Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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Nice catch by Monkeywerxs! At the 39.45 point he begins tracking a US military plane entering the air space approaching the area where the pipeline was hit. This is in the early morning hours when its thought the blast occurred and there aren't any other planes around. It passes over the area and meets up with another plane where it refuels then back to the target area. It drops altitude then makes a circle and flies off. Monkey speculates this is a particular type of marine craft that works with submarines, sends communications to them among other things.
Whoops!!!!!! It starts at 11:11 minutes. (interesting numbers)
This may be the best the West has got - an asinine “territorial pissing” from some masked scrub:
The videos in the telegram link are better. One shows the actual moment caught on security cameras when the vandal is spraying the Russian consulate with red paint.
From the telegram channel post:
t.me
If NS2 sabotage doesn’t prove a strong enough response from Putin - surely the gloves are off now
Zakharova weighs in with her the usual sharp wit:
The videos in the telegram link are better. One shows the actual moment caught on security cameras when the vandal is spraying the Russian consulate with red paint.
From the telegram channel post:
Consulate General of Russia in New York after the attack of vandals. An unknown person poured paint over the building of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York at night - Acting Consul General of the Russian Federation in New York Vyacheslav Slavkin.
Дядя Слава
‼️ Генеральное консульство России в Нью-Йорке после нападения вандалов Неизвестный ночью облил краской здание генконсульства РФ в Нью-Йорке — исполняющий обязанности генконсула РФ в Нью-Йорке Вячеслав Славкин.
t.me
If NS2 sabotage doesn’t prove a strong enough response from Putin - surely the gloves are off now
Zakharova weighs in with her the usual sharp wit:
Michael Hudson on The Euro Without Germany | naked capitalism
Economist Michael Hudson examines the status of the euro as Germany's economy collapses and how the new Cold War will affect the Global South
I do wonder if there are any 'patriot factions' in Germany, though.
With all the chaos comes with plunging living standards - widespread impoverishment, hunger and cold, nihilism and collapse of the nation's sense of self-worth, a steep drop in public health, and increase in crime. What a catastrophic test for the German Soul.
The very thing that can turn this all around - investment and development - is nullified by the EU's structure of dominance.
What a crazy show.
There are so many highlights of Putin's speech. I tried to put the best below.
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Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.
The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent.
Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.
The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.
It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.
They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research.
...
But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course.
The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist.
...
At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time.
...
The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past.
Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.
But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.
That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies.
...
The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end. They simply have nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same system of plundering and racketeering.
They do not give a damn about the natural right of billions of people, the majority of humanity, to freedom and justice, the right to determine their own future. They have already moved on to the radical denial of moral, religious, and family values.
Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.
Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.
It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals.
...
Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.
The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent.
Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.
The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.
It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.
They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research.
...
But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course.
The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist.
...
At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time.
...
The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past.
Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.
But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.
That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies.
...
The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end. They simply have nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same system of plundering and racketeering.
They do not give a damn about the natural right of billions of people, the majority of humanity, to freedom and justice, the right to determine their own future. They have already moved on to the radical denial of moral, religious, and family values.
Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.
Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.
A tweet on VK from Pepe Escobar, with quotes from Dugin :
Dugin:
"Putin's words are much more important than unity with four new political subjects: it is a fundamental declaration of war against the modern West and the modern world in general. This is the manifesto of Tradition. I cannot imagine the depth of the consequences of this. Just as in the Old Testament David threw a slingshot at the giant Goliath, so it is today. It was an eschatological, religious discourse."
Yes, it ended on an uplifting, spiritual, deeply moving register. But it was mostly crafted as a merciless geopolitical indictment: not a declaration of war but as a RESISTANCE EPIC. No question, NO ONE can imagine the consequences. The ruling classes of the West will be livid - but there's little to nothing they can do.
It takes hypersonic balls to defy an established "order" that was supposed to be "the end of History". THIS IS IT. History has been made.
Dugin:
"Putin's words are much more important than unity with four new political subjects: it is a fundamental declaration of war against the modern West and the modern world in general. This is the manifesto of Tradition. I cannot imagine the depth of the consequences of this. Just as in the Old Testament David threw a slingshot at the giant Goliath, so it is today. It was an eschatological, religious discourse."
Yes, it ended on an uplifting, spiritual, deeply moving register. But it was mostly crafted as a merciless geopolitical indictment: not a declaration of war but as a RESISTANCE EPIC. No question, NO ONE can imagine the consequences. The ruling classes of the West will be livid - but there's little to nothing they can do.
It takes hypersonic balls to defy an established "order" that was supposed to be "the end of History". THIS IS IT. History has been made.
The latest article from Michael Hudson; a good read.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
The German public was coming to understand what it meant that their steel companies, fertilizer companies, glass companies and toilet-paper companies were shutting down. These companies were forecasting that they would have to go out of business entirely – or shift operations to the United States – if Germany did not withdraw from the trade and currency sanctions against Russia and permit gas and oil imports to resume, and presumably to fall back from their astronomical eight to tenfold increase.
Yet State Department hawk Victoria Nuland already had stated in January that “one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward” if Russia responded to NATO/Ukrainian accelerated military attacks on the Russian-speaking eastern oblasts. President Biden backed up U.S. insistence on February 7, promising that “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it. … I promise you, we will be able to do it.”
Most observers simply assumed that these statements reflected the obvious fact that German politicians were fully in the US/NATO pocket. They held fast in refusing to authorize Nord Stream 2, and Canada soon seized the Siemens dynamos needed to send gas through Nord Stream 1. That seemed to settle matters until German industry – and a rising number of voters – finally began to calculate just what blocking Russian gas would mean for Germany’s industrial firm.
Germany’s willingness to self-impose an economic depression was wavering – although not its politicians or the EU bureaucracy. If German policymakers were to put German business interests and living standards first, NATO’s common sanctions and New Cold War front would be broken. Italy and France might follow suit. That nightmare of European diplomatic independence made it urgent to take the anti-Russian sanctions out of the hands of democratic politics and settle matters by sabotaging the two pipelines. Despite being an act of violence, it has restored calm to international diplomatic relations between U.S. and German politicians.
There is no more uncertainty about whether or not Europe will break away from U.S. New Cold War aims by restoring mutual trade and investment with Russia. That option is now out. The threat of Europe beaking away from the US/NATO trade and financial sanctions against Russia has been solved, seemingly for the foreseeable future, as Russia has announced that as the gas pressure falls in three of the four pipelines, the infusion of salt water will irreversibly corrode the pipes. (Tagesspiegel, September 28.)
Where do the euro and dollar go from here?
Looking at how this trade “solution” will reshape the relationship between the U.S. dollar and the euro, one can understand why the seemingly obvious consequences of Germany, Italy and other European economies severing trade ties with Russia have not been discussed openly. The “sanctions debate” has been solved by a German and indeed Europe-wide economic crash. To Europe, the next decade will be a disaster. There may be recriminations against the price paid for letting its trade diplomacy be dictated by NATO, but there is nothing that it can do about it. Nobody (yet) expects it to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. What is expected is for its living standards to plunge.
Germany’s industrial exports were the major factor supporting the euro’s exchange rate. The great attraction to Germany in moving from the deutsche mark to the euro would avoid its export surplus from pushing up the D-mark’s exchange rate to a point where German products would be priced out of world markets. Expanding the currency to include Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and other countries running balance-of-payments deficit would prevent the currency from soaring. And that would protect the competitiveness of German industry.
After its introduction in 1999 at $1.12, the euro did indeed sink to $0.85 by July 2001, but recovered and indeed rose to $1.58 in April 2008. It has been drifting down steadily since then, and since February of this year the sanctions have driven the euro’s exchange rate below parity with the dollar to $0.97 this week. The major factor has been rising prices for imported gas and oil, and products such as aluminum and fertilizer requiring heavy energy inputs for their production. And as the euro’s exchange rate declines against the dollar, the cost of carrying its US-dollar debt – the normal condition for affiliates of U.S. multinationals – will rise, squeezing their profits.
This is not the kind of depression that “automatic stabilizers” can work “the magic of the marketplace” to restore economic balance. Energy dependency is structural. And the eurozone’s own economic rules limit its budget deficits to just 3% of GDP. This prevents its national governments supporting the economic by deficit spending. Higher energy and food prices – and dollar-debt service – will leave much less income to be spent on goods and services.
It seems curious that the U.S. stock market soared – 500 points for the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday. Maybe it was simply the Plunge Protection Team intervening to try and reassure the world that everything was going to be all right. But economic reality raised its ugly head on Thursday, and the stock market gave back its phantom gains.
It is true that the end of German industrial competition with United States is ended on trade account. But on capital account, depreciation of the euro will reduce the value of U.S. investments in Europe and the dollar-value of any profits that these investments may still earn as the European economy shrinks. So reported earnings by U.S. multinationals will fall.
As a final kicker, Pepe Escobar pointed out on September 28 that “Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030. … Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. … Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay.” It looks like a long court battle before money will change hands – but Germany’s ability to pay will be steadily weakening.
For that matter, the ability of many countries’ ability to pay already is reaching the breaking point.
The effect of U.S. sanctions and New Cold War outside of Europe
International raw materials are still priced mainly in dollars, so the dollar’s rising exchange rate will raise import prices proportionally for most countries. This exchange-rate problem is intensified by the US/NATO sanctions forcing up world prices for gas, oil and grain. Many European and Global South countries already have reached the limit of their ability to service their dollar-denominated debts, and are still coping with the Covid pandemic. They cannot afford to import the energy and food that they need to live if they have to pay their foreign debts. The world economy is now exceeding its debt limits, so something has to give.
On Tuesday, September 27 when news of the Nord Stream gas attacks became known, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shed crocodile tears and said that attacking Russian pipelines was “in no one’s interest.” But if that really were the case, no one would have attacked the gas lines.
I have no doubt that U.S. strategists have a game plan for how to proceed from here, and to do so that indeed is in what the neocons claim to be in the U.S. interest – that of maintaining a unipolar neoliberalized and financialized global economy for as long as they can.
They have long had a plan for countries that are unable to their foreign debts. The IMF will lend them the money, conditional upon the debtor country raising the foreign exchange to repay the (increasingly expensive) dollar loans by privatizing what remains of their public domain, natural-resource patrimony and other assets, mainly to U.S. financial investors and their allies.
Will it work? Or will debtor countries band together and work out ways to restore the seemingly lost world of affordable oil and gas prices, fertilizer prices, grain and other food prices, and metals or raw materials supplied by Russia, China and their allied Eurasian neighbors?
That is the next great worry for U.S. global strategists. It seems less easy to solve than was done by the sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2. But the solution seems to be the usual U.S. approach: something military in nature, new color revolutions. The aim is to gain the same power over Global South and Eurasian countries that American diplomacy wielded over Germany and other European countries via NATO.
Unless an institutional alternative is created to the IMF, World Bank, International Court, World Trade Organization and the numerous UN agencies now biased by U.S. diplomats and their proxies, the coming decades will see the U.S. economic strategy of financial and military dominance unfold as Washington has planned.
The problem is that its plans for how the Ukraine war and anti-Russian sanctions have worked out so far have been just the reverse of what was announced. That may give some hope for the world’s future. The opposition and even contempt by U.S. diplomats to other countries acting in their own economic interest and social values is so strong that they are unwilling to think through just how these countries might develop their own alternative to the U.S. world plan.
The question is thus how successfully these other countries may develop their alternative new economic order, and how they can protect themselves from the fate that Europe has just imposed upon itself for the next decade.
Michael Hudson on The Euro Without Germany | naked capitalism
Economist Michael Hudson examines the status of the euro as Germany's economy collapses and how the new Cold War will affect the Global South
Michael Hudson on The Euro Without Germany
The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been a great sigh of diplomatic relief, even calm. Disabling these pipelines ends the uncertainty and worries on the part of US/NATO diplomats that nearly reached a crisis proportion the previous week, when large demonstrations took place in Germany calling for the sanctions to end and to commission Nord Stream 2 to resolve energy shortage.The German public was coming to understand what it meant that their steel companies, fertilizer companies, glass companies and toilet-paper companies were shutting down. These companies were forecasting that they would have to go out of business entirely – or shift operations to the United States – if Germany did not withdraw from the trade and currency sanctions against Russia and permit gas and oil imports to resume, and presumably to fall back from their astronomical eight to tenfold increase.
Yet State Department hawk Victoria Nuland already had stated in January that “one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward” if Russia responded to NATO/Ukrainian accelerated military attacks on the Russian-speaking eastern oblasts. President Biden backed up U.S. insistence on February 7, promising that “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it. … I promise you, we will be able to do it.”
Most observers simply assumed that these statements reflected the obvious fact that German politicians were fully in the US/NATO pocket. They held fast in refusing to authorize Nord Stream 2, and Canada soon seized the Siemens dynamos needed to send gas through Nord Stream 1. That seemed to settle matters until German industry – and a rising number of voters – finally began to calculate just what blocking Russian gas would mean for Germany’s industrial firm.
Germany’s willingness to self-impose an economic depression was wavering – although not its politicians or the EU bureaucracy. If German policymakers were to put German business interests and living standards first, NATO’s common sanctions and New Cold War front would be broken. Italy and France might follow suit. That nightmare of European diplomatic independence made it urgent to take the anti-Russian sanctions out of the hands of democratic politics and settle matters by sabotaging the two pipelines. Despite being an act of violence, it has restored calm to international diplomatic relations between U.S. and German politicians.
There is no more uncertainty about whether or not Europe will break away from U.S. New Cold War aims by restoring mutual trade and investment with Russia. That option is now out. The threat of Europe beaking away from the US/NATO trade and financial sanctions against Russia has been solved, seemingly for the foreseeable future, as Russia has announced that as the gas pressure falls in three of the four pipelines, the infusion of salt water will irreversibly corrode the pipes. (Tagesspiegel, September 28.)
Where do the euro and dollar go from here?
Looking at how this trade “solution” will reshape the relationship between the U.S. dollar and the euro, one can understand why the seemingly obvious consequences of Germany, Italy and other European economies severing trade ties with Russia have not been discussed openly. The “sanctions debate” has been solved by a German and indeed Europe-wide economic crash. To Europe, the next decade will be a disaster. There may be recriminations against the price paid for letting its trade diplomacy be dictated by NATO, but there is nothing that it can do about it. Nobody (yet) expects it to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. What is expected is for its living standards to plunge.
Germany’s industrial exports were the major factor supporting the euro’s exchange rate. The great attraction to Germany in moving from the deutsche mark to the euro would avoid its export surplus from pushing up the D-mark’s exchange rate to a point where German products would be priced out of world markets. Expanding the currency to include Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and other countries running balance-of-payments deficit would prevent the currency from soaring. And that would protect the competitiveness of German industry.
After its introduction in 1999 at $1.12, the euro did indeed sink to $0.85 by July 2001, but recovered and indeed rose to $1.58 in April 2008. It has been drifting down steadily since then, and since February of this year the sanctions have driven the euro’s exchange rate below parity with the dollar to $0.97 this week. The major factor has been rising prices for imported gas and oil, and products such as aluminum and fertilizer requiring heavy energy inputs for their production. And as the euro’s exchange rate declines against the dollar, the cost of carrying its US-dollar debt – the normal condition for affiliates of U.S. multinationals – will rise, squeezing their profits.
This is not the kind of depression that “automatic stabilizers” can work “the magic of the marketplace” to restore economic balance. Energy dependency is structural. And the eurozone’s own economic rules limit its budget deficits to just 3% of GDP. This prevents its national governments supporting the economic by deficit spending. Higher energy and food prices – and dollar-debt service – will leave much less income to be spent on goods and services.
It seems curious that the U.S. stock market soared – 500 points for the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday. Maybe it was simply the Plunge Protection Team intervening to try and reassure the world that everything was going to be all right. But economic reality raised its ugly head on Thursday, and the stock market gave back its phantom gains.
It is true that the end of German industrial competition with United States is ended on trade account. But on capital account, depreciation of the euro will reduce the value of U.S. investments in Europe and the dollar-value of any profits that these investments may still earn as the European economy shrinks. So reported earnings by U.S. multinationals will fall.
As a final kicker, Pepe Escobar pointed out on September 28 that “Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030. … Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. … Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay.” It looks like a long court battle before money will change hands – but Germany’s ability to pay will be steadily weakening.
For that matter, the ability of many countries’ ability to pay already is reaching the breaking point.
The effect of U.S. sanctions and New Cold War outside of Europe
International raw materials are still priced mainly in dollars, so the dollar’s rising exchange rate will raise import prices proportionally for most countries. This exchange-rate problem is intensified by the US/NATO sanctions forcing up world prices for gas, oil and grain. Many European and Global South countries already have reached the limit of their ability to service their dollar-denominated debts, and are still coping with the Covid pandemic. They cannot afford to import the energy and food that they need to live if they have to pay their foreign debts. The world economy is now exceeding its debt limits, so something has to give.
On Tuesday, September 27 when news of the Nord Stream gas attacks became known, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shed crocodile tears and said that attacking Russian pipelines was “in no one’s interest.” But if that really were the case, no one would have attacked the gas lines.
I have no doubt that U.S. strategists have a game plan for how to proceed from here, and to do so that indeed is in what the neocons claim to be in the U.S. interest – that of maintaining a unipolar neoliberalized and financialized global economy for as long as they can.
They have long had a plan for countries that are unable to their foreign debts. The IMF will lend them the money, conditional upon the debtor country raising the foreign exchange to repay the (increasingly expensive) dollar loans by privatizing what remains of their public domain, natural-resource patrimony and other assets, mainly to U.S. financial investors and their allies.
Will it work? Or will debtor countries band together and work out ways to restore the seemingly lost world of affordable oil and gas prices, fertilizer prices, grain and other food prices, and metals or raw materials supplied by Russia, China and their allied Eurasian neighbors?
That is the next great worry for U.S. global strategists. It seems less easy to solve than was done by the sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2. But the solution seems to be the usual U.S. approach: something military in nature, new color revolutions. The aim is to gain the same power over Global South and Eurasian countries that American diplomacy wielded over Germany and other European countries via NATO.
Unless an institutional alternative is created to the IMF, World Bank, International Court, World Trade Organization and the numerous UN agencies now biased by U.S. diplomats and their proxies, the coming decades will see the U.S. economic strategy of financial and military dominance unfold as Washington has planned.
The problem is that its plans for how the Ukraine war and anti-Russian sanctions have worked out so far have been just the reverse of what was announced. That may give some hope for the world’s future. The opposition and even contempt by U.S. diplomats to other countries acting in their own economic interest and social values is so strong that they are unwilling to think through just how these countries might develop their own alternative to the U.S. world plan.
The question is thus how successfully these other countries may develop their alternative new economic order, and how they can protect themselves from the fate that Europe has just imposed upon itself for the next decade.
SOTTREADER
The Living Force
I think western corporate media and those brainwashed by current leftist ideology will take it as the ravings of a madman but millions of others in the West will agree with him. From a logical point of view he spoke sense.
I've been checking out comments in US and UK "patriotic" telegram channels and people really do agree with Putin. In fact, quite a few were seeking out his speech. A lot of people have woken up to the western governments essentially having zero compassion whatsoever. For a lot, COVID was the turning point - the continued refusal of US and UK governments to admit the jab is poison and hold Pfizer, Moderna etc to account is the straw that has woken many up. Destruction of family and traditional values was bad enough, but literally poisoning your own population willfully is unforgivable.
I dare say a sacrifice must be made by the West to hold back the tide - they must sacrifice Pfizer, moderna, FDA, CDC etc and reform the medical industry and this will at least make people think they aren't entirely evil and out to destroy and kill them for the sake of a WEF agenda.
'Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - The Caesar of our time'
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14 hours ago (Updated: 3 hours ago)
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30 Sep, 2022
'Zelensky is a comedian, and his hobby is president of Ukraine.'
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30 Sep, 2022
Ukraine Crisis Giving Birth to Multipolar World Order: Read Putin’s Full Speech on New Territories
The Russian president, other senior officials, and the heads of the Donbass republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson gathered in the Kremlin on Friday to formalize the results of status referendums held between September 23-27, in which...
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‘Will of the people’ against ‘dictate of the West’: Highlights of Putin’s speech at signing ceremony for treaties of accession
Russia will support the people willing to join it and will oppose the Western campaign of ‘de-sovereignization’, Vladimir Putin has said
'Zelensky is a comedian, and his hobby is president of Ukraine.'
Zelensky sets conditions for talks with Russia
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has refused to negotiate peace with his Russian counterpart
I hope your right. Certainly was a relief and cathartic to hear him call out the west for what they are on that stage.
ENOUGH with discussing Stalin here, please. If you have anything further to say on this, take it to one of the other countless forum threads on Stalin, Communism, Ponerology, etc.
World-changing events are taking place right now in and around the Donbass. In this thread, let's stick to gathering facts and developments about the USA vs Russia proxy war in Ukraine, and what appears to be Putin's 'grand plan' to do away with hegemony.
World-changing events are taking place right now in and around the Donbass. In this thread, let's stick to gathering facts and developments about the USA vs Russia proxy war in Ukraine, and what appears to be Putin's 'grand plan' to do away with hegemony.
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The Living Force
Today Vladimir Putin made a pivotal speech.
In this speech he attacked:
Replacement migration and open borders.
The LGBT agenda.
American imperialism and occupation.
The American banking system.
The West’s treatment of political dissidents who speak out against ‘progressive’ politics.
The fact that Western leaders have contempt for their own people.
The openly Satanic nature of Western elites.
He also boldly stood up for:
Traditional Values.
Christianity.
The nuclear family.
The nation state.
The right of people to preserve their culture.
This is the strongest and most important speech made in defence of nationalistic views since the end of the World War 2. What’s more, this speech is actually stronger than anything said by any of the civic nationalists who have been elected in Western Europe since 1945. In fact, it is largely inline with the views of genuine nationalists all over the Western world.
But this speech was not made by someone who just took a small fraction of the vote or by someone that gained a toe-hold in a regional parliament thanks to proportional representation, instead, it was made by the leader of one of the world’s most powerful nations.
If at this point nationalists in the West cannot see the importance of Vladimir Putin and Russia as a global counterbalance to the Judeo-American Western liberal democracy that has subverted every Western nation and is slowly erasing white people, then they need to wake up.
The anti-white and morally corrupting poison that has destroyed the West has just been challenged by a global superpower, this is something to celebrate!
Mark Collett - British political activist and the author of The Fall of Western Man.
Official Website: http://www.thefallofwesternman.com
In this speech he attacked:
Replacement migration and open borders.
The LGBT agenda.
American imperialism and occupation.
The American banking system.
The West’s treatment of political dissidents who speak out against ‘progressive’ politics.
The fact that Western leaders have contempt for their own people.
The openly Satanic nature of Western elites.
He also boldly stood up for:
Traditional Values.
Christianity.
The nuclear family.
The nation state.
The right of people to preserve their culture.
This is the strongest and most important speech made in defence of nationalistic views since the end of the World War 2. What’s more, this speech is actually stronger than anything said by any of the civic nationalists who have been elected in Western Europe since 1945. In fact, it is largely inline with the views of genuine nationalists all over the Western world.
But this speech was not made by someone who just took a small fraction of the vote or by someone that gained a toe-hold in a regional parliament thanks to proportional representation, instead, it was made by the leader of one of the world’s most powerful nations.
If at this point nationalists in the West cannot see the importance of Vladimir Putin and Russia as a global counterbalance to the Judeo-American Western liberal democracy that has subverted every Western nation and is slowly erasing white people, then they need to wake up.
The anti-white and morally corrupting poison that has destroyed the West has just been challenged by a global superpower, this is something to celebrate!
Mark Collett - British political activist and the author of The Fall of Western Man.
Official Website: http://www.thefallofwesternman.com
Putin's recent speech was very powerful - history, economics and politics, and also upping the ante into discussing the metaphysical. When I managed to catch the last bit if his speech live before going to work, it was incredible to hear him talk in particular about the West's family-destroying and child-mutilating practices in terms of Satanism and the Soul!
The SMO has explicitly transformed into an escalation towards a total battle of good and evil, a kind of holy war. I loved the end of the signing ceremony, where Putin and the four leaders joined hands and the crowd started chanting 'Russiya! Russiya!' The look on his face was absolutely priceless. It must have been so liberating for him as a man to be able to speak freely, given how much he must have to ride his own brake for the reasons of diplomacy and strategic ambiguity.
This brings added weight to Patrick Lancaster's recent question:
Any deaths in Donetsk are now occurring on Russian territory. Now we'll get a chance to see the response of the Russian General Staff.
I just read that Turkey has rejected the referenda:
tass.com
Could be that a little bird told them to follow the Western narrative - or else say goodbye to Turkstream.
The SMO has explicitly transformed into an escalation towards a total battle of good and evil, a kind of holy war. I loved the end of the signing ceremony, where Putin and the four leaders joined hands and the crowd started chanting 'Russiya! Russiya!' The look on his face was absolutely priceless. It must have been so liberating for him as a man to be able to speak freely, given how much he must have to ride his own brake for the reasons of diplomacy and strategic ambiguity.
This brings added weight to Patrick Lancaster's recent question:
Any deaths in Donetsk are now occurring on Russian territory. Now we'll get a chance to see the response of the Russian General Staff.
I just read that Turkey has rejected the referenda:
Turkey says cannot accept decision by Donbass republics, two more regions to join Russia
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that this decision "constitutes a grave violation of the established principles of international law"
tass.com
Could be that a little bird told them to follow the Western narrative - or else say goodbye to Turkstream.
I just started reading the official translation of Putin‘s latest speech after listening to the live translation. Indeed, it is another landmark speech. Just wow! There are just so many points he makes that are really interesting. Seems like Putin continues his step by step unveiling of the hard and unfiltered truth. Well worth the read!