RUSSIA & NOVOROSSIYA

V. PUTIN—Being part of a diverse Russian civilisation means happiness, but, let me repeat, it also means responsibility and duty. Our civilisation is distinct. It has its own path and there is not a bit of arrogance or a feeling of superiority in this. This civilisation of ours – this is what’s important to us.

And we will fight for our Fatherland, our homeland of which there is only one, for our independence and sovereignty, for our culture and traditions. We will uphold and defend this in the name of our ancestors and our descendants, for the sake of Russia, its great history and its great future.

Outrageously, but all too typically, the Western press, led by the rotten US media, a bunch of shameless overpaid stenographers to power, has chosen to virtually ignore or aggressively distort the words of Russia’s top officials, Pres. Putin and MoD chief General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. This at a moment when the world could easily slip into a huge global conflagration. Talk about gross dereliction of duty.

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.

ERIC 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.

LARRY JOHNSON—The Ukrainian offensive near Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north is failing. That explains why Ukrainian President Zelensky imposed restrictions the other day on what news western correspondents could report from the front. In fact, many of these reporters were pulled from the front lines. Do you think Ukraine would do that if they were pounding the hell out of the Russians and forcing the Russians to retreat? No. The west would be flooded with videos of triumphant Ukrainian troops celebrating victory. Instead of celebrations, there are videos surfacing showing Ukrainian losses in the aftermath of their failed attempt to capture the Zaporhyzhia Nuclear Power Plant (aka NPP).