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Ex-French prez Sarkozy: Ukraine joining NATO 'would not promote peace'


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:24 UTC
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that Ukrainian membership of NATO and the EU "would not promote peace" and would be perceived as a "provocation" by Russia.

Speaking to French news station BFMTV on Wednesday, Sarkozy argued it is in Kiev's best interests to remain "neutral" regarding Western blocs. The former leader also insisted that diplomacy with Moscow remains the most prudent option for Ukraine to end the current conflict.

"Bringing Ukraine into NATO would not promote peace," said Sarkozy, who served as French president between 2007 and 2012.

NATO leaders declared at a summit in Lithuania in July that the bloc would only invite Ukraine to become a member "when allies agree and conditions are met." NATO had already denied Kiev's calls for a "fast-track" to full membership in September of 2022.
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Supplying depleted uranium shells is the latest Western attempt to hide its guilty secret in Ukraine

Ilya Kramnik
RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:05 UTC
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A depleted uranium shell
The US-led bloc continues to announce new billion-dollar packages for Kiev but how useful are they, in reality?

Last week, the United States announced two new military aid packages for Ukraine. One of these, disclosed on September 7, includes ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, 105-mm caliber artillery shells, electronic warfare and counter-electronic warfare equipment, demolition munitions for obstacle clearing, as well as training equipment for the Ukrainian army - all worth $600 million.

Russia has expressed concern over this news but, to be fair, the hype around uranium shells causes a lot more discussionabout them compared to other types of ammunition. Let's start from the beginning and explore the matter in greater detail.

Comment: The U.S./NATO should never have provoked this war. In a rare moment of pragmatic realism, Barack Obama noted that, "Russia has escalatory dominance." Russia has more manpower and industrial capacity for war than the entire West. It has been preparing for the potential of having to fight for its survival for more than twenty years. Only in the blue bubble of Neocon fantasy land could NATO prevail in Ukraine.

DU weapons are pure evil:

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Snakes in Suits

CIA bribed analysts to change lab-leak conclusions: 'Senior-level' whistleblower

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:07 UTC
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A 'senior-level' CIA whistleblower has come forward to allege that the agency bribed analysts to change their opinion that Covid-19 most likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, according to the NY Post.

The whistleblower told House committee leaders that his agency ' tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans,' according to a Tuesday letter from the chairmen of two House subcommittees investigating the pandemic response and US intelligence, Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH).

The pair have requested all documents, communications and pay info from the CIA's Covid-19 Discovery Team by Sept. 26.
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Best of the Web: Capitol entrapment: US regime sentences InfoWars reporter to two months' prison for 'January 6th offenses'

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:06 UTC
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On Tuesday, Infowars host Owen Shroyer was sentenced to 60 days in prison in relation to events of January 6, 2021.

According to NBC News, Shroyer told the court during the hearing, "I was not a part of any larger plan for illegal activity or violence that day."

Shroyer was sentenced by US District Judge Timothy Kelly, who sentenced Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to any of the over 1,000 January 6 defendants.


Comment: See: Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets harshest prison sentence in Jan. 6 case


Comment: The specific 'crime' the judge based Shroyer's sentencing on was that he had "breached the restricted area."

Several thousand people "breached the restricted area" that day... because police and undercover agents induced them to do so!!!

See also:

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'I will always stand with Russia,' says North Korean leader


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:57 UTC
KimVlad
© Kremlin press serviceRussian President Vladimir Putin
President of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea Kim Jong-un
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged his nation's support for Russia in its standoff with the US and its allies. He is making a rare visit to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at the space facility in Russia's Far Eastern Amur Region.

"Russia has risen for a sacred fight to protect its national sovereignty and safety against hegemonic forces," Kim said ahead of negotiations on Wednesday. "We will always stand together [with Russia] against imperialism."

His host noted that the Vostochny Cosmodrome was an unusual venue for the meeting.

"We are proud of the development of our space industry, and this facility is new for us. I hope that you and your colleagues are interested in it," Putin said.

The Korean officials were given a tour of the space launch site.

Negotiations between the Russian and North Korean delegations followed the remarks by Putin and Kim, and lasted approximately an hour, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later told journalists. The two leaders then had a one-to-one meeting.

Comment: See also: Kim Jong Un shows off banned ballistic missiles to Russia's defence minister

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Neoliberalism was imposed on Chile - grandson of the country's first socialist president told RT


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:29 UTC
Pablo
© RTPablo Sepulveda Allende, grandson of Chile's first socialist president Salvador Allende
Pablo Sepulveda Allende says that sabotage by the US led to the military coup that ousted his grandfather in the 1970s...

Ever since Salvador Allende was elected as Chile's first socialist president in 1970, the US was adamant on removing him from power and used economic sabotage and other means to create the conditions for a military coup, Allende's grandson, Pablo Sepulveda Allende, has told RT.

Pablo Sepulveda Allende was speaking to former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who has launched a new talk show on RT dedicated to examining the wave of US-backed coup d'etats that spread across South America in the 20th century.

Speaking about the September 11, 1973 coup carried out by Augusto Pinochet, Allende stated that although Chile admittedly had a number of economic issues at the time, he insisted that all of them had largely been provoked by the United States.

He recalled the infamous order given by US President Richard Nixon to the CIA to "make the [Chilean] economy scream" and prevent Allende from coming to power or unseat him if he does.
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Pentagon clearing jungle for new base near China


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:49 UTC
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© US Navy/MCS 1st Class Benjamin A. LewisClearing the runway
Washington is seeking to grow its network of military installations across Asia...

The US Air Force is stripping away tracts of jungle in Micronesia to make room for new airfields, a senior commander said, noting the move is part of plans to bolster American forces in the Indo-Pacific.

Speaking to reporters at an event hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, Pacific Air Forces Commander General Kenneth Wilsbach described efforts to refurbish defunct US air bases - including a World War II-era installation on Tinian, a small island near Guam.

Wilsbach said on Monday:
"We're going to be clearing out the jungle [on Tinian, and] we're going to be resurfacing some of the surfaces there so that we will have a fairly large and very functional Agile Combat Employment base, an additional base to be able to operate from and we have several other projects like that around the region that we'll be getting after.

"Every single additional airfield that I can operate from... in a contingency or crisis or a conflict is another airfield that China has to put into their targeting folders, and then allocate resources toward them, which dilutes their ability to shut us completely down."
To accomplish that goal, the Air Force has requested additional funding from lawmakers in its 2024 budget proposal, the general added, saying the new bases would be part of a "hub-and-spoke" network across Asia intended to "deter" Beijing.

Comment: The US is asking for it. China is no longer 'funding' the Bidens.

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Arrow Down

Decrepit Britain... Schools collapsing and Challenger tanks blown to smithereens

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:19 UTC
Burning Tank
© Public Domain
Britain's schools are not just out for summer. Autumn too, apparently. Hundreds of schools across England are being forced to close because they are in danger of falling down on the heads of children. That issue alone says a lot about the decrepit condition of Britain today.

Added to this embarrassing blow to British prestige is the reported destruction of its Challenger 2 main battlefield tank deployed with great fanfare in Ukraine earlier this year.

The supposedly invincible tank was first stopped in its tracks by a Russian mine, and then the turret was promptly blown off by an incoming Russian Kornet missile. It is thought to be first time, the Challenger 2 has been so visibly destroyed. Even the BBC's reporting couldn't cover up the shock from such a blow to presumed British military prowess.

In previous deployments during Britain's criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Challengers were up against militarily weaker opponents. They earned an overblown reputation as robust fighting machines. Now up against withering Russian firepower, the British equipment is under more testing conditions - and not faring so well.

Thus, it was a bad week alright for Britain. Schools crumbling from cheap concrete structures and then the formidable Challenger tank being pummeled like a cardboard box under Russian attack.
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Putin: sending Soviet tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a mistake

Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:46 UTC
Soviet Army soldiers
© REUTERS/Libor HajskySoviet Army soldiers sit on their tanks in front of the Czechoslovak Radio station building in central Prague, August 21, 1968.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake.

"It was a mistake," Putin said when asked about perceptions of Russia as a colonial power due to Moscow's decision to send tanks into Budapest in 1956 and into Prague in 1968.

"It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other peoples," said Putin, who in 2022 sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two.


Comment: Nice try Reuters, but Putin didn't start that war.


Putin said the United States was making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union. He said Washington had "no friends, only interests".

The 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks and troops. At least 2,600 Hungarians and 600 Soviet troops were killed in the fighting.

The 1968 Prague Spring was ended when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Around 137 Czechs and Slovaks died as a result of the invasion, according to Czech historians.
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Fears of 'network of Chinese spies in Westminster' after arrest of parliamentary researcher

Archie Mitchell
The Independent
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:26 UTC
house of parliament
River Thames view with the Houses of Parliament behind
Security services have sounded the alarm over a potential network of Chinese spies operating in Westminster, after the arrest of a parliamentary researcher suspected of spying for Beijing.

The revelation prompted Rishi Sunak to confront the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, over "unacceptable" interference in Britian's democracy at the G20.


Comment: Hopefully the Chinese premier laughed Sunak out of the room after that statement. The West interferes in other countries on a daily basis. If you dish it out, you should be able to take it, but bullies often don't like the taste of their own medicine.


It came the year after MI5 issued a rare security alert, warning MPs that a suspected Chinese spy called Christine Lee had engaged in "political interference activities" on behalf of China's ruling communist regime.

The Telegraph said more security service interference alerts have been issued in recent months and said intelligence services were poised to unmask more Chinese spies in the coming months.
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