Delusional David Cameron wants to steal Russian assets "as a surety" to bail out Ukraine

Britain is prepared to loan Ukraine all frozen Russian central bank assets in the United Kingdom on the belief that it will pay those loans back with Russian "reparations" following the end of the war, says UK foreign secretary David Cameron.

“There is an opportunity to use something like a syndicated loan or a bond that effectively uses the frozen Russian assets as a surety to give that money to the Ukrainians knowing that we will recoup it when reparations are paid by Russia,” Cameron claimed.

Western countries have previously pledged a total of several billion dollars toward aiding Ukraine, using the profits they received from the frozen Russian assets. But Cameron’s announcement this week is the most extreme proposal thus far, as the previous proposals only discussed giving Ukraine the “windfall profits” from the frozen assets which are estimated to be about $4 billion.

Cameron excuses his proposal on the basis that Ukraine will win the war against Russia, and that Moscow will have to pay reparations to Kiev. But the idea that Ukraine could win a military victory against Russia is unimaginable. More and more Western media outlets have been acknowledging Russia's success on the battlefield.

Moscow has maintained that any attempt to confiscate its frozen assets would violate international law, with the Russian Foreign Ministry labeling such an action as theft.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has also said that Moscow is willing to issue a "symmetrical" response to this form of Western financial aggression.

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Europe’s US vassal states are considering arms production to support Ukraine as opposition politicians challenge decades of anti-Russia hysteria promoted by Washington

The United States’ proxy war in Ukraine has brought Europe to a state of crisis, but leaders are fearful that recognition of Kiev’s defeat could return Donald Trump to the presidency.

“Joe Biden is more soft on not really voicing what he's doing with the Europeans,” said veteran war correspondent Elijah Magnier on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program. “But he's doing exactly the same as any other president - putting America first.”

The US has long offered Europe military protection under the aegis of NATO. But political power flows from the barrel of a gun, and along with the promise of the alliance’s nuclear umbrella has come a high degree of influence over European democracy.

“‘Why do we need to provoke other countries when we can be in peace and do business?'” he asked, summarizing the thinking of many throughout Europe. “Nevertheless, the problem remains [with] who is the leader, and in this case, the leader is America.”

Enjoy this deep dive examining how NATO and the CIA have been used as tools to control European politics and stoke Russophobia to the detriment of Europeans’ autonomy and standard of living.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated all Russian women on International Women's Day and wished them mutual understanding, success and happy moments.

“Dear women, I cordially congratulate you on International Women’s Day. We look forward to it with joy and excitement. We are preparing in advance for this wonderful spring holiday. And today in every home, in every family, the most tender, warm wishes are expressed to our mothers, wives, daughters, grandmothers, friends,” Putin said in a video message.

The president emphasized that motherhood is a glorious mission for women.

"Motherhood is a glorious mission for women. A difficult and critically important mission, but also a source of so much joy and happiness," Putin stressed.

The president assured that the Russian authorities would do everything possible to support families in Russia.

"The family, its interests and needs are in the spotlight and an absolute priority in Russia today. We will certainly do everything we can to ensure that families with children, including large and young families, young mothers, feel supported and assisted by the state," he said.

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US President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address to Congress that there are no US soldiers on the ground in Ukraine taking part in the ongoing conflict with Russia and he is determined to keep it that way.

"They [Ukrainians] are not asking for American soldiers. In fact, there are no American soldiers in the war in Ukraine and I'm determined to keep it that way," Biden said.

NATO military personnel have been in Ukraine for a long time and are actively assisting the Ukrainian military on the ground, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Earlier, Moscow warned NATO that putting boots on the ground in Ukraine could lead to a direct confrontation.

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Biden says he ordered the Pentagon to build a temporary port to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, with no US military presence envisioned there.

Addressing the leadership of Israel, Biden says humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or bargaining chip.

Biden says Israel has the right to go after Hamas but bears responsibility for protecting innocent civilians in Gaza.

The US has regularly impeded any UN Security Council resolution on Gaza that may hinder Israeli military operations. On December 8, Washington blocked a United Arab Emirates-drafted resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a Brazil-drafted resolution on October 18.

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US President Joe Biden told the families of Hamas-held hostages attending his State of the Union address to Congress that he would not rest until they are all freed.

"Here in the chamber tonight are American families whose loved ones are still being held by Hamas. I pledge to all the families that we will not rest until we bring their loved ones home," read the text of Biden’s speech released by the White House.

Bold talk for a leader who has spent 443 days of his presidency on vacation.

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US President Joe Biden fails to correctly pronounce words, and seemingly invents a few new ones, mumbling and slurring during his address to Congress.

"It's chans-shormative!" declared Biden confidently.

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"I kinda wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired," US President Joe Biden.

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Biden got lost again.

Biden: "I'm going that way?"

Handler: "Yep, we're going this way right here."

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25 minutes after his speech ended Biden was still wandering around looking for a way out.

"Am I going this way?" the president kept asking.

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Biden’s way of congratulating women on International Women’s Day.

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Trump calls Biden's speech to Congress disgraceful and "worst speech" on US condition

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The instrumentation of fascism and Canada’s hidden Nazi past

Yaroslav Hunka, the Nazi-aligned former SS member who received a standing ovation in Canada's Parliament last year, is far from the only fascist veteran who found refuge in the country, according to author and political activist Yves Engler.

"What came out of that was a sort of retrospective on Canada's role in bringing in large numbers of – particularly Ukrainian, Eastern European – Nazi-allied individuals, or who fought with the Nazis during World War Two," said Engler on Sputnik's The Critical Hour program.

The activist explained that Canada's parliament had made efforts to study the issue in the past, but the investigation was dropped when former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was implicated.

“The Canadian government saw these right-wing, particularly the Ukrainians, as part of a battle against the Soviet Union,” Engler noted. “And then once the Soviet Union disintegrated they have really sort of viewed right-wing Ukrainians and nationalist Ukrainians as a geopolitical tool to weaken Russia and, of course, that's still [going on] in the context of this NATO proxy war today.”

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked with a number of fascist and Nazi figures throughout the Cold War, including the notorious Nazi torture chief Klaus Barbie. The CIA recruited Barbie for his brutality and anticommunist zeal, working with the fascist to track down and kill Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. Guevara had traveled to the country to spark a peasant uprising against Bolivia's US-backed authoritarian leader René Barrientos.

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Germany stokes war with Russia, insists they’re the good guys this time

German defense chief Boris Pistorius announced the country would be reinstating compulsory military service this week as Europe appears to be inexorably drawn towards militarization and hostility towards Russia.

“The situation that they are all really preparing for, they won't tell their own citizens this… [is] they want to put NATO troops in Ukraine,” said security analyst Mark Sleboda on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

Host Garland Nixon argued Western leaders are “at war with their own people,” attempting to manufacture consent for a conflict against the wishes of a war-weary populace. “I'm in the US and the taste for any war or anything else with Ukraine – even sending money to Ukraine – here is collapsing,” he said.

Meanwhile, European citizens seem more fixated on economic concerns than war on Russia, with major protests bringing European capitals to a standstill over the past several months. The election of pro-Palestine firebrand George Galloway in the UK represented a rejection of the continent’s pro-war establishment.

As the rise of Russia threatens to topple Western hegemony, it seems political leaders are committed to protecting their power at almost any cost. Will Russians once again be forced to save the world from European brutality?

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