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No pain, no grain: Putin’s Black Sea comeback
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and first posted at The Cradle
So, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picks up the phone and calls his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin: let’s talk about the “grain deal.” Putin, cool, calm and collected, explains the facts to the Sultan:
First, the reason why Russia withdrew from the… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2022 
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Strategic Culture
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
In an all-encompassing address to the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, President Putin delivered no less than a devastating, multi-layered critique of unipolarity.From Shakespeare to… Continue reading
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Oct 24 2022 
The ‘War of Terror’ may be about to hit Europe
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time.
Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory.
If that’s not the case, competitors may emerge and steal the limelight – monopolized by US oligarchies. That, of… Continue reading
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Oct 13 2022 
The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture.
Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
Let’s start with Pipelineistan. Nearly seven years ago, I showed how Syria was the ultimate Pipelineistan war.
Damascus had rejected the – American – plan for a… Continue reading
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Oct 10 2022 
Terror on Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe
The western narrative of a ‘losing Russia’ has just been decimated by Moscow’s blitzkrieg against Ukraine and its foreign-backed terror operations
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The terror attack on Krymskiy Most – the Crimea Bridge – was the proverbial straw that broke the Eurasian camel’s back.
Russian President Vladimir Putin neatly summarized it:… Continue reading
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Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at PressTV
There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech… Continue reading
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Negronis and the Aperol Spritz; it’s show time
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Grab the Negronis and the Aperol Spritz; it’s show time.
It’s tempting to interpret the Italian electoral results this past Sunday as voters merrily hurling a bowl of lush papardelle with wild boar ragu over the collective bland faces of the toxic unelected Euro-oligarchy sitting in Brussels.
Well,… Continue reading
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THE PAKISTAN RIDDLE
From Pepe Escobar at https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/4504
The low down, by Tariq Ali:
“The military, which is very dominant in Pakistani politics, must have thought that to please the United States, better get rid of him. And there’s no doubt that without military support for his removal, he wouldn’t have been ousted.”
“Now, what they thought or what they assumed… Continue reading
