Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Links — 20 Apr 2022

The Vineyard of the Saker
Sitrep: Operation Z
Nightvision
http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-12/

Reminiscence of the Future
"We Bear Heat And Light"(c)
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/we-bear-heat-and-lightc.html

Larry Johnson On Intel Matters In War. Plus Some Other Quick Observations.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/larry-johnson-on-intel-matters-in-war.html
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues

A Son of the New American Revolution
Is Russia Running “operation Quicksilver” Against the West?
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)
https://sonar21.com/is-russia-running-operation-quicksilver-against-the-west/

Moon of Alabama
Some Of The Weapons Delivered To Ukraine Will Inevitably Be Used Against Us
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/some-of-the-weapons-delivered-to-ukraine-will-inevitably-be-used-against-us.html

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
US weapons for Ukraine disappearing into 'black hole' – CNN
https://www.rt.com/news/554191-tracking-us-weapons-ukraine/

The UNZ Review
Kramatorsk Train Station Attack
Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector
https://www.unz.com/article/kramatorsk-train-station-attack-the-key-to-finding-the-perpetrator-lies-in-this-overlooked-detail/

Zero Hedge
The American Dream Is Dead: For The First Time, Less Than Half Of Americans Believe They'll Ever Own A Home (RIP "the ownership society." Welcome to Renter Nation. This may not be that big a deal however. It may be that the coming generations are less interested in ownership. But don't bet on it.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/american-dream-dead-first-time-less-half-americans-believe-theyll-ever-own-homeMichael Every of Rabobank

TASS (Russian state media)
Russia and China are working on supply chains, settlements in national currencies — MFA
https://tass.com/economy/1440597

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
Chinese ambassador to U.S. publishes article 'The Ukraine Crisis and Its Aftermath' on The National Interest
Chinese Embassy in U.S.
http://www.ecns.cn/news/politics/2022-04-20/detail-ihaxrxye1095487.shtml

The Last Refuge
Former Intel Officials Want Efforts to Break Up Big Tech Stopped – Data Control and Retention of Social Media Partnership is a National Security Imperative (‘conclusive proof of prior suspicions.’ Not only surveillance and narrative control, but also narrative creation and psyops to influence public perception and opinion.)
Sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/20/former-intel-officials-want-efforts-to-break-up-big-tech-stopped-data-control-and-retention-of-social-media-partnership-is-a-national-security-imperative/

Glenn Greenwald
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing

WSWS
Survey shows majority in Germany rejects an energy embargo against Russia
Elizabeth Zimmerman
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/20/lgkc-a20.html

Politico
Macron accuses Le Pen of being on Putin’s payroll (act of desperation? Shades of Russiagate because that worked so well.)
Clea Caulcutt, Giorgio Leali, Louise Guillot
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-le-pen-putin-french-election-second-round-debate/







7 comments:

Footsoldier said...

Mike's latest video - Is a major paradigm shift starting with the $.


Very interesting development indeed . I have a few questions that came to me nd when listeners by to the analysis.


1. What commodity traders are saying

" Just because oil prices are absorbing the prospect of an outright European ban on Russian imports well, doesn’t mean there won’t be a major breakout to $300 per barrel highs if and when such a ban is executed. "



https://the-blindspot.com/why-the-oil-price-is-not-what-it-seems/


How does this fit in with the analysis ?



2. Is Chris cookes theory about oil now being on a $ standard about to be tested ?

What I mean by that is if oil shoots up let's say $15O a barrel the US trade deficit doesn't narrow but the $ keeps getting stronger is Chris right ?




3. I was always led to believe the stronger the $ gets the more it hurts the third world. Those that have $ denominated debt as it is harder to pay the debt off.

Will the US reopen $ swap lines like they have in the past to friendly nations and entice not so friendly nations as the squeeze put on them by a stronger $ becomes unbearable ?



Third world countries are going to be hammered not just by shortages but by debt repayments. Serious Crises could start appearing all over the shop.


Footsoldier said...

A stronger $ could dampen oil exports and not stimulate them ?

Footsoldier said...

One of the best things I ever read about the $ was from the bank of international settlements believe it or not.


Called - US dollar funding an international perspective June 2020.


https://www.bis.org


That is what informed me that a stronger $ really hurts emerging markets and third world countries.




Footsoldier said...

Can you see $ swap lines being a tool used by the US to peal some support away from Russia that are otherwise thinking about moving closer to Russia and China ?

Or am I talking shite ?


And $ swaps won't help the burden that smaller countries are going to face with their every increasing $ debt ?


Matt Franko said...

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33771570/wimbledon-bar-russian-players-war-ukraine-per-reports


persona non grata..,

Matt Franko said...

Maybe China has tennis?

Joe said...

I watched most of the Macron/Le Pen debate. Typical political debate. Macron was his normal smug assholishness self, very condescending. Le Pen wasn't always the most confident, she was under enormous pressure, but overall she kept her composure. Le Monde and Le Figaro basically panned Le Pen's performance, but it wasn't the disaster of 5 years ago. Le Pen handled the Russia loan thing about as well as she could have, she obviously prepared for it, she had printed out old tweets even. She claimed Macron had a hand in her being denying loans from French banks, which isn't the strongest move imo. It could be true, but the French banking community could very well exclude Le Pen all on their on without prodding from Macron, or maybe she was just a bad credit risk.. I don't know how most French people view it, but a political party getting loans from a foreign country is definitely a red flag.