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Tentative forecast: Ukraine SMO
This is a writing from the TG channel Donbass Devushka written by a regular contributor Alcibiades. My comments follow:
Alcibiades on the War: Ultimatum.
Something’s caught my attention over the last several days. Russian leaders have, across the board, become noticeably more… -
Dec 26 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
Judging by the channels waking up and reporting many missile, drone…
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Medvedev: The results of 2022 changed World Order
Medvedev – on the results of 2022, which changed the world order
Following is a machine translation of Medvedev’s year-end article. While the content may be Russia-specific in some areas, in most areas it is clearly not only Russia-specific. Bear in… -
Dec 23 2022 
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top…
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Transformative Z..oomerangs of 2022
We are not seeing Boomerangs returning on the sanctions and repression policies. They turn and come back at a tremendous Zoomerang speed. A Zoomerang is a karma boomerang and as we know, karma is a beetch.
“Sanctions against Russia ‘boomeranged’ “–…
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Dec 22 2022 
Sanctions: A weapon for subordination
First posted at Multipolarista.com
How sanctions are a weapon of imperialism, used to subordinate the Global SouthThe International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism explains how US, EU, and UN sanctions are a means of controlling Global South sovereignty and blocking the…
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Putin and Shoigu speak
After a flurry of security council meetings, a visit by Putin to the front lines of the SMO, Medvedev visiting Xi Jinping, Putin and Shoigu are giving their speeches.
I’ve taken this from a Russian reporter that wrote down the basics. …
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Dec 21 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
We are in the tropics. We don’t have snow and sleighbells…
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Dec 21 2022 
Europe: Reaping the whirlwind
By Femi Akomolafe and posted with permission
a missive to a European friend
Greetings to you.
Did you pause to consider the fact that the equivalence you seek/sought is simply invalid, thereby untenable?
From whichever angle you consider it, comparing European violent colonial conquest…
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Tectonic plates shifting: geo-politics & geo-finance
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Managing the Ukraine Denial Narrative
Look around: the tectonic plates of geo-politics and geo-finance are shifting – shifting radically away from an increasingly flailing West.The inflection has begun. It has been messaged…
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From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in…
