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Jul 04 2023 
Washington’s REAL Policy on China – “Repairing Ties” is Theater Ahead of Sanctions, War
Brian Berletic takes a step back to discuss Blinken’s visit to China before the Progozhin affaire took over the airwaves and consumed everyone’s attention.
It is again topical in the runup to Janet Yellen’s visit to China planned from July 6…
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Jul 04 2023 
SCO is meeting
The expectations of this SCO summit are high. The member states of this major security and trade organization represents 42% of the world population and 25% of GDP.
Iran has been accepted as permanent member and so has Belarus. For Iran,…
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Jul 03 2023 
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.
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Jul 03 2023 
Perfidious Albion and Perfidious America
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Introduction: Perfidy
The word ‘perfidious’ has many synonyms: deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, disloyal, faithless, false, traitorous, treacherous. The term ‘Perfidious Albion’ has been used by the French of the British since at least the thirteenth century and later…
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Jul 02 2023 
The Age of Confrontation: Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev-on how the tectonic civilizational rift can and should be resolved
Statements by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, made during an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta:
Summary
▪️ The course of the AFU counter-offensive proved unexpected for Kiev’s Western sponsors, who believed in the “omnipotence of unlimited dough”. The defeat…
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Jul 02 2023 
“Zaluzhny’s revelations”: the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine found those responsible for the problems of the counteroffensive
From https://ria.ru/20230702/zaluzhnyy-1881678702.html
Ed Note: Alexander Mercouris speculates that Zalushni disappeared because he would not take part in the Ukrainian counter-offensive or offensive. He deals with these issues in some depth, as well as the secret meeting of Burns to Ukraine and…
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Jul 02 2023 
Why I Joined The ‘Special Military Operation’ – Russian Medic Interview Uncut – Part 1 & 2
This never happens – Russian soldiers do not talk. Ivan who joined the ‘SMO’ as a Medic in the very early days tells his story. He is careful in what he says, but he does criticize. He is interviewed by…
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Jul 01 2023 
A Matryoshka of Psyops: And Why General Armageddon Is Not Going Anywhere
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The main problem faced by Russia is not the Hegemon and NATO: it’s domestic, Pepe Escobar writes.
The secret of a perfect psyop is that no one really understands it.
A perfect psyop accomplishes…
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Jul 01 2023 
Weekend Discussion: How will the Ukraine war end?
It will not end with a peace treaty, but with an unconditional surrender and those circumstances will define the how and when of an eventual cessation of hostilities. The surrender may be in words, or it may be that Ukraine…
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Jun 30 2023 
Briefing and Q&A by Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on topical foreign policy issues, including humanitarian aspects of the situation around Ukraine
Mr Lavrov did this briefing just a few hours ago. There is no transcript yet, but this briefing is important.
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLnLZAkMGm
RT has a very basic overview here:
https://www.rt.com/russia/578975-lavrov-destroy-mercenaries-generals/
For me, the very important comment from FM Lavrov is not something that we do…
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Jun 30 2023 
Who sits at the head of the table?
Here is the strategy of the imperialist hegemonic power and to my reckoning, this is what we are going to have to fight for possibly 5 years into the future.
They are fighting for the chair at the Head of the…
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Jun 30 2023
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Great Game programme on Channel One, Moscow
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Great Game programme on Channel One, Moscow, June 28, 2023
Question: President of the United States Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said in their statements that Washington was not involved…
