Extremist ideology is causing grave problems in the Ukraine of late. Let’s have a look…
https://gpovanman.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/eastern-european-extremism/

Delighted to share an oped, which the Financial Times refused to publish, from Sergey Karaganov, an advisor to both Boris Yeltsin & Vladimir Putin.

He says Russia is not going to invade Ukraine & present tensions are about the broader European security order.

Karaganov reveals that Moscow knows that NATO’s Article Five is "hollow" & concedes that Russia itself is to blame for the current situation "by being weak and trusting our Western partners."

But he adds that the Kremlin has learnt its lesson & this won't happen anymore.

He goes on to say that "NATO is not an immediate threat," as it's not much of a fighting force (see Afghanistan), but Moscow reckons that "if NATO used to be a defensive bloc, it has degenerated into an aggressive one" & that's why it's determined to stop its growth.

He concludes: "Europe without Russia or even against it has been rapidly losing its international clout... we are too big & proud to be absorbed. Our pitch (to the West) was rejected then (in the 1990s), but there is always a chance it won’t be this time."

https://www.rt.com/russia/548630-decades-long-standoff-nato/

#EU #Borrell #Russia

Brussels disagrees with Washington’s assessment that war is around the corner

"I wouldn’t say that we are on the eve of a fully fledged war, second [world] war style, because I don’t believe Russia is going to invade Ukraine as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941,” the EU diplomacy chief said. “I don’t think we’re facing an immediate fight, classical fight, with tanks and infantry and occupying cities and invading territory.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/548761-eu-not-brink-war/

Everyone who expresses his POV and speaks the truth about Ukraine is forced either to resign or apologise

First Germany Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach, then Croatia President Zoran Milanovic, now it's the head of the Finland Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee

https://www.rt.com/russia/548785-top-mp-resigns-over-poorly/

A French official said Wednesday that Paris was informed in advance six Russian warships would enter the Black Sea and the operation did not break a de-escalation commitment French President Emmanuel Macron claimed he secured from Russian President Vladimir Putin

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-russia-naval-exercise-in-black-sea-is-no-escalation-ukraine/

#Syria

Russian intelligence says US sleeper cells preparing to incite chaos in Syria

https://thecradle.co/Article/news/6771

Leaked Video Emerges Of US Stealth Jet Crashing On Carrier In South China Sea

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/leaked-video-emerges-us-stealth-jet-crashing-carrier-south-china-sea

#France #Macron backs #Putin's call for #Ukraine to stay neutral

https://www.rt.com/russia/548807-macron-offered-putin-deals/

#Russia #NATO

Ask people in the Middle East whether NATO is strictly a ‘defensive’ alliance – Putin

https://www.rt.com/russia/548698-nato-aggresion-history-putin-claims/

The US military fears that the deployment of Russian missiles in Cuba could block the US from using the Panama Canal

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-russia-send-missiles-cuba-200403

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Pentagon accused the Russian Federation of intending to start “creating problems for the US military in Syria” at the same time as the invasion of Ukraine

- https://www.arabnews.com/node/2020946/middle-east

- https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/US-general-says-Russia-turmoil-could-spill-to-16842218.php

Brazil accuses US of pressuring its president to prevent him from meeting with Putin

https://archive.is/3hIvv

#Ukraine lies about 2022 Russian attack to hide dying economy

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/01/27/ukraine-lies-about-2022-russian-attack-to-hide-dying-economy/

#EnergyCrunch

The Graphic Truth: EU needs Belarus for Russian gas

https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-eu-needs-belarus-for-russian-gas

#Amnesty #Syria

Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/02/08/leaked-documents-syrian-terror-amnesty-international-syria/

NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine

https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/

a) The biggest military build up in Europe since the Cold War was, by some distance, in Yugoslavia, in the 1990s.

b) Western media stories on numbers of Russian troops near Ukraine are based on anonymous US intelligence sources. Russian experts think reporting is exaggerated.

The Mediocracy Of 'Global Britain'
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/the-mediocracy-of-global-britain.html

The knowledge and quality of 'western' leading officials is of serious concern. They are often politicians with no experience in the fields they are supposed to represent. Liz Truss, currently the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, is a sad...