FERNANDO TRUJILLO—After her death Joan of Arc was canonized as a saint and became the patron saint of France, just like Daria was given the Order of Courage posthumously on behalf of Vladimir Putin’s government, the highest honor in Russia. After their assassinations, Joan and Daria triumphed against death by transcending it and becoming saints and heroes.
US GOVERNMENT CRIMES
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Fraudulent Yale School of Management Report Says Russia Will Be Crushed by Western Sanctions
18 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—This war against Russia is a U.S.-and-allied war against Russia; and it is mainly a U.S. war against Russia which is being waged by not only America (which profits from it) but by America’s European colonies or vassal-states, America’s “allies,” as they call these nations — which will be losing disastrously from it.
So: that 118-page study is designed to sucker fools (perhaps especially ones in Europe), by burying its implicit basic and false assumption that it is about “world markets” being customers of Russia’s “commodity exports,” instead of about the U.S.-allied European countries being customers of Russia’s gas and oil — and those countries are THE ONES that will NOW be paying VASTLY HIGHER prices for THOSE commodities, than previously, because they will now be buying LNG instead of (far cheaper) pipelined gas, and they will now be buying shipped oils instead of (likewise cheaper) pipelined oils.
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DECLAN HAYES—North Korea’s offer to send 100,000 peace workers to Eastern Ukraine is as much a game changer as was the appearance of the Red Army’s Siberian Divisions during the 1941-2 Battle of Moscow when Hitler’s exhausted Wehrmacht seemed on the verge of victory. Irrespective of whether Russia takes them up on the offer or not, because North Korea’s offer to trade their brawn for oil and grain has changed the status quo not only in Ukraine but in Syria, Iran and all other front line states as well, their offer is worth studying in more detail than that Newsweek and other discredited NATO outlets gave it.
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THE UKRAINE CONFLICT: Short news summary and some week-end music
13 minutes readTHE SAKER—Speaking about Western “observers”. I can personally declare that I know for a fact that typically half of them are full-time intelligence officers.
I still continue to think that Russia ought to withdraw from any and all western-controlled international organizations which are “international” only in name, but which are financed by western powers and which, therefore, a run by western agents.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—All eyes are on whether “centers of decision” – as in Kiev – may soon get a Kinzhal visit. This would signify Moscow has had enough. The siloviki certainly did. But we’re not there – yet. Because for an eminently diplomatic Putin the real game revolves around those gas supplies to the EU, that puny plaything of American foreign policy.
Putin is certainly aware that the internal front is under some pressure. He refuses even partial mobilization. A perfect indicator of what may happen in winter is the referenda in liberated territories. The limit date is November 4 – the Day of National Unity, a commemoration introduced in 2004 to replace the celebration of the October revolution.