Russia will consistently defend the truth about World War 2 and the USSR's contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany, President Vladimir Putin has insisted in an address to a forum in Kaliningrad.

"Today, we can see that the direct falsification of history, the acquittal of Nazi criminals and their accomplices, can lead to destructive consequences for millions of people," Putin said in a telegram read out at the 'No Statute of Limitations' forum by Sergei Novikov, head of the Russian Presidential Administration of Public Projects.

"Therefore we must firmly and consistently defend the truth about the Great Patriotic War and resist any attempts to revise our country's contribution to the Great Victory," Putin wrote.

The Hamas attack on Israeli towns surrounding Gaza on October 7 has provided a pretext for an unprecedented, genocidal revenge campaign by Israel involving the massacre of now nearly 5,000 Palestinians, including over 2,000 children - and that may only be the beginning. Now, an Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promoting plans for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

On October 17, the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a position paper advocating for the "relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population." The report advocates exploiting the current moment to accomplish a long-held Zionist goal of moving Palestinians off the land of historic Palestine. The report's subtitle makes it clear: "There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government."

The Misgav Institute is headed by former Netanyahu National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat, who remains influential in Israeli security circles. The Institute's former chairpersons and founding associates include Yoaz Hendel (chair 2012-19), a right-centrist who was Minister of Communications intermittently in the years 2020-22; Moshe Yaalon, former Defense Minister (note that both Hendel and Yaalon have become opposed to Netanyahu in the recent years); Moshe Arens, also former Defense Minister — and other top political personas.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday that Russia agrees with US President Joe Biden's comment made last week that the current global order has lost steam. However, he added that the outcome may not align with the White House's expectations.

"The world indeed needs a new order, based on absolutely new principles," the Russian official claimed.

According to Peskov, the new arrangement should be based on "international laws, not [arbitrary] rules" and devoid of attempts "to concentrate all mechanisms of global governance in the hands of a single nation." He believes that Moscow differs significantly on this point.

"Whatever new world order the US envisions, it means an American-centric world order. A world revolving around the US. This will not be anymore," Peskov added.

Biden delivered his comments about an impending shift during a speech at a fundraising event in Washington last Friday. The US president highlighted his successful effort in uniting Japan and South Korea to support Ukraine against Russia as an exemplar of his administration's unifying endeavors.

Tucker Carlson sat down with Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.), who laid out a disturbing scenario in which the United States could quickly be pulled into a direct conflict with Iran, Russia and China over Israel's anticipated response to the October 7 Hamas attack.

Carlson starts off highlighting Lindsey Graham, who vowed; "...if Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran, launches a massive attack on Israel, I consider that a threat to the... state of Israel, existential in nature. I will introduce a resolution [in] the United States Senate to allow military action by the United States in conjunction with Israel to knock Iran out of the Oil Business..."

Below, we follow the breadcrumbs of simple math and bond market signals toward an oft-repeated pattern of how once-great nations become, well...not so great any more.

Debt Destroys Nations

Debt, once it passes the Rubicon from extreme to just plain madness, destroys nations.

Just ask the former Spanish, British or Dutch empires. Or ask the inter-war Germans. Ask the Yugoslavians of the 1990's or ask a historian of Ancient Rome or a merchant in modern Argentina.

It's all pretty much the same story, just different a different stage or curtain call.

Like Hemingway's description of poverty, the process begins slowly at first, and then all at once.

Part of this process involves currency debasement needed to pay down more desperate issuance of IOUs, a process evidenced by rising rather than "transitory" inflation.

Thereafter, comes increased social unrest, and hence increased centralization from the political left or right in the name of "what's best for us."

Sound familiar?

By now it's fully established who is profiting from the ghastly Palestine tragedy.

As it stands we have 3 wins for the Hegemon and 1 win for its aircraft carrier nation in West Asia.

First winner is the War Party Inc., a massive bilateral scam. The White House's $106 billion supplemental request to Congress for "assistance" especially to Ukraine and Israel is manna from Heaven to the weaponizing tentacles of the MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex, in the legendary definition by Ray McGovern).

The laundromat will be on a roll, including $61.4 billion for Ukraine (more weapons and replenishing of U.S. stocks) and $14.3 for Israel (mostly air and missile defense "support").

Second winner is The Democratic Party engineering the unavoidable change of narrative from the spectacularly failing Project Ukraine; yet that will only postpone the upcoming humiliation of NATO in 2024, which will reduce the Afghan humiliation to the status of sandbox child playing.

Third winner is setting West Asia on fire: the Straussian neocon psycho "strategy" conceived as a response to the upcoming BRICS 11, and everything in terms of Eurasia integration that was advanced at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last week (including nearly $100 billion in new infrastructure/development projects).

Then there's the vertiginous acceleration of the project sponsored by genocidal Zionist maniacs: a Final Solution to the Palestinian question, mixing razing Gaza to the ground; forcing an exodus to Egypt; the West Bank turned into a cage; and, at the most extreme, a "Judaification of Al-Aqsa" , complete with an eschatological destruction of the third holiest place in Islam, to be replaced by rebuilding the Third Jewish Temple.

The Russian president has advised against stigmatizing former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his affiliations with Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Germans that by trying to ostracize former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his ties to Moscow they end up repeating the mistake of the Canadian parliament, which applauded a Nazi SS veteran.

In an interview released on Sunday by journalist Pavel Zarubin, the Russian leader was asked to comment on attempts to stigmatize Schroeder, who recently reiterated that Putin remains his friend despite the two having opposing views on the Ukraine conflict.

Bild reported recently that at a ceremony marking the 33rd anniversary of German reunification, Schroeder was seated as far away from incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz as possible.

IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said there would be no ground operation if Hamas surrenders and releases all hostages

Israel will not conduct a ground operation in Gaza if Hamas surrenders "unconditionally" and frees all its hostages, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus has said.

If the looming offensive goes ahead, however, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant estimates that it could take up to three months.

In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Monday, Conricus dodged a question as to why Israel appears to be delaying its ground operation. Instead, the spokesman simply vowed that the Israeli military would "dismantle Hamas totally" and "bring our people home."

An attack like this "could not have gone unnoticed" by Washington, Russia's foreign minister has suggested

The US could publish satellite images of Gaza taken during a deadly strike on one of its hospitals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. The high-profile tragedy that took place earlier this week saw Palestinian militant groups and the Israeli military trading blame for the incident. America could clear this situation up if it wanted to, the Russian diplomat believes.

"Now, when everyone is talking about the Gaza tragedy, in which a hospital was attacked and hundreds of people died ... one could ask the Americans for the satellite data," Lavrov told Russia 1, adding that Washington "must surely be monitoring this area with its satellites."

The United Nations has revised its grim figure of the rising death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza, saying that it has surpassed 5,000 as of Monday. It stands at 5,087. Separately, over 90 Palestinians have been killed in escalating West Bank violence, which over the weekend included Israel launching a rare airstrike on Jenin. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are still holding at least 222 Israeli and foreign captives - a number which has again been revised upward.

European Union foreign ministers are meanwhile gathered in Brussels for an urgent meeting to take up the contentious issue of a ceasefire. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has been calling on world bodies to back a ceasefire. In response, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said:

"Personally, I think that a humanitarian pause is needed in order to allow the humanitarian support to come in and be distributed, seeing that half of the population of Gaza has been moving from their houses."

Bloomberg is reporting Monday morning that EU leaders are set to endorse a call for a "humanitarian pause". "The European Council supports the call of UNSG (U.N. Secretary-General Antonio) Guterres for a humanitarian pause in order to allow for safe humanitarian access and aid to reach those in need," a draft statement of the summit reads.

But Washington, Israel's staunchest supporter, is not expected to back a ceasefire - despite reports President Biden has sought for Israel's military delay the expected imminent ground invasion, in order to buy more time to negotiate the freedom of more hostages.