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Ukraine: What comes next?

Jorge Capelán
Off-Guardian
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:42 UTC
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Undoubtedly, as a Chinese philosopher would say, we are living in "interesting times", that is, times of great change for all mankind.

Existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus would be surprised if today they saw how references (at least in name) to the current of thought they formed almost 80 years ago are multiplying in the media.

More and more states and nations claim to face "existential" threats, and no wonder, because Russia has everything at stake, the West has everything at stake, and the world also has everything at stake.

In this text we try to go beyond the immediate and take a look at what would come after this great collision between the United States and Russia-China. We will try to give an answer to the question of what the new post-Western multipolar order would look like. But first, we will make some observations on the current situation regarding the war in Ukraine.

In recent days, at the World Economic Forum, some of the West's deepest anxieties were aired. While the retired (and almost centenarian but not at all senile) imperial strategist Henry Kissinger warned that there are only weeks left to sit down at the negotiating table with Russia in order to avoid a war that would endanger "the balance of power in Europe".

The top advisors of the puppet-president Volodymir Zelensky did not take a second to respond to Kissinger with a rude "go fuck yourself" and "dumb fuck".

If Kissinger has been relegated to the group of dissident (but not decisively influential) voices within the empire, another thing can be said of George Soros.

The nonagenarian tycoon and prodigal political financier of US wars, launched at the Forum the lapidary warning that:
the best and perhaps the only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible"
Soros' words must be understood in their true sense.

Soros does not say "save humanity", since that is the least important thing for the globalist elites who today command the "collective West". He says "save our civilization", that is, the only one that exists for them, which is the one that arose as a result of the genocide of the European colonization of the world 500 years ago.
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Zuckerberg, Rockefeller, Google and the privatization of election integrity

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 21:26 UTC
Diebold Elections System
© Joebeone Image License: This file is licensed under the Simplified Pixabay License.Photo of Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment, at the right.
Through deceit and capitalizing on loopholes in US law for non-profit entities, private corporate and foundation interests have and are pouring vast sums of money to corrupt the US election process in the interest of a dystopian Green Agenda and worse. It consists of a complex network of interests including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, Rockefeller funds. The evidence is that this is all being covertly orchestrated by US intelligence agencies to impose a destructive economic and social agenda on the US tied to the Davos Great Reset and UN Agenda 2030.

Increasing evidence is coming to light detailing the hijacking of the core of the American elections system that not only sheds light on the 2020 US elections, but also on private financing the very infrastructure of local election clerks and election procedures including drop-box mail-in balloting and expenses of city and county election offices. The room for abuse is staggering as the process is not transparent. At the heart of this is a little-known "non-profit" known as the oddly-named Center for Tech and Civic Life or CTCL. The alleged creator of CTCL and current head is a former Obama Foundation Fellow, Tiana Epps-Johnson. A close scrutiny of her CTCL funders and operations suggest she was simply chosen as a convenient vehicle by very powerful foundations and Big Tech companies to transform the very structure and control of the American elections process.
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Mr. Potato

White House's Jean-Pierre on record inflation: "The economy is in a better place than it has been historically"

Ian Schwartz
RealClearPolitics
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:10 UTC
Karine Jean-Pierre
© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesPrincipal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Tuesday's briefing declared the economy is in a "good position" to fight inflation, as long as the Federal Reserve is in charge. Jean-Pierre faced off with FOX News White House correspondent Peter Doocy:


Comment:

She's right about one thing: it is a (mostly) global problem:
The World Bank (WB) has cut its global growth projection for this year from 4.1% to 2.9%, warning that many countries are likely to face recession.

"Amid the war in Ukraine, surging inflation, and rising interest rates, global economic growth is expected to slump in 2022," the Tuesday press release said.

"Several years of above-average inflation and below-average growth are now likely, with potentially destabilizing consequences for low- and middle-income economies. It's a phenomenon - stagflation - that the world has not seen since the 1970s."

According to WB President David Malpass, "for many countries, recession will be hard to avoid."

The institution said that after halving from 5.7% in 2021, growth would be stuck at 3% in both 2023 and 2024 as the Russia-Ukraine conflict affected investment and trade, the pent-up demand from the pandemic faded, and policy support was withdrawn.

The report highlighted that the slowdown in growth between 2021 and 2024 was on course to be twice that of the period between 1976 and 1979. The recovery from the stagflation of the 1970s required steep increases in interest rates in the West, it said. Those "played a prominent role in triggering a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies."

According to the report, both rich and poor countries would be hit by the growth slowdown, but developing and emerging market economies are the most vulnerable. Growth in advanced economies was forecast to decline from 5.1% to 2.6% this year, while in emerging and developing countries it is expected to drop from 6.6% to 3.4%.

"Just over two years after Covid-19 caused the deepest global recession since World War II, the world economy is again in danger ... Even if a global recession is averted, the pain of stagflation could persist for several years - unless major supply increases are set in motion," said the report.
But don't worry. Just keep calm and blame Russia.

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Muffin

Grain blackmail: Ukraine sets condition for resuming grain exports


RT
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:03 UTC
Grain field
Ukraine will resume grain exports only when its own security is ensured, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov said on Tuesday as the Russian military offensive continues in his country.


Comment: Since the Russian demand to pay for energy in rubles is deemed blackmail by unwilling European governments, will this move by Ukraine also be deemed blackmail? Unlikely.


Speaking on national TV, Danilov recalled a statement by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs "which clearly said that the first issue is security, the second issue is security, the third issue is security."

"If this issue is not resolved, and the security of our country is not ensured, no grain will go anywhere. Because for us the issue of security is the number one priority," Danilov stated, without specifying what exactly he meant by the term "security."

At the same time, he claimed that "this issue is under control" and made clear that the Ukrainian authorities remember their obligations.

"Nobody wants the world to be hungry," he stressed.

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of impeding grain exports. Kiev and its Western supporters claim that, by blocking Ukraine's Black Sea ports, Russia is aggravating the global food crisis. Moscow has rejected such claims, saying it is ready to ensure safe passage for grain-carrying vessels and that the disruption stems from extensive mining of the shoreline by the Ukrainian military.

Danilov accused Russia of "artificially creating" obstacles for its own benefit, of shifting responsibility and "blackmailing" Europe.


Comment: Ahh, so it is Russian blackmail. Of course.


Comment: Meanwhile, according to the Russians, Ukrainian nationalists deliberately burned a large granary in Mariupol's sea port while fleeing. No doubt the Russians are to blame for that too.

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Russia comments on scope of its Ukraine operation


RT
Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:18 UTC
Lavrov
© Al-Masdar NewsRussian FM Sergey Lavrov
Western deliveries of certain missile systems to Ukraine could lead to Moscow widening its military operation, in the country, as a defensive measure, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Monday, during a press conference.
"The longer the range of the missiles being delivered to the Kiev regime, the further we will push the Nazis away from the line from which there is a threat to the Russian population of Ukraine and Russia."
The diplomat added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's promises not to use American rockets to strike Russian territory are "babble" that cannot be taken seriously, noting that even politicians and lawmakers in Ukraine are "simply laughing at the Americans who said that they believe Zelensky."

Last week the US announced it would supply Kiev with M142 HIMARS rocket systems, but only on the condition that they would not be used to strike Russian territory. Zelensky publicly accepted those terms, however several Ukrainian politicians, as well as the newly appointed US ambassador to Kiev, later contradicted the president's pledge, stating that Ukrainian soldiers were free to choose their targets, including those in Crimea.

The UK plans to deliver several US-made M270 multiple-launch rocket systems to Kiev, with British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announcing the move on Monday. The BBC has reported that the same target restrictions would apply to those systems.


Comment: Target restrictions are useless once the rockets are fired.


Comment: Ukraine is in the palms of two big hands clapping together. Targeting Russian territory by proxy and prolonging hostilities has always been the plan.
Britain will supply Ukraine with long-range missile systems that can strike targets up to 80 km (50 miles) away, Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced.

The shipment is going to consist of several US-made M270 launchers. The UK stopped short of revealing the number of units it is planning to provide; however, the BBC claimed on Monday that "it will be three initially." The defence secretary added that as Moscow's "tactics change, so must our support to Ukraine."

Ukrainian soldiers will be trained in the use of the M270 in Britain in the coming weeks. Announcing the delivery, Wallace emphasized that the UK was in the lead when it came to providing Ukrainian armed forces with "vital weapons."

Since the M270 MLRS are manufactured by the US, London first had to receive Washington's permission for the transfer. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed the issue with President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning.

Ukraine has hundreds of Soviet-designed multiple launch rocket systems, however, the US-made weapons have a longer range (up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) depending on the missile type and are said to be more accurate.

In an interview with Russian state TV, President Vladimir Putin expressed doubt that the Western-supplied rocket systems would be able to tip the balance in Ukraine's favor, arguing that these weapons were essentially "nothing new." The Russian president, however, made it clear that Moscow would respond to the shipment of longer-range missiles to Ukraine with strikes "at those objects that we have not yet struck."

Putin also reiterated Russia's long-standing position on Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, saying "they only serve to prolong the conflict."


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Ukraine is getting rockets and tanks from the West, but front-line soldiers scrounge for bullets

Allan Woods
Toronto Star
Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
MLRS unit
© AFP/Christof Stache/AFPA Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
As the war in Ukraine passed a landmark 100th day this week, front-line fighters and volunteers say they are grappling with a dark and discouraging reality.

Despite pledges of tanks, artillery and — this week — U.S. rocket systems capable of hitting enemy Russian targets as far as 500 kilometres away, the Ukrainian front lines continue to be populated by at times [by] dangerously ill-equipped fighters. They are lacking bullets and extra magazines for their rifles, one Canadian fighter said.

They charge into battle in running shoes and mismatched uniforms, according to an American turning Ukrainians into combat medics.
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Control Panel

Climate TRACE: A framework for ESG initiatives and social & climate credit system

The Sharp Edge
Corey's Digs
Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Al Gore
In an appearance at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022, climate-grifter, Al Gore, took the opportunity to, once again, tout Climate TRACE, a coalition backed by the former Vice President and former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. In response to a comment made by WEF panelist, Lea Wermelin, on the responsibility of governments to make structural changes in our economy to combat climate change, Gore replied, "I have good news on this front. We are about to enter an age of radical transparency. I have been among those who have formed a new coalition called 'Climate TRACE'...Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions.

It's a coalition of artificial intelligence technology companies, NGOs, and universities, using data from 300 existing satellites from multiple countries, ground, sea and air-based censors, and internet data streams, to use machine-learning to create algorithms for every single sub-sector of the economy." This colossal data-collection project aims to replace the current self-reporting system of greenhouse gas emissions by countries and companies, who have committed to net zero goals, by publishing reports of climate offenders so that countries, companies, and even individuals can be "held accountable." The Google-backed AI algorithm used by Climate TRACE appears to lay the framework for enforcing ESG initiatives heavily pushed by financial behemoths such as BlackRock, as well as a technocratic social and climate credit system.
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Quenelle - Golden

China, Russia veto new UN sanctions on North Korea, Beijing blames US for disregard of Pyongyang's 'reasonable concerns'


Anadolu Agency
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:00 UTC
United NAtions
China and Russia sought to explain Wednesday their vetoes on a new Security Council resolution that would have tightened sanctions on North Korea for its repeated ballistic missile tests.

China sought to heap blame on the US for simmering tensions on the Korean Peninsula in the first such instance of a permanent Council member explaining their decision to nix a resolution under newly-adopted rules and questioned the viability of sanctions to affect change.

"The peninsula situation has developed to what it is today primarily due to the flip flop of US policies, its failure to uphold the results of previous dialogue, and its disregard for the reasonable concerns of the DPRK. This is an undeniable fact," Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun told the General Assembly, referring to North Korea.
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Bad Guys

Russia calls out US for gifting Kiev Russian helicopters intended for Afghanistan


RT
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:19 UTC

Comment: There's international trade, and then there's "the American way..."


A Mi-17 helicopter of the Afghan army.
© Michael Kappeler / picture alliance via Getty ImagesA Mi-17 helicopter of the Afghan army.
It's outrageous that Ukraine received helicopters which Russia sold to the US as aid for Afghanistan, the ambassador said.

The US is breaching its international obligations and its own policies with its latest package of military aid to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday. Among other things, Washington failed to get Russia's permission before diverting four Mi-17 helicopters from the original destination of Afghanistan to Ukraine, he pointed out.

The diplomat was responding to last week's announcement by the US Department of Defense, which listed the aircraft as slated to be handed over to Ukraine. The four Mi-17 helicopters were presumably the aircraft purchased by the US for the Afghan national army before the US-backed government in Kabul fell to Taliban forces in August last year. Ukraine was servicing the aircraft and was supposed to send them to Afghanistan.

The transfer of the helicopters "was done in violation of the end user certificate, which required written consent from Russia," the ambassador said. He called it a "blatant violation" of American obligations as the buyer and claimed that Washington stonewalled Russia's demands for an explanation.

Comment: So much Murica.

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Vader

SOTT Focus: Biden's Food And Fuel Crisis — It's The Policy, Stupid

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:18 UTC
everything must go
So, how about those fuel prices? Fun ain't it to spend more on filling up your tank than it costs for a decent meal at a second-rate restaurant?

So you thought you could afford that $45,000 truck and the $700/month payment.

Guess again.

After suckering everyone in with low monthly payments for obscenely overpriced clunkers, the Biden Junta spent 2021 setting up to let you out of your house because COVID was over, only to ensure you couldn't afford to drive anywhere.

It was policy, folks. It's always been policy.

Everything else they tell you is a lie.

High gas prices are NOT just a function of high oil prices, supported by purposeful disruptions to the market thanks to the slap-happy sanctions machines in DC and Brussels.

Comment: It's global genocide on a scale that will make Hitler's 'final solution' seem barbaric only because its methods were crude. This time around, we're all Jews, and they're going to 'gas' us to death in our homes, transports, and workplaces.

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