of "the regions" reaction after an all out Israel attack on Iran nuclear installations...US carriers in the Mediterranean, US bases in the region, will face a major attack...

Will Israel destroy Iran nuclear installations ? DJ-I doubt it...the price for Israel would be to high...Israel wants to have "workable" relations with its neighbours..Israeli terror attacks on Palestinians make relations with "the region" and EU already becoming worse...

-Taiwan...The US did recieve a Taiwan "political leader" [url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288599.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288599.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288599.shtml ;

Multiple Chinese authorities including China’s top legislature, the Taiwan Work Office of CPC Central Committee, Chinese defense ministry and Chinese foreign ministry firmly opposed and condemned the latest meeting between the regional leader of China’s Taiwan island and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in California, vowing to take resolute and effective measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, in response to the seriously erroneous acts of collusion between the US and Taiwan secessionist authorities. 

DJ, China invited the Australian PM for a visit to Bejing...with lots of countries -the rest- now breaking with the US$-"west" countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines need "securities" from Russia, China, India...

There is discussion on the Japan position...Japan is ignoring the US-price cap on the oil price...buying energy from Russia..the Japan PM visited Ukraine as a "balance" to keep the US satisfied...Asia, BRICS, is a market Japan, South Korea can simply not ignore...China, India are major global economies...together they are more important then the US. Japan nationalism is also maybe becoming more anti-US...

In a war Japan could face China, Russia AND Korea...it would very likely mean lots of land moving into the hands of those countries...far worse then the Kuril Island/Sachalin "disagreement" Japan now has with Russia...

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- Pepe Escobar

DJ-my view-western political "leaders" have lost contact with reality...The EU did have a mild winter-but the winter of 2023-24 could be colder, and energy reserves may have run out...

Lots of countries want an end to endless wars and blame the US for those wars...US/western "sanctions" damage the west to such a level it is becoming self destruction...

The major worry however should be "hardline idiots" in the US, UK, Poland (most) still pushing for more war...that could end up in a nuclear war...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-most-world-isnt-board-nato-russia-war[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-most-world-isnt-board-nato-russia-war - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-most-world-isnt-board-nato-russia-war  

Broad Opposition to War

There have been https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/27/europeans-protest-natos-proxy-war/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - protest demonstrations occurring in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Great Britain, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Albania, Moldova, and others. European protests surrounding the anniversary of the start of the conflict notably span the Left-Right spectrum in opposing US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) imperialism as well as the economic hardships that have befallen ordinary Europeans against the backdrop of sanctions on Russia and the funding of Ukraine.

Italian port workers aligned with the Left https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/02/27/port-workers-in-italy-demand-wage-hike-safer-jobs-and-an-end-to-fueling-the-war-in-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - protested in Genoa specifically to resist the use of Italian ports to supply arms deliveries to Ukraine. Meanwhile https://www.globalvillagespace.com/anti-nato-protests-hit-france/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - in France , demonstrations organized by the right-wing Les Patriotes party in various locations across the country called for France’s withdrawal from both NATO and the European Union.

In all cases, the people on the streets at these events identify involvement in the war as harmful to general economic well-being and have been expressing frustration with their countries’ acquiescence to these intergovernmental and supranational organizations in fueling the violence while simultaneously discouraging dialogue. Feelings of skepticism toward NATO, the European Union, and the United States have become increasingly vocal in Europe due to the way that western countries are handling the war. In the minds of many Europeans, their governments are recklessly following the will of Washington, which could lead them into a serious escalation to a wider war.

DJ-A final note; like with the pandemics, climate change "the west" is simply ignoring facts that do not fit in their political agenda...Ignoring reality for political reasons is unwise...has a very high price...Some claim the US-biden government is "left wing"...in general biden is seen as just another neo-con(servative) NOT "left wing"...

Further escalation of these biden-insane-wars will push up inflation, increase de-dollarization hitting the US even harder, widen the gap between Europe and the US...present European governments-in general-are already in crisis...The NL, France, German "leaders" de facto lost public support...now hang on to their posts...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 06 2023 at 8:15am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtBksB4tNg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtBksB4tNg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtBksB4tNg Alexander Mercouris/AM;

Russia Pushes Ukriane West Bakhmut; No German Troops Ukraine, Indian PM Modi Meets Patrushev, Poles Protest Zelensky Topic 809  https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTg5d0E2RjZ5SkFpX29wVnZiYkkyZmU3XzJFUXxBQ3Jtc0ttWHZjQy1qalYyVHlOd2JpdkpUSlRNaG1fZkJ5VlM4NVNyUllpTVkwZ0ptbmtWanpGdkd3RkpSYkpDQkZPanByRmt4UHNVLXZXNUtBSTRrNFNnRFBnMlZUUExyeEp5ZFNRVEpva2MzYTNVRjQxdkxfSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBhadraPunchline%2Fstatus%2F1643118806804451329&v=iwtBksB4tNg" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0 - https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/s...

in short;

-AM doubts if Ukraine is able to start any major offensive

-Germany has reached its limits in what it can do for Ukraine (so)

-zelensky visited Poland-Polish farmers not happy with Poland importing Ukraine agriculture products and selling it as EU products...decreasing prises for Polish farmers

-Also Polish military, public, fed up with an extremist government pushing Poland into a major crisis...

-Patrushev and a Russian oil-"czar" visited India PM Modi; India will get Russian energy at low prices...DJ-No doubt there was also talks on securing/improving oil routes from Russia to India via Iran. 

Related; New Atlas/NA [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJ9ev7iht8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJ9ev7iht8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJ9ev7iht8 ;

US Forces Under Fire in Syria: Illegal Occupation Enters Dangerous Phase

- US engineered political unrest in Syria (and the rest of the Arab World) in 2011 after preparing opposition groups and militants years in advance; - US intervened in Syria in 2014 to ensure armed proxies completed US-backed regime change; - Russia's invitation by Syria in 2015 began irreversible defeat of US proxies; - Today, US troops are increasingly isolated in eastern Syria as US weapons disappear in Ukraine or are stockpiled for coming war with China, and as Washington's regional allies work with Russia/China to resolve long-standing conflicts; - The US cannot maintain proxy wars in Ukraine, Syria, and over the island province of Taiwan. It must choose and may not be able to sustain any at all; Follow Vanessa Beeley and Eva Barrlet who have reported on (and from) Syria for years: Vanessa on Twitter:  https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0dRdlo4TzJ0NmVpQXEzbW82MHBXX011QWxQQXxBQ3Jtc0tuSmNhc25iM0w0V1Iwd0dXaGtqdzZIUVhGc3ZHN21zUGZFMFBjN3c0MHZaLXZScDN4TXdjSEhpaWF1UkhRS1VEOHQ3eEpFczBwbklhSWcyS0pYX2lUSjZkMDRLYjlFTWdqd3pHZFA5b1pybkxfWTF3Zw&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FVanessaBeeley&v=2dJ9ev7iht8" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0 - https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley  Vanessa on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabeeley1268" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @vanessabeeley1268    Eva on Twitter:  https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazBzU0NWNlZjTkhEbDE1eTNVcHdPcVN6WTd5Z3xBQ3Jtc0trOGR6a3hQcWtUZ1JvRF9penRLNlh3X3dXTUo4QlVHTmRmbGgxdGVlWndLdkdvejI5d2pJc0NGOTJFQ3hzb21yM3I3Z196eVNBS1RfZ0VqRFJocTE2dWttaWJkaTNRVlpfOGpZTC1yQW1HTGpYUDlfQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FEvaKBartlett&v=2dJ9ev7iht8" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0 - https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett  Eva on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@EvaKBartlett" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @evakbartlett  

DJ, Hal Turner claims [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/confirmed-russia-building-troops-in-syria-to-expel-u-s-army[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/confirmed-russia-building-troops-in-syria-to-expel-u-s-army - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/confirmed-russia-building-troops-in-syria-to-expel-u-s-army   and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/un-peacekeepers-on-lebanon-border-ordered-into-bomb-shelters-israel-to-attack-hezbollah-in-lebanon[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/un-peacekeepers-on-lebanon-border-ordered-into-bomb-shelters-israel-to-attack-hezbollah-in-lebanon - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/un-peacekeepers-on-lebanon-border-ordered-into-bomb-shelters-israel-to-attack-hezbollah-in-lebanon the Israeli extremist government was provoking everyone (inspired by [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane one term in Israel's  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Knesset - Knesset  before being convicted of acts of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Terrorism - terrorism . A cofounder of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Jewish Defense League - Jewish Defense League  (JDL) and founder of the Israeli political party  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach_and_Kahane_Chai" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Kach and Kahane Chai - Kach , he espoused strong views against  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Antisemitism - antisemitism .  DJ-It does explain the israeli state terrorism against Palestinians and Arabs in "Israel"...)

If Israel wants war it can get war....[url]https://southfront.org/barrage-of-rockets-fired-from-lebanon-hit-northern-israel-videos/[/url] or  https://southfront.org/barrage-of-rockets-fired-from-lebanon-hit-northern-israel-videos/ - https://southfront.org/barrage-of-rockets-fired-from-lebanon-hit-northern-israel-videos/   and [url]https://www.debka.com/more-than-15-rockets-from-lebanon-target-a-broad-swathe-of-northern-israel-most-intercepted/[/url] or  https://www.debka.com/more-than-15-rockets-from-lebanon-target-a-broad-swathe-of-northern-israel-most-intercepted/ - https://www.debka.com/more-than-15-rockets-from-lebanon-target-a-broad-swathe-of-northern-israel-most-intercepted/  

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-announces-naval-enforcement-in-taiwan-strait-ships-to-be-stopped-boarded-inspected-us-says-no[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-announces-naval-enforcement-in-taiwan-strait-ships-to-be-stopped-boarded-inspected-us-says-no - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-announces-naval-enforcement-in-taiwan-strait-ships-to-be-stopped-boarded-inspected-us-says-no If the US wants war it also can get war...China will no longer accept the US pulling Taiwan away from China...the US would not accept another country taking over Texas...

DJ-We could be moving towards "a-symetrical warfare"-US pushing for escalation in Ukraine now may face Russia-Iran/Iraq-Syria kicking the US out of the Middle East, China making clear under international law Taiwan is part of China (even the official US view...only the US is doing something else...). 

The US is NOT able to fight wars on three frontlines; Ukraine, Syria and Taiwan..."the rest of the west" can not do that much...

Both ursula von der leyen and macron are now in Bejing/China...the hard line China now is showing may be the Chinese answer to the "puppets" supposed to represent European democracy...DJ-The protests in France seem to become very violent...may see people getting killed...

Other countries soon may face same kinds of protests against a "political elite" not working for the common citizen....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrX1uYrXDE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrX1uYrXDE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrX1uYrXDE ;Bakhmut End Game? Zelensky Talks Retreat, Russia Bombs Vyhledar; China Warns Macron on Russia-China Ties, Ukraine  https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTJrUUIzcW1qQVBxOGVqMERLWF9IMWxQYTgwZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttRHRzMUlSaDhqRnY2elR4bDZMM05pb1N2SG9oemEyR3NLUjVfeWxqN3dMWUNRY0g1OTI2LUYya2NlV1AtaWItZ3p3Z0VRUUhZUjhLMGVBX1QzcEFEVkYxVFJ6U0lPdUlPUGhyZ1lrWjdMbnZHdG56RQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globaltimes.cn%2Fpage%2F202304%2F1288592.shtml&v=sOrX1uYrXDE" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0 - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20230...

DJ...things may be moving fast...Is there a chance for a ceasefire in Ukraine-no longer blocked by the US ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 06 2023 at 1:10pm

DJ, We are getting much to close to an Israeli war with Lebanon...[url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/mortar-fire-from-east-lebanon-against-metullah/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/mortar-fire-from-east-lebanon-against-metullah/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/mortar-fire-from-east-lebanon-against-metullah/ and [url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/pm-convenes-security-cabinet-thursday-night-after-30-rockets-from-lebanon/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/pm-convenes-security-cabinet-thursday-night-after-30-rockets-from-lebanon/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/pm-convenes-security-cabinet-thursday-night-after-30-rockets-from-lebanon/  

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-israel-to-attack-lebanon-imminent[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-israel-to-attack-lebanon-imminent - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-israel-to-attack-lebanon-imminent ;

COVERT INTEL - FROM INSIDE ISRAELI CABINET MEETING

(Regular public Updates will continue for non-subscribers beneath the Green Shaded area below)

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The discussion inside the Israeli Cabinet Meeting is deadly serious.  All factions of the Knesset are offering their full support to the government for a "harsh" response. Israel is now preparing for "several days of intense fighting"; IDF is, at this moment, presenting Israeli political leadership with several retaliation options.

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UPDATE 3:15 PM EDT --

Northern airspace of Israel closed to civilian traffic.

Minister Israel Katz, member of the political-security cabinet, in the main edition: the situation calls for a tough response. The state of Lebanon bears the responsibility for what happens in its territory

South Lebanon residents should stay away from Hezbollah military sites, says Israel's ex-intel chief

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warns of a strong and swift response should there be any “Zionist attacks on Lebanese soil.”

***** BULLETIN *****

Israel has prepared an unprecedented target list in Lebanon.  IDF's response to today's rocket fire from Lebanese territory will be very powerful.

According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, UNIFIL troops of the UN peacekeeping force are reportedly vacating their positions near the Israeli border.

Public BOMB shelters in all regions of Western Galilee have been opened.

 

***** FLASH *****

Concern in Israel: U.S. weapons purchased from the Ukrainian Black Markets and from Afghanistan MAY be used against Israel.

Hezbollah already moving Fateh-110 mobile-launch missiles into striking position against Israel if it enters into a conflict with Lebanon.

MORE:

Haifa is the biggest major Israeli city that is the nearest to Lebanon; its in Grad MLRS range and Hezbollah has thousands of them.

 

UPDATE 3:31 PM EDT --

CONFIRMED: The IDF will attack tonight in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in response to the rocket launches towards Israel.”

(WHOA!   Intelligence Community Note: "Netanyahu is no longer in control. The new, ultraconservative government is.")

DJ, Israel did send [url]https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/[/url] or https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/ - https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-spotted-firing-israeli-cluster-mortar-rounds/ and kept attavking targets in Syria...

[url]https://southfront.org/iranian-backed-forces-in-syria-received-precision-guided-missiles-u-s-official/[/url] or https://southfront.org/iranian-backed-forces-in-syria-received-precision-guided-missiles-u-s-official/ - https://southfront.org/iranian-backed-forces-in-syria-received-precision-guided-missiles-u-s-official/  

DJ-Both Russia-with so far a "red line" with Tel Aviv Army HQ and Iran have had enough...So-IF ! Israel would start invading Lebanon this war could escalate fast...

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[url]https://southfront.org/ukrainian-pilots-target-druzhba-pipeline/[/url] or https://southfront.org/ukrainian-pilots-target-druzhba-pipeline/ - https://southfront.org/ukrainian-pilots-target-druzhba-pipeline/ not the best organized attack...still if it succeded could push up oil prices....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-refiners-buy-more-iranian-oil-competition-russian-crude-heats[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-refiners-buy-more-iranian-oil-competition-russian-crude-heats - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-refiners-buy-more-iranian-oil-competition-russian-crude-heats  

DJ-If transport capacity and demand are big enough both Russia and Iran will send/sell their energy to "friends"...Saudi Arabia/OPEC+ moving that way as well....

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DJ-I think the situation in the Middle East could "explode" in the coming hours-with lots or fisks for further escalation...


the financial war goes on...So far no deaths reported in France uprising...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 06 2023 at 11:27pm

DJ

CODE RED IS HIGH RISK OF MAJOR ESCALATION OF CONFLICT

CODE BLACK IS MAJOR WAR BROKE OUT

DJ-just to "position" the present global crisis. The Ukraine is a major war...eventough the "open" war is supposed to be still between Ukraine and Russia...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/is-netanyahoo-again-looking-for-war.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/is-netanyahoo-again-looking-for-war.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/is-netanyahoo-again-looking-for-war.html Netanyahu trying to silence widespread massive protests against his "legal reforms"....

DJ-very likely Israel Army still has a red line with the Russian base in Tartus-Syria. In the past Russia stayed out of the Iran-Israel conflict fights in Syria-Russia wanted to destroy US/NATO ally IS...keep Assad in power - in fact protect the south-west flank of Russia. Russia may have warned Israel against a major attack against Hizbollah/Lebanon.

In words the US may still support Israel...but in deeds -like Saudi Arabia- Israel may have decided Russia, China bring results...not more empty words...

DJ-I think we may see a mix of Israeli military action and diplomacy...very likely both Russia and China play a role. Israeli attacks on the Jerusalem mosq has to stop...may even push Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt towards war...In Islam Jerusalem is the third holiest place after Mecca and Medina...Israel can not afford to be at war with the Islamic world-eventough some hardliners are pushing for such a war...Pushing for a "Jewish" state with NO room for other religions...This form of extremism would be even to much for the "west"....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtemdwIK1Kk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtemdwIK1Kk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtemdwIK1Kk Israeli News Live earlier reported that the US foreign office for the Middle East was run by pro-Israel groups only...

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[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sweden-investigation-shows-state-actor-most-likely-behind-nord-stream-blast[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sweden-investigation-shows-state-actor-most-likely-behind-nord-stream-blast - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sweden-investigation-shows-state-actor-most-likely-behind-nord-stream-blast DJ-I think Ukraine blew MH17 out of the sky-NOT Russia...but western politics followed Ukraine lies as "proof" ignoring all other evidence; "blame Putin"....The idea was to also blame "Putin-superman" for blowing up Nord stream...only -like MH17- the story makes no sense...

The most likely "actor" seems to be the US...de facto blowing up EU energy links with Russia...Some in the US now try to blame Poland...

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DJ-Again, Ukraine offensives still not showing...Some claim May-next month- will bring those offensives...but there is growing doubt if Ukraine still has enough soldiers, weapons for such an offensive...Russia did destroy railways so logistics is problematic...Russia also was able to attack some road convoys inside Ukraine (so has means to get info on transports). 

Russia wants peace-Ukraine out of NATO, safety for Russian speakers...but is NOT in a hurry...Ukraine losses between 500-1000 soldiers per day ! Does Ukraine want to fight with knives and stones when supplies run out ? In a military sense this war has been madness from the start...

China-Xi stayed polite recieving von der leyen, macron...supposed to represent France and the EU...[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288674.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288674.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288674.shtml ;

During talks with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed that cooperation and common ground between China and the EU outweigh competition and differences, and China is prepared to work with the EU to set the right direction and tone for China-EU ties, fully resume exchanges at all levels and revitalize mutually-beneficial cooperation in various fields, injecting fresh impetus into China-EU relations and global peace, stability and prosperity.

DJ...part of the EU-China trade goes by rail...either via Iran (TIP-Türkiye-Iran-Pakistan) or Russia...Poland does need trade with China. The southern-TIP-route may use Serbia-not Poland-transports going to NW Europe...another part of EU-China trade goes by ship...LNG (made of Russian gas in China) is part of that trade...India may want to join the "TIP-route" but needs to get out of conflict with both Pakistan and China...


DJ...very likely macron means Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus are "bad", US nuclear weapons all over Europe, maybe Asia, are "good"....double standards the world has had enough of...

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Pandemic link-NO new major war in the Middle East does limit refugees...still climate change is making live impossible for millions in countries the west kept poor...China may invest in farms in Africa, Latin America out of self interest-still it would mean a major country at least showing interest in stopping climate collapse in Africa, Latin America...

Like Cuba China learned medical help is a good basis for cooperation. China has the means to "vaccinate the world"...certainly in cooperation with India (both countries have a population of 1400 million each...). 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 07 2023 at 11:36pm

DJ, 

[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-to-irans-raisi-islamic-world-should-unite-against-israeli-attacks/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-to-irans-raisi-islamic-world-should-unite-against-israeli-attacks/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-to-irans-raisi-islamic-world-should-unite-against-israeli-attacks/ ;
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in a phone call on Friday that “the Islamic world should be united against Israel’s attacks in Palestine,” his office said.

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link; [url]https://thecradle.co/article-view/23394/iran-and-saudi-arabia-a-chinese-win-win[/url] or https://thecradle.co/article-view/23394/iran-and-saudi-arabia-a-chinese-win-win - https://thecradle.co/article-view/23394/iran-and-saudi-arabia-a-chinese-win-win  

Israel was a US "weapon" meant to control Middle East energy-protect the US$. Saudi Arabia is moving out of the Syria, Yemen and other conflicts...so-de facto-Israel now is the only "US tool" in the region...Jordan is not in a position to "go against the flow";


DJ, Russia-India-China already a major part of BRICS-now joined in Asia by Iran and Saudi Arabia...The SCO also includes Pakistan...It will be a matter of time (and elections) Türkiye will also "move east" (a result of the EU closing the doors for Türkiye for religious reasons...). 

For the US stopping the Caspian/Iran "bridge" for Russia-India trade, the TIP link between China and Europe/Africa -destruction/regime change in Iran-is now getting out of reach...

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In Ukraine Bakhmut is now almost completely under (pro)Russian control ...still [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXg_h_rm3c&t=1174s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXg_h_rm3c&t=1174s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXg_h_rm3c&t=1174s The Duran; Searching Europe for ammo. Blinken, counteroffensive in coming weeks

DJ...How one can plan an offensive within weeks without weapons ? 

My view; both Ukraine and EU could be close to a "turning point"-feeling used by an insane US political elite to keep the US elite rich...

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[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288707.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288707.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288707.shtml ;

Chinese President Xi Jinping met French President Emmanuel Macron in Guangzhou's Songyuan on Friday afternoon and had an informal meeting with the French leader. 

Xi said that over the past two days, the two sides have had in-depth and high quality exchanges in Beijing and Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, increased understanding and mutual trust, and clarified the direction for future cooperation between China and France at bilateral and international levels. 

DJ, China goes for "make trade not war"...

While EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock are reportedly planning to travel to China in coming weeks following the visit of Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen this week, Chinese experts believe that more European officials coming to China also show that China's wisdom and solutions are winning more people over, and "the main tone" of China-EU relations this year is stabilizing relations, resuming all-level exchanges and turning those consensus into actions. 

The three-day visit not only resulted in fruitful business deals in the fields of transport, energy, agriculture, culture and science, but also provided guidance for the future direction of China-France and China-EU relations, as leaders of both sides sought a more reasonable way of co-existing in the post-pandemic era and amid the Ukraine crisis, despite differences and competitions, experts said.  

DJ...in fact China may be breaking up "the west"-making deals with the EU -preparing for war with the US....

After China released a 12-point position paper on political settlement of the Ukraine crisis and the Chinese leader visited Russia, it has become much clearer to Europe that the US won't resolve the crisis but will only fuel the fire, Wang said. He added that Europe felt disappointed by this and now pins its hopes on China, which it believes can play a positive role in helping resolve the crisis. 

DJ-Is the EU moving away from the US because of the Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan-US made conflicts ? 

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

DJ, politicians may have gone crazy...war industry owning media may promote more war...Lots of citizens and companies share the idea of "make trade not war"....

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In short; three frontlines;

-Ukraine-Russia keeps destroying NATO

-Middle East-Israel isolated and divided (Netanyahu-extremist government)

-Taiwan...China-EU trade may increase

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

The general picture-my view-"multi polar world, de-dollar-ization" speeding up...Major risk could be China becoming to dominant...replacing the petro-dollar with a petro-yuan would be a bad idea...(De-colonization after World War Two often only did bring a local elite taking over from a foreign elite..."Revolutions" often can result in "elite-change" )

The US may have become-for now- a major energy supplier for Europe...it does not make the US global position stronger...The US itself is in crisis...without allies it should give up any ideas of more wars...For now there is "still" a NATO following US-biden-orders...but when the orders bring NATO destruction the US will have to rethink its position...

The petro-dollar already is history...old statistics on US$ in global trade simply misleading...creating trillions of $ can result in US$ dominance in global trade...but it is debt based...empty...

Again; diplomacy could have kept "the west" in a leading global position...confrontation was a very bad idea based on "wishfull thinking intel"...The same "wishfull thinking" we see in the pandemic discussion, climate collapse...ignoring facts...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 12:47am

Internet problems-on this site...

So short;

[url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/idf-airstrikes-over-syria-after-six-rocket-barrage-from-quneitra/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/idf-airstrikes-over-syria-after-six-rocket-barrage-from-quneitra/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/idf-airstrikes-over-syria-after-six-rocket-barrage-from-quneitra/ ;

Rocket launchers in eastern Syria were targeted for IDF air, UAV and artillery strikes early Sunday, just hours after three rockets were launched from Syria towards the southern Golan. One landed on open ground, one in Jordan and a third was intercepted. Israel’s retaliation also targeted a Syrian Army 4th Division compound, radar sites and artillery batteries, spurring a second round of three rockets from Syria.

The head of the Golan Regional Council accordingly ordered shelters opened in towns in the southern Golan and instructed residents to stay near fortified spaces.

The Syrian front opened, Saturday night, as DEBKAfile predicted, as part of a Tehran-orchestrated terror campaign to be coducted against Israel on multiple fronts.

and [url]https://www.debka.com/mivzak/the-us-beefs-up-red-sea-mediterranean-fleets-against-iranian-threats/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/mivzak/the-us-beefs-up-red-sea-mediterranean-fleets-against-iranian-threats/ - https://www.debka.com/mivzak/the-us-beefs-up-red-sea-mediterranean-fleets-against-iranian-threats/ ;

Military sources in Washington Saturday disclosed the deployment of supplementary naval forces to the Red Sea and Mediterranean in response to intelligence reeceived of an impending Iranian offensive. The USS Florida guided missile submarine, which can carry 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles, was ordered to sail to the Red Sea; a squadron of A-10 strike aircraft was posted to the Mediterranean.

DJ...An Iranian offensive ?  Does the US mean Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Türkiye kicking out the US  out of Syria and Iraq? 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQFRV_ijQ4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQFRV_ijQ4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQFRV_ijQ4 ;Macron & Ursula, disaster trip to Beijing

DJ...Linking to Global Times may be a problem on this site...China view however is the EU, France now see China as a diplomatic oppertunity to end the Ukraine war....So from a Chinese perspective lots of European "leaders" coming to Bejing (recieved without ceremony however..."as tourists"...) the EU may be willing to give China a role...China did END !!! talks with the US....

So the US-goal of breaking Russia-China links do need a different route...

DJ-How united is "the west"? Europe still buying lots of Russian energy via other countries...no longer in US$...Japan even ignoring a price cap on energy...involved in Russian oil projects in East Asia (Sachalin)...

-The New Atlas/NA [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU74rUubi4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU74rUubi4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU74rUubi4 ;

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for April 9, 2023: - US arms shipments have drastically dwindled, the majority of weapons pledged require contracts that will take weeks, months, even years to fulfill; - The NYT admits arms shipments may not be adequate for the upcoming Ukrainian offensive expected to begin within 2-3 weeks; - Leaked NATO plans regarding Ukraine may have been fabricated by NATO and leaked through authentic means to reinforce other ongoing deceptions; - 2013 US government-funded polls regarding Crimea and Ukraine indicate that the nation was divided, many favored Russia or had affinity for Russia and the Russian language was at least as widely spoken nationwide as Ukrainian; 

DJ, Military Summary/MS mentioned Ukraine launched a rocket from south of Odessa to the Crimea-bridge; 400 kilometer range...Ukraine "with US help" now has long range weapons...

DJ-However Ukraine very likely will have very limited numbers of those missiles...NA view; Ukraine already lost two armies...another offensive could mean losing yet another army-this time the west may not be able to replace losses...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 11:00pm

DJ, Lots of discussion on the value/goal of "secrets leaking out"....Russia would have 97% of its army in Ukraine-also a claim made by UK min-of-war ben wallace...mid february...DJ-Maybe 97% of the Russian western region ? But even then the numbers do not make much sense...still NATO policies/intel did not make much sense...And why are western propaganda outlets (nytimes, bbc) publishing it ? 

One reason even western war-industry owned "media" can not ignore it may be there are plans for more media censorship ? If you are not 100% pro-NATO you are "bad" propaganda ? 

Another-likely-reason is in the military informed people are getting fed up with the non-sense "intel" has to come up for "political reasons"...

DJ, like the pandemic, climate collapse "politics" only willing to fund "studies" that claim "politics do a good job"...even when the system is collapsing...

One interesting "leak" (march 1) was Ukraine running out of air defense (S300, BUK)...however Russia does not need leaks for that...Ukraine will defend less and less against Russian drones and missiles...Without both no real Ukraine air force AND air defense starting any other offensive is even more insane...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anticipated-ukrainian-counter-offensive-potentially-marred-plans-leak-reports[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anticipated-ukrainian-counter-offensive-potentially-marred-plans-leak-reports - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anticipated-ukrainian-counter-offensive-potentially-marred-plans-leak-reports DJ-the "dis-information/propaganda" does not need "leaks"....however if western "top-intel" see some of their "top secret insanity" leaked they may start worrying about the massive opposition against this -most insane- other NATO war...

DJ-Russia, China are "not free" in many ways...the "west" has some basic values on an individual level (based on western history-much less collective then in Asia) we could lose...AGAIN-confrontation against Russia-Iran-China is a  strategy that only is weakening-destroying- the west...Diplomacy may have kept the west still in a "strong" position..."We have become our main enemy ourselves"....


see also [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-europe-should-reduce-dependence-us-dollar-seek-strategic-autonomy[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-europe-should-reduce-dependence-us-dollar-seek-strategic-autonomy - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-europe-should-reduce-dependence-us-dollar-seek-strategic-autonomy ;

After spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of a three-day state visit to China, Macron made extremely clear that France wants nothing to do with WWIII, emphasizing that Europe must employ "strategic autonomy," presumably led by France, to become a "third superpower," according to  https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/" style='box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>.

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China agrees

Macron's concept of strategic autonomy was 'enthusiastically endorsed' by Xi and the CCP, who have been focusing on the notion that the West is in decline while China rises, and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will accelerate this trend.

DJ;


my basic view...There is something very wrong in the US "political elite" when they end up with bush-jr, h.clinton, d.trump, j.biden...Somehow good intelligent US leaders are stopped from getting in leading positions...In Europe the political elite act as US slaves...is out of touch with the population...We have seen it all before...1776, 1789, 1917....

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[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-deploys-guided-missile-sub-gulf-region-amid-iran-tensions-heightened-russia[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-deploys-guided-missile-sub-gulf-region-amid-iran-tensions-heightened-russia - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-deploys-guided-missile-sub-gulf-region-amid-iran-tensions-heightened-russia ;

It remains rare that the US Navy would publicly disclose the location or deployment of submarines wherever they are globally. Likely the submarine could patrol the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway, frequented by international oil tankers, which also has a heavy IRGC Navy presence given some of it comprises Iranian territorial waters near the coast.

The Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/gulf-tensions-us-submarine-iran-74d6bc9cf2b8781edab7b081151914ae?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - notes that "The U.S. Navy has also reported https://apnews.com/article/politics-iran-navy-dubai-abf52e1f3bc472239906a5ebaf4156f1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - a series of tense encounters at sea with Iranian forces that it said were being recklessly aggressive."

But this new submarine deployment could also be part of US muscle-flexing as both Russia and China have been increasing their naval presence in the gulf.

Just last month, Russia, China and Iran held multiple days of joint drills in the Gulf of Oman, dubbed "Security Belt 2023". Additionally, this past week saw a Russian warship dock at a Saudi Arabian port for the first time in a decade

DJ...the "west" did send a lot of weapons to Ukraine for a land war...But the west still has lots of weapons for a sea/air war...

However!;

-Western currencies may NO LONGER !!! be under western control ! De-dollar-ization will push up US inflation...switching from dollars to euro's could "pump up/blow up" the euro...There is only "limited room" for a petro-yuan...So 'dumping the dollar" only can be done by using a lot of other currencies...

-Just like the US is dreaming of breaking up the Russia-China link (US "pressure" only increasing Russia-China cooperation...) Russia, China will like to see a "wider gap" between the US, UK, EU...DJ-My view...we ended up in this major crisis because of j.biden...The "US democrats pseudo religion" Putin made trump US president so take revenge.."Russia has to be weak"...

-Putin may be more popular in some western countries then the "local leaders"...biden, macron, scholz, rutte...Most western citizens see problems grow...no solutions...

-The number of "western enemies" is growing...from Venezuela, Nicaragua to Russia, Iran, China...does the west want regime change in Türkiye ? Saudi Arabia ? Again in Pakistan ? NATO could NOT win in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...only did bring destruction...slave trade/refugees...The "rest" of the world is no longer waiting for this kind of "western help"...

[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-intel-chief-damage-to-israels-national-security-may-be-irreversible/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-intel-chief-damage-to-israels-national-security-may-be-irreversible/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-intel-chief-damage-to-israels-national-security-may-be-irreversible/ ; 

In interview with Zman Yisrael, Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman says he no longer trusts Netanyahu on matters of security, cautions premier may no longer be thinking rationally

DJ...if western population lose trust in their leaders...should we then start world war three ?????

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Russia,Iran, China did NOT close all doors-for the west- for diplomacy...They however are "done" with the US...

One of a possible western goal could be keeping the US$ a leading global currency...but even here Europe, UK may not be willing to start a global war...The biden-clan may be dreaming of "regime change", breaking up of Russia...Europe is NOT waiting for the chaos such an unlikely scenario will bring (Yugoslavia XXXL)...

The "west" no longer is united...EU may have followed the US in Ukraine...not stopped the US ending of an Iran-deal...but the EU/UK may decide they want relations with China...

DJ-To end it for today a reminder...Nordstream can be repaired...it will be an expensive high-tech job...If the Ukraine war is over lots of other routes for Russia-EU energy trade will reopen...

If the west can NOT unite at certain goals-what is the point of the Ukraine war ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 2:40am

DJ-The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gccubj-dAC0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gccubj-dAC0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gccubj-dAC0 ; Russia and Belarus, the Union State prevents regime change

there is some "talk" of recreating a [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth Poland-Ukraine-Baltics-Belarus/western Russia in a "new country"...In western Ukraine some start burning Russian orthodox churches...The New Atlas also recently mentioned new azov-groups; neo-nazi symbols, getting NATO weapons...

DJ-In Syria, Iraq, even earlier in Afghanistan "the west" organized "jihadi terrorists" -From a historic perspective "who financed nazi-germany" ? well-you may not welcome the answer...With stalin in the Soviet Union not a good enough excuse...

DJ-I think a US president has to unite the country-not divide it even further...trump was yet another US political disaster-still [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/flash-trump-posting-on-truth-social-world-war-iii[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/flash-trump-posting-on-truth-social-world-war-iii - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/flash-trump-posting-on-truth-social-world-war-iii ;

President Donald Trump took to his social media account this afternoon and posted "WORLD WAR III" . . . nothing else.   S going to HTF is my guess . . .

I am endeavoring to find out what may be going on worldwide that would give rise to a man like him, making a posting like that.  On Easter Sunday, no less.

Something's up . . . something big.

UPDATE 8:15 PM EDT --

BRICS+ is taking over and there’s nothing the West can do about it. The US dollar won’t be the worlds reserve currency and the US Govt won’t be able to print money on the backs of other nations. US Govt bonds will be junk because of insane US debt. The End

Top 10 Nations by natural resources:

RUSSIA$75 trillionBRICS+
UNITED STATES$45 trillionThe West
SAUDI ARABIA$35 trillionBRICS+
CANADA$33 trillionThe West
IRAN$27 trillionBRICS+
CHINA$23 trillionBRICS+
BRAZIL$22 trillionBRICS+
AUSTRALIA$20 trillionThe West
IRAQ$16 trillionBRICS+
VENEZUELA$14 trillionBRICS+

       Multipolar world wins!

 

FRANCE ABANDONING U.S.

FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON on the plane returning from his 3-day trip to China: "Europe should reduce its dependence on the extraterritoriality of the U.S. dollar... If the tensions between the two superpowers heat up … we won’t have the time nor the resources to finance our strategic autonomy and we will become vassals.”     

MACRON also said: "Europe must reduce its dependency on the US and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan."   So not only is France abandoning the US, they are now actively encouraging Europe to do the same.  Bear in mind, France just conducted the first-ever transaction for Liquified Natural Gas in a currency OTHER THAN the U.S. Dollar!   So the French are cutting off their use of our Dollars as well.

 

EUROPEAN UNION

Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the "European Commission" (of un-elected tyrants) departed the PRC through a regular terminal at the airport with baggage screening and passport checks, just like any other nobody.  Notice the look on her face as she has to be around us commoners . . . 

China's amazing "dis" of the head of the European Commission in this way -- and in such a public manner, is a statement by China that the EU isn't even worth paying attention to.   Not militarily, and not with its "EURO" currency.    It shows that the EU doesn't matter anymore.  Not in the coming version of the world. 

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The Germans are asking the Kremlin to allow them to produce cars in Russia. The German publication Speigel reports that it has sent a three-page letter to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to resume cooperation.

This shows that EU Sanctions against Russia are literally starting to come apart at the seams.   If trade with Russia resumes in any meaningful way, the West ENTIRE plan in Ukraine and to takeover Russia, will fail before it starts.  

 

CHINA

China controls 98% of the world's rare earth Minerals  production and plans to ban their export to the US for national security reasons!

The U.S. __must__ have some of those rare earth minerals to manufacture for our Military.  Without those rare earth minerals, our military might - and the accuracy of our weaponry in particular - is __gutted__.    No more playing Globo-Cop; except it won't be by OUR choice, it will be forced upon us by China.

 

UKRAINE

Ukrainian medium-range air defense systems will be completely depleted by May 23.

They will be able to withstand only two or three more waves of blows. /The Washington Post, citing Pentagon documents/ Air defense systems

NASAMS, Iris-T, and Patriot Missile Systems will soon arrive in Ukraine, said Yuri Ignat, adviser to the country's Air Force Command.   Not certain if - or how many such systems - can arrive in Ukraine before May 23.

If Russia strikes 3, 4, or more times, Ukraine will be finished before May 23.   This __may__ prompt a direct NATO entry, and thus . . . WW3.

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Russia is moving elite units of its army, including paratroopers, to Bakhmut.  Wagner PMC has suffered very severe losses, but has gained significant ground there.  Now, the regular Russian Army is sending its units.   

If  (OOOOPS)  WHEN Russia takes Bakhmut, the entire south and southeast of Ukraine will be cut off from supplies.  It will likely fold fast.  Again, another possible reason for NATO to come "all-in" and thus trigger WW3.

All these developments are troubling, but I am not sure any of them individually, or all of them collectively, get us to what President Trump said: "World War 3."

 

More if I get it.

DJ...my view....the US may no longer be in a position to start or continu a major conflict....

-Lots of NATO allies do NOT want more war...neither further escalation in Ukraine or more conflict with Iran, China...

-The US itself may be moving towards a dollar/energy crisis....basic materials needed to produce weapons are no longer under US control...

-Russia and China by now could be moving towards "ways" to deny the US "first strike capacity"...via Electronic Warfare, hypersonic weapons (laser) possibly able to "destroy" US/western nuclear weapons within seconds after launch...so still over "western territory"....

-On top of that Russia/China could try to find ways to unable western communications...

The real battle only has de-dollar-ization, energy/raw materials control, logistics as one aspect. The technical (cyber warfare, electronic warfare) aspect may be full of surprises...

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[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-to-help-yourself-and-others-when-acute-anxiety-hits-during-rocket-attacks/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-to-help-yourself-and-others-when-acute-anxiety-hits-during-rocket-attacks/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-to-help-yourself-and-others-when-acute-anxiety-hits-during-rocket-attacks/ ;

As a teacher, Lisa Biton was trained how to respond when incoming rocket sirens blared. Fortunately, the Kiryat Gat resident knew how to act when she was recently at a large family holiday gathering in Sderot, near the Gaza border, and the red alert system sounded. There were only 15 seconds to get to the bomb shelter, but Biton’s in-laws froze. She touched them on the shoulder, gently yet firmly got their attention, and shepherded them quickly to safety.

“I got them to stay in the moment. I reassured them that they were with me, and that we were going to be okay,” Biton said.

Biton’s in-laws’ reaction was a common manifestation of acute stress and anxiety (harada in Hebrew) that can be expected in response to recent events in Israel, including rocket attacks from Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, and an uptick in terror attacks on both sides of the Green Line.

DJ, most citizens do NOT ask for war....political insanity has to stop....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 7:58am

DJ, 


[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/unconfirmed-reports-a-missile-strike-killed-brother-of-bashar-assad[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/unconfirmed-reports-a-missile-strike-killed-brother-of-bashar-assad - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/unconfirmed-reports-a-missile-strike-killed-brother-of-bashar-assad ;

Reports are coming in indicating that a missile strike by an "unknown" aircraft, killed the BROTHER of Syria President Bashar Assad along with some Iranian officials in Syria.

Again, these reports are, as yet, UNCONFIRMED.   Working to get more info.

see also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad  

Maher al-Assad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Arabic language - Arabic : مَاهِرُ ٱلْ£َسَدِ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Romanization of Arabic - romanized : Māhir al-ʾAsad, born 8 December 1967) is a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Syria - Syrian general and commander of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Guard_(Syria)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Republican Guard (Syria) - Republican Guard and the army's elite  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Armoured_Division_(Syria)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="4th Armoured Division (Syria) - Fourth Armoured Division , which together with Syria's secret police form the core of the country's security forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-EUsanctions2-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [8] He is also a member of the Central Committee of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party_(Syrian-dominated_faction)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction) - the Ba'ath Party's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region - Syrian Regional Branch . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-George2003-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [9] He is thought by some to be the second-most powerful man in Syria after his brother  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Bashar al-Assad - Bashar , the current President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [10]

Maher is described by analysts as preferring  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Iran - Iran (as opposed to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Russia - Russia ) to play the largest role as the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Government" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Syrian Government - Syrian Government's main ally during the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Syrian Civil War - Syrian Civil War and subsequent post-war reconstruction. This is in contrast to the position of Major General  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suheil_al-Hassan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Suheil al-Hassan - Suheil al-Hassan , commander of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_25_Special_Mission_Forces" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Division 25 Special Mission Forces - Division 25 Special Mission Forces who has gained much influence as a result of his activities during the Syrian Civil War, who was reported as preferring Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_al-Assad#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [14]

DJ...no confirmation on the death of Maher al-Assad....anywhere...

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[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-aircraft-carrier-seals-taiwan-sends-58-planes-buzz-island[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-aircraft-carrier-seals-taiwan-sends-58-planes-buzz-island - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-aircraft-carrier-seals-taiwan-sends-58-planes-buzz-island ;

China has continued its major show of force aimed at Taiwan in the wake of last week's meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week. 

The PLA military says it is rehearsing "sealing off" Taiwan for its third day of wargames, with Monday reports  https://www.thejournal.ie/china-simulates-strikes-taiwan-military-drills-6040238-Apr2023/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - citing at least 58 planes buzzing the island as well as nine warships coming toward its territorial waters. 

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DJ, Taiwan does see itself as part of China...it is 9again) the US creating problems...Korea may be on its way to reunification-just like China (with Taiwan)...it is a matter of time...

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[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-leak-us-believes-israel-can-be-pressured-to-supply-lethal-arms-to-ukraine/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-leak-us-believes-israel-can-be-pressured-to-supply-lethal-arms-to-ukraine/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-leak-us-believes-israel-can-be-pressured-to-supply-lethal-arms-to-ukraine/ ;

Documents reported by US media say Washington thinks Jerusalem can be convinced to let third parties supply Kyiv with weapons including surface-to-air and anti-tank missiles

DJ...this indirect route would allow Israel to keep relations with Russia and China...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 11:12pm

DJ-my view...

-Macron [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipo Macron-China panic. Ursula exits China, passport check. Telegraph Putin fantasy; Et tu, Brute? U/1

Alex Christoforou/AC may give a good description of EU-China recent contact. "ursula" supposed to "lead the EU" 9into disaster ?) was separated from macron. Macron his visit-with lots of French bussinesspeople-was planned...China is willing to do trade..."make trade not war"....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/parting-gift-xi-widespread-anger-west-over-macrons-call-stay-out-taiwan-crisis[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/parting-gift-xi-widespread-anger-west-over-macrons-call-stay-out-taiwan-crisis - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/parting-gift-xi-widespread-anger-west-over-macrons-call-stay-out-taiwan-crisis ;

Both the content and timing of French President Emanuel Macron's statements to the press coming off his China trip wherein he urged Europe to step aside from US-China quarrels over Taiwan is driving anger among some Western officials and pundits. As we https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-europe-should-reduce-dependence-us-dollar-seek-strategic-autonomy" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - highlighted yesterday , the statements were widely seen as very 'China-friendly', causing fury especially in Washington at a moment Chinese PLA jets and warships have again conducted  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-aircraft-carrier-seals-taiwan-sends-58-planes-buzz-island" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - encircling drills threatening the democratic-run island.

Macron's articulating a concept of strategic autonomy for Europe was 'enthusiastically endorsed' by Xi and the CCP, who have been focusing on the notion that the West is in decline while China rises, and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will accelerate this trend. "The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers," said Macron. "The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction."

DJ...of course Europe, the EU, should have "corrected" the US years ago...it is very late....Let me be very clear [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act ; known informally as the Hague Invasion Act

is totally unacceptable ! My country-NL-should have "limited" diplomatic relations with the US untill this law was withdrawn...NL was the first country to recognize the US in 1776...The US should not even think of threatening NL...Somehow "politicians for sale" accept this kind of US agression...The US is even allowed to blow up Nordstream...NL-Europe is even willing to blame Russia for MH17...while lots of evidence point to Ukraine...but that did not fit a "political agenda"....

So are we at "breaking point" in US-EU relations ? 

We are getting closer....One major point is "European leaders for sale" are out of contact with most of the voters...."traitors" may be a fitting word for most "politicians"....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Me_Home[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Me_Home - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Me_Home ; 

The film follows several homeless people living on the streets of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="West Coast of the United States - West Coast of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Me_Home#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Me_Home#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [4]

 [url]https://www.netflix.com/nl/title/81240756[/url] or https://www.netflix.com/nl/title/81240756 - https://www.netflix.com/nl/title/81240756  

Geopolitics [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L29BckDIld8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L29BckDIld8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L29BckDIld8 ;The Taiwan question is complex and often tense, particularly when it comes to the attempt of Taiwan's independence. Recently, tensions have escalated even further as news about the military exchanges between Taiwan and NATO since 2018. China has warned that it will take necessary steps to prevent Taiwan from being a member of NATO, including military intervention if necessary. The settlement of the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese people themselves, and any attempt to separate Taiwan from China is doomed to failure. Please Subscribe to the following channels. Cyrus Janssen :  https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @cyrusjanssen    The New Atlas (Brian Berletic)  https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @thenewatlas    Reporterfy Media (Alex) :  https://www.youtube.com/@Reporterfy" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @reporterfy    iChongqing :  https://www.youtube.com/@iChongqing" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline-flex; color: inherit; align-items: center;" tabindex="0" target="">  / @ichongqing    @TheNewAtlas   @CyrusJanssen   @Reporterfy   @iChongqing  

DJ..."politics for sale" still call NATO "defensive"...the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization is working with all kinds of "groups" IS, alquaida, Azov-neo nazi's, MEK, Baluchi, Uyghur and othe extremists to keep the "US #1"....NATO is involved in all kinds of terrorism all over the globe...where there is oil there is NATO trying to keep that oil under western control...

By now "the rest" of the world is getting totally fed up with western crimes...from stealing Syria, Iraq oil to Afghan, Venezuela, Russia bank accounts...The rest of the world now recognizes-has the room to recognize-the west as criminal racists...

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Like most wars also the Ukraine war was both preventable and is making a lot of profit for the war-industry...The French has their own major defense industry...so macron "breaking" with the US is supposed to help French weapon sales...energy interests (nuclear power plants). 

[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-the-state-of-israel-turns-75-author-daniel-gordis-asks-is-it-a-success-story/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-the-state-of-israel-turns-75-author-daniel-gordis-asks-is-it-a-success-story/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-the-state-of-israel-turns-75-author-daniel-gordis-asks-is-it-a-success-story/  

DJ-The first country to recognize (1948) Israel was the Soviet Union...Israel-my view-could be a motor for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA)...to much energy was put into Israel as a destructive factor for the region...

Israel has to become constructive or face destruction...Other countries in the region, Russia, China, India want Israel to become constructive...not a US crusade state working only for US interests...

Maybe Israel may be a good indicator for how "the world" will be able to deal with Asia becoming the new global dominant power...

The US is destroying itself, Europe needs to go for European interests...IF Europe would "break" with present US insanity it may save the world from global war...

AC mentioned zelensky may visit Germany next month...to get some "prize"...no doubt also discussion on "new strategies"....I expect massive protests against both clown zelensky and a corrupt political elite pushing for unwanted, unneeded wars...

We may be at a turning point...further escalation means "the end" and for what ? Citizens in the west deserve better then ending up paying for a rich elite only getting more rich...

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DJ-I live in NL...I enjoy the freedom to write very critical writings...Even in the US, UK, it may be "a problem" to write what I do...(I was not planning to go there any time soon...)...So YES !!! There are "western values" to defend ! 

But who is attacking those freedoms ? Who is the major threat ? My view is "politics-for-sale" -inside the west-are the major risk. Direct by silencing critics, indirect by making the west so much weaker...In many ways Russia, China...even India is not that "free"....

I want good public healthcare, eduction, public housing, transport...most "normal citizens" welcome that all over the world..."Civilization"...good things for all-not just a rich elite...

If that is "socialism" okay ! If "capitalism" only gives basic rights to the rich that "unbalanced" capitalism is NOT my thing...

[url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/08/wtux-a08.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/08/wtux-a08.html - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/08/wtux-a08.html ;

Two processes dominate this year’s celebration of the international unity of the working class: the war in Ukraine, which is escalating toward a global conflagration, and an international resurgence of the class struggle. These two processes are profoundly related. The same economic, geopolitical and social contradictions that drive the imperialist ruling elites onto the path of war provide the objective impulse for the radicalization of the working class and the outbreak of revolutionary struggles.

DJ...I may not agree with WSWS all the way...but when making a choice between more endless NATO wars or good public services I know where I stand !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 12 2023 at 2:52am

DJ, 

Let me show some optimism...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IpzrBH_EI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IpzrBH_EI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IpzrBH_EI The Duran;

Zelensky in a box, offensive success in doubt. Neocon Plan B, push Poland into conflict

by now even most in the west start realizing an insane group of US elite is pushing for global chaos to "maintain US dominance"....even if it would bring global disaster. 

The goal of the crazy US/UK elite is NOT to win wars but to have -endless- wars for wich endless flow of weapons/profits are needed...

Maybe there is a link to pandemics, climate change...why solve a problem if the problem gets you rich....? 

Macron/France has to move out of this US made mess...-other countries will follow...in fact Saudi Arabia, Türkiye allready de facto did break with this insane US "foreign policy"...Israel may break ties with the US after info leaked the US is supporting protests in Israel...

Here in NL refugees-living in tents for months-are on hungerstrike...Italy moving into state of emergency with over 10,000 refugees per month...Poland, Türkiye dealing with millions of refugees all because of insane US made wars....

The way out of this chaos is breaking with the (present) US...dumping the US$....Maybe NATO will remain in name...but soon may become an empty shell...

Ukraine is running out of both soldiers and weapons...this US made war did destroy Ukraine for what ? 

If BRICS want to show themselves as a better alternative-welcome new members...it has to come up with constructive plans to get the world out of wars...

In fact the only way to do that is isolate the problem...the US/UK may be the major problem....

Is there a nuclear risk ? YES...but will the US "nuke the world"....the present US "elite" is crazy enough...the sooner the world is saved from these idiots the better...Even in the US there is growing awareness the US elite is the -global- problem....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 13 2023 at 12:38am

DJ, 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1b_Yrw1Vs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1b_Yrw1Vs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1b_Yrw1Vs   and India-Hindustan Times [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbN-1GJYoc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbN-1GJYoc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbN-1GJYoc ; French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped his attack on United States. In his second big attack in recent days, Macron said that the European states or allies are not the "vassal" of United States and that they have a right to think about their own interests. Macron's comments came in the context of EU's position on Taiwan amid recent escalation between US and China over House Speaker's meeting with Island's president. Watch the video for more details.

In Europe macron may get some support in his views on Taiwan being part of China....Europe may be facing the worst refugee crisis since 1945...and is not waiting for more refugees or US-made crises....If the US/UK want more wars with Iran, China they may have to do so without European support....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dc-think-tanks-seething-anger-saudis-welcome-syrian-foreign-minister[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dc-think-tanks-seething-anger-saudis-welcome-syrian-foreign-minister - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dc-think-tanks-seething-anger-saudis-welcome-syrian-foreign-minister ; 

In what's being widely seen as a precursor to a future Assad visit and normalization of ties, Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first time a Syrian FM has visited the kingdom since 2011.

The more than decade-long war in Syria, which was heavily funded by the US, NATO, and Gulf states as part of regime change efforts to oust Bashar al-Assad, saw not only the Saudis but the majority of Gulf countries formally sever ties and shutter their embassies

DJ, Iran is a strategic partner for Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Türkiye...Asia is becoming more and more an integrated economy...

The US is not willing to face reality....sanctions on Russia are a total failure...even Ukraine is buying Russian energy...[url]https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy?[/url] or https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy? - https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy? ;

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.

What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”

“Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians,” one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. “And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions” on it.

DJ....[url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-planned-to-supply-thousands-of-rockets-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war-report/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-planned-to-supply-thousands-of-rockets-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war-report/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-planned-to-supply-thousands-of-rockets-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war-report/ ;

US intel leaks indicate Cairo sought to export 40,000 missiles, other equipment; Sissi instructed a minister to provide the arms, but ‘avoid problems with West’

so the "west" is pushing an illusion....with the EU not willing to destroy its economy by destroying the Euro or trade with China, India...

Alexander Mercouris/AM in The Duran discussed a possible "plan B" -to get Poland moving into Ukraine...both Poland and Ukraine may rethink such a very unwise idea...it would further increase the gap between Poland and the rest of the EU....

"EU-ursula" got insulted earlier by Türkiye, now by China...after Merkel now macron could go for a leading role in Europe....AM questions if macron will go against the US long enough, strong enough...DJ-but it is not only Macron-France that is getting fed up with US and UK endless wars...

Macron may have to show himself as defender of French interests in the world to remain in power in France...[url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/12/police-arrest-protestors-ran-towards-emmanuel-macron-univ-amsterdam-visit[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/12/police-arrest-protestors-ran-towards-emmanuel-macron-univ-amsterdam-visit - https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/12/police-arrest-protestors-ran-towards-emmanuel-macron-univ-amsterdam-visit   and [url]https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230411-president-macron-to-visit-netherlands-amid-row-over-china-comments[/url] or https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230411-president-macron-to-visit-netherlands-amid-row-over-china-comments - https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230411-president-macron-to-visit-netherlands-amid-row-over-china-comments  

AM also mentions for China goals are;

-buying time to be better prepared for a conflict with the US

-breaking up the west

-DJ-China also wants to show itself as a global player able to get results...where the US (and UK) now only create chaos...

Another point is can the US "skip" the Ukraine war to start a Taiwan war ? Is biden that crazy he could claim "Ukraine did beat Russia" simply further denying reality ? 

The US foreign policy is insane....DJ-There most likely will be lots of groups in the US that are aware urgent changes are needed NOW !!! Otherwise the US ends up isolated (and the UK is split up-with a united Ireland, Scotland in the EU...) and bankrupt...in confrontation even with Europe...

Maybe Obama, some "moderate" democrats, republicans, independent US leaders may start an impeachement [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States[/url] or  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States  to get rid of a destructive cult in fact destroying the US....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 13 2023 at 10:48pm

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5RICEQYEg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5RICEQYEg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5RICEQYEg Military Summary/MS;

Poland-Ukraine Union. Wagner is Unstoppable. Second Port. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.13

DJ, Poland-the present Polish "government of extremist catholics" rural backing, may push for further escalation...however the present government is facing also farmer protests...Poland -in support of Ukraine- is now importing agriculture products from Ukraine and selling it in the EU as Polish products...So Polish farmers end up with lower prices for their products...

In the more western and urban Polish areas the present [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice may only get more hate...

During its foundation, it sought to position itself as a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Centrism - centrist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Christian democracy - Christian democratic party, although shortly after, it adopted more  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_conservatism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Cultural conservatism - culturally and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Social conservatism - socially conservative views and began their shift to the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Right-wing politics - right . Under Kaczyński's  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_conservatism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="National conservatism - national-conservative and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Law and order - law and order agenda, PiS embraced the principles of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_interventionism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Economic interventionism - economic interventionism . It has also pursued close relations with the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Catholic Church - Catholic Church , although in 2011, the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Christian nationalism - Catholic-nationalist faction split off to form  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Poland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="United Poland - United Poland . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice#cite_note-no_Christian_Democracy_in_Poland-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [3] During the 2010s, it also adopted  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Right-wing populism - right-wing populist positions. After regaining power, PiS gained popularity with transfer payments to families with children, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [4] but attracted international criticism and domestic protest movements by dismantling liberal-democratic  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checks_and_balances" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Checks and balances - checks and balances . Political scientists have characterized the party's governance as  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Illiberal democracy - illiberal or  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Authoritarian - authoritarian . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [5]

It is a member of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Reformists_Party" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="European Conservatives and Reformists Party - European Conservatives and Reformists , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [6] and on national-level, it heads the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Right_(Poland)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="United Right (Poland) - United Right coalition. It currently holds 198 seats in the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Sejm - Sejm and 44 in the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Poland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Senate of Poland - Senate .

DJ, Poland and Ukraine share a history. Both are "borderlands" [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology_and_orthography[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology_and_orthography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology_and_orthography ; 

The name of Ukraine likely comes from the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Slavic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Old Slavic - old Slavic term for "borderland", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [22] as does the word  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krajina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Krajina - krajina .

In the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="English-speaking world - English-speaking world during most of the 20th century, Ukraine (whether independent or not) was referred to as "the Ukraine". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-merriam-webster-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [23] This is because the word ukraina means "borderland" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [24] so the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Article (grammar) - definite article would be natural in the English language; this is similar to "Nederlanden", which means "low lands" and is rendered in English as "the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Netherlands - Netherlands ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [25] However, since Ukraine's  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Ukraine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Declaration of Independence of Ukraine - declaration of independence in 1991, this usage has become politicised and is now rarer, and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Style guide - style guides advise against its use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-UKrW812991TU-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [27] US ambassador  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Taylor_Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="William B. Taylor Jr. - William Taylor said that using "the Ukraine" implies disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [28] The official Ukrainian position is that "the Ukraine" is both grammatically and politically incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-BBC_News_Magazine-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [29]

and both Poland and Ukraine ended up being part of Germany and/or Russia in the last two hundred years...

-Germany, the EU, may NOT welcome Polish solo-actions...maybe the US,UK, Baltics/Finland(?) however could push for a larger role of Poland in the Ukraine war...

Russia will NOT accept Poland moving (major) borders eastward...but also Ukraine nationalists may not accept Polish/catholicism moving into Ukraine-orthodox territory...even with the western part of Ukraine being mostly catholic and Polish-it was part of Poland till 1939/World War Two...

For that matter the Polish-Ukraine "border conflict" could be seen as a different conflict...Most Polish hate Russians, a struggle for a Polish identity may be part of Polish history...(and Ukraine may be in the same identity crisis). 

-Can Poland (population 37,8 million) make a difference ? It is already very involved in the Ukraine war with lots of "Polish volunteers" fighting for Kiev...lots of Polish weapons being used...So increasing a Polish role in this war may only make a major difference if "the west" would allow it...send lots of military goods to Poland...

NATO will think twice in activating article 5 if Russia would attack Polish military bases when those bases are used to attack (Pro)Russian forces in Ukraine/Belarus...So far the NATO goal was to contain the war mostly to Ukraine..."weakening Russia"...So "Polish activism" may increase NATO members trying to find ways to "limit the war"...

A larger role for Poland would damage the EU. Poland was next in line to move towards the Euro...lots of Polish work in western Europe...It would move millions of Ukraine refugees now in Poland towards western Europe already facing the worst refugee crisis since World War Two...

-DJ, Most likely increasing a Polish role in the Ukraine war could "explode" the crisis that already is brewing inside Poland...maybe even start a sort of Polish civil war...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_civil_war[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_civil_war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_civil_war ...the western parts of Poland were part of Germany till 1945...

So increasing a Polish role in Ukraine may only make matters more complex, NOT increase the Ukraine chances...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 15 2023 at 1:38am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwmtqxMTJ0Y[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwmtqxMTJ0Y - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwmtqxMTJ0Y ;Lula in China, ditch USD. EU can't find Russian assets. NYT, WaPo, FBI find 21 yr. old 'leaker' U/1

Alex Christoforou/AC giving a good description of the present situation;

-Lots of "non-western" countries question why they would do international trade in US$

-Both EU,UK and US tried to "seize not freeze" Russian possessions in the west...believed to be 300 billion US$ in value...

  -legal issues are in the way

  -The west has no idea where most of the 300 billion Russian money is...

So the basic idea of financing the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine by stealing Russian possessions is another phantasy...

-The person able to leak US secrets was found via "free embedded press" owned by war industries...

-The US now willing to invest in one other "Ukraine" offensive-then switching to war with China...

DJ; In Ukraine (a.o. Military Summary-YouTube) tens-of-thousends pro-Kiev fighters getting trapped. Not only in Bakhmut but in several places. Betarus, Georgian, Polish (etc) "volunteers" will not very likely give up the fight...because they face Russian prison sentences. (with Kiev/western propaganda claiming Russia beheaded a Ukraine P.O.W. to try to keep Ukrainians from surrender). 

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/video-u-s-m1a1-abrams-tanks-already-inside-ukraine[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/video-u-s-m1a1-abrams-tanks-already-inside-ukraine - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/video-u-s-m1a1-abrams-tanks-already-inside-ukraine and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-surges-tanks-into-ukraine[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-surges-tanks-into-ukraine - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-surges-tanks-into-ukraine ; Over the past 24 hours, Russia has begun a very large "surge" of tanks and other heavy military equipment into Ukraine.  In the video below, a single train is seen carrying 36 more tanks, older T-62M models, into the war zone.

DJ...T62 tanks may be of use in urban areas to move into "urban fortresses"-maybe remote controlled ? IF Ukraine would start another offensive it can only do so with "lots of western help"...making it even more of a NATO-Russia war fought in Ukraine...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/covert-intel-north-korean-troops-on-the-move[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/covert-intel-north-korean-troops-on-the-move - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/covert-intel-north-korean-troops-on-the-move North Korean forces in Algeria ? Algeria has long lasting good relations with North Korea....Maybe North Korea has its own "Private Military Contractors" ?

[url]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/15/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-of-sudanese-capital-khartoum[/url] or https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/15/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-of-sudanese-capital-khartoum - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/15/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-of-sudanese-capital-khartoum coup in Sudan (to prevent Russia/China getting bases ?) 

-The EU [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/polish-pm-mocks-macron-favoring-severing-ties-us-appease-china[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/polish-pm-mocks-macron-favoring-severing-ties-us-appease-china - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/polish-pm-mocks-macron-favoring-severing-ties-us-appease-china ;

It's been no secret that US and Poland ties, particularly on the level of military coordination, have greatly accelerated in recent years. This has been especially on display since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Poland's prime minister on Thursday lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial China comments which came just after his visit with Xi Jinping. Mateusz Morawiecki openly mocked the French leader's call for European 'strategic autonomy', which included  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/macron-stands-by-remark-us-allies-not-vassals-china" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - follow-up comments about not being Washington's "vassals"

"European autonomy sounds fancy, doesn't it? But it means shifting the center of European gravity towards China and severing the ties with the US," Morawiecki said in response.

may only get more divided;

Poland, Baltics, Finland may follow US/UK pushing for further escalation...France-Macron-facing massive unrest has to find a way to limit the damage...Macron may get some support by playing on French nationalism...Both from the left and right in France there is lots of opposition not only about pension age but also on foreign policies...

NL is facing a massive refugee crisis...DJ-we could face tens-of-thousends of refugees sleeping in the streets...[url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/14/asylum-seekers-may-sleep-outside-reception-centers-rutte-said[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/14/asylum-seekers-may-sleep-outside-reception-centers-rutte-said - https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/14/asylum-seekers-may-sleep-outside-reception-centers-rutte-said  

Energy prices only expected to increase for the west-running out of reserves...next winter is a major problem. 

[url]https://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-polish-request-to-send-ukraine-5-mig-jets/a-65301536[/url] or https://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-polish-request-to-send-ukraine-5-mig-jets/a-65301536 - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-polish-request-to-send-ukraine-5-mig-jets/a-65301536 ;Germany has given its permission for formerly East German MiG fighter jets to be sent on to Ukraine. The swift approval comes just hours after Berlin said that it had received the application.

DJ Mig-29  from former East Germany have little use in Ukraine...(like using World War One planes in World War Two...)..."the west" is running out of weapons to send to Ukraine...

A next step may be sending NATO forces -large scale- into Ukraine...several reasons why "NATO" will not do that;

-The war is already unpopular in most NATO countries...Why NATO is in Ukraine ????

-More NATO forces will mean more NATO deaths...very likely Poland may have seen over 1,000 Polish deaths in Ukraine...

-Early 2022 the Ukraine army was supposed to be at NATO level...a strong army, NOT a minor force...it was destroyed by Russia

-Modern western high tech weapons in Ukraine did NOT do the expected job...

-The west is running out of finance and energy...

-Most EU countries want trade with China, Middle East, Africa...getting more involved in Ukraine will do even more diplomatic damage...

DJ-Outcome of this all may be;

-US/biden getting even more isolated...

-increase of risk US "going nuclear"...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 16 2023 at 2:42am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMF5B4hASo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMF5B4hASo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMF5B4hASo   Military Summary/MS;

Civil war in Sudan. Easter shelling of Donets. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.16

Some MS claims;

-In Sudan the "Rapid Support Forces" would be NATO sponsored...last week US,UK, Norway "diplomats" visited the RSF HQ

-Ukraine nazi's shelled-with NATO weapons- a church in Donets were there was an orthodox easter celebration...killing civilians

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ruthless-u-s-a-foments-coup-d-etat-in-sudan-just-two-weeks-after-russia-approachment[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ruthless-u-s-a-foments-coup-d-etat-in-sudan-just-two-weeks-after-russia-approachment - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ruthless-u-s-a-foments-coup-d-etat-in-sudan-just-two-weeks-after-russia-approachment ;

Two months ago, on February 9,  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited the African nation of Sudan.  One of the topics discussed: A Russian Naval Base on the Red Sea.   Here we are two months after that discussion, the U.S. has fomented a military Coup in Sudan. 

DJ...it looks like the US backed "rebels" (also responsible for war crimes in Darfur) are beaten by the Sudan (pro-BRICS) army...

[url]https://twitter.com/Anaminona/status/1647237435120578561/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/Anaminona/status/1647237435120578561/photo/1 - https://twitter.com/Anaminona/status/1647237435120578561/photo/1 a world map showing all possible new members of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa);

Latin America; Argentina, Nicaragua (DJ-Mexico, Cuba ???)

Africa; Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria (Ethiopia ??? Sudan ???)

Asia; Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazachstan, Indonesia (Thailand ??? Philippines ???)

Europe; Belarus ?????

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lula-peace-club-de-dollarization[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lula-peace-club-de-dollarization - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lula-peace-club-de-dollarization   DJ-This very "American" unrealistic view of Lula willing to make any deals with the US may reflect US blindness...Lula was kicked out as Brazil president because of US manipulations accusing him of corruption...In Brazil history it was the US always supporting fascism, military coups...(like NATO did support fascism/anti-communism around the globe resulting in mass murder...). 

[url]https://www.scottritterextra.com/[/url] or https://www.scottritterextra.com/ - https://www.scottritterextra.com/  


DJ, From stealing oil in Syria, Iraq to stealing bank accounts from Afghanistan, Venezuela...US criminal behavior is pushing the rest of the world away from the US high speed now there is an alternative...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/how-the-u-s-buys-its-allies[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/how-the-u-s-buys-its-allies - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/how-the-u-s-buys-its-allies ;

The U.S. is the only country that can print "unlimited" money and exchange it for real goods from other nations. This is due to the US Dollar's reserve status.
But do you know the U.S. can also extend this exorbitant privilege to an ally? Here's how the scam works...

If you want to understand how the U.S. defrauds the world, you need to know how reserve currency works and how the US Dollar (USD)  gained that status.

The tool that allows the U.S. to extend its exorbitant monetary privileges to an ally is called 'swap lines.' 'Swap lines' are agreements that enable one country to exchange its currency with the currency of another. This is done through their respective central banks.

Let's use the example of 'swap lines' between the U.S. & UK to illustrate how the scam works:
Countries are free to print their own currencies.
But only the U.S. can print "unlimited" amount of dollars without suffering hyperinflation due to the USD's reserve status.

That means the U.S. can generate "unlimited" amount of dollars out of thin air & exchange them for:
- tangible goods from China
- resources from Africa
- oil from the Middle East

That's "magic."
No other country can do that... unless the U.S. grants them a 'swap line.'

What if the UK wants a share of that "magic money"? The U.S. Fed can help. Here's how:
The Bank of England prints 1 trillion GBP. It then swaps that with the Fed for 1.25 trillion USD (the current exchange rate).
The UK has just indirectly printed 1.25 trillion USD!

Did you see the "magic" that just happened?

Unlike America, the UK cannot print GBP with impunity and allow all that excess "money" to enter the market. That would devalue the GBP & cause hyperinflation.
So it prints the GBP & swaps them for USD with the Fed instead.

In short, the U.S. defrauds the world with its USD, then uses 'swap lines' to share the spoils with its staunchest allies.

The U.S. can grant 'swap lines' to any country it wants.

Now do you understand why some countries are diehard supporters of the U.S. Empire?

Being a staunch US ally means they get to create money out of thin air thanks to the U.S.A.

DJ, In short the basics for a neo-colonial US global empire that now is ending...[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/how-china-is-breaking-the-colonial-effects-of-western-lending.html[/url] or  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/how-china-is-breaking-the-colonial-effects-of-western-lending.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/how-china-is-breaking-the-colonial-effects-of-western-lending.html  



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 16 2023 at 11:40pm

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-all-roads-lead-beijing[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-all-roads-lead-beijing - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-all-roads-lead-beijing DJ-A (short) description of the ongoing confrontation between "NATO" B&B = Bribes & Bombs based chaos and BRICS/China "make trade not war"...even macron/France rethinking why the EU is that involved in wars created by a criminal US elite...

Alex Christoforou [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rJfQK-5K0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rJfQK-5K0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rJfQK-5K0 ; Sudan conflict. Neocons, Crimea = regime change. Bolton, global NATO. Germany RIP nuclear power. U/1

DJ, blinkes on twitter "supporting democracy in Sudan" just prior before the (US bribed) coup attempt...bribes & bombs...


Are we at the beginning of a "War for Africa" ? 

One of the discussions is why the US is not doing more in the Middle East...One idea is the US-neo cons believe "regime change in Moscow" would return the rest of the world to US domination...Maybe Russia planning to open a navy base in Port Sudan ( Or another Red Sea Sudan port?) and the unstabile situation was  a "good oppertunity" for the US to start yet another "civil" war ? 

DJ-Most of Africa is moving away from a west keeping them poor in the hope BRICS+ may offer more perspectives...Africa still is seeing lots of wars (Eastern Congo/DRC is one of the longest, bloodiest wars going on...). 

The Saudi-Iran peace talks may end wars in a.o. Yemen, Syria...the US/UK pushed for those wars to "stop BRICS"....but "the west" will be kicked out "to give peace a chance"...

In Africa no doubt countries realize the only way forward is "get rid of" neo-colonialism...DJ-I hope BRICS offers a better alternative...for that matter a larger BRICS+ may limit China/Asia dominance...Still more then 50% of the global population live in Asia...(The US has a population of 335 million on a global population of 8 billion). 

-Pandemic relevance;

Both India and China (each a population of 1,4 billion !) are able to produce "pharma-products" on a global scale and are willing to provide the rest of the world without seeking profits...Iran/Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Brazil (a.o.) also have major pharma-industries...

Another aspect;

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- Brian Berletic

DJ, Even Russia with a population of 146 million is able to educate more engineers then the US...Public healthcare -for most of the world- is a national interest NOT just another for profit market...leaving millions without medical care...Education has to be available FOR ALL !!! Out of national interest ! Countries that leave millions homeless, addicted or even in prison (the US has 2 million people in prison-25% of global prisoners are in US prisons !!!) fail !

Politics has to work for public wellbeing not to get the rich only more rich at the cost of everybody else....

DJ; "Balanced capitalism" may be not bad...but when companies run politics capitalism is out of balance...I believe in the Rhineland model [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy ;is a socioeconomic model combining a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market_capitalist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Free-market capitalist - free-market capitalist  economic system alongside  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_policies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Social policies - social policies  and enough  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Regulation - regulation  to establish both  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_competition" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Fair competition - fair competition  within the market and generally a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Welfare state - welfare state . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [3]  It is sometimes classified as a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulated_market" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Regulated market - regulated market economy . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [4]

Once in Europe that "Rhineland model" was "the norm"...a healthy balance between public and private interests...That idea is now presented-even in NL- as "radical"....

The reason why in 2003 SARS-1 was limited, in 2019 SARS-2 became a pandemic is related to how governments do their job...Do they intervene...stop flying diseases around the globe...or is that "a market-job"....

Western neo-liberalism/neo-conservatism is a disaster bringing destruction... 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 17 2023 at 11:10pm

DJ, 

One way wars are used is "promotion of weapons" [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/military/leaked-document-shows-american-smart-bombs-are-failing-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/military/leaked-document-shows-american-smart-bombs-are-failing-ukraine - https://www.zerohedge.com/military/leaked-document-shows-american-smart-bombs-are-failing-ukraine ...in this story one could claim TWO sorts of weapons;

-1 US "smart bombs"

-2 Russian Electronic Warfare

In Ukraine Russian forces have night vision gear, better electronics detecting radar, mobile phones...in combination with more artillery/long distance weapons that results in Russia being able to destroy Ukraine/NATO targets sinding all kind of electronic signals...Since in a modern war you need communication that communication has to be protected. Not only the info has to remain within the own forces, also where the signal is coming from has to be "safe"...

No doubt US/NATO is sharing all kinds of satellite/electronic intel with Kiev-Russia has its own "electronic intel"...Global trade in weapons/warfare is a major bussiness...

- On top of that; [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table 

Russia is able to make anti-tank weapons at the cost of 5% (!!!) of similar US weapons..Some claim in practice those Russian weapons even do "a better job"...Russia has a state owned military industrial complex...not profit oriented...The western war-industry is profit only...

The Russian war-industry is able to spread long term costs (housing, supplies/storage) over a much longer time-so the costs per product is lower...Western war-industry has to first sell its product, promote it...then try to make profits...Bribes are not unusual in selling weapons...

DJ-This way of thinking one also can see in how countries deal with pandemics...In lots of countries public healthcare once did see vaccine production/pharma was a state-bussiness...NOT profit oriented...but public interest (like "defense" is supposed to be...). The "western way" of privatizing everything means companies have to go for short term goals...

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Sudan 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOdT367UTU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOdT367UTU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOdT367UTU makes the point Sudan has been in crisis since it became independent from the UK ....DJ It did break up in an Arab/Islamic North and African-Black/Christian South Sudan...

In the north Egypt is moving towards Russia-with a.o. Russian nuclear energy...In the east Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia now also BRICS+ oriented...In Djibouti China has a major Navy base...Russia was planning to get a small navy "station" in Port Sudan...

DJ-The sources I follow are "mixed" on what role the US is playing...Both the Sudan Army and the RSF-militia did have good contacts with both Russia and China...(Sudan is NOT a democracy...like in Egypt the army is doing a lot of bussinesses. Maybe "breaking up" in an Arab-East and African-West Sudan would give democracy more chances ? In combination with more African "EU-style" cooperation ? )


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DJ, It is very likely NATO/US is involved in the Sudan crisis...however since "the west" has lost as good as any bases in Africa a US push for "civil" war in Sudan very likely will only damage the US on the longer term...

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Ukraine [url]https://southfront.org/first-german-leopard-2a4-tank-destroyed-by-ukrainian-soldiers/[/url] or https://southfront.org/first-german-leopard-2a4-tank-destroyed-by-ukrainian-soldiers/ - https://southfront.org/first-german-leopard-2a4-tank-destroyed-by-ukrainian-soldiers/ ;

The photo reportedly shows the first Leopard 2A4 tank destroyed … by Ukrainian servicemen. Ukrainian crew fell from a hill and  stuck the German main battle tank into the ground and tore the gun away.

The incident took place on a training ground in Poland. It seems that the rapid training on the battlefield abroad was not enough for Ukrainian soldiers.

DJ, modern weapons are "high tech" and need long training...

[url]https://southfront.org/breaking-russian-fab-500-heavy-bombs-reportedly-began-destroying-ukrainian-grouping-in-bakhmut/[/url] or https://southfront.org/breaking-russian-fab-500-heavy-bombs-reportedly-began-destroying-ukrainian-grouping-in-bakhmut/ - https://southfront.org/breaking-russian-fab-500-heavy-bombs-reportedly-began-destroying-ukrainian-grouping-in-bakhmut/ ;

On the evening of April 17, the western part of Bakhmut was inflamed by large fire. According to preliminary reports, the Ukrainian military positions were hit by Russian high-precision FAB-500 bombs with planning and correction modules.

Presumably, at least one strike hit the fortified area of the Ukrainian 241st Territorial Defense Brigade near Khromovo and the motocross track in Bakhmut. Another strike reportedly hit the intersection of the roads used for transfer of Ukrainian ammunition near the Eighth pond in the west of the city.

The remaining Ukrainian grouping in Bakhmut is massively concentrated in the small area under their control in the west of Bakhmut. Strikes of Russian aviation with heavy bombs will inflict more heavy losses to the AFU and destroy the military equipment transferred to the city. The use of heavy bombs will speed up the liberation of the city and minimize the losses of Russian ground troops.

DJ...there are claims Ukraine could still have 10-15,000 soldiers in the western part of Bakhmut...they are getting killed ...Military Summary claims Ukraine did gather 80,000 soldiers for an offensive (on four targets) near Bakhmut...

[url]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/17/lavrov-to-meet-with-brazils-lula-as-us-fumes-over-ukraine-stance[/url] or https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/17/lavrov-to-meet-with-brazils-lula-as-us-fumes-over-ukraine-stance - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/17/lavrov-to-meet-with-brazils-lula-as-us-fumes-over-ukraine-stance DJ-Lula Brazil president does NOT support Russia in/on Ukraine however also notices the US is in the way of peace...(the Pope blaimed NATO for provoking the Ukraine war...). Western media/politics (owned by the war industry) claim Lula is spreading Russian propaganda...

DJ-India, Brazil, Indonesia try to "distance" themselves from the Ukraine war...however the US stand "if you are not with us you are against us" is damaging even further the "west"....

The US is incapable to any diplomacy...the west is ignoring history, over focussed on Ukraine/regime change in Moscow...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgD9fHW-46U[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgD9fHW-46U - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgD9fHW-46U ;New Atlas/NA

- US continues push for war with China over Taiwan’s status; - Officially the US (and the UN) recognizes Taiwan as part of China, unofficially the US promotes separatism; 

- China’s attempts to preserve its territorial integrity are depicted by Western governments and the media as “aggression;” 

- China’s military capabilities continue to grow, matching or exceeding US military capabilities;

 - Recent Chinese military exercises launched after Taiwan’s Tsai Ing Wen met with US representatives in the US included simulated precision-guided missile and rocket attacks on targets across Taiwan and an air and sea blockade; 

- Leaked US documents as well as US policy think tanks admit the armed forces of the Taiwan administration lack the capability to defeat any potential Chinese military operation; -

 Talk of creating a weapon stockpile on Taiwan to circumvent any future blockade fails to recognize many of the specified weapon systems have been severely depleted in Washington’s other proxy conflict in Ukraine;   

- Time is ultimately on China’s side, economically Taiwan is heavily integrated with the rest of China and political forces in Taiwan favoring the status quo or closer cooperation with the rest of China are growing in strength; - 

The January 2024 elections in Taiwan and the possibility a more reasonable administration may come into power might trigger increasingly dangerous US provocations between now and then; References: 

DJ...since the US/NATO is losing the Ukraine war the US trying other wars/conflicts...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/us-warship-sails-through-taiwan-strait-days-after-china-drills[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/us-warship-sails-through-taiwan-strait-days-after-china-drills - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/us-warship-sails-through-taiwan-strait-days-after-china-drills ...Since under UN rules, even US admits Taiwan is part of China...still the US keeps pushing for conflict...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-april-18-major-military-operation[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-april-18-major-military-operation - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/china-april-18-major-military-operation ; 

The Chinese Maritime Safety Administration has announced that the People’s Liberation Army Navy will be conducting a “Major Military Operation” in the Yellow Sea off the Coast of Qingdao on April 18th between 0900 and 1200 Local-Time.

This is the first time they have ever used the term "Major Military OPERATION."   Usually, they say "military exercise(s)"   Now, they're saying "operation."

Not quite certain what this entails.  ALso not certain why they gave less than 24 hours notice.   That part of China is about 12 hours AHEAD of US East Coast.

It is interesting to note Qingdao's location versus Seoul, South Korea . . . 

DJ...China is not in a hurry to "invade" Taiwan...China can block Taiwan (air)ports...Russia no doubt willing to show support...Taiwan is 90 miles from the coast of China...2,000 miles away from a major US base...(allthough the US has bases in South Korea and Japan...Okinawa a.o. is claimed by Taiwan/China and Korea...). 

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In general;

-The US may try to provoke more conflict, trying to break up Russia-China, BRICS, SCO,

-[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEcuc0Mtyg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEcuc0Mtyg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEcuc0Mtyg The Left Lens with Pepe Escobar; BRICS-SCO-EAEU (EurAsian Economic Union) working together on alternatives for the US$

-OPEC+ and BRICS/SCO control global energy trade

-The US-petro-$ is history...

-EU may be on the move to save the €/Euro, European economy...(US-biden behind blowing up Nordstream did destroy EU trust in the US...but breaking with the US is a security risk...DJ-Did macron/France discuss the Euro with Xi in China ? Could that explain macron claiming EU interests are not (always) the same as US interests ?). 

-Confrontation instead of diplomacy is destroying the US...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 12:10am

DJ, Since I do not claim to be an expert in anything;

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBF4ZzudO4U[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBF4ZzudO4U - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBF4ZzudO4U Military Summary/MS;

A Blessing Before The Battle. Bakhmut Grinder Still Works. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.18

and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wydszaQnUW4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wydszaQnUW4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wydszaQnUW4 The Duran/TD;

Chinese Defense Minister in Moscow. Preparing for the battle to come

so the picture is "not good"....

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2023/04/18/the-war-in-sudan-will-decide-africas-fate-a-deadly-battle-for-influence-and-gold/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2023/04/18/the-war-in-sudan-will-decide-africas-fate-a-deadly-battle-for-influence-and-gold/ - https://ejmagnier.com/2023/04/18/the-war-in-sudan-will-decide-africas-fate-a-deadly-battle-for-influence-and-gold/ ;

No country in the region is interested in continued instability in the Middle East at a time when talks are underway to bring together yesterday’s adversaries and restore relations between Syria, Iran and the Gulf states. As a result, the Middle East and Africa need an immediate ceasefire, rationality and respect for civilians. There are serious concerns that Sudan could be plunged into a war similar to that in Syria, which has lasted for more than a decade. There is also a severe risk that the war in Sudan could spill over into neighbouring countries, particularly in the volatile Sahel region of Africa.

The African Union has tried to reach out to both sides of the conflict but has yet to achieve a breakthrough, suggesting a lack of willingness on either side to end the civil war. Fighting for control of the presidential palace and airports has prevented a peace delegation from Kenya, South Sudan and Djibouti from reaching Khartoum’s insecure airport. Calls for an end to the fighting from the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia have fallen on deaf ears. Fierce fighting has rocked various parts of the capital and military bases in the east and west. At the same time, official buildings such as state television and several ministries have come under shelling and fire. Both sides are claiming victory over the other, but it is too early to tell which way the war is heading. It is true that the army is better equipped, with mechanised units and air support, and is more likely to have the upper hand in the end. But if the fighting continues, both forces will be exhausted.

DJ, of course the wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ukraine only could go on if the fighters get supplies...some "parties" keep the war going and are able to get "their fighters" supplied...With BRICS+ "taking over" Africa, Latin America it is very likely the US is trying to sabotage BRICS+...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaks-spell-end-ukraine-and-expose-western-disinformation[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaks-spell-end-ukraine-and-expose-western-disinformation - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaks-spell-end-ukraine-and-expose-western-disinformation ; 

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/17/leaks-spelling-the-end-for-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation  about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington...

DJ, NATO is running out of both weapons and will to keep the Ukraine war going on...


For the US China is the main "target";

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-china-bans-imports-exports-involving-raytheon-and-lockheed-cripples-u-s-defense-industry[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-china-bans-imports-exports-involving-raytheon-and-lockheed-cripples-u-s-defense-industry - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-china-bans-imports-exports-involving-raytheon-and-lockheed-cripples-u-s-defense-industry ;

CHINA WILL NOW ENFORCE ITS FEB 16 BAN ON CHINESE ENTERPRISES FROM CONDUCTING IMPORT & EXPORT ACTIVITIES WITH ABOVE U.S. COMPANIES.   

This is said to include Microchips from "Taiwan, China."  

Of course, the U.S. considers Taiwan to be "independent" but yet adopted the "one China policy."

If Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin cannot engage in Imports/Exports  to or from China, and if the ban on Microchips is enforced, the two most major players in U.S. National Defense manufacturing are immediately crippled.

In addition, the U.S. weapons SALES to Taiwan, will not be able to take place because the missiles and such that Taiwan is trying to buy, cannot now be shipped to Taiwan.

Put simply, China just put a total halt to US defense sales to Taiwan, and crippled the US Defense manufacturing industry by cutting off microchips.

DJ, I think Russia, China are planning a blockade of Taiwan...(so NOT an invasion). Since under UN rules-even accepted by the US !- Taiwan is part of China the US may find itself isolated even more in the conflict the US is trying to create over Taiwan...

Taiwan itself does see it as part of China...

The US still has a major navy/airforce and bases in South Korea, Japan...very limited military in Taiwan itself. Both South Korea and Japan may "distance themselves" from a China-US war...

DJ-Europe will and can NOT support the US in yet another insane war...this time with China. The European economy needs to keep energy/trade going on...lots of EU leaders realize that by now...The European goal was NOT regime change in Moscow ! That is a biden-insanity...

China-with BRICS+, SCO, OPEC+ etc. is trying to limit the coming war by limiting/control of global trade/currencies...to unable the US to keep a major conflict continue after a first major US strike...

IF Russia/China block Taiwan to get it under control the US may seek a confrontation...it can get one...

-Both Russia and China have weapons to destroy US carrier groups...they are willing to use them if need be...The US is aware of that...

-Asymetric warfare-like the US has been attacking Russia/China investments all over the world-may see US supply lines getting destroyed also all over the world...

-[url]https://thecradle.co/article-view/23786/indonesian-hacker-group-targets-israeli-websites-including-ministries[/url] or https://thecradle.co/article-view/23786/indonesian-hacker-group-targets-israeli-websites-including-ministries - https://thecradle.co/article-view/23786/indonesian-hacker-group-targets-israeli-websites-including-ministries the US may face cyber warfare from lots of countries

DJ, US foreign "policy/confrontationism" has resulted in the US in conflict with most of the world...




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 11:54pm

Some news from frontlines;

-Space (???) [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/claim-nasa-satellite-crashed-in-kiev-ukraine-reality-russia-downed-nato-military-satellite[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/claim-nasa-satellite-crashed-in-kiev-ukraine-reality-russia-downed-nato-military-satellite - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/claim-nasa-satellite-crashed-in-kiev-ukraine-reality-russia-downed-nato-military-satellite ;

Russia downed a NATO military spy satellite.

They _appear_ to have accomplished this by utilizing their brand new Electronic Warfare system, designed specifically to affect Geo-Stationary satellites.

In order to affect a Geo-stationary satellite, Russia's new system must be able to jam all the way out at 22,500 miles from earth.   But if that same Electronic Warfare system was used to hit a lower earth orbiting satellite, the high powered radio emissions would simply overwhelm all systems onboard, likely causing the satellite to completely fail and fall to earth.

That appears to be what has actually taken place.

Sources inside NATO are saying privately that a NATO (West) spy satellite was "taken out" over Ukraine.  In fact, not only is NATO angry, they're quite shocked, both that the Russian tried, and that they succeeded!

Another escalation . . . 

DJ, there are missiles (some fighter jets also can launch them) to hit satelites...High Tech war demonstration could prevent "others" from further escalation...

If Russia/China would be able to fly over a US base with US radar simply not able to detect the planes it could shock the military...

East Asia;

[url]https://southfront.org/us-determined-to-further-escalate-by-supplying-400-anti-ship-missiles-to-taiwan/[/url] or https://southfront.org/us-determined-to-further-escalate-by-supplying-400-anti-ship-missiles-to-taiwan/ - https://southfront.org/us-determined-to-further-escalate-by-supplying-400-anti-ship-missiles-to-taiwan/ ; Faced with the looming defeat in Ukraine, Washington DC is desperate to ensure that it can achieve at least one strategic victory against one of its many geopolitical adversaries. America’s increasingly disturbing obsession with China and the burning desire to at least somewhat offset its meteoric rise are causing countless headaches to the strategic planners in Washington DC, particularly the Pentagon. https://infobrics.org/post/37456/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Beijing’s repeated overtures to find a peaceful solution that could benefit all sides have been flatly refused by the US every single time, leaving China with only one option – to prepare for war. This is certainly not to say the Asian giant wants it, but as President Xi Jinping himself stated, his country is quite literally left with no other option.

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While “Harpoon” anti-ship missiles are quite dated and are definitely no match for Chinese ( https://infobrics.org/post/35887/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - let alone Russian ) weapons of the same class, deploying 400 of them is certainly a worrying figure for any military. With a range of up to 200 km, the missile is still a threat to all Chinese shipping in the Taiwan Strait, as it perfectly fits the width of the strait (180 km). And while China’s breakaway island province has previously acquired the shipborne and airborne versions of the missile, deployed on warships and F-16 fighter jets, respectively, this marks the first time it has purchased the mobile, land-based version. It offers several distinct advantages over the previous two, particularly the possibility of deploying the launchers across the island’s west coast.

DJ, China may get Russian help in blocking Taiwan...so no US/NATO weapons can reach Taiwan...Taiwan can not export micro-chips without Bejing agreeing on it...

If South Korea delivers weapons to Ukraine Russia will send modern weapons to North Korea...

MENA Middle East North Africa; 


DJ...there are lots of other conflicts in this region. Egypt-Ethiopia over the Nile/water...There were some stories on North Korean military in Algeria...BRICS may be interested in creating stability in Africa...most African governments simply lack the means to do much governing....

Ukraine

DJ-Bakhmut is close to falling 100% under (pro) Russian control [url]https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps[/url] or https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps - https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps ...it may push NATO/Ukraine to start a PR campain...Maybe even claiming Ukraine "is winning"...

Military Summary keeps reporting two major developments;

-Ukraine closing dams in the Dnjepr-river...is Ukraine planning to use river water as a weapon...putting low land under Russian control under water ? 

-Ukraine attacking targets in Russia -just over the border...part to hit supplies/logistics...part to show they can...

My view; Ukraine/NATO may try to build up another army for some major action...however Russia is able to hit concentrations of NATO/Ukraine forces...There was also unclear for me info that Russia did manage to destroy NATO-HQ in Kiev and/or Lviv ? One or more military command centers in an underground bunker...

The goal of Russia is to destroy the Ukraine army...taking over Ukraine may be a next step...NATO only has "limited options" left in Ukraine...sending in NATO forces (Poland ?) may be one of them...If NATO wants to "beat Russia" in Ukraine a major air force is needed...however that would escalate the crisis beyond  the point most NATO members want...

Intel

Here in NL military intel warning of China spying, companies trying to get high tech...Russia would gather info on North Sea cables (internet, electricity)...Very likely both warnings may be correct...however the info may not be new...What changed is the US is moving into conflict with both Russia and China...so actions seen as "limited risks" until recent now become "high risk"...

The EU has "limited room" to "move into conflict" with both Russia and China...Europe may need those countries more then they need us...We need Russian energy-it will become a problem next winter... China trade also is a major factor in EU exports...Most of the global population lives in Asia...over 4 billion...For Europe Asia is "next door" ...the US an ocean away...

DJ-My view; NOT selling chip-making-machines to China may result in China making their own chip-making-machines...Soon Asia may be the "high tech zone" ...the "west" again damaging itself...The west banning tiktok, Huawei etc. simply means China will do more bussinesses with "the rest" of the world...

The "west" may be 10% of the global population (EU-UK-US)...BRICS is a larger economy then the G7...so again...confrontation may do much more damage then diplomacy would do...It would be wiser if we IMPORTED Chinese chip making machines to learn how far they are...Closing your eyes is NOT good for intel !




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 21 2023 at 3:25am

DJ, my view;

"The west' is -in silence- trying to get out of escalation with "the rest". Lavrov-Russian Foreign Minister/FM visiting Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil after an African tour just weeks ago...I would not be surprised if even Mexico would -also- accept Mir-card/Unionpay Russia/China payment systems...welcome Russian, Chinese tourists...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-threatens-given-north-korea-advanced-weapons-if-seoul-arms-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-threatens-given-north-korea-advanced-weapons-if-seoul-arms-ukraine - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-threatens-given-north-korea-advanced-weapons-if-seoul-arms-ukraine -outcome; South Korea may NOT send 500.000 shells to the US so the US can send more weapons to Ukraine...

DJ-Again !!! Asia is over half of the global population...present BRICS on their way to 35% of global GDP...(not even by PPP) with BRICS+ it will soon be the major economic bloc together with the SCO...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZYCpbGQe_k[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZYCpbGQe_k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZYCpbGQe_k Redacted (did they move from the US to Portugal ?);

Norway has been keeping busy trying to discredit, Pulitzer Prize, winning journalist, Seymour Hersh, by calling his reporting fake news. Also, the Norwegian government is kicking the Russian bear by expelling 15 Russian diplomats and accusing them of spying. All of this comes as the arctic Council is about to be handed over from Russia to Norway, are we witnessing the new front in the war? 

DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Dutch_discovery,_exploration,_and_mapping_of_a_terra_nullius[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Dutch_discovery,_exploration,_and_mapping_of_a_terra_nullius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Dutch_discovery,_exploration,_and_mapping_of_a_terra_nullius Spitsbergen (Norwegian; Svalbard) de facto is already an area of Russian-Norwegian conflict...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty ;

The Svalbard Treaty (originally the Spitsbergen Treaty) recognises the sovereignty of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Norway - Norway  over the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Arctic - Arctic  archipelago of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Svalbard - Svalbard , at the time called Spitsbergen. The exercise of sovereignty is, however, subject to certain stipulations, and not all Norwegian law applies. The treaty regulates the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demilitarized_zone" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Demilitarized zone - demilitarisation  of the archipelago. The signatories were given equal rights to engage in commercial activities (mainly  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Coal mining - coal mining ) on the islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2]  As of 2012, Norway and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Russia - Russia  make use of this right.

DJ..Russia already has 50% of the Arctic coast...the US-via NATO-is blowing up all kinds of agreements on the Arctic...frustrating the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Council[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Council - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Council ...because the US want to "punish Russia" for Ukraine on every front-trying to get "regime change in Moscow"....

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- Pepe Escobar

Norway worked with the US blowing up Nordstream...western war-industry owned "media" censoring realistic news only showing they are not real "media"-just propaganda outlets...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shipping_routes[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shipping_routes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shipping_routes DJ-If "the west" wants sanctions on Russia and China...the rest of the world may limit trade with the west...However South Korea and Japan "control" the Arctic-China Sea Route...That may explain why "biden & co" now push also for war with China...

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- Pepe Escobar

DJ, the "biden-cult" simply fail to understand lots of major companies are very international....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo once was a Swedish car producer;

Automobile manufacturer  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Volvo Cars - Volvo Cars , also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Ford Motor Company - Ford Motor Company . Since 2010 Volvo Cars has been owned by the automotive company  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Holding_Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Geely Holding Group - Geely Holding Group . Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely ; 

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd (ZGH), commonly known as Geely (吉利 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Help:IPA/English - / - ˈ - iː - iː/ "auspicious"), is a Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Multinational Corporation - multinational https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Automotive industry - automotive company headquartered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Hangzhou - Hangzhou , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Zhejiang - Zhejiang . The company is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_held_company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Privately held company - privately held by Chinese billionaire entrepreneur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shufu" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Li Shufu - Li Shufu . It was established in 1986 and entered the automotive industry in 1997 with its Geely Auto subsidiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [18] Geely Auto is currently the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_China#List_of_Chinese_automobile_manufacturers_by_sales_and_revenue" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Automotive industry in China - seventh largest automobile manufacturer in China, with 1.328 million sales in China in 2021. Globally, the group sold over 2.2 million cars in 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [19] and over 17,926 plug-in electric vehicles in January 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [20]

The company produces and sells vehicles under its own branding such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Auto" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Geely Auto - Geely Auto , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry_(car_marque)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Geometry (car marque) - Geometry , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_(marque)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Maple (marque) - Maple , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeekr" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Zeekr - Zeekr , and under foreign-located subsidiaries, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Volvo Cars - Volvo Cars , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Polestar - Polestar , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynk_%26_Co" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Lynk & Co - Lynk & Co , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Holdings" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Proton Holdings - Proton , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Cars" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Lotus Cars - Lotus , as well as commercial only vehicles under the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_EV_Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="London EV Company - London EV Company , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangjun_Ou_Ling" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Tangjun Ou Ling - Ouling Auto and Farizon Auto brands. It also produces electric vehicles under some of the previously listed brandings, and motorcycles under its subsidiary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Ming_Industrial" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Geely Ming Industrial - Zhejiang Geely Ming Industrial (Jiming and Geely brands), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianjiang_Motorcycle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Qianjiang Motorcycle - Qianjiang Motorcycle (QJMotor and Keeway brands) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelli_(motorcycles)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Benelli (motorcycles) - Benelli . In September 2022, the group acquired a 7.6% shareholding in Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc, the ultra-luxury British performance brand Aston Martin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [21]

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus ; 

Airbus SE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Help:IPA/English - / - ˈ - b - s/ French:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Help:IPA/French - [ɛʁbys] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus2.ogg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="About this sound"> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Airbus2.ogg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Airbus2.ogg - listen )German:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Help:IPA/Standard German - [ˈɛːɐ̯bʊs] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus3.ogg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="About this sound"> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Airbus3.ogg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Airbus3.ogg - listen )Spanish:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Help:IPA/Spanish - [ˈejɾβus] ) is a European https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Multinational Corporation - multinational https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Aerospace - aerospace corporation. Airbus designs, manufactures and sells commercial aircraft and has separate  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Defence_and_Space" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Airbus Defence and Space - Defence and Space and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Helicopters" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Airbus Helicopters - Helicopters divisions. As of 2019, Airbus is the world's largest manufacturer of airliners as well as the leading helicopter manufacturer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-About_Airbus-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [7]

The company was founded in 1970 as a collaboration of European aerospace companies to develop and produce a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-body_aircraft" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Wide-body aircraft - wide-body aircraft to compete with American-built airliners, which would later merge together. Reflecting this multi-national origin, the company operates major offices and assembly plants in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="France - France ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Germany - Germany ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Spain - Spain , and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="United Kingdom - United Kingdom , along with more recent additions in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Canada - Canada ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="China - China , and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="United States - United States .

Airbus's registered headquarters is in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Leiden - Leiden , Netherlands, but its head office is located in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Toulouse - Toulouse , France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [8] The 'SE' in its corporate name means it is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Societas Europaea - societas Europaea , which enables it to be registered as a European rather than a national corporation. Its shares are traded in France, Germany, and Spain. The company is led by CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Faury" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Guillaume Faury - Guillaume Faury and is a component of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURO_STOXX_50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="EURO STOXX 50 - Euro Stoxx 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_index" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Stock market index - stock market index . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [9]

The company delivered its 12,000th aircraft in May 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-Airbus20may2019-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [10] In 2016, the company estimated that its fleet had performed more than 110 million flights, totalling over 215 billion kilometres and carrying 12 billion passengers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#cite_note-Airbus14oct2016-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [11]

DJ...who has what shares in Airbus is one question...the major more important question is where will Airbus sell its products...not very likely the US ! 

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DJ, Korea, Japan, the EU NEED to do bussinesses with Asia, Africa, Latin America !!! If US-insanity is in the way the EU has to "distance" itself from the US and hope the US may be able to come up with a government the rest of the world can work with...I think most major US companies must have doubts on wich way the US now is going...

The 2023-24 winter will bring the EU-UK-US major energy problems...and for what ? NATO expansionism ? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 22 2023 at 12:12am

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WPrMqIeOM[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WPrMqIeOM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WPrMqIeOM ; Ex-CIA Mike Morell reveals, Blinken behind 'Intel officials Russia disinfo' letter

DJ-my view; The US political system totally derailed...False claims from trump run by Putin to Chinese weather balloons "spying over the US"...MH17 lies...are pushing the world into global conflict. [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/revelation-morell-spurred-blinken-organize-letter-discrediting-hunter-laptop-story[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/revelation-morell-spurred-blinken-organize-letter-discrediting-hunter-laptop-story - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/revelation-morell-spurred-blinken-organize-letter-discrediting-hunter-laptop-story   to

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bombshell-court-filing-reveals-troubling-cia-links-two-911-hijackers[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bombshell-court-filing-reveals-troubling-cia-links-two-911-hijackers - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bombshell-court-filing-reveals-troubling-cia-links-two-911-hijackers  

The world does not need the US....[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-cuts-itself-off-from-future-chinese-profits.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-cuts-itself-off-from-future-chinese-profits.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-cuts-itself-off-from-future-chinese-profits.html however [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/filipinos-told-leave-taiwan-return-to-philippines[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/filipinos-told-leave-taiwan-return-to-philippines - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/filipinos-told-leave-taiwan-return-to-philippines ; 

Today I received an email from a Filipino source who has family working in Taiwan.  The Philippines are telling anyone from that country working in Taiwan to "Leave Taiwan and return home immediately; war is developing."

and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-launches-at-least-six-akula-fast-attack-subs-into-pacific[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-launches-at-least-six-akula-fast-attack-subs-into-pacific - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-launches-at-least-six-akula-fast-attack-subs-into-pacific ; Within the past 72 Hours, Russia sortied at least SIX (6) nuclear-powered "Akula" and other model fast-attack submarines into the Pacific Ocean.  It is now believed they are enroute to the U.S. west coast.

DJ....The US keeps pushing for more war...it will see more war...Very likely INSIDE the US...because the US is the global problem...

-China/Russia may block Taiwan-to control import/export...US weapons are welcome-but may end up in China, Russia

-In Ukraine NATO forces are losing the war-western "help" does not replace Ukraine/NATO losses...Even Polish intervention can not make NATO "win"

-The biden-cult goal of regimechange in Moscow is just another illusion...

Russia, China no longer talk with the US. This is worse then any time during the cold war...Most of the world has lost any trust in "the west"....they have alternatives via BRICS+, SCO-de facto Russia, India, China....

The US may start/escalate further on a frontline they created..."Freedom of navigation"-US Navy going via the Taiwan-strait-even with the US official stand Taiwan is part of China...A US submarine sailing through the Kuril Islands-under Russia since 1945...the US now supporting Japan claims on it...

The US will be kicked out of Syria, Iraq...maybe an asymetric reaction to US escalations elsewere...B52's close to St.Petersburg/Kaliningrad...

DJ-NATO members may start wondering what will be next...Is Europe supposed to stop doing trade with Asia because of US insanity ? How much chaos and lies the US population will accept any longer ? 

The pandemic was/is NOT over...XBB.1.16 etc. soon will cause onother healthcare disaster...bojo/biden "living with the virus-lies" only made the matter that much worse...

"We live in interesting times"...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 23 2023 at 4:08am

Sources a.o. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-h9oTwsjY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-h9oTwsjY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-h9oTwsjY The Duran (UK/Cyprus) Ukraine, calm before the storm. EU grain debacle

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXt3heeqAuk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXt3heeqAuk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXt3heeqAuk Redacted (Portugal) NATO is looking for a way out of Ukraine according to recent reports. These claims come on the heals of mysteriously time document leaks showing the war in Ukraine is unwinnable for NATO unless it wants to launch WW3. The news also follows recent independent reports showing that Russia just destroyed a heavily fortified underground bunker that housed over 300 top NATO and Ukrainian leaders. Why is the media silent on this story? 

and Military Summary/MS Belarus [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ZRnecLpJs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ZRnecLpJs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ZRnecLpJs ;

ISW Updates. A Riot Is Brewing In The Ukrainian Army. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.23

confirmed by [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-Y2d1-puw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-Y2d1-puw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-Y2d1-puw Hindustan Time/India;

An alleged revolt has rocked Ukraine's army amid Russia's ferocious fusillade. According to Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Ukrainian fighters are dropping their arms and walking out of Kyiv's Bakhmut operations. The statement was in response to a question about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly pressing his army to stay put in Bakhmut. Zelensky has turned Bakhmut into an ego battle and has refused to surrender. However, Wagner Boss claims that 90% of Bakhmut is now under Russian control.  

DJ; Several sources now claim Ukraine soldiers not only surrendering to (Pro)Russian forces but even switching sides...The attack by zelensky on the Orthodox Church, the ongoing mass murder-zelensky not willing to go for peace talks...and (MS) zelensky preparing to "win" an upcoming "election" all may be enough for lots of Ukrainians...

A.o. The Duran on "Ukraine joining NATO in pieces"...Poland, Hungary, Romania taking over western Ukraine...DJ Both Ukraine nationalists and Russia will NOT accept this way of moving NATO east...

The EU going for their 11th round of sanctions on Russia, 7th round of sanctions on Iran, discussing sanctions on China...A total bankrupt of western politics...

Macron-France now talking with China on ending the Ukraine war...In Germany only the "greens" -insulting their pacifist voters- welcome more war...Both Social Democrats SDP and "liberal"FDP are getting fed up ...trade unions, big companies see lots of economic damage only getting worse....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-20/brics-vs-g7-mercantilism-multipolarity-gold-and-war[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-20/brics-vs-g7-mercantilism-multipolarity-gold-and-war - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-20/brics-vs-g7-mercantilism-multipolarity-gold-and-war ; 

The Conclusion: We are at war.

The path forward continues to march onward as described below.That path is now inevitable. In a mercantilist, protectionist environment accompanied by (caused by) collapsing complexity (de-globalized supply chains, trade relationships shredded) weaker countries must pick sides for economic and territorial protection. The world is now a jail. Pick your gang. This side-choosing is also inevitable in the 21st Century new Cold-war climate.


DJ, lots of "European" companies have shareholders and/or clients in Asia....Giving that up is end of bussiness....

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DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters#Involvement_with_U.S._mass_surveillance[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters#Involvement_with_U.S._mass_surveillance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters#Involvement_with_U.S._mass_surveillance ....

NATO and nazi's have the same "roots"...war industry, oil, banks....wars-for-profit....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket ;

In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="World War I - World War I , where  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Industrialist - industrialists , whose operations were  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Subsidy - subsidized by  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Government spending - public funding , were able to generate substantial  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_(economics)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Profit (economics) - profits , making money from mass human suffering.

The work is divided into five chapters:

  1. War is a racket
  2. Who makes the profits?
  3. Who pays the bills?
  4. How to smash this racket!
  5. To hell with war!

It contains this summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War#Economic_theories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="War - War is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Racket (crime) - racket . It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

DJ, the "west" dominated global history for hundreds of years...now Asia is taking over...Diplomacy would show wisdom, confrontationism is self destruction....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 25 2023 at 1:55am

DJ, my views/opinion only...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-empires-revenge-set-fire-southern-eurasia[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-empires-revenge-set-fire-southern-eurasia - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-empires-revenge-set-fire-southern-eurasia ;

Fire in the hole

The analysis by Andrei Bezrukov neatly complements Gurulyov’s ( https://videon.img.ria.ru/Out/Flv/direct/2023_04_19__qwdw3gm5.nyh.mp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - here, in Russian ). Bezrukov is a former colonel in the SVR (Russian foreign intel) and now a Professor of the Chair of Applied Analysis of International Problems at MGIMO and the chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy think tank.

Bezrukov knows that the Empire will not take the incoming, massive NATO humiliation in Ukraine lying down. And even before the possible 2027-2030 timeline proposed by Gurulyov, he argues, it is bound to set fire to southern Eurasia – from Turkey to China.

President Xi Jinping, in his memorable visit to the Kremlin last month, told President Putin the world is now undergoing changes “not seen in 100 years”.

Bezrukov, appropriately, reminds us of the state of things then: “In the years from 1914 to 1945, the world was in the same intermediate state that it is in now. Those thirty years changed the world completely: from empires and horses to the emergence of two nuclear powers, the UN, and transatlantic flight. We are entering a similar period, which this time will last about twenty years.”

Europe, predictably, will “whither away”, as “it is no longer the absolute center of the universe.” Amidst this redistribution of power, Bezrukov goes back to one of the key points of a seminal analysis developed in the recent past by Andre Gunder Frank: “200-250 years ago, 70 percent of manufacturing was in China and India. We are going back to about there, which will also correspond to population size.”

So it’s no wonder that the fastest-developing region – which Bezrukov characterizes as “southern Eurasia” – may become a “risk zone”, potentially converted by the Hegemon into a massive power keg.

He outlines how southern Eurasia is peppered by conflicting borders – as in Kashmir, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan. The Hegemon is bound to invest in a flare-up of military conflicts over disputed borders as well as separatist tendencies (for instance in Balochistan). CIA black ops galore.

Still Russia will be able to get by, according to Bezrukov: “Russia has very big advantages, because we are the biggest producer of food and supplier of energy. And without cheap energy there will be no progress and digitalization. Also, we are the link between East and West, without which the continent cannot live, because the continent has to trade. And if the South burns, the main routes will not be through the oceans in the South, but in the North, mainly overland.”

The biggest challenge for Russia will be to keep internal stability: “All states will divide into two groups at this historic turning point: those that can maintain internal stability and move reasonably, bloodlessly into the next technological cycle – and then those that are unable to do so, that slip off the path, that bloom a bloody internal showdown like we had a hundred years ago. The latter will be set back ten to twenty years, will subsequently lick their wounds and try to catch up with everyone else. So our job is to maintain internal stability.”

And that’s where the Great Awakening hinted at by Gurulyov, or Russia reconnecting with its true civilizational ethos, as Dugin would argue, will play its unifying role.

There’s still a long way to go – and a war against NATO to win.

Meanwhile, in other news, Hegemon hacks are spinning that the North Atlantic has relocated to South China. Goodnight, and good luck.

also [url]https://www.wionews.com/world/risks-of-nuclear-confrontation-with-united-states-growing-claims-russia-585839[/url] or https://www.wionews.com/world/risks-of-nuclear-confrontation-with-united-states-growing-claims-russia-585839 - https://www.wionews.com/world/risks-of-nuclear-confrontation-with-united-states-growing-claims-russia-585839 ;

Yermakov, speaking to the Russian state news agency, said that the conduct of Washington towards Moscow is escalating the risks of a nuclear war in the future. 

Since Russia started invading Ukraine 14 months ago, regular charges were issued by Moscow against the United States and it called "the collective West" for increasing the risks of a nuclear war,

"If the United States continues to follow its current course of confrontation with Russia, with the stakes constantly escalating on the verge of sliding into direct armed conflict, then the fate of START (nuclear arms treaty) may be a foregone conclusion," said Yermakov. 

DJ The US is unable to go for diplomacy...It soon will loose the EU as an ally. German car industry is selling over 30% of its cars in China. Volkswagen, BASF have lots of factories in China/Asia...Volvo is de facto no longer a Swedish car producer but Chinese...

One of the reasons why "Ukraine belongs in NATO claim" shows up is the west is running out of "help" to keep the Ukraine war -US made- going...Further escalation would mean sending in NATO forces...damage control rather would see Ukraine is losing the war then "all of the west" has lost the war...but the "biden-cult" is that much out of touch with reality they may go for nuclear war...

[url]https://southfront.org/natos-weapons-leaking-to-black-market-western-journalist/[/url] or https://southfront.org/natos-weapons-leaking-to-black-market-western-journalist/ - https://southfront.org/natos-weapons-leaking-to-black-market-western-journalist/ ;

Confirming what several other analysts had already been reporting since the beginning of Western military aid campaign to Ukraine, an important American informant pointed out that several weapons sent by NATO are being sold on the black market. The result of this process is that weapons that should be used by the Ukrainian armed forces end up in the hands of foreign contrabandists, with no control over what will be their final destination.

The most recent report was made by the well-known and respected American journalist Seymour Hersh. Even though he is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times informant, Hersh has recently suffered several reprisals and “cancellation” attempts for leaking evidence of crimes committed by the US government, such as the terrorist attacks against the Nord Stream gas pipelines. In the same vein, he now said that Western-supplied weapons to Kiev were actually “flooding” the military black market in countries like Romania and Poland.

DJ...is the US using "weapons for Ukraine" now in Sudan...to spread chaos to "stop BRICS"? 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 26 2023 at 1:02am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZO12D1RlQ&t=42s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZO12D1RlQ&t=42s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZO12D1RlQ&t=42s  

The Polish-Soviet War was one of the most important conflicts in the aftermath of the First World War when Eastern Europe was in flux. Both the Polish and the Bolshevik Army had the advantage numerous times and at the Battle of Warsaw is looked like the Bolsheviks would carry the revolution into Western Europe. 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War  

The Polish–Soviet War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#cite_note-Other_names-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [N 1] (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChwalba202013-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2] – 18 March 1921) was primarily fought between the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Second Polish Republic - Second Polish Republic and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the aftermath of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="World War I - World War I and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Russian Revolution - Russian Revolution , on territories which were formerly held by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Russian Empire - Russian Empire and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Austria-Hungary - Austro-Hungarian Empire .

On 13 November 1918, after the collapse of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Central Powers - Central Powers and the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Armistice of 11 November 1918 - Armistice of 11 November 1918 ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Vladimir Lenin - Vladimir Lenin 's  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic - Russia annulled the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (which it had signed with the Central Powers in March 1918) and started moving forces in the western direction to recover and secure the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ober_Ost" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Ober Ost - Ober Ost regions vacated by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="German Empire - German forces that the Russian state had lost under the treaty. Lenin saw the newly independent Poland (formed in October–November 1918) as the bridge which his  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Red Army - Red Army would have to cross to assist other  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Communist International - communist movements and to bring about more  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Europe - European revolutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#cite_note-Cienciala-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [13] At the same time, leading Polish politicians of different orientations pursued the general expectation of restoring the country's  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Partition_of_Poland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="First Partition of Poland - pre-1772 borders. Motivated by this idea, Polish  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_State" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Chief of State - Chief of State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Józef Piłsudski - Józef Piłsudski (in office from 14 November 1918) began moving troops east.

DJ, just over 100 years ago a.o. Ukraine also was a battlefield...

The US wants more war...training Ukraine pilots for F16's, depleted uranium weapons all supposed to "help" Ukraine...(to selfdestruction...). 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-attempts-turkey-syria-normalization-moscow-summit[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-attempts-turkey-syria-normalization-moscow-summit - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-attempts-turkey-syria-normalization-moscow-summit ; 

Russia is continuing efforts to stabilize Syria and push American influence in the region to the sidelines, as on Tuesday Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu hosted four-way talks which have as their goal the normalization of ties between the Syrian and Turkish governments. The talks involve Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The end result could see American forces squeezed out of Syria.

"Practical steps were discussed in the field of strengthening security in the Syrian Arab Republic and normalizing Syrian-Turkish relations," the Russian Defense Ministry https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/moscow-hosts-turkey-syria-rapprochement-talks-98827251" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - stated . This is based on a common perspective that all parties desire win "the fight against all extremist groups in Syria."

DJ, Russia has been pushing for the Kurdish fighters to join the armies of Syria, Iraq...getting some form of selfrule/rights in exchange...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/saudi-arabia-selling-oil-china-gold[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/saudi-arabia-selling-oil-china-gold - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/saudi-arabia-selling-oil-china-gold ;

Rumors are making rounds that Saudi Arabia is selling oil for yuan, which it converts into gold on the Shanghai International Gold Exchange (SGEI). Such a development would make sense as large parts of the world want to de-dollarize, but the renminbi is not suitable to be used as a reserve currency. China has a closed capital account and a weak rule of law. Not using the dollar could be done by using the renminbi as a trade currency and converting yuan revenue into gold on the SGEI. If the rumor is true, Saudi Arabia is buying 1 Kg bars as there is virtually no trading in 12.5 Kg bars on the SGEI. The benefit of 1 Kg bars is that they are more fitting for fully allocated trading.

DJ getting new global currencies is a complex matter...several currencies-backed most by gold, energy "real goods" can replace the US$...another part of the (Chinese) strategy could be EU-China trade-with still also room for the Euro (simply because breaking with ALL western currencies would be very complex...). 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-waged-years-long-shadow-war-against-wagner-mercenaries-africa[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-waged-years-long-shadow-war-against-wagner-mercenaries-africa - https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-waged-years-long-shadow-war-against-wagner-mercenaries-africa  

US special forces and intelligence are running a proxy war aimed at disrupting Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries in the Middle East and North Africa, recently unveiled Pentagon leaks show. 

The Biden administration has long expressed concern over Wagner's role not just in Ukraine, where it has been spearheading efforts to gain Russian victory over Bakhmut, but especially its expanding presence in Africa as well.

DJ The US is going for all kinds of proxy wars against many countries...from IS, al quaida to Ukraine neo-nazi's, MEK, Baluchi separatists...the US "foreign policy" is creating chaos and wars if the US can not steal energy/resources...This policy was based on US$ used for global trade-so other countries had even to pay for US terrorism against them...

The US$ as global currency is over...with that the US may no longer be able to finance more wars much longer...The bad part of the story is the US has nuclear weapons and is the only country that used those nuclear weapons in wars...(to stop the Soviet Union from getting to active against Japan in august 1945...) 



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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 26 2023 at 2:15pm

[url]https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1289838.shtml[/url] or https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1289838.shtml - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1289838.shtml ;

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call on Wednesday at the invitation of the latter, during which the two leaders exchanged views on China-Ukraine relations and the Ukraine crisis.

Chinese analysts said that China will engage more on the diplomatic front to contribute to a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, and the role that China could play has been sincerely welcomed by both Kiev and Moscow, despite some voices from the West, especially the US, that have tried to distort China's mediation efforts. 

Xi said in the phone call that China will send a special representative of the Chinese government on Eurasian affairs to visit Ukraine and other countries to conduct in-depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

DJ, the biden-cult may not welcome peace in Ukraine...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/putin-rushed-to-kremlin-10-00-pm-moscow-time[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/putin-rushed-to-kremlin-10-00-pm-moscow-time - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/putin-rushed-to-kremlin-10-00-pm-moscow-time ; 

UPDATE 4:15 PM EDT -- 

DJ, Erdogan was in Moscow for talks with Syria, Iran, Russia on improving relations (thus kick out US forces out of the region...). However no confirmation on Erdogan having a hearth attack so far...Putin may be rushed to the Kremlin for other reasons...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arnsqzfWWCY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arnsqzfWWCY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arnsqzfWWCY ; 

Zelensky Asked Xi For A Favor. Bakhmut Is About To Fall. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.26

DJ, MS thinks zelensky is hoping Xi may ask Putin to let over 10,000 "pro Kiev/NATO forces" stuck between Bakhmut and a canal west of it get out of the encirclement...

Lots of speculations and developments...[url]https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1651280349840785414/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1651280349840785414/photo/1 - https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1651280349840785414/photo/1  

from HT ; 

RUMORS are already running wild.  One RUMOR is that Turkish President Recypt Erdogan, who fell ill during a TV interview in Moscow, may have been "poisoned."

Another RUMOR is that Ukraine has begun using Depleted Uranium tank shells against Russian troops, which Russia previously warned would be considered a "Dirty Bomb attack upon Russia."

DJ, depleted uranium weapons (from UK) did get into Ukraine...US started training Ukraine pilots for F16's (but F16 is an over 50 y/o design...not making much difference...). 

Xi-China- may ask zelensky for his goals...but also put an ultimatum-demand cease fire. China could send in "help" for Russia to finish this criminal biden made war....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 27 2023 at 1:43am

DJ, Erdogan is NOT in Moscow ! [url]https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/erdogan-cancels-campaign-stops-day-after-falling-ill-on-live-tv/[/url] or https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/erdogan-cancels-campaign-stops-day-after-falling-ill-on-live-tv/ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/erdogan-cancels-campaign-stops-day-after-falling-ill-on-live-tv/ ; 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has canceled planned appearances due to a stomach bug less than three weeks before the country’s crunch election.

The 69-year-old leader’s announcement comes a day after he cut short a live television interview late after getting sick on air.

Erdogan had three appearances in the central Anatolian provinces planned for Wednesday.

but [url]https://southfront.org/turkish-syrian-normalization-process/[/url] or https://southfront.org/turkish-syrian-normalization-process/ - https://southfront.org/turkish-syrian-normalization-process/ ; 

On April 25, the Russian capital, Moscow, held a meeting between the defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of Turkey and Syria. The meeting was also attended by the Russian defense minister and his counterpart from Iran, which joined the normalization process earlier this year.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that minister Sergey Shoigu held talks with his visiting counterparts from Iran, Syria and Turkey, Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani, Ali Mahmoud Abbas and Hulusi Akar, to discuss practical steps in the areas of strengthening security in Syria and normalizing Syrian-Turkish relations.

Special attention was focused on efforts to “counter terrorist threats and combat extremist groups in Syria.”.

DJ, from Turkish perspective the Kurds are "extremists", Syria does see pro-Turkish and jihadi groups as "extremists"...all four countries may agree on the US supporting "extremists" so to "counter threats and combat extremist groups in Syria" means countering the US in Syria, Iraq (etc). 

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtLyCsHNgk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtLyCsHNgk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtLyCsHNgk Biden White House fears spring offensive failure

and [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/biden-prepares-to-give-up-on-ukraine.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/biden-prepares-to-give-up-on-ukraine.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/biden-prepares-to-give-up-on-ukraine.html ;

Still - the Biden crew knows that the end is coming:

U.S. officials have also briefed Ukraine on the dangers of overextending its ambitions and spreading its troops too thin — the same warning Biden gave then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as the Taliban moved to sweep across the country during the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021.

Zelensky has, like Ashraf Ghani, made  https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - enough money from the war and is expected to silently move out. But for now it seems unlikely that he is willing to do so.

The alternative to giving up is for the U.S. to escalate again by putting boots on the ground. But Biden wants to win his reelection fight and any further escalation of the war in Ukraine would likely prevent that.

DJ, biden -supposed to be the US president- has one major goal-reelection....Since biden is out of contact with reality, "wishfull thinking" based he may believe he still has a chance for "four more years"...The US may face a repeat of biden-trump election campain...I hope Tulsi Gabbard -as independent- may offer a better, younger,  alternative (a bit like Gorbatjov did following old Soviet Leaders ). 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 28 2023 at 2:38am

DJ-I started also a "BRICS-ruled world"topic in latest news...I think China does have the wisdom to "balance power" in a multi-polar world...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Z-JeAMSWY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Z-JeAMSWY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Z-JeAMSWY Weeb Union/WU/Denmark; Bakhmut endgame and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJs29n5dOQ[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJs29n5dOQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJs29n5dOQ military summary/MS/Belarus ;

Massive Missile Attack. Critical Situation In Bakhmut.

DJ, With Bakhmut falling Ukraine/NATO position in this war is becoming impossible...WU doing a good job in pointing out NATO support for Ukraine-12 new brigades, 48,000 soldiers-simply not enough for a new Ukraine offensive...MS pointing to Russia very likely destroying a lot of supplies and killing a lot of soldiers in new missile strikes...(with Ukraine/NATO propaganda very likely claiming to shoot down more missiles then Russia did launch..."peak-lies"). 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLvqPyC0yk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLvqPyC0yk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLvqPyC0yk ;

Scott Ritter joins Stephen Gardner on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this war will end. China is doing the diplomacy the United States and NATO refuse to do. This is no longer a war, this is a humanitarian crisis says Colonel Douglas Macgregor. Scott Ritter agrees. Ritter also quotes Ray McGovern on the failed diplomacy efforts.  https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnU1eFUwUklDX2llQnZXWFZFMzR2SzlkbGN0QXxBQ3Jtc0tueWN0aGZDMXc4TTY3c1dILXJQSnI2cXlvMWZuN3ZmMzJ2RmdqNGJMNEI2ZzV1ZWwyckNSOGgzOEtpYlFzc3RrU3hUS2dWVW1kMl9aVzhZSUNzaGlndHFxa0lOeTJIazlOYUdYQmxwRjF5Vy1yT01UVQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fscottritterextra.com%2F&v=aWLvqPyC0yk" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0 - http://scottritterextra.com  to read more from Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector.

Lots of info I still have to watch myself...still my view;

DJ-I expect China will be able to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine next month...

Both zelensky and biden do want to win upcoming elections...continuation of this -criminal NATO- war would further reduce chances of both "political criminals"....China may be able to find "partners" to do peace keeping; Türkiye, India, Indonesia may be acceptable for both Russia and Ukraine...these countries also want an end to this insane "war/mass murder"....

DJ-my view-the US-biden- is more and more isolated in his push for wars to stop BRICS....In NL news Poland more or less stopped imports from Ukraine to save Polish farmers...Putin smiling and waving at an ill Erdogan in a tele-meeting on completion of a first phase of the first Turkish nuclear plant-Russia is building in Türkiye...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpN0jgBdIQo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpN0jgBdIQo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpN0jgBdIQo ;Brian Berletic and Danny Haiphong discuss how the Collective West's plan to subdue Russia and China in Ukraine and beyond have failed miserably. 

DJ [url]https://southfront.org/explosions-reported-at-u-s-helicopter-base-in-northeastern-syria/[/url] or https://southfront.org/explosions-reported-at-u-s-helicopter-base-in-northeastern-syria/ - https://southfront.org/explosions-reported-at-u-s-helicopter-base-in-northeastern-syria/ the US soon will pull out most of its military from Syria and Iraq...alternative is getting heavy losses-bad for a biden reelection...No doubt the biden-clan will try to sell these military disasters; Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine as trump-made disasters...

[url]https://southfront.org/bird-strike-forces-israeli-f-35-to-land-during-parade/[/url] or https://southfront.org/bird-strike-forces-israeli-f-35-to-land-during-parade/ - https://southfront.org/bird-strike-forces-israeli-f-35-to-land-during-parade/ ;

On April 26, a stealthy F-35 fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) was hit by a bird while taking part in an Independence Day fly-by.

In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the F-35 suffered a “minor hit” from the bird, stressing that the fighter jet, which costs over $80 millions, did not make an emergency landing and the pilot was not injured.

More than 100 aircraft were taking part in a series of fly-bys to commemorate Israel’s 75th Independence Day. Several jets from foreign air forces also participated in the fly-bys.

The bird strike was not the only incident reported during the fly-bys. Earlier, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter landed in open ground near the settlement of Ga’ash in central Israel. The IDF said that the helicopter landed due to a technical fault, adding that there were no injuries in the incident.

The IAF operates 36 F-35 fighter jets, all of which are modified with Israeli-made systems. Israel is set to receive 39 additional F-35i fighter jets in the upcoming few years.

DJ, the US war-industry/banks are a motor behind global wars...."bribes& bombs" may have had their time....other countries produce "better" weapons at lower costs for which countries can pay in their own currencies....for that matter not only the US-petro-$ is over....also US weapon dominance is gone...

France still is angry over the "AUKUS deal" ; Australia-UK-US dumped a French submarine order to get Australia into buying  nuclear US made submarines...this not only made France angry...also Australia-region countries are NOT happy with Australia going for nuclear submarines....

DJ-Is "NATO death" ? My view...close to it...it may survive as an organization...but the Europeans no longer trust the US. Nordstream is kept "out of the news" but most EU leaders likely blame biden for blowing up Nordstream...(with also ? on Norway...). Türkiye still in NATO...but more and more looking at Asia...

It would be welcome if diplomacy wins from insane confrontations....DJ-Again-someone like Tulsi Gabbard as a next US president may be able to "limit" further damage for the US... Both biden and trump will isolate the US even further...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 30 2023 at 3:02am

DJ, 

Some ideas; 

-The "military" war is only part of the much wider US/"west" conflict with the "rest"/BRICS+ (BRIICSS etc.). The economic/financial war may be much more important. The rest may force "the west" to rethink its (lack of) strategy/actions by denying energy and finance...

The "petro-$" is over...with that the US is losing the major tool for financing its wars around the planet...[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-de-dollarization-kicks-high-gear[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-de-dollarization-kicks-high-gear - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-de-dollarization-kicks-high-gear  

Europe industry already is very mixed with Asian/China industry...both in who owns what and where the clients are...Like China, India also Europe needs to import a lot of energy and raw materials...The US may be in a somewhat different position...(eventough the US also outsourced a lot of jobs to low pay countries...scarcity of workers may increase incomes at the end...). 

So the "west" is NOT that united...Currencies, $, €, Pound, Krone etc is dividing them-industry needs/clients also a major dividing factor...

-DJ-I think even zelensky may be thinking twice over yet another offensive...It may become Ukraine last offensive...cost yet another army-bring more destruction and for what ? 

So...does China has "interesting offers" ? I think CHINA may be representing also BRICS+...lots of countries want to see an end to this -insane, criminal, NATO-proxy-war...The "party" blocking any talks so far is the US/NATO...but again-the west may not be that united any longer....

One scenario could be a "ceasefire" "Korean style"...Russia and Ukraine no longer fighting eachother but also no peace...However Ukraine-accepting neutrality-becoming a partner for EU-BRICS+ trade via Türkiye...Even "the west" may accept this-a Minsk-talks repeat...the west trying to invest in more wars...the rest investing in peace and progress-hoping this will limit risks of future wars...

-De-dollar-ization maybe could "destroy" the US....cause hyperinflation...With lots of countries no longer willing to do major deals with the US if that means the US may steal their money and/or goods...

The numbers: the dollar share of global reserves was 73 percent in 2001, 55 percent in 2021, and 47 percent in 2022. The key takeaway is that last year, the dollar share slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.

Now it is no longer far-fetched to project a global dollar share of only 30 percent by the end of 2024, coinciding with the next US presidential election.

DJ...no longer using US$ on a global scale will see lots of US$ going back to the US...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#/media/File:Global_Reserve_Currencies.png[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#/media/File:Global_Reserve_Currencies.png - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#/media/File:Global_Reserve_Currencies.png and [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)#Table 

So US GDP (nominal) may be 25% of global GDP...the US $ global "role" is twice as large....so will a further drop of global use of US$ increase US prices with 100% ? NO...the US is self-supporting in lots of ways....

However [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table has the US GDP-by PPP as only around 15% of global (2023) GDP...so the "De-Dollar-ization shock" may be very hard....In combination with 2024 a US election year...possibly a "race" between biden and trump-both political disasters...

The US "powerbase" was "bribes & bombs"...that base is gone...the US$ will be seen more and more as a "part of US debts"...[url]https://www.usdebtclock.org/[/url] or https://www.usdebtclock.org/ - https://www.usdebtclock.org/ a "negative asset" you want to get rid of...This may push the US into hyperinflation...

-The Euro (again) may be "usefull" for BRICS/BRIICSS + to get a "grip" on the (as always very divided/diverse) EU...BRICS+ may need a global currency for some global trade...It is not an easy job to replace the US$ without crashing the global economy...

DJ-The main battlefront in finances...energy...OPEC+ is by now a BRIICSS-tool...The US may need wise leaders to avoid a crash...at present those wise leaders are not in control in the US...However the US has more than enough talents that can do better... 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 30 2023 at 11:58pm

DJ, Like with the -not over- pandemic the "war situation" has lots of conflicting info;

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlGG-430Rw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlGG-430Rw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlGG-430Rw ; Xi Jinping-Zelensky call raises the stakes for Ukraine and Europe

may have a point. The US-biden-will not allow zelensky to give China a role in peace talks...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-retaliates-for-attack-on-sevastopol-massive-russian-attacks[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-retaliates-for-attack-on-sevastopol-massive-russian-attacks - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-retaliates-for-attack-on-sevastopol-massive-russian-attacks ;

SOURCES INSIDE UKRAINE ARMY SAY ATTACK RESULTED IN TWO ENTIRE UKRAINIAN ARMY DIVISIONS LOST.

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SOURCE inside Ukrainian Army now confirms Russian bombers destroyed twenty-six (26)    S300 air defense complexes tonight. UKRAINE NOW HAS NO MORE AIR DEFENSES.

DJ, Russia may have made any Ukraine/NATO offensive impossible...

To put it simply-the only option left is zelensky/Ukraine following NATO/US-biden orders for self destruction or go for talks...

DJ-Since Ukraine may hardly have any air defense left-NATO F16's may survive only hours-at best-over Ukraine...also NATO is running out of options....

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may signal another major shift in the MENA (middle East North Africa) frontline...Is KSA now an ally of Iran (Russia, China) ? 




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 01 2023 at 12:50am

The US is also "trying to isolate China"......DJ-in short-total insanity ! 

China is the motor behind both BRICS/BRIICSS and the SCO...the outcome of the US isolating China is the US getting isolated...NOT China...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-argues-for-more-protectionism-and-subsidies/comments/page/2/#comments[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-argues-for-more-protectionism-and-subsidies/comments/page/2/#comments - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-argues-for-more-protectionism-and-subsidies/comments/page/2/#comments  

@b | Apr 28 2023 17:40 utc | 16, who wrote

https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3218763/taiwan-enters-recession-weak-worldwide-demand-its-electronics" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - Taiwan enters recession on weak worldwide demand for its electronics

My comment: According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, in 2020  https://www.semiconductors.org/chinas-share-of-global-chip-sales-now-surpasses-taiwan-closing-in-on-europe-and-japan/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - China's semiconductor sales already surpassed Taiwan's .

That was three years ago. If China has continued its 30% year-on-year growth rate, it has probably passed the EU and Japan by now. The loss of global market share in semiconductors is likely one reason for Taiwan's recession.

And the future won't improve for the little island if its hostility towards the mainland continues. Taiwan is currently leading in production of the state-of-the-art chips (5 nanometers), but mainland China is catching up fast. Last year, a Canadian firm noticed that mainland had been quietly shipping 7-nanometer chips (see  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/china-s-top-chipmaker-makes-big-tech-advances-despite-us-curbs" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - China’s Top Chipmaker Achieves Breakthrough Despite US Curbs ). This is still a generation behind the 5 nm level, but it is already at a higher technological level than anything shipped by Intel, meaning that it is better than the CPU chips used in 95% of the world. Furthermore, the Bloomberg article is over half a year old; who knows where China is now?

Taiwan is relying on machines from the Netherlands that use lasers blasting molten drops of tin to generate extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. Mainland China is attempting to surpass this rather crude technique with a revolutionary new method using synchrotrons to produce the light directly. If the new technology works, mainland China will have large advantages: synchrotrons that generate more intense light beams which therefore can etch more chips per hour, leading to far cheaper chips; and far more technological head room, as the synchrotrons can be tuned to generate wavelengths below the EUV level.

So Taiwan faces loss of its technological lead, loss of nearly all of its mainland Chinese market (if it continues to obey the US's orders not to sell), and likely devastating competition from the mainland for whatever markets are left. The prospects for Taiwan are bad, to put it mildly. To be a US vassal is a good deal for the US, not for the vassal.

Posted by: Cyril | Apr 29 2023 1:41 utc | https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/us-argues-for-more-protectionism-and-subsidies.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68535f1cb200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68535f1cb200d" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - 101

DJ May describe that even in "high tech" the "rest" of the world soon will not need to do any deals with an arrogant racist "west"....I think The duran is WRONG in putting the initiative for trade still with "the west"...It may become "the rest" deciding on who they deal with...The "west" needs "the rest" much harder....

So [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-30/total-nuclear-death[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-30/total-nuclear-death - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-04-30/total-nuclear-death ;

The Ultimate Catastrophe

Thirty-three years ago, Playboy magazine https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - asked Donald Trump what would be on his mind if he became President some day. Trump's response? The "ultimate catastrophe", nuclear war.

What would be some of President Trump’s longer-term views of the future?
I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war.

Nuclear war?
I’ve always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it’s a very important element in my thought process. It’s the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody’s focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It’s a little like sickness. People don’t believe they’re going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people’s believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit.

Unfortunately, our current leadership has been less concerned about nuclear war, and has increased the risk of one happening via its proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine. Media attention seems to have shifted somewhat from the war after the recent leaks suggested the tide had turned against the Ukrainians, but a recent news item highlighted the continuing risk that it could spark a nuclear war. 

DJ, The "west" does have a lot of nuclear weapons however;

-The "west" is NOT united. Four "west" countries have nuclear weapons;

US, UK, France, Israel...

-Only the US have "a lot of nuclear weapons" , the other three plan those weapons for self defense-more than a global agenda.

-But a lot of western nuclear weapons are "old and slow"....Russia has high-speed/hypersonic weapons able to evade most western radar at speeds of 8,000 to 20,000 km/h...(Close to mach 20...)

So-yes-the US may still "dream" of nuclear blackmail...reality is they may not even be able to upgrade their nuclear arsenal because "the rest" may control both basic materials and -soon- finance...

Should we expect a "nuclear show down" a "confrontation" with "the west" and the "rest" pointing nuclear weapons at each other ? 

DJ-Yes...at present-with western "leaders" showing total insanity-it may come to this....Russia/China may be working hard on electronic warfare, cyber warfare, maybe even sabotage teams to "control" the western nuclear weapons...Another scenario could be a "demonstration" of what modern (Russian) weapons can do...Maybe an unloaded hypersonic missile landing in the White House gardens -not detected by NORAD/western radar could "wake up" the present "elite"....

Again...we should not have been in this situation (like in the pandemic...)...it was avoidable (like the pandemic) an outcome of bad leadership. 

Talks could get us out of this crisis...but so far it is the "west" that is not showing any kind of "respect" to the "rest"....The "west" is the problem and may have to learn in a very hard way....




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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 02 2023 at 11:55pm

DJ, Frontlines;

-De-dollar-ization may be the main frontline. (See other item on this once-a-forum)...Denial the US of both finance and materials to keep the US war-industry going could be the BRIICSS+ plan to limit wars...It may also be a way to break up "the west"...US interests are often NOT EU or UK interests...Here in NL "Asia is land linked"...we have growing long distance train-links with China/SE-Asia...high speed goods transport may be able to compete with transport via the oceans. 

And -yes- de-dollar-ization will hurt the banking system. Often hurting banks in an already weak position most...But larger banks taking over small banks with problems could end up with lots of problems themselves...The US population is around 4% of the global population (335 million out of-by now-8 billion+ global population) still the US did manage to see the US$ being used in most global trade...High-speed de-dollar-ization this year, 2024, is also meant to influence US elections...If the best the US can think of is a repeat of trump-biden the US knows it has a serious problem....

-[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4QJOiL6b0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4QJOiL6b0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4QJOiL6b0 MS/Military Summary discussing "the Ukraine offensive" he still expects...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdLqZGZZws[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdLqZGZZws - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdLqZGZZws The Duran; Kirby's crazy 'Russian casualties' claim. Poland warned not to enter conflict 

DJ, Like in the pandemic the basic US-led western "strategy" in the global conflict is "wishfull thinking" - a tunnelvision ignoring all the facts not fitting in this "dream"....Ukraine propaganda taken for real facts by a western political elite without ANY BASIC historical knowledge....The level of stupidity is shocking!

The Duran; When the west runs out of Ukraine soldiers they will send in Polish ones....Since Poland getting involved by its own action means article 5 of NATO can not be used NATO still could claim to be outside this US made war....However Russia may change its strategy in such an escalation...

In the Russian view the Ukraine population mostly is misled...So Russia limiting the "shock & awe" strategy the US used a.o. in Iraq-killing hundreds of thousends civilians...Poland, Baltics, joining Ukraine may see a "real war"...very likely a short one...

[url]https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/[/url] or https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/ - https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/ ; On April 28, one of the most prominent neoliberal mouthpieces,  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/science/ukraine-nuclear-radiation-sensors.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - the New York Times, ran a story  about America setting up numerous radiation sensors across Ukraine in order to detect nuclear blasts. The NYT claims that “such sensors can detect‌‌ bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker”. It adds that “the goal is to make sure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, its atomic signature and Moscow’s culpability could be verified”, further claiming that “…experts have worried about whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/russia-tactical-nuclear-weapons.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - would use nuclear arms in combat  for the first time since the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945″.

DJ, Russia stopped making depleted uranium ammo years ago...The UK did send that kind of ammo with its tanks (So the UK lost 10% of its tanks to Ukraine...). 

My view; The US is in the corner in Ukraine...needs to claim some sort of victory...So claiming "hundreds of thousends Russians killed" may be a way the US would love to claim they did weaken Putin....Not only the "rest" of the world has had it with endless US wars...also in Europe support for more wars is gone...

We still see high inflation (food, energy)-outlook for next winter is bad...Sanctions against Russia, Iran...China only result in the west being excluded from the rest of the global market...Europe now buying Russian energy via India, Türkiye at a higher price...With the Asian economy -in general- booming! 

So...if the "biden-cult" wants to continue more wars, escalations, they need to claim Russia, Iran, China agression...However "normal means" for endless US wars are running out...

I think there is a real risk of biden seeking nuclear war....Even with Russia having hypersonic weapons...Nuclear capable submarines...An all out nuclear war could destroy this planet in just a few minutes...

-So sending a US submarine -with nuclear weapons- to South Korea is telling China "the US is willing to go nuclear"....Not only China, also Japan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia do NOT welcome more US agression in East Asia...A "global NATO"  is NOT welcomed anywhere - still it is a US/NATO 'illusion"....

So a few options remain;

-Most optimistic; biden claims Ukraine did win...NATO does accept talks on ending the war "because Russia has been beaten"...Ukraine will stay out of NATO, Russia will take a large part of Ukraine...but still "NATO did win" ....

This would not only be the best way out for Ukraine or Russia...it could end a mass murder/war in Ukraine-limit risks of conflict in other regions...

-Most realistic; biden believes Ukraine losing thousends of soldiers per month (Russian claim Ukraine deaths april 2023 was 15,000) is "worth it"...Some countries (UK, Poland, Baltics) still willing to send more weapons-slowly destroying their own armies and finance...

More US regime change operations in lots of countries, Belarus to Venezuela ? 

The US runs out of means to fight major wars....Economic/financial warfare destroying the US/western economies...Lots of protests in most western countries facing government agression and repression...Internet censorship "defending democrazy"....

DJ-My view...the west is running out of means to go on like this within months ! Replacing 50 million worth of aid send to Ukraine does cost 300 million...Sending F16's, (limited) modern tanks-even with a Polish crew-will NOT change the outcome...only may mobilize more countries against the west...

-Worst case; US going for nuclear war....Iran is a strategic partner not only for Russia and China but also for India, Türkiye...now maybe even for Saudi Arabia...so a major attack on Iran (by the US -or as a proxy Israel) may see a response from most of Asia....

The US is managing to get that many enemies who to attack with what weapons ? The US-biden- could believe it has enough air defenses to protect the US against counter attacks...further "wishfull thinking"...Russia, Iran, China, North Korea have "bunker cities" ...most will survive a nuclear war itself...The US has only limited "bunker cities" 

DJ-The real problems start AFTER nuclear war...We may run out of food, water etc. for most of the global population that may still be around...

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My hope is that in the US-the problem is the US ! - enough people push for a better strategy...Confrontationism is destroying the US...We already see that many major shifts; Iran-Saudi deals via China, Brazil, India pushing for de-dollar-ization...The US needs diplomacy more now than ever before...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 3:48am

Maybe some "constructive"? [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2B85SQc0j0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2B85SQc0j0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2B85SQc0j0 Futurology;

The EU is building a 5.8 billion euro rail network that will help secure the Baltic states and impact the environment. Rail Baltica, a massive planned railway, will provide the first large-scale standard gauge railway in the Baltics, helping connect the regions’ economy to the rest of the EU and western Europe. It will have seven international passenger stations and three multimodal freight terminals to integrate with the current Russian gauge rail system. The railway will provide numerous benefits, including faster commute times, safer travel, better integration with the European Union, job creation, and greater security for the Baltic states. Currently, the railway is still in the design phase but is close to beginning construction. Planned to open to the public between 2028 and 2030, Rail Baltica will transform the region.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica DJ, the EU needs to invest (billions) into integrating "new" members within the "EU-system"...with for now the EU-motors" most in western Europe... "Rail Baltica" is supposed also to have links with Warsaw-Poland and Berlin-Germany. May see improved links (ferry or tunnel ?) with Helsinki-Finland. (There may be plans for improving a Sweden-Finland link nort-east of Stockholm ?)

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-what-china-really-playing-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-what-china-really-playing-ukraine - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-what-china-really-playing-ukraine ;

The Beijing leadership is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of an American direct war against the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Until recently, and since 2019, Beijing was the top trade partner for Kiev (14.4% of imports, 15.3% of exports). China essentially exported machinery, equipment, cars and chemical products, importing food products, metals and also some machinery.

Very few in the West know that Ukraine joined BRI way back in 2014, and a BRI trade and investment center was operating in Kiev since 2018. BRI projects include a 2017 drive to build the fourth line of the Kiev metro system as well as 4G installed by Huawei. Everything is stalled since 2022.

Noble Agri, a subsidiary of COFCO (China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation), invested in a sunflower seed processing complex in Mariupol and the recently built Mykolaiv grain port terminal. The next step will necessarily feature cooperation between Donbass authorities and the Chinese when it comes to rebuilding their assets that may have been damaged during the war.

Beijing also tried to become heavily involved in the Ukraine defense sector and even buy Motor Sich; that was blocked by Kiev.

Watch that neon

So what we have in Ukraine, from the Chinese point of view, is a trade/investment cocktail of BRI, railways, military supplies, 4G and construction jobs. And then, the key vector: neon.

Roughly half of neon used in the production of semiconductors was supplied, until recently, by two Ukrainian companies; Ingas in Mariupol, and Cryoin, in Odessa. There’s no business going on since the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO). That directly affects the Chinese production of semiconductors. Bets can be made that the Hegemon is not exactly losing sleep over this predicament.

Ukraine does represent value for China as a BRI crossroads. The war is interrupting not only business but, in the bigger picture, one of the trade and connectivity corridors linking Western China to Eastern Europe. BRI conditions all key decisions in Beijing – as it is the overarching concept of Chinese foreign policy way into mid-century.

And that explains Xi’s phone call, debunking any NATOstan nonsense on China finally paying attention to the warmongering actor.

As relevant as BRI is the overarching bilateral relationship dictating Beijing’s geopolitics: the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership.

So let’s transition to the meeting of Defense Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) earlier this week in Delhi.

The key meeting in India was between Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Chinese colleague Li Shangfu. Li was recently in Moscow, and was received by Putin in person for a special conversation. This time he invited Shoigu to visit Beijing, and that was promptly accepted.

Needless to add that every single player in the SCO and beyond, including nations that are for the moment just observers or dialogue partners as well as others itching to become full members, such as Saudi Arabia, paid very close attention to the Shoigu-Shangfu camaraderie.

When it comes to the profoundly strategic Central Asian “stans”, that represents the six feet under treatment for the Hegemon wishful thinking of using them in a Divide and Rule scheme pitting Russia against China.

Shoigu-Shangfu also sent a subtle message to SCO members India and Pakistan – stop bickering and in the case of Delhi, hedging your bets – and to full member (in 2023) Iran and near future member Saudi Arabia: here’s where’s it at, this the table that matters.

All of the above also points to the increasing interconnection between BRI and SCO, both under Russia-China leadership.

BRICS is essentially an economic club – complete with its own bank, the NDB – and focused on trade. It’s mostly about soft power. The SCO is focused on security. It’s about hard power. Together, these are the two key organizations that will be paving the multilateral way.

As for what will be left of Ukraine, it is already being bought by Western mega-players such as BlackRock, Cargill and Monsanto. Yet Beijing certainly does not count on being left high and dry. Stranger things have happened than a future rump Ukraine positioned as a functioning trade and connectivity BRI partner.

DJ, Ukraine has the choice of being on the end of the road or "in the middle". Ukraine can be a link between EU, Türkiye, other Asian countries...On the long term Ukraines best chances are in being a "land-bridge" not in a proxy war....

-Poland has land/river borders with Ukraine...Ukraine has NO links with the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea ...Belarus is in between Ukraine and the (NATO) Baltic states...So further Polish "help" for Ukraine will have to come over land. 

The costs of more war with Russia wil endanger needed investments to integrate Poland into the EU...Poland was supposed to be next in line to switch to the Euro/€ ...Croatia started using the € since january 1-2023. 

There are some "ideas" on integrating Poland with Ukraine...However Ukraine is destroyed...the west is moving itself into bankruptcy...

To limit damage the EU may have to look at "Asia"....It is just over 8,000 km/5,000 miles between Paris and Bejing...A train going 100 km/h would take 80 hrs of constant driving...If high speed would be available train transport between China and Europe may get under 48 hrs....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 12:13am

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare ;

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DJ, the war between the "west" and the "rest" is becoming more and more a war trying to destroy eachothers logistics, economies...

Military Summary [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgBWMFcZy0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgBWMFcZy0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgBWMFcZy0 and [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukrainian-counteroffensive-has-started-wagner-boss[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukrainian-counteroffensive-has-started-wagner-boss - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukrainian-counteroffensive-has-started-wagner-boss  

DJ...There was a (very limited) drone attack on the Kremlin in Moscow...Ukraine/NATO has been very active in drone attacks a.o. against (military) fuel depots in Russia(n held territory). Sabotage derailed trains in Russia near the Ukraine border...

Shortly after the drone attack in Moscow zelensky showed up in Finland...he now is in The Hague-Netherlands [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/zelenskyy-meet-dutch-pm-defense-min-icc-officials-hague-today[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/zelenskyy-meet-dutch-pm-defense-min-icc-officials-hague-today - https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/zelenskyy-meet-dutch-pm-defense-min-icc-officials-hague-today ...

The combination with [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/netherlands-honor-died-war-remembrance-day-today[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/netherlands-honor-died-war-remembrance-day-today - https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/04/netherlands-honor-died-war-remembrance-day-today is very UN-welcome ! A.o. the "farmersparty" BBB will boycot zelenskys speech...

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It is not very clear IF Ukraine is able to start a (serious) counteroffensive...If there is a counteroffensive (DJ-my view) it may be a NATO-counteroffensive "dressed up" as Ukrainian...There has been lots of talks on F16's for Ukraine...a.o. the US may be training Ukraine pilots...there may be western pilots (with East European roots) as volunteers...

The perspectives for the NATO-Ukraine war against Russia may hint at further escalations..."doubling down"...

Since "the rest" of the world by now is totally fed up with US agression economic warfare may result in even more banks failing...[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/pacwest-bancorp-stock-drops-56-in-after-hours-trading-right-now[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/pacwest-bancorp-stock-drops-56-in-after-hours-trading-right-now - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/pacwest-bancorp-stock-drops-56-in-after-hours-trading-right-now ;

Last night, I reported to all of you that three more U.S. Banks were in big trouble and named PACWEST BANCORP as one of those three.  Today, its stock value dropped but that was nothing compared to what has taken place since markets closed at 4:30 this afternoon.   PACWEST stock has plunged 56%+ since 4:30 today!

As of 5:51 PM EDT tonight (3 May 2023):

2.7892 -3.6308 (-56.5545%)

PacWest now has mandatory institutional divestment.  Opinions of Traders on the street is that the Bank will probably drop to $1-$2 tomorrow, and the Bank will be Dead in a week . . . just like First Republic Bank this past Monday.

2023 is the year toxic zombie & woke banks DIE!

Silicon Valley Bank.....DEAD

Signature Bank.....DEAD

First Republic Bank.....DEAD

PacWest Bank.....DEAD???

Who's next?

My guess:

Western Alliance
Metropolitan Commercial
Homestreet
Zions

(Not necessarily in that order)

DJ, De-dollar-ization will DESTROY US banks...it is part of the war between -de facto- the US and the rest of the world...

BRIICSS+/SCO is a powerblock...Saudi Arabia was not happy when the US increased oil-production via fracking...One of the Saudi-ideas behind backing the petro-dollar was that the US would limit oil/gas exploration...Also the US creating al quaida, IS etc. did -de facto- create jihadi-risks for Saudi/Gulf States elites...

Since the US goal was to use jihadi's/neo-nazi's/separatists to break up Russia-Iran-China lots of non-western countries now see the risks...If the US is using Kurds to destroy Syria, Iraq will the US exploit divisions in other countries to destroy those countries ? 

The organization of Islamic states visited China...agreed with China on the risks of Uyghur-seperatists...

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Ukraine is just one frontline, Syria/Iraq -or MENA (Middle East North Africa) another...China has been preparing to "block" Taiwan-part of China under UN rules even the US claims to agree with...

In my view the main front however is economic/financial warfare...The US is involved in all kinds of (terror)attacks not only against Russia but also against Iran, China...An escalation could be attacks in "the west" on infrastructure..."Anything you can do I can do it better"....so train-derailments, pipeline explosians, tankers sinking/blocking canals...Cyber warfare..."we've only just begun" [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI Carpenters...

DJ- Non-nuclear war could become even more ugly then nuclear war...Who is behind what protest ? Are "social media" hijacked ? 

Laws limiting all kinds of basic freedoms may end democracy while claiming to defend it....We are on "the wrong road to a wrong destination"!



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 11:33pm

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vpGLpZQ5U[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vpGLpZQ5U - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vpGLpZQ5U Alex Christoforou/AC

DJ-I only can agree-zelensky "on tour" from Finland, NL to Germany asking not only for F16's but also Ukraine -high speed- membership of EU and NATO may indicate "the west" want to see "conclusions"....


in reaction to this insanity;

DJ, the US/NATO try to spin a story of "Ukraine did win"...with Ukraine itself running out of an army, the country destroyed...So...who will be going on the offensive ? Who will be flying western F16's, driving western tanks ? Very likely it may be Polish "volunteers" with help of NATO "special forces"....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-us-helped-carry-out-overnight-drone-attack-oil-refinery[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-us-helped-carry-out-overnight-drone-attack-oil-refinery - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-us-helped-carry-out-overnight-drone-attack-oil-refinery ;

While all eyes were on the small drone attack against Kremlin buildings in Moscow yesterday, given Russian allegations of an assassination attempt against President Putin, a separate but very significant cross-border strike was reported in southern Russia overnight.

Multiple drones targeted an oil refinery in southern Russia, resulting in a large fire. "Four drones were used in an attack on an oil refinery in the Krasnodar Region, where an oil storage reservoir caught fire on Thursday night," TASS https://tass.com/emergencies/1613317?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.com&utm_referrer=google.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - reports . The Kremlin is blaming Washington and Kiev's Western backers for the cross-border operation.

DJ, in the past NATO aircraft-above the Black Sea- guided "Ukraine" drones to (pro) Russian targets...The damage a drone can do is limited...however lots of drones may do "a lot of limited damage". On top of that sabotage inside Russia on supply lines also push Russia towards escalation...

-The US may not only sell anti-ship missiles to Taiwan, it may also increase US military presence there...

-In Jordan talks from countries in the region (Egypt-Iraq-Syria-Türkiye etc.) decided (uninvited) foreign troops should leave the region...In other words-Jordan, Saudi Arabia/Gulf States want US forces out of Syria and Iraq....

DJ-Further escalation in Ukraine may bring escalation on other frontlines. The Middle East has the US in a weak position...how to get supplies to US forces when ALL countries refuse cooperation (you can not supply US forces from Israel...) 

Russia-China may "block" Taiwan....control all im/exports...lead air traffic via mainland China...If the US wants to break such a blockade it may find itself in a war with both Russia and China...

The EU is moving into a major economic crisis...The US de facto is bankrupt...may be in a corner and do "crazy stuff"....UK not in a much better position...

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DJ-I hope someone-somewhere comes up with a clever idea to get us out of this dangerzone...China has broken contact with the US...Russia also "ended" talking with the west...

The US view "who is not with us is against us" makes diplomacy very hard...

Maybe Israel/Arab States may offer a way out ? Maybe Japan/Korea see options ? For now the EU still joins the US against Russia in Ukraine...but there may be some movements there ? Türkiye ? India ?

DJ-If diplomacy can not get us out of this dangerzone war is next...

BRIICSS+/SCO/OPEC+ try to limit US capacity for war by "dumping the US$" but that process may not go fast enough...or could even worsen the chaos/panic in DC...(with US banks collapsing. US$ crashing...also creating lots of problems for EU/UK banks/currencies). 

A "show of force" could convince "one party" to seek an end to escalation...

There may be a lot of "secret" diplomacy...not only to find a way out but also to try to get countries to switch sides...(India has long term good relations with Russia-however the relation with China is a problem...The US may seek to increase conflict between India-Pakistan and China...Very likely the US did start the chaos in Sudan to "stop" Russia and China in Africa...). 

Things can get VERY UGLY...the only "good news" is lots of people know this..may try to avoid this...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 11:04pm

DJ, 

NATO opened an office in Japan...

In 1945 the Allies agreed the Soviet Union would join the fight against Japan after the war in Europe (VE-day Victory in Europe) was over...So the Soviets overran Korea, Manchuria, Sachalin, Kuril Islands...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBh4p08tRs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBh4p08tRs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBh4p08tRs the main reason why the Soviet Union did not go for a planned invasion of Hokkaido was lack of ships and military...Hokkaide was part of Japan since the 19th century [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido#History[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido#History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido#History The Ainu lived on the island (geneticly related to population of Andaman Islands near India ? )

Japan is still buying Russian energy, doing a lot of trade with China...

Korea and Taiwan were Japanese colonies till 1945...

East Asia is NOT like the EU/UK "very close" to the US war-promotion...Since there are old wounds and lots of claims Japan could see more islands go to China, Korea, Russia maybe even the Philippines ("Formosa"-now named Taiwan in geological view could be seen as the most northern islands of the Philippines some claim...). 

Korea has the big question of reunification- the "German-model" (East- and West-Germany reunited in 1990). 

So...how likely is it US neo-cons ( "uni-party" funded by the war industry-like the nazi's in Germany were) can use Taiwan to create a "united western front against communist Chinese agression"...? 

China is a much larger factor in East Asia then Russia was in the EU..."we" in Europe did see Russia as a source of energy...The old idea of replacing Russian oil with Arab oil was mixed with much to unrealistic expectations on renewable energy...

A "political corrupt elite" in South Korea, Japan, may still follow US orders...The EU did follow US orders for war against Russia...however moving into conflict with China may be a different matter...

-Timing is one point. Sanctions against Russia, Iran did do more damage to the west - only increased Asian and non-western trade...

-The US-UK-EU economies are "in a major crisis"...there are limits to creating money out of thin air...(Did US banks lose over 2,5 TRILLION US$ in value in 2023 ?) 

-Endless NATO wars means most NATO countries see their armies not ready for even larger NATO-wars...

-Most of the western citizens are getting fed up with "politicians-for-sale" not representing the voters..."democrazy"...

-inflation ("greed-flation"in Dutch "graai-flatie" increasing prices a bit extra to increase profits) is getting the west more poor NOT rich !

So...how much "real" suppor -not words only-t the US can expect from South Korea, Japan against Russia-Iran-China ? 

Maybe looking at India, Indonesia -both good relations long term with Russia- may tell us more...

IF Japan and South Korea join the US/NATO in seeking war with Russia-Iran-China they will destroy their own economies...However European "politicians-for-sale" seem to have no problem with that...

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In MENA (Middle East North Africa...NAME is also OK !) NATO is silently moving away...at least so far. US forces in Iraq, Syria -against international law- have become in an impossible position...Stealing oil may soon no longer cover the costs...extra weapons to "friendly terrorists, jihadis-for-democrazy" etc may have limited use. In Sudan US support for "rebels" did start a limited civil war...it looks like the Sudan Army with help of Egypt (Russia, Türkiye ??? Saudi Arabia ?)  do stop US made chaos there...

Syria-Assad-is integrated in the Arab/Muslim world...Libya is still dealing with the damage NATO did bring...Iraq may be healing from NATO made wounds...The Yemen (US made) war is over...now there is peace to be won, reconstruction to start...with no doubt Russia-Iran-China major players...

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In Ukraine May 9 -the day in 1945 when the Soviet Union "finished" nazi-Germany-  is coming closer...zelenski-on-tour asking for F16's, more "weapons-for-peace", EU/NATO membership...

One could question what membership of EU and/or NATO brings when BRIICSS+/SCO have become the major global economic block...

My view, both NATO and EU may become WEAKER if they include a totally destroyed Ukraine...The west is responsible for the destruction of Ukraine...There was NO NEED ! for moving NATO east...

US missiles against Russia in Poland, Romania, Finland (?) -only a few minutes flying to Moscow- could bring Russian missiles in Cuba, Mexico ? BRIICSS+ taking over the Panama-canal ? 

The insane biden plan for regime change in Moscow "because Putin made trump US president" , endless US confrontation politics are bringing us very close to nuclear all out war...

Hypersonic/cyber war may limit nuclear attacks...still to much damage will be done...

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[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-helped-overturn-pentagon-papers-principle-washington-post-and-new-york-times[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-helped-overturn-pentagon-papers-principle-washington-post-and-new-york-times - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-helped-overturn-pentagon-papers-principle-washington-post-and-new-york-times Once "main-stream-media" were a major factor in a democracy...In the present democrazy media-for-sale speak the words/non-sense of politicians-for-sale...

The "force" destroying democracy is not outside the west...it is "inside us"...it has to do with income-inequality...Some people feeling superior over most others (in fact because they are good in stealing money)...

WE..US..."the people" need to re-define what we see as "democracy"...for me education, (health)care, housing, safety all are part of "democracy"...The west is ending up in "apartheid"...with a "good live" for the few and much shorter lives in poverty for most...That is NOT democracy ! 

Democracy is fighting with words...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 11:52pm

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/07/russias-steady-advance-on-the-battlefield-is-a-defeat-for-the-us-and-its-allies/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/07/russias-steady-advance-on-the-battlefield-is-a-defeat-for-the-us-and-its-allies/ - https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/07/russias-steady-advance-on-the-battlefield-is-a-defeat-for-the-us-and-its-allies/ ;

It is important to note that the drone attacks are far from being led by Ukraine, which lacks the military capability to confront Russia. Instead, they are part of a broader US strategy to distract Russia and deal it a blow, whatever the calculated outcome. As US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin announced, the Ukrainian conflict is being played out at the German base of Ramstein with the participation of 50 other countries. The United States has a long history of waging war and occupying cities and has the military power to do so. However, a semi-direct confrontation with Russia gives the US an enormous insight into Russian military capabilities. Nevertheless, it has done Moscow great by reforming its military, arming itself for modern warfare and distinguishing between its allies and adversaries.

Russia can only respond to the drone attacks by bombing Ukraine so that the leaders in Kyiv feel the extent of the damage inflicted on them by the Pentagon’s management of the battle. Moscow can bomb Ukraine painfully. It can also respond to America in other theatres, in Syria or Iran, Latin America or elsewhere, by providing those countries with advanced weapons that the US fears. As a result, the Kremlin is not expected to respond by bombing the White House or using unconventional weapons. This means that Russia has the space to withstand US blows without being deterred and pushed into uncalculated or hasty steps to divert attention from the defeat of the Ukrainian army and Europe’s loss of appetite for continuing the war.

With its steadfastness and confrontation with the West, Russia has created a defect in the American hegemony over the world that has lasted for more than 75 years. With the BRICS countries and several other anti-American nations, Moscow has begun diversifying its financial options and monetary trade in currencies other than the US dollar. Indeed, Russia and China are dealing a severe blow to the dollar’s economic dominance by supporting the yuan, whose star has begun to rise at the expense of the euro and the British pound. 

In addition, America’s failure to defeat Russia in Ukraine in the first months of the war and its military and economic intransigence against the most powerful countries of the Western world have combined to weaken the European currency.

In addition, America’s failure to defeat Russia in Ukraine in the first months of the war and its military and economic steadfastness against the most powerful countries of the Western world have collectively led to the weakening of the European ranks. From the beginning of the war, European nations thought they should unite against Russia to share their natural resources since defeat was guaranteed. Western EU states reluctantly accepted the sabotage of the Russian gas pipeline – seen as the future artery of Germany and its economy and industry – in the hope of defeating Moscow.

However, Russia’s victory lies not in the natural, slow progress of its forces on Ukrainian soil but in the failure of America’s stated goals of removing Putin and severely damaging the Russian economy. As a result, Moscow is not expected to respond to the US challenge by hitting Washington with a higher level of escalation in response to the attempt to hit the Kremlin. Instead, the continuation of the war is sufficient for Russia to attack the Western alliance and its unity, and to continue military and economic strikes against Ukraine (preventing it from exporting grain and wheat), which is seen as the most significant direct loser of the war and is paying a very high price for its decision to join the Western camp. Unfortunately, the ongoing conflict between Russia and the US has put small countries like Ukraine in a complex and uncertain situation. 

It is unknown whether much Ukrainian territory will be left if the war continues for many years and Kyiv doesn’t come to the negotiating table very soon. This is the fate of small countries that struggle between two mighty powers. For Ukraine, the question is not whether to negotiate with Russia but when. It seems that the decision has never been under Ukrainian control.

A few remarks;

-The EU/UK may have expected the Ukraine-crisis to be a short term problem...may be in a serious crisis (energy, trade) if the Ukraine-crisis would become another "never ending" US made war...

-EU/UK trade with the US may still be done in US$...but it is NOT in EU/UK interest to keep doing so if this Ukraine-war goes on (because of the biden-cult insanity)...

-The US banking crisis is linked to the US creating more money-trying to limit inflation by raising interest rates...Solving one problem worsens the other problem...and financial problems do worsen the "situation" in the UK/EU as well...

-Again both UK and EU are "next door" to the Asia market...the US is "an ocean away"...on the long term both the UK and EU can not exclude themselves from the Asian market-with over half of the global population...hearth of BRIICSS+/SCO...

-The US may be able to become "self supporting" and isolate itself from most of the world...Europe needs trade-with a.o. Asia- to keep its economy alive...

DJ, so do Russia-Iran-China have "time on their side"? I think they do...Other long term "allies" of Russia are both its seize and winters...If the US would go for "nuclear blackmail" how to "blackmail" almost the rest of the globe ? 

Nuclear war scenario's were made for NATO-Warsaw Pact (+China) conflicts...not for US-BRIICSS+ war...

The US is unable to "B&B=Bribe & Bomb"  from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela to China, North Korea....Even the US has limits to the number of enemies (BRIICSS+) it can make...

-Again, talks, diplomacy, offer a way out...the other alternative is economic warfare destroying the US financial system and pulling away the last allies the US still has...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 08 2023 at 12:07am

DJ, 

De-dollar-ization is the MAIN frontline in the bigger US-rest conflict...If you see "history as an union" with many layers...Yes-for now-the EU and UK may join for a SHORT TERM conflict with Russia...However the bigger conflict the US has is not only with Russia...it is mainly with China...motor behind both SCO and BRIICSS...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-global-de-dollarization-nearing-crossroads-moment[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-global-de-dollarization-nearing-crossroads-moment - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-global-de-dollarization-nearing-crossroads-moment and [url]https://sputnikglobe.com/20230507/if-china-ditches-dollar-amid-emerging-new-trade-order-consequences-for-us-could-be-stark--1110163827.html[/url] or https://sputnikglobe.com/20230507/if-china-ditches-dollar-amid-emerging-new-trade-order-consequences-for-us-could-be-stark--1110163827.html - https://sputnikglobe.com/20230507/if-china-ditches-dollar-amid-emerging-new-trade-order-consequences-for-us-could-be-stark--1110163827.html  

DJ-My view...the EU has its Euro/€ in competition with the US$...there are some "ideas" of creating a "Euro-Dollar"...one (digital) western currency...but US debts are that high...US foreign trade wars that bad [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/nearly-a-third-of-the-world-economy-is-now-subject-to-sanctions.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/nearly-a-third-of-the-world-economy-is-now-subject-to-sanctions.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/nearly-a-third-of-the-world-economy-is-now-subject-to-sanctions.html the EU or UK getting deeper involved in US economic collapse would only destroy the EU or UK...

Still we have "leaders" pushing for that....

-One of the questions I have is if NATO represents the army of a "Fourth Reich" -with nazi Germany being the "third reich"....Again both nazi's and NATO have a military industrial + banks complex at their roots...The Ukraine war is a NATO expansion war...one of the (US) goals is to break up Russia...China will be next...a "global NATO" may be in the making...supposed to include Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand a.o. DJ-However I have my doubts on that...China is the main economy in Asia...Asia IS the dominant global economy...The US is out competed when you look at integration of Russia-China-India-Pakistan-Iran...

Still the Ukraine war looks like escalating with tomorrow Russian Victory Day at may 9...It was the Soviet Union ending the third reich...it may be Russia now stopping a fourt reich-NATO...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNeEnAdxvE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNeEnAdxvE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNeEnAdxvE Military Summary/MS;

-Do Ukraine forces keep civilians (thousends ?) hostage in Bakhmut to prevent pro-Russian forces to take over the last 5% of Bakhmut...(DJ-In may 1940 German SS used Dutch POW's as cover/human shield...it is "nazi-style"...)

-[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant ;

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Ukrainian language - Ukrainian Запорізька атомна електростанція https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Romanization of Ukrainian - romanized : Zaporiz'ka atomna elektrostantsiia) in southeastern  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Ukraine - Ukraine  is the largest  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Nuclear power plant - nuclear power plant  in Europe and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations#Nuclear" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="List of largest power stations - among the 10 largest in the world . It has been under  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast - Russian  occupation since 2022. It was built by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Soviet Union - Soviet Union  near the city of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enerhodar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Enerhodar - Enerhodar , on the southern shore of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhovka_Reservoir" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Kakhovka Reservoir - Kakhovka Reservoir  on the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Dnieper - Dnieper  river. It is operated by  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energoatom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" title="Energoatom - Energoatom , who also operate Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations.

DJ [url]https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/[/url] or https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/ - https://southfront.org/is-us-about-to-conduct-nuclear-false-flag-in-ukraine-and-blame-russia-for-it/ I do not doubt the US may be willing to blow up nuclear reactors in Ukraine and blame Russia for it...These reactors are on the frontline...Ukraine has been shelling/attacking these plants for months...(with western "media" claiming Russia is shelling itself...the level of insanity in western media is absurd !)

-Another Ukraine/NATO goal may be to get control over the Dnjepr-river delta so the port of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykolaiv[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykolaiv - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykolaiv becomes available...Odessa now is the only major Ukraine port on the Black Sea...

-MS also reported on a drone attack from Odessa-airport on Crimea. Trying to damage both the Russian Black Sea Fleet and fuel/ammo depots...A Polish plane flying near the Romanian Black Sea coast was "send" away by Russian air force...NATO planes direct drones from Ukraine to Russian targets...DJ-A scenario may be US transport plane landing in Odessa-US military sending (western) drones against Russian targets and then the US crew going back to Romania, Poland, Germany or Italy...

The Ukraine-Russia War is already a NATO-BRIICSS war in many aspects...India, China, but also Japan buying Russian energy...The EU and UK buy "energy products" LNG, Diesel from India, China, Türkiye...knowing it is made from Russian oil...Also Russian oil mixed with non-Russian oil is going to EU markets...

Iran at least gave "patent rights" for drones to Russia...(Russia may be making Iran-model drones in the Kalashnikov-factories...). Lots of BRIICSS nations may send "military observers" to Russia...Dealing with (US sponsored) separatism/terrorism is high on BRIICSS+ agendas...

[url]https://thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/why-does-saudi-arabia-need-to-improve-ties-with-iran-and-cui-bono[/url] or https://thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/why-does-saudi-arabia-need-to-improve-ties-with-iran-and-cui-bono - https://thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/why-does-saudi-arabia-need-to-improve-ties-with-iran-and-cui-bono DJ-Syria now rejoined the Arab League...The main opponant of Erdogan in the Turkish elections is Alavite...(just like Assad in Syria)...DJ May be even more willing to do deals with China, Russia, Iran have less a "Turkish agenda"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 08 2023 at 12:20am

DJ, One of the other sapects of the-global-conflict is the energy war...

[url]https://iwell.nl/en/hoe-cube-werkt/[/url] or https://iwell.nl/en/hoe-cube-werkt/ - https://iwell.nl/en/hoe-cube-werkt/ ; The Cube batteries store clean wind and solar power. They then provide power when the building or the electric cars need it. In this way, you can also use solar power when the sun is not shining.

storing renewable energy is possible in lots of ways...

[url]https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Lievense[/url] or https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Lievense - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Lievense was the idea of pumping up water in a reservoir when there is a lot of renewable (wind/solar) energy with electric pumps...release the water to get energy from hydro-power generators....when there is not much renewable energy...

Here in NL there are some ideas of going for nuclear power...Finland, Türkiye, Egypt opened new nuclear powerplants...Germany just closed them...One problem is building a nuclear powerplant may take up to 10 years....

[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/will-there-be-arctic-sea-ice-left-in-september-2023.html[/url] or  http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/will-there-be-arctic-sea-ice-left-in-september-2023.html - http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/will-there-be-arctic-sea-ice-left-in-september-2023.html  we need to change the way we live NOW !!!!



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 08 2023 at 10:57pm

DJ, 

Coming sunday there will be elections in Türkiye. Around 5% of the votes come out of western Europe. (NL 200,000, Germany 1,5 million vote(r)s). Türkiye has become a major factor in SW Asia. The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhnuC4uq4E[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhnuC4uq4E - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhnuC4uq4E on Syria rejoining the Arab League. 

In Syria the US used the Kurds to get regime change...That strategy failed like that strategy is failing in Sudan, Ukraine...both also victims of US regime change wars...For that matter how the peaceproces in Syria (and Iraq) will go may give an indication on what we -soon- may see in Ukraine...

It also is pushing away the Arab world from the US....after Afghanistan now both Syria and Sudan are US made disasters...

Russia has been "pushing" Kurds (a lot of them from Türkiye...but from a Kurdish perspective they are NOT Turkish, Iraqi, Irani...but Kurdish...) to talk with the governments...Unlike the US Russia knows history, relations and diplomacy...ALL !!! Arab nations, but also Türkiye, Iran, Russia want uninvited foreign troops out of the region...de facto US/NATO has to go...

Türkiye is willing to pull back its forces from Syria and Iraq, stop supporting "groups" in the region...(there are Turkish minorities-linked to Ottoman history...in both Syria and Iraq). Both Erdogan AK-parti and the union of opposition parties (under Alevite [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevism[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevism leadership...Assad in Syria is also Alevite...Erdogan is much more Islamist/nationalist/conservative) want Türkiye to get out of Syria...

In fact almost ALL Türkish political groups have given up hope of Türkiye joining the EU...Türkiye still is in NATO with majot US militairy facilities (Air Forcy/Navy). There may be some disagreement on foreign policy in Turkish politics however that disagreement may be on making Türkiye a leading Islam-country, pan-Turki-ism...(Ottoman nostalgia...)

The AK-parti=Erdogan...is anti Kurdish but Erdogan survived a US coup thanks to high speed action of Russian special forces [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt ...

After the outcome of sunday-may 14-elections we may see a speed up of the peace process in Syria and Iraq...unless the US and Israel go for more chaos...[url]https://southfront.org/israel-attacks-on-syria/[/url] or https://southfront.org/israel-attacks-on-syria/ - https://southfront.org/israel-attacks-on-syria/ ...DJ-From an Israeli perspective a divided Syria is a weak Syria...

But Russia, China are also major players in Israel...with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and even Jordan moving away from the US also Israel may need to rebalance its strategies...US protection in Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan etc was a disaster...The US did NOT stop Iran enriching uranium...Russia, China, India, Pakistan may be able to do more for Israel security then the US can offer...

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May 9 - victory day in Russia ! [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QkX-vjUKi4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QkX-vjUKi4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QkX-vjUKi4  

[url]https://tass.com/economy/1614951[/url] or https://tass.com/economy/1614951 - https://tass.com/economy/1614951 ;

TOKYO, May 9. /TASS/. The interaction between Russia and Japan in the energy sphere is a rare example of common sense on the back of Tokyo’s support for sanctions against Moscow, Russian temporary charge d'affaires in Japan Gennady Ovechko told TASS in an interview on Tuesday.

"The interaction in energy and fisheries spheres is the rare oasis of common sense. Supplies of Russian energy resources were over $11 bln last year. Russian exports gained 8.8% to $15.38 bln, largely owing to the comfortable price situation for energy resources and raw materials. Liquefied natural gas totaled 34.4% in the structure of supplies, coal -24%, nonferrous metals - 14.6%, and foods, mainly fish and seafood - 7.9%," Ovechko said.

Japan joined other countries of the Group of Seven in implementing the price cap for Russian oil but made an exception for feedstock from the Sakhalin-2 project.

and [url]https://tass.com/economy/1614947[/url] or https://tass.com/economy/1614947 - https://tass.com/economy/1614947  

BEIJING, May 9. /TASS/. The trade turnover between Russia and China surged by 41.3% year on year to $73.15 bln, the Main Customs Administration of China said on Tuesday.

China’s exports to Russia soared by 67.2% in the reporting period to $33.68 bln. Russian supplies to China gained 24.8% at the same time and climbed to $39.46 bln, according to data posted on Customs website.

Russia is predominantly supplying energy resources to China. Oil, natural gas, fuel oil and coal accounted for more than 80% from the total volume of Russian supplies. China is delivering cars and trucks, household electronic goods, excavators, apparel, footwear and consumer goods to Russia.

DJ...the US still claims "Assad must go" in Syria...so the US can put another puppet regime there to steal more oil....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpLKnZMPio&t=474s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpLKnZMPio&t=474s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpLKnZMPio&t=474s "Judging Freedom" with Ray McGovern...the China made "deal" between Saudi Arabia and Iran was a shock for the west...Will China make a deal -somehow- ending the Ukraine war ? 

DJ...an outcome of US made wars -by now- is it is making the west weaker...so why would BRIICSS+ stop NATO-members from self destruction ? 

"Make trade not war" only works with reasonable countries...So part of the BRIICSS+ strategy may be "breaking up" the "west"....with most EU countries willing to talk trade -not war!

(DJ-Again I give my own view here !) The present political elite is out of support in the west...a problem for now is "opposition" often also go for a "uni-party-stand"....This will result in a very major crisis in western democracies...the gap between politics and voters has become to wide...

My view; In the EU there may be more room for renewal in member states...Maybe the UK will break up...The US has a very major problem in "political elite" not willing to change...

We live in interesting times...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 09 2023 at 11:34pm

DJ, My view on the international "situation"; (with lots of parallels with how the west is in denial on the pandemics, climate change etc...). 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italys-meloni-pull-trigger-belt-road-exit-major-blow-china[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italys-meloni-pull-trigger-belt-road-exit-major-blow-china - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italys-meloni-pull-trigger-belt-road-exit-major-blow-china ;

As the FT reported Sunday, "Brussels has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies for supporting Russia’s war machine for the first time since the war in Ukraine began, a development that is likely to increase tensions with Beijing."

The list includes a couple mainland Chinese companies - 3HC Semiconductors and King-Pai Technology, as well as five Hong Kong-based firms: Sigma Technology, Asia Pacific Links, Sinno Electronics, Tordan Industry, and Alpha Trading Investments. However, the sanctions package still needs approval by all 27 EU member states to take effect.

An Italy pullout of the BRI would be a significant and also hugely symbolic blow to Beijing, given Italy had been the very first G-7 country became part of the controversial Chinese initiative, crucial to Xi's vision for Chinese global expansion. Italy had formally signed on under then Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte. It's widely perceived that this triggered greater Washington engagement with Rome, in order to steer the country away from Chinese influence. 

According to analysis cited in earlier Bloomberg reporting from  https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/italy-rethinks-close-china-ties-073000303.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - last month :

“Italy is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and what to do with the cooperation pact is a real diplomatic conundrum for Meloni,” Francesca Ghiretti, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies research company, said in an interview. “Renewing it would send a very difficult message to Washington, but not renewing it would put a strain in relations with China.”

The Italian PM could have an official statement ready to roll out by the time of the May 19-21 Group of 7 summit in Hiroshima.

DJ, The EU is divided already over Ukraine/Russia...(Belgium wants to keep diamonds excluded from sanctions, EU now is buying a lot of energy-at high prices-from a.o. India, China, Türkiye...knowing it is refined products made of Russian oil/gas...next winter will become an energy nightmare for the EU/UK...). 

The US has to stop de-dollar-ization...however sanctions/economic warfare only increasing de-dollar-ization...with Europe very likely now using LESS US$ then a few years ago...because of those sanctions. 

The US$ was 70% of payments in international trade a few years ago...the G7 -then- was a larger economy then BRICS...BRICS now has a larger economy then the G7...on top of that BRICS grew to BRIICSS+ ...may soon be larger then the G20....Russia now has a GDP reaching #8 in 2022...(I believe it was #11 in 2021...) [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)#Table 2021 list ? 

Of course GDP/PPP [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)#Table (also 2021 ?) has Russia at #6...China #1...

From being the instrument for global domination the US$ became the US weak spot...The main battlefront-in my view- is the economic one...The world no longer is willing to finance US wars....The US can create more money=more debts...however being unable to EVER !!!! pay for those debts why should any country be willing to "invest" in US$ as a share in debts...? 

WAR

[url]https://www.debka.com/top-palestinian-jihad-terrorists-killed-infrastructure-razed-in-major-israeli-operation-in-gaza-home-front-on-special-status/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/top-palestinian-jihad-terrorists-killed-infrastructure-razed-in-major-israeli-operation-in-gaza-home-front-on-special-status/ - https://www.debka.com/top-palestinian-jihad-terrorists-killed-infrastructure-razed-in-major-israeli-operation-in-gaza-home-front-on-special-status/ DJ-Israel went on with its genocide on Palestinians...the "west" looking the other way...double standard-hypocrisy...(like the west is forgetting US/NATO wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya..etc). 

From the Israeli point of view...its Arab neighbours are getting stronger. Syria again integrated in the Arab League...Russia, China providing modern weapons to the region...a.o. Iran also making more modern weapons itself. Israel is now relatively strong...soon may be in a much weaker position...

DJ-my view; Israel has to increase diplomacy now ! Talk with Russia, China...make plans for what Israel can mean for "MENA" (Middle East North Africa)...Israel is "financed" by the US...

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan...even Syria, Lebanon, do not seek a major war with Israel...Both Russia and China are in a "bridge" position between Israel and "the Arab world"/Iran, Türkiye. 

Israel may now choose to show "strength"...(by killing lots of Palestinians)...it has to move out of "war/confrontation" to survive...

DJ-The US may find itself soon in the same position as Israel...For the short term EU/UK still may "join" the US-biden-in the US made Ukraine war...but both the EU and UK -on the longer term-either self destruct if they keep following the US or "have to rebalance" and go for UK?EU interests...

China and EU bussinesses are very integrated...lots of EU companies are either owned by Chinese companies or sell lots of their products in/via China...

Again...Asia can do without the EU/UK/US...the EU/UK/US can NOT do without Asia...Countries like Japan, South Korea "balance" their interests in another way...

While the "west" (US-EU-UK 10% of global population) is moving towards economic recession/depression countries like Russia, China, India see (high) rate of economic growth...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/large-nato-air-deployment-w-nuke-sniffer-aircraft[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/large-nato-air-deployment-w-nuke-sniffer-aircraft - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/large-nato-air-deployment-w-nuke-sniffer-aircraft May 9 /Russian Victory Day (VD) did see a lot of NATO electronic surveilance...(even Turkish AWACS !)...

Yes...Ukraine is managing to keep 2-3% of Bakhmut under its control...at very high costs...DJ...the Ukraine losses per day must be higher then western help per day...

Both the sanctions war and military war are weakening the west...De-dollar-ization high speed can become a US nightmare...high energy costs, high food prices, means high inflation for the west with less international trade...Since the Euro is NOT used that much for international trade the EU may still limit currency-damage...The US$ -no longer needed for global trade-may return "trillions" of US$ to the US...it will DESTROY !!! the US financial (and thus banking) system...

-There are Saudi/US talks on ending the Sudan-crisis...The US/west like to present that as a sign of "the west still significant"...de facto Saudi Arabia may blame the US for the Sudan crisis...so the Saudi's may have found a polite way to tell the US to "stop it"...

-In Pakistan [url]https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI[/url] or https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI - https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI was arrested by the army (still with some US influence). A repeat of the Brazil/Lula scenario...false claims of corruption to keep a "left wing" candidate from winning an election...The "US bribed" new Pakistan leadership still sticking to trade with Russia, China...

-Also in Türkiye Erdogan or "opposition-coalition" win in sunday election may not make that much difference for the Turkish position in West Asia...Since the EU closed it doors for Türkiye (anti-Islam insanity by EU "leaders") Türkiye has to integrate with West Asia...so good relations with Russia, Iran became more important...

In general; Again...why should BRIICSS+/SCO change their policies towards the "west" when the "west" is getting weaker, BRIICSS+ getting stronger as an outcome of western actions ? 

It is "the west" that has to go for diplomacy...or face self destruction !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 11 2023 at 12:35am

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/poland-renames-russian-kaliningrad[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/poland-renames-russian-kaliningrad - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/poland-renames-russian-kaliningrad ;

The government of Poland has apparently lost its collective mind; they have enacted legislation renaming the RUSSIAN enclave of Kaliningrad.   According to Poland law, that area will now be called "Krolewiec", which was its name when it was ruled by the Polish Kingdom in 15th century!

For its part, Moscow says the decision "borders on madness."

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-west-has-unleashed-real-war-russia[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-west-has-unleashed-real-war-russia - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-west-has-unleashed-real-war-russia  

The Russian leader went on to claim that the war in Ukraine is a defensive action against a collective West which seeks to subvert and balkanize Russia, ultimately hoping to wipe the country off the map. “Their goal – and there is nothing new about it – is to break apart and destroy our country, to make null and void the outcomes of World War II, to completely break down the system of global security and international law, to choke off any sovereign centers of development,” he said.

Putin blamed the same forces for provoking the disaster in Ukraine and NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia, pointing to the massive casualties resulting from callous and “self-serving” Western policies. “Boundless ambition, arrogance and impunity inevitably lead to tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe the Ukrainian people are going through. They have become hostage to the coup d’état and the resulting criminal regime of its Western masters, collateral damage in the implementation of their cruel and self-serving plans,” he asserted.

Putin also hailed the https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-world-is-changing-but-is-washington-finally-noticing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - emergence of the new “multipolar world,” saying that an “unstoppable movement is gaining momentum” towards “a world based on the principles of trust and indivisible security, of equal opportunities for a genuine and free development of all nations and peoples.”

DJ [url]https://southfront.org/the-anglo-american-hand-behind-the-rise-of-fascism-then-and-now/[/url] or https://southfront.org/the-anglo-american-hand-behind-the-rise-of-fascism-then-and-now/ - https://southfront.org/the-anglo-american-hand-behind-the-rise-of-fascism-then-and-now/ ;

Written by Matthew Ehret. Originally published on  https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/05/09/the-anglo-american-hand-behind-the-rise-of-fascism-then-and-now/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - TThis May 9th, the world will celebrate Victory Day.

For those who have not closed their eyes to the integration of leading unreconstructed Nazis, Italian Fascist and Japanese fascists into the Anglo-American intelligence complex after World War Two this celebration is bitter sweet to say the least.

In West Germany, the head of Nazi intelligence, Reinhardt Gehlen was given a new job by Allan Dulles https://www.rt.com/news/567533-ex-nazis-in-service-of-us/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - as the head of West German intelligence under CIA control.

As Cynthia Chung demonstrated in her book ‘ https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set’ , between 1958-1973, every single head of NATO’s central European command were former Nazi SS officers. And as Swiss historian Daniele Ganser demonstrated in his https://www.danieleganser.ch/buecher/natos-secret-armies/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - NATO’s Secret Armies , the Cold War served as the excuse to build a vast paramilitary complex using fascists from Italy, France, Spain, Belgium and Germany in order to carry out a multi-faceted war on the people of Europe through the organization of terrorist organizations like The Red Brigade and the targeting assassinations of nationalist leaders unwilling to adapt to a new depopulation-oriented world order.

Sadly, this devil’s pact was not something that simply occurred in the wild days of the Cold War, but continues virulently to this day on a number of levels.

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The Ugly Truth of WWII

Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini were never “their own men”.

The machines they led were never fully under their sovereign control and the financing they used as fuel in their effort to dominate the world did not come from the Banks of Italy or Germany. The technologies they used in petrochemicals, rubber, and computing didn’t come from Germany or Italy, and the governing scientific ideology of eugenics that drove so many of the horrors of Germany’s racial purification practices never originated in the minds of German thinkers or from German institutions.

Were it not for a powerful network of financiers and industrialists of the 1920s-1940s with names such as Rockefeller, Warburg, Montague Norman, Osborn, Morgan, Harriman or Dulles, then it can safely be said that fascism would never have been possible as a “solution” to the economic woes of the post-WWI order. To prove this point, let us take the strange case of Prescott Bush as a useful entry point.

The patriarch of the same Bush dynasty that gave the world two disastrous American presidents made a name for himself funding Nazism alongside his business partners Averell Harriman and Averell’s younger brother E. Roland Harriman (the latter who was to recruit Prescott to Skull and Bones while both were studying at Yale). Not only did Prescott, acting as director of Brown Brothers Harriman, provide valuable loans to keep the bankrupt Nazi party afloat during Hitler’s loss of support in 1932 when https://larouchepub.com/other/1999/liebig_schleicher_2610.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - the anti-Fascist General Kurt von Schleicher was appointed Chancellor, but https://www.sott.net/article/313808-How-the-Bush-family-made-its-fortune-doing-business-with-the-Nazis" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - was even found guilty for “trading with the enemy” as director of Union Banking Corporation in 1942!

The "rest" of the world may see the "west" NATO as new nazi's ....China (including Taiwan), Korea, lots of other Asian countries were exploited by Japan till 1945...with millions of their citizens being killed as inferior slaves...The US is now pushing Japan militarization...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kissinger-makes-ukraine-peace-prediction-centered-china[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kissinger-makes-ukraine-peace-prediction-centered-china - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kissinger-makes-ukraine-peace-prediction-centered-china and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-doubtful-older-people-serving-president[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-doubtful-older-people-serving-president - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-doubtful-older-people-serving-president may be aware of the present risks, dark powers behind "politics"...

Things can get ugly if Poland gets into Kaliningrad (German for centuries till 1945...) NATO aircraft, missiles, soldiers getting more involved in the fighting...now often also on Russian soil is asking for global war...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 11 2023 at 11:40pm

DJ-my view [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etvCy8Y88Q[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etvCy8Y88Q - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etvCy8Y88Q Military Summary/MS and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4p656CThM[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4p656CThM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4p656CThM Weeb Union/WU

https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- @Suriyak

DJ, Did Ukraine/NATO start a major offensive in East Ukraine ? Or is the offensive there a distraction for an offensive in the south of Ukraine ? Another question I have is how much NATO (Polish, UK) forces are in the "Ukraine" offensive...Also Ukraine/NATO forces moving towards Belgorod-inside Russia ?????

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-4I3W_RxE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-4I3W_RxE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-4I3W_RxE ; Zelensky to BBC, Ukraine needs more time. Zaluzhny, NATO no show. Syrsky, busy in BakhmutThe Duran: Episode 1582

DJ, Some Ukraine military leaders could not be contacted by NATO officials...(at least that was the claim)...Maybe they do not want to be blamed for this Ukraine offensive becoming another disaster ? 

[url]https://southfront.org/uk-confirms-delivery-of-long-range-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-to-ukraine/[/url] or https://southfront.org/uk-confirms-delivery-of-long-range-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-to-ukraine/ - https://southfront.org/uk-confirms-delivery-of-long-range-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-to-ukraine/ ;

The maximum range of the Storm Shadow is 560 kilometers. However, it is thought that Ukraine received the downgraded export version with a range of 250 kilometers. This is still a 100 kilometers more than the range of the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs and 170 kilometers over the range of the M142 HIMARS’s GMLRS rockets, which were previously supplied to Kiev.

In its first comment on the surprise missile delivery, Russia said that Ukraine will face “an adequate response” from its military.

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During the 2018 missile strikes against Syria by the United States, UK and France, the missile performance was nothing short from catastrophic. All eight Storm Shadows launched by British Tornado fighter jets were intercepted by Syrian air defenses. One of the SCALP EG missiles fired by French Rafale fighter jets, missed its target hitting a farm and wounding three civilians. Furthermore, the French Navy failed to launch a number of MdCN missiles.

DJ, Limited numbers of these far from perfect missiles will not make much difference...however relations -in fact- between "the west" and "the rest" only may worsen...Ukraine has already limited number of drones with further (500 km) range...

The US claiming South Africa (companies) did sell weapons to Russia...so the US may "sanction South Africa"....

DJ-The west more and more running out of "friends/partners"...Most of the EU, Japan, Korea NOT following the US 100% any longer...

-They run out of weapons to send

-Face growing public unrest

-Energy problems for next winter need a solution

-Both trade unions and employer groups may be in talks with politics on "economy"...

-More banks face crises...

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[url]https://www.debka.com/first-israeli-fatality-from-jihad-rocket-5th-jihad-terrorist-killed-on-day-3-of-idf-gaza-operation/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/first-israeli-fatality-from-jihad-rocket-5th-jihad-terrorist-killed-on-day-3-of-idf-gaza-operation/ - https://www.debka.com/first-israeli-fatality-from-jihad-rocket-5th-jihad-terrorist-killed-on-day-3-of-idf-gaza-operation/   Israel killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza...so far this year Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians also on the West Bank..


The "rest" of the world only can get disgusted on the "west" double standards...Each year thousends of refugees get killed trying to get into the EU, UK or US...trying to escape from western made wars, climate collapse...

[url]https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/Israel-unity-Gaza-massacre-wont-last?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_f8tjh8zduh[/url] or https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/Israel-unity-Gaza-massacre-wont-last?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_f8tjh8zduh - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/Israel-unity-Gaza-massacre-wont-last?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_f8tjh8zduh  

DJ, Egypt, Syria getting closer to another war with Israel -again ? No doubt Russia, China try to limit the risks...however the US may be pushing for more chaos to "stop Russia-Iran-China"...

It can become another war zone...The US/NATO did lose the wars in Syria and Iraq...got kicked out of Afghanistan..(now in talks with BRIICSS) ....

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What to expect on China...US pushing Taiwan for conflict...no doubt Japan, South Korea will think twice...East Asia is another scenario then Europe...

In general -my view- the bill is getting much to high for the "west"...it has to change its strategy or face bankruptcy...

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AI=Artificial Intelligence [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRM25pUD8w[/url] or  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRM25pUD8w - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRM25pUD8w  Drone-wars is a new aspect on battle fields...Electronic and Cyber warfare may be less in sight but more important...AI can result in "robot weapons"...out of control it may result in destruction of the planet...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 13 2023 at 2:08am

DJ, the "west" welcoming more war in Ukraine...with UK missiles hitting Luhansk, UK tanks getting destroyed near Bakhmut-very likely with depleted uranium grenades...The west preparing to send F16's to "improve Ukraine air defense"....

[url]https://southfront.org/breaking-first-german-leopard-main-battle-tank-destroyed-near-soledar-dpr-report/[/url] or https://southfront.org/breaking-first-german-leopard-main-battle-tank-destroyed-near-soledar-dpr-report/ - https://southfront.org/breaking-first-german-leopard-main-battle-tank-destroyed-near-soledar-dpr-report/  

[url]https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-armed-forces-carried-out-powerful-missile-attack-on-luhansk-video-photo/[/url] or https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-armed-forces-carried-out-powerful-missile-attack-on-luhansk-video-photo/ - https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-armed-forces-carried-out-powerful-missile-attack-on-luhansk-video-photo/  

...other frontlines

Israel genocide goes on...[url]https://www.debka.com/jihad-rockets-take-first-aim-at-jerusalem-hills-israel-truce-talks-irrelevant/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/jihad-rockets-take-first-aim-at-jerusalem-hills-israel-truce-talks-irrelevant/ - https://www.debka.com/jihad-rockets-take-first-aim-at-jerusalem-hills-israel-truce-talks-irrelevant/ with the "west" again showing double standards...

[url]https://southfront.org/u-s-navy-to-increase-presence-in-strait-of-hormuz-to-challenge-iran/[/url] or https://southfront.org/u-s-navy-to-increase-presence-in-strait-of-hormuz-to-challenge-iran/ - https://southfront.org/u-s-navy-to-increase-presence-in-strait-of-hormuz-to-challenge-iran/ Will NATO attack Iran (via Israel ?) pushing for open war with BRIICSS+ ?

[url]https://southfront.org/us-ambassador-accuses-south-africa-of-supplying-russia-with-weapons/[/url] or https://southfront.org/us-ambassador-accuses-south-africa-of-supplying-russia-with-weapons/ - https://southfront.org/us-ambassador-accuses-south-africa-of-supplying-russia-with-weapons/ ; 

Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for Ramaphosa, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/world/africa/us-south-africa-russia-weapons.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - said the US and South Africa had agreed  to let an investigation into the Russian ship run its course and that US intelligence could provide what evidence it had.

“It is therefore disappointing that the US Ambassador has adopted a counterproductive public posture that undermines the understanding reached on the matter,” Magwenya said.

South Africa’s neutral stance has angered the US as Pretoria has not gone along with sanctions against Russia. South Africa also recently https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-china-south-africa-military-exercise-during-ukraine-war-no-hypersonic-missile-test/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - conducted joint military exercises with Russia and China.

DJ, The US goal/conflict is to stop BRIICSS+...keep US/west global dominance...

[url]https://southfront.org/america-faces-major-hurdles-trying-to-form-asia-pacific-nato/[/url] or https://southfront.org/america-faces-major-hurdles-trying-to-form-asia-pacific-nato/ - https://southfront.org/america-faces-major-hurdles-trying-to-form-asia-pacific-nato/ ;

Apart from being virtually redundant, as the so-called Five Eyes (UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) covers its functions,  https://infobrics.org/post/37930" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - AUKUS created a lot of controversies after Australia backed out of the extremely lucrative submarine deal with France  and opted for an arrangement with its Anglo-American overlords. This didn’t only make Canberra look like an outright satellite state, but also made Paris deeply frustrated, which might have contributed to its ( https://infobrics.org/post/38194/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - for now only apparent ) tilt towards Beijing, the very superpower AUKUS is aimed against. Such dictatorial US moves are creating multilayered problems in other geopolitical theaters as America is effectively forcing others to prioritize its national interests over their own.

DJ, where are the US priorities ? Conflict with Russia ? Iran ? China ?  Or all at once ? The US has no clear plan...Ukraine-maybe Poland-UK may be willing to fight Russia...Israel seems to be preparing to fight Iran...but both Japan and Korea are not waiting for a war with China...that also would bring war with Russia...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 13 2023 at 11:38pm

DJ, both the pandemic and the "international situation" have become "hidden stories" ...the "news" spread by MSM-propaganda -my view- is incorrect.

So trying to get a somewhat "more informed" view one has to "dig deeper"...My far from perfect view on "the international situation" here...(my view on pandemics in general discussion per month...)...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/regime-change-watch.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/regime-change-watch.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/regime-change-watch.html ;

Tomorrow there will be elections in Turkey and Thailand. In both countries the U.S. would like to see the current opposition win.

Recent pieces in the New York Times leave no doubt about that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/world/asia/thailand-election-monarchy.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - A Crucial Question in Thailand’s Election: Can You Criticize the King?
Liberal voters have intensified their scrutiny of the Thai monarchy in recent years. Conservatives have responded with a campaign to defend the institution at all costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-russia.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - An Erdogan Loss in Turkey Would Stir Relief in the West and Anxiety in Moscow
European leaders would be delighted to have “an easier Turkey,” while Russia could lose an important economic and diplomatic partnership should the Turkish leader lose power in Sunday’s elections.

Polls in both countries seem to be between all over the place and tight but my hunch is that the incumbents have a good chance to win.

If the results are to the favor of the current governments the U.S. may well use its well honed color revolution schemes to change the outcomes.

It has done so before, not only in Turkey and Thailand, but also  https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290090.shtml" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - in many other countries .

DJ...on Türkiye [url]https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/14/elections-in-turkey-us-eagerly-awaits-erdogans-fall-or-return/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/14/elections-in-turkey-us-eagerly-awaits-erdogans-fall-or-return/ - https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/14/elections-in-turkey-us-eagerly-awaits-erdogans-fall-or-return/ "the west" is hoping Turkish opposition will win....DJ-my view...since the leader of the opposition is Alevit (like Assad) not Sunni -like Erdogan or Saudi Arabia...a win for the opposition may bring some changes in Turkish foreign policy...However Russia has become a major player for energy, tourism...We see less Chinese tourists in NL...some of the Chinese tourists may now visit Türkiye, Iran...

In the "Kurdish question" Türkiye needs Iran..that country may also help in finding a way to deal with over 4 million Syrian refugees in Türkiye...

So will "the west" gain influence if Turkish opposition beats Erdogan ? I doubt it...In Pakistan US bribes to get rid of Imran Khan did result in another government still sticking to trade with Russia-Iran-China...all three nearby major countries...Pakistan did not move out of the SCO...

So...Turkish opposition winning todays election may result in Türkiye even more integrating in Asia/BRIICSS+...not less...The "west" has not much to offer...it kept Türkiye out of the EU (DJ-my view; very unwise !) The US still want to use the Kurds in Syria to pressure not only Russia, Iran but also Türkiye...

-In Thailand the main US problem is with China...China did get links to the Indian Ocean via Pakistan, Myanmar...Indonesia has historical ties with Russia...Syria integrating in the Arab world will mean Malaysia, Indonesia-both Islamic-also want to restore relations with Syria...

Again...what has the US to offer ? More conflict ? More trade restrictions ? 

-The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiBH8oLJiA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiBH8oLJiA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiBH8oLJiA UK media admits, 'shock and awe' sanctions have failed

DJ...the basic western idea untill very recent was "the west" still dominates the world...Western sanctions could destroy Russia...countries like China, India would not dare to go against "the will of the west"....Two reasons why that strategy failed;

-Russian central bank pulled out billions of Russian money from "the west" before the west could take it...

-Russian diplomacy convinced most of "the rest" not to follow western sanctions...but go for "national interests"  (that happen to coincide with Russian interests...).

So the outcome of sanctions-war, SWIFT/US$ as a weapon, no western insurance for tankers with Russian oil is the "rest" organized their own alternatives...

In 2014 the EU stopped exporting of a.o. fruits to Russia...outcome was western producers did get lower prices/less market...Russia increased import from non-EU countries and its own production...In 2021 western sanctions against Russian energy sector resulted in Russia increasing refinery-capacity/petro-chemical industry and more export to non-western countries...even to OPEC countries now using Russian energy for domestic market to increase export of their own energy (mixed with Russian one...). 

Even UK media no longer can deny the western sanctions resulted in Russia getting stronger...but also BRIICSS+ getting stronger...the west getting weaker...

DJ-AGAIN !!! Western confrontation policies are destroying !!!! the west !!! We urgently need diplomacy, talks...give up the idea that Ukraine (a.o.) has to join NATO...

But-like with pandemics, climate collapse-insanity rules....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jav3B0KnQlY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jav3B0KnQlY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jav3B0KnQlY Military Summary/MS  ([url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-ukraine-downs-multiple-russian-military-aircraft-inside-russia[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-ukraine-downs-multiple-russian-military-aircraft-inside-russia - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-ukraine-downs-multiple-russian-military-aircraft-inside-russia ) New Atlas [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzmQvgBMxA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzmQvgBMxA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzmQvgBMxA  

DJ-Because sanctions back fired "the west" is pumping more weapons into Ukraine...keeps pushing for more escalation...

The west also blaming "the rest" of the world for not following western "demand for" sanctions...so-in fact- the west going for confrontation with BRIICSS+...repeating the stupidity they made with Russia on a global scale....


DJ...in western media the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, NATO wars are either ignored or presented as "good"....The US/NATO is "fighting IS" in Syria, Iraq...forgetting the US created IS...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html "Ukraine nazi's defending democrazy and western values"....with tens of thousends of refugees dying each year trying to get a safe place in that west...escape from war and climate disasters WE made...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/troubled-pakistan-arrests-former-pm-imran-khan-.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/troubled-pakistan-arrests-former-pm-imran-khan-.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/troubled-pakistan-arrests-former-pm-imran-khan-.html  

and

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

DJ, western democrazy only serving a rich elite pushing for conflict all over the world and not solving problems...

The Duran discussed the UK...but in most western countries people have lost any trust in "politics" ...a "political elite" out of contact with the voters...not interested any longer in real problems but going for a western global agenda..."global NATO" ...

A main reason why BRIICSS+ goes for economic war is "make trade not war" is getting them stronger...Yes...the UK, US, Poland/Baltics have military fighting in Ukraine killing Russians...but keeping BRIICSS+ together united is a strategic goal... De-dollar-ization, denial of energy/resources will "break the west"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 14 2023 at 11:32pm

DJ, European political puppets paying tribute to their US masters by promissing "more aid" for Ukraine self destruction..

[url]https://southfront.org/why-the-aggressor-in-ukraine-is-america-not-russia/[/url] or https://southfront.org/why-the-aggressor-in-ukraine-is-america-not-russia/ - https://southfront.org/why-the-aggressor-in-ukraine-is-america-not-russia/ ;

Written by  https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=%22Eric+Zuesse%22&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - Eric Zuesse

On May 12th, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock accused the Government of South Africa by saying, https://archive.is/Zc7ZL#selection-1913.0-1913.135" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - “Anyone who supplies weapons to the aggressor in a war is doing the opposite of ending the war.” But who is the aggressor in the war that is being waged in the battlefields of Ukraine?

To answer that question, the act that STARTED the war must first be identified.

On May 9th, Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, https://archive.is/0wj8w#selection-497.72-545.662" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - said , “Remember the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014. And since then, NATO has implemented the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War. … Until 2014, NATO allies were reducing defense budgets. Since 2014, all allies across Europe and Canada have significantly increased their defense spending.”

What happened that started this war in 2014? I covered this question extensively in my 18 April 2022 article, https://archive.is/AKG95" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - “History of the Ukrainian War” , and, after describing there what had led up to it during the prior years, wrote that what started the war was a coup which had been hidden behind the popular Maidan Square anti-corruption demonstrations in Kiev in late 2013 and into February 2014, which overthrew the elected President of Ukraine and installed a rabidly anti-Russian government which had been selected by the U.S. Government:

DJ [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhoo_JHuEE4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhoo_JHuEE4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhoo_JHuEE4 The Duran on the release of Imran Khan...like Lula da Silva in Brazil "regime changed" by the US...Pakistan now may face chaos like Ukraine now is seeing...

To stop BRIICSS+ the US willing to push the world in chaos...

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

DJ  the basic conflict is a "west/NATO"-rest/BRIICSS+/SCO?OPEC+/EAEU conflict...

-A "real" war ; [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-spike-in-ukraine-after-russian-missile-hits-ammo-depot-depleted-uranium[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-spike-in-ukraine-after-russian-missile-hits-ammo-depot-depleted-uranium - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-spike-in-ukraine-after-russian-missile-hits-ammo-depot-depleted-uranium ;

A clear spike in gamma radiation has been detected in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine after a Russian Missile blew up a Ukrainian ammo depot on or about May 12th.  Radiation levels continued to rise on the 13th and presently remain at the elevated level. It appears the ammo depot stored Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions.

The explosion which rocked Khmelnitsky from the Russian missile strike, was very big.

Israel killing Palestinians is just another aspect...DJ-Israel may have decided to act now before Arab neighbours get their act (and weapons) together with "help" from Russia-Iran-China...Israel is balancing...trying to keep diplomacy going with Russia and China...

-An "economic" war [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macleod-dynamics-driving-dollar-down[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macleod-dynamics-driving-dollar-down - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macleod-dynamics-driving-dollar-down  

DJ-The economic war is much more "behind doors"....My view; BRIICSS+ want to unable "the west" to continu its wars...Several steps;

-breaking up "the west"; Japan, South Korea -also Australia- going their own route...The EU will not follow the US/UK in seeking conflict with China

-Enlarging BRIICSS+/SCO etc...not only in member states but also in "its job/goal" from working on a BRIICSS+ currency (very likely next to national currencies, petro-Yuan) to "security" (avoiding another US coup). 

-De-dollar-ization may be more the outcome of the process within BRIICSS+...What role the Euro/€ may play -for now- could still be open...If the EU wants to do bussiness with Asia-go against US "orders"-keeping the Euro alive may be possible...

-Again; the west needs the rest much more then the rest needs the west....Asia-Africa-Latin America cooperation already is providing economic growth for several non-western countries...US pushing for chaos in Türkiye, Pakistan, Thailand etc. may be "containable/predictable" (US trying to use divisions-creating protests-sending in "fighters" to start a US made regime change...The 1973 Chile coup repeated..."bribes & bombs")

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7goPRw_eE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7goPRw_eE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7goPRw_eE ;

John Mearsheimer: Is China the Real Winner of Ukraine War? | Endgame #136 (Luminaries)

“I think the situation we face today in the world is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War,” warned realist John J. Mearsheimer in this conversation. What are the underlying causes of his provoking statement? To what extent the United States should get its hands dirty? Criticized by Michael McFaul in Endgame 134, realist John Mearsheimer defends his argument on the cause and consequences of the Ukraine War which he concludes as “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”. 

Mr. Mearsheimer, who is an R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, also shares his view on why the US hates his realism theory, who will benefit from the prolonged Ukraine War, and how the climate crisis might increase the geopolitical tension over the Arctic region. 

Hosted by Gita Wirjawan, an Indonesian educator, entrepreneur, and current visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University.  https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/endgame" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - #Endgame   https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/gitawirjawan" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - #GitaWirjawan   https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/johnmearsheimer" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; display: inline; color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target=" - #JohnMearsheimer  

This episode is supported by the Indonesian Students Association at the University of Chicago.

DJ, China will do all it can to make BRIICSS+/SCO -NOT China !!!- the "winner"...."Multi-polar" also means several countries/blocs in leading positions in different fields...China will have very limited sources of oil and gas (part of it in the South China Sea)...so OPEC+ will (stay) #1 for global energy...China also needs to import food...(even when the China population is decreasing soon...). 

China may take the "central location" for global trade over from Europe...with links via the Indian Ocean to Africa, landlinks (TIP=Türkiye-Iran-Pakistan and Russia) to Europe and Pacific Ocean links with Latin America (and Canada ???). 

The US/NATO is pushing for escalation -trying to pull Russia in an open war with NATO and in that way trying to break up BRIICSS+...No doubt BRIICSS+ leaders will be discussing these US/NATO provocations...An outcome could be joint BRIICSS+ military operations;

-Russia and China blocking Taiwan

-A BRIICSS+ "peace keeping force" "creating peace" in Ukraine...(NATO/US than has to decide if it wants to fight military from Indonesia, India, Türkiye showing up in Ukraine to end this US made war). 

-Russia may "order" Israel to stop its genocide and agression...or Russia will shoot down the Israeli air force...(Israel is a very small country...with "the most modern weapons/best training" Israel survived its wars with Arab neighbours...Israel is avoiding an open war with Iran...the price would be destruction of Israel...)

Again, the Chinese slogan "make trade not war" is a better alternative for pushing "zillions" into weapon/war industry...The west is destroying itself...Russia may have destroyed major depots for both HIMARS and depleted uranium in western Ukraine...The US/NATO wants to avoid an open war -at least till now- because NATO knows it will not only fight Russia...

The way out for the west is talks...diplomacy...Somehow some "western leaders" still try to push an illusion of "Ukraine will beat Russia"...total insanity...

This bloodbath/mass murder in Ukraine was the outcome of biden his push for NATO enlargement provoking Russia...The longer it goes on the weaker the west will become...We are destroying ourselves in Ukraine... 



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 15 2023 at 11:12pm

DJ, The Ukraine war is costing "the west" over 1 billion per day...Not only in weapons-and transport but also keeping a puppet-regime in Ukraine and all of Ukraine "functioning"....Yes-Russia also has lots of costs...but their "war-industry" is state owned...able to deliver "good/better" weapons at much lower costs then the west can do...Also for Russia the war is close to its borders...much less transport costs...

Ukraine may see maybe up to 1,000 deaths per day...each day...For Russia keeping people alive goes above control over land. So they pull back and let artillery/missiles "do the killing"...still Russian deaths also will be in the dozens per day...

It is "the west" that does not want to talk of peace..."going for victory"...Western victory is NOT only Crimea back to Ukraine...(historically it was Russian...Chrutsjew made a mistake some 65 years ago...). Regime change in Moscow is the western goal...

From only humanitarian aid the west now is close to sending F16's...UK already sending depleted uranium ammo and missiles (costs 2,2 million € each=600 missiles 1,3 billion €) with a range of 300 kilometres...

Ukraine has to join NATO and EU...if you ask why you are "pro-Putin"...This is total insanity...

Public support for most western governments is dropping as fast as inflation is increasing...so "politics" now going for "info wars" to stop "false info"...and of course "politics knows best"..."Die partei hat immer recht"...a DDR-song-former East Germany under stalinist rule..."the party is always right"...

Less healthcare, further destruction of the climate all for "victory"...regime change in Moscow...

This is sick...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 16 2023 at 11:54pm

The NATO expansion war costs; [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/16/dutch-economy-contracts-07-percent-first-quarter-despite-slight-eu-growth[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/16/dutch-economy-contracts-07-percent-first-quarter-despite-slight-eu-growth - https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/16/dutch-economy-contracts-07-percent-first-quarter-despite-slight-eu-growth ; Gross domestic product in the Netherlands fell by 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. The contraction took place despite 0.3 percent GDP growth in the European Union as a whole.  https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2023/20/economie-krimpt-in-eerste-kwartaal-2023-met-0-7-procent" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(33, 70, 139); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; - Statistics Netherlands  (CBS) largely attributed the contraction to a fall in the trade balance and an increase in the use of natural gas held in reserves.

DJ, Energy prices in "the west" are expected to be "problematic" coming winter...further pushing up inflation...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption ; 

Yet https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-rocked-corruption-scandal-wave-top-official-resignations-sports-cars-mansions" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - another large-scale corruption scandal has come out of Ukraine as the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have announced significant action taken against the highest court in the land. 

"NABU and SAP have exposed large-scale corruption in the Supreme Court, in particular a scheme to obtain undue advantages by the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court," the anti-corruption bodies  https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/3710098-supreme-court-judges-express-no-confidence-in-chair-knyazev.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - announced on their official social media channels Tuesday. It's a huge embarrassment given this is the highest legal body in the land, and the nation's top judge, responsible for interpreting and upholding the law.


DJ Western foreign "policy" is bribes and bombs...In Ukraine the west is sending -by now- TRILLIONS !!! to corrupt criminals and nazi's...(part of that money may return to "politicians" in the west...). 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-it-took-out-us-supplied-patriot-missile-unit-hypersonic-strike-kiev[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-it-took-out-us-supplied-patriot-missile-unit-hypersonic-strike-kiev - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-it-took-out-us-supplied-patriot-missile-unit-hypersonic-strike-kiev ; 

Russia's military may have taken out a US-supplied Patriot anti-air battery in Ukraine, which if true would be a very significant first since the advanced Raytheon-made defense weapon was deployed there.

This came as Ukrainian officials have cited an exceptionally dense attack on Kyiv overnight, which included cruise missiles and drones, and even allegedly Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Ukraine was hit by at least 18 missiles and nine drones were sent, with media reports saying some six ballistic missiles (including Kinzhal) were launched. But the Ukrainians are claiming that most or all of them were intercepted.


DJ [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-air-defense-lessons-.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-air-defense-lessons-.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-air-defense-lessons-.html ;

The casualty numbers in today's https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation/news/more.htm?id=12467464@egNews" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - clobber report by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation may be a bit exaggerated but the general operational facts are usually true:

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation launched a combined attack with long-range precision-guided air- and sea-based weapons against the AFU units, as well as depots of ammunition, weapons and military equipment supplied by Western countries.

The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

U.S.-manufactured Patriot surface-to-air missile system has been struck by Kinnzhal hypersonic glide vehicle in Kiev.
...
Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces have shot down Su-24 and Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Varvarovka and Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk People's Republic).

Air defence forces intercepted seven Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, three HARM anti-radar missiles and seven HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles.

Air defence facilities have shot down 22 unmanned aerial vehicles close to Ivanovka and Yevgenovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Topolyovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Inzhenernoye, Blagoveshchenka (Zaporpzhye region), and Krynki (Kherson region).

Ukraine does not have an integrated air defense that can attack all air targets at all levels. Russia though has such an integrated system of systems. It makes for a huge difference.

Updated - 16:30 UTC:

U.S. confirms hit on Patriot system:

Alex Marquardt @MarquardtA -  https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/status/1658508441134981120" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - 16:23 UTC · May 16, 2023

A Patriot system was likely damaged but not destroyed by a Russian missile barrage Monday night, a US official tells @NatashaBertrand. US is still assessing the damage which to determine whether the system needs to be pulled back entirely or be repaired by the Ukrainians.

even worse...[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/now-france-announces-supplying-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/now-france-announces-supplying-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/now-france-announces-supplying-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine a.o. military summary mentions Russia shooting down Ukraine planes needed to launch UK/France "medium range" missiles...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-from-ukraine-reaches-lublin-poland[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-from-ukraine-reaches-lublin-poland - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-from-ukraine-reaches-lublin-poland ;

Radiation and poisonous Uranian Dust has reached Lublin, Poland, from the ammunition dump hit in Ukraine last Friday.  In that Ammo dump was about $500 Million of Depleted Uranium tank shells supplied to Ukraine by Britain.  Now, the radiation and the poisonous dust, has reached Lublin Poland.

Levels of radioactivity shown on the graph above, were measured at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). This indicates that dust from the uranium ammunition was blown by the wind from Khmelnitsky to Lublin.

2 days, 400 km away . . .

Those who were outdoors and breathes the poisonous, radioactive, dust, are highly likely to suffer serious respiratory illness, and later, lung cancer.   Now that the dust has arrived, and some of it presumably settled on the ground, rain will carry it into ground water, where it will quietly POISON the water for decades.

Women who drink the water, especially while pregnant, will likely miscarry (lose) the baby, or see it born with hideous birth defects.

All this because NATO couldn't mind its own business, and stay out of the Ukraine-Russia fight.  NONE of this had to be.

DJ, some of that radiation, via wind or water may even reach Germany...of course "media/governments" go 100% denial....

Again this biden NATO expansion war is costing "the west" over a billion €/$ per day...very likely indirect costs included may go 10 billion per day ? 

[url]https://southfront.org/ukraine-aid-funding-expected-to-run-out-by-mid-summer/[/url] or https://southfront.org/ukraine-aid-funding-expected-to-run-out-by-mid-summer/ - https://southfront.org/ukraine-aid-funding-expected-to-run-out-by-mid-summer/ ;

Originally published in  https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/15/ukraine-aid-funding-expected-to-run-out-by-mid-summer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - AntiWar

The last massive aid package Congress authorized for Ukraine has about $6 billion left, which is expected to be used up by mid-summer, https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/15/ukraine-aid-is-drying-up-and-the-white-house-is-under-pressure-to-send-more-00096767" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - So far, the US has authorized about $113 billion in spending on the war in Ukraine, which includes military aid, direct budgetary aid, training, funding for US troop deployments in Eastern Europe, and other types of assistance.

Once the final $6 billion dries up, the Pentagon won’t be able to ship more weapons to Ukraine. That means the White House is expected to ask Congress to authorize more spending on the war soon.

A senior Biden administration official told POLITICO that the White House is discussing a new package and is going to time it so the weapons can keep flowing to Ukraine. The official said the administration is “fully committed” to supporting Kyiv in the war “for the long haul.”

DJ, the "rest" of the world...90% of global population (NATO-west is 10% ) - may have decided to "de-fund" the west...since talking with the present western "leaders" is pointless...

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[url]https://www.debka.com/gaza-ceasefire-faces-first-test-with-annual-jerusalem-day-flag-parade/[/url] or https://www.debka.com/gaza-ceasefire-faces-first-test-with-annual-jerusalem-day-flag-parade/ - https://www.debka.com/gaza-ceasefire-faces-first-test-with-annual-jerusalem-day-flag-parade/ countries like Israel, Türkiye maybe even Japan try to balance between US "pressure" and national interests...

What are present risks ?

-Nuclear...Ukraine could "blow up" a nuclear plant and blame Russia for it...(blaming MH17-flight being shot down on Russia worked in western propaganda...very likely Ukraine shot down that plane in 2016-killing 298 civilians-with the plan to blame Russia/separatists for it...)...so "false flag"...US/NATO fully willing to work with that...

-Major attacks on Russia..so Russia/BRIICSS+ has to "answer" -a scenario that already is showing up west seizing/sinking Iran tankers...in return Iran taking over/attacking western tankers...Energy logistics is now even more at risk then a few years back...US blew up Nordstream...so EU/UK needs more energy from Norway, US, even coal...

-In Pakistan protests against the (US planned) arrest of Imran Khan (bribed away by a US regime change) get that big the Pakistan army (with some elite still pro US/UK) had to release Khan...Lots of countries face increase of unrest...

-Of course the CoViD pandemic is NOT over, climate disasters (fires, flooding) are a "new normal"...even further destroying economies...countries CAN collapse...There are limits to US debts...

So outlook only getting worse as long as biden/US refuses to go for peace/talks...The only way out is regime change in DC...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 18 2023 at 12:25am

DJ, Getting a picture of the present NATO-BRIICSS+ conflict may be just as complex as getting a picture of the present global ongoing healthcrises...

[url]https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html[/url] or https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html - https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html comparing the US empire with the Roman empire-both debt based-has some use...May use this link also in US banking crisis..


and 

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-launches-100-drone-attack-into-russia-4-explosions-at-helicopter-factory[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-launches-100-drone-attack-into-russia-4-explosions-at-helicopter-factory - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-launches-100-drone-attack-into-russia-4-explosions-at-helicopter-factory ;

The Ukraine NAZI government launched air attacks with over 100 drones into Russia today.  Most of the Drones were defeated by Russian Electronic Warfare, but several did get through as seen on video below.  At least one drone hit a Helicopter Factory in Lyubertsy, Russia, outside of Moscow.

reaction from Russia; [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/live-updates-heavy-russian-retaliation-attack-happening-now[/url] or  https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/live-updates-heavy-russian-retaliation-attack-happening-now - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/live-updates-heavy-russian-retaliation-attack-happening-now is further destruction of NATO storage, command centers, Ukraine logistics etc...

UPDATE 6:11 PM EDT --

Ukraine says , "Our reaction on this , will be very very hard... and unexpected...

DJ, Ukraine tried to sell its industry/mines to foreign (US) investors...Chevron etc. willing to invest if governments insure the investments...Rheinmetall-German tanks-also willing to open a plant in Ukraine...

The Duran/TD [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqKgVUO9N8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqKgVUO9N8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqKgVUO9N8 on zelensky now back in Kiev...

...in short...Ukraine is destroyed....In a few minutes in Kiev Ukraine used 30 patriots air defense missiles-all failed...The US production of patriots is 250 per year...for all of the US client-states...Sending over 100 drones to Moscow...how many drones does Ukraine still have ? 

TD also questioning zelensky his health...is he rather in Europe for safety then in Ukraine ? 

Also TD conclusion; like johnson did in 1968 in Vietnam, biden now may push for escalation...DJ-my view-in the hope "NATO beats BRIICSS+"

The Ukraine power elite, oligarchs, may even see trump as "left wing"...Not all in that elite are nazi...But nationalists may not welcome a growing influence of Poland...

A possible outcome could be Ukraine becoming a "neutral failed state" with most Ukrainians living outside Ukraine...

-Next year november will bring US elections...could see biden against trump...At least trump is willing to end this insane, criminal, Ukraine war...Maybe even willing to send biden and his "cult" to an international court...?  The Ukraine war is related to a "US sick political system"...

The US "POTUS" is also the "top leader" of NATO...may have pushed other countries into this conflict with BRIICSS+....

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uptick-russian-military-flights-near-alaska-us-leads-massive-drills[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uptick-russian-military-flights-near-alaska-us-leads-massive-drills - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uptick-russian-military-flights-near-alaska-us-leads-massive-drills  

Escalation could see western logistics being disrupted...EU now getting a lot of energy via sea...(Nordstream pipelines blown up on orders of biden...). We had oil/gas in storage...a mild winter in most places means we still have some energy reserves remaining...but not enough for winter...

So;

-In Ukraine the zelensky puppet regime may be close to collapse...

-In the US  only the biden-cult may be pushing for further war against Russia, Iran, China

-Europe is running out of weapons to send...may be willing to train pilots for F16's...

-Western economy is decreasing fast...US, Italy a.o. massive debts...

-BRIICSS+ economy is growing...

-US$ in global economy is collapsing...

(BRIICSS+ = Brazil-Russia-India-Iran-China-South Africa-Saudi Arabia the + stands for Argentina, Nigeria, Indonesia etc. that may also join BRIICSS)

Yes...the "west" can try to create more money...maybe western countries among each other could still claim fiat-currencies have some value...but for trade with non-western partners western currency "at best" means high prices, more realistic non-western partners want to use their own currency...Rather do deals with non-western partners they trust...

Again; the west is isolated...Again; the west needs the rest much harder than the rest needs the west...Asia can do bussinesses with Africa, Latin America..

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Major escalation; "All or nothing" could see NATO forces attacking Russia...China, Iran a.o. will react...by now NATO may no longer have an army strong enough so nuclear war would be the option...But where to hit if the basic conflict is the rest of the world ? 

Again...this scenario could have been avoided...NATO does NOT need Ukraine, Georgia (etc).....it is not worth destroying the planet...

Climate disasters, pandemics may destroy the planet anyway...so we should be dealing with that...

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NATO and nazi's both have their evil roots in a military-industrial-complex with banks, energy also factors...An economic elite (with "royals" also involved...major shareholders) trying to stay "on the top"....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 18 2023 at 11:37pm

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/secretive-bilderberg-gathering-global-elites-kicks-see-whos-attending-what-theyre[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/secretive-bilderberg-gathering-global-elites-kicks-see-whos-attending-what-theyre - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/secretive-bilderberg-gathering-global-elites-kicks-see-whos-attending-what-theyre in Lisbon-Portugal...participants do so as private persons...a.o. stoltenberg-NATO will push for global NATO...

In Japan-Hiroshima the G7 meet...a.o. Brazil also will send a representative...

In Riyad-KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the Arab League -with Syria back again- will meet...

The US is planning to send 500 million US$ worth of military hardware to Taiwan...even under US rules part of China...

Bakhmut has -as good as- fallen...this may start a new NATO offensive against BRIICSS+...because in fact this is a NATO-west-BRIICSS+ rest war...

The African Union and China are talking with Ukraine on an end of the (US made) war

DJ...no doubt Russia and China may be on a daily contact. Russia-India, Russia-Iran, Pakistan-China, India-Iran contacts very likely also on a very high level...

Are we seeing preparations for change ? 

-It could be BRIICSS+ trying to avoid further escalation...eventough they have given up any trust in "the west"...they may want to avoid World War Three....

-Some neo-cons/neo-liberals still push for more war...

-Since NATO is running out of weapons for conventional war further major escalation may be "non conventional"...

DJ, the Vatican, Israel a.o. may try to "limit war"...for Israel Russia limited Iran in Syria...The US may be the main Israel sponsor...but the US did lose all diplomacy -as good as- in the region...

For "the west" part of the talks may be on doing more with less energy, reshaping "global trade" ...with the west getting excluded...the US$ "in crisis"...

[url]https://southfront.org/prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine/[/url] or https://southfront.org/prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine/ - https://southfront.org/prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine/ ;

In February of this year, China presented its 12-point peace plan, which Russian President Putin assessed as a possible basis for a diplomatic resolution. In April, for the first time since the beginning of hostilities, Xi Jinping held telephone talks with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Soon, the former Chinese ambassador to Russia, Li Hui, was appointed chief commissioner for Ukraine, and in May he launched a difficult round of negotiations with all parties to the conflict, including NATO member states.

On May 17, he held talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in Kiev.

In the coming days, the China’s special representative will reportedly visit Russia, Poland, France and Germany. After Kiev, he will go to Brussels.

At the moment, any results are too early to be predicted, but it is obvious that Beijing has every chance to become the main mediator for peace between Kiev and Moscow, sooner or later.

South Africa also claims this role. The Presidents of Egypt, Zambia, Congo, Senegal and Uganda are involved in the development of the African Peace Initiative initiated by South African President Ramaphosa.

The visits of the African delegation to Moscow and Kiev are planned in early June. During the peace mission, the heads of six states will travel between the capitals of Russia and Ukraine.

In his turn, Pope Francis has repeatedly expressed his readiness to become a guarantor of peace in Ukraine, but he clearly does not take a neutral position in the conflict. The pontiff asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop this spiral of violence and death,” and Zelensky to “be open to serious proposals for peace.”

In early May, Francis announced that the Vatican was taking part in the work on a secret peacekeeping mission.

To date, Russia has not received any proposals from the Vatican on a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.

During his visit to Rome on May 13, Zelensky claimed that Kiev does not need intermediaries in negotiations with Moscow, because the dialogue should be based on his “peace formula’, which is out of touch of reality on the battlefield and was rejected by Moscow.

Any fruitful peace process seems to be still a little foreseeable. However, the efforts of Turkey and the UN continue to support the points of contact between Moscow and Kiev.

On May 17, the grain deal was extended for two months. Moscow again made concessions, still hoping that the misbalance in the deal would be eliminated.

DJ, on his visit to the Pope zelensky managed to insult the vatican...A painting of Mary with her child left open-representing Ukraine as missing in the "holy" west did not go well...There are limits for mixing religion with propaganda...Also more and more people are fed up with "slava ukraine" as a new "sieg heil/heil hitler" by Ukraine nazi's/nationalists...

Misuse of weapons (a patriot air defense missile is 5 million $ each...so wasting 30 patriots in Kiev = 150 million by concentrating patriots in one-urban-space -with the US only producing 250 patriots per year-also is "unwise and unwelcome"...

Widespread corruption -as always- with weapondeals...a lot of "help" ending up with criminals/black market is eroding a will "to help" Ukraine in its self destruction...

So...DJ-what if there is "peace" in both the Middle East and Ukraine ? Not because the west want peace but Russia-China/BRIICSS+ stop wars ? 

The bad news is a western political "elite" want the "west" to rule the planet at ALL cost...even if that would destroy this planet...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 19 2023 at 10:52pm

The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMW5DSbExJs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMW5DSbExJs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMW5DSbExJs a.o. on zelensky on tour...The US puppet in Ukraine does no longer feel safe in Kiev...so shortly after touring/begging in Europe-after a few days in Kiev-zelensky now on his way to the Arab top in Ryad-Saudi Arabia...(he is "recieved"...does not get a thing)..soon may visit his masters/sponsors in Hiroshima-Japan at the "G7" meeting...Once that G7 was the dominant economic factor in the world..."old" BRICS did become larger in real economic terms...the "new" BRIICSS+ may even -soon- be larger then the G20...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-preparing-ukraine-war-become-frozen-conflict[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-preparing-ukraine-war-become-frozen-conflict - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-preparing-ukraine-war-become-frozen-conflict ;

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/18/report-us-preparing-for-ukraine-war-to-become-a-frozen-conflict/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - - Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

The Biden administration is preparing for the war in Ukraine to turn into a frozen conflict for years or possibly even decades, similar to the situation on the Korean peninsula, https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/18/ukraine-russia-south-korea-00097563" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - US officials have been discussing the possibility, including potential options for where to draw the lines for a frozen conflict that either side would agree not to cross. The report said the idea of freezing the fighting could be a “politically palatable long-term result.”

DJ, Of course this "freezing" of the US made war in Ukraine has nothing to do with realism..."politics" does not like reality...

The basic conflict is between NATO-west and BRIICSS+-rest of the world...10% "rich white" people telling the "less rich - less white" people what to do...

"Freedom" means not that much when you are kept poor...so "rich whites" claim to have a "right" to travel around the globe...But "non whites" are not welcome in "the white west"....We accept thoesends of them dying trying to reach Europe, UK, US...We have a "right" to make "them" pay for "our" problems...climate disasters, wars, pandemics hit the poor while the rich get richer...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vl4jxm27A[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vl4jxm27A - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vl4jxm27A L'hymne des femmes;

We who are without a past, the women
We who have no history
Since the dawn of time, women
We are the Dark Continent.

Chorus :
Let's rise slave women
And let's break our shackles
Stand up, stand up, stand up!

Enslaved, humiliated, women
Bought, sold, raped
In all the houses, the women
Out of the world relegated.

Alone in our misfortune, the women
Each other ignored
They divided us women
And of our separated sisters.

The time of anger, women
Our time has come
Let's know our strength, women
Let's discover thousands!

Let's recognize ourselves, women
Let's talk, let's see,
Together we are oppressed women
Together, let's revolt!

Last chorus:
Let's rise slave women
And enjoy without hindrance
Stand up, stand up, stand up

DJ, Of course women decide on their bodies in having children or not...Of course YOU decide on having a vaccine or not ! Of course !!!! One should be able to decide on ending of your life when illness or age only results in misery...Collective psychosis called "religion" created inequality, racism...accepting gross injustice...

Pandemics, wars, are the outcome of "choices"...No one has a right to kill ! We have to stop wars before wars stop us !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 20 2023 at 5:08am

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbg5oQeyjI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbg5oQeyjI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbg5oQeyjI Judge Napolitano with Tony Shaffer (former cia) on corruption in/with Ukraine war...a.o. 400 million US$ went to "Ukraine elite" a.o. zelenski...Transport planes loaded with US$...first they went to Afghanistan spreading corruption there...then the US elite went for bribes and bombs in Ukraine...War industry sending US gov, pentagon and Ukraine the same bills...The level of corruption I find shocking...but the "elite" is getting richr...YOU pay...

And of course Ukraine is paying the highest price for now...hundreds of thousends killed in a biden-made war "pushing NATO further east"...

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/20/israel-avoided-a-great-war-the-axis-of-resistance-was-about-to-attack/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/20/israel-avoided-a-great-war-the-axis-of-resistance-was-about-to-attack/ - https://ejmagnier.com/2023/05/20/israel-avoided-a-great-war-the-axis-of-resistance-was-about-to-attack/ ; The Axis of Resistance made no attempt to hide the preparations for war, as they would inform the enemy of what to expect and the scale of the firepower to be used if a satisfactory ceasefire was not reached. Then, a few hours later, the Israeli Prime Minister informed the Egyptian and Qatari negotiators of his willingness to cease hostilities and assassinations in Gaza in accordance with Islamic Jihad’s demands. The Israeli decision led to a de-escalation.

DJ, Israel starting to realize it needs to talk not fight...because Israel neighbours are getting stronger, US is getting weaker...

[url]https://southfront.org/radioactive-cloud-from-ukraine-heading-to-western-europe-secretary-of-russian-security-council/[/url] or https://southfront.org/radioactive-cloud-from-ukraine-heading-to-western-europe-secretary-of-russian-security-council/ - https://southfront.org/radioactive-cloud-from-ukraine-heading-to-western-europe-secretary-of-russian-security-council/ UK depleted uranium D.U. was blown up by Russia in western Ukraine-before it could be used;Washington put pressure on its satellites and assured the supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to the war-torn country. Patrushev warned that the supply of this ammunition could turn into a catastrophe for Europe comparable to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

DJ, so now some radiation levels going up in Poland...may go even further west...(may even reach the UK where it came from !) 

Also F16's with "Ukraine/NATO" pilots above Ukraine will/can not change much in the fighting...may not survive longer then Mig-29's from the same era..."old"...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 20 2023 at 10:51pm

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/bakhmut-has-fallen-artyomovsk-has-been-liberated-.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/bakhmut-has-fallen-artyomovsk-has-been-liberated-.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/bakhmut-has-fallen-artyomovsk-has-been-liberated-.html ;

Why the Ukrainian leadership had decided to hold onto the city even months after the situation there was already in its disfavor is beyond me. The fight was decided by the numerical superiority of Russian artillery fire and the Ukraine had never a chance to top that.

The losses there for the Ukrainians amounted to 300 to 500 men per day over that last 5 months. That sums up to a total of 60,000 casualties. Ten days ago Ukrainian units, including  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - the fascist Azov brigade , rolled up the Russian flanks north and south of Bakhmut to allow the Ukrainian troops in the city to flee west. That attack alone, only one or 2 kilometer deep, cost them some 1,600+ men and some 50+ armored vehicles.

On the Russian side the fighting in the city was largely done by Wagner troops. But they were never able to do it on their own. Russian military intelligence, artillery and logistics all played an important role in the fight.

The city has been destroyed but it will continued to exist as it is an important logistical hub with several rail and road connections running through it.

Mariupol, which fell/was liberated https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099885151/mariupol-falls-ukraine-russia-what-it-means" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - a year ago , is already https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-01-13/after-months-of-bombing-russia-starts-rebuilding-mariupol.html" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - being rebuild . In a month or two, when the frontline has moved away from Artyomovsk, rebuilding will start there too.

DJ...the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk bloodbath has ended...the criminal behind it is still in the white house...NATO again showing itself as a north atlantic terrorist organization...supporting neo-nazi's, fascists, IS, alquaida etc. all "in the name of democrazy"...Double standards...Iraq-war was "good" NATO expansionism stopped by BRIICSS+ is "bad"...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uw3eirJYOo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uw3eirJYOo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uw3eirJYOo The Duran...to "stop Russian agression" while it is NATO-nazism moving east-the "west" now may stop importing Russian energy via India/other countries...also some basic essentials will face a boycott from "the west"....

So the west worsened its economic outlook even further...Increased de-dollar-ization...Can it get more insane ? YES !!! Great !!!

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TxsVw5XWDs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TxsVw5XWDs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TxsVw5XWDs Cyrus Janssen (no doubt NL-US) on China government now investing more in Bio-Tech, Chips etc...Chip-makers going for "de-Amiracanization"as an outcome of US insanity on China...

Big Tech facing a US choice...deal with the US market of 335 million...most poor...Or China 1400 million/Asian market over 4 billion consumers...Korean companies in part have production/assembly in China...Even US companies "de-Americanize" because BRIICSS+ is the future NOT the US-empire

DJ...[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-are-not-alone-anger-building-across-world[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-are-not-alone-anger-building-across-world - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-are-not-alone-anger-building-across-world ;

https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2023/05/you-are-not-alone-anger-is-building.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - You are not alone if you are tired of watching your government grow increasingly oppressive and corrupt. Many people across the world share your pain. People continue to voice their anger and discontent, however, this is something the media often chooses not to report for it is owned by those same forces which are attempting to enslave us. Those on the left referred to the right as fascist or Nazi while those on the right refer to the left as communist.

The truth is that the angst and growing anger many people feel is kept under control by a mass media with a very strong agenda. Mass media has perfected the art of dividing us and at the same time keeping us in the dark. The greatest risk we face may be that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming at us fast and furious. Once it is here getting information will become almost impossible.  

The Duran tried to explain why "western leaders" are in this tunnel vision of insanity...A different opinion is end of a career...vonderleyen-now doing a disaster for the EU may do her terrible job "leading/destroying" NATO...Here in NL we have mark rutte-neo liberal destroying anything "public"...maybe he can destroy public healthcare, housing, education, transport in all of the EU...

DJ-Trade Unions and some other groups could bring change...Also major companies (Volkswagen, BMW, BASF, Volvo, Airbus etc.) may move to BRIICSS+...

However the major risk is in/from the US...The US nuclear arsenal could be used to blackmail "the rest"...UK, France also have "nukes"...Israel may go for "Russian/Chinese protection"...When Israel "started" in 1948 the Soviet Union-stalin- was the first to recognize it...

The Arab world, Islamic world is moving high speed away from the west...

DJ-The collapse of the west has already started...may go exponential...a downward spiral...Again the "west needs the rest" much more then the "rest needs the west" ...BRIICSS+ can deal with OPEC+/SCO...more or less same group of young nations tired of being kept poor...

For now "the west" is missing real leadership...

Maybe the UK is a good example...Lots of former UK colonies were willing to accept Elisabeth as a queen...Most of them may now look for an elected head of state..."kings and queens" are nice in fairy tales ...Royals with way to much money/power do not mix with democracy...A lot of "royal money"  ended up with fascists, nazi's...oil/car-industry..

DJ-We may see the "end" of the UK within 5 years ? A reunited Ireland, Scotland (moving its borders to the south ?) joining a reforming EU...so the UK then is England & Wales ? Still trying to answer the Brexit-question...? 

(I think the EU needs reform...the EU has to "work" for European citizens better...The Euro/€ for ALL EU-states in 2003 (was it) may have been to early...The EU failed a.o. in Cyprus...so now only "Greek" part of Cyprus is EU member...Some claim Cyprus-south of Türkiye-close to Lebanon- should be seen as part of Asia...not even part of Europe...) 

Keeping Türkiye out of the EU was "short sighted"...the hurry to include eastern Europe "unwise"...The EU should not push for including Ukraine...IF Ukraine would join the EU-stay out of NATO-it should be part of a plan for reconstruction...Both Ukraine and Türkiye could be a bridge for Eur-Asian trade...

The EU (and UK) need to BREAK !!! with the US if the US is unable to go for real diplomacy...We are already living in a multi-polar world...The US still trying to be the #1 -dominating the planet-is unwelcome insanity !

-So...How long will the Ukraine-biden-NATO expansion war go on ? There are "stories" Ukraine top generals were killed by Russian missiles...zelensky now trying to be outside Ukraine most of the time...Most of the world does see this war as US/NATO against BRIICSS+ 

Some scenario's;

-Ukraine collapsing...a new government in Kiev decides to end the war...trying to go for "limiting damage" with the help of "non-western" partners...

DJ-Ukraine could have seen maybe up to 400,000 soldiers killed...NATO pumping in weapons...only limited soldiers (most Polish) only results in Ukraine total destruction...So "western help" is NOT helping Ukraine...it is destroying it...

-Syria was already a "war to much"  for the west...Pakistan, Phillippines even Egypt once were US allies...now even Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, UAE etc. break with the US...US elections...biden or trump...may even be to much for Europe...DJ-I think Germany and France hoped Minsk-talks could limit the Ukraine war...the US sabotaged "Minsk"...the US-trump-blew up the Iran-deal...biden blew up Nordstream (EU-Russia energy link)

-DJ I think economic warfare...outcome of sanction, US$ as a weapon, SWIFT/stealing money by the west from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia...now has BRIICSS+ de-dollar-ization going high speed...NATO soon may be both out of "real" money and resources...Both unable to pay for wars and produce weapons for wars...If the west only makes agreements to break them then the rest has to break the west....

-US nuclear blackmail only may have some effect if the US can limit the number of enemies...At present the US is moving towards conflict with most of the world...even the EU...Hypersonic weapons (and other new weapons, "high energy", electronic warfare) may "undo" the US the ability to use its nuclear weapons...DJ-I hope the US will see democracy restored...can "finish" the present corrupt political elite...For that matter the "west" needs real democracy not the "fake democrazy" -self destruction we have now...

So...can we get out of "global changes" without "humans ending themselves" in all out war? I hope so ! But we need change now !



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 21 2023 at 11:39pm

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFzrhT7bOSU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFzrhT7bOSU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFzrhT7bOSU On China high speed railnetwork...a comment;

I live here in China for 10+ years now and take trains all the time (took one from Shenyang to Beijing on Sunday. It took 3 hours, 800km cost me equivalent of $30, 1st class too) . The train network is phenomenal , fast (always around 350km/hr), clean, smooth , on time. In the south the scenery is amazing,  tunnel after tunnel, traversing huge valleys etc   US spend $2rn on wars in middle east. Imagine all that money spend on infrastructure

DJ, China is investing in higher speed trains (over 500 miles per hour possibly -MagLev) for main routes (Bejing-Shanghai) in China itself and may go for connections inside BRIICSS+ ...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3O_LRwRn1w[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3O_LRwRn1w - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3O_LRwRn1w Danny Haiphong;Former British MP and host of MOATS George Galloway joined me to discuss the G7 Summit and how it reflects the changing reality globally of BRICS, led by Russia and China, rising above a declining Western empire.

also The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfeHIGbYsPw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfeHIGbYsPw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfeHIGbYsPw Russia exporting energy to India for Rupees now has Russia with lots of India currency...Russia and India further increasing trade...So far main trade partner for India was China..DJ;.India is also involved in Iran energy projects...China working on links from China to the Indian Ocean (via Pakistan, Laos/Myanmar/Thailand) and high speed freight transport to a.o. the EU...

DJ-For me the question is not "if" but "when" the EU will join BRIICSS+....in some form...

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So far the US is sabotaging global trade because the US "needs to be #1"....Even most Americans by now may be sick of an old corrupt political elite...The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBp37R1MRhg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBp37R1MRhg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBp37R1MRhg on criminal cases involving biden-family, trump...In polls trump may beat biden if that would be the next US presidential election november 24...IF we see a repeat of biden/trump...the rest of the world may have had it with the US....

The corrupt western elite wants to push trillions more in more wars...destroying the public sector, getting some war criminals/industry very rich...

DJ-"The west" does neither have the finance (fiat currency) or the basic materials (energy, raw materials) to go for more war...The present "elite" will be replaced soon...however they did very major damage...The sooner western wars stop the better...the longer this insanity goes on the higher the price...

As the Duran noticed; Russia wanted to work with/be part of the "west" (DJ-just like Türkiye did)..."western sanctions" pushed Russia towards trading with non-western countries outside the US$...The outcome now is BRIICSS+ is booming...

[url]https://tvbrics.com/en/news/south-africa-to-host-xv-brics-summit-in-2023-in-person-format/[/url] or https://tvbrics.com/en/news/south-africa-to-host-xv-brics-summit-in-2023-in-person-format/ - https://tvbrics.com/en/news/south-africa-to-host-xv-brics-summit-in-2023-in-person-format/ ;Cyril Ramaphosa invited the leaders of the BRICS association to come to South Africa to participate in the summit of the alliance. Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director-General responsible for Asia and the Middle East, Department of International Relations and Cooperation, told eNCA TV channel about this.

He said that the summit meeting for the first time in three years will be held in-person format in August 2023 and stressed that South Africa, as the BRICS chair, has planned 117 events.
Text copied from https://tvbrics.com/en/news/south-africa-to-host-xv-brics-summit-in-2023-in-person-format/

DJ see also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#Membership_expansion_proposals[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#Membership_expansion_proposals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#Membership_expansion_proposals ;

Countries that have applied for membership[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BRICS&action=edit§ion=9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Countries that have applied for membership - edit ]

In addition,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Afghanistan - Afghanistan , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-Silk_Road_Briefing-79" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [79] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Bangladesh - Bangladesh ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Belarus - Belarus ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-BRICS_Expansion_Dialogue-80" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [80] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Mexico - Mexico ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Nicaragua - Nicaragua , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-BRICS_Expansion_Dialogue-80" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [80] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Nigeria - Nigeria ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Pakistan - Pakistan ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Senegal - Senegal , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-BRICS_Expansion_Dialogue-80" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [80] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Sudan - Sudan ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Syria - Syria ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Thailand - Thailand , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-BRICS_Expansion_Dialogue-80" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [80] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Tunisia - Tunisia ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Turkey - Turkey ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Uruguay - Uruguay ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Venezuela - Venezuela , and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe have expressed interest in membership of BRICS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [86] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [87] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-88" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [88] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-89" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [89] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#cite_note-90" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [90]

as far as I know Iran is in the process of becoming a full BRICS-member. The UAE, Bahrain and (many) others (Angola, Mozambique, Cuba) may be on a waitinglist...June 2 and 3 there is another (lower level) meeting of BRICS in South Africa...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Membership[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Membership - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation#Membership  

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union#Membership[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union#Membership - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union#Membership ...

maybe even [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#OPEC+[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#OPEC+ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#OPEC+ all integrate in BRICS+ so maybe a new name and plan may be needed/usefull ?

"Global Cooperation Organization" or something like that ? 

Some points;

-BRICS/new name is the future but on what-when ? With what speed ?

-Going for one major global currency or a mix of currencies ? A global trade-digital-currency next to "local/national" currencies ?

-How to avoid some countries become to dominant (in their region)...Russia, Iran may try to get India stronger to get a better balance with China...Brazil needs to balance with other Latin American countries (Argentina, Mexico)

-What to do with countries like Japan, EU/EU members, Canada (?) maybe willing to increase trade without joining BRICS ? 

-How can "BRICS+" increase peace and cooperation ? Korea, Ukraine...

-How to limit war with the US ? DJ-I do not doubt "BRICS+" wants to work even with the US...the problem is in "the west"....

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Maybe of note; The trajectory of BRICS+ will mean most energy, pharma, food production will be in BRICS+ members...Already BRICS now has a larger economy (per 2022) the the G7...Soon BRICS+ will be larger then the G20...

Western actions are destroying the west...So...will BRICS+ send aid to the US when their political elite only is pushing for war ? 

DJ-The US wants to "break up" Russia...however the outcome may be a breaking up of the UK (Ireland united, Scotland joining the EU) and the US...

If the US sinks into a civil war what role other countries should play ? Should Alaska become part of Canada ? Mexico move its borders north ? Texas, California become countries ? 

The present western "strategy" is creating these kinds of questions...(with western propaganda still claiming "Ukraine is winning"...please !)



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 22 2023 at 10:52pm

In the pandemic vaccines are supposed to be the "miracle weapon"...get vaccinated and the pandemic is over...A "pseudo-religion" ignoring reality...Vaccines may have saved maybe millions of lives in the short term...on the longer term they increased immunity evasion...So "virus mutation selection process" reacting to immunity...(both immunity after infection and/or vaccination). Anti-virals do bring the same kind of immunity evasion selections...So-yes-vaccines, anti-virals, can do a job...but it is a limited short term job when you deal with very flexible viruses...

On top of that co-infections (bacterial, fungal) seem to be part of the problem killing infected hosts...Non Pharma Interventions; limiting spread, masks, ventilation, should be the "main weapon"...NOT (non-sterilizing !) vaccines....

But we did invest billions into vaccines...so the story is "vaccines did the job ending the pandemic"...Untrue..we soon will learn...

To link this vaccine/pandemic story with the "US war against the world"; BRICS/BRIICSS+ has both most Big Pharma and the basics for pharma products...India, China, South Africa, Brazil have a very majot pharma sector...

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The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXoi_2sfAFQ[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXoi_2sfAFQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXoi_2sfAFQ on why the western, war-industry-owned mainstream media, is even in denial on the fall of Bakhmut...They did promote/lie that much the story Ukraine is winning that when-again-Ukraine losses a major battle it does not fit their claims...

So after "miracle weapons" like Leopard-2/Challenger-tanks, HIMARS, Patriot-air defense...all failing in Ukraine...now F16's "will beat Russia/Putin"...[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-123.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-123.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-123.html ;

 In late October a Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 Flanker, Soviet-era fighter, was shot down by a long-range air-to-air missile (LRAAM) – the R-37M. This is not the first Ukrainian aircraft to be shot down since Russia’s invasion commenced in February, but it is nevertheless a significant feat for the Russian Air Force because the R-37M took down the Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 from a range of https://en.protothema.gr/extreme-range-kill-on-ukraines-top-fighter-was-a-su-57-not-an-air-defence-system-reports/" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - - reportedly capable of reaching Mach 6 and striking targets up to 400km (250 miles) away.

 The R-37M has become https://strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/15/russia-new-r37m-air-air-missile-unique-unmatched/" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - - R-37M was fired from Russia’s fifth-generation fighter the Sukhoi-57 Felon rather than the Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound, Russia’s primary interceptor. The possibility of a fifth-generation Felon executing a target from such a long range is not at all impossible; the Sukhoi-57 has a sophisticated actively electronic scanned arrays (AESA) radar system comprising of the solid state AN/APG-77 – with a range of https://world-defense.com/threads/an-apg-77-vs-n036-byelka.5341/" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - - N036 Byelka radar which boasts a https://www.cmano-db.com/pdf/sensor/1821/#:~:text=N036-1-01%20Byelka%20AESA%20%28Su-57%29%20Radar%20Type%3A%20Radar,Altitude%20Max%3A%200%20m%20Range%20Max%3A%20398.2%20km" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); text-decoration: underline; - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-border-checkpoint-attacked-by-tanks-from-ukraine-destroyed-in-belgorod[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-border-checkpoint-attacked-by-tanks-from-ukraine-destroyed-in-belgorod - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-border-checkpoint-attacked-by-tanks-from-ukraine-destroyed-in-belgorod DJ A "Russian rebel army" moving into Russia from Ukraine with (most) western weapons can be seen as yet another NATO attack on Russia...

DJ...will we now see Alaska, Hawaii, Texas "independence armies" invading US soil ? Bringing "regime change/democracy"..."liberating the US from biden" ? It is yet another very dangerous move...Further damaging "the west"...

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[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/zaporozyhe-nuclear-power-plant-cut-off-from-power-again-10-days-diesel-generator-fuel-until-meltdown[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/zaporozyhe-nuclear-power-plant-cut-off-from-power-again-10-days-diesel-generator-fuel-until-meltdown - https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/zaporozyhe-nuclear-power-plant-cut-off-from-power-again-10-days-diesel-generator-fuel-until-meltdown DJ-Russia is in control of the largest nuclear powerplant in Europe...Ukraine keeps shelling it...Western "media" keep claiming "Russia is shelling itself"...

So do some NATO extremists want to start a nuclear incident ? The level of insanity is large/crazy enough...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTP9xLjcbU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTP9xLjcbU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTP9xLjcbU Cyrus Janssen (last name is very Dutch...you have them with 1 or 2 "s"...also "Janszen" comes up...the English variant is Johnson...);

China is now the most dominant player in the EV space controlling the one piece of tech that will define the future of our world Electric Batteries. Can the world make an EV battery without China? The answer is no! Let's break down everything you need to know about China tech and how you can also take advantage of an opportunity in the market.

Like in Big Pharma the west is NOT in control over basic raw materials...worse; The US does not even make batteries for Electric Vehicles...With OPEC+ now also moving towards BRIICSS+ "the west" is running out of basic essentials for any sort of economy...De-dollar-ization only makes matters worse...

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https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

and

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; max-width: 100%; outline-style: none; -
- Pepe Escobar

See also [url]https://globalsouth.co/2023/05/22/g7-coercive-with-a-side-of-dishonest-false-charm-they-start-the-war-against-the-global-south/[/url] or https://globalsouth.co/2023/05/22/g7-coercive-with-a-side-of-dishonest-false-charm-they-start-the-war-against-the-global-south/ - https://globalsouth.co/2023/05/22/g7-coercive-with-a-side-of-dishonest-false-charm-they-start-the-war-against-the-global-south/  

DJ, Some small nations are forced at US gunpoint to "join the west"...only there are limits to what US terror can do...BRIICSS+ is THE alternative...

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To end with some "hope"...by now MOST of the west know they have to get out of this conflict...

and 


DJ, Only a very limited group of western (powerfull) hard-liners/idiots want further escalation...Very likely work is on its way for an exit-strategy...

-biden wants to go for re-election in the US...(that is a very major problem in itself...)

-alternative for the exit strategy is all out war...with major nuclear risks...

-Some in the US see China-NOT Russia-as the main problem...

-The EU would totally destroy itself if it would join the US in a conflict with China...

-UK has not even found an answer to Brexit...has a "king" no sane person wants...(nothing personal, Charles himself may be OK as a fellow human...but the idea of a "king" as head of state apointed by a "god" does not fit in the 21st century...)

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So we live in interesting times....Reality is power is shifting to Asia away from "the west"....The "west" was the major global power for the last 500 years...So maybe fear is a big motor behind the conflict ? Reality also is "a lot of things" all ready no longer under western control...from energy to cars, computers etc. So it is a next step in an ongoing process...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein


Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 3:08am

DJ-BRICS/BRIICSS+ effectiveness could be indicated by a.o. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge ;

The Brazzaville–Kinshasa Bridge is a proposed road-rail bridge construction project over the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Congo River - Congo River that will connect the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo to the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo at their respective capitals,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Brazzaville - Brazzaville and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Kinshasa - Kinshasa . The project has proceeded intermittently, but work is slated to begin in 2023 and be completed in 2028.

Background[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge&action=edit§ion=1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Background - edit ]

The cities of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Brazzaville - Brazzaville and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Kinshasa - Kinshasa , capitals of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo (ROC) and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) respectively, are situated on opposite banks of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Congo River - Congo River . They are the closest national capitals on Earth (excluding the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Vatican City - Vatican since the city-state has no capital). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-14apr03-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2] Plans for a bridge crossing the Congo River to connect the two countries were financed in 1991 but shelved in 1993 due to a lack of sufficient funding and turmoil in the ROC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-14apr03-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2]

The project was revived a decade later in 2003 by the ROC's Transport Infrastructure Unit (Cellule d’infrastructures de transport), which had previously cooperated with the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="European Union - European Union on similar projects in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Central Africa - Central Africa . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-14apr03-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2] The proposed bridge was relocated downstream to take advantage of the narrower and rocky riverbed which would facilitate easier erection of bridge pierrs. The cost of construction was estimated to be between 40 million and 80 million euros in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-14apr03-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [2] In January 2004, the project was endorsed by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_Central_African_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Economic Community of Central African States - Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which by then was estimated to cost 403 million euros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-29aug12-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [3]

The project stalled in 2005 when DRC presidential chief of staff  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_She_Okitundu" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Léonard She Okitundu - Léonard She Okitundu expressed that the project would adversely affect economic activity in its port towns of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boma,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Boma and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matadi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Matadi - Matadi , which are key contributors to its economy. The DRC refused to endorse the bridge project without a commitment by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Partnership_for_Africa%27s_Development" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="New Partnership for Africa's Development - New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) to finance a deepwater port in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Banana , its only city on the Atlantic coast. Okitundu also confirmed that sanctions by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="African Union - African Union meant the DRC had been excluded from negotiations with NEPAD regarding the projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [4] A 2010 report by the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="World Bank - World Bank stated that the proposed bridge would instead increase maritime traffic to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe-Noire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Pointe-Noire - Pointe-Noire , ROC's main port city on the Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [5]

Following a study in 2009, the project laid dormant until a meeting was held in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreville" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Libreville - Libreville , Gabon in December 2016 between the two countries. In January 2017, the ECCAS reactivated the project, with the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Development_Bank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="African Development Bank - African Development Bank pledging 250 million euros to the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-25jan17-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [6] The two Congos were to raise the remaining 110 million euros and seek donors for an additional 40 million euros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-25jan17-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [6] An agreement was formally signed in November 2018 between the ROC and DRC for a 1,575m-long toll bridge to connect their capitals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [7]

Construction works have since been repeatedly delayed with works now expected to commence in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-25jan17-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-23mar20-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [9] The bridge is expected to be completed in 2028. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville%E2%80%93Kinshasa_Bridge#cite_note-23mar20-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [9]

So one of the problems is in what effect it may have on ports of the Republic of Congo-Brazaville or Democratic Republic of Congo-Kinshassa...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo ; 

Banana is a small  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaport" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Seaport - seaport in the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_Central" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Kongo Central - Kongo Central province of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo on the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Atlantic Ocean - Atlantic coast. The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Congo River - Congo River 's mouth, separated from the ocean by a spit of land 3 km long and 100 to 400 m wide. The port is located on the creek side of the spit, which shelters it from the ocean. It is about 8 km south-east of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moanda,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Muanda to which it is connected by a paved road running along the coast.

DJ, in the past lots of countries were very interested in Africa...less in Africans...Afrcan countries need to balance between "foreign investors" and national interests...

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Weeb Union [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvEust7CgA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvEust7CgA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvEust7CgA and Military Summary [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRd_WV9RzTo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRd_WV9RzTo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRd_WV9RzTo on the "Russian groups invading Russia from Ukraine"

[url]https://southfront.org/hiding-defeat-in-bakhmut-ukrainian-military-attacked-russian-border-villages/[/url] or https://southfront.org/hiding-defeat-in-bakhmut-ukrainian-military-attacked-russian-border-villages/ - https://southfront.org/hiding-defeat-in-bakhmut-ukrainian-military-attacked-russian-border-villages/ ; 

The loss of the city of Bakhmut was a major blow to the Kiev regime which is still denying its defeat. Two days after the Ukrainian military retreated from their “fortress”, Kiev attempted a large provocation on the Russian border aimed at gaining headlines in the MSM in order to hide the truth from Bakhmut.

On May 22, since 9 am local time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began the heavy shelling on the border villages in the Russian Belgorod region. It lasted for several hours and resulted in damage to civilian infrastructure. The main target was the Grayvoronsky region located north of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

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Around noon, after several hours of heavy shelling, a fierce battle was reported near the village of Dronovka, where a group of Ukrainian militants crossed the border. Military equipment has been brought in from both sides, and several drones have been spotted in the sky. Russian air defense forces were still active and Russian aircraft were patrolling the area. Russian Mi-28, Mi-8 and Ka-52 have been spotted in the border area.

A group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which included notorious neo-Nazis from the so-called “Russian Volunteer Corps”, the “Legion of Freedom of Russia”, as well as members of the Ukrainian Nazi battalions Azov and Kraken, in armored vehicles, supported by a tank and an infantry fighting vehicle, attacked the Grayvoron border checkpoint in the Belgorod region. In total, up to two tanks, one APC and nine armored vehicles, including T-72, 2 HMMWV, Cougar and KrAZ entered the territory of Russia near the Grayvoron checkpoint.

Ukrainian militants managed to advance to the Kozinka — Glotovo intersection, and from there, Ukrainia servicemen reached the Glotovsky House of Culture by foot. In total, they managed to move several hundred meters deep into the territory of the Russian Federation.

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According to preliminary reports, the Ukrainian military pushed away from the Russian territory in several hours. However, the local officials are yet to confirm these reports. The security operation likely continues.

The attack of the Ukrainian military is nothing but another PR campaign, similar to the offensive on the Russian Bryansk region on March 2, 2023. https://southfront.org/kiev-made-big-mistake-by-attacking-bryansk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - LINK ,  https://southfront.org/assessing-results-of-ukraines-terrorist-attack-in-russian-border-village/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - LINK ,  https://southfront.org/breaking-ukrainian-terrorists-launched-attack-on-russian-border-villages-killed-civilians/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - LINK Today’s assault was carried out by the same Nazi forces of the so-called “Russian Volunteer Corps”, who declare that their attacks on civilians in the small border villages the liberation of Russia. Actually, the “Russian Volunteer Corps” and the “Legion of Freedom of Russia”, which mainly include Nazis who fled Russia years ago, were created by British advisers and ar aimed to sow discord among the Russian population and terrorise the population in the border regions. The sabotage attacks and acts of terrorism on the Russian territory are also largely coordinated by British special services.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-us-and-uk-are-split-on-the-ukraine-war-weapons-russia-oligarchs-churchill-8540ef60?mod=opinion_lead_pos7" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration: underline; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px; - LINK

Today, the Kiev regime is trying its best to hide its defeat in Bakhmut. The offensive in the Ukrainian media was much larger than the one on the battlefield.

Immediately after the beginning of the operation, Ukrainian sources spread numerous videos showing the military equipment in woods, allegedly heading towards Russia. It turned out that some of them were filmed in the Ukrainian Sumy region and have nothing to do with offensive.

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The Russian authorities are yet to confirm any losses and the authenticity of the video is yet to be confirmed. The speech of the Ukrainian operator raises doubts and sound more like a speech prepared in advance than a comment made during the battle. Taking into account that Kiev forces filmed numerous fake videos when preparing for the offensive, this one was highly likely staged.

At the same time, the Kiev regime launched a propaganda campaign in the Russian Belgorod region. Ukrainian forces reportedly disrupted the local radio station and attempted to sow panic among the local population, calling on the civilians to evacuate from the settlements. People were also called to evacuate by Ukrainian bogus callers. The local authorities were forced to deny the numerous rumours about the evacuation several times amid the massive information attack. Ukrainian saboteurs also dropped leaflets calling on the Russian military to surrender.

The Ukrainian attack in the Belgorod region has no military goal. However, it is strategically important to create a necessary image in the media. As it was the case in March, Ukrainian Nazis shelled the villages, crossed the border, fired at the local civilians, sowing panic, took some photos and fled away. This is another fake victory of the Kiev regime. Zelensky has always been exchanging lives of his soldiers and officers for likes on the social media.

From the military point of view, the attack may be used as a distracting blow amid the upcoming counteroffensive of the Ukrainian military on the Donbass front lines, which was declared by the Kiev regime months ago.

DJ, timing is not only after the fall of Bakhmut but also after the return of zelensky from the G7 meeting in Hiroshima-Japan. 

Did the US/UK plan this attack ? Is the "NATO strategy" to bring the war into Russia ????

There have been lots of murders, drone attacks, sabotage but only limited (pro)Ukraine military moving into Russia. Attacking logistics/supplies for the war in Ukraine inside Russia may be seen as "legal"...murdering citizens is terrorism...

Western pro-war media also claimed Russia still had nuclear weapons near the Ukraine border...was evacuating them in a hurry...Russian sources claim-very likely correct-Russia moved away that kind of weapons at the start of the SMO february 2022...

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DJ-On the G7-Hiroshima/Japan meeting;

biden (still supposed to be POTUS) did skip a meeting with Modi India president...

zelensky did not show up for a meeting with Lula Brazil president...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-adventures-natostan-sparks-flying-ibiza-locked-down-bilderberg-lisbon[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-adventures-natostan-sparks-flying-ibiza-locked-down-bilderberg-lisbon - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-adventures-natostan-sparks-flying-ibiza-locked-down-bilderberg-lisbon ;

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/05/20/adventures-in-natostan-sparks-flying-in-ibiza-locked-down-bilderberg-in-lisbon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(20, 112, 178); - Let’s start with a graphic depiction of where the Global North and the Global South really stand.

1. Xian, former imperial capital, and key hub of the Ancient Silk Roads: Xi Jinping hosts the China-Central Asia summit, attended by all Heartland “stans” (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgzystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan).

The final statement stresses economic cooperation and “a resolute stand” against Hegemon-concocted color revolutions. That expands what the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are already implementing. In practice, the summit seals that the Russia-China strategic partnership will be protecting the Heartland.

2. Kazan: the Russia-Islamic World forum unites not only religious leaders but top businessmen of no less than 85 nations.

Multipolar Russia proceeded in parallel to the Arab League Summit in Jeddah, which welcomed back Syria to the “Arab family”. Arab nations unanimously pledged to end “foreign interference” for good.

3. Hiroshima: the ever-shrinking G7, actually G9 (adding two unelected EU bureaucrats).

Imposes a single agenda of more sanctions on Russia; more weapons to black void Ukraine; and more lecturing of China.

4. Lisbon: the annual Bilderberg meeting – a NATO/Atlanticist fest – takes place in a not so secret hotel completely locked down. Top item in the agenda; war – hybrid and otherwise – on the “RICs” in BRICS (Russia, India, China).

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In the photo ops, by the way, it’s not a shrinking G7 that shows up: but a warmongering G9, artificially augmented by that pathetic couple of unelected EUrocrats, Charles Michel and Pustula von der Lugen.

As far as the real Global Majority – or Global South – is concerned, this looks more like a G-Less Than Zero. The more the senseless, illegal Sanctions Wars are “expanded”, the more the absolute majority of the Global South moves away from the collective West, diplomatically, geopolitically and geoeconomically.

And that’s why the top Bilderberg agenda at the hijacked Lisbon hotel was to revamp NATO/Atlanticist coordination in a war – hybrid and otherwise – against the driving force in BRICS; the RICs (Russia, India, China).

There were other items on the menu – from AI to the acute banking crisis, from “energy transition” to “fiscal challenges”, not to mention proverbial “U.S. leadership”.

But when you get in the same room people like NATO’s Stoltenberg; director of U.S. intel Avril Haines; senior director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council Thomas Wright; Goldman Sachs president John Waldron; Chief Gardener Borrell (whose minion was in Ibiza); vice chair of Brookfield Asset Management, Mark Carney (one of their executives also in Ibiza); Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Christopher Cavoli; and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, among other Atlanticist shills, the plot is self-evident:

It’s war on the multipolar world.

DJ-the G7 in itself allready is very divided...Japan still involved in Russian-Sachalin oil, China trade...The EU would destroy itself if it would follow the US in seeking also war with China...for now the EU is "limiting" itself...Eur-Asian trade is to important...

Another point "visitor nations" wanted to discuss on the G7 was India, Brazil taking over the position of UK, france in the UNSC as permanent members...no doubt "the west" is not willing to face realism here as well...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFLYOHCGdw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFLYOHCGdw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFLYOHCGdw ; 

1982 SPECIAL REPORT: "THE CIA/NAZI CONNECTION"

“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …” That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War. Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies. Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA’s use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.

DJ...ALL !!! of the nazi-Belarus government criminals (over 300) did find safety in the US...The "west" also did get many nazi's to the Middle East, South America...

The NATO-nazi links go further then thatcher/reagan standing next to fascist mass murderer pinochet...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor ; 

Operation Condor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Spanish language - Spanish : Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Portuguese language - Portuguese : Operação Condor) was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="United States - United States -backed campaign of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Political repression - political repression and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="State terrorism - state terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-McSherry2002-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [10] involving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_(information_gathering)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Intelligence (information gathering) - intelligence operations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Central Intelligence Agency - CIA -backed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Coup d'état - coup d'états , as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Assassination - assassinations of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Left-wing politics - left-wing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Socialism - socialist leaders in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Latin America - Latin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="South America - South America from 1968 to 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [12] Highly publicized events such as the assassination of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Cuba - Cuban revolutionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Che Guevara - Che Guevara by CIA-backed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Bolivia - Bolivian forces in October 1967 have been perceived as catalysts that predated the operation. Operation Condor was officially and formally implemented in November 1975 by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_dictatorship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Right-wing dictatorship - right-wing dictatorships of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cone" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Southern Cone - Southern Cone of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="South America - South America . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [13]

Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. Some estimates are that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-Bevins2020-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [8] with up to 30,000 of these in Argentina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [15] The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_Terror" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Archives of Terror - Archives of Terror list 50,000 killed, 30,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Forced disappearance - disappeared and 400,000 imprisoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-cja-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#cite_note-Bevins_305-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; - [16]

DJ, the west financed hitler's rise to power...Most of the nazi-war machine was financed by the west (a.o. henry ford, the bush -banker/oil-family...also lots of "royals" seeking revenge for the murder of the Czar-family member of most "royals"...Lots of "royals" also had shares in Russian railways, oil...lost their investments in the revolution...). 

So Western/NATO-NAZI links is NOT new...may in fact go back to the Russian revolution....the "west" supported the "whites" against "reds/bolsheviks"...Some Russians still dream of a new czar...At present in Ukraine also "Belarus opposition forces" are fighting for NATO...(also IS-jihadists/terrorists "pro-NATO")...

-Most fascists are catholic...however most Catholics are NOT fascists !!!! NATO has nazi-links, may share the same Military Industrial Complex/Finance "roots" -this does not mean (yet) NATO countries are nazi-countries....However there are real dangers for democracy...

In recent Greek elections only 60% of the voters showed up...the "left" and "right" wing parties looked that similar there was no real choice...In the US the "uni-party" may be the main political factor...DJ-Here in NL we still have a lot of freedom...partly may explain why we have about 15 political parties in parliament...Still lots of Dutch do NOT feel represented...

-In NL parliament the "Holland" west part of NL is over-represented...(to the extreme...) so regional issues...Studies indicate most government spending ends up in the "Randstad"...however 5 million of the 18 million Dutch live there...

-A lot of members of parliament are (close to ) university educated...Most Dutch are not...

-Complex rules create poverty and problems for millions of Dutch...however "politicians" are not confronted with their own (social) laws...

DJ-Also in lots of EU/western countries there are the same sort of problems...Only the US and UK have a (in practice) "two party system"...

Complex problems may not be solved by "simple solutions" but "kicking cans down the road" -ping pong problems from national governments to the EU-or to the regions undermines trust in politics...

DJ-In "polls" it is still claimed most Dutch back the "royals"...I doubt those polls are realistic...Support for the Ukraine war, EU, NATO may be less then "polls" suggest...in many countries. 

Worsening of the MANY crises may increase risks of a government out of touch with its country...the US, UK may be close to that point...If police is unable to enter parts of cities because of gangs/crime ...how far are you from a failed state ? France, NL may be moving in that direction as well...Secret services mixing with organized crime may be needed for some operations...but a long term mix of intel with crime has very major risks !



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