Nazio Batuen Erakundea (NBE) eta Nazioarteko Arlo Penaleko Epaitegia (NAPE) (16)

The Kremlin has noted signals from Italy, France, and Germany regarding the need for dialogue with Russia and considers this a positive development in the positions of Western countries, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: https://vk.cc/cTsN8E

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Prof. John Mearsheimer: Donald Trump is complicit in a GENOCIDE, which is considered to be the WORST of all possible CRIMES.

Scott Ritter: I hope that the American people come out and VOTE to limit the power of this MADMAN.

Ahmed Hassan أحمد حسن زيد@Ahmed_hassan_z

Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter:

• Iran has succeeded in capturing most of the individuals who were carrying out assassinations or operations on behalf of Israel within Iran.

  This means that Israel has lost the majority of its intelligence network and assets there.

  Therefore, Israel is currently in a state of panic, as it is relying on Trump to launch an attack to recreate the opportunity to reactivate these networks. If Trump does not attack, Israel will not be able to regain this capability.

Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

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Putin: “The crisis in Ukraine is a consequence of NATO’s advance toward Russia.“

Andrew Bridgen@ABridgen

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UK faces a nuclear strike This warning from Tucker is correct,the UK is in extreme danger but nothing is being reported in our MSM.Russia know who they are really fighting in Ukraine, it’s the UK. As I said in 2024 the UK is at war with Russia our Government just hasn’t told us

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Douglas Macgregor: “The protests [In Iran] started over real economic pain” Then it turned

into a CIA–Mossad–MI6 operation—money, Starlink, provocation, even pushing crowds to fire on police to escalate violence. It all played out and it failed.”

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“You can’t speak about it without running the risk of being thrown in jail.”

@EvaVlaar on the coordinated effort in Europe to eliminate white people:

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While the world is distracted by talk of war with Iran, Israel’s killing machine grinds on, quietly, methodically, & with total impunity, as it continues its slaughter of Palestinians without pause.

One grave. Seven people. This isn’t “collateral damage.” It’s extermination by airstrike.

Baraa, Layyan, Lynn, Lujain, and Aya, children, buried with their parents after Israel bombed their place of refuge.

They were neither militants nor threats. They were just a family, wiped from existence

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Richard@ricwe123

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Months before the 2014 Maidan coup, a top Ukrainian official warned parliament that Washington was orchestrating chaos in Ukraine. He stated that American-backed NGOs, including USAID, were operating out of the US embassy to mobilize protesters, inflame unrest, and push the country toward destabilization.

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The world says the genocide in #Gaza is over. On the ground, it continues, quieter, slower, but just as deliberate. What once happened loudly now happens quietly, deliberately, and every day. People are still being killed. Destruction continues at a slower pace, but with the same intent. Gaza is being systematically denied the ability to heal, rebuild, or recover from the crimes committed against it.

An ongoing #genocide does not end when it becomes less visible. It ends when the killing stops, when accountability begins, and when people are allowed to live

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On british podcast Diclassified UK, Avi Shlaim, Israeli-British historian and Oxford professor, criticized Netanyahu’s government, calling it the most violent and racist in Israel’s history. He said the 400% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain is directly linked to Israel’s policies in Gaza, the destruction of the territory, and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Shlaim, part of the renowned “New Historians” group, has spent decades researching Israeli-Palestinian history, challenging official narratives, and exposing the impact of Israeli government actions on Palestinians and the wider region.

“You’re just like those journalists who were talking about WMD in Iraq

You’re the one who denied the Genocide in Gaza for a year and a half and tired to justify it.”

— Prof. Marandi calls out Piers Morgan for his Iran propaganda

The Resonance@Partisan_12

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Norman Finkelstein: “Netanyahu doesn’t want Hamas to disarm. Hamas has never been the issue. From October 8th, Israel made very clear what the issue is; We’re going to ethnically cleanse Gaza or if we’re not successful in stimulating a stampede, we’ll make Gaza unlivable.”

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Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat: Iran taking down Starlink changed the game.

Ivan Katchanovski@I_Katchanovski

They knew all along about false flag Maidan massacre: Deputy head of Zelensky Office of President of Ukraine told Western ambassadors on February 19, 2014 that Maidan protesters were shot in the back by other Maidan activists & police did not shoot them.

Nobody is convicted for killings of 27 Maidan protesters & 12 policemen and Internal Troops servicemen on Maidan on February 18-19, 2014. Tatarov, who then was deputy head of investigative department of Ministry of Internal Affairs, was first to publicly refer to false flag Maidan massacre one day before 49 Maidan activists & 4 police officers were killed in false flag mass killing.

Oleh Tatarov, who then was the deputy head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was the first to publicly refer to the false flag Maidan massacre one day before 49 Maidan activists and 4 police officers were killed in the false flag mass killing.

My open access book “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing That Changed the World” and four peer-reviewed journal articles show overwhelming evidence that the Maidan massacre was a false flag mass killing of Maidan activists and police with involvement of far-right and oligarchic elements of the Maidan opposition in order to overthrow the Ukrainian government. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67121-0

A member of the Maidan leadership from the Fatherland party was filmed on February 18, 2014, evacuating a car with a hunting rifle, equipped with a silencer and optics, of a Maidan activist, who was stopped by other Maidan activists. A person who helped in the evacuation became an aide to one of leading members of Fatherland, who became the Minister of Internal Affairs after Euromaidan, and whose ministry was involved in investigations of killings of the protestors and the police on the Maidan. Three protesters were killed and up to 33 wounded with hunting pellets in the same area around the same time.

The Ukrainian investigation did not identify any suspects in killings of 12 protesters during a storming of the Maidan by the police in the evening of February 18 and around midnight. The GPU, the special parliamentary commission, a media report based on the GPU investigation, and other evidence reported that about half of them were killed by pellets or hunting bullets. Maidan activists armed with hunting firearms, in particular, from the far-right Right Sector and Svoboda-linked Maidan company, were filmed by various media and social media. They also were reported by numerous eyewitnesses, primarily, Maidan protesters.

There has been no investigations of involvements of groups of Maidan snipers in Hotel Ukraina and the Trade Union building and other nearby buildings for killings of these protesters in spite of various such evidence and in spite of similar killings of the police around the same time and place, in particular, by hunting pellets and bullets. For instance, a Hotel Ukraina employee said that he witnessed a group of snipers in Maidan style uniforms and with weapons in cases entering the hotel shortly before the massacre started on February 18. A Fatherland deputy said that he witnessed protesters killed near him on the Maidan by shooters from the Hotel Ukraina and Kozatsky Hotel on the same day.

Kyiv court rulings specifically refer to two Right Sector activists, who were wounded during a Right Sector attack of a separatist checkpoint in Sloviansk on April 20, 2014 and many other Right Sector members as suspects in GPU investigation in killings and wounding the police on the Maidan. The court decisions stated that the weapons used by the wounded checkpoint attackers were the same weapons from which two Internal Troops servicemen were killed and three other policemen wounded on the Maidan on February 18, 2014.

There is also evidence that there were armed Maidan shooters linked to the oligarchic Fatherland Party. A top person in the security of the Fatherland party admitted in the Ukrainian media shooting the police on the Maidan. The Ukrainian media reported five years afterwards that Kyiv prosecutors found that killers of two traffic policemen in Kyiv on February 19 were among Maidan snipers. These killers received phone calls from prominent female and male parliament deputies from one of the oligarchic Maidan parties after killing these policemen during a traffic stop. The investigation after these findings was transferred to the police and completely stalled. The two killed policemen were included in the “Heavenly Hundred” of killed Maidan protesters, and their killing was publicly attributed to pro-Yanukovych government titushki.

Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklleurt. 16

BREAKING: IRAN UNITED UNDER ZIO THREATS Interview with IRANIAN Professor Foad Izadi

@IzadiFoad

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs

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I regret to see political forces in Italy racing to enact a definition of antisemitism (IHRA) whose only aim is to stop scrutiny of Apartheid Israel. Twice Ignominous: it exploits the memory of past century’s antisemitism, and enables impunity for Israel’s crimes today. Shame.

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An Israeli protester breaks down, apologizing to the world and warning that their country is repeating history’s darkest chapter — saying Gaza is facing a genocide that mirrors what once happened in 1940s Germany.

Sulaiman Ahmed@ShaykhSulaiman

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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson warns that if Iran chooses to respond to an attack on its soil: “They will annihilate Israel and i really think they can do that”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2012245720791712215

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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

UK BANS DUTCH JOURNALIST EVA VLAARDINGERBROEK DAYS AFTER SHE CRITICIZED KEIR STARMER ON X

She called the PM “an evil, despicable man” for allowing migrant rape gangs to operate.

Days later, an email:

“Your presence in the UK is not considered conducive to the public good. You cannot appeal.”

No warning.

No due process.

No right to appeal.

For a tweet. She pointed out the obvious: thousands of illegal migrants cross the Channel daily with no questions asked, but a journalist with no criminal record gets banned for criticizing the government.

The UK approved her travel authorization in September within minutes.

Now she’s blacklisted.

The only thing that changed was her tweet about Starmer.

Source:

@TCNetwork

@EvaVlaar

Hermosa China（Beautiful China）@90Hercost

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Xi Jinping: Todos los miembros y cuadros del Partido deben abstenerse de la codicia y controlar sus deseos, ejercer la autodisciplina y trabajar por el bien público, y utilizar eficazmente el poder que les ha sido confiado por el pueblo para brindar beneficios al pueblo.

#China #XiJinping

MSF International@MSF

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Not long ago, Al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza was filled with rubble. Now, its emergency department is treating more than 300 children every day. 

Mu’men Eid, our nursing activity manager, tells us about the work to rehabilitate the hospital

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Would a **Nuclear Iran** completely flip the script in the Middle East?

Prof. John Mearsheimer (@MearsheimerJ) says the inconvenient part out loud: “If the Iranians had a nuclear arsenal, the United States and Israel would not be pursuing the policies towards Iran that they’re now pursuing.”

“From Iran’s point of view, they were foolish not to get nuclear weapons a long time ago.”

Yet that have not done so, showing remarkable restraint – a factor that shows they are rational actors and can be effectively negotiated with. “We don’t play these games in North Korea because they have nuclear weapons.” vs

Hamas & Hezbollah still threaten— but nukes could change **everything**. Deterrence game-changer? Or red line crossed?

Watch the FULL Daniel Davis Deep Dive NOW before tensions explode

https://open.substack.com/pub/danieldavisdeepdive/p/prof-john-mearsheimer-classic-us?r=2sqew7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#IranNuclear #NuclearIran #JohnMearsheimer #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #Iran #Israel

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In this episode of #AlMayadeen’s Demystifying Iran, Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why #Iran’s relationship with Venezuela is not merely strategic or economic, but the execution of a constitutional mission: defending the oppressed and downtrodden wherever they may be.

From #Palestine and Bosnia to #SouthAfrica and #Venezuela, this is a shared struggle against imperial domination, and a blueprint for economic sovereignty forged in defiance of a brutal hegemon.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/2C6r8FnZFW8

@s_m_marandi

Sprinter Press@SprinterPress

Putin’s first major speech of the new year was quite harsh towards the West.

Theses:

The degradation of international diplomacy.

The “Right of Force” is being used We need to return to the principles of the UN Charter

The crisis in Ukraine is a direct consequence of ignoring Russia’s legitimate interests and security demands

Russia will pursue its goals, both militarily and diplomatically

Relations with Europe have deteriorated Russia is open to dialogue with all countries

A multipolar world is the goal of Russian foreign policy

Xie Feng 谢锋@AmbXieFeng

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“We have in China a story about ‘blind men touching an elephant.’ The elephant is obviously very large. When a blind man touches its leg, he says the elephant is like a pillar; when another touches its belly, he says the elephant is like a wall. But none of them sees the full picture.”

When welcoming a group of new foreign ambassadors, President Xi Jinping used the analogy to encourage them to develop a comprehensive view of the real China in all its dimensions.

Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra

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Tucker Carlson says Vladimir Putin “kicked the money changers out of the temple” in Russia, saying it was a major shift in who held real power in the country.

He points to the early 2000s, when Putin moved against the oligarch class, including several wealthy Jewish oligarchs, forcing them out or bringing them under direct state control.

The Resonance@Partisan_12

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Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou:

“There’s confirmation from the Israelis that these are Mossad agitators [Disgusted as Iranian Protesters]. They’re bragging about it in the Israeli papers.”

“Mike Pompeo posted on Twitter that it’s the Israelis…”

Legitimate Targets@LegitTargets

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BREAKING: MOSSAD ADMITS IRAN DEFEAT

Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle interviews Professor Marandi (@s_m_marandi) about the FAILURE of MOSSAD’S RIOTS, renewed ZIONIST STRIKES on Iran & how the MSM is HIDING the truth of popular support for the Islamic Republi

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American surgeon Mark Perlmutter exposes the horror: Israeli snipers deliberately targeting Palestinian children – “no toddler is shot twice by accident”

This is what happens when a state is protected from consequences: the violence escalates, the victims get younger, and the lies get louder

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Is Iran facing a REAL uprising… or a CLASSIC U.S. regime change playbook? Prof. John Mearsheimer (@MearsheimerJ) reveals it’s the latter, and exposes the script being used by the West to prove his point:

Step 1: Put sanctions on a country and try to wreck their economy and make people “profoundly unhappy”; we punish the people.

Step 2: “Foment and fuel protests, which eventually turn into a revolution and regime change”

Step 3: Launch “a massive disinformation campaign” to convince the West it’s organic + tell Iranians “The regime is finished… This time is different”

Step 4: U.S. (and likely Israel) deliver the “coup de grâce” with military strikes on infrastructure & elites

This is the SAME playbook we’ve seen before (Venezuela, etc.)!

Watch the FULL Daniel Davis Deep Dive now before it’s too late

https://open.substack.com/pub/danieldavisdeepdive/p/prof-john-mearsheimer-classic-us?r=2sqew7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Iran #RegimeChange #JohnMearsheimer #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEast

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The Israeli lobbies have hijack American democracy….

Making the U.S. government to act for Israel rather than for Americans.

John Mearsheimer

New START expires in 19 days. No US response yet to Putin’s Sept proposal to keep Treaty limits 1 more yr. Also, no response re data from targeting piece https://unser-mitteleuropa.com/185266 given the US on Jan 1 from the drone attack on Valdai residence. Litmus tests. https://youtube.com/watch?v=aOBD3G

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Putin new terms, time to discuss new European Security Architecture

Richard@ricwe123

Never forget that Vladimir Putin was only asking about:

Respecting Minsk agreements

Don’t expand NATO eastward

Keep Ukraine neutral.

NATO achieved exactly what it wanted, put Russia in a position it could not stay passive…..

aapayés@aapayes

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Un vídeo que dejó al mundo incrédulo y horrorizado.

Israel impidió que los medios de comunicación lo transmitieran.

Israel hizo esto.

we being the international community that had rallied around the cause of liberating Kuwait. In August of 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. There’s a whole host of reason why Iraq did this. Kuwait was not necessarily being the best neighbor, slant drilling oil, selling Iraqi oil on the market to suppress the price of oil in order to collapse

the Iraqi government. Iraq had warned Kuwait about this. Iraq had warned the Arab League about this. Iraq had warned the world about this. Nothing was done. So Iraq invaded. But That invasion was against international law. It was in violation of the United Nations Charter and the international community rallied around Kuwait and demanded that Iraq leave Kuwait.

They imposed sanctions on Iraq as a way of compelling Iraq to leave Kuwait. Now, an interesting thing about this. in august 1990 iraq was still very much a client of the soviet union the iraqi army was equipped with some of the most modern equipment that could come out of the

soviet union they had scud missiles they had modern t72 tanks artillery pieces and yet the soviet union joined together with the United States to create the conditions for the United Nations to finally act the way the United Nations was intended to act, to uphold the rule of law, to uphold the United Nations Charter.

And these sanctions were put in place because the Soviet Union did not exercise its veto right. the soviet union said we will stand with international law in this case it was a departure from i guess the paralysis that had gripped the united nations for

decades since it was created at the end of the second world war the important thing here is that what this meant is that the major nations of the world the permanent five the united nations security council were finally in agreement that we needed to stop operating in a

system where the world was divided and start operating in a system where the world was united around one set of rules, one set of principles, one set of values, one set of laws, the United Nations Charter. And then this continued because Iraq did not leave Kuwait. And the Security Council of the United Nations,

again with the Soviet support, passed the Chapter 7 resolution, which is very important under international law. is the only way that nations can lawfully go to war other than self-defense a chapter seven seven resolution authorizing the nations of the world to use military force to liberate kuwait if iraq would not leave and the united states using this

chapter seven resolution built what they called the coalition of the willing a a very large expansive coalition that included arab nations egypt syria morocco pakistan all rallied around the Gulf Arab states, Saudi Arabia, in order to achieve the liberation of Kuwait. French troops, British troops, all fought under American command in this case.

And on the evening of January 16th, 17th, an air campaign was launched, a massive air assault against Iraq that went on for over 40 days. The purpose of this air campaign was to break down Iraq’s ability to resist, to break down the will of the Iraqi government to go on.

And at the end of this 40-day air campaign, the Coalition of the Willing, led by the United States, launched a ground assault to liberate Kuwait. And 100 hours later, they had achieved their objectives. Kuwait was liberated, the Iraqi army was defeated, and it looked like international law had won and prevailed. That’s what this war was about.

You know, when I was drafted into this conflict early on in August of 1990, I was asked to join a special planning cell in the headquarters of the Marine Corps to plan amphibious operations against Iraq. And I was brought in by Major General Caulfield, and he interviewed me to see what I knew about Iraq,

what I knew about the Middle East. And when I was talking to him, I explained my understanding of why Iraq did this. And I said, sir, I think we’re fighting the wrong Arabs, that the Iraqis are actually honest, hardworking. And so he said, well, Can I trust you to be on this team?

It seems to me that you want to play for the other side. I said, no, sir, you’re missing the whole point. I’m an intelligence officer. My job is to give you an honest assessment, but I obey my lawful orders. And at the end of this conversation,

if you tell me to prepare the best amphibious assault against Iraq the world has ever seen, that is what I will do. But you asked me a question about what I thought of the situation, and I answered it. It’s a complicated war. You know, it wasn’t necessarily about good versus evil.

It was about upholding the rule of law. Iraq invaded and occupied a sovereign nation and that invasion occupation could not stand. The problem is that this isn’t really what was going on. know many nations have invaded other nations uh why did the united states pick this

case to rally around was it because the united states took such a highly principled stand when it came to um you know issues of right and wrong no it was about oil plain and simple early on after the iraqi action against kuwait which again was about oil

The United States said that we couldn’t allow Iraq to leverage its already extensive oil reserves and expand them by seizing Kuwait’s extensive oil reserves and then threaten Saudi Arabia’s extensive oil reserves. in eastern Saudi Arabia. Now, Iraq never threatened Saudi Arabia. In fact, Iraq had a non-aggression pact with Saudi Arabia saying, we will not attack you.

Iraq had warned everybody that they’re going to go after and punish Kuwait, but this is not a war against the region. But the United States purposefully misrepresented the Iraqi intent to the Saudis, said that you’re under threat. The Saudis authorized the United States to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia, thus beginning Operation Desert Shield.

which then later transformed into Desert Storm, which was the war that broke out on the morning of January 17th. Now, President Bush had a hard time selling the concept of war over oil to the American people, so he turned it into a war of ideology.

He likened Saddam Hussein, who just a few months ago was an American ally. We had sent Donald Rumsfeld to Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran to help him. I was when I was later a weapons inspector in Iraq, I was in the Iraqi military intelligence headquarters and saw the documentation

that showed just what kind of help the United States provided. We were very close, cooperative allies with Iraq, but suddenly we had to explain to the American people why we had to go to war against Iraq when just the other day they were our friends. So we demonized Saddam Hussein.

We called him the Middle East equivalent of Adolf Hitler, and we said that he had He required Nuremberg-like retribution for the crime of invading and occupying Kuwait. Now, once you label the leader the equivalent of Adolf Hitler, The war doesn’t end just simply by defeating their armed forces. You need to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

And that’s the situation we found at the end of the Gulf War, where the international community had rallied to liberate Kuwait, but the United States sought to transform this mission into something only the United States wanted, which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein. And suddenly this just war became something totally different.

became a decades-long effort led by the united states in an abuse of the chapter seven resolution that the world had an abuse of international law to remove saddam to save from power eventually we ended up invading and occupying iraq ourselves in 2003 where was the chapter seven resolution opposing this where was the coalition

of the willing opposing that action it didn’t happen because the united states began using its veto in the United Nations Security Council. And now we find the situation that we are in today. The world has flipped upside down. The Middle East is in chaos and anarchy. The United States finds itself increasingly isolated.

International law has been totally disregarded by a sitting president of the United States. All of this could be traced back to January 17th, 1991, 35 years ago when Operation Desert Storm began. A war that was supposed to be about the defense of international law instead became

a war that triggered events that for the next 35 years allowed the United States to shred

international law, to undermine the United Nations Charter. and to destroy any notion of a new world order emerging from the end of the Cold War. Today, we find ourselves in confrontation with Russia and possibly leading to a new Cold War.

The world has gone insane. And it can all be traced back to 35 years ago today, when American bombs began falling on Iraq and Operation Desert Storm began Anyways, that’s my rant. Next time a block crosses my mind, I’ll be sure to let you know. Thank you.

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

Ritter’s Rant 071: Give Peace a Chance?

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Toronto Rock and Roll Concert. You know, and it was seen as an anti-war anthem. In 1969, the United States was knee-deep in the Vietnam War, and there were anti-war protests all over the world protesting that conflict and conflict in general. And they were just begging the governments, give peace a chance. Well, Donald Trump…

world’s greatest peacemaker according to him i mean he stopped eight or nine wars depending on who’s counting um appears confused on the issue i mean On the one hand, he just wrote a letter to Norway’s prime minister saying because the Nobel Peace Prize Committee didn’t give him, Donald Trump, the peace prize,

despite the fact that he stopped more wars than any other person alive, he’s turning his back on peace and he is going to look for other options to resolve problems, namely Greenland, where he is threatened to go to war against Europe, NATO and the Danish army. in order to make Greenland part of the United States.

I mean, this is schizophrenic. This is not normal behavior. But then again, nothing about the Nobel Peace Prize lately has been normal. I mean, my God, they gave it to Barack Obama when he became president for doing nothing. They’ve given it to Shirin Ibadi, an Iranian activist who today is calling for the sanctioning,

the starvation of her own people. And he gave it to Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who today is actively talking about using military force, military force to liberate the people of Venezuela. These aren’t peaceful acts. And yet the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has seen fit to give

title peace laureate to these war makers so maybe donald trump’s decided that the best way to get the peace prize is to go to war because apparently war is what the peace committee really likes to see um but then he goes ahead and spoils this good narrative because now donald trump is talking about creating a

Global Peace Board. Now, originally, this was designed to be a board to resolve the issue in Gaza. But Donald Trump has decided that now he can expand this and this will be a peace board, a peace council that will bring peace to the world. Now, he will head it. This, of course, is not about international law.

Donald Trump has famously said that he doesn’t care about international law. He doesn’t take guidance from international law. No, he takes guidance only from international. his own personal sense of morality. And now his moral conscience apparently tells him that peace is a good idea. He turned his back briefly, but now he’s back in the peace game.

He is the chairman of the board, so to speak. And of course, being Donald Trump, You got to pay him a billion dollars to get on the board. But he has sent out invitations to everybody. And there’s a lot of nations out there who, while bulking at the billion dollar price tag,

are saying that maybe being a member of the board is exactly right. what they want to do, that this might be the way forward. One of those nations that has received an invitation is Russia. China has likewise received an invitation. These are curious choices for joining this peace board, because what is Donald Trump’s peace board?

It’s not an extension of international law. It’s not an extension of the rule of laws set forth. by the United Nations Charter. Indeed, one can articulate an argument that says that the Peace Board is about finding an alternative to the United Nations, an alternative to the Security Council, one that the United States is in charge of,

not international law. This sounds an awful lot like the U.S. dominated rules based international order that previously defined America’s global hegemony. It’s the rules based international order or rejection of such that brought Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping together in Beijing on February 4th of 2022, on the eve of the Chinese Beijing Winter Olympics.

Why did they come together? Because they were rejecting the rules-based international order. They came together and issued a 5,000-word joint manifesto where they said, we will not be part of the rules-based international order. We will oppose the rules-based international order. And the vehicle of our opposition will be the law-based international order. The law, of course,

being derived from the Charter of the United Nations, the foundational document of international law in a post-Second World War environment. Vladimir Putin just gave a very interesting speech in Russia where he said that, you know, The United States is turning its back on international law, but not Russia. Russia believes in the charter.

The charter is the one thing that defines who we are and what we are globally. The charter brings us together, and Russia is firmly committed to the charter. So one has to wonder how Russia could simultaneously articulate support for the United Nations Charter, which includes the role of the Security Council,

and be a member of Donald Trump’s Peace Board. Now, the Russians are very pragmatic, very diplomatic, and they don’t take any rash actions, which is why Dmitry Peshkov, the Speaker for the Kremlin, has said that Russia has received the invitation and is considering all of its options. I would imagine the Chinese are doing the same. Now,

you don’t want to provoke Donald Trump because, I mean, as we saw, sometimes he responds irrationally. The Nobel Prize Committee didn’t give him his Peace Prize, so he blamed them for his turn to war. Who knows what kind of diplomacy machinations will transpire in the days and weeks to come.

But what is known is that when Donald Trump says peace, he means war. And when he says war, sometimes he means peace. This is Orwellian beyond belief. Let’s just break it down. All we, the people of the world, are saying is give peace a chance. Let’s hope that Donald Trump and this peace board can achieve that objective.

This has been my rant. Next time a thought crosses my mind, I’ll be sure to let you know. Thanks.

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Getting it Wrong on Russia

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