The German government has recently refused overflight rights to the Royal Air Force who were sending planes to Ukraine loaded with weapons. The French government also refused overflight rights, which meant that the British planes had to make a long detour to eventually reach their destination.
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After Diplomatic Failure, NATO And U.S. Turning To Military Option To Contain “Russian Threat”
‘Pandemic’ narrative over…false flag in Ukraine next?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/24/pandemic-narrative-over-false-flag-in-ukraine-next/
UK, US Accuse Russia Of Preparing Regime Change In Ukraine
https://southfront.org/uk-us-accuse-russia-of-preparing-regime-change-in-ukraine/
EU Diplomatic Chief Expresses Disinterest In Joining Biden’s Escalations Against Russia Over Ukraine
https://southfront.org/eu-diplomatic-chief-expresses-disinterest-in-joining-bidens-escalations-against-russia-over-ukraine/
A radar vehicle of the S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile system on the way to Belarus, Khabarovsk region, Russia, Jan 21, 2022The US-Russia talks in Geneva in the last two successive weeks could not produce a breakthrough. Fundamentally, there is a contradiction that cannot be resolved easily.
Russia sees in existential terms the NATO’s advance into its immediate neighbourhood. For Washington, it’s geopolitics, stupid!
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Ukraine: Russian intervention highly likely
https://www.indianpunchline.com/ukraine-russian-intervention-highly-likely/
The Russia-US -Ukraine Debacle: The Dangers of a Full-Blown Global Conflict
https://www.globalresearch.ca/longest-war-21st-century/5767255
Eight Years Ago: US-NATO Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine/5371554
by Jan Oberg
The toolbox is empty. Russia knows this. Biden knows this. Blinken knows this. CNN knows this. The only ones who aren’t aware of this are the American people, says Scott Ritter.
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Moscow Doesn’t Want Mediation With Kiev, Just Its Implementation Of The Minsk Accords
https://orientalreview.org/2022/01/21/moscow-doesnt-want-mediation-with-kiev-just-its-implementation-of-the-minsk-accords/
Biden dismisses ‘stupid question’ on Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/546752-biden-stupid-question-ukraine/
The wise men of that Academy of Wisdom (aka The Atlantic Council) tell us “How to deal with the Kremlin-created crisis in Europe“. The piece is mostly codswallop, boasting, cheap threats and hot air but there is one good thing about it:
It doesn’t threaten war.
Never mind that Russia won’t “invade Ukraine” for a host of reasons which I (for one – I certainly don’t pretend to be the only person who can see the obvious) laid out in 2014: Why Russia Hasn’t and Won’t Invade Ukraine. These reasons are only stronger now because Ukraine has become more decayed, more poor, more nazi, more corrupt, more divided and more hopeless. It is a huge hostile expensive liability that Moscow doesn’t want to pay for and police. Let those who broke it, pay for it.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Is a Delusional Madman
NATO’s cognitive warfare and the destruction of the truth
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/12/natos-cognitive-warfare-and-destruction.html
Saker’s View of the Conflict.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/sakers-view-of-conflict.html
How about Leaving the South Caucasus Alone?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/28/how-about-leaving-the-south-caucasus-alone/
Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/yes-there-were-10-good-things-about-2021/
Will 2022 be Better Than the Outgoing Year?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/27/will-2022-be-better-than-the-outgoing-year/
Big, Big Difference.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/big-big-difference.html
2022 — Year Of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/2022-year-of-major-power-conflict-over-ukraine/
Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Scholar and author Richard Sakwa analyzes the growing Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Russiagate fueled it.
Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via video conference outside Moscow, December 24, 2021The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend.
This is verbatim from the official report of the UN General Assembly plenary of 16 December 2021:
The Assembly next took up the report on “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, containing two draft resolutions.
Following unfounded U.S. claims of an imminent Russian invasion of the Ukraine U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have held a virtual summit. Little has been released about its real content but the Russian follow up shows that the issues they talked about were deadly serious.
BY KEVIN GOSZTOLA
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange | Photo by Cancillería EcuadorAttorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States.
A few years back:
In his State of the Union message in January, President Bush approvingly cited the report. “
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” said Bush.
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On Thursday, standing beside British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush said of Britain, “Not only our intelligence, but the intelligence of this great country made a clear and compelling case that Saddam Hussein was a threat to security and peace.”
By Pepe Escobar
American hysteria over the “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine has exploded every geopolitical Stupid-o-Meter in sight – and that’s quite an accomplishment.
What a mess. Sections of the U.S. Deep State are in open revolt against the combo that remote controls Crash Test Dummy, who impersonates POTUS. The neocon-neoliberal axis is itching for a war – but has no idea how to sell it to an immensely fractured public opinion.
Ten days ago I wrote about the potential of war in the Ukraine:
There is fear in Russia that the U.S. is egging the Ukraine into a renewed active conflict with its renegade eastern Donbass region and thereby into a war with Russia.
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The Biden administrations war mongering towards Russia may be seen to be free of cost. But it takes only one miscalculation in Kiev or some unforeseen incident in the Black Sea region and the situation could seriously escalate.
Moscow sees a salami slicing tactic at work that would only end with NATO directly confronting it on all its borders:
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US has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow’s invasion plans and to justify NATO involvemenTThe “feel-good” from Tuesday’s virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping leaps out of the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June.
Biden’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a “stable and predictable” relationship with Russia but there is talk of war today.
The New Dark Age 