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NATO vs Russia: what happens next

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Wed, 25 May 2022 00:21 UTC
In Davos and beyond, NATO's upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.

NATO vs Russia
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Three months after the start of Russia's Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative - oddly - remains the same.

On Monday, from Davos, World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab introduced Ukrainian comedian-cum-President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the latest leg of his weapons-solicitation-tour, with a glowing tribute. Herr Schwab stressed that an actor impersonating a president defending neo-Nazis is supported by "all of Europe and the international order."

He means, of course, everyone except the 88 percent of the planet that subscribes to the Rule of Law - instead of the faux construct the west calls a 'rules-based international order.'

Back in the real world, Russia, slowly but surely has been rewriting the Art of Hybrid War. Yet within the carnival of NATO psyops, aggressive cognitive infiltration, and stunning media sycophancy, much is being made of the new $40 billion US 'aid' package to Ukraine, deemed capable of becoming a game-changer in the war.

This 'game-changing' narrative comes courtesy of the same people who burned though trillions of dollars to secure Afghanistan and Iraq. And we saw how that went down.

Ukraine is the Holy Grail of international corruption. That $40 billion can be a game-changer for only two classes of people: First, the US military-industrial complex, and second, a bunch of Ukrainian oligarchs and neo-connish NGOs, that will corner the black market for weapons and humanitarian aid, and then launder the profits in the Cayman Islands.
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Arrow Up

Russia calls on BRICS to create joint oil and gas facilities, pharmaceuticals against 'coming threats'


TASS
Mon, 23 May 2022 18:31 UTC
Oil rigs in the Caspian Sea—which the U.S. wanted to control over Russia.
© off-shore-technology.comOil rigs in the Caspian Sea.
Russia's Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov called on the BRICS countries to create joint ventures for the processing of oil and gas without the participation of external "unreliable partners".

"As compared to a number of other countries, we are, of course, largely protected from risks, given our well-established cooperation in this area. But we have the opportunity to shift towards higher-margin products obtained from advanced oil refining and gas processing. In this respect, there are good opportunities to create joint ventures that cover all our needs without the participation of external, unreliable partners," Manturov said at a meeting with the ministers of industry of the BRICS countries.
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Bizarro Earth

Hungary declares wartime state of emergency as US proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine threatens to spillover

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 24 May 2022 19:26 UTC
Orban
© archyworldys.comFILE PHOTO: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban
Hours after taking total control of Hungary by pushing through a constitutional amendment allowing his government to rule by decree when war breaks out in a neighboring country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a wartime state of emergency.

According to Bloomberg, Parliament approved the state of emergency earlier Tuesday which will take effect at midnight. It will give Orban's government "maneuvering room and the ability to react immediately" to the ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine, Orban said in a Facebook video message.

Bloomberg, of course, paints it as a victory for "the banner carrier for nationalists worldwide."

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Footprints

The race to break the Russia-China Alliance and the 'Ukraine of the Asia Pacific'

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Flags
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There is a window of opportunity open for the west to recognize the total failure of the unipolar model before the point of no return has passed.

It has become commonplace western media and armadas of geopolitical think tankers to paint today's Russia-China alliance as a matter of either "momentary convenience", or as a strained partnership between two competing authoritarian regimes with global imperial aspirations.

However, if one simply looks at the facts as they are without the filter of "experts" telling you how to interpret reality, it becomes extremely clear that those cynical geopolitical assessments painted by geopolitical opinionators are doing little more than trying to analyze life through lenses that only see dead corpses. It isn't that such analysts aren't necessarily concerned with the truth (although more than a few aren't), but due to their fundamental axioms, their limited minds cannot contemplate a system organized by a non-Hobbesian parameters either past, present or future. It is for this reason that such opinionators cannot understand the nature of the Russian-China alliance nor can they see or understand the stark parallels in the asymmetrical war efforts to destroy either Eurasian power.

Due to this intellectual blindness, even among many intelligent experts within the alternative media community, I will take this opportunity to briefly assess some of the key elements of the parallel features of both operations that have been deployed to destroy both Russia and China. We will begin by looking at the color revolutionary tactics, followed by 'Gladio stay behinds', military encirclement, biowarfare and finally the use of 'fifth columns'.
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WSJ editors eviscerate Hillary in blistering op-ed about Russia collusion lies


Truth Press
Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00 UTC
H Clinton
© UnknownHillary Clinton
It's time to drop the words "fake news," "hoax," and any other descriptor short of blatant and purposeful lies, in reference to Hillary Clinton's engineering, oversight, and final approval of releasing to the sock-puppet media a preposterous fairy tale that even the worst of armchair sleuths could spot as complete bullcrap.

Why do I make such a "bold" statement? When even the Wall Street Journal editorial board publishes a blistering editorial titled 'Hillary Clinton Did It', in which it calls Clinton's lies a "dirty trick for the ages," that is newsworthy. Are you listening, Hillary?

The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top — candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court, and while this news is hardly a surprise, it's still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon.

Comment: By not reporting the sordid deeds of this woman...the news was complicit.

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Footprints

'Flirting with danger': Biden says US would defend Taiwan militarily against invasion, points to Ukraine


HKFP
Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00 UTC
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© White House/FlickrUS President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden said Monday the United States would defend Taiwan militarily if Beijing invaded the self-ruled island, warning China was "flirting with danger".

"That's the commitment we made," he said when asked if Washington would intervene militarily against a Chinese attempt to forcibly take control of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province to be unified with the mainland.
"We agreed with the One China policy, we signed on to it... but the idea that (Taiwan) can be taken by force is just not appropriate. It will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine."

Comment: And that is Biden's fantasy.


Comment: Biden, the Pontificator-in-Chief, strikes again. Meanwhile he can't control his own side of the pond.

Modicum of sanity? White House rejects president's foreign policy:
U.S. President Joe Biden apparently pursues different foreign policies than the White House.

October 23 2021:

'Strategic Ambiguity' on Taiwan Apparent as White House Walks Back Biden Comments
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday appeared to walk back President Joe Biden's statement on Thursday that the United States was committed to defending Taiwan should it come under Chinese attack.

"The president was not announcing any change in our policy, nor has he made a decision to change our policy," Psaki said during a White House news briefing. "Our defense relationship with Taiwan is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act."

The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act states that the U.S. will provide arms for Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. It does not say the U.S. would intervene militarily to protect Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack.

Psaki's statement stands in contradiction to Biden's comment at a CNN town hall Thursday night. When asked if the U.S. would come to the defense of Taiwan, Biden said, "Yes, we have a commitment to do that."
November 17 2021:

Biden Struggles to Stick to the Script on Taiwan
Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is habit — or so the saying goes.

Amid escalating tensions with China, U.S. President Joe Biden has misspoken about U.S. policy toward the self-governed island of Taiwan at least four times since August, fueling speculation as to whether the president is subtly trying to signal an evolving U.S. policy toward Taiwan or just fumbling the details.
March 27 2022:

Biden's Putin remark, White House walk-back faces scrutiny
President Biden's remark that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" reverberated throughout Washington on Sunday, with some current and former officials and lawmakers scrutinizing the reported ad-lib while others slammed the White House for its subsequent walk-back.

Biden turned heads on Saturday when, at the end of a speech in Warsaw, Poland, he said, "for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power."

The White House quickly tried to walk back the comment, claiming that Biden was referring to Putin exercising power outside of Russia, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed that the U.S. has no plans for regime change in Moscow.
May 23 2022:

US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China, says Joe Biden
Joe Biden has said the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China - a statement that is likely to enrage Beijing as concern grows over Chinese military activity in the region.

Speaking in Tokyo on the second day of his visit to Japan, Biden said the US's responsibility to protect the self-ruled island - which China considers a renegade province - was "even stronger" after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in one of the most forceful statements in support of Taiwan in decades.
Amichai Stein, White House official: Biden's statement that the US would get involved militarily to defend Taiwan is NOT a departure from long-standing US policy of strategic ambiguity.
They urgently need to shut up that warmongering idiot.
The Biden clean-up crew says: 'No regime change in Russia nor China.' How about the US?

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Whistle

Global debt about to explode


RT
Sun, 22 May 2022 14:53 UTC
Money wave
© Getty Images/ViaframeFinancial Tsunami
The world's two largest economies were the heaviest borrowers in the first three months of this year as global debt climbed to above $305 trillion, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) reported on Wednesday.

Its data showed that China's debt increased by $2.5 trillion over the first quarter and the United States added $1.5 trillion. The total debt in the Eurozone declined for a third consecutive quarter, the IIF said.

According to the analysis, many countries, both emerging and developed, are entering a monetary tightening cycle with high levels of dollar-denominated debt. The IIF report said:
"As central banks move ahead with policy tightening to curb inflationary pressures, higher borrowing costs will exacerbate debt vulnerabilities. The impact could be more severe for those emerging market borrowers that have a less diversified investor base."
Corporate debt outside of banks and government borrowing were the largest sources of the increase in borrowing. Debt excluding the financial sector surged above $236 trillion, some $40 trillion higher than two years ago when the pandemic hit. Government debt has risen more slowly in the same period.

Comment: How many politicians or heads of state ever stood in a food line?

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Dollar

Whitney Webb: Monkeypox fears may rescue endangered corporations

Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00 UTC
monkeypox
Two corrupt companies were in rocky financial territory just a few weeks ago. Now, with concerns over a global monkeypox outbreak being hyped by media and global health organizations alike, the worries - and sins - of these two firms are quickly being forgotten.

In recent days, concern over a global outbreak of monkeypox, a mild disease related to smallpox and chickenpox, has been hyped in the media and health ministries around the world, even prompting an emergency meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO). For some, fears have centered around monkeypox being the potential "next pandemic" after Covid-19. For others, the fear is that monkeypox will be used as the latest excuse to further advance draconian biosecurity policies and global power grabs.

Regardless of how the monkeypox situation plays out, two companies are already cashing in. As concern over monkeypox has risen, so too have the shares of Emergent Biosolutions and SIGA Technologies. Both companies essentially have monopolies in the US market, and other markets as well, on smallpox vaccines and treatments. Their main smallpox-focused products are, conveniently, also used to protect against or treat monkeypox as well. As a result, the shares of Emergent Biosolutions climbed 12% on Thursday, while those of SIGA soared 17.1%.
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Black Cat

What It Means That 'Hillary Clinton Did It'

David Zukerman
American Thinker
Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Hillary Clinton Did It
The Wall Street Journal ran a scathing editorial on May 20, called "Hillary Clinton Did It".

This editorial began:
"The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 was a dirty trick for the ages -- and now we know it came from the top -- candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton."
The editorial quickly explained:
"That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court [in Washington, D.C.], and while this news is hardly a surprise, it's still bracing to find her fingertips on the political weapon."
(Also not surprisingly, The May 20 print edition of The New York Times did not include a story on Mook's testimony.)

Mook's testimony was heard at the trial of attorney Michael Sussman, charged with lying to the FBI in calling to their attention a story that Donald J. Trump, by means of connections with Russia's Alfa Bank, was colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Comment: More coverage on the court case that has to have Killary quaking in her boots:



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Bad Guys

The structural scaffolding to potential Mid-East war

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00 UTC
middle east war
Today, Iran is demonised as an intolerable threat to western global Order. But it was not always thus, Alastair Crooke writes.

The Structural scaffolding was first put into place in the early 1990s. But that structure was erected on false premises and lazy misconceptions. Its flaws, however, were papered over for nearly two decades; but now changes to the overall regional paradigm mean that the scaffolding is reversing itself: it no longer contains latent conflicts, but is funnelling us headlong toward them.

To understand the double helix at the centre of the Middle East, pulling us into its swirling sink-hole, we must first address the structure of Israel's relationship with Iran and the Palestinians, and see how that has come to lock us into dynamics which, as matters stand, threaten to break the fetters holding containment in place.

Today, Iran is demonised as an intolerable threat to western global Order. But it was not always thus.

"We had very deep relations with Iran, cutting deep into the fabric of the two peoples", said a high-ranking official at the Israeli foreign ministry just after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Israeli (and U.S.) officials then saw it as sheer madness to view Iran as anything other than a natural interlocutor.
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