It's not the first time (this week) Karl that you've questioned RT's motive(s) for leaving out passages or worse still editing (doctoring) the actual content of important transcripts.
Andrei Martyanov doesn't trust them . . . much.
I thought they were partly state funded, I could be wrong.
Andrei, who I have the greatest respect for seemingly sees them as not much better than liberal 5th columnists.
I suppose after their treatment, well outright ban from Mr West, they should no longer be under any illusion regarding the integrity of said Junta.
I have often felt great sympathy, probably the wrong word, for Sergey Lavrov having for over 2 decades spoken out against the double standards of the so-called western ruling elite till blue in the face, well red. Possibly, hopefully, for the first time, his US counterpart(s) acknowledge, appreciate his brilliance and show him the respect deserving of his incredible talent, resolve, especially this late in the day, his twilight years as a diplomat.
I was pleased when President Trump alluded to the tribulations President Putin must have went through during, throughout the Russia-gate Hoax.
In a transactional sense, Europe has nothing to offer the USA other than a role as consumers in the world supermarket. The supermarket goods mostly are cultivated and manufactured elsewhere. Whereas Russia is a resource and refinery and fabricator, that is also what USA imagines itself to be again sometime soon but in the meantime is a financier swindler finagler. China is in the producer club as well and so is BRICS but USA will studiously ignore that as it sets up its new arrangements outside of the European club. Follow the money. It is a worthwhile direction for the USA but it will only succeed through peace and will need to absolutely change its style - I doubt it can.
Thanks for the Lavrov report and I share your reservation re RT. They have a tendency to 'frame' their reporting but is often comes out as clumsily skewed.
'Back in January 2022, I met with then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He said that NATO is none of our business. They can only promise that the number of medium-range missiles they will deploy in Ukraine will be limited in a certain way. '
This, together with the UK plans to construct a naval base on the Sea of Azov...but we're still getting : 'totally unprovoked aggression' from Western media. I suppose being Russian implies being patient - being a Russian diplomat obviously means having the patience of a saint.
In my long life, I have never seen such a willful denial of the potential disaster of Europe going to war against Russia.
The French polymath Michael Serres in an interview with Bruno Latour recounts his experience
"The War Generation
MS My contemporaries will recognize themselves in what I have to say first. Here is the vital environment of those who were born, like me, around 1930: at age six, the war of 1936 in Spain; at age nine, the blitzkrieg of 1939, defeat and debacle; at age twelve, the split between the Resistance and the collaborators, the tragedy of the concentration camps and deportations; at age fourteen, Liberation and the settling of scores it brought with it in France; at age fifteen, Hiroshima. In short, from age nine to seventeen, when the body and sensitivity are being formed, it was the reign of hunger and rationing, death and bombings, a thousand crimes. We continued immediately with the colonial wars, in Indochina and then in Algeria. Between birth and age twenty-five (the age of military service and of war again, since then it was North Africa, followed by the Suez expedition) around me, for me-for us, around us-there was nothing but battles. War, always war. Thus, I was six for my first dead bodies, twenty-six for the last ones. Have I answered you sufficiently about what has made my contemporaries "gun-shy"?"
The only thing Europe can do is to continue the terrorist attacks against Russia and hope that Russia won't respond by destroying military installations in Europe. If Russia followed the US game plan, they would start by attacking London, Paris or other major cities.
Thanks Karl. Great work. There's been praise for your work recently at Andrei's blog, and at Sonar21.
What has been interesting is the way London has been drawn out; it is becoming clearer that the City and its prime mover are behind this war drive and are desperate - is a solvency crisis in the wings? The LBMA question - where's the gold? The UK lacks the muscle and via the (RINOs and DNC) proxies the US acted. Now Trump says that the EU was created to bilk the US, yes, an unelected bureaucracy with its WEF agenda of lords and serfs. Now the EU clown show says that the serfs must pay via a new banking arrangement to fund war.
If Trump removes the supports, the weapons, ISR, personnel from Ukraine that will be an interesting tell. If you take Starmer at his word then the UK is gearing up to send troops, well FAFO.
BTW, it's looking like Stellantis is in deep trouble; and that's true for all of the European car industry from MB to VW. They're hoping that someone like SAIC will buy Maserati; but will they want it, and will Meloni let that through? It is only March.
NATO/EU could collapse as US is completely indifferent, almost hostile. Big Switch! The Ukies are toast if ISR is removed. The Iskander strike on the UK arms shipment when it arrived in Odessa was a direct warning to the Brits. What matters now are deeds if trust is to be restored with Russia by Team Trump.
I’ve had a rush of subscribers from Larry’s but can’t find what’s prompted them. What will this week bring?
We still need to see Trump's administration stopping the flow of arms, intelligence, etc. to Ukraine. Until then, what we saw the other day was just kabuki theatre!
The UK may lack the muscle but it makes up with mendacity and novichok. I am sure they will go too far and consequently get smacked down this time around. But then that is likely a collision between wishful thinking and my concept of karma with a tint of revenge.
The absence of USA sourced targeting data and technicians could be decisive in Ukraine rocketry and drone effectiveness but we shall see if the UK can make up for that. A major ground maneuver against the banderites in a couple of months might be the vital coup de gras needed. Right now the logistics of mud rule the battle.
The best description of the UK would be "Black Adder Goes Forth". They're addicted to their cunning plans and manipulations, but fail to recognise they no longer have the talent to pull them off.
Lavrov: "Back in January 2022, I met with then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He said that NATO is none of our business. They can only promise that the number of medium-range missiles they will deploy in Ukraine will be limited in a certain way. That's all. This is also hypocrisy, impunity, exceptionalism and superhumanity."
-- An excellent description of zionist power over the collective west: "Hypocrisy, impunity, exceptionalism, and superhumanity." And, as a result, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, rivers of blood and mounds of flesh. Also, there is the largest ever numbers of pediatric amputees in Gaza.
Blinked and Nuland-Kagan, the vulgar and obnoxious progeny of shtetls' degenerates, are immune to reason and humanness. They though can't stop whining about their "special victimhood" and "superior morality."
It's not the first time (this week) Karl that you've questioned RT's motive(s) for leaving out passages or worse still editing (doctoring) the actual content of important transcripts.
Andrei Martyanov doesn't trust them . . . much.
I thought they were partly state funded, I could be wrong.
Andrei, who I have the greatest respect for seemingly sees them as not much better than liberal 5th columnists.
I suppose after their treatment, well outright ban from Mr West, they should no longer be under any illusion regarding the integrity of said Junta.
This instance is egregious because it involves a very high state official who said some important things.
I have often felt great sympathy, probably the wrong word, for Sergey Lavrov having for over 2 decades spoken out against the double standards of the so-called western ruling elite till blue in the face, well red. Possibly, hopefully, for the first time, his US counterpart(s) acknowledge, appreciate his brilliance and show him the respect deserving of his incredible talent, resolve, especially this late in the day, his twilight years as a diplomat.
I was pleased when President Trump alluded to the tribulations President Putin must have went through during, throughout the Russia-gate Hoax.
Hope springs eternal.
Yes, but deeds still rule.
In a transactional sense, Europe has nothing to offer the USA other than a role as consumers in the world supermarket. The supermarket goods mostly are cultivated and manufactured elsewhere. Whereas Russia is a resource and refinery and fabricator, that is also what USA imagines itself to be again sometime soon but in the meantime is a financier swindler finagler. China is in the producer club as well and so is BRICS but USA will studiously ignore that as it sets up its new arrangements outside of the European club. Follow the money. It is a worthwhile direction for the USA but it will only succeed through peace and will need to absolutely change its style - I doubt it can.
Thanks for the Lavrov report and I share your reservation re RT. They have a tendency to 'frame' their reporting but is often comes out as clumsily skewed.
Do read Escobar’s SCF article.
Regarding Zelensky's fate, Venik has just posted this short, but excellent article: venik.substack.com/p/exit-stage-left-volodymyr
'Back in January 2022, I met with then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He said that NATO is none of our business. They can only promise that the number of medium-range missiles they will deploy in Ukraine will be limited in a certain way. '
This, together with the UK plans to construct a naval base on the Sea of Azov...but we're still getting : 'totally unprovoked aggression' from Western media. I suppose being Russian implies being patient - being a Russian diplomat obviously means having the patience of a saint.
In my long life, I have never seen such a willful denial of the potential disaster of Europe going to war against Russia.
The French polymath Michael Serres in an interview with Bruno Latour recounts his experience
"The War Generation
MS My contemporaries will recognize themselves in what I have to say first. Here is the vital environment of those who were born, like me, around 1930: at age six, the war of 1936 in Spain; at age nine, the blitzkrieg of 1939, defeat and debacle; at age twelve, the split between the Resistance and the collaborators, the tragedy of the concentration camps and deportations; at age fourteen, Liberation and the settling of scores it brought with it in France; at age fifteen, Hiroshima. In short, from age nine to seventeen, when the body and sensitivity are being formed, it was the reign of hunger and rationing, death and bombings, a thousand crimes. We continued immediately with the colonial wars, in Indochina and then in Algeria. Between birth and age twenty-five (the age of military service and of war again, since then it was North Africa, followed by the Suez expedition) around me, for me-for us, around us-there was nothing but battles. War, always war. Thus, I was six for my first dead bodies, twenty-six for the last ones. Have I answered you sufficiently about what has made my contemporaries "gun-shy"?"
The only thing Europe can do is to continue the terrorist attacks against Russia and hope that Russia won't respond by destroying military installations in Europe. If Russia followed the US game plan, they would start by attacking London, Paris or other major cities.
Worth saving so that excerpts can be sent to war hungry friends in the EU. I have some.
Gen Stavridis said that the end of NATO is near. One can only hope.
Thanks Karl. Great work. There's been praise for your work recently at Andrei's blog, and at Sonar21.
What has been interesting is the way London has been drawn out; it is becoming clearer that the City and its prime mover are behind this war drive and are desperate - is a solvency crisis in the wings? The LBMA question - where's the gold? The UK lacks the muscle and via the (RINOs and DNC) proxies the US acted. Now Trump says that the EU was created to bilk the US, yes, an unelected bureaucracy with its WEF agenda of lords and serfs. Now the EU clown show says that the serfs must pay via a new banking arrangement to fund war.
If Trump removes the supports, the weapons, ISR, personnel from Ukraine that will be an interesting tell. If you take Starmer at his word then the UK is gearing up to send troops, well FAFO.
BTW, it's looking like Stellantis is in deep trouble; and that's true for all of the European car industry from MB to VW. They're hoping that someone like SAIC will buy Maserati; but will they want it, and will Meloni let that through? It is only March.
NATO/EU could collapse as US is completely indifferent, almost hostile. Big Switch! The Ukies are toast if ISR is removed. The Iskander strike on the UK arms shipment when it arrived in Odessa was a direct warning to the Brits. What matters now are deeds if trust is to be restored with Russia by Team Trump.
I’ve had a rush of subscribers from Larry’s but can’t find what’s prompted them. What will this week bring?
We still need to see Trump's administration stopping the flow of arms, intelligence, etc. to Ukraine. Until then, what we saw the other day was just kabuki theatre!
Meloni sold critical telecom infrastructure to Americans (KKR). She would even sell her mom to Trump, trust me!
Escobar has an excellent article at SCF regarding China’s tech sector. I’ll give it more visibility. Toward the end he mentions and links to an interview with DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng that’s behind a paywall. I found another interview that’s likely very similar here, https://medium.com/@bingqian/inside-deepseek-an-interview-with-founder-liang-wenfeng-on-ai-disruption-and-agi-4c5db26091c2
Do note the societal, not profit, goal—Very Confucian.
The UK may lack the muscle but it makes up with mendacity and novichok. I am sure they will go too far and consequently get smacked down this time around. But then that is likely a collision between wishful thinking and my concept of karma with a tint of revenge.
The absence of USA sourced targeting data and technicians could be decisive in Ukraine rocketry and drone effectiveness but we shall see if the UK can make up for that. A major ground maneuver against the banderites in a couple of months might be the vital coup de gras needed. Right now the logistics of mud rule the battle.
The best description of the UK would be "Black Adder Goes Forth". They're addicted to their cunning plans and manipulations, but fail to recognise they no longer have the talent to pull them off.
Lavrov: "Back in January 2022, I met with then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He said that NATO is none of our business. They can only promise that the number of medium-range missiles they will deploy in Ukraine will be limited in a certain way. That's all. This is also hypocrisy, impunity, exceptionalism and superhumanity."
-- An excellent description of zionist power over the collective west: "Hypocrisy, impunity, exceptionalism, and superhumanity." And, as a result, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, rivers of blood and mounds of flesh. Also, there is the largest ever numbers of pediatric amputees in Gaza.
Blinked and Nuland-Kagan, the vulgar and obnoxious progeny of shtetls' degenerates, are immune to reason and humanness. They though can't stop whining about their "special victimhood" and "superior morality."