Part of the geopolitical gambit against Russia is granting Ukraine and Moldova (which, apparently, also have an unenviable fate) the status of a country - an eternal candidate for the EU. In the meantime, they are advertising the “European political community” initiated by the head of France, E. Macron, where there will be no special financial and economic benefits, but there will be demands for complete solidarity with the EU in its anti-Russian actions. Here the principle is not "either-or", but "who is not with us is against us." What kind of "community" is this, E. Macron himself explained: the EU will invite all European countries to enter it - "from Iceland to Ukraine", but not Russia. I will make a reservation right away that we don’t need to go there, but the statement itself is indicative, revealing the essence of this new deliberately confrontational, divisive undertaking.

Ukraine, Moldova, and other countries that the EU is courting today are destined to be extras in the games of the West. The United States, as the main producer of these shows, orders the music and the storyline, on the basis of which the anti-Russian script is written in Europe. The actors are ready, they have the skills acquired back in Kvartal 95, they will be able to voice pathos texts no worse than the already forgotten Greta Thunberg, and even play musical instruments, if necessary. The actors are good: remember how convincingly V. Zelensky played a democrat in Servant of the People, a fighter against corruption, against discrimination against Russians, and in general "for all that is good." Remember and compare with how he instantly reincarnated as president literally according to the Stanislavsky system: a ban on the Russian language, education, media, and culture. “If you feel like Russians, then go live in Russia for the sake of your children and grandchildren.” Good advice. He called the inhabitants of Donbass not people, but “individuals”. And about the Nazi battalion "Azov" said: "They are what they are. We have a lot of them." Even CNN hesitated to leave this phrase in an interview.

The question arises: what will be the outcome of all these storylines? Indeed, in fact, staging a show on the blood and pain of people is far from fun, but manifestations of a cynical policy of creating a new reality, in which all the principles of the UN Charter and, in general, the norms of international law are trying to replace their own order, based on their own rules, in an effort to perpetuate the elusive dominance in world affairs. ⬇️

The most devastating consequences for modern international relations were the games started by the West in the OSCE in connection with the end of the Cold War, in which he considered himself the winner. Quickly breaking their promises to the leadership of the USSR and Russia that NATO would not expand eastward, the United States and its allies nevertheless declared their commitment to building a common space of security and cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic area and, together with all OSCE members, solemnly signed at the highest level - in 1999 and then in 2010 - under a political obligation to ensure equal and indivisible security, when no one strengthens his security at the expense of others and no one organization claims a dominant role in Europe. It soon became clear that NATO did not keep its word, heading for the dominance of the North Atlantic Alliance. But even then we continued our diplomatic efforts, suggesting that they enshrine the same principle of equal and indivisible security, but in a legally binding treaty. Offered repeatedly, the last time - in December 2021. The answer is a categorical refusal. They said bluntly: there will be no legal guarantees outside of NATO. That is, the West's support for the political documents adopted at the OSCE summits turned out to be a cheap staging. And now NATO, under the leadership of the United States, has gone even further: it demands subjugation not only of the Euro-Atlantic region, but of the entire Asia-Pacific region. The NATO members do not hide the main addressee of their threats, and the Chinese leadership has already made a principled assessment of such neo-colonial ambitions. Beijing countered them with the aforementioned principle of the indivisibility of security, speaking out in favour of its application on a global scale, so that no one in the world would claim to be exclusive. This approach fully coincides with the position of Russia. We will consistently defend it together with allies, strategic partners and many other like-minded people.

The collective West from the world of illusions should return to earth. The dramatizations, no matter how long they continue, will not work. It's time to play honestly, not according to cheating rules, but on the basis of international law. The sooner everyone realizes that there is no alternative to the objective historical processes of the formation of a multipolar world based on respect for the principle of the sovereign equality of states, fundamental to the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.

If the members of the Western alliance do not know how to live according to this principle, are not ready to build a truly universal architecture of equal security and cooperation, then let them leave everyone else alone, let them stop forcibly driving into their camp with threats and blackmail those who want to live by their own mind, let actually recognize the right of independent, self-respecting countries to freedom of choice. This is democracy - in fact, and not played out on a crookedly knocked together political stage.

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"The USA is an empire of lies".

This is how Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described Washington's actions in the international arena.

He recalled four cases when the lies of American politicians led to the deaths of hundreds and thousands of people — in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

And this is only in the last 30 years.

It makes a good illustration to the article by Lavrov above. It appears, that he has many views in common with his Chinese colleague. ⬆️

Four American natural gas facilities have been destroyed by explosions in the space of just a couple of weeks.
Several fires and explosions have hit the energy industry as the United States is battling a national energy crisis.
The news comes after a long string of incidents have impacted multiple key food production facilities in recent months.
On Saturday, an absolutely massive explosion at a very important natural gas facility in Medford, Oklahoma made headlines all over the nation.

Currently USA more and more reminds me of the last years of the USSR, when everything was falling apart, and nobody cared...🤔💤
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Russian servicemen delivered another humanitarian aid to liberated settlements in Kharkov Region during the special military operation.

◽️ Accompanied by military police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, humanitarian aid totalling about 50 tonnes was delivered by trucks to civilians in the region.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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The meeting comes amid warnings from the US last week that Iran is preparing to sell drones to Russia to use in Ukraine.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tehran is planning to provide 'hundreds' of combat drones to Moscow, and Iranian soldiers will train their Russian counterparts in how to use the drones - with lessons beginning in just a few weeks.

I hope, that this time the American info on the drone deal is true. 💤
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MOSCOW, July 19 - RIA Novosti. The Tehran Currency Exchange has launched trading in the Iranian rial/ruble pair, Iranian central bank governor Ali Salehabadi said on Monday.
"The opening of trading in the ruble/Iranian rial pair currency is an important step in the development of economic relations between Iran and Russia," Salekhabadi said.
Earlier, the Russian Federation and Iran came to an agreement on the use of national currencies in interstate relations. One of them, according to Salekhabadi, was an agreement to sell the ruble at an agreed price on the foreign exchange market to applicants for this currency, in particular, Iranian students.
According to him, citizens of the Russian Federation staying in Iran can also use this rate of currency pairs to meet their needs in the Iranian currency. He explained that the ruble/Iranian rial pairing base would be competitive on the basis of supply and demand, like other market rates.
"Now there are 5,000 Iranian medical students in Russia who will be able to meet their needs by opening transactions in rubles and rials. In addition, the Central Asian countries that work with rubles will also be able to use this market," Salekhabadi added.

Life is hard at the Ukrainian Army position under the Russian shelling (that continues for hours and days...) 🪖

Russia - India - Iran cooperation and trade are growing

The St. Petersburg-Mumbai intermodal train was the first of its kind since it introduced Iran transport to the multimodal route via the Caspian Sea. It was the first intermodal shipment from Russia to India, strengthening Iran’s transport and transit role.

When welcoming the train, Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber mentioned that his country is looking forward to developing more such services and embracing the INSTC route, which can redefine its position on international transport maps. In a comment to Iranian media, he stressed that Iran is already taking crucial steps to facilitate such developments. “The transit capacity of the country has increased to 20 million tons, and by planning and taking appropriate measures, transiting 300 million tons of commodities per year can be reached,” he said.

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BEIJING—Chinese exports to Russia of microchips and other electronic components and raw materials, some with military applications, have increased since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, complicating efforts by the U.S. and Western allies to isolate the country’s economy and cripple its military.

Chip shipments from China to Russia more than doubled to about $50 million in the first five months of 2022 compared with a year earlier, Chinese customs data show, while exports of other components such as printed circuits had double-digit percentage growth. Export volumes of aluminium oxide, which is used to make the metal aluminium, an important material in weapons production and aerospace, are 400 times higher than last year.
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Ukrainian pilots when they are not flying... Do you know, what is "Spanish shame"? Check out here.
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Putin's arrival in Tehran. Note a black brief-case, carried after him by a masked man. That is the one, where the button is.
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The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia greets Biden and Vladimir Putin. Spot the difference 😉💤

Wrong prediction
The "China collapse theory" is a typical example of wrong Western predictions about China, and there are quite a number of Western scholars who used to or still hold these opinions. A representative prediction of such kind was made by Francis Fukuyama in 2012: China's top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to blow up at some point.

Fukuyama told media that "China has always been a country with a big information problem where the emperor cannot figure out what is going on at a grassroots level" […] and "this is in so many respects exactly the Communist Party's problem. Because they do not have a free media, they do not have local elections, they cannot really judge what their people are thinking."

Fukuyama is not alone in this regard. There were some other "famous" Western proponent of the hilarious theory that used their biased knowledge to predict China's course in the past 10 years, such as when former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in 2011 that the "Chinese system is doomed." In an interview with the Atlantic, Clinton said Beijing's human rights record is "deplorable" and it is "trying to stop history" by opposing the advance of democracy.

Gordon Chang, a "well-known" "China Collapse" theory fanatic, has frequently prognosticated on "China's collapse," but despite all indications to the contrary, he just kept changing the time of the "collapse" again and again.

You probably have seen many similar "predictions" about Russia as well. Wishful thinking of some of the Western and Ukrainian "analytics" does not make sense and contradicts to the reality.
You probably have seen many similar "predictions" about Russia as well. Wishful thinking of some of the Western and Ukrainian "analytics" does not make sense and contradicts to the reality.
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We have already written about explosions and fires at four American natural gas facilities. The destructive trend continues. Now there is a transformer 💤 on fire at the Hoover dam in Nevada.
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Please take time to listen to it. Its is brilliant as usual!

Lavrov announced the tasks of the special operation outside the DPR and LPR

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the geographical objectives of the special military operation in Ukraine have changed. Now it is not only the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), but also a number of other territories, he said in an interview with RT and RIA Novosti. According to the minister, the changes occurred, among other things, due to the supply of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) ) HIMARS. “As for the special military operation and geographic coordinates, the president said very clearly, as you quoted him, denazification, demilitarization in the sense that there are no threats to our security, military threats from the territory of Ukraine, this task remains. ..” he stated.
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After Biden's "successful" trip to Saudi Arabia, oil prices have risen by almost $10.