Comment: Nikki Haley's presence in the election season is primarily to get the elite's desires Trojan-horsed into the Republican primaries. She is solely a creation of her backers, a war-harpy who's only concern is advancing the interests of her war crazy backers.

Comment: Even the relatively bottomless pockets of the Koch brothers have had it. Politico reports:

In an email to staff obtained by POLITICO, Americans For Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel said Sunday that the group's political arm, AFP Action, had to "take stock" of its spending priorities after Haley's loss in the South Carolina primary. The Koch-aligned group, Seidel said, will now focus its efforts on competitive Senate and House races.

"She has made it clear that she will continue to fight and we wholeheartedly support her in this effort," Seidel wrote of Haley. "But given the challenges in the primary states ahead, we don't believe any outside group can make a material difference to widen her path to victory."

AFP Action's decision is the latest blow to Haley's longshot presidential bid, which has sustained losses in four early nominating states and the Virgin Islands, including on Saturday, when former President Donald Trump beat Haley in her home state by 20 points. Haley declared she will continue on in her primary fight, but has only committed to running through Super Tuesday on March 5.

[...]

While the decision by AFP to stop spending represents a blow to her campaign, Haley is still raising strong amounts of cash on her own. That, in turn, has allowed her to sustain her bid despite its string of losses.

Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokesperson for Haley, thanked AFP for its support and said the campaign has "plenty of fuel to keep going" and a "country to save." Perez-Cubas on Sunday afternoon said Haley had raised more than $1 million online in the last 24 hours.

"AFP is a great organization and ally in the fight for freedom and conservative government," Perez-Cubas said. "We thank them for their tremendous help in this race."

A spokesperson for AFP Action declined to say how much the organization spent boosting Haley's campaign. In addition to television, digital and mail ads, AFP Action deployed hundreds of field workers on the ground to knock doors in the early states.

Seidel said the group "stands firm behind our endorsement for Nikki Haley," describing her as "a special leader with conviction, resolve, and steel in her spine to jump into a tough race with a narrow path."

Even prior to pulling the plug on Haley, AFP Action had started to boost its endorsed Senate candidates, including launching an ad buy last week in Montana and running digital advertisements in Nevada and Pennsylvania. The group also endorsed in the Wisconsin Senate race and plans to back candidates in the Ohio and Michigan races, too, Seidel said. She said this year's Senate races were always AFP's "top priority."

Comment: See also:

• Yemeni officials allied with West-UAE-Saudi coalition ditch 'UN recognised gov't' to join the defenders of Gaza
• IDF chief says war in Lebanon becoming much more likely

The following interview by Garland Nixon provides insight into how the empire is being thwarted by those in Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon.

Although it seems that if the establishment can't win outright that they are willing to settle for perpetual conflict:

Comment: Putin, ever the gentleman.

Comment: And this is at least part of the reason why the West is eagerly fomenting conflicts against Russia, the Middle East, and China:

• Korybko: Russia's Avdeevka win will reverberate across Europe and accelerate geostrategic shifts
• US to deploy 5 aircraft carriers in western Pacific in latest provocation against China
• US admiral says Red Sea is largest battle Navy fought since World War II

Comment: Considering anyone with two firing neurons already knew about this (if not the actual details), one has to wonder what the driver is behind this 'revelation'. If anything, it simply reinforces Russia's justification for actions against Ukraine, which clearly represents an actual threat. So what are the spooks up to, here?

See also:

• CIA has built vast anti-Russian spy network in Ukraine over the last 10 years - NYT
• How the CIA destabilizes the world
• Why has the CIA decided to allow its media mouthpiece to confirm its involvement in Ukraine's brutal assassination campaign?
• CIA has spent tens of millions on Ukrainian intelligence agencies - WaPo
• NewsReal: Ukraine War 2-Year Anniversary: The West is Still Losing

Comment: Many seem to believe that student debt relief just magically makes the debt disappear and no one is hurt. But at the end of the day, somebody pays.

See also:

• Judges halt Biden rule offering student debt relief for those alleging colleges misled them
• Federal judge declares Biden's student debt relief program unlawful
• Student loan relief seen costing billions and favoring top earners
• How Senator Biden helped create the student debt crisis President Biden is pretending to fix
• Records show Dems pushing college loan forgiveness owe massive sums in student debt
• Student loan debt relief has stalled; defrauded borrowers stuck in limbo

Comment:

1) When Sikorski says "the credibility of your country that is at stake." one is reminded of some passages in The Next Decade by George Friedman, published in 2011-2012. About Poland he speculates:

"As we will see, the U.S. approach will include cultivating a new relationship with Poland, the geographic monkey wrench that can be thrown into the gears of a German-Russian entente."

"Poland's hypersensitivity to betrayal will cause it to prefer accommodation with hostile powers to alignment with an unreliable partner. For this reason, the president must avoid appearing tentative or hesitant in his approach. This means making a strategic decision that is in some ways unhedged — always an uncomfortable stand, because good presidents always look to keep their options open. But insisting on too much maneuvering room might close the Polish option immediately."

"If Poland believes that it is a bargaining chip, it will become unreliable, and thus in the course of the next decade the United States might get away with betraying Poland only once. Such a move could be contemplated only if it provided some overwhelming advantage, and it is difficult to see what that advantage could be, given that maintaining a powerful wedge between Germany and Russia is of overwhelming interest to the United States."

We have now long past the ten years of George Friedman, and the US influence in Poland has been substantial, with no "betrayal" of the value of Poland to the US so far, but in the context of the above "speculations", one can take the statements from Sikorsky as a voice of concern.

2) Sikorsky's immediate thought about the Nordstream sabotage:
Ex-Polish FM deletes tweet implying US sabotaged gas pipeline (Sikorsky in 2022)
The above was hard to forget and has since been brought up in other articles:
NATO-US prime suspects in Nordstream gas leaks
Russia tells EU to treat US as pipeline sabotage suspect

The diplomat said Poland's former foreign minister has already identified the US as the party behind the apparent sabotage. Radoslaw Sikorski is well connected to Washington elites through his employment at various think tanks.

Moscow ambassador to the UN: Destruction of Nord Stream pipelines must be addressed to avoid 'chaos' on the high seas (Feb 2023)

3) Radoslaw Sikorski in the news 2011-2023
Germany Told to Act to Save Europe (Nov 2011)

Germany is the only country in Europe that can act to save the eurozone and the wider European Union from "a crisis of apocalyptic proportions", the Polish foreign minister warned on Monday in a passionate call for more drastic action to prevent the collapse of the European monetary union.

Is Poland's Premier Leading his Country into a New Slavery? (Dec 2011)

All the more bizarre then, is the determination of prime minister Tusk to throw his Country right into the centre of the black hole and to thereby surrender Poland's hard won independence to a bunch of unelected technocrats who are the puppet masters of the European Commission and its various agencies.

He has now been joined by the foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who seems particularly keen on supporting German leadership of radical reforms to the euro zone

U.S. NGO uncovered in Ukraine protests (Feb 2014)

The EU association agreement with Ukraine is widely resisted by many EU member states with deep economic problems of their own. The two EU figures most pushing it - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski - are both well known in the EU as close to Washington.

The US is strongly pushing the Ukraine EU integration just as it had been behind the 2004 failed "Orange Revolution" to split Ukraine from Russia in a bid to isolate and weaken Russia. Now Ukrainians have found evidence of direct involvement of the Belgrade US-financed training group, CANVAS behind the carefully-orchestrated Kiev protests.

A copy of the pamphlet that was given out to opposition protestors in Kiev has been obtained. It is a word-for-word and picture-for-picture translation of the pamphlet used by US-financed Canvas organizers in the 2011 Cairo Tahrir Square protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak and opened the door to the US-backed Muslim Brotherhood.[1]

Polish minister warned Ukrainian protest leader: Back deal or die (Feb 2014)

Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was at the centre of negotiations between the Ukrainian government and opposition leaders.

Earlier in the day, the diplomat was overheard telling a Ukrainian opposition leader: "If you don't support this [deal] you'll have martial law, you'll have the army. You will all be dead."

He later told ITV News' Europe Editor James Mates that martial law in Ukraine was a "real possibility" and interior troops were being "readied" up until an agreement was signed.

The foreign minister told ITV News: "Well, as you can see it's almost miraculous. Within minutes of the agreement being signed the riot police are leaving."

The EU-brokered deal concluded that Ukraine will hold an early presidential election and will return to its 2004 constitution with reduced powers for President Yanukovich.

Ukraine president's signs EU-brokered agreement with anti-semitic, anti-gay, far-right opposition to end crisis - But can such characters be trusted? (Feb 2014)

The breakthrough agreement was witnessed by EU foreign ministers who brokered the deal, including Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski and Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as well as Director at the Continental Europe Department of the French Foreign Ministry, Eric Fournier.

Poland trained Kiev fascists two months in advance of U.S. coup d'état (Apr 2014)

According to this source, in September 2013, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski invited 86 members of the Right Sector (Sector Pravy), allegedly in the context of a university exchange program. In reality, the guests were not students, and many were over 40. Contrary to their official schedule, they did not go to the Warsaw University of Technology, but headed instead for the police training center in Legionowo, an hour's drive from the capital. There, they received four weeks of intensive training in crowd management, person recognition, combat tactics, command skills, behavior in crisis situations, protection against gases used by police, erecting barricades, and especially shooting, including the handling of sniper rifles.

Such training took place in September 2013, while the Maidan Square protests were allegedly triggered by a decree suspending preparations for the signing of the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement, which was issued by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on November 21, i.e. two months later.

The Polish weekly refers to photographs attesting to the training, which show the Ukrainians in Nazi uniforms alongside their Polish instructors in civilian clothing.

Poland is a 'Slave Prostitute' to the USA according to Polish Foreign Minister (Jun 2014)

According to Wprost, Sikorski is skeptical about the reliance of Poland, one of the staunchest allies of Washington in Eastern Europe, on American protection.

"The Polish-American alliance is not worth anything. It's even damaging, because it creates a false sense of security in Poland," Sikorski allegedly said.

"Complete bullshit," the tape purportedly records Sikorski as saying. "We will get a conflict with both Russians and Germans, and we're going to think that everything is great, because we gave the Americans a blowjob. Suckers. Total suckers."

Sikorski further blamed the nature of relations between Warsaw and Washington on the Polish mentality.

"The problem in Poland is that we have a very shallow pride and low self-esteem," he allegedly said, decrying such a mindset as "Murzyńskość", a racially-charged derogative term that could be translated as "thinking like a negro." Sikorski suggested on Twitter the translation should be "negritude," linking it to the anti-colonialism movement in Europe.

Reality dawning! Polish foreign minister Sikorski: "Our alliance with America isn't worth anything, in fact it's harmful" (Jun 2014)
Who's backwards here? Poland bans cultural exchange; Russia strengthens it (Aug 2014)

The decision to hold the Russian-Polish Year of Culture in 2015 was taken last year by the countries' foreign ministers, Radoslaw Sikorski and Sergey Lavrov as a part of a mutual initiative called the 2020 Program of Russian-Polish relations.

In late July this year the Polish government announced that it was cancelling all festival events. Warsaw authorities said it was because of the current crisis in Ukraine.

Russia has 'anti-venom' for Western lies - full disclosure (Oct 2014)

An arguably more scandalous incident was sparked by former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who told Politico magazine that he overheard Putin suggesting to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2008 that Ukraine be divided between the two nations. The official backpedalled on the accusations after a backlash both from Russia and at home, admitting that he never heard Putin actually voicing the Hitleresque plan. He also admitted that Putin and Tusk didn't actually meet at the time the conversation was supposed to have taken place.

Moscow suspects that both incidents may be part of a slander campaign against Russia.

One year on from the 'EuroMaidan Revolution': What next for Ukraine? (Feb 2015)

Today is the first anniversary of the deal made between Yanukovich and the "opposition" and guaranteed by foreign ministers Radosław Sikorski of Poland, Laurent Fabius of France and Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany. As we all know, the deal resulted in a withdrawal of the security forces from the Kiev city center immediately followed by an armed insurrection which overthrew the government. Predictably, Poland, France and Germany did not object.

NATO is creating a military Schengen zone in Europe (Jun 2016)

There is only one stumbling block in the way of NATO's "triumphant march": travel restrictions on the movement of US-NATO troops and equipment in Europe. "We need a Schengen area for American tanks," former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski said back in October 2015.

Radoslaw Sikorsk, ex-Polish FM names two major Ukrainian problems (Jan 2023)

In an interview with the magazine Krytyka Polityczna on Friday, Sikorski, who has represented Poland in the EU Parliament since 2019, stated that Ukrainian elites "were simply wasting their time." In his view, they were "hiding their corruption and delusions of grandeur behind a story" that they were playing some big game with the US, Russia, Europe, and China.

The MEP recalled that after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine had a huge edge over many other ex-Soviet republics and members of the former Eastern bloc. In particular, he said the country had "nuclear plants, an aviation industry, no debt and the most fertile land in the world."

However, even before Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last year, the country "had a GDP four times smaller than Poland," the former minister pointed out, adding that Ukrainians "are now paying dearly for this maneuvering" by the elites.

4) Sikorsky and democracy?
Stop destroying democracy! Anti-government protests across Poland draw thousands (Dec 2015)

The rally was organized by the Committee for the Defense of Democracy movement (KOD) via social networks and was supported by all major opposition parties with some politicians, including a former Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski,who attended the demonstration. Many activists from Poland's Solidarity movement, which opposed the country's Soviet regime in the 1980s also joined the protest.

"We have our freedoms and we will fight in order to protect them," the founder of the KOD movement, Mateusz Kijowski, said as quoted by Germany's Tagesspiegel newspaper.

As a comment to the above, Sikorsky is now back in government:
Poland and the Demon in Democracy Liberal authoritarianism's tusks have been bared across the West

5) Radosław Sikorski is married to Anne Applebaum, another influencer, but is it also a clue to understanding what is going on?