Azov Battalion Giving Up the Ghost in Avostal
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/azov-battalion-giving-up-the-ghost-in-avostal/
Ukraine - For Laughs (losing is "winning.")
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-for-laughs.html
Gonzalo Lira: The Pentagon Says: Russia No—But China Yes (video 15.29)
http://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-the-pentagon-says-russia-no-but-china-yes/
Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Life in the village
Gilbert Doctorow
Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Life in the village
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/05/16/life-in-the-village/
Asia Briefing — Opinion
Beijing’s influence is being aligned with Moscow and New Delhi as Washington and Brussels begin to move away
Asia Briefing — Opinion
Beijing’s influence is being aligned with Moscow and New Delhi as Washington and Brussels begin to move away
Chris Devonshire-Ellis
https://www.asiabriefing.com/news/2022/05/the-west-keeps-writing-off-china-but-china-today-is-not-about-the-west/
Psypost
Beth Ellwood
https://www.psypost.org/2022/05/psychology-study-explores-how-labeling-an-idea-a-conspiracy-theory-impacts-its-credibility-63154
One World
Lavrov Explained The Reason Why The Global Systemic Transition Is So Chaotic (good analysis. I would add that the US is abandoning the UN law-based order because Russia and China have a veto in the UNSC and use it to thwart the US.)
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2878
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2877
Andrew Korybko
7 comments:
"I would add that the US is abandoning the UN law-based order because Russia and China have a veto in the UNSC and use it to thwart the US.)"
Why they are talking about replacing the UN with NATO and expanding NATO from a North Atlantic alliance to a world alliance combining South East Asia.
Of course why the EU announced last week it wants to get rid of their Veto. So places like Hungary and Turkey can't stop them.
As they become ever more anti democratic and more authoritarian bordering on Fascism.
" European Union is holding itself hostage.
The EU plans to impose an oil embargo against Russia are being blocked by one of the 27 members of the Union, the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.
"The whole union is held hostage by one state. We cannot be held hostage," Landsbergis stressed.
Earlier, the Hungarian Prime Minister refused to support the EU embargo on Russian hydrocarbons.
The Lithuanian Foreign Minister is outraged by the principles of independence and democracy, which should work like this. But in the current EU, it is not accepted to have an opinion.
I' m going to take a punt.
After Ukraine is defeated and the Republicans win the psycho seat on the Hill.
Iran is next.
If they are this willing to go all out on Russia then Iran is in real danger.
The Republican neo cons have been biting at the bit for years to put their storm troopers into Iran.
Use the Iranian oil wells to move the EU away from Russia dependency a lot quicker.
Russia will fight with Iran will China ?
That's my punt on what happens next.
If WW3 over Finland does not happen first.
Derek, that might be … can’t believe Iran has been so reckless cavalierly threatening a nuclear superpower…
Might provoke US to nuke them…
I wrote a comment a few days back about how Russia is going to do to Israel with Syria what the US and Europe is doing to Russian with Ukraine and how they had sent the message through a Russian academic. This in today's Times of Israel (selected quotes) (bold mine):
In first, Russian military said to fire S-300 missiles at Israeli jets over Syria
Russian forces opened fire on Israeli jets with advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at the end of an alleged IAF attack on targets in northwestern Syria last week, Channel 13 news reported Monday, in what could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s attitude to Israel.
The report said the Syrian military fired off dozens of anti-aircraft missiles, which have been largely ineffective at halting the hundreds of Israeli strikes on Syria in recent years.
However, this time the S-300 batteries also opened fire as the jets were departing the area, Channel 12 said. The report noted that Syria’s S-300 batteries are operated by the Russian military and cannot be fired without their approval.
The report said that the S-300 radar did not manage to lock onto the Israeli jets and thus did not present a serious threat to the IAF fighter jets.
If confirmed, however, this would mark the first use of the S-300s against the IAF over Syria and would be a worrying development for Israel, which has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria in the course of the country’s civil war and since, targeting what it says are arms shipments bound for Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group and other Iranian-linked sites.
The Channel 13 report said it was not immediately clear if the S-300 missile fire was a one-time event or if it was a Russian signal to Israel that it was changing its policy.
Beyond providing Syria with its air defenses, Moscow also maintains state-of-the-art S-400 air defense systems to protect its own assets in Syria, but has never turned them on Israeli planes.
Russia has been allowing Israel to conduct air raids on selected targets within Syria (Iranian?) for years.
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