The Postil Magazine
Our Latest Interview with Jacques Baud (Longish but excellent. Weekend reading maybe if you don't have time to read it all now. Col. Baud recently published a new book, Operation Z.
Our Latest Interview with Jacques Baud (Longish but excellent. Weekend reading maybe if you don't have time to read it all now. Col. Baud recently published a new book, Operation Z.
The Postil Magazine interviews Jacques Baud, a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, and specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations
https://www.thepostil.com/our-latest-interview-with-jacques-baud/
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (Armstrong, a Russian speaker, whowas around at the time. comments.)
Patrick Armstrong, retired analyst and diplomat (2008) serving in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia from 1984 and a Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow in 1993-1996.
Internationalist 360º
2019 RAND Paper Warned US of Failure During Ukraine Conflict (includes Brian Berletic video)https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/2019-rand-paper-warned-us-of-failure-during-ukraine-conflict/
Head Of IAEA Left Zaporozhie NPP. Russian Ministry Of Defense Commented On Situation (Is the IAEA or at least its head of mission in the pocket of Ukraine/NATO?)
https://southfront.org/head-of-iaea-left-zaporozhie-npp-russian-ministry-of-defense-commented-on-situation/
US Tightening Its Neocolonial Grip Over Ukraine
Drago Bosnic
Poll: Democrats and Republicans Agree US Democracy is in 'Danger of Collapse' (Quinnipiac University poll, Obviously, "Russian disinformation.")
Russia's Special Operation Isn't 'Aggression,' Merely Putting End to Kiev's War on Donbass: Putin (Putin has characterized it as "genocide" against the ethnic Russian population of Eastern Ukraine)
Tinfoil Hat Time: British Media Accuses Putin of ‘Pushing UK, Europe Toward Socialism’ (your daily dose of humor.)
https://sputniknews.com/20220901/tinfoil-hat-time-british-media-accuses-putin-of-pushing-uk-europe-toward-socialism-1100264877.html
Beijing Slams UN Xinjiang-Related Assessment that ‘Smeared & Slandered China’ as ‘US-Planned Farce’ (politicization.)
https://southfront.org/us-tightening-its-neocolonial-grip-over-ukraine/
Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)Poll: Democrats and Republicans Agree US Democracy is in 'Danger of Collapse' (Quinnipiac University poll, Obviously, "Russian disinformation.")
Russia's Special Operation Isn't 'Aggression,' Merely Putting End to Kiev's War on Donbass: Putin (Putin has characterized it as "genocide" against the ethnic Russian population of Eastern Ukraine)
Tinfoil Hat Time: British Media Accuses Putin of ‘Pushing UK, Europe Toward Socialism’ (your daily dose of humor.)
https://sputniknews.com/20220901/tinfoil-hat-time-british-media-accuses-putin-of-pushing-uk-europe-toward-socialism-1100264877.html
Beijing Slams UN Xinjiang-Related Assessment that ‘Smeared & Slandered China’ as ‘US-Planned Farce’ (politicization.)
Russian Shelling Forces Shutdown Of Ukraine Nuclear Reactor ("The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has shut down one of its two operational reactors due to mortar shelling from Russian forces that are occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Ukrainian operator of the facility, Energoatom, said on Thursday." Anyone able to explain the logic here? Looks contradictory to me.)
More Ukraine military aid coming, White House says (filling the black hole.)
https://www.rt.com/news/561978-new-ukraine-aid-white-house/
Ukrainian saboteurs who planned to seize Zaporozhye plant were trained in UK — authorities (MI6 operation?)
https://tass.com/politics/1501127
West wages hybrid war of aggression against Russia in Ukraine — Lavrov (finally naming it.)
https://tass.com/politics/1501123
15 comments:
The Cognitive dissonance of Russians shelling a plant they are occupying is so loud it is making ears bleed.
It's so patently ridiculous, yet it is repeated like a mantra - and without a trace of irony.
We are run by people drunk on hysteria.
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Look, these guys, Jack Baud whatever, Martyanov, Macgregor, Ritter, etc., can say Russia is winning until they're blue in the face (and they will), but Russia is clearly not winning. Maybe Ukraine is not winning either, but then nobody is winning. Russia can't advance, they are bogged down with no air force, fighting this war using a ridiculous WWI strategy, leaving Zelensky and Ukraine's leadership intact and winning the global P.R. war. These guys look as foolish as the "experts" in the West who say Ukraine is about to turn the tide. And actually, the Western analysts might be closer to the truth than the Jack Baud, Martyanov crowd.
And Lavrov still calls the West, "our partners." Russians are idiots.
https://twitter.com/mcfaul/status/1565391119629701120?s=21&t=uoXWHTEwZzb_gzfpA5vdpQ
“ On vacation in Spain right now and am shocked by how many Russian tourists are here. If democratic Europe is so awful and decadent as Putin claims, why are so many of his citizens here? Why aren’t they vacationing in the Urals? Or Belarus?”
Tom, shouldn’t these people be vacationing in Wang Dong China enjoying some overcast pollution weather with a bowl of dog brain soup? iow instead of the costa del sol with Jamón ibérico washed down with a Spanish Rosato?
What’s going on?
Neil, the Russians are taking a position in the nuke plant and firing from that position, ofc not expecting return fire…
So the Ukrainian people operating the plant ofc shut it down lest it become involved in the combat while operating…
Not hard to understand…
Mike, a stalemate in Ukraine is a win for Washington. They have already won the PR war for European sentiment, although that may change with the approach of winter.
The dislike for Gorbachev is strange.
As I said yesterday, lack of evidence, the fog of war, and an intense information war make it impossible to substantiate what really happened or is happening, let alone what is like to happen, other than in broad brush terms. Consequently, I have decided to cease posting on the war, as I have mostly on climate change and epidemics. These issues have been politicized, on one hand, and on the other hand, they lie beyond my area of expertise. So while I think that the are important I am going to cease posting on them here. Readers of MNE know the links that I favor and can set up their own feeds like I did.
Something similar has happened with MMT. There are few things worth linking to these days on MMT per se, and a lot of the application of MMT comes with a political slant, which, of course, is subjective.
Moreover, discussion on social media, such as it as is, is largely on Twitter, which I don't participate in actively since I don't find the format conducive to substantive discussion.
So I will only be posting things I think are of interest and have substance.
The fog of war is not so dense as to believe Ukraine is winning.
Or that Covid vaccines are "safe and effective".
The point of a blog is to assert your claims and then discuss/cuss/rant about them.
I'm here for the banter, not the sound of crickets.
Some of you guys take yourself so seriously, it's a wonder you participate on social media at all.
When you've been at it for over a decade, you get tired of the same discussions.
I mourn Toms' decision, but I respect it. I came to a similar conclusion about MMT discussions a good while ago. It has largely been captured by precisely the wrong people who seem to want to turn it into Modern Donkey Theory.
The latest G7 conclusion on Russian oil is so badly informed as to be laughable - after years of MMT advocation. It's still based upon the same fundamental misunderstanding of how sovereign currencies work.
Saturday Commentary and Review #96 - Niccolo Soldo
https://niccolo.substack.com/p/saturday-commentary-and-review-96
Read and discuss!
“When mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space, it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.” ― Meher Baba
And sometimes it results in a moon rocket launch.
Artemis 1 scheduled to go this afternoon. To the moon or bust!
“wrong people who seem to want to turn it into Modern Donkey Theory.”
What do you mean “the wrong people”?
The MMT academics themselves are signed up for partisan politics with Democrats and Labor…
It’s not like some external cohort of partisan Democrats are trying to hijack it or something…
“I have decided to cease posting on the war, ”
Good move Tom.. you’re not Warrior class… probably horrifies you … you don’t need it..
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