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🪖🦅 The Kiev regime is the perfect partner for the NATO war machines because of its insatiable demand for ever more weaponry.
The ceaseless corruption of Ukraine under American and European indulgence has led to the abysmal danger of an all-out war with Russia that if it were to happen could end the world in a nuclear conflagration.
Washington and its NATO minions are precluding any diplomatic way out of the crisis because of their lies and criminal Russophobia. The war racket is too addictive for the NATO war junkies and their crime syndicate intel agencies. The logical endpoint of this perverse charade involves the potential of all-out world war.
If you thought the Afghanistan debacle was bad, wait to see the gnashing of teeth over Ukraine 🤕
Tragically, this war – the biggest in Europe since World War Two – could have been avoided if Washington and its European minions had heeded Russia’s security concerns about NATO’s expansion that had long been raised. The Western rulers chose not to deal with Moscow through politics and diplomacy, making an armed confrontation inevitable.
The glib talk of people dying for no good cause, but rather only for a clique of clowns and their imperial circus, is the ultimate sick joke 🃏
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#NATO #Ukraine #war
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🧁World’s Most and Least Obese Countries
The most obese countries by percentage of obese adults are located in South Pacific. The primary cause of the obesity epidemic there is nutrient transmission (change in diet), with a high amount of imported foods high in salt and fat.
At the same time, many of the least obese countries struggle with famine and poverty, with the notable exception of Japan, given that its national diet emphasizes seafood, freshness, modest portions, and minimal added sugar or dairy fat.
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#sc_infographic #food #diet
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🌅 If Russia survives, the rest of the world will survive. Anything opposite from this is surely not an option 🎯
💬 Read more by Tatiana Obrenovic
#Russia #NATO #KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija #war
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In my recent article i mentioned the Orwellian European Peace Facility, a EU fund set up in 2021 to arm Ukraine. Not only the fund, worth €5 billion, was financed outside the budget, for a period of seven years, it was conceived and set up well before the start of Russia's military operation in Ukraine. 📍Now the European Union proposes that €1 billion shall be specifically dedicated to ammunition, particularly 155mm artillery shells, according to a document seen by POLITICO.
The EU is helping supply Ukraine with arms through this inter-governmental cash pot which is used to reimburse countries that export arms to Ukraine. So far, the facility has disbursed €3.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine, with member countries deciding last December to increase its funding by €2 billion in 2023.
To date, the spending needs have been loosely defined but the EU is now placing heavy emphasis on artillery ammunition. @LauraRuHK Read more here https://medium.com/p/7d41818139a9
🤔 The Council of the EU has passed a new resolution on the restrictions of the Russian oil derivatives imports this month. Whether this measure will cause any disruption or damage on Russian producers or not, how will the decision by Brussels influence the energy security in Europe? Will that help them in their hybrid war against Russia?
They have been announcing that resolution much earlier when they passed their resolution on the restrictions of the price of crude oil. This is when the Council encountered a number of opposing critical views within the EU because in doing so new most probably dangerous precedents are being defined, possibly to be abused by other participants in the oil market.
The common market principles and market forces as we know them are being ignored and cancelled, the seller’s products prices are being restricted in that the buyer is literally blackmailing the seller now; if they continue applying such new random unfounded rules, it is debatable what this might lead to. European Union and G7 countries are slowly becoming a major obstacle for the unimpeded trade to occur in the global economy.
This resolution by the Council of the EU seems to be indicative enough in that it even made an exemption about said oil derivatives. What impact will this resolution by the Council of the EU have and what will the energy security in the EU look like soon? Will that help or hinder their hybrid war against Russia?
Meanwhile Russia and China couldn’t care less about their haters 🥳
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#EU #sanctions #oil #embargo #pricecap
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✊ Russell Bentley @TXDPR is a former U.S. soldier who has been living in the Donbass since 2014 fighting against the NATO-backed Kiev regime.
He claims that NATO troops are on the ground as mercenaries, shelling the Donbass region which is now part of the Russian Federation. He testifies that the NATO-sponsored aggression and war crimes have been going on for more than eight years since the CIA-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. NATO provoked the current war against Russia 💥, Bentley says in his interview for SCF.
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🛡After one year of war in Ukraine, Russia has not collapsed in the dramatic way that the United States and its European NATO allies were confidently predicting.
U.S. President Joe Biden in visits to Ukraine and Poland this week hailed the “unity” of NATO and the transatlantic alliance.
The reality is the Western transatlantic alliance is showing signs of fragmenting because of the immense strain on Europe’s economy due to European governments following Washington’s hostile policy towards Russia.
The Ukraine war is merely a manifestation of underlying geopolitics 📍
Contrary to Western great expectations, the Russian economy is holding up strongly and its military operations in Ukraine seem to be gaining the upper hand. This is in spite of the U.S.-led NATO bloc “throwing everything they can” at Russia to defeat it, from endless supplies of weaponry to support the Kiev regime, to endless rounds of economic sanctions in an attempt to collapse the Russian economy.
💬 Glenn Diesen @glenndiesen explains that Russia has long been preparing for confrontation with the United States and its European allies. Ever since the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 and the Western betrayal of the 2014 and 2015 Minsk peace agreements, Moscow quietly realized that it would have to reinforce its economy to withstand the anticipated Western showdown.
Hence, Russia built up its military forces knowing that a conflict was coming. Just as importantly, Moscow took strategic steps to protect its economy by diversifying trade with the emerging Eurasian engine of global growth. Russia had resolved to abandon the centuries-old notion of focusing on Western partnerships for development and instead orientated its economic interests towards China, India, and the Global South.
The West has not realized the deeper geoeconomic shifts and thus presumed that they could punish Russia economically. Biden can longer enforce the old American demand on designated enemies to “Cry Uncle”.
That explains why Russia is not breaking from Western sanctions or from the ferocious military hostility that the U.S. and its NATO have unleashed via Ukraine.
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⚔️ The war in Ukraine is now entering its second year, having reached its first anniversary this week.
On February 24 last year, Russian forces entered Ukrainian territory. The conflict has taken many twists and turns over the past 12 months. But there seems to be one inescapable, paramount development. The contours of hostility have emerged to identify the primary global threat – the United States and its zero-sum obsession with imperialist hegemony.
Strictly speaking, the war in Ukraine is entering its tenth year because the origins of the conflict are traced to the coup d’état in Kiev in February 2014 sponsored by the American CIA and other NATO agents. The NeoNazi regime that was installed then and which continues in power (headed up by a Jewish president nonetheless) was weaponized and covertly supported by the United States and its NATO partners to aggress the Russian-speaking people of formerly southeastern Ukraine. The bigger objective for the regime was to draw the Russian Federation into an existential confrontation that is now underway.
The United States and its NATO accomplices are fighting an imperialist war “to the last Ukrainian” and bequeathing another failed state as they have done elsewhere in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen among others. This time, however, the American Empire is pushing a war against nuclear power, Russia, which is not going to back down. Two existential forces are incrementally going head-to-head.
And most people realize that the United States and its capitalist impoverishing-war-system must be defeated if the world is to ever live in peace 🕊
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#Ukraine #war #imperialism
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🇨🇦🇸🇾 The Canadian government had understood from U.S. intelligence that the Obama plan to destroy Syria was based on using the Muslim Brotherhood, and the political ideology known as Radical Islam, as the foot soldiers inside Syria.
The Canadian government understood that the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated Canadian society and was involved with the Canadian government at the highest levels. The threat to Canada was known, but the decision was made to blindly follow Washington’s dirty war in Syria.
U.S. President Obama is the main villain in this story, but Canada was capable of standing firm against plans to use Radical Islamic terrorists to change governments abroad.
The Canadian government is capable of determining whether the U.S. foreign policy and never-ending wars abroad are in the best interest of Canada 🍁
This is part two of a two-part study on the Canadian role in the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change. You can read part one here.
💬 By Steven Sahiounie
#Canada #Syria
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🤐 If we now take a closer look at the current U.S. societal crisis, given the context of all manner of lies, falsehoods, untruths and false flags we keep hearing and the way they are conveniently spoon-fed to the general public in the USA and the Collective West, the U.S. general public tends to be deeply divided.
There is the rise of scepticism among the pro-Dems population though, the pro-Trump supporters have always been more shrewdly sceptical. There are a multitude of legal investigations in the U.S. about some of these affairs. Yet, the pro-Dems supporters in the U.S. tend to completely ignore what Seymour Hersh has exposed recently.
One pressing issue is how come the members of the U.S. Congress knew nothing about the Nord Stream blast? 🤔
💬 Read more by Tatiana Obrenovic
#NordStream #UnitedStates #CollectiveWest
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🇪🇺 Where does Europe go in the wake of the Nord Stream allegations? It is hard to see a Germany-dominated Europe diverging far from Washington.
The present German leadership is in thrall to Washington and readily has accepted its vassalage. France will – a few hiccoughs aside – stick with Germany. However, as the U.S. observes its dollar sphere contract with the expansion of the BRICS and the East Asian Economic Community, the U.S. will bear down hardest on its captive nearest economies.
Europe will likely pay a devastating price 💸
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
#NordStream #EU #Germany
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🇺🇦🇲🇩 Zelensky’s racket is coming to an end as Russian forces push on with decimating what’s left of the NATO proxy war machine, Finian Cunningham writes.
#Ukraine #NATO #Moldavia
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PUTIN SUSPENDS RUSSIA FROM START
"Russia withdraws from the treaty on strategic offensive weapons but we don't do it officially. For now we are only halting our participation to the START treaty. No US inspections in our nuclear sites can be allowed."
🎈 The Chinese balloon-scare episode gripping America’s political class is comical if it were not so serious in its implications for global security.
More and more, it seems, the United States is a rogue nuclear superpower whose behavior is like that of a delusional psycho armed with an assault rifle 🚨
💬 Finian Cunningham writes
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🇹🇷🌍 Turkey has around 44 embassies across Africa and so is no stranger to the continent.
In January, the foreign minister went ahead with a five-nation visit to Africa, which took him to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe, where he reassured support for the continent. South Africa was in the news recently with regard to the earthquake.
The spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS), Colonel Athlenda Mathe, said a team in Turkey carried out successful rescue missions, including saving an 80-year-old woman found alive in a collapsed building. South African people have also donated generously to help the victims in southern Turkey, Ankara’s ambassador to Pretoria, Aysegul Kandas said recently.
Kandas explained that South Africans have been sending items such as winter tents, generators, and sleeping bags, transported to Turkey on national carrier Turkish Airlines with more donations still being collected.
Other African countries who have reached out and helped with the earthquake rescue or simply showed their empathy towards Turkey are Cameroon, Togo, Uganda and Central African Republic. Of course the sympathy doesn’t always come in the form of money, as we should always remember how poor some of these countries are and how they are struggling themselves, like Uganda for example.
The “pearl of Africa” as Churchill called this land-locked gem, is a country which knows about suffering. Most of the 60s, 70s and 80s the country was ripped apart by civil war, only for the 90s to kick it when it was down with the plight of AIDS which left entire villages in the country at one point bereft of adults. So who could hold back the tears when Masaka Kids Africana – a Ugandan kids’ choir – made a song for Turkey?
Turks are beginning to turn their minds to who they can count on ☝️, Martin Jay writes.
#Turkey #Africa #Uganda #SouthAfrica
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🇷🇸 Serbia has no place in the EU and NATO in the company of enemies, murderers, and oppressors of the Serbian people, but in the organizations such as Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, and BRICS.
The best proof that the brutal sanctions of the collective West that calls itself the “international community” can be survived is Iran, which not only survived the western sanctions but achieved incredible technological progress in the same period.
Therefore, there is definitely another path for Serbia, and to claim that Euro-Altantian integration has no alternative is dangerous, irresponsible, despondent, and unpatriotic.
Should Serbia, even if it has no possibility of regaining control over Kosovo and Metohija at the moment, at least maintain its national dignity by refusing to ever sign the humiliating dictates of the West?
How much can the dignity of a small, defiant nation that loves freedom above all else cost? ❤️💙🤍
💬 Davor Slobodanovich Vuyachich writes
#Serbia #EU #KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija #West
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🗺 For years some of us have been showing how the emerging multipolar world is defined – but goes way beyond – high speed interconnectivity, physical and geoeconomic.
Now, as we reach the next stage, it’s as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two key civilizational vectors of multipolarity. That’s the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.
Metaphorically, it also speaks volumes that Russia’s pivot to the East, towards the rising sun, now irreversible, was the only logical path to follow as, to quote Dylan, darkness dawns at the break of noon across the West.
As it stands, with the wobblin’, ragin’ Hegemon lost in its own pre-fabricated daze, the real runners of the show feeding burning flesh to irredeemably mediocre political “elites”, China may have a little more latitude than Russia, as the Middle Kingdom is not – yet – under the same existential pressure Russia has been put under.
Whatever happens next geopolitically, Russia is at heart a – giant – obstacle on the warmongering path of the Hegemon: the ultimate target is top “threat” China.
The strategists of Russia and China are now working full time on how to return all strands of Hybrid War against the Hegemon 🛡
💬 Pepe Escobar writes
#China #Russia #geopolitics #worldorder
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💢 Pink Floyd's Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine:
"You could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not to advance NATO... You could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'etat... You could have supported the Minsk accords."
"Now we are told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering."
@NewResistance
🎳 When the U.S. begins its pivot away from Ukraine, and looks fully to Europeanise the war, the political class won’t be seen ‘for the dust’ 🌪
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
#UnitedStates #Europe #Ukraine
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📍 The Western world’s threat narrative seeks to disrupt the concept of multipolarity, led by Russia and China, by imposing sanctions and military deterrence.
Sanctions, which have hit the European economy like a boomerang, are being used to destabilize the socio-economic concerns of the European people with the perception of “Russian involvement.”
The West deflects even the crises caused by its own policies by attaching them to the “Russian outbreak,” including the global economic crisis in 2008, the Arab Spring, the Ukraine Maidan Coup, Brexit, and the COVID-19 epidemic.
The immigration wave, economic crises, and far-right tendencies in Europe are basically the result of the Collective West’s actions, of which Europe is also a part. However, the Western media focuses on the “Russian threat” 🐻
💬 By Erkin Oncan
#crisis #Europe #propaganda
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⚔️ Why Arms Control Won’t Be Bilateral Business Anymore
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was suspending participation in the U.S.-Russian New START Treaty, stressing that the country was not withdrawing from the treaty.
“Before we come back to discussing this issue, we must have a clear idea of what NATO countries such as France or Great Britain have at stake, and how we will account for their strategic arsenals, that is, the Alliance’s combined offensive capabilities,” he said.
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💰 Immediately after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, key players in the coalition supporting Ukraine, as well as transatlantic financial institutions and think tanks, were already discussing the governance and financing of Ukraine’s reconstruction.
They invariably framed it as a historic opportunity for the country: like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Ukraine would become a beacon of freedom, democracy and rule-of-law, a testimonial for Build Back Better, a “green and digital economy” success story; the country would leapfrog several stages of economic and governmental development and its economic growth would replicate Germany’s post-war boom. Unsurprisingly, the more recent and far less inspiring examples of Western-led ‘reconstruction’ in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan didn’t earn mention.
The speed with which fantastical narratives of recovery and reconstruction were churned out shouldn’t surprise anyone because they had been concocted years earlier as part of several ‘reform plans’ for Ukraine 🤔
💬 Read more Laura Ruggeri
#Ukraine #war #imperialism
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🗺 The world is yet to see how dangerous the decade before us will be, what the new global geopolitical architecture will look like and who is to build it.
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#geopolitics #multipolarity
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"This way to the multipolar high-speed train."
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🇨🇦 While most Canadians would prefer to think of themselves as free of constraint from U.S. foreign policy, still history will show that most often Canada’s foreign policy is a mirror image of the U.S.
Canada has blood on its hands in Syria 🩸🩸🩸
💬 Read more by Steven Sahiounie
#Canada #Syria
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🗽Washington DC is viewed by many as sending us terribly patronizing cancel culture messages along the lines of “Don’t you dare listen to what Vladimir Putin says”, but this is where a truth bombshell by Seymore Hersh, a seasoned professional in journalism who exposed the Mỹ Lai massacre in Vietnam, comes from.
The 86-year old Seymore Hersh referred to the anonymous but genuine source with all the brutal details told the world how the Nord Stream’s three pipelines out of four in total were demolished.
The Collective Biden is behind it of course 🦅
All the arrangements happened on the last floor of the old building of the Executive Cabinet in Washington DC. One cannot help noticing another grim example in a long succession of examples of U.S. Machiavellianism.
One has to wonder how much their Machiavellianism-ridden political rituals of all shapes and forms have cost the U.S. and the world so far. This is the U.S. effort to plunder as many resources globally and pocket as much profit as possible along the way. Ukraine is undoubtedly one of their ‘profit and power pursuits’.
💬 Read more by Tatiana Obrenovic
#Ukraine #UnitedStates #CollectiveWest
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🇩🇪 As the world holds its breath and gasps at the news that Germany has been egregiously used as America’s pawn in a sick power game which is filling the coffers of U.S. companies and making Joe Biden’s buddies in the military industry billionaires, many will reflect on the judgement of Olaf Scholz and ask whether he is fit to be the German chancellor.
He may have known about Biden’s plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines which would guarantee that Germany would not only throw itself into the war against Russia, but stay at it in the long run, which is bad enough. Or he may not have known and was as shocked as anyone when it happened in June of last year during a NATO exercise.
In either case, Scholz’s judgement will be examined now for a very long time and a process of opprobrium has in fact already started in the same building where he announced that he would throw the lever on a 200 billion euro spending spree to ‘rearm’ the German army: the German parliament.
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
#Germany #Scholz #militarization
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🤑 When in the midst of the raging war i.e. the special military operation on the territory where the conflict is ongoing, there begins an all out though untimely campaign in all-guns-blazing style similar to that one ongoing in Ukraine right now under the feeble pretext of the alleged fight against corruption, when millions of people surely have other way more pressing issues to cope with, such as struggling to save their own lives and those of their family members, one has to assume that this is not an anti-corruption campaign at all but of another type of a (final) reckoning, for which corruption serves as a convenient smokescreen.
Moreover, this topic, funnily enough, has hit the headlines in the Western mainstream media and then all of a sudden the story seems to have died down into a strange sounding silence as if the authors were magically issued commands from the same HQs, only to remain silent up until the moment when they get to be issued another set of directives so as to what exactly to write and what political narrative to push in their journalistic columns or TV screens. One has to try and grasp that it is not just another petty local corruption scandal of no particular significance.
There must be a mountain of more seriously sinister issues lying behind this seemingly miniscule political molehill other than just a negligible anti corruption campaign 🤕
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#Ukraine #corruption
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🇩🇪 If the German leader knew all along about Biden’s bombing plot, then he is complicit in treachery to the German people, Martin Jay writes.
#Biden #Scholz #Germany #NordStream
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