ECONOMIST MICHAEL HUDSON GIVES AN INTERVIEW TO A GERMAN MAGAZINE:

Q: What real effect do the sanctions have according to your analysis?

Hudson: The #US #sanctions have turned out to be an unanticipated godsend for #Russia.

In agriculture, for instance, sanctions against Lithuanian and other Baltic dairy exports has led to a flowering of a domestic Russian cheese and dairy sector.

Russia is now the world’s largest #grain exporter, thanks to the Western sanctions that have had much the same effect as protective tariffs and import quotas of the sort that the United States used in the 1930s to modernize its agricultural sector.

If President #Biden were a secret Russian agent, he hardly could have helped Russia more.

Russia needed the economic isolation of protectionism, but was still too entranced by neoliberal free-trade policy to do this by itself. So the U.S. did it for it.

Sanctions oblige countries to become more self-reliant, at least in basic needs such as food and energy.

This self-reliance is the best defense against U.S. economic destabilization to force regime change and similar compliance.

One effect is that Russia will need to buy much less from Europe even after the fighting in Ukraine ends.

There will be less need for Russia to export raw materials to Europe. It can work these up themselves.

The industrial core that was Europe may end up more in Russia and its Asian allies than in the United States.

That is the ironic result of NATO’s new Iron Curtain."

LOL
#STFU

#climate
#hoax
#vaccine
#covid

My first thought was

"The US has released another #BioWeapon"

UNKNOWN MOUTH-BLEEDING DISEASE KILLS TWO IN AFGHANISTAN, MANY SICK

Two people have died from an unknown disease in Zabul, Afghanistan, and more have fallen ill, Taliban health officials say.

The symptoms appear to include high fever and bleeding from the mouth and nose.

Abdul Hakim Hakimi, the Head for Public Health Department says efforts are being made to combat the spreading sickness.

This is a US Navy training video 😂

No, seriously..... #USNavy personnel have to sit through this incoherent nonsense.

They have to be a pronoun/gender "ally" otherwise they will be punished.

There is no alternative.

You must be an "ally" whether you like it or not.

Russell Brand: “It’s a scam. The objective isn’t to get the farmers to behave in an organic, responsible, ecologically apposite manner. Far from it. It’s in order to bankrupt the farmers so that their land can be grabbed.”

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I'm not a fan of #RussellBrand.

I think he is every bit as much of a scam artist as the people he is complaining about in the above video.

But: his complaints in this video are not wrong.

It is about dispossessing the smaller farmers, degrading/destroying our food supply and increasing food insecurity.

🇩🇪📈 The energy bill for a bakery in Germany.
From 721 euros to 2588 euros,per month...

But Annalena Baerbock is worried about supplying money and weapons to Ukraine,not about this

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Live footage of #Zelensky's trip to #Washington

Vladimir Putin: "We have been trying for decades to build relations with Ukraine."

"Well, we have done everything to build not just good neighborly but fraternal relations in the new geophysical conditions. Russia gave loans to Ukraine, energy resources were supplied almost free of charge – for years! And what... None of our acts of kindness have reached the desired end.
I want to emphasize this – we have nothing to reproach ourselves with, I say this with full responsibility. We have always – and you know my position – considered the Ukrainian people a fraternal people. I still think so. What is happening now is certainly a tragedy, our common tragedy!

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Chinese-Russian #oil and #gas trade ignores ridiculous western "#pricecap"

CHINA’S IMPORTS OF RUSSIAN ENERGY HAVE SURGED BY $27 BILLION SINCE INVASION

#Chinese imports of Liquid Natural #Gas (#LNG) from #Russia doubled to 852,000 tons in November compared to the same month in 2021.

#Oil imports from Russia also jumped last month, by 17%, and Russia beat #SaudiArabia to be China’s top oil supplier in November, according to the data.

Chinese imports of Russian #coal surged by 41%, doubling from November 2021, although they were off the record high from September this year.

This month, many independent Chinese refiners based in the Shandong province have continued to buy Russian crude and are ignoring the price cap imposed by Western countries.

Indian-Russian #oil and #gas trade ignores ridiculous western  "#pricecap"

INDIA'S MODI IGNORES WESTERN SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

For India, the reorientation of #Russian economic diplomacy toward the #Asian region presents huge business opportunities.

Who would have thought nine months ago that Russia was going to be the largest supplier of oil to #India, leapfrogging #Iraq, #SaudiArabia and the #US?

According to Reuters, India purchased about 40% of all export volumes of Russian Urals-grade oil transported by sea in November, when #European countries accounted for 25%, #Turkey 15% and #China 5%.

The figures speak for themselves: in November, while Russia supplied 909,000 barrels of crude oil to India per day, the corresponding figures were for #Iraq (861,000), #SaudiArabia (570,000), and the #US (405,000)

Suffice it to say that when Modi upfront listed energy as his talking point with Putin, it reconfirms that India is giving a wide berth to the G7’s hare-brained scheme to impose a #pricecap on Russian oil exports. 

◾ Colleagues from @VoZmezdie2022 have a series of exclusive testimonies about the killing of civilians in Mariupol by Ukrainian troops:

◾ Ukrainian War Criminal: Bochkarev Ivan Ruslanovich, call sign "The Witcher", born 02.07.1998, military unit 3057, "Azov", driver-shooter of the reconnaissance group of the Special Forces.

◾According to his testimony, in Mariupol he personally killed 4 civilians and later on participated in several more killings alongside other Ukrainian soldiers.

◾Episode 1:

- The commander saw a civilian vehicle with the letter Z, and an order was given to open fire... I personally fired about 30 shots. There were 4 civilians in the car.

◾ Original post:
t.me/VoZmezdie2022/7973 (more testimonies from this criminal coming).

◾Follow:
t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses