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Terror in Moscow: what went down

Par : AHH

Ukraine, ISIS, and the Moscow Concert Attack: What really happened? Pepe Escobar joins us to examine the complicated spider web of connections between Ukrainian intelligence, jihadist groups, and Western governments.

hosted by Dimitri Simes Jr. at the New Rules.

Ukraine, ISIS, and the Moscow Concert Attack: What really happened?

Pepe Escobar joins us to examine the complicated spider web of connections between Ukrainian intelligence, jihadist groups, and Western governments.
#NewRulesPodcast @RealPepeEscobar pic.twitter.com/oiNQgd7eLP

— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) March 28, 2024

#NewRulesPodcast

 

Point de vue sur l’attaque terroriste au Crocus City hall de Krasnorgorsk

Il est hasardeux de prétendre commenter un évènement de guerre clandestine surtout « à chaud ». La petite expérience de l’auteur lui

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Le conseiller de Zelensky, Podolyak, regrette la stagnation du front

stagnation front

stagnation frontL’armée ukrainienne est confrontée à une stagnation au front. Le conseiller du chef de cabinet du président ukrainien, Mikhaïl Podolyak,

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Poutine : “La Russie ne va pas se battre avec l’OTAN”

poutine otan

poutine otanLa Russie ne va pas se battre avec l’OTAN, c’est tout simplement absurde, la différence dans les dépenses militaires est

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West’s Geoeconomic Gamble behind Gaza Genocide

Par : AHH

After blocking Russian and Iranian gas pipelines to Europe and working to decouple from China, the combined West put their eggs into the Leviathan basket off Gaza and the IMEC connectivity corridor over the revitalized ancient Silk Roads…

To Rafah, or not to Rafah, that is the question

Par : AHH

All eyes are on Rafah as Israel prepares to mount an invasion to expel Palestinians or decimate them. It is this pivotal battle that will either force Israel into a ceasefire or thrust the region into an all-out, multi-front war.

By Tawfik Chouman at The Cradle.

The Battle of Rafah: a short step to regional war

The temporary truce struck on 24 November between the Hamas resistance movement and the Israeli government could have paved the way toward successive truces and potentially a sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

But the opportunity was squandered by Tel Aviv, who viewed the continuation of its genocidal war as a means to reshape Gaza’s political and security landscape under the guise of ‘restoring deterrence’ and mitigating domestic fallout from Hamas’ 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.

Now, nearly six months since the commencement of what Israel calls a ‘war of survival and existence’ against Gaza, it has become clear that the occupation state’s military aggression cannot unseat Hamas from either the Strip or the broader Palestinian political arena.

The recent flurry of indirect Hamas–Israel negotiations held in Paris, Cairo, and Doha have revealed a stark political reality: Hamas is the primary Palestinian negotiating party where Gaza is concerned. This tacit acknowledgment by Tel Aviv marks the strategic failure of one of Israel’s dual objectives set forth last October, aimed at eradicating Hamas and its allied resistance factions in the Strip.

Bibi’s political interests v domestic backlash

This reality raises questions about the potential pathways available to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he struggles with immense international pressure to stop the carnage. Will he persist with the war on Gaza and risk global pariah status, or will he be compelled to pursue a politically costly settlement? The latter option, it should be noted, will not be an easy fix. It could potentially unleash a storm of domestic backlash within Israel, with various political factions eager to hold him accountable from multiple angles.

Since Netanyahu abandoned the truce in November, prominent Israeli political commentators and even former prime ministers have been surprisingly unanimous in their assessment. They argue that Netanyahu’s decision to prolong the war serves mainly his personal political interests, allowing him to project an illusion of victory while evading political, security, and judicial scrutiny.

Accordingly, Netanyahu’s stance remains firmly opposed to a war settlement. He has instead doubled down on the necessity of eliminating the military capabilities of Hamas and its allies, and is ostensibly pursuing an ‘absolute victory’ through total war.

The prime minister’s roadmap hinges on continuing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. In this scenario, he envisions the Battle of Rafah as the decisive climax that will definitively render the already terminal ‘two-state solution’ obsolete and permanently sever any ties between Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The Battle of Rafah thus emerges as a pivotal juncture, delineating two competing trajectories: one driven by regional and international efforts towards a negotiated settlement, and the other dictated solely by Netanyahu’s ambitions.

Regional ramifications and Egypt’s dilemma

This raises complex questions about whether Netanyahu can prolong the war and influence regional and international actors – to buy time, if you will – all while factoring in the delicate balance of power involving Egypt and the wider regional war against other members of the Axis of Resistance.

Indeed, the Battle of Rafah presents a multi-level challenge for Egypt, encompassing political, security, and popular dimensions. Should the Israeli army invade Rafah, it will have significant implications for Cairo’s relations with Tel Aviv, in addition to severely impacting Egypt’s domestic security landscape.

A recent poll by the Washington Institute for Near East Studies revealed that three-quarters of Egyptians view Hamas positively. This popular sentiment influences Egyptian policy regarding potential Israeli actions in Rafah.

On 10 March, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported warnings from Egyptian officials on the potential suspension of the Camp David Accords if Israel were to attack Rafah.

Diaa Rashwan, head of the Egyptian Information Service, emphasized the seriousness of Israel’s occupation of the Philadelphi Corridor – a buffer zone on the Sinai–Gaza border designated by the Camp David agreement – stating it poses a grave threat to Cairo–Tel Aviv relations.

Dealing with the potential mass influxes of Gazan civilians seeking refuge and Palestinian fighters crossing into Egyptian territory also poses significant logistical and security challenges. This scenario also raises questions about the Israeli army’s potential incursions into Egyptian territory and how the Egyptian military would respond.

Moreover, any intensification of pressure on Rafah or a full-scale Israeli invasion will lead to widespread regional ramifications, potentially including the unraveling of the Abraham Accords. The Axis of Resistance has made it clear that the elimination of Hamas is unacceptable and, if threatened, may trigger a regional war.

Complicating matters further is the lack of substantive US pressure on Israel to halt its actions in Gaza. While the Biden White House seeks a ‘credible operational plan,’ it has not unequivocally opposed an attack on Rafah. This ambivalence enables and even emboldens Netanyahu to continue his military operations.

Rafah could reshape the region 

Regardless of the outcome of the Battle of Rafah, both Israeli and US perspectives interpret it as a campaign directed against Hamas, which they view as an extension of Iranian influence in the region. This narrative aligns with what Thomas Friedman, writing for the New York Times, referred to as the new “Biden Doctrine,” which emphasizes confronting Iran and its allies in West Asia. This marks a significant shift in US strategy since 1979.

The convergence of US and Israeli interests casts suspicion on ongoing efforts to bring about a long-term ceasefire, with all eyes focused on the current round of talks in Doha. Amos Harel, writing for Haaretz, frames the discussions as a race toward either a negotiated ceasefire or a potentially expansive regional conflict involving multiple fronts.

Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, which last week expanded its naval operations into the Indian Ocean, has issued a stark warning against a Rafah invasion, threatening a sharp escalation in both sea and air operations, including the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Similarly, the Lebanese front remains sensitive to developments in Rafah. Despite the northern front’s expansion since the onset of 2024, recent Israeli attacks targeting Baalbek, over 100 kilometers from the southern border, suggest Tel Aviv’s misguided willingness to escalate.

This possibility could spill over into reality if Israel invades Rafah, as the occupation army may resort to preemptive actions to mitigate perceived threats from Lebanese resistance forces.

Overall, the Battle of Rafah will likely reshape the regional conflict, adding new layers to existing pressure fronts. Importantly, it challenges the notion that Hamas stands alone, abandoned in Rafah, as various regional actors, including Iran and its allies, are closely watching and prepared to intervene.

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Macron-Zelensky : le baiser du scorpion ?

Par : STRATPOL

En écoutant les déclarations de Macron et d’autres sur l’envoi de troupes françaises au sol en Ukraine, j’ai été surpris

L’article Macron-Zelensky : le baiser du scorpion ? est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

En avril sur National Geographic

CAR S.O.S - Tous les vendredis à 21.00, à partir du 19 avril

Fuzz Townshend et Tim Shaw reprennent leur mission de recherche et de sauvetage de voitures pour des propriétaires méritants. De la Citroën SM 1973, l'une des plus grandes voitures françaises jamais fabriquées, à la Ford Pop hot-rod des années 50, en passant par la Honda CR-X, les deux hommes ont déjà récupéré un nombre impressionnant de 120 voitures au fil des années. Dans cette nouvelle saison, ils placent la barre encore plus haut !

ALASKA : PREMIÈRES NATIONS - Tous les lundis à 22.45, à partir du 8 avril

Les communautés indigènes d’Alaska survivent dans un environnement en perpétuelle évolution par leur lien à leurs terres, à leurs ancêtres ainsi que les uns aux autres. Cette saison, face aux rudes conditions de l’hiver, les autochtones luttent pour leur survie, peu importe les obstacles. Tig Strassburg affronte une meute de loups pour protéger son village, Joel Jacko chasse le phoque et pêche sur la glace, et la famille Pingayak reconstruit son camp de pêche après un typhon dévastateur.

 

FACE AU CRIME - Tous les jeudis à 21.00, à partir du 04 avril  

La journaliste primée Mariana van Zeller explore les rouages des marchés noirs les plus dangereux au monde. Chaque épisode est consacré à un réseau de trafic différent, allant de la drogue aux animaux exotiques, en passant par le trafic de restes humains ou le business des tueurs à gage avec un seul objectif en tête : rencontrer les protagonistes, révéler leurs méthodes et tenter de comprendre cette économie souterraine estimée à plusieurs billions de dollars.

Daily Chronicles … OT March 26

Par : AHH

The Russian population has handed to the Kremlin total carte blanche to exercise brutal, maximum punishment – whatever and wherever and against whomever the journey takes.

“What was the main reason for this [Crocus terrorism] attack? Using Muslim (Tajikistan) people to kill scores of Russians and then flee to Ukraine. The classic MI6 scheme (UK) has been used for centuries to sow discord between usually brotherly people. The Russians would now be expected to hate all immigrants from the Central Asian “Stans” and even more hatred against the Ukrainians, to finally start killing Ukrainian civilians.

An overreaction by the Russians was the goal. To start killing civilians and to provoke a more aggressive Russian offensive, which would claim thousands of Russians more than necessary.”

Ain’t gonna happen. Russians will focus on the customer and completing the Victory in the larger war. Specific individuals involved throughout the chain should buy hefty life insurances for the benefit of their families…


March 28

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
🇷🇺 Putin about the third world war.

  1. Russia has no intention of fighting NATO;
  2. Falsifications about a possible attack on Poland, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic are a way to deceive the population of these countries;
  3. Russia will destroy F-16s in Ukraine in the same way as it destroys Western tanks and other equipment;
  4. If F-16s are used against the Russian Armed Forces from airfields in third countries, then these airfields will become a legitimate target for the Russian Federation

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has visited the DPRK, where he held negotiations with North Korea’s minister of state security.
🔸The international situation, regional security, and deepening cooperation under pressure from external forces were discussed, the SVR press bureau reports.
🔸Previously, there have previously been no reports of visits by Russian foreign intelligence heads to the North Korea.
@geopolitics_live

⭕ Main world events by the morning of March 28: 
🔸The Ministry of Emergency Situations published a list of victims of the Crocus City Hall incident, totaling 143 people;
🔸The Chancellor of Germany, Scholz, stated that the German intelligence services knew nothing about the preparation of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall;
🔸Russian Air Defense systems shot down 16 Vampire rockets over the Belgorod region, the Ministry of Defense reported;
🔸Russian prisoners of war were subjected to torture in Ukraine from December to February; their stories deserve trust, the UN stated;
🔸Russia will assess the risks from the construction of a NATO base in Romania and take them into account in military planning, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced;
🔸The UN reported that in Ukraine, clergy and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, are being intimidated and beaten;

💠Russia’s Investigative Committee: Significant amounts of crypto currency was transfered from Ukraine to the attackers of the Crocus City Hall – TASS


March 27

💠 West not acting out of love for Ukrainians – Borrell”
The conflict is about preserving the US’ role in the world, the EU’s top diplomat has said
You have to love Jungle Borrell. He speaks quiet parts out loud. Most helpful!

🔹EU, West supporting Ukraine based on its own interests, Borrell

The European Union is supporting Ukraine based on its own interests rather than out of love for the Ukrainian people, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell told CNN.

“We cannot afford for Russia to win this war. Otherwise, US and European interests will be damaged. It’s not a matter of generosity alone; it’s not a matter of support for Ukraine because we love the Ukrainian people. It is in our own interests, and it is also in the interests of the US as a global player, the one who has to be perceived as a reliable partner and a security provider to the allies. This is why we call on the US to open and approve the supplementary budget,” he pointed out.

Borrell added that the EU was making every possible effort “to support Ukraine more and quicker.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova referred to what Borrell said. “It is the first time ever that a representative of the Western regime has told the truth about what is happening,” the diplomat wrote on her Telegram channel.

💠 Russian MFA:

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: “We cannot afford Russia win this war. Otherwise, the US and European interests will be very damaged. It’s not a matter of generosity alone. It’s not a matter of supporting Ukraine because we love Ukrainian people. It’s in our own interests, and it’s also in the interests of the US as a global player – someone who has to be perceived as a reliable partner, a security provider to the allies.”

💬 Maria Zakharova: This is the first time that a representative of the Western regimes has been so explicit about the nature of current developments. It’s not about love for the Ukrainians, whom the West has practically wiped out. It’s about the United States being eager to maintain its hegemony and preserve its diminishing role in international affairs. There is hardly any trace left of the former constructive approach of the US towards international relations. The liberal democrats can only bring ruin, seeing this skill as a guarantee of domination. As for the EU, its task at this stage is to obediently fetch the ammunition bought with the money of its own citizens, whose opinion has not been asked.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Main world events by the morning of March 27:

🔸[Czech] MLRS Vampire reactive missiles were destroyed over Russia’s Belgorod region, the country’s Defense Ministry reported;
🔸One man was injured in the shelling of Belgorod, he has shrapnel wounds, the local governor reported;
🔸There are no people trapped under the rubble after the fire at the “Crocus City Hall”, the search operation is over, the head of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM) reported;
🔸EMERCOM has published a list of those killed as a result of the terrorist attack, which includes 120 people;
🔸Russia has requested a new meeting of the UN Security Council on NATO aggression against Yugoslavia and is awaiting the response of the chairman, the permanent representative’s office reported;
🔸Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reported that he had received important information about threats to his country’s “vital national interests” in the past 48 hours. He did not provide further details;
🔸The US base at the [illegally occupied] Conico gas field in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria was attacked by two drones;
🔸A Russian EMERCOM cargo plane humanitarian aid for Gaza civilians is en route to Egypt;

⭕ Vladimir Putin launches initiative to create a ranking of universities in BRICS countries

🎓 The Russian president has entrusted this task to the Russian Rectors’ Union, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Education, which are to prepare their proposals by April 15, according to the Kremlin website.

The bodies will have to send them to the organizing committee responsible for overseeing Russia’s BRICS presidency in 2024.

The rector of Moscow State University had already indicated in February that the members of the group were interested in such a ranking. He added that the necessary methodology was being worked out. President Putin, for his part, welcomed the idea.

This is extremely important. Just before she died, Borrell complained to Madeleine Albright that China (and non-western powers) were reconfiguring international standards. These contrived (western elevated) metrics, such as GDP, help maintain the global fiction of western “superiority” eventhough overtaken in any objective analysis. All scales and standards in all fields need to be honestly and objectively reclassified, and within the multipolar world that cares for such integrity. Without ability to dominate through military supremacy or weaponized dollar system, the Global Majority can resume functioning according to Reality.


March 26

Following the grudging abstention by the USA in yesterday’s United Nations Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire (albeit for two weeks), this was the messianic jewish response:


💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
Israeli FM Cohen: The State of Israel will continue fighting until the safe return of the hostages and the eradication of Hamas. Any ceasefire proposal lacking these stipulations serves as fodder for terrorist organizations around the world, inevitably bringing terrorism to the West.
[a helpful threat tacked on to the refusal too]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
Lee: Do you expect Israel is going to announce a ceasefire?
Miller: I do not
Lee: What’s the point of the UN? |video|

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗Israel refuses to stop fighting in the Gaza Strip despite Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire
🔸The IDF will continue its operation until all the hostages are released, the Israeli foreign minister said.
🔸The death toll in Gaza Strip stands has climbed to over 32,000 after the start of Israel’s operation in the enclave, according to the local authorities. The campaign was launched as a response to an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
[the real toll was said by many analysts to be 40-50,000 killed before the new year… the problem is the conservative listing of daily statistics, which still has not factored in 10-20k+ still buried in rubble… Also the daily statistics list merely those killed directly the prior day. Not the thousands who succumbed to wound infections, malnutrition, lack on meds for chronic disease, blooming epidemics, etc etc..]

⭕ ❗The defendants in the Crocus terrorist attack provided detailed testimony about the instigators and those who assisted in its preparation, Russian Investigative Committee head Bastrykin said.

⭕ Key points from Putin’s speech at the meeting on the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall:
🔸The Russian Armed Forces are holding the initiative along the entire front, the “counteroffensive” of the Ukrainian troops has failed, Kiev is trying to get money for itself, and those who support the Kiev regime do not want to be accomplices in terror, but there are a lot of questions.
🔸Those supporting Kiev regime do not want to be accomplices to terror, but there are many questions, Vladimir Putin said.
🔸We need to answer the question why the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine after committing a crime in the Crocus City Hall, who was waiting for them there?
🔸A new ‘Hitler Youth’ is being created in Ukraine.
🔸Putin called the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been fighting Russia since 2014 at the hands of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.
🔸Through various channels, the United States is trying to convince everyone that there is allegedly no trace of Kiev in the bloody terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall, that it was ISIS.
🔸We know who committed the attack in Crocus City Hall, we are interested who the ordering customer is.


💠@worldpravda:
From now on, Russia will mention NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia at every session of the UN Security Council, said Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky.

After France blocked the UN Security Council session on the 25th anniversary of the bombing, there will no longer be “any business as usual in the Security Council”, Polyansky added.

“This is a very serious moment – in fact, at the instigation of France, one member of the Security Council was denied the right to convene a meeting. By such an action, our Western colleagues seriously deceived themselves. Instead of holding a peaceful meeting where they would mutter theses about ‘Russian propaganda’, now before every meeting of the Security Council, until we agree on how to avoid a similar situation in the future, NATO aggression will be mentioned in front of the cameras, which will also be included in the minutes of all upcoming meetings,”
stressed Polyansky.

Formation des « attitudes » : le formatage national des élites

Par : STRATPOL

Vous vous êtes toujours demandé pourquoi le bon sens semble s’estomper à mesure que l’on s’approche du sommet de l’état?

L’article Formation des « attitudes » : le formatage national des élites est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

The Nuland – Budanov – Tajik – Crocus connection

Par : AHH

The Russian population has handed to the Kremlin total carte blanche to exercise brutal, maximum punishment – whatever and wherever it takes.

By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.

Let’s start with the possible chain of events that may have led to the Crocus terror attack. This is as explosive as it gets. Intel sources in Moscow discreetly confirm this is one of the FSB’s prime lines of investigation.

December 4, 2023. Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, only 3 months after his retirement, tells CIA mouthpiece The Washington Post: “There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night (…) You gotta get back there and create a campaign behind the lines.”

January 4, 2024: In an interview with ABC News, “spy chief” Kyrylo Budanov lays down the road map: strikes “deeper and deeper” into Russia.

January 31: Victoria Nuland travels to Kiev and meets Budanov. Then, in a dodgy press conference at night in the middle of an empty street, she promises “nasty surprises” to Putin: code for asymmetric war.

February 22: Nuland shows up at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event and doubles down on the “nasty surprises” and asymmetric war. That may be interpreted as the definitive signal for Budanov to start deploying dirty ops.

February 25: The New York Times publishes a story about CIA cells in Ukraine: nothing that Russian intel does not already know.

Then, a lull until March 5 – when crucial shadow play may have been in effect. Privileged scenario: Nuland was a key dirty ops plotter alongside the CIA and the Ukrainian GUR (Budanov). Rival Deep State factions got hold of it and maneuvered to “terminate” her one way or another – because Russian intel would have inevitably connected the dots.

Yet Nuland, in fact, is not “retired” yet; she’s still presented as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and showed up recently in Rome for a G7-related meeting, although her new job, in theory, seems to be at Columbia University (a Hillary Clinton maneuver).

Meanwhile, the assets for a major “nasty surprise” are already in place, in the dark, and totally off radar. The op cannot be called off.

March 5: Little Blinken formally announces Nuland’s “retirement”.

March 7: At least one Tajik among the four-member terror commando visits the Crocus venue and has his photo taken.

March 7-8 at night: U.S. and British embassies simultaneously announce a possible terror attack on Moscow, telling their nationals to avoid “concerts” and gatherings within the next two days.

March 9: Massively popular Russian patriotic singer Shaman performs at Crocus. That may have been the carefully chosen occasion targeted for the “nasty surprise” – as it falls only a few days before the presidential elections, from March 15 to 17. But security at Crocus was massive, so the op is postponed.

March 22: The Crocus City Hall terror attack.

ISIS-K: the ultimate can of worms

The Budanov connection is betrayed by the modus operandi– similar to previous Ukraine intel terror attacks against Daria Dugina and Vladimir Tatarsky: close reconnaissance for days, even weeks; the hit; and then a dash for the border.

And that brings us to the Tajik connection.

There seem to be holes aplenty in the narrative concocted by the ragged bunch turned mass killers: following an Islamist preacher on Telegram; offered what was later established as a puny 500 thousand rubles (roughly $4,500) for the four of them to shoot random people in a concert hall; sent half of the funds via Telegram; directed to a weapons cache where they find AK-12s and hand grenades.

The videos show that they used the machine guns like pros; shots were accurate, short bursts or single fire; no panic whatsoever; effective use of hand grenades; fleeing the scene in a flash, just melting away, almost in time to catch the “window” that would take them across the border to Ukraine.

All that takes training. And that also applies to facing nasty counter-interrogation. Still, the FSB seems to have broken them all – quite literally.

A potential handler has surfaced, named Abdullo Buriyev. Turkish intel had earlier identified him as a handler for ISIS-K, or Wilayat Khorasan in Afghanistan. One of the members of the Crocus commando told the FSB their “acquaintance” Abdullo helped them to buy the car for the op.

And that leads us to the massive can of worms to end them all: ISIS-K.

The alleged emir of ISIS-K, since 2020, is an Afghan Tajik, Sanaullah Ghafari. He was not killed in Afghanistan in June 2023, as the Americans were spinning: he may be currently holed up in Balochistan in Pakistan.

Yet the real person of interest here is not Tajik Ghafari but Chechen Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, the former leader of the jihadi outfit Ajnad al-Kavkaz (“Soldiers of the Caucasus”), who was fighting against the government in Damascus in Idlib and then escaped to Ukraine because of a crackdown by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – in another one of those classic inter-jihadi squabbles.

Shishani was spotted on the border near Belgorod during the recent attack concocted by Ukrainian intel inside Russia. Call it another vector of the “nasty surprises”.

Shishani had been in Ukraine for over two years and has acquired citizenship. He is in fact the sterling connection between the nasty motley crue Idlib gangs in Syria and GUR in Kiev – as his Chechens worked closely with Jabhat al-Nusra, which was virtually indistinguishable from ISIS.

Shishani, fiercely anti-Assad, anti-Putin and anti-Kadyrov, is the classic “moderate rebel” advertised for years as a “freedom fighter” by the CIA and the Pentagon.

Some of the four hapless Tajiks seem to have followed ideological/religious indoctrination on the internet dispensed by Wilayat Khorasan, or ISIS-K, in a chat room called Rahnamo ba Khuroson.

The indoctrination game happened to be supervised by a Tajik, Salmon Khurosoni. He’s the guy who made the first move to recruit the commando. Khurosoni is arguably a messenger between ISIS-K and the CIA.

The problem is the ISIS-K modus operandi for any attack never features a fistful of dollars: the promise is Paradise via martyrdom. Yet in this case it seems it’s Khurosoni himself who has approved the 500 thousand ruble reward.

After handler Buriyev relayed the instructions, the commando sent the bayat – the ISIS pledge of allegiance – to Khurosoni. Ukraine may not have been their final destination. Another foreign intel connection – not identified by FSB sources – would have sent them to Turkey, and then Afghanistan.

That’s exactly where Khurosoni is to be found. Khurosoni may have been the ideological mastermind of Crocus. But, crucially, he’s not the client.

Oleh Tyahnybok, with McCain and Nuland

The Ukrainian love affair with terror gangs

Ukrainian intel, SBU and GUR, have been using the “Islamic” terror galaxy as they please since the first Chechnya war in the mid-1990s. Milley and Nuland of course knew it, as there were serious rifts in the past, for instance, between GUR and the CIA.

Following the symbiosis of any Ukrainian government post-1991 with assorted terror/jihadi outfits, Kiev post-Maidan turbo-charged these connections especially with Idlib gangs, as well as north Caucasus outfits, from the Chechen Shishani to ISIS in Syria and then ISIS-K. GUR routinely aims to recruit ISIS and ISIS-K denizens via online chat rooms. Exactly the modus operandi that led to Crocus.

One “Azan” association, founded in 2017 by Anvar Derkach, a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, actually facilitates terrorist life in Ukraine, Tatars from Crimea included – from lodging to juridical assistance.

The FSB investigation is establishing a trail: Crocus was planned by pros – and certainly not by a bunch of low-IQ Tajik dregs. Not by ISIS-K, but by GUR. A classic false flag, with the clueless Tajiks under the impression that they were working for ISIS-K.

The FSB investigation is also unveiling the standard modus operandi of online terror, everywhere. A recruiter focuses on a specific profile; adapts himself to the candidate, especially his – low – IQ; provides him with the minimum necessary for a job; then the candidate/executor become disposable.

Everyone in Russia remembers that during the first attack on the Crimea bridge, the driver of the kamikaze truck was blissfully unaware of what he was carrying,

As for ISIS, everyone seriously following West Asia knows that’s a gigantic diversionist scam, complete with the Americans transferring ISIS operatives from the Al-Tanf base to the eastern Euphrates, and then to Afghanistan after the Hegemon’s humiliating “withdrawal”. Project ISIS-K actually started in 2021, after it became pointless to use ISIS goons imported from Syria to block the relentless progress of the Taliban.

Ace Russian war correspondent Marat Khairullin has added another juicy morsel to this funky salad: he convincingly unveils the MI6 angle in the Crocus City Hall terror attack (in English here, in two parts, posted by “S”).

The FSB is right in the middle of the painstaking process of cracking most, if not all ISIS-K-CIA/MI6 connections. Once it’s all established, there will be hell to pay.

But that won’t be the end of the story. Countless terror networks are not controlled by Western intel – although they will work with Western intel via middlemen, usually Salafist “preachers” who deal with Saudi/Gulf intel agencies.

The case of the CIA flying “black” helicopters to extract jihadists from Syria and drop them in Afghanistan is more like an exception – in terms of direct contact – than the norm. So the FSB and the Kremlin will be very careful when it comes to directly accusing the CIA and MI6 of managing these networks.

But even with plausible deniability, the Crocus investigation seems to be leading exactly to where Moscow wants it: uncovering the crucial middleman. And everything seems to be pointing to Budanov and his goons.

Ramzan Kadyrov dropped an extra clue. He said the Crocus “curators” chose on purpose to instrumentalize elements of an ethnic minority – Tajiks – who barely speak Russian to open up new wounds in a multinational nation where dozens of ethnicities live side by side for centuries.

In the end, it didn’t work. The Russian population has handed to the Kremlin total carte blanche to exercise brutal, maximum punishment – whatever and wherever it takes.

Double Crossing of the Red Line

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Moscow’s Terror Explosion – Macron’s NATO Troops to Ukraine

Peter Koenig
23 March 2024

Automatic gun-shooting by 5 men in black took place Friday evening 22 March in the Crocus City Concert Hall, attached to a shopping mall, at the outskirts of Moscow. The terror attack preceded a concert. The hall was therefore crowded with people, panicking for leaving it. The assault was followed by a massive explosion.

The official fatality as of 23 March stands at 133. Dozens of people were injured.

The Islamic State (IS) – a CIA creation – claimed credit for the attack.

However, the political end of this attack is more complex.
On March 7, 2024, the US Embassy in Russia warned Moscow that a terror attack may take place in Moscow within the next few weeks. No further details.

Is it one of the now fashionable “predictive planning” stunts?

On the same day, the same US Embassy in Moscow warned US citizens in Moscow not to visit shopping malls. How much did the US know?

Speculations abound. Was this an empty warning to destabilize Russia and Russian elections? Or was it one more provocation to pull Russia into a larger conflict?

On the day of the attack, John Kirby, spokesman for National Security at the White House said in a Press Conference that there were no indications that Ukraine had anything to do with the attack. In early March Washington just had some indications that a terror assault may hit Moscow.

“Some indications”? – Why then the warning on the same 7 March to US citizens in Moscow not to visit any shopping malls?

It could not be more obvious that a hidden agenda is being played by Washington – and, may be added, by NATO and Europe?

Whether the Islamic State, Al Qaeda or another CIA / MI6 terror creation – or even Kiev directly, was involved in this mass-killing is irrelevant, because whoever acted, did so on behalf of US / NATO and the collective West.

Admiral John Kirby, spokesman for National Security at the White House

It is no coincidence that French President Macron practically simultaneously sends officially 2,000 French NATO troops to Ukraine. “Officially”, because western / NATO military advisers, trainers and coaches for Kiev’s Nazi-military have been in Kiev for quite a while.

Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski has called it an open secret that Western soldiers are in Ukraine. German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz said, “there are already some troops from big countries in Ukraine.” (See this)


This is clearly the crossing of President Putin’s Red Line. Mr. Macron knows it, those who mandate the crossing of the Red Line, like the WEF and those dark Deep State Cult forces behind the WEF, know it – and Moscow knows that they know it.

Is it a provocation to pull Moscow into a hot war?
And the Moscow Concert Hall assault being a doubling-up of the Red-Line crossing?

This happening in the Ides of March, and just after the confirmed landslide re-election of President Putin on 17 March 2024.

Ides of March, is the day in the ancient Roman calendar that falls approximately on Mid-March and is associated with misfortune and doom. The date is also known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Most US wars were initiated in March. Is it a symbolic cult ritual of the west?

It would perfectly fit into the Death Cult of the Great Reset (WEF) and the UN Agenda 2030, which are currently plaguing humanity – worldwide.

There are other non-coincidences. The 24 March 2024 is the 25th anniversary of the 1999 US-NATO assault on Yugoslavia (Ides of March) – currently being commemorated by a three-day Conference 22-24 March 2024, in Belgrade.

The destruction and dismembering of Yugoslavia were also planned by a long hand. After Josip Tito’s death in May 1980 (he served in several leadership positions of Yugoslavia from 1943 – 1980) – there were some lesser communist successors, who were vulnerable to western / NATO “pressures”, and let what was a solid Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) deteriorate, western-style.

In 1990 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia became de facto President of the SFR Yugoslavia attempting to hold the federation together – which in the ten years after President Tito’s departure was financially destabilized by the west. In the 1990s the SFR Yugoslavia was one of the first “cases” where the World Bank, IMF Washington Consensus was applied full-scale – indebting to destabilize, create internal unrest – and divide.

Mr. Milošević was captured, detained at the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prison in The Hague. He was poisoned on March 11, 2006 in his prison cell – shortly before his scheduled appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Once divided with constant civil unrest, there was “justification” for western rescue, i.e., bombing Yugoslavia literally into bits and pieces – leaving what we have today, numerous so-called independent former Yugoslavian Federal States – being economically and with “sanctions” controlled by the west.

This is the strategy Washington wants to apply to the Russian Federation – destabilizing it, fracturing it, Regime Change, and then taking it over.

Imagine! – The world’s biggest riches in the world’s largest country, absorbed or subdued by the (still) wannabe US Empire – and its European vassals.

It looks like the west wants a hot war with Russia, come hell or high water. Yes, it would be hell for Europe – for the third time in just over 100 years, and three-times for the same purpose – taking control of Russia, WWI, WWII and now WWIII?

A war – possibly nuclear – of which nobody can predict the outcome. As President Putin repeatedly said – there will be no winners, just absolute destruction.

Under no circumstances will Russia allow a take-over by an arrogant, criminal west. With Russian military’s far-superiority over US and NATO forces, this will not happen.

In the current Middle-East scenario, western leaders are supporting and funding the Israeli-Zionists, literally destroying and mass-killing – wiping out – Palestine, depicting an arrogance blinded by the zest for unlimited might, possibly driving humanity into a bottomless abyss.

A cleansing of this genocidal western “superiority” may bring birth of a new civilization – an evolution to a more spiritual and less material humanity.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

Fallout from Moscow’s Crocus City Hall

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Was the US behind the Moscow terror attack? The US and Ukraine will pay a high price. And that, I have been reliably informed, will extend to our Arab world.

By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.

The Ukraine war could be poised to take a dramatic new turn

The terrorist operation in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall centre, which killed 143 people and injured hundreds of others, mostly concertgoers, was clearly carried out by a group that had been given serious military training. It could mark a paradigm shift in the Ukraine war presaging a strategic escalation and NATO’s official entry into the war.

Two weeks earlier, the US embassy in Moscow had warned its citizens that extremists were planning imminent attacks on large gatherings, including concerts, in the Russian capital, and warned them to stay away. That foreknowledge of the planning and execution of the operation raised suspicions about a degree of complicity. Washington’s denunciation of the atrocity, and swift disavowal of involvement, cannot be taken at face value.

When the initial warning was made, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova remarked that if the US had information about terrorist actions of such enormity, it should have shared it with Russia. That was the first official hint from Moscow of suspected American complicity.

Two years into the Ukraine war, the US has begun to sense defeat. Russia has made a succession of gains, taking control of the Donbas region and annexing it after holding referendums.

Large-scale US and NATO intervention — on the material, military, and intelligence fronts — failed to achieve any major success. Russia did not collapse under the weight of draconian sanctions. Its economy remains strong. The predicted colour revolution never happened, nor the anticipated military coup to depose Putin.

The opposite occurred, with the Russian president getting re-elected with an 87% majority on a 74% turnout.

The resort to terrorist attacks in Moscow could be a mark of the US’ frustration and a response aimed at expanding the scope of the war. But that would not only be a losing bet. It could bring the prospect of a catastrophic nuclear war closer.

Putin announced on Saturday night that the eleven people involved in the attack, including four direct participants, had been apprehended.
Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of the Russia Today broadcast network, Margarita Simonyan, published video excerpts of the interrogation of one of the suspects. He identified himself as Feredoun Shamsedin, born in 1988, who arrived in Russia from Turkey on 4 March. He said he had been recruited via Telegram after following an extremist preacher, by someone who offered him 5 million roubles ($5,000) to conduct a mass killing in Moscow. Half of the money was transferred to him in advance.

I met Ms. Simonyan when I visited Moscow recently. She was constantly accompanied by a security detail because she had been subjected to death threats. She said she believed the Crocus atrocity was masterminded by the Ukrainian regime, rather than by ISIS as the US media were claiming. Putin’s subsequent assertion that the perpetrators were arrested while heading towards the Ukrainian border reinforced that accusation.

Russia’s fingers of blame pointed at Ukraine were a portent of fierce retaliation. It seems to have already begun. Former president and current deputy national security chief Dmitri Medvedev warned immediately after the massacre that Russia would hunt down any Ukrainian leaders proven to have been involved.

Reading between the lines, that may imply that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could be top of the target list.

Two days before the Crocus attack, Putin threatened Ukraine with ”war’—abandoning the term special military operation’ — in response to French President Emanual Macron’s hint that NATO could send 90,000 fully equipped troops to Ukraine. Under Russian military doctrine, a declaration of war authorises the use of all available means, including nuclear weapons.

The US administration, disoriented and defeated in Ukraine and (so far) the Middle East, is fueling this escalation against Russia. It is the primary beneficiary of the Crocus attack. Not just to destabilise Russia by stoking ethnic tensions, but also to divert international attention away from its collusion in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the failure of its cynical attempt at the UN Security Council to sustain it under the guise of favouring (but not actually calling for) a cease-fire.

Putin won’t forgive this assault on his capital while it was celebrating the renewal of his presidential term. He is likely to make the US and Ukraine pay a high price. And that, I have been reliably informed, will extend to our Arab world.

VVP’s Announced Telephone Conversations in Last Two Days

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Per Newton’s third law, Hell cometh to the demented Anglo-Zionist satanists in Greater Syria….


🇷🇺🇧🇾📞 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

The President of the Republic of Belarus expressed his heartfelt condolences on the monstrous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, conveyed words of sympathy and support to the victims’ families and wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured, emphasising that the people of Belarus stand together with the people of Russia in this time of sorrow.

Alexander Lukashenko offered any assistance that may be needed, and expressed his confidence that the organisers and perpetrators of this heinous crime will face inevitable punishment.

For his part, Vladimir Putin informed his counterpart about the detention of the terrorists directly involved in the attack, as well as about the ongoing investigation.

🤝 Both leaders expressed mutual readiness to continue close cooperation in the fight against terrorism.


🇷🇺🇰🇿📞 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

During his telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed his deep condolences over numerous victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, stressing that he resolutely condemns this barbaric crime, and asked to convey words of sympathy and support to the victims’ families and wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured.

Both Leaders reaffirmed their intention to step up anti-terror cooperation.


🇷🇺🇺🇿📞 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Mirziyoyev strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, expressed his sincere condolences in connection with the tragedy, and asked to convey words of support to the victims’ families and wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured.

Both Sides reaffirmed their intention to continue close cooperation to counter terrorism.


🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 On March 23, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his deep and heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the heinous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. He noted that the Republic of Türkiye stands with the people of Russia in this dark hour.

Vladimir Putin emphasised that Russia appreciates the support of the Turkish people and informed his Turkish counterpart on the status of the investigation into the terrorist attack.

During the conversation, the Turkish Leader stressed the urgent need for closer bilateral cooperation in the fight against the terrorist threat.

President Putin expressed gratitude for the condolences and supported the idea of stepping up cooperation in countering terrorism.


🇷🇺🇸🇾📞 On March 23, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad held a telephone conversation.

The President of Syria strongly condemned the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, stressing that Syrian citizens share the pain and grief of the Russian people. He wished fortitude to the victims’ families and friends and a speedy recovery to the injured.

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad discussed the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the current situation in Syria, which is directly facing the terrorist threat.

🤝 The Leaders agreed to intensify contacts both in addressing counterterrorism and in all other areas of bilateral cooperation.

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🇹🇯 🇷🇺 President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon telephoned Vladimir Putin to express deep condolences and solidarity with the Russian people over the death of innocent civilians in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. The President of Tajikistan emphasised that there was no nor could not be any justification for that crime.

During the conversation, Vladimir Putin and Emomali Rahmon noted that the security services of Russia and Tajikistan were working closely together to counter terrorism and that they would build up their cooperation.

Tajikistan’s President Rahmon during phone conversation with Russia’s Putin condemns terrorist attack in Russia, says terrorists have neither nationality nor religion

During the conversation, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev strongly condemned the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which claimed the lives of over 100 innocent civilians, expressed deep condolences to their families and friends, and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.

Ilham Aliyev stressed that the people of Azerbaijan stand together with the Russian people on this day of national mourning and expressed confidence that the severe punishment of the criminals and those who masterminded that crime was unavoidable.

Vladimir Putin thanked the President of Azerbaijan for his words of support and expressed readiness to further strengthen practical interaction in the spirit of strategic partnership and alliance between Russia and Azerbaijan.

The Day the combined West committed Suicide

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Twenty-five years ago, NATO started bombing Yugoslavia

On March 24, 1999, Western countries launched a series of devastating airstrikes on Belgrade, the capital of the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, which had been already suffering from a political crisis. The US and its allies declared that the Noble Anvil military op was motivated by “humanitarian” reasons and targeted only the military – but in reality, NATO airstrikes killed at least 2,500 people, ruined national infrastructure and sped up the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
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Sergey Lavrov at the UNSC

🎙 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Sergey Lavrov’s address to the President of the Security Council (March 24, 1999)

💬 The Russian Federation is profoundly outraged at the use by the NATO of military force against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

☝ Those who are involved in this unilateral use of force against the sovereign Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — carried out in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and without the authorization of the Security Council — must realize the heavy responsibility they bear for subverting the Charter and other norms of international law and for attempting to establish in the world, de facto, the primacy of force and unilateral diktat.

The members of NATO are not entitled to decide the fate of other sovereign and independent States. They must not forget that they are not only members of their alliance, but also Members of the United Nations.

❌ Attempts to justify the NATO strikes with arguments about preventing a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo are completely untenable.

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Attempts to apply a different standard to international law and to disregard its basic norms and principles create a dangerous precedent that could cause acute destabilization and chaos on the regional and global level.

The fact that NATO has opted to use force in Kosovo raises very serious questions about the sincerity of the repeated assurances that that alliance was not claiming the role of the world’s policeman and was prepared to cooperate in the interests of common European security.

❗ The Russian Federation vehemently demands the immediate cessation of this illegal military action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Nuremberg and the Crime of Wars of Aggression

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Primakov’s ‘U-Turn over Atlantic’

How Russian PM Primakov showed Moscow won’t be US satellite

On March 24, 1999, Yevgeny Primakov’s plane was en route to the US where the then-Russian prime minister was due to discuss an IMF loan to the tune of $5 billion for his country. But after then-US Vice President Al Gore told Primakov about NATO starting to bomb Yugoslavia, he decided to turn his plane around and go back to Moscow.

Despite Gore’s desperate attempts to persuade Primakov to backtrack on his decision and come to Washington, the Russian prime minister was undeterred.

“If I had accepted Gore’s terms, I would have been a real traitor,” Primakov later said.

Dr. Samuel Hoff, a professor of history and political science at Delaware State University, points to the significant expansion of NATO after the March 1999 incident.

“It is a fact that in 1999, NATO had 16 countries. And as we sit here in 2024, there are 32 members,” Hoff notes in an interview with Sputnik.

Peter Kuznick, a professor of history at the American University, tells Sputnik that Primakov’s U-turn over the Atlantic added significantly to tarnishing the already “strained” US-Russian relations at the time.

Referring to current “terrible” ties between Moscow and Washington, “the lack of trust” and a bilateral “polarization,” the professor says that one is “beginning to see signs of that certainly with Primakov’s mission in 1999.”

“So it certainly can be seen as an important turning point in terms of the deterioration of potential friendship between the US and Russia and creating a much more positive kind of multipolar world,” he concludes.

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NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia: A ‘culmination of negligence’ that opened Pandora’s box

Twenty-five years ago, NATO kicked off its 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. According to various sources, up to 2,500 people were killed and over 6,000 more injured during the bombing, which was not approved by the UN.

In an interview with Sputnik, Dr. Stevan Gajic, a Balkans expert and research associate at the Belgrade-based Institute of European Studies, says that the beginning of NATO’s “illegal attack” against Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999, was “a precedent that opened Pandora’s box.”

“It was a culmination of negligence of the international law that started since the end of the Cold War. Absolutely, [the] 1999 [NATO campaign] was a precedent. We can even say that the international law was in a way abolished at that moment and, of course, after that chaos was introduced into the system of international relations, Gacic points out.

The expert also didn’t rule out launching a “real investigation against NATO crimes” in Yugoslavia, which he says can only happen after the serious geopolitical changes following the collapse of NATO in one way or the other. He was echoed by Dr. Srdjan Sljukic, a professor of sociology at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, who tells Sputnik that “NATO aggression against Yugoslavia” reflected “two sorts of crimes,” such as “breaking the international law” and “bombing civilian objects and killing many civilians.”

Sljukic also warns that “as long as the key Western countries are ruled by the current liberal elites, NATO countries will not be put on fair trial because of their crimes in Yugoslavia and all over the world.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Statement in connection with the 25th anniversary of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia

History knows many events which, by virtue of their profound impact on the international order, marked a change of eras.

The NATO attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999 is certainly one such event. It went beyond being a tragic milestone in the life of the Serbian people with thousands of ruined lives and desecrated national dignity, and included a devastating blow to international law and European security foundations that had been laid after World War II. The United States and the EU got finally convinced in their own impunity and moral superiority which was bad news for those who prefer to choose their own path rather than become someone’s tool in their efforts to realise their own interests. The strategic balance of power collapsed, and a drawn-out crisis of international relations ensued which continues to worsen.

The US and its allies who assaulted a peaceful European country trampled on the UN Charter and the CSCE/OSCE principles, and desecrated the very notion of sovereignty. They have thus made it clear that they will stoop to anything, including radioactive contamination of vast swathes of land, to achieve global dominance. The widespread use of depleted uranium munitions by NATO has led to a multifold increase in cancer cases in that region, contaminated the environment where millions of people had lived for many years, and went down in history as a separate dark chapter on the list of NATO crimes.

During the 78 days of military aggression 14,000 bombs were dropped on Yugoslavia and over 2,000 missiles were fired, including cluster and demolition shells. Under the mocking front of a “humanitarian intervention,” mostly civilian targets were hit, including residential districts, hospitals, schools, bridges, mass transit vehicles, and refugee convoys. Thousands of civilians were killed, including 89 children, whom the Western coalition cynically referred to as “collateral damage.” No one has ever been held accountable for these atrocities, and international justice turned a deaf ear to the suffering of the Serbs and let NATO atrocities go unnoticed.

Not only the bombed-out buildings of the Yugoslav General Staff and Defence Ministry in central Belgrade which irritate the US officials to this day remind us of those terrible days. Serbia has many other unhealed wounds. A portion of the country’s ancestral territory, Kosovo and Metohija, has been forcibly taken away. The West has taken under its wing terrorists from the Kosovo Liberation Army, gave the province the status of a pseudo-state, and encourages the expulsion of the indigenous Serbian population.

This inevitably begs the question: was the “Kosovo project” worth the sacrifice and destruction that the alliance brought upon Yugoslavia? Has the self-proclaimed “republic” added stability or prosperity to the Balkan region?

There is no doubt that the United States’ concern for the rights of Kosovo Albanians is a fake claim from the get-go. It is nothing but a false pretext for the crackdown on Serbs.

The West’s goal was to turn the provisional self-governing bodies in Pristina into a tool for anti-Serb ethnic cleansing and a festering trouble spot to put pressure on Belgrade. At the end of the day, the Kosovo settlement is in a deadlock, and the situation on the ground threatens to escalate into an armed conflict.

This is what the Western “peacemaking” is all about. Its disastrous ramifications can now be seen in Ukraine, where a neo-Nazi regime has been nurtured on the basis of Washington and its supporters’ rejection of the principles of equality and mutual respect in international affairs, a regime that committed genocide against the Russian population and plunged the country into a military face-off.

We can hear the US and the EU increasingly call on Serbs to “turn the page” and forgive NATO for the invasion that took place 25 years ago. On top of that, they lay the bulk of the blame on the Serbs for the dramatic events during the breakup of Yugoslavia, including the 1999 bombing attacks. I’d be hard pressed to find proper words to describe the extent of Western shamelessness and lack of self-criticism.

The Alliance will never be able to wash off the shame of war crimes. No one believes its demagoguery about defending freedom and democracy anymore. The United States and the rest of NATO have no right whatsoever to talk about implementing an obscure new “rules-based order.” Their every effort to put together some kind of “global security architecture” is by definition malevolent and toxic, and aimed solely at perpetrating the neocolonial hegemony of the West.

Russia and its partners in Belgrade will continue to oppose the attempts to distort the history of the Yugoslav crisis and to shift the emphasis to demonising Serbs and justifying the 1999 aggression. The attempts to insult the memory of the innocent victims of NATO hangmen are unacceptable.

Turkey takes its Seat in Rules-based Terrorism Inc.

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Turkey starts to drift into view, as NATO becomes officially activated in Europe.. Turkish elites, in spite of antipathy of its working peoples for post-modern western values, remain at the heart of NATO.

To woo Washington, Erdogan will sell out Palestine

After Ankara and Washington successfully swapped Sweden’s NATO accession for an F-16 fighter jet deal, Turkiye is focused on accelerating that rapprochement and is willing to sweep divisive issues – like genocide in Gaza – under the rug.

By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan at The Cradle.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan

On 7–8 March, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Washington. The trip garnered attention as it marked Turkiye’s first official visit to the US following the conclusion of the ‘Sweden for F-16’ deal, whereby Ankara accepted Stockholm’s accession to NATO in exchange for US Congressional approval of the sale of 40 F-16s to Turkiye.

During the visit, the two Turkish officials met with their US counterparts Antony Blinken and William Burns, along with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and their respective foreign ministers chaired the seventh meeting of the US–Turkiye Strategic Mechanism.

“Naval Battle of Çesme at Night,” July 1770, Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1848)

US–Turkish rapprochement

The thaw in US–Turkish relations has been palpable, as noted by Jeff Flake, the US Ambassador to Ankara, during a televised interview: “Especially in recent months, the two countries have developed shared areas. We observe improvements in defense, trade, and interpersonal relations.”

A closer examination of the joint statement released following the meeting illustrates the transition of Turkish–American relations into a more favorable and cooperative phase.

Established in 2021 and inaugurated on 4 April 2021 amidst escalating discord between Turkiye and the US, the strategic mechanism was conceived to address and improve the strained bilateral relations.

The joint statement issued by the Strategic Mechanism this month included several crucial points, each carrying significant implications:

Both parties addressed the ongoing war in Ukraine, condemning Russia’s actions as ‘unacceptable’ while emphasizing the importance of upholding Ukraine’s unity and sovereignty. However, it is worth noting that Ankara’s endorsement of the statement’s rhetoric aligns more closely with Kiev’s perspective, a deviation from Turkiye’s previous neutral stance. This marked shift will undermine President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aspirations to mediate the conflict impartially.

“Destruction of the Turkish Fleet in the Bay of Chesme,” July 1770, Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), by Jacob Philipp Hackert, commissioned by Catherine II in 1772

Playing to the audience

On Israel’s brutal military assault in Gaza, the statement merely referred to an “ongoing crisis” and “underlined the importance of finding a path towards ending the conflict and addressing the humanitarian crisis immediately.” This is a war that Erdogan has, on the record, framed as a “genocide” and called its aggressors in Tel Aviv “war criminals.”

While both parties expressed support for the “two-state solution” as an end goal to the war, the statement’s release coincided with a fiery speech by Erdogan in Istanbul in which he attacked Israel, calling it “the Nazis of our time.” The contrast between the two statements is a real-time reflection of how Turkiye addresses its different target audiences.

On the issue of combating terrorism, the statement endorses joint US–Turkish efforts against organizations like the PKK, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda across regions spanning from Africa to Central Asia. They also recommitted to counterterrorism consultations and discussions on the Syria file, including the adherence to UN Resolution 2254 and supporting a “Syrian-led, Syrian-owned political process.”

The two parties addressed a multitude of regional issues in West Asia and Africa in alignment with the broader US strategy outlined by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, which focuses on partnership-building, deterrence, diplomacy, regional integration, and “democracy promotion” in these geographies.

This includes cooperation in military industry, energy, and trade development, reflecting the existing $30 billion trade volume between Washington and Ankara.

Significantly, the parties discussed leveraging financing opportunities under the Global Infrastructure and Investment Partnership – a western initiative intended to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This partnership includes the controversial India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), aimed at enhancing regional connectivity and economic development very much to the benefit of Israel.

New Turkish military action in Syria and Iraq?

As the municipal elections in Turkiye draw near – with Erdogan seeking to reclaim his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) control of Istanbul and Ankara after notable previous losses – there’s a tangible resurgence in Turkish rhetoric advocating for military action in northern Syria and Iraq.

According to reports from the Turkish news agency T24, the Turkish armed forces are gearing up for an operation against the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) inside its neighboring states following local elections on 31 March.

After a 4 March cabinet meeting, Erdogan spoke of Turkiye’s readiness for a comprehensive operation against the Kurdish separatist groups and reiterated Ankara’s objective of establishing a security corridor spanning 30 to 40 kilometers along the Turkish–Syrian border.

Although the military rhetoric is undoubtedly influenced by Erdogan’s bid to attract nationalist voters in the upcoming elections, it is also connected to the recent Turkish–Iraqi diplomatic breakthrough following a high-level Turkish delegation’s visit to Baghdad.

The meeting in the Iraqi capital led to a security deal in which both countries committed to take action against the PKK. A joint statement read:

Both sides stressed that the PKK organization represents a security threat to both Turkiye and Iraq, and it is certain that the presence of the organization on Iraqi territory represents a violation of the Iraqi constitution … Turkiye welcomed the decision taken by the Iraqi National Security Council to list the PKK as a banned organization in Iraq. The two sides consulted on the measures that must be taken against the organization and its banned extensions [PKK’s alleged offshoots] that target Turkiye from within Iraq’s territory.

Fidan’s senior adviser, Nuh Yilmaz, praised the move, saying, “Turkiye and Iraq decided for the first time to fight jointly against PKK terrorism.” In a post on platform X, he added: “A decision that will mark a turning point! We will see results gradually!”


Strategic interests come first 

According to a well-informed Turkish source:

Turkey’s main purpose is very clear. The presence of the PKK in Metina and Gara [in northern Iraq] has the potential to seriously threaten the Iraq Development Road Project … We both would like to remove PKK from these two areas as well as secure the area for the construction of the project, reaching both objectives in one step.

Ankara and Baghdad seek to counter any threat to this development road project, a land corridor linking the port of Faw in Basra to the Turkish border and from there to Europe.

In this context, Erdogan is expected to visit Baghdad for the first time since 2012, where, some speculate, he will try to conclude a border control security agreement with the Iraqi government and seek to convince Baghdad to support future Turkish military operations against the PKK.

Despite Turkiye and Erdogan’s vocal criticism of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, recent interactions between Ankara and Washington indicate a pragmatic approach in their dealings, through which Turkiye hopes to be reinstated as an important US strategic partner.

While the Turkish president is stepping up anti-Zionist rhetoric on his domestic front, his administration maintains substantial economic ties with Israel, exporting various vital goods and services to the occupation state.

Although a Washington–Ankara rapprochement is still in its nascent stage, recent developments reveal the old allies are on a positive trajectory to repair bilateral relations after a period of strained diplomatic ties.

Erdogan’s foreign policy approach – as exemplified by his rhetorical Gaza stance and material support for Israel – makes clear Turkiye’s shift toward prioritizing strategic interests over ideological ones.

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“Chesma battle of 1770,” Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), by Vladimir Kosov (2021)

Nuclear Threat, World War III and Turkey: Balance Policy or a Game?

Is Turkey’s rhetorical stance of “balancing” a genuine attempt at strategic equilibrium, or merely an endeavor to occupy multiple positions simultaneously?

By Erkin Öncan at Strategic Culture Foundation.

Alexander Stubb, the newly elected president of Finland, has made several noteworthy statements regarding the current geopolitical climate. He emphasized the escalating tensions amidst discussions of a World War III. Stubb, representing the center-right National Coalition Party, expressed openness to the possibility of allowing the transportation and storage of U.S. nuclear weapons in Finnish territory, branding them as a “guarantee of peace.” This stance remained consistent throughout his election campaign and was reiterated upon assuming office. Stubb underscored the necessity for Finland to possess a tangible nuclear deterrent force, citing NATO membership as pivotal in providing multiple layers of deterrence, including military, munitions, and nuclear deterrence from the USA. He further asserted that Finland’s alignment with NATO signifies a definitive step towards embracing Western values, a sentiment echoed by the inclusion of Turkey as an enthusiastic participant in the anticipated third major conflict.

However, Finland’s enthusiasm for NATO membership has not gone unnoticed by Russia, which shares a significant border with the country. In response to Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, Russian President Putin announced plans to bolster military presence along the Western borders to counteract perceived threats stemming from NATO’s eastward expansion. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov conveyed Moscow’s acknowledgment of the democratic choice made by the Finnish people but indicated pessimism regarding potential improvements in Russo-Finnish relations.

The most explicit reaction to Stubb’s nuclear policy came from Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mariya Zakharova. Addressing the issue during a weekly press conference at the World Youth Festival in Sochi, Zakharova outlined Russia’s stance on the placement of U.S. nuclear weapons in Northern Europe. She asserted that such deployments would be considered a direct threat and would consequently be designated as legitimate targets in the event of a direct military conflict between Russia and NATO. Zakharova underscored Russia’s awareness of the desires of the United States and its allies in this regard.

Izmir, Turkey: permanent headquarters of NATO Land Forces, known as Allied Land Command (LANDCOM).

The primary source of concern regarding nuclear capabilities is now widely recognized to stem from the potential for World War III to be nuclear in nature. When discussing nuclear power, the focus often turns to Russia, acknowledged as the “world’s largest nuclear power”.

Western media consistently highlights the perceived “nuclear threat emanating from the authoritarian Kremlin”. However, to truly address the concept of a “nuclear danger”, it is essential to consider the United States, which has transformed Europe into a depot for nuclear weapons, rather than Russia, which does not maintain nuclear forces beyond its borders, apart from the neighboring Belarus.

The United States and its NATO allies do not disclose precise figures regarding the stockpiles deployed in Europe. Nevertheless, estimates from the U.S.-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in 2021 suggest that around 100 U.S. nuclear weapons are stored across six bases in five NATO member countries.

These weapons are kept in inactive states within underground vaults at national air bases. Notably, the “permissive action link” (PAL) codes required to activate these weapons are under American control. In the event of their use, the weapons would be loaded onto warplanes designated by NATO.

This situation is intricately tied to the “modernization” efforts undertaken by nations operating F-35A, F-18 Super Hornet, or Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.

U.S. nuclear weapons have been stationed in Europe since the mid-1950s, authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for storage at NATO bases on the continent as a deterrent against the Soviet Union.

Stored in warehouses across Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countries, these weapons are maintained for potential deployment when required. Additionally, countries such as Czechia, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Romania participate in SNOWCAT operations, facilitating NATO partner involvement in nuclear missions.

Meanwhile, Finland, under the leadership of Stubb, is positioning itself as a significant player in the ongoing ’nuclear preparedness’ measures originally aimed at countering the USSR and persisting in response to Russia.

This dynamic persists alongside ongoing military actions initiated by NATO against Russia. Notably, the commencement of Steadfast Defender-24, hailed as NATO’s largest military exercise since the Cold War, marks a significant development. This exercise aims to test the transfer of military forces to Eastern Europe and beyond, encompassing regions where Russia’s influence is perceived as encroaching.

This exercise constitutes a series of 15 maneuvers rather than a singular major military operation.

Steadfast Defender encompasses various other exercises conducted at national or regional levels, including Joint Warrior, Solid Approach, Arctic Dolphin, Northern Response, Immediate Response, Brilliant Jump, Movable Defender, Slovak Shield, Saber Strike, Trojan Trail-24, and Spring Storm.

İzmir: rebranded ancient Smyrna from pre-historic through the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman, and Turk Periods.

Turkey actively participates in these exercises, with the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) playing a pivotal role in Brilliant Jump, Nordic Response, Saber Strike, and Immediate Response exercises.

Turkey’s involvement extends beyond military participation; it also hosts one of NATO’s most crucial commands. The permanent headquarters of NATO Land Forces, known as Allied Land Command (LANDCOM), is situated in Izmir.

Decisions regarding NATO’s land maneuvers are made at the command post within the General Vecihi Akın Barracks in Buca, Izmir. Given its historical significance, Izmir, where the first shot was fired against invaders a century ago, could potentially be remembered as the site where the decision to initiate the first shot of a world-engulfing war was made if a new global conflict were to erupt on Russia’s borders.

This prompts consideration of Turkey’s rhetorical stance of “balancing”. Is it a genuine attempt at strategic equilibrium, or merely an endeavor to occupy multiple positions simultaneously?

Gaza Update: Anglo-Zionist Pier & Bifurcation Road

Par : AHH

Along with the latest news from the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank, Jon Elmer takes a look at the US military operation to build a pier in Gaza City and how that plan lines up with Israel’s ongoing construction of a highway south of Gaza City that will divide the Strip between north and south.

It’s War: The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now

Par : AHH

“Rules-based Terrorism” Returns to Moskau. No more shadow play. It’s now in the open. No holds barred.

By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.


Exhibit 1:
 Friday, March 22, 2024. It’s War. The Kremlin, via Peskov, finally admits it, on the record.

The money quote:

“Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has a documented intention to use any methods to take Crimea away from it, not to mention the territory of new regions.”

Translation: the Hegemon-constructed Kiev mongrel is doomed, one way or another. The Kremlin signal: “We haven’t even started” starts now.

Exhibit 2: Friday afternoon, a few hours after Peskov. Confirmed by a serious European – not Russian – source. The first counter-signal.

Regular troops from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. A substantial force. No numbers leaked. They are being housed in schools. For all practical purposes, this is a NATO force.

That signals, “Let the games begin”. From a Russian point of view, Mr. Khinzal’s business cards are set to be in great demand.

Exhibit 3: Friday evening. Terror attack on Crocus City, a music venue northwest of Moscow. A heavily trained commando shoots people on sight, point blank, in cold blood, then sets a concert hall on fire. The definitive counter-signal: with the battlefield collapsing, all that’s left is terrorism in Moscow.

And just as terror was striking Moscow, the US and the UK, in southwest Asia, was bombing Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, with at least five strikes.

Some nifty coordination. Yemen has just clinched a strategic deal in Oman with Russia-China for no-hassle navigation in the Red Sea, and is among the top candidates for BRICS+ expansion at the summit in Kazan next October.

Not only the Houthis are spectacularly defeating thalassocracy, they have the Russia-China strategic partnership on their side. Assuring China and Russia that their ships can sail through the Bab-al-Mandeb, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with no problems is exchanged with total political support from Beijing and Moscow.


The sponsors remain the same

Deep in the night in Moscow, before dawn on Saturday 23. Virtually no one is sleeping. Rumors dance like dervishes on countless screens. Of course nothing has been confirmed – yet. Only the FSB will have answers. A massive investigation is in progress.

The timing of the Crocus massacre is quite intriguing. On a Friday during Ramadan. Real Muslims would not even think about perpetrating a mass murder of unarmed civilians under such a holy occasion. Compare it with the ISIS card being frantically branded by the usual suspects.

Let’s go pop. To quote Talking Heads: “This ain’t no party/ this ain’t no disco/ this ain’t no fooling around”. Oh no; it’s more like an all-American psy op. ISIS are cartoonish mercenaries/goons. Not real Muslims. And everyone knows who finances and weaponizes them.

That leads to the most possible scenario, before the FSB weighs in: ISIS goons imported from the Syria battleground – as it stands, probably Tajiks – trained by CIA and MI6, working on behalf of the Ukrainian SBU. Several witnesses at Crocus referred to “Wahhabis” – as in the commando killers did not look like Slavs.

It was up to Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic to cut to the chase. He directly connected the “warnings” in early March from American and British embassies directed at their citizens not to visit public places in Moscow with CIA/MI6 intel having inside info about possible terrorism, and not disclosing it to Moscow.

The plot thickens when it is established that Crocus is owned by the Agalarovs: an Azeri-Russian billionaire family, very close friends of…

… Donald Trump.

Talk about a Deep State-pinpointed target.

ISIS spin-off or banderistas – the sponsors remain the same. The clownish secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, was dumb enough to virtually, indirectly confirm they did it, saying on Ukrainian TV, “we will give them [Russians] this kind of fun more often.”

But it was up to Sergei Goncharov, a veteran of the elite Russia Alpha anti-terrorism unit, to get closer to unwrapping the enigma: he told Sputnik the most feasible mastermind is Kyrylo Budanov – the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

The “spy chief” who happens to be the top CIA asset in Kiev.

Stoking the unholy USUK meatgrinder

It’s got to go till the last Ukrainian

The three exhibits above complement what the head of NATO’s military committee, Rob Bauer, previously told a security forum in Kiev: “You need more than just grenades – you need people to replace the dead and wounded. And this means mobilization.”

Translation: NATO spelling out this is a war until the last Ukrainian.

And the “leadership” in Kiev still does not get it. Former Minister of Infrastructure Omelyan: “If we win, we will pay back with Russian oil, gas, diamonds and fur. If we lose, there will be no talk of money – the West will think about how to survive.”

In parallel, puny “garden-and jungle” Borrell admitted that it would be “difficult” for the EU to find an extra 50 billion euros for Kiev if Washington pulls the plug. The cocaine-fueled sweaty sweatshirt leadership actually believes that Washington is not “helping” in the form of loans, but in the form of free gifts. And the same applies for the EU.

The Theater of the Absurd is unmatchable. The German Liver Sausage Chancellor actually believes that proceeds from stolen Russian assets “do not belong to anyone”, so they can be used to finance extra Kiev weaponizing.

Everyone with a brain knows that using interest from “frozen”, actually stolen Russian assets to weaponize Ukraine is a dead end – unless they steal all of Russia’s assets, roughly $200 billion, mostly parked in Belgium and Switzerland: that would tank the Euro for good, and the whole EU economy for that matter.

Eurocrats better listen to Russian Central Bank major “disrupter” (American terminology) Elvira Nabiullina: The Bank of Russia will take “appropriate measures” if the EU does anything on the “frozen”/stolen Russian assets.

It goes without saying that the three exhibits above completely nullify the “La Cage aux Folles” circus promoted by the puny Petit Roi, now known across his French domains as Macronapoleon.

Virtually the whole planet, including the English-speaking Global North, had already been mocking the “exploits” of his Can Can Moulin Rouge Army.

So French, German and Polish soldiers, as part of NATO, are already in the south of Kiev. The most possible scenario is that they will stay far, far away from the frontlines – although traceable by Mr. Khinzal’s business activities.

Even before this new NATO batch arriving in the south of Kiev, Poland – which happens to serve as prime transit corridor for Kiev’s troops – had confirmed that Western troops are already on the ground.

So this is not about mercenaries anymore. France, by the way, is only 7th in terms of mercenaries on the ground, largely trailing Poland, the US and Georgia, for instance. The Russian Ministry of Defense has all the precise records.

In a nutshell: now war has morphed from Donetsk, Avdeyevka and Belgorod to Moscow. Further on down the road, it may not just stop in Kiev. It may only stop in Lviv. Mr. 87%, enjoying massive national near-unanimity,  now has the mandate to go all the way. Especially after Crocus.

There’s every possibility the terror tactics by Kiev goons will finally drive Russia to return Ukraine to its original 17th century landlocked borders: Black Sea-deprived, and with Poland, Romania, and Hungary reclaiming their former territories.

Remaining Ukrainians will start to ask serious questions about what led them to fight – literally to their death – on behalf of the US Deep State, the military complex and BlackRock.

As it stands, the Highway to Hell meat grinder is bound to reach maximum velocity.

La guerre en Ukraine ou la douloureuse naissance d’un monde nouveau

Par : STRATPOL

Deux ans après le début de la guerre en Ukraine, la réalité contredit les prévisions hasardeuses du camp occidental qui

L’article La guerre en Ukraine ou la douloureuse naissance d’un monde nouveau est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

How could Russia respond to NATO invasion?

Par : AHH

Will France/NATO invade Ukraine? How will Russia respond?

🇫🇷🚨 Will France invade Ukraine? How will Russia respond?

☢ Scott Ritter goes nuclear on French President Emmanuel Macron, Poland, and the Baltic States (“over-fed chihuahuas”). Don’t watch this episode if you’re a NATO fanboy! #NewRulesPodcast pic.twitter.com/Zb3s90VxES

— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) March 21, 2024

In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, we’re discussing the potential of a French/NATO military intervention in Ukraine. Longtime friend of the program, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter goes NUCLEAR on French President Emmanuel Macron, Poland, and the Baltic States.

“France is the equivalent of an overfed Chihuahua, and you don’t want to get in the ring with the really beefed up Rottweilers, especially when they’ve been trained to eat overfed Chihuahuas their entire life,” he told the New Rules podcast.

 

Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate

Par : AHH

Ansarallah has single-handedly disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Yemen is launching attacks against Israeli-linked vessels deep into the Indian Ocean to cut off the last waterway route to the occupation state.

By Khalil Harb at The Cradle.

Our people are ready to send hundreds of thousands of mujahideen to Palestine. Okay, geography might pose a problem. It could be a problem for our people to go there in large numbers. Nevertheless, and despite all the obstacles, we will not hesitate to do whatever we can. We are completely coordinated with our brothers in the Jihad and resistance front to do anything and everything that we can do.  — Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, 10 October 2023

Since Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s proclamation three days after the launch of the Palestinian resistance’s 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, under his leadership, has undergone a remarkable transformation.

Ansarallah’s maritime reach has surpassed all initial expectations, now extending to the distant shores of the Indian Ocean in its ambitious plan to besiege Israel by targeting the occupation state’s shipping interests.

Yemen’s strategic position not only serves as a beacon of hope for Palestinians enduring Israel’s brutal military assault on their lives, homes, and livelihoods but has also become a crucial pillar in the Axis of Resistance’s fight against US hegemonic machinations in West Asia.

In late February, al-Houthi vowed to expand the scope of attacks against Israel-linked vessels, stating, “We have surprises that the enemies do not expect at all,” before announcing the successful testing of a new hypersonic missile.

This stands in stark contradiction to western narratives trumpeting their own containment efforts to encircle Yemen and thwart its ability to intercept Israel-bound vessels. If anything, the naval operations undertaken by the Ansarallah-aligned armed forces are instead rippling outward, spanning a remarkable distance of over 6,000 kilometers from the Yemeni coast to the Indian Ocean.

Failure of ‘Prosperity Guardian’

Crucially, Yemen’s defiance has drawn widespread, popular support from its once-warring nationals, not just in support of Gaza and the Israeli blockade but also against the relentless US and British airstrikes launched under the fig leaf of Operation ‘Prosperity Guardian‘ – an extrajudicial imperial project which aims to cripple Ansarallah’s military capabilities under the guise of securing international shipping and trade routes.

Yet al-Houthi’s unequivocal declaration on barring the passage of ships associated with Israel, or those engaged in commercial ties with it, from traversing the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope shows that Washington and London have been dealt a resounding strategic defeat.

By targeting these two new critical waterway passages, Yemen imposes a new reality on global shipping routes. This phase of the naval battle presents a significant threat to the world’s established maritime corridors, compelling commercial vessels traveling to and from Southeast Asia to navigate lengthier and more costly routes around the southern tip of Africa to reach the Mediterranean Sea.

Iran’s partner, not a proxy

Al-Houthi’s message is clear: “Do the Americans, British, and the Zionists expect that any aggressive act against Yemen will distract us from defending Gaza?” Ansarallah recently announced the targeting of over 70 commercial ships with ties to Israel, alongside military battleships across the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean.

Moreover, Yemen’s stance challenges western reports of secret talks brokered by Oman between the US and Iran, purportedly aimed at containing the conflict, preventing it from spreading further from the ‘Yemeni front.’

Despite Washington’s announcement that it has released $10 billion in frozen Iranian funds and its ferocious intimidation and enticement maneuvers behind the scenes, Sanaa’s strategic move towards the Indian Ocean should dismiss any rumors about an impending ‘US–Iran deal.’

Instead of acquiescing to US pressure, Tehran is working to maintain stability and avert all-out war through its ‘support fronts’ in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. The escalation in Yemen poses a greater regional challenge, overshadowing any temporary truces in Iraq by some factions.

While the Biden administration attempts to portray its diplomatic efforts as successes, particularly through indirect negotiations with Tehran and plans to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, the situation in Yemen remains a humiliating inconvenience for a White House heading into an election cycle. This comes against the backdrop of a White House also frantically trying to manage the Iraqi and Lebanese arenas, which are equally pushing back against US hegemonic interests.

As the spokesman for the Iraqi resistance Al-Nujaba movement, Dr Hussein al-Musawi, tells The Cradle:

Our principles are clear and firm regarding the American presence on Iraqi soil, which is a complete exit without any interference in our political, economic, and other affairs; ending its control over the aspects of Iraq’s politics; and liberating its land and wealth; and political and economic independence.

Economic ramifications for Israel 

Sanaa’s strategic maneuvering in the Red Sea–Gulf of Aden–Indian Ocean corridor not only poses a distraction for US and British naval forces but also presents unforeseen challenges. While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Israel after announcing his ‘Guardian of Prosperity’ operation, the Yemeni resistance was busy adding millions of square kilometers to their area of missile confrontation.

The 12 percent of global trade passing through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait has already suffered a blow to the core. The resulting disruptions, including increased shipping costs and insurance premiums, are anticipated to fuel inflation and potentially paralyze Israeli ports such as Eilat and decrease traffic in Haifa.

While the full extent of damage to Israel’s foreign trade remains unclear, initial estimates suggested losses exceeding $180 billion, considering pre-existing trade figures from 2022.

Yemen’s growing naval capabilities

Simultaneously, the question arises: how will the ‘Guardian of Prosperity’ forces, previously tasked with monitoring just the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to counter Yemeni missile threats, manage the vast expansion required to monitor the thousands of ships traversing to and from the Cape of Good Hope across the Indian Ocean?

While the US and UK do not reveal the number of naval vessels assigned to their almost impossible mission, numbers circulating claim the participation of several US battleships, including the USS Laboon, USS Carney, and USS Mason – and from the British, the destroyer HM Diamond. Greece is estimated to have one frigate involved, France contributes naval vessels under US command, and Italy claims to have a frigate that operates outside the operation’s banner. Although the coalition publicly announced the inclusion of more than twenty countries in its mission, the actual naval commitment from its members appears negligible.

Furthermore, it’s hard not to notice the fundamental inefficiencies inherent to the western naval operation: the US “is launching $2 million defense missiles to stop $2,000 Houthi drones.” It was no surprise then when a Pentagon spokesman acknowledged a few days ago that despite ongoing western strikes on Yemen, Ansarallah’s capabilities have not been undermined.

And then Abdul-Malik al-Houthi comes along and adds the Indian Ocean to the US’ horror scenario with an area exceeding 70 million square kilometers.

Ali al-Qahum of Ansarallah’s Political Bureau characterizes this expansion as a “shocking and unexpected surprise” for the resistance’s adversaries. At the same time, it amplifies Yemen’s globally strategic significance as a military force – one that can successfully execute a comprehensive siege on Israel.

It is not clear whether the announcement of including the Indian Ocean in the Yemeni naval operations is related to the tests of the hypersonic missile. It would make Yemen one of only a small handful of nations to possess this unique military capability – Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.

Regardless, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s ability to take the enemy by surprise showcases Yemen’s capacity to disrupt established power dynamics, particularly in the West Asian region. By supporting Gaza unequivocally, the Yemeni front within the Resistance Axis is further diminishing US influence amid the waves of the Indian Ocean, unless a lasting ceasefire is imposed in Gaza.

Daily Chronicles … OT March 22

Par : AHH

We joke, especially of the French, and plainly their leaders could give Charlie Chaplin a run for top billing, but the seriousness of what is underway in Europe is awesome to behold. One firm deliberate step is taken after another, designed to ever widen the War. No Nazi Empire has ever gone gently into the night. Peskov made it quasi official today, admitting the obvious; Russia is at War with the combined West.

Should we open a dedicated Open Thread for those playing closest attention? Most interesting will be the coalescing and fracturing alliances, especially Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia, Austria; how will they respond? Are they important, outside of Turkey? The Chaos-managers seek to spread to the Heartland of our world the same conflagration which afflicts the Rimlands during the past decades…


March 25

UNSC calls for ‘immediate’ Gaza ceasefire

Let’s see how the satanists find a way to flaunt the will of the UNSC. This is quite likely, to apply the coup-de-grace to the dead Old Order; the humiliation ritual of the UN System and to demonstrate impotence of the combined West and other permanent members too. Note the USA merely abstained..

December 4, 2023. General Stooge, a.k.a. Milley, lays down the road map, explained in person by Nuland in Kiev in late January.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Main world events by the morning of March 25:
🔸The Cranes campaign took place in Moscow and other Russian cities: A projection in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall appeared on buildings and media screens;
🔸The number of people injured in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall has reached 182, the Ministry of Health of Moscow region reported. The death toll in the attack stands at 137, the Russian Investigative Committee said;
🔸The rescuers of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations are working around the clock to sort out the rubble, the work does not stop for a minute;
🔸A court in Moscow arrested four suspects in the case of the terrorist attack until May 22. Two of them have fully admitted their guilt. They face life imprisonment;
🔸Military servicemen guarding the state border of Russia, who showed bravery during the apprehension of the suspected terrorists in the Bryansk region, have received state and departmental awards;
🔸Russia’s air defense systems have intercepted 11 Ukrainian drones over the territory of the Rostov region at night; [As with striking Yemen, they don’t care about the futility. The Last Satanic Empire seeks to drive psychological terror and sense of siege. See Milley above. And tries to convince itself it remains virile and capable of power projection even as it bleeds out]
🔸The Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a group attack on energy and military-industrial complex facilities in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
🔸The head of the US Border Patrol has called the situation at the border a threat to national security. The number of detained migrants has been gradually approaching 1 million since the beginning of the fiscal year 2024; [who’s a greater threat — migrants or the political head of the US Border Patrol?]
🔸The United States and Japan are planning the biggest update of a security treaty in more than 60 years to confront China and the DPRK, the Financial Times newspaper reported.

⭕ ❗No coherent version of the terrorist attack at Crocus has yet been voiced; information from law enforcement agencies should be expected, the Kremlin says
More statements by Kremlin spokesman Peskov:
🔸Russian special services are working on the terrorist attack in Crocus independently, there is no help from other countries;
🔸There are no contacts with Western countries in connection with the investigation of the terrorist attack in Crocus;
🔸The fight against terrorism requires international cooperation, which is currently not being carried out to any extent due to a period of extreme aggravation.

⭕ 🇷🇺 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack was a “false flag” operation, Sputnik’s parent company editor-in-chief says
“A monstrous, brutal and unthinkable ‘false flag’ operation has taken place. It was carried out by someone with someone else’s hands,” said Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya media group.

⭕ Shadows and Ashes: The Crocus City Hall Massacre and the Covert War’s Phantom Menace ISIS, Cui Bono?
🔸US and Ukraine’s rapid denials post-Crocus City Hall massacre are extremely revealing.
🔸Was ISIS’s claim a smokescreen for the real culprits?  We remember CIA’s brainchild Operation Timber Sycamore. Facing humiliating defeat on the battlefield the US needs to escalate. Cui bono?  👇👇👇
https://islanderreports.substack.com/p/shadows-and-ashes-the-crocus-city

💠 @ukraine_watch:
⭕🚇 A ring railway linking Rostov-on-Don with Crimea via Donbass and Novorossiya will be operational by the end of 2024, Kherson Oblast Governor Vladimir Saldo told Rossiya 24 television.

“Now a project is being implemented just for the four new regions – the construction of a branch of the new railway, which will run from Rostov via Berdyansk to Melitopol, and from Melitopol on to Crimea. <…> Practically by the end of this year the ring road will be in operation. This is according to the schedule that the contractors have now submitted to the Crimean government for approval,” Saldo said.

💠 @Bellum Acta:
⭕ #BREAKING
🇷🇺❌🇺🇦❗ — Ukrainian media reports that over the past hour, Russian Hypersonic missiles struck multiple places of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv/Kiev!
🔸According to Ukrainian reports, the missiles were fired from over Crimea Peninsula
🔸They covered the distance of 580 km to the city in 3 minutes at an estimated speed of 11,600 km/h (7,200mph)!
🔸Multiple buildings were destroyed and reportedly an airfield was targeted! |media|  

⭕ Mr. Khinzal is busy handin’ out his business cards


March 24

💠Dmitry Medvedev:

“The Kingdom of Heaven to all those innocently killed!

We will avenge everyone. And everyone involved, regardless of country of origin and status, is now our legal and main goal.

Wait, bastards.”


💠Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

💬 White House National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson: “ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack [in Krasnogorsk]. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.”

Why haven’t they solved the assassination of their own president, John Fitzgerald Kenndy, so quickly? They have been trying to find the real assassin for 60 years. Maybe ISIS bears responsibility for his assassination too? Or will they waste another 60 years playing at “constructive uncertainty”?

Now, look at the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipeline. According to the United States – The New York Times has cited comments by US officials – Ukrainians were involved in that crime. However, US authorities later went down “beneath the surface” and are still looking for Kiev or ISIS divers there. Washington has not uttered a word of encouragement to the Danish or Swedish authorities to keep looking for the culprits, and the Anglo-Saxons have blocked Russia’s proposal to the Security Council to launch an international investigation under the UN umbrella.

Taken together, this shows that the US political elites have become skilled in diverting attention from high-profile crimes and launching false flag operations over the past decades.

In short, anything said in Washington to whitewash Kiev before the end of the investigation into the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall should be regarded as incriminating evidence, considering that liberal US Democrats have been financing the terrorist gang in Kiev and the Biden family has been involved in corruption schemes for years.

🕯 President Vladimir Putin honoured the memory of all who perished in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall by Orthodox tradition |video|

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗ The latest updates on the terrorist attack at Russia’s Crocus City Hall:
🔸As a result of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow, 152 people were injured, including five children, the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Moscow Region said;
🔸Serbian Interior Ministry announced enhancing security measures in public places, including shopping malls, after a meeting of the National Security Council dedicated to the deadly terrorist attack;
🔸Terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow could be discussed at one of the upcoming meetings of the UN Security Council, UN Under Secretary General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov told Sputnik;
🔸The US continues to believe the Daesh* terrorist group (ISIS) is responsible for the terrorist attack in the Moscow Region and rules out any Ukrainian involvement, a White House National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement to Sputnik;
🔸The Russian government will carefully study the issue of introducing the death penalty in the country and will make a decision, taking into account the expectations of Russian society, the leader of the United Russia party faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasilyev, said;
🔸The rescue operation at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow has wrapped up, with 133 bodies pulled from the rubble, while the search effort is still underway, Moscow Region governor said;
🔸Nicaragua and the Republika Srpska, one of two entities comprising Bosnia and Herzegovina, have declared March 24 a day of mourning in a sign of solidarity with Russia;

⭕ Police block Latvians from laying flowers at Russian embassy in Riga
🔸”Hundreds of Latvian residents who share the pain of our people continue to bring flowers and oil lamps to the walls of the Embassy in Riga as a sign of support for Russia and the families of the victims of the tragic events in the Moscow Region … Latvian police forbid caring citizens to approach the diplomatic mission building to honor the memory of the victims of the horrific terrorist attack,” the Russian embassy said.
🔸The makeshift memorial was set up across the street from the embassy, among the items put on display “by Latvian nationalists and Russophobes,” the embassy said.
🔸It added that Latvian officials had neither condemned the terrorist attack nor offered condolences to the families of the victims, which “suggests that Riga is well aware of who is behind this bloodshed and endorses terror against the civilian population” of Russia.

⭕ Russian air defense shot down 19 vampire rockets over Belgorod region, defense ministry states
🔸”On March 23, at about 23:00 Moscow time [20:00 GMT], an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation using the Czech RM-70 Vampire [MLRS] multiple launch rocket system was prevented. Nineteen rockets were destroyed by air defense systems over the Belgorod Region,” the ministry said.
🔸Russian air defense systems were active over Belgorod and the Belgorod region — 10 air targets were shot down as they approached the city, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said late Saturday evening.

⭕ Russian air defenses destroy several targets over Crimea’s Sevastopol, governor says
🔸”Air defenses continue to operate. Several air targets have been shot down, according to preliminary data,” Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said.
🔸Besides the child, a woman was wounded in the arm when debris from the downed missiles hit a five-story house, the governor said, adding that over 10 projectiles had been destroyed.
🔸One person was killed, and four others were injured as a result of the attack on the city, Razvozhayev stated. He added that a 65-year-old man died after a rocket fragment hit a residential building.

⭕ “Joy for Ukrainian authorities”: Malian activist on terrorist attack near Moscow

Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall is a “heinous crime” that should not remain unpunished, Abdoulaye Diallo, the communications officer of the Collective for the rebuilding of Mali, told Sputnik Africa, adding that these tragic events are pleasing the Ukrainian authorities.

“First of all, I would like to express my condolences to the Russian people, to the families of the victims who died in this horror,” he stressed. “This criminal act, which took place in Russia, is also a source of joy for the Ukrainian authorities, who want to harm Russia at all costs.”

According to the activist, if other people do harm to Russia, “even if the order does not come from them [the Ukrainian authorities], they will be ready to welcome these people.”

As for the perpetrators of the bloody crime, Diallo said he “cannot put the responsibility on the Daesh*.” “If we put the responsibility for this attack on Daesh*, it will exonerate the real perpetrators,” he added.

⭕ Crocus City Hall terrorists were recruited through Ukrainian embassy in Tajikistan, military expert says
🔸A few weeks before the terrorist attack near Moscow, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission published information on its social media about inviting foreigners to join the so-called “International Legion,” military expert, ex-special service officer, retired Colonel Bakhtiyer Rakhmonov, told Sputnik.
🔸Eleven people were detained in connection with the Friday attack, including four who were directly involved, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
🔸FSB added that after the terrorist attack, the criminals intended to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine through relevant contacts in Ukraine.

⭕ Western bloc interested in terrorist attack on Moscow, Burkinabe expert says
🔸The fact that the perpetrators of Friday’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow tried to flee to Ukraine indicates that the clients of the terrorist attack are Western countries, Bayala Lianhoué Imhotep, a political analyst from Burkina Faso, told Sputnik Africa.
🔸”The direction taken by the terrorists is indicative of the possible sponsors behind this act,” he said. “The direction towards Ukraine clearly shows that this is a hostile attack by the Western international coalition.”
🔸The expert added that “whoever is interested in these disastrous and extremely serious attacks is naturally the Western bloc.”
🔸As for the possible involvement of Daesh*, “it’s clearly questionable whether they’re not serving Western interests,” he said. “I clearly believe that it’s just a kind of veneer we’re trying to put on the Western responsibility for this slaughter, and Daesh is playing the fool in order to take the blame off the West and NATO,” the analyst concluded.

⭕ 🇧🇯🇷🇺 “Daesh’s method is not necessarily the one used at Crocus City Hall,” Beninese analyst says
🔸Despite Daesh’s* claim of responsibility for the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, located just outside Moscow to the northwest, questions remain, Modeste Dossou, Beninese columnist and analyst told Sputnik Africa.
🔸 “Are these really the methods of Daesh? We’ve never seen Daesh carry out an attack and exfiltrate so quickly. They often carry out suicide attacks. They detonate bombs or shoot and stay there until the troops come to arrest or neutralize them,” he explained.

⭕ 🇨🇮🇷🇺 “False path”: Ivorian activist on alleged Daesh trail in terrorist attack near Moscow
🔸 The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on Friday is a “desperate act” that could show the “shadow of people from the NATO bloc,” Sylvain Takoué, the general director of the Vladimir Putin International Prize, told Sputnik Africa.
🔸 “Making people believe that Daesh* is claiming responsibility for this attack effectively clears the way for the real sponsors, while this is not Daesh’s procedure,” he argued.
🔸 The fact that the perpetrators fled towards Ukraine could indicate a desire to return to “their rear base” with the aim of “rendering account to their sponsors,” Takoué added.
🔸 On the other hand, it could be a “simulation plan” to “make it look like the attack was sponsored by Ukraine.” “On this point, too, eyes are turning to those who could have been the real sponsors, in this case Russia’s adversaries, those in the NATO bloc,” he elaborated.


March 23


💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the White House’s reaction to the terrorist attack in Moscow:

“The White House said it saw no indication that Ukraine or Ukrainians were involved in the terrorist attack in Moscow.

On what basis do officials in Washington draw any conclusions about anyone’s innocence in the midst of a tragedy? If the United States has or had reliable information in this regard, then it must be immediately transferred to the Russian side.

And if there is no such data, then the White House has no right to issue indulgences to anyone.

All those involved, as stated by the Russian leadership, will be identified by the competent authorities.”
⭕ Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on television that Friday’s terrorist attack in Moscow is similar to the modus operandi of one world power, but not the United States, without naming the country in question.
🔸“On March 7, the US Embassy in the Russian Federation called on its citizens not to go shopping in shopping centers and concert halls. This means that their intelligence services intercepted certain conversations and knew that this would happen… There is one world power, not America, whose this is the way to act,” Vucic said on TV Prva and added that he expects an escalation of hostilities in Ukraine and an approaching conflict at the global level.
🔸Earlier, the President of Serbia expressed condolences to the leadership and people of Russia on television in connection with the terrorist attack in Moscow. He also confirmed that he had convened a meeting of the Serbian National Security Council on Saturday in light of the tragedy in Crocus City.
⭕ The upper floors of the Crocus City Hall were completely destroyed by fire, Sputnik correspondent reports
⭕ ❗The latest updates on the terrorist attack at Russia’s Crocus City Hall:
🔻Preliminary data show that more than 60 people died as a result of a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall, the Russian Investigative Committee said;
🔻A total of 115 people, including five children, have been hospitalized after a terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall, Russian health minister said;
🔻At least three children have died in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, according to Moscow Region’s Health Ministry;
⭕  The queue at the blood donation center in Moscow is growing, despite the bad weather, reports a Sputnik correspondent
⭕ 🕯🇷🇺 In Donetsk, people are bringing flowers to the “Russia” stele in memory of the victims of the Friday terrorist attack in the Crocus City concert hall [wounded Yemen comforts Palestine..]
⭕ Vigils in memory of those killed in Friday’s terrorist attack are being held across Russia. Mourning inscriptions appear on media screens in Russian cities.
⭕ ❗ The head of the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) informed President Putin about the detention of 11 people, including all four terrorists directly involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the Kremlin said
🔸Further work is underway to identify the accomplice base in the terrorist attack’s investigation
⭕❗US intelligence [notification to Russia] about the preparation of a terrorist attack in Moscow was of a general nature, without any specifics, a source in the Russian intelligence service tells Sputnik
⭕ ❗ The number of deaths as a result of the terrorist attack in Moscow has risen to 93, the Russian Investigative Committee reported
🔸The investigators added that the death toll will further increase.
🔸According to preliminary data, the causes of death were gunshot wounds and poisoning by combustion products due to the massive fire.
⭕ ❗Russia’s Federal Security Service statements on terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall:
🔸The attack was carefully planned, and work is underway to determine the full circumstances;
🔸Four terrorists detained several hours apart in Russia’s Bryansk region;
🔸Terrorists detained in the Bryansk region are currently being transferred to Moscow;
🔸The weapons used by the terrorists in Crocus City Hall had been prepared in advance in a cache;
🔸After committing the terrorist act, the perpetrators intended to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine and had relevant contacts in Ukraine.
⭕❗The death toll from the terrorist attack has risen to 115, the Russian Investigative Committee said
⭕ ❗The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations shows footage of clearing the rubble in the Crocus City Hall following a devastating fire that erupted during the terrorist attack on Friday  |video
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⚡🇷🇺🇺🇦 Abdulkhakim Shishani, by which name he has been known for the last few years.

In the photo, he is in the border zone near the Belgorod region, during the attack that took place a few days ago.

This “man” is not just ordinary Barmaley, but one of the leaders of the Idlib gangs, which included fugitive militants from the CIS.

This “man” has been in Ukraine for a long time and is the link between the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the radical rabble he commanded in Syria.

Let us note that the gang of this animal was directly connected with major terrorist organizations, as well as with the so-called “moderate” groups financed by the United States and Britain.

Attempts to pretend that Ukraine has nothing to do with these freaks have failed completely.

Now let’s bring together a few facts: could terrorists from Crocus break through to this Abdulhakim (who in turn is supervised by Ukrainian intelligence, and those by US intelligence?)
@worldpravda

Presidents Putin of Russia with Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, the latter incumbent since 1994

💠 @ Pepe:
⭕ I’m absolutely floored that the usual suspects used Tajiks for this ultra dirty op. Tajikistan is mesmerizing, and Tajiks are the kindest, most gracious people. For these toxic purposes, they might as well have been Uzbeks. This is part of a vicious strategy of destabilising the Central Asian “stans” from the inside and propel them against Russia – and also China. Young Tajiks are easy prey for MI6 and Co. Add to it the drive to invite racism, especially in Moscow, against Central Asians. It’s always Plan A: vicious Divide and Rule, by any means available. There’s no Plan B.

Pic: during my epic Pamir Highway journey, immediately before Covid.
⭕ The actual chain of command is CIA-SBU-Abdulhakim-Idlib ISIS gang-Tajiks.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Main info at the moment about terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall:
🔸The Crocus City Hall auditorium has been destroyed and completely burned out. What is left of the ceiling is in danger of collapse. Rescuers continue to remove the rubble and look for people, the work will continue for at least a few days.
🔸719 people are involved in the work to eliminate the fire in Crocus City Hall;
🔸The condition of 16 injured, including one child, is extremely serious. Another 44, including two children, are in serious condition, the Russian Ministry of Health said. A total of 107 people are now in hospitals;
🔸The death toll from the terrorist attack has risen to 143, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya news agency, Sputnik’s parent company, reported;
🔸Relatives of those killed in the terrorist attack will receive 3 million rubles ($32,500) each, victims in hospitals – 1 million rubles ($10,800) each. The authorities of Moscow and the Moscow region will undertake the organization of funerals of those killed in the attack;
🔸Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin instructed to make additional monthly payments for children who lost their parents in a terrorist attack;
🔸Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Bortnikov reported to the president on the detention of 11 people, including four terrorists directly involved in the attack;
🔸Four terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region near the border with Ukraine. The weapons used had been prepared in advance in a cache. After committing the terrorist act, the criminals intended to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side, FSB said;
🔸One of those detained on suspicion of the terrorist attack admitted that he had arrived from Turkey on March 4. The video of the interrogation was published by Simonyan. He also said that he was offered money for killing people;
🔸Terrorists detained in Bryansk region are currently being transferred to Moscow, FSB said.

⭕ One of the terrorists detained on suspicion of the attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall said he had been offered half a million rubles to kill people.

The detainee confessed that the curators had given him the task of killing everyone in the hall.

He also admitted that he flew from Turkiye on March 4, according to the video of the interrogation published by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group. |video

⭕ President Putin’s statements on the Moscow’s Crocus City Hall terrorist attack:

🔸Terrorists will face retribution and oblivion;
🔸What happened at Crocus City Hall is a “bloody and barbaric” terrorist attack;
🔸March 24 would be a day of national mourning;
🔸All four perpetrators of terrorist attack were found and apprehended;
🔸Investigative and law enforcement agencies will do everything to establish all the details of the terrorist attack;
🔸Our common duty is to be as one, so it will be;
🔸All the perpetrators, organizers and customers of the terrorist attack will be punished fairly.


March 22

“On the road again
I just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin’ music with my friends
And I can’t wait to get on the road again …

… Here we go, on the road again
Like a band of Gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turnin’ our way
And our way”


💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇲🇱🚫 Mali to dismantle and ban Starlink terminals in the country due to its uncontrolled and illicit marketing
🔹The Starlink Kit, used to access the Internet by satellite, has been seen on sale and installed by NGOs and individuals in different areas of the country, particularly in conflict zones including Lere, Gao, Timbuktu, Menaka, and Kidal.
🔹This technology, which is not approved in Mali, is seen as a potential risk for favoring the activities of armed terrorist groups and violating market rules.

⭕ The commander of a Russian UAV detachment in the special military op zone said that all future conflicts will be drone wars |video|

⭕ ♥ Main world events by the morning of March 22:
🔸One person was killed and two were injured as a result of the morning shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod, Governor Gladkov said. Eight Vampire MLRS shells were destroyed over the Belgorod region, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
🔸Most of the military coups leaders in African countries were trained by the US and were proteges of Washington, said US Republican representative Matt Gaetz;  [LOL. Now those were worthy graduates of the “School of the Americas!”]
🔸The Volkhov submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a coastal target simulating a fictitious enemy firing position;
🔸Following the summit, the leaders of the European Union did not approve a decision on frozen Russian assets and instructed the ministers to continue their work;
🔸The IMF approved the allocation of an approx. $880-million loan tranche to Ukraine;
🔸The US called on Kiev to stop attacks on Russian energy facilities, warning that they could lead to an increase in the world oil prices, the US media reported;
🔸The dialogue on ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could have begun several months ago, but the US threatened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with deprivation of funding, American journalist Seymour Hersh said;
🔸Sixteen states filed a lawsuit against US President Joe Biden for his decision to suspend the approval of new contracts for the supply of liquefied gas abroad.

⭕ Hungary’s Orban not ruling out that West will decide to send troops to Ukraine in two-three months. According to the prime minister, “the most alarming thing is that what was unimaginable two or three months ago becomes an everyday event two or three months later.”

“I remember when the Germans said that they were not ready to send deadly weapons to Ukraine, we would rather send equipment, helmets … And now they say that Germany should transfer to Ukraine missile systems that can be used to strike as far as Moscow or, at least, far into Russia,” he told the radio.

⭕ After the Western intervention in the Russian special military op, it escalated into a real war, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says
🔸“We are at war. Yes, it began as a special military operation, but as soon as this [Western] ‘gang’ was formed there, when the collective West became a participant in this on the side of Ukraine, for us it already became a war,” he said.
🔸He also noted that Russia will continue to act in such a way that Ukraine’s military potential cannot threaten the safety of Russian citizens.
🔸“[…] We have four new federal subjects. And the main thing for us is to protect the people in these regions and liberate the territory of these regions, which is currently de facto occupied by the Kiev regime,” Peskov concluded.

⭕ 🇷🇺 ⚖ The Kremlin spokesman clarified the legal status of the special military operation in Ukraine. “This is a special military operation de jure, but de facto, in fact, for us it turned into a war after the collective West more and more directly increases the level of its involvement in the conflict,” Russia’s Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

⭕ 🇯🇵🇷🇺 Japan intensifying military activity near Russian borders, Russian ambassador says.
🔸“There is an important point of serious concern that we are closely monitoring – the intensification of military activity near our borders. This is happening, including in bilateral, multilateral formats with the participation, first of all, of the armed forces of the United States of America, as well as some NATO countries and other American allies in the Asia-Pacific region,” Russia’s new Ambassador to Japan Nikolay Nozdrev told Sputnik.
🔸The ambassador added that Russia-Japan relations are currently at the lowest level in the entire post-war period and have passed the point of no return.
🔸The diplomat also spoke on NATO, noting that NATO member states are actively seeking to stay in the Asia-Pacific region, and Japan is facilitating this.


A rapid phase change is underway since VVP’s reelection. A new official Drang eastwards is unrolled by the Usual Suspects; Russia alters the tone and language of confrontation, and purposefully degrades the UkroNazi grid. The US in panic asks the local nazis to stop targeting Russian refineries as it boosts global oil prices, inconvenient prior to the US elections. The Democrats need to be within plausible deniable polling reach of Trump to steal the next election too!

Good God, this was a major event. Muscovites, largely living in a bubble, with many visitors such as Pepe noting the disconnected from the SMO and even reality as in the West, will have to get serious. There’s a time for culture, and a time to hunker down in wartime. All large frivolous gatherings are targets! For the duration, until the rabid satanic Zionazi Beast is put down worldwide

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ⚡🇷🇺 Let us remind you!
Two weeks ago, the U.S Embassy published a warning to its citizens about possible attacks in crowded places in Moscow.
It’s time we get serious now.
@worldpravda
⭕ 🇷🇺 BREAKING: Terrorist attack in a concert hall in Moscow, Russia; reports of many dead and wounded – RIA Novosti |video
⭕ At least 3 unidentified attackers in camouflage clothing started shooting at the attendees of the Crocus City Hall in a suburb of Moscow, with reports of at least 10 deaths |video|  
⭕ The Crocus City Hall in Moscow is on fire due to incendiary devices, and at least 100 people are still inside the building |video|  
⭕ WATCH: Horrible footage shows terrorists entering the Crocus City Hall in Moscow and shooting at random people |video|  
⭕ Russian counter-terrorist forces have arrived at Crocus City Hall in Moscow – TASS
⭕ UPDATE: At least 40 people dead, according to local emergency services
⭕ 🇺🇸 White House: The images coming from Moscow are horiffic, we stand in solidarity with the victims
⭕ Shut your mouth America. We all know who’s really behind this attack.
You and your Ukrainian vassals can’t hide behind ISIS this time, nobody will believe it.
⭕ The terrorists have barricaded themselves in the concert hall
⭕ Before the Kerman massacre in Iran, the United States ‘warned’ that they had intel something was about to happen.
A few weeks before this Moscow massacre, the United States ‘warned’ its citizens in Russia of impending terrorist attacks.
These are not warnings.
These are announcements.
⭕ Russian special forces are preparing to enter the concert hall
⭕ The Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) of Russian’s National Guard is about to storm the complex
⭕ A large part of the roof of the Crocus City Hall has collapsed due to fire, with civilians still trapped inside
⭕ Local emergency services say the number of casualties has already exceeded 100 and will likely continue to rise
⭕ The Crocus City Hall and its concert theatre have a capacity of 6200 seats, all of which were sold out for tonight
⭕ WATCH: The moment the terrorists entered the concert hall |video|  
⭕ Russian Special Forces now enter the complex
⭕ God be with you.
⭕ 🇷🇺⚡The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow and the Moscow region has introduced the Zarya plan. All personnel must arrive at work within an hour, including those who have days off.
Everyone must be armed and equipped.
⭕ Russian outlets report that an unidentified man was arrested, who was wearing a patch / badge of a certain country
⭕ The car used by the attackers, which is still in the parking lot, is suspected to be booby trapped; authorities closed the area, with bomb squads on their way

⭕ Bruh, it’s only been one hour [the gloating BASTARDS!!!]
⭕  Ukrainian Presidency: ‘We have nothing to do with the terrorist attack in Moscow’ – Insider Paper
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗ Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev:
“To the families of those killed in the terrorist attack, sincere condolences and sincere strength to all the loved ones of the victims.
Terrorists understand only retaliatory terror. No trials or investigations will help if force is not countered by force, and deaths by total executions of terrorists and repressions against their families. World experience.
If it is established that these are terrorists of the Kyiv regime, it is impossible to deal with them and their ideological inspirers differently. All of them must be found and mercilessly destroyed as terrorists. Including officials of the state that committed such atrocity.
Death for death.”
⭕ The entire roof is about to collapse due to the huge fire |video|  
⭕ 🇷🇺❌🏴❗ — In the Kremlin, under the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin, an operational headquarters was created for the situation in Crocus!

Emmanuel Macron apprend à jouer du clairon

Après les rodomontades, nous sommes passés à la pantalonnade. Notre kéké national a donc déclaré tout seul la guerre à la Russie. La diversion de politique intérieure était évidente au départ, mais il s’est pris au jeu, et toujours abîmé… Lire la suite

Humiliating the US President

Par : AHH

Netanyahu’s slap to Biden. The humiliated US president will continue arming Israel despite his show of dissent

By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.

Tuesday’s early morning Israeli airstrikes on Rafah — which killed 14 people, including three women and three children — were Benjamin Netanyahu’s reply to Joe Biden’s request, in a phone conversation the previous evening, not to invade the city or foil the talks aimed at reaching a truce agreement.

Netanyahu deliberately set out to humiliate the US president, and not just with the airstrikes. In an address to Israeli legislators, he declared that Hamas could only be destroyed by an all-out invasion of Rafah and that he had informed the US president of his determination to proceed with that operation. His stance was echoed by other members of his government.

Biden, leader of the world’s greatest superpower, has clearly lost his verbal standoff with his servant/master Netanyahu. The latter showed that it is he who calls the shots in Washington. He trashed the undertaking he supposedly made in that phone call, and went ahead with preparations for invading Rafah by ordering the airstrikes and storming Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

An early result of Netanyahu’s slap to Biden’s face will be to scupper the negotiations in Doha between the intelligence chiefs of the US, Egypt, and Israel and the prime minister of Qatar. Biden and his administration had been counting on them to produce a three-stage truce agreement that would include prisoner exchanges and end Israel’s war on Gaza.

Netanyahu clearly demonstrated that he does not want any such deal. He first restricted the mandate of the Mossad chief who was taking part in the talks, and then recalled him.

Biden is unlikely to respond to these slaps. He is terrified and intimidated by Netanyahu. His only reaction will be to support the assault under the table by sending more military and financial aid to Israel and maintaining the flow of arms that has sustained its war on Gaza. Since it started the US has delivered it around 300 planeloads, 50 shiploads, and 35,000 tons of ammunition and equipment.

A ground assault on Rafah will not succeed in destroying the infrastructure of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. It will cause major losses for the Israeli army. The resistance will not stand idly by. It has prepared well for such an offensive and set many traps and ambushes for the invading forces.

The statements Netanyahu made at the start of the war about destroying the resistance and freeing the hostages are identical to those he is making now in response to the US’ show of dissent and to justify an assault on Rafah — the supposed’safe haven’ where he had forced the residents of northern Gaza to relocate.

The Resistance brigades, which have stood fast for more than five months against the biggest Israeli war of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the history of the conflict and the region, will certainly survive an assault on Rafah — the city that brought Ariel Sharon to his knees and became a graveyard for his soldiers after the 1967 occupation.

The Israeli army did not manage to impose its control on Jabaliya or the north, and similarly failed in Deir al-Balah, Mughazi, Nusseirat, Khan Younis, and Abasan, where the resistance remains active. Why would it succeed in Rafah? And what will it do with its 1.5 million inhabitants and displaced people? Send them to Mars, or exterminate them all?

Biden takes a nap.

An invasion would not only be a defiance of the US and the hypocritical West that revolves in its orbit, but also of Egypt and its president Abdelfattah as-Sisi.

It would mean taking over the Salaheddin (Philadelphi) border corridor, decoupling Egypt from Palestine geographically, and closing the Rafah crossing for good. It would pose a direct threat to Egypt’s national security, wreck the country’s standing in the Arab world and internationally, and infuriate one hundred million Egyptians who are already enraged at the genocidal war being waged on their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

I said from the start of the ground operation that Israel would be defeated and the resistance would emerge victorious, the more so the longer the war lasts. I repeat that assertion with the start of the Rafah assault. Who had expected back then that the Yemeni navy would close the Red Sea and make its approaches unsafe for the US navy and its aircraft carriers; or that the Lebanese front would ignite and send 150,000 Israeli settlers packing; or that the Islamic resistance in Iraq would strike Israeli infrastructure and bases?

Netanyahu will end up digging the grave of the Zionist enterprise and deepening it, and hasten the onset of the one-state solution: the state of Greater Palestine.

Why the West cannot stomach Russians

Par : AHH

In the west, they don’t like those who defend themselves, who fight against them, and especially those who win.

By Andre Vltchek via The Greanville Post.

When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and consequently in all of its ‘client states’. Fairytales get intermingled with reality, while fabrications are masterfully injected into the sub consciousness of billions of people worldwide. Russia is an enormous country, in fact the largest country on Earth in terms of territory. It is scarcely inhabited. It is deep, and as a classic writer once wrote: “It is impossible to understand Russia with one’s brain. One could only believe in it.”

The Western mind generally doesn’t like things unknown, spiritual and complex. Since the ‘old days’, especially since the crusades and monstrous colonialist expeditions to all corners of the world, the Westerners were told fables about their own “noble deeds” performed in the plundered lands. Everything had to be clear and simple: “Virtuous Europeans were civilizing savages and spreading Christianity, therefore, in fact, saving those dark poor primitive souls.”

Of course, tens of millions were dying in the process, while further tens of millions were shackled and brought to the “New Worlds” as slaves. Gold, silver, and other loot, as well as slave labor had been (and still are) paying for all those European palaces, railroads, universities and theatres, but that did not matter, as the bloodshed was most of the time something abstract and far away from those over-sensitive eyes of the Western public.

Westerners like simplicity, particularly when it comes to moral definitions of “good and evil”. It matters nothing if the truth gets systematically ‘massaged’, or even if the reality is fully fabricated. What matters is that there is no deep guilt and no soul-searching. Western rulers and their opinion makers know their people – their ‘subjects’ – perfectly well, and most of the time, they give them what they are asking for. The rulers and the reigned are generally living in symbiosis. They keep bitching about each other, but mostly they have similar goals: to live well, to live extremely well, as long as the others are forced to pay for it; with their riches, with their labor and often with their blood.

Culturally, most of the citizens of Europe and North America hate to pay the bill for their high life; they even detest to admit that their life is extremely ‘high’. They like to feel like victims. They like to feel that they are ‘used’. They like to imagine that they are sacrificing themselves for the rest of the world.

And above all, they hate real victims: those they have been murdering, raping, plundering and insulting, for decades and centuries.

Recent ‘refugee crises’ showed the spite Europeans feel for their prey. People who made them rich and who lost everything in the process are humiliated, despised and insulted. Be they Afghans or Africans, the Middle Easterners or South Asians. Or Russians, although Russians fall into their own, unique category.

Prince Alexander Nevsky’s legendary defeat of the Teutonic Knights on a frozen lake in the 13th century has always captivated and inspired the Russian people in their struggles against foreign invaders, especially from the West.

Many Russians look white. Most of them eat with knife and fork, they drink alcohol, excel at Western classical music, poetry, literature, science and philosophy.

To Western eyes they look ‘normal’, but actually, they are not.

Russians always want ‘something else’; they refuse to play by Western rules.

They are stubbornly demanding to remain different, and to be left alone.

When confronted, when attacked, they fight.

They rarely strike first, almost never invade.

But when threatened, when assaulted, they fight with tremendous determination and force, and they never lose. Villages and cities get converted into invader’s graves. Millions die while defending their Motherland, but the country survives. And it happens again and again and again, as the Western hordes have been, for centuries, assaulting and burning Russian lands, never learning the lesson and never giving up on their sinister dream of conquering and controlling that proud and determined colossus.

In the West, they don’t like those who defend themselves, who fight against them, and especially those who win.

Russo-Korean symphony

It gets much worse than that.
Russia has this terrible habit… not only it defends itself and its people, but it also fights for others, protecting colonized and pillaged nations, as well as those that are unjustly assaulted.

It saved the world from Nazism. It did it at a horrific price of 27 million men, women and children, but it did it; courageously, proudly and altruistically. The West never forgave the Soviet Union for this epic victory either, because all that is unselfish and self-sacrificing, is always in direct conflict with its own principles, and therefore ‘extremely dangerous’.

The Russian people had risen; had fought and won in the 1917 Revolution; an event which terrified the West more than anything else in history, as it had attempted to create a fully egalitarian, classless and racially color-blind society. It also gave birth to Internationalism, an occurrence that I recently described in my book The Great October Socialist Revolution: Impact on the World and the Birth of Internationalism.

Soviet Internationalism, right after the victory in WWII, helped greatly, directly and indirectly, dozens of countries on all continents, to stand up and to confront the European colonialism and the North American imperialism. The West and especially Europe never forgave the Soviet people in general and Russians in particular, for helping to liberate its slaves.

That is when the greatest wave of propaganda in human history really began to roll. From London to New York, from Paris to Toronto, an elaborate web of anti-Soviet and covertly anti-Russian hysteria was unleashed with monstrously destructive force. Tens of thousands of ‘journalists’, intelligence officers, psychologists, historians, as well as academics, were employed. Nothing Soviet, nothing Russian (except those glorified and often ‘manufactured’ Russian dissidents) was spared.

The excesses or contextual errors of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the pre-WWII era were systematically fabricated, exaggerated, and then engraved into the Western history textbooks and mass media narrative. In those tales, there was nothing about the vicious invasions and attacks coming from the West, aimed at destroying the young Bolshevik state. Naturally, there was no space for mentioning the British, French, U.S., Czech, Polish, Japanese, German and other’s monstrous cruelties.

Soviet and Russian views were hardly ever allowed to penetrate the monolithic and one-sided Western propaganda narrative.

Like obedient sheep, the Western public accepted the disinformation it was fed. Eventually, many people living in the Western colonies and ‘client states’, did the same. A great number of colonized people were taught how to blame themselves for their misery.

The most absurd but somehow logical occurrence then took place: many men, women and even children living in the USSR, succumbed to Western propaganda. Instead of trying to reform their imperfect but still greatly progressive country, they gave up, became cynical, aggressively ‘disillusioned’, corrupt and naively but staunchly pro-Western.

Gorbachev: supremely, unaccountably, criminally foolish when dealing with the most ruthless mafia the world has ever seen.

It was the first and most likely the last time in the history, Russia got defeated by the West. It happened through deceit, through shameless lies, through Western propaganda.

What followed could be easily described as genocide.

The Soviet Union was first lulled into Afghanistan, then it was mortally injured by the war there, by an arms race with the United States, and by the final stage of propaganda that was literally flowing like lava from various hostile Western state-sponsored radio stations. Of course, local ‘dissidents’ also played an important role.

Under Gorbachev, a ‘useful idiot’ of the West, things got extremely bizarre. I don’t believe that he was paid to ruin his own country, but he did almost everything to run it into the ground; precisely what Washington wanted him to do. Then, in front of the entire world, a mighty and proud Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics suddenly shook in agony, then uttered a loud cry, and collapsed; died painfully but swiftly.

A new turbo-capitalist, bandit, pro-oligarch and confusedly pro-Western Russia was born. Russia which was governed by an alcoholic Boris Yeltsin; a man loved and supported by Washington, London and other Western centers of power.

It was a totally unnatural, sick Russia – cynical and compassionless, built with someone else’s ideas – Russia of Radio Liberty and Voice of America, of the BBC, of black marketers, of oligarchs and multi-national corporations.

Is the West now daring to say that Russians are ‘interfering’ in something in Washington? Are they out of their minds?

Washington and other Western capitals did not only ‘interfere’, they openly broke the Soviet Union into pieces and then they began kicking Russia which was at that point half-alive. Is it all forgotten, or is Western public again fully ‘unaware’ of what took place during those dark days?

The West kept spitting at the impoverished and injured country, refused to honor international agreements and treaties. It offered no help. Multi-nationals were unleashed, and began ‘privatizing’ Russian state companies, basically stealing what was built by the sweat and blood of Soviet workers, during long decades.

Interference? Let me repeat: it was direct intervention, invasion, a grab of resources, shameless theft! I want to read and write about it, but we don’t hear much about it, anymore, do we?

Now we are told that Russia is paranoid, that its President is paranoid! With straight face, the West is lying; pretending that it has not been trying to murder Russia.

Those years… Those pro-Western years when Russia became a semi-client state of the West, or call it a semi-colony! There was no mercy, no compassion coming from abroad. Many of those idiots – kitchen intellectuals from Moscow and provinces – suddenly woke up but it was too late. Many of them had suddenly nothing to eat. They got what they were told to ask for: their Western ‘freedom and democracy’, and Western-style capitalism or in summary: total collapse.

I remember well how it was ‘then’. I began returning to Russia, horrified, working in Moscow, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Leningrad. Academics from Akadem Gorodok outside Novosibirsk were selling their libraries in the bitter cold, in dark metro underpasses of Novosibirsk… Runs on the banks… Old retired people dying from hunger and cold behind massive doors of concrete blocks… unpaid salaries and starving miners, teachers…

Russia under the deadly embrace of the West, for the first and hopefully last time! Russia whose life expectancy suddenly dropped to African Sub-Saharan levels. Russia humiliated, wild, in terrible pain.

Patriarch Kirill consecrates Alexander Nevsky monument dedicated to 800th anniversary of Alexander Nevsky — village of Samolva, Gdovsky district, Pskov, 11.09.2021

But that nightmare did not last long.

And what happened – those short but horrible years under both Gorbachev and Yeltsin, but above all under the Western diktat – will never be forgotten, not forgiven.

Russians know perfectly well what they do not want, anymore!

Russia stood up again. Huge, indignant and determined to live its own life, its own way. From an impoverished, humiliated and robbed nation, subservient to the West, the country evolved and within a few years, the free and independent Russia once again joined the ranks of the most developed and powerful countries on Earth.

And as before Gorbachev, Russia is once again able to help those nations which are under unjust and vicious attacks by the Western empire.

A man who is leading this renaissance, President Vladimir Putin, is tough, but Russia is under great threat and so is the world – this is no time for weaklings.

President Putin is not perfect (who is, really?), but he is a true patriot, and I dare say, an internationalist.

Now the West, once again, hates both Russia and its leader. No wonder; undefeated, strong and free Russia is the worst imaginable foe of Washington and its lieutenants.

That’s how the West feels, not Russia. Despite all that was done to it, despite tens of millions of lost and ruined lives, Russia has always been ready to compromise, even to forgive, if not forget.

Russia stood up again.

There is something deeply pathological in the psyche of the west. It cannot accept anything less than full and unconditional submission. It has to control, to be in charge, and on top of everything; it has to feel exceptional. Even when it murders and ruins the entire Planet, it insists on feeling superior to the rest of the world.

This faith in exceptionalism is the true Western religion, much more than even Christianity, which for decades has not really played any important role there. Exceptionalism is fanatical, it is fundamentalist and unquestionable.

It also insists that its narrative is the only one available anywhere in the World. That the West is seen as a moral leader, as a beacon of progress, as the only competent judge and guru.

Lies are piling on top of lies. As in all religions, the more absurd the pseudo-reality is, the more brutal and extreme are the methods used to uphold it. The more laughable the fabrications are, the more powerful the techniques used to suppress the truth are.

Today, hundreds of thousands of ‘academics’, teachers, journalists, artists, psychologists and other highly paid professionals, in all parts of the world, are employed by the Empire, for two goals only – to glorify the Western narrative and to discredit all that is standing in its way; daring to challenge it.

Russia is the most hated adversary of the West, with China, Russia’s close ally being near second.

The propaganda war unleashed by the West is so insane, so intense, that even some of the European and North American citizens are beginning to question tales coming from Washington, London and elsewhere.

Wherever one turns, there is a tremendous medley of lies, of semi-lies, half-truths; a complex and unnavigable swamp of conspiracy theories. Russia is being attacked for interfering in U.S. domestic affairs, for defending Syria, for standing by defenseless and intimidated nations, for having its own powerful media, for doping its athletes, for still being Communist, for not being socialist anymore; in brief: for everything imaginable and unimaginable.

Criticism of the country is so thorough and ludicrous, that one begins to ask very legitimate questions: “what about the past? What about the Western narrative regarding the Soviet past, particularly the post-Revolutionary period, and the period between two world wars?”

The more I analyze this present-day Western anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda, the more determined I am to study and write about the Western narrative regarding Soviet history. I’m definitely planning to investigate these matters in the future, together with my friends – Russian and Ukrainian historians.

… when only Victory could save the world, Russian fists are hard, and the same is true about Russian armor.

In the eyes of the West, Russians are ‘traitors’.

Instead of joining the looters, they have been standing by the ‘wretched of the world’, in the past, as well as now. They refused to sell their Motherland, and to enslave their own people. Their government is doing all it can to make Russia self-sufficient, fully independent, prosperous, proud and free.

Remember that ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’ and many other terms, mean totally different things in distinctive parts of the world. What is happening in the West could never be described as ‘freedom’ in Russia or in China, and vice versa.

Frustrated, collapsing, atomized and egotistic societies of Europe and North America do not inspire even their own people, anymore. They are escaping by millions annually, to Asia, Latin America, and even to Africa. Escaping from emptiness, meaninglessness and emotional cold. But it is not Russia’s or China’s business to tell them how to live or not to live!

In the meantime, great cultures like Russia and China do not need, and do not want to be told by the Westerners, what freedom is, and what democracy is.

They do not attack the West, and expect the same in return.

It is truly embarrassing that the countries responsible for hundreds of genocides, for hundreds of millions of murdered people on all continents, still dare to lecture others.

Many victims are too scared to speak.

Russia is not.

It is composed, gracious, but fully determined to defend itself if necessary; itself as well as many other human beings living on this beautiful but deeply scarred Planet.

Russian culture is enormous: from poetry and literature, to music, ballet, philosophy… Russian hearts are soft, they easily melt when approached with love and kindness. But when millions of lives of innocent people are threatened, both the hearts and muscles of Russians quickly turn to stone and steel. During such moments, when only victory could save the world, Russian fists are hard, and the same is true about Russian armor.

There is no match to Russian courage in the sadistic but cowardly West.

Irreversibly, both hope and future are moving towards the east.

And that is why Russia is desperately hated by the West.

A Travelogue of Electoral Donbass

Par : AHH

Donetsk, Avdeyevka, Mariupol – on the Road in Electoral Donbass

By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.

They have waited 10 long, suffering years to vote in this election. And vote they did, in massive numbers, certifying a landslide reelection for the political leader who brought them back to Mother Russia. VVP may now be widely referred to as Mr. 87%. In Donetsk, turnout was even higher: 88,17%. And no less than 95% voted for him.

To follow the Russian electoral process at work in Donbass was a humbling – and illuminating – experience. Graphically, in front of us, the full weight of the collective West’s relentless denigration campaign was instantly gobbled up by the rich black soil of Novorossiya. The impeccable organization, the full transparency of the voting, the enthusiasm by polling station workers and voters alike punctuated the historical gravity of the political moment: at the same time everything was enveloped in an impalpable feeling of silent jubilation.

This was of course a referendum. Donbass represents a microcosm of the solid internal cohesion of Russian citizens around the policies of Team Putin – while at the same time sharing a feeling experienced by the overwhelming majority of the Global South. VVP’s victory was a victory of the Global Majority.

And that’s what’s making the puny Global Minority even more apoplectic. With their highest turnout since 1991, Russian voters inflicted a massive strategic defeat to the intellectual pigmies who pass for Western “leadership” – arguably the most mediocre political class of the past 100 years. They voted for a fairer, stable system of international relations; for multipolarity; and for true leadership by civilization-states such as Russia.

VVP’s 87% score was followed, by a long shot, by the Communists, with 3.9%. That is quite significant, because these 91% represent a total rejection of the globalist Davos/Great Reset plutocratic “future” envisioned by the 0.001%.

Avdeevka. Ukrainian Nazi vehicle – literally.

Avdeyevka: Voting Under Total Devastation

On Election Day Two, at section 198 in downtown Donetsk, not far from Government House, it was possible to fully measure the fluidity and transparency of the system – even as Donetsk was not spared from shelling, in the late afternoon and early evening in the final day of voting.

Afterwards, a strategic pit stop in a neighborhood mini-market. Yuri, an activist, was buying a full load of fresh eggs to be transported to the nearly starving civilians who still remain in Avdeyevka. Ten eggs cost the equivalent of a dollar and forty cents.

Side by side with Pushkin: The extraordinary Ludmilla Leonova in Yasinovata, the main polling station in town.

At Yasinovata, very close to Avdeyevka, we visit the MBOU, or school number 7, impeccably rebuilt after non-stop shelling. The director, Ludmilla Leonova, an extraordinary strong woman, takes me on a guide tour of the school and its brand new classrooms for chemistry and biology, a quaint Soviet alphabet decorating the classroom for Russian language. Classes, hopefully, will resume in the Fall.

Close to the school a refugee center for those who have been brought from Avdeyevka has been set up. Everything is spotlessly clean. People are processed, entered into the system, then wait for proper papers. Everyone wants to obtain a Russian passport as soon as possible.

For the moment, they stay in dormitories, around 10 people in each room. Some came from Avdeyevka, miraculously, in their own cars: there are a few Ukrainian license plates around. Invariably, the overall expectation is to return to Avdeyevka, when reconstruction starts, to rebuild their lives in their own town.

Then, it’s on the road to Avdeyevka. Nothing, absolutely nothing prepares us to confront total devastation. In my nearly 40 years as a foreign correspondent, I’ve never seen anything like it – even Iraq. At the unofficial entry to Avdeyevka, beside the skeleton of a bombed building and the remains of a tank turret, the flags of all military batallions which took part in the liberation flutter in the wind.

Avdeevka.

Each building in every street is at least partially destroyed. A few remaining residents congregate in a flat to organize the distribution of essential supplies. I find a miraculously preserved icon behind the window of a bombed-out ground floor apartment.

Avdeevka. The icon by the window that survived everything.

AVDEEVKA. A local resident who refuses to leave.

FPVs loiter overheard – detected by a handheld device, and our military escort is on full alert. We find out that as we enter a ground floor apartment which is being kept as a sort of mini food depot – housing donations from Yasinovata or from the military – that very same room, in the morning, had been converted into a polling station. That’s where the very few remaining Avdeyevka residents actually voted.

A nearly blind man with his dog explains why he can’t leave: he lives in the same street, and his apartment is still functional – even though he has no water or electricity. He explains how the Ukrainians were occupying each apartment block – with residents turned into refugees or hostages in the basements – and then, pressed by the Russians, relocated to nearby schools and hospitals until finally fleeing.

Avdeevka. He will NOT leave.

The basements are a nightmare. Virtually no light. The temperature is at least 10 degrees Celsius lower than at street level. It’s impossible to imagine how they survived. Another resident nonchalantly strolls by in his bicycle, surrounded by derelict concrete skeletons. The loud booms – mostly outgoing – are incessant.

Avdeevka. The miraculously preserved church of Mary Magdalen.

The miraculously preserved church of Mary Magdalen.

The miraculously preserved church of Mary Magdalen.

Then, standing amidst total devastation, a vision: the elegant silhouette of the Church of Mary Magdalen, immaculately preserved. Dmitry, the caretaker, takes me around; it’s a beautiful church, the paintings on the roof still gleaming under the pale sunlight, a gorgeous chandelier and the inner chamber virtually intact.

View of Mariupol from within the Pakrovska Church — with Azovstal and the Russian Sea of Azov in the background

The Mariupol Renaissance

The final election day is spent in Mariupol – which is being rebuilt at nearly breakneck speed: the new railway station has just been finished. Voting is seamless at school number 53, housing district 711. A beautiful mural behind the ballot box depicts the sister cities St. Petersburg and Mariupol, with the legendary Scarlet Sails from the Alexander Green story right in the middle.

Mariupol. School 53. Complete with gentleman on the voting booth, ballot box and a lovely painting featuring a ship with red sails…

I revisit the port: international cargo is still not moving, only ships coming from the Russian mainland. But the first deal has been reached with Cameroon – fruits in exchange with metals and manufactured products. Several other deals with African nations are on the horizon.

The Pakrovska church, a Mariupol landmark, is being carefully restored. We are welcomed by Father Viktor, who hosts lunch for a group of people from the parish, and a fine conversation ensues ranging from Christian Orthodoxy to the Decline of the West and the LGBT agenda.

We go to the roof and walk around a balustrade offering a spectacular 360-degree view of Mariupol, with the port, the destroyed Azovstal iron works and the Russian Sea of Azov in the deep background. The massive church bells ring – as in a metaphor for the resurrection of a beautiful city which has the potential to become a sort of Nice in the Sea of Azov.

Mariupol. Azovstal with the restored monument to the Great Patriotic War – restored by Wagner – in the foreground.

Back in Donetsk, going to a “secret” school/museum only 2 km away from the line of fire – which I first visited last month – has to be canceled: Donetsk continues to be shelled.

With Avdeyevka in mind, as well as the shelling that refuses to go away, a few questions on numbers pop up on the long 20-hour drive back to Moscow.

In Chechnya, led by uber-patriot Kadyrov, turnout was 97%. And no less than 99% voted for VVP. So, unlike in the past, forget about any ulterior attempt at a color revolution in Chechnya.

Same pattern in the Caucasus, in the region of Kabardino: turnout was 96%. No less than 94% voted for VVP.

Between Kazakhstan and Mongolia, in Tuva, turnout was 96%. And 95% voted for VVP. In the autonomous Yamal-Nenets, turnout was 94%. But VVP got “only” 79% of the votes. In lake Baikal, Buryatia had 74% turnout and 88% of votes for VVP.

The key, once again, remains Moscow. Turnout, compared to other regions, was relatively low: 67%. Well, Moscow is still largely Westernized and in several aspects ideologically globalist – thus more critical than other parts of Russia when it comes to the patriotic emphasis.

Avdeevka. Nella zona pericolosa. Gli FPV indugiano nel cielo. Foto del giovane fotoreporter Denis Grigory.

And that brings us to the clincher. Even with the resounding success of Mr. 87%, they will never give up. If there ever is a minor chance of a successful Hybrid War strategy provoking a color revolution, the stage will be Moscow. Quite pathetic, actually, when compared to the images of Mr. 87% saluted by a packed Red Square on Sunday like the ultimate rock star.

The Kremlin is taking no chances. Putin addressed the FSB and went straight to the point: attempts to sow interethnic trouble – as a prelude to color revolutions – must be strictly suppressed. The FSB will go for the next level: traitors will be identified by name and targeted without a statute of limitations.

After the electoral euphoria, no one really knows what happens next. It has to be something hugely significant, honoring the historical VVP electoral landslide. He has carte blanche now to do anything. Priority number one: to finish once and for all with the Hegemon-built terror mongrel that has been attacking Novorossiya for 10 long years.

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« Peur de quoi, selon vous ? »

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Les États-Unis testent le missile de croisière hypersonique AGM-183 ARRW

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Yemen Ends Thalassocratic Rule

Par : AHH

Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — West Asia update: Yemen and the beginning of the end of imperial naval force projection;

wide ranging talk includes:
🔸Zionist attempt to break the Syrian landbridge to Hezbollah again (after ISIS a decade ago);
🔸the Vichy regime of the Palestinian Authority;
🔸Prof Ali Kadri: the role of directed Genocide in western Capitalism; for more see:
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/palestine-war-occupation-and-proletarianization-w-ali-kadri
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue91/Kadri91.pdf
🔸the European lunch of the Empire
🔸COVID and Deagleian depopulation of the Golden Billion…

Back in the EU, site of the 21st century’s biggest political disaster

Par : AHH

Why is the biggest political story of our era so underreported?

with thanks to Ramin Mazaheri via Ramin’s Substack.

I have returned to Paris and can report that things are as politically bleak as ever, continuing a trend which began with the rubber bullet-smashing of the Yellow Vest movement in 2019. The European Union has become truly American (which was often alleged to be the ultimate goal): it’s politically apathetic.

There are no domestic political movements to report on – the French MSM just reports on Ukraine, Israel and (as usual) ecology.

This is not as it used to be.

Prior to the six months of bloody Saturdays over 2018-19 France had seen a full decade of incredible political activism. Leftist planning agendas were full of protests, gatherings and strikes concerning: Sarkozy’s bailouts in late 2008, Hollande’s hopeful Socialist Party election, his subsequent U-turn on austerity, the forceful imposition of austerity by Brussels, the fabrication of Macron, his immediate detestation, the spectacularly unprecedented support for – and then the spectacularly unprecedented repression of – les gilets jaunes – this was a 10-year period of intense, intense activism.

Were it not for Israel’s latest and most brutal invasion of Gaza, and combined with Macron’s incredible 7-years-running refusal to interact with the press (the exact opposite of Sarkozy), I’m not sure I’d have much work to do here?

There is a story to cover, and it’s the most important one, but it’s almost impossible to cover via PressTV news reports: the obvious failure of the pan-European project.

This is the biggest political story of the 21st century, and yet it’s going undiscussed year after year. Brexit put it on the front pages, and then so did the Yellow Vests, but Euroscepticism has been suppressed for four years now.

But what’s a bigger story in the 21st century than the economic, political and confidence collapse of the biggest economic bloc in the world?

The war on the Muslim world since 9/11? That’s something, indeed, but this is the re-sundering of a region which was already suppressed by two centuries of colonialism and then neo-colonialism.

The rise of China? That was something inevitable and unstoppable, due to the superior planning and cohesion of socialist-inspired governments. Of course, China’s sudden rise was aided by the Great Financial Crisis which devastated the West, who then exacerbated it with their predictably awful, inequality-generating policies of bailouts, austerity, QE and ZIRP.

Fifteen years ago who did not expect that a united Europe, and one working in what is now clearly lockstep with the United States, would become an unstoppable project?

That’s the big story: that Europe has not just stopped in its tracks but stagnated, regressed, devolved, disappointed, etc. and etc.

It’s truly historical. What the demise of the pan-European project means is the end of the “social democratic” model: if any region had implemented a “third way” between liberalism and socialism it was Europe. The alleged solution of “social democracy” goes way back to the 1890s – what we have witnessed hasn’t been the “death of communism” but the “death of social democracy” instead.

What a story, no? It was as the proponents of socialist democracy always predicted: social democracy inevitably reverts back to mere liberal democracy. It’s truly historical.

Back in the US someone recently asked me why I kept referring to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, saying it was old history, and it made me pause. They never talk about it in the US anymore, that’s true. However, as soon as I returned to France I was confronted with multiple references to it in journalism and art. But they only get the dates right – roughly.

Yes, Europe took a more far-right economic approach (austerity) than the US (Europe had more social democracy to roll back, of course), but the problem is not the 2007-8 Great Financial Crisis nor austerity – the problem is the pan-European project itself, and this is precisely what is suppressed.

It is easy to suppress, or just be confused, because the timelines are so similar: the pan-European project didn’t truly begin until the undemocratic passage of the Lisbon Treaty of 2009, which was forced through thanks to the chaos surrounding the Great Financial Crisis and subsequent European Debt Crisis (starting 2009).

Why has nobody kept referring to the Lisbon Treaty of 2009? I am definitely one of the very few journalists who do. Now that the UK is out the Anglophone world doesn’t care, I suppose.

The 15-year summation of the pan-European can only be judged to be atrocious, but who is talking about these things: the decrease in economic power; the sustained collapse in the euro’s value; the constant, continent-wide protests against the decisions of Brussels; the decrease in democratic credibility; the increase in militaristic domestic repression; the decrease in social economic protections for the average person; the rise of neo-fascist parties – what on earth does this reporter who has covered the EU since birth have to do get some real talk about United Europe anymore?

The Fall of Phaeton, 1605, Peter Paul Rubens

Ukraine will make or break the pan-European project

The European Union succeeds at nothing and nor do they stand for anything, so they’re desperate for any rallying cry for “Europe!”, and they’ve found one in Ukraine.

Of course, Europe has already failed Ukraine: their weaponry is being defeated, their production capabilities aren’t up to the job, everybody knows they’re just setting Ukraine up for the same debt traps they laid for country like Greece, and they have failed (purposely) to find a diplomatic solution. Their only success is in their spectacularly prejudiced prioritising of Ukrainian refugees: this was, of course, to keep flooding the labor market with desperate, low-wage accepting workers amid record-high inflation – anything to keep wage demands down.

The reality is that Ukraine is going to either be the EU’s final undoing, or it will somehow lead to the “more Europe” that is the only way this misguided economic-but-not-political federalist project could ever possibly succeed.

Europe’s leaders know Ukraine is their best – given the far-right victories looming in European Parliament elections this spring – chances, which are diminishing, to rally Europe behind the pan-European project and away from Euroscepticism.

Remember that in two years Macron has gone from “we must not embarrass Russia” to calling other European countries “cowardly” for not buying Ukraine even more weapons, and even threatening to land NATO troops. Why the huge shift?

Of course war is good for business – France has soared to become the #2 arms merchant in the world. But in a bloc which has a pre-Covid history which no one in the 1% wants anyone to remember, it’s only via war with Russia that European public opinion could possibly be united in favor of “Europe!”.

European imperialists have run out of racism and now can only rely on nationalist prejudice – this is what the EU has revealed itself to be. Furthermore, during the 2010s we were constantly told in France that the pan-European project was the only reason war didn’t break out in Europe – recall how the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, amid mass anti-austerity repression? This is justification is now out the window.

No peace, no public opinion in public policy, no prosperity – no success for the EU, and when will success ever arrive?

Now isn’t the time, Europeans are being told, to argue about the lack of results in the pan-European project – Putin is at the doorstep. Marine Le Pen fairly accused Macron of creating a situation – surrounding this week’s French Parliamentary approval of a 10-year military pact with Ukraine – where, “You’re either with Macron or you’re with Putin”. That’s not just Russophobia or scapegoating – that is the summation of Macron’s whole political policy now.

Nobody – no popular democratic majority – has ever been or will ever be with Macron, but the fabrication of false unity is what Ukraine is being manipulated for here in Europe.

But it’s going to be even bigger than that in the coming months and maybe even years, namely: “Either you’re with the pan-European project or you’re with Putin”.

After all, how else can support for the pan-European project possibly be created in 2024? They cannot stand on their results, and they cannot stand on hopes that the project will suddenly become workable, profitable, democratic, morally responsible, inspire confidence, etc.

The failure of Europe – that’s the biggest story of the 21st century.

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Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for PressTV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. His latest book is France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values. He is also the author of ‘Socialism’s Ignored Success: Iranian Islamic Socialism’ as well as ‘I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China’, which is also available in simplified and traditional Chinese. Any reposting or republication of any of these articles is approved and appreciated. He tweets at @RaminMazaheri2 and writes at substack.com/@raminmazaheri

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