Why?

This post was originally published on this site The issue here , of course , is the fact that this trade is represented for a whole Europe , 4 of the major nations of her , constitute a bulk of G-7 .
By far the most important dynamics here is this : These are the effects of a non-stop trade war ( sanctions ) on Russia supported by all those Europeans and , quoting , Karen Shakhnazarov , “ sanctions are good for Russia ” , because sanctions allow increasing decoupling from EU , including by means of import substitution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still retain interest for Russians is EU being a market , which will increasingly , due to a sheer stupidity of EU bureaucracy , will be destabilized due to confluence of macroeconomic and cultural factors .
Russia is just fine dealing with Europeans on a bilateral level .
But here is another dynamics to consider : Pretty much sums it up , doesn ’ t it ?
So , Trump wants to exclude China from “ international community ” by holding this gathering which decides nothing and is worthless in terms of any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is global economic crisis .
So , anyone can explain what Russia is to gain , other than some photo-ops for Trump , from this meeting ?
Why should Vladimir Putin even be there ?
Moscow and New Delhi have a direct line and can solve their issues by talking directly , Europe , frankly , is economically suicidal , Australia is a non-entity for Russia , so why ?
I don ’ t know , but Trump , evidently thinks that this is a good idea .
I think it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of global issues must happen first between G-3 : China , US and Russia .
Until something is decided within this triangle no other meetings will produce any sensible world order which will reasonably satisfy everyone .
The United States is not ready to deal with this issue yet , but US has only two options here : war and getting back to the reality .
What will be this choice we don ’ t know yet , hopefully the latter one .

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Eric Zuesse
This is in response to Caitlin Johnstone’s January 28th article, which alleged that not all of the blame for the war in Ukraine goes to Obama’s decisions, and which accused Russia of “warmongering” (and avoided using any such strong term of condemnation against America’s Government), “Why Don’t You Ever Criticize RUSSIA’S Warmongering??”:
She said:
First of all, I actually do sometimes criticize Russia’s warmongering, to the limited extent that I believe it’s necessary in a civilization that’s being deliberately saturated in maximum-amplification criticisms of Russia’s warmongering. That criticism generally goes something like this: Putin is responsible for Putin’s decisions, and the US empire is responsible for the US empire’s decisions. Putin is responsible for deciding to invade Ukraine, and the US empire is responsible for provoking that invasion.
It’s not actually complicated. If I provoke someone into doing a bad thing, then we each have a degree of moral responsibility for the bad thing that was done. So much modern empire apologia revolves around pretending that provocation is simply not a thing; that this very simple and fundamental concept we all learned about as children was just invented last year by the Russian government. It’s bizarre and undignified and people should feel embarrassed for doing it. You know what provocation is. Stop acting like an idiot. …
“Why don’t you ever criticize RUSSIA’S warmongering?”
This is going to blow your mind, but I don’t actually have a Russian audience. I have an English-speaking audience which lives predominantly under the thumb of the western empire. …
“Why don’t you ever criticize RUSSIA’S warmongering?”
Because I don’t want to be a goddamn Pentagon propagandist. … You are responsible for what you put out into the world, and you are responsible for its consequences. Stop functioning as an unpaid empire propagandist just because it’s sometimes awkward not to.
Her entire essay dealt with this matter as being a controversy between “propagandists” on each side, instead of as a matter that is fundamentally about historical truth, versus historical falsity. The present article is about the latter:
The war in Ukraine started during 20-27 February 2014 when the democratically elected and neutralist Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, whom both Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had privately tried in 2010 to persuade to join America’s European alliance, the EU and NATO, against Ukraine’s adjoining nation of Russia, instead of for Ukraine to retain its then-existing neutrality as between America and Russia. Only if Ukraine joined the U.S. alliance abgainst Russia could the U.S. Government even possibly post its missiles, including nuclear ones, only 300 miles (five minutes of missile-flying time) away from Moscow, on Ukraine’s border, and thereby checkmate (threaten to blitz-decapitate) Russia in the way that the Soviet Union might have checkmated America if the Soviets had positioned their nuclear missiles 1,131 miles (30 minutes) away from Washington DC in 1962 if JFK and Khrushchev hadn’t both been decent individuals and so come to an agreement that prevented a nuclear war between America and the U.S.S.R., during the Cuban Missile Crisis. On 19 April 2022, I provided a “History of the Ukrainian War” that documents, by direct links to its sources, how America’s coup on 20-27 February 2014 (a good video of that coup is here; its smoking-gun part is shown in full here; and an explanation of what the discussants there were referring-to is here) that grabbed control over Ukraine was done. I also had done an article on 4 November 2019 “The Obama Regime’s Plan to Seize the Russian Naval Base in Crimea”, documenting that Obama had even been intending to steal Russia’s biggest naval base — which was and remains in Crimea; that’s the part of his plan that failed — and to turn it into a U.S. naval base instead, which would have provided sea power, and not only ground-based missiles, to checkmate Russia into surrendering to become another U.S. colony or ‘ally’ in the post-WW-II America’s plan to take control over the entire world. All of the links directly to the ultimate sources are provided in those two articles about the historical background of Ukraine’s war.
Anyone who wants to explore further the history here might also find of interest my 28 January 2023 “What motivated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022”, which closes:
Time was running out for Russia to defend itself short of by going to war directly against the U.S. The only question that had remained for Russia was when and how to invade Ukraine. Whether they did it at the right time and in the right way will be debated-about by future investigative historians, but that it needed to be done was beyond any rational dispute. (Nonetheless, it was virtually universally denied by ‘experts’ in The West. Propaganda can make a majority of the public believe virtually anything, virtually anywhere. I avoid it, everywhere, and rely upon, instead — and link directly to — ONLY evidence that can’t rationally be doubted. Doing this now in The West stands out like a sore thumb; but what Galileo and Darwin wrote, likewise did — because they, likewise, never compromised truth, never misrepresented the available evidence. Historians should follow the same rule. Few do.)
My disagreement with Johnstone on this matter is that it’s not primarily an issue about which side’s propaganda to support, but instead it’s about what the truth is: what the historical record is that explains, in a credible cause-and-effect way — as all of science is required to do — the U.S. regime’s grabbing of Ukraine during 20-27 February 2014, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, which finally responded to that coup and rabidly anti-Russian regime it installed, after Russia’s diplomatic methods of responding to that threat against Russia’s national security had failed.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
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* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/nigel-farage-coutts-bank-account-closed-align-with-values/ Coutts closed Nigel Farage’s account because he didn’t ‘align with their values’] – ”The Telegraph”, July 19, 2023 * [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/nigel-farage-coutts-bank-account-closed-align-with-values/ Coutts closed Nigel Farage’s account because he didn’t ‘align with their values’] – ”The Telegraph”, July 19, 2023
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* May 30 : [ https : //twitter.com/tonytohcy/status/1266574010051158021 Tony Toh ( Twitter ) ] ” Al Batin and some of @ @ @ @ @ district are under Houthi Ansarullah control , thereby tightening its fire control over Sanaa-Marib road @ @ @ @ @ officers & Saudi advisors are beginning to flee Mas Camp en masse towards capital # @ @ @ @ @ 30 : [ https : //twitter.com/tonytohcy/status/1266574010051158021 Tony Toh ( Twitter ) ] ” Al Batin @ @ @ @ @ hilltops in Majzar district are under Houthi Ansarullah control , thereby tightening its fire control @ @ @ @ @ reports that pro-Hadi officers & Saudi advisors are beginning to flee Mas Camp en masse @ @ @ @ @ .
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* [https://www.saba.ye/en/news3106593.htm Al Bayda liberation from ISIS and al-Qaeda dropped last chapters of aggression forces plan to occupy province, open front towards capital Sana’a: Security source for “Saba”] – ”Saba”, August 23, 2020


Ukraine news/Current

Derkach has another press conference , releasing [ https : //www.youtube.com/watch ?
v=g5tl3wel9lw more tapes ] .
There is a typed transcript version in Russian [ https : //rusvesna.su/news/1592841280 here ] .
It does show , if not obvious , that many important decisions on Ukraine , such as oil/gas , banking policies are made outside of Ukraine , with Derkach presentation showing Poroshenko ’ s role in all this in very unfavorable light .
It also shows that decisions such as prosecutor general Shokhin replacement , his office reform , dealing with whistleblower and Poroshenko ’ s opponent Onishenko @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the latter case US services are involved , with the conclusion that “ Onishenko has nothing ” .
It is also clear that financial aid is used throughout as a tool to achieve various objectives ( arguably not unlike Trump ’ s case leading to intense media coverage and his impeachment ) .
I do not see in the tapes something direct on the war in Donbass ( we know about US “ Javelins ” sent , of course ) ; or something on Biden which we did not really know already .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ interpretations and judgement .
Western media does not seem to give this coverage that Derkach and co would like to see .
Despite the fact that making Ukraine a failed state dedicated to be a thorn in Russia ’ s side under Biden ’ s watch on the top is obvious .

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21 Jun. 3 DPR soldiers are killed by Ukrainian mortar attack despite all ceasefires. One more is killed when SPG-9 was fired on ambulance vehicle collecting bodies, despite additional “silence regime” agreed. Five more are wounded. Anniversary of Nazi attack on USSR is June 22.
11 Jun. Five LPR soldiers, members of “Prizrak” battalion, are killed near Golubovskoe when Ukrainian RSG group ambushed their checkpoint. It is said that a foreign sniper rifle was used in the attack.
3 Jun. UNSC ‘Arria-Formula’ meeting on the circumstances of Maidan and its aftereffects in Donbass, video: Eng, Rus. Tsarev talk, text, [ Rus.] Presenters are former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, former Rada MP Oleg Tsarev (more here) and Vladimir Oleynik, British reporter Dean O’Brien and French journalist Anne-Laure Bonnel (who uses French diplomatic and military sources). MSM ignores, West castigates. US and UK did not show up at all, saying that some of the participants are under their sanctions. France and Ireland repeated well-known cliches with no interaction with presented testimonies.
Donbass (Vimeo , OK) – documentary film by Anne-Laure Bonnel.
“First line of the Northern Stream 2 is completed“.
Ukrainian officials used Giuliani to sow disinformation.
28 May. US prosecutors investigate if Ukraine criminally interfered in the 2020 US presidential elections by spreading disinformation.
Belarus may suspend shipments of A95 petrol to Ukraine (apparently to do with repairs at oil processing plant). It also introduced targeted sanctions on Ukrainian imports, after Ukraine cut air traffic with Belarus. (According to opolchenie, a lot of Ukrainian tank fuel is coming from Russia and Belarus).
27 May. According to Ukrainian data presented to OSCE, 38 of its soldiers are killed and 115 wounded since additional ceasefire measures were introduced in July, 2020
24 May. Belarus expels all Latvian diplomats, for insult to Belarus flag in Riga where hockey championship is taking place. (Latvia expels Belarus diplomats in turn).
23 May. NEXTA founder/editor Roman Protasevich was arrested in Belarus after Ryanair plane Athens-Vilnius landed in Minsk after the captain was informed of a fake bomb threat issued in the name of Hamas. (RFE/RL version here). This seem to follow footsteps of Ukraine forcing return of Belavia plane on Oct. 22, 2016, to detain anti-Maidan blogger, citizen of Armenia (later released). It is also suggested (see eg here) that Russian PMC arrests in Belarus were originally planned in the form of forcing their flight from Minsk to land in Ukraine (this version was reported by Butusov of tsensor.net).
19 May. DPR: In the past day, Ukraine violated ceasefire 5 times, fired 50 munitions above 12.7 mm. DPR soldier was killed on May 18. (Opolchenie report says a soldier was killed in the evening of May 17; unclear whether this is the same event).
11 May. DPR: one soldier is killed and 2 wounded by Ukrainian shelling.
It is said that official suspicion notes on treason and embezzlement charges are issued to MP Medvedchuk and Kozak; SBU is trying to conduct a search at Medvedchuk home and “serve him with a detention request.” Medvedchuk response is that this is politically motivated persecution, and that he will remain in Ukraine and fight the charges. (Earlier, 2 Feb. 2021, main opposition media resources aligned with his party were banned to broadcast).
9 May. As a result of Ukrainian shelling of Trudovskaya minepit settlement, Tomskaya st., 10, a civilian man is killed, Puchkin Anatoly Nazarovich, born 12.10.1939
Victory day parade in Donetsk.
Tatyana Montyan carries Zelenskii’s grandfather photo at “Immortal regiment” walk in Donetsk. “Let at least his grandfather takes a walk with “Immortal regiment” while his grandson arranges witches sabbath of SS Galitchina in the center of Kiev”. Semyon Zelensky, born in 1924, was called up for military service in 1942. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as the commander of a mortar platoon, and then the commander of a rifle company of the 174th regiment of the 57th Guards rifle division. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
7 May. Three DPR soldiers are killed by Ukrainian shelling. According to DPR, they returned fire and say that 2 Ukrainian soldiers are killed and one wounded as a result.
6 May. UNSC Arria Formula: Drivers of conflict in Ukraine (Eng, Rus, Russian representative comments after the event).
5 May. DPR reports Ukrainian mortar shelling of Gorlovka and Veseloe in northern Donetsk; DPR returned fire near Veseloe. Ukrainian 122mm artillery shelling of Staromikhailovka, western Donetsk, is also reported.
LPR report: Ukrainian forces tried to attack, one LPR soldier is killed in a fight.
DPR and LPR blame Ukraine for provocations during US Sec. State visit.
4 May. DPR soldier is killed by Ukrainian sniper near Kominternovo.
Victims of the 2014 massacre remembered at the Odessa Trade Union Building
2 May. Marks the 7th anniversary of the Odessa Trade Union massacre. Arria formula UNSC informal meeting to hear testimonies of survivors is announced by representative of Russia.
1 May. Opolchenie: In the Sakhanka area, Ukrainian forces fired at a civilian tractor plowing a field. The tractor driver was not injured.
Gorlovka: elderly couple are both wounded by a landmine explosion with traumatic foot amputation while grazing their livestock
Opolchenie lists 9 soldiers and 1 civilian killed in DPR in April.
23 Apr. There are many reports of continued Ukrainian shelling. Residents’ made video here, “The Trudovskye (settlement) woke up feeling that they were being bombed.” Next day: “You can check your watches by Ukrainian shelling”
22 Apr. The 2021 Donbass Crisis may be over. Russia withdraws troops from the border after president Putin’s speech.
At least 3 NATO military-transport planes arrived to Ukraine in the past 3 days, at least 6 from 2 to 12 April –interfax.ua
Putin responded to Zelenskii’s invitation to meet in Donbass, inviting Zelenskii to discuss bilateral ties in Moscow , and saying that matters concerning LPR and DPR need to be discussed with LPR and DPR first. In addition, Kozak offered to have a Normany 4 (ie Germany , France, Russia, Ukraine) +LPR and DPR meeting in Donbass. The latter was rejected by Ukraine, as Ukraine will not talk to LPR and DPR (either in error or through pressure). Ukrainian official Reznikov threw a fit about LPR and DPR names used at all, portraying it as de-facto recognition. (It is well known what are the actual positions). Same official: “During the war, the president cannot go to the capital and meet with a person who is a representative of the aggressor country. It seems to me that this is a bit strange proposal” (it is well known that no war is declared between Ukraine and Russia; is this about the war with Donbass?).
21-22 Apr. OSCE SMM: 52 Ukrainian tanks “beyond withdrawal lines but outside designated storage sites” (and 11 for L/DPR).
21 Apr. Two DPR soldiers are killed by Ukrainian shelling.
US Senate bill has 300 mln$ per year in new military assitance to Ukraine, a program to encourage foreign donations of excess military equipment, and priority in gaining US excess military equipment.
Russia’s Federal Assembly waiting for Putin ‘s speech
21 Apr. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to Russia’s Federal Assembly. It was speculated that Putin will announce changes to Russia’s Ukraine policy, pending approval of an emergency session of the Federation Council to be held on April 23rd (although some, including patriotic opposition figures, were sceptical). In the end, the speech was mostly on domestic issues, such as post-covid support for families and businesses, and various domestic projects and initiatives. While there were some foreign policy items, such as coups being unacceptable, changes in the posture were rather subtle, and desire to not burn the bridges was empasised, while warning was given not to cross (not specified) red lines. It ended with briefly reporting on increased readiness of the armed forces.
17 Apr. Russian FSB said that a Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg “was caught red-handed” receiving classified informatiom from law enforcement databases. In unrelated developments of diplomacy, US Ambassador was “advised” to travel to USA for consultations in the process of counter-sanctions announcment, and Lavrov said this to further the diplomacy. (All that does not sound too enchanting).
Lukashenko makes comments on planned assassination of him and his family. Belarus earlier released videos of conversations of alleged conspirators and footage of arrests made.
14 Apr. Claims appeared about plans to create US/NATO bases in Ukraine; it is further claimed that summit proposal may have to do with diverting attention and winning time for those plans. Factual basis is unclear. Meanwhile, Prague was proposed as venue; with above caution, seemed like a good one. (Before the diplomatic row, that is).
13 Apr. Russian DM Shoigu: US troops are being deployed from mainland North America across the Atlantic to Europe. There is a movement of troops in Europe to the Russian borders. The main forces are concentrated in the Black Sea and the Baltic region. “In total, 40 thousand servicemen and 15 thousand units of weapons and military equipment, including strategic aviation, will be concentrated near our territory.” …In the past 3 weeks, Russia deployed to its western borders two armies and three formations of the Airborne Forces, “for checks of the combat readiness”. It is planned to complete the checks in the next 2 weeeks.
5 Apr. At least 3 Hercules planes arrived from the West to Ukraine. (Blogger Donetskii. Flightbox: 06-6161, MC136 / RCH136, landed 7h 38m ago, Kiev (KBP / UKBB)- Ramstein (RMS / ETAR), Monday, April 5 2021, 03:05 EEST Departed). One similar plane arrived to Kiev earlier, and another to Lvov.
DPR reports a brief firefight on Apr. 4 with Ukrainian RSG group near Shumy. A body of Ukrainian soldier Igor Baitalo , 1995 DoB is found on a minefiled; Ukrainian side did not collect the body or announced the loss; DPR asks to do so.
“Ukraine will look for another city instead of Minsk for negotiations on Donbass.”
4 Apr. According to Kravchuk, Ukraine will not participate in the negotiations of the contact group unless the Donetsk People’s Republic excludes from its delegation a public expert, journalist Maya Pirogova, who was convicted in absentia by a Ukrainian court for her activities in the structures of the DPR. (Unclear what are her crimes, apart from working with DPR; charge of “terrorism” is reported).
LPR spokesman: according to the information we received, on the banks of the Seversky Donets River in the area of Nikolayevka settlement a civilian was wounded by an unknown explosive device dropped by militants of the 80th brigade (UAF) using a UAV (drone). As a result, he received multiple shrapnel wounds of moderate severity and was taken to a hospital, where he was provided with qualified medical care.
3 Apr. DPR: Ukrainian drone attack killed a child, 2016 DoB, in Alexanrovskoe settlement; a woman is wounded in the same attack. Katia Katina report, with the boy’s photo and video interview of his grandmother.
Ukrainian activist and lawyer Tatiana Montan is present at boy’s funeral, and confirms that his death is not a fake. Relatives say on the video that explosive device was dropped by Ukrainian drone. They also say that story about ailing grandfather having some IED is fake. There are photos from the site. Impact imprint on cement, round small holes on a water bucket, broken glass seen. Relatives said that OSCE did not visit. Relatives said boy lost leg(s) and arm(s), and was killed soon after exiting the house to play in the yard. Another report, linked by Katina, shows more detailed photos; presents an opinion that device flew from above as there is 360 degree spread of fragments, and as the only viable alternative to drone offers a version that Ukrainian or pro-Ukrainian persons fired a mortar at the house of strongly pro-Russian family. The house is apparently some 15 km from the separation line, according to other pro -LDPR reporting.
Peskov comments, KP, Kommersant.
Russia opens a criminal investigation.
UN and JCCC officials visit Vladik’s family home. Grandmother says that officials recorded information but did not provide an assessment. She says she wants to receive expert opinion as she is hurt by theories, and there were no weapons and ‘no war’ at their home.
2 Apr. LPR reports Ukrainian shelling (mortars, grenade launchers), resulting in a firefight. One LPR soldier is killed. According to LPR sources, Ukrainian military planes arrived to Chuguev , Kharkov region, and a helicopter is deployed towards the separation line.
In Zaitsevo, near Gorlovka, two residential homes are reported on fire (video report), minutes after the area came under Ukrainian fire from a heavy machine gun “Utes”.
1 Apr. DPR announces its first ever draft (“200 men will join the corps”).
US, Canada, UK Defense Attaché met with Ukrainian Min. of defense Taran, deputy. Min. defense Petrenko, Polishchuk, commander of the combined forces lieutenant general. Naev and col. Budanov.
Ukrainian MoD and some Western MSM reports claim US and NATO backing for Ukraine.
“Readout of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley’s Phone Call with Ukraine’s Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Ruslan Khomchak”
Secretary Blinken’s Call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba
Western MSN: “U.S. military’s European Command raised its watch level from possible crisis to potential imminent crisis — the highest level — in response to the deployment of the additional Russian troops” (noted, this reports on watchcon level, not defcon or redcon).
After many reports providing photo-visual evidence of additional Ukrainian heavy armor deployments, reports appear on additional Russian troops deployment to the Crimea and to the Ukrainian border.
26 Mar. Ukraine claims that 4 of its soldiers are killed and two wounded in Shumy settlment, blamed on pro-Russian/LDPR forces (noted, full circumstances are unclear, report is disputed, in particular by commenters suspecting landmine explosion; I could not find relevant material in OSCE reports on 27 or 29 March where it would be xpected; people are killed on a regular basis, on both sides, and reports of similar-sized casualties by LDPR forces do not result in war promotions).
24 Mar. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signs Decree No. 117/2021, essentially declaring war on Russia
23 Mar. DPR: two soldiers are killed by Ukrainain shelling near Donetsk airport
22 Mar. DPR: A civilian is killed in Alexandrovka by Ukrainian sniper shot.
20 Mar. Commentary describes “Kravchuk plan”, said to be de-facto capitulation of the republics with no special status and Ukraine taking control of the border before the elections. It is said that Ukraine tries to obtain Germany and France backing of the plan, with military moves towards separation line to drive home the message. Moscow does not agree to the plan and indicates that it will raise the stakes and will support the republics if Ukraine attacks. With all this, situation is dangerous and may escalate out of control.
Blogger Donetskii commentary reminds that Ukraine used tensions to supress opposition figures in Ukraine (Medvedchuk and others), and to move its forces into the conflict zone, no matter what will happen with diplomacy. He asserts that all those back and forth escalations and ceasefires do not resolve the conflict and do not serve interests of the people (while he does not want a full blown war, either).
18 Mar. Daily, numerous reports on Ukrainian shelling (mortars, AGS, small arms, occasional artillery) . Resumed despite “stricter measures” around February, with no end in site, and with many reports on heavy arms moved towards the separation line.
17 Mar. Opolchenie: one soldier is killed today, under Gorlovka.
13 Mar. There is increasing speculation about a planned Ukrainian attack on Donbass; in particular stream of reports of heavy weapons (including heavy artillery and air defense) moved in daytime to the front line, open-sourced report of 8 Bayraktar drones in Ukrainian possesion, etc.
12 Mar. DPR soldier is killed by Ukrainian shelling.
10 Mar. DPR. One DPR soldier is killed, another is wounded by Ukrainian fire. DPR said it returned fire.
It is noted that pro-Ukrainian bots spread on social media fake messages claiming that Russian military teams entered L/DPR.
5 Mar. DPR. Three DPR soldiers are killed and one wounded by Ukrainian sniper shots to the head. One of those killed is Varnavskii Roman. In the absence of international response, DPR forces returned fire. Ukrainian losses are reported.
3 Mar. DPR police officer Voina V.I. is killed by Ukrainian sniper when his group responded to a call saying that a group of children was seen in the grey zone between Ukraiian and DPR forces.
26 Feb. Ukrainian forces fired eighteeen 82-mm mortar shells on Donetsk state plant of chemical products and the adjacent territory; a DPR soldier was killed by shelling.
25 Feb. LPR soldier is heavily wounded by Ukrainian sniper fire near Nizhnee Lozovoe
Heavy shelling of northwestern Donetsk is reported, Yelenovka was shelled earlier.
Heavy weapons shelling of Gorlovka is reported.
23 Feb. DPR. Ukrainian shelling in multiple areas is reported, at least 4 residential houses damaged
22 Feb. A civilian man is wounded by Ukrainian fire in Alexanrdovka, west of Donetsk
21 Feb. Zaitsevo in Gorlovka shelled once again, a direct hit on empty residential house.
20 Feb. At least six opolchenie soldier (Gorbachev Vladimir, Shepetki Evgenii, Alekseev Valery, Petrenko Sergey, Syrovatsky Dmitry, Pyatak Vladimir) killed by Ukrainian mortar shelling near Gorlovka, and 3 wounded, (two, by the official report) shortly after Ukrainian leadership authorised local commanders to open fire without higher-ups approval. Unconfirmed reports claim that more were killed. War correspondent Kotenok: “On situation in Gorlovka. Our losses: 5-200, 3-300, a dugout (blindazh) was smashed. Fire corrected from the drone. From 2 am to 5 am it (Ukrainian fire) flew here.” Another oplochenie/Strelkov unconfirmed report claims that losses of the “3 battalion of the 3 brigade is from 2 to 11 killed; either reconnaissance and sabotage group or murder” (Bezler on 21 Feb: 20 killed; that figure is denied by Evgenii Skripnik “Prapor” who tells about 7 killed and scores wounded, after a rescue group arrived and better account made); and that “at minepit Glubokaia, 7 -200 and 4 -300” (see also 1, 2); it is unclear whether reports are accurate and whether it has intersection with Kotenok report (who is a well-established war reporter). Opolchenie and official DPR sources say that DPR responded and “supressed enemy fire”; it is claimed that 11 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
DPR later acknowledged that 7 DPR soldiers were killed and 6 wounded on that day near Gorlovka.
OSCE drone is reported in L/DPR airspace.
20 Feb is Ukrainian “day of memory of the heavenly hundred”
17 Feb. Ukrainian mortar and BMP-1 guns fire is reported south of Donetsk, 21 mortar shells fired. More Ukrainian shelling is later reported, 20 AGS grenades and 20 BMP-2 gun shots fired on Abakumov minepit area near Donetsk,and two mortar shells fired on Luganskoe village.
DPR head Denis Pushilin and Leonid Kracvchuk, former Ukrainian president and head of Ukrainian delegation at the contact group, appeared together and had some exchange on a Russian TV show. That may be the first such direct contact ever, at least in public (but little was agreed on…)
15 feb. Attempted assasination attempt on DPR commander Sergei Popov, call name “Dlinnyi”. An explosive devices was planted in his vehicle and exploded when he was taking his daughter to a school. Both survived, with commander receiving multiple wounds to his legs, and daughter shell-shocked.
11 Feb. Opolchenie reports arrival of Ukrainian troops and heavy armor in areas near separation line, discuss concerns on prospects of a large scale Ukrainian attack.
6 Feb. DPR: “For the first time since the commencement of the Complex of Additional Measures (July 27, 2020), Ukrainian militants launched an artillery strike from 122-mm artillery, shelling residential areas of Staromikhaylovka settlement in the Donetsk direction, firing 12 shells. Against this background, we reserve the right to provide an adequate response to the actions of Ukrainian punishers to protect the population from Ukrainian terror. “
2 Feb. Ukrainian president Zelenskii signed a decree blocking three Ukrainian opposition TV channels NewsOne, Zik, 112 from broadcasting, financial transactions, cultural exchanges, transfer of intellectual rights and technology. Prior to this, US indicated “robust U.S. economic and military assistance to Ukraine“, and support on “preventing disinformation” after the decree was signed.
29 Jan. Margarita Simonian in Donetsk: “Mother Russia, take Donbass home” (5:14,2:07). Peskov: Donbass joining Russia is not on the Kremlin’s agenda. (Commenters: split on meaning).
23 Jan. DPR soldier is killed near Staromikhailovka by a munition dropped by Ukrainian drone.
22 Jan. One DPR soldier is killed and another wounded by Ukrainian shelling
Highlights from the past
30 Apr. U.S. Confirms Delivery Of Javelin Antitank Missiles To Ukraine
Poroshenko announced end of ATO and start of ‘joint operation of armed forces’, which is aimed at ‘defending territorial integrity’ and will only end ‘when the last piece of Ukrainian land is liberated, including Crimea’, which is somehow supposed to happen by ‘political-diplomatic means’.
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Photos
Recent history in a nutshell in those photos to the right:
Poroshenko, Kiska – EU entry at Uzhgorod
Ukrainian AF killed and wounded in ‘ATO’, Maidan, Kiev
Aftermaths of Ukrainian shelling of the village Zheltoe (Yellow), LPR, 29 Nov. 2016 lug-info.
Sources
Note on sources. At present, pro -Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources more often than not offer opposing claims on events, and a choice needs to be made. Currently factual part of reporting by pro-Russian sources appear more accurate, complete, and closer to truth, out of the two available alternatives. It is also less known, as the other side has greater support by the Western mass media. For that reason, a lot of reporting here is based on Russian sources. It is not done for the sake of supporting any pre-determined narrative. If and when Ukrainian sources appear more accurate, they will be used without a reservation.
Some Ukrainian source reporting is very good, for example Tatyana Montyan numerous videos, some of them translated, are spot-on and at times appear closer to reality than any pro-this or that narratives. However the bulk of Ukrainian media is unreliable, and often just unbelievable, not passing cross checks (e.g. as was illustrated numerous times by well-read on both sides Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Sharii); or else, is filled with hate and may cheer more people harmed or killed (any of such sort, from any side, is totally unsupported here).
OSCE
Official Ukrainian sources
Ukrainian media
DPR and LPR
Minsk Agreements
Safety zone (no heavy weapons) agreed at Normandy format meeting in Minsk, 12.02.2015. Black: current front line; red-19 September line. At the bottom it says: source: the web site of the President of Russia


Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

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therussophileorg--2020-06-28--The Age of Chatham House and the British Roots of NATO

This post was originally published on this site NATO secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ’ s recent announcement of a NATO 2030 anti-nation state vision to extend the spheres of NATO ’ s jurisdiction into the Pacific to contain China demonstrates a disturbing ideology which can lead nowhere but World War III if not nipped in the bud soon .
In my previous article NATO 2030 : Making a Bad Idea Worse , I promised to shed light on the paradoxical situation of NATO ’ s unabashed unipolar agenda on one hand and the many examples of President Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 9500 American personnel from Germany announced on June 11 , his cutting of American participation in NATO military exercises , and his recent attacks on the military industrial complex .
The paradox : If NATO is truly a wholly owned tool of the American Empire , then why would the American Empire be at odds with itself ?
Of course , this only remains a paradox to the degree that one is committed to the belief in such a thing as “ The American Empire ” .
Please do not get me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way saying that America has not acted like an empire in recent decades , nor am I romantically trying to whitewash America ’ s historic tendencies to support colonization and defend systemic racism .
What I am saying is that there are demonstrably now , just as there have been since 1776 , TWO opposing dynamics operating within America , where only one is in alignment of the ideals of the Constitution and Declaration of independence while the other is entirely in alignment with the ideals of the British Empire and hereditary institutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One America has been defended by great leaders who are too often identified by their untimely deaths while in office , who consistently advanced anti-colonial visions for a world of sovereign nations , win-win cooperation , and the extension of constitutional rights to all classes and races both within America and abroad .
The other America has sought only to enmesh itself with the British Empire ’ s global regime of finance , exploitation , population control and never-ending wars .
These two Americas frustrated Round Table controller Sir Philip Kerr ( later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who wrote to his fellow Round Tabler Lionel Curtis explaining the “ American problem ” with the following words : ” There is a fundamentally different concept in regard to this question between Great Britain … and the United States … .
as to the necessity of civilized control over politically backward peoples… .
The inhabitants of Africa and parts of Asia have proved unable to govern themselves … because they were quite unable to withstand the demoralizing influences [ i.e .
their desire for modernization and independence–ed . ]
to which they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so that the intervention of an European power is necessary in order to protect them from those influences .
The American view… is quite different… The extent of this work after the war , sometimes known as the white man ’ s burden , will be so vast that it will never be accomplished at all unless it is shared… Yet America not only has no conception of this aspect of the problem but has been led to believe that the assumption of this kind of responsibility is iniquitous imperialism .
They take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government exactly analogous to the one they [ earlier ] took toward the problem of the world war… .
“ If they are slow in learning we shall be condemned to a period … of strained relations between the various parts of the English-speaking world .
[ We must ] get into the heads of Canadians and Americans that a share in the burden of world government is just as great and glorious a responsibility as participation in the war ” ( 1 ) At the time of Kerr ’ s writing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Milner had just orchestrated a British coup in 1916 ousting Labour ’ s Herbert Asquith in order to bring Milner ’ s Round Table group into dominance as a shaper of imperial foreign policy at a pivotal moment in history .
This coup allowed this group to define the terms of the Post-war world at Versailles ) .
These imperialists were obsessed with ending the dangerous spread of anti-colonial feelings from India , Ireland , Africa and other nations who firmly believed their sacrifices in WWI merited their independence .
Most dangerous of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much shared by many leading members of the American government who rejected the evil philosophical roots of the “ white man ’ s burden ” .
Sir Philip Kerr ( who later took on the name Lord Lothian before becoming ambassador to America during WWII ) and his Round Table gang did everything they could to control the terms of Versailles in 1919 which involved the creation of the League of Nations as a new global political/military hegemon powerful enough to destroy sovereign nation states forever under a new British-run empire .
American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Lothian , Milner and the other leaders of the Round Table soon established a new organization called the Royal Institute for International Affairs ( Chatham House ) in 1919 with branches soon set up across what later became the Five Eyes Anglo-Saxon nations .
This network would coordinate and adapt 19th century British Imperial policy using new 20th century techniques .
In America , the Round Table decided that the name “ American Institute for International Affairs ” was a bit too conspicuous and chose instead the name “ Council on Foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Canadian , and Australian Institutes for International Affairs were created in 1928 and 1929 accordingly known as the CIIA and AIIA , but for all their efforts , the pro-nation state dynamic within America could not be broken , and the League of Nations soon collapsed along with its ambitions for a global military and banking monopoly ( the latter attempt having been officially destroyed by FDR who sabotaged the London Economic Conference of 1933 ) .
The rise of NATO in the wake of WWII and the death of anti-colonialist Franklin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this historical dynamic in mind .
It is popularly believed that NATO was set up on April 4 , 1949 as a tool of the American colonialism .
The truth is a bit different .
As Cynthia Chung reported in her recent paper “ The Enemy Within : A Story of the Purge of American Intelligence ” , 1947 was a very bad year for America as a new intelligence agency was created with the birth of the CIA , now purged of all pro-FDR influences who had formerly dominated the OSS .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) was drafted calling for America to defend the possessions of the British Empire under the new Cold War operating system , leading to a new era of Anglo-American assassinations , wars and regime change .
On March 4th , 1947 , the Anglo-French Treaty of Dunkirk established a collective defense pact extending itself the next year to include Belgium , France , Luxemourg and the Netherlands under the guise of the Brussels Pact .
Both collective defense pacts operated outside of the UN structure but lacked the military teeth needed to give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having been crippled by the devastation of WWII .
Only America had the military might to make this new alliance meaningful as global military force capable of subduing all resistance and usher in world government .
In a memorandum called “ The United States and the Soviet Union ” written in August 1947 , a highly influential Oxford Rhodes Scholar and radical promoter of global governance named Escott Reid , then Deputy Undersecretary of External Affairs of Canada “ recommended that the countries of the North Atlantic band together , under the leadership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ a new regional security organization ’ to deter Soviet expansion.
” The motive for this memorandum was to escape the Soviet Union ’ s veto power in the U.N. Security Council , which prevented the British Great Game from moving forward .
The goal was to establish an instrument powerful enough to bring about an Anglo-American Empire as desired by Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill and which the League of Nations failed to accomplish .
Escott Reid extrapolated upon his thesis for the creation of such an institution at an August 13 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 2 ) Conference at Lake Couchiching when he stated : “ The states of the Western world are not…debarred by the Charter of the United Nations or by Soviet membership in the United Nations from creating new international political institutions to maintain peace .
Nothing in the Charter precludes the existence of regional political arrangements or agencies provided that they are consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations , and these regional agencies are entitled to take measures of collective self-defence against armed attack until the Security Council has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have the important feature of creating a binding military contract that would go into effect for all members should any individual member go to war .
Reid described this intention as he wrote : “ In such an organization each member state could accept a binding obligation to pool the whole of its economic and military resources with those of the other members if any power should be found to have committed aggression against any one of the members.
” It was another year and a half before this structure gained the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B. Pearson , and British Prime Minister Clement Atlee .
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) would be formed on April 4 , 1949 with its headquarters on 13 Belgrave Square in London .
Reid had made a name for himself serving as the first Permanent Secretary of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs ( CIIA ) , also known as the Canadian Branch of Chatham House/Roundtable Movement of Canada under the direction of CIIA controller Vincent Massey .
Massey was the protégé of racist imperialist Lord Alfred Milner and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada throughout a career that saw him act as Canadian Ambassador to Washington ( 1926-1930 ) , Liberal Party President ( 1930-1935 ) , Ambassador to Britain ( 1935-1945 ) and Head of State ( aka : Governor General of Canada ( 1952-1959 ) .
Reid himself was the founder of the self-professed “ Canadian Fabian Society ” alongside four other Rhodes scholars known as the eugenics-promoting technocratic League of Social Reconstruction ( LSR ) in 1932 , whose name changed to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) in 1933 and again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NDP ) in 1961 ( 3 ) .
Reid spent years working closely with fellow Oxford Massey Scholar Lester B. Pearson , who himself was Vincent Massey ’ s assistant in London before becoming a controller of the Liberal Party of Canada .
The Racist Agenda Behind the Rhodes Trust It is vital to remind ourselves that these networks were driven by the design outlined by genocidal diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes , who wrote the purpose for the Scholarship that was to receive his name in his First Will ( 1877 ) : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secret society with but one object – the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire… ” Later in that will , Rhodes elaborated in greater detail upon the intention which was soon to become official British foreign policy .
“ The extension of British rule throughout the world , the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attainable by energy , labor and enterprise , and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire continent of Africa , the Holy land , the valley of Euphrates , the islands of Cyprus and Candia , the whole of South America , the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain , the whole of the Malay archipelago , the seaboard of China and Japan , the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British empire .
The consolidation of the whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of colonial representation in the Imperial parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the empire ” The “ recovery of the United States ” should seriously resonate with anyone with doubts over the role of the British Empire ’ s ambition to undo the international effects of the American Revolution and should also cause honest citizens to reconsider what nationalist Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle were actually struggling against when they stood up to the power structures of NATO and the Deep State .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thinks of the British-steered networks that ran the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968 , as well as the attempted Russia-Gating of Donald Trump in our modern day .
( 2 ) The Canadian Institute for Public Affairs ( CIPA ) was created in 1935 as an affiliate to the Canadian Round Table in order to shape national internal policy while the CIIA focused upon Canada ’ s foreign policy .
Original featured speakers were the CIIA ’ s Norman Mackenzie , and the eugenicist leader of the newly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It would be another 20 years before both organizations began to jointly host conferences together .
Today , CIPA exists in the form of the Couchiching Conferences and their regular brainwashing seminars have been broadcast across the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) for over 70 years .
( 3 ) Reid ’ s other Rhodes Scholar co-founders of the LSR were Eugene Forsey , F.R .
Scott , and David Lewis .
Frank Underhill was a Fabian Society member .
Rhodes Scholar F.R .
Scott became a leading mentor of a young @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elliot Trudeau upon the latter ’ s 1949 return from the London School of Economics in order to work in Ottawa ’ s Privy Council Office .
This Trudeau went on to groom himself as a CCF member before being selected to take over the Liberal Party after the ouster of pro-nationalist forces who had led the Liberals from 1935-1958 .
* All Reid quotes are taken from Escott Reid , Couchiching and the Birth of NATO by Cameron Campbell , published by the Atlantic Council of Canada .
**The author wrote a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Table-driven world history under the title “ Origins of the Deep State in North America parts 1-3 and an even fuller picture is told in volume 4 of The Untold History of Canada .
The author can be reached at matt.ehret @ tutamail.com

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With the expulsion of half of Russian’s diplomatic delegation to NATO, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitry Peskov stated that “NATO is not an instrument of cooperation, not an instrument for interaction; it is a bloc that overall is anti-Russian in nature… These actions, of course, do not allow us to pretend there is a possibility of normalizing relations and resuming dialogue with NATO. Instead, these prospects are undermined almost completely.”
Unfortunately, with these and other belligerent actions which are propelling the world ever closer to WWIII, too many onlookers continue to see NATO as a purely American imperial institution without any regard for the actual center of global power that has sought to destroy not only Russia, but the United States itself since long before the Cold War ever began.
While this might appear paradoxical on the surface, the paradox can easily be resolved by recognizing that there have been since 1776, not one, but TWO opposing dynamics operating within America. Where only one is in alignment of the ideals of the Constitution and Declaration of independence, the other is entirely in alignment with the ideals of the British Empire and hereditary institutions from which it supposedly broke away.
One America has been defended by great leaders who are too often identified by their untimely deaths while in office, who consistently advanced anti-colonial visions for a world of sovereign nations, win-win cooperation, and the extension of constitutional rights to all classes and races both within America and abroad. The other America has sought only to enmesh itself with the British Empire’s global regime of finance, exploitation, population control and never-ending wars.
Lord Lothian and the White Man’s Burden
These two Americas frustrated Round Table controller Sir Philip Kerr (later “Lord Lothian”) in 1918 who wrote to his fellow Round Tabler Lionel Curtis explaining the “American problem” with the following words:
”There is a fundamentally different concept in regard to this question between Great Britain … and the United States …. as to the necessity of civilized control over politically backward peoples…. The inhabitants of Africa and parts of Asia have proved unable to govern themselves … because they were quite unable to withstand the demoralizing influences [i.e. their desire for modernization and independence–ed.] to which they were subjected in some civilized countries, so that the intervention of an European power is necessary in order to protect them from those influences. The American view… is quite different… The extent of this work after the war, sometimes known as the white man’s burden, will be so vast that it will never be accomplished at all unless it is shared… Yet America not only has no conception of this aspect of the problem but has been led to believe that the assumption of this kind of responsibility is iniquitous imperialism. They take an attitude towards the problem of world government exactly analogous to the one they [earlier] took toward the problem of the world war…. “If they are slow in learning we shall be condemned to a period … of strained relations between the various parts of the English-speaking world. [We must] get into the heads of Canadians and Americans that a share in the burden of world government is just as great and glorious a responsibility as participation in the war” (1)
At the time of Kerr’s writing, the British Roundtable, led by Lord Milner had just orchestrated a British coup in 1916 ousting Labour’s Herbert Asquith in order to bring Milner’s Round Table group into dominance as a shaper of imperial foreign policy at a pivotal moment in history. This coup allowed this group to define the terms of the Post-war world at Versailles).
These imperialists were obsessed with ending the dangerous spread of anti-colonial feelings from India, Ireland, Africa and other nations who firmly believed their sacrifices in WWI merited their independence. Most dangerous of all was that their sentiments were very much shared by many leading members of the American government who rejected the evil philosophical roots of the “white man’s burden”.
Sir Philip Kerr (who later took on the name Lord Lothian before becoming ambassador to America during WWII) and his Round Table gang did everything they could to control the terms of Versailles in 1919 which involved the creation of the League of Nations as a new global political/military hegemon powerful enough to destroy sovereign nation states forever under a new British-run empire.
American resistance to this agenda was so strong that Lothian, Milner and the other leaders of the Round Table soon established a new organization called the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in 1919 with branches soon set up across what later became the Five Eyes Anglo-Saxon nations. This network would coordinate and adapt 19th century British Imperial policy using new 20th century techniques.
In America, the Round Table decided that the name “American Institute for International Affairs” was a bit too conspicuous and chose instead the name “Council on Foreign Relations” (CFR) in 1921. Canadian, and Australian Institutes for International Affairs were created in 1928 and 1929 accordingly known as the CIIA and AIIA, but for all their efforts, the pro-nation state dynamic within America could not be broken, and the League of Nations soon collapsed along with its ambitions for a global military and banking monopoly (the latter attempt having been officially destroyed by FDR who sabotaged the London Economic Conference of 1933).
The rise of NATO in the wake of WWII and the death of anti-colonialist Franklin Roosevelt can only be understood by keeping this historical dynamic in mind.
NATO’s Birth was August 1947… NOT April 1949
It is popularly believed that NATO was set up on April 4, 1949 as a tool of the American colonialism. The truth is a bit different.
As Cynthia Chung reported in her recent paper “The Enemy Within: A Story of the Purge of American Intelligence”, 1947 was a very bad year for America as a new intelligence agency was created with the birth of the CIA, now purged of all pro-FDR influences who had formerly dominated the OSS. National Security Council paper 75 (NSC-75) was drafted calling for America to defend the possessions of the British Empire under the new Cold War operating system, leading to a new era of Anglo-American assassinations, wars and regime change.
On March 4th, 1947, the Anglo-French Treaty of Dunkirk established a collective defense pact extending itself the next year to include Belgium, France, Luxemourg and the Netherlands under the guise of the Brussels Pact. Both collective defense pacts operated outside of the UN structure but lacked the military teeth needed to give them meaning- all nations of the time having been crippled by the devastation of WWII. Only America had the military might to make this new alliance meaningful as global military force capable of subduing all resistance and usher in world government.
Escott Reid’s NATO Vision of 1947
In a memorandum called “The United States and the Soviet Union” written in August 1947, a highly influential Oxford Rhodes Scholar and radical promoter of global governance named Escott Reid, then Deputy Undersecretary of External Affairs of Canada “recommended that the countries of the North Atlantic band together, under the leadership of the United States, to form ‘a new regional security organization’ to deter Soviet expansion.”
The motive for this memorandum was to escape the Soviet Union’s veto power in the U.N. Security Council, which prevented the British Great Game from moving forward. The goal was to establish an instrument powerful enough to bring about an Anglo-American Empire as desired by Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill and which the League of Nations failed to accomplish.
Escott Reid extrapolated upon his thesis for the creation of such an institution at an August 13, 1947 Canadian Institute of Public Affairs (2) Conference at Lake Couchiching when he stated:
“The states of the Western world are not…debarred by the Charter of the United Nations or by Soviet membership in the United Nations from creating new international political institutions to maintain peace. Nothing in the Charter precludes the existence of regional political arrangements or agencies provided that they are consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations, and these regional agencies are entitled to take measures of collective self-defence against armed attack until the Security Council has acted.”
This new anti-Soviet military organization would have the important feature of creating a binding military contract that would go into effect for all members should any individual member go to war. Reid described this intention as he wrote:
“In such an organization each member state could accept a binding obligation to pool the whole of its economic and military resources with those of the other members if any power should be found to have committed aggression against any one of the members.”
It was another year and a half before this structure gained the full support of External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson, and British Prime Minister Clement Atlee. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would be formed on April 4, 1949 with its headquarters on 13 Belgrave Square in London.
Escott Reid and Lester B. Pearson: Both Roundtable Oxford Men
Reid had made a name for himself serving as the first Permanent Secretary of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs (CIIA), also known as the Canadian Branch of Chatham House/Roundtable Movement of Canada under the direction of CIIA controller Vincent Massey. Massey was the protégé of racist imperialist Lord Alfred Milner and the controller of the Rhodes Scholar groups of Canada throughout a career that saw him act as Canadian Ambassador to Washington (1926-1930), Liberal Party President (1930-1935), Ambassador to Britain (1935-1945) and Head of State (aka: Governor General of Canada (1952-1959). Reid himself was the founder of the self-professed “Canadian Fabian Society” alongside four other Rhodes scholars known as the eugenics-promoting technocratic League of Social Reconstruction (LSR) in 1932, whose name changed to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1933 and again later to the National Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961 (3).
Reid spent years working closely with fellow Oxford Massey Scholar Lester B. Pearson, who himself was Vincent Massey’s assistant in London before becoming a controller of the Liberal Party of Canada.
The Racist Agenda Behind the Rhodes Trust
It is vital to remind ourselves that these networks were driven by the design outlined by genocidal diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, who wrote the purpose for the Scholarship that was to receive his name in his First Will (1877):
“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object – the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire…”
Later in that will, Rhodes elaborated in greater detail upon the intention which was soon to become official British foreign policy.
“The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire continent of Africa, the Holy land, the valley of Euphrates, the islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British empire. The consolidation of the whole empire, the inauguration of a system of colonial representation in the Imperial parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the empire”
The “recovery of the United States” should seriously resonate with anyone with doubts over the role of the British Empire’s ambition to undo the international effects of the American Revolution and should also cause honest citizens to reconsider what nationalist Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle were actually struggling against when they stood up to the power structures of NATO and the Deep State. This should be kept in mind as one thinks of the British-steered networks that ran the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968, as well as the effective color revolution that ousted Donald Trump in our modern day.
Notes
(1) Lothian to Lionel Curtis, Oct. 15, 1918, in Butler, Lord Lothian, pp. 68-70.
(2) The Canadian Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) was created in 1935 as an affiliate to the Canadian Round Table in order to shape national internal policy while the CIIA focused upon Canada’s foreign policy. Original featured speakers were the CIIA’s Norman Mackenzie, and the eugenicist leader of the newly created CCF Party J.S. Woodsworth. It would be another 20 years before both organizations began to jointly host conferences together. Today, CIPA exists in the form of the Couchiching Conferences and their regular brainwashing seminars have been broadcast across the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for over 70 years.
(3) Reid’s other Rhodes Scholar co-founders of the LSR were Eugene Forsey, F.R. Scott, and David Lewis. Frank Underhill was a Fabian Society member. Rhodes Scholar F.R. Scott became a leading mentor of a young recruit of the Fabian Society named Pierre Elliot Trudeau upon the latter’s 1949 return from the London School of Economics in order to work in Ottawa’s Privy Council Office. This Trudeau went on to groom himself as a CCF member before being selected to take over the Liberal Party after the ouster of pro-nationalist forces who had led the Liberals from 1935-1958.
* All Reid quotes are taken from Escott Reid, Couchiching and the Birth of NATO by Cameron Campbell, published by the Atlantic Council of Canada.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , and Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow. He is author of the‘Untold History of Canada’ book series and Clash of the Two Americas. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation . Consider helping this process by making a donation to the RTF or becoming a Patreon supporter to the Canadian Patriot Review
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The Afghanistan Debacle

This post was originally published on this site Since 1897 The New York Times has carried the slogan “ All the News That ’ s Fit to Print ” , and generally speaking that was appropriate over the years , save for a few times such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when it conveyed blatant bias in favour of the war and published what the appalling Trump would call “ fake news ” .
A year after the invasion the Times issued a half-hearted apology for its irresponsible journalistic fandangos which were intended to encourage the American public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed countless lives and reduced the Middle East to chaos .
In the end , the main reporter involved , a repulsive charlatan called Judith Miller , was forced to leave the newspaper ( with a generous severance packet ) after she had spent time in jail for having refused to divulge the name of yet another “ source ” for her information .
One of the intriguing things about the NYT ’ s lame apology is that it referred to a report that “ A scientist who claims to have worked in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began.
” The Times belatedly admitted that it “ never followed up on the veracity of this source or the attempts to verify his claims.
” And it seems that the Times continues to be reluctant to follow up on the reliability of some of its sources , because the latest Iraq-style scoop is an unverifiable ‘ source-based ’ story claiming that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relentlessly to “ officials ” as the sources of this extremely sensitive allegation , without the slightest intention of providing names or any sort of corroborative detail .
There is not a shred of evidence supporting these explosive accusations because all the “ information ” comes from these ever-ready intelligence sources who feed attractively contrived drivel to willing patsies .
As Ray McGovern put it , “ the Times ’ dubious allegations grabbed headlines across all media that are likely to remain indelible in the minds of credulous Americans – which seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly was , and although a multitude of independent observers have shredded the story , it was regrettable that the Times didn ’ t see fit to print the news that the Pentagon would not endorse it .
On June 29 the Chief Pentagon Spokesman stated that “ to date , DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports.
” It is interesting that the Times story broke just five days after the Afghan National Security Council ’ s spokesman announced that “ The past week was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Taliban carried out 422 attacks in 32 provinces , martyring 291 ANDSF [ security forces ] members and wounding 550 others.
” He didn ’ t mention the fact that 148 civilians had been killed and , bizarrely , it was the Times that recorded this , in its excellent “ War Casualty Report ” which appears in its magazine section each week .
It was not stated how many of these civilians had been killed by government forces ’ airstrikes , door-crashing home assaults or erratic mortar fire , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ noted that “ Civilian casualties attributed to the ANSF for April 2020 numbered 172 civilians , an increase of 38 per cent compared to April 2019 and 37 per cent higher than March 2020.
” Afghanistan ’ s security forces — its army , police , air force and swaggering special forces —are poorly trained and their motivation is open to question .
The numerical strength of these services is not divulged , and in 2018 Reuters reported that the U.S. military had classified “ for the first time since 2009 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attrition rate for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces , or ANDSF.
” Suppression of bad or inconvenient news is a well-tried tactic in the propaganda playlist , and as observed by John Sopko , the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction , SIGAR , “ the American people have constantly been lied to ” regarding the conflict in Afghanistan .
In the years of war , 18.8 billion dollars have been poured in to Afghanistan in aid and it has almost all been wasted — notably the vast sums that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , apartments and waterside villas in Dubai and many other sinks for corruption cash .
And the situation on the ground in war-torn Afghanistan is desperate , with the Council on Foreign Relations recording on July 1 that “ according to official U.S. government estimates of 2019 , only 53.8 percent of Afghan districts [ were ] under government control or influence , 33.9 percent contested , and the remaining 12.3 percent under the control or influence of the Taliban .
The ANDSF continue to suffer heavy casualties and , while actual figures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military , senior Afghan officials estimate that for several months in 2018 as many as thirty to forty ANDSF personnel were killed every day.
” The government in Kabul is incompetent and incapable of directing affairs throughout the country , as was publicly stated by U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo after he visited Kabul in March 2020 .
He harshly censured President Ghani and his power-sharing rival Abdullah Abdullah , saying “ The United States is disappointed in them and what their conduct means for Afghanistan and our shared interests .
Their failure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , dishonours those Afghan , Americans , and Coalition partners who have sacrificed their lives and treasure in the struggle to build a new future for this country .
Because this leadership failure poses a direct threat to U.S. national interests , effective immediately , the U.S. government will initiate a review of the scope of our cooperation with Afghanistan.
” It is extremely irresponsible for the senior foreign affairs representative of any nation to openly criticise the leaders of a supposedly allied country that is engaged in a civil war , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be given the most massive boost in propaganda terms .
There are no reports on how the Taliban viewed Pompeo ’ s monstrous blunder , but it was abundant confirmation for them that those purporting to lead Afghanistan had failed .
Not only that but it was said that the president was actually posing a threat to the blustering ally that had invaded their country almost twenty years ago .
It would be most surprising if the Taliban were not making maximum propaganda use of this absurd bloomer .
Of equal importance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other arrogant amateurs in Washington have totally wrecked U.S.-Afghanistan relations and destroyed whatever shreds of trust in America that may have been lingering in the Kabul government .
An investigation by the Washington Post disclosed that “ senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign , making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
” Given the combination of Washington ’ s deceit and insult , together with Kabul ’ s rampant corruption , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country , and general incompetence , the picture is one of a disaster , a debacle of colossal proportions .
Washington should cease feeding the New York Times and others with fatuous tales about supposed plots involving bonuses for bodies and simply cut its ( gargantuan ) losses and get out now .

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By F. William Engdahl
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Much of the world is shocked by the apparent incompetence of the Biden Administration in the human and geopolitical catastrophe that is unfolding in Afghanistan. While Biden speaks out of both sides of his pre-scripted mouth, stating that everyone else is to blame than his decisions, then stating “the buck stops here,” only adds to the impression that the once sole-superpower is in terminal collapse. Could it be that this is all part of a long-term strategy to end the nation state in preparation for the global totalitarian model sometimes called the Great Reset by the Davos cabal? The 40 year history of the Afghan US war and the Afghani Pashtun who shaped the policy until today is revealing.
The airwaves of mainstream media across the globe are filled with questions of military incompetence or intelligence failure or both. It is worthwhile to examine the role of the Biden Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad. For the one figure who has shaped strategic US foreign policy since 1984 in the Administration of Bush Sr., and has been US Ambassador to both Afghanistan and to Iraq at key times during the US wars there, as well as the key figure in the present debacle, astonishingly little media attention has been given the 70-year old Afghan-born operative.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Khalilzad, an ethnic Pashtun born and raised in Afghanistan until High School, is arguably the key actor in the unfolding Afghan drama, beginning with the time he was the architect of the radical transformation under Bush Jr of US strategic doctrine to “preventive wars.” He was involved in every step of the US policy in Afghanistan from CIA training Taliban Mujihideen Islamists (organization banned in Russia) in the 1980’s to the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to the Doha deal with the Taliban and the current disastrous collapse.
The May 8 1992 New York Times reported on a leaked Pentagon draft, later called the Wolfowitz Doctrine after the Pentagon official under then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Paul Wolfowitz had been charged by Cheney with drafting a new US global military posture following the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to the Times leak, the document argued that, “the US must become the world’s single superpower and must take aggressive action to prevent competing nations—even allies such as Germany and Japan—from challenging US economic and military supremacy.” It further stated, “We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.” It was de facto a declaration of unilateral imperialism.
At the time Zalmay Khalilzad worked under Wolfowitz as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, where he was tasked with drafting the new doctrine, working with Wolfowitz and outside consultants, including Khalilzad’s doctorate professor at the University of Chicago, RAND neo-conservative “godfather”, Alfred Wohlstetter. Wolfowitz had also studied at Chicago under Wohlstetter. This group became the core of the so-called neo-conservative warhawks. Khalilzad once said Cheney personally credited the young Afghani for the strategy document, allegedly telling Khalilzad, “You’ve discovered a new rationale for our role in the world.” That “discovery” was to transform America’s role in the world in a disastrous way.
Khalilzad’s highly controversial policy proposal, while it was later deleted from the published document by the Bush White House, reappeared a decade later as the Bush Doctrine under Bush Jr., also known as “preventive wars” and was used to justify the US invasions of Afghanistan and later Iraq.
Bush jr., whose Vice President was Dick Cheney, initiated the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, urged on by his Afghan adviser, Zalmay Khalilzad, using the excuse that Osama bin Laden, the alleged architect of the 911 attacks, was hiding under protection of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, so the Taliban must be punished. In May, 2001, some four months before 911, Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had named Khalilzad as “Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues.” The “other regional issues” was to become huge.
Khalilzad had headed the Bush-Cheney Transition team for the Department of Defense. His influence twenty years ago was enormous and largely hidden from public view. Former Khalilzad boss Wolfowitz was Number Two at the Bush Jr. Pentagon and former Khalilzad consulting client, Don Rumsfeld was Defense Secretary.
Bush declared war against the Taliban regime for refusing to extradite the Saudi Jihadist Bin Laden. There was no UN role, no debate in Congress. It was the new US doctrine from Khalilzad and Wolfowitz and their neo-con cabal, that might makes right. Here began the 20-year US debacle in Afghanistan that never should have begun in any sane world of rule by law.
Taliban Origins
The origins of the Taliban come out of the CIA project, initiated by Carter Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1979, of recruiting and arming radical Islamists from Pakistan, Afghanistan and even Saudi Arabia, to wage irregular warfare against the Soviet Red Army then in Afghanistan. The CIA code-named it Operation Cyclone and it lasted ten years until the Red Army withdrew in 1989. A Saudi-CIA asset, Osama bin Laden, had been brought into Pakistan to work with the Pakistani ISI intelligence to draw money and Jihadists from the Arab states into the war. A significant number of radicalized Afghan Pashtun students called Taliban or “seekers” were recruited from radical madrasses, some in Pakistan where the ISI protected them. That CIA war became the longest and most costly CIA operation in its history. By 1984 Khalilzad was in the middle of it all, as US State Department Afghan specialist.
During the latter part of the 1980’s CIA war in Afghanistan, working with radical Islamist Mujahideen and Taliban mercenaries, Khalilzad emerged as the most influential US policy figure on Afghanistan. By 1988 Khalilzad had become the State Department’s “special advisor” on Afghanistan under former CIA head, George Bush Sr. In that post he was the one who dealt directly with the Mujahideen, including the Taliban.
By then he had become close to Jimmy Carter’s Afghan war strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Joining the US State Department in 1984 after teaching at Brzezinski’s Columbia University, Khalilzad became Executive Director of the influential Friends of Afghanistan lobby where Brzezinski and Kissinger associate, Lawrence Eagleburger were members. The Friends of Afghanistan, with USAID money, lobbied Congress for major US support to the Mujahideen. Khalilzad also successfully lobbied to give advanced US Stinger missiles to the Mujahideen. During this period Khalilzad had dealings with the Mujahideen, Taliban, Osama bin Laden and what came to become Al Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
In the George W. Bush Administration, Khalilzad was named Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan in early 2002, and was directly responsible for installing CIA asset Hamid Karzai as Afghan president in 2002. Hamid’s brother, warlord of the country’s largest opium province, Kandahar, was paid by the CIA at least since 2001. Khalilzad was clearly aware.
Khalilzad himself had reportedly been “selected” by CIA recruiter, Thomas E. Gouttierre, when Zalmay was an AFS exchange High School student in Ceres, California in the 1960s. Goutttierre headed the CIA-financed Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. That would explain his later career rise to extraordinary influence in US Afghan policy and beyond.
Notably, the disgraced current Afghan “President in flight,” Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the American-appointed “co-president” of Afghanistan, was a classmate of Khalilzad in the early 1970s as an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, as were both of their future wives. Small world.
By 1996 following several years of civil war among the rival factions of the CIA-backed Mujahideen the Taliban, backed by Pakistan’s ISI, took control of Kabul. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan by 1996 was a direct consequence of Khalilzad’s arming and backing of the Mujahideen in the 1980s, including of Osama bin Laden. It was no accident or miscalculation. The CIA was in the business of weaponizing political Islam and Khalilzad was and is a key player in that. Khalilzad served as board member of the Afghanistan Foundation during the Clinton years, which advocated that the Taliban join forces with the anti-Taliban Mujahideen resistance groups.
During the end of the Clinton Presidency Khalilzad played a key role in shaping the military agenda of the next President with his role in the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), together with Cheney, Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and others who played key policy roles in the George W. Bush presidency. After the 911 attacks in 2001 Khalilzad orchestrated the Bush war against Taliban in Afghanistan and became Bush Envoy to Afghanistan. By November 2003 Khalilzad was US Ambassador to Afghanistan where his hand-picked President, Karzai, was installed. In February 2004 Ambassador Khalilzad welcomed US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and a Brigadier General Lloyd Austin in Kabul. Austin knows Khalilzad.
By December 2002 Bush had appointed Khalilzad to be Ambassador at Large for Free Iraqis to coordinate “preparations for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.” Khalilzad and his PNAC neocon cronies had advocated a war to topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein since the late 1990s, well before 911. Two years later after the US war against Iraq began, Khalilzad was made Ambassador to Iraq. No one person has been more responsible for the rise of radical Islam terror groups from Taliban to Al Qaeda in those two countries than Zalmay Khalilzad.
No “Intelligence Failure”
In 2018 Khalilzad was recommended by US Secretary of State and former CIA head Mike Pompeo, to be US “Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation” for the Trump Administration. There was no hint of reconciliation from Khalilzad or Taliban. Here the wily Khalilzad entered into exclusive US-Taliban talks with their exiled envoys in Doha Qatar, the pro-Taliban Gulf state that houses leading Muslim Brotherhoods figures as well as Taliban. Qatar is reportedly a major money source for the Taliban.
Khalilzad successfully pressed Pakistan to release the co-founder of Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the key strategist of the Taliban victory in 1996, so that Baradar could lead the talks with Khalilzad in Doha. Then-President Trump reportedly approved that Khalilzad would negotiate in Doha solely with the Taliban, without the Kabul regime present. Baradar signed the February 2020 “deal” negotiated by Khalilzad and Taliban, the so-called Doha Agreement, in which the US and NATO agreed to a total withdrawal, but without any Taliban power-sharing agreement with the Kabul Ghani government, as Taliban refused to recognize them. Khalilzad told the New York Times of his deal that Taliban had committed to “do what is necessary that would prevent Afghanistan from ever becoming a platform for international terrorist groups or individuals.”
This was highly dubious and Khalilzad knew it, as Taliban and Al Qaeda have been intimately linked since the 1980s arrival of Osama bin Laden in Afghanstan. The current leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is reportedly alive and in Taliban safe haven inside Afghanistan. In short, this is the “deal” Khalilzad struck with the Taliban for then-President Trump, a deal which was accepted by the Biden Administration with only a minor change stating initially that September 11, 2021 be the date of final US pullout. Talk about symbolism.
The fall of Afghanistan was not the result of an “intelligence failure” by the CIA or a military mis-calculation by Secretary Austin and the Pentagon. Both knew, as did Khalilzad, what they were doing. When Austin approved the secret dark-of-night abandonment of the strategic Bagram Airbase, largest US military base in Afghanistan, on July 4, without notifying the Kabul government, it made clear to the US-trained Afghan army that the US would give them no more air cover. The US even stopped paying them months ago, collapsing morale further. This was no accident. It was all deliberate and Zalmay Khalilzad was central to all. In the 1980s his role helped create the 1996 Taliban takeover, in 2001 the Taliban destruction, and now in 2021 the Taliban restoration.
The real gainer in this insanity is the globalist agenda of so-called Davos “Great Reset” cabal who are using it to destroy the global influence of the United States, as Biden domestically destroys the economy from within. No nation, not Taiwan, not Japan, not the Philippines, not India or even Australia, nor any other nation hoping for US protection in the future will be able to trust Washington to hold its promises. The fall of Kabul is the end of the American Century. Little wonder the China media is filled with schadenfreude and jubilation as they discuss Silk Road deals with the Taliban.
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