Ukraina/ Errusia/ AEB + EB + NATO/ Txina (38)

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

When I came to the US as a youngster, I loved the country more than anything else, and I was surrounded by generous neighbours who made me feel welcome. It was easy to integrate. This America still exists, but not in Washington.

True America is not Biden, Blinken, Trump, Pompeo, Hillary or George W. Bush. True America is the mid-West where I grew up in an Irish neighbourhood, where honesty and family values counted.

Samuel Ramani@SamRamani2

BREAKING: Germany announces that it will restart coal-fired power plants in order to conserve natural gas

Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

Quite an extraordinary document produced by China’s embassy in the US: an extremely detailed point by point rebuttal of Blinken’s China speech. If you want to understand Chinese perception of the US’s China policy, one of the best docs I’ve come across. http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zmgx/zxxx/

Iraq’s government just inaugurated construction of 1000 schools that are being built with help from China. The US brutally bombed and militarily occupied Iraq for years. The People’s Republic of China, on the other hand, is building schools there

Ukraininas and Europeans are ready to DIE for the American Hegemony. All Empires fall and We are witnessing the fall of the United States Empire

Not fascistic at all banning everything culturally Russian, affecting over a third of their own population, while their army is run by paramilitary Nazis.

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

The idea was clear as day – To suddenly violently crush Russian economy, to hit Russian’s industry, finance, people’s living standards by destroying business chains, forcibly recalling Western companies from Russian Market and freezing Russian assets. This did NOT work. – Putin.

Incredible to see western mindset that has a deep distrust of their own govts domestic policies and yet so readily believes everything they are told about nations such as China, Iran and Russia. Even more incredulous is their failure to see their own contradictory behaviour.

China’s imports of Russian LNG have increased by 56% over the past year. Beijing is also increasing purchases of energy from Iran

Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

#Russia warned #Lithuania – that announced that all Russian goods transit will be banned to #Kaliningrad – that its move is considered a violation of long-standing treaties and a provocation. Lithuania is offering itself as a wood for the #US fire and war against Russia.

Russian Federation Council commission for the protection of sovereignty. EU must correct the situation with the blockade of Kaliningra or Russia will have a free hand to resolve the issue by any means.

“Cultural breaks” with all things Russian began in the 1990s: Solzhenitsyn documented them. They escalated during the West-backed 2004 Orange Revolution and especially after the 2013/4 Maidan regime change to the point of all major int’l human rights orgs sounding the alarms.

tim anderson@timand2037

War media lies. #Ukraine media falsely accuses #Russian forces of shelling the (Russian speaking) citizens of #Donetsk, which Russian and Allied forces have liberated. In fact Donetsk is currently being shelled by #Ukrainian armed forces.

Does Australia exercise the same forbearance when it comes to the internal affairs of Russia and China? Australia has never said anything about Navalny, the Uighurs, Magnitsky, Hong Kong?

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

These clowns really need to stop with this endless “Russian disinformation” trope. It’s not helping.https://theguardian.com/world/2022/jun

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Confronted by the inevitable consequences of its idiotic sanctions policies—now going so far as cutting off Russia’s railway link to Kaliningrad (HQ of Russia’s Baltic fleet)–the EU has no retort other than to cry “Russian disinformation.”

tim anderson@timand2037

Meet the criminals who are starving #Syrians . Before 2011, #Syria was a major exporter of #wheat. After the US occupation of the NE and daily theft and burning, Syrian wheat production fell from 4 million tons in 2011 to 1 million tons, 2021. From Rida Ali.

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

“The West will NEVER regain Moscow’s trust.” – Dmitry Peskov.

We want a World without hegemonic Empires. – Nikolas Maduro.

for all intents and purposes america has been at war in ukraine since the first bullets fired on maidan square in january 2014

Lithuania blockades goods from the Kalingrad enclave; Russia vows retaliation and launches military exercises off the coast in the Baltic Sea. Meanwhile, the US is treaty-bound to defend NATO member Lithuania — another brilliant foreign policy move by Dick Cheney and George Bush

Hawks in April: Don’t call it a proxy war!

Hawks in May: Of course it’s a proxy war!

Hawks in June: It’s not their war, it’s our war! ~

@DanielLarison

The Sirius Report@thesiriusreport

Turkey is now considering leaving NATO. This would have enormous ramifications on many levels.

Zhang Meifang张美芳@CGMeifangZhang

China government official

The US bombs, and China builds

Nina Byzantina@NinaByzantina

Merchandising perfection

Benjamin Norton@BenjaminNorton

The British army chief told his soldiers to prepare for World War III with Russia US and European imperialists are willing to blow up the planet to save their decadent empires These genocidal maniacs would rather destroy humanity than lose their hegemony

China and Russia are as inseparable as ever. This is an Alliance of two autocratic giants, which poses the greatest geopolitical task for West since the end of the Cold War. Connection between the countries is stronger now, and forces that can separate them are weak. – Bloomberg

Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast

Readovka on their unsuccessful attempt to get the Norwegian MOD to comment on Norwegian military aid being used to attack civilians in Donetsk

*What* blockade? You’re consistently making stuff up and pretending it’s a fact…

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

At St. Petersburg Putin stated: “US and EU sanctions – in particular fertilizer and grain exports – are one of the reasons for growing global food insecurity…

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

Russia is ready to send food to Africa and the Middle East ... but faces logistical, financial, transport obstacles imposed by the West.

The Sirius Report@thesiriusreport

Kaliningrad: Lithuania claims it is not interested in escalation. Trilateral agreement with Russia and EU on passenger transportation remains in place. EU assured Moscow that there is no intention to have a blockade of Kaliningrad. Let’s see what happens next

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

The German economy and German companies are painfully enduring anti-Russian sanctions. – Scholz.

The Sirius Report@thesiriusreport

So the EU has decided that Russian food and fertilizers are now free from sanctions. Reality has finally set in. Only took them nearly 4 months.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

He’s been proven right about Ukraine and there’s no reason to feel confident these comments about nuclear war won’t prove right as well.

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Definitely worth watching.

Michael Tracey@mtracey

In May 2003, during the initial frenzy of the Iraq invasion, the Senate unanimously approved NATO expansion for the Baltic states (including Lithuania) in part to reward their participation in the Iraq War. George W. Bush specifically thanked Joe Biden for delivering the votes

zerohedge@zerohedge

Ukraine Bans Main Opposition Party, Seizes All Its Assets

Netherlands: Without additional measures, it is impossible to guarantee sufficient filling of gas storage facilities in Europe for the winter, so the Netherlands lifted all restrictions on the production of electricity at coal-fired power plants. All completely unnecessary.

Africa Archives ™@Africa_Archives

Ukraine president, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, addressed the African Union yesterday. Out of 55 invited heads of state only four (4) attended the virtual session.

Zelensky addressed the African Union. Only 4 out of 55 invited heads of state attended the virtual session.

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Bizarrely, for many years, he wrote–and maybe still writes–a regular column for @RT_com

Louis Allday@Louis_Allday

Lessons on “leftism” from Zizek in The Guardian = as awful as you’d expect

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Fine takedown of Slavoj Zizek’s imbecility.

francis o’hara@frankandbri

@Louis_Alldayerabiltzaileari erantzuten

If NATO never existed Ukraine would not have this war. NATO is and always was to further US interests only even at the expense of Europe. V. Nuland Quote ” Fuck the EU.” explains a lot.

Clear Vision@ClearVision99

@Louis_Allday

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If anything good has come out of this conflict, it is exposing the true colours of the popular “Intellectuals” we all have looked up to for many years, but not anymore.

@ClearVision99

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@Louis_Allday

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I’m so happy I never have to try to understand Lacano-Hegelianism ever again.

Mortimer@KenRecker1

@Louis_Allday

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Anything arguing for a stronger NATO might come from the gates of hell itself

Russia announced a special military operation after being left with no other means to make it clear to the West that it is engaging in criminal activity by dragging Ukraine into NATO, by coddling and doting on a neo-Nazi regime. – Lavrov

FACT: Only a handful of white countries are interested in Ukraine. Vast majority of the world could care less. NATO is unpopular and so are its wars.

Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal

How it started how it’s going

Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said in an interview with NBC regarding Ukraine, “Yes, it will be a long crisis. We will never trust the West again.”

New studies have shown the US has killed 6 million people over the past 20 years with the ‘War on Terror.’ It’s a truly insane number. The US government has no moral authority to criticize any other nation. Stop listening to war criminals.

I love the solidarity against western hegemony coming from Latin America and the African continent. It’s really a historic time.

Russia’s ruble hit a seven-year high, cementing its status as the world’s best-performing currency. It has gained about 35% so far this year, and has more than doubled from a low after the invasion of Ukraine.

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

Long Range Missiles From US & UK Part Of Ukraine’s Plan to Attack Russia... https://youtu.be/wIrKkPuxvaM Honen bidez:

@YouTube

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Long Range Missiles From US & UK Part Of Ukraine’s Plan to Attack…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned Kyiv against attacking Russian cities. Lukash

Australia’s new PM, Anthony Albanese, will fly to Europe to attend a meeting of NATO, the warmongering organisation, with which Australia has no formal connection. “I will show support for Ukraine” says the man who has shown no support, zero, for his own citizen, Julian #Assange.

tim anderson@timand2037

#NATO, through its puppets, began the war on #Russia, through the #Donbass

There are more people in Kaliningrad than in Alaska. Imagine if Canada cut off rail access to America’s northernmost state, at the urging of overseas powers. How would America respond? Why do we expect Russia to act differently?

The idea that EU sanctions against Russia entitle Lithuania to blockade Kaliningrad is absurd. Lithuania is required to provide rail access to Kaliningrad by a bilateral 1993 treaty with Russia. It can only withdraw with 6 months’ notice — which it hasn’t provided

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

“We are funding the Ukrainian government, if we stop fuding everything would collapse, Mr Zelensky would climb on an airplane where He owns a mansion.” – Colonel Douglas Macgregor.

70% of EU imports of thermal coal, used for generating electricity, come from Russia. EU nations have clearly not thought this through, as ever

Klara V.@KlaraV99242327

@GeorgeSzamuely

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Brussels clearly unhappy when nations defy their wishes so want to change the “rules”. It is western democracy so apparently ok. Von der Leyen: EU must be able to respond faster to geopolitical developments and should end the unanimity requirement in foreign policy decisions.

zerohedge@zerohedge

Russia and Saudi Arabia are making $2Bn from oil exports every day. They are not buying US stocks or bonds, and Russia isn’t really importing much of anything these days, so what exactly are they recycling it into

Putin on BRICS

zerohedge@zerohedge

*PUTIN: OIL SUPPLIES TO CHINA, INDIA GROWING NOTICEABLY

*PUTIN: BRICS ARE WORKING ON BASKET-BASED RESERVE CURRENCY

Putin: BRICS alliance is developing a reserve currency based on a basket of commodities.

Kim Dotcom@KimDotcom

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word:

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The West is now blockading Russia’s equivalent of Alaska. The Kremlin has stockpiled tactical nuclear weapons there and is threatening “serious consequences” against NATO. It’s the #1 story in Russia, while U.S. and European papers pretend the crisis doesn’t exist!

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

It’s even more repugnant that @nytimes doesn’t wonder how it came to be that so many Nazis made their way to the US and Canada. Nor is there the slightest acknowledgment that for decades after World War II US refused to cooperate with USSR in hunting down Nazi war criminals.

When America blockaded Cuba in 1962, we called it a “quarantine” – but it almost started WW3 with the Soviet Union. Today, we’re blockading Kaliningrad, and calling it a “transit ban.” But it’s still a blockade, and it still risks WW3 with Russia.

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MI NEWS@SNMilitary

“Negotiations are underway to open Indian chain stores in Russia ” – Vladimir Putin.

Heating coal in Poland has increased from $225 to $680 per ton. Deputy Minister of State Assets admits it will take at least 2-3 years to increase coal production in Poland. Fuel shortages look a certainty for Poland this winter. Must maintain energy embargoes no matter what.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

The US empire is going to destroy economies, starve people by the millions, start wars, and wage increasingly risky nuclear brinkmanship in its campaign to subvert Russia and China and secure unipolar planetary domination, but we need the US-led world order to maintain the peace.

Argentina: BRICS is of great significance for the building of a new more multipolar and balanced world. There are no strings attached and all cooperation is mutually beneficial. Welcome to a new reality. Nations cooperating. Washington only wants vassal states.

The World must fight together against hegemony and the politics of power. – Xi Jinping.

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

Zelensky warns that Russia is pressing strongly towards Donetsk. As several Donbass villages fall and Severodonetsk cannot withstand attack Russian Forces, Russia is launching an intensified attack on Donetsk and Kharkov. – Media.

tim anderson@timand2037

#Biden blames #Russia for his own mistakes and promises to save the world from the consequences of #Washington‘s economic warfare. Only children will believe this drivel.

Joe Biden just said the quiet part out loud: “This is a time of war. Global peril. Ukraine. These are not normal times.” No, they aren’t, Mr. President. Your policies have brought humanity to the brink of annihilation.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

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The right-wing oligarchy is losing its mind: Venezuelan President Maduro just had a phone call with Colombia’s new left-wing president-elect Gustavo Petro. They discussed re-opening the border and peace. (The US and Colombia’s current puppet regime still recognize clown Guai)

Prime Minister of Lithuania adamantly denies that they’ve blockaded Kaliningrad, because certain goods are still being allowed to transit. Likewise, the US has definitely not been blockading Cuba for the past 60 years, because it still allows certain goods to transit

according to kevin, evacuating children from donbass so they don’t get killed by ukrainian shelling is “genocide” the evacuations started on february 18th, by the way, a week before the war, when ukraine began systematically destroying civilian infrastructure with artillery

Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast

Another Ursula banger after “Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective”

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

People Don’t Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It Would Mean “We’re being sedated into a propaganda-induced coma while immensely powerful people play profoundly dangerous games with our lives.”

France and Germany pressured African Union leaders for months to join a brief Zoom call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. 51 of 55 African heads of state (93%) boycotted the meeting, showing clear neutrality over the Western proxy war with Russia.

Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM

Gustavo Petro already spoke to Nicolas Maduro and seeks to reopen the border with Venezuela and fully restore human rights. First step in mending its relationship with its vital, anti-imperialist neighbor.

Hate speech between countries poisons the international political climate and endangers world peace and stability. NATO countries are keen practitioners of Russophobia and Sinophobia, disseminated by most of the media on a daily basis, contravening article 20 ICCPR

The Western stance on the Ukraine war is disconcerting in that it fails to acknowledge the root causes of the problem and simply repeats the propaganda that led to it. A reality check is necessary.

Western politicians fail to understand that a radical decoupling of Russia from Europe is taking place — the opposite of what Gorbachev and many liberal Russians wanted through Glasnost and Perestroika.

Historical evidence proves that Russia bent over backwards to be part of Europe, while the US and NATO did everything to prevent that integration, doubling down on Russia even more than in the days of the cold war.

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

How about banning all imports from Israel as products of illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing, unless they are proven by clear and convincing evidence that they are not?

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

Why does the US seem to care about the Uyghurs in China when it does give a hoot about the Palestinians, Syrians or Libyans whose homelands have been devastated by the US. UK, Isarael?

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

Peace can only be guaranteed in a multi-polar world. The US approach to divide the planet into “good guys” and “bad guys”, democracies and totalitarian regimes simply does not work.  We are losing credibility fast.

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

No, Europe does not accept borders unless they serve its ambitions. Ask Yugoslavia, ask Serbia. It doesn’t even follow agreements that it signed. The EU-Russia agreements guaranteed free transit of goods and people between Kaliningrad and Russia. https://bloomberg.com/opinion/articl

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

Ukraine must be seen as more than a footnote in the NATO/Russia dispute.  There are thousands of people dying and thousands in need.  How about making a good faith effort at peace-making and stop saying “Putin can’t win”?

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Exactly. The unending inanity of almost all the commentary on Russia and Ukraine. https://mronline.org/2022/06/06/the

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

the US approach “you love me or you hate me”, “you are either for us or against it” — is infantile. there is a right to be neutral or indifferent. Cutting Russia from the West is US policy, which Russia has understood as a factum.

Another thought about Brussels and Washington instructing Lithuania to isolate Kaliningrad but, only after the the fact do they think it’s a good idea to station a NATO force. My, goodness the incompetence of NATO and the US/EU is breathtaking.

Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

7000 Ukrainian soldiers r cut off in #Lyssytchansk. #Ukraine said every 200 Ukrainian soldiers r killed & 500 wounded. Tt counts to 70,000 in 100 days of battle. Will Ukrainians ask their leaders why they r still listening to the #US who wants them to fight to the last Ukrainian

Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast

“A peace plan is possible after Ukraine meets all the requirements of the Russian side“, says Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. When asked what the Russian demands in question are, he replied: “Ukraine knows perfectly well“.

Looking like Lithuania and the EU may have realised why blockading Russian goods wrt Kaliningrad is not a wise move. Let’s hope for a successful resolution.

Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM

It’s all collapsing for the warmongering empire of evil.

#Europe will pay the price of being colonised by the #US, sooner or later, and for adopting decisions incompatible with the European interests: Russia may cut off gas to Europe entirely, planning to redirect trade and oil to BRICS countries instead

tim anderson@timand2037

#China is absolutely right about #NATO

Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM

Ukraine Bombs Residential Area In Donetsk, Western Media Silent

Bideoa, hemen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3Myt6XB4g&t=5s

Ukraine Bombs Residential Area In Donetsk, Western Media Silent

Craig Pasta Jardula and Fiorella Isabel discuss on The Convo Couch.Segment recorded on June 21st, 2022….

Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

Train passengers and goods r sealed when crossing from #Russia through #Lithuania to #Kiliningrad & no visa is required. Therefore, a Lithuanian ground transit ban blocking half of all goods including oil pipelines from Russia is an illegal provocation and non-sensical.

So Ukraine’s Western puppet leader Zelensky used the anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union to call for fulfilling Nazi Germany’s goal of trying to “defeat” Russia? (By the way, the Kyiv “Independent” is a propaganda organ funded by Western governments)

Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM

“Ukraine is now a failed state…This whole thing is a disaster. But no one wants to admit failure because once they admit failure they lose all credibility…They’re doubling down on failure in the belief that if they just hang on…they are going to win.” -Col. Douglas Macgregor

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

Ukrainak eta Moldaviak EBn sartzeko hautagai estatusa jaso dute https://berria.eus/albisteak/215056/ukrainak-eta-moldaviak-ebn-sartzeko-hautagai-estatusa-jaso-dute.htm

Honen bidez: @berria

Greg Price@greg_price11

Joe Biden isn’t senile, guys. His handlers just have to give him step by step directions for every single thing that he does. h/t

@KateHydeNY

Rebel News@RebelNewsOnline

ZELENSKY TRIES TO DRAG ISRAEL INTO HIS WAR WITH RUSSIA

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wants to remove from office the head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov And also conflict with Valerii Zaluzhnyi-head of the UAF Army is growing(when UAF are finished in Severodonetsk-Lisichansk) will be much worse...

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

In my 2017 reports to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly on the activities of the WB and IMF,  I documented how the Bretton Woods institutions serve the interests of the US, UK and EU.

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

My 2017 UN reports demonstrate how the Washington consensus works against principles of the UN Charter and undermine the right to development, as Naomi Klein proved in her 2007 bestseller The Shock Doctrine.

The Bretton Woods institutions should be replaced by a truly representative economic and financial body that does not practice neo-colonialism and “soft subjugation” of the “third world”.

What will the mainstream media make out of the resolution of the member states of BRICS, adopted on 23 June, calling for “a world free of nuclear weapons” ?

Here the BRICS resolution “We reaffirm our commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons and stress our strong commitment to nuclear disarmament and our support to the work … of the UN Conference on Disarmament.”  Amen!

BRICS also lauded the January 2022 joint statement by the permanent members of the UN Security Council affirming that a “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”  This is obvious, but I am not sure that NATO leaders in Brussels understood the message.

National Interest@TheNatlInterest

BRICS group members constitute forty percent of the world’s population and one-fourth of global GDP.

MI NEWS@SNMilitary

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez requests membership in BRICS. – Media.

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