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Neil Wilson eta Errusia, MTM tartean
(a) Errusiaren gaineko zigorrak eta MTM: https://unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2022/03/02/errusiaren-gaineko-zigorrak-eta-mtm/
(b) Errusiako toketa fiskala: https://www.unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2022/03/17/errusiako-toketa-fiskala/
Zenbait twitter
VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/congress-american-workers-war-russia/
via @TheGrayzoneNews
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“NATO peacekeepers,” like “lethal aid” & “no-fly zone” are terms that are part of NATO lingo and mean the exact opposite of what they appear to mean to unsuspecting ears. NATO knows this, as do the media. Yet they continue with this deliberate deception.
George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely
This is hilarious. Elderly Ukrainians living in US happily justify Ukrainian collaboration with Hitler and explicitly link Ukrainian nationalists’ murderous Russophobia of that time with their Russophobia today.
@FoxNews interviewer appears befuddled.
youtube.com
WWII refugees discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Refugees who fled Ukraine during World War II discuss Russia’s invasion of the country today. #FoxNewsSubscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly
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Anatoly Shariy, whose political party named the ‘Party of Shariy’ was just banned by Zelensky, explains that Ukrainian SBU intelligence – led by “The Strangler” – is disappearing, torturing and murdering anyone who has spoken a single word criticizing the regime.
Continued below.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1505619547566530563
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Zelensky: Our army is just like the IDF.
Palestinians: To hell with it then. Libs: How dare you!?
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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely
It is shocking that Zelensky’s patrons–Biden, Johnson et al–have done nothing to rein in his wild threats to unleash World War III. One can only surmise that they are perfectly happy with such talk.
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David, they’re publicly torturing anyone accused of being a traitor.
Txioa aipatu
David Frum@davidfrum
Mar. 19
Ukraine may be the first example in human history of a country that under the pressure of war is becoming *more* tolerant and *more* liberal
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Z IS A DICTATOR! BANS OPPOSITON PARTIES. do you see him now?
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#UKRAINE using civilian objects, such as, inter alia, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, mid and highrise apartments, and administrative buildings as barracks, military staging and storage, firing locations, and artillery positions. #ABC confirms. Next #CNN and @POTUS? #Russia
Hurrengo multimedia-fitxategiak sentiberatasuna mindu dezakeen edukia izan dezake. Aldatu ezarpenak
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ABC visits a school in #Ukraine that has just been turned into a military target. “This school has been made into a massive military warehouse,” says ABC reporter. Ukraine military has allegedly been using schools, hospitals & public buildings.
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Pouring in weapons, targeting Russian civilians w/ sanctions, & siding w/ neo-Nazis over Minsk accords is the “responsible progressive position on Ukraine”,
@BernieSanders aide declares.
Pandering to DC war fever makes it easy to grasp why progressives are in a weak position:
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Matt Duss@mattduss
mar. 20
This is apparently hard for some folks to grasp because it’s not true in many other areas of foreign policy, but a responsible progressive position on Ukraine is basically what Biden is doing right now.
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Has any big news agency offered a correction of their claims that the “abandoned mall” was a civilian target now that the Ukrainian side admits their military was there?
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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely
Hungary seems to be the only country these days that shows any common sense. No wonder the Ursula von der Leyen types are determined to get Viktor Orban out.
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Velina Tchakarova@vtchakarova
mar. 21
Hungary will veto EU sanctions on Russian gas, a no-fly zone and an EU peacekeeping mission.
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Welcome to 2022, where German government broadcaster
@dwnewsmis acting as a public relations agency for Nazis. https://dw.com/en/the-azov-battalion-extremists-defending-mariupol/a-61151151
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“Never before have I seen a city so completely devastated. Not just in one district area, but almost entirely. Think Dresden and you’d be close. Street after street of windowless, hollowed-out buildings. Miles of rubble. Piles of twisted metal. Utter ruin”
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NEW PODCAST! What is BIDEN HIDEN in UKRAINE?
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So why is the glass still intact in the shop windows?
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Idrees Ali@idreesali114
Mar. 21
Dead bodies lie on the ground at the site of a bombing at a shopping center as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 21, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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George Szamuelyo@GeorgeSzamuely
A rare article that escapes the all-pervasive cliches.
(Ikus beheko artikuluak, Robert Paul Wolff-ek idatziak)
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a Mariupol eyewitness says that Mariupol theatre was blown up by Ukrainian Azov Battalion and was not bombed from air. IMO this appears to be honest information amidst tsunami of
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tim anderson@timand2037
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Eyewitness from #Mariupol and of the theatre bombing. Warning: if your state propaganda convinced you to not listen to the #Russian language, stop now. From #Donbass Insider.
Erakutsi haria
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Robert Paul Wolff
MEANWHILE THE WORLD GOES ON
https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2022/03/meanwhile-world-goes-on.html
(…) I have along the way been watching the endless television coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I wrote a brief post several days ago designed to emphasize the danger that is posed by Vladimir Putin’s implied threat of using nuclear weapons. Today I would like to expand on this because it is far more important than anything else happening at the present time. It was the danger of a nuclear war that got me involved in politics more than 60 years ago. I was one of many people around the world who worked unsuccessfully for nuclear disarmament. If it was obvious then it is equally obvious now that a war fought with nuclear weapons would simply end the world as we know it. I will not bother to take any time explaining why this is so unless there is someone reading this blog so dim as not to understand it.
From the very beginning, it was obvious that there were three ways in which we could stumble into nuclear war: through escalation of conventional warfare that got out of hand and led to the use of nuclear weapons; through accident or the mistaken interpretation of unclear evidence in a battlefield situation; and through the deliberate decision of someone who had lost the ability to make rationally self-interested decisions and self destructively initiated the use of nuclear weapons.
All three of these are threats in the present situation. It is obvious that direct military confrontation between NATO and Russian forces could easily lead to an escalation resulting in the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons which could then very quickly and uncontrollably lead to the use of strategic nuclear weapons. It is also clear that if Soviet and American fighter jets were to confront one another over Ukraine, it would be fatally easy for a jet pilot armed with nuclear weapons to misread a battlefield situation and make a split-second wrong decision that would result in nuclear weapons being used. It also appears to be the case, although I am an absolutely no position to judge the likelihood of this, that Vladimir Putin, confronted with a humiliating and even career ending military defeat in Ukraine, could issue orders for the use of nuclear weapons, even though it would certainly result in his death. Whether those orders would be obeyed or not is something that none of us can rationally judge.
If we do survive this, God willing, I think it is actually possible that this crisis will work to the benefit of the Democrats in the midterm elections. Wouldn’t that be enjoyably ironic!
I have been reassured by the flat refusal of Pres. Biden and the American military to even consider establishing a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine through the use of American military jets. The calls for the establishment of such a no-fly zone by American politicians are irresponsible and literally insane, but at least thus far the American military establishment and its political rulers appear firmly committed to resisting all such demands.
This gives Russia a great tactical advantage, of course. That fact was well understood half a century ago by people thinking and writing about nuclear war and it was one of many reasons why those of us who sought nuclear disarmament argued that nuclear weapons were never a satisfactory form of defense. But we lost that argument and so here we are, in 2022, hoping that Vladimir Putin is rationally self-interested or, alternatively, that close to him are advisors and generals who will if necessary kill him.
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TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ONCE AGAIN
https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2022/
According to what seem to be reliable reports, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stalled. The Russians are said to have suffered the deaths of 10,000 or more troops and two to three times that many wounded. The Russian losses of tanks and other armored vehicles are apparently huge and continuing. In the past few days, there have been more and more discussions in the media about the possibility of Russia resorting to the use of what are referred to as “tactical nuclear weapons.” I do not get the impression that the people talking about this on television have the slightest notion of what a “tactical nuclear weapon” would be or what conceivable use it would be in the Ukraine war.
I have talked about this on this blog quite recently and I am going to repeat now things I said then. If you find this tiresome, go somewhere else and amuse yourself on another blog. This is far and away the most important thing now happening in the world and I am going to talk about it again and again and again.
The distinction between strategy and tactics has for centuries been a part of military discourse. The term “tactics” refers to maneuvers or decisions or actions taken on a particular battlefield in the context of a particular battle. How to combine tanks with foot soldiers to greatest effect is a question of tactics. Whether to combine all of one’s forces or spread them across the field of battle or perhaps divide them into several wings to surround the enemy forces is a matter of tactics. So are the decisions about how most effectively to combine airpower with ground maneuvers. The Russian decision to divide into several columns the forces advancing from the north on Kyiv is a matter of tactics.
The weapons referred to as “tactical nuclear weapons” are fission bombs each of which is rated as the equivalent of perhaps 3000 to 5000 tons of TNT or some similar explosive. This is referred to in shorthand as a 3 KT or 5 KT tactical nuke, a catchy form of speech that sounds hep and knowledgeable, what was called when I was young “inside dopester.”
Let us think about this for a moment. If Russia were to send a flight of 50 heavy bombers to attack the capital city of Ukraine and if each of these bombers were to carry four so-called “blockbuster” bombs, each containing the equivalent of 1000 pounds of TNT, and if all 50 of these bombers were to drop their bombs on the capital city, causing enormous amounts of destruction and death, this would be an attack using a total of 100 tons of high explosive. If Russia were to send such a flight of bombers every day for a month, it would at the end of that month have delivered to Kyiv an explosive power equivalent to one so-called tactical nuclear weapon rated at 3 KT. In one month, Russia would have destroyed Kyiv with conventional weapons. Using a single tactical nuclear weapon, Russia would destroy Kyiv in roughly 3 seconds. To ensure the complete destruction of Kyiv, Russia might have to double down and use two or three tactical nuclear weapons. Not by any stretch of language can this be called a “tactical decision.”
The phrase “tactical nuclear weapon” is a contradiction, a deception, a device employed by people who seek some way of justifying the use of weapons, which they possess, for which no justified use can be found.
Russia is said to have 4000 nuclear weapons. As I have said before and will say again and again, if a nation has nuclear weapons and the people who control those weapons cannot be deterred by rational self-interest, there is nothing anybody can do to stop them from using those weapons.
Vladimir Putin cannot use nuclear weapons. It is not he who sits in the bunker or flies the plane or enters the codes into the device that launches the weapon. He gives orders. If he were to order the use of nuclear weapons, “tactical” or otherwise, would the generals and the colonels and the majors and lieutenants obey his orders? I have no idea. If he were to order the use of nuclear weapons and if the officers who actually control those weapons were to obey his orders, would the weapons actually fly or would they splutter and fizzle? I have no idea and I do not know whether American military commanders know either.
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1 Phil Armstrong in Conversation with Neil Wilson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgfZuXm-_2E; Episode 84 – Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183;
Episode 86 – Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929;
An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer (the paper, and author interviews):
Part 4: How Neil Wilson discovered MMT (and Reddit)
Part 5: Neil Wilson: Real-world economics requires understanding dynamics.
