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This video provides analysis. I wanna apologize in advance for not translating some of the Chinese stuff - I don't wanna leak info to the enemy.
Sorry if some one already posted these links here:
Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China
MULTIPOLARISTA - BEN NORTON
ALSO:
SHORT: Debt Trap Diplomacy - Who Really Owns Sri Lanka's Debt?
THE NEW ATLAS -- BRIAN BERLETIC (aka Tony Cartalucci) 2022.07.12LONG VERSION:
Oorlog tussen fictie en realiteit - John Laughland bij het Oekraïne Symposium
War Between Fiction and Reality - JOHN LAUGHLAND at the Ukraine Symposium (2022.07.11)
The Western geopolitics is a web of fictions. We pursue abstract ideals, or install unsustainable regimes that are in no way suited to the local population. We see where that leads. JOHN LAUGHLAND spoke about it at our Ukraine Symposium.
English presentation arranged by the Dutch community, thus titled in Dutch
A MUST WATCH! JOHN LAUGHLAND EXPOUNDS THE MATTERS IN HIGH CLARITY
War Between Fiction and Reality - JOHN LAUGHLAND at the Ukraine Symposium (2022.07.11)
The Western geopolitics is a web of fictions. We pursue abstract ideals, or install unsustainable regimes that are in no way suited to the local population. We see where that leads. JOHN LAUGHLAND spoke about it at our Ukraine Symposium.
English presentation arranged by the Dutch community, thus titled in Dutch
A MUST WATCH! JOHN LAUGHLAND EXPOUNDS THE MATTERS IN HIGH CLARITY
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I only know how the Chinese markets work, red is good right?
It's time for Russia to launch the collapse of the European Union (2022.07.12)
Of the four geopolitical players - Russia, China, the United States and the European Union - the EU is the weakest in terms of maintaining integrity. And, choosing between openly hostile Washington and Brussels, it is more rational to focus efforts on the collapse of the latter. After all, it is the European Union, and not Russia, that is the real colonial empire. It is enough just to look at the situation in those post-Soviet republics that were absorbed by it. The population is dying, the industry is being destroyed. The Baltic republics, which lost millions (!) of their inhabitants after secession from the USSR, are a vivid example of this. Catch small fish or go to wash toilets in Western Europe - such is the fate of what was once considered the showcase of the Soviet Union. After all, the European Union is sucking out of its colonies the most valuable resource of the 21st century - people. And the last thing he is interested in is the development of a remote outskirts, which for him is the Baltic.
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As practice has shown, the USSR, represented by Gorbachev, did not listen to the British and French in vain. A rare case - they were absolutely right, but we were not. In the late eighties, London and Paris reacted sharply negatively to the idea of a united Germany. The authorities of the late USSR, on the wave of surrendering everything that was possible, nevertheless agreed that East Germany was absorbed by West.
Precisely absorbed, no matter how much anyone talks about "unification". Of course, later Western political scientists and economists will talk for years about how difficult it was to integrate EAST GERMANY into the FRG and how expensive it was for the German economy. At the same time, all of them, as one, “forget” that, having “swallowed” the GDR, West Germany received at its disposal the most important strategic resource, which to this day is the basis of the well-being of modern Germany -- the ability to receive oil from Russia through a pipe.
As is known, to supply the countries of the socialist bloc, the Soviet Union built the world's largest system of main oil pipelines, Druzhba. Once again: "the largest in the world" and "for the socialist bloc." And what do we see today? It is used by Germany, which supports anti-Russian sanctions. Is it fair? Given that getting oil through a pipe (the cheapest delivery method), the German economy saves billions of euros, it is unlikely. So it would be nice to fix that.
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A very interesting article from the Russian source in English language!
Of the four geopolitical players - Russia, China, the United States and the European Union - the EU is the weakest in terms of maintaining integrity. And, choosing between openly hostile Washington and Brussels, it is more rational to focus efforts on the collapse of the latter. After all, it is the European Union, and not Russia, that is the real colonial empire. It is enough just to look at the situation in those post-Soviet republics that were absorbed by it. The population is dying, the industry is being destroyed. The Baltic republics, which lost millions (!) of their inhabitants after secession from the USSR, are a vivid example of this. Catch small fish or go to wash toilets in Western Europe - such is the fate of what was once considered the showcase of the Soviet Union. After all, the European Union is sucking out of its colonies the most valuable resource of the 21st century - people. And the last thing he is interested in is the development of a remote outskirts, which for him is the Baltic.
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As practice has shown, the USSR, represented by Gorbachev, did not listen to the British and French in vain. A rare case - they were absolutely right, but we were not. In the late eighties, London and Paris reacted sharply negatively to the idea of a united Germany. The authorities of the late USSR, on the wave of surrendering everything that was possible, nevertheless agreed that East Germany was absorbed by West.
Precisely absorbed, no matter how much anyone talks about "unification". Of course, later Western political scientists and economists will talk for years about how difficult it was to integrate EAST GERMANY into the FRG and how expensive it was for the German economy. At the same time, all of them, as one, “forget” that, having “swallowed” the GDR, West Germany received at its disposal the most important strategic resource, which to this day is the basis of the well-being of modern Germany -- the ability to receive oil from Russia through a pipe.
As is known, to supply the countries of the socialist bloc, the Soviet Union built the world's largest system of main oil pipelines, Druzhba. Once again: "the largest in the world" and "for the socialist bloc." And what do we see today? It is used by Germany, which supports anti-Russian sanctions. Is it fair? Given that getting oil through a pipe (the cheapest delivery method), the German economy saves billions of euros, it is unlikely. So it would be nice to fix that.
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A very interesting article from the Russian source in English language!