PRES. VLADIMIR PUTIN—Look, if memory serves me right, back in 1992, the share of the G7 countries in the world economy amounted to 47 per cent, whereas in 2022 it was down to, I think, a little over 30 per cent. The BRICS countries accounted for only 16 per cent in 1992, but now their share is greater than that of the G7. It has nothing to do with the events in Ukraine. This is due to the trends of global development and world economy that I mentioned just now, and this is inevitable. This will keep happening, it is like the rise of the sun — you cannot prevent the sun from rising, you have to adapt to it. How do the United States adapt? With the help of force: sanctions, pressure, bombings, and use of armed forces. This is about self-conceit. Your political establishment does not understand that the world is changing (under objective circumstances), and in order to preserve your level — even if someone aspires, pardon me, to the level of dominance — you have to make the right decisions in a competent and timely manner.
RUSSIAN MIGHT
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Former Google CEO Wants to Build AI Drone Army for Ukraine
35 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—Schmidt claims that, “Ukrainian startups are working around the clock to develop advanced drones that can resist spoofing and jamming.” Yet, this ignores the fact that many more Russians with far greater resources are working around the clock to develop better means of spoofing and jamming.
Ultimately, Schmidt’s “solution” to Ukraine’s losing the drone war (and losing the war in general) is for “Kyiv’s allies” to sustain “financial and technical support.” He never explains how this can be done in a way matching or exceeding Russia’s own efforts to constantly expand its military industrial output in both quantity and quality.
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EDITOR—The panel also discusses Biden’s (the Empire’s) options in regard to the Israel/Palestine conflict. It’s clear the Empire, and especially the Biden admin ·from the p.r. standpoint) has only bad options. If Biden allows Netanyahu to go on genociding the Palestinian people, the reputational damage is enormous. If he orders him to stop, and freezes all financial and military support, he gets in trouble with the powerful Zionist lobby. Either way, it’s clear that the US, the EU and Israel have suffered already a major defeat in their propaganda war, with possible lasting consequences, and, despite their arrogant moves to amplify the war, such as in Yemen or Iran, they may end up losing the war or dragging the whole world into a nuclear confrontation.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The reason why South Korea is performing better than the imperial power isn’t yet clear, but all of the at least major nations in the empire are performing significantly worse than the global average; and both China and Russia (the two major Asian powers) are performing significantly better than any of those U.S.-empire nations is — and significantly better than the global average.
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Garland Nixon: ISRAEL – THE NEOCON SUICIDE PILL
9 minutes readEDITOR—Garland Nixon and his guests take an in-depth look at the social, military and economic crises detonated by the Empire, from Ukraine to the Middle East and the Far East, currently afflicting all continents, and the imperial dynamics eroding the last vestiges of Constitutional rights protecting US citizens from the horrid crimes committed by the Empire outside US borders.