Category Archives: War

Pakistan PM Khan On Way Out: Blames Foreign-Funded Conspiracy

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Pakistan PM and former cricketing super-star, Imran Khan, is set to leave office after losing key support needed to survive a no-confidence vote, only the third Pak leader to face such a challenge. The military and ISI are set to take over. There is now the dire prospect of instability in the nuclear-armed state.

A few days ago, at a huge rally he revealed that a foreign-funded conspiracy of which he later gave proof was demanding his ouster, because it did not want Pakistan to pursue an independent foreign policy.

Three weeks ago, Khan raged against the EU for telling him to vote condemning Russia, and asked, “Are we your slaves?”

Now the opposition has the votes needed to oust him.

Russia Become Most Sanctioned Country In World, With 5532

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Economic Times, India, cites the sanctions watchlist site, Castellum.AI [New York] on the most- sanctioned country in the world, Russia:

The site said that 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Russia before February 22 and 2,778 additional were imposed in the days following the assault, bringing the total to 5,532……

Russia’s number now outranks Iran’s 3,616 sanctions, displacing Tehran from the top position, reports the BBC citing Castellum.AI as saying.

According to the site, the countries and regions targeting Russia with sanctions are Switzerland (568), the European Union (518), Canada (454), Australia (413), the US (243), the UK (35) and Japan (35).”

 

USAID Officer Confirmed Ukraine’s Nazi Problem 4 Years Ago

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Josh Cohen, a former USAID project officer, who managed economic reform programs in Russia, wrote about Ukraine’s Nazi problem for the Atlantic Council in 2018 [h/t Saker.is]:

Since the beginning of 2018, C14 and other far-right groups such as the Azov-affiliated National Militia, Right Sector, Karpatska Sich, and others have attacked Roma groups several times, as well as anti-fascist demonstrations, city council meetings, an event hosted by Amnesty International, art exhibitions, LGBT events, and environmental activists. On March 8, violent groups launched attacks against International Women’s Day marchers in cities across Ukraine. In only a few of these cases did police do anything to prevent the attacks, and in some they evenarrested peaceful demonstrators rather than the actual perpetrators.

International human rights groups have sounded the alarm. After the March 8 attacks, Amnesty International warned that “Ukraine is sinking into a chaos of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and their total impunity. Practically no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions.”….

….To be clear, far-right parties like Svoboda perform poorly in Ukraine’s polls and elections, and Ukrainians evince no desire to be ruled by them. But this argument is a bit of “red herring.” It’s not extremists’ electoral prospects that should concern Ukraine’s friends, but rather the state’s unwillingness or inability to confront violent groups and end their impunity. ……..

……Luckily, the authorities still have time to nip things in the bud if they act now. President Petro Poroshenko could start by enacting a “zero-tolerance” policy on unsanctioned vigilantism and direct authorities to cleanse law enforcement agencies of far-right sympathizers such as Sergei Korotkykh, who heads the National Police’s head of security for sites of strategic importance.

Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic funding, C14 and a Kyiv city district recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a “municipal guard” to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kyiv, and twenty-one operate in other cities as well. And C14’s dangerous leader Yevhen Karas even boasts openly about cooperating with the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU). All this needs to end and state officials found to be cooperating with extremists must be removed.”

To be clear, Cohen’s article is written from the point of view of a Euromaidan supporter, who fears the neo-Nazi issue will be used pretextually by Russia to claim that Ukraine is a fascist state, for its own purposes. But that fact only lends more weight to Cohen’s observations.

Armstrong Economics: Cash Flows Indicate War Is Coming

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Martin Armstrong vi LRC:

Our model has ALWAYS picked up the shifts in capital flows that precede war. This time we are witnessing outflows not just from China, but also from ALL emerging markets on a scale that is simply unprecedented. The timing of outflows is clearly linked to Biden’s unprecedented sanctions against the Russian people – not just Russia itself as a political state. This has NEVER taken place in history before with the single exception of the US sanctions imposed on Japan and the freezing of all their assets in the United States which preceded Pearl Harbor.

It pains me to have to even write this today. But clearly, those who understand where this is going is to World War III and make no mistake about it – this is INTENTIONAL! Even the official data has revealed that foreign investors have sold a net $5.5 billion of Chinese government bonds in the last few weeks. Biden stupidly threatened China that if they support Russia, they will suffer the same sanctions. This is just insane and it is DELIBERATELY trying to destroy the entire world economy.

Ukraine Genocide: Russia Compiles Time-Line Of BioWar Labs

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From Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, via Saker.is, a chronology of what she calls BioBiden:

I will just add in new material/links to the text below, as I find time.

Obviously, this is from the Russian government and there will be things shaded their way, but there is nothing here that hasn’t appeared on different websites in the US press, both main and dissentstream, as my now-disappeared fellow internet warrior, Zahir Ebrahim, used to say.

1991– the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.

1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.

2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists’ hands.

2000s – large US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.

2005-2014 – Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”

2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently – Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.

2009 – Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.

2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.

2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.

2014 – Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to “assert Ukraine’s cultural & economic independence from Russia”.

2014 – Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed “science project in Ukraine”.

2014 – Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.

2014-2016 – Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.

2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.

2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.

2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.

2016 – EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.

2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.

2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.

February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.

February 24-25, 2022 – rapid elimination of strains in biolabs in Ukraine.

March 8, 2022 – US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland openly acknowledges the existence of cooperation between the US and Ukraine in pathogens.

Racist Western Elites In Denial That Russia Has Military Superiority

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Andrei Martyanov:

 It is really an old truism, when your sparring partners are 7-year old kids from the sand-box you are bound to lose qualifications and skills. When it is aggravated by the blind and illiterate geopolitical planning and doctrine-mongering–it becomes a recipe for the loss of situational awareness and a disaster. The United States may not have produced world-class strategists with the exception of Mahan, but operationally, come on–everyone uses Boyd’s OODA Loop, Net- Centric Warfare is a routine today in Russian Armed Forces, so why such a catastrophic failure to learn from themselves, forget about learning it from those who defeated time after time best fighting forces in history? 

The answer is clear as a day: Wehrmacht couldn’t conceive that Slavic subhumans can produce T-34 and excellent fighter-planes, not to speak of a superb artillery. They also miscalculated with the level of education and adaptability of the Red Army, and in terms of Soviet industry. The US repeats here Nazi Germany’s path–US “elites” are afflicted by the genocidal, racial hatred towards Russians and they cannot conceive, especially through the “labor” of Soviet and Russian dissidents who sold BS about USSR and Russia for decades, that the US simply doesn’t know or understand Russia. That what it “knows” about her and her people is a complete bunk conceived in the dark recesses of ideological imperatives of the Cold War 1.0. “

EMPIRE OF LIES: Some Nazis More Equal Than Others Says ADL

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This is official and has the Anti-Defamation League’s stamp on it.

[A very big h/t to  LRC for this one.]

In an article titled, “Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of Nazis?” the ADL interviewed David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary, to explain why Ukraine’s neo-Nazis aren’t so bad.

“There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the U.S., and in Russia for that matter. But they are a very marginal group with no political influence and who don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine,” Fishman said.

It seems some Nazis are better than others.

And wearing the Swastika and carrying SS paraphernalia is apparently fine, so long as you don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions. And so long as Israeli billionaires are financing your Nazism.

That’s right. Absolutely the only thing wrong with the Nazis, according to the ADL, is that they persecuted Jews and Jewish institutions.

Now, I don’t in any way downplay or minimize that genocide…but the holocaust was not the only crime committed by the Nazis.

Has the ADL forgotten the disabled and elderly people the Nazis killed?

Or the culling of untermenschen such as political dissidents and “inferior” races.

What about Lebensborn, their breeding experiments that turned women into brood-mares and entailed the kidnapping and execution of infants?

What about medical experimentation on people in concentration camps?

Are we supposed to forget the racially-motivated  murder of Roma people and Slavs?

Is there nothing wrong in the supremacist  adoration of the Nordic or Aryan type and the creation of a whole false history and science of racial hierarchy to validate it?

What about the persecution of homosexuals?

What about leading the German people down the path to the destruction of the entire country?

To the death of a generation of young men, the rape of millions of women, the dismantling of the economy, the destruction of  their cultural heritage, the monumental reparations they had to pay, and the shame and humiliation they  bore for generations.

If people are allowed to rehabilitate Nazi symbols as long as they stick to less powerful victims,  would the ADL also argue that Southerners can dress up in hoods and burn crosses, just so long as they only frighten swarthy immigrants without political clout, but not American blacks?

 

China Calls NATO Brain-Dead For Pouring Oil On Fire In Ukraine

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Compare the measured words of the Chinese leader with Biden’s and NATO’s increasingly vituperative tone. Consider his emphasis on dialogue and negotiation and the need for ensuring the relative security of all parties, not just the absolute security of one.

 

Japan Levies Sanctions; Russia Responds With Military Drills On Disputed Islands

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Russia, which has still not signed a peace-treaty with Japan after WW II because of territorial disputes, broke off peace talks and began military drills involving 3000 or more troops on the South Kuril islands, including disputed territories. This follows on Japan’s levying of sanctions against Russia, in the wake of the Ukraine operation.

Why are sanctions still regarded as effective responses to military and political threats? They are diplomatically provocative, politically ineffective,  economically wide-ranging and unpredictable in effect, and ONLY serve to escalate dangerous situations.

Russia: Poland Wants NATO Peace-Keepers In Ukraine

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From TASS [Russian state agency]:

Polish officials say that are not abandoning the idea of deploying NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador in Warsaw Sergey Andreev said on the Soloviov Live project on Saturday.

“As for the idea of a peacekeeping operation, everything seems clear: Americans said that they would not deploy their troops, the NATO secretary general said that NATO was not considering such an operation. However, [Polish] officials say that they are not giving up on the idea, they will think, see and so on,” he said.