That time when 💩 hits fan....

Fact is that #Putin has never been afraid of so-called ‘democratic #Ukraine’
All #Russia's concerns always were about #US and #NATO expansion and militarisation on Russia's doorstep

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/1/30/putin-no-longer-fears-a-democratic

During the Cold War China (then hostile) wasn’t the world’s 2nd most valuable economy, and the Soviet Union was reliant on grain imports.

Russia is now the world’s biggest wheat exporter & Moscow, today, has superb relations with Beijing.

#Mali #France

Mali gave the French ambassador 72 hours notice on Monday to leave the country after “hostile and outrageous” comments by former colonial power France about its transitional government, it said in a statement read on national television.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/31/mali-expels-france-envoy-over-hostile-and-outrageous-remarks

Karma is a bitch 😉

#UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will miss a trip to #Ukraine after she tested positive for coronavirus

https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/19888874.foreign-secretary-miss-ukraine-trip-testing-positive-coronavirus/

#US #Russia

Poll reveals American views on peace deal with Russia

A majority of US voters favor a diplomatic approach towards the Ukrainian standoff, a fresh poll shows

https://www.rt.com/russia/547878-americans-respond-to-idea-of/

#Russia #US #NATO

Moscow appears to have finally worked out how to do diplomacy with the US and NATO

https://www.rt.com/russia/547863-west-mediation-talks-tactics/

#Russia #US #NATO

Text of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mr. Sergey Lavrov`s written message on Indivisibility of Security addressed to the Heads of Foreign / External Affairs Ministers / Secretaries of the US, Canada and several European countries

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1796679/#sel=2:1:W,2:1:W

#US #TradeWar and profiteering under pretext of helping #Ukraine and EU, blocking #NordStream2 at the same time

"A bill that could hand Ukraine $500 million in economic aid, currently on a fast track through the US legislature, could offer major opportunities for American energy companies, who will be granted new leeway to build infrastructure in eastern Europe."

https://www.rt.com/russia/547995-american-energy-sector-ukraine-aid/

Western media whitewashing #Ukraine #Neonazis

Everything is good in hybrid war against #Donbass and #Russia

https://archive.is/wIweV

#Russia #US sanctions

"We've been sanctioned so many times that we lost count," said Vasily Nebenzya during a press briefing at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday while warning of a potential backlash. "I hope they will have enough reason not to move forward with that. But that will backfire."

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/02/02/676015/Russia-dismisses-repeated-US-sanctions-threats

#France "#Russia invasion of #Ukraine"

https://www.rt.com/russia/548061-france-paris-putin-ukraine/

Countries connected to their biggest trading partner (exports + imports) in 2020

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1488596964208001026.html

America’s Putin Psychosis

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/02/americas-putin-psychosis/

Britain has quietly resumed arms exports to its NATO ally Turkey, whose brutal operation in Syria targets the UK’s key Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State (ISIS). Turkish-backed militias are complicit in human rights abuses and include former members of ISIS

https://declassifieduk.org/uk-rearms-turkey-as-ankara-backs-war-crimes-in-occupied-syria/

#Russia Peskov reply to #US Psaki

"Still, traditionally, Russia has always been compared with a bear. With all the desire, he cannot climb onto the roof of the chicken coop - he is too big and heavy for this, ”Peskov answered reporters when asked to comment on the statements of US representatives about the fox, chickens and the chicken coop."

https://novoeizdanie.com/rossiyu-vsegda-sravnivali-s-medvedem-peskov-otvetil-psaki/

The biggest falsehoods of western media about "#Ukraine crisis

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1488851143572828166.html

#Ukraine #Zelensky authorities openly say that Ukraine will not implement the #MinskAgreement

https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/02/02/kiev-authorities-openly-say-that-ukraine-will-not-implement-the-minsk-agreements/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

There are no #Russia/n military units in #Donbass & but civil war

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1488655061962174467.html

How A Misguided Grand Strategy Led To This U.S. Defeat
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/how-misguided-grant-strategy-led-to-the-us-defeat.html

In response to Russia's demand for security guarantees, especially to its request to remove foreign NATO forces from the territory of East European countries, the U.S. and Britain are moving more forces to the east: President Joe Biden has formally...

'The Mission Was Successful.'
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/successful.html

DoD Statement on Feb. 2, 2022 Counterterrorism Operation in Northwest Syria The following statement is attributable to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby: “U.S. Special Operations forces under the control of U.S. Central Command conducted a counterterrorism mission this evening in...

I feel almost sorry for Ed Price. Having to keep this shit together with a straight face is no easy task