That was with the interview Zelensky had with Arand, the crazy Indian talk show guy. It looks like the US and Israel have already turned down the request, so he's trying to get as many countries to pledge to defend the Ukraine as possible.
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Just what's wrong paying Russian gas with Rubel ? Aside from sanction tho. EU are rich and should be ablet to just hoard rubel as many as they want. Buying large stocks and get done with it.
I wonder why such was never done....
Caitlin Johnstone: US officials admit they're literally just lying to the public about Russia
From spreading no-evidence claims to outright lying, all is fair to 'get inside Putin’s head', apparentlyBy Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is and you can follow her on Twitter
NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid."
The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out "intelligence" about Russia's plans in Ukraine that is "low-confidence" or "based more on analysis than hard evidence", or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin.
The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin's advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China.
Excerpt, emphasis mine:
It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.
It’s one of a string of examples of the Biden administration’s breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn’t rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance.
So they lied. They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied. They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was true, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential media outlets in the western world.
Another example of the Biden administration releasing a false narrative as part of its "information war":
Likewise, a charge that Russia had turned to China for potential military help lacked hard evidence, a European official and two U.S. officials said.
The U.S. officials said there are no indications China is considering providing weapons to Russia. The Biden administration put that out as a warning to China not to do so, they said.
On the empire's that Putin is being misled by his advisors because they are afraid of telling him the truth, NBC reports that this assessment "wasn’t conclusive — based more on analysis than hard evidence."
I'd actually this ridiculous CIA press release when it was uncritically published disguised as a breaking news report by The New York Times:
We'd with State Department Spokesman Ned Price's bizarre February impersonation of Alex Jones, where he wrongly claimed that Russia was about to release a "false flag" video using crisis actors to justify its invasion:
Other US government lies discussed in the NBC report were less cute:
In another disclosure, U.S. officials said one reason not to provide Ukraine with MiG fighter jets is that intelligence showed Russia would view the move as escalatory.
That was true, but it was also true of Stinger missiles, which the Biden administration did provide, two U.S. officials said, adding that the administration declassified the MiG information to bolster the argument not to provide them to Ukraine.
So the Biden administration knew it was sending weapons to Ukraine that would be perceived by a nuclear superpower as a provocative escalation, sent them anyway, and then lied about it. Cool, cool, cool.
This NBC report confirms rumors we've been hearing for months. Professional war cheerleader Max Boot via The Council on Foreign Relations think tank in February that the Biden administration had ushered in "a new era of info ops" with intelligence releases designed not to tell the truth but to influence Putin's decisions. Former MI6 chief John Sawers in February that the Biden administration's "intelligence" releases were based more on a general vibe than actual intelligence, and were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.
And in case you were wondering, no, NBC did not just publish a major leak by whistleblowers within the US government who are bravely exposing the lies of the powerful with the help of the free press. One of the article's authors is Ken Dilanian, who in 2014 was to have worked as a literal CIA asset while writing for The LA Times. If you see Dilanian's name in a byline, you may be certain that you are reading exactly what the managers of the US empire want you to read.
So why are they telling us all this now? Is the US government not worried that it will lose the trust of the public by admitting that it is continuously lying about its most high-profile international conflict? And if this is an "information war" designed to "get inside Putin’s head" as NBC's sources claim, wouldn't openly reporting it through the mainstream press completely defeat the purpose?
Well, the answer to those questions is where it gets really creepy. I welcome everyone's feedback and theories on the matter, but as near as I can figure the only reason the US government would release this story to the public is because they want the general public to know about it. And the only plausible reason I can think of that they would want the public to know about it is that they are confident the public will consent to being lied to.
To get a better sense of what I'm getting at, it helps to watch the in which Dilanian and NBC anchor Alison Morris enthuse about how brilliant and wonderful it is that the Biden administration is employing these psychological warfare tactics to mess with Putin's mind:
The message an indoctrinated NBC viewer will get when watching this segment is, "Isn't this awesome? Our president is pulling off all these cool 3D chess moves to beat Putin, and we're kind of a part of it!"
It's been obvious for a long time that the US empire has been to strengthen its via , , Silicon Valley , and the normalization of the . We may now simply be at the stage of imperial narrative control where they can begin openly manufacturing the consent of the public to be lied to for their own good.
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They need a middle man, in order to circumvent possible US sabotage/counter-action.
Those who lived in Guangdong or Fujian in 80s should know how potent smuggling could become if there is enough profit in it. A common joke back then was that the PLAN patrol boats could not catch up with smugglers' fast boats, which had 3 or 4 Yamaha engines bolted on them. The point is that, given the shortage situation and the trend in Europe, countries and people will do whatever they can come up in order to feed their families. In a sense, this is a twisted "People Power" with European characteristics.
In the classical sense, a guarantor country commits itself to going to war with the aggressor if the country to which it offered its security guaranty is attacked. Usually the term of guaranty would be long, like 50 years, 99 years, or in perpetuity.
China and India can have a strong interest in being part of the organization adjudicating disputes in the ceasefire or settlement in the current war.
but what interest of theirs would justify committing themselves to going to war with Russia over Ukraine?
None really.
At least for China (probably also India) they probably wouldn't mind doing it if it was under the UNSC (so like also together with US, UK, France and Russia) which would make it kind of like the Iran deal (but well, Trump set a pretty bad precedent with him pulling US out of the deal).
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you would think that but after 8 weeks Russians dont seem to adjust their tactics
For the last two weeks, Russians are not attacking. I think Putin is trying to decide either to go all in or wrap this thing up after Mariupol "victory".
Some action's on the way. T-80Us coming head on, a rare sight.
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