France all dressed up and nowhere to go,
by M.K. Bhadrakumar

France all dressed up and nowhere to go

▪️French President Emmanuel Macron at a conference (file photo) Ever since its ignominious defeat in the Napoleonic wars, France is entrapped in the predicament of countries that get sandwiched between great powers. Following World War II, France addressed this predicament by forging an axis with Germany in Europe. Caught up in a similar predicament, Britain …

🔸The German-American Strategic Depth Clown Show,
by Pepe Escobar

The German-American Strategic Depth Clown Show

▪️The saga of Bundeswehr officers plotting to blow up the Kerch bridge with Taurus missiles and getting away with it is a gift that keeps on giving.
[Rostislav Ishchenko’s masterful analysis in globalsouth.co, (presented by AHH), is linked in the above article by Pepe Escobar]

🔸Putin presented the West with a bill of exchange that it is not able to repay,
by Irina Alksnis
https://m.vz.ru/opinions/2024/3/14/1257995.html
▪️In an interview with Dmitry Kiselyov, Vladimir Putin stressed that the West will not just have to offer Russia guarantees of compliance with the agreements, but these guarantees: a) must be spelled out; b) suit Moscow; and c) the Russian leadership must actually believe in them.

🔸Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?
by Pepe Escobar
https://thecradle.co/articles/will-brics-launch-a-new-world-in-2024
▪️BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members, developing future admission criteria, deepening the institution’s groundings, and most importantly, launching the mechanisms for bypassing the US dollar in international finance.

🔸The real reason behind the US ‘port’ in Gaza
by Tom Fowdy
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-real-reason-behind-the-us–port–in-gaza
▪️The US goal of course is not to deliver humanitarian aid, after all, who builds an entire port just for a short-term effort?

🔸Building a Pier Off Gaza is ‘Dancing on Bones’ – Russian Foreign Ministry

Building a Pier Off Gaza is ‘Dancing on Bones’ – Russian Foreign Ministry

▪️At a press conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the United States-led initiative to build a pier off the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid “dances on bones”.

🔸Yemeni army says they struck US, Israeli ships
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/213046/Yemeni-army-says-struck-US-Israeli-ships
▪️The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces said Friday that the Yemeni military targeted two American and Zionist ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/213034/Sanaa-vows-to-target-Israeli-link-ships-in-Indian-Ocean

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️Iranians troll Americans.
“40 years ago, the United States began to ban the sale of weapons to Iran. And now they are trying to ban the purchase of weapons from Iran.” 😄

▪️The Houthis reported that they had already begun conducting operations against ships associated with Israel in the Indian Ocean. Today, 2 ships were attacked south of the Yemeni coast. The British report that one of the ships was hit by a missile, but remained underway.

▪️Throughout the day, the Palestinian media has been actively discussing another high-profile strike by the Israel Defense Forces in the north of the Gaza Strip . According to Arab media reports, the series of hits hit a line of civilians who had gathered at the southwestern entrance to the city to receive humanitarian aid. According to the latest data, more than 100 people were killed and about 200 more were injured. At the moment, the exact circumstances of the incident are unknown. The IDF press service reported that the details of the incident are being clarified, but accusations of Israeli troops of attacking civilians are untrue. Similar cases have already arisen before: one of them occurred at the end of February, when several dozen people were killed on a section of the Ar – Rashid highway in southwest Gaza . Then Hamas accused the Israelis of an airstrike on a crowd of residents, and the IDF associated the victims with a stampede and attacks by certain individuals. @rybar

Thank you, dear Sir, for your kind appreciation. We always look forward to the analysis made by you. The article in Unz is indeed helpful towards understanding the twisted and demented minds of these demonic people.

🔸Abdul Mu’min Muhammad on Louis Farrakhan’s “The Genocide of the Palestinians,”
by Kevin Barrett
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/dr-ridgely-abdul-mumin-muhammad-on

🔸The last stammering of Jewish fascism,
by Thierry Meyssan
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220564.html
▪️Anyone acting in good faith understands that murdering 30,000 innocent people has nothing to do with eliminating Hamas. Operation Iron Glaive appears for what it is: a cover to realize the old dream pursued by Jewish fascists from Jabotinsky to Netanyahu: to expel the Arab population from Palestine. From then on, this mass crime, committed for the first time live on television, turned the world’s political chessboard upside down. Feeling threatened, the Jewish supremacists themselves threatened the United States. Anxious to remain masters of the “free world”, the United States is preparing to topple the Jewish supremacists.

🔸The Panic Of the Ruling Class,
by Craig Murray

The Panic Of the Ruling Class

🔸Putin’s interview: “The West is used to stuffing its belly with flesh, but the vampire ball is ending”
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1355628
▪️Fragment:
Dmitry Kiselyov: The word “justice” is a magic word for the Russian language. You use it very carefully, but still, one day you uttered this word in your Message – and it sounded like lightning. You said that the distribution of the tax burden should become more equitable in Russia, and suggested that the Government think about it. In what direction should I think?
Vladimir Putin: You know, indeed, the distribution of the tax burden should be fair in the sense that corporations, legal entities and individuals who earn more, in simple terms, should allocate more to the general treasury for solving national problems, primarily for solving problems related to combating poverty.
Completely…

🔸On the military calculations of the West,
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240313/1053851660.html
▪️I constantly meet naive statements in social networks, as well as in TV shows and expert assessments, such as the fact that since the West does not have missiles and shells for Ukraine, then all its attempts to get ready for war with Russia are nothing more than a bluff and do not need to pay attention to it at all.

🔸”PATRIOTS” AND “HIMARS”, A LIST IN FIVE DAYS: THE RUSSIANS DESTROYED THE BEST NATO EQUIPMENT
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/patrioty-i-hajmarsy-spisok-za-pjat-dnej-russkie-unichtozhili-luchshuju-tehniku-nato_971658
▪️For a long time, our army could not achieve the destruction of the Himars MLRS, and to eliminate the American Patriot anti-aircraft system in May 2023, it was necessary to conduct an entire air operation. However, recently the situation has changed dramatically. The best western systems are burning one after another in the Southern Russian steppe. And these losses are already making our enemies nervous.

🔸Russian troops hit a Patriot air defense system in the Kharkov region https://www.kp.ru/online/news/5714995/
▪️In addition, a workshop for repairing weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Kharkov.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️The enemy’s actions clearly show that he wants to cause us, if not a fuel crisis, then at least to significantly reduce oil refining in the European part of Russia. And technically, judging by the footage of repeated attacks, he is still capable of this and similar attacks will continue.
Returning to the issue of removing the energy infrastructure from territory controlled by the enemy, it would be worth taking this fact into account and removing this very infrastructure without any kind of reflection. The same applies to port infrastructure; we are, of course, primarily talking about Odessa.

▪️As I wrote yesterday, the continuation began at night: the crest is actively trying to advance in Grayvoronsky, but receives bribes from art and vertical. Our guys have balls of steel, they don’t allow the Ukrainian to seize the initiative along the entire sector of the front, causing him losses..
I would like to wish the same balls to our top brass, who have been pretending for a year now ( if not more, but I’ve been writing about this for a year! ) that this is not the SVO and they award the guys a salary according to peacetime standards .. The Supreme Commander has already stated 2 times that this should not happen, but things are still there..😐🤦‍♂🤷‍♂

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
https://t.me/SergeyKolyasnikov/57260
▪️Excellent video of an attack on Ukronazi helicopters. They covered him with cluster munitions and then finished him off. It should be noted that the picture from our UAV is excellent, these are no longer the first wave of Eagles.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/104235?single
🇮🇱💥🇵🇸 The Air Forces of Egypt and Belgium dropped humanitarian aid over Gaza.
Seconds later, Israelis bombed the exact same location.

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/11/out-of-touch-with-reality-white-house-fails-to-navigate-the-israeli-re-calibration/
▪️The inattention to reality is not an electorally ‘incidental’ and irksome issue that needs better PR management by the campaign team.

🔸From Isolation to Containment: Washington’s Economic War Against Russia Gets a Rebrand,
by Conor Gallagher

From Isolation to Containment: Washington’s Economic War Against Russia Gets a Rebrand

▪️Foreign Affairs came out last week with a piece authored by a team from the influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that argues for a sustained strategy of “containment” against Russia.
It’s a climb down (at least on the part of the US; judging from comments coming from Europe, they might keep looking to go all in despite a weak hand) from the goal of isolating Moscow and the “ruble is rubble” heyday of the economic war but still seeks to maintain the separation of Europe and other US-dominated states from Russia while drawing more nations to the West’s side.

🔸Without faith, without purpose, without hope. Protest against the Pope reveals the true character of Ukrainians,
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240312/1053834545.html
▪️Pope Francis gives the impression of being internally contradictory, but honest with himself. On the Ukrainian crisis (as well as on other issues), he made various statements. Some of them are not liked by one side, some others by the other.
[…] They have already realized that their experiment failed – the country will not survive under any circumstances, there will be no Ukrainism: it dispersed to Europe and disappeared at the front, the remnants will die out in the next half century. But, dying, they dream that, finishing them off, Russia will break down and die itself, poisoned by Nebraska cadaverous poison. And if he doesn’t die, then at least he’ll get a little sick.
And this – “let the whole farm burn down, if only the neighbor’s cow dies” – is also a national character. Therefore, everyone who can, it is necessary to return to Russianness. Nothing good will come of the Ukrainians. They even believe in God only insofar as they believe that Jesus Christ was a Galician.

🔸The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the death of an Il-76 military transport plane in the Ivanovo region. According to the military department, there were eight crew members and seven passengers on board. According to preliminary information, the plane was making a training flight.
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/russkie-oficery-borolis-do-konca-tri-versii-gibeli-il-76-v-ivanovskoj-oblasti_972191
▪️According to numerous eyewitness accounts, the plane’s engine caught fire in the air. It is reported that the fire occurred a few minutes after takeoff from the Severny airfield. The crew tried to return to the airfield, but could not reach the emergency vehicle to the runway.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️Emmanuel Macron has once again postponed his visit to Ukraine. But this is not out of fear, don’t think so, but out of fierce hatred. The spirit of Napoleon hits Macron’s birdhouse and calls him to heroism. Either send NATO troops into Ukraine, or line up like a pig and march on the Kremlin. Even the NATO Secretary General is already hiccupping and showing with signs that it is time for the president of democratic France to be democratically placed in a room with soft walls.
Armenia is now looking at Macron, among others. Or rather, Armenia looks at its choice in the person of Macron, in whose favor it abandoned Russia at the suggestion of Pashinyan. Look, look. Now this is what the shield of Armenia looks like and the guarantee of its existence. A crummy French clown that the whole world makes fun of.

▪️After a raid by Ukronazi drones, oil depots in the Oryol and Nizhny Novgorod regions are burning. Moreover, the latter, Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez in the city of Kstovo, suffered quite seriously. They report a new raid on the Voronezh region.
Ukraine is deliberately targeting infrastructure, increasing the number of drones, their variety and frequency of attacks.
Ukraine needs to be turned off. At all. 750 kV energy infrastructure, data centers, railway depots, Kremenchug oil refinery, Beskydy tunnel, bridges, thermal power plants – that is, everything that allows industrial production to function.
There are no other options. Even if the polished oligarchs on the sidelines of Moscow have gesheft with Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Europe. Because losing because of their gamble, because of their houses in London and accounts in Switzerland is not an option.
Of course, you can play the “negotiations” game, the “we’re not like that” game. It will be like with the Minsk Agreements – you will still have to do it, but later and with much greater difficulties, expenses, problems and the cost of human lives.

Ural rowan tree:

Chinese version:

even though their wings be small
capable are they to face the squall
bearing the burden of sky’s falls
from the heart loving one and all

“lori lori my lorika
(my grandmother my grandmother)
don’t call me sebr, my jina
(patience and peace of my life)
tu diheli li ber chaven min
(you melt before my eyes)
çerem naye ji support min
(ı can’t help it)

https://sozluk.memurlar.net/konu/lori-lori/