There is an amazing amount of current news to discuss.
Gazprom does not like the paperwork accompanying the Canada-returned gas turbine. And another one is being taken offline. Deliveries via the Nord Stream from July 27 will be no more than 33 million cubic meters per day (against the current maximum of 67 million cubic meters).
Lavrov is making incredible statements on his major Arab League and African Tour and he is being received with great honor everywhere.
FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a meeting with the permanent representatives of the member countries of the Arab League
Read in full
(https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1823548/)
🔸 Ukraine was chosen to be anti-Russia, as we say. The organizers of the illegal coup d’etat in February, 2014 were not called to discipline by their Western sponsors.
🔸 The regime was going in a very aggressive and Neo-Nazi direction. We have been drawing the attention of our Western colleagues to these facts during all these long seven years as the Minsk Agreements were sabotaged and Russian culture and everything being Russian was eroded from Ukrainian life.
🔸 It is not about Ukraine, but about the future of the world order.
🔸 We are at the beginning of a new era, which would be a movement towards real multilateralism, not to the multilateralism, which the West tries to impose on the basis of the exceptional role of the Western civilization in the modern world. And I think the movement is unstoppable.
Kadryof is loveable:
Ramzan Kadyrov said that Europe is forcing Russia “to switch from a special operation to a full-scale war using all types of weapons.”
“NATO naively believe that such a war would weaken the Russian Federation. Russia throughout its history has always been ready for any war, so this scenario is not terrible for her,” wrote the head of Chechnya.
According to Kadyrov, in order to avoid a full-scale war, the Ukrainians should “take to the streets of Kyiv and kick the entire corrupt leadership out of the country with a kick in the ass.” https://t.me/russtrat/15976
A note from the Sirius report on an issue not discussed:
The Sirius Report, [7/24/22 10:43 AM]
There is an irony lost on the west that ultimately the end of unipolarity will allow the US to become a great nation amongst equals. Unipolarity destroyed everything that once made US a great nation.
Enjoy this open conversation and kindly remain with subjects discussed on the Saker Blog.
Public office is a privilege, not a right, and people who accept the privilege of holding office in the Gov’t must of necessity accept that their entire conduct should be open to inspection by the people they are serving. – Harry Truman
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/07/thinning-herd-millions-of-dead-elected.html
OK,yes I am a fanboy of this guy. Here is a rendition of his great patriotic song “Let’s stand up”wih English subs put in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoW3YMSfmc4
And an example of others use that song for patriotic purposes in Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7gkVq9NlPI
Lovely, Brothers, Lovely – a little insight into a warrior culture:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7E2Gv4tOQ
Pope Francis is visiting the Canadian province of Alberta this week. His primary mission is to apologise for the genocide & rape of indigenous people across Canada.
A statement of “deeply sorry” is about the most we can expect from this Pope, IMO. I have not seen any Western leaders that capable of truly accepting responsibility. Will the Pope allow some bishops to face the death penalty, or lengthy prison sentences? (Retorical question, of course…)
As the entire thing was supervised by Government Agents, thats the Crown of England, the Pope is just a fool, his best move would be to call out the Englanders that caused the situation. The Catholic church did not subjugate, terrorize, kill, and warehouse natives unless directed by the Crown or their agents, Sir John eh! So let’s put aside the woke history and shine a bright light on the EVil that seeps from the sewers of London, England.
Cheers M
A good site for Russian supporters is this one: Here are 3 good articles on the site now:
(This one has resonance today)
How did the Maidan begin in the city of Korabelov
https://cont.ws/@Lohmatiy/2338280
(This one is self-explanatory)
Another beneficial effect of the flight of “pacifists”
https://cont.ws/@Prikhojanka/2338270
(In the alternative news,and on RT worldwide today)
Ukrainian intelligence, in preparation for the hijacking of a Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft, set up its airfields and air defense systems
https://cont.ws/@voenkorr/2338224
“Lavrov is making incredible statements on his major Arab League and African Tour”
This is really a victory lap, a statement of team élan! The group photos of such joy on face of the opposite diplomats and dignitaries welcoming him. Now I better understand why the panicking sore losers insisted on banning official photo-ops..
ZZzzzzzzzz……………
Plot twist! The would-be assassination is on hold. AZE is now forced to babysit another Guaidó, lol. They are circling the drain ever faster, ever more discombobulated..
“We will definitely help the Ukrainian people to free themselves from the regime that is absolutely anti-people and anti-history,” Lavrov said.
Great link, thanks!
Ha ha, that’s brilliant! Typical Russian countermove.
On swedish TV, a military analyst at Swedish Defence University, speaks about that Russia might assasinate Zelensky (from Lavrov’s statement in Cairo that Russia may help the Ukranians to get rid of their government)
So I guess that they are preparing the population for Z:s death…
Heard today that the US is planning Zelensky’s demise, but will most likely blame Russia. What a mess.
This very interesting article pinpoints something little understood. But very important to understand:https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/13460
“The Jewish community in Russia is deeply connected to Israel and its importance…”
The problem is that Israel views Russian Jews as “Jews living in another country”. While Russia views Russian Jews as “Russians who follow the Judaic faith”. That is a unreconcilable difference. Jews in Russia will need to make the individual choice as to which one they are. And those choosing not to be Russian will need to be denied the benefits only available to those who are Russian.Begining with positions in government service,and high positions in the society.
I see this as a worldwide problem by the way. It is a massive hidden issue in the US as well. In reality it is more of a problem in the US than in Russia. Our government and economy are very heavily dominated by Jewish-Americans. And many of them seem to follow the old adage of “but is it good for the Jews” in every thing done. Not is it good for the country,or the people. But only does it favor their one and only group. If Russia can stand up against the control of a tiny minority. Then there is hope for other states as well. It’s pastime that all the citizens of all nations put the interests of their common nations over the narrow interests of only a minority of those nations.Not to discriminate against any group,but to do what is good for every citizen,not just one part of the nation.
Divided loyalty should be openly discussed – this includes all sorts of ethnics.
I agree. Another case is of many (certainly not all) Muslims in India and in Europe. They would never say a word when one Muslim country commits genocide in another Muslim country. Example, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Pakistan in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). But every government decision that is supposed to all citizens equally would be examined whether it confers special benefits to or requires compromises from their community. Discussing this openly is considered hate speech, similar to anti-semitism
@ Uncle Bob
Even in those rare cases when the Russian government does criticise them, it does so “in kid-gloves”, ever so careful “not to offend” the tribe of ill repute (check https://www.rt.com/news/559651-israel-russia-stance-unconstructive/ , for instance).
“… I see this as a worldwide problem by the way. It is a massive hidden issue in the US as well. In reality it is more of a problem in the US than in Russia. …”
Of course, no comparison with what is going on in the U.S. & Co..
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ezpTR7Hp49mn/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/07/20/our-destroyed-country/
I will add this link that reports on the current political reality in the US – “Israel’s lobbying power comes from the Benjamins”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/57140.htm
The Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, opened the flood gates for unlimited corporate “speech” through political donations. Now more than ever, control of the government is consolidated through private money. Since lawmakers are co-opted, this won’t change without a constitutional convention, which is very unlikely to be allowed.
Citizens United merely placed the right of free speech to corporations that it had granted to UNIONS decades before.
The emasculated power of Police forces (made clear in Uvalde, where dozens of “officers” let a shooter kill nearly two dozen children), means corporations soon will have to have paramilitary personnel to protect their assets, employees, and even their stockholders.
“ROLLERBALL,” here we come!
Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin about the changes during the day on 07/25/2022 during a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine specifically for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
The enemy has lost a number of important positions, and the situation is beginning to resemble an operational encirclement. The media are still ahead of events – locally they say that they still need to work a little bit.
2.
In Pokrovsky, the enemy rests in the northern part of the village and on the adjacent heights. In the village itself, stubborn fighting continues. The solution of the issue with Pokrovsk and the Uglegorsk thermal power plant will create the prerequisites for an attack on Artemovsk from the east and southeast.
3.
Under Soledar, fighting continues in Bakhmutskoye, as well as on the outskirts of the city from the side of Stryapovka. There are no significant advances yet, as well as near Yakovlevka.
4.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to try to advance in the Kharkiv direction ran into artillery strikes and did not lead to significant results. In response to the shelling of the Cossacks of Lopan, ours poured into Kharkov and Chuguev.
5.
On the Krivoy Rog direction, the enemy attacked in the direction of Belogorovka and Andreevka. He even managed to enter Belogorovka, but he was asked to leave from there. Fighting for Andreevka is still going on.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to probe for opportunities for a serious offensive in the Krivoy Rog direction in order to advance to the Dnieper and reduce the size of the Russian bridgehead.
23/7/22 Ukraine civilian casualties toll since February 2022 (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights):
5,237 deaths
7,000 injuries
25/7/22 US gun violence casualties year to date for 2022 (https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/):
25,067 deaths
21,967 injuries
Safer to live in Ukraine than in the US
Ok. But what if you count all Ukrainian casualties – not only civilians?
Apart from civilians, the other Ukrainian deaths would be among the armed forces. (We can ignore foreign mercenaries).
Many thousands have died, and many more have been wounded. What of it? They will go on dying or being wounded until they stop resisting and allow the Russians to restore law and order – which entails dealing with the Nazis and overt war criminals.
If a thug deliberately kills and injures many civilians, and ruins their houses and places of work – all the while boasting and glorying in his work – someone has to stop him. If he gets hurt or killed in the process, what of it?
Thanks for your excellent comment!
To your last paragraph Tom, I am reminded of the Palestinian plight in Israel – Gaza and the West Bank especially. The settler “thugs” are daily destroying Palestinian property, including homes, farm land, gardens, trees, etc.. No one stops them.
“Someone has to stop them”…… who will that be? Not the US since they send $4 billion a year to militarize the Israeli thugs. They believe they are invincible. When will the day come when they are proven to be weak cowards deserving of their own demise?
MoonofAlabama did nice commentary on the big scandal of the Ukie scheme to bribe Russian pilots to fly their planes out of Russia.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/another-crazy-plot-by-ukraines-secret-service-just-blew-up-flimsy-excuses-follow.html#more
This one gets quite crazy as Bellingcat was involved. But follow it on MoA.
Do not underestimate how the concept of “Nazi” reverberates in Africa. They do not think of Nazis vs. the rest of the world, they think of Nazis vs. Communism. Both before and after the fall of the Third Reich Communism was brutally repressed by colonial powers and, post-emancipation, regimes supported by the West. Those repressive powers looked, walked and quacked like a duck as far as African Communists were concerned.
Every Communist in the world knows the first thing Hitler did was outlaw Communism and throw its adherents into prison.
If anyone is interested in history, this is about the last time Germany faced a fuel shortage and economic crisis. We will see how well Olaf Scholz and Robert Habeck measure up against Adolf Hitler over the coming winter:
Winterhilfswerk (WHW)
Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (English: Winter Relief Fund)
Hitler ordered the establishment of the Winterhilfswerk in 1933 and personally opened the first drive, giving out the directive “no one shall be hungry, no one shall freeze”.
A greatly encouraged practice was once a month to have a one-pot meal (eintopf), reducing all the food to one course and the money thus saved was to be donated. During autumn and winter months from 1933 onward, the Eintopfsonntag (One-Pot Sunday or Stew Sunday) was officially scheduled by the WHW. Restaurants were required to offer an eintopf meal at one of several price points. Households were reminded of the occasion, although it has been noted that the authorities did not investigate whether the one-pot meal was actually served.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterhilfswerk
Putin & Lavrov must be privately busting a gut over what the Germans are doing to themselves (Eine Dusche pro Woche). But at least they have a template to work with from a previous government. (lol)
Great post, Rokossovski! I did not yet think of it — Winterhilfswerk, of course. Your last point on NSDAP cadres not checking for adherence to the Eintopf-rule, though, this will be different: Scholz and Baerbock and all those fanatics will organize a checking. Blockwarte? Also checking for keeping the room temperature low in those Einfamilienhäusern … how else could that be ensured?
“It is not about Ukraine, but about the future of the world order.”
It’s incongruous. He has said more than once that “it’s not about Ukraine.” It was about Ukraine just prior to the war, at the start of the SMO, and also after! That’s one layer of the incongruity. The West said before the SMO that it was not really just about Ukraine. It was the free membership principle for “defensive” military alliances, the sovereignty of nations, etc. It’s incongruous for Russia to adopt the same kind of rationale as the West. Such justifications for war then take away the voice of the people. In the West, you have to accept any sacrifice to safeguard “the world.” In Russia, too, now the people can be told that the war is not about Ukraine (how can it not be!), but about something far larger, and even not at all about Ukraine! When a politician or diplomat starts speaking that way, it’s rather worrisome.
Of course, the future “world order” is mostly a lot of bla-bla, and if Ukraine disappeared tomorrow the United States and Europe would remain what they are. Several countries (like Ukraine) could disappear as if by magic and the relative power of the greatest economies not be affected. The “indispensable nation” in material terms would be…maybe China (I figure the one that produces for all and ‘everything’)?
Are things not going as expected in Ukraine? When they start speaking like that, what “doesn’t count” may be what counts even more. It’s also WWIII type rhetoric and I think that’s irresponsible too. It calls for analysis to start speaking like that only after the SMO started and when you haven’t yet conquered the Donbass after five full months.
Lavrov is good, but anyone can deviate or lose a good reasoning and the truth – momentarily or even permanently…we have to keep the flame burning for these like they say you have to for love.
If you have a point to make in this comment, it’s kind of hard to tell. What are you trying to say?
It’s all about the quote. I have nothing to add; it’s bad to repeat. Just for you 1) the quote is incongruous, 2) would you have thought the Donbass would not be conquered after five months of victory after victory (Russian MOD)? 3) they attacked Ukraine, it is about Ukraine, 4) it is WWIII type rhetoric (the West engaged in it first), 5) the totally different rationale compare with prior to the war… 6) world order “bla-bla”, 7) the influence of the people becoming lost when it’s about the “world”, 7) has the Ukraine operation gone as well as they say? 8) love is all I have to give ♫
Wow. Did you mean ‘disingenuous’ instead of ‘incongruous’?
The SMO was not about ‘conquering’ Donbass, it was about securing it with minimal civilian casualties, and has gone about as well as can be expected, given the Ukrainians penchant for using human shields. It seems that this part is just about wrapped up now.
As far as expectations, the way the Russian MOD operates is by planning for a very large number of contingencies, so you can hardly say “it’s going according to the plan” or not. Because there is no one plan.
If you can’t see the wider implications of this conflict beyond Ukraine, you are not paying attention at all.
I think you have been marinating too much in your beloved NY Times, which is implacably and virulently anti-Russia.
No, incongruous, senseless. Disingenuous to that extent.
“and has gone about as well as can be expected”
You may be right. Time will tell.
The following are some tentative views, still observing, I don’t know yet:
– If the war is not going as well as expected, can the Russian government share this truth with its people? This question needs its answer anyway. How much war truth can the Russian govt. (or any govt.!) share with its people now? I don’t know (I feel I only know the countries where I have lived).
– You may report a war partially (nicely put) through omissions. If you win anyway, then you simply “spared” your population the awful details of the different war. However, if it gets too long, the people will suspect you tried to hide things from them. Eventually, the omissions will point to the reality.
– If things were going as the MOD says, he would challenge the Ukrainian accounts of the war. If by now he is omitting too many facts, he’ll avoid factual corrections.
– If you cannot be frank with your people (in war this is hard), then you might start changing your rationale for the war, possibly to “Ukraine has nothing to do with this.” Your inability to share hard truths, and the reality, may lead you to that bigger scenario (i.e., a war instead of an SMO). The rosy, perfect war scenario the Russian MOD seems to be presenting will not be the only thing affected by the difficulty (the more difficult war). You’ll have incongruous statements.
Again, potential scenarios and some considerations. The most important is 8). I know what love is ♫
My dictionary (the Concise Oxford) says:
incongruous
n adjective not in keeping with the surroundings or other elements; out of place.
DERIVATIVES
incongruity noun (plural incongruities).
incongruously adverb
“out of place” (Concise Oxforfd)
That’s good. Merriam-Webster says “incompatible” and “unsuitable”, which fit the context. In Spanish, it’s “incongruente” (as in ‘eso es incongruente’). In English, it’s not used as much. Examples from Merriam-Webster: “conduct incongruous with principle”, “inconsistent within itself”, “incongruous story”, “lacking propriety.”
It’s not just about Ukraine.
Russia is finalising WWIII, the last war on this planet.
You are stuck, the SMO was originally only about the Donbas and their security. Ms Z then upped the anty, right, maybe you missed it, it began to yap about acquiring Nuclear weapons to threaten Russia. He said it. At that point, had you been paying attention, the SMO changed. It then became about regime change in the Ukraine. Subsequently the Ukrainian army’s ability to fight was destroyed. Not the people, the equipment.
Now the western powers are sending their weapons because Ukrainian lost theirs in the beginning of the SMO. Russia is just adjusting to posts to match the changing field conditions the west presents.
By the way, when someone complains about the slowness of Russia’s advance in the Donbas, they come off as a typical exceptional mass murderer. The typical US canard, kill em all, let God sort it out.
Cheers M
sean the leprechaun,
“You are stuck.” Advice: Don’t begin a counter like that. If you’re right, it takes away your strength. If you’re wrong like in this case, it makes it worse.
“the SMO was originally only about the Donbass and their security.”
It was about this after it began, too, according to Putin and the Russian MOD. On March 25 but also before, the MOD said that Donbass was the whole military objective, that there was no intention to take over Kiev and the other cities they had gotten close to.
“maybe you missed it” Don’t. “…it began to yap about acquiring Nuclear weapons to threaten Russia. He said it. At that point, had you been paying attention, the SMO changed. It then became about regime change in the Ukraine.”
He yapped about that before the SMO only. The SMO was just about the Donbass in terms of the military plans. The Russians literally said they were not interested in regime change (the last time recently). Of course, Russia has indeed been like ‘all over the map’ with disparate declarations, but not the MOD who always stuck to the Donbass objective. Putin, for the most part (90 %+), has not contradicted the MOD. I commented about “the special communications of the special military operation.” For example, at the same time Putin was speaking like the MOD, he was telling his main bureaucrats agency (I forget the name of it) to get ready to put all the Nazis in Ukraine on trial, as if all of Ukraine were to be occupied.
“By the way, when someone complains about the slowness of Russia’s advance in the Donbass, they come off…”
You have written before that the MOD is not telling the whole story, that how could he, and how could one expect that he would. I remind you that you know the MOD is presenting only half of the story at best. If we go by him, the HIMARS only hit civilians. I think the MOD needs a quick victory in Donetsk to ‘paper over’ things, because he is obviously presenting only partial information. If the “experts” take his word uncritically, they will not be experts anymore because even an expert needs a truthful input (like a doctor needs his patient to tell him the truth about what he feels in order to know how to cure), right?
Regarding the MOD and Donbass as the single military objective (or conquest to be more clear), “demilitarization” can be somewhat harmonized with that because it could refer to bombing all the military installations with missiles and planes, but “denazification” always implies taking over the country. (When Putin told that bureaucrats agency to get ready to put the Nazis on trial, he implied they had to go to Ukraine for evidence gathering.)
We could dig up the fourteen thousand dead Ukrainians killed over the past eight years by, hmm, Ukrainians, and present that evidence. Wait, Russia did. Me personally, I give Russia a wide berth to kill as many neo nazis as needed and to denazify any country it so chooses for harbouring and abetting them.
It’s a family tradition, to go to Europe and kill Nazis. Oddly the only UN countries to openly support Nazis and their ideology are the Ukraine, USA and arse licking Canada. Oh, and forked tongued Brits.
HIMARS only have impact on ammo dumps, and vehicle concentrations, not so much bricks and mortar. Lots of reports of things being destroyed in LDNR ….you want the Russian MOD to report that? Does the Ukrainian MOD publish lists of what Russia blows up?
It’s worth remembering, a signature (as promised) on a piece of paper, and none of this would be happening… unfortunately, you can’t negotiate with Nazi ideology. See: SMO.
Cheers M
“It’s a family tradition, to go to Europe and kill Nazis.”
I can’t visualize it with Putin in charge. With you in charge, sounds like it might be tried.
Do not commit the biggest Nazi mistake (Hitler’s really): To only look at how strong you are and to underestimate human nature once, right or wrong, it perceives that someone sounding like you wants to attack and oppress them. Hitler could never visualize the effect of his actions and words on the spirit of others; it was all about what he wanted to do and could do. Well, the communists in the end were not “communists” per se, but “people” fighting with all their might for all that was dear to them, and the rest of the allied soldiers were also stirred up to a battle for survival itself.
Do you want to “reform” those Europeans with your “family tradition”? Can we discuss the “Russian Winter”? It’s not in Europe to help. In case you don’t know, it helped very much against Napoleon and Hitler. Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel described how the plane’s fuel would freeze during the night if you left it alone, the role of the weather. Have you studied WWI? How the French, British and Germans fought? Didn’t the Germans defeat the Russians in WWI? Didn’t the Japanese also defeat Russians at some other time? You seem to think you’re invincible to do whatever you want…I think nobody is.
Lavrov’s statement was in the context of the food-grain crisis and how the West used it as a means to vilify Russia under false pretext, similar to other actions they have taken in the name of their arbitrary “rules-based order”. So, the “It” he is talking about is that incident and what it represents in terms of relations between countries, not specifically about the SMO (although there are parallels in that regard, too).
“In the process, there was also a decision on the Ukrainian grain locked in the Black Sea ports for more than two months.”
…
“The aggressiveness with which the West addressed this situation, both from the point of view of physical sanctions and the hate speech indicates one very simple conclusion. It is not about Ukraine, but about the future of the world order. Our Western friends stopped using the expression “international law”. They say: “Everybody must support rules-based world order”. And the rules are written depending on what specific situation the West wants to resolve in its own favor.”
Thank you for the context. He has made remarks like this before. He said something similar in an interview about three months ago. I would have to look for the interview here because I can’t quote it from memory; I would guess he was not quite as categorical (might have said “little” instead of “nothing”), but he made the point before. He is the one who takes it beyond Ukraine more than Putin let alone the MOD. He really believes it or sounds like it. The critique is fair. I wish the quote had been too. Amarynth, careful with quotes lest you throw an authority to the pit accidentally.
It’s true about the US. Empire ruined it, just like it ruined old England. Empire has a lot of bad consequences for the host in the long game, for example, the unique national character is forsaken and lost to the imperial character, which is the same character for every empire.
Dimitri Medvedev, 22 february 2022: “German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has issued an order to halt the process of certifying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Well. Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2.000 for 1.000 cubic meters of natural gas!”
26 july, 2022: Dutch TTF futures reach 2000 euro per 1000 cubic meters.
Russia keeps its promises.
Here is some boots on the ground truthful reporting:
https://www.rt.com/russia/559447-zelensky-ignoring-critical-issue/
“Gazprom does not like the paperwork accompanying the Canada-returned gas turbine. And another one is being taken offline. Deliveries via the Nord Stream from July 27 will be no more than 33 million cubic meters per day (against the current maximum of 67 million cubic meters).”
Next Gazprom will be saying how the decrease of natural gas deliveries from 67-million cubic meters to 33-million cubic meters is a good thing. “What? Europe has a problem with a 50-percent off sale?”
Genius. Pure evil genius. Just what this world needed: a better class of evil genius.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joker+this+world+needs+a+better+class+of+criminal&&view=detail&mid=589E3A0E93B424FF449B589E3A0E93B424FF449B&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Djoker%2520this%2520world%2520needs%2520a%2520better%2520class%2520of%2520criminal%26%26FORM%3DVDVVXX
Gasprom has not publicly disclosed its legal reasoning, in deference to professional protocols. I doubt if there’s “evil” intent, but rather protects their interests and reputation against obvious misfeasance from the West.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
1)From bondage to spiritual faith.
2)From spiritual faith to great courage.
3)From courage to liberty.
4)From liberty to abundance.
5)From abundance to selfishness.
6)From selfishness to apathy.
7)From apathy to dependence.
8)From dependence back into bondage.”
-Alexander Fraser Tytler
Notice that many forms of government incur selfishness, not only “democracy.”
Not sure how many self-less oligarchs or privateering monarchs ive ever heard of.
//The Sirius Report, [7/24/22 10:43 AM]
There is an irony lost on the west that ultimately the end of unipolarity will allow the US to become a great nation amongst equals. Unipolarity destroyed everything that once made US a great nation.//
But those were pre-exceptionalism days. The loss of ability to create money out of thin air and lording it over the rest of the world, will not sit easy with the beltway chicken hawks.
Just look at “grate” britain. Even 80 years after their loss of power they still have not gotten over their hangover.
Regards
There is no doubt that the Global government agenda is still been pursued in the West in-spite of Russia and others -who were aware of the project- pulling out of the Global order.
The West is been collapsed deliberately to gain control over every aspect of peoples lives.
Those psychopaths who control the West believe that after the West project is complete then the breakaway group can be split-apart and slowly reeled in over time.
And the sheeple just graze and bleet as they are clipped of their warm coat?
Russia is to withdraw from ISS space station after 2024, Roscosmos chief has told Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.
Here’s an interesting development – Venezuela is giving Iran 1 million hectares of
farmland to farm.
The alliance signed between Venezuela and Iran in June is being called the “Axis of Resistance”.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2022/07/26/2748571/venezuela-provides-iran-with-1-million-hectares-of-farmland
More evidence the people of the Western so-called ‘liberal’ democracies are locked in an information war, ‘cos its not like the Elites would be trying to manipulate us or anything!
In the midst of war, the comedian and wife took time out to pose for the Vogue magazine
https://twitter.com/RussiaUSA/status/1552048013719355393
The Saker interviewed by Sheikh Imran Hosein in 2017. Great interview (24 min.).
“Sheikh Imran Hosein interviews The Saker”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTo5rXDCxw
Do you believe in synchronicity?
I arrived in San Francisco to visit our son and grandson Andrei the day when Andrei resumed his invaluable contributions. And guess what as my grandson starts any conversation. Our son was expecting us with a bottle of Californian wine. And guess what. The wine was called ‘Falkon’s Perch’, a Pinot Noir (my favorite) from Monterey vineyards!
Of course our first visit was to the relics of Saint John of San Francisco!
https://odysee.com/@defeatmodernism:c/defending-the-khazar-thesis-of-the:f
Defending the Khazar Thesis of the Origin of ModernJewry (Ukraine-Khazaria Matthew Johnson, PhD)
Ukraine and the Khazarians