The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced in Moscow on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin will travel to Tehran on July 19, to take part in a tripartite meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts as part of the Astana peace process to end the war in Syria as well as hold a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
Putin’s summit next week will strengthen ties with Iran, Turkey
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NYC Prepares for the ‘Big One’ With Nuclear Attack PSA Video
In the event of a nuclear disaster, would you know what to do? If you’re a New York City resident, there’s a YouTube video for that.
NYC Prepares for the ‘Big One’ With Nuclear Attack PSA Video
Ukraine – The West’s Response As It Meets With Reality
SATURDAY, 18 JUNE 2022 — MOON OF ALABAMA
This morning I watched an hour long discussion (vid) by ‘experts’ at the Center for Strategic & International Studies about assessing Russia’s war in Ukraine. I have to say that these folks know nothing that is relevant. They seem to have never heard of Sun Tsu’s dictum ‘Know your enemy’:
Sun Tzu says, “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy,” but how do you become your enemy? You need to put yourself in the place of your enemy so you can predict his actions.
Ukraine – The West’s Response As It Meets With Reality
NATO runs into multipolar world order
Germans say the moment of truth for most children comes at the end of Grade 4 when primary education ends in Grundschule. By that reckoning, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 73 is in “second childishness and mere oblivion / Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything” — to borrow from Jaques’ famous soliloquy in Shakespeare’s As you Like It.
NATO runs into multipolar world order
Turkish-Kurdish Tensions in Syria Expose NATO Dysfunction
Jun 12, 2022 | Military activity in northern Syria is accelerating, Turkey is intent on striking at US-backed Kurdish militants who in turn are seeking aid not from the US but from Syria and Russia.
The situation in Syria is another illustration of the true nature of US foreign policy and another glimpse at what becomes of America’s many “partners.”
— The New Atlas (New Atlas on Telegram) (Video on Odysee)
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” – Henry Kissinger
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Turkey urges Russia to fulfill deals to clear N. Syria of terrorists
Ankara says it must act because Washington and Moscow failed to keep their promise to push the YPG 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border after a 2019 Turkish operation, adding that attacks from YPG-controlled areas have increased.
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In 2019, an operation into northeast Syria against the YPG drew widespread international condemnation, prompting Finland, Sweden and others to restrict arms sales to Turkey. Now Turkey is blocking the two Nordic countries’ historic bid to join NATO because of the weapons ban and their support of the terrorist group.
Turkey tells Russia it will respond to destabilising moves in north Syria
US-backed Syrian Kurds to turn to Damascus if Turkey attacks
Assad explains why Syria is sticking with Russia
The attacks increase as Turkey disapproves of Finland & Sweden’s NATO memberships?! Coincidence?! NOT!!
Read More »Poland: Civil Unrest As Fuel Prices Soar High After Russia Bans Key Polish Pipelines
Poland: Civil Unrest As Fuel Prices Soar High After Russia Bans Key Polish Pipelines
Poland urged EU to impose ‘punitive sanctions’ on Russian oil
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Polish motorists block petrol station in protest of high fuel prices
These [fuel] prices have already caused some unrest. In the town of Bielsko-Biała on Sunday, several drivers who pretended their cars had broken down blocked a petrol station of the partially state-owned PKN Orlen fuel company, local media reported.
Massive “failure” in Orlen. The cars blocked the entrance to the petrol station
The price of the euro is falling. The dollar is falling. The zloty is getting stronger and the fuel is going up. I don’t think it is sticky. Economically, no one can explain why – says Szymon Twardak , one of the participants of the action at the Orlen station.
The drivers have blocked the petrol station again. This time, not one
Poland Suggests Expanding EU’s Seventh Tranche Of Sanctions Against Russia
The end of ‘laissez-faire’: Russia’s attempt to reshape the world economy
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | June 8, 2022
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others. Lavrov’s main objective of these visits is to strengthen ties between Russia and GCC nations amid a global race for geopolitical dominance.
The end of ‘laissez-faire’: Russia’s attempt to reshape the world economy
Arms race in the Bundestag
by Peter Schwarz, WSWS, Jun 4 2022
It is hard to say what is more repulsive about the level of debate in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag: the contributions of the speakers or the media coverage
Arms race in the Bundestag
Biden: U.S. will provide precision rockets to Ukraine
Biden: U.S. will provide precision rockets to Ukraine
The U.S. will provide Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems and precision-guided munitions that will give them an edge on the battlefield, President Joe Biden wrote in an opinion article in the New York Times published Tuesday.
But Kyiv has given the United States assurances that the new weapons will be used in Ukraine and not against targets in Russia, senior administration officials told reporters after Biden’s op-ed was published.
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The HIMARS and its munitions are part of a new $700 million aid package for Ukraine, which will be announced on Wednesday, the officials said. The package also includes counterfire radars, a number of air surveillance radars, additional Javelin anti-tank missiles, anti-armor weapons, additional artillery rounds, helicopters, additional tactical vehicles and spare parts, the second official said.
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Kremlin does not trust Zelensky’s promises not to attack Russia with US-made rockets
Russia warns West against providing Ukraine long-range weaponry
Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
The joint air patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Monday by an air task force composed of Russian Tu-95MS capable of carrying nuclear weapons and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers couldn’t have been a knee-jerk reaction to US President Joe Biden’s Asia tour, leave alone his provocative remarks conjuring up an apocalyptic US-China war over Taiwan.
Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
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