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Vucic: Serbia will 'fight' sanctions pressure


RT
Sun, 15 May 2022 14:28 UTC
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© Maxim Shippenkov/AFP/Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin • Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
Despite suffering "enormous damage," Serbia will fight to maintain its policy of not joining the Western sanctions introduced against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine, its president has insisted.

"We've lasted eighty days" without restricting Russia and "the price we pay is huge," Alexander Vucic told local broadcaster Prva on Sunday. Serbia lacks access to the capital market and can't service its foreign loans, which affects the well-being of the population, he complained.
"They say: 'Vucic is announcing the introduction of Russian sanctions.' No, we will fight as long as we can. We suffered enormous damage, but we aren't looking for 'a thank you'."
Serbia is acting this way because it is "a sovereign and independent country" that is well aware of "how unfair and unnecessary" the sanctions are, he said.

Comment: Choices count:
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said his "guts turn" when he hears Western countries talk about their respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, while simultaneously insisting on the independence of the Serbian breakaway region of Kosovo.

During a Sunday broadcast on Prva TV, Vucic claimed there were no principles in modern international politics and accused the West of double standards and hypocrisy when it comes to the Ukraine and Kosovo conflicts. Serbia is a candidate for EU membership.

Belgrade does not recognize Kosovo's 2008 self-declaration of independence and considers the territory to be a Serbian province. Nearly 100 countries, including the US - but not Russia - have recognized the independence of the region.

As the G7 pledged that it would never accept the violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity, the Serbian government will continue to insist on the same principle for its own country.

The Serbian leader also questioned why, if Russia is really committing terrible crimes in Ukraine, NATO is not bombing it as it did in former Yugoslavia in 1999.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow's move to recognize the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk was based on the Kosovo precedent.

Belgrade has taken a neutral stance in relation to the conflict, with Vucic vowing to punish Serbs if they attempt to fight on either side.
See also: Serbian president doubles down on Russian sanctions

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Attention

Davos elites to rub shoulders with shamans


RT
Mon, 16 May 2022 17:55 UTC
Despite 'House of Psychedelics' expo offering meditation, breathwork and "ecstatic dance," organizers say there won't be any drugs.
Drug Dealer
© AP / Richard VogelA vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles, California, May 24, 2019.
Business and political leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum's Davos gathering this month will explore the opportunities for personal and business growth in psychedelic drugs, Bloomberg reported. The psychedelic showcase is a sign of the growing interest in still-illegal substances among the architects of 'The Great Reset.'

When world leaders and their colleagues in the business and nonprofit sectors arrive in Davos, Switzerland, next weekend, the agenda is typical of the World Economic Forum's annual meetings. Visitors will discuss their shared interest in eliminating fossil fuels, reshaping the world's economy, and eroding the boundaries between nations.

However, they'll also get a chance to stop at the 'House of Psychedelics' along the Davos promenade and "inquire about how they might be able to use psychedelics," Marik Hazan, director of Tabula Rasa Ventures, a startup incubator for psychedelic companies, told Bloomberg.

The 'House of Psychedelics' will host debates and discussions on the ethical use of psychedelic drugs, their potential health benefits, and on opportunities for profit. Accordingly, Maya Health, a data platform, and Irwin Naturals, a vitamin and supplement company, are sponsoring the event.

As a profit-making exercise, the event isn't on the WEF's official agenda. However, one self-described "shaman" who plans on attending told Bloomberg that she considers it "important to educate politicians about what heals," and that she hopes to drive psychedelic drugs even further into the mainstream with the event.
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Arrow Up

Death by a thousand cuts: Where is the West's Ukraine strategy?

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Mon, 16 May 2022 17:40 UTC
The pounding, daily Western narratives on 'Ukrainian wins' and 'Russian losses' underpins the lack of an actual, cohesive Grand Strategy against Moscow

Grand Strategy
© The CradleWars are not won with tactics and narratives - they require a Grand Strategy. Russia has a master plan behind its Ukraine military operations, but does the west have one?
While we are all familiar with Sun Tzu, the Chinese general, military strategist and philosopher who penned the incomparable Art of War, less known is the Strategikon, the Byzantium equivalent on warfare.

Sixth century Byzantium really needed a manual, threatened as it was from the east, successively by Sassanid Persia, Arabs and Turks, and from the north, by waves of steppe invaders, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, semi-nomadic Turkic Pechenegs and Magyars.

Byzantium could not prevail just by following the classic pattern of Roman Empire raw power - they simply didn't have the means for it.

So military force needed to be subordinate to diplomacy, a less costly means of avoiding or resolving conflict. And here we can make a fascinating connection with today's Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin and his diplomacy chief Sergei Lavrov.

But when military means became necessary for Byzantium - as in Russia's Operation Z - it was preferable to use weaponry to contain or punish adversaries, instead of attacking with full force.
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Bad Guys

"The 'Rojava system' in northern Syria will collapse as quickly as the government of Afghanistan"


Levant 24
Sat, 14 May 2022 16:15 UTC
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Rojava fighters in Syria
It was a cool night that Thursday. The guards were routinely making their rounds. The prisoners were already asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary, one would think, when suddenly explosions were heard and fierce fighting broke out. While attempts were made to storm the prison from the outside, the supposedly sleeping inmates started setting mattresses and other flammable materials on fire from the inside. The aim was to force every fellow inmate to break out as well, to make the pressure on the guards unbearable. Chaos broke out. Heavy fighting continued for days. War-like scenes kept the region in suspense. After nine long days and nights, the prison guards got the situation under control again with foreign air support and army units. Result: dozens dead. 140 of them army personnel. A high number of escaped prisoners.

One might think that this scenario was a clip from a movie. Unfortunately these were the actual events that took place in al-Hasakah, Syria, January of this year. ISIS performed a multi-pronged attack deep inside SDF territory, once again proving that they still play a significant role in the conflict in the east of the country. A conflict that still sees no end after a decade. While the world's attention is focused on Ukraine, the flashpoint of Syria is far from extinguished. In the meantime, it has splintered and each region has its own characteristics and different actors, but they all have one common denominator: the Assad regime.
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Former Russian President Medvedev: West's "self-harming" sanctions will mean "collapse of US-centric world"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 16 May 2022 14:22 UTC
Dimitri Medvedev
© Sputnik / Alexandr AstafievDimitri Medvedev
Following wave after wave of sanctions threats and impositions, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev predicted this week that there would be a number of global consequences.

Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, wrote on Telegram that the sanctions could be the spur to a new world order which Moscow has previously said it would welcome.
"As a result [of sanctions], a new security architecture will be created," he said.

This would highlight, "the weakness of the Westernized concepts of international relations such as 'order based on rules'," Medvedev also predicted "the collapse of the idea of ​​an American-centric world."

Comment: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results. The U.S, is exhibiting this behavior in spades.

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Health

Moscow says injured troops will be evacuated from Azovstal


RT
Mon, 16 May 2022 14:13 UTC
Azovstal plant in Mariupol
© Sputnik / Alexey KudenkoSmoke rises over Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Donetsk People's Republic.
Evacuation from the Mariupol stronghold to a Donbass city agreed, Russian military said

Russian and allied troops blocking the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol will allow injured Ukrainian soldiers to leave the stronghold and go to hospital in Novoazovsk, the Russian defense ministry said on Monday. The evacuation is planned for later on Monday after an agreement was reached, the military said.

According to the Russian ministry, it has suspended hostilities at Azovstal to allow the humanitarian evacuation later in the day.

Novoazovsk is a small city about 40km east of Mariupol, which is controlled by the militia force of the Donetsk People's Republic. The evacuated troops will apparently remain in the custody of the breakaway republic, which Russia recognized as an independent state before launching its attack against Ukraine in late February.

Comment: Russia again shows it humanitarian concerns. Its operation is directed at the neo-nazi element of the Ukraine government, not its people.





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Bad Guys

Why is the United States getting away with unleashing a global biological war?

Vladimir Platov
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00 UTC
biological warfare
The United States has long demonstrated to the global community its disregard for international regulations, along with its readiness to unleash a war with the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) anywhere in the world. This is what the Americans did in Japan, when they dropped nuclear bombs on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. There have subsequently been many other incidents documented and reported to the UN which involved the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons by the United States against its opponents not only in Korea, but also in other regions of the world. Thus, in the period from 1949 to 1988 the Soviet Union submitted to the UN evidence about 13 facts of large- and small-scale use of WMDs with the US involvement. Here are just some of them.

- In 1951-1953, the USSR forwarded to the UN the documented evidence about the US's use of bioweapons against North Korea and China during the Korean War. Those crimes garnered broad media coverage even in the US itself, and were proved by declassified documentary information;

- in 1948-1960, the UN received some documented evidence of the application of "scorched earth" tactics by the British army, backed by the United States, with the use of chemical and bioweapons against civilians in Malaya;

- in 1961-1971, the UN received evidence of the use of the same policy by the US Armed Forces in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand;
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Bandaid

That would be a shame: Fauci says he would not serve under Trump again

Brad Dress
The Hill
Sun, 15 May 2022 18:29 UTC
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White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Sunday said if former President Trump wins the presidency again in 2024, Fauci will not return to serve Trump in the White House.

Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Biden, gave CNN's Jim Acosta a plain "no" when asked if he would work with the 45th president again.

"If you look at the history of what the response was during the administration, I think, you know, at best, you can say it wasn't optimal," Fauci said. "History will speak for itself about that."

Comment: Fauci apparently didn't like Trump contradicting his lies and bad advice. He'd much rather work under a robot like Biden, who doesn't get in the way of his conflicts of interest.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Buffalo Shooter a Nazi, like Azov Battalion in Ukraine


Sott.net
Sun, 15 May 2022 22:20 UTC
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© Sott.net
Bad Nazis and... moderate Nazis?

This weekend, a teenaged lone gunman went on a shooting rampage in Buffalo, upstate New York, killing 10 Black people, ostensibly 'to save the White race'. Stamped all over his social media selfies are the same Nazi symbols stamped on the uniforms of Ukrainian Nazis currently enjoined in 'heroic' battle against Russian forces.

His methods, motivation and 'white supremacist manifesto', the media reports, were explicitly inspired by the Christchurch shooter in 2019, and the Norway terrorist in 2011. These whitey lunatics certainly share links, but those links aren't being explicated in the media.

Meanwhile, as incipient global famine is being blamed by Western leaders on their perennial scapegoat, Vladimir Putin, major food riots have gripped Sri Lanka, where the government's attempt to implement 'green farming' has caused spectacular crop failures.

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall expose the wilful destruction of Great Game geopolitics, and the deadly Nazi embrace at the heart of the Western moral matrix.


Running Time: 01:38:40

Download: MP3 — 67.8 MB

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Serbian president doubles down on Russian sanctions


RT
Sun, 15 May 2022 14:28 UTC
VucicPutin
© AP/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/Mikhail KlimentyevRussian President Vladimir Putin • Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
Despite suffering "enormous damage," Belgrade will fight to maintain its policy of not joining the drastic international sanctions introduced against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said.

"We've lasted eighty days" without restricting Russia and "the price we pay is huge," Vucic told local broadcaster Prva on Sunday. Serbia lacks access to the capital market and can't service its foreign loans, which affects the well-being of the population, he complained.
"They say: 'Vucic is announcing the introduction of Russian sanctions.' No, we will fight as long as we can. We suffered enormous damage, but we aren't looking for 'a thank you'."
Serbia is acting this way because it is "a sovereign and independent country" that is well aware of "how unfair and unnecessary" the sanctions are, he said.
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