© Natalia Seliverstova / ReutersThe State Duma of the Russian Federation on Okhotny Ryad Street in Moscow.
UKRAINELots of bogus hysteria about how Russia is about to invade Ukraine -
for example. Here's my view -
Russia Inc has no desire to pay for "Country 404" - the US/EU/NATO broke it, they own it. But, eventually, the provocations will get to be too much - it's a cost-benefit analysis and I'm not privy to the data - then Russia will liberate those parts of Ukraine where Russians will be welcomed as liberators and leave the rest to its fate. When/if it happens, it will be fast, decisive and surprise everybody (like every Russian military operation since 2000). There is nothing the West can do (
sanctions escalation - that's a spavined horse) unless it wants to go nuclear in which case the USA will certainly be obliterated.
Orlov and
Saker.
From the West,
nonsense and more
nonsense (complete with
The Misquotation). How about
this from the country with
one fully-staffed infantry battalion? The safety of the world hangs on the patience of Putin and Xi and the hope that not all Western generals are future VP Sales of MIC rackets.
RUSSIA/CHINAThe two Defence Ministers have agreed to still closer ties. This relationship is much broader and deeper than a mere "alliance": it's Mackinder's
Heartland plus population plus production plus sea power. The end of the "Columbian Age". Moscow and Beijing, learning from the failures of the
USSR and the Imperium Americanum, won't try and run the world:
they know it can't be done.OPINION WORTH LISTENING TOThis guy is connected: NATO's mistake is that
it still thinks it's dealing with the weakened Russia of the 1990s. Another mistake, I would add, is that
NATO thinks it's the (imagined) NATO of the 1990s; it isn't: only a paper tiger then, it's become a paper pussycat.RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSLevada
poll (
Googlish) shows Russians highly value social rights. Situation seems OK but read Levinson's notes: he detects differences in the young. But another
poll suggests that the young aren't all that much different (despite, IMO, a heavy effort by the interviewers to elicit opposition sympathies).
KURSKThe former Northern Fleet commander says the
Kursk was sunk after
a collision with a NATO submarine. "
No comment" says Peskov.
PLEISTOCENE PARK"This complex will be a basis to implement one of the super tasks the World Mammoth Center is facing -
the ambitious idea to revive mammoths by using biotechnologies".
GAS TRANSITSpreading invasion rumours, Kiev wants another gas transit agreement with Russia. NORD STREAM 2More
US sanctions and
delays by Germany. OK, Russia loses some money but Europe will lose more (even the
Greens have figured that out). "
This is a game where Germany does not hold a winning hand". As to money, Russia's FOREX kitty is now
USD620 billion and growing and China will buy anything Russia has.
THOSE PESKY RUSSIANSThey want to spread chaos in the USA and there's a
diesel shortage exacerbating
the supply chain problem. So naturally Moscow would like to make this worse - or so we've been
told over and
over. So why is it selling the USA
two million barrels of diesel? Another question your MSM outlets will neither ask nor answer.
WESTERN VALUES™Natylie Baldwin
explains why Russians are no longer interested in the West's "values".
I wrote something similar. Apart from other reasons,
they're not impressed by the gap between promise and performance. Another possibility destroyed by arrogance and ignorance. See below.
WE MAKE THE RULES"
NATO reiterate that they have no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members". Yeah but the famous Rules-Based International Order doesn't mean
we have to stick to the rules.
REFUGEE WARSLukashenka
spoke to Merkel (I guess there's no more
pretending that she's in charge). Coincidentally, as it were, Belavia
cancelled migrant flights from UAE. The one time I was in the same room as Lukashenka, I didn't think he was very smart. I was wrong: watch
this interview with a "journalist" who thinks he's a barrister. PS I think
Lukashenka has had enough of smug Westerners.
AMERICA-HYSTERICAFive corrections we won't see from the MSM, instead Applebaum
hits it out of the park - even when it's false, it's true.
MY WEIRDOMETER IS BROKENNot even in the USSR was there
Ilyich and Koba; Boy Detectives.
ARMENIA-AZERBAIJANMore fighting. It's reported that Putin will
meet the two presidents on Friday. Russia has a
mutual defence treaty with Armenia (which does not cover Karabakh).
GUNSA US general
says American hypersonic capabilities are "not as advanced" as China's or Russia's.
Reader Comments
I would LOVE to see mammoths brought back.
R.C.