Ukraine SITREP June 30, 2015 by Raskolnikova

Thanks for the sitrep Raskolnikova.

I’m puzzled by one thing: In the Italian video it says that shoe exports to Russia have been affected by sanctions. But shoes aren’t sanctioned. Can anyone explain this to me?

Thanks.

OT
Couple of new things regarding Greece.

1. Greece’s financial problems would be far less severe if they hadn’t been spending more than other Europeans on the military. One reason why France & Germany kept okaying loans may have been because they were spending money on French & German military contractors.

6/30/15 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42283.htm Even after five years of economic catastrophe, Greece’s annual military budget amounts to $4 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute– 2.2 per cent of GDP. Total debt of $320 B is 175 per cent of GDP. In the decade the onset of crisis in 2010, Greece was regularly spending 7% of GDP on military. Some estimate that during that decade the country spent a total of $150 billion on defence – or half of the current debt pile. The Berlin and Paris governments continued to ply Greece with loans because the country was using the money to buy massive amounts of weapons from their manufacturers.

2. ” Greece’s real time bomb is an estimated $ 3 trillion to $ 5 trillion in credit default swaps, most of them probably held by large US banks and Deutsche Bank. If Greece actually defaulted, these sums would definitely trigger a chain reaction and take down the whole global financial system. That is why a Greek default must be prevented at all costs”.— Ernst Wolff http://www.4thmedia.org/2015/06/exclusive-how-close-to-the-abyss-is-the-world-financial-system/

How much more clear does the junta need to make it to Russia before Russia gets the message.They intend to join NATO,and plan on acting as Russia’s eternal enemy.Do they need to put it in bright lights over Kiev for Russia to understand that.As long as the junta holds power they will be a blood enemy of Russia’s. Every time Poroshenko opens his mouth to discuss NATO he says they plan on joining them.I know he’s a notorious liar.But when it “looks like a duck,and quacks like a duck.The odds are its a duck”.What he plans is to keep going for it until he gets it.Sooner or later he will build enough influence with the Russophobes in NATO to make it happen.First he needs to build momentum among the populous.Make them buy into that plan as the “only way to protect them from evil Russia”.He’s working hard on that now,with some success.And the longer this crisis lasts the easier it will be for him.They are doing what they did with the EU membership.Fire the people up with the idea,and it becomes a “given” in peoples minds.The US,Canada,Britain,the Baltics,Poland,Romania,are certain to agree to that. To “stop evil Russia from enslaving Ukraine,they will be forced to protect them in NATO”.Then they work on the other “bribed” members,and they have it.

If Putin runs again,his term would end in 2024.The next,certain to be Russophobic,US President will still be in office in the US.And if Poroshenko pushes for a referendum (which for sure he would win.Remember who counts the votes.) They will make the play for it then.I doubt they will wait for 2021 though.I see that moved up as soon as the US ok’s it.Any talk about “assuring Russia that Ukraine will never join NATO” is total BS.Are they going to make a “pinky swear” on it. Maybe another pledge like they gave Gorbachev,except this time it will be “NATO won’t expand one inch further East”.Certainly the Russians can believe that again.It worked so well the last time around.The facts are, for anyone to see that’s looking.The US wants missile bases on Russia’s borders,close to Moscow.And advanced operations bases inside Russia’s “protection zone”,and in Black Sea ports,say maybe Mariupol and Odessa.A hop,skip.and a jump from the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.

But lets say for a minute for the sake of argument,Ukraine doesn’t join NATO officially.There is nothing stopping NATO states from effecting state to state security agreements with the junta.And using Ukraine as a base for constant destabilization of Russia.So lets say Donbass gets some kind of trumped up “autonomy” (whatever they call it).Remember Crimea had “autonomy too.Yet they had to have a coup in the council chamber to be able to save themselves from what was coming their way.So “autonomy” alone is no panacea for them.The same corrupt pro-NATO junta would be in power.With their fascist sidekicks (Avakov et al),and Russophobic political parties.There will be constant provocations against pro-Russian supporters,including beatings and murders.The borders will be porous for the Right Sector (and others) to infiltrate agents and sabotage squads into Donbass,Crimea and Russia proper.Kiev will be the new spy capital of the World (Berlin and Vienna’s old role during Cold War I).Ukraine will host plenty of NGO’s and CIA posts to work on the Caucasus,Belarus, and Central Asia.Sending “volunteers” for terror raids.And as a “brother state” NGO’s working with Russian 5th column elements.As long as the junta retains control of Ukraine there is a fully open Pandora’s Box right on Russia’s most important border.Russia should never agree to the junta keeping power.Not under any circumstances.While the Kremlin wants a “whole” Ukraine, “Russia friendly”, or at least neutral.If that can be accomplished that would be best.But sometimes you can’t get what you want.And have to settle for the next best.And that is a full Novorossian state as a buffer.As the old song says “You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need “.

Another news is regarding the bridge to Crimea.

The final version of the bridge project was submitted to “GlavGosExpertise” yesterday.

Details are here in Russian
http://www.rg.ru/2015/07/01/most-site.html

Interview with director general of “Giprostrojmost” responsible for the project Iliya Rootman
colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2261762.html

Also photos
http://peremogi.livejournal.com/10415019.html

China ratifies the creation of BRICS bank

The launch of the BRICS bank is seen as a first step in breaking the dominance of the US dollar in global trade, as well as dollar-backed institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, both US-based institutions that BRICS countries have little influence within.

Grain of salt time again.

There are now a lot of stories about Tsipras offering more concessions etc… and rely on a letter he supposedly sent. They’re just stating as fact that a letter was sent. Nothing about who to, or more importantly, about when.

It could easily have been sent days ago.

Only one story mentions the original source (and Financial Times is behind a paywall so we can’t check it). This one very early BBC story says “a letter seen by Financial Times”… so how did they see it? did they see it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33345219

Sounds to me a lot like trying to pressure the Greek people into thinking Tsipras is BETRAYING them, still making deals behind their backs. Well, they DO want him to lose the vote,don’t they?

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I just put in an order for a truckload of salt, costing me too much to buy small box at a time.