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The Dollar’s Bloody Birth: From Bretton Woods Blackmail to Petrodollar Enforcement Former central banker and global financial architect @Kathleen_Tyson_ details the violent, coercive origins of dollar dominance—from postwar blackmail at Bretton Woods to the military and political threats that created the petrodollar in an interview with @HusseinAskary. This is the system’s foundation. This is why it’s collapsing. Here is her explanation in her own words: Kathleen Tyson: Bretton Woods was born in wartime when the United States took the initiative to more or less force by blackmail on the allies a new monetary system with the United States and the US dollar at the core. The allies were completely dependent on the United States for many supplies, for munitions, for equipment, for food. And 44 states in the Bretton Woods conference center signed off on a treaty that bound them after the war to use the US dollar as the principal currency for settlement in the world. And then the dollar was fixed in gold terms at $35 per ounce. That created the security for the world to use it because it was redeemable for gold. So that they would have confidence that every dollar was worth $35 an ounce of gold. And that worked pretty well, except that the United States was addicted to wars. It found them very profitable, frankly. And so, in the 70s, the United States was running hot. It was at war in Vietnam. It was creating a lot more debt. And it was also creating social reforms—welfare, Medicare, social reforms that were very expensive domestically. Building out the US highway system, building all kinds of infrastructure. And that ran the economy very hot. And because of the amount of debt that was being created that nobody was very certain would be productive, especially the social welfare spending was very uncertain whether that would be productive. Countries became uncomfortable with the accumulation of debt, and France, Italy, Germany and Britain started to want gold in exchange for their surplus dollars. With some of these countries, the United States was just able to say no. It had the governor of the German Bundesbank sign a commitment that he would never ask for gold again. But with other countries, and particularly France, they were not able to impose that they would never ask for gold again. And the system became slightly unstable. So in 1971, Richard Nixon unilaterally, without consulting the allies, after a weekend discussing it with his advisers, revoked the exchange of dollars for gold temporarily. It turned out to be permanent. From that point overnight, we had fiat currencies that were not fixed to any secure value. They were not fixed in dollars, and they were not fixed in gold, and we had a chaotic period where things were very volatile. We didn’t even have mechanisms, really, for foreign exchange trading that were highly developed. So the whole thing became rather unsettling for the world. Henry Kissinger and the Treasury came up with the idea that we need to stabilize things by fixing the dollar to something that has global demand. And they settled on oil because everybody uses and burns oil. So it would create sustained demand if they could fix dollars in oil. And so they went around the Middle East and essentially made countries offers they couldn’t refuse: that they would only sell their oil for dollars. And if they did not only sell their oil for dollars, then the ruler would be killed, his family would be killed, and if necessary, they would occupy the oil fields with the military. Most leaders signed, and that held pretty well for a couple of decades until you had leaders like Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi wanting to sell their oil in other currencies. Well, they both ended up dead. Their families ended up dead, and America occupied the oil fields just as they said they would. But it brought more criticism of the system and of the aggression and violence that were required to maintain the system. And so it destabilized things, and more countries began looking at ways to move away from the dollar, move away from being subject to coercion.

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From Production to Parasitism: How the West Hollowed Out Its Economy After Bretton Woods, the US was the last man standing: industrial power, gold reserves, and global dominance. Instead of building the future, it chose speculation, share buybacks, and financialization—creating a hollow, parasitic system sustained by bailouts and printed money. Meanwhile, China used credit to build high-speed rail, space programs, massive industries, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Real investment vs. parasitic speculation. The contrast is stark. Here is Kathleen Tyson and Hussein Askary in their own words: Kathleen Tyson: At the end of World War II, Asia was destroyed, Europe was destroyed, and the United States was the last man standing, having profited hugely from the war. They ended up, because of their isolation, the strongest economy in the world with more than half the world’s gold, half the world’s GDP, and standing industries that were still productive after the war. So they could shift from making tanks to making cars, to making trucks, and they did extraordinarily well for a few decades. And then, as you say, they started to financialize, and it became more profitable to speculate in investments than to actually invest. We’ve seen that particularly in recent years, as companies, if they get money, they do share buybacks. They don’t bother expanding research and development or expanding industrial capacity. They just do a share buyback, and that boosts the share. So we’re in this stage now where the underlying basis for markets is becoming questionable. What are they for? Are they accurate at price discovery? Are they accurate at predicting productive investment, predicting returns on capital? And we’re in a sort of transition phase where we’re not really sure anymore. But at the same time, we have this huge bubble. Hussein Askary: These corporations that create these bubbles and the banks that loan them money, they rely on the state because they are too big to fail. We saw the bailout: it’s 17 to 20 trillion dollars since 2008. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan pumped trillions and trillions of dollars, and they even got help from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to bail out banks in Britain and the United States and also in Europe. So they can rely on the state pumping in—printing money, basically, to do that. It’s fascinating because I was looking at China: since the financial crisis, they have also created about 17 to 18 trillion dollars. Kathleen Tyson: I was going to say, China has actually been leading in the creation of money. Hussein Askary: But they were investing that money in building 50,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, a space program, massive industries, and also the Belt and Road Initiative. Real investment. So it’s an enormous difference between the two. But how far can states—the United States, Britain, the EU, and Japan—borrow and pump money into the market to keep this bubble going? Kathleen Tyson: We don’t know. This is the thing about bubbles: it’s very difficult to know when they’re expanding, at what point, and what breaks them. This is why they’re allowed to sustain for so long, because the bursting of the bubble is so painful that no policymaker or politician wants to be responsible. I think China is very interesting, and it’s the only case in history of a property bubble being deflated while not collapsing the real economy. China deflated its property bubble over a period of five, six years while the economy continued to grow—not at 8%, but at 5%—and continued to expand. And that’s a unique achievement. It’s really something we’re studying because other countries tend to let the property bubbles run until they burst, causing wider harm and deflation. That’s Japan. Obviously, Japan’s had 30 years of zero growth since it started quantitative easing three decades ago. It’s been a growth killer because they protected the existing companies, the existing banks, the existing properties and never really recovered. Europe has had zero growth for 15 years, since about 2007, so a bit longer. The United States manages to sustain growth, but that’s largely by buying it from the rest of the world. So, acquiring profitable companies or getting them to list on NASDAQ and then getting the rents from profitable companies wherever they are, while the US economy has been largely hollowed out. So it’s an interesting time to watch monetary dynamics because you do get the sense that this doesn’t go on forever.

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The End of Bretton Woods II: How Multicurrency Trade is Rewriting Global Power On 9th December 2022, two events signaled a seismic shift in the global financial system. Kathleen Tyson, former central banker, explains why Bretton Woods II is over, how Russia and China are building alternatives, and why hegemonic currencies may no longer dictate global trade. Here is Kathleen Tyson and Hussein Askary in their own words, lightly edited: Kathleen Tyson: On 9th December 2022, I watched two huge events that were not covered in Western media. In the morning, Xi Jinping, while on a state visit to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, made a speech to the camera saying that Palestine needs to be addressed. It needs to be a state, 1967 borders, capital at Jerusalem. Not covered in any Western media, but only covered in the Middle East press. In the afternoon, he stood with the six heads of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and invited them to trade oil and gas in Shanghai for yuan. I went, “Oh my gosh, that’s the end of Bretton Woods. The Bretton Woods II system we’ve had since 1971, when Nixon repudiated gold redemptions, is over, because now we’re going to have trading of oil and gas in renminbi, in yuan.” I wrote a commentary published on our website about Bretton Woods ending today, but guess what — it wasn’t covered in Reuters, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, or The Economist. Zero coverage! After two weeks of watching them ignore it, I thought they were going to make huge policy mistakes because they don’t understand what’s happening. If we’re too timid to even discuss what’s happening in the media, we’re going to make big mistakes. I started writing Multicurrency Mercantilism so that at least there’d be a handbook when they started to figure out what’s going on. The alternative to the dollar is the dollar and all other currencies and commodities. So the alternative to the dollar is the ruble, the yuan, the rand, the UAE dinar, Malaysian ringgit — it doesn’t matter. They’ll turn to the dollar as any other currency that two parties to a transaction are willing to accept, and also gold, oil, lately silver and other commodities that can be a store of value or are required as an economic input. Stable transition: At the time I wrote it in 2022-23, I said the transition can be stable unless there’s a wider war. Normally, when there’s a transition from a hegemonic currency to a rival currency, there are world wars — we’ve had 500 years of that. The dollar took over from sterling after World War I and then settled into its status as the dominant hegemonic currency after World War II. And the real question was: are we going to have a World War? The United States clearly would go to World War. They want to. They would love to crush all rivals. They would love to destroy China, but it’s no longer clear they can because they’ve been losing power, and they are so dependent on China, even for their military. They are attacking weak players — in the last week they bombed Venezuela and Nigeria, and Nigeria is their ally, the most pro-American state in Africa, "but let's just bomb you anyway." Last year, they bombed eight countries. They are trying to preserve hegemony with violence, but it’s not clear anywhere, anymore, whether that will hold. They are economically vulnerable, and other states could curb their tendency to lash out. That’s a big question mark on stable transition. No new hegemon: There, I'm pretty convinced I got it right. China doesn’t want to be a hegemon. They invite people to use yuan, but if they don’t want to, they don’t have to. That was a good call back then. Globalization accelerates: Over the last three years, Western G7 economists have said fragmentation erodes the economy, fragmentation hurts the economy, but what if 40% of the global economy frozen by US sanctions now has the optionality to use any other currency? You're taking that 40% of the economy in Russia and Iran that's been frozen out, and you're reintegrating them back with the global economy, and they're trading at speed. Russia is doing huge business with India and China, selling oil and gas. Iran does huge business with China, their number one oil buyer. Venezuela, also under sanctions, sold most of its oil to China before it was invaded yesterday. Globalization has accelerated because frozen-out countries got reintegrated. The Angell Paradox: Named for Norman Angell, who won the 1932 Nobel Peace Prize for the insight into the great illusion that when two developed, interdependent economies go to war and they economically sanction one another, the sanctioner sustains as much harm as the sanctioned. Russia changed this dynamic by becoming sovereign and not dependent. Since 2014, Russia foresaw sanctions and the threat of economic collapse. They responded by becoming independent of other economies. Over 19 rounds of European sanctions, and Russia emerged stronger. They are now the fourth-largest economy, and the ruble was the best-performing currency of 2025. Russia is not dependent on Europe for anything anymore, not for capital, technology, management, or anything. Europe has hurt itself again and again and again 19 times. Europe is much weaker, has lost growth, and has lost industrial capacity because energy is 35% more expensive. The Angell Paradox is very clear in Europe. Hussein Askary: You worked with SWIFT. Russia made itself independent of SWIFT, which enables cross-border transactions controlled by the US and Western forces. Russia created its own cross-border trade currency exchange. China created CIPS, the China Interbank Payment System. How does that play into this new dynamic? Kathleen Tyson: Russia did not expect to be cut out of SWIFT. They were surprised and had to react dynamically, very, very quickly. The first step: if you want our oil and gas, you have to pay in rubles. That stabilized ruble demand and gave them time in the first year to bring MIR — the Russian payment system, equivalent of CIPS — up to a global standard. MIR was globalized in that first year to many banks. They never disclosed how many, stopping publication of members to avoid secondary sanctions. It took a year, but they transitioned effectively. Governor Nabiullina at the Russian central bank was amazing and stabilized a very difficult situation. The Angell Paradox holds true. Next chapter: resiliency, stability, and inflation: Trading in your own currency and partners’ currencies gives predictability on flows — you know what you buy and sell each year and can roughly balance trade. Moving away from hegemonic currencies like the dollar and euro reduces exchange rate volatility, stabilizes the economy, lowers inflation, and allows a more stable growth path. This is playing out as more countries adopt local currency trade since 2022.

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The US Wants to Remain the Hegemon by Choking China—But There’s Another World at the End of the Tunnel Hussein Askary asks the final, pivotal question: “What scares you most, and what gives you most hope?” Kathleen Tyson’s answer defines our crossroads: a hegemonic system clinging to power through violence and resource control versus a future being built through technology, sovereignty, and cooperative development. Here is their exchange in their own words, lightly edited: Hussein Askary: We believe that there should be a way for coexistence between the West and East, between North and South. We don’t believe in a split world. We don’t want a new Cold War. We don’t want China to defeat America. We want a world of peace and economic development, but we need to learn from the lessons. So I just finally want to ask you: what is it that scares you most, and what is it that gives you most hope? Kathleen Tyson: What scares me most is the aggression and war we’re seeing in the last two or three years. It doesn’t actually make any sense except as a projection of hegemonic power—the belief that if the United States could control all of the oil of Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iran—those three huge reserves—then it can choke China by stopping it from getting oil from Iran and Venezuela, as it has done, and from cooperating with Nigeria. That way, the United States can remain the hegemon by choking China. That’s obviously what it wants to do. But in terms of optimism, what gives me great hope is the very rapid change of attitude in the world to explore alternatives and to use technology to build resiliency and stability, because you have other options than the dollar, other options than having to surrender yourself to the hegemon. We’re seeing enormous technological advances come out of China almost daily. The cost of solar power is now so low that countries like Pakistan and in Africa are moving to solar as their preferred power because they can afford it. They don’t have to build a huge multi-billion-dollar plant that requires upfront finance. They can import solar power household by household to build out capacity, and that has enormous power to change the economic dynamics in isolated and poorer parts of the world. So I guess what scares me is that the hegemon is becoming unpredictable. What gives me optimism is that the technology is also rolling out at scale in ways that can mitigate the risks. Hussein Askary: People are waking up to that reality all over the world. But we still have a problem: people getting out of the old system. Like in the Hamlet case, you know—to walk new paths untrodden before and realize that there is another world at the end of the tunnel waiting for us with a much more optimistic prospect.

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Chrystia Freeland spent her entire adult life radicalizing ethnic, cultural, and linguistic hatred in Ukraine. Never forget the Odessa Massacre on May 2, 2014. This woman is a fascist genocidal Nazi! https://t.co/MRbMFVwVNl

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In fighting for their lives and their sovereignty, the brave people of Ukraine are also fighting Canada’s fight—the fight for democracy. The Ukrainian people have inspired the world—and Canada will be by their side until they are victorious. Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini! https://t.co/8pxsgS2DwC

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Chinese army helicopters formed the number 80 in the sky. The parade was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in World War II and Japan’s surrender. At the parade in Beijing, the PLA Air Force showcased transport aircraft, missile carriers, and fighter jets. https://t.co/haOeXClgtB

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Why Did President Trump Suddenly Choose Alaska? Or the Tale of Proactive Russian Builders. By Georgy Mashnin Part 1. The thing is, a few months ago, when there was no talk of negotiations between Russia and the U.S., I heard the following interesting story. There’s a remarkable project in Russia called the Lena Bridge. It’s a bridge over the Lena River (not what you might be thinking) that will finally connect Eastern Siberia to the ports of the Sea of Okhotsk, forming a transport corridor from Irkutsk to Magadan and Chukotka. This bridge, which the USSR never built due to engineering challenges, is now being constructed by the VIS Group, one of Russia’s largest infrastructure developers. The project is set to be completed by 2027. It will span 14.5 km, with its central support pillars taller than the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg and the Federation Tower in Moscow. So, what does this have to do with Alaska? you might ask. Well, in 1990, the USSR and the U.S. signed an intergovernmental agreement to build a transport corridor across the Bering Strait. Under its terms, both sides were to extend rail and transport infrastructure to the strait, which primarily meant constructing a bridge over the Lena River on the Russian side. However, since construction never began in the 33 years that followed, moving forward with the agreement’s other provisions became impossible. Until recently. Here’s what happened. Someone directly involved in the Lena Bridge project came across the parameters of this still-active agreement and, as a joke, wrote a letter to the governor of Alaska, proposing to finally implement the agreement since Russia was fulfilling its part. And, believe it or not, the governor replied. The joke was a good one, and it reached not just me but also several others with direct ties to communications between the U.S. and Russian presidents. So, when I read the news about Alaska last Saturday, my first thought was that the proposal to revive the Bering Strait tunnel project had reached not just Alaska’s governor but possibly even Trump himself. Now, let me explain why I think Mr. Trump might latch onto this project. First, it’s worth noting that this project is 135 years old. The first person to propose it was Colorado Governor William Gilpin in 1890. Since then, the idea resurfaced at least once every decade throughout the 20th century, culminating in the creation of the “Interhemispheric Bering Strait Tunnel and Railroad Group” (known in Russia as “Transcontinental”) in 1991. (You can read all about this on Wikipedia.) In 1996, the U.S. government even allocated $10 million for feasibility studies and project development. The last assessment of the Bering Strait transport tunnel’s prospects was in 2010, when the project was estimated to cost $63 billion, with projected cargo volumes of 60-70 million tons (or 3 million containers). These projections only considered economic viability based on shipments between Russia’s Far East, Alaska, and parts of Canada—not including potential cargo from South Korea, Central Asia, China, or Japan. Adjusted for inflation, the project would now cost $100-120 billion, making it the largest infrastructure project in both Russia and the U.S. Even so, the payback period of 50-60 years is acceptable for an infrastructure project of this scale.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Why Did President Trump Suddenly Choose Alaska? Or the Tale of Proactive Russian Builders. By Georgy Mashnin Part 2. However, there are also geopolitical risks that could increase freight costs and alter the economic feasibility. Let’s look at the total volume of Pacific Ocean shipments to North America, which is already problematic due to port congestion on the U.S. West Coast (where Asian containers wait weeks to unload) and bottlenecks at the Panama Canal (where delays, fees, and time losses pile up). The average shipping time for cargo from Seoul to Los Angeles is 25 days and 9,000 km, while from Seoul to New York it’s 43 days and 16,100 km, passing through the Panama Canal, one of the world’s busiest corridors. Under ideal conditions—but in reality, shipping can take 1.5-2 months. Why focus on Seoul (or Guangzhou) to New York (or Chicago)? Because 80% of the U.S. population (and thus demand) is on the East Coast. Now let’s calculate the distance and travel time for a potential transport corridor through the Bering Strait: Seoul-Anadyr-Bering Strait-Anchorage-New York or Chicago. The distance from Anchorage, Alaska’s capital, to New York by road is 7,000 km, to Chicago 5,800 km. The distance from Seoul to Anadyr, Chukotka, by road is 7,800 km. The distance between Anadyr and Anchorage is 1,500 km, with future rail distance being approximately the same. Thus, the route from Seoul to New York via rail through the Bering Strait would be 7,800 + 1,500 + 5,800 = 15,100 km, and to Chicago 14,300 km. The travel time would be about 1.5-2 weeks. There might be complications with rail gauges, as Russian and U.S. tracks have different widths. This could be a bottleneck threatening the project’s prospects, but let’s assume this problem will be solved with proper infrastructure. Such a route would be 10% shorter and 2-2.5 times faster than sea container shipping, though certainly more expensive. However, first, there are goods where saving 20-30 days in transit is critical. Second, supply stability and predictable timing significantly impact costs. But the main factor making the Bering Strait project promising even for Southeast Asian cargo is political risks amid tensions around Taiwan and near the Panama Canal. Global maritime shipping volume is 12.3 billion tons. The share of Pacific shipments to North America is 20%, totaling 2.5 billion tons or about 123 million containers annually. Even if just 5% of this volume were redirected through the Bering Strait tunnel or bridge, it would add 120-130 million tons to the initial 60-70 million ton estimate. Plus the potential for increased shipping rates. This could reduce the project’s payback period to 10-15 years—an incredible figure for infrastructure projects of this scale! That is, this is a mega-deal, as Trump loves! The largest $120 billion construction project! It develops Alaska, increases influence over Canada, reduces dependence on the Panama Canal, neutralizes Taiwan conflict risks, and separates Russia from China. And one could even say Russia will pay for it all, for example from its frozen foreign reserves! Trump wins, dominates everyone, brings world peace, secures the deal of the century, and even makes Russia pay. Though this would require lifting sanctions, recreating a joint corporation, unfreezing reserves, and ending the war in Ukraine. But this is exactly the kind of game-changing move that Trump likes. We’ll soon see what our presidents agree on, and find out whether the letter from proactive Russian builders reached the U.S. president literally tomorrow. But I believe the reason for choosing Alaska is economic and practical, not some sacred-conspiratorial one as roughly 99% of all experts write.

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🇭🇹 Haiti Betrayed reveals how Canada, once seen by Haitians as a constructive partner, conspired with the United States and France to topple the democratically-elected government. Seven years in the making, Elaine Brière’s film meticulously reconstructs Canada’s role in the events that culminated in the United Nations-sanctioned coup d’état on February 29, 2004, and the bloody aftermath that followed. Haiti Betrayed is a searing indictment of Canadian leaders’ complicity in the international oppression of this long-suffering nation.

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Canada has perfected the Judas smile—posing as benevolent while sharpening the knife. ‘Airdrops’ for Gaza as it arms Israel. ‘Peacekeeping’ as it helps coup Haiti. Millions still believe this country cares about humanity. It doesn’t. It gaslights its own.

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Canada has sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, weapons parts, aircraft components, and communication devices to Israel since late 2023 This is just a small portion of Ottawa's support for the Israeli genocide machine

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Canada is still arming Israel despite an official ban, a shocking new report finds Even as Ottawa accuses Israel of violating international law with its assault on Gaza, it continues to supply the Israeli death machine By @wyattreed13 https://thegrayzone.com/2025/08/01/canada-arming-israel-despite-ban/

Canada still arming Israel despite official ban, report finds - The Grayzone In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be airlifted to Gaza. But a shocking new report makes clear that the proposed 51st state still arms Israel's death machine. Canada sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, thegrayzone.com

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Canada has sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, weapons parts, aircraft components, and communication devices to Israel since late 2023 This is just a small portion of Ottawa's support for the Israeli genocide machine

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Canada is still arming Israel despite an official ban, a shocking new report finds Even as Ottawa accuses Israel of violating international law with its assault on Gaza, it continues to supply the Israeli death machine By @wyattreed13 https://thegrayzone.com/2025/08/01/canada-arming-israel-despite-ban/

Canada still arming Israel despite official ban, report finds - The Grayzone In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be airlifted to Gaza. But a shocking new report makes clear that the proposed 51st state still arms Israel's death machine. Canada sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, thegrayzone.com

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@MaxBlumenthal Canada has perfected the Judas smile—posing as benevolent while sharpening the knife. ‘Airdrops’ for Gaza as it arms Israel. ‘Peacekeeping’ as it helps coup Haiti. Millions still believe this country cares about humanity. It doesn’t. It gaslights its own. https://t.co/sQHzkpgVcF

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Military Chronicles: The impending capture of Pokrovsk is significant not merely—or even primarily—as an event in itself. It is gradually becoming the optimal entry point for North Korean units into the conflict. By the end of August or early September, the Ukrainian defense in this sector will either collapse or devolve into a disorganized retreat. This creates a unique window to deploy additional forces that could not only stabilize captured territories but also free up Russian assault units for further advances toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Once Pokrovsk is taken, large-scale operations will need to be launched: clearing, demining, restoring power supply, and establishing logistics routes. This is where North Korean involvement could prove decisive. They have already been tested in Kursk Oblast, where they demonstrated their ability to operate within the Russian command structure under the auspices of the Russian Defense Ministry. The primary mechanism for integration could be the private military company (PMC) format, with nominal subordination to the Russian military command. This would allow for the swift and legally uncomplicated deployment of North Korean forces without creating grounds for international legal challenges.

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Military Chronicles: The operational picture around Pokrovsk is becoming increasingly clear: the southern flank of Ukraine’s defense is systematically crumbling. Despite fierce resistance, Russian infantry has advanced well beyond Troitske and is now engaged in combat near Shakhtarske, gradually consolidating positions for a subsequent straightening of the frontline and a push toward the railway line. This axis is critical—breaking through it would allow the city to be split into several manageable sectors, after which clearing operations would begin. To the north, Rodinske is gradually nearing semi-encirclement, despite proving harder to capture than initially expected. Ukrainian logistics in the area are effectively paralyzed: northern and western supply routes have been severed. Under these conditions, neither counterattacks nor frontline stabilization are feasible. Notably, Syrsky remains silent and is not committing reserves—likely because they simply aren’t available in sufficient numbers. This creates ideal conditions for Russian forces to methodically tighten the noose without the risk of sudden intervention by large, fresh enemy reinforcements.

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Ukrainian sources claim that Russian troops have advanced into Pokrovsk. https://t.co/XfR6R1mC8T

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The frontline “Road of Death”—a section at the entrance to Pokrovsk. Footage from the enemy side. Visible: destroyed vehicles of the Kiev regime’s militants, including those fitted with improvised anti-drone “grill” armor. An off-camera Ukrainian fighter complains that it’s now practically impossible to travel along this road.

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The Pokrovsk Cauldron, August 3, 2025 https://t.co/FFj463FvGn

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Military Chronicles: Since the morning of August 1, reports have emerged of Russian assault groups advancing to the outskirts of Sukhetske, north of Rodynske. So far, there is no objective evidence confirming this progress. But if true, it would mark the beginning of a deepening crisis for the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the northern sector of the Krasnoarmiysk (Pokrovsk) agglomeration. This approach aligns with Russia’s typical tactic of incremental pressure: first, systematically pushing the enemy out of peripheral positions, then striking logistics and command hubs, followed by multi-directional breakthroughs to disrupt defensive cohesion. For the UAF, this necessitates either urgently reinforcing the sector or retreating to new lines—yet the pace of Russian advances is shrinking the time available for such maneuvers. This is further compounded by the ongoing Russian stranglehold on Ukrainian supply routes. The potential fall of Rodynske (a looming threat for some time) could become a critical factor, accelerating the collapse of the entire northern defensive front of the Krasnoarmiysk agglomeration.

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Dr. Clifford Kiracofe (@saluspopuliorg): Hamas is a resistance organization. It is resisting occupation. You could compare that, for example, to the French Resistance in World War II to the Nazi occupation of France. The French were justified, and the resistance movement had every right, legally, to resist the Nazi occupation. The Palestinian people have a legal right to resist and to create resistance organizations. The level of violence, death, and destruction falls under a technical, legal definition of genocide. That’s what the whole world is watching right now. You have real-time imagery of the Israelis bombing mosques, Christian churches, apartment buildings, hospitals, destroying bakeries, food sources, water sources, etc. This particular policy of backing Israeli genocide is creating throughout the world — not just the Arab world in the Middle East or Southwest Asia, but all the way out to Malaysia and to Indonesia and in the Islamic world, the developing world, the global South — a boiling of public opinion against the United States. This isn’t going to go away. This is going to be remembered for a generation. This is going to impact negatively American foreign policy for a generation, or more even. This is so outrageous that the world will not ignore it, nor will the world forget it. That means that our own national security is jeopardized in the long run. Our commercial relations and other sorts of relations are jeopardized by this US policy. Our national leadership is at one of the poorest levels that I can remember in my lifetime. We’re in a constitutional crisis at home, we’ve got a border crisis on the southern border, now we have a war in Ukraine, and we just “lost,” supposedly, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, which cost us $8 trillion. So the United States, for the last 20 years or so, has had awful leadership and is heading us, at a very fast pace, into a brick wall which we may encounter here in Gaza, or the related ripple effect from this crisis. There’s a personal element here that should never appear in American foreign policy. Blinken’s grandfather was a major lobbyist for Zionism in the United States after World War II, and curiously they were from Kiev in the Ukraine. And President Biden seems somewhat unhinged with personal feelings. He once said, “If Israel didn’t exist we’d have to invent it.” These are very personal and emotional matters that should not be involved in the foreign policy of the United States — our national security policy. I would recommend people get on to X or Twitter and look at some of the imagery and news reporting by non-US news sources and see this bloody devastation. It’s completely horrifying. It’s like looking at a horror movie. The main question right now is, will this escalate much further, or can it be contained, and can we get a ceasefire? A ceasefire would be the optimum thing. A ceasefire, as soon as possible, would be the best we could hope for.

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Flynn is morally bankrupt, and this statement is an indelible stain on America. Hamas is a resistance organization. It is resisting occupation. The Palestinian people have a legal right to resist and to create resistance organizations. https://t.co/O4MAm6zd3K

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🦠🇺🇸 “The CIA finally said what is true, which is that COVID came out of a lab. What they didn’t tell you—and what’s quite important—is that it almost surely was made in a U.S. laboratory. This is an inside U.S. job.” — Prof. Jeffrey Sachs https://t.co/oJLOmd9Pa0

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Jeffrey Sachs: Israel’s wars are American wars. Empires divide to rule. The US, UK, and France have manipulated the Middle East for 100 years since Versailles. We’ll never have peace in this region until outside powers stop dictating terms. https://t.co/EztRuRaqim

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“I think it’s important for us to understand where this entire war came from. It did not come from Bashar al-Assad. It came from Washington. There was a decision in 2011 to overthrow Assad. Actually, that came from Jerusalem. This has been a desire of the Israeli government that stretches back more than 25 years.

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“Netanyahu’s idea is to make the Middle East in Israel’s image, overthrowing every government that opposes Israel. He’s had a friend in that: the CIA and the United States government. So this war in Syria did not come from Assad’s repression. It did not come from Assad’s dictatorship. This war came from a presidential order by Obama to overthrow Assad, starting in the spring of 2011.

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“We have a name for this program: Operation Timber Sycamore. The United States, together with other countries in this region, trained fighters—especially jihadists, including the ones that just took power—to overthrow the regime. This created chaos: 600,000 dead in Syria in a war that has gone on for 14 years.

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“The outcome of this war is what the CIA wanted back in 2011: a jihadist group taking power in Syria after being armed by the United States. The reason I want to be clear about this is that we will not have peace in this region until we have public diplomacy based on real diplomacy, not CIA operations.

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“And we will not have peace until Israel stops its militarization of the entire Middle East. The Syrian war is just one of six wars that Israel has promoted, including those in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan. We had the list, actually, from Wesley Clark back in 2001, when he was handed a paper in the Pentagon stating that the goal was seven wars in five years.

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“The only war that hasn’t taken place yet, to Netanyahu’s great consternation, is the U.S. war with Iran, which Israel is still trying to instigate to this very day. So the Syrian war is part of a regional tragedy. We have tragedy in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan, and Libya that I put at the hands of the United States government and its ally Israel, because none of these wars had to happen.

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“These were all wars of choice. They were all wars that came from the idea of regime change operations, with the United States determining which regimes operate in which countries. We’ll never have peace in this region if outside imperial powers like the United States are dictating the terms to this region.

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“The only way to have peace in this region is if this region determines its own future, not outside powers. And Israel could never do these wars on its own. These are American wars. America provides the financing, the military backup, the naval support, the intelligence operations, and the munitions.

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“Israel couldn’t fight for one day without the United States’ backing. Israel could not be committing a genocide in Gaza without the United States’ full operational complicity. I don’t mean political complicity; I mean direct, daily operational complicity. This has to end.

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“This region has been divided for 100 years—first by the British Empire and then by the American Empire. And this is going on until today. We have a genocide going on right next door until today, until this morning—people being wantonly killed, brazenly killed—because the United States is providing the means for this.

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“So this is what’s happening in Syria. Is the U.S. on the fence? Hardly. It’s the major actor. I know—by the way, I know firsthand—that in 2012, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as special envoy to reach peace in Syria. I loved Kofi Annan. I love Ban Ki-moon. I worked for both of them.

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“Kofi Annan arranged a peace in 2012. He arranged a peace in Syria. You know why it didn’t happen? Because all the parties agreed to peace except one—literally one: the United States of America. The United States of America said there will be no peace unless Bashar al-Assad goes the first day.

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“The other parties said, ‘No, no, you can’t just determine that. Maybe there’ll be a process. Maybe there’ll be agreed elections. Maybe there’ll be a two-year process, a three-year process.’ The United States said, ‘No, Assad must go the first day of any agreement, or we block it.’ And so Kofi Annan stepped down from his position after having negotiated a peace arrangement.

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“And we have had 500,000 people dead since then. We should not allow this kind of criminality to be normal. This region has been at war non-stop for 30 years. Actually, I would say for at least 57 years, since the Six-Day War, because there has been no honest accounting of international law, no honest diplomacy. It’s been militarization all the way through.

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“And we could have peace immediately in this region. All that is required, in my view, is that the United States change its veto of Palestine as the 194th U.N. member state. Because on that basis, the entire region would normalize relations, and the wars all across this region would stop.

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“But Israel has had control over U.S. policy, and it says no. It wants ‘greater Israel.’ It wants Israel in Syria, in Lebanon, in the West Bank, in East Jerusalem, in Gaza. And until that stops, we’re not going to have peace.

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“So is the U.S. on the fence? Of course not. It’s the major protagonist of this whole war and has been for the last 14 years.

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“I am not discussing the agency of the Syrian people; I’m discussing the opposite. Do not be naive. Do not think that 600,000 people died because of Assad and the protesters. This was a war. Wars are expensive. They require billions of dollars. They require armaments.

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“And I’m not talking about a conspiracy theory; I’m talking about a conspiracy. And you should know—everybody go look up Operation Timber Sycamore. Understand what happened in your region. And if you think that calling in the CIA is going to do the bidding of agency in this region, you are sadly mistaken.

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“This region has been manipulated by Britain, France, and the United States for 100 years since the Versailles Treaty. It will not have safety or peace until the United States is out of this region through manipulation and war. You all say, ‘Well, it’s Israel doing this.’ It’s the same thing I’m talking about. It’s the same reason for Operation Timber Sycamore. It’s not an independent fact; it’s the reason why this happened.

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“I’m the last to denigrate agency. I’m telling you exactly the opposite. If you think your big friend, the United States, is going to do your bidding and help you get your way, empires divide to rule. They are not doing the bidding of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, or anybody else in this region.

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“And if you think, yes, you want to balance Persia or Iran, and you call in the United States to do that, and you think this is going to work out well? It’s not going to work out well. This region has three major powers: the Arab world, the Turkish world, and the Persian world. It’s been more than a thousand years this way.

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“I said to Iranian diplomats that Iran has been 5,000 years. I was corrected: 7,000 years. It’s a long story. You don’t need the United States to pull the chestnuts out of the fire. And don’t believe that this happened because of the agency of the Syrian people. I’m sorry, I’m not denigrating the Syrian people—just the opposite.

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“I know what happened. I know what my country does. I suspect most of you do too. And it should not be ignored, because the wars are going to continue until we have real agency, not pseudo-agency.

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“And by the way, there is no international community. We’re trying to make one, but it doesn’t exist right now. That’s the tragedy in this world. There is no community. There are interests, there are militaries, there are regime change operations. This is not community. We need real community.

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“And by the way, I give my volunteer time to the U.N. every day for 25 years because I believe in it. It’s my life commitment. So I believe in community. I also happen to know that the United States blocked the agreement in 2012. I’m sorry, I won’t elaborate, but the United States blocked it, and I know it. I know it from Kofi.”

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Jeffrey Sachs says Mossad is in charge—Israel’s premier assassination unit has effectively dictated U.S. foreign policy for decades, and Trump is just the latest to fall in line. The deep state—CIA, Mossad, MI6—calls the shots, not presidents. Ukraine’s strike on Russian bombers and Israel’s attack on Tehran? Same tactics, same authors, same drones. Mossad was behind both. And the CIA? Of course it knew—it’s neck-deep in it. America doesn’t have an “America First” foreign policy, Sachs says. That’s a convenient illusion. What it has is an “Israel First” policy—reckless, delusional, and decades in the making. The U.S. sacrifices trillions, countless lives, and global trust to serve an extremist Zionist agenda that treats American interests as expendable. Jeffrey Sachs: Certainly, Mossad is in the lead. It’s assassination and murder unit number one, but Mossad has effectively determined U.S. policy for decades, and Trump is falling into line. It’s quite amazing to see one president after another fall into line with Murder Incorporated, led by Israel. We don’t know exactly what happened between then and now. In one sense, I think President Putin, in 2017, expressed something that we all come to learn. He knew it in 2017, in an interview with Le Figaro. He said, “I’ve dealt with many American presidents. They come into office with ideas, but then men in dark suits and briefcases, wearing blue ties, show up and explain to them the world the way that it will be. And so you never hear of those ideas again.” I can’t peer into the inner thinking of Trump, but everything he’s saying and doing today violates what he said last month. In the end, we know that our foreign policy is governed by a deep state apparatus—the CIA, Mossad, MI6, as you said—and we know that the actions that occur—for example, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers—had the same provenance, that is, the same authors, as Israel’s attack in Tehran last week. Same methods, same crates carrying drones inside a country to make a decapitation strike or a strategic strike. Mossad was involved in both the Ukraine operation and the Tehran operation last week. We’ve discussed in recent weeks: what did Trump know? I have no idea. What did the CIA know? Of course, it knew. It was involved in all of this. Who leads all of this? Mossad. I would say—it’s strange, but it’s actually true—America does not have an America First foreign policy. Despite what Donald Trump says, America has an Israel First foreign policy. It happens that Israel’s foreign policy is completely reckless, dangerous, and delusional. And it has been that way for decades. I was going to say for 30 years—that’s the time span of Netanyahu, who is currently the most despicable person on the planet, in my view, because he’s the greatest war progenitor of them all. But it actually goes back beyond 30 years. This is a long-term plan for Israel to have its way in the Middle East. The way Netanyahu has explained it, repeatedly, for 30 years—for anyone who cares to read his books and articles or watch his speeches—is painful, but worth doing, because he tells you what his modus operandi is. And the modus operandi is this: we will do what we want in the Middle East, and if any government in the region objects, we will overthrow that government. But when he says “we,” he’s being very nice. It’s his U.S. allies who will do it. The U.S. will spend trillions of dollars, lose lives, and destroy the world’s trust in the United States to carry out this extremist Zionist agenda. And Netanyahu has been right. The U.S. has done his bidding up until now. We know there was a plan hatched decades ago, but revealed to former NATO commander General Wesley Clark in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which outlined seven wars in five years. Those seven countries were Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Iran. The U.S. has now been engaged in six of those seven. It’s a long-term plan—delayed, by the way—because each one turned into a complete debacle compared to what Bibi always promised: how wonderful these wars would be. And now we’re in the seventh war, finally. Donald Trump has completely fallen into line as of today. It’s amazing to watch. It’s terrifying to watch. It would be nice if we had an America First foreign policy.

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After getting ratioed in the comments, @ColumbiaSIPA has disabled further commenting because American universities only champion speech they like.

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@TuckerCarlson Tucker Carlson needs to apologize to @cynthiamckinney. She refused to make a pledge to Israel and had her career destroyed by AIPAC and the ADL. Tucker is largely to blame. https://t.co/oJLEuB399M

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“Trump wins both the prize for showmanship, and also for retro-unilateralism, just when history is on the side of a new world architecture for national sovereignty, international collaboration, and mutual economic betterment.” — @execintelreview https://t.co/B1SrjA0tvq

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Dmitry Medvedev: The Walking Dead. Season finale. The walking dead Biden, now consigned to oblivion, is a telling example of how an experienced and overall smart politician (and he is experienced, having held top government jobs back in the Soviet period) gradually turned into a senile old dude divorced from reality. When I had meetings with him, he didn’t yet have dementia. What did catch my attention was his unhealthy interest in Ukraine, even though he explained it to me by acting on Obama’s instructions.  Over time, those instructions turned into an obsession – the transformation facilitated by political mistakes, plain corruption, and poor judgement stemming from historical ignorance and failure to appreciate the nature of “Ukraineness.” At some point, the old man went off the rails and essentially unleashed a war between the collective West and Russia, which almost led to a nuclear exchange with NATO. He’s been clearly out of it lately. While it’s true that this war benefits the US economically, political costs and the real danger of a fatal conflict are far more important. It is something the old dude was not prepared for. This is a case where the head of a major world power lost control of the situation completely, resulting in a crushing electoral defeat for the Democrats. While Biden’s problem was his confused state of mind, the fault of his Administration was deliberately leaving a terrible legacy of crisis on the Russian track to their successors. The time bombs of Biden-era decisions will keep ticking for a very long time, which is why communication will be extremely difficult. The normalization of Russian-American relations will take decades.  As things stand, I think it is fundamentally impossible. And frankly speaking, it’s unclear whether we actually need it.

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President Vladimir Putin: The military-political situation in the world remains challenging and unstable. Bloodshed continues in the Middle East, and there is a high potential for conflict in a number of other regions of the world. We observe the current US administration and practically the entire collective West attempting to maintain their global dominance. They continue to impose their so-called rules on the international community, which they change time after time, juggling them as they see fit. Properly speaking, there is just one stable rule – no rules whatsoever for those who engage in this behaviour, for those who believe they are at the head of the world, for those who regard themselves as God’s vicars on earth, although they do not believe in God themselves. At the same time, they conduct hybrid wars and implement containment policies against dissenting states, including Russia. In a bid to weaken our country and inflict a strategic defeat on us, the US continues to pump the actually illegitimate Kiev regime with weapons and money, as well as sending mercenaries and military advisors, thereby encouraging further escalation of the conflict. Simultaneously, under the pretext of a non-existent Russian threat, they scare their population with allegations that we intend to attack someone. This is a very simple tactical ploy: they push us to a red line that we cannot help but cross; when we begin to respond, they frighten their population with the Soviet – in the olden times – and with the Russian threat today. Meanwhile, NATO countries are boosting their military spending and the alliance’s assault groupings are being formed near the Russian border. For example, the number of US servicemen in Europe has exceeded 100,000. NATO’s ambitions have long surpassed its so-called historical responsibility zone. Apart from the so-called eastern flank, it is also building up its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. At America’s behest, new military-political alliances are being formed, which undermine the decades-old security architecture. Equally concerning is the US activity in developing high-precision ground-based strike systems with a firing range of up to 5,500 km and preparing them for deployment in forward zones. Moreover, the transfer and deployment of these missile systems are already being prepared in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Let me remind you that in the past, these measures were prohibited under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which ceased to be in effect at the initiative of the United States. We have repeatedly stated that the termination of this treaty will have negative consequences for global security as a whole, while stressing that we will not deploy intermediate- and shorter-range missiles until American weapons of this kind appear in any region of the world. In fact, Russia has taken on these obligations unilaterally. However, as I said, if the United States begins to deploy such systems, then all our voluntary restrictions will be lifted. Given the escalating geopolitical tensions, we must adopt additional measures to ensure the security of Russia and its allies. We are doing this carefully and thoughtfully, without becoming drawn into a full-scale arms race that would damage the socioeconomic development of the country. We pay significant attention to improving the combat strength of the Armed Forces and increasing their capabilities. As part of these efforts, the Leningrad and Moscow military districts, as well as a number of new units and formations, have been created. The authorised strength of the Armed Forces has been increased to 1.5 million servicemen. The army and navy are being re-equipped with up-to-date weapons and equipment at an accelerated pace. For example, the share of such weapons in the strategic nuclear forces has already reached 95 percent. Meanwhile, we have specified the fundamental principles for the use of nuclear weapons envisaged in the updated Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence. Let me stress once again, so that no one accuses us of trying to scare everyone with nuclear weapons: this is a policy of nuclear deterrence. General-purpose forces are developing at a rapid pace together with the nuclear triad. The troops are receiving advanced robotic systems, including those using artificial intelligence technologies, such as reconnaissance and attack UAVs, unmanned boats and multi-purpose robotic platforms. It is imperative to continue deploying progressive and systematic efforts with an eye towards enhancing the army and navy capabilities, to achieve the objectives of the special military operation, and to be prepared to provide a prompt and effective response to potential challenges to our country’s security. It is likewise imperative to focus on addressing the following priority tasks while working on the above objectives. First, strategic nuclear forces remain, without a doubt, a key tool for maintaining stability and protecting Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We will keep maintaining their potential and balanced growth, and continue working on creating new deterrent force systems and complexes. It is likewise important to keep non-strategic nuclear forces on constant alert and to continue holding exercises involving their potential use. Second, earlier today, I spoke about the risks associated with the United States deploying medium-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. We will respond to such threats in a comprehensive manner. The most important task is to ensure the timely detection of the launch of such missiles and to intercept them. Also, it is necessary to streamline the serial production and the deployment of such domestically manufactured attack systems, including hypersonic systems. As is well known, Oreshnik medium-range missile system is Russia’s most recently deployed powerful weapon. In November, in response to the attacks using Western weapons which targeted our country’s territory, a ballistic hypersonic missile with a non-nuclear payload was successfully used. The serial production of such complexes to protect Russia and our allies’ security should begin in the near future. Without a doubt, this will be accomplished. Third, it is necessary to more widely implement the experience gained during the special military operation into the combat training of troops, as well as into the higher military training institutions’ curricula. Concurrently, it is necessary to improve the methods for conducting military operations, to update the fundamental statutory documents, and to raise the level of masterful use of weapons and equipment, as well as to increase the effectiveness of troop command and control, especially at the tactical and operational-tactical levels. To reiterate, talented officers and non-commissioned officers who have proved themselves in difficult combat situations must join the core command staff of the Armed Forces and teach at military training institutions. Fourth, the experience gained from conducting the special military operation should be fully considered when determining the priority areas for the development of domestic weapons and equipment, and the tactics for their use. For example, high-precision weapon systems employ new methods for guiding missiles at the end of their trajectory, enabling successful engagement against complex and fortified targets. The interference immunity of onboard missile weapon systems has been significantly improved, and new methods of communicating flight missions have been tested. In the future, it is essential to identify targets in real-time, which is a crucial task for our military-industrial complex. I will elaborate on this later. Another important innovation has been the direct exchange of information between the units directly involved in the special operation and the organisations within the defence industry complex that I previously mentioned. As a result, for a number of items, the average time for addressing identified defects has now been reduced to five to seven days. However, this is not sufficient; we must act even faster. There has been some progress in the organisation of equipment repair and its adaptation to the requirements of the combat situation. However, challenges remain, and these must be systematically addressed. Furthermore, we must continue to take all necessary steps to accelerate the introduction of advanced technologies and other innovations in the military domain. Fifth, to reduce the time required for decision-making in unit control on the battlefield, an inter-service information exchange system based on mobile devices has been created and has proven effective. Over 6,500 such systems have already been delivered to the troops. As a result of their use, the time taken for decision-making has decreased by 1.5 to 2 times. It is now imperative to establish a unified information network that integrates reconnaissance and engagement capabilities at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of control, through the introduction of advanced developments in the military-industrial complex. Sixth, it is necessary to increase the production of robotic systems and unmanned systems of various classes and types. At the beginning of the special military operation, we faced challenges in this area, as some products turned out to be expensive and difficult to operate. Today, several thousand drones of various types are being delivered to the troops each day. We must continue to enhance their combat and operational characteristics. It is equally important to train the operators of such systems under programmes developed based on the experience of real combat operations. Seventh, we need to continue to further expand military and military-technical cooperation with allies and partners who are ready and willing to work with us, which includes most countries around the world.

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🇸🇾🇺🇸 Richard Black, Former Virginia State Senator: Al-Qaeda has always been our proxy force on the ground; they, together with ISIS, have carried out the mission of the United States; we are supporters of al-Qaeda today where they’re bottled up in Idlib Province; we wanted to starve and we wanted to freeze to death the people of Syria; we wanted to take the wheat away to cause famine among the Syrian people; there was an organized campaign of rape across the nation of Syria; the highest prices went to the youngest children because there were a great number of pedophiles and the pedophiles wanted to possess small children; we cut off the medical supplies so that the women in Syria would die of breast cancer because they could not get the medications; the United States has a strategic policy of using proxies to engage in war; when we fight these wars we have no limits on the cruelty and the inhumanity that we’re prepared to impose on the people; 🔸 The war [in Syria] began in 2011 when the United States landed Central Intelligence operatives to begin coordinating with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups; 🔸 We have been unwavering supporters of Al-Qaeda since before the war formally began; 🔸 We are supporters of Al-Qaeda today where they’re bottled up in Idlib Province; 🔸 The CIA supplied them under secret operation Timber Sycamore; 🔸 We gave them all of their anti-tank weapons and all of their anti-air missiles; 🔸 Al-Qaeda has always been our proxy force on the ground; they together with ISIS have carried out the mission of the United States together with a great number of affiliates that really are kind of interchangeable—you have the Free Syrian Army; soldiers move from ISIS to Al-Qaeda to Free Syrian Army rather fluidly; 🔸 The United States has a strategic policy of using proxies to engage in war; 🔸 Our objective was to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria and, in order to do that, we employed proxy soldiers who were the the most vile of all terrorists; 🔸 Something very similar is happening right now in Ukraine; 🔸 Plan B was the American seizure of the northern portion of Syria; it is the bread basket for all of the Syrian people; we wanted to take the wheat away to cause famine among the Syrian people; by stealing the oil and the gas we would be able to shut down the transportation system, and, at the same time, during the Syrian winters we could freeze to death the Syrian civilian population which, in many cases, were living in rubble where these terrorist armies with mechanized divisions had attacked and just totally destroyed these cities and left people just living in little pockets of rubble; 🔸 We wanted to starve and we wanted to freeze to death the people of Syria; 🔸 The Caesar sanctions were the most brutal sanctions ever imposed on ever any nation; during the Second World War sanctions were not nearly as strict as they were on Syria; 🔸 We devalued their currency through the SWIFT system for international payments making it impossible for them to purchase medications; 🔸 We cut off the medical supplies so that the women in Syria would die of breast cancer because they could not get the medications; 🔸 One of the last things that we did, and the evidence is vague on it, but there was a mysterious explosion in the harbor [of Beirut] in Lebanon; it was a massive explosion of a shipload of ammonium nitrate fertilizer; it killed hundreds of Lebanese people; it wounded thousands and thousands, destroyed the economy of Lebanon, and, most importantly, it destroyed the banking system of Lebanon which was one of the few lifelines remaining to Syria; I don’t think that explosion was accidental; I think it was orchestrated and I suspect that the Central Intelligence Agency was aware of the nation that carried out that action to destroy Beirut Harbor; 🔸 Throughout you see this Machiavellian approach where we use unlimited force and violence and, at the same time, we control the the global media to where we erase all discussions of what’s truly happening; so to the man and woman in the street, they think things are fine, that everything is being done for altruistic reasons, but it’s not; 🔸 One of the things that we did as we as we allied ourselves with Al-Qaeda and on-and-off with ISIS; we fought ISIS in a very serious way but at the same time we often employed them to use against the Syrian government; so it’s kind of a love-hate [relationship]; but we have always worked with the terrorists, they were the core; 🔸 We facilitated the movement of Islamic terrorists from one hundred countries and they came and they joined ISIS, they joined Al-Qaeda, they joined the Free Syrian Army, all of these different ones; 🔸 There was an organized campaign of rape across the nation of Syria; the highest prices went to the youngest children because there were a great number of pedophiles and the pedophiles wanted to possess small children; they were permitted to rape these children repeatedly; they were able to rape the widows of the slain civilians and possess them and buy them and sell them among themselves; 🔸 There were so many tens hundreds of thousands of Syrian women impregnated by these terrorists who were imported into Syria that it was necessary to change the law so that they would have Syrian citizenship and they wouldn’t have to be returned to their ISIS father in Saudi Arabia or in Tunisia; 🔸 When we fight these wars we have no limits on the cruelty and the inhumanity that we’re prepared to impose on the people, making them suffer, so that somehow that will translate into overthrowing the government and, perhaps, taking their oil, taking their resources;

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The Russian Su-57 fighter debuts in China! Incredible aerobatic maneuvers of the Russian Su-57 at Airshow China 2024, which is taking place in Zhuhai. The 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, runs from Nov. 12 to 17. https://t.co/BuFdx4NTLV

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🇿🇦 David Monyae (@DavidMonyae): It’s a system that we’re fighting; the greatest fear they have is the unity of the Global South; NATO bombed Libya; The bulk of the chaos in Africa comes from the destruction of the Libyan state; Africa was attacked by NATO. ▪️ The post-1945 world order is indeed dying; many atrocities were committed to power that system; we are here to construct a new world; Africa is rich in minerals and human capital yet it is the poorest in manufactured poverty; Africa rejects that world; ▪️ The liberation of the African continent has always been centered on the history of Russia; the world that Africa wants is a world, that is emerging, in which Russia is a key stakeholder; ▪️ What unites us as the Global South is to change the system, to move from a hegemonic Western system that exploits, that lives on plunder, that lives on wars, to a world in which we want to inject democratic norms at a global level; ▪️ More African countries need to be in G20; ▪️ The US wants African countries to come into the UN Security Council but as non-veto members; Western hegemonic thinking wants Africans in the photoshoots; ▪️ Russia needs to say that the bulk of Asian countries and Latin America need equal access to power at the global level; ▪️ We need a system in which we can not allow the rise of a few companies to dominate the world; we need a system that is people-centered that is not racist, that is pro-development, and a system that is not controlled by a minority; ▪️ It’s a system that we’re fighting; the majority of the American people are exploited; ▪️ There is a need in BRICS to ensure that we build truly public goods that are people-centered in terms of transportation, civil society, and bring in counter-narratives that the West is injecting; ▪️ The greatest fear they have is the unity of the Global South; ▪️ We stand against hegemonic NATO; NATO bombed Libya. The bulk of the chaos in Africa comes from the destruction of the Libyan state. Africa was attacked by NATO. African heads of state were not allowed to enter Libya. They had to ask for permission from Europeans to enter Libya.

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A senior Dutch official has admitted that COVID-19 was a “military operation.” Dutch Health Minister Fleur Agema stated in parliament that the country’s pandemic response aligned with “NATO obligations.”

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Ukraine on Fire: Oliver Stone exposes America’s 2014 role in ousting Ukraine’s democratically elected president and replacing him with a right-wing ultra-nationalist. US-funded political NGOs and media companies have emerged since the 80s replacing the CIA in promoting America’s geopolitical agenda abroad.

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“Not only would everybody be killed but it would probably be impossible for people to inhabit NYC for hundreds of years after a nuclear war. The life of Russia depends on stopping NATO from advancing to their borders.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 17) https://t.co/EWGkJj7AAI https://t.co/8Oys16VXZg

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“Two Republican senators said we might have to use nuclear weapons against Russia. That is insane. Russia has hypersonic missiles that can absolutely evade detection. There would be no human life in Washington, DC.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 16) https://t.co/UpUSDG7aO4 https://t.co/2hP6V3Du3d

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“After four years, Aleppo had enormous destruction. At that point, the Russians at the invitation of the legitimate Syrian government entered the war but not as a ground force. Their air power was very effective.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/9qidGiTvSq https://t.co/eUMthX6mYZ

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“Syria had a significant wheat surplus before the war. We wanted to take the wheat away to cause famine. By stealing the oil we could freeze the civilian population. We wanted to starve and freeze to death the Syrians.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 4) https://t.co/A36oY04vkp https://t.co/v7ZJIxaKA2

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“Caesar sanctions were the most brutal sanctions ever imposed on any nation. We cut off medical supplies so that Syrian women would die of breast cancer. CIA was aware of the nation that carried out Beirut explosion.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 5) https://t.co/qqEyWVeBmj https://t.co/L4bl0R9Hyp

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“You see this Machiavellian approach where we use unlimited force and violence and at the same time we control the global media to where we erase all discussions of what’s truly happening.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 6) https://t.co/revaNQ7pCL https://t.co/nwSvYMaDyz

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“There were tens, hundreds of thousands of Syrian women impregnated by terrorists imported into Syria that it was necessary to change the law so that they wouldn't have to be returned to their ISIS father.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 8) https://t.co/cY2mCDJekQ https://t.co/zCt06rjBPM

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“A tremendous number of innocent Ukrainian soldiers and a lot of Russian soldiers will die needlessly. It breaks my heart. The US/NATO do not care how many Ukrainians die — not civilians, women, children, or soldiers.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 11) https://t.co/yeRkRt8DmS https://t.co/0NV2NGXvHp

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“President Putin made a desperate effort to stop the march towards war. He put specific written peace proposals on the table with NATO because Ukraine was massing troops to attack Donbass. NATO dismissed it.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 12) https://t.co/nr6dxhyEu4 https://t.co/iC3VSWFu7a

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“Donbass did not join with the revolutionary gov't that conducted the coup of 2014. Ukraine had massed this enormous army to attack Donbass. Russia was forced to go in to preempt that planned attack by Ukraine. ” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 13) https://t.co/84e1by0qxl https://t.co/aZQjp56g8x

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“According to Turkish media, 50 French senior officers are trapped in Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. French soldiers have been on the ground directing the battle, kept under wraps. Marine Le Pen would have won.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 15) https://t.co/DIfPA1AsGD https://t.co/iBMVYRbmTW

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@UAlberta Princess Margarita, an elder sister of Prince Philip, married Prince Gottfried in 1931. They both descended from Queen Victoria and both joined the Nazi Party in 1937 using their family connections to promote the rapprochement of the Nazi regime in the United Kingdom. https://t.co/x2x2VXfZ4B

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Peter Savaryn served in the Waffen SS Galicia Division and then as the Chancellor of the @UAlberta. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1987 by the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, then Elizabeth II. Prince Philip’s two sisters married SS officers. https://t.co/T0ZkRiDJIb

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Aleksey Pushkov: Unipolar moment created chaos; US is major source of instability in world and imploding from within; Pax Americana and rules-based world cannot be accepted; they are pushing us to world war Thanks for the opportunity to speak before such an interesting audience and with reputable panelists. So, who will appoint whom if trying to answer the question? It is obvious, it is known, that power is not granted; it is taken. The global world, whether it is multipolar or gravitating towards polycentricities, is a world of higher competition. We realize that the laws of power do not change irrespective of who is dominating and which country is dominating, at a particular historical period. There’s a competition, and it is between the non-Western and Western world. Who will define the destiny of the world? The West has been defining the destiny of the world for 500 years. It started from the Great Conquest, and it continued till the end of the 20th century. But 500 years is a critical figure in the development of any civilization-dominating system. Just pay attention that the Ottoman Empire existed for 500 years. But then they collapsed. They did not fall, they were just in the process of collapse for centuries. Yes, it is slowing down, and it is extinguishing. The title of this session is “Polycentricity as the Norm of the Future World.” We’re not there yet. We are at the transition period, and the period shows that there will be no perfect world. What I mean is that it’s about the relative decline of the role of the West and with the alternative new centers of power coming to the foreground with the support of the global majority that Ms. Zakharova has been talking about. So today, and it is not only a declaration, there are five non-Western countries in the top 10 economies. Some 15 years ago, it was only two non-Western countries. And so the candidates for leaving the first dozen are France and the UK, taking their growth rates into account. They will get out of the first 10 and will be replaced with non-Western economies in the top 10 economies of the world. Why can we not yet celebrate the advent of polycentricity? Because the West has got an accumulated wealth and power, talking about the foreign policies and their international authority. It’s the factor of the military might. The US has hundreds of military bases all around the world. Then there is a factor of the information might, information power. Look at the number of the TV companies dominating in the world. They are Anglo-Saxon. And then think about the concentration of them in one hand. Yes, there’s a high concentration, and they’re very important for non-Western countries, because many countries who do not have their own sources of information, just reproduce the Western narrative. Technological dominance is quite high. The level of innovation in the US is very high, number one. China is catching up, but still, it’s the US. The role of USD is going down, 58% of the global fiscal reserves. Some years ago, it was 80%, but no other currency could compete. The other currency is the Euro, but it is only 8%. But they are just trying to cut the branch of the tree they’re sitting on. Yes, they are sewing it off, but it is very thick, and a lot of blunders should be committed for this particular branch of the tree to drop, but it is getting thinner and thinner. Why? What’s the reason? Why am I talking about the factor of force, the factor of might? My ideas are concordant with those of politicians in the West, and the major factor of the weakness of the US is not external but internal. Inside the US, we can see the degradation, the social elitist degradation of the US—the degradation of competencies. And you can see that in Europe. You cannot just look at them without shedding a tear. There are no figures of high caliber in Europe now. It is a low intellectual, educational, and political level, and they are thinking in terms of slogans. And they say, “That’s what we think is right because it’s in line with the liberal doctrine.” The latest leader was Ms. Merkel. She lived in the 20th century and was a pupil of Mr. [Helmut] Kohl [former Chancellor of Germany]. Still, she lived in the GDR. [...] And it stands to reason that Ramstein was born in East Germany. And in West Germany, the people are zombied by the dominating ideology. But Boney M. was born in Western Germany. We’ll talk about that and another Ramstein at another session. Anyway, if the US explodes and we pressure them and China pressures them, and the other centers of power, then the question is, why should the USD be dominating? But the major source of the explosion is implosion inside, and that’s what Mr. Frank Fukuyama is thinking. He has scrapped his concept of the “End of History” and believes that the US is the major source of instability. So you were right when saying that the US is trying to convince everyone that “Look, you will reject our dominance, but we offer at least something: the system of the institutes, the global bank, the IMF, but they are Western, but they do exist. And what kind of world do you have on the offer without the US dominance?” There are many concepts. There’s the G0 concept, and there are some other concepts, but, I think we should proceed from the practice. What did the world turn into, headed by the US, with the US at the helm? They could have become a benevolent superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We were weak, and China was not that strong, and the US was the only superpower. One publicist has called it a “One Power moment.” It happened so that the US did not have any competitors in the world, and we were ready to accept it. Yes, we played the game. We played ball because we just had to survive. This unipolar moment lasted for some 15 years. What for? For the war in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. So, the United States was maximizing its hegemony role, and I think that could be because of the in-depth nature of American imperialism. America is a hyper-imperialism. They manifested themselves. Why should we hold onto the American world? What we can see today is the aftermath of the US-type world. What Israel is doing in Gaza is the direct result of that: a possible war between Iran and Israel. It is not clear. How was President Raisi killed? These are also the consequences of an American-type world. Libya is in ruins. Even Mr. Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy, said, “Well, Libya is a catastrophe,” and he was asked, well, who’s done it? NATO countries have done it. And Macron, not to mention him, but he says we don’t want to repeat the cast in Libya. They established democracy, and they just divided the country into three parts. There are some slave markets, Great Migration, and so on. In Syria, leading democracies of the world, actually invest in ISIS, in Jabhat al-Nusra. That’s a different name for Al-Qaeda. And when you ask them, “What are you doing?” When I was in the Council of Europe for the first time, I was head of the delegation, and the first thing I heard was Italian socialist, Pietro Marcenaro, made a report on behalf of the Council of Europe. He said that in Syria, they have “a new Hitler,” and “Russia is supporting Assad, the new Hitler.” And I asked him, “Don’t you understand that people who try to get rid of the secular state in Syria are your mortal enemies?” And then, in three years after the terrorist act in Paris, he approached me, when I was in Rome, and he said, “You were right,” but I said, “You had to say that at the time.” Why should we hold onto the US world? What is happening in Ukraine today is also the result of the American type world. What’s going on around Taiwan? They say chaos is going to emerge. Yeah, it’s chaos. And you say that you are exclusive. There are some tents with bums and drug addicts next to the White House. So, that’s the degradation of America. We cannot not reject this world. Well, how many problems did the United States create in Bolivia? How many problems did they create for the Cubans, for the Nicaraguans? Any country that tries to be independent. Pax Americana is not going to be accepted by us. The rules-based world cannot be accepted. So, this is an attempt to create parallel international law. When Americans do not like the UN Charter, they say it is a rules-based world. Which rules? Rules established by them. They establish the rules. And every time they change the rules. And from my point of view, it’s quite a dangerous trend. We have some representatives of Northwestern countries. The rules-based world is not accepted. People say, “Why do you support Ukraine, which you say is a victim of aggression, but you are indifferent to the fates of Palestinians?” What are the rules in this case? You had to use your might to oppose Israel. Do they have sanctions? Maybe Turkey is introducing some sanctions. They’re not going to send the ammunition of a certain type. Okay, but they’re going to provide ammunition of a different type. And this is just a bloody chaotic state. The lack of order in the modern world makes us responsible for changing—restructuring—the world. What we have is not acceptable. Here we come to the brink of a possible nuclear conflict. Today, the situation is more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s more dangerous. And we have to take it really seriously. Why? All the changes in the world system came through major wars. France is revolutionary... Napoleon’s Wars, 15 years... Bismarck’s Germany.... Germany-Denmark... Germany and France... German-French War, Germany is winning. Then Germany doubted the English-French order in Europe, First World War. Then Germany tried to change the world again, Second World War. The US comes comes to the front line. And then the Soviet Union. All the restructuring of the world system in the course of 200-300 years went through wars. Now they are pushing us towards it from the West. They push it. They stop unwelcome processes by way of war. In Ukraine, it’s a proxy war which is becoming a direct war if you listen to Macron or some other politicians. Why is it terribly dangerous? Because war, at some stage, is going to cross the nuclear threshold. A NATO-Russia war cannot be conventional. At a certain stage one of the countries believing that something is deteriorating, cannot just have equal results. It could be at least a relative victory. So, there is a great temptation to use nuclear weapons. That is what Kissinger mentioned. He said that the main responsibility of the US and Russian presidents is to prevent nuclear war because if it happens, we’re not going to talk about polycentricity, we’re going to talk about the diversity of nuclear radiation. Now, there are some radioactive hogs running around Europe. Wild hogs usually get radioactive rain. That’s the aftermath of the nuclear tests. And just in conclusion, I’d like to say that at our plenary session today, people talked a lot about the responsibility of the leaders. The responsibility of the leaders is not in using nuclear weapons but in the prevention of the conflict. Because when you use nuclear weapons, you open something that you cannot think about rationally. This is the zone of unpredictability. We, Biden, and Macron, all think about a pre-nuclear world. If that line is crossed, humanity doesn’t even have the psychological ability to think about the scenario. So now we have to prevent that catastrophic scenario. And regarding polycentricity in the world, it goes without saying, it’s the future. Because even the countries who believe that the US is mighty... Yeah, the US is mighty but falling for a superpower comes at the climax of superpowers when they overestimate its ability. And that’s when they fall down. The same happened with all the empires: British, French, Spanish. So I don’t doubt the fact that we need polycentricity. — “Polycentricity: The Norm of a Future World without Colonies or Hegemons” at the 27th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Aleksey Pushkov, Chairman of the Commission of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media; Senator of the Russian Federation

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“Russia was extremely reluctant to get involved in combat in Syria. The war began in 2011 when US began coordinating with terrorist groups. Al Qaeda has always been our proxy force on the ground. They together with ISIS have carried out the mission of the US” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/nwmwaCZee5

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“After four years, Aleppo had enormous destruction. At that point, the Russians at the invitation of the legitimate Syrian government entered the war but not as a ground force. Their air power was very effective.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/jmYNensgyS

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“The US war against Syria is a war of aggression. The US invaded. We put troops on the ground. It was a seizure. John Kerry was frustrated at the tremendous victory by the Syrian Armed Forces against Al Qaeda and ISIS.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/NbKYmIU9QP

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“Syria had a significant wheat surplus before the war. We wanted to take the wheat away to cause famine. By stealing the oil we could freeze the civilian population. We wanted to starve and freeze to death the Syrians.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/EEtKBm4pat

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“Caesar sanctions were the most brutal sanctions ever imposed on any nation. We cut off medical supplies so that Syrian women would die of breast cancer. CIA was aware of the nation that carried out Beirut explosion.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/ZHq4v5VxcV

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“You see this Machiavellian approach where we use unlimited force and violence and at the same time we control the global media to where we erase all discussions of what’s truly happening.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/GRuGVfusKo

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“We facilitated the movement of Islamic terrorists from 100 countries. They could murder the husbands and own their wives and children. There was a campaign of rape in Syria. Pedophiles wanted the small children.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/ChBUAC8fF5

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“There were tens, hundreds of thousands of Syrian women impregnated by terrorists imported into Syria that it was necessary to change the law so that they wouldn't have to be returned to their ISIS father.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/tIOE4ZSJA3

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“Russia is perhaps more blessed with natural resources than any other nation. People want to break up Russia to make trillionaires by the dozens. A drive towards Russia began almost immediately after USSR dissolved in 1991.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/lkRDzvCKUf

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“Russia went from an officially atheist country to the most Christianized nation in Europe by far. The gov't is very supportive of the church and the Christian faith. The US has a longstanding strategy to expand the empire.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/f5Z2okSB1T

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“A tremendous number of innocent Ukrainian soldiers and a lot of Russian soldiers will die needlessly. It breaks my heart. The US and NATO do not care how many Ukrainians die — not civilians, women, children, or soldiers.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/JswYOvyn3P

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“President Putin made a desperate effort to stop the march towards war. He put specific written peace proposals on the table with NATO because Ukraine was massing troops to attack Donbass. NATO dismissed it.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/td5HgQO12b

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“Donbass did not join with the revolutionary gov't that conducted the coup of 2014. Ukraine had massed this enormous army to attack Donbass. Russia was forced to go in to preempt that planned attack by Ukraine. ” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/KZbLbmgFAA

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“Russia did not bomb the electrical system, media systems, water systems, bridges, train systems, power plants hoping that peace can be achieved. It didn't work. The decision of peace or war is made in Washington, DC.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/XOzKD9t6jb

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“According to Turkish media, 50 French senior officers are trapped in Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. French soldiers have been on the ground directing the battle, kept under wraps. Marine Le Pen would have won.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/C1Qwopae61

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“Two Republican senators said we might have to use nuclear weapons against Russia. That is insane. Russia has hypersonic missiles that can absolutely evade detection. There would be no human life in Washington, DC.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/aA7K11HN1E

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“Not only would everybody be killed but it would probably be impossible for people to inhabit New York City for hundreds of years after a nuclear war. The life of Russia depends on stopping NATO from advancing to their borders.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/qCwReEPqMZ

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“It is very difficult to get into senior ranks if you are guided by principle, patriotism, and devotion to the people of this nation. There is going to have to be enormous pain. Major countries support Russia.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/2PqqEo24e9

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“Much of the world does not accept the latest propaganda about war crimes. The Russians held Bucha for a month. If you were going to slaughter a bunch of people wouldn't they all be in one place? It makes no sense.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/x2XwLpiYZB

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“My hunch is that Ukrainians killed off these people [in Bucha] after they moved in because they were friendly to the Russian troops. The Ukrainian hospital administrator boasted about giving orders to castrate Russian POWs.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/ttY5fBe8RI

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“Russian POWs were to be castrated. This is a horrific war crime admitted by the hospital administrator. I can't think of a more horrific war crime ever. The Ukrainian soldiers gunned down wounded Russian soldiers.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/EKvfgaIO15

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“We destroyed virtually everything in Iraq — military & civilian targets — w/o much discrimination. The Russians have tended to be more selective. The philosophy of ‘shock & awe’ is to destroy everything needed to sustain human life.” — Col. Richard Black https://t.co/ifojAoj4X8

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“The hyperinflation may be the wake-up call that jolts the world into the recognition that we must have a new paradigm for the future and at that point, the Peace of Westphalia might become a possibility.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 23/23) https://t.co/v2sxHhhhBb

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“The hyperinflation may be the wake-up call that jolts the world into the recognition that we must have a new paradigm for the future and at that point, the Peace of Westphalia might become a possibility.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 23/23) https://t.co/v2sxHhhhBb