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"President Biden could end this crisis and prevent a war with Russia by doing something very simple," Gabbard said to Carlson. "Guaranteeing that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. Because if Ukraine became a member of NATO, that would put U.S. And NATO troops directly on the doorstep of Russia, which, as Putin has laid out, would undermine their national security interests."
"The reality is that it is highly, highly unlikely that Ukraine will ever become a member of NATO anyway," the former Congresswoman said. "The question is, why doesn't President Biden and NATO leaders actually just say that and guarantee it? Which begs the question of why are we in this position then? If the answer to this and preventing this war from happening is very clear as day."
Comment: Tulsi gets it.
See also:
- NewsReal: Groundhog Day in the Situation Room: Whacking 'Our' Terrorists, Hating on Russia
- NewsReal: Canadian PM Flees Freedom Convoy as Washington Seeks War in Europe
- Russia pulls diplomats from Ukraine, fears "provocations" against its foreign missions
- Sergey Karaganov: It's not really about Ukraine
- The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it's about Germany
- US, yet again, warns Americans in Ukraine to leave as 'invasion could come any time', Moscow says 'fearmongers got second wind'
- Preventing third WW: Corporate driving forces behind the crisis in Ukraine are the same ones for World Wars I, II
- Ukraine splits with Biden - media
- Biden's got just three options left on Ukraine, and none that's palatable for him
Russian embassy in Kiev
The move came after the US, Britain, and several other countries began to evacuate some staffers and family members from their embassies in Kiev last month, Moscow said on Saturday, arguing that the Western states may have some insights which haven't been shared with Russia.
"We are making a conclusion that American and British colleagues are possibly aware of certain violent actions prepared in Ukraine that can seriously undermine security," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on social media.
Comment: It's likely that Russia now thinks that the possibility of these provocations by the West and Ukraine are now imminent; Pepe Escobar shares this view:
Meanwhile Ukraine's media reports on the soaring price of lard:
Notably this comes a couple of days after the failed negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany, and just a day after a US sub violated Russian territorial waters and was subsequently chased out by the country's military.
See also: The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it's about Germany
Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Groundhog Day in the Situation Room: Whacking 'Our' Terrorists, Hating on Russia
According to CBC Senior Parliamentary Reporter Travis Dhanraj, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office confirmed that the nation's leader spent the weekend, which had been filled with protests in the capital city, cross country skiing in Gatineau Park in Quebec.
Comment: So is the "secret location" Trudeau was whisked away to the Gatineau mountains for some cross-country skiiing? Or is this just a cover? There were rumors circulating that the Prime Minister was actually speedily transported to Germany (to see his master Schwab?), while others said it was somewhere in the US. We'll probably never know for sure, but for the pubic to be given the plausible lie that the out-of-touch Prime Minister was simply irresponsible would be excellent cover for the possible nefarious plotting going on behind the scenes.
See also:
- Freedom protesters may spell the end of Trudeau's career: Poll
- Trudeau's wretched smear-job of truckers highlights sorry state of Canadian leadership
- Trudeau says restrictions are necessary to prevent further restrictions
- Tucker Carlson blasts Justin Trudeau for vilifying 'Freedom Convoy' protesters as racists
- Trudeau's own party is starting to turn on him over Covid restrictions
- 'Hey Trudeau, we're part of the Freedom Convoy and it's a show of unity, not hate'
- Rex Murphy: Media's alarmist reporting of trucker protest and Trudeau's intolerant rhetoric are shameful
- Trudeau says Canada needs mandates 'to avoid further restrictions' in response to calls for freedom
- Truckers: Trudeau and liberal media are falsely demonizing them, reporter in their midst can only conclude these peaceful protestors are 100% correct about that
© Off-Guardian
The heat is turned up so slowly that the frog has no idea that if he (or she) doesn't jump out he will be boiled alive.
Seems that most sheep, the normies, are like the frog. The rest of us (for the sake of simplicity I will call the rest of us "shrews" — more on that later!) are doing most of the jumping — or at least trying to.
I don't know if TPTB ("the powers that be" — need I clarify?) really care about a few jumping frogs, although our shrew numbers are increasing every day and may soon outnumber the sheep! What does seem to be clear is that some of the sheep are waking up and are attempting to jump out of the pot themselves.
It seems quite imperative that the majority of frogs stay in the pot, because if most of them jump out, there will be no dinner for whoever is cooking them.
The shrew frogs are very much aware of the heat being turned up leading to their demise, the sheep frogs still are not quite sure what the hell is happening.
In order to fully know the degree of seriousness regarding the pot and water situation you have to believe that the point of being in the pot to begin with is to be boiled — dead.
Maybe we can still stick with a metaphor here, but possibly not — the intention of the boiling pot could literally be to kill the sleeping frogs contained therein. Or, at the very least, have them completely under the control of TPTB.
Do they need to remain asleep forever?
© Sputnik/Sergey AverinA fighter loyal to the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic mans a checkpoint in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine.
Instead, it is likely that troops are there to prevent another assault on the self-proclaimed Donbass republics. If that were to happen, Kiev's army would be destroyed and what is left of the already failed state will probably collapse. These troops and other military-technical means, as Russia generals nicely put it, are there to increase pressure on puppeteers rather than on puppets.
Russia could count on its greatly bolstered military capability, probably giving it what Western experts call "escalation dominance" in Europe and in other areas of vital interest. We also know that NATO's Article Five, committing the bloc to mutual defense, is absolutely hollow - read it - in spite of an avalanche of assurances. And the US under no circumstances would fight in Europe against a nuclear nation, risking a devastating response back home. In addition, Russia stands back-to-back with China, which greatly enhances the military-political capabilities of both.
Smoke from Ghweran Prison battle Syria ISIS
On January 20, 2022, the militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a violent attack on Ghweran prison in Al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.
This is the largest gathering of ISIS in the world and controlled by the Kurdish separatists, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The prison contains about 3,500 fighters and leaders of ISIS from more than 50 nationalities.
ISIS: 12 PKK killed and 3 armoured vehicles damaged due to Ghweran prison attack
Comment: All to say, nothing is what it seems.
© REUTERS/Jason ReedThe logo of the Central Intelligence Agency is swept clean in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.
I mean, right now the mass media are churning out stories about "intelligence" which says Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine very soon, citing government officials and anonymous sources. We are never shown the "intelligence", and we are never shown any evidence of its veracity; we're simply told what opaque and unaccountable government agencies want us to believe about a foreign government. We're not even reminded by the publishers of these CIA press releases that western intelligence agencies have a very extensive history of lying about exactly this sort of thing, and we're certainly not informed that Kyiv appears to be ramping up aggressions in eastern Ukraine.
© Sputnik/Angelina TimofeevaRussia's negotiator in the Normandy Four talks and Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak attends a news briefing following a meeting of political advisers of the Normandy Four nations in Berlin, Germany.
Speaking at a late-night press conference, Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak admitted that it had not been possible for Russia and Ukraine to reconcile their conflicting positions regarding Minsk II, a treaty signed in 2015 in an attempt to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine's Donbass region.
Comment: Concept: To give, is to gain.
© The Hill Times/Andrew Meade/McMaster UniversityCanadian PM Justin Trudeau • Dr. Dominik Mertz • Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos
"With the worst of Omicron now behind us, our government is actively reviewing the measures in place at our borders and we should be able to communicate changes on this next week."Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at a news conference on Parliament Hill held Friday, said measures requiring people to be fully vaccinated to board a plane or train and work in the federal public service are not among the changes that will be coming next week.
"I think it's extremely important to emphasize that all the decisions we take will be based in science and indeed will be focused on Canadians getting their lives back to normal."His government has been under intense pressure for weeks to lift at least some of the rules that make travel difficult. Currently individuals travelling abroad must be fully vaccinated and must take COVID-19 tests.
Comment: Trudeau has few options: wise up or fade out.
Comment: See also: Russia pulls diplomats from Ukraine, fears "provocations" against its foreign missions
And check out SOTT radio's:NewsReal: Ukraine Gambit - US Attempting to Destroy Russia