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Japan Levies Sanctions; Russia Responds With Military Drills On Disputed Islands
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.
North Korea Launches Biggest Yet ICBM Into Japanese Waters
So tell me again how sanctions got in the way of N Korea’s military program?
Madeleine Albright, Fully Vaxxed Last Year, Dies Of Cancer
Madeleine Albright, who championed a more “muscular” interventionism in foreign policy and is notorious for having defended the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under sanctions as “worth it,” has died, ostensibly of cancer, at the age of 84.
Biden’s Sanctions: Russian Oligarchs escape to Israel; Russian People Suffer
Joe Biden might pander to the public with thundering denunciations and sanctions of “Russian” oligarchs, but he knows, though he fails to say so, that they are largely Russia’s Jewish oligarchs who have a second citizenship in Israel.
This is an important distinction erased by the speech codes that rule the free people of the free West, who are so eager to impose their freedom on the untermenschen – Slavic Russians and Serbs; sub-Saharan Africans; American crackers, Confederates, deplorables and bitter-clingers; Iraqis, Palestinians, and Syrians; non-Brahmin non-Sikh subcontinental Indians; the Irish; tribals and aboriginals; and a myriad other groups.
It is important, because corporate Judaism, like corporate Christianity or Islam, but with much more ethnic cohesion, is an organic nation within the nations. And one must understand the interests and actions of this invisible nation as a separate state, protecting its own above all. Otherwise, we libel the nations and their people, blaming them for what the financial elites of this nation-within-the-nations does and attributing to national interest what is actually in the interests of this cabal.
Biden’s sanctions illustrate the point. Ostensibly aimed at Russia’s rich elites, they actually only harm the ordinary citizen with no exit. The oligarchs, with a second citizenship in Israel, emigrate there and enjoy the benefit of the Israeli law that gives them a 10 -year respite from any examination of the sources of their income.
That’s why I have to wonder if the USG prosecution of Igor Kolomoisky is really going to go anywhere. Think back to the Madoff scam. Or the Goldman insider trading case. Despite appearances and laudatory reviews by the major media, those who followed closely realize that with Judge Rakoff, the fix was in, as I blogged here. Similarly, freezing Kolomoisky’s assets in the US could only be window-dressing. Or actually a way to keep his assets out of the hands of the Ukrainians he cheated. Then when the furor dies down and Kolomoisky makes aliyah, his assets might be released and fall under a different jurisdiction, while the media attention focuses elsewhere.
This is only cynical speculation on my part. But with some justification, because in half-a -dozen or so schemes of the same kind that were supposedly prosecuted, this is how things panned out. Despite much tom-tomming of the prosecutors and judges in the NY media, ethnic solidarity between the criminals, the judges and lawyers, and the owners of the major media means that financial crimes at the highest level are usually dumped on a bag-holder/ lesser offender [as with Rajat Gupta], while the major offender gets off.
Amazon Joins Netflix, Stops Service To Russia
The sanctions become more and more like collective punishment of the Russian population: Days after Netflix stopped services to Russia, Amazon stops Prime video services and shipments to Russia.
Ukraine War Updates: Drugs, Sanctions, Students, Cauldrons
Latest developments:
1. India may be sanctioned by the US for buying weapons from Russia, following her neutral position on the UN vote condemning Russia
2. Labs making combat drugs, including captagon, have been found in Mariupol, suggesting that the reckless and stupid defiance of the Ukie army and its president might be drug fueled. Captagon has been used by ISIS. I saw two videos of Zelensky supposedly high on alcohol or drugs, but in both he could just have been exhausted. However, it was Zelensky himself who challenged Poroshenko in the presidential campaign a few years ago on the issue and then when Poroshenko publicly took and passed a drug test, Zelenksy backed out and only tested himself later at a clinic owned by a friend. Poroshenko then used the drug charge against Zelensky in the campaign, from where Putin picked it it up. So there seems to be some truth to the charge.
3. Indian students trapped at Mariupol and planning to march on foot to the Russian border carrying Indian flags have deferred the march after the Government of India advised against it.
Video of Putin charging the Ukrainians with holding hostage citizens and students, especially Indian students.
4. The Russians have total control of the skies over Ukraine and are now closing off several cauldrons [encirclements] on the grounds, cutting off the Ukie army from reinforcements
5. The Atlanticists are so desperate, they have decided to cut off Russia from all internet services of all kinds, very likely including cloud services. As with the economic sanctions, which probably had less of an impact on Russia than was hoped and have since been back tracked by France, there is likely going to be back tracking on this too.
6. The issue of US funded and supported biological weapons labs in the Ukraine is backed by opposition members in Ukraine, although US outlets continue to dismiss it as conspiracy theory.
How do you expect the Russians to rise up against Putin, if they don’t know what’s going on and can’t communicate with each other?
What happens to all the Western companies doing business in Russia or to all the other people doing business with us who have ties with Russia?
Whom do you suppose all that will affect?
What is the point of bringing Putin down, if you also bring down the EU and America?
Or is that the whole point and Putin just the pretext?
Who wants a global reset?
Who profits from chaos and restructuring?