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Zelensky calls Ukraine-Russia negotiations 'scandalous', 'coordinates positions' with Trudeau before summits


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:23 UTC
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© Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via APFILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, on Wednesday morning that "difficult" and confrontational peace talks with Russia are moving ahead, albeit slowly. He also used his video address to discuss his interactions with Western leaders.

Among the other topics Zelensky touched upon in his were his talks with the president of Slovakia, Zuzana Caputova, concerning Ukrainian security and help from the EU, as well as a discussion with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which Zelensky informed him about, what he described as, the dire humanitarian situation in the country, as they continued to "coordinate their positions" before the upcoming NATO and G7 summits.


Comment: Trudeau and Zelensky are a good match; Trudeau was greeted on his visit to the European Parliament with a scathing condemnation of his tyrannical policies that were particularly exposed during the trucker protest by MEP Mislav Kolakusic. See below for the video.


"Difficult? Yes, very. Sometimes they make scandalous demands, but we are moving forward step by step," he said about the process with Russia, adding that talks are conducted almost every day.

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"Dictatorship of the worst kind" - Trudeau lambasted by European parliamentarian

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
True North
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Mislav Kolakusic
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Croatian Member of European (MEP) Parliament and former judge Mislav Kolakusic called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau out to his face in Brussels on Tuesday, savaging Trudeau over "civil rights violations" against Freedom Convoy protesters.

Speaking before the European Parliament, Kolakusic accused the prime minister of engaging in a "dictatorship of the worst kind" by using the Emergencies Act to crush peaceful demonstrations.

Kolakusic's speech followed Trudeau's own address to the parliament, where the prime minister had sounded off on purported threats to democracy posed by freedom protesters.

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SOTT Focus: First Fact-Based MSM Report About War in Ukraine! Newsweek: 'Putin Minimizing Civilian Casualties'

William M. Arkin
Newsweek
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:44 UTC

Comment: Newsweek didn't get it quite right. But they're closer to the mark than any analysis published in anglophone media thus far...


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As destructive as the Ukraine war is, Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, U.S. intelligence experts say.

Russia's conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage — and it reveals the Russian leader's strategic balancing act. If Russia were more intentionally destructive, the clamoring for U.S. and NATO intervention would be louder. And if Russia were all-in, Putin might find himself with no way out. Instead, his goal is to take enough territory on the ground to have something to negotiate with, while putting the government of Ukraine in a position where they have to negotiate.


Comment: That's a more reality-based guess at Russia's strategy, but it's still wrong. No matter how shrill the 'clamoring', there isn't any intervention NATO could make beyond what it's doing: attempting to smuggle weapons and mercenaries, and lying to the world about what is taking place in Ukraine, and why it is taking place.

Russia is 'all-in', but not in the way we're used to seeing NATO forces go 'all-in'. They want to preserve as much of Ukraine as possible because it will be less expensive to rebuild it afterwards, and because the last thing they want is to generate multi-generational russophobic hatred in Ukraine. But they have no moral qualms about using hypersonic missiles to smack the supply chains of Western weapons at Ukraine's borders with 'NATO-stan'.


Comment: Along with retired US Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, it's nice to know that common sense still exists in Western military institutions.

There's no chance of that affecting US government policy for the better, however. 'Russia must die' will be the last words of the Ukrainian regime and the Western regime not long after it.

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Best of the Web: Putin flips sanctions, demands rubles for Russian gas from 'hostile' countries, says credibility of dollar and euro is 'destroyed'


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:49 UTC

Comment: Because no one is seriously divesting from Russian oil and gas, this means Western countries will effectively support and even STRENGTHEN the Russian currency!


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© Sputnik / Alexey VitvitskiyThe change will affect energy exports to "unfriendly countries"
Russia will now accept payment for gas exports to "unfriendly countries" in rubles only, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the government on Wednesday.

The president explained that Russia plans to abandon all "compromised" currencies in payment settlements. He added that illegitimate decisions by a number of Western countries to freeze Russia's assets destroyed all confidence in their currencies.

"I have decided to implement in the shortest possible time a set of measures to change the payments for - yes let's start with this - for our natural gas supplied to the so-called unfriendly countries in Russian rubles, that is to stop using all compromised currencies for transactions," the Russian president said.

Comment: As Trump might say, "smart move"!

Ukraine: The great manipulation

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia, China and the New World Order



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Author who confronted Canadian FM tells RT Ottawa has 'exacerbated the tragedy in Ukraine'


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:35 UTC
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© RTYves Engler, Canadian author and activist
Yves Engler says the West only cares about flooding warzone with weapons to "fight and die" in a military conflict with Russia

Author and activist Yves Engler, who recently confronted Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly at a public event, has told RT that Ottawa only makes the Russia-Ukraine conflict worse by sending weapons to Kiev.

Engler interrupted Joly's speech at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Monday, accusing the minister of "escalating the war," before he was escorted out. Joly has not commented publicly on the incident.
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Dems smear Hawley for revealing they don't care if SCOTUS justices hate the Constitution

Jordan Boyd
The Federalist
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:00 UTC
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© Tom Williams/Pool, Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersSen. Josh Hawley (left) and Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Amid the Senate confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's radical U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson this week, the left has been working overtime to take down Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, and it's obvious why: The Missouri Republican's questions about Jackson's lenient track record on child porn offenders threaten Democrats' goal of transforming the high court into a bench of reliable leftist activists.

Even before Jackson's confirmation hearings officially began on Monday, the left's information operation designed to discredit Hawley for daring to question Biden's self-admitted affirmative action pick ramped up. When Hawley pointed out that Jackson has a history of going easy on criminals who possessed and distributed child pornography, he was smeared by the propaganda press, White House, and Democrats.

"Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She's been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond 'soft on crime.' I'm concerned that this [is] a record that endangers our children," Hawley tweeted last week.

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Biden, Stoltenberg warn of threat of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine


RFE/RL
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Brandan Smialowski/AFPUS President Joe Biden • NATO head Jens Stoltenberg
U.S. President Joe Biden says the threat of Russia using chemical weapons against Ukraine was "real" as NATO head Jens Stoltenberg warned of "far-reaching consequences" if Moscow were to use armaments.

"I think it's a real threat," Biden said on March 23 as he left for Europe, where he will meet with NATO, Group of Seven, and European Union allies to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is in its fourth week amid fierce resistance by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.

Several Western officials, including Stoltenberg, have repeatedly warned that Russia might use chemical weapons in Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime.

"Any use of chemical weapons would totally change the nature of the conflict, it would be a blatant violation of international law, and would have far-reaching consequences," Stoltenberg said in Brussels on March 23.

Comment: If they voice 'a fear' they might make it happen. Guilty as charged in advance.

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Invasion of Ukraine begins cascade of decoupling from Russian science

Maria Burke
Chemistry World
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Observer/Getty ImagesRussia and global community sever science ties
The scientific community is grappling with the challenges of decoupling from Russia. Many research organisations in Europe have cut ties including Germany, France, Denmark and the Netherlands. But in the UK, the picture is less clear with universities being told to make their own choices. Meanwhile, the publishing world is facing its own dilemma about whether to refuse papers from Russia.

European institutions have acted, too. The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities has suspended the membership of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, concluding that the ability of these academies 'to act autonomously and independently' from their governments warrants its decision. Cern will suspend Russia's observer status and will not engage in new collaborations with it. But Cern chose not to expel its Russian users, who number around 1000.

Comment: These short-sighted and vindictive suspensions posit a tear in the fabric of knowledge and development, academics and science - affecting the future, serving no one.
Russia is severing ties with its Western space partners in retaliation to a barrage of sanctions imposed against the country following its invasion of Ukraine. In the past week, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has forced the cancellation or delay of multiple missions using its Soyuz rockets and said it would no longer sell rocket engines to American companies.

Many American-built rockets rely on Russian parts. The United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, one of the most frequently employed boosters for NASA science missions, uses the Russian-made RD-180 engines. Northrop Grumman uses a newer version of the engine named RD-181 in its Antares rockets, which deliver supplies to the ISS for NASA.

"Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks. I don't know what," Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Roscosmos, said on Russian state television on March 3 when announcing the supply halt. "The ISS does not fly over Russia, so all the risks are yours. Are you ready for them?"

The only place where cooperation hasn't been completely cut off is on the ISS, which is co-run by the U.S., Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan. Russia controls critical aspects of the space station, including fuel delivery and its propulsion module, which keeps the orbital lab at a safe altitude away from Earth's gravitational pull.

"Despite the challenges here on Earth — and they are substantial — NASA is committed to the seven astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson


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Russia's decision to halt peace treaty talks unacceptable: Kishida


Kyodo News
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:41 UTC
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© KyodoJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida • Tokyo, Japan • March 22, 2022
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday that Japan views as unacceptable Russia's decision to suspend the countries' negotiations on a post-World War II peace treaty, in response to Tokyo's sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

"Russia's actions are extremely unreasonable and totally unacceptable," Kishida told a Diet committee session. "We strongly protest."

Announcing the move on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry also said Moscow will halt a visa-free program allowing former Japanese residents to periodically visit four disputed islets off Hokkaido, and indicated Russia will withdraw from joint economic activities on the islands.

"It remains unchanged that Japan aims to solve the territorial issue and conclude a peace treaty with Russia," Kishida added.

Comment: Japan's myopic take on Russia vs West is but 'a small island' in the storm.

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How India perceives the Ukrainian crisis and what it means for its relations with Russia and the West

Gleb Makarevich
RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:47 UTC
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© Money SHARMA / AFPIndian army T-90 (Bhishma) tank
Russia's military operation in Ukraine and, more broadly, its conflict with the West may not change the fabric of India-Russia bilateral relations as dramatically as some observers may think.

A time-tested special and privileged strategic partnership, encompassing all crucial fields related to defense and security issues as well as political and economic spheres, is not likely to be affected by hostilities taking place in Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the devil is, as usual, in the details.

No Man Left Behind

"As Hon'ble Members would be aware, the tense situation between Russia and Ukraine erupted into conflict on 24 February 2022. The root causes for this are complex, going back to range of issues including the security architecture, political governance and inter-state politics. To that was added the challenges of implementing understandings reached earlier. What is pertinent to note is that the hostilities placed the Indian community of 20,000 plus in direct danger. Even while we were participating in the global deliberations of this evolving situation in the UN Security Council, the pressing challenge was to safeguard our citizens and ensure that they were not in harm's way", said Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in his address to the upper-chamber of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) on March 15, 2022.
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