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World sobering up on Ukraine conflict - Moscow


RT
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:01 UTC
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© Nancy Siesel/SputnikRussia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia addresses the United Nations Security Council
It is becoming harder for Western propaganda to win over the global majority, Russia's UN envoy has said.

A more rational attitude is forming around the globe towards the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Moscow's permanent representative to the United Nations has said.

The work of Russian diplomats at the UN to highlight the "hypocrisy and double standards" of the US and its allies in relation to the Ukraine crisis is delivering results, Vassily Nebenzia stated in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency on Friday.
"We are witnessing a much more sober assessment of what is happening, being formed within the international community. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Western anti-Russian propaganda to intoxicate the UN majority, especially when the Ukrainian agenda is being imposed on it at the expense of addressing much more important and pressing issues for the developing world."
Nebenzia's statement comes a day before a Swiss-hosted 'peace conference' on Ukraine, expected to discuss proposals promoted by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. Russia was not invited to the gathering.
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Bad Guys

NATO chief says members considering deployment of more nuclear weapons, Kremlin warns it's an 'escalation of tension'


Reuters
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:31 UTC
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© Stepan Poghosyan/Photolure via REUTERSFILE: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends a joint press conference
The Kremlin said on Monday a remark by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that the military alliance was holding talks on deploying more nuclear weapons was an "escalation of tension".

Stoltenberg told Britain's Telegraph newspaper that NATO members were consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Stoltenberg's comments appeared to contradict a communique issued at a weekend conference in Switzerland that said any threat or use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine context was inadmissible.

The talks, held at the behest of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were billed as a "peace summit" although Moscow was not invited.

Comment: The few European officials that dare speak some truth have warned that a confrontation of sorts seems all but inevitable. Although to be more precise it's the West that is hellbent on provoking Russia.

However it also seems that Russia may take matters into its own hands, in an attempt to perhaps deter them from what would be an even worse conflagration:

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AK47

German opposition wants Ukrainian men to return home and fight


RT
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:59 UTC
FILE PHOTO: Senior German opposition lawmaker Thorsten Frei.
© Global Look Press / IMAGO / dts news agencyFILE PHOTO: Senior German opposition lawmaker Thorsten Frei.
Berlin's generous welfare benefits undermine Kiev's war effort, a senior MP has said

The German government should stop providing social benefits to Ukrainians, senior MP Thorsten Frei said on Sunday. He argued that the move would incentivize Ukrainian men to return to their home country and join the army amid the conflict with Russia.

Frei, the deputy head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag, accused Ukrainians of fleeing to Germany in order to avoid mobilization at home.

"While everything is at stake for Kiev in the face of the brutal Russian attack, many Ukrainians in this country who are able to defend [their homeland] are ducking out of it," Frei told Funke Mediengruppe. "We should be honest: the benefits... to war refugees are providing completely wrong incentives."

Comment:
The discussion about returning military age Ukrainian men has been on and off, back and forth in several European countries. If the plan is to secure the trillions of dollars of resources for the West, as spelled out in: A top US senator has betrayed Washington's worst kept secret about Ukraine, or to balkanize Russia into small states, in order to secure US hegemony, and in the process to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, then it is an expedient policy to send so-called draft dodgers back to fight and probably die. One assumption is that it will be easy to achieve the change of mind among young Ukrainians in Western Europe so that they will willingly line up to return to Ukraine, but that is far from certain.

See also:
Ukraine claims dozens of draft dodgers died fleeing the country
Ukraine to deny consular services to draft dodgers abroad
Ukraine reveals 2023 draft-dodger numbers
Ukraine releases information on draft dodgers

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Macron Defiant in Face of Democratic Revolt


Sott.net
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:23 UTC
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Chaotic scenes in Parisian politics last week as French president Emmanuel Macron, the moment EU parliament election results were announced, called a snap election 'to defeat the far-right'. But given the trouncing his party received in the former, how can he expect to fare better in the latter? Our hot take: Macron will remain in the Élysée, refusing to take the hint that the people want him gone.

Meanwhile, the stand-off between the West and Russia over Ukraine remains as tense as ever. Putin has stated his terms for a settlement, and the West has rejected it out of hand, promising instead more and bigger weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić is predicting 'major war in 3-4 months', and the signs all certainly seem to point that way.

But will some global 'reality shift' intervene - a new pandemic? An economic crisis? Natural disasters? All this and more on NewsReal!

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USA

Biggest danger to EU is the US - Putin


RT
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:28 UTC
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© Leon Neal/Getty ImagesPresident of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen • US President Joe Biden
The main threat to Europe doesn't come from Moscow but from a critical dependence on the US, the president said.

Western Europe needs to maintain good relations with Moscow if it wants to retain its status as one of the centers of world development, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday, during a meeting with the country's top diplomats.

Putin stressed that Russia is prepared to work together with the EU and insisted that Moscow bears no ill intent, pointing out that all the recent statements made by Western officials about a supposed Russian attack are "nonsense."

The president emphasized that the biggest "threat" to the bloc today is not posed by Russia but by its own increasingly critical dependence on the US in "military, political, technological, ideological and informational spheres."
"Europe [sic] is increasingly being pushed out to the margins of global economic development and is being plunged into the chaos of migration and other pressing problems."
Putin added that European nationals are also being deprived of international subjectivity and cultural identity.

Comment: Indoctrination and mindset are difficult to change. Numerous countries in lockstep - glued to beliefs void of rational thinking compounded by fears of faux annihilation - never look for 'the man behind the curtain'. It is easier to 'kill the messenger'.

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Star of David

War on Gaza: The day the West defined 'success' as a massacre of 270 Palestinians

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:49 UTC
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© ReutersPalestinian mourns over the victim of an Israeli strike • Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital • Deir Al-Balah central Gaza Strip • June 9, 2024
Israelis dance in the streets, White House hails a 'daring' operation, Sunak says he's relieved. How carnage in Gaza has become the new normal.

Israel hasn't just crossed the Biden administration's pretend "red lines" in Gaza. With its massacre at Nuseirat refugee camp at the weekend, Israel drove a bulldozer through them.

On Saturday, an Israeli military operation to free four Israelis held captive by Hamas since its 7 October attack on Israel resulted in the killing of more than 270 Palestinians, many of them women and children. The true death toll may never be known. Untold numbers of men, women and children are still under rubble from the bombardment, crushed to death, or trapped and suffocating, or expiring slowly from dehydration if they cannot be dug out in time.

Many hundreds more are suffering agonising injuries - should their wounds not kill them - in a situation where there are almost no medical facilities left after Israel's destruction of hospitals and its mass kidnap of Palestinian medical personnel. Further, there are no drugs to treat the victims, given Israel's months-long imposition of an aid blockade.

Israelis and American Jewish organisations - so ready to judge Palestinians for cheering attacks on Israel - celebrated the carnage caused in freeing the Israeli captives, who could have returned home months ago had Israel been ready to agree on a ceasefire.

Videos even show Israelis dancing in the street.

Comment: See also: Biden's war on Gaza is now a war on truth and the right to protest

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Green Light

"Human rights NGOs" and the corruption of civil society

Glenn Diesen
glenndiesen.substack.com
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
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The organisations operating under the banner of "human rights non-governmental organisations" (NGOs) have become key actors in disseminating war propaganda, intimidating academics, and corrupting civil society. The NGOs act as gatekeepers determining which voices should be elevated and which should be censored and cancelled.

Civil society is imperative to balance the power of the state, yet the state is increasingly seeking to hijack the representation of civil society through NGOs. The NGOs can be problematic on their own as they can enable a loud minority to override a silent majority. Yet, the Reagan doctrine exacerbated the problem as these "human rights NGOs" were financed by the government and staffed by people with ties to intelligence agencies to ensure civil society does not deviate significantly from government policies.

The ability of academics to speak openly and honestly is restricted by these gatekeepers. Case in point, the NGOs limit dissent in academic debates about the great power rivalry in Ukraine. Well-documented and proven facts that are imperative to understanding the conflict are simply not reported in the media, and any efforts to address these facts are confronted with vague accusations of being "controversial" or "pro-Russian", a transgression that must be punished with intimidation, censorship, and cancellation.

I will outline here first my personal experiences with one of these NGOs, and second how the NGOs are hijacking civil society.

Comment: There is a plan. We the Clueless have become the chosen vehicle for the political cartel.

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Better Earth

World leaders to gather in Swiss resort in attempt to forge Ukraine peace plan

Lisa O'Carroll
The Guardian
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
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© UK NewsBurgenstock resort outside Lucerne, Switzerland • Ukraine Summit
More than 100 leaders at two-day conference to discuss Kyiv's proposals to end war - but Russia and China absent.

More than 100 leaders, including the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, and the presidents or heads of the EU, South American, Middle East and Asian countries, will gather in Switzerland on Saturday for one of the most ambitious attempts yet to forge a peace plan for Ukraine.

The summit comes as G7 leaders gathering in Italy clinch a new deal for a €50bn loan for Ukraine, securitised through use of the windfall profits from the interest on Russian central bank assets frozen by the EU and other western nations after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The two-day peace conference, which will take place at the luxury Bürgenstock resort outside Lucerne, will discuss Kyiv's proposed 10-point plan to end the war along with three other themes: the nuclear threat, food security and humanitarian needs in Ukraine.

It follows the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on Friday demanding that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end his war in Ukraine - proposals that were rejected by Ukraine, the US and Nato.

Comment: Two thumbs down. Without Russia and China, the rest is back patting and re-convincing the pre-convinced.

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China willing to improve ties with India - Beijing


RT
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:57 UTC
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Beijing is willing to work with New Delhi to improve relations following Narendra Modi's election for a third consecutive term as Indian prime minister, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy has said. The statement comes a day after Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that resolving long-standing issues with neighboring China and Pakistan will be among New Delhi's foreign policy priorities.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, the spokesperson for Beijing's embassy in New Delhi stated that "A sound and stable China-India relationship is in the interest of both nations and conducive to peace and development in the region and beyond. China is willing to work with India to push forward bilateral relations in the right direction."

A day earlier, Chinese Premier Li Qiang congratulated Modi on his third term as prime minister, conveying that the steady development of ties between the two countries not only benefits people, but "injects stability and positive energy into the region and the world," Xinhua reported.

Comment: Is this rapprochement related to Foreign Minister Wang Yi's recent statement at the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting:
The expanded group should create a "just" multilateral global governance system, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.

The BRICS countries should work together to promote peace and prevent the onset of a new Cold War, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.


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Star of David

Netanyahu denounces IDF's 'tactical pauses' in Gaza fighting to allow aid in

James Mackenzie
Reuters
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:32 UTC
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© REUTERS/Marko DjuricaA man is detained during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and a call for the release of hostages in Gaza, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 16, 2024.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized plans announced by the military on Sunday to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into Gaza to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave.

The military had announced the daily pauses from 0500 GMT until 1600 GMT in the area from the Kerem Shalom Crossing to the Salah al-Din Road and then northwards.

"When the prime minister heard the reports of an 11-hour humanitarian pause in the morning, he turned to his military secretary and made it clear that this was unacceptable to him," an Israeli official said.

The military clarified that normal operations would continue in Rafah, the main focus of its operation in southern Gaza, where eight soldiers were killed on Saturday.
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