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Attention

Germany and NATO caught red-handed in war planning

Gerhartz
© www.merkur.deLt. General Ingo Gerhartz, head of German Air Force
German military leaders may have bungled foolishly over their private discussions regarding operational plans against Russia. However, the security of their incompetent communication - while laughable - does not lessen the seriousness of what was being discussed.

Lt. General Ingo Gerhartz and his aides were earnestly weighing up the technical and propaganda means by which to strike Russia with long-range ballistic missiles. In short, a NATO member was caught red-handed hatching an act of war against Russia.

After Russian media published the audio of the conversation, the German reaction has been to dismiss it as a cerebral war-gaming exercise and as an attempt by Russian disinformation to undermine the government of Olaf Scholz.

This obfuscation by Berlin will not wash. The incontrovertible fact is that the German commanders were deliberating on how to "optimize" the Ukrainian offensive capability to hit Russian targets with the long-range German Taurus cruise missile. The weapon has supposedly not yet been supplied to the Ukrainian regime due to concerns among some German politicians that doing so would escalate the war with Russia. It is clear from the audio tape that the German military chiefs are frustrated by the politicians not ordering the supply of the Taurus.

Gerhartz, the head of the German air force, tells his subordinates in no uncertain terms:
"We are now fighting a war that uses much more modern technology than our good old Luftwaffe."
There you have it: the top German commander says unequivocally, "We are now fighting a war".

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Russian Flag

Putin: Russia now world's fourth largest agricultural exporter

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© Sputnik / Ilya NaimushinRussia set a record for its largest-ever wheat harvest in2022
The country has been stepping up shipments abroad thanks to bumper harvests, according to the Russian president

Russia is now one of the major agricultural exporters in the world, President Vladimir Putin has said while meeting with Russian farmers.

On Tuesday, the president arrived in Stavropol Region, southern Russia, where he met with the employees of the Solnechny Dar greenhouse complex of the Eco-Culture agro-industrial holding.

Comment: Who will the developing countries look to in the future? Not the West.


Bad Guys

Sweden officially joins NATO

Sweden in NATO
Sweden has officially become the 32nd member of the US-led NATO military bloc after the document formalizing Stockholm's accession entered into force on Thursday.

The accession ceremony will be held in Washington, where Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will submit his country's documents to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

A document published by the US Department of State asserts that all conditions for Sweden's entry into NATO have been fulfilled and that the protocol signifying Stockholm's membership entered into force on March 7, 2024.

In a post on X, Kristersson also declared that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had informed him that all bloc members have formally accepted Sweden's accession protocol and had invited Stockholm to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Comment: Ever since Finland and Sweden started to contemplate joining NATO, the fear campaign and talk of war has been drummed into the citizens. Instead of neutrality, they have decided to join an organisation which talks of peace but looks for war and not just in Europe but around the world. The taxpayers are then milked for more money for war and war equipment.

Russia has responded to this war rhetoric and revived the Leningrad military district and the Moscow military district, thus being able to respond to the fact that Russia's border with NATO now has increased.

As the Russian defense minister said:
"All plans for manning the army and navy have been fully implemented, bringing their number to 1 million 150 thousand servicemen. Two combined arms armies and a mixed aviation corps have been formed and manned... On December 1, the implementation of the decree to build up the forces to 1 million 320 thousand people began. In connection with Finland's accession and Sweden's upcoming accession to NATO, we are forming the Leningrad and Moscow military districts. In accordance with external threats, the number of armed forces will be further increased to 1.5 million servicemen," the Russian Defense Minister said.

He noted that more than 1,500 people sign contracts to serve in the Russian army every day.
If Sweden and Finland think that they will benefit and feel safer by making Russia an enemy, they might be in for a surprise. As always, war is a racket and those who benefit from Sweden and Finland joining NATO are the weapons manufacturers.

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Europe is wargaming a food crisis - Bloomberg

food crisis europe
© Centre for Systems SolutionsSlides of fictitious events from simulation videos shown to officials, food security experts and industry representatives at the 'Food Alert' event in Brussels on Feb. 1. A group of people came together last month to tackle the worst-case scenario for one of the best-fed regions in the world.
The combined forces of El Niño and La Niña have crippled Latin American soy output. Ukrainian and Russian grain farmers have gone to war. Indonesia has banned shipments of palm oil to Europe, while China is hungry for crops. The Mediterranean region is getting more like a desert.

The year is 2024. "Food shortage in Europe? The only question is when, but they don't listen," says an unidentified voice in a video broadcast. The audience sits quietly — listening.

The dramatic collision of events, of course, hasn't yet come to pass. But over two days in central Brussels last month, some 60 European Union and government officials, food security experts, industry representatives and a few journalists gathered to confront the possibility of something barely on the radar a few years ago: a full-blown food crisis.

Comment: Bearing in mind that there is sufficient evidence that a food crisis is upon us, and officials from across the planet have been warning the public of its approach for at least the last few years. Furthermore, there's also reason to believe that factions within the establishment have been actively working to ensure that the crisis is particularly dire; recall the spike in fires and explosions at energy and food suppliers.

And so, taken together, as revealed in the wargame, it's not a question of 'if' it's going to happen, but when; and what follows threatens to be unfathomably dire for anyone not prepared:


USA

Was Nuland fired for her role in the Ukraine debacle?

Wicked Witch Nuland
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Victoria Nuland's retirement is an admission that Washington's premier foreign policy project has failed. No government official is more identified with the Ukraine fiasco than Nuland. She was on the ground micro-managing activities during the 2014 coup, and has overseen the State Department's sordid involvement since the war began. Her career-path is inextricably linked to the ill-fated NATO-backed disaster which has resulted in the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian regulars and the obliteration of much of the country. Thus, the question we need to ask ourselves is whether Nuland's persistent machinations to drag NATO into an unwinnable war with Russia is the reason she 'got the axe', er, announced her retirement? Here's an excerpt from the official State Department Press Statement:
But it's Toria's (Nuland) leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet - democratically, economically, and militarily. On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, US State Department
This is an extraordinary paragraph that places the blame for the Ukrainian debacle squarely on Nuland's shoulders. Yes, she was "indispensable" in leading the drive to confront Putin just as she played a critical role in "marshaling a global coalition" to prosecute a proxy war on Russia. And, what this statement tells us is that Nuland was one of the main architects of the ongoing conflict, which means she is largely responsible for the widening chasm between the NATO leaders, the mounting carnage on the battlefield, and America's strategic defeat to its primary geopolitical rival, Russia. In short, no other government official is more responsible for the Ukrainian quagmire than Victoria Nuland.

Also, Nuland leaves behind a gargantuan catastrophe for which there is no apparent remedy and no easy way out. We cannot expect the Biden administration to simply 'cut and run' in what is perceived to be a direct confrontation with Moscow. Biden will undoubtedly press-ahead as a face-saving gesture regardless of the costs, further straining relations with the allies while handing-over large chunks of east Ukraine to the Russian army. This is clearly a no-win situation for Washington which is why (we think) Nuland -who created this mess- got her 'Pink Slip'. Here's more from the State Department's statement:
(Nuland's) tenure caps three and a half decades of remarkable public service under six Presidents and ten Secretaries of State. Starting with her very first posting as a consular officer in Guangzhou, China, Toria's had most of the jobs in this Department. Political officer and economic officer. Spokesperson and chief of staff. Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary. Special Envoy and Ambassador.

These experiences have armed Toria with an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide range of issues and regions, and an unmatched capacity to wield the full toolkit of American diplomacy to advance our interests and values. (US State Dept)
In other words, Victoria Nuland is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced diplomats in the entire State Department, but -even so- they are throwing her under the bus during a time of extreme crisis because she failed in the biggest and most important assignment of her 35-year career. Isn't that what they're saying?

Attention

Ukraine war and Western system's fatal flaw

The undiagnosed malignancy at the core of our system is now out in the open view.
Off The Cliff

We can see from the increasingly incoherent statements by western officials that they are outright panicked about Ukraine's imminent capitulation to Russia: it is the surprise they did not expect. How important a piece was Ukraine on Western powers' geopolitical chessboard? Last April, Poland's President Mateusz Morawiecki gave away the mindset in a TV address when he said that, "If we lose Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat of Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West."

Incidentally, his statement has subsequently been airbrushed in most media making it seem that he said "... we will lose peace for decades." In some Slavic languages the word "Mir" means both world and peace, but Morawiecki was not talking about losing peace, but about the end of the West's primacy in world affairs. From Western oligarchy's point of view, the stakes could hardly be any higher in Ukraine. Being so very powerful and sophisticated, they should be winning that fight, right? Well...

We've got two days' worth of dry powder...

After two years of Russia's Special Military Operation, it is now clear that Russia is winning and that Ukraine is now well and truly broken. This is all in spite of the nuclear, all-out trade sanctions against Russia and the full support for Ukraine from her western allies, both in terms of financial, humanitarian and military aid. NATO has practically disarmed itself to provide weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

Last November, the deputy of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Johann Wadephul stated to the media that the combat capacity of German Armed Forces has been seriously weakened by the shortages caused by the continuous supply of material and ammunitions to Kiev: "Crucial troop units can only last a maximum of two days in a battle. And that is a catastrophic find overall." Other NATO countries are likely in no better shape regardless of the ongoing juvenile trash-talk about how Ukraine destroyed 50% of Russia's military power, took back 50% of the territory held by Russia, all for cents on the dollar of West's defence budgets, etc.

Explosion

US and UK blew up Nord Stream - Russia's top spy

Sergey Naryshkin
© Sputnik / Kirill KalinnikovRussia’s Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin.
Some "indirect signs" of sabotage were left by the perpetrators, SVR head Sergey Naryshkin has said.

Washington and London were behind the explosions that destroyed the two Nord Stream gas pipelines, the chief of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has said.

The energy links, built to bring Russian natural gas directly to Germany, were destroyed by unknown perpetrators in a series of explosions in September 2022. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, who share economic zones in the area, have each launched separate inquiries after failing to agree on a joint effort. Last month, however, Stockholm and then Copenhagen closed their inquiries.

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Bad Guys

Why they are creating $1 TRILLION of debt every 100 days

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"There has been abundant evidence of great evil at work in the world, throughout time and in our present time. Do you really wish to be ignorant of its existence and operation?" - The Great Taking - Daniel Webb
From 2000 through 2007, while waging two wars in the Middle East, the U.S. ANNUAL Federal deficit averaged $220 billion PER YEAR. And many fiscal conservatives thought that was outrageously out of control. Well, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, the despicable scum in Congress, and the rest of the Deep State calling the shots in this military empire of delusion and debt said, HOLD MY BEER.

Just as the wheels were starting to come off in late 2019, the convenient arrival of the Covid plandemic provided the cover for these purveyors of propaganda and panic to run $3 trillion deficits and establish a new baseline of $1 trillion per year. The house of cards, built upon a crumbling foundation of debt comes crashing down when deficits are allowed to drop below $1 trillion. Running in place gets more expensive by the day.

Nuke

Moscow warns European countries against hosting US nukes

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
© Sputnik/Sergey GuneevRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Such sites would be considered legitimate targets in a direct conflict, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Northern European facilities housing American nuclear weapons would be considered legitimate military targets in a direct confrontation between Moscow and NATO, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

The comments come as Finland's newly elected President Alexander Stubb recently boasted that NATO membership gives his country a "real nuclear deterrent" in the form of American missiles.

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Megaphone

Biden trots out Harris to issue biting criticism of Israel & 'Inhumane' conditions in Gaza

kamala harris
© Getty Images / Elijah NouvelageUS Vice President Kamala Harris gives a speech on Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
President Biden has sent Vice President Kamala Harris out before the world to do his dirty work of desperately trying to reign Israel in as the US administration faces rising global criticism for its unwillingness to attach humanitarian conditions to weapons given to Israel for use in Gaza amid a soaring civilian death toll.

Harris has issued a call for a six-week ceasefire at a moment Israel is boycotting ceasefire talks in Cairo. Harris spoke Sunday in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama - scene of state troopers beating civil rights marchers almost 60 years ago. Her comments on the Gaza crisis appear to be the most direct and biting criticisms yet from any Biden admin official aimed at Israel.

Comment: More from RT:
White House national security officials reportedly watered down a recent speech written for US Vice President Kamala Harris over fears that her prepared remarks about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza were overly critical of Israel.

The original draft of the speech was deemed too harsh on the Jewish state when it was sent to the US National Security Council for review, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified officials in the Biden administration. The speech, which Harris delivered on Sunday, called for a six-week ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war as part of a proposed deal to free hostages and get more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

"The move to soften Harris' comments highlights how reluctant the White House still is to aggressively criticize Israel in public as President Joe Biden tries to maintain some influence over the Israeli government and secure a hostage deal," NBC said.

The soft-pedaling also comes at a time when Biden is campaigning for reelection and facing a political backlash over his administration's support for Israel in its war against Hamas. A poll released last week by research firm Data for Progress showed that 57% of US voters disapprove of Biden's handling of the Gaza crisis. Just 36% of respondents agree with his policies. Two-thirds of US voters support calling for a permanent ceasefire.

Prepared remarks for Harris originally pressed Israel more directly about the need to immediately allow additional aid trucks to get into the Palestinian enclave, NBC reported. The revisions primarily tweaked the tone of her speech, rather than making policy changes. A spokeswoman for the vice president denied that her speech had been toned down.