Not really news, Boggart blog and our world news publication Boggart Abroad were reporting this over a year ago:
NATO Considers Stricter Sanctions As Russia Sidesteps Oil Price Cap The European Union is considering toughening up the sanctions on evaders of the price cap on Russian oil, almost none of which now trades below the ceiling of $60 per barrel.The price cap mechanism set by the G7 and the EU says that Russian crude shipments to third countries can use Western insurance and financing if cargoes are sold at or below the $60-a-barrel ceiling …
Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port? As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world’s commodity markets through the back door.
New Cold War? Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions … so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia’s retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had …
Since Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, back in February 2022, those of us who questioed the Russia bad, Ukraine goood narrative have been targeted by torrents of abuse hurled by pseudo – patriots and armchair soldiers, and called a ‘Kremlin stooges’, Russian agents’, ‘Putin supporters’, and enemies of freedom. When anybody suggested that Russia’s aim was not to conquer the whole of Ukraine and from there wage war on the rest on continental Europe, but simply to secure the saftety of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who, since a coup d’etat engineered by USA and NATO in 2014 had been subjected to a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Kiev government. When anybody pointed out the inevitable result of the US enabling the Kiev regime to prolong the war by providinbg weapons, ammunition and financial supoport would be mass death and destruction of Ukrainians, and growing anti-American sentiment among nations of the global; south who see the US as a bully, using its financial power to manipulate the internal politics of sovereign nations and effect regime change when challenged. And if we look at the regional and local wars of the 21st century it is hard to find one in which the USA has not had a hand.”
The truth about Ukraine, despite the daily reports in western mainstream media that ‘brave little Ukraine’s army was giving the Russian thugs a good thrashing, it was always obvious to those of us who looked a little beeper that the headlines that Russia’s military machine was living up to its reputation for brutality on the battlefield and was crushing Ukraine.
The truth of the situation was confirmed this week whenUkraine’s top military commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, admitted the nuch hyped counter offensive begun in June, has failed miserably, there has been no breakthrough and the battlefield situation is now a stalemate.
His comments were made in an interview with The Economist and were quickly picked up by other other major US, UK and Europrean publications, notably left leaning New York Times, which until recently had been rabidly pro Ukraine, now reporting“His comments marked the first time a top Ukrainian commander said the fighting had reached an impasse…”.
The NYT report continued by describing Zaluzhny’s words as ” the most candid assessment so far by a
leading Ukrainian official of the military’s stalled counteroffensive.”
Gen. Zaluzhny asserted in the interview: “Just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate.” He then emphasized: “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”
Indeed for the past some six months the front lines have barely changed though observers near the front line say that Russia now occupies slightly more territory inside Ukraines borders than it did before the counter offensive was launched. This is in spite of $£€billions worth of the lstest high – tech weaponry having been poured into Ukraine by the USA and NATO. The top Ukrainian commander explained Kiev’s failure thus:
The
general also said he underestimated Russia’s willingness to sacrifice
troops in order to prevent a breakthrough and prolong the war. “That was my mistake,” he said. “Russia has lost at least 150,000 dead. In any other country such casualties would have stopped the war.” His accounting of Russia’s casualties could not be independently verified.
In spite of many hysterically worded reports in UK mainstream media that tried to sell the lie that the counter offtensive had been a huge suggess and the Russians were in full retreat, many
analysts have considered that it may not have been President Putin’s intention to see
his forces attempt to push further into Ukraine, given that a chief war
aim of his is to solidify hold over the Donbas and four ‘annexed
territories’. It appears the Russian army is simply staying put, content
to have a firm grip over most the of east and much of the south.
The result then is that mainstream media and deep state propaganda agencies on both sides of the Atlantic, which had been claiming that Putin was a madman on a par with Hitler whose ambition was to recreate The Soviet Union, have ended up looking even less credible and more foolish than they did after COVID failed to kill the millions of us unvaccinated holdouts they predicted it would.
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Russia Will Never Recover From War In Ukraine Claim Zelensky Fan Club As Russia Continues to Crush Ukrainian War Effort An inside page headline in yesterday’s (1 April 2023) Daily Telegraph claims ‘Russia will never recover from this devastating collapse,’ though the article below it does not quite make clear exactly what collapse the writer is talking about. The Telegraph has been unashamedly pro Ukraine, Zelensky worshipping and Russophobic in its coverage since day one of the war and the article was not an April Fool joke
Zelensky Admits Ukraine Already Ran Out Of Ammo The US-led West’s Mainstream Media (MSM) began reporting more accurately on the military-strategic dynamics of the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine since the start of the year, but the true test of their comparatively improved integrity will be whether they raise awareness about Zelensky’s latest damning admission. In an interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, he candidly told his interlocutors that “We do not have ammunition. For us the situation in the East is not good.”
Dollar Dominance Will Be The Biggest Casualty Of War In Ukraine While the mainstream news cycle focuses on Ukraine and speculation about when the strategically significant city of Bakhmut, beseiged by the Russian army for months now, will actually fall, with Ukrainian defenders vowing to fight to the last man but gradually being forced into a smaller and smaller area of the city centre, in the more significant economic war Russia, China and Iran, backed by India, Saudi Arabia and many other African and South East Asian nations are pushing ahead with moved to dump the US dollar as the global reserve currency
Ukraine: Who Is Winning And Losing In The Economic War One year ago today, to provide a legal framework for Russian military support to Donetsk and Luhansk which would take the form of a military incursion into Ukrainian territory on February 24, the Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed executive orders to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lunhansk People’s Republic as independent countries
Talk of Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Is Madness President Zelensky’s warmongering speech to the UK Parliament yesterday unequivocally and unashamedly made the case for starting World War 3 in order to polish the oversized ego of this little clown with the piano playing penis when he demanded that Nato-grade fighter jets to be sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine End Game: As Bakhmut Falls Real Reporting Vies With Propaganda In Western Media Ever since Russia crossed the Ukrainian border and launched its ‘Special Military Operation’ almost a year ago now, everyday in western news media we have watched, heard and read that Ukraine was winning the war – Russia was losing ten soldiers for every Ukrainian casualty, Russian troops were incompetent brutes, Russian military hardware did not work and the Russians were running out of missiles, bullets and everything else.
In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow […] And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.
Reprieve For Free Speech – UK Online Safety Bill Sent Back To Committee It s gratifying for supporters of free speech that the UK Government’s Online Safety Bill, which had been described as a charter for censors, has been ripped apart and will have to be redrafted entirely apart from the title.
When the House of Commons the Speaker, savages a Bill it must be bad, so from the moment Lindsey Hoyle told MPs that the bill was ‘all over the shop’ (a good old northern phrase from a northern politician,), and that at least half its clauses “would be getting the treatment,” in particular that measure which aimed to force Social Media platforms to remove content which was “legal but harmful,” …
Reprieve For Free Speech – UK Online Safety Bill Sent Back To Committee It s gratifying for supporters of free speech that the UK Government’s Online Safety Bill, which had been described as a charter for censors, has been ripped apart and will have to be redrafted entirely apart from the title.
When the House of Commons the Speaker, savages a Bill it must be bad, so from the moment Lindsey Hoyle told MPs that the bill was ‘all over the shop’ (a good old northern phrase from a northern politician,), and that at least half its clauses “would be getting the treatment,” in particular that measure which aimed to force Social Media platforms to remove content which was “legal but harmful,” …
Government of Ireland announced new hate speech laws which will permit courts to jail ‘Hate Speech’ offenders for up to five years, but still cannot decide on a legal definition for what constitutes hate speech. Meanwhile the Irish government is finding itself accused of suppressing free speech while its new anti – hate laws are arousing a lot of hate
France Moves to Make ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Illegal by Government Decree
Political elites and super-bureaucrats must be very worried. New start up political parties, dismissed as populist byt in reality listening to the concerns of voters are making inroads into the political status quo. New media investigative journalists and op-ed writers are challenging the official propaganda (and gaining an ever bigger audience). It’s becoming harder to control consensus reality.
Europe Rejects Obama Doctrine – US Exceptionalism Is Not Acceptable
With a backlash against his efforts to bully Britons into voting to remain in the EU pushing the leave campaign into a narrow lead in opinion polls Obama’s vistit to Europe last week could hardly be described as a success. And now he has been told a foreign policy based on ‘American Exceptionalism’ is not acceptable and the USA must abide by the same international law as the rest of the world
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi’ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
The Business of War: Defense Sales Keep Economies Of Manufacturing Nations Afloat Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced due to ‘humanitarian’ interventions by the developed nations (led by the USA, France and the UKm the FUKUS axis) in the domestic politics of third world nation. Usually the interventions support rebel groups who if they came to power would be far more oppressive and brutal regime than the one they replaced.
U.S. To Station Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
Germany’s ZDF public television network reported on September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” that the U.S. will station 20 new nuclear bombs in Germany, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima . Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, says, “With the new bombs the boundaries blur between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”
The writing has been on the wall for some time now, Ukraine’s glorious counter offensive that was going to drive every Russian soldier out of ~Ukrainian territory turn into an inglorious cock up that achieved nothing at the cost of thousands of lives, western leaders sensing voters in their nations are suffering a sense of war fatigue have been noticably distancing themselves from America’s proxy war. And all over the developed world taxpayers are starting to resent the cost to themselves of military and humanitarian aid to help the lunatic, neo – Nazi government of Ukraine keep fighting when any sane regime would have sued for peace long ago, and yet the Ukrainians keep demanding more weapons, more money and more commitment from nations that are not actually their allies. Even in mainstream media the signs that the west is increasingly looking towards the more dangerous situation in Israel and preparing to throw Zelensky under a bus.
The latest and perhaps the clearest indication of this can be found in the current edition of Time magazine, until now rabidly pro – Ukraine and ready to report Zelensky’s army’s victorious progress when clearly the opposite was true. Now however, this is what Time is reporting:
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and yet the coke snorting gay dancer is is still talking a good war as he demands yet more weapons.
Even the Z man has to admit the counter – offensive has proceeded at an excruciatingly slow pace and with enormous losses, making it ever more difficult for to convince partners that victory is around the corner. With the outbreak of war in Israel, even keeping the world’s attention on Ukraine has become a challenge too far for the Ukrainian president.
Quoting a soldier on the front of the counter-offensive, the Economistagrees:
“Left Handed”, an infantryman fighting at the front between Robotyne and Verbove, says Ukrainian losses have increased to alarming levels, in part due to the work of drones. The plains of Zaporizhia have turned their back on life, he says. “It’s hellish. Corpses, the smell of corpses, death, blood and fear. Not a whiff of life, just the stench of death.” Those in units such as his own had more chance of dying than surviving. “Seventy-thirty. Some don’t even see their first battle.”
In spite of that truth Zelenski is still throwing boys and old men into the front line to attack well fortified and well defended Russian positions.
There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War As Ukraine’s much hyped counterattack has failed to achieved the and momentum that hoped for by American and NATO leaders including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was “slower than desired”, and a range of soldiers interviewed by BBC and Sky News television reporters t on different parts of the long (probably too long given the depletion of Ukrainian military manpower,) frontline have blamed minefields laid by Russian troops for that delay. Well as is often said, in any wartruth is the first casualty.
Ukraine’s Long-Term Plan To Blow-Up The Kakhova Dam Exposed Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the Nova Kakhovka dam blast on Wednesday for the first time, charging that it was a “barbaric act” of the Ukrainian government and its military forces. Ukraine has in its turn blamed Russian forces for blowing up the huge dam which holds back 18 cubic kilometers of water, along with the hydroelectric power plant, and President Volodomyr Zelensky condemned “Russian terrorists”. Russian officials claimed the dam was damaged by Ukrainian military strikes.
Gigantic Nova Kakhova Dam in Ukraine Blown Up – Each Side Blames The Other As The War Grinds On A day after Ukraine’s much-heralded counter-offensive appears to have failed, almost before it had even begun, a major dam in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson is suddenly bombed, prompting mass evacuations as floods spread across the region. Both sides accuse each other of the attack that puts tens of thousands of homes at risk and might even threaten the safety of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
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Russia Will Never Recover From War In Ukraine Claim Zelensky Fan Club As Russia Continues to Crush Ukrainian War Effort An inside page headline in yesterday’s (1 April 2023) Daily Telegraph claims ‘Russia will never recover from this devastating collapse,’ though the article below it does not quite make clear exactly what collapse the writer is talking about. The Telegraph has been unashamedly pro Ukraine, Zelensky worshipping and Russophobic in its coverage since day one of the war and the article was not an April Fool joke
Zelensky Admits Ukraine Already Ran Out Of Ammo The US-led West’s Mainstream Media (MSM) began reporting more accurately on the military-strategic dynamics of the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine since the start of the year, but the true test of their comparatively improved integrity will be whether they raise awareness about Zelensky’s latest damning admission. In an interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, he candidly told his interlocutors that “We do not have ammunition. For us the situation in the East is not good.”
Dollar Dominance Will Be The Biggest Casualty Of War In Ukraine While the mainstream news cycle focuses on Ukraine and speculation about when the strategically significant city of Bakhmut, beseiged by the Russian army for months now, will actually fall, with Ukrainian defenders vowing to fight to the last man but gradually being forced into a smaller and smaller area of the city centre, in the more significant economic war Russia, China and Iran, backed by India, Saudi Arabia and many other African and South East Asian nations are pushing ahead with moved to dump the US dollar as the global reserve currency
Ukraine: Who Is Winning And Losing In The Economic War One year ago today, to provide a legal framework for Russian military support to Donetsk and Luhansk which would take the form of a military incursion into Ukrainian territory on February 24, the Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed executive orders to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lunhansk People’s Republic as independent countries
Talk of Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Is Madness President Zelensky’s warmongering speech to the UK Parliament yesterday unequivocally and unashamedly made the case for starting World War 3 in order to polish the oversized ego of this little clown with the piano playing penis when he demanded that Nato-grade fighter jets to be sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine End Game: As Bakhmut Falls Real Reporting Vies With Propaganda In Western Media Ever since Russia crossed the Ukrainian border and launched its ‘Special Military Operation’ almost a year ago now, everyday in western news media we have watched, heard and read that Ukraine was winning the war – Russia was losing ten soldiers for every Ukrainian casualty, Russian troops were incompetent brutes, Russian military hardware did not work and the Russians were running out of missiles, bullets and everything else.
In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow […] And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.
Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.
Swedish Media Outlet Publishes Leaked U.S. Document On How to CRUSH Europe Economy via Ukraine War Effort Swedish news organisation Nya Dagbladet has published a leaked top secret US plans to use the war in Ukraine and an induced energy crisis to destroy European economies.
The report claims the RAND Corporation a defence and foreign policy think tank founded by military aircraft maker Douglas has the official aim of improving policies and decision-making, is the source of its evidence.
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Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port? As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world’s commodity markets through the back door.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically ‘woke’ leaders of Europe’s main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin’s critics have cited ‘Western unity’ as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine’s military finally claim victory.
With battle still raging, or more accurately because this is not mainstream media, with Russian artillery still pounding Ukrainian militrary forces and civilian settlements as the Ukoies continue to launch frontal attacks on entrenched and well defended Russian positions, and as the kerfuffle between Israel and the Hamas irregular forces of the putative Palestinian state in Gaza looks set to explode into a regional war with Israel and its friends in america and Europe ranged against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran (with a little help from their friends Russia and China, there is again talk of conflict between the USA and China as the Chinese Communist Perty government in Beijing again turns the screws on the offshore island breakaway state.
Pundits in the USA are asking when Taiwan will provoke China into launching a military action, thus enabling Washington to set in and get the final stage in the trio of proxy wars against their perceived enemies.
Fortunately the Taiwanese are not stupid, they can see what’s happening in
Ukraine where America is making the bullets for Zelenskyyy’s hapless conscripts to fire. They know America has a weak administration fronted by an incompetent, demented geriatric, that the American economy is bankrupt, public opinion in the USA is bitterly divided over continuing support for Ukraine and direct or indirect support for Israel and will not countenance another proxy war that is likely do descend into a prolonged, resource gobbling stalemate.
Support for the conflict in Ukraine and the likely escalation of the Gaza situation is only being maintained by Western deep state psyops, controlled from the top-down to deceive “ordinary
people” into seeing Russia, China and Iran as existential threats and thus allowing the continuation without objection. The purpose of the conflicts is not to protect ‘we the people’ from such existential threats but to advance the globalist agends being pushed on elected governments by billionaire psychopaths.
The Taiwanese are generally far more politically astute than the US gives them credit for. Do you remember when Secretary of State Blinken was publicly scolded in Alaska by his Chinese “partner”?
That could just as easily have been a Taiwanese lecture, we’re the
Taiwanese not entirely dependent upon the “Special Status” of
“non-independent territory of China that remains essentially
independent.”
The Taiwanese know their independent status is “unsustainable,” over the long
term. The bourgeoisie and political elite know that, but
the masses are mercilessly assaulted by US / NATO propaganda through many windows. The pyromaniacs of US imperialism seem disappointed with the fires they’ve started around the world so far (israel, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, to name but a few.. They feel compelled to drag the whole world into war to regain their status as the planets only superpower.
De – Dollarisation: China, Brazil Make Deal To Ditch US Dollar For Bilateral Trades China and Brazil this week concluded a deal to conduct trade between their nations in their own in their own currencies, ditching the established reserve currency for global trade, US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian announced said on Wednesday. This is Beijing’s latest strike against the almighty greenback in its currency war aimed at shifting the balance of geopolitical and economic power from west to east.
Russia and China announce a new global reserve currencyIt was always on the cards that Russia, China and rest of the BRICS countries would use the CIA / NATO engineered war in Ukraine to launch the main thrust of their economic war on the west, in fact after having written so much in our Currency Wars page about the inevitability of Russia and China challenging the US dollar’s global reserve status, now, it’s happening we can only say: “We Told You So”.
The Dominance Of The U.S. Dollar Is Fading Right Before Our Eyes It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote an article arguing
that the economic sanctions we have cast upon in Russia, due to its
invasion of Ukraine, likely mark the beginning of a period where China
and Russia would bifurcate the global monetary system, leading them to
eventually challenge the U.S. dollar’s reserve status.
Has Biden’s Afghan Surrender Handed The Future To China 5 September: The abrupt and ill – considered withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan ordered by President Joe (Dementia Man) Biden and the susequent return to power of Islamic fundamentalist The Taliban hands control of the vast Afghan litium reserves to China and is a blow to the green agenda of the G7 nations
House battery to store energy will ‘change entire infrastructure of the world’ – or maybe not
Another costly new product hailed as a breakthough in technology, this time a clutching-at-straws exercise from the failing electric car company Tesla, completely fails to live up to the hype under scrutiny. Hailed as a super battery, a mjor advance in battery technology that will change the world to store power for a household, it turns out to be nothing more than a streamined car battery. It will run the average home for about 2 hours.
Electronic Tattoos To Replace Passwords and Pin Numbers?
Science was ever fascism’s whore. A warning about the latest wheeze the science tits have developed for their Fascist bosses, RFID tattoos. The plan is these things will keep tabs on everything you do all the time and you will not be able to access the internet, your mobile phone or your bank and credit card accounts without one.
GM Food Needed To Avert World Food Crisis
The GM Foods Nazis are revving up for a good whine again. Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no scientific qick fix to the ”enormously serious” problem of producing enough fod to feed the world’s rapidly growing population in the future as we face problems such as climate change, population growth and energy shortages. He told BBC Breakfast News: ”If there are genetically modified (GM) organisms that actually …
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Afghanistan – Another Effing Fiasco
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]The Taliban Are Shafting Us Up The Khyber
As Barack Obama rehearses his speech to the American people in which he will declare victory and announce he is sending 35,000 extra troops to help organise the celebrations, news of how bad things are over there is starting to leak out. Up to now we have heard little on the progress of the war strategy other than … [ Daily Stirrer – Nov 2009]
In yesterday’s Telegraph, under the headline “Ukraine is winning. Now let’s finish the job, former UK defence minister Ben Wallace showed why he is no longer the defence minister and also, perhaps, why he is leaving parliament at the next election, wrote a pile of uinmitigated sewage slurry about how Ukraine is on the brink of scoring a stunning victory in the current conflict with Russia and only needs a few hundred £$€ more, and the transfer of the entire British Army, Air Force and Navy in order to rout the Russian forces and secure the fall of Vladimir Putin’s regime in the Kremlin.
It’s bollocks of course, Ukraine is being crushed, their front line units include boys of school age and old men of pension age as well as female soldiers and foreign mercenaries. This ragtag army is expected to charge, World war One style, towards well prepared Russian defence lines while under heavy artillery bombardment. Obviously they are being butchered while the country’s infrastructure is in ruins and the economy does not exist any more.
When the Ukrainian president Zelensky visited Washington he was criticized for his failing military strategy while last Thursday (28 September,) The New York Times which has been steadfastly pro Ukraine reported: “
Russian forces have gained more territory in Ukraine this year than the Ukrainian side despite the Ukrainian counteroffensive that was launched in June.
The report noted that despite nine months of heavy fighting in Ukraine, only about 500 square miles of territory have changed hands this year. Russia has gained 331 square miles while Ukraine has gained 143, a difference of 188, which amounts to Russia’s net gain in territory so far this year.
“A Decisive Turn in the Special Military Operation
“Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma, made a really important post on his Telegram channel, on September 25. Because of its importance, we will cite it in its entirety:
“Seven facts that Washington and Brussels have lost the “war of attrition” against Russia.
“Biden, Stoltenberg, and other Western officials, referring to the conflict in Ukraine, have started calling it a “war of attrition.” Huge amounts of money have been poured into militarizing the Kiev regime.
“What has this led to? Just the facts:
“1. Western arms and ammunition shortages. In June this year, British Defense Secretary Wallace said that Western countries had run out of national stocks of weapons that could be supplied to Kiev. For his part, Biden admitted in July that the decision to give cluster munitions to Ukraine was made because conventional shells had been exhausted.
“2. Public confidence in politicians in Europe and the U.S. has been lost. Ratings of distrust towards the heads of state of the EU and the USA are at a historical peak. 57 percent disapprove of Biden’s actions, 69 percent disapprove of Macron’s actions, 72 percent disapprove of Scholz’s actions. The majority of people in the US and European countries oppose supplying arms to Ukraine.
“3. The failure of the Kiev regime’s counteroffensive. The Ukrainian military, backed by NATO, has suffered huge losses in equipment and manpower. The lack of any results has disappointed Western sponsors.
“4. Economic problems of Europe and the USA. Eurozone economies are in recession. Germany is forced to cut social payments to poor families because of the costs of militarization of the Kiev regime. France has reduced the number of aid recipients; food packages are no longer distributed to those in need, and reimbursing of the purchase of medicines has been cut back. International agencies, expecting deterioration of the financial situation of the United States in the next three years, downgraded the long-term investment rating of the United States.
“5. Shortage of Ukrainian army personnel. The Kiev regime is mobilizing men over 50 years old, as well as those with tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, HIV, and others. From October 1, 2023, women will also be enrolled in the military register. Nurses, doctors and pharmacists will be barred from leaving Ukraine.
“6. Ukraine is bankrupt. Ukraine’s GDP in 2022 fell by 30.4 percent—the worst result in the country’s history. Without help from Washington and Brussels, Kiev cannot fulfill its obligations to its citizens. Ukraine has lost its financial autonomy.
“7. Demographic catastrophe in Ukraine. More than 10.5 million people fled from Ukraine. Another 11.2 million residents of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Zaporizhya and Kherson regions made their choice to be with Russia. Since 2014, Ukraine has lost 53.7 percent of its population.
These 7 facts speak for themselves:
Either the Kiev regime capitulates on the terms of the Russian Federation or Ukraine will cease to exist as a state…”
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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically ‘woke’ leaders of Europe’s main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin’s critics have cited ‘Western unity’ as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine’s military finally claim victory.
On September 26, engineers and seismologists in Germany, Sweden and Denmark were alerted by a dramatic drop in pressure in Nord Streams 1 & 2, pipelines through which Russian gas flows to Germany. Later that day, the same problem was reported on its older sister pipeline, Nord Stream 1, which runs nearby.
A Danish air force jet overflew the area where the events took place and found three huge gas leaks agitating the surface of the Baltic Sea, creating vast, bubbling cauldrons as if underwater volcanic eruptions were were in progress. Over the next few days, an estimated 350,000 tonnes of pure methane was released into the atmosphere. Residents of Bornholm, a Danish island nearby could smell it from and were warned to stay clear of the area.
Were it simply an industrial accident, the event would have been a catastrophe. but it quickly became clear the damage to the pipelines had been caused by deliberate acts of sabotage. The pipeline was rendered inoperable for the foreseeable future, a blow to Europe, which due to politicians having been sucked in by the climate change scam and committed their countries to intermittent and unreliable ‘renewable energy sources and ‘nat zero’ energy policies were facing a grim winter of power blackouts. The ‘net zero folly had made Europe, and especially Germany, which has by far the largest and most poweful economy in the EU, dependent on Russian gas.
Danish geologists noted two large spikes in the area that day on their seismographs, suggesting the pipelines had been hit by massive undersea explosions. A joint probe by Denmark and Sweden concluded that the blasts involved up to half a tonne of TNT planted 300 feet beneath the seabed – acts that only a nation-state could carry out. And since then, the accusations have flown.
Detectives look for strong and simple motives, and on this count it is not hard to see why so many internet sleuths are pointing their fingers at the United States. Washington has long opposed Nord Stream, fearing it leaves Europe far too dependent on Russian gas. Moreover, now that Russian gas no longer flows through the pipeline (and probably never will, after the explosions) the US is shipping hundreds of millions of tons of its own gas to Europe and making a lot of money in the process.
In February, Joe Biden told a news conference he “would bring an end” to Nord Stream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. Asked how he would do so, he stated cryptically: “We will – I promise you – be able to do it.”
This may have just been a polite way of saying Washington would bring behind-the-scenes diplomatic pressure on Germany to shut the pipeline. But, in the wake of the Nord Stream blasts, it has been interpreted by some as a coded warning that America would sabotage the pipeline. Since America is a major gas supplier itself, the argument goes, it has economic as well as political interests in the pipeline’s demise.
While casually dismissed by most Russophobic trolls in mainstream media,, this theory has been siezed on by Tucker Carlson, whose Fox News talk show has one of America’s largest audiences. “If you are Vladimir Putin, you would have to be a suicidal moron to blow up your own energy pipeline,” he said recently.
Carlson then pointed the finger directly at Biden for the Nord Stream sabotage, quoting him as saying in February 2022: “We will take it out. We will blow it up.” In fact, President Biden did not say “We will blow it up,” but “We will take it down, we have the means.”
Apologists for American warmongering claim the President meant the USA would use sanctions to stop gas flowing through the pipelines but by September it ought to have been clear to the handlers of America’s geriatric, demenia stricken leader that sanctions do not work so the remark must be considered open to interpretation.
Other, more sombre commentators have shown an interest in the theory too – including Boris Johnson’s former aide, Dominic Cummings, who posted the clip of Biden’s cryptic warning to his 300,000 Twitter followers. He also tweeted a link to an objective and balanced article which suggested America could benefit economically from the Nord Stream blasts, and which described Biden’s denials of US involvement as “tepid”.
Polish politician Radek Sikorski, a former foreign minister and no fan of Vladimir Putin posted a photo of the Nord Stream methane bubbling to the Baltic’s surface, with the brief message: “Thank you, USA,” followed up by a direct accusation that the USA had planned, if not actually carried out the sabotage. Added to that, former White House Adviser Jeffrey Sachs, now a politics professor at Columbia University also unequivocally stated that based on available evidence he believes the USA was behind the sabotage.
To Western leaders and most serious analysts, the only possible culprit is Vladimir Putin although it is difficult to see how Russia could benefit from blowing up its own assets and damaging the interests of Germany, the European nation most sympathetic to Russia’s position.
Right now there is a state of near panic in the EU, while the world was wondering exactly who was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, the warmongers in washington and the neo – Nazi nutters in Kiev have continues on their path of provoking Russia into launching an attack on a NATO member state, thus kicking off World War 3. Yesterday an attack on The Crimean Bridge – also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge – a structure 19 kilometers (12 miles) in length that passes across the Kerch Strait and links southern Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. If there was a lot of nervousness about what the Russians might do next before this attack, which Ukraine has indirectly claimed responsibility for, it is certainly squeaky bottom time on the capital of Europe now. Everyone with an oil rig will be checking the legs for bombs, everyone with a bridge will be upping security, but nobody knows how things will play out. Some say Russia will use nuclear weapons, some say the Russian deep state may bring down the internet (which could be done by hitting a few undersea cables,) thus bringing global financial systems, air and sea transport and virtually all trade to a standstill.
The Kremlin alleges that Nord Stream is Russian-owned and financed, cost £15 billion ($17 billion) to build. It supplies Europe with 35 per cent of its natural gas needs, earning Russia tens of billions of pounds a year. Why would Putin want to destroy it, just as Europe is heading into what is predicted to be a hard winter. Any winter would potentially make Europe and Germany especially, more vulnerable to energy blackmail? Why not simply shut off the valves instead, thus Moscow would retain bargaining power at no cost?
Those commentators who refuse to acknowledge there are any suspects other than Putin appeal to the investigative techniques of TV detectives, citing means, opportunity and motive, in relation to Russia after having condescendingly brushed aside far stronger and more convincing means, opportunity and motive on the part of the USA. Right… Do our political leaders and media editors really think the US,which at the moment has itself a vast surplus of Liquid Natural Gas to sell would consider ‘out of bounds’ a pipeline majority owned by Gazprom, that represents a key strategic threat to use as leverage should countries like Germany backslide under political pressure due to energy shortages?
The CIA and US military are fully aware that if there is no evidence, there is no foul. With the ever loyal members of the Big Media carte lending such uncritical support to the “It was Putin wot dunnit” narrative we see the perfect example of what that means. There is plenty of evidence, from Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan,Libya and Syria that they have operated in knowledge of how easy it is to misdirect the media narrative in the past. If you think they wouldn’t do it because the pipeline is supplying allies, I have a lovely historic bridge here to sell you.
I’m not saying I know the truth. Clearly few do. But it’s completely clear that mainstream media journalists and editors are incapable of objective analysis and try to cover their inadequacies as reporters and investigators by adopting a patronising and condescending attitude to anyone who is prepared to ask the difficult questions.
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What have we Boggart Bloggers here, on Original Boggart Blog (UK) and in The Daily Stirrer been saying since day one of this war (and we don’t mean day one in February this year, but day one back in 2014.) This is America and NATO’s proxy war with Russia, being fought with US / NATO weapons but on Ukrainian soil and with Ukrainian lives.
Russia Warns Of A “Direct Military Clash” With The U.S.
As Moscow’s envoy addressed the United Nations, the Pentagon announced a list of new weapons for Kyiv. This is seen as provocation and advancement of war on the part of the United States, and one Russia warns could result in a “direct military clash.”
Diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S.’s continued supply of weapons to Ukraine will only be tolerated for so long. Moscow’s envoy was speaking after the Pentagon announced the contents of another military shipment to Ukraine, valued at $625 million.
“The US is increasing the deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, providing its military with intelligence information, ensuring the direct participation of its fighters and advisers in the conflict,” Vorontsov, who is the deputy head of the Russian delegation, told the General Assembly’s First Committee, a body charged with arms control and security issues. This “not only prolongs hostilities and leads to new casualties, but also brings the situation closer to the dangerous line of a direct military clash between Russia and NATO,” Vorontsov added.
The latest batch of weapons and equipment, valued at $625 million, includes four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and ammunition for them, 16 each of the 155mm and 105mm howitzers, 75,000 rounds for artillery ammunition – including guided rounds and remote mine-laying ones – small arms and mortar rounds, and 200 MRAP armored vehicles. –RT
In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc including NATO. Kyiv insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked yet has recently applied for fast-tracked approval to join NATO.
With the amount of involvement the U.S. has in supplying Ukraine with weapons, it does appear that the pope may be correct. It will take very little at this point to ignite a direct conflict with the U.S.
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Today’s topics 20 September 2022: Russia, Ukraine, war, energy crisis, European Union
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Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse? Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, … Continue reading >>>
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Boris and Biden Can’t Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? … Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay – So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get? Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions … so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. 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The sanctions imposed by European Union member states, the UK, Switzerland Norway and other NATO member states against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine in February this year will rank in as the biggest self inflicted kicks in the bollocks throughout recorded history, and the best example in living memory of the disastrous consequences of how not thinking things through properly can result in disastrous unintended consequences.
While seeking to punish Russia by cutting off gas and oil imports, European Union politicians, in their zeal to embrace the groupthink and follow the crowd, managed to overlook the fact that their embracing the groupthink on climate change and ‘net zero’ energy policies they had made Europe dependent on Russian energy supplies , with absolutely no fallback position and that the only people to suffer were those imports shut down would be the people of Europe and European national economies.
Egged on by the American idiot – president, ‘Dementia Joe Biden,’ European leaders charged ahead with sanctions on imports of energy, fertilizer and other essential commodities, confident that the Russian economy would collapse in days and Vladimir Putin would have no option to to agree a ceasefire on whatever terms NATO saw fit to offer. USA led NATO terms because, let’s be honest, this was never a war between Ukraine and Russia, it was the long planned proxy war between the USA and Russia fought on Ukrainian soil and using Ukrainian army personnel as cannon fodder and Ukrainian civilians for target practice.
Russians however play their own games and make up the rules as they go along and The Kremlin simply pivoted to the south and east and found plenty of new buyers for its oil, gas and other commodities in China, India, and elsewhere. In fact, Russia’s state-run Gazprom energy company has reported that its profits have increased by 100 percent in the first half of this year.
Russia’s economy is booming while Europeans are facing a freezing winter , food shortages, power cuts, hyper – inflation, a cost of living crisis and economic collapse. All because of the false belief that sanctions are a cost-free way to force other countries to bow to your diktat.
What happens when the people on the shitty end of these stupid policies see energy bills skyrocket as the economy grounds to a halt? They become desperate and take to the streets in protest, civil unrests further disrupts the economic and social fabric.
This weekend thousands of Austrians took to the streets in a “Freedom Rally” to demand an end to sanctions and the opening of Nord Stream II, the gas pipeline on the verge of opening earlier this year. The protestors demanded government action to curb the rising cost of living and the insane increases in energy costs..
Some people condemned the Austrian government for failing the people and called for the lifting of “suicidal sanctions” against Russia and for Austria to break ranks with NATO and declare neutrality. Others condemned NATO’s belligerent nature, which is pushing Europe towards an unprecedented militarization. Austrian newspaper Heute quoted local police as saying the number of people at the scene was expected to reach 30,000.
Similar protests took place in Prague, the Czech capital, last Saturday (September 3). According to local sources, more than 70,000 Czechs poured into Wenceslas Square, to complain that the Czech government had failed to solve the energy crisis and should resign.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries increased sanctions on Russia, disrupting the supply of energy markets and causing European energy prices to soar. After Russia recently announced the indefinite shutdown of the “North Stream-1” gas pipeline, the European energy crisis has further fermented.
Not only that, the Group of Seven (G7) also wants to set a price cap on Russian natural gas. The Russian side responded that it would not work in a non-competitive environment, and Gazprom would completely cut off its supply to EU countries.
Even the Washington Post, a cheerleader for escalation throughout the conflict, was forced to admit that sanctions on Russia are not having the intended effect. In an article yesterday (15 September), the paper worries that sanctions are inflicting “collateral damage far beyond the intended target, potentially even hurting the very countries that impose them. Some even worried that the sanctions intended to deter and weaken Putin could end up emboldening and strengthening him.”
This is all predictable. Sanctions kill. Sometimes they kill innocents in the country targeted for destruction and sometimes they kill innocents in the country imposing them. The solution, as always, is non-intervention. No sanctions, no “color revolutions,” no meddling. It’s really that simple.
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Renewable Green Delusion The war in Ukraine has not caused the global energy crisis of early 2022 byt merely exacerbated it. Currently the nations currently in conflict with Russia over its incursion into Ukraine are those which are most dependent for their energy needs on Russian oil and gas. And now their loonytoons ‘net zero’ green energy policies have failed they are biting the hand that feeds them.
Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France’s Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot…
Do We Have A Winter Of Civil Disobedience Ahead? As many people in Britain slap on the apres sun gloop in the wake of what passes for a heatwave in these cool cloudy climes, our inept politicians caught with their pants down by unusual weather as usual have heard that that winter is coming and are making plans for a coldwave. We are in the grip of an energy crisis at the height of summer. Last week, it was reported that the UK government is laying down plans for a “reasonable worst-case scenario” including blackouts for industry and even households. And this is as energy prices spiral out of control to new records every day.
Official Advice – Prepare For Blackouts This Winter The UK government is putting plans together for days of organised blackouts this winter, in what they call a “reasonable worst-case scenario” for energy shortages, according to reports in manstream media. Naturally they are blaming this on the embargo on importing gas from Russia but in reality Britain has never imported any more than a small amout of its gas from Russia. The real reason politicians and energy company CEOs are panicking is entirely due to their obession with obtaining all our energy from intermittent sources like wind and sunshine …
Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port? As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world’s commodity markets through the back door.
“Our Country Is Facing The Biggest Crisis The Crisis We Ever Had”: German Employers’ Association Warns Over Russian Gas Cut With the Nord Stream 1 pipeline closed for maintenance, with the possibility that President Putin will not allow it to reopen at the end of the scheduled 10 days downtime in retaliation for the EU’s continued support or Ukraine in their conflict with Russia, Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis that could erase the prosperity Germans have grown accustomed to, warned Rainer Dulger, head of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations.
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Boris and Biden Can’t Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therefore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? …
Protestors in Berlin have been holding up placards suggesting they’d sooner shower in cold water than use Russian gas, others however are more concerned about how they will keep warm and cook their food while still others are wondering how they will for to fill their cars with fuel for the commute to work, or buy food with the prices of both fuel and food rocketing.
Meanwhile in Britain Boris Johnson has called on the public to make sacrifices, solemnly telling us that we need to drop cheap Russian energy and ‘accept that such a move will be painful’.
Telling voters that the spiralling inflation we are now experiencing, and the effect on living standards might sound like a politiian trying to be honest for once . Or might it be the case that Boris Johnson, never a man known for plain speaking, is preparing us to be told that Russia’s war against Ukraine, rather than the follies of ‘net zero’ policies and transitioning from fossil fuels to intermittent ‘sustainable’ energy sources are to blame for price rises that coming down the lione long before the first Russian boot stepped over ~Ukraine’s border?
Managing without Russia’s energy supplies will hit the Germany economy hard. German industry and domestic energy supplies have relied heavily on imported Russian natural gas since Germany’s influential but idiotic Green lobby pressured Angela Merkel into abandoning coal and nuclear in favour of wind and solar electricity generators. Germany imported 32 per cent of its gas from Russia in December and wants to reduce that by two-thirds over the next year but has no viable alternative and even Germany’s brilliant engineers cannot conjure current from wind turbines when the wind does not blow or from solar panels when the sun does not shine.
Energy prices throughout Europe were skyrocketing before any economic sanctions were impised on Russia. The energy crunch caused by the failure of green energy policies, and exacerbated by economies restarting after lockdowns, saw UK energy regulator Ofgem raise the energy price cap by 54 per cent, but oil and gas price increases throughout 2021 had already driven dozens of companies out of business by February, 2022.
Higher prices would normally be hard to explain for a governing party committed to the traditional Conservative principle of keeping living costs in check. ‘But the war has changed the narrative in a number of ways,’ says one Conservative lawmaker, ‘the cost of living crunch can also now be blamed on something out of our control.’
Debt servicing payments are increasing by billions of pounds month by month, as nations, already half buried under the mountain of debt they incurred in order to fund the insanity of their pandemic responses now have to flood their economies with even more fiat money to stave of the effects of global price inflation. That, for Johnson and Biden, has meant trying to blame their economic woes on Russia. It might work, but rising prices aren’t a recent phenomenon: they were being shaped by government decision-making long before sanctions hit.
In Britain, inflation has been outpacing official forecasts for months – and was expected to hit 7 per cent even before Ukraine was invaded. One Secretary of State expects the headline rate to hit double digits before the end of the year. In Joe Biden’s America runaway inflation is running even faster with the year on year increase in consumer prices having already topped 8 per cent.
Blaming their economic woes on Russia’s conflict in Ukraine probably seems an easy way out for political shtsters like Johnson and Biden. It would have worked too (to borrow a phrase from Scooby Doo villains,) but for that pesky virus interfereing. No doubt Russia’s war is a serious, and increasing, problem, prticularly when we consider the likely effect of the ban on Ammonium Nitrate (fertiliser) exports to the west. But two years of relentless scaremongering propaganda used to prop up the pandemic narrative have almost destroyed public trust in politics and the madia. Rising prices aren’t a recent phenomenon: they were being shaped by government decision-making, the economic damages caused by unnecessary and ineffective lockdowns and the suspension of commercial activity as entire nations were placed under house arrest, long before sanctions started to contribute to the latest spike in energy prices.
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Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his ‘red lines’ in Ukraine …
Sanctions have failed, the Russian rouble is stronger than before the war Looking at the financial data earlier today I noticed that the Russian rouble is now worth more against the US dollar than it was before conflict broke out in Ukraine. On the 22nd of February this year, one US dollar would exchange for just over 79 rubles. As of the time of writing, it is now 78 …
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