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by Thorsten J Pattberg for the Saker Blog [Transcript] Hello, Dr. Pattberg here at the German Embassy in Tokyo. In this presentation, I would like to pertain to the brutal truth about German-Japanese relations and the painful roles these nations are forced to play in America‘s end game. Introduction. Did you hear that chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Tokyo on Wednesday for a full 20 hours? He wasn’t even on
Gonzalo Lira : commentary on the decree that Vladimir Putin signed as follows: Executive Order on retaliatory special economic measures in connection with unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations The President signed the Executive Order On Imposing Retaliatory Special Economic Measures in Connection with the Unfriendly Actions of Certain Foreign States and International Organisations. May 3, 2022 13:00 This Executive Order was signed in order to protect the national interests of the Russian Federation in response to unfriendly actions, which contradict
Use this open thread to discuss issues related to the Saker Blog but not being discussed in other live threads. All moderation policies are in effect. We have a grind in the Ukraine. It looks like slow and methodical progress is being made but I don’t think this is necessarily bad, except for our own peace of mind. Where most of the non-kinetic work is being done is in restoring
By Batiushka for The Saker Blog On 28 April 2022 President Lukashenko of Belarus spoke of a possible coming together of various independent countries, former Soviet republics, to join the Russian Federation and Belarus in a ‘Union State’. (https://www.reporter.am/the-former-soviet-republics-may-also-be-part-of-the-union-state-lukashenko/). Then, on 3 May President Putin and President Lukashenko discussed the construction of this Union State further. (https://news.mail.ru/politics/51151818/?frommail=1). In 1991 the Soviet Union, the successor of the Russian Empire, suddenly collapsed
by Jorge Vilches for the Saker Blog UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss recently experienced her 15 minutes of glory with a blatant hissy-fit rant policy speech at a London´s Mansion House banquet. She posited that the collective West now needs “a global NATO” to pursue geopolitics anew. Publically, Ms Liz Truss tapped her well-known Rule Britannia Anglo-Saxon exceptionalistic mind-set which now would badly require a much larger “lebensraum”. By the
Original link: http://middleeastobserver.net/nasrallah-to-israel-from-here-on-iran-may-strike-you-back-directly/ Description: Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in a speech on International Quds Day on 29 April 2022, that the Islamic Republic of Iran may strike back directly at the Tel Aviv regime from here on in retaliation for any attacks on Iranian forces in the region. Source: Spot Shot Video (YouTube) Date: May 1, 2022 (Please help MEO keep producing independent translations for you by contributing a sustainable
Source: https://glazev.ru/articles/10-vlast-i-obshhestvo/101493-narod-plokho-ponimaet-chto-proiskhodit Machine Translation and then checked and finessed by the Saker Blog Translators I will try to briefly explain and justify the necessary measures to achieve Victory A special military operation (SVO) revealed a plan prepared in advance by the US power and financial elite to seize power in Russia. It includes the following components and stages. 1. Wear out the Russian armed forces in a war with well-trained
By Višeslav Simić for the Saker Blog Dear X[1], Although a quarter of a century your junior, and much less intellectual and scholarly than you, I dare send you a few counsels and recommendations since I, as a Serb, have the experience with the West about 200 times longer than that which you have encountered of it during the 60-odd days of the Russian Resurrection and the West’s Suicide, started
Michael starts at 23:40 and the transcript will be added to this thread when available. UPDATE: Free part of Transcript: Katie Halper podcast, April 29, 2022 UI: Michael Hudson Free Podcast Date: 4/29/22 Length: 24:55 TRANSCRIPT KATIE HALPER: Professor Michael Hudson, thank you so much for joining us. We’re really excited to have you. We wanted to start off by asking you if you could provide an overview of what
Yuri Podolyaka is an analyst who recently had his channel terminated on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQSxUJb4zH1SEpzNerSLLg) There is an English dubbed unofficial channel version made by one of his subscribers: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY2z16SQZAUlHBxPelmh-Wg/about) He can also be found on VK (https://vk.com/id291496944) and Telegram (https://t.me/informdefense) This transcript is from his Telegram Channel. The translators felt that his presentation style is very fast and will present his more important work in transcript style. Good vs Evil
Use it for Saker Blog related issues not currently being discussed in discussion threads. Don’t use it for a cacophony of complaints. A few notes… : Here is testimony from rescued civilians held by Ukrainian nationalists at Azovstal plant, released by the Russian Mod: The video contains an English soundtrack. https://t.me/mod_russia_en/1293 “…I got the impression that nobody needs us. No one came to our plant, neither the military, nor civilians,
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By Batiushka for the Saker Blog I can make a ten-mile trip in any direction from here and see three or four Ukrainian flags flying, or drooping, according to the wind, in people’s gardens. In that time I may pass by a thousand houses. The percentage of Ukrainian flag-flyers is then very small, certainly much less than 1%. But why do they do it at all? It surely cannot be
When a broken empire warns that “geopolitics is back”, we all know what means Translated for the Saker Blog from the original text in Portuguese from Geopol.pt It is clear that a new world will emerge from the current conflict in Ukraine, but this has been known since the Anglo-Saxon Bretton Woods system was declared bankrupt a good three years ago. So I don’t believe there will be any major
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811569/ Ed Note: This transcript will be completed as it becomes available. Ed Note update: This transcript is now complete. Question: After your statement about the possibility of a nuclear war, of the third world war, the whole world is asking: is there a real risk of that happening? Sergey Lavrov: It looks like by the whole world you mean Western media and politicians. This is not the first time
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker blog Turning to Trotsky to help analyse the Yellow Vests is indispensable not because I am a Trotskyist but because Trotsky is the foremost socialist architect, describer and critic of the actual waging of political revolution. (This is the seventh chapter in a new book, France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values. Please click here for the article which announces this
by Jorge Vilches for the Saker Blog The EU had already promoted and achieved all-around chaos regarding very simple yet absolutely essential trading terms urgently to be agreed with the Russian Federation. As if that were not enough, now adding fuel to the fire EU member countries continue to dangerously play their traditional fiddles while declaring that “ some contracts are holier than others, didn´t you know ? ” This
Western Europeans see the Orthodox and eastern Christians as satraps and a bunch of smugglers, while the Orthodox regard the Crusaders as barbarian usurpers bent on world conquest. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the Author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle Under an ubiquitous, toxic atmosphere of cognitive dissonance drenched in Russophobia, it’s absolutely impossible to have a meaningful discussion on finer points of Russian history and culture across the
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811525/ Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem? Sergey Lavrov: When we talk about the Ukrainian crisis, first of all we need to look at the destructive policy of the Western states conducted over many years and led by the United States, which set a course to knock together a unipolar world order after the
By Mansoureh Tajik for the Saker Blog Today, Palestine is the calibration reference with which people and nations of the world must compare and standardize the accuracy of their beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes with respect to justice, human liberty, dignity, and morality. It is the standard with which they must true-up and adjust their moral and ethical campus. To adjust accurately means to actively fight using all means available (pens,
