Main trends for the week. Russia and Eurasia are consolidating their sphere of influence in the inner Eurasian heartland and its “rimland.”
The West keeps falling apart.
Russia
Putin abolishes the Crimean District
The Russian president has changed the status of Crimea, turning it into an ordinary Russian province. Does this threaten the peninsula?
Russia and Iran negotiate starting construction of Bushehr NPP second stage
Ukraine
Kiev authorities refuse to grant the agreman to a new Ambassador of Russia, Mikhail Babich. Russia says that it won’t object if Authorities in Kiev want to reduce the level of diplomatic relations.
Roots of a fake nation: “ukrainization” in Soviet era
Ukraine’s currency ‘most undervalued’ in world
Donbass
Civilian casualties highest in a year
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has reported 73 civilians killed or wounded in July. Shelling is responsible for more than half of the recorded casualties, and the rest is due to mines, booby traps and I-E-Ds. Hussein notes that civilians have to flee to improvised bomb shelters in their basements with increasing frequency. The high commissioner has urged both Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces to observe the February 20-15 Minsk ceasefire deal. The conflict has claimed the lives of more than nine-thousand-five-hundred people since April 20-14.
Is NATO buildup in Ukraine is to blamed for the continue death of civilians?
Europe
The British Empire – A Lesson In State Terrorism
For most people in Western nations today, terrorism has become synonymous with large scale spectacular acts of violence by small groups against a civilian population and, within the last 15 years, primarily in the name of one religion in particular – Islam. Historically speaking (and I mean up until the present day) there is no justification for this perception, and it can only have come about through a massive and prolonged public propaganda offensive on the part of those with a vested interest in creating and perpetuating it.
The historical record shows quite clearly that states, or those acting on behalf of the state, have been responsible for the vast majority of large-scale terrorist acts against civilians.
French cops storm barricaded church so it can be turned into parking lot at Sainte Rita
Church demolition: Police quash Paris protest over ‘parking lot’, day after slain priest’s funeral
The US
Some people in the US have started realizing that they have been occupied, and that their country is run by the Trotskyites, and Bandera followers who pledge allegiance to a foreign government.
The Alt-Right Is the Antidote to the Neocon Warmongering Against Russia
Why the Alt-Right believes reconciliation between Russia and the West is the only sensible approach.
The name (((Neo-Con))) suggest an affinity with conservatism, but that is a misnomer at best. Few know that the Neo-Cons are in fact, predominantly ex-Soviets, who fled after Stalin came to power and came to the United States. This school of thought was in fact founded by former Trotskyites, purged by Stalin who managed to quickly incorporate themselves into American political life.
Dazed and confused, the American public has stumbled into the Brave New American Century and is only now starting to wake up to the reality of the takeover of America that has occurred.
Modern historians and political commentators will tell you that a period of profound demoralization hit Russia and many of the former Soviet Republics following the collapse of the USSR. One has to ask, if the West is not now going through the same stage in its own history. Perhaps it’s a little far-fetched, and the time has not yet come to panic…Either way, the Alt-Right will continue to do what it does best: crash the establishment narrative, with no survivors!
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Is Kissinger’s triangular diplomacy the answer to Sino-Russian rapprochement
The current Sino-Russian rapprochement should concentrate the minds of U.S. policymakers on diplomacy designed to prevent a full-fledged Sino-Russian security alliance. A good start would be to reflect on the triangular diplomacy pursued by Nixon as explained by his national security advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
“Triangular diplomacy, to be effective,” Kissinger explained in White House Years, the first volume of his memoirs, “must rely on the natural incentives and propensities of the players.” Kissinger explained that the opening to China and détente with the Soviet Union were pursued as parallel policies designed to enable the United States to “maintain closer relations with each side than they did with each other.” It was always better for the United States, he wrote in Years of Upheaval, “to be closer to either Moscow or Peking than either was to the other.” “America’s bargaining position,” he reiterated in his book Diplomacy, “would be strongest when America was closer to both communist giants than either was to the other.” In his most recent book World Order, he again noted that the design of triangular diplomacy was to balance “China against the Soviet Union from a position in which America was closer to each Communist giant than they were to each other.”
Triangular diplomacy avoided undue moralism. Kissinger, quoting Bismarck, wrote that “a sentimental policy knows no reciprocity.” “[P]redictability,” Kissinger continued, “is more crucial than … idiosyncratic moralistic rhetoric.”
Why Truman’s regime targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki with their atomic bombs?
Because those were two cities in Japan with predominantly Orthodox Christian population.
Informative article on the history of the Orthodox Christianity in Japan.
Eurasia
China’s Belt and Road isn’t only show in town
A new framework of regional cooperation will be taking shape in India’s neighbourhood when the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran meet in Baku for a summit meeting on August 8. The Kremlin readout acknowledges this and says the three leaders will discuss “current issues on the international and regional political agenda and prospects for establishing practical cooperation, particularly in energy and transport”. (Kremlin website)
Much work precedes the summit meeting in Baku next Monday. A trilateral meeting in April at foreign-minister level prepared the ground for it. An impressive package of trilateral cooperation has been put together by the ‘sherpas’ in the recent weeks. The focus is on economic projects, especially connectivity, but the underlying reality is that the three countries are also advancing their political ambitions and the geopolitical implications are at once obvious.
The leitmotif of the trilateral format between the three countries will be intra-regional transportation routes – a North-South energy corridor and a North-South transport corridor. India is an interested party to the proposed North-South Transport Corridor. Last month in Moscow India joined hands with the three countries to sign an agreement to open a North-South railway line in the Caucasus.
The agreement envisages the link-up of the Indian railway system by ship with Iran and, thereupon, heading to European destinations via Azerbaijan and Russia. India proposes to dispatch a demonstration container train on this new line on coming Sunday. Unfortunately, Indian media which gives big coverage to the candidates in the American election and/or the terrorist strike in France failed to comprehend that the new development in connectivity will be, arguably, the most significant geopolitical happening in the region in a long while, with extensive ramifications.
Russia’s Asia pivot many-splendored thing, By M.K. Bhadrakumar
SYRIA
Reports: Russian ‘Ballistic Missile’ Strikes Hit Terrorists’ Targets in Idlib
Large stash of US-made heavy weapons found in terrorist-held Aleppo district
Russian jets bomb Jihadist convoy west of Aleppo
As it was reported elsewhere, ISIS lost 90% of its “revenue” from stile from Syria oil.
The US sponsored terrorists so called “Moderate Rebels” target Aleppo residents with chlorine gas
Turkey
Erdogan’s spokesman: Turkey appreciates Russia’s clear attitude to coup attempt
Pakistan
Russia’s Rostec and Pakistan to sign contract for construction of gas pipeline in October
Egypt
Egypt says kills leader of ISIS Sinai branch suspected of downing Russian plane
The Egyptian military has claimed that it killed the leader of the Sinai branch of Islamic State, suspected of downing a Russian passenger jet over Sinai in October last year.
Abu Duaa al-Ansari, the leader of the ISIS Sinai Peninsula terror group, was killed in northern Sinai, south of the coastal city of el-Arish, Egyptian officials said on Thursday.
A Facebook post on the page of Egyptian military’s spokesperson claimed that “accurate intelligence” allowed security forces to kill the jihadist.
Arts and culture
Alexander Marshal: I am Russian
“I’m Russian and forever Soviet. I am an offspring of a victorious soldier. Don’t get too excited; we still exist. There are many of us who don’t just live to eat. We’ve learned humanism from living in the dying Soviet Union. Not all of us survived, of course. Those who survived have become stronger than steel. We have become three times more Russian, while we rose from the ashes of your conscience. We hold as sacred our Motherland as our Mothers. The world is afraid of us because it knows that Russia teaches those who refuse to understand her rationally. Russia teaches them that besides eating there are things like ethics, humanity, truth. When you hear our Russian “Go onto you,” take it as a very bad news. You have seen how we can fight the wars. If you don’t want to remember, we will remind you and explain you this, once again. Don’t touch Russia, gentlemen. Remember, we become stronger when we fight. Hear us! If you don’t want to listen, we won’t be responsible for consequences. It’s not worth it to test our strength. You, guys, from overseas, you are not messiahs. And we’re not Vietnam, but Russia. Just think about a war with us. Think, think and don’t touch our Mother.”
Thank you for your time
This is what confronts Russia :
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/destruction-islamic-state-strategic-mistake/
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/06/21/israeli-intel-chief-we-dont-want-isis-defeated-in-syria/
Sooner or later Russia and Putin will have to come to term with the fact that Israel views Russia as an enemy and wishes to see Russia’s efforts in Syria comes to nought.
The “neo-cons” in Washington who insist that a tough line be taken with Russia are almost all Jews -some of them dual citizens i.e. holding Israeli citizinship – with a few token Gentiles like John McCain and Lyndsay Graham thrown in for good measure and “plausible deniability”.
The people bankrolling Hillary’s bid for the White House like Haim Saban and George Soros are diehard supporters of Israel and lifelong haters of Russia.
There is nothing “antisemitic” about what I just said, those are just the facts.
Yes, but they view all white independence countries as enemies.. The notion that Russia, a large white christian conservative country exists is like a thumb in their eye.
Mad As Hell,
There is nothing anti-semitic about telling the truth about the Jewish wannabes. They are at least 90% Turkic Mongol from the not so ancient state of Khazaria who adopted Talmudism in the 8th century. Their kingdom was destroyed about 1046 by Svyatislov of Russ. This Khazaria was known in the time of Noah as MAGOG. The tribe of Judah was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD just as Jesus said they would be. The end of Matthew 23 has Jesus telling the Jews that their house would be left to them desolate. What does this tell you. Read Ezechial 38 & 39 and the Apocalypse 20. The Jews of today are GOG and MAGOG. There it is impossible for a Jew to use the psychological weapon of anti-semitism against anyone.
The Khazars that I have been exposed to are:
Work in concert with one another. Have such love for one another tribally that it manifests as zero sum hatred for other humans.
Try to poison, psychological warfare, threats actual violence to achieve their goals.
Are actual satanists that make reference to the devil and being evil often. Have no empathy for the non Khazar. They are selective psychopaths.
They pretend not to be Khazar and join movements that are against their interests repeating templates for those organisations until getting power or influence. Then helping promoting more Khazars within and finally usurping power in orchestration with other tribe members.
Are massively involved in paedophilia scandals.
They are almost completely inseparable from talmudism. If you do try to deprogram them they are likely just to try to kill you.
There is a way to fight;
1. Trump should use Vitamin E and Selenium as it allow careful empathy
2. There is huge inbreeding amoung Khazars. They are advised to be genetically tested to be married. Therefore it is possible to genetically test everyone and see if they are likely Khazar.
3. It is also possible to screen both Khazar and general population for pschopathic genes
4. Do not become the monster that you are trying to fight but winning is essential. Not all Khazars are talmudists but a huge number are.
re: the scandals there. they’re so entrenched in power nobody gets anywhere.
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Chair of UK’s child abuse inquiry resigns
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0805/807053-uk-historical-abuse-inquiry/
The chair of the UK’s independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse has resigned with immediate effect.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she accepted the resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard with regret.
The New Zealand high court judge was the third chairwoman to have been appointed to head the investigation into claims made against public and private institutions which was set up just over a year ago.
First I have heard about the Orthodox centers, but many times many sources many books all say that the second city to get the bomb was an alternate, not even planned till the last days.
Just weeks before the US dropped the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known, Nagasaki was not even on a list of target cities for the atomic bomb.
In its place was Japan’s ancient capital, Kyoto.
The list was created by a committee of American military generals, army officers and scientists. Kyoto, which is home to more than 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, including 17 World Heritage Sites, was at the top of it.
“This target is an urban industrial area with a population of 1,000,000,” the minutes from the meeting note.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182
The epicentre of the atomic bomb that annihilated Nagasaki was St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, the largest Christian cathedral in east Asia. Nagasaki was known as “little Rome”, and for good reason. Nagasaki was targeted because of its Christian heritage. As that fine article states, Truman, was first and foremost a Freemason… an anti-Christian Freemason.
He is typical of those “leading” the west, especially those of today. Western governments are led by zionist controlled lipstickles and traitorous sychophants.
You got to be very careful to deal with mentally disturb,psychopats,alkoholics/drug user politicians of the WEST armed with nukes and all those fancy weapons…Team Mr.Putin/Lavrov doing fine in current situation….
Would like to know more about the Crimea issue. The link to the newspaper tells nothing really about what has happened.
The article even states that crimesns not happy could vote to go back to Ukraine!!!! ??
What happened is that Crimea after the reunification (“occupation”) was a newly added federal administrative region. The west applied sanctions explicitly against Crimea, for example banking (Visa and MasterCard credit cards do NOT work there to this day), tourism bans, foreign investment bans, etc.
What Russian government did was to make Crimea a part of a larger administrative district comprising a large part of south-west Russia. It changes nothing for Crimea, but it will be interesting how the western sanctions will work in the future. They can no longer apply sanctions solely to Crimea, but they will have to enlarge them, and the larger area has many western companies already doing business there.
Again, not a big deal, the Russia is showing the west that Russia is continually at least one step ahead in its’ planning and thinking.
And Crimeans will never vote to get out of Russia, or at least not in our lifetime. They see Russia as their motherland, not Ukraine. The crazies in Kiev are not making themselves more attractive as time goes by. Life for them is actually improving. Now they have electricity supply from continental Russia, the bridge will be done in a year or so, which will make supplies more efficient to get there, main highway accross the peninsula is also being built, bureaucratic corruption has been pretty much rooted out at the basic level and higher up is proceeding apace, defense has been stepped up (I’m guessing about 70,000 trops there now), etc. etc.
You need to keep in mind that for all its’ time within Ukraine, Crimea has been an “autonomous region”, which Kiev government always took to mean “you’re on your own”. Consequently, there was little or no funding from the central government for roads, schools, hospitals and the like. Crimea was really neglested for all those years, and now that the Russian govrnment is in and actually investing money for real improvements and repairs, the difference to the population is huge. Even Tatars don’t want to be part of Ukraine, despite all the western media claims that they are opressed, it is bullshit. Russia has over 100 nationalities and religions, and nobody is oppressed in any way.
All in all, Crimea is fine and it will only get better.
So is Crimea (Sevastopol excluded) an Oblast or a Republic? (My understanding is that there is little difference, but am willing to be educated.) Sevastopol, being the base of the Black Sea Fleet remains a Federal District? Most interested in comments.
Hi, James lake and Стивен
I will write about redistricting of Crimea in my next Russia SITREP in a couple of days.
Thanks for your interest
Thank you Scott,
look forward to reading this
Good for a laugh is crimean news agency featuring ukraine hysteria ,eg moscow has attack aircraft near its border, russian naval ships were chased away from monitoring sea breeze, poro has Indonesias support for the territorial integrity of ukraine and support for the tatars..visitors must clean the beaches….even though my mrs talks to her family every day in Simferopol, somehow I never seem to get any “serious”news re Crimea I have to check out tass……….maybe the Crimean rada is active, passing laws,checking out things, last years investment plans are actually taking efect tnis year, bridge will be finished but presumably kherch ferries are up to the job at the moment,battle against local criminals is ongoing etc etc, maybe life really is fairly normal thank goodness, airports(s) are very busy flights every 15 mins, there was something about Italy investing in crimean vinyards few days ago I think.?????……oh, visiting french politician group saying tatars seemed quite happy………..
Thanks Saker for explanation regard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing…many my friends and myself had this question ..Why those cities ?? now I understand…
Thank you Baaz.
The latest from Sputnik today on the Ambassadorial shenanigans with Kiev. I wonder if Kiev won’t accept the Ambassador level if the current Kiev Ambassador in Moscow will also have to return home. These little petty games know no end:
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160805/1043976096/russia-ukraine-diplomacy-ambassadors.html
Another article on this sayig the Russians should reduce their mission to Charge D’affaires levels:
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/popov-no-ambassador-necessary-russia.html
“Several days ago I wrote that Babich’s assignment to the post of ambassador would mark the beginning of new Russian policy towards Ukraine. Kiev has already made one hostile move by not supporting this candidate. Wonderful! It cannot be excluded that Moscow expected such a move and has prepared a response. Reducing the level of diplomatic relations with Ukraine – which would be Kiev’s fault – is a decision that meets Russia’s interests. This decision could be followed by others which would harm Ukraine’s economy and social sphere. In the least, Russia has enough means in its arsenal to carry out such extremely painful strikes.”
Amazed to read the headline above regarding Orthodox communities in Japan.! Thankyou
I followed some links from the review and found this one simply too cute to ignore. Normal people, normal mishaps, hearth warming:
http://rbth.com/defence/2016/06/09/6-bizarre-road-incidents-involving-the-russian-armed-forces_601707
:-)
“Some people in the US have started realizing that they have been occupied, and that their country is run by the Trotskyites, and Bandera followers who pledge allegiance to a foreign government.”
As I’ve pointed out before, neoliberalism and neoconservatism are hard-core elitist. Moreover, they are predominantly internationalist in the sense that they rally people worldwide for the Greater Good of Zionism/Israel as does Trotskyism. The latter, however, has more or less decomposed completely and is only of historic interest today.
Now, to the extent that there is any noticeable dissent within the US, it’s mostly for arrogant, selfish reasons with some of the less privileged Exceptionals feeling betrayed by an ever more raw, contemptuous Elite. Just like the populist Right in Western Europe (unlike the honorary Euro-trash in Eastern Europe), it is dawning upon them that their glorious Elites have zero commitment to the well-being of the Western Heimat, based on imperialist genocide and the system of Global Apartheid. Case in point: Israel can gaily torture and slaughter its captive populations as much as it pleases; that’s a facet of Zionism which fuels no outrage whatsoever among the West’s decaying, reactionary social strata.
“Modern historians and political commentators will tell you that a period of profound demoralization hit Russia and many of the former Soviet Republics following the collapse of the USSR. One has to ask, if the West is not now going through the same stage in its own history.”
Well, yes and no. A most significant, striking, and interesting similarity is that in both cases it is irrefutably a matter of the ruling circles committing High Treason. Gorbachov and his entourage were what we now refer to as “Atlantic Integrationists” and then, under Yeltsin, Russia was ruled just as today’s Banderite hellhole (minus the carnivals of all-out Fascist reaction). What is now unfolding in the West — entirely rotten and parasitic from the very beginning — is what I just outlined in my previous paragraph: The Western Elites are totally committed to Zionist Bankster internationalism with very little concern for their own Western domestic subjects. The most dramatic proof positive hereof is the deliberate open border policy in lock-step with deliberate imperialist war and conquest. To chauvinist Westerners, this must feel like a huge “backhanded compliment” from their Overlords.
I absolutely agree that Russia did go through a period of profound demoralization in the wake of the break-up of the USSR. That entire course of events was due to a very evil plot which succeeded. In the case of the West, however, there was never any moral fibre to be reckoned with. The neoliberal garbage eulogising greed, violence, and selfishness was firmly in charge ideologically propped up by an arrogant, consumerist mass base. It was great as long as it lasted, I guess.
“Sooner or later Russia and Putin will have to come to term with the fact that Israel views Russia as an enemy and wishes to see Russia’s efforts in Syria comes to nought.”
Russia and Putin already know that and are working with all that in mind. They do not need to put up a neon sign advertising this fact to counter the zionazis, though, there are other means to the desired end…
$2 Billion??? for that!
Shoulda paid $5B, like for that uke fiasco.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/2-billion-cias-bill-for-turkish-coup.html
Who is general Campbell and how he prepared the Turkish coup
Former commander of the International security assistance force (ISAF), carrying out NATO-led operations in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell is a key figure behind the coup attempt in Turkey, according to the authors of an independent investigation of Turkish newspaper “Yeni Şafak.”
According to their sources, he was responsible for the coordinating and directing the soldiers who participated in the events on July 15-16, that is actually for the organization of the coup
Do you see what happens, Larry, when u award the contract to the low bidder?:
https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/60736622.jpg
They’ve just banned the entire Russian Paralympics team from competing in Rio. I wish Russia had boycotted the games totally which would make it seem as if many of the medals won weren’t really earned by the other athletes.
Well, any thoughts about Aleppo. Guess the party’s over…
See Moon of Alabama:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/08/aleppo-again-turns-into-the-focal-point-of-the-war-on-syria.html#more
“The whole attack on Aleppo was planned since at least April. U.S. Secretary of State Kerry prevented Russian reactions against the preparations and build up by holding out a possible cessation of hostilities and a political solution of the conflict. At the same time the U.S. and its allies delivered new weapons and equipment to al-Qaeda in Syria and its aligned forces. Videos from the Jihadi front lines show every fighter in well kept uniforms and armored vests with plenty of weapons and ammunition available.
And a poster wrote:
“It is looking like Syria and Russia have suffered a devastating defeat in what looks like the critical battle of the Syria war. I don’t think the importance of this battle can be easily overestimated. It is, I think, a turning point not just for Syria, but for the world……….”
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Good post on above at Moon; again only time will tell:
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Its possible they did. But as for Richard Sorge,he was in a Japanese prison for being a Soviet spy long before Kursk was planned.He was one of the greatest or even “the” greatest spy of the 20th Century. And is almost unknown to the general public today.Here are a few comments from famous people about him:
“A devastating example of a brilliant success of espionage.” – Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army.
“His work was impeccable.” – Kim Philby
“In my whole life, I have never met anyone as great as he was.” – Mitsusada Yoshikawa, Chief Prosecutor in the Sorge trials who obtained Sorge’s death sentence.
“Sorge was the man whom I regard as the most formidable spy in history.” – Ian Fleming
“Richard Sorge was the best spy of all time.” – Tom Clancy
“The spy who changed the world.” – Lance Morrow
“Somehow, amidst the Bonds and Smiley’s People, we have ignored the greatest of 20th century spy stories – that of Stalin’s Sorge, whose exploits helped change history.” – Carl Bernstein
“Richard Sorge’s brilliant espionage work saved Stalin and the Soviet Union from defeat in the fall of 1941, probably prevented a Nazi victory in World War Two and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today.” – Larry Collins
“The spies in history who can say from their graves, the information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group.” – Frederick Forsyth
“Stalin’s James Bond.” – Le Figaro