Going to Samarkand

Saturday, 30 July 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Pepe Escobar

The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South.

The meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council  in Tashkent this past Friday involved some very serious business. That was the key preparatory reunion previous to the SCO summit in mid-September in fabled Samarkand, where the SCO will release a much-awaited “Declaration of Samarkand”.

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 Poland’s Position as the “Next Ukraine”

Saturday, 30 July, 2022 — Land Destroyer

(Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – While Western governments and the Western media continue clinging to the hope of an eventual “victory” for Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, the “frontline” is quietly being moved back to western Ukraine and even Poland just across the border. Recent pledges by NATO as well as arms deliveries this year and next appear to be headed in the direction of using Poland as the next battering ram with which US-led NATO will use against Russia.

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Serbian Leader Aleksandr Vučić Pushes for European Union Accession Despite Opposition Among Majority of Serbs

Wednesday, 27 July 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Ronald Thomas West

An anti-EU and anti-Nato mural in Belgrade, Serbia.A mural opposing NATO and the EU in Belgrade, Serbia. [Source: theguardian.com]

Serbia is one of the key battleground countries in the New Cold War that is being cajoled into the Western orbit.

During the 1990s, the Clinton administration orchestated a regime change in Serbia targeting the socialist Slobodan Milošević, first by bombing and military attack, and then by sponsoring a “color revolution” and having Milošević arrested and put up for a “show trial” at the Hague.

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Poland’s Position as the “Next Ukraine”

Tuesday, 19 July 2022 — New Eastern Outlook

Author: Brian Berletic

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While Western governments and the Western media continue clinging to the hope of an eventual “victory” for Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, the “frontline” is quietly being moved back to western Ukraine and even Poland just across the border. Recent pledges by NATO as well as arms deliveries this year and next appear to be headed in the direction of using Poland as the next battering ram with which US-led NATO will use against Russia.

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Tony Blair’s Response to a Multi-Polar World Should Surprise Nobody

Tuesday, 19 July 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Robert Bridge

Western leaders would sooner drag down the entire planet than surrender their fever dream of a one-world political system. 

The British butcher of Iraq, speaking on the demise of a Western-led one world order, is advocating for yet more stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction to even the score.

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Selling out the Ukraine

Thursday, 14 July 2022 — The Van Says…

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HowitzerTop end kit at rock bottom prices. Welcome to the war in the Ukraine.

Preamble

For nearly a year, the western world has been handing assistance to Kiev hand over fist. Whilst the media has given the Ukraine nothing but praise, governments in the West have lavished it with everything else from munitions to money to missiles. There is a problem however. In spite of the West breaking the bank in order to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, the Russians are breaking the Ukrainians and their western toys pretty much anywhere they please. This is now becoming impossible to hide, a number of westerners now calling for a halt to the assistance being given to Kiev. This article will examine what’s what and where this may all go.
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Strength of Anti-Russian Propaganda Limits Public Calls to Block Weapons Shipments and End Doomed Ukraine War

Tuesday, 12 July 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Dee Knight

Peace talks not on US agenda - Global Times[Source: globaltimes.cn]

Russian and Donbas militia forces now control most Donbas territory and a large part of the Black Sea coast as Ukraine claims 200‒500 combat losses each day.

As the U.S. and its NATO allies met in Spain and Germany during the last week of June in the midst of four full months of war in Ukraine, they were confronted with frustration and hard choices. Russian and Donbas militia forces now control most of the Donbas region and a large part of the Black Sea coast. Deadly Ukrainian shelling continues to kill people in the Donetsk area, but there is little doubt of the outcome for that region.

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Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine

Saturday, 9 July 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Declan Hayes

NATO is a beaten docket, whose race has run and whose chips have all been lost, Declan Hayes writes.

The Gambler, Dostoevsky’s superlative novella about the gambling addiction he was afflicted with, is a remarkable tour de force NATO’s leaders should read before they gamble what is left of their own depleted resources away on the unlikely event they can take down China and Russia.

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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Denpasar, July 8, 2022

Friday, 8 July 2022 — Russian Foreign Ministry

The Group of 20 Foreign Ministers Meeting, convened at the initiative of Indonesia under its G20 presidency, focused on two major topics. The first topic is the crisis of multilateralism and the need to take all possible measures to overcome this crisis and return to the principles enshrined in the UN Charter – specifically, the sovereign equality of all states and the resolution of issues through negotiations. During the second session, we discussed the current situation with food and energy security. Our position on these two matters is well known. We presented it.

By making China the enemy, Nato is threatening world peace

Friday, 8 July 2022 — Jonathan Cook

Nato’s new posture towards Beijing brings into question its whole claim to be a ‘defensive’ alliance

Middle East Eye – 8 July 2022

As the saying goes, if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The West has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), a self-declared “defensive” military alliance – so any country that refuses its dictates must, by definition, be an offensive military threat.

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No Bullet to Bite

Tuesday, 5 July 2022 — The van says…

With no bullets to fire, and no food to eat, some nations will have to bite the bullet

Preamble

recent article covered the manpower issues presently facing Kiev, yet in spite of there being so few to pick up arms, those weapons are useless unless there is ordnance to fire. This article will examine yet another problem blighting both the Ukraine and potentially the West.
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Ukraine: A Week in Review

Sunday, 3 July 2022 — The van says…

LisichanskResidents of Lisichansk were elated to finally see Russian troops enter the town. Photo©️Intel Slava Z

Author’s note. The author wishes to apologize for the drop in output over the last week, work being very intense at this time of year. With there being a whole week since the last post, it is hoped that the material makes up for the wait! With the work situation being what it is, articles will unfortunately be published less frequently until a better work-life balance can be achieved.
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Europe’s Third Attempt at Suicide and Generation Z+

27 June, 2022 — The Saker

By Batiushka for The Saker Blog

‘The next war in Europe will be between Russia and Fascism, except that Fascism will be called Democracy.’

Fidel Castro, c. 1992

Introduction

Europe is a serial suicide. The first attempt began in Sarajevo in 1914 and finished in Versailles in 1919. The second began a generation later in Warsaw in 1939 and ended in Berlin in 1945. Having very nearly succeeded at the second attempt (it missed atomic bombs by mere months), Europe sobered up and slowed down, waiting till the centenary of 1914 before it tried for the third time. This attempt began in Kiev, again in Eastern Europe, in 2014 and is continuing in the Special Military Operation (SMO). At every attempt Europe has lost. The first time it lost three empires (the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the German), the second time two Empires, the fatally weakened British and French, so ensuring the supremacy of the American Empire in Europe, as in the rest of the world.

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Lavrov gets it right by comparing European Union and NATO to Hitler’s old Axis

Tuesday, 28 June 2022, — The Saker

By Guilherme Wilbert for the Saker Blog

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on 06/24/2022 that the European Union and NATO appear to be carrying out a military coalition for a war against Russia. The statement was given in Baku in Azerbaijan during an interview.

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No, NATO Will Not Get Ready For War

Thursday, 30 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama

I had a good laugh when I read this nonsense:

NATO to boost troops on high alert to over 300,000 -Stoltenberg

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will boost the number of troops on high alert by more than sevenfold to over 300,000, its secretary-general said on Monday, as allies prepared to adopt a new strategy describing Moscow as a direct threat four months into the Ukraine war.

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Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7

Tuesday, 28 June 2022 — The Cradle

The west is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.

By Pepe Escobar

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Once upon a time, there existed an Iron Curtain which divided the continent of Europe. Coined by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the term was in reference to the then-Soviet Union’s efforts to create a physical and ideological boundary with the west. The latter, for its part, pursued a policy of containment against the spread and influence of communism.

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Russia is Left with Few Options Other than to Defend Itself, “As Always!”

Monday, 9 June 2022 — New Eastern Outlook

Author: Henry Kamens

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One prince rides out from the West, the other from the East, destined to do battle until Judgment Day decrees there must come a time of peace. Ancient legends have always fascinated me, and it has always seemed that this is always with us: the past, the present and the future all knotted together in a repetitive loop.

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Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion

Wednesday, 29 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

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Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid.

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