I scan Smoothie’s site to read this one poster, an American … who sees what is happening to the hegemon …

Earlier this a.m.:  http://disq.us/p/353hz98

Pravda article fragment> “Tomorrow, February 17, negotiations on Ukraine and Iran will be held simultaneously in Geneva. At the same time. I am almost convinced that the date was not chosen by chance. February 17 and 18 are the dates that the architects of the Iranian protests want to use. It marks 40 days of mourning for those who died during the unrest. The WSJ wrote that merchants at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran were calling for them to take to the streets again. Thousands of Starlink terminals have been illegally imported into the country. (again?)

The situation around Iran has entered a crucial phase. The Trump administration and Israel are issuing an ultimatum and preparing a strike. The unanimity of Washington and Jerusalem formulates conditions that Iran cannot accept by definition, which makes a military scenario not only probable, but almost inevitable….”

https://news-pravda.com/eu/2026/02/16/2078583.html

Sunset to-night begins Ramadan……….nazi hate for Islam may be a factor… 

An’ ahgot that bet with Stumpy…new moon…00:00 GMT 16 February =/- 48 hours…hootannanny time and sing along rodeo…

epstein flipped israel’s Gaza-tested biometric scanners into nigeria ports deal for uae

https://dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-ehud-barak-sultan-sulayem-nigeria-ports-israel-dp-world

Has Putin stabbed Russians and BRICS in the back, as Helmer writes … ???

STAB IN THE BACK

I read that article by John Helmer that Cronetoo posted. This makes for depressing reading, but I hope this is some sort of chess move. Having sacrificed so much in blood and treasure, no outsider is qualified to speak for Russia, of course. President Putin is well aware of the machinations of the “West”, so I hope there is some plan that we are unable to fathom yet.

I too read the Helmer essay. What’s happened to the Policy of bringing to an end the Vampire Ball? Since this “deal” involves the Trump cohort, what will come if, when, the cohort no longer rules? After, for example, a defeat by Iran? Is Helmer correct?

Galloway spoke to the mismatch here also described….  So….where is the creepy…er…madam?

The somewhat odd and unreliable propagandist Hal the Fink, headlines…UPDATED 7:10 PM EST — Leader of U.A.E. – Dead – After REFUSING PERMISSION for US to Attack Iran

Found Dead: Netanyahu Chief of Staff

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/unconfirmed-reports-leader-of-u-a-e-dead-after-refusing-permission-for-us-to-attack-iran?catid=17&Itemid=101   Claim new bossman too…

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/found-dead-netanyahu-chief-of-staff?catid=17&Itemid=101   Claims it’s not “natural”   ahemshocked! 

Helmer?  Based on a concept document .. undated, unsigned, no provenance, from the NYT.  And hey ho!  The Little Green Dwarf confirmed it to the NYT.   What a wonderful bunch of crooks to take information from.

And Lavrov is angry – which he is – that is clear.  Must he by definition be angry at Putin?  Putin has the Russian population to report to.  Do you think they will fall for it?  Do you really think with the US Dollar in the state that it is, and the reserve currency concept disappearing across the world being replaced with trading in national currencies, Putin will fall for it?  Sanctions is the weapon of the US.  Will Russia tumble for the fast weakening US economic weapon while it is not tumbling for war weapons or sanctions from the US?

It is clear that after the Ukraine war American business wants to go back to Russia.  Putin himself said that it will be controlled and will be under Russian decisionmaking.  Nobody that stuck it out with Russia throughout the war will be disadvantaged.  But none of this will happen if the basic normal of diplomacy are not in place.  There is not a normal airplane schedule.  The US holds and gives visas even for UN business as it likes.  Nebeenzia at the UNSC said that they will not ask the US for a ‘permission’ (a license was how he put it), to do what they need to do.

Helmer is his own fifth column.  He has a full band that he plays all by himself.  When did he ever not find some intrigue in the Russian government?  Who was that guy that played a flute and made all the children run after him?  Aha, the Pied Piper.  Well Helmer is going blue in the face blowing his flute, but, the Russian kids do not want to follow.

Look at these two fools:  Buying US weapons means ‘waiting lists’ — Rubio & Hegseth In a USA Today op-ed, Rubio and Hegseth said buyers “all too often” pay “to join waiting lists,” with “unknown or unreliable delivery dates,” warning long delays “tempt our allies to look to other suppliers.”

If trade cannot be done, it won’t be done.

ahh…it was only a matter of time.  how does that go?…you can take the boy outta the city, but you can’t take the city outta the boy?

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mark-carney-pushes-back-on-photos-with-ghislaine-maxwell

A little fun here on this day with two ‘negotiations’ and the real day for China’s new year.

Helmer is a mystery, and his essay seems to be an outlier. But Lavrov’s poorly concealed anger is understandable in a diplomat… My “take” being that he’s angry about war… diplomacy in the peaceful realm is now shown to be ineffective or inadequate,  and diplomacy by “kinetic means” is now the certainty. In a man dedicated to the peaceful resolution of conflict, why naturally he’s angry.

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Speaking of the kinetic avenues of “diplomacy”…. poor devils…

Military Summary zone… https://youtu.be/O9kCMrMxKlI

In all these years studying Russia, it has been a neverending theme that ‘something is wrong in the Russian State’. In a sense I say .. yeah, sure! There always is something wrong in the affairs of a state. A state is never fully cohesive because states are huge and made up of people who have to make decisions. The last time I saw Lavrov angry, was with the final meeting with the Turks and others before the headchoppers broke the Idlib borders and stormed into Syria. He was livid and did not hide it. Another war was on the horizon and nobody wanted to cooperate to de-escalate. Re Russia, I am convinced they can deal wtih any differences of opinion and are very cautious in terms of a too large break between decisionmakers for future planning. They know their history. I mean we’ve seen Putin, at the final meeting before the SMO started. It was iconic! He had his full security council, everyone front and center and everyone individually had to answer the question on video: SMO or NO. Putin is not scared to make decisions, but he makes them once he consulted with his full state apparatus.

It is almost a hobby to try and figure out who is supporting which initiative in Russia and who is sticking a knife into which back. This comes from the historical Russia, where they wanted to be an empire. I know it from the African side and nobody can tell me anything good about the USSR of the time. The break with China was a severe and massive mistake as it was based on who does communism better – stupid! And yet a fascinating story.

In reality, there is little else to talk about because Russia is doing well. There are in-depth questions and decisions which we do not know the calculus. We do not know how the Russian State considers the fall of the hegemon. We do know what timing is given to that (and of course relevant for the time). Patruschev and we had the interview on the site, considered that there is 10 years that Russia and China need to dance to keep the world out of major war. More or less 10 years to cement a world order of multi-polarity. I’m not sure if that thinking has now changed as the incredible push and wish for war on Russia was front and center at the recent security conference and a theme right throughout. I mean they even had Hillary Clinton there spouting.

It is no wonder if the Russian state discusses this with a view to cement decisions for their future. They are not jonesing for the Dollar. But sanctions? They have to go as these are not legal measures.

I’m not worried about the Russian State. If they could stage a comeback from 1991, and take back Russian resources from the criminals at the time, as well as the US, it is a massive win for them. This is their new history. We’ve seen Putin in meetings with the criminal oligarch groupings, tearing the skin of their backs. I have a bit of a birds eye view on the period and I’ve told the story of my father in law, who was in Russia at the time, a year or two before the fall of the Berlin wall and responsible for stealing the aluminum production and some oil production processes. “It was like shooting fish in a barrel”. We had years of conversations in depth on what happened, and also his own guilt for having been part of this major Rape of Russia.

Let Helmer waffle. Sometimes those are allowed to be continued as it forms a type of a security barrier on the real stuff. I say again, the real stuff is a little hidden now. Ryabkov is a man of short sentences. Lavrov is deep into something – I don’t know what. He has gone quite quiet again after a spate of interviews. China side? They say what they must say and really, nothing more.

An interesting day ahead.

Yup. Very cogent.

I see I might be misunderstood…to be clear my hunch is Lavrov’s anger is a product of sadness, disappointment….remembering as an example “ambassador DeSadeski’s line “the fools! the mad fools!  in the old film… Anyway, a professional product…a sort of projection. I do not imagine he’s mad at anybody in particular. His emotion does suggest that the war, the “unrestricted war” as Comrade Officers Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui sketched it…will continue to resolution, with all that implies. I would be angry, instead I’m just sad.

I too am ashamed a little…when the Russian warehouses were looted I bought a few pieces of loot. Among these a clock from a submarine.

just for old times…strangelove script> https://psi329.cankaya.edu.tr/uploads/files/Script%20of%20the%20film%281%29.pdf

Zone Hormuz…. 

Mr P…

Judge Nap just announced that Iran has announced …

an around the clock surveillance lockdown etc

do you have that announcement?

Mearsheimer on Nap gives me the idea that he’s clueless and, putting things politely, naive and shallow…this is not a new impression, ahemm…

Chas Freeman is much more perceptive…https://youtu.be/QPTT_bi8cs8

In afternoon Comrade Colonel K…LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski : Will Trump Start WWIII ? may be worth listening to, ahdunno… I’d have asked another question…”Does he realise his gang has started… or is in already?….” In this respect refer to Pepe’s:  Pepe Escobar: Baviera Rhapsody: Insecurity Conference targets re-colonization of the Global South – Chronicles – Sovereign Global Majority, which includes this line: “The path towards 5th Generation War will accelerate. We are entering the next stage of an “omnipresent battlefield” – as defined way back in 1999 by PLA colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui.”   I posted the url to the learned and august paper by the Comrade Officers of the PLA . This paper being 228 pages in English….

My own opinion is that the war is about 500 years long, so far…and that US as a major participant entered in an inflection with the US invasions of China and then of Russia…let’s round it to “long time ago” More than a human life-time…

Salty speaks of gas and California and stuff……….https://youtu.be/3H1q5Dj2q_8

Max Blumenthal — an update on lots of things, including Starmer’s collapsing gov’t

’roundabout minute 8 Nap asks question about Novorossia,  Capt. Matt Hoh and he agree the usage is new. They’re clueless. It’s been in usage in the context of the SMO since the beginning…since before Minsk “agreements”and as wiki says: “The name Novorossiya, which means “New Russia”, entered official usage in 1764″. One is left to wonder about these fellers. https://youtu.be/igkiWW51ZXc  I was under the impression that at university they require history and geography…

Ahem ‘memberin’ when, in the beginning of the SMO the AFU nazi army was surrounded and kettled en mass …and the liberation of Novorossia was spoken of far an’ wide….where were these wise men…at the bar? My friend Texas was then in active service, he was, iirc, ecstatic with the taste of victory…

The question of aircraft carriers and “obsolescense” is, I think, poorly defined. In many examples these ships are modern, and they work…they can “project power”… “obsolete” is not the proper term. A sum might say in vulgar words, “they can dish it out, but they can’t take it”… see, here https://youtu.be/nNicc02AKRg USS Lexington — The First U.S. Fleet Carrier Lost in WWII –  Pay attention. Don’t take side. note that “the enemy” had the same experience. Then substitute for the old slow piloted airplanes, supersonic rockets. Now they especially “can’t take it”. But they can still “dish it out”. This makes them a very juicy target…and makes their primary “use” starting a major war by sinking and drowning a whole lotta corn fed fellers.

https://youtu.be/nNicc02AKRg

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Speaking of starting the bigbigrodeo…Here find Comrade Lt Col K ……..LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski : Will Trump Start WWIII ? –

Check it out .. stunning.

Fun film… Monsignor Quixote – starring Alec Guinness and Leo McKern (1985)

see minute 11:29 + a few seconds… McKern, the Communist mayor has lost the election…https://youtu.be/uO4XWTYrFQU?t=689  There’s a backstory and a story, but it’s just a fun scene…establishing that “Sancho” is going to be available for the quest… McKern utters: “Capitalist money turns the heads of honest men…”

It is in my view a film pregnant with worthwhile dialogue, which seems in a way relevant to the world to-day.

full flick…

Sinister dude come uninvited…The UK’s national security adviser has apparently turned up uninvited at negotiations in Geneva…https://www.rt.com/news/632689-uk-peace-talks-geneva/

Ahem’memberin’ that agent Boris fubard the deal that the dwarf made with the Ruskies…

how iran controls the strait of hormuz