Daily Chronicles

The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. The rough theme: Fog everywhere

May 17

On this generally quiet day, the trolling is off the charts.  People seem to have time for some fun.

AHH offered this from India:  Do you know that Chef Prigozhin is going to challenge Zelenski in the next Ukrainian elections?.  Prigozhin is going to stand for elections for President of Ukraine: https://sovereignista.com/globalsouthforum/topic/the-hearty-salon-15-05-2023-open-thread/#post-13921

And Kadyrov has his horse back.  He says it was easy and if you need anything from Europe, there is a way.  Contact the Ukrainian special services. They will do the job quickly, professionally, and inexpensively, bypassing sanctions!  https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/3631 He says the horse thieves from the SBU officers are excellent, but the negotiators are not.

May 17

I have never seen the Russian MoD give a special report outside of the regular schedule of reports.  This just out:

❗️ According to reliable and confirmed information, on 16 May, Kinnzhal hypersonic missile system hit and completely destroyed a multifunctional radar station as well as five launchers of U.S.-manufactured Patriot surface-to-air missile system in Kiev.

Seems to me as if Russia is denuding the Ukraine from missile defense (and totally embarrassing the US and its equipment).

May 17

From Sputnik and a number of other news sources

As per Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is privately beginning to lose the support of his neighbors, with a Poland-led group of European states urging him to find a way to end the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Has Warsaw really grown weary of the standoff despite its bellicose anti-Russia rhetoric?

Seymour Hersh revealed on May 17 that government officials in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, and Latvia have called upon Volodymyr Zelensky to halt hostilities with Russia – even by resigning himself, if necessary – and begin the process of rebuilding Ukraine. Hersh based this information on unnamed American intelligence community operatives.

“The European leaders have made it clear that ‘Zelensky can keep what he’s got’ — a villa in Italy and interests in offshore bank accounts — ‘if he works up a peace deal even if he’s got to be paid off, if it’s the only way to get a deal’,” Hersh wrote on Wednesday.

May 17

From the Russian MoD

💥The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a long-range sea-based high-precision weapons attack on a large ammunition depot at a ship-repair facility in Nikolayev.

◽️The goals of the strike have been reached. The assigned target has been neutralised.

The pressure remains on!

May 16

A while (a few weeks) ago, Washington announced the plan to supply $500 million worth of weapons to Taipei.

Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesperson Senior Colonel Tan Kefei responded:  “The PLA will ramp up its preparations for war.”

May 16

Those Storm Shadow Long- Range missiles freshly delivered to Ukraine by breast-beating their own glory UK ‘defense forces’ .. how scary eh.  Well yesterday the Russian MoD took out the first one, and today, seven of them! into dust!

And again:

⚠️The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation launched a combined attack with long-range precision-guided air- and sea-based weapons against the AFU units, as well as depots of ammunition, weapons and military equipment supplied by Western countries.

💥 The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

💥 U.S.-manufactured Patriot surface-to-air missile system has been struck by Kinnzhal hypersonic glide vehicle in Kiev.

Full Russian MoD report posted in the war room:  https://sovereignista.com/globalsouthforum/topic/daily-war-room/#post-13887

(I post these only when there is a change of pace.  Well, there is a change of pace as I’ve been reporting for a while now.  What does it mean?  Russia is successfully on the hunt and they have not really started anything yet!  Please please NATO, send more weapons so that all of us can send you to dust as well!)

May 16

Another treaty goes to dust, the Conventional armed forces in Europe (CFE Treaty).  The consequences are actually quite huge.  Mevedev says:  “Now, none of the previously suspended international commitments can prevent us from placing our weapons wherever we want to protect our national interests. Including the part of Russia that is in Europe,” Medvedev wrote, adding that Russia would “maximize the production of weapons, military and special equipment and means of destruction.”

May 15

China’s diplomacy is getting red hot.

A few comments from China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin in the morning conference:

We urge the US, Japan and other G7 countries – all members of the club of the rich – not to harm the interests of the many for the selfish interests of the few in the world of nations.

Syria’s return to the Arab League shows again that when the shadow of the US shrinks, the light of peace spreads.

The US and a handful of countries call their way of playing the game “the rules” and regime change in other countries “spring”. That twisted “political correctness” will not get them anywhere anymore.

And a few from red hot Global Times

Middle East does not need Big Mac US embassy aiming for regional chaos (Referring to a new US Embassy, the second-largest embassy worldwide in Lebanon- https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290685.shtml

G7 communiqué omits mention of China, exposing more rifts – https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290707.shtml

An absurd scene at G7 – the bandit leader ran for police chief: Global Times editorial – https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290704.shtml

May 15

US MEETS ONE OF CHINA’S THREE CONDITIONS

Frustrated by Beijing’s refusal to pick up the phone since the balloon incident, Washington threatened to unveil new investment curbs. But Chinese FM Qin Gang told US Amb. Burns that the White House must meet three conditions before Beijing will engage:

• Stop pressing Taiwan issues.
• Don’t overreact in cases like the balloon incidents.
• Quit imposing new sanctions on Chinese technology.

Bloomberg’s next headline marks the shift in global power:

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Biden Presses for China Contact Despite Risk of Losing Clout
US proposes flurry of calls, meetings with Chinese officials

The Biden administration is trying to paint President Xi as recalcitrant if he refuses engagement. Through proposals for meetings and calls from the lowest level to a possible conversation between Xi and Biden, the White House seeks to restart dialog. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told senior Chinese diplomat that US wants to ‘move beyond’ spy balloon. Bloomberg

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If and when President Biden meets the remaining conditions President Xi will, presumably, pick up the phone.

May 15

This is the shape the future regime change operations will take:

The NY Times admits: “Proxy forces are an increasingly important part of American foreign policy”

It also reveals the Pentagon has an “irregular warfare” program using foreign proxies to “disrupt nation-state rivals” with “sabotage, hacking… propaganda”https://t.co/BTYFmsoI22

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) May 15, 2023

May 14

Turkiye – runoff election.  Ergodan did not display a clear win.

May 14

Yeah, I said that the SMO is also foggy.  This is no longer true.  From the Russian Mod:

◽️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have launched a long-range sea- and air-based high-precision weaponry strike against AFU units and the depots of Western munitions in Ternopol and Petropavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

◽️The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

It looks like this and estimates are that millions, perhaps even hundred of millions in US$ of ammo and other war materiel was destroyed:

Big Serge has a good video:

Probably the clearest footage I’ve seen of the enormous hit this morning in Khmelnytsky. pic.twitter.com/6rGQMqOUgf

— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) May 13, 2023

Also, in Bakhmut.  There is a lot of complaining and winging that the Russian MoD is not responding to the criticism leveled at it over the past weeks.  The Russian MoD does respond, and this is its response:

◽️In Soledar-Artyomovsk direction, the assault units supported by the Airborne Troops units continued fighting for the western neighbourhoods of Artyomovsk.

◽️The enemy made massive attempts to break through Russian troops’ defence to the north and south parts of Artyomovsk in the past 24 hour.

◽️All the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been repelled. There has been no breakthrough in the defence of Russian forces.

◽️The servicemen of the 4th and 200th motorised rifle brigades and the 6th Motorised Rifle Division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation showed courage and heroism in repulsing the enemy attacks.

◽️The units of the 4th Motorised Rifle Brigade have repulsed the attacks by AFU battalion tactical group to the south of Krasnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), as a result of which the enemy losses were around 200 servicemen killed and wounded.

◽️The Commander of the 4th Motorised Rifle Brigade Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov led the battle while on the front line.

Demilitarization and denazification still in full swing.  (Of course we know that NATO is also being demilitarized)

I posted today’s MoD report in the Daily War Room and I’ve said before that the KIA rate is increasing day by day.  It is not my imagination.  If you keep somewhat track of the numbers they inch up day by day and now it is 400 in one strike.  More information in the MoD report.   https://sovereignista.com/globalsouthforum/topic/daily-war-room/#post-13822

May 13

Why Fog?  A short overview.  The empire is hitting back.

We have Turkiye’s election upcoming and the empirical fog is shrouding any possible issue.  Kemal Kilicdaroglu is accusing Russia of interference in the elections.  This is an important election and the usual suspects are out with their fog machines creating much chaos.

We have the issue of Imran Khan where the unelected coup government and the UK are out with their fog machines obscuring the fact that an election without Imran will turn into a civil war. 

The current SMO is foggy.  Even knowing the key objectives, it is difficult to tie those to actuality on the ground.  Hurry up and Wait eh!   

US entire Republican Party is pushing to invade Mexico.   (Refer Ben Norton https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1657033444717740032 and https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1657035682626322433)

Israel is being hit with Gaza rockets (and other rockets) and as usual, lying like lunatics.

Reports are pouring in of new US soldier contingents in various African counties.  South Africa is on the barbecue currently, with major threats and accusations with no basis.  An article will be done today on this issue.

Brian Berletic reports on empire meddling in specifically Myanmar, and how that is circling out to regional destabilization.

So “neutral” Switzerland is tired of pretending. Its parliament approved amendments to the law allowing the transfer of Swiss-made weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

Sanctions are causing all kinds of blowback.   The EU wants to sanction China now.   Unilateral sanctions cause poverty, inequality, mortality, and human rights abuses and the idea that they are ‘punishment for a regime but not for the people’ is of course bunkum.  They punish the people and sanctions are nothing else but siege warfare.  I’ve seen comments that the 40 countries under heavy or light sanctions are now binding together to fight as a group.  Sanctions are not unidirectional but they hurt both ways. In March, German industrial orders fell by 10.7%. Total production decreased by 3.4%. Manufacture of cars and parts fell by 6.5%, and machinery by 3.4%.

Here on Globalsouth, we are being led out of fog by our economics writers.  I am very grateful!  Do not ignore them, cause you don’t know anything about economics.  Ask what you do not know even the simplest question.  Michael Hudson cut through the economics fog with his last interviews, and Jorge Vilches and our good friend Col the Farmer cuts through more fog.  It is actionable information.  Even though I try to sit on the sidelines in terms of all-out revolutionary street actions in the US, we have taken a new look at our personal budget and expenditure.  You probably need to do that too.

Yes, our global existence may get worse and probably will in certain areas, but, we may also be on the cusp of changing the paradigm once and for all.   Our world is busy, but our world is not fully productive.

These are but a few of the issues that GlobalSouth will work with, in the coming week.  That is if we do not get surprises and major black swans.

May 13

China cuts to the chase.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told US Ambassador Nicholas Burns that it will resume dialog only after the US meets three conditions:

1. Stop pressing Taiwan issues.
2. Don’t overreact in cases such as the recent balloon incidents.
3. Quit imposing new sanctions on Chinese technology.

From the Russian MoD

◽️On 12 May at around 6.30pm Moscow time, AFU Air Force combat aircraft launched a missile attack on Polipak polymer products company and Milam meat processing plant in Lugansk.
The strike was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles supplied to the Kiev regime by the UK, contrary to London’s claims that these weapons would not be used on civilian targets.

◽️As a result of the strike, a fire broke out on the territory of Lugansk food and chemical industries. Some nearby residential buildings are destructed. Civilians, including six children, were injured. Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft shot down AFU Su-24 aircraft that attacked Lugansk and Mig-29 fighter that was covering it.

May 13

I love it!  From Global Times

May 13

Idiot Borell said that Europe is the garden and the rest is the jungle.  Now a US senator says without the US, Mexico would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an outback. I don’t know this Senator at all, but he is an older man, and one could expect some wisdom, but no, there is none. He is a stain on humanity! Verdammt! Yes, they seriously are after Mexico now. How utterly stupid and without a speck of world knowledge of what is his neighbor, these Anglo-Saxon colonizers. Let us help the man out. The drug trade stateside is run by the DEA.

Unbelievable. US Senator John Kennedy really just said, “Without the people of America, Mexico would be eating cat food out of a can and living in tent out behind an outback.” 🤬 pic.twitter.com/e7VwdPJeyt

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) May 11, 2023