Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world (and a joke or two) for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Jun 21
Israeli forces attacked residents of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights earlier today who protested against its plans to build wind turbines in the agricultural area. Protesters were assaulted with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and batons. pic.twitter.com/W2CJtJEeKf
— In Context (@incontextmedia) June 21, 2023
Read the comments. There is a general heat up in Israel and this time I think people will fight back.
Kennedy says it must have been her own fault. @RobertKennedyJr says that the Israeli regime never deliberately kills Palestinians and that NOBODY has ever said it has done so. So we must conclude that Sadil was a 15 year old terrorist who ran into a bullet.
The US is hopeless. https://t.co/rLyiH0MAt0
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) June 21, 2023
Israeli troops assault Syrian protesters in occupied Golan – https://thecradle.co/article-view/26224/israeli-troops-assault-syrian-protesters-in-occupied-golan
Palestinians under Israeli occupation DO need protection. Brutality, coming either from Israeli settlers or from the army will not stop, simply because the system is not designed to protect the Palestinians. Rather the contrary.
Mere words of condemnation are meaningless. https://t.co/meqyybt2Cd
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 20, 2023
Jun 21
SarmatPutin: Spoke to graduates of military universities and announced that the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) will soon be ready for deployment. Sarmat ICBM weighs 100 tonnes (for comparison, the US made LGM-30 Minuteman is 35 tonnes) with a range of 18,000km. This allows it to carry around 15 warheads, up to 750kt. (For comparison – the bomb US dropped on Hiroshima was 15kt.) This would be enough to wipe out a country the size of France. It can also carry hypersonic missiles, rendering most missile defence systems ineffective. (appropriate soundtrack Eagles: Take it to the Limit one more Time, or perhaps, My Sweet Lord!).
Putin: now there is a lull in the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces due to the fact that they are suffering losses – https://ria.ru/20230621/vsu-1879599237.html
Over 800 (low estimate) kia over the past 24 hours according to the MoD. This is a simple add together and of course is low, as I have not added anything excepting the actual numbers.
Jun 21
Another drone attack on Moscow: An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on targets in the Moscow region by three aircraft-type drones has been foiled today.
▫️ All the UAVs were overwhelmed by electronic warfare, as a result of which they lost control and crashed.
▫️ As a result of the failed terrorist attack, there were no casualties or damage.
Jun 21
The Russia side grain deal with end on July 18. The statement is that the UN has basically acknowledged it can do nothing to fulfill its promises. RT did a fair piece this time: https://www.rt.com/news/578380-grain-deal-ukraine-un/
I am not sure what effect this will have on the Ukraine side and how Turkiye will handle transportation of these commodities, food and fertilizer. Russia will continue delivering to poorer countries, using their own resources and organizing their own insurance.
Jun 21
Dollar dominance – Empire strikes back:
Countries around the world are joining the de-dollarization rebellion against the hegemonic US currency.
Congress is so concerned, it held a hearing called “Dollar Dominance: Preserving the US Dollar’s Status as the Global Reserve Currency”.
I made a video summarizing it: pic.twitter.com/rTsttot8p0
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 20, 2023
Jun 21
Despite some upbeat press, Blinken accomplished absolutely nothing of substance in his visit to China. All he received, were lectures and he was told that they hear his words, but they would need to see right actions. So, a schoolyard bully, Biden resorted to name-calling and called Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’ that was embarrassed about the lost weather balloon. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning described the remarks as “extremely absurd,” adding that they “seriously violated China’s political dignity.” “It is an open political provocation,” Mao stressed.
There will be no détente in this relationship.
Jun 21
Sanctions proof North-South Route – Russia – Saudi Arabia and all stops in-between
The first container train to Saudi Arabia left from Chelyabinsk-Gruzovoy station of the South Urals Railway and is en route. The 42 containers carry energy equipment and nonferrous metals for export. The train moves along a specialized schedule string designed for freight transportation along the route, using expedited delivery through the territory of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.
Jun 21
At least we have somebody saying something as Israel has increased the rate of grabbing settlement lands that belong to Palestine.
Stop Settlements! UN Chief Tells IsraelCalling it a “flagrant violation of international law”, Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called Israel’s behavior (https://t.me/RT_India_official/19906) a “major obstacle” in achieving a viable two-state solution.
So now the colonization of the Palestinian West Bank is fully in the hands of an Israeli minister who supports pogroms and wiping out Palestinian towns pic.twitter.com/rpnclfFVnR
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) June 18, 2023
After the Israeli army aided and abetted the February 2023 settler pogrom in the Palestinian village of Huwara, human rights groups again do all the heavy lifting and assemble the evidence, CNN publishes the report, and the world will continue to ignore it https://t.co/fF2KEEPu3V
— David Sheen (@davidsheen) June 15, 2023
Jun 20
Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu:
‘The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue on offensive operation in the South Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Donetsk direction. The Kiev region deploys large amounts of western weaponry and elite units, trained by NATO instructors.
Since 4 June 2023, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched 263 attacks at Russian Forces positions.
Due to competent and dedicated actions of Russian units, all attacks have been repelled, the enemy failed to achieve its goals.
Judging by our information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine command plans to launch strikes at Russian Federation territory, including Crimea, with HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles.
❗️Deployment of these particular missiles out of the special military operation zone will be regarded as direct involvement of USA and UK in the conflict and will result in immediate retaliatory strikes at decision-making centres in Ukraine territory’.
Jun 20
The Friendship Games. Mr Putin announced these games, clearly a competitor to the Olympics, some time ago:
The Friendship Games, the BRICS Games, and the Games of the Future tournament will be held in Russia. This was announced at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. A large-scale sporting program was organized as part of the SPIEF 2023, and agreements were signed to:
▪️ hold a forum on the interaction of sports and bookmakers;
▪️ hold the Summer Games of the Deaflympians “We are together. Sport” in Ufa.
Jun 20
BRICS – full spectrum dominance being attempted during the run-up to the BRICS summit which will be in Johannesburg from 22 – 24 August:
South Africa is still being punished. The President is walking into serious controversy in his country after the African peace mission. I’ll update on that.
Modi’s visit to the US is extreme pomp and circumstance. One can almost see the honey being applied around Modi’s mouth.
Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden will meet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on an official state visit in Washington D.C, which includes a South Lawn welcome, a state dinner, and an address to a joint session of Congress—an honor rarely granted to a visiting foreign leader. Modi will become just the third world leader, after France’s Emmanuel Macron and South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol, to receive this kind of diplomatic reception from President Biden.
The objective here is to break India from China and orient it as a new manufacturing base (as China originally was planned to be), for the US and collective west.
So far, Modi is saying the right things:
In the war in Ukraine, India stands for peace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told The Wall Street Journal on the eve of his first visit to the United States.
“Some say we are neutral. But we are not neutral. We are on the side of the world. All countries must respect international law and the sovereignty of countries,” Modi said and called for resolving disputes through “diplomacy and dialogue” rather than war. New Delhi will support “every real attempt to end the conflict and guarantee sustainable peace and stability,” he said.
In general, Modi’s message was that India is ready to take a more important place in the system of international relations and economy. “India deserves a much higher, deeper and broader profile and role,” the prime minister said. He called for changes in the UN and other international organizations to adapt them to a more multipolar world order and to increase the representation of less wealthy countries in them.
Brazil is next up for destabilization.
Ukraine’s Controversial Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Appointed Ambassador To Brazil
Andrey Melnik is often critical of the West for not doing enough to aid Ukraine during the ongoing conflict, demanding fighter jets and instructing Germany on how it should conduct its foreign policy. He also served as Ambassador to Germany from 2014 to 2022.
Jun 19
We know that China’s flagship project is Belt and Road. Mr Lavrov has defined Russia’s flagship project.
Building support for the Greater Eurasian Partnership project could be seen as the flagship project of Russia’s foreign policy, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
“Our flagship foreign political project is to [build] support for the concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. What we’re talking about is facilitating the objective process of forming a broad integrative configuration that is open for all countries and associations across our vast continent. Practical steps are already being made [in this direction],” Lavrov said.
These include the processes of interlinking the complementary development plans of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative, expanding interaction within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with the involvement of SCO observer states and dialogue partners, strengthening the strategic partnership between Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and establishing working contacts among the executive bodies of the EAEU, SCO and ASEAN, the foreign minister noted.
“Among the concrete deliverables [of these processes] we envision the provision of mutually beneficial, interlinking infrastructure and the creation of a continent-wide architecture of peace, development and cooperation throughout Greater Eurasia,” Lavrov added. (From TASS)
Jun 19
Over the past 24 hours, denazification and demilitarization continued unabated. SMO is on target and on track.
“❗️The Russian Armed Forces launched a long-range sea-based high-precision weapons group strike against foreign-manufactured military hardware storage sites. All the assigned targets have been neutralised. The goal of the attack has been reached.
Ukraine forces are still trying offensive attempts. The ‘butcher’s bill’ was not so bad, only in excess of 500 Ukrainian soldiers. What a sick world we live in, if we don’t even pay attention to a human attrition rate of anything less than about 800 per day these days.
◽️During the day, the most active AFU offensive attempts were in South Donetsk and Donetsk directions.
I had a quick look at the msm, and all they can publish are war romance novels. Are they hiring novelists and screenplay writers now? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65921377. There are new hints and gossips in the air that Ukraine is ‘postponing’ the counteroffensive, or holding off, or something similar for a week. It is difficult to unpack cocaine-fueled unhinged babble. Ukraine claims that they’ve recaptured eight settlements says the msm (and of course, the stories that the five air defense Patriots were all taken out, is not true, maintains Zelenski). This is a war with a terrible human attrition rate and a television presentation in the west.
What I do not see, is what is next? What I do see, is ‘cold feet’ sprouting in western climes. How this will manifest is unsure, as Russia holds the imperative, the timeline and the cards. The French military told Le Monde that 40% of the Ukrainian armed forces trained by NATO instructors in the Baltic countries had been killed. Stoltenberg says that NATO’s arsenals are devastated and claims many states may need to spend even more than NATO guideline of 2% of their GDP on the military if they want to “strengthen collective defense”. Weapons running out, money running out, soldiers dead? Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson and other educated commentators consider mid-to-end summer as the extreme endpoint of this war. I don’t know, as I’ve learned not to try and outguess the Russian command and control. But it sure seems as if we are at some kind of an end here. Stoltenberg lives in an alternative universe, saying that Ukraine should continue liberating land. “The more land they liberate, the stronger their position at the negotiating table will be.” Thing is, we don’t see ‘liberated lands’ anywhere.
Washington and London expect that when the Ukrainians run out of manpower, the Poles will take their place, and then the Germans , said Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. “When the Ukrainians, as they say, run out, the Poles will come in their place, and then, probably, the Germans,” he noted. “It sounds extremely cynical, but this is precisely the logic of the strategic plans of Washington and London, this is clear, including materials”. This may then well be the war continuity or succession planning in the minds of the western thinkers.
Translation from American: Ze is losing and its US sponsors are having cold feet. Hence these fairy tales-never after WW2 has my country been more united, stronger, mobilized and determined to defeat NATO in its proxy war in Ukraine. Underestimating us is NATO’s strategic failure https://t.co/uRcUB9hM8y
— Dmitry Polyanskiy 🇺🇳 (@Dpol_un) June 19, 2023
Jun 19
The Blinken visit to China contains nothing substantial, at least in the public domain. This is the ‘on the street’ Chinese perspective:
And it illustrates the Chinese message that is very nuanced but still filters through in the readouts: Words mean nothing, especially when you’ve proven your word is useless. We will wait for your actions.
Jun 18
A Carpet of the Dead. Usually, the Russian Mod presents two pages of crisp and factual information on the SMO. Today’s report consists of five short reports and then the usual two pages. They could not fit all the dead into their normal report. It starts here: https://t.me/mod_russia_en/7936
Also take in this piece by Larry Johnson plus video. Larry says that he believes with some others, that Milley is guilty of criminal conduct – Criminal Military Malpractice.
Jun 18
Stunning! Overnight the South African press turned and while a day ago, they were sympathetic to the plight of the 120 or so peace delegation support staff stuck (kept hostage) in Poland, obviously the punishment to South Africa will continue. Today, the South African press has headlines such as “Ramaphosa’s multimillion-rand traveling circus: President’s security was warned about Poland permits.” This one is worth reading, because it illustrates the hold that the west has on the South African press. This is all about smearing Putin. African peace mission: Live stream broadcasting Russia talks cut as Putin interrupted presentations
Jun 18
China’s Billion Dollar Bailout for Pakistan: The Pakistan central bank confirmed the loan after FinMin Ishaq Dar stated that China would refinance a $1bn loan it had earlier given. With no agreement yet on IMF support, the support for Pakistan’s economy was timely.
from RT Telegram Channel
Jun 17
A little more from Maria Zakharova:
West Pressured Countries To Skip SPIEF — Moscow
The US and its allies threatened countries with consequences if they decided to send delegations to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Speaking to the TASS news agency on the sidelines of the forum in Russia’s second-largest city on Saturday, Zakharova was asked whether the West had tried to pressure nations that intended to participate in the event.
“There was immense pressure,” she replied, adding that “literally every country” was approached. “They wrote letters. Threats were made during the meetings,” she claimed.
Washington was the “leader” of these efforts and was helped by other “NATO-centric countries,” the spokeswoman said.
I do hope Modi is on his feet and firm to withstand the pressure while he is walking into the dragon’s teeth.
Jun 17
African Delegation Has Arrived in St. Petersburg
President Putin will meet separately with counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa – Dmitri Peskov.
And the Poles? Well, today they say they had nothing to do with it but that the SA delegates just decided to stay for no reason. If any other country competes with Ukraine as the most racist & fascist it’s Poland but this is clearly also about stopping the president’s team from getting to Russia (https://twitter.com/fiorellaisabelm/status/1669817420293492736?s=46&t=I3Tf84uXIVr7OooTGsu_9g).
Imagine that! The African delegation held itself hostage in Poland.
Jun 17
India More Important Than China… For Now – Jake Sullivan has elevated the visit of Indian PM Modi above America’s top diplomat heading to China.
Antony Blinken’s Beijing trip will be “a significant event” but “not even the most significant event of next week when it comes to US foreign policy,” Jake Sullivan told media in Tokyo.
Yes, they will wine and dine Modi, and try and make him tumble toward the west.
Jun 17
Jun 17
The Ukrainian cupboard is fast becoming bare! Weapons running out, soldiers running out, money running out.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner sees no possibility for additional German payments to the EU budget, which has been completely exhausted due to Ukraine’s aid.
Last night was another slaughter: https://t.me/mod_russia_en/7923
💥On 16 June, the Russian Armed Forces launched a long-range sea- and air-based high-precision group strike against one of the decision-making centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
◽️The goal of the attack has been reached. The assigned target has been neutralised.
The gossip pages suggest: “According to a Readovka source on Frunzenskaya Embankment, the attack on decision-making centers, which the Russian Defense Ministry announced today, was carried out several kilometers north of Kiev. The military headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was located there – at the time of the strike, high-ranking employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine were in it.
Jun 17
Spief was very major this year. For early translations:
I’ve translated Putin’s performance and Lavrov’s interview with RT on the SPIEF sidelines. Use them however you please:
https://vk.com/@580896205-putin-at-2023-spief
https://vk.com/@580896205-part-two-2023-spief
https://vk.com/@580896205-lavrov-rt-interview-on-spief-sidelines
Thank-you Karl! We are very fortunate to have this from you.
An Update:
More than 900 agreements worth 3.8 trillion rubles ($45.5 billion) have been signed at the 2023 edition of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russian presidential advisor and SPIEF executive secretary Anton Kobyakov says.
📍More than 17,000 participants from 130 countries took part in the forum, he added.
I also checked out a Maria Zakharova note, who said that all of these countries had to contend with Washington’s pressure and threats trying to get them not to take part.
Jun 17
The heartfelt messages are streaming in and the heroism of Daniel Elsberg is recognized everywhere. His impact on the whole world is immeasurable.
Thank you @DanielEllsberg
from my heart
for your life‘s work
for your courage
for your integrity &
for your kindness.What a privilege to have known you – rest in peace my friend!
In fond memory of our conversations:
➡️ https://t.co/M7XNgGlSyD pic.twitter.com/sGC4MB9lfd
— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) June 16, 2023
More good news from Russia, which banned and declared the corrupt and hostile WWF “undesirable.” It’s high time after decades of being a typical Anglo NGO, in the Green Craze department (let’s all deindustrialize, de-energize, and depopulate the deplorables). The list of criminality and conflicts of interest is too long to list.… Read more »
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the entry of committed and faithful Palestinian youth to the battlefield against the Zionist regime signals a bright future for their struggle. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/202314/Palestinian-youth-entry-to-battlefield-signals-bright-future : “Ayatollah Khamenei said in the meeting that the Palestinian struggle has entered a new… Read more »
THE SEED OF SUROVIKIN’S “ELASTIC DEFENSE” The US Army has not been carried away by the PSYOPS permeating the MICIMATT, and still produces thinkers worth the name. The Modern War Institute at West Point has produced a seminal article in understanding the modern Russian Way of War by digging into… Read more »
Frau Wagenknecht leaves Die Linke…interview> https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aktuelle-stunde/alle-videos/video-fuenf-minuten-mit-sahra-wagenknecht-100.html Intuition that AfD and DL dissolve and reform new parti. Those German industrialists and related that remember their past will tend to finance the evolving manifestation. These, presumably patriotic and pragmatic fellas … must then pursue Bismarck’s dictum about make good treaty with Rus.… Read more »
US foreign policy continues to generate facepalms around the world. Biden couldn’t wait more than one day (!!) to throw some vomit-inducing crap, after Blinken’s insincere words about opposing Taiwan independence. What can we expect in the next episode of “Imaginary High Horse Addiction”? Dining Modi whilst expressing hypocritical concern… Read more »
Re: “The Russia side grain deal with end on July 18… I am not sure what effect this will have on the Ukraine side and how Turkiye will handle transportation of these commodities, food and fertilizer.” The ending of the Black Sea grain deal was inevitable as soon as Erdogan… Read more »
John Helmer has “innarrestin’ ” words n’ maps Do semantic analysis of this quote: If Ukraine continues to shoot, the process of advancing Russian troops to the west may be endless,There > “It is more accurate to use the term “buffer zone”. Having taken control of this zone, in the… Read more »
A largely informative video on why Africa chose Russia & China (multipolarity) over the West. After our recent discussions & posts on the humiliation of the African peace delegation by the EU / USUK, note Kenyan president Ruto’s words at 4:15: “… decried the mistreatment of African leaders during foreign trips, especially to western… Read more »
The overt racism and rude, crude, stupid nazi behavior, speaking somewhat in the spiritual realm, comes, ihno, as an intrinsic aspect of nazi character. Just as scorpion shows everyone who he is, so also Heaven decrees that nazis expose themselves. This is very useful to the enemies of nazis. Mephisto… Read more »
Learned (I think) discussions F16 affairs. He’s talking about targets for Russian reply… https://theduran.locals.com/member/Zarael a live stream, I guess. Is this W3…a inquiry, sorta…assuming war is defined by the magic number of dead it produces over time. Taking a comparative view, and recalling “60 million dead in W2 (makes the… Read more »
“But Mr Z is talking about 30,000 per day.” Dear Mr P, please don’t take such numbers of 25-30K casualties to be true, as I’m sure you know. Even the spokesperson from Russian military gives a fairly conservative attrition rate for the AFU to be less than a thousand per… Read more »
Dear Sudhi… I was not clear. 30 K / day would exceed W2 Rate. He did not say that there were 30 K / day. He said that the attack he anticipates on NATO and or London, would create > 30 k in one day. If this happens, it would… Read more »
@ Mr. P Thanks for that catch. If UkroReich makes the criminal and stupid decision to attack Russian soldiers massively with bacteriological/chemical weapons, the retaliation will be nuclear, literally. The use of nuclear weapons by Russia has come to the fore lately, and Putin is as serious as a (nuclear)… Read more »
Those, Lone Wolf, urls and excerpts are sad to read, but not unexpected. A zillion years ago a boy-cadet in some military “training” watched films that explained that the use of biological weapons, chemical weapons, and nuclear weapons together was to be expected (of the enemy, not, of course, by… Read more »
@ Mr. P “…I agree, everything is on knife edge…” ———————————————————- Well, I hope that boy-cadet doesn’t get to see those films turned reality later in life. As the saying went at the beginning of the SMO, those who don’t want to talk to Lavrov, they will talk to Shoigu.… Read more »
In offing germs and skeeterz> https://archive.ph/kOvWV (includes link to Ruskie source) It seems, from analysis of text, the MoD-R anticipates a germ war attack in the area wetted by receding flood waters. The text also carries the character of an addendum attached to an indictment… dunno why. I just get… Read more »
Thank you, Mr P, for sharing this article. They weaponized and propagandised this virus for ulterior motives just so as to infuse the much required moneys and debts into their failing financial institutions. When the “virus” became incapable for the task required, “vaccines” were forced upon the unsuspecting population in… Read more »
It gets much much worse for the US in the Persian Gulf. Not only is the 5th Fleet being evicted, the Chinese navy is moving in, in that naval coalition we discussed involving arabs, Iran, India and Pakistan: “According to the Qatari news portal Al-Jadid, the navvies of Gulf states, including… Read more »
There were no references made to twerking if that’s what you’re referring to? I’m bemused and confused. Neither did I have women in mind when I thought of swag or swagger, not even Vicky Nuland. So I was genuinely wondering what your typo could have meant. Probably spent too much… Read more »
Putin showed this video during his presentation at the SPIEF, to make clear the reasons why Russia is fighting nazism in Ukraine. Warning: Graphic content. https://t.me/AussieCossack/7761 A video about the atrocities of Ukrainian OUN (Banderites) during the Great Patriotic War was shown at the plenary session of the SPIEF I… Read more »
It is written “Ukraine’s top general ‘could be abroad’ – Putin” Ok, who authorized the use of puns in psycowar? I mean Really! This is a low form of humor…. I understand the pronouns problem (easily cured by use of non sexist “comrade”, my preferred pronoun), but to stoop to… Read more »
What was done against the African delegation was a whole lot worse than what was done against Lavrov when he went to the UN without the Russian journalists. The blatantly racist contempt towards the African delegation, specially against the South African president is mind boggling. The shadows of Apartheid is… Read more »
I’ve found out what ‘anal swag’ means. Here’s picture of Blinken walking, in Beijing, after being schwabbed:
UNCONFIRMED RUMORS All the news outlets that have reproduced the (good) news of Kyrylo “we-will-kill-Russians-anywhere-in-the-world” Budanov death without regaining consciousness, refer to the same source, meaning the rumor is just that, a rumor. Budanov, being the head of UkroReich “military intelligence,” a huge contradiction in terms, was allegedly wounded during… Read more »
A permit to fly over Hungarian airspace? Some people still think they’re in the school playground. They’re now the cool and popular rich kids that have established rules to bully the poor kids out of their money. “If you want to play with the swing or go down that slide,… Read more »
It is standard for all planes crossing national airspace borders, and doubly important now as Hungary has a border with the Ukraine. It protects Hungary from getting embroiled deeper in the war. Otherwise NATO would have had Hungary fighting directly by summer 2022.. The question is why Hungary prevented the… Read more »
Thanks for the explanation. I was taken aback that a plane flying within EU airspace needed to do this when crossing borders between EU states. Let alone one carrying a head of state who’s on a widely announced peace mission. Hungary’s role in this did beggar believe. It probably gets… Read more »
Dr Hudson charms with story of sitting upon Trotsky’s knee – and Brother Doctoro? Ah! Shakhnazarov said that Russia is now reassuming the role of global champion of a new world order that the Soviet Union assumed at the start of the 1920s. As natural as the flow of river…… Read more »
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/developing-dispatches-from-ukraine-news24-joins-ramaphosa-peace-delegation-on-the-ground-20230615 Now reads: DEVELOPING | Ramaphosa arrives in St Petersburg for second leg of African peace mission | News24 Why would they have to go all the way back to South Africa before going to St. Petersburg? Could they not turn around in the Mediterranean and either go somewhere in… Read more »
The full delegation is on a separate airplane. They were prohibited from leaving until it was too late for them to make it to Russian on time.
“They were prohibited from leaving until it was too late for them to make it to Russian on time.” That gives the game away, no?? Isn’t that classic US tactics? Maria Z noted it after the last batch of Russian journalists & diplomats were given their UN visas AFTER it… Read more »
Latest here: https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/15362
And Putin educated these Africans. I’ve just snippets of it yet, but he took it by the numbers, lead them through the facts and they are talking a different tune now.
“Putin educated these Africans…” To begin with, I don’t believe Africans are in any need of education by anyone, and last time I checked, Putin is not by any means in a mission civilisatrice, with Africans or anyone else. I am sure there is no ill-intention, just a poor choice… Read more »
Here is a riddle for you.
Who is glaringly absent in all the Spief meetings and speeches and warm togetherness?
The 50 odd pro Yank headbangers, aka the collective waste, who joined in the Uncle Sambo led sanctions from hell onslaught?
Haha … No .. Nobody else? I stumped y’all? Here is what I meant. Glazyiev is not high profile at all. He signed an agreement with Myanmar on the sidelines of Spief, and that is all I can find. Reading the last few comments on his telegram, https://t.me/glazieview it is… Read more »
The blind and obscene hatred towards anything related to Russia is truly breath taking. Just with Warsaw and Kiev response toward the African delegation is nothing short than having a psychotic episode. Racism has become openly practiced as a “new paradigm” to save the West from collapsing. What a truly… Read more »
At Leiden about 1970 I was visiting Dutch friends, who were entertaining Polish students. When discretely able, they told terrible Polish jokes. It was embarrassing. Lived most of my life in the US and bathed in propaganda, and class, yet I always felt that Russia and America were allies…the WW2… Read more »
Article> https://archive.ph/DUbtt respecting the privatizationtheftenclosureliquidation 404 and pdf> https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/takeover-ukraine-agricultural-land.pdf Dated, 21 February 2023. Nevertheless damning. I do wonder as to finance of author’s platform, agenda, etc, as we must always do. Source new to my eye. Brother AHH in previous has, I think, precisely defined how the anal swag/swab matter… Read more »
Interesting thoughts P, thank you. “Do the anglosaxons have an extra measure of racism, is that genetic?” No, I think not. The structure, the foundations, of the exploitation we see today can be traced to the Norman conquest of England. Everything from “knowing the price of everything but the value… Read more »
Well, I suppose so. It seems to me that some incipient tendency to racist, “ethnographic”, probably variable among the peoples according to the fates of geography and whims of time, suspicion of “other” is natural. Being island people of the sea, the peoples of the European peninsula, pirates, may have… Read more »
Agree totally.
The excessive racism we see in many whites probably grew from the accident of history I referred to previously — the victory of white sociopaths on a global scale.
As manifest destiny rolled over north America racism became legitimized. It didn’t stop there. it rolled over the entire south then the world. The same rationale for killing millions of native Americans is used all over the world. I ask people today why they think that the global south is… Read more »
There is no doubt that the abject condition of colonised people, due to colonisation, (not to any innate failing) gives support to feelings of racial superiority in those lacking the ability or the will to analyze beyond the superficial.
The editorial cartoon “‘The White Man’s Burden’ (attributed to Rudyard Kipling)” shows John Bull (Britain) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) delivering the world’s people of colour to civilisation (Victor Gillam, Judge magazine, 1 April 1899). The people in the basket carried by Uncle Sam are labelled Cuba, Hawaii, Samoa, ‘Porto Rico’,… Read more »
There is so many defects of character on display in that cartoon that no single word is adequate to describe it.
Next month, July 25, will be 125 years that “Porto Rico”, according to that editorial cartoon, is benefitting from Uncle Sam, of being “civilized”, under colonial rule.
The problem we face is not racism.The problem is elitism — the refusal to see society as an organic whole. The issue of “class” (“elitism”) has always been a topic that many chose to ignore. It’s more convenient to only focus on the issue of “race” as form of divide… Read more »
I’m continually amazed, at another site with which we are all familiar, that a couple of very intelligent regulars, whose hearts seem to be in the right place, feel compelled to express sentiments of white supremacy at every opportunity. Despite their intelligence, they fail to see that they are doing… Read more »
Be it conscious or unconscious, even racists have “good intentions”. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” wraps it up very nicely.
Some fella wrote “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” I wonder what the relationship might be ‘tween classism and racism… ah suspicion they may draw from the same well. https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/manifesto/Manifesto.pdf And note that whether class or race or whatever, there is a duality.… Read more »
The talk of tactical nukes by the West and counterpoints by VVP/Karaganov underline how thoroughly they’re checkmated. The Poles had balked – seeing nukes pointed up their nose in Belarus and up their ass in Kaliningrad… USUK is outta Europroxies to suicide
The constant, near-daily, pinpoint long-range Russian missiling has had several excellent benefits, in addition to tactical-operational tasks. It helped shatter NATO solidarity, exposing the lying USUK media Narrative of expiring stocks. Rather it revealed superior Russian military industrial capability, raising the very fear of God in deviant limitrophes. It demonstrated what was coming… Read more »
London and Washington run the show in the “rules-based world order,” trying to dictate policy to their own allies as well as countries outside the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT on Friday. https://www.rt.com/news/578172-lavrov-anglo-saxon-west/ “This is not what we see in the West these days. The Anglo-Saxons are… Read more »
The criminal UN “peacekeeping” fig leaf begins to be stripped in Africa. I spoke on this trite western UN legerdemain in Lineaments 07, subsection A-2.. Semi-occupied countries now tire of the game. UN will quickly need fundamental reform or it dies like the League of Nations amongst the Global South. Mali… Read more »