By Batiushka for The Saker Blog There are only two powers in the world…the sword and the spirit. In the long term the sword is always defeated by the spirit – Napoleon Bonaparte Introduction: You Are What You Believe Like the Saker, I have White Russian connections. I know what the generation of my grandparents, adults before the so-called 1917 ‘Revolution’, told me. Then I read a lot about it.
by James Tweedie for the Saker Blog On May 8, when Victory in Europe (VE) Day is celebrated in the West, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told CNN that Russia had “nothing to celebrate” on its own Victory Day on May 9. Her reasoning, faithfully transcribed on the US mission’s website, was that “They have not succeeded in defeating the Ukrainians.” Given that Victory Day and VE
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Posted by Amarynth Kiev cites ‘force majeure’ in Lugansk to halt third of gas flow to Europe, while Gazprom says there have been no issues that would justify the halt. Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom has received no confirmation of force majeure or any obstacles to continued transit of gas through a junction in Lugansk, the company said on Tuesday, after Ukraine’s operator OGTSU announced it would halt further deliveries starting
Subtitled by the Saker Translators. Mariupol citizen explains her feeling about Russia, Ukraine, Victory in Great Patriotic War and her new life. If problems occur with making the below embedded video full-screen, go to this link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/UyWrfnhvkmLO/
A Tokyo post-apocalyptic dystopian walk-through documentary—You need to see this! By Thorsten J Pattberg for the Saker Blog Intro. Elon Musk this week tweeted that Japan is over. Finally an influential person, a billionaire, sheds light on this neurotic nation of dying turtles. I share little sympathy for the Japanese, because they chose 70 US military occupation, 40 years economic decline and childlessness propaganda, and now they are getting
by Roddy Keenan for the Saker Blog As a teacher of history, the topic of Nazi Germany is always one which generates numerous questions from students. How were the Nazis able to convince the public to vote for them? How did they convince the people to go along with their fascist agenda and barbaric policies? How was the Holocaust allowed to take place? Despite discussing the role of propaganda and
Victory Parade on Red Square President of Russia – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 77th anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War. Overall, 11,000 personnel and 131 units of military equipment were engaged in the parade. * * * Address by the President of Russia at the military parade President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!
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Why is the Great Patriotic War such a big deal to the Russians? Over 26 million people of the Soviet Union, 18 million of whom were civilians, – the ultimate sacrifice and the “toll” of Victory. It’s no exaggeration – every family in the post-Soviet countries has relatives or loved ones who served, died, worked on the home front, or was affected by the scariest of wars. Thus, whenever their
Prepared by Saker Staff From the Russian Mod: “Thanks to unprecedented measures taken by the leadership of the Russian Federation, with the active participation of representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Azovstal plant is now complete.” There still are rumors of high level military in the plant but humanitarian corridors are closed. A group of reportedly about
By Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker Blog World War II saw massive political gains by the lower classes and average person, but only via their own mass-murder. Many socio-economic demands which go back to 1789 and which animated the Revolutions of 1848 were put in place, finally. (This is the ninth chapter in a new book, France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values. Please click here for
By Jorge Vilches for the Saker Blog Ursula von der Leyen Cognitive scientists would concur in that the current performance of European leadership could be diagnosed as either myopic ignorance or — most probably — full intellectual blindness. In the case of so far happy-go-lucky Ursula von der Leyen there is no doubt it´d be the latter… but only if we first dismiss her warm on-the-record support for Bundeswehr colonial
by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”. But it’s our fate / To have no place to rest, / As suffering mortals / Blindly fall and vanish / From one hour / To the next, / Like water falling / From cliff to cliff, downward / For
A St George’s Day Contribution by Batiushka for The Saker Blog Introduction: War I am not a technical-military man, but I have very strong military connections and a keen interest in military history, both Russian and Western, and also in geopolitics, having lectured on it. I lived in Soviet Russia in the 1970s, experienced its weaknesses, its strengths and also its hollowness, understanding that it would eventually fall, for even
By Francis Lee for the Saker Blog. Here is a typical political offering from the British centre-left. As follows: ‘’Putin’s war on Ukraine has led to thousands of deaths, upended the world order, and intensified the global energy crisis. At home in Britain, it has led to an outpouring of support for Ukrainian refugees – if not for black and brown people fleeing war and persecution – and provided cover
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A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan. Pakistan is a critical BRI hub in Beijing’s vast Eurasian connectivity project, and it looks like CPEC is the ultimate target of this disruption. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle This is the concise story of how a suicide bombing may carry
For the Saker Blog by Saker Staff Looking back at the bigger picture, i.e., Russia is too slow, and other canards: February 21 president of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree to recognize the independence of the DPR and LPR and promised to support the republics. On February 24, President Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the republics of
