Comment: The Democratic Convention? It should be a 'super duper'.

Comment: US is more a rinse and repeat kind of country. Perhaps changing this is part of the Trump appeal.

Comment: See also:

• Was Bangladesh coup US revenge for military base refusal?
• Bangladesh coup: India's growing anger with US foreign policy
• Sheikh Hasina speaks up on US plot

Comment:
1) See also:

• West could be helping Ukraine with 'dirty nuke' - ex-MEP
• Ukraine preparing 'dirty nuke' attack - media
• Russia vows harsh response if Ukraine attacks Kursk nuclear plant

2) From August 12:
Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid Ukraine-Russia conflict
Ukraine as usual accuses Russia of bombing itself. The point is that: "Only Ukrainian control over the Zaporizhzhia NPP can guarantee a return to normalcy and complete safety." From the article:

About 15 minutes later, around 1500 ET, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on X that "Russian occupiers have started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant."

Zelensky continued:

Currently, radiation levels are within norm. However, as long as the Russian terrorists maintain control over the nuclear plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal.

Since the first day of its seizure, Russia has been using the Zaporizhzhia NPP only to blackmail Ukraine, all of Europe, and the world.

We are waiting for the world to react, waiting for the IAEA to react. Russia must be held accountable for this. Only Ukrainian control over the Zaporizhzhia NPP can guarantee a return to normalcy and complete safety.

3) From the same source:
17 Aug, 2024 16:22
Ukraine making a 'serious nuclear gamble' - ex-Pentagon official

Kiev's alleged "dirty bomb" threat is an attempt to gain leverage over Moscow, Michael Maloof has said

18 Aug, 2024 07:51
Ukraine could trigger 'another Chernobyl' - ex-US Army officer to RT

A meltdown at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant would make the region uninhabitable, Stanislav Krapivnik has warned

The exclusion zones near Chernobyl is around around 30 km. The zone rouge, or in English, red zone, in northern France that was deemed uninhabitable after WWI warring covered large areas of which most were later recovered, but some remain to this day highly toxic or littered with buried unexploded shells. Given these examples, it is hard to imagine how a prolonged war in Ukraine and now Southern Russia could lead to large areas needing attention? The way the danger of radiological damages has been ignored or downplayed by some parties could leave the impression that they would not mind a wide and extensive uninhabitable exclusion zone, leading to reduced food production, and probably many lost lives.

4) In the following article, the Belarussian president is reflecting on the purpose of the the Kursk incursion and what might happen if Russia responded with nuclear weapons:
18 Aug, 2024 09:33
Ukraine pushing Russia to use nuclear weapons - Belarus

Kiev may have launched its Kursk incursion to provoke a drastic response by Moscow, President Alexander Lukashenko believes

Ukraine's incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory looks like an attempt to compel Moscow to use nuclear weapons, which would irrevocably damage its image globally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

In an interview with Russia-1 aired on Sunday, Lukashenko warned that Kiev's operation in Kursk Region - the largest cross-border assault by Kiev since the outbreak of the conflict - posed enormous risks to global security.

"The danger is that this kind of escalation on the part of Ukraine is an attempt to push Russia into asymmetric actions, for example, the use of nuclear weapons," the Belarusian leader said, adding that such a move would be a PR bonanza for both Kiev and its Western backers.

"Then we would probably have hardly any allies left. There would be no sympathetic countries left at all," he noted, explaining that this reaction would be based on the universal aversion to the fallout that could be caused by nuclear weapons.

Lukashenko also responded to statements by Ukrainian officials that the Kursk incursion was aimed at improving Kiev's diplomatic position for possible talks with Russia. This plan is "a classic, but it does not work in a struggle against a great empire that has not even begun to fight in earnest," he argued, adding he was sure that the Ukrainians would eventually be expelled from Kursk Region.

According to its current nuclear doctrine, Russia can deploy its nuclear arsenal only "in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said on several occasions that there is no need to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine campaign. Moscow has warned that it may change its nuclear doctrine, but said that any changes would be in response to what it perceives as escalatory moves by NATO.

Many people in Western Europe appear to ignore the potential of the current conflict to affect their lives even more than the Russia sanctions and the depleting of state funds to finance the NATO proxy war in Ukraine has already done. Will that change?

Comment: Israel's position as a pariah state is becoming fairly established across much of the planet, and whilst this move is unlikely to have any significant impact on Israel's diabolical schemes in the Middle East, it at least lends weight to the growing consensus amongst the general public, contrary to the propaganda media message, that Israel is indeed a rogue, genocidal state, and those supporting it, too, are party to its crimes against humanity. However, this is also likely to only compel Israel to become even more desperate, and malevolent, than it already is:

• Whom The Gods Would Destroy...
• Leaked video shows Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee
• Israel's opposition leader Gantz and Foreign Affairs magazine warn country at risk of 'civil war'
• Israelis seeking refugee status in Portugal in efforts to escape the conflict they created at home

Comment: The game played by these Deep State types has contingencies within contingencies to ensure they get what they want. Usually, they do. Though sometimes at a high cost.

Comment: Certainly the conflict cannot go on forever, even if the Israeli's think otherwise.

Comment: Notably, earlier this year Google warned advertisers through a change to its terms and conditions that should there be 'sensitive events', it reserved the right to enforce such totalitarian censorship. And this attack on The Cradle comes amidst other chilling attacks and threats against a growing number of dissenting media outlets and geopolitical analysts.

This also occurs alongside other Orwellian developments, such as with the UK protests and riots, where the government have been hunting down people for simply being present at incidents, or resharing incorrect information, and even just sharing memes.

It certainly looks like the crackdown on those exposing government incompetence and corruption, and those who would dare question what their government are doing in their name, is picking up apace:

• FBI raids home of ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter - UPDATE: Scott addresses the press outside his home
• Musk to shut X in Brazil 'effective immediately' over judge's 'secret orders that would break international law'
• Google warns advertisers of 'sensitive events' in February

Comment:
Gaslighting is described in the Wiki "as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality.^[1][2]" On the one hand Ukraine wants to present itself as in a situation similar to countries in the Global South, but it acts in complete contradiction. If the gaslights in the original 1944 Gaslight movie are faint, Ukraine has switched to playing with high powered flood light. Recall also the grain deal in 2022, where grain from Ukraine was supposed to be exported to developing countries especially in Africa in need of food. Instead much went to the UA army sponsors in the EU.

• See also a few headlines about Mali, a country with an estimated 22 million people and covering an area of 1,241,238 square kilometres:
• Mali leads Africa in rejecting the West's wars (11 August 2024)
• Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali military leaders sign treaty to become confederation
• BBC, Guardian raise alarm about 'deadly' heatwaves in Mali and Burkina Faso, despite little rise in average temperatures last 85 years
• Typo sent millions of US military emails to 'Russian ally' Mali - Pentagon (July 2023)
• Mali's PM credits Russia for turning the tide in its fight against terrorism and being a reliable partner - 'Russia does not double-deal'
• Mali kicks out French influence operations, Macron blames Russian 'disinformation'
• Mali bans French NGOs, alleging 'subterfuge, deception and manipulation, intended to destabilize' the country
• Mali junta says 'Western-backed' military officers attempted coup (May 2022)