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EU expansion a 'geopolitical imperative' - member state's president


RT
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:38 UTC
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© AFPFrederick FlorinCzech President Petr Pavel
The bloc's security depends on integrating several key countries, Czech President Petr Pavel has said.

The European Union should accept not just Ukraine, but Moldova, Georgia, and the Western Balkans for the sake of its own security, Czech President Petr Pavel claimed at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, on Tuesday. Continued expansion to the east is a geopolitical necessity, he argued.

At the new academic year's opening ceremony, which was attended by the former president of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, and the former head of EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, Pavel stated:
"The new geopolitical imperative requires a new dynamic of enlargement. For too long, we have left some European countries at the mercy of geopolitical manipulations. European and Atlantic" integration of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and the Western Balkans should be "completed."

Comment: Babcock's 'meters for membership'? A high bar indeed!

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Putin

Sanctions, estimated Ukrainian losses and Russia's nuclear arsenal: Key takeaways from Putin's Valdai speech


RT
Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:56 UTC
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© Grigory Sysoyev / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a session of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday, where he delivered a keynote speech and took questions from the audience.

During the event, which lasted for nearly four hours, Putin shared his thoughts on a wide array of issues, including the Ukraine conflict, the recent flare-up in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the role of the West in the origins of current tensions.

Putin also outlined his vision for a more fair and equitable model of international relations, and provided an update on Russia's nuclear arsenal.
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Cult

Warmonger Killary wants Trump voters to undergo 'cult deprogramming'

Jordan Boyd
The Federalist
Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:33 UTC
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© CNN/YouTubePresidential loser Hillary Clinton
Failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes half of the country needs to be forcibly re-educated to abandon the ideology that led them to vote for former President Donald Trump.

In a sitdown interview with CNN on Thursday, Clinton — who infamously said in 2016 that half of Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables" — alleged that "MAGA extremists" who only "take their marching orders from Donald Trump" deserve to be brainwashed.

"When do they break with him?" Clinton pondered aloud. "Because at some point, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members. But something needs to happen."

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who conducted the interview, nodded in response.

Comment: A longer clip from Killary's cringy interview, where she shows how out of touch she is. Pay particular attention to her full assessment of Trump supporters.. How dare the peasants want to be in charge of their own lives. It's disgusting:



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Attention

And so it begins... The Great Unravelling

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:02 UTC
2 Psychopaths
© Public Domain
The "Collective West" led by the chief imperialist power, the United States, is careening and buckling, the wayward collapse evident with each passing day.

For what it's worth, the transatlantic alliance of the U.S. and its European allies - embodied by the NATO military bloc - had a fairly good chronological run. The imperialist clique managed to hold together for nearly eight decades. But now that ship is running aground on the rocks of a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.

Signs of collapse and disintegration are coming fast and thick. The military defeat in Ukraine by the NATO powers after a $100 billion investment in weapons is foremost among the casualty list - together with up to 500,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers.

What a hideous fiasco the NATO-sponsored campaign against Russia has turned out to be. A bloodbath in Europe akin to the worst among history's many imperialist slaughters. The U.S.-led military alliance of 30 nations has spectacularly forfeited any pretence of being a "security organization".

The gnashing of teeth has only just begun. The farcical shame over NATO's retreat two years ago from Afghanistan in August 2021 - after 20 years of failed military occupation - is but a prelude to the horrendous debacle unfolding over Ukraine.

For the first time in the history of the United States republic, that country this week saw its Congressional leader getting the sack. Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives - third in line to the presidency - was forced out of his job largely due to political infighting in Washington over the scandalous funding of a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, all while the U.S. federal government is teetering on bankruptcy shutdown.

Hours before McCarthy was ousted, President Joe Biden made a desperate conference call Tuesday with European leaders to "reassure allies of continued U.S. support for Ukraine." The phone conference included all the main allies, Britain, Germany, France, and Poland as well as Canada and Japan.

The sole topic was the war in Ukraine and pledges from Biden that the United States would continue its military support for the Kiev regime.
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Putin

Best of the Web: Putin and the Magic Multipolar Mountain

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:21 UTC
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© Sputnik/Grigory SysoevRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs journal Fyodor Lukyanov attend a plenary session as part of the 20th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club titled "Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone" in Sochi, October 5, 2023, Krasnodar region, Russia.
There was a whiff of Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' at the 20th Valdai annual meeting this week at a hotel over the gorgeous heights of the Krasnaya Polyana. north-west of the picturesque resort Sochi.

But instead of a deep dive into the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community in the Swiss Alps on the eve of the First World War, we immersed ourselves in powerful new ideas expressed by a community of Global Majority intellectuals on the possible eve of a psycho neocon-intended WWIII.

And then, of course, President Putin intervened, striking the plenary session like lightning.

Comment: Watch Putin's full Valdai speech here (with translator):

English transcript here.

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Putin

Russia not looking for 'more territory' - Putin


RT
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:13 UTC
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© Sputnik/Grigory SysoevRussian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a plenary session as part of the 20th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club titled "Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone" in Sochi, Krasnodar region, Russia.
The president stressed that the Ukraine conflict is not about expansion.

The conflict with Ukraine is not driven by territorial ambitions, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted in a speech at the Valdai International Discussion Club on Thursday.

Putin stressed that Russia is already the largest country in the world and therefore is not motivated by seeking new lands.

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Radar

SOTT Focus: The Green New Death

The Sharp Edge
Corey's Digs
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
The Green New Death
The apocalyptic prophecies of government, academic, and corporate sponsored climate alarmism have manipulated the minds of the masses to believe that mankind is to blame for our own demise.

Despite their failed predictions of climate catastrophe over the years, the propaganda campaign has paid off, as a vast segment of the population emphatically supports funding so-called "green" projects. The climate doom boondoggle has swindled trillions in taxpayer funds from the working-class multitudes into the pockets of the powerful and wealthy few. Turns out the climate hoax was always a thinly disguised ploy to launder money, consolidate wealth and power, and justify government land grabs.

Yet the decades-long indoctrination has also bred an army of zealots who hold deeply anti-human beliefs about climate catastrophism with religious fervor. And an unwitting pubic has been unceremoniously initiated into a new incarnation of an age-old death cult once practiced in secret by the self-described elites that has gone mainstream in the form of depopulation for the sake of saving the planet.

Built on a crumbling foundation of broken promises, manipulation, hypocrisy, and lies, one of the greatest deceptions to ever sweep across the planet has left nothing but a legacy of death and destruction in its wake. From the disastrous fires in Maui to the global war on farming, Green New Deal policies have earned the more appropriate title of a Green New Death.
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Mr. Potato

Adams goes on Latin America tour to dissuade migrants from going to NYC, yet says 'borders should remain open'

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:29 UTC
Eric Adams
© John Lamparski/Getty Images for Concordia SummitNew York City Mayor Eric Adams will travel to Latin America this week.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is embarking on a trip to Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday will begin a four-day trip to Latin America where he is expected to personally try to dissuade migrants from making the journey to the Big Apple.

At a press conference Tuesday, Adams said he would travel to Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the Darién Gap - a treacherous terrain of jungle between Panama and Columbia where leaders who visited during the United Nations General Assembly last month told the New York City mayor that a "heavy flow" of migrants were pouring through to head north to the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet, Adams maintained the position that the border "should remain open."

Comment: So keep the border open but try to talk people out of crossing it. Great plan, Adams. It's likely to work as well as sending social workers to de-escalate violent crimes instead of letting police do their jobs.

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People 2

'A man is a man': Backlash erupts online after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks the obvious truth about sex

Alex Nitzberg
Blaze Media
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:01 UTC
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© Ioannis Alexopoulos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
While delivering a speech at the Conservative Party conference, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak noted the obvious truth that men are men and women are women.

"And we shouldn't get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be. They can't. A man is a man. And a woman is a woman. That's just common sense," Sunak declared, earning hearty applause from the audience.


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Dollars

CNN reports White House officials privately admit to 'problems' funding Ukraine


RT
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:31 UTC
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© Evan Vucci/Associated PressUS President Joe Biden received his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on September 1, 2021.
The Biden administration is reportedly looking for ways to keep money flowing to Ukraine even if Congress does not support further aid

Senior White House officials have privately admitted that only weeks remain before the halt in US funding to Ukraine will result in serious battlefield issues for Kiev's forces, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing sources within the administration of President Joe Biden.

The report comes after the US Congress last week omitted any funds for Ukraine in a last-minute 45-day stopgap government spending bill following pushback from Republican senators. Legislators now have until November 17 to approve a long-term funding bill, and a growing portion of the GOP is adamant about not sending any more US taxpayer dollars to Kiev.

Top US officials have continued to call on Congress to urgently approve additional funds for Ukraine's war effort and have repeatedly warned about the dangers of halting financial support for Kiev.

Comment:


Meanwhile:
Ukrainians 'freaking out' over US funding 'disaster' - Politico

MPs in Kiev complained to the outlet about becoming "hostages" of domestic politics in Washington

While Ukraine has publicly distanced itself from the congressional chaos in the US, officials privately admit that there is a lot of anxiety over future deliveries of weapons and financing by its key Western sponsor, Politico reported on Wednesday.

"We are freaking out. For us it is a disaster," MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze was quoted by the outlet as saying.

Klympush-Tsintsadze served as vice prime minister under President Pyotr Poroshenko and remains a senior figure in his party.

An unnamed MP interviewed by the outlet called the situation in the US "a setup" for Ukraine that people in Kiev were "watching for now."

They were referring to last week's failure of the US Congress to approve additional Ukraine spending in the 45-day stopgap funding bill and the subsequent ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, a first in American history.

Representative Matt Gaetz, who spearheaded the motion to oust the speaker, accused McCarthy of striking a secret deal with the administration of President Joe Biden to keep Ukraine aid flowing. Gaetz is a vocal advocate for cutting Kiev loose, whereas the White House has repeatedly urged Congress to ensure continued funding of the Ukrainian government.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kiev has enough money to last through October, but beyond that is far less certain should foreign aid dry up. The Western money goes not only to the military but covers civilian expenses as well.

After the stopgap budget was passed in the US Congress, Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak lamented that his country had become "hostages of their [Americans'] internal politics" and shared his ideas on how to ensure resumption of the cash flow. "The biggest (public) complaint about us is corruption," he said in a social media post on Sunday. "We have to go through these 45 days without a major corruption scandal."


Dude, y'all became hostages the moment you accepted Nuland's Maiden cookies.


The MP claimed that the Ukrainians were "told exactly that" during "the visit," apparently referring to the US delegation headed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who came to Kiev in early September. He urged President Vladimir Zelensky to deal with people "who became the symbols of corruption in Ukraine and of scamming international partners" regardless of how useful his office finds them.

Zhelezniak didn't call out the purported grifters by name, but suggested they should "f**k off," or the aid will be gone for good.


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