Any auras of optimism surrounding Zelensky’s latest whirlwind world tour have died down and things have settled back into the same old bleak progression as Russian forces continue plowing forward on every front, and even opening up new ones.
Russia will decide what New Ukraine will look like politically and geographically. NATO is in disarray, there is no plan, there is no unity of purpose among its members, and there is no will to escalate the conflict by entering Ukraine because it simply is not ready. Nato is nuts and incompetent but not suicidal. There are too many cushy jobs in NATO which offer good pay, status, and paid expenses for them to launch a kamikaze attack to support AFU and risk ruining a good thing. Furthermore, their uniforms are dust-averse.
The next geo-political big plays are what will BRICS announce at its next meeting later this month and what will be the outcome of the US elections. I saw the report from TAAS and others suggesting BRICS could be announcing a new currency called the Unit backed by 40% gold and 60% currencies. Again, I take this with a grain of salt but it will be interesting to see what BRICS ideates at its next meeting.
The US election stands at T minus 21 days. It's a circus-staged act of tomfooleries with extreme repercussions, particularly if Camel Toe wins. Could there be another rigged outcome? I'm no fan of Trump and his theatrics but he's the lesser bad choice of the two candidates running for President. The entire US political apparatus is in ruins and should Kamala win we'll have far bigger problems at home in the US and Canada than what's going on in Ukraine. I have decided to learn to speak Russian from my instructor, Lidija, as stress relief from the shit show the world has become which I am compelled to witness.
I have been learning it (self taught) since I was deployed to one of the former Soviet republics back in 2002. Spent a lot of time there on my own after my service and I speak it reasonably well now and read it even better. Helps to listen to their radio stations streaming all the time in the background. And helps even more to marry one!
Watch Russian TV online, too. "60 Minutes" is a super news/talk show on Russia 1. It comes on twice a day on weekdays, around lunch and then in the early evening. I prefer the evening set. Russian detective serials are fun too. Get those via torrent. I recommend the eight season mini-series about Major Cherkasov, a homocide detective. It's set in Soviet times for a very retro feel. In order, I think the series are MosGas, Palach, Pauk, Shakal, Operation Satan, Formula Mesti, Katran, Zapadnya, Cherkasov's Last Case. If you like science fiction, I highly recommend the miniseries about an android, "Better than People" (Лучше, чем люди) (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJKksEdQY4 ).
Russian movies are also great. There have been many fine ones recently. If you like sci fi, the movie "Attraction" Притяжение (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfgAcvkLqVI&pp ) and its sequel "Invasion" Вторжение (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ag3gkKnZs ) are fun. Get those in the original in torrents. There are also some Russian movies and miniseries on Netflix, which you can watch in the original or with subtitles (the simultaneous translations are awful, so avoid those).
I don't normally recommend torrents, but the West has been so determined to block their people's access to anything Russian it's otherwise hard to get content from Russia.
Yeah. I added a link to the russian language trailer for that series. Search youtube for "Better Than Us" and you can get the english language trailer for Netflix. But the voices they used for dubbing characters (and the translation) are just awful... better to watch it with subtitles.
Movies dubbed into English, yes, I agree. But Western movies professionally dubbed into Russian are usually very good.
I think that's a consequence of how Hollywood has made a big effort for export markets (most of their production goes to export) with separate voice tracks and such, and also how the big Russian studios who are distribution partners here have very professional dubbing. They pick their voice talent to match the voice of the original Western actor, so when you see a Nicholas Cage film in Russian the reaction is, "wow, I never knew Cage could speak Russian that well..."
I get plenty of the modern Russian comedy stuff from my wife. We watch Голубой огонёк every New Year's Eve too but it was very difficult to find streaming this last year due to all the censorship. I have the dvd series of Brigada and a bunch of Sergei Bodrov movies as well. I don't mind the old Soviet stuff either. Movies like Solaris, or Ivan Vasiliavich Changes Professions. The new sci-fi/horror Sputnik in the original Russian is good as well.
I'm not a big fan of most of the old Soviet movies, like all the Mosfilm comedies. I just can't get used to the terrible production levels, third rate music and such. I don't particularly like most of the Soviet actors, either, which horrifies my Russian friends. I keep getting the impression I'm watching the result of Soviet nepotism, where people got and kept their jobs based on who they knew and which ass they kissed, not whether they had talent or could create content that people who had a choice would pay to see. It's like a lot of Soviet public art from the 50's through the 80's... really awful, talentless stuff.
There are exceptions, of course. "Ivan Vasiliavich" is a fun comedy despite having the production values of college film class. It's based on a play by Bulgakov, but expanded from a very short play into the film with taste and skill. For those who haven't seen it, it's a comedy where Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of all the Russias, is teleported by a time machine accident into a 1970's Moscow apartment while a guy who looks like the Tsar is teleported back in time to the Tsar's court.
I don't like most of the 90s films either, although the soundtrack to "Brother 2" is outstanding and the movie itself has fun moments (about a Russian guy's lawless adventures on a trip to the US). But in the last 15 or 20 years they've been pumping out a series of really outstanding movies, with great scripts, great acting, great effects when they use them, and so on. And you can't beat today's TV mini series on Russian TV.
Ah, another miniseries that's a must watch: "An Ordinary Woman" Обычная женщина (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXOXNV__ikw where they translate the title as "An Ordinary Wife") - there are two seasons. The protagonist is an "ordinary woman" with a family that thinks she runs a flower shop. In reality, she runs a prostitution ring. It's very funny dark humor with great scripts, great characters and a superb cast. It's available with English subtitles on Apple TV (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/an-ordinary-woman/umc.cmc.5qgiq5u3c54yjvfmcpixhdvj6 - spoiler alert... their descriptions of episodes on that page give away too many plot twists.)
Lol as if Hollywood nepotism isn't massively rampant. You sound like a sucker for expensive productions at the expense of good writing. AKA a typical American or millennial.
On second thought with an Ayn Rand themed UN and a dig at awesome Soviet public art you sound more like a Koch propagandized Bircher Gen X. With a sub to Reason Magazine but you go off on the authors in comments.
In order to not be presumptuous, do you rate the Deadpool movies 8 out of 10 or 9.9? Lol
"awesome Soviet public art" - Nonsense. I live in Russia and I've seen more art of all kinds around the world than you ever will. Wherever I travel I make it a point to visit local art museums and galleries.
One of the nice things about living in Russia, a really great thing, is how Russians also adore art. Even in a midsized town like where I live there's a thriving art scene, with a new gallery exhibit or museum exhibit opening almost every week. Pensioners will save up to buy an original work they admire. It's very common to visit someone's apartment and see they have original oils, watercolors, sketches, whatever, on the walls. There are many major art festivals, gatherings, trade shows and such that bring together artists from all over Russia. I attend many of them. I know many artists, from street artists to some famous names. It's interesting to run into them at galleries or to visit their studios to have a drink, see how they work, hear about their plans.
I read history, including architecture and art history, fine art as well as applied and folk art. I know in great detail the history of art and architecture in Russia and I've personally seen, up close in real life, almost all of the great works of art that are here, from the distant past all the way up to Soviet times and then to the present.
I know bad art, really awful talentless art, when I see it. Mercifully, much of the really terrible Soviet art has been removed and consigned to the dustbin of history, but there is still plenty of it around to induce cringe responses in young people.
Is there some great Soviet art, even from the times of artistic decay from the late 50's on? Sure. There are some outstanding pieces in the city in Russia where I live. There are also some very good works from the early Soviet era. But by over ten to one, Soviet art from the 50's to the demise in 1991 was really awful. I don't include the kitsch pieces in that, the Soviet realist art that many people find nauseating. Some of it was actually very good, although I grant that it's an acquired taste. In that ten to one bracket I count only the truly inept and awful works, of which there are plenty.
Like much of what else Socialism and Communism spoiled, great art was also steamrollered by the Soviet bureaucracy into gray, incompetent, mush.
The delusion is strong in those believing Russia will negotiate. Firstly, Beginsky was and is a puppet with no independent decision making allowed by his masters. Secondly, let's pretend he was once an actual President, a decision maker, he is no longer since May.
for the elections, I dont think they can hide Trumps landslide victory this time. They are on plan B now. Some antifa riots and a MSM blockade over the results. It will look like Trump didnt win. They bet on chaos preventing Trump from any major move.
NATO is the United States. And you don't think the United States is committing suicide with its Open Borders policy? An 48-million illegal aliens in the past four (4) years. All on the dole. Tell me how this is sustainable. No country can make any clams to sovereignty without secure borders.
The United States is racking up debt to the tune of $1-trillion dollars every 100-days. At some point the United States is going to suffer a sovereign debt default. That's, at the bare minimum, financial suicide. Same fate awaits all the NATO vassal states. Germany especially.
Look at the Palestinians. No country. Soon to be followed by no Palestinians. The same fate awaits the United States and its vassal states.
This late in the day, nearly 11 years after Euromaidan & 33 months after the SMO commenced, Project Ukraine, as a problem, a rallying cry & a calamity, has landed smack dab in Europe’s lap. Which makes sense in that Europe is actually *in the neighborhood* & the U.S. most definitely is not. The militarily feckless U.S., quick to cut & run under cover of chaos and leave “international partners” holding the bag, has now delegated to Europe the maintenance & welfare of Project Ukraine.
When a dog licks your dog’s muzzle, you know who the Alpha is. If the SMO has revealed anything about geopolitical r’ships in the West, it’s that the U.S. will always be the Alpha when it comes to Europe.
In order to accelerate the hot war in Ukraine, U.S. neocons utilized OTAN member states as complacent but enthusiastic vassals. Now the neocons, uninterested in a losing venture, expect Europe to do clean-up on Aisle 3, utilizing its venerable Brussels-based structures, chiefly OTAN & the EU, for accomplishing this. Hey, Europe, can you hold this, like, forever—? When Joe cancelled the Ramstein Summit on account of Hurricane Milton, Zelya visited European capitals by himself. Before he could darken the doorway of 10 Downing Street, however, the Pentagon had already called Keir Starmer & told him to let Zelya know that there will be no deep strikes w/ Storm Shadows inside pre-2014 Russia. Notice who the Errand Boy for this message was: Sir Keir. Notice who was under the thumb of the U.S.: Sir Keir & his leadership-bereft cohort of EU underlings.
An ocean’s distance away, the Alpha is free do Alpha things, while the EU wrangles through the financial minutiae that will permit it to cobble together a $35bn loan for Kiev from the interest off Russia’s frozen assets. Instead of ramping up manufacturing in the private sector or re-industrializing crusty, dusty & musty factories, the EU will step into its new role as Ukraine’s banker, bookkeeper & asset manager—a trifecta of Epic Fail tailor made for the continent.
Because Project Ukraine has proved so lucrative, it must be difficult indeed for Lady vdL et al to realize how close they actually are to Russia's frozen assets, not just the annual interest on the principal itself but the whole $300bn, which they fantasize as loosely guarded or not even guarded at all, depending on what Christine says or what Kristalina says, within the opaque fortress of EuroClear Bank.
It's a small world in Brussels, and they are only a pleasant walk along cobbled streets away.
Being able to swallow up the Russian funds was premised on winning the war, a political as opposed to legal fact. This laundering of what was a theft under the old political landscape, would follow from the political fact of victory. As the euro-bats all said, Putin must not win. Hell no, because if he did, they would face an economic disaster and some non trivial personal accounting of their own parts in it.
As indeed is what is now just beginning to emerge. Maybe they can agree with Putin some sort of carve up that gets them all off their hooks? But why in the kosmos would Putin help these people out? Or rather- more pragmatically, all vengeance aside, what would be his price?
I live in a mid-sized Russian city a few hundred miles from Moscow and I know people who work in the military. They're just in ordinary admin jobs, but they also know people who work in more direct military roles. One of the most profoundly disturbing conversations I've ever had in my life was in late 2022 speaking to one of their relatives, who is a nurse in a Russian military hospital. She was talking about guys in her ward who had their genitals cut off and their eyes gouged out by Kiev's nazis when they were taken captive.
Russia's not in a mood to forgive any of Kiev's many war crimes, and Russians are not in a mood to forgive any of the Westerners who enabled those war crimes. It could be that as a matter of pragmatism some settlement occurs short of Russia taking a scythe to all of the nazis and their friends, but I don't see how that would come to pass given the very intense animosity the US coalition's use of war crimes has created in Russia.
It's bad to lose a war, but it's really bad to lose a war against Russia when you've tortured and killed Russians.
I agree entirely, John. Russia takes the lot and lines up its own military might along existing NATO boundaries. Some heads on poles (forgive pun) would not go amiss. Then it goes away and gets on with BRICS while the euro-bats slowly sink in the west. Really that is too good for them but this is not the place to debate retributive atrocities. Let the Chechens loose on them.
My Russian friend's sister is a doctor in a hospital not far from Kazan and the sister relayed the same sort of stories about what happened to the Russian POWs who had been in Ukraine captivity, which were at her hospital. It is entirely understandable if Russia will seek justice for the perpetrators.
This Telegram site which I follow details all the war crimes committed by the so called Ukraine Army, Site is called WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim
International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi continues to carry out investigations.
A callsign Shaman, Deputy Regimental Commander, said that the Ukrainian battalions named ‘Tornado’ and ‘Dnipro’ spent 9 years learning not to fight but to kill. Those freaks (Ukrainian military) tortured captured soldiers, cut off their ears, stabbed them in their eyes and neck.
You can find independent information in interviews with victims and witnesses on the Telegram Chanel 'WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE'. (https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim)
This is from a few days ago 11 October confirming what you mention, discussing the tortures back in 2014, https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim/638
The sickening hypocrisy of the western MSM knowingly ignores this whilst portraying the United States and its satellites, vassal members of NATO & Ukraine as being so righteous when in fact it is the West which is morally deficient.
And ramping up manufacturing now is like digging a well when the house is on fire. It will take years to build up any sort of manufacturing capability that's more than a generation gone.
Human capital is wanting, and until the root cause as eloquently described by Michael Hudson in "Forgive them their debts..." there is no possibility of any economic realignment within the west.
I think you underestimate the significant intervening from non-EU member, UK and the rabid dog Boris Johnson. He wasnt controlled by US - they did it alone and on purpose. The betrayal after Istanbul meeting was the beginning of the real War in Ukraine.
Wake up. Boris is a US citizen. They have had him on a very tight leash for years over his tax liability. He does EXACTLY as he is told to do by his masters.
"compared to what could be raining down on western Ukraine" Or compared to what, historically, has rained down on Germany or anyone else who has committed acts of war against Russia.
There's no need for anything full-scale as imagined by chairborne experts going up and down on dopamine swing. A single properly planned operation in Kursk with very limited resources led to at least five hundred surviving Ukies hopelessly scattered in the woods with more soon to join them. Simply because Russians began their attack two days before it rained and temperature dropped to near freezing point. Now Ukies can't operate their wheeled vehicles which sink into rich Kursk soil, while Russians with their tracked ones took the roads and can't be counterattacked from the sides anymore.
All that without committing serious resources. It's very modest and by the book, yet it's enough to send diplomatic shockwaves and make a lot of public figures squirm. Why bother with huge but risky firestorms when classic war grind yields ever better results? This IS the truly apocalyptic full-scale war, one that cannot be stopped by anything the other side can muster.
Blackrock seems to be a modern day version of the Knights Templar in the sense that they have managed to become unfathomably wealthy and powerful to the point that they can destroy entire countries at will. And, like the Templars they pose an existential threat to any leader or group of leaders or elite faction that dares oppose them.
What are the odds that like the Templars, they are preemptively taken out as they have clearly grown far too large for their britches?
Knights Templar were the good guys though. Unless you're a faithful catholic. Catholics tortured the Templars. And Black Rock is Jewish. Temp;ars were Christian and had alot of employment for villagers near their strongholds...once they were back in Europe. Kind of an insulting analogy - sorry- I'm a Templar fan.
Sounds like a 12 year old wrote that. The Templars were the dry heave of a dying Feudal Christiandom, who rightfully lost everything they fought for to the Muslims. So much for them.
I don't have anything against the Templars; although they were back in Europe because they had been defeated in the Holy Land.
The point I was trying to make was that there's a historical parallel in the sense that both groups were/are so powerful that they represented/represent a threat to centers of power. The analogy fits so I use it. Nothing to do with religion. The Templars got themselves into trouble because they had a powerful private army and no military mission, and numerous nobles and kings were indebted to them. One of them finally decided to do something about it.
Blackrock doesn't officially have a military component but they can manipulate governments into doing their violent bidding when necessary. And they are likely far more avarice motivated than the Templars ever were but power for power's sake also seems to be a driving factor. And they most definitely are an existential threat to other elite factions. I am certain that it hasn't gone unnoticed by competing elites.
The Templars made friends with the infidels They brought chess and many medicments back from the ME - The Templars should be kept separate from the Crusaders that were more colonialist- minded. I think the impulse that drove Europeans to go to save the Holy Sites was perhaps ' wrong ' if someone wants to look at all history from the right / wrong perspective....Him Whom they sought was not there - and eventually they left - I mean the Templars...who were only ever about 150 men. And as far as the Templars manipulating governments - You mean Petty Kings ? The Templars were mostly from noble families and the King of France wanted their gold so they were made into enemies. Their job was to protect the pilgrims on the roads to the Holy Land , from highway robbers. And they were blessed by Bernard of Clairveau ( sp? ) who was the main guy in the Church during the 12th century. They had their own church services. I don't know what would have happened to the historical places of Christianity if they hadn't gone to Jerusalem. After they left, for 2 thousand years the Paleestinian people have been the guardians of the Holy siites and they have done a fantastic job. And now in 75 years those freakin monsters that call themselves Jews ( but are of the synagogue of Satan ) have destoyed all of it.
The Templars were founded by the wealthiest man of the wealthiest country in Europe (France) of the time. Their members were extremely powerful even before the founding. Read some history!
Muslim here, but a South African one of Indian heritage - love history, so the crusaders and the craziness of the 1000s to 1300s are very fascinating for most Muslims. A few things stand out, the crusaders were an outside threat to the ME, but the Fatimid Shias were an internal threat from North Africa and Egypt and had to be dealt with first, before the Crusaders could be tackled. Also, then just like now, the ME leadership sucked beeg time, the caliph was useless and could do nothing, and it took unknown marginalized groups to take the mantle of leadership and first deal with the Fatimids, then the crusaders, then the mamelukes and then the mongols....the Arabs were nowhere to be found. It was all the Kurds, Persians, Turks and Mongols. Arabs may have been the majority of the people there, but they could not unify nor lead the resistance - history does rhyme right? Also, the crusaders were a massive shock to the middle east, but in the end, they made a great acceptance of them. The knights templar and the Ayyubid Sultanate and then even the Mamelukes had a good relationship with each other. In fact, I think the Knights Templar and the Sultans of the Middle east had the best relationship of all the warring parties compared to the Franks, Englishmen, Greeks, Byzantines and other peoples...but It was a complicated relationship.
Today's glass and steel highrise is yesteryear's cathedral. Both raised by a parasitic pseudo government that bamboozled its population with belief in abstract things, like gods and debt.
Blackrock's self-perceived invincibility has backfired in Ukraine but not enough to take it down. Blackrock is the deep state which some call the swamp.
I wonder about the future even after the end of the war with so much of Ukraine in foreign and hostile holdings - hostile to Russia. Azerbaijan is connected with Israel too as is Britain, so I guess it might becaome Israel 2.0 - I wonder if Simplicius will do an article about that ? - and btw - it Hurrican Helene that hit NC - Miltion was kind of a psyop to get attention away from NC. And as the European sinking I think its all that horrible witch von der leyen - I read terrible articles about her everyday. If THAT Europe sinks it would be okay and maybe the people can put it back together. But maybe too, those times of human independence and self sustainability are also disappearing. I guess there's going to be a slump in the economy where people suffer. Sad. All because of the small cabal around the governments of the west. Here is a fantastic interview transcript by Peter Koenig about the hopes for BRICS - published today - https://peterkoenig.substack.com/p/middle-eastern-and-global-crises?publication_id=1685304&post_id=150231132&isFreemail=true&r=dg5y1&triedRedirect=true
One would think the only way that Ukraine can extricate itself from this disaster and the loss of its assets to sleazy and evil multinationals like Blackrock would be unconditional surrender to the Russians, who one hopes would have the sense to repudiate all such sales, agreements/debts entered into under duress by illegitimate governments going back to the 2014 coup.
yeah ! I was thinking that for a long time - that Russia should just take it over and nationalize it - like any decent president of the US would with Bill Gates farmland theft.
heres the background, been going on for some time and as You no doubt know the current dna of the occupiers in Palestine is 92.5% "ashkenazi" descended from east european "khazaar" roots.....
not withstanding however that the definition of "jew" is a "soul level" marker not limited to "dna", thus it is true to say they are "jew".
When a soul makes a pact with a demonic entity, knowingly the bond is for enternity, hence the utter depravity of its intitiates,
When western leaders face the choice of attending the "wailing wall" and donning the tiny hat/ or receiving a "termination" settlement they become privy and an initiate/slave to the "cause"
The "wall" is in reality a portal, a stretch too far for some who are still trying to digest that hurricanes and fire storms "might" be induced, fed, birthed.
And that brings Us back to what the templars actually found not what they didnt find...
The death cult, the one that will accept scorched earth still as a "win" as make no mistake they have covered this eventuality, the death cult cannot, will not accept defeat as the original converts "jew" know what this means, void, oblivion, eternity in the dark... not dissimilar from whence they came..
It is a huge leap for many to understand that the "jew" does not come from the same Soul source as You or i, or any that We know and Love, it comes from darkness, it is of its fathers line, it knows only destruction, it wants a "world of its own" and it has set its sights on Our world, the world made for Us...
The only reason it is allowed to prevail, act out and proceed is becuase this "world" has rules, one of them being Consent, another being Karma...
The "jew" sub-soul alters/deflects Karma and manipulates Consent and has been doing so for millenia..
Realise that the "jew" created a purposely flawed, twisted "abrahamic" multi tier "religion" in order to get a mass consciousness of humanity to make observances, venerations, sacrifices, rituals and devote untold spiritual energy toward the dark, when they thought they were observing the Light..
They built in intentional friction points by which to agitate various differing factions and foment hatred and insanity.. and "war".
For a prime example the way the am-eri-can devout fundamentalist "christians" relish in the destruction, rape, torture and murder of innocent fellow "christians" in Gaza... cheered on by demons in human guise like lindsay graham, whose mask has not only slipped but is now trodden in the dirt a milliuon times over like a 2020 face nappy in the corner of some dank supermarket car park..
"Christians" exalting over the horrific death of their own..
Some death cult achievement?
The Templars discovered not the evidence of "Christianity" but the remnants (still active) of demonic portals and other "devices" by which We have been brought to the precipice We now stand upon...
As many now see the current events and anomolies now point to toward preparations at the "highest level" for the aftermath of something they seem to believe is a given, One is forever reminded of the "deagel" figures, a rare snapshot into the future.
We speculate into the methodology while all around it works its magick, yet all is not quite as it seems, not everything is going to plan...
As fact and fiction merge with messianic insanity some back ground into the lore, the mathematics, the mechanisms of bending reality, moulding and forming the dark, assisting it do its "thang" has merit,
To understand temple lore and the red heifer many articles can be found here:
To understand the intentions behind the cloak of abrahamic BS, be it Christianity, Islam, judaism be that torah, talmud or zohar then devote some time here:
Also folk need to be aware that the time is coming if they get their way very soon when they will try to reveal their master in human form, in Islam the "dajjil" in Our tongue "anti-christ" and they will try to pass this off as Jesus Christ...
Whether JC did or did not walk the earth he remains most assuredly a persistent, festering, thorn in the syangogue of satans foetid arse... and quite possibly the architect of their downfall and the guide that leads them back to the abyss from which they came... good fucking riddance
Thank you for the links. Soulless “humans” present in a form recognizable to each other, they flock together. I understood the word “occult” means “hidden”. The times are a changing; quickly in mere mortal terms. Stay the course. Old lady with a virtual cat.❤️🐈⬛💙🇷🇺❤️
"the only way that Ukraine can extricate itself from this disaster and the loss of its assets to sleazy and evil multinationals like Blackrock would be unconditional surrender to the Russians, who one hopes would have the sense to repudiate all such sales,"
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"Build for your opponent a golden bridge"?
Literally. The oligarchy of Ukraine are always for sale. Putin knows how to lead an oligarch to water (and how to defenestrate the ones who won't be lead).
It would make some kind of poetic sense for Putin to use the same human tools to end the conflict that the USA deep state used to set Ukraine on the road to Hell.
And afterwards, they might even be allowed to live. If they mind their manners.
On 11 October, Jimmy Dore, on his eponymous talk show, discussed w/ Kurt Metzger, his sidekick, Ukraine’s revision to its Land Market laws during the SMO. According to Dore, crippling debt has driven Ukraine’s impetus toward the privatization of black earth hectares, those arable agricultural fields suitable for growing the kind of genetically modified grain Big Ag companies like Monsanto-Bayer push. Citing a report in Eurasia Daily on 14 July 2024, Jimmy said that “Western corporations have bought up half of Ukraine’s land @ bargain basement prices.”
Jimmy played a clip of Irishman Mick Wallace, a member of the UK parliament, telling Mercouris & Diesen on a livestream that European corporations have bought more land in western Ukraine than Russia has acquired in eastern Ukraine.
Thickly sarcastic, Kurt Metzger then suggested that the U.S. should send its excess population of illegal immigrants to Ukraine—“to work the GMO ag fields of BlackRock.”
Jimmy said, “You’ve got to be a special moron to believe that the Ukraine war is what CNN tells you it is. It’s a grift. The Ukraine war is nothing more than a money-laundering operation.”
As you know, BlackRock gets name-checked frequently when focusing on the graft & the grain in Ukraine. The multinational asset manager has become a metonym for shady theft of agricultural lands in the black earth area. “The Economist” calls BlackRock a *shadow bank* on account of its investments, its fund-management & its transactions. BlackRock coordinated w/ Zelya in December 2022 to guide the reconstruction of Ukraine.
As the pandemic commenced, BlackRock became invaluable to the U.S. Federal Reserve for a type of Quantitative Easing that enabled the Fed to *helicopter* quick cash into commercial & retail banks.
In order to do this the Fed, which typically would buy assets only from other banks in response to a financial crisis, bought assets from non-banks, like from the Tesla Corporation or from Peter Thiel's Palantir or other corporations. That introduced a twist on Quantitative Easing—and cemented BlackRock’s role as the largest Exchange-Traded Fund asset manager in the world.
This novel Quantitative Easing, a hallmark of the pandemic, caused inflation to skyrocket, a side effect w/ which we still struggle.
BlackRock & the Fed continue to work hand-in-glove.
Going granular on pandemic-era Quantitative Easing:
For instance, when the Fed wanted to trade a token [a reserve] to Tesla for an asset, the transaction was wonky because Tesla does not have an account w/ the Fed: Tesla is a business, not a bank—so the tokens don’t work for Tesla.
The Fed ultimately went to Tesla’s bank, say it’s Wells Fargo, and deposited a $1bn token [reserve] into Tesla’s account in exchange for a *mirrored* asset.
BlackRock became the custodian of this asset.
Blackrock ended up w/ assets ultimately from non-banks like Tesla.
This is an example of a 3-way transaction involving a non-bank entity which is capable of mirroring an asset—new money in the banking system—and reaping a deposit *out of thin air.*.
Every $1 the Fed bought in assets jacked up by $1 the amount of money in the commercial banking system. Buying assets from non-banks ultimately drove the money in the commercial banking system from $13trn to $18trn as the pandemic ended. It also drove inflation.
Central Banks dominate the top of the food chain in any given country, more so even than the military. Recall: one needs money to prosecute a war—so banking & financial management come first in any equation. Central Banks are the dog—everything else is the tail. When a Central Bank, like the Fed in the U.S., needs something implemented, like a war to finance, they work through the intel services & the CIA, so the governmental enmeshment is intense.
When the Fed lends money, it doesn’t reach into the vault & pull out a stack of Benjamins: it creates the loan money *out of thin air* & lends it out against an asset. During the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, asset trading seized up, because transactions were primarily liquid on account of the panic: people pulling their money out of accounts. Since assets are typically illiquid, the Fed bought assets from other banks, and this practice marked a period of Quantitative Easing.
Banks use special tokens when transacting w/ the Fed: the Fed is the bank’s bank.
Banks transact via tokens [also called reserves]—not like using checking or savings accounts. The Fed creates its tokens *out of thin air* & transacts w/ banks.
For instance, the Fed gave JP Morgan Chase a token and, in exchange, JP Morgan Chase gave the Fed an asset. The swap—tokens for assets—stayed within the Fed’s closed system w/ its upper echelon banks. This has no effect whatsoever @ the commercial deposit level: an ordinary person’s savings account neither increases nor decreases. The money supply @ the retail level was unaffected.
During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, two-thirds of the assets for which the Fed traded were Treasury Bonds & one-third were mortgage-backed securities.
Ukraine, with the active help of the West and the connivance of Russia, has molded itself into an enemy of Russia. And now that the Russians have taken on the task of eliminating the threat, the hohols are suggesting stopping halfway. Infinitely impudent idiots. Only one solution is in line with Russian interests: the liberation of the entire territory of Ukraine, its annexation to Russia as separate regions, with the very name of "Ukraine" forgotten, and many years of work to identify and execute the Ukronazi. The question is whether the Russian authorities will act in Russian interests, or as always.
It's no wonder the new boogie man in Clown World is AI; it's perfectly designed to spew the content-free corpobabble these self-appointed "elites" seem to live on and thus replace many a now-frightened minion.
For example, there's no such thing, even for modern humans, as a "post-industrial" economy. This isn't fucking Star Trek, there's no food replicators or massive starships being built for free, everything we need to survive has to be grown, extracted or manufactured, and that all requires massive infrastructure and more importantly, lots of cheap energy. Only someone who uses their brain as a seat cushion could swallow any of the shit these vampires are shovelin'.
If I may, I'd like to talk about steel production for a moment.
Basically, there are no kinds of ways to fabricate steel, one called an (electric) arc furnace and the other a blast furnace (which is coal powered). The EU's insane rules on carbon emissions means that they can only operate arc furnaces, and even Britain just closed its last blast furnace this month due to similar rules.
The problem is that arc furnaces can only RECYCLE metal, aka "scrap" metal, to make steel. And this steel is, as you might suspect, of lower quality. It's fine for making stuff like forks and spoons but it sucks for the important stuff like car engines and bridge support spans.
Blast furnaces are the only type which can make "raw" or pure steel of a guaranteed high quality. And so what the EU has been doing until lately is relying heavily on Ukraininan made raw steel for all the stuff it needs (you know, like making cars). That's why all the crying and gnashing of the teeth right now about this topic.
For the record, blast furnaces require coke, which is purified coal (essentially, you cook it to remove the impurities, the solid components of which are called slag). Coal, as we all know, is also abundant in (Eastern) Ukraine. Furthermore, coal mines, coking plants and the slag (waste) heaps that come along with them have played an important role in the fighting during this war.
Long story short, Ukraine losing both its (blast) steel mills and coal supplies isn't just bad for Ukraine's export economy (and bringing in hard currency to shore up the UAH) but is rapidly contributing further to the deindustrialization of Europe as a whole. Just take a look at steel imports to the EU and you'll see what I mean.
And of course steel smelted in the Donbas using local coking coal is carbon free and so allows the EU to meet its net zero targets - or am I missing something here?
Forget net zero, think about how Europe is supposed to ramp up its military manufacturing for 2027 goals without cheap energy or steel. And they plan to march to war after then. We haven't seen these guys as their most suicidal yet.
You are not a metallurgist or chemist. Arc process plants can make just as good or better steel than any blast furnace but arc process is MORE EXPENSIVE, given that A: Various governmental foolishness has driven the cost of electricity through the roof, and B: Electrical energy is a secondary product of some primary energy input source, with losses to laws of thermodynamics in generation + additional losses in electrical transmission, transformers & etc.. Plus, usually extra costs, material input and time for purification steps to deal with any meaningful contaminants in scrap sources.
Additional detail from a very brief detour into energy trading in a past life -- coking coal (for steel) is a considerably higher purity, and thus cost, than any of the several varieties of thermal coal (for power plants). Thermal coal is worth almost nothing at the point of extraction, its cost 90%+ transport. Donbas was blessed with both an abundance of the good stuff, and the USSR connected it to have also an abundance of cheap energy - in every form available in the 20th century.
At the same time, EU should have no trouble finding other global sellers of the inputs for high quality metallurgy, other than maybe Titanium. That one kind of a big deal. In Sumy or Chernigov BTW. Other than Ti, what actually hurts IMHO is the cost disadvantage of energy. In other words, regardless of policy, they can't afford to run these processes at a globally competitive product price, like they used to. EU decision to implement US sanctions was suicidal. Losing Suez canal (+2 weeks to Asia shipping -- I.e. +cost of bulk materials like ore or natgas, which are priced largely from transport time), so that Germany can keep selling weapons to Israel for wiping out neighboring populations... adding insult to injury there.
The punt is on again for foreign boots on the ground, however they are to be labelled. As Russia has said. 'bring them on and we will kill them off'.
The Ukkies could repatriate those mischief makers in Africa, or it could try getting its own people in the complacently insulated west of Ukraine, to step up and fight for this nation they claim to love to so much, so much that most of them are already well underway with their plans to get the hell out.
It is good see the real economic story beginning show through the threadbare military manoeuvres. It was always about Donbas resources, about to be lost to the RF under the Minsk Accords agreed self determination of the people there. That was why we had this war kick off precisely when it did- to secure those resources for the west, just in time! They were the collateral for the vast western funding of this operation.
That is now a dead parrot and so there is an unseemly scrabble for what value can be hauled out before the total collapse. It is the time of the carrion birds. At the moment the west is paying Ukrainian pensions etc by underpinning its currency. When that rug is pulled it will be all over for this functionally long since failed state. Massive tides of refugees will head west with those citizens remaining voting to join the RF.
I don't think we can reject these floods and fires as conspiracy theories even though I understand that with so much deception going around us, people tend to see conspiracy in every little thing. I don't remember the details, but I saw a report from British journalist Vanessa Beeley about fires/floods in Hawai and Greece before that. And surprise surprise, somebody had published some grand plans for those exact areas sometime before those "natural disasters" occurred. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the governments don't clean up those areas or do anything to help affected people rebuilt their homes in their lands.
These wars in Ukraine,West Asia are also all about grabbing land, resources, fertile land by a few chosen people who want to dominate the globe, control everything of value, create a global government where they decide who can live and how and who must die to release the burden on the planet.
I wonder in BRICS realize they chose wrong countries for expansion in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt etc? First, they're puppets of US and rulers of Saudi, Emirates are wannabe globalists themselves. It would be better to choose other truly sovereign nations like Iran is, I.e. Cuba, Venezuela, Indonesia/Vietnam etc.
I would be EXTREMELY cautious about positing the existence of any active weather control plan especially a secret geo-strategic one. To a degree weather control is real, Chinese cloud seeding is an established fact but before I go speculating about "amateur meteorologists recorded strange pulse-like anomalies" I will have to know A LOT more.
Correct. And guess where/in what currency their oil generated bank accounts are & whos Treasury bonds they are holding? Especially now that nations assets in "the West(®)" can be confiscated with the push of a button.
Russia will decide what New Ukraine will look like politically and geographically. NATO is in disarray, there is no plan, there is no unity of purpose among its members, and there is no will to escalate the conflict by entering Ukraine because it simply is not ready. Nato is nuts and incompetent but not suicidal. There are too many cushy jobs in NATO which offer good pay, status, and paid expenses for them to launch a kamikaze attack to support AFU and risk ruining a good thing. Furthermore, their uniforms are dust-averse.
The next geo-political big plays are what will BRICS announce at its next meeting later this month and what will be the outcome of the US elections. I saw the report from TAAS and others suggesting BRICS could be announcing a new currency called the Unit backed by 40% gold and 60% currencies. Again, I take this with a grain of salt but it will be interesting to see what BRICS ideates at its next meeting.
The US election stands at T minus 21 days. It's a circus-staged act of tomfooleries with extreme repercussions, particularly if Camel Toe wins. Could there be another rigged outcome? I'm no fan of Trump and his theatrics but he's the lesser bad choice of the two candidates running for President. The entire US political apparatus is in ruins and should Kamala win we'll have far bigger problems at home in the US and Canada than what's going on in Ukraine. I have decided to learn to speak Russian from my instructor, Lidija, as stress relief from the shit show the world has become which I am compelled to witness.
https://youtu.be/5Ig5HIF7TcY
I have been learning it (self taught) since I was deployed to one of the former Soviet republics back in 2002. Spent a lot of time there on my own after my service and I speak it reasonably well now and read it even better. Helps to listen to their radio stations streaming all the time in the background. And helps even more to marry one!
lol, love has no boundaries.
Watch Russian TV online, too. "60 Minutes" is a super news/talk show on Russia 1. It comes on twice a day on weekdays, around lunch and then in the early evening. I prefer the evening set. Russian detective serials are fun too. Get those via torrent. I recommend the eight season mini-series about Major Cherkasov, a homocide detective. It's set in Soviet times for a very retro feel. In order, I think the series are MosGas, Palach, Pauk, Shakal, Operation Satan, Formula Mesti, Katran, Zapadnya, Cherkasov's Last Case. If you like science fiction, I highly recommend the miniseries about an android, "Better than People" (Лучше, чем люди) (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJKksEdQY4 ).
Russian movies are also great. There have been many fine ones recently. If you like sci fi, the movie "Attraction" Притяжение (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfgAcvkLqVI&pp ) and its sequel "Invasion" Вторжение (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ag3gkKnZs ) are fun. Get those in the original in torrents. There are also some Russian movies and miniseries on Netflix, which you can watch in the original or with subtitles (the simultaneous translations are awful, so avoid those).
I don't normally recommend torrents, but the West has been so determined to block their people's access to anything Russian it's otherwise hard to get content from Russia.
Better than People is a great series. Was named Better Than Us here.
Russian movies and TV series aren't the stodgy fare that the Soviets regulary served up.
Yeah. I added a link to the russian language trailer for that series. Search youtube for "Better Than Us" and you can get the english language trailer for Netflix. But the voices they used for dubbing characters (and the translation) are just awful... better to watch it with subtitles.
I always watch movies with subtitles and original soundtrack.
Dubbed movies are terrible to listen to. It brings back memories of the 60ies 'spaghetti westerns' in which the voices don't match the characters.
Movies dubbed into English, yes, I agree. But Western movies professionally dubbed into Russian are usually very good.
I think that's a consequence of how Hollywood has made a big effort for export markets (most of their production goes to export) with separate voice tracks and such, and also how the big Russian studios who are distribution partners here have very professional dubbing. They pick their voice talent to match the voice of the original Western actor, so when you see a Nicholas Cage film in Russian the reaction is, "wow, I never knew Cage could speak Russian that well..."
I get plenty of the modern Russian comedy stuff from my wife. We watch Голубой огонёк every New Year's Eve too but it was very difficult to find streaming this last year due to all the censorship. I have the dvd series of Brigada and a bunch of Sergei Bodrov movies as well. I don't mind the old Soviet stuff either. Movies like Solaris, or Ivan Vasiliavich Changes Professions. The new sci-fi/horror Sputnik in the original Russian is good as well.
I'm not a big fan of most of the old Soviet movies, like all the Mosfilm comedies. I just can't get used to the terrible production levels, third rate music and such. I don't particularly like most of the Soviet actors, either, which horrifies my Russian friends. I keep getting the impression I'm watching the result of Soviet nepotism, where people got and kept their jobs based on who they knew and which ass they kissed, not whether they had talent or could create content that people who had a choice would pay to see. It's like a lot of Soviet public art from the 50's through the 80's... really awful, talentless stuff.
There are exceptions, of course. "Ivan Vasiliavich" is a fun comedy despite having the production values of college film class. It's based on a play by Bulgakov, but expanded from a very short play into the film with taste and skill. For those who haven't seen it, it's a comedy where Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of all the Russias, is teleported by a time machine accident into a 1970's Moscow apartment while a guy who looks like the Tsar is teleported back in time to the Tsar's court.
I don't like most of the 90s films either, although the soundtrack to "Brother 2" is outstanding and the movie itself has fun moments (about a Russian guy's lawless adventures on a trip to the US). But in the last 15 or 20 years they've been pumping out a series of really outstanding movies, with great scripts, great acting, great effects when they use them, and so on. And you can't beat today's TV mini series on Russian TV.
Ah, another miniseries that's a must watch: "An Ordinary Woman" Обычная женщина (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXOXNV__ikw where they translate the title as "An Ordinary Wife") - there are two seasons. The protagonist is an "ordinary woman" with a family that thinks she runs a flower shop. In reality, she runs a prostitution ring. It's very funny dark humor with great scripts, great characters and a superb cast. It's available with English subtitles on Apple TV (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/an-ordinary-woman/umc.cmc.5qgiq5u3c54yjvfmcpixhdvj6 - spoiler alert... their descriptions of episodes on that page give away too many plot twists.)
Lol as if Hollywood nepotism isn't massively rampant. You sound like a sucker for expensive productions at the expense of good writing. AKA a typical American or millennial.
On second thought with an Ayn Rand themed UN and a dig at awesome Soviet public art you sound more like a Koch propagandized Bircher Gen X. With a sub to Reason Magazine but you go off on the authors in comments.
In order to not be presumptuous, do you rate the Deadpool movies 8 out of 10 or 9.9? Lol
"awesome Soviet public art" - Nonsense. I live in Russia and I've seen more art of all kinds around the world than you ever will. Wherever I travel I make it a point to visit local art museums and galleries.
One of the nice things about living in Russia, a really great thing, is how Russians also adore art. Even in a midsized town like where I live there's a thriving art scene, with a new gallery exhibit or museum exhibit opening almost every week. Pensioners will save up to buy an original work they admire. It's very common to visit someone's apartment and see they have original oils, watercolors, sketches, whatever, on the walls. There are many major art festivals, gatherings, trade shows and such that bring together artists from all over Russia. I attend many of them. I know many artists, from street artists to some famous names. It's interesting to run into them at galleries or to visit their studios to have a drink, see how they work, hear about their plans.
I read history, including architecture and art history, fine art as well as applied and folk art. I know in great detail the history of art and architecture in Russia and I've personally seen, up close in real life, almost all of the great works of art that are here, from the distant past all the way up to Soviet times and then to the present.
I know bad art, really awful talentless art, when I see it. Mercifully, much of the really terrible Soviet art has been removed and consigned to the dustbin of history, but there is still plenty of it around to induce cringe responses in young people.
Is there some great Soviet art, even from the times of artistic decay from the late 50's on? Sure. There are some outstanding pieces in the city in Russia where I live. There are also some very good works from the early Soviet era. But by over ten to one, Soviet art from the 50's to the demise in 1991 was really awful. I don't include the kitsch pieces in that, the Soviet realist art that many people find nauseating. Some of it was actually very good, although I grant that it's an acquired taste. In that ten to one bracket I count only the truly inept and awful works, of which there are plenty.
Like much of what else Socialism and Communism spoiled, great art was also steamrollered by the Soviet bureaucracy into gray, incompetent, mush.
Mosfilm on youtube!
Try:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932-1986)
You can find a number of his films on YouTube with english subtitles.
There are a number of various detective series on YouTube - fascinating.
Thanks for the share
Congrats Denis, first again LOL
The delusion is strong in those believing Russia will negotiate. Firstly, Beginsky was and is a puppet with no independent decision making allowed by his masters. Secondly, let's pretend he was once an actual President, a decision maker, he is no longer since May.
He is illegitimate.
Thanks, Grr. I never even noticed.
But like Tuco said, "If you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk. lol
Aw, yes, the little (snort) green (snort) gremlin's time (line) is running out.
for the elections, I dont think they can hide Trumps landslide victory this time. They are on plan B now. Some antifa riots and a MSM blockade over the results. It will look like Trump didnt win. They bet on chaos preventing Trump from any major move.
There won't be a Ukraine m8.
"Nato is nuts and incompetent but not suicidal."
NATO is the United States. And you don't think the United States is committing suicide with its Open Borders policy? An 48-million illegal aliens in the past four (4) years. All on the dole. Tell me how this is sustainable. No country can make any clams to sovereignty without secure borders.
The United States is racking up debt to the tune of $1-trillion dollars every 100-days. At some point the United States is going to suffer a sovereign debt default. That's, at the bare minimum, financial suicide. Same fate awaits all the NATO vassal states. Germany especially.
Look at the Palestinians. No country. Soon to be followed by no Palestinians. The same fate awaits the United States and its vassal states.
second!!
No prizes for second. Sorry. Unless you are a homosexual, black, disabled, or a tranny.
This late in the day, nearly 11 years after Euromaidan & 33 months after the SMO commenced, Project Ukraine, as a problem, a rallying cry & a calamity, has landed smack dab in Europe’s lap. Which makes sense in that Europe is actually *in the neighborhood* & the U.S. most definitely is not. The militarily feckless U.S., quick to cut & run under cover of chaos and leave “international partners” holding the bag, has now delegated to Europe the maintenance & welfare of Project Ukraine.
When a dog licks your dog’s muzzle, you know who the Alpha is. If the SMO has revealed anything about geopolitical r’ships in the West, it’s that the U.S. will always be the Alpha when it comes to Europe.
In order to accelerate the hot war in Ukraine, U.S. neocons utilized OTAN member states as complacent but enthusiastic vassals. Now the neocons, uninterested in a losing venture, expect Europe to do clean-up on Aisle 3, utilizing its venerable Brussels-based structures, chiefly OTAN & the EU, for accomplishing this. Hey, Europe, can you hold this, like, forever—? When Joe cancelled the Ramstein Summit on account of Hurricane Milton, Zelya visited European capitals by himself. Before he could darken the doorway of 10 Downing Street, however, the Pentagon had already called Keir Starmer & told him to let Zelya know that there will be no deep strikes w/ Storm Shadows inside pre-2014 Russia. Notice who the Errand Boy for this message was: Sir Keir. Notice who was under the thumb of the U.S.: Sir Keir & his leadership-bereft cohort of EU underlings.
An ocean’s distance away, the Alpha is free do Alpha things, while the EU wrangles through the financial minutiae that will permit it to cobble together a $35bn loan for Kiev from the interest off Russia’s frozen assets. Instead of ramping up manufacturing in the private sector or re-industrializing crusty, dusty & musty factories, the EU will step into its new role as Ukraine’s banker, bookkeeper & asset manager—a trifecta of Epic Fail tailor made for the continent.
This funding plan is already dead in the water.
Because Project Ukraine has proved so lucrative, it must be difficult indeed for Lady vdL et al to realize how close they actually are to Russia's frozen assets, not just the annual interest on the principal itself but the whole $300bn, which they fantasize as loosely guarded or not even guarded at all, depending on what Christine says or what Kristalina says, within the opaque fortress of EuroClear Bank.
It's a small world in Brussels, and they are only a pleasant walk along cobbled streets away.
Being able to swallow up the Russian funds was premised on winning the war, a political as opposed to legal fact. This laundering of what was a theft under the old political landscape, would follow from the political fact of victory. As the euro-bats all said, Putin must not win. Hell no, because if he did, they would face an economic disaster and some non trivial personal accounting of their own parts in it.
As indeed is what is now just beginning to emerge. Maybe they can agree with Putin some sort of carve up that gets them all off their hooks? But why in the kosmos would Putin help these people out? Or rather- more pragmatically, all vengeance aside, what would be his price?
I live in a mid-sized Russian city a few hundred miles from Moscow and I know people who work in the military. They're just in ordinary admin jobs, but they also know people who work in more direct military roles. One of the most profoundly disturbing conversations I've ever had in my life was in late 2022 speaking to one of their relatives, who is a nurse in a Russian military hospital. She was talking about guys in her ward who had their genitals cut off and their eyes gouged out by Kiev's nazis when they were taken captive.
Russia's not in a mood to forgive any of Kiev's many war crimes, and Russians are not in a mood to forgive any of the Westerners who enabled those war crimes. It could be that as a matter of pragmatism some settlement occurs short of Russia taking a scythe to all of the nazis and their friends, but I don't see how that would come to pass given the very intense animosity the US coalition's use of war crimes has created in Russia.
It's bad to lose a war, but it's really bad to lose a war against Russia when you've tortured and killed Russians.
I agree entirely, John. Russia takes the lot and lines up its own military might along existing NATO boundaries. Some heads on poles (forgive pun) would not go amiss. Then it goes away and gets on with BRICS while the euro-bats slowly sink in the west. Really that is too good for them but this is not the place to debate retributive atrocities. Let the Chechens loose on them.
My Russian friend's sister is a doctor in a hospital not far from Kazan and the sister relayed the same sort of stories about what happened to the Russian POWs who had been in Ukraine captivity, which were at her hospital. It is entirely understandable if Russia will seek justice for the perpetrators.
This Telegram site which I follow details all the war crimes committed by the so called Ukraine Army, Site is called WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim
International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi continues to carry out investigations.
A callsign Shaman, Deputy Regimental Commander, said that the Ukrainian battalions named ‘Tornado’ and ‘Dnipro’ spent 9 years learning not to fight but to kill. Those freaks (Ukrainian military) tortured captured soldiers, cut off their ears, stabbed them in their eyes and neck.
You can find independent information in interviews with victims and witnesses on the Telegram Chanel 'WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE'. (https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim)
This is from a few days ago 11 October confirming what you mention, discussing the tortures back in 2014, https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim/638
The sickening hypocrisy of the western MSM knowingly ignores this whilst portraying the United States and its satellites, vassal members of NATO & Ukraine as being so righteous when in fact it is the West which is morally deficient.
@Jullianne
"Build for your opponent a golden bridge"?
I doubt Russia sits idly by while the EU feasts on the Russian funds... Chip
And ramping up manufacturing now is like digging a well when the house is on fire. It will take years to build up any sort of manufacturing capability that's more than a generation gone.
Well, they've imported enough "experts" by now.
Human capital is wanting, and until the root cause as eloquently described by Michael Hudson in "Forgive them their debts..." there is no possibility of any economic realignment within the west.
I think you underestimate the significant intervening from non-EU member, UK and the rabid dog Boris Johnson. He wasnt controlled by US - they did it alone and on purpose. The betrayal after Istanbul meeting was the beginning of the real War in Ukraine.
Wake up. Boris is a US citizen. They have had him on a very tight leash for years over his tax liability. He does EXACTLY as he is told to do by his masters.
Der Spiegel "The Ukrainian government is considering options to end Russia's full-scale war....."
They seem to have forgotten what full scale war looks like. The SMO is quite restrained compared to what could be raining down on western Ukraine.
"compared to what could be raining down on western Ukraine" Or compared to what, historically, has rained down on Germany or anyone else who has committed acts of war against Russia.
Mmmmm yes it's especially ironic coming from them. But such is modern "journalism" this is but one example. History appears to end at "before my time"
Yep, we have a nice example of that in the middle east.
There's no need for anything full-scale as imagined by chairborne experts going up and down on dopamine swing. A single properly planned operation in Kursk with very limited resources led to at least five hundred surviving Ukies hopelessly scattered in the woods with more soon to join them. Simply because Russians began their attack two days before it rained and temperature dropped to near freezing point. Now Ukies can't operate their wheeled vehicles which sink into rich Kursk soil, while Russians with their tracked ones took the roads and can't be counterattacked from the sides anymore.
All that without committing serious resources. It's very modest and by the book, yet it's enough to send diplomatic shockwaves and make a lot of public figures squirm. Why bother with huge but risky firestorms when classic war grind yields ever better results? This IS the truly apocalyptic full-scale war, one that cannot be stopped by anything the other side can muster.
Blackrock seems to be a modern day version of the Knights Templar in the sense that they have managed to become unfathomably wealthy and powerful to the point that they can destroy entire countries at will. And, like the Templars they pose an existential threat to any leader or group of leaders or elite faction that dares oppose them.
What are the odds that like the Templars, they are preemptively taken out as they have clearly grown far too large for their britches?
Knights Templar were the good guys though. Unless you're a faithful catholic. Catholics tortured the Templars. And Black Rock is Jewish. Temp;ars were Christian and had alot of employment for villagers near their strongholds...once they were back in Europe. Kind of an insulting analogy - sorry- I'm a Templar fan.
Sounds like a 12 year old wrote that. The Templars were the dry heave of a dying Feudal Christiandom, who rightfully lost everything they fought for to the Muslims. So much for them.
nonsense
@Oni
Spoken like one who carries an iron club;
I have a cask of ale, would you care to hear some dirty jokes?
I don't have anything against the Templars; although they were back in Europe because they had been defeated in the Holy Land.
The point I was trying to make was that there's a historical parallel in the sense that both groups were/are so powerful that they represented/represent a threat to centers of power. The analogy fits so I use it. Nothing to do with religion. The Templars got themselves into trouble because they had a powerful private army and no military mission, and numerous nobles and kings were indebted to them. One of them finally decided to do something about it.
Blackrock doesn't officially have a military component but they can manipulate governments into doing their violent bidding when necessary. And they are likely far more avarice motivated than the Templars ever were but power for power's sake also seems to be a driving factor. And they most definitely are an existential threat to other elite factions. I am certain that it hasn't gone unnoticed by competing elites.
The Templars made friends with the infidels They brought chess and many medicments back from the ME - The Templars should be kept separate from the Crusaders that were more colonialist- minded. I think the impulse that drove Europeans to go to save the Holy Sites was perhaps ' wrong ' if someone wants to look at all history from the right / wrong perspective....Him Whom they sought was not there - and eventually they left - I mean the Templars...who were only ever about 150 men. And as far as the Templars manipulating governments - You mean Petty Kings ? The Templars were mostly from noble families and the King of France wanted their gold so they were made into enemies. Their job was to protect the pilgrims on the roads to the Holy Land , from highway robbers. And they were blessed by Bernard of Clairveau ( sp? ) who was the main guy in the Church during the 12th century. They had their own church services. I don't know what would have happened to the historical places of Christianity if they hadn't gone to Jerusalem. After they left, for 2 thousand years the Paleestinian people have been the guardians of the Holy siites and they have done a fantastic job. And now in 75 years those freakin monsters that call themselves Jews ( but are of the synagogue of Satan ) have destoyed all of it.
The Templars were founded by the wealthiest man of the wealthiest country in Europe (France) of the time. Their members were extremely powerful even before the founding. Read some history!
I guess you would have to ask Muslims how kindly they were inclined towards the Knights Templar,....just for a difference of opinion.
Muslim here, but a South African one of Indian heritage - love history, so the crusaders and the craziness of the 1000s to 1300s are very fascinating for most Muslims. A few things stand out, the crusaders were an outside threat to the ME, but the Fatimid Shias were an internal threat from North Africa and Egypt and had to be dealt with first, before the Crusaders could be tackled. Also, then just like now, the ME leadership sucked beeg time, the caliph was useless and could do nothing, and it took unknown marginalized groups to take the mantle of leadership and first deal with the Fatimids, then the crusaders, then the mamelukes and then the mongols....the Arabs were nowhere to be found. It was all the Kurds, Persians, Turks and Mongols. Arabs may have been the majority of the people there, but they could not unify nor lead the resistance - history does rhyme right? Also, the crusaders were a massive shock to the middle east, but in the end, they made a great acceptance of them. The knights templar and the Ayyubid Sultanate and then even the Mamelukes had a good relationship with each other. In fact, I think the Knights Templar and the Sultans of the Middle east had the best relationship of all the warring parties compared to the Franks, Englishmen, Greeks, Byzantines and other peoples...but It was a complicated relationship.
RIGHT ON
Today's glass and steel highrise is yesteryear's cathedral. Both raised by a parasitic pseudo government that bamboozled its population with belief in abstract things, like gods and debt.
Blackrock's self-perceived invincibility has backfired in Ukraine but not enough to take it down. Blackrock is the deep state which some call the swamp.
Perhaps it's that Blackrock owns the deep state.
Black Rock part of the Deep State for sure. The Jewish mafia part
@ann Watson
A bunch of WASP bandit families who went to expensive East coast prep schools would certainly prefer you limited your vengeance to Jews.
@Casey Bowles
Will Putin get to say
"Jacques de Molai, thou art yet again avenged!"
after the fat lady sings?
I wonder about the future even after the end of the war with so much of Ukraine in foreign and hostile holdings - hostile to Russia. Azerbaijan is connected with Israel too as is Britain, so I guess it might becaome Israel 2.0 - I wonder if Simplicius will do an article about that ? - and btw - it Hurrican Helene that hit NC - Miltion was kind of a psyop to get attention away from NC. And as the European sinking I think its all that horrible witch von der leyen - I read terrible articles about her everyday. If THAT Europe sinks it would be okay and maybe the people can put it back together. But maybe too, those times of human independence and self sustainability are also disappearing. I guess there's going to be a slump in the economy where people suffer. Sad. All because of the small cabal around the governments of the west. Here is a fantastic interview transcript by Peter Koenig about the hopes for BRICS - published today - https://peterkoenig.substack.com/p/middle-eastern-and-global-crises?publication_id=1685304&post_id=150231132&isFreemail=true&r=dg5y1&triedRedirect=true
One would think the only way that Ukraine can extricate itself from this disaster and the loss of its assets to sleazy and evil multinationals like Blackrock would be unconditional surrender to the Russians, who one hopes would have the sense to repudiate all such sales, agreements/debts entered into under duress by illegitimate governments going back to the 2014 coup.
yeah ! I was thinking that for a long time - that Russia should just take it over and nationalize it - like any decent president of the US would with Bill Gates farmland theft.
heres the background, been going on for some time and as You no doubt know the current dna of the occupiers in Palestine is 92.5% "ashkenazi" descended from east european "khazaar" roots.....
https://fitzinfo.net/forum/topic/chabads-khazarian-heavenly-jerusalem-project/
not withstanding however that the definition of "jew" is a "soul level" marker not limited to "dna", thus it is true to say they are "jew".
When a soul makes a pact with a demonic entity, knowingly the bond is for enternity, hence the utter depravity of its intitiates,
When western leaders face the choice of attending the "wailing wall" and donning the tiny hat/ or receiving a "termination" settlement they become privy and an initiate/slave to the "cause"
The "wall" is in reality a portal, a stretch too far for some who are still trying to digest that hurricanes and fire storms "might" be induced, fed, birthed.
And that brings Us back to what the templars actually found not what they didnt find...
The death cult, the one that will accept scorched earth still as a "win" as make no mistake they have covered this eventuality, the death cult cannot, will not accept defeat as the original converts "jew" know what this means, void, oblivion, eternity in the dark... not dissimilar from whence they came..
It is a huge leap for many to understand that the "jew" does not come from the same Soul source as You or i, or any that We know and Love, it comes from darkness, it is of its fathers line, it knows only destruction, it wants a "world of its own" and it has set its sights on Our world, the world made for Us...
The only reason it is allowed to prevail, act out and proceed is becuase this "world" has rules, one of them being Consent, another being Karma...
The "jew" sub-soul alters/deflects Karma and manipulates Consent and has been doing so for millenia..
Realise that the "jew" created a purposely flawed, twisted "abrahamic" multi tier "religion" in order to get a mass consciousness of humanity to make observances, venerations, sacrifices, rituals and devote untold spiritual energy toward the dark, when they thought they were observing the Light..
They built in intentional friction points by which to agitate various differing factions and foment hatred and insanity.. and "war".
For a prime example the way the am-eri-can devout fundamentalist "christians" relish in the destruction, rape, torture and murder of innocent fellow "christians" in Gaza... cheered on by demons in human guise like lindsay graham, whose mask has not only slipped but is now trodden in the dirt a milliuon times over like a 2020 face nappy in the corner of some dank supermarket car park..
"Christians" exalting over the horrific death of their own..
Some death cult achievement?
The Templars discovered not the evidence of "Christianity" but the remnants (still active) of demonic portals and other "devices" by which We have been brought to the precipice We now stand upon...
As many now see the current events and anomolies now point to toward preparations at the "highest level" for the aftermath of something they seem to believe is a given, One is forever reminded of the "deagel" figures, a rare snapshot into the future.
We speculate into the methodology while all around it works its magick, yet all is not quite as it seems, not everything is going to plan...
As fact and fiction merge with messianic insanity some back ground into the lore, the mathematics, the mechanisms of bending reality, moulding and forming the dark, assisting it do its "thang" has merit,
To understand temple lore and the red heifer many articles can be found here:
https://hiddeninthecrag.wordpress.com/
To understand the intentions behind the cloak of abrahamic BS, be it Christianity, Islam, judaism be that torah, talmud or zohar then devote some time here:
https://odysee.com/@CJBbooks.com?view=content
Also folk need to be aware that the time is coming if they get their way very soon when they will try to reveal their master in human form, in Islam the "dajjil" in Our tongue "anti-christ" and they will try to pass this off as Jesus Christ...
Whether JC did or did not walk the earth he remains most assuredly a persistent, festering, thorn in the syangogue of satans foetid arse... and quite possibly the architect of their downfall and the guide that leads them back to the abyss from which they came... good fucking riddance
Thank you for the links. Soulless “humans” present in a form recognizable to each other, they flock together. I understood the word “occult” means “hidden”. The times are a changing; quickly in mere mortal terms. Stay the course. Old lady with a virtual cat.❤️🐈⬛💙🇷🇺❤️
@Casey Bowles
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"Build for your opponent a golden bridge"?
Literally. The oligarchy of Ukraine are always for sale. Putin knows how to lead an oligarch to water (and how to defenestrate the ones who won't be lead).
It would make some kind of poetic sense for Putin to use the same human tools to end the conflict that the USA deep state used to set Ukraine on the road to Hell.
And afterwards, they might even be allowed to live. If they mind their manners.
Speaking of BlackRock:
On 11 October, Jimmy Dore, on his eponymous talk show, discussed w/ Kurt Metzger, his sidekick, Ukraine’s revision to its Land Market laws during the SMO. According to Dore, crippling debt has driven Ukraine’s impetus toward the privatization of black earth hectares, those arable agricultural fields suitable for growing the kind of genetically modified grain Big Ag companies like Monsanto-Bayer push. Citing a report in Eurasia Daily on 14 July 2024, Jimmy said that “Western corporations have bought up half of Ukraine’s land @ bargain basement prices.”
Jimmy played a clip of Irishman Mick Wallace, a member of the UK parliament, telling Mercouris & Diesen on a livestream that European corporations have bought more land in western Ukraine than Russia has acquired in eastern Ukraine.
Thickly sarcastic, Kurt Metzger then suggested that the U.S. should send its excess population of illegal immigrants to Ukraine—“to work the GMO ag fields of BlackRock.”
Jimmy said, “You’ve got to be a special moron to believe that the Ukraine war is what CNN tells you it is. It’s a grift. The Ukraine war is nothing more than a money-laundering operation.”
As you know, BlackRock gets name-checked frequently when focusing on the graft & the grain in Ukraine. The multinational asset manager has become a metonym for shady theft of agricultural lands in the black earth area. “The Economist” calls BlackRock a *shadow bank* on account of its investments, its fund-management & its transactions. BlackRock coordinated w/ Zelya in December 2022 to guide the reconstruction of Ukraine.
As the pandemic commenced, BlackRock became invaluable to the U.S. Federal Reserve for a type of Quantitative Easing that enabled the Fed to *helicopter* quick cash into commercial & retail banks.
In order to do this the Fed, which typically would buy assets only from other banks in response to a financial crisis, bought assets from non-banks, like from the Tesla Corporation or from Peter Thiel's Palantir or other corporations. That introduced a twist on Quantitative Easing—and cemented BlackRock’s role as the largest Exchange-Traded Fund asset manager in the world.
This novel Quantitative Easing, a hallmark of the pandemic, caused inflation to skyrocket, a side effect w/ which we still struggle.
BlackRock & the Fed continue to work hand-in-glove.
Going granular on pandemic-era Quantitative Easing:
For instance, when the Fed wanted to trade a token [a reserve] to Tesla for an asset, the transaction was wonky because Tesla does not have an account w/ the Fed: Tesla is a business, not a bank—so the tokens don’t work for Tesla.
The Fed ultimately went to Tesla’s bank, say it’s Wells Fargo, and deposited a $1bn token [reserve] into Tesla’s account in exchange for a *mirrored* asset.
BlackRock became the custodian of this asset.
Blackrock ended up w/ assets ultimately from non-banks like Tesla.
This is an example of a 3-way transaction involving a non-bank entity which is capable of mirroring an asset—new money in the banking system—and reaping a deposit *out of thin air.*.
Every $1 the Fed bought in assets jacked up by $1 the amount of money in the commercial banking system. Buying assets from non-banks ultimately drove the money in the commercial banking system from $13trn to $18trn as the pandemic ended. It also drove inflation.
Gotta ask: is the juice worth the squeeze--?
@cheetosSpring
The guy opperating a lemon squeezer gets paid no matter what lemons, sugar or finished lemonade cost.
"Lucky Pierre, always in the middle" as my daddy used to say.
Central Banks dominate the top of the food chain in any given country, more so even than the military. Recall: one needs money to prosecute a war—so banking & financial management come first in any equation. Central Banks are the dog—everything else is the tail. When a Central Bank, like the Fed in the U.S., needs something implemented, like a war to finance, they work through the intel services & the CIA, so the governmental enmeshment is intense.
When the Fed lends money, it doesn’t reach into the vault & pull out a stack of Benjamins: it creates the loan money *out of thin air* & lends it out against an asset. During the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, asset trading seized up, because transactions were primarily liquid on account of the panic: people pulling their money out of accounts. Since assets are typically illiquid, the Fed bought assets from other banks, and this practice marked a period of Quantitative Easing.
Banks use special tokens when transacting w/ the Fed: the Fed is the bank’s bank.
Banks transact via tokens [also called reserves]—not like using checking or savings accounts. The Fed creates its tokens *out of thin air* & transacts w/ banks.
For instance, the Fed gave JP Morgan Chase a token and, in exchange, JP Morgan Chase gave the Fed an asset. The swap—tokens for assets—stayed within the Fed’s closed system w/ its upper echelon banks. This has no effect whatsoever @ the commercial deposit level: an ordinary person’s savings account neither increases nor decreases. The money supply @ the retail level was unaffected.
During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, two-thirds of the assets for which the Fed traded were Treasury Bonds & one-third were mortgage-backed securities.
The USA EU UK are prime examples of the Parasite Taking over the host and using it as a Drone to the detriment of host
Ukraine, with the active help of the West and the connivance of Russia, has molded itself into an enemy of Russia. And now that the Russians have taken on the task of eliminating the threat, the hohols are suggesting stopping halfway. Infinitely impudent idiots. Only one solution is in line with Russian interests: the liberation of the entire territory of Ukraine, its annexation to Russia as separate regions, with the very name of "Ukraine" forgotten, and many years of work to identify and execute the Ukronazi. The question is whether the Russian authorities will act in Russian interests, or as always.
"The question is whether the Russian authorities will act in Russian interests, or as always".
Well said, man. That is the big question.
Я бы сказал, что это самый главный вопрос.
Especially spaceba Bolshoi for the Russian language material, after fifty years I hope to relearn the mother tongue
@Grasshopper Kaplan
Dude, what was your milk language?
It's no wonder the new boogie man in Clown World is AI; it's perfectly designed to spew the content-free corpobabble these self-appointed "elites" seem to live on and thus replace many a now-frightened minion.
For example, there's no such thing, even for modern humans, as a "post-industrial" economy. This isn't fucking Star Trek, there's no food replicators or massive starships being built for free, everything we need to survive has to be grown, extracted or manufactured, and that all requires massive infrastructure and more importantly, lots of cheap energy. Only someone who uses their brain as a seat cushion could swallow any of the shit these vampires are shovelin'.
Your thinking of Post-Scarcity.
Thank you for another comprehensive analysis.
If I may, I'd like to talk about steel production for a moment.
Basically, there are no kinds of ways to fabricate steel, one called an (electric) arc furnace and the other a blast furnace (which is coal powered). The EU's insane rules on carbon emissions means that they can only operate arc furnaces, and even Britain just closed its last blast furnace this month due to similar rules.
The problem is that arc furnaces can only RECYCLE metal, aka "scrap" metal, to make steel. And this steel is, as you might suspect, of lower quality. It's fine for making stuff like forks and spoons but it sucks for the important stuff like car engines and bridge support spans.
Blast furnaces are the only type which can make "raw" or pure steel of a guaranteed high quality. And so what the EU has been doing until lately is relying heavily on Ukraininan made raw steel for all the stuff it needs (you know, like making cars). That's why all the crying and gnashing of the teeth right now about this topic.
For the record, blast furnaces require coke, which is purified coal (essentially, you cook it to remove the impurities, the solid components of which are called slag). Coal, as we all know, is also abundant in (Eastern) Ukraine. Furthermore, coal mines, coking plants and the slag (waste) heaps that come along with them have played an important role in the fighting during this war.
Long story short, Ukraine losing both its (blast) steel mills and coal supplies isn't just bad for Ukraine's export economy (and bringing in hard currency to shore up the UAH) but is rapidly contributing further to the deindustrialization of Europe as a whole. Just take a look at steel imports to the EU and you'll see what I mean.
Correct, the devil is always in the details.
Which is also pointing to the fact that Europe is not simply mismanaged, but undergoing a planned controlled demolition.
Planned controlled demolition for the US too.
And of course steel smelted in the Donbas using local coking coal is carbon free and so allows the EU to meet its net zero targets - or am I missing something here?
Forget net zero, think about how Europe is supposed to ramp up its military manufacturing for 2027 goals without cheap energy or steel. And they plan to march to war after then. We haven't seen these guys as their most suicidal yet.
Fascinating analysis. Thanks for the context.
@Sam Ursu
You are not a metallurgist or chemist. Arc process plants can make just as good or better steel than any blast furnace but arc process is MORE EXPENSIVE, given that A: Various governmental foolishness has driven the cost of electricity through the roof, and B: Electrical energy is a secondary product of some primary energy input source, with losses to laws of thermodynamics in generation + additional losses in electrical transmission, transformers & etc.. Plus, usually extra costs, material input and time for purification steps to deal with any meaningful contaminants in scrap sources.
Additional detail from a very brief detour into energy trading in a past life -- coking coal (for steel) is a considerably higher purity, and thus cost, than any of the several varieties of thermal coal (for power plants). Thermal coal is worth almost nothing at the point of extraction, its cost 90%+ transport. Donbas was blessed with both an abundance of the good stuff, and the USSR connected it to have also an abundance of cheap energy - in every form available in the 20th century.
At the same time, EU should have no trouble finding other global sellers of the inputs for high quality metallurgy, other than maybe Titanium. That one kind of a big deal. In Sumy or Chernigov BTW. Other than Ti, what actually hurts IMHO is the cost disadvantage of energy. In other words, regardless of policy, they can't afford to run these processes at a globally competitive product price, like they used to. EU decision to implement US sanctions was suicidal. Losing Suez canal (+2 weeks to Asia shipping -- I.e. +cost of bulk materials like ore or natgas, which are priced largely from transport time), so that Germany can keep selling weapons to Israel for wiping out neighboring populations... adding insult to injury there.
Russia should bomb the Rada while the dwarf is speaking.
If I could only press on ❤️ I would have done that for eternity!
To have them replace him with someone more capable or, God forbid, less repulsive? Are you nuts?
The punt is on again for foreign boots on the ground, however they are to be labelled. As Russia has said. 'bring them on and we will kill them off'.
The Ukkies could repatriate those mischief makers in Africa, or it could try getting its own people in the complacently insulated west of Ukraine, to step up and fight for this nation they claim to love to so much, so much that most of them are already well underway with their plans to get the hell out.
It is good see the real economic story beginning show through the threadbare military manoeuvres. It was always about Donbas resources, about to be lost to the RF under the Minsk Accords agreed self determination of the people there. That was why we had this war kick off precisely when it did- to secure those resources for the west, just in time! They were the collateral for the vast western funding of this operation.
That is now a dead parrot and so there is an unseemly scrabble for what value can be hauled out before the total collapse. It is the time of the carrion birds. At the moment the west is paying Ukrainian pensions etc by underpinning its currency. When that rug is pulled it will be all over for this functionally long since failed state. Massive tides of refugees will head west with those citizens remaining voting to join the RF.
I don't think we can reject these floods and fires as conspiracy theories even though I understand that with so much deception going around us, people tend to see conspiracy in every little thing. I don't remember the details, but I saw a report from British journalist Vanessa Beeley about fires/floods in Hawai and Greece before that. And surprise surprise, somebody had published some grand plans for those exact areas sometime before those "natural disasters" occurred. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the governments don't clean up those areas or do anything to help affected people rebuilt their homes in their lands.
These wars in Ukraine,West Asia are also all about grabbing land, resources, fertile land by a few chosen people who want to dominate the globe, control everything of value, create a global government where they decide who can live and how and who must die to release the burden on the planet.
I wonder in BRICS realize they chose wrong countries for expansion in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt etc? First, they're puppets of US and rulers of Saudi, Emirates are wannabe globalists themselves. It would be better to choose other truly sovereign nations like Iran is, I.e. Cuba, Venezuela, Indonesia/Vietnam etc.
I would be EXTREMELY cautious about positing the existence of any active weather control plan especially a secret geo-strategic one. To a degree weather control is real, Chinese cloud seeding is an established fact but before I go speculating about "amateur meteorologists recorded strange pulse-like anomalies" I will have to know A LOT more.
To my knowledge: none of these countries you talk of above have been accepted by BRICS
They are going as observers.
@Jenny Tokes
Correct. And guess where/in what currency their oil generated bank accounts are & whos Treasury bonds they are holding? Especially now that nations assets in "the West(®)" can be confiscated with the push of a button.
Well, of course NATO defensive lines suck. NATO will never stand still. NATO will BITZKRIIIEG right until they run into deep battle and die.
That said it might be big arrow time for the RuAF at last