Russia
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This Ain’t Putin’s Price Hike: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Let’s be clear: you’re not paying more for necessities to punish Putin and save Ukraine, you’re paying more for necessities to fund an economic war of unprecedented scale geared toward collapsing Russia to help secure US unipolar domination of this planet. Continue reading
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Breaking News from the All-Powerful Oligarchs of Oz
The crisis in Ukraine has spun the world backward on its axis. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s atypical military campaign, or denazification as some refer to it, has most western nations frantic for solutions. Unfortunately, the NATO and EU states don’t bother to ask the right questions, let alone propose the correct answers. Now, with Russia… Continue reading
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Business As Usual: Facebook, Russia And Hate Speech
Seedy, compromised and creepy, the surveillance machine of Facebook, now operating under the broader fold of its parent company Meta Platforms, is currently giving out the very signals that it was condemned for doing before: encourage discussions on hating a group and certain figures, while spreading the bad word to everyone else to do so. Continue reading
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‘This Is What Liberal War Fever Looks Like’
We all know that the western media’s Ukraine coverage has been highly charged, playing on western feelings of sympathy for (some) underdog ‘victims’, and directing feelings towards a moral outrage that insists – even demands – retribution and punishment for the perceived perpetrators. Continue reading
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Russia adjusts to “sanctions from hell”
Friday, 11 March 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Russia’s Central Bank is under western sanctions The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks at his meeting with government ministers on Thursday constituted his first comments on the West’s “sanctions from hell.” They were focused almost entirely on “a set of measures to minimise the consequences of sanctions on the Russian economy… Continue reading
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Nostalgia?
Friday, 11 March 2022 — Investigating Imperialism By William Bowles The power of symbols Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (note the Flags of NATO and the Azov Battalion and of course, the Swastika) No, I don’t think it’s nostalgia and it’s not Andrei Tarkovsky’s stunning movie, ‘Nostalghia‘ either, it’s the image below, one of the 100s of Russian… Continue reading
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Cutting Through the Fog Masking ‘a New Page in the Art of War’
The non-government in Kiev is simply not allowed by the Empire to negotiate anything. By now what we may call a Triple Threat has been established as the catalyst anticipating the launch of Operation Z. Continue reading
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The opinion of a professional about the special operation in Ukraine (MUST READ!)
Note by the Saker: one of our readers today sent me a very interesting document in Russian. First, I thought “more of the same” (5th columnist stuff) but then I started reading it and I changed my mind. This was clearly written by a military professional, his name is Alexander Dubrovsky. It was posted here and here. So I… Continue reading
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Let’s Re-Learn The Word ‘Detente’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues. Continue reading
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Russia’s judo kick to the western financial gut
Washington’s sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia The battlefield is drawn. The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that ‘international community’ keeps shrinking. Continue reading
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The Sanction Backlash Will Push The ‘West’ To Accept Russia’s Demands
For years the U.S. committed policies that have left a lot of countries grumbling. Now, as the U.S. needs support to milden the consequences of ‘punishing’ Russia, those policies come back to bite. So will the secondary effects of sanctions the ‘west’ has imposed on Russia. Continue reading
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Russia – US: Two Worlds, Two Policies
While many pundits around the world engage in endless debate that it is the West, led by the United States that is decaying in its impotent rage, which is to blame for fueling the largest military conflict in Europe of recent years, the more pertinent question is: how and when will the West stop pitting… Continue reading
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How Ukraine War Affects the World Order & the Global Power Balance
The impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine isn’t isolated to Europe. As the US and NATO pour weapons into a Ukrainian insurgency, the risk for confrontation between nuclear armed power is rising. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 8-9 March 2022
Wednesday, 9 March 2022 • 21:00 — 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. Talking… Continue reading
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Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia
What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantee? This question will haunt US president Joe Biden long after he retires from public life. The foreign policy legacy of his presidency and the reputation of this much-vaunted 80-year old politician with… Continue reading
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The US Chose This Conflict: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Just your regular reminder that the US empire (A) had solid intelligence that this war was coming, (B) knew they could prevent it by making very reasonable, low-cost concessions like promising not to add a nation to NATO that they didn’t want to add anyway, and (C) chose not to. Continue reading
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Ukraine Crisis and Outlook: Culmination points in the East-West struggle
Following the words of the first Secretary General of NATO, Hastings_Ismay, regarding NATO´s purpose “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”, one could say that the aim of the Ukraine conflict purposefully brought about by the USA is: to keep the Russians and Chinese out, the USA in, and the… Continue reading
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A briefing on the medico-biological US activity in Ukraine (MUST SEE!)
Tuesday, 8 March 2022 — The Saker Please press on the “cc” button to see the English subtitles! Continue reading
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Closing the Donbass cauldron & closing Nord Stream 1
Tuesday, 8 March 2022 — The Duran Continue reading
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Kyiv Demonstrates The Real Value Of Agreements With It: Thirteenth Day Of Operations In Ukraine
On March 8, the Kyiv government continued to sabotage the evacuation of civilians via humanitarian corridors established by Russia despite the collapse of the Ukrainian forces’ defense in the southern part of the country and the complex situation in the northeast. Continue reading
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