Day: June 21, 2022

Ukraine News Links 20-21 June 2022

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Tuesday, 21 June 2022 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

‘Russia Has Won This War’: German Journalist Says West Lying About Ukraine War
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-has-won-this-war-german-journalist-says-west-lying-about-ukraine-war/5784111

Biden blames Russia for record number of refugees
https://www.rt.com/news/557538-biden-blames-russia-record-refugee-number/

Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace Prize for $103.5 million
https://www.rt.com/news/557548-russian-journalist-sells-nobel-prize/

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Zugzwang*

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Monday, 20 June 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Alastair Crooke

Europe’s future looks bleak. It is now pressed by its own imposition of sanctions, and the resultant spike in commodity prices. The EU is lumbering around in a daze.

Western self-destruction – a puzzle defying any unique causal explanation – continues. The examples where policy is pursued in apparent indifference to anything resembling rigorous reflection, has become so extreme as to provoke a former British military chief (and former head of NATO forces in Afghanistan), Lord Richards, to huff that the relationship between strategy and any synchronisation of ends has become hopelessly broken in the West.

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Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2

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Tuesday, 21 June 2022 — Craig Murray

Craig Murray

I was walking down that improbably long central corridor in a group of about eight mainstream prisoners heading for legal visits, when panic broke out among the escorting guards. About a hundred yards further down, and coming towards us, was an overweight and bearded old man walking with a zimmer frame and wearing the maroon shirt of a protected prisoner.

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Baltic Battles?

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Tuesday, 21 June 2022 — The Van Says…

Gonzalo Lira may not be name known to many in the West, but he certainly has a firm grip on current affairs

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Sundays are more usually dedicated to less serious articles than this, yet a video posted by Gonzalo Lira gives a lot of pause for thought. This longer article will look at the reasons events may happen as well as the events themselves. In the interests of brevity, links will be provided to previous posts in order that the reader gain a better understanding of certain key points without making this article inordinately long. The author would like to thank @Dogsareloyal1s for his invaluable assistance in the writing of this article.
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Bridging the Gap

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Monday, 20 June 2022 — The van says…

The logistical corridor to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has been cut off by the Lithuanians. What might this mean? Photo©️Tass

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Last week saw the Lithuanian government prohibit the transport of EU sanctioned goods across its territory from the Russian Federation to the exclave of Kaliningrad. This article subsequent to a previous one that examined the Baltic states from another angle, will look at what this means and what reaction this may elicit from Moscow.
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