West's duplicitous double standards: Russia War

[outof thebox]

This dude knows his history and has a very good take on how combat operations are conducted

https://youtu.be/exubjkiNQhI

[Yodean]

However, we must remember that warmongers in general are cowards and they are not going to want to go in a blaze of glory. Even if they have bunkers to hide in, that life will be miserable compared to what they had.

While cooler minds might not prevail, fearful ones certainly will.

Indeed. When in doubt about a particular issue on which there is no firm evidence to assess beyond a shadow of a doubt, I speculate with the assistance of the following question:

"What would the Rothschilds want to happen in this scenario?"

Even if one doesn't believe in the TSMF (The ShadowMaster Families), just pretend - I have found the question quite helpful in leading to decent conclusions and ideas when speculating.

I don't believe TSMF want an all-out nuclear war. A tactical nuke here or there, at most, to scare the Jesus and Allah out of most.

They do want the equity markets to continue functioning, in order to continue to take money from the 99.9%.
Milk the Happy Cows. Let the 1/9 win some of the crumbs, so the 8/9 who will end up losing think they have a chance, too.

[Yodean]

*****

The War Of Currencies continues unabated.

[Cinnamon]

Interesting clip, looks like all wars continue to Banker's wars

https://twitter.com/i/status/1523927620999475200


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psWARuO ... annel=AvdH

[SOL]

I think this video clearly depicts what is going on now and how easy it is to brainwash people today.


https://youtu.be/XvGmOZ5T6_Y

And on that note, I see more and more videos posted here from youtube are being taken down. SO much for freedom of speech or expression

[Budge]

Reading an article in the Unz Review, someone referenced this publication "Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground" The Rand Corporation, 2019.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/p ... RR3063.pdf

It's over 300 pages long but here's part of the initial summary:

The maxim that “Russia is never so strong nor so weak as it appears”
remains as true in the current century as it was in the 19th and 20th.1
In some respects, contemporary Russia is a country in stagnation.
Its economy is dependent on natural resource exports, so falling oil
and gas prices have caused a significant drop in the living standards
of many Russian citizens. Economic sanctions have further contributed to this decline. Russian politics is increasingly authoritarian, with
no viable political alternative to the highly personalized rule of President Vladimir Putin. Militarily and politically, the Russian Federation
wields much less global influence than the Soviet Union did during the
Cold War, a condition Putin is trying to change. In addition to these
real vulnerabilities, Russia also suffers from deep-seated anxieties about
the possibility of Western-inspired regime change, loss of great-power
status, and even military attack.
Yet these problems belie the fact that Russia is an extraordinarily
powerful country that, despite its systemic weaknesses, manages to be
a peer competitor of the United States in some key domains. While
not the superpower that the Soviet Union was, Russia has gained economic strength and international weight under Putin and now boasts
much greater military capabilities than any country with similar
defense spending—to such a degree that it can exert its influence over
immediate neighbors. Moreover, while still conventionally inferior to
the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
1 The origin of this quote is unclear, but it has been around for hundreds of years. See
Mark N. Katz, “Policy Watch: Is Russia Strong or Weak?” UPI, July 10, 2006.
xii Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground
allies when they are judged as a whole, Russia can and does threaten
the United States and its allies through other means—short of conventional conflict.
Recognizing that some level of competition with Russia is inevitable, this report seeks to define areas where the United States can do so
to its advantage. We examine a range of nonviolent measures that could
exploit Russia’s actual vulnerabilities and anxieties as a way of stressing
Russia’s military and economy and the regime’s political standing at
home and abroad. The steps we examine would not have either defense
or deterrence as their prime purpose, although they might contribute
to both. Rather, these steps are conceived of as elements in a campaign designed to unbalance the adversary, leading Russia to compete
in domains or regions where the United States has a competitive advantage, and causing Russia to overextend itself militarily or economically
or causing the regime to lose domestic and/or international prestige
and influence.


Then, under the next section Economic Policies they state the blindingly obvious. Because it's so blindingly obvious the current geniuses completely ignore the advice and do the opposite.

"Of all the measures we examined, expanding U.S. energy production
and imposing trade and financial sanctions on Russia seem most likely
to further stress the Russian economy, government budget, and defense
spending. Russia needs oil export revenues to maintain its government
operations, including military activities abroad and the provision of social
services and pensions at home. Limits to oil revenues will lead Russia to
make difficult choices beyond those it has had to make already. Global
oil prices and production are beyond the full control of a single country,
but the United States can adopt policies that expand world supply and
thus depress global prices, thereby limiting Russian revenue."

At the end they have a table of all the potential measures and the chances of success.

[SOL]

This was sent to in by subscriber. I am posting it as an observer. Now let the comments flow

https://youtu.be/GTrQLVX2kAo

[LoriPrecisely]

I only listened to the first half of this, but I am of the opinion that so many people are now aware of the corruption and the lies the US gov't and the mockingbird media that nothing they say seems credible any more. So, even though this guy looks at it from an emotional and historic perspective, I think we can look at it from a current perspective and know that most, if not all, of what we are hearing from our gov't and media are lies.
This guy also says NATO in Ukraine was given weapons during Trump's presidency. I thought Trump wanted out of NATO. He also states that Russia is targeting civilians, but what I have been seeing is Ukraine is targeting their own citizens. I just wish we could have a world where everyone could live peacefully and be happy.

[SOL]

I only listened to the first half of this, but I am of the opinion that so many people are now aware of the corruption and the lies the US gov't and the mockingbird media that nothing they say seems credible any more. So, even though this guy looks at it from an emotional and historic perspective, I think we can look at it from a current perspective and know that most, if not all, of what we are hearing from our gov't and media are lies.
This guy also says NATO in Ukraine was given weapons during Trump's presidency. I thought Trump wanted out of NATO. He also states that Russia is targeting civilians, but what I have been seeing is Ukraine is targeting their own citizens. I just wish we could have a world where everyone could live peacefully and be happy.

On Separate note I tried my best to prove the theory that 90% must lose for the 10% to win was false. With all my understanding of MP i failed and i failed with good friends, and family members, then i tried with outsiders and failed. and then i realised that you can't challenge the natural order of things and that is when i became an observer for its futile to try to help those that don't want to see the light. All you get for your efforts is condemnation, you can't beat Pluto's allegory of the cave.

So for things to get better they will have to get so bad that the blind are forced to see the light

[Budge]

This was sent to in by subscriber. I am posting it as an observer. Now let the comments flow

https://youtu.be/GTrQLVX2kAo

My 2.165 cents (inflation taken into account):

Cannot disagree with his overall contention, Russia had a casus belli or jus ad bellum, and screw all these folks who equivocate: "Putin is really, really evil but in this case, he might have had good cause". OMG as though that would lessen the howls of outrage. I think Finkelstein missed some points.

He failed to cover the eight years of war waged by the Ukrainians against their breakaway regions in the east (self-determination in accordance with the Minsk Agreement that Ukraine would not bring to a vote) and the precipitating event of the Ukrainian army's all-out attack in the east in February (can we say "genocide"?).

His charge of jus in bello is wrong. Just compare to US actions: bomb the excrement out of everyone from the word go, jus in bello be damned. The Russians have been very circumspect in their attacks even though they have air supremacy (probably risking more of their military than they needed). Compare this to the lack of comment regarding the actions of some Ukrainian troops even putting on the internet (talk about jus in bello!).

I'm not sure he's right that this action shows the Russian military are "kind of weak". Smacks of believing the NATO propaganda. Experts have been surprised how small a force they've used, just a fraction of what they have available, and what they've achieved. They seem to have been very surgical and pretty much conquered what they wanted to (Odessa yet to go).

Why condemn the Russian incursion as illegitimate versus Anwar Sadat's aggression? Self-evident. The west has built Putin into Dr. Evil and Russia into all things bad. They want Putin ousted and Russia as the vassal state it was under Yeltsin. The bankers would like to get their grubby fingers on all those hard assets. Egypt and Israel? Well in 1973, US was a bit preoccupied having just signed the Paris Peace Accords ending Vietnam war, just about to enter recession, interest rates headed over 6%, OPEC increasing price of oil 200% to any country supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

[LoriPrecisely]

On Separate note I tried my best to prove the theory that 90% must lose for the 10% to win was false. With all my understanding of MP i failed and i failed with good friends, and family members, then i tried with outsiders and failed. and then i realised that you can't challenge the natural order of things and that is when i became an observer for its futile to try to help those that don't want to see the light. All you get for your efforts is condemnation, you can't beat Pluto's allegory of the cave.

So for things to get better they will have to get so bad that the blind are forced to see the light

Don't give up, my friend, you are not alone. We have to do the best we can while we are here. The seeds you plant may sprout unexpectedly, some you may not get the chance to see, or you may water a seed someone else planted, or you may actually get to see the fruit of seeds planted. Trust that your work is not in vain.

[Yodean]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1526683233886281729

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Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland accused Russia of destroying Western weapons supplied to Ukraine

The other day, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Marcin Przydacz announced that Russia is nurturing expansionist plans for the Polish state. Pshidach also accused Moscow of deliberately destroying weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine.

As Przydach noted, Russia is destroying Western weapons by bombing roads and railways. He also announced the detention of several spies in Poland.

Apparently, the Polish official was counting on the fact that all NATO weapons without exception should be at the disposal of the Kyiv authorities. Or is it such trolling from the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, who understands everything perfectly ..

https://cont.ws/@Topwar/2287433

If true this is priceless

[outof thebox]

Switzerland releases CHF3 billion of frozen Russian assets

The Swiss government has confirmed that CHF6.3 billion ($6.33 billion) worth of Russian assets remain frozen under sanctions to punish Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. This represents a drop from early April as CHF3.4 billion in provisionally blocked assets have been released.

rwin Bollinger, head of the Bilateral Economic Relations Division at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), told reporters in Bern on Thursday that the current total of frozen assets now stands at CHF6.3 billion.

This represents a decrease from the CHF7.5 billion in funds the government reported frozen on April 7.

Although an additional CHF2.2 billion were blocked, CHF3.4 billion were released again after being frozen on a precautionary basis.

“The number of frozen assets is not an indicator for how effective sanctions are implemented,” Bollinger said. “The numbers can fluctuate in both directions.”

Swiss banks and asset managers can provisionally freeze funds but funds need to be released if they cannot establish that the assets are directly owned or controlled by a sanctioned individual.

Switzerland could not simply freeze funds if it did not have “sufficient grounds”, said Bollinger.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/s ... s/47590508

No mention of this in the media or the fact that most of the ASEAN countries refused to sanction Russia despite the US almost begging them

[Yodean]

The United States does not have legal authority to seize Russian central bank assets frozen due to its invasion of Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday, but talks with U.S. partners over ways to make Russia foot the bill for Ukraine's post-war reconstruction are starting.

"I think it's very natural that given the enormous destruction in Ukraine, and huge rebuilding costs that they will face, that we will look to Russia to help pay at least a portion of the price that will be involved," Yellen told reporters here ahead of this week's meetings.

Some European officials have advocated that the EU, the United States and other allies seize some $300 billion in Russian central bank foreign currency assets frozen by sanctions. The assets are held abroad, but remain under Russian ownership.

"While we're beginning to look at this, it would not be legal now in the United States for the government to seize those" assets, Yellen said. "It's not something that is legally permissible in the United States."

U.S. Treasury officials have also expressed concerns about setting precedents and eroding other countries' confidence in holding their central bank assets in the United States.

https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-05-18/Y ... ssets.html

*****

Lol, the narrative may be changing a bit here ... funny to hear Yellen talking like this.

Translation: Russia's won, for all intents and purposes. Now, let's get back to stealing from our own citizens.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521919723092520961