While we wait for new input, this is open thread for today.
A few new news items.
Sanctions:
The White House announced a new raft of sanctions on Russian individuals and business – here are the headlines:
▪️Sberbank and Alfa Bank among FULLY sanctioned institutions
▪️Putin’s adult daughters, FM Sergey Lavrov’s wife and daughter, frmr President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
▪️Investment in Russia banned for all Americans and US residents, regardless of their location.
The US Treasury will also announce Thursday a list of “critical major Russian state-owned enterprises,” in order to ban any Americans from doing business with them and freeze their assets subject to US jurisdiction.
Scott Ritter, one of the western truth speakers, Twitter channel yanked – it is no more
Diplomat expulsions are reaching comical levels:
- EU declares 19 employees of Russian Permanent Mission to European Union ‘persona non grata’
- Google removes Russian Defense Ministry website from search results
- Romania expels 10 Russian diplomats
- Slovenia expels 33 Russian diplomats
- Estonia to expel 14 Russian diplomats – closing consulate in Narva and Embassy in Tartu
- Latvia to expel 13 Russian diplomats, close two Russian consulates
- European Union will ban Russian ships from entering EU ports
- Spain to expel ‘around’ 25 Russian diplomats
- Sweden expels 3 Russian diplomats
- Italy expels 30 Russian diplomats
- Germany – 40
- Denmark – 15
The EU’s new Moscow sanctions target coal, fertilizer, machinery – but NOT oil & gas imports
Comment (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1808191/) by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
💬 On April 5, the European Union announced the expulsion of 19 diplomats from the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union in Brussels under far-fetched and groundless pretexts.
We view this step as categorically unacceptable and overtly unfriendly. The EU institutions, which have for some years been systematically demolishing the architecture of Russia-EU cooperation, now demonstrate a clear lack of interest in sustaining normal diplomatic channels of communication with our country.
The EU bears full responsibility for the consequences of this destructive action.
Our response will follow shortly.
Tomorrow as things stand so far, there is a vote in the UNGA to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
Oh yes, almost forgot the important people: EU diplomats failed to agree on a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation and agree on a ban on the import of Russian coal.
Please use as open thread.
Oil gas and other resources need to be stopped to the west!
No “stop”. “Sell in rubles” :)
Отсюда, в Бразилию, я искренне надеюсь, что Россия начнет заряжать все золотом. Все. Тяжелые на момент оплаты и, конечно же, проверив отсутствие вольфрама в слитках…
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From here to Brazil, I sincerely hope that Russia will start to charge everything with gold. Everything. Heavy at the time of payment and, of course, having checked the absence of tungsten in the bullion…
Removing Russia from a UNHRC wich president is Saoud Arabia is a little beat funny no?
MORE EVIDENCE ABOUT BUCHA MASSACRE
The Russian military has been blamed by the Maxar Tecnologies for the massacre in Bucha as early as March 19. Maxar Technologies have released images claime to be proof of the massacre.
Maxar Technologies has several satellites (WorldView-1 32060, WorldView-2 35946, WorldView-3 40115, GeoEye-1 33331).
Only 3 of the satellites were active on March 19, but none of them had a satellite trajectory over Bucha
(watch the second video). https://southfront.org/more-evidence-more-doubts-about-bucha-massacre/
Thus the satellites could not have been taking pictures from Bucha in the claimed time frame.
The question thus arises – when were the Maxar picture taken ? (se the first Video above)
The New York Times published images of dead people lying in the aftermath of a rain downpour.
And so did the 2nd of April drive by video of the claimed massacre.
However, it only rained in Bucha from March 31 to April 1.
So the claim of a March 19 massacre does not match the weather shown in video and pictures.
Also, regarding the March 19 date, look at the position of the shadows from the sun compared to the time stamp.
By using the SunCalc program to compare the angles of the Sun’s declination over the horizon, a study was conducted by a team of OSINT and GEOINT specialists, and they concluded that the image was not taken on March 19, but on April 1 at 11:57 GMT.
This proves what we suspected long time. West controls all data on internet an is able to change it at will.
By revealing inconsistencies we only warn them to be more careful in the future hoaxes. We are leaving hoaxers unharmed and untouched every time they are caught red-handed. This is mistake. Everybody who was involved in such shenanigans must be et least exposed on personal level. Not left to try again and again, more experienced.
They silenced Scott Ritter, right?
(Among countless others).
Already happening, but we need to look more closely at China.
China appears to have imposed “assymetric” sanctions on the West by curbing exports under the guise of covid-lockdowns. There is also some (deliberate?) running aground going on around the World b Chinese cargo ships. The massive ship causing problems in the Cheapsake Bay of the US is the sister ship of the Evergrande which blocked the Suez canal. There are other less public examples of ships running out of fuel and braking down in ports, thereby preventing other ships from docking / leaving.
All of this is textbook “Grey economic Warfare” but totally deniable by Chinese authorities as the ships are independent.
Additionally, China has temporarily hobbled the Shanghai financial centre, further curtailing settlements, payments, and exchanges in the global financial markets.
With regards to the Chinese covid lockdowns which effect millions of people and cause massive economic damage, it is likely the Chinese have calculated this is effecting the west much worse, and is also a lot cheaper than starting a shooting war.
It is likely the timing of US weapons shipments to Taiwan is related to this.
With all wars, but in the west especially, the weakest link in the chain to support a wider war is money – the so called war chest. Both Russia and China are ensuring the west have as small as possible a war chest available to them, and as few as possible raw materials, finished goods, and natural resources.
Logistical experts who are watching this have suggested the West has just 6 to 9 months of food, oil, natural gas, and spare parts available to both support current society and fight a war. In other words the west are running out of time to start a convential war unless they cut thier own citizens off from food and fuel and transfer this to a war chest.
Experts say the latter is the plan – the people of the west will go hungry and cold, and without basic services in order to transfer all available resources to support a wider / longer war. The evidence we see would also seem to support this.
In my opinnion, and that of others who know more than me, NATO is preparing for a big war (conventional and of attrition) and China, Iran, India, and of course Russia (with Uranium giant Kazakstan) are throttling back exports to try and prevent this.
I fully agree, enough is enough, Russia is providing energy to countries who send weapons to kill RU soldiers.
But don’t expect still pro Atlantic kremlin to use this weapon. It would be THE perfect moment for the gas embargo as of mid april and during a few months,they need to fill in their gas reserves storages for next winter.They will capitulate after two or maximum three months as there is NO other solutions left for them.
Even oil, retiring 10 % of world delivery will make brent/wti skyrocket up to at least 200 usd and no more strategic reserves available this time as Brandon already released 66%, they can not risk to release more.
Problems for coal will also appear for very same reason but to a lower extend.
Fertilizers is going to be worldwide genocide/famine mainly for Afri/Asia/Me, but some problems also expected in Europe even…yes in Ukraine…
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/europe-cap-potash-imports-planting-season-begins
But killing arabs, muslims and blacks if ok for Nuland and the EU crowd eventhough they pretend the opposite.
We are still waiting for RU counter sanctions, maybe it is about time no?
I just saw that RU paid 650 millions usd in debts to the US today, are they crazy in Moscow? Feeding your destroyer?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-sends-650-million-bond-payment-rubles-after-us-treasury-blocks-dollar
China demands US/EU to lift all sanctions on RU.They know they are the next.
Is it a joke? Peskov: ” we left Kiev as a good gesture for the negociations’..come on this is beyond ridiculous.
And they left pro Russian being now killed en masse by nazis ukies with no more protection from RU, this is some kind of de facto war crime as well.
RU has simply underastimated UKIES determination to fight, after 8 years of 24/7 brainwashing and terror it was ver easy to forecast.
Not enough forces for this operation this is now clear, once again Peskov recognized it today on French tv LCI.
If Poland Hosts US Nukes, Russia Will Station Nuclear Weapons Along Western Border: Kremlin
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/if-poland-hosts-us-nukes-russia-will-station-nuclear-weapons-along-western-border
Washington Post Admits NATO Wants To Prolong War In Ukraine
Idiot traitor Vucic still wants to join the EU(in fact nato also this is mandatory now in the treaties)
An EU/US embargo on oil will accomplish what the Green Agenda needs, an increase in cost of fossil fuel, and will enable EU/US to blame the Russians. Americans know that their energy shortages can be solved by returning to the Trump policies. But now the Greens/Globalists/oil companies can complicate the narrative.
You think Vucic is an idiot, and a traitor?
Look at Serbia. It got bombed for 78 days when NATO decided to break up Yougoslavia. Serbia is a land-locked country that is surrounded on all sides by NATO and EU countries + the US-colony Kosovo and the EU-colony Bosnia-Herzegovina. EU and NATO want Serbia to join.
How long, do you think, would he remain in power if he just told them plain no? Would they even let him live?
He stood up to Germany and the EU when they pressured Serbia to sanction Russia. That takes courage. His job requires him to do a delicate balancing act. An idiot like the German foreign minister would be unable to do that – and she wasn’t able to pressure him into joining the EU sanctions on Russia. I think he is a patriot – and a realist.
He says Serbia wants to join EU, and NATO. Turkey wanted to join EU for decades, and wasn’t accepted even though it fulfilled all requirements. Was Serbia likewise rebuffed? Did Serbia under Vucic take active steps in the direction of membership?
Apologies Martina but not sure how informed you are regarding Vucic and Serbia as your statements are quite contradictory?
Vucic is a corrupt despot who models his rule on the late Marshal Tito by trying to appease the West and East yet all his policies and actions are inline with the EU-US who tolerate his autocratic rule and background as a nationalist knowing that his existence is reliant on him fulfill the Wests major demands and dictates.
The fact he hasn’t officially joined in sanctioning Russia is of little importance as trade between nations is limited despite favorable conditions existing to allow goods to be sent between both nations and Serbian suppliers have been know to use EU goods to circumvent sanctions only to have them rejected by Russian customs due to poor quality controls.
Despite being a neutral nation, Serbia is a defacto member of NATO as evident by the long list of treaties that have been signed as well as NATO Officers having station within the General Staff and the number of military exercises/training exceeds the few examples of cooperation with Russia or China.
The Civilian-Humanitarian mission from Russia that is based in Nis has yet to receive any political immunity in line with those afforded NATO soldiers due to pressure from the EU-US who fear the existence of this base could be used to house military assets despite its key mission to assist with emergencies and natural disasters.
Talk of joining the EU is a myth as all key officials past and present have expressed reservations with future expansion and the fact Serbia formally refuses to recognize its breakaway province of Kosovo means it cannot join until the Brussels agreements are fully implemented which won’t happen as Kosovo has no plans to offer Serbs any autonomy and the true goal of the West to have Kosovo join the UN won’t happen as Russia and China are opposed – unless the West succeeds in kicking them out in which case we can kiss all norms goodbye!?
Serbia is a lost cause and mirrors that of the majority of former Easter block nations with the only exception being the vast majority of Serbs view NATO as an enemy and Russia as an ally but the ruling elites cling to power fearing reprisals from their paymasters. Modern Serbia is more a kin Ukraine than say Hungary who under Orban has the pride to openly question the EU-US agenda be it on migrants or working with Russia.
How anybody can call Vucic a patriot is insane as the guy is an narcissistically corrupt person who only values his pocket and staying in power!
Serbian 6th column at it’s finest.
Serbian people already gave their opinion about Vucic at the election.
Old-fashion 6th column propaganda model: when Putin deals and calculate with west it is wise politics and when Vucic does the same, he is the traitor.
Slow down, you will soon have the civil war in Serbia that you are so eager for. What is that hurrying for?
It is not our best national interest, like it was not on 27th of March, 70 years ago, but hey, who cares about such thing in Serbia – let’s go to bayonets and show of ourselves bigger Russians than Russians. Not the first time in history.
I do not agree with many policies of Vucic but saying he’s a traitor and Serbia a defacto member of NATO is ridiculous.
Revolution will only bring a bunch of Western puppets to power, while acting like they want us to act will only turn us into a landlocked version of North Korea without the means to defend ourselves (nukes).
Best thing we can get away with is being neutral and implementing some internally focused policies like outlawing abortions and censorship on Western created or financed media of all kind.
But we are an actual colony of the West, let there be no doubt about it. The bad situation and poverty of many around here is a direct result of colonial policies that are focused only on extracting valuable resources we have while investing only the bare minimum necessary to keep things going.
The minority here that actually supports the West is fooling themselves into believing that the West will help us prosper once they are in full control. They wont just like the Third Reich had no plans to let anyone but Germans prosper in the region.
We are just slave labour to them and nothing else.
All due respect but naming me a 6th columnist smacks of desperation and how one can compare Putin to a quisling such as Vucic is beyond comprehension!?
Putin is a true statesmen who doesn’t allow himself or his people to be disrespected whereas your hero Vucic is the laughing stock who attended WWI Anniversary celebrations by being seated in the 4th row and having Kosovo and Croatia front seat guests of Macron, not to mention bragging how he once slept hungry on the floor at Frau Merkel’s abode discussing the treason of Kosovo! Who can forget his crowning achievement gaining a shiny pen from D. Trump and becoming the meme of Maria Zakharova on social media…
Serbia under Vucic resembles North Korea as evident by the daily appearances of the President on every national TV stations despite his function being a ceremonial one, as well as the fact that Serbia’s parliament has no meaningful opposition with legislation passed without debate to the command of the bell from the House Speaker, Dacic. Serbs know this too well which is why little voter turnout as the reality is that Serbia is occupied with no real salvation from inside as all opposition is compromised or too weak!
I’ll leave the mumblings about civil war and 27th of March as those interested can research that fateful date but little has changed since then with the same puppet masters pulling the strings and as for bayonets and showing ourselves as bigger Russians…???
Its true much like in Russia there exists a 5th/6th column in Serbia that would happily sell itself to appease the West and much damage was done since 2000 but that doesn’t exonerate Vucic from his destructive policies.
Was it not Ambassador Konuzin who prophetically said in 2011 having famously walked out of the Belgrade Security Forum in disgust:
“I’m confused. NATO, KFOR and EULEX plan to bring Kosovo customs officers to the crossings in the north of Kosovo, thus violating their mandate, Resolution 1244 and the decision of the UN Security Council from 2008, and not a single question was asked from the audience on that topic. Are there any Serbs in this audience, do you care about the fate of your compatriots?”
Later remarking on criticism that Russia only acts in Serbia for its own reasons:
“Tell me what interests the Russian volunteers had when they came to fight with you. Russia has interests. And who doesn’t have them? We are investing in your country, although some Serbs want to put your country under foreign control. We have interests, but our interests coincide with yours.”
Only to be echoed later by Chepurin and Lavrov who remarked:
“We cannot be bigger Serbs than Serbs!”
after Vucic and Dacic signed the criminal Brussels Agreements with the EU and Kosovo circumventing UN SC Resolution 1244 where Russian and China guarantee Serbia’s full sovereignty and integrity thanks to veto powers earned post WWII…
So, in essence, Vucic is, in actuality a modern Vuk Brankovic. Maybe he should change his name to Vukic.
Vucic is trying to thread the needle. Belgrade needs to slow roll Brussels and Washington, otherwise Serbia will get bombed again. Its a delicate balancing act to be neutral these days.
If Serbia is a defacto member of NATO then why is it still an “observer” member of CSTO?
Being an ”observer member” of the CTSO is wonderful but you should really be asking the question why doesn’t Serbia push for closer ties with this organisation and please spare me the excuse that Serbia seeks neutrality as this is bogus and dishonest.
A quick read of NATO’s own website and that from Serbia’s own Ministry of Defence documents all the commitments and agreements undertaken since late 2006 to integrate Serbia’s Armed Forces into NATO’s sphere, much like happened with Ukraine.
https://www.mod.gov.rs/lat/4358/partnerstvo-za-mir-4358
https://www.nato.int/cps/uk/natohq/topics_50100.htm?selectedLocale=en
https://jfcnaples.nato.int/systems/file_download.ashx?pg=7028&ver=1
https://www.vreme.com/vreme/saradnja-koja-se-precutkuje/
I don’t envy the difficult position Vucic faces as the EU expects him to slap Russia with sanctions but since Serbia is highly reliant on Russian energy and gas this is near impossible so now that the recent elections are over why not join your partners and allies and vote against Russia for a second time in the United Nations since you can’t be seen as openly hostile against friendly Russia?
Sure you tell the Z wearing Serbian patriots who you duped into voting for you it was because of threats of sanctions but in truth all you’re doing is trying not to get in-between the big players slugging it out but why not just obtain and join the silent minority? What justification for sanctioning Belarus last year after Batko Lukashenko sent us military hardware and showwed us solidarity in 1999 during NATO’s Air Campaign…?
Vucic is more befitting his true nick name Musliu as the Kosovo Albanians are indebted to him for signing the Brussels and Washington Agreements ceding Serbian sovereignty over its breakaway province of Kosovo Metohija, as opposed to prince Vuk Brankovic who folk law had mistaken for a traitor on the Kosovo Plain in 1389 AD, despite history teaching us that he gallantly defended his realm another few years until succumbing to the Ottoman Turks who held him captive until his death around 1397 AD.
No “stop”. Next step => “Sell in GOLD only” :)
” Gold only”
That would be very stupid.
Zero Hedge has fried everybody’s brain with their Austrian economists nonsense.
May I suggest you read – Price of peace, Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zach Carter.
Covers that last 150 years beautifully.
Clearly, someone who thinks that Austrian economics is nonsense doesn’t understand economics.
There just isn’t enough gold in existence to run an economy on it and expand it. You could just as well propose to run your economy on Bitcoin.
Sure, there is, as long as prices are allowed to move, and they are. You don’t need “more dollars” to accommodate a “growing” economy, as long as prices are allowed to move, and they are.
Von Mises was no more than a crackpot “economist”. In his day, he could not even get a job in his field. From a great distance, anyone can see that he was a crackpot because he claimed it was impossible to every borrow money for productive purposes and then be able to pay the loan back. The great postwar boom post-1945 proved he was merely a crackpot.
Then the Swedish Central Bank pulled a trick. Around 1969, the Swedish Central Bank bribed the Nobel Prize administrators into allowing a so-called “Nobel Prize Associated” “Nobel Prize in Economics”. Of course, the Swedish Central Bank decides who gets the award. The bribe was only one million dollars a year, which is chump change for the power and prestige it gave the Bank. About two years later, the Swedish Central Bank gave this prize to Von Mises, which plucked him up out of the gutter. The crackpot theory serves Central Bank purposes quite well because it can justify “turning off the tap” of money creation, thus making those who hold the money even more powerful. If you think the Swedish Central Bank is just some semi-noble band of financiers, or motivated by profits, you should learn that this Bank threw away 50 or 60 million Euros to chase the Russians out of Latvia. This is well documented, but Dr. Michael Hudson wrote about this. After the breakup of the USSR, Latvia had Soviet era industries that were naturally connected with industries in Russia. The same as in all post-Soviet societies, there was no debt on the real estate. Latvians could buy their apartments and houses for a few thousand dollars from the state. If they had or could borrow the money. From the beginning, two basic things were clear. (1) This real estate would have a major boom, as prices rose to a level around Helsinki’s, but at some discount. (2) The Soviet-era industries were intentionally demolished and abandoned by Latvia’s new power brokers in Sweden and Germany. In the longer run, Latvia would be left without any export earnings, and this real estate would become relatively worthless because people could not pay the mortgages. (3) But until “the chickens came home to roost”, Latvia could have a building boom and relatively full employment. This was the broad long-term picture, and central banks are very competent with understanding such a large scale. So the Swedish Central Bank knew that at the end of the boom, they would suffer huge losses – and they did not care. The big loss 20 years later, was just the price to pay to break up the Soviet-era industries. Of course Latvia was devasted. The vast majority of Latvla’s able-bodied workers had to leave the country to find work in the EU. 90% of the hospitals and clinics were shut down because there was no tax base for funding. Importantly for the Swedes and their hatred of Russia, that shut-down of economic ties with Russia made it easier to ban Russian-ethnicity people from having Latvian citizenship. So you could say the Central Bank enabled a nationalism which has fascism hidden behind it.
Anyway, the Austrian School of Economics is crackpot. I would not say that of any other economic theory. Most ideologies are useful over a certain range of circumstances. The only way these crackpots have value is if the governments are hopelessly corrupt and/or incompetent. If that were the case, then sane people would try to get better government, but the Austrian School crackpots would say, “Why bother, because no government can ever make investments that pay off” So can you see this is never anything but a toxic ideology ?
No, this will lead to real pain (no heating, insane food prices, hunger) to people living in the EU.
If the EU leadership would do it then people would have reason to take the streets and revolt. If Russia does it then whom are they gonna be angry with? With Russia.
I do not doubt that the EU wants this to happen, but they want Russia to be the cause of this, not themselves.
While US EU might like to have a war on Russia It is extremely unlikely they could even begin to start a real war on Russia. Economic and political attacks yes. Kinetic??? I doubt it. Without a us first strike nuke attack there is little else they could do to over whelm Russia. The pentagon seems to want to avoid nuclear war. Civilian leadership would likely go for it. It would take months to move enough is resources to Europe to attack Russia. Dial down the panic talk. They send energy because they do not believe they will be attacked.
It seems to me the Russian leadership sees this as political economic war with nato. Kinetic war is limited to Ukraine. If they felt war with nato was imminent the fuel would stop going west.
My impression is If the US/NATO are going to attack Russia it can only be with their strength.
Relative to Russia the West is seemingly strong or stronger only in biological warfare.
Therefore look out for a biological attack that criples Russia – or tries to, without blowback to the west.
Exactly. Russia should shut it off on their terms. They need to divorce Europe which is going to be a wasteland anyways.
Wouldn’t laying Europe to waste allow the USA (the root cause of these conflicts) to profit from Europe’s destruction and subsidize the USA’s future aggression towards Russia?
Sicuramente è una mia ossessione,
Ma non capisco perché, nonostante tutto, la Russia non taglia tutte le forniture di gas petrolio e metalli oltre ai fertilizzanti all’Europa e paesi ostili,
Permettere al tuo nemico di continuare a prosperare quando lui cerca di sopprimerti lo trovo quantomeno incomprensibile, anzi, deleterio
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Surely this is an obsession of mine,
But I don’t understand why, in spite of everything, Russia doesn’t cut off all supplies of gas oil and metals as well as fertilizers to Europe and hostile countries,
Allowing your enemy to continue to prosper when he is trying to suppress you I find it at least incomprehensible, indeed, detrimental
Gas- petrolio e tutti i suoi derivati
Russia doesn’t do things on emotions, it amazes me that people haven’t learn this up to this day..VVP and his people plan things with results that are beneficial to Russia,they do thing in a calculated manner..
Here’s why :
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/putin-may-collect-321-billion-windfall-if-oil-gas-keep-flowing?cmpid=BBD040422_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=220404&utm_campaign=nef&sref=Fbhig0fX
Tip: When you want to post a URL, the “?” And everything following is tracking information that can be safely deleted. As in: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/putin-may-collect-321-billion-windfall-if-oil-gas-keep-flowing
Not only does this avoid a lot of clutter and usually clarify what the linked article is about, but anybody who clicks on your link will be identified as coming from your email address, which confuses everybody and doesn’t do much for your Internet “privacy”.
Really think privacy even exists – some blackhats I know would make you paranoid :-)
@ Philalethes
Thank you for the tip.
Russia need the revenue, EU need the oil and gas. I guess its not that easy to get rid of oil and gas predisposed to EU.
It seems US/EU’s only and last chance to continue a vampire’s parasite and debt life on 1’st luxury class is to conquer Russia. Then their -$250 trillion derivative debt can be cancelled.
With Russia in the leader seat and the fat lamb China to back up, US/EU are condemned to Gulag camps to pay off their gigantic derivative debt the next many decades…………………………..LOL.
I believe Russia will proceed in a measured way, and that may become an option.
The fall of the EUfools must be proven to be their own folly. Then they might realise the truth of VVP saying ” do not you realise what you have done”.
So hopefully there might be a total psychiatric catharsis amongst these self delusional believers so wilfully falling into the sucker in schemes of the Ukraine.. Z…give us more more and in return you get a new hero compared with EU spineless jabberwockies….and second coming righteousness of american politics.
I believe that the pseudo-elites in the collective west are now in the Gadarene swine stage and headed for the precipice. They are suicidal in every sense of the word and evince all the marks of collective demonic possession.
Even an agnostic of good will ought to acknowledge the current manifestation of real, diabolical evil.
It’s part of why over the last 15 years I migrated from agnosticism to belief, my perception of demonic true evil.
You’re the Dutchman hovering at MoA? or a different one?
Yes I’ve been posting there on and off. Usually doesn’t seem to be much point but the business about the “negotiators” proclaiming how they gave up positions and sold out friendly civilians in order to prove some kind of bona fides to Zelensky got me riled up.
Indeed.
The more true evil is ascendant in the western world, all the more it drives those souls of good will who despise it and struggle against it more and more towards the light and truth of the Divine Logos.
@ Flying Dutchman
“… demonic true evil.”
The tautological contagion is spreading… Just getting some fun in this jittery days…
Can I add to the tautology, parfois? Demonic true leftist evil.
excellent analogy, ty Mulegino 1 (Gadarene swine stage)
Thanks.
As extraordinary as it seems, more and more people that I am in touch with are acknowledging the demonic state of the western pseudo-elites.
There seems to be a coalescence of evil, insanity and incompetence which is not of natural origin. It looks like a spiritual battle as St. Paul described in his epistle to the Ephesians, and it seems as if Russia- with all its faults and failings- is rallying forces to the banner of authentic spirituality, traditional society, and the laws of nature in opposition to the agenda of Antichrist.
And speaking of the supernatural, I believe we were even given a supernatural warning that the evil empire is coming to an end.
Many of us who believe in God voted for Trump on the chance that he might actually do something to hinder the agenda of the evil empire, even if by accident, or at least, he hopefully wouldn’t be as bad as Clinton.
But we were deceived by Trump.
Anyway, if “America” is the Biblical “Mystery Babylon,” which I believe it is (as it is the nation which hosts and empowers a “government” that’s become an “image of the beast”), then we may get a warning from God similar to the warning that ancient Babylon got in the form of the “writing on the wall” (Daniel 5:5) during king Belshazzar’s “feast.”
I believe that warning came in the evening of Jan. 20, 2017, Inauguration Day, when king Trump was attending a “feast”; i.e. while Trump was at one of the inaugural balls.
While Trump was at the inaugural “feast,” the evening “Win 4” lottery number in his home state of NY came up “6666” (you can check it out at the below link).
What is the significance of this number? It is apparently the design height of the Washington Monument (in inches). I believe the Washington Monument is symbolic of the office of president of the U.S. (apparently the second beast of Rev 13). I believe it was a message telling us that the evil empire has gone as far as it’s going to go, and it’s only down from that point. At the time, I took it as proof that the second beast of Rev 13 is indeed the office of president of the U.S. And I took it to mean that Trump would betray the Christians and others who voted for him and that the U.S. would continue on the path to destruction that was already so obvious during Obama’s term
https://www.nylottery.org/win-4/past-winning-numbers/2017
very proper and powerful description. will travel the world. already did. ;-)
“I believe that the pseudo-elites in the collective west are now in the Gadarene swine stage and headed for the precipice. They are suicidal in every sense of the word and evince all the marks of collective demonic possession.”
Exactly. And from the below linked survey and recent personal experience, it seems it’s not just the pseudo-elite who are so affected, but a significant portion of the masses.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/15/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-u-s-response-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
At first I found it hard to believe that “35% (of U.S. adults) favor U.S. military action even if it risks nuclear conflict with Russia”…until I talked to a few friends and acquaintances about it. That so many people can be in favor of their own destruction or so blind as to not see what’s going on here seems to be a supernatural thing.
@ Mulegino
“… diabolical evil.”
I like the tautological emphasis. Deliberate or accidental? Not nitpicking…
I saw the first report of this yesterday. It should be possible to confirm it, or easily possible to refute it. It is from Veterans Today, which has a long history of countering US government claims (but not a history of perfect accuracy).
Total News Blackout: US General Captured Leading Azov Nazis in Mariupol (confirmations coming in)
Our sources on the ground report that the last two helicopters trying to evacuate foreign VIPs from Mariupol were shot down this morning. They were sent on a suicide mission to collect Lt.General Coultier, who was, we are told, hiding in a huge industrial complex with some Special Forces staffers and about 30 Ukrainian Army, not Azov, soldiers.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/05/blockbuster-us-3-star-general-captured-leading-azov-nazis-in-mariupol-unconfirmed/
But the all ‘nato azofstat’ buzz is much more serious than Nato vips on site it is about giant biolabs (same in Berdyansk).
Have we found NATO General SARS and General MERS in Azovstal? Conflicting reports about NATO General getting out of Azovstal before it was captured by Russians.
Azovstal, Ukraine siege near Mariupol supposedly has a bioagents cache called “the Hole” or the “404”.
Cloutier was AFRICOM until very recently. Remember Libya and Syria bios with SARS and MERS? He commands the French NATO units in Azovstal. He probably got out on a sub. No risking to top brass with choppers.
Cloutier Corp may have purchased old Soviet bioweapons and moved them to Ukraine in 2005.
Not trying to take a victory lap here, but we said Putin was after the bioagent testing port of Mariupol from the start. I believe Berdyansk is the other where Ukraine was speedily building their new Navy base. February 25th!
We know Putin’s “trigger” biolab was Kharkiv in the North. What was Putin’s “trigger” biolab in the South? Azovstal vs Berdyansk? Pepe Escobar says Azovstal. I still am sticking with Berdyansk, British Navy and MI6 sea drone play pen.
https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1
Remember…
“Conspiracy theorist”
A derogatory term used by the establishment to ridicule people whose views are alarmingly close to the truth.
Ukraine is preparing another provocation: on the territory of the Khimprom production association, the SBU mined a storage facility with 120 tons of chlorine, it is planned to blow it up to accuse Russia of creating a chemical disaster – Russian DM
He [Coulter} probably got out on a sub. No risking to top brass with choppers.
I doubt it. The Azov Sea is only 46 feet deep in the center. Around Mariupol and under the Kerch Strait, it’s really shallow. Here’s a map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Azov#/media/File:AzovseaNASA2.jpg I don’t think the Ukies hold any of the shorel now. The only way big ships get in, is through channels dredged in the seabed. So if it was a submarine, it would be a midget submarine with riders using SCUBA gear. It’s not impossible, but not likely.
I have a friend-of-a-friend confirmation that Coultier was captured and the Pentagram is “red-faced”.
What can they give Russia in trade?
We might presume that Russia can discreetly keep a secret about all this as part of the deal.
What can they give Russia in trade?
Unrestricted access to Fort Detrick including all records?
Hmm, I think the US would pass on that one. I’m salivating to see him on trial at the war tribunal though …
The other thing is that if he is indeed captured, he would constitute a priori evidence of full US combattant participation in the war, and provide untouchable casus belli for Russia to destroy any and whatever NATO and US assets they desire. Remember President Putin’s proposals for new security arrangements? Those demands have not yet been fulfilled, and certainly won’t be voluntarily. Once the Ukraine operation has been tied up, THAT’s when payback time comes for Cloutier and/or his ilk, if indeed captured. Secret exchange with the US would negate that value.
Please let that be true.
I used to write for them, stopped when they started a series on the ‘Super Secret Alien Space Wars’ – I kid you not.
I suggest take anything they write with a very large dose of salt and vet it very thoroughly.
– ‘Super Secret Alien Space Wars’
Since Media is telling nothing we can conclude a war in space must be a secret war.
Will it be a war between US and Russia. Hardly? it will be some others.
Are there aliens around? Sure.
‘TR-3B’ is alien technology – now used by us to create UFOs https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/927399/UFO-black-projects-TR-3B-triangle-UFO
Cosplay Killmore is on the case!
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/ukieland-is-new-afghanistan-american.html
If the Russian government has not already done so, sanctions need to placed on:
*George Soros
*ALL Rothschilds
*Entire Biden regime
*Bill Gates
*Sundar Pichai
*Jack Dorsey
*Mark Zuckerberg
*Sheryl Sandberg
*Entire MIC of all NATO countries
*Royal families of UK, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, and all other European countries with
wannabe godsroyals*IOC
*Catholic church
Moscow should also ban all uranium * petroleum exports to NATO & their collaborators
stopping oil/gas exports is not a good idea. The west could pressure arab puppet sheikdoms to replace any shortfalls. Better is to sell oil/gas for ruble backed by gold. That should break the back of the global dollar mafia.
I think Europe will make an embargo. At least in Germany you can see people on the street who are literally begging to freeze, sit in the dark and ruin the economy. I think the Führer Scholz will get through this, he said today that Russia should not win the war.
It is impossible Maskazer. About natgas, even Qatar said it is only possible to replace 5 % of Russian gas.
There is well a partial solution( for maybe 10-15%?), sign the jcpoa with Iran though capitulate de facto, but even Iran would need months at least to repair and check the gas infra as under embargo for 30 years now.
Even counting some US Lng we are still not reaching 30 %, at least immediately. Building ships and port infra even working 24/7 non stop would take years (between 2 at best or 3).
Germany and a good 20 EU countries would be ruined before.
About oil it is easier to replace RU oil but not 100% by far and RU produces very specific type of heavy oil absolutely essential for the West(reason why the US is still buying RU oil). Here the solution would be for the US/EU to lift all sanctions (+ refund all cash and gold + assets seized) of Iran and Venezuela.
But before the midterms two very strong lobbies will not allow that to happen: the zio neocon lobby as Israel will never tolerate this for Iran(we all know they are the real US neocons/Deep state) and the GOP wich is anti Venezuela for electoral reasons.
Check D Orlov blog for detailled and technical explanations about natgas.
Europe has no alternative to Russian natural gas
https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/europe-has-no-alternative-to-russian-natural-gas/
honest question: usa is still buying russian oil, supposedly it’s paying in rubles…why isn’t this reported? i haven’t found any mention of it. thank you.
USA wants to protect its “tough guy” image; without it the USA loses the propaganda war. In other words, bluffing and lying are the only tools remaining in Uncle Scam’s toolkit. (Forget about nuclear weapons, because even the narcissists in Washington want to live and know full well the Russian counter-strike would annihilate them.)
The most brilliant thing about Russia’s oil-for-rubles/gold policy is the combination of (1) the distinction between “friendly countries”=Global South and “unfriendly countries”=the chief global exploiters; (2) requiring “unfriendly countries” to buy oil/gas/fertilisers etc in rubles/gold; and (3) the Russian central bank offering to buy gold at a fixed rate of 5000 Rubles/gram.
I wrote a detailed comment about it in one of the Michael Hudson threads here, but very briefly, since all the Global South countries have a competitive edge over the “unfriendly countries” in that they can use their own currencies (without being tied to uncompetitive exchange rates, unlike the EU), this could be used to cause a global reset of currency exchange rates between friendly countries and unfriendly countries, to the advantage of the former. Whereas in the old financial system the cards were stacked heavily against the Global South and any countries the US does not like, under the new financial system the tables will be precisely reversed – all unfriendly countries have to pay a premium for resources, while Global South countries will get them cheaper (firstly because they have the competitive advantage to buy Russian commodities at advantageous exchange rates using their own currencies, and subsequently because the global exchange rates will change (friendly vs unfriendly) to reflect that competitive advantage.
Furthermore, the Global South have dollar denominated debts – those debts will be devalued by the rebalancing of global exchange rates, making the dollar debts cheaper to service for the friendly countries. What happens to the Euros and dollars when EU/US buys oil/gas? The Global South can in effect use them to service their dollar/Euro debts more cheaply, thereby cycling them back to the EU/US.
That’s why when people talk about famine and increased poverty in the Global South, this in my opinion is not necessarily true (but it still depends how the Russians implement their policies). What is expensive to the West need not be [so] expensive to the Global South, if they have a competitive advantage in the purchase and sale of resources. Whereas before all commodity markets were manipulated by the West, in the new financial order they will be controlled by the East and will be non-financialised (which benefits all producer countries i.e. almost all of the Global South).
The State Bank gold purchase option is important because it enables Russia to tweak the value of the Ruble against gold and balance supply and demand, while supporting the competitive advantage of friendly countries over unfriendly countries. According to whether it is cheaper to buy gas using rubles or gold, will balance out the flows into and out of rubles and gold. Russia can tweak the Ruble/gold exchange rate as required simply by periodically adjusting the offered price at which the State Bank is willing to buy gold.
I don’t know whether Russia will implement it in this way, of course, but if my assumptions are correct it is win-win all the way for Russia, China and all commodity producer countries/raw material resource countries (most of the Global South).
Acredito que em breve a peregrinação de diplomatas a Moscou terá início e alguns países hostis serão poupados do rompimento de relações diplomáticas por esse motivo. Meu sonho…
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Deepl-translate from MOdL
I believe that soon the pilgrimage of diplomats to Moscow will begin and some hostile countries will be spared from breaking off diplomatic relations for this reason. My dream…
The US has succeeded in uniting Asia minus the usual US colonies. An astounding achievement.
My sentiment also. I can hardly believe what I see.
I knew the west was on it’s last leg- but to witness this – I feel like Anna in Luke chapter 2.
They themselves supply Ukraine with weapons in huge quantities and they themselves say that the war will be long:
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff claims that the conflict over Ukraine can be very long, lasting for years.
Ruble at 79 versus USD (+3.45%) and 86 versus euro(same level as before the war).
Psychopath neocon Nuland ‘tour’ in Europe, to destroy…EU
BREAKING NEWS: US State department officials leak that when asked about potential starvation in the EU due to the Russia sanctions Victoria Nuland responded “and what part of that is a bad thing?”
@ Warison
She may be a moronic idiot, but she is a consistent one, as in “fuck the EU” 8 years ago.
But it should also be obvious to everyone (save the EU arselicking elite) that by fanning and fueling the fire of war, the Hegemon kills two birds with one stone – Russia and EU – so he thinks. He is fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian now and will do so to the last European too.
Iron Curtain 2.0 will last many years possibly decades. The implications are profound.
Further Sanctions:
EU has decided to impose 5th round of (2022) sanctions on Russia. A statement released yesterday mentioned the following six points:
“ This fifth package has six pillars. First, we will impose an import ban on coal from Russia, worth EUR 4 billion per year. This will cut another important revenue source for Russia.
Second: a full transaction ban on four key Russian banks, among them VTB, the second largest Russian bank. These four banks, which we now totally cut off from the markets, represent 23% of market share in the Russian banking sector. This will further weaken Russia’s financial system.
Third: a ban on Russian vessels and Russian-operated vessels from accessing EU ports. Certain exemptions will cover essentials, such as agricultural and food products, humanitarian aid as well as energy. Additionally, we will propose a ban on Russian and Belarusian road transport operators. This ban will drastically limit the options for the Russian industry to obtain key goods.
Fourth: further targeted export bans, worth EUR 10 billion, in areas in which Russia is vulnerable. This includes, for example, quantum computers and advanced semiconductors, but also sensitive machinery and transportation equipment. With this, we will continue to degrade Russia’s technological base and industrial capacity.
Fifth: specific new import bans, worth EUR 5.5 billion, to cut the money stream of Russia and its oligarchs, on products from wood to cement, from seafood to liquor. In doing this, we also close loopholes between Russia and Belarus.
Sixth: We take a number of very targeted measures, such as a general EU ban on participation of Russian companies in public procurement in Member States, or an exclusion of all financial support, be it European or national, to Russian public bodies. Because European tax money should not go to Russia in whatever shape or form.
Finally, we are also proposing further listings of individuals, which HR/VP, Josep Borrell, will explain to you. But this is not all. We are working on additional sanctions, including on oil imports, and we are reflecting on some of the ideas presented by the Member States, such as taxes or specific payment channels such as an escrow account…”
Any school boy would be able to understand that by snapping ALL commercial and financial ties with Russia, EU is committing suicide – because Russia has ABUNDANCE of coal, oil, gas, exotic minerals, fertilizers, food-grains while EU has NO RESOURCES in their land. Their Zionist masters (primarily based in UK and USA) wanted to destroy Europe’s industry, and SMO in Ukraine gave the Zionist-Capitalist cabal much-awaited opportunity!
Russian government may help EU in committing its suicide by cutting off all energy and fertilizer supply to EU, USA, UK while maintaining such supply to Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia (after giving them a notice 1 month in advance).
Russian SMO:
Like other netizens I’m also getting information on SMO from various websites – The Saker and Martyanov, primarily. So it’s difficult to comment on final objective of Russian SMO.
However, a point or two can be made:
(1) If Russian military doesn’t completely denazify and demilitarise (i) Dneiper Left Bank from Belorussian border upto Dnipropetrovsk, and (ii) Dneiper both sides Dnipropetrovsk onwards upto Moldovia border, it will be a monumental blunder – because within next 6 – 8 years, places like Sumi, Kharkiv, and Odessa will become Nazi centres with NATO banner
(2) Russia should mobilize another 50,000 troops and get a sizeable Belorussian detachment to reinforce the existing teams
About EU sanctions you are right they have zero ressources in the EU(Eu is a big Disneyland in fact with an economy based mainly on services, except…in Germany).Worse for them they are now totally dependent on the US junta(but they love to be prostitutes it pays the unelected ‘elites’ a lot).They are also very dependent on China for low to medium costs products trade.
Russia is 90 independent and the 10 % missing will come from China/India.
But believe me I know these eurocrats very well as I live in the zone A area(not far from them). They will double down even if it goes to the eco suicide of the people and their remaining(not many)industries, which is even more suicidal as they will collect less taxes,IR, VAT etc..it will cost them billions to pay unemployed people, they will then have bank defaults of people losing jobs+ revenue, not to forget millions of banderists ‘refugees’. If we count the losses due to their sanctions, the increase in energy costs, the lost of competitivity, companies bankruptcies etc etc..for just one year we evaluate at 500 billions total losses for EU countries which are almost all(worse even with the c19 lockdowns)with levels of debts/gdp between 100 and up to 245 % for Greece. UK is at 115 %. At least they(UK) are not in the euro they can devaluate the GBP.
Let’s say the ‘crisis/war’ lasts 5 years without lifting any sanction, it will cost them between 3 and 4 trillions euros, if no Wall Street krach happens(otherwise much more), and WS Great reset krach is very near(probable real reason for the war and maybe covid?), as the Fed is about to increase the rates(at least try)6 times in 2022 only, to try to beat a double digit inflation. Normaly stocks and then housing prices should collapse as the mother of all bubbles finaly implodes.
I doubt it will happen before the miderms except if they use Brandon as zombie puppet to do it.
Putin is the perfect scapegoat(they already started to call inflation here : ‘Putin inflation from hell’.
I tend to conclude Ukraine was more important for deep state than we understand.
The plan was presumable to create a nuclear Ukraine, flooded with bioweapons, and then take down Russia.
As is well known, President Putin has made clear that if there is any military attack on Russia, the retaliation will be against the decision makers, i.e. USA. Exactly the same principle should apply to sanctions: the USA is the root cause and decision maker of the sanctions, and the intended beneficiary, while the EU is the primary intended victim from the US point of view.
Therefore – despite the disgusting hatred and puke coming from the EU – strategically President Putin should use his response to the sanctions to cripple the USA more than the EU (prohibited critical exports, cripple US ability to exploit the losses of the EU, etc).
Since the US is the root cause of the sanctions, it makes no sense to reinforce that behaviour by allowing the US to profit from the sanctions by profiting from the EU’s loss. Furthermore, by allowing the US to profit from the destruction of the EU, Russia would be further enabling and subsidising the US’s future aggression towards Russia.
I couldn’t have said that better myself, frankly.
Many here and elsewhere have drawn a fine line between the cruel, savage USA and the civilized Russia. The impression I’ve always gotten then and now is that Russia would never be so barbaric as to cause harm to the civilian populations in Western nations, instead rightfully aiming for the elites who work against said populations’ interests.
Now, I can understand if the intention behind Russia temporarily cutting the gas to Europe were to motivate the civilians in Europe to rebel against their governments. In theory, maybe. But in practice, it’s doubtful – will the average citizens still see Russia as a beacon of morality and likewise overthrow their USian puppets accordingly, or will their opinions of Russia become sour enough to discourage them from the same?
All I know is, even during the worst times of the Cold War, Soviet Russia did not stop providing Europe with gas, let alone out of spite – they remained as reliable a supplier as ever.
Come to think of it, in your opinion, to which degree would the disgusting Russophobic hatred and puke coming from the EU be diminished once they abandon the USA? (Unless the EU were to split up afterward)
Yes, many are now calling for Russia to turn off the gas tap. But Putin will not do that. Because that would be exactly what the EU wants! The EU has Klaus Schwab lemmings in every government. They all want the Great Reset and are pushing for it with full force. Means, the industry and the economy completely destroy. Therefore, they have provoked the war in Ukraine. Incl. the USA. They want Putin to complete the work. But Putin will not fall into this trap. If anything, let them sanction oil and gas themselves. He does not want to take the blame for the complete collapse. He is also not interested in the EU destroying itself completely. It should hurt a little, but not destroy.
Yes, I can imagine that in 1-2 months at the latest the EU itself will close the gas tap. But then every European will see that their own governments are to blame. That would still be the last rescue before we drive completely into the Great Reset.
What Putin must do now is not to wage a long war in Ukraine, but to create facts and a victory very quickly. If necessary, more troops must go in and then destroy the Eastern Army quickly and efficiently. Working for a long time here harms Russia much more. Then occupy the east and proclaim its own state. Leave the West to the EU. But the war must end in Ukraine and victory must come. Otherwise Russia is finished and Putin too. After that, he can negotiate or raise the iron curtain and say goodbye to the West completely. Later, he still has to solve the problems with NATO, but he will have plans for that. Or the EU will have no more money to keep feeding NATO like this. Let’s hope for the best.
And yes, about the fake massacre. Cui Bono? The Yanks, of course. The EU imposes sanctions and the Biolabs are completely out of the headlines in the whole value west! How convenient. And Russia will have to leave the UN. That is certain for me. They will blackmail the necessary number of countries.
And yes, I am more and more ashamed to be a citizen of the Values West. Should have emigrated earlier! Abominable! Feel today as if I live in enemy country!
According to the Russian MoD everything is going according to plan. Russia continues to transport military vehicles by train to launch the offensive in eastern Ukraine, which will eliminate the rest of the Azor militias that are crowded into the port area in Mariupol.
Moreover, there are reports that 30 Russian tank divisions are already on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border waiting for the second phase of operations to be launched.
30 Armoured Divisions are more Armour than all the worlds militaries put together today. You might want to double check that :)
The UK military would be dismantled overnight in case of a war, maybe they want a war but just like the Americans they do not wish to fight it, that task will be down to the Europeans and to be honest they have proved themselves to be dismal cowards, bending over to be destroyed to save the US who expect to drive into town (over all of the dead bodies of Europeans) when the fighting is done and proclaim victory. It will not play out like this though. Russia can destroy troops with hypersonics, they will not be demilitarizing Europe, just de-manning them, you can’t fight a war without soldiers, Russia will not be fighting a special operation, they will fight total war and in America too. Once the US start losing entire battle carrier groups in the Atlantic the danger is that they will go nuclear but then who wants to live in a world without Russia.
It’s not going to end with diplomatic handshakes and courteous toasts at a formal banquet.
This is the direction in which things are trending:
EU takes nuclear protection measures, amid safety worries
https://euobserver.com/world/154680
They will vaccinate the survivors ?
The West is going bananas. They live in their own lies so much and no way they could get out of it. There’s a need for a professional psychologist to examine them. For sure something is deeply troubling. On the whole the sanctions are going to end up hurting the West more than Russia.
The New World Order has died, so the West is back to being the West.
Wild Wild West…
Wait, coal ban? I thought they didn’t ban any coal imports in the end. At least not today. Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-targets-putins-daughers-handful-oligarchs-latest-round-sanctions
At this point Russia should just ban the export of oil and gas to Europe. It’s gonna be tough for Russia too because a big part of their profits come from this energy export and until they create the new infrastructure they can’t sell what they did in Europe to China and India (aside from what they already sell there)…and it takes time to complete these infrastructure investments. But Europe will completely collapse, and I mean really COLLAPSE. The euro itself will be destroyed.
Europe don’t have any way to import gas or more oil in the short term, energy prices will skyrocket and that will double the current inflation estimates. The ECB will be forced to raise interest rates a lot, the Southern European countries won’t be able to finance themselves in the market with such rates given their huge debts…a new Sovereign debt crisis will emerge and with that a bank crisis throughout Europe (they are all interconnected) and with that a social crisis….this will be Lehman Brothers crisis x100. European companies will be destroyed because they won’t even be able to stay open to produce without energy…if they try the cost of production will be so high their products will be completely unsellable in international markets given the high prices. And they will turn those much higher cost of production to the end prices creating massive inflation even internally. Not to mention that banning food export to Africa a huge migratory influx will come from the South pushing Europe beyond the limits. They will completely collapse.
I understand Russia will pay a price too if they cut energy exports to Europe but at these levels it’s worth to do it nonetheless…Europe has gone too far, there is nothing else Russia can do (with sanctions) that can punish Europe even remotely close to as much as banning energy exports.
And it’s gonna be even better if before doing that they make agreement with other energy exports countries such as Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Azerbajan ecc.
Russia is in the very exact same situation as in Syria(for the same reason, Israel russia hating, khazaria owns UKR+RUS).
Ukies+ nazis are Isis + Al Nusra/Quaeda, absolutely no difference, it is a war against NATO by proxies for the moment, but they are preparing for the ‘real thing’.I hope they understand it now in Moscow? Remenber the SVR head in the tv ‘security council’ before declaring LPR and PR independent.
Putins had to force him three times to finaly accept the fact(as he knew of course that war was immediately coming).
Meyssan has a different interpretation, saying he was in fact wanting a war with Nato and Putin and others no.
I don’t think so.
@ TSS
“It’s gonna be tough for Russia too because a big part of their profits come from this energy exports…”
That’s a deep-seated fallacy to suggest that not selling gas to Europe will hurt Russia. It will not, ask Glaziev. The Russian people do not eat gas, do you know? Export earnings are useful for purchasing goods not locally produced but Russia is almost self-reliant on almost everything and can quickly adjust to a war economy if needed. Russia loses next to nothing if it turns off the gas valves, and the gas will remain there for future sales.
On the other hand, the Europeans NEED IT NOW (sorry!), before they find an alternative source. The time to turn the spigots off is now.
https://www.rt.com/business/553415-eu-fails-new-russia-sanctions/
When comes to the new round of kamikadze sanctions EU has failed. I belive that many countries, including Hungary, threatened with błocking them.
But thanks to EU stupidity, prices for coal and fertilizers are surging, so Russia and Belarus will make extra buck. Outstanding move by EU soyboys! EU f*ggots should at least read some “Economy for dummies guidebook” before taking any further step.
The aim of the collective West is total dominance and total defeat and destruction of Russia.
There is no alternative to that and there is no hope for reconciliation any more.
It is a pity that some Russians do no understand that.
This is so but the US and the EuroPeons do not have the capacity to win a war against Russia, they will suffer massive casualties and massive civilian destruction, this ongoing psyop is part of driving the public to accept it but the data and figures on public opinion are not backing this up, despite the deluge the majority of young people do not hate Russia and do not see them as an enemy. Older people do of course because they still think Russia is the soviet union, they will always swallow the propaganda but there is not the tatse for war or the taste for forced draft into the military in Europe. The west wants a long war, the Russians will give them a short overwhelming, deadly one.
Here is the tweet that got Scott Ritter nuked . Posted from Gonzalo Lira’s telegram channel
https://t.me/realCRP/4232
Man, that was some departure in epic style. I hope he will reappear on Telegram soon.
He is already on Telegram.
Truly epic, his second to last tweet might be even better
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/11646
🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian troops have mined a storage facility with 120 tonnes of chlorine in the city of Pervomaiskyi, Kharkiv region as part of a provocation against Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry says.
The Ukrainian army is planning to blow the facility up and then blame Russia, the ministry explained.
Swedish propaganda media outlets express outrage over the low numbers of Russian diplomats to be kicked out of Stockholm. The general lack of NATO lapdog commitment and genuine hatred towards Russia from the government is concerning.
In other (Swedish) news the foreign minister has been caught lying on record about the levels of imported Russian gas. Went from zero import to ‘zero pipe delivered import’ (there are no pipes directly connecting Sweden to Nordstream 1, so that one was no brainer).
Guess Who owns most of the media in Sweden? Look into the history of the Bonnier family.
Where are all the Russian Oil Tankers? I would think they are showing up in India soon.
It all depends on Russian political class (Lavrov, Shojgu, Putin, Peskov…)
If they are resilient enough, Russia shall win.
If they hope not all bridges are burned Russia is finished.
RT here :
What the future holds for the West without Russian metals?
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/nickel-06-yt:3
There is a full Harikiri going on – voters and Yellow Vests note the elites getting rid of themselves!
More proof that the Ukies and their Western masters are faking another “war crime”.
You don’t say:
«⚡️Maxar Technologies refused to sell images from the Bucha from the WorldView and GeoEye-1 satellites dated March 19, 22 and 23, which could confirm the New York Times story. The publication stated that the bodies were allegedly discovered even before the withdrawal of Russian troops. Maxar noted that they can only provide satellite images taken on March 31 (during this period, the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have already left the city), explaining that the materials are allegedly unavailable. Although they are in the catalog.
This once again confirms our version that the pictures are real, but the date of shooting on the frames is falsified. Read more in our longrid, in which we compared this lie to Colin Powell’s famous test tube»
– Warfakes
https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/4819
Not sure, but I think Gonzalo Lira posted the stuff from Maxar that had been analyzed by some fella…I recall datetimes and shadows absolutely confirmed that the “massacre” was faked…ie no bodies. Check Brother GL’s telegram back a few days. I did see the proof.
yes,
https://t.me/realCRP/4198
https://t.me/realCRP/4201
We are indebted to Gonzalo Lira. He has been a one-man wrecking crew for the Truth, tics and idiosyncrasies notwithstanding!
I’ve always wondered how the Samurai Hara-kiri thing could possible happen.
Well we find it is not Japanese, rather EUropean : (French text) :
Sanctions contre la Russie, le hara kiri européen
https://solidariteetprogres.fr/documents-de-fond-7/economie/sanctions-contre-la-russie-le-hara.html
For the Heavenly Emperor in D.C. Baiden-san.
please, I ask permission to post my concerns:
Europe is done, time will tell. So is there going to be a New Silk Route? Will there be a market for it?
And what I’m concerned about is the future of South America.
I am expecting the WLUSA (What’s Left of the USA after this war) to eat Brazil and other countries alive, will the US have conditions to do so when this mess is over?
I wish Pablo Escobar, a Brazilian, would be addressing future themes like that already, but certainly this is not what matters right now.
Bravo Mr Putin !!
The future of South America: Bring back the Monroe Doctrine.
If the US has two brain cells to rub together it will have an Anschluss with Mexico and preferably Canada as well — at least the sane parts where they exploit natural resources. This creates a huge monolithic market that ensures 1) anything SA produces can be consumed in the Western Hemisphere and 2) Every SA country can get any raw materials it needs from the Greater USA. Voila! No need for transoceanic trade.
Extra bonus — Trudeau and his successors will not have all that money to throw around for social programs in rump Canada. We bring all automotive manufacturing back to US soil. Today fossil fuels and vehicles/parts are Canada’s primary sources of export revenue. Then Canada has nothing left to export but fish and insults.
Super extra bonus — Mexicans finally get some respect because we welcome our brothers and sisters as full-fledged US citizens and we don’t have to build a wall.
“Monroe doctrine is made four basic points: (1) the United States would not interfere in European affairs; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies in the Americas; (3) the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization; and (4) if a European power tried to interfere with any nation in the Americas, that would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States.
The US is more likely to become a Monroe Latrine in the near future, trillions of dollars will be used as toilet paper.
Brazil, if it continues to exist as one country, does not need Canada, Mexico nor US natural resources.
BRICS sounds good.
Wait, wait…
You just said Brazil’s future is an economic alliance with countries separated from it by oceans and not a mutual security alliance with its neighbors. I believe that is the definition of “colony”.
“Investment in Russia banned for all Americans and US residents, regardless of their location.”
Oh Nooooooo!
Does that mean my order of Tsar Saltan Matryoshka Dolls is going to get cancelled because it’s made in Russia?
See: https://www.stpgoods.com/matreshka-10-mest-car-saltan.html
The dolls are symbolic of Alexander Puskin’s poem, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son, the Glorious and Mighty Knight Prince Guidon Saltonovich, and of the Fair Swan-Princess
See: https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/texts/pushkin/tsar.html .
They’re a present for my great granddaughter when she’s old enough to learn about Pushkin’s wonderful poetry. She likes to watch Masha and the Bear cartoons and this gift would have been a good introduction to Russian literature.
What’s next, go through all the public libraries and burn Russian authored books??
Damn American Nazis!
Curious about possible acceptance of Finland (and Sweden) to NATO in the very near future. Seems like the Finnish ptb have decided on the matter already, quoting that there is no need to have a binding national vote on the matter as the support from the people have been proven (by 2 polls, 60+ for, both polls around 1K people questioned..) The Finnish defence forces have practiced with NATO and all systems and communications are up to it for some years now. Biggest fear is either that one or two NATO members would say no, or that Russia would start a skirmish to halt the membership progress..
You are absolutely right. There is rumour that MoD Pekka Haavisto will propose sending application to NATO in this month. But, this is only rumour. Officially speaking these kind of things are heresy. In Finland, we have tradition that unpleasent things shall not be discussed:)
Sanctioning Russian leader’s spouses and children are the actions of juveniles/imbeciles. What a sick joke.
Nobody seems to be concerned by the ukrainian people which are the first victim of that war. The empire of lies is doing its best to prolong and extend the war. The ukrainian army, not the nazis, is not understanding that she used as a canon fodder by NATO and the people having taken the power in the US.
The EU has increased drastically its buying of Russian gas in the last couple of weeks and Kiev is making a lot of money in the transit of this gas through the Brotherhood pipeline crossing Ukraine while the ukrainians people are dying.
I was moved by Scott Ritter’s interview by Gerald Celente which reaches the conclusion that the system is so corrupted that it cannot be cured. For him we have passed the point of no return.
An analysis of the upcoming final phase of the Battle of Donbass:
https://azlyrics.com.az/lyrics/the-defeat-of-the-donetsk-grouping-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-ran-into-a-number-of-difficulties/
Some excerpts:
“The situation was analyzed by military expert Vladislav Shurygin.”
“A large territory has been turned into one continuous defense system”
“If we tried to directly attack the Donbass with all our might, then we would encounter such a “bicycle chain” that would revolve around the Donbass, reinforcements would continuously come there and it would be a meat grinder in which we could sit for a very long time. Therefore, the task was to isolate this group and at that time to smash those who could come to her aid. We have largely succeeded in this task. Now the task is to finally control Mariupol and “grind” the Donbass group.”
For me it is essential that Russia conquers the Donbass region.
I made a list of the Bucha massacre victims on our research wiki. There are at least seven different groups of victims; each needs to be investigated separately. The numbers for each group are approximate.
~67 defenders of Ukraine buried in a mass grave at a churchyard on March 12. This may include civilian “Volkssturm”, who were handed out weapons.
~10 suspected collaborators executed at a location that may have been responsible for distributing humanitarian aid.
~5 suspected collaborators executed in a cellar.
~20 civilians killed by shelling on Yabluska Street with bodies not recovered until April 2nd. NYT investigation says the bodies appeared on satellite images around March 11th and March 19th.
2 likely execution victims planted on Yabluska Street among the shelling victims. The two men may have been executed on site or the bodies may have been moved there.
A family of three, a village head and her husband and son, allegedly executed by Russians.
Two women give video testimony that their husbands were executed in a cleansing operation. On the Ukrainian videos the women say the men were executed by “Russians”, but other evidence indicates the cleansing operation happened after the Russians had left.
Ukrainian claims include “410 victims” and “Russians executed all men between the ages of 16 and 60”. No bodies or other proof has been presented for these numbers.
Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Mark Milley, Sees Ukraine as a Long-Term Protracted Battle
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/05/joint-chiefs-chairman-general-mark-milley-sees-ukraine-as-a-long-term-protracted-battle/
Milley :
If True, Gen. Milley’s Actions Were Extra-Constitutional
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2021/eirv48n38-20210924/eirv48n38-20210924_055-if_true_gen_milleys_actions_were.pdf
By Col. Black, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War,was the former chief of the Criminal Law Division,
Office of the Judge Advocate General in the Pentagon.He was also elected to the Virginia Commonwealth
Senate (2012-2020) and House (1998-2006)
Everything the US government has done since 1861 – when St. Abraham canceled the Constitution, and the American People (its owner) let him do it – has been extra-Constitutional. They’ve kept the Constitution around as a charade and skin suit to mollify the electorate, but they know very well they don’t have to abide by it, and they do whatever they want however they think they can get away with it.
Milley is a pill ragger and a fruit
This is possibly the first known footage showing the use of the use of the Russian “Father of all Bombs” (15 Tonne Thermobaric area clearance / bunker buster) used in the Donbass region of Ukraine in or around the Luhansk cauldron):
https://twitter.com/DNR_NewFront/status/1506594505901977603
Experts on other blogs say that as the footage shows a single explosion, it is very unlikely to be an ammo dump explosion as Ukraine sources have suggested.
No confirmation from Russian sources yet – but if confirmed later that such massive ordances are being used it spells the end of even heavily entrenched Ukrainian forces – little short of a nuclear bunker can protect against a weapon that heavy.
“but if confirmed later that such massive ordances are being used it spells the end of even heavily entrenched Ukrainian forces”
But that video is from March 23 and there still are entrenched Ukrainian forces 2 weeks later, so how can you call it the end of entrenched Ukrainian forces?
“…..so how can you call it the end of entrenched Ukrainian forces?”
You are correct, I can not for sure.
However, I can deduce that if such massive bombs are being dropped on a heavily entrenched force which are unable to move and/or rebuild shattered defences (and have been since at least 23 march as per the footage) then no force can survive for longer than a few weeks under such WW1 like conditions. Even the hardest of troops will begin to break both physically and psychologically after a few weeks under those conditions – assuming they are unable to be rotated / rested of course.
If 40-60,000 Ukrainian troops are concentrated in that region as some have suggested then I really do wonder how many are left in full combat ready condition – assuming re-supply lines have been cut (and combat units are not sheltering in civillian areas which still enjoy power, heat, and water).
As I see it, Russia simply needs to keep them pinned in place, prevent resupply (and rest) and continue to drop (every day without fail) heavy ordance on those positions to completely destroy the will (or ability) to fight of all the trapped soldiers inside that hellish cauldron.
Assuming conditions are as bad as I imagine them to be, then the best outcome for those in the cauldron would be surrender, but I doubt the commisars would ever allow that.
From the article I posted, it seems that the Ukrainian forces are entrenched in the towns, villages and
cities, each of which provide fire support to the adjacent ones. The article also mentioned that they
are still supplied and even have fuel reserves.
Was that not the chemical storage tank the Ukies shelled when they were retreating?
Cheers M
Who killed Oleg Abramov?
I made a post about this on our Monitor of Massacre Marketing blog. A video was posted on Pro-Ukrainian channels with English subtitles. On the video a Russian-speaking women describes a house-to-house cleansing operation by some military force. See the video and try to figure out when the operation took place and who the killers were?
Some additional questions:
If the massacre happened already on March 5th, as the witness claims, why was nothing heard about it until four days after the last Russians left Bucha?
Did the Russians really have enough forces in the area to do house-to-house cleansing.
Why would they target Russian-speakers?
What interest would they have in interrogating a local resident for three hours?
The blog also has an other post on the topic by Adam Larson: Towards Understanding the Bucha Massacre
There is a huge clue in the seemingly unimportant detail “they took off his sweatshirt”. Russians are identifying so-called “Nazis” through their tattoos. I have seen multiple photos of people being examined shirtless at Russian checkpoints. One tattooless guy is holding up his shirt with a facial expression that says “See, I’m not one of them.”
‘Who are you to say this?’ — Zakharova blasts Poland’s Minister of Culture
RT :
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/zakharova-on-cancelling-rus-culture:1
Not in a billion years could Russian Culture be canceled!
Has anyone heard anything about NATO (Poland/Lithuania) blocking access to Kaliningrad?
Those are both NATO so article 5 time? WW3? What are Russia’s options in that case?
Kaliningrad is still accessible by sea. If land access were blocked off, Russia could start a sealift equivalent to the old Berlin airlift.
I’m sure they’ve thought of the options. I wouldn’t put it past NATO to try and provoke them. I don’t think Russia would expand to a second front until after they’ve dealt with Ukraine or at least claimed east of the river & Odessa.
I read on another site about Poland & Lithuania either thinking about doing it or actually doing it. Yet another “theatre” to watch.
Considering still to come gazillions of military aid coming to Ukraine …now US subords are coat tail joing eg Czech tanks …Estonian weaponry…is the risk and possibilty of more direct and longer sustained and higher level of conflict with Russia more of a certainty let alone possibility? Feels the buildup has its momentum sufficiency being consolidated to the tip over point of inevitability.
I congratulate the DPRLNR militias for their most dangerous work and highest skills working measurably and combinedly with RAF…..all following the highest standards possible and just moral codes and patterns of working socio-military that have become established as especially proven by the Syrian battlefields and working with the SAA. The power and accuracy of Russian armaments is amazing.
half of the stuff sent is junk, little of it will ever make it to the frontline, most of it is intended for after the war ends in the hoped for ‘endless war’ of the Americans fevered imagination. A lot will depend on how much land the Russians take and as far as I can see the plan is still for Russia to leave Ukraine. The Americans will have a hard time making endless war when there are few Russians in the country, maybe the US will start fighting their own US trained personal who have taken over policing in what is left of Ukraine. The major driver behind the military was the Nazis, if they are all or mostly dead this will be very difficult, plus more than many Ukraines now see that they have been betrayed by the West, used as a tool and they are not happy about it, they hate zelensky so I find it hard to believe they will accept him as a President, he has also proved himself a coward by running away to Poland for the vast majority of this campaign. 70% of ukrainians voted for peace when they voted for him, I am sure that 90% now want peace. I can’t see the US making a success of anything, they manage to bungle everything they set their hands on. But we must wait to see what the settlement will be and the arrangement for partitioning. There may be no one left to fight for the Americans,
Read https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/?utm_source=sendfox&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-postil-april-newsletter
For a insight into events as recorded by Jacques Baud an honest Swiss man.
Compare his testimony to those in NATO and the West.
NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) is positioned mainly around Kaliningrad especially Battle Group Poland (BGPOL). These forces are so small I don’t think they would trouble the Russian Forces much even combined. I think their use is a Casus Belli for a much larger conflict. A November 7th, a day of infamy or something like that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Enhanced_Forward_Presence
An EXCELLENT piece! On par with anything I`ve ever read – and very informative.
I`m bookmarking the site for further study. Quality.
Thanx for this!
Would be nice if the blog allowed a Sort By Most Recent, and an Image File attachment (like WUWT).
Now is the time for China to move on Taiwan and Iran to move on Saudi Arabia and watch oil go to $300/barrel for the rest of the world and the Western financial system collapse.
Do you have any idea of what massive suffering of millions of innocent people that would do? Why would you say such a thing? Feasting on peoples misfortune much? I am pretty certain that both Iranians and Taiwanese would want to just lead a normal peaceful life. Pretty standard all over the globe that desire is. Unbelievable that there still exist some folks here that wish pain for others. Best for all would be to surgically delete all the emails ndividual people behind all the suffering globally (USA UK Israel etc) but to wish harm for the common man is beyond my comprehension. Sorry bout that.
Here is another, well credentialed voice of reason that will soon be silenced.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/bidens-folly-in-ukraine/
Could you start posting web addresses to forbidden websites such as the Russian Ministry of Defense that Google and others are blocking? Many Americans KNOW that our own, supposedly free media have been transformed into government and globalist propaganda bureaus. In my own State of Oregon, they described characterized the year of incessant rioting in Portland as “mostly peaceful protests.”. The downtown business district looks like Mariupol!
“In my own State of Oregon, they described characterized the year of incessant rioting in Portland as “mostly peaceful protests.”. The downtown business district looks like Mariupol!”
Haven’t they cleaned up and repaired the damage by now?
Most of the Class A office buildings and retail stores that are not still boarded up are repaired. However; almost all of the repaired buildings now have maximum security roll up doors. Refugees are leaving the city and state to escape the chaos.
I am convinced the ever-increasing list of sanctions by EU members are nothing more than a game of “pass the potato” whereby the parties that stole 250 billion euros from the peoples of the EU are creating a labyrinthian pathway to confuse and confound. When the theft is discovered they will point to the pathway and hope the confusion is sufficient to paralyze resolution of the question: where is the stolen money, who stole it and who helped them conceal it.
When Putin announced his roubles-for-gas regime, he removed Russian gas transactions from involvement in the money laundering operations related to concealing this theft. Accordingly, western banks that have been concealing the theft can no longer disguise it using Russian gas transactions. Unfortunately for the banks however there are few other available avenues whereby the volume of transactions are sufficient to conceal the theft.
One such “remedy” for concealing the theft is the outright confiscation of Russia’s foreign currency reserves, but it does not come without risk. Should such happenstance occur, those confiscated reserves would need to be “redistributed” to the culpable parties. For example, “awarding” the reserves to Ukrainian officials under the guise of “war reparations.” Those monies would then be returned to the banks and used to “replace” the stolen funds. The Ukrainian people, of course, would get nothing and that fact would be attributed to “corruption.”
The problem with this action would be its reprecussions: it would trigger lawsuits from financially powerful, politically connection entities who have a financial interest in the Russian currency reserves being used for their proper purpose: to pay debts incurred by Russia and funded by these entities. The recent involvement by the U.S. Treasury Department in limiting the use of these funds should be viewed in this manner, not as corrupt by rather as an attempt to prevent the diversion of Russian funds for an improper use. This is not a humanitarian impulse: the U.S. government would likewise be sued in such instances, leading to further reveations which they would rather avoid.
This is the nature of the “blackmail” referenced by EU officials. Putin has known about this behavior since 2007. What an incredibly patient, dangerous man. This explains the hate from the West.
As always, follow the money.
Zelensky has now laid the groundwork for the ultimate false flag operation – his own assassination. No doubt there are more than a few Ukrainians that would be eager to assist with this.
A majority of countries that destroyed their economies and rampantly caused inflation are going all in on a narrative and action that provides cover for their terrible lockdown and other policies that bankrupted them. What is the scapegoat. Putin and Russia. Completely transparently obvious. As a result they will be unlikely to change their plan and introduce even more false flag justifications. Sorry. It is a sad state of affairs the world is in.
I do notice that NATO-stan actually has learned from their previous mistakes, but not enough. They have understood that the previous round of sanctions, where they refused to export to Russia had little impact on Russian economy. I believe that it actually strengthened Russian economy, because it made it more self-sufficient. So this time they seem to have understood that sanctions must be directed towards the huge import of Russian commodities. That will hurt both Russian and European economy, they understand that. But they seem to think that they can bear this better than the Russia, unless they are suicidal, which find hard to believe.
But they do not understand the situation fully. All Russians are now fully aware of the situation: they face an existential threat. To cave in threatens Russia’s existence. Europeans does not face an existential threat. To cave in will be a political defeat, but it is not an existential threat. This asymmetry will be very important, not now, when the false flag in Bucha is still waved at us and the majority suffers from moralistic megalomania. But when the cost of the sanctions they support today is felt in their household budgets, we shall see. Is the self-righteousness or the sense of self-preservation strongest. Europe will pay a premium for food and energy. Russians choice is between self-preservation, their sovereignty and independence, and self-realization; they don’t get the newest iPhone or a vacation in Greece and may have to do with the old computer for now, but they will most certainly not lack food and energy.
We have a forgotten sentence in German: “Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall” meaning;
“superbity comes before the slump”, all forgotten in the daily noise of the great total
American Wurlizer keeping the old and relaxing folks from study …
hence missing the entry of the new time, provided by the quiet people,
studying the truth of things in the new room of history being the
roots of a coming balance of contrast.
Please out your links in the Cafe as Saker has requested in the past. Thx. Mod.
NATO has not learnt any lesson, nor indeed has Western countries,and so it is becoming quite clear that ALL Western governments are controlled by a group of people,and the “democratic elections” a smokescreen for the dumbed down masses to feel they have a say, but where has it ever got them? To Jewish Trump and now senile, demented neo-con Biden. Can you explain the difference?
Well, who first had inflation, by printing excess money to spend on military, not the people,and it was 7.5%. The sanctions on Russia rose it to 7.8%, and Biden blamed Russia. Now Europe , as America admitted blamed Russia for upcoming shortages, high gas and exorbitant prices on all commodities. But who sanctioned who???
It is quite clear that the West is preparing their people to lose their standard of living; realized soon. For they have said it time and time again, and yet go down the sanction road. But even without Ukraine, I saw the deterioration of the West, and the chaos in the lead America completely unsustainable.
It could well be the “great reset” that the Jew Schwab talked about, but he got it wrong. It is mother Russia doing the great reset,and the rest of this world will rejoice.
If any of you believe that you can destroy Russia with conventional weapons or nuclear? We, we will be completely destroyed. The Russians analyise the hatred against them from the Nazis loving Baltics and Poland, they know China is on their side, but if China want to keep making money and safeguard their interests in the west? To them I say.
Here is the truth: America was always going to steal your money, as they have done to so many others. Listen to your people who know who there friend is, and the rest of the world will be saved.
P.S. there is a reason why USA handed out last year 1 billion bullets to their law enforcement, but it got nothing to do with Russia.
“Russia need the revenue”
A very stupid way of looking at a sovereign nation state.
Russia can create as many rubles as it likes whenever it wants.
Where do you think the households and businesses got the rubles from in the first place that they then give to the Russian government ?
Mars, Venus ?
Or the issuer of the ruble ?
It amazes me how many people don’t realise the difference between the ” issuer ” and ” user” of a currency.
Think businesses have a printing press in their basements and create money lol.
When the reality is every household and business receive their rubles from the state. Or a bank who have been given a licence to loan out state money.
It is written on every bank note. In plain sight.
The propaganda over many years seems to have fried people’s brains.
The dark side of pope
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VWBhde0CKRi3/
Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on April 6, 2022, especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Mariupol.
Fights for “Azovstal” and “Azovmash”, promotion to the seaport of Mariupol. Clashes also continue in the northern part of the Eastern Region. In the port of Mariupol, the control ship “Donbass” of the Ukrainian Navy was damaged.
2.
Kherson-Nikolaev.
The RF Armed Forces control Snegirevka, as well as the Aleksandrovka area. The enemy cannot lead a serious attack on Kherson from the side of Nikolaev. In Nikolaev itself, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have serious losses due to strikes. From the side of Nikopol, the enemy is trying to crush in the Novorontsovka area.
3.
Odessa.
Almost daily attacks on fuel storage facilities continue. The city continues to the best of its ability to prepare for defense. The potential for provocation with chemical weapons is also high. In the Ochakov area, according to a number of unconfirmed reports, foreign mercenaries and NATO officers were killed.
4.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. There is very little information on the situation east of Gulyai-Polye. It is difficult to determine the zones of control of the parties and the settlements occupied.
5.
Ugledar—Great Novoselka.
There is no significant progress in this direction. Heavy fighting continues.
6.
Marinka.
Positional battles continue in the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Troops cannot advance beyond the slag heap line.
7.
Avdiivka.
Avdiivka itself is unchanged. To the north, after the capture of Novobakhmutovka, troops are fixed there and preparing for further advance near the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway. The advance to New York has not yet brought great results.
8.
LPR.
Advance in Popasna, where heavy street fighting continues. Also, fighting continues on the southern outskirts of Rubizhne, for which the enemy continues to cling. There are also fighting on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
9.
Raisin.
Fighting is going south and southeast of Kamenka in the direction of Barvenkovo and Slavyansk. The enemy puts up serious resistance. Izyum itself is subjected to shelling from artillery and MLRS. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent the accumulation of forces on the expanding bridgehead on the southern bank of the Seversky Donets. The enemy stepped up the evacuation of the local population in the western regions of the DPR and in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
10.
Kharkiv-Sumy.
No significant changes. The enemy expects in the near future to intensify operations in the Kharkov area. Evacuation is being carried out from some districts of the Kharkiv region.
@voenkorKotenok Telegram
Sun Tzu: “Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him”.
Most European and American political leaders are irrational. Feelings and irrationality help win political campaigns and the lack of logic keeps them from questioning the motives and ideas of the Financial Cabal who actually rules. This anti-Russia hysteria shows that most US and European leaders are almost incapable of using logic. Voters or revolutionarys are going to take Western leaders out.
It is incredible in the year 2022…
That human beings believe when they pay their taxes. That these taxes are then stored in a HUGE shed somewhere to Then be used in the future lol.
Instead of the reality of a number on a current account changes and the currency is lost out of the economy forever. Extinguished like a puff of smoke.
Central banks used to just burn it. Now they just shred it.
It is like asking the scorekeeper of a card game Where they get the points. Or when a goal is scored in a football match where the scoreboard gets the 1 from.
In Odessa in the Ochakov area, according to a number of unconfirmed reports, foreign mercenaries and NATO officers were killed.
Rocket strike on the base in the settlement. Ochakov, not only Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries were destroyed, but operators of the elite special forces units of the US and British Navy – SEALs and SBS (Special Boat Service).
The British were building this base for their special forces, and it is surprising that the blow has only now been struck. The only explanation is that they were waiting for more people to gather there.
https://t.me/s/voenkorKotenok
Funky little rocket men get all blowed up then, awe shucks, someone call Whitehall quick.
Cheers M
Imagine, if all this could be applied to Zionism, Israel, DC/EU puppet’s, banking, stock markets, media, and all the dual citizens…How quickly the world could learn the truth, advance, and mend itself…
Z for victory
Definition of ” war chest”
Russia can create as many Rubles as it likes and can buy ANYTHING that is for sale in Rubles.
The US can create as many $’s as it likes and can buy ANYTHING that is for sale in $’s.
UK Government Spending – The Gory Details
https://new-wayland.com/blog/uk-government-spending-gory-details/
Not a tax payer in sight. Not even in the room.
Power lies in the mastery of abundant natural
Abundant natural resources, science, industry, all protected by a capable and well equipped military. Russia and China are far ahead of the West on these criteria. The West is strong in currency manipulation, trade, corruption and propaganda, but in real power they are far outmatched. The line of contact that will decide the fate of the battle is the US dollar. Its use has begun to decline. If the trend is not reversed the US will continue its collapse.
I think that Russia and China have a clear vision of the progressive collapse of the West. From a historical point of view such a mastery is unprecedented which explains the concern of people who do not share this knowledge.
The uncertainty concerns a possible recourse to strategic nuclear power on the part of the West. Today is no different from tomorrow in this respect, but the other strategic weaknesses are such that waiting any longer would have been unreasonable. In other words, the West is at an unexpectedly weak point. This is the moment to deliver the coup de grace by forcing the error. The sanctions of the West are leading to its fall. End of the game. Russia and China accompany the fall.
The entire world is now witnessing that after all those years of accelerating decline, in full denial, gone literally insane, obsessed with sanctioning one and all in the hope of remaining this world’s full spectrum hegemon, the decadent Empire is committing suicide.
Notwithstanding all the suffering, it is time, at last, for more than 85% of humanity rise and to rejoice. A new world for all is being born.
Just for fun, let us talk about the Hunter Biden laptop:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/06/primary-witness-to-material-in-hunter-biden-laptop-flees-to-switzerland-fearing-retaliation-and-u-s-government/
The irony is that the child pornography that President Biden’s son was so obsessed with collecting is so depraved that it is technically a Federal Felony to even view it much less possess it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/06/primary-witness-to-material-in-hunter-biden-laptop-flees-to-switzerland-fearing-retaliation-and-u-s-government/
Did President Biden incite and provoke the war in Ukraine just to distract from the depravity of his evil spawn?
One factor that is often missing from political analyses is the reality of organized crime and its shifting alliances with various security services and corporations. I’m not going into detail but I know how the “street” works or, if you prefer, realpolitik.
In this new dispensation organized crime will thrive in a big way. Scarce items needed for corporations will be not (“might”) smuggled into whatever country is friendly to that outlaw organization and re-routed with forged papers as per usual. It will take some time for enforcement agencies to catch up to the flood of illegal activities to even begin to police international trade so at least in the near future the sanctions will be bypassed. I don’t think security services will try that hard to enforce the sanctions particularly if there are bribes involved like the current situation in the DEA and most urban PDs.
The Prime Directive of the Washington-based Empire is to make money for the powerful forces who are aligned or use the institutions of the Empire–right now the situation is ripe for a ton of corruption and I’m not sure the true-believers in the Neocon community will be able to get their vision met, i.e., complete domination of the planet and the solar system. It is a kind of Nazi-like ideology full of ideas like “destiny” and “exceptional country” and the inferiority of non-USA-ans. But ultimately, like most fanatics, the need to use corrupt or criminal institutions will sink their project into endless nests of conspiracies and conspiracies within conspiracies but not before a hell of a lot of hurt for ordinary people.
The losses estimated on the UKR and RUS sides… from Gonzalo Lira’s Telegram channel
https://t.me/realCRP/4217?single
Russia lost 150 aircraft? Right there it makes it worthless
That was my thought as well. Forgot to add my comment before clicking send. :-)
Look at the sources. That explains it.
I ask myself this question every time I read about sanctions on RUS/BEL …. “Where were the sanctions on the US/UK/EU when they illegally waged wars, killed millions of innocent civilians and destroyed sovereign countries?”
Oh that’s right, we now have a “rules based order”. You follow our rules or else…
How many of us here are “westerners”?
What we all are witnessing or suffering throughout(or will be) does have nothing to do with Russia.
From the word go, this whole abortion can be laid at the feet of our own national governments, their alliances and the international financial industrial bio and IT corporations they hand out licenses to operate.
It is all home-made.
So why do we think Russia needs to do this or that, either pouring out her blood or resources to save our collective asses?
And WHEN?
Look at what the Greeks are doing – refusing to load trains with nato hardware. Blocking the tracks heading north. What are WE waiting for?
I am not gonna try and get this site banned, for suggestions, I am not fed-posting here, but get…creative!
Get rid of those friggin politicians! Cancel those, that WILL cancel You, Jab those, that would jab you. There is a will, there is a way!
We have almost no time left…matter of fact, we don`t have a second to waste.
So fget`bout Russia. She`ll do fine. You are still stuck with a bunch of parasites – if that doesn’t change, You will whither away…
These questions are for The Saker or Nightvision.
Has Russia used the FOAB bomb yet in Ukraine? If not, why not? Would it be tactically or strategically helpful for the Russians to use the FOAB to destroy the Nazi fortifications around Slavyansk?
Finally, once Russia cuts off the large Nazi army in and around Severodonetsk, will the Russians finally put the FOAB bomb to use there, to quickly break down Nazi resistance and force a surrender?
Thanks in advance.
The Federal Reserve has assumed it can eliminate business cycles by lowering interest rates. The eventual consequence of which will be the biggest financial crash in history.
Those who think they can write history however they please, are creating a similar situation, that will cause the greatest reality check in history.
Physics trumps politics.
I’m sorry, but it is time for Russia to do several things. It is clear that the toxic ‘west’ is not worth bothering with for Russia.
Therefore, Russia needs to:
a/ Stop all gas and oil sales to the US, EU and Europe, effective immediately. (friendly countries excepted).
b/ Demand all payments for exports and debt payment be made in rubles. No rubles, no goods, period.
c/ Close all Embassies and consulates in toxic sanction countries and recall their Ambassadors.
d/ Redirect ALL exports, gas and oil sales to those who are NOT on the ‘western shill and sanction wagon’.
e/ Stop all sales of exotic metals, critical components, etc to ‘sanction countries’ effective immediately.
It’s time to take the gloves off and start turning the pain dial up at an increasing rate. Don’t give them time to adjust to the ‘new’ pain level, just keep the intensity rising without mercy. I know this would be considered harsh, but given the current circumstances, what does Russia have to loose? Time to hit first, and hit hard. Made them bleed, make them scream, so THEY come crawling to kiss the bejewelled Russian slipper.
I’m sure Putins daughter is such a grave threat that they feel compelled to sanction even her. Thats simply ridiculous and shows just how low the West has sunk. Unbelievable
Tony
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There are reports that #RuAF Tu-22M3 bombers have or will be used to bomb the #Azovstal plant and Port with FAB-3000 (3000kg) bombs
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Opposition to Washington’s anti-Russia agenda is growing in southeastern Europe.
https://en.news-front.info/2022/04/06/greek-communist-party-members-block-a-train-with-us-and-nato-military-equipment/
Members of the Communist Party of Greece (CPG) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KMG) blocked a train carrying US and NATO military equipment and machinery at the exit of Alexandroupolis port.
Shouting anti-imperialist slogans, the protesters blocked the railway and demanded an end to Greece’s involvement in the ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine and in making Alexandroupolis a centre of NATO aggression.
https://en.news-front.info/2022/04/06/bulgaria-holds-rally-against-arms-supplies-to-ukraine/
Bulgarian people do not share the stance of the authorities on the decision to supply arms to Ukraine. Activists believe that Bulgaria should not be involved in this conflict under any circumstances
Bulgaria holds rally against arms supplies to Ukraine
On several occasions, Bulgarian residents have protested against NATO’s presence in the country, as well as at rallies in support of Russia.
Today, protesters came to the rally with placards and chanted – “US and NATO out!”
Now some videos for today.
The West’s and Kiev-regime’s lies about Bucha are being exposed — the killings were very obviously carried out by the West’s Banderite proxies (MUST SEE video — please share and distribute it widely):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/bucha_timeline_botsman_06-yt:7
Russian forces fire Oniks missiles at Kiev-regime military infrastructure:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/MoD_onyx_06:7
A DPR army Grad launcher in action:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/grad_06_04:f
Its worthwhile remembering:
1. [Quote] “In the 24 hours after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two breakaway Ukrainian territories, the European Union, the UK and the US bought a combined 3.5million barrels of Russian oil and refined products worth more than $350million at current prices. On top of that, the West probably bought another $250million of Russian natural gas, plus tens of millions of dollars of aluminum, coal, nickel, titanium, gold and other commodities. In total, the bill likely topped $700million.” Bloomberg, 25.02.2022
(Note: Russia’s total output of products & services (GDP) was $US1,483 billions in 2020)
2. Russian oil & gas exports to Europe have not ceased during Russia’s SMO & have continued to be distributed via Ukraine
3. Much has been written about Russia’s “failure” at PR even here at the Vineyard – but those making such claims are the 13% of Earth’s population who live in the Core of Empire (i.e. the collective West, aka Saker’s Zone A) and are not the 87% of the rest of the world’s 7.8 billions of people, who live in the Periphery, aka Saker’s Zone B.
So, given the US has conducted regime change, invasion & occupation operations from WWII-end to 2005 in 69 nations (i.e. 1/3 of total UN member-states at the time) (see William Blum’s excellent ‘Killing Hope’) it would be reasonable to expect that the Periphery are cheering on Russia’s resistance from the sidelines.
4. Given the recent UNGA vote of 141 member-states against Russia’s SMO in Ukraine & 35 member-states voting for – as it was brilliantly pointed out by an Indian diplomat, the 35 nations represent 2/3 (66%) of humanity. Its essential to understand the consequence of this from the perspective of Human Consciousness (see: the 100 Monkeys Effect)
5. Also remember Moscow is the Third Rome (and although I’ve read the entire New Testament but I’m not Orthodox, the more I learn about Orthodoxy, the more I come to appreciate it is closest to the actual Teachings of The Master, than the polluted man-made dogma of the collective West), the point to make is a simple one: if you were Divine and you were witnessing a nation of people of faith bedeviled by the evil of the collective West (I refrain from calling them satanic) – who would you be helping to prevail?
6. As Mahatma Gandhi, aka Gandhiji said “My greatest weapon is mute prayer”.
7. Lastly, prophecy is one of the 9 spiritual gifts. Although few of you know me from a box of chocolates, I can assure you (and I’ve had it confirmed, not once, but twice) that Russia will prevail.
The rest of humanity is counting on her.
One further point:
The US has Mid-term Elections in November – 6 months away. Given the hype around Trump’s ‘No new wars’ mantra and the continual leaks around hunter Biden’s laptop, be not surprised that the Dems lose control of the House & Senate. Although not in itself a hammer-blow to Biden, it certainly will diminish he’s range of opportunity for war-mongering.
If, however, Harris takes over after the Mid-terms, I’m sorry to say, that’s a whole new ball game.
Harris will be President before the year is out. It is common knowledge in the United States, and they are beginning to prepare the people for it psychologically. Biden himself indicated when he was running for the presidency that his resignation would be the most likely response to a troubled term. The details of the transfer have probably not yet been established; they appear to be negotiating over timing. Biden’s granddaughter is scheduled to have her wedding in the White House the day after the Congressional elections. This was probably the family of the Presidency making the statement that they will not transfer power until then. From the other direction comes news stories that the Biden family is being investigated for criminal conduct. This is unlikely to produce much leverage, as Biden has unconditional pardon power for Federal crimes and has likely already issued pardons in secret to protect himself and his family. It is also the dominant thought in the United States that a president cannot be indicted for criminal conduct while he is presidnet. In any event the process of transfering power has already begun behind the scenes and all parties are aware of it.
Thanks Cousin Svetlana,
We all need to remain vigilant.
New EU sanctions aimed at Russia, move Europe closer to collapse.
According to Mercouris, the EU is going to double, triple, quadruple down..
which means oil + gas + everything embargo.
Nuland will fight Russia not only to the last ukie (of course done deal), but also to the last European.
General strike already in Greece…
https://youtu.be/3OfJMIG5Ft8
The Boeing place accident in China a few weeks ago occurred in very suspicious manner. It nose dived into the ground at high speed. This could only occur either by pilot suicide (plausible deniability?) or CIA operation via remote control.
A few days after the incident Politburo of China met to discuss the matter. No detail was published.
Shortly after Shanghai went into lock down.
Does anyone have any info on these chains of event?
I wonder if this is related to South China Sea Virginia class submarine incident? or a warning to President Xi (who told Alzheimer Biden during their virtual meeting last month “he who ties the bell on a tiger must also take it off” )?
You are incorrect. There are many things that can cause a plane to nose dive. Do your research on Alaska Air Flight 261, the piper cub that was struck by PSA Flight 182, the concept of stall and the twin engine aircraft that crashed in Santa Anna, California on August 5, 2018. There is literally no information on what caused the China crash because the investigators are still collecting it.
Keeping in mind the EgyptAir Boeing757, that was auto-hijacked en-route from LA to JFK. It went into a near vertical dive, 2 pilots briefly overcame the hijacked autopilot’s forward force on the control column, then, when they could no longer hold it back, it dived into the Atlantic. (Voice and plane recorders data). China Boeing also briefly nearly leveled off at 8000′.
Maybe they need to get those really fast Bucha investigators on it-they will be done in a day.
Question:
Why does Russia insist on paying its external debt when its own funds have illegally been “frozen,” it has been excluded from Swift, and sanctions are placed on any state that buys Russian fuel?
Why does it simply not declare that as long as these illegal measures are not lifted Russia does not recognize its debt? What more can they do to punish Russia? Will they sanction some long lost third degree cousin of Putin?
Because the people who hold the debt are not necessarily the people who imposed sanctions. Russia actually cares about its reputation for honest dealing. The pushback will come in the form of confiscations of the property of nationals in Russia of those countries that have frozen the reserves. It is not clear how much it is worth but a figure of $300bn or about the same as the frozen reserves… There is also the possibility of abolishing copyright and patent protection.
The Donbas cauldron battle will likely take 4-8 weeks. That’s my wild guess how long stores inside the cauldron will hold out.
8 weeks from today is mid-June.
How would they get food and water in? No chance that they could fly it in, is there?
There are no citizens to hide behind, unless I am mistaken. Surely not weeks but days left?
JMHO.
But GOD is with them. May GOD THE ALMIGHTY, THE WISE guide Putin.
They still don’t have enough manpower for Plan B! (400,000)
No Grand Encirclement is happening or will happen.
Why would they need 400 000 to surround a force of 40-50 000?
I would think overwhelming force if we are talking encircling those gangsters in a cauldron in Donbass,we saw it on a smaller scale at Debelseve.