—“We don’t want to die for Bandera!”
— “This is not our war!”
— “The Pole is the master in Poland!”
— “This is Poland, not Ukropol”

In Bydgoszcz, the Poles took to the streets against the actions of the Polish government to drag the country into the war for the sake of the US goals that ordinary Poles do not need.

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Life in the trenches. Ukrainian prospective.
Also an answer to those, who are asking about offensive/counteroffensive now.

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West will not give a quiet life to Russia's neighbours
RIA Novosti

Communist historiography loved the sonorous names inherited from the rhetoric of the Civil War. For example, "Young Soviet Republic in the fiery ring of fronts."

Now geopolitical terms are more in vogue: "Indirect actions on the enemy's periphery", as well as "Creating an arc of instability." All these actions are called the struggle for democracy on the territory of the former USSR.
The activation of peripheral actions began a year and a half before the official start of the current Ukrainian campaign. It began at the end of the summer of 2020 in Belarus, where, after the presidential elections, which expectedly renewed Lukashenko's mandate, with the active participation of Poland, there was a hiccup that lasted about six months. Lukashenko firmly defended his post, proceeding from the fact that concessions to the revolutionaries are disastrous — and the attack was repulsed, the opposition fled to Poland.

A new struggle for democracy has unfolded not in the northwest, but in the southeast. At the very beginning of 2022, Kazakhstan flared up, where the eastern specificity was revealed, that is, the great cruelty of the fighters. Alma-Ata was directly terrorized. The response was a pacifying special operation by the CSTO, which neither freedom fighters nor their Western sympathizers expected. And a year later, relations with Kazakhstan have difficulties, the United States puts pressure on President Tokayev with all their might, wanting to make this country completely unfriendly to Russia. Tokayev manoeuvres painfully, but, in any case, the complete victory of democracy, that is, the final inclusion of Kazakhstan in the American sphere of influence, has not yet happened.

Finally, at the beginning of this year, two more post-Soviet states, Moldova and Georgia, were placed on the altar of democracy.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu resolutely abandoned the previous policy of flirting with Russia and firmly took the European path, seeing as her goal the Anschluss of Moldova by Romania. Which could not but affect relations with Transnistria (and Gagauzia). Sandu is working to unfreeze the armed confrontation between Chisinau and Tiraspol, reasonably counting on the help of Kyiv, which has long professed the principle "the worse, the better." The recent bombing attempts on the leadership of the PMR (in the past, serving as a sufficient casus belli) now fit into European integration. As well as the tightening of the regime, the persecution of the opposition. Without this, there is no true democracy.

Finally, in Georgia, the government's attempt to adopt a law on the registration of foreign agents (generally copied from the American one, but, unlike the original source, much less draconian) led to the traditional Georgian fun — the storming of the parliament by the peaceful public with Molotov cocktails, pogroms on Rustaveli Avenue, etc. Everything we have loved since the era of democratic perestroika.

It is not known whether it was worth starting a story with foreign agents at all, not being ready to, if necessary, give a tough rebuff in the style of Lukashenko. After all, it was clear that the clients of the American embassy would react accordingly, since there is a tradition, and a stable one. Now the situation is unpleasantly reminiscent of the Kiev Maidan of 2013-2014: the authorities are indecisive, making concessions, and generosity, instead of softening hearts, only inflames and hardens them.

The dream was much more modest and particularistic: to stay away from a big dump, not to let yourself be drawn into the war and, pursuing a policy of "ours and yours, we will sing and dance," to extract profit from neutrality. And in the First and Second World Wars, European neutrals did not exactly this?

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Yes, and the policy of Yanukovych, Nazarbayev-Tokayev, numerous Moldovan leaders, for the time being, and Lukashenka came down to the same thing. Neutral multi-vector or "affectionate calves suck two cows". Everyone wanted to be Switzerland.

Russia, seeing that the real alternative to the crafty neutral is an open enemy like the Baltic republics, preferred the first option. But, besides Russia, there were also democratic forces of good who rejected such double-dealing and wished to build Russia's neighbours, at least, according to the Baltic model. Because neutrality is immoral.

After all, the transformation of former neutrals into open enemies means for enemy Russia the complication of economic relations with the rest of the world and the need to keep troops on the border. Which makes her position worse and brings benefits and pleasantness to the forces of good. A blow to the soft underbelly.

So Georgia is another attempt to teach the neutrals a lesson and force them to obey the will of the only ruler, but hardly the last. There are two more countries in Transcaucasia, there are four more countries in Central Asia, and everywhere there are American embassies and all kinds of NGOs.
Everyone wonders who will be taught next that neutrality is immoral.

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A militarized foreign policy is forcing the US to careen toward a war with China
By Franz Gayl for the Global Times

Why does the US secretary of state appear to be a mere impotent advisor in the shadow of the Secretary of Defense? The answer is of course not a coincidence, but the result of a toxic combination of the defense industry, retired military officer interests, and the atrophy of the professional foreign service. Together they have gutted the relevance of traditional US diplomacy.

Many will object and insist on the continued primacy of diplomacy in all US foreign policy. One prescient test would be to query the Secretary of State's depth of familiarity with the perspectives of our main competitor China on the sensitive issue of Taiwan island.

Since alternative futures of war or peace are at stake, has the US secretary of state taken the time to read the Peoples Republic of China white paper titled "The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era?" If so, has he met with his Chinese counterpart to jointly develop a responsible way forward to avert an otherwise certain war?

There was a time when learned American statesmen had decisive influence. From Thomas Jefferson and Daniel Webster to George C. Marshal and Henry Kissinger advised presidents on foreign policy, with sustainable peace and the greater good as their only motives.

However, following the 1st Gulf War, something changed. After military indecisiveness in Korea, defeat in Vietnam, followed by the humiliation of the failed rescue of US hostages in Iran and the tragic bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon, Americans were rightfully hungry to recover lost military clout on the world stage.

The overwhelmingly one-sided victory of the US over Iraq during Operation Desert Storm gave Americans a taste of greatness and fueled a sense of patriotism not seen since their victory in WWII.

Generals and admirals became objects of public reverence, relegating controversies of Vietnam era Generals to history. Combatant commanders, empowered with the Goldwater Nichols Act and some educated at Ivy League schools, began to eclipse the influence of ambassadors.

All the while the State Department became more politicized with presidential appointees coming to fill posts as far as five levels down. Preferring to do the bidding of elected officials for career survival, the exercise of independent professional judgment became rare. Today the under- valued and resourced US foreign service appears to be in decline.

In contrast, even in their retirement senior Flag officers remain ambitious and refuse to simply fade away as General Douglas MacArthur once preferred of old soldiers. General Collin Powell was the first to ride the euphoric wave of the 1st Gulf War victory to a new career as Secretary of State.

More recently Generals James Mattis and Lloyd Austin took leave from their well-compensated positions as defense industry board members to serve as Secretary of Defense. The retired four- star revolving door between industry and government employment is now the norm. These elite positions are taken for granted as entitlements, even though the operational performance of most has been miserable.

Generals and admirals, both active duty and retired, are now turned to as the most coveted presidential advisors on foreign policy. Naturally, their cultural toolbox contains mostly hammers and most foreign policy challenges appear as nails. Fewer nonmilitary courses of action are offered the presidents, even when they are called for.

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How Quickly The West Forgot It Was Their 2020 Regime-Change Project That Drove Belarus Into Russia’s Arms

March 5, 2023  Eurasia Review
By Mark Ames

The world should be careful when US arms dealers laugh
By Global Times

How great is the risk of war in the world? It is easy to answer. One only needs to look at the total amount of US arms spending right now to make a roughly correct judgment.

The US has the strongest military industry in the world, with the ability to extend its long arms of the military into any corner of the globe quickly, and often volunteers to act as the world's policeman.

The Biden administration just released a budget for US military spending in 2023 of $842 billion, four times the military spending of China. But moreover, the fundamental difference is that China adopts a defensive policy, while in the US foreign military strategy, pre-emption is a principle.

Higher US military spending indicates a higher risk of war in the world.

Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan recently said that increasing global military spending shows that the last seven to eight decades of the peace dividend after the World War II is over.

To find out the reason, we must first make clear who is profiting the most from the global increase in military spending, and whose interests the disappearance of the peace dividend best serves.

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New York-based Signature Bank closed Sunday due to systemic risks after SVB collapse

WASHINGTON March 13 — RIA Novosti. New York's Signature Bank was closed on Sunday due to systemic risks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chairman Martin Grunberg said in a joint statement.

"We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exemption for New York, New York-based Signature Bank, which was closed by the state today," California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) said in a filing.
As noted, all investors of the New York company will have access to their deposits — the same as in the case of SVB.

Earlier it was reported that all depositors of Silicon Valley Bank from March 13 will be given access to their savings.

The New York Times reported Saturday that SVB's failure had raised concerns that other US banks could also run into trouble. Against this backdrop, there was a "dumping" of shares of similar SVB banks, such as First Republic, Signature Bank and Western Alliance, on the market. Many of these financial institutions cater to first-time clients and have investment portfolios similar to those of SVB.

California regulators closed SVB on March 10, the largest bank failure in the US since the 2008 financial crisis. All insured deposits were transferred from SVB to a separate structure — Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. The collapse of the SVB turned out to be associated with an increase in the Fed's key rate, which led to the depreciation of assets on the balance sheets of many financial institutions. The combined losses of banks in 2022 were $620 billion, according to the FDIC.

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I think I know why Biden will never visit Odessa…

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They say that Trump is offering to sell Ukraine to Russia

On the one hand, it's like selling a stolen phone to the owner

And on the other hand…

Given the amount of frozen Russian assets, Poland, Moldova, all three Baltic mutts plus Finland can enter there as a bonus.

Let's restore the Russian Empire together! 😂😁😃😅😂😊

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In Syria and Iraq, we actually funded a significant part of ISIS by supplying weapons and training some of these organizations, and then watching them change their alliances faster than quicksand… I intend to continue to force a vote in Congress to bring our troops home from faraway places where our mission is unclear.

Member of the US House of Representatives Matt Getz on the fact that the US should stop the wars in the Middle East.

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No grounds for new Ukraine peace plan – Kremlin

"Kiev has declared the full return of territories it claims as Ukrainian as a precondition for peace talks. Its national security council has also banned talks with Russia for as long as President Vladimir Putin remains in office.

Moscow has argued that the Ukrainian government has effectively made peace talks impossible, and that Kiev has adopted its stance based on orders from the US, which is aiming to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia." Read the article here 👈

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Shares of US banks are falling rapidly against the backdrop of the situation around the SVB

The value of Western Alliance shares falls by 83.7%, First Republic Bank — by 76.6%, PacWest — by 55.55%. In general, the banking sector is reduced by 7.8%.
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Biden assured Americans that all deposits are available to them if necessary, and the management of bankrupt banks will be fired.

American taxpayers will not suffer losses due to the problems of bankrupt banks, Biden promised.

Biden was laconic and did not say anything particularly specific: the speech lasted 5 minutes, consisted of promises that everything would be fine.

Biden did not answer journalists' questions after his speech.

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The US banking system is not safe, said the former assistant to the head of the Treasury

WASHINGTON, March 13 — RIA Novosti. The US banking system is not safe, contrary to the words of President Joe Biden, Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the treasury in the administration of Ronald Reagan, told RIA Novosti.

"The banking system is not safe, because the five largest US banks bear the risk of losses twice as much as global GDP," the source said.

In his opinion, American credit institutions will have to get rid of assets on the balance sheet, which will lead to further depreciation of securities.
Roberts noted that there are "trillions of secondary financial instruments" that are sensitive to changes in the US Federal Reserve System (FRS) rate.

To prevent further bank crashes, the Fed will have to lower the key rate.

"The Fed will have to abandon its high interest rate policy as it undermines financial sector balance sheets, leading to a wider spectrum of collapse," Roberts said.

The alternative would be to allocate such a significant amount of money for operations to rescue credit institutions that it would threaten the value of the dollar, the former assistant to the head of the Ministry of Finance added.

On Saturday afternoon, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported that regulators in the state of California have closed Silicon Valley Bank, the largest bank to collapse in the US since the last financial crisis. The FDIC transferred all insured deposits from the SVB to a separate entity it created, the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara.

SVB specialized in working with Silicon Valley start-ups. On March 8, the bank announced the sale of virtually all of its securities and suffered an after-tax loss of $1.8 billion.
An attempt to raise capital of two billion dollars the next day ended in failure. SVB shares collapsed by more than 60 percent, and on March 10, trading was suspended altogether. As a result, the US banking sector sank 6.5 percent on March 9, and 3.5 percent on March 10. After that, SVB hired consultants to explore the possibility of a sale.

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Russia supported the extension of the grain deal for 60 days

MOSCOW, March 13 — RIA Novosti. Negotiations between representatives of Moscow and the UN on the situation with the grain deal were held in Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Vershinin said.
"We have just completed another round of consultations between the Russian interdepartmental delegation and UN representatives headed by UNCTAD Secretary General R. Greenspan and OCHA Head M. Griffiths," he said.

According to the diplomat, the Russian side, given the "package" nature of the Istanbul agreements proposed by UN Secretary General António Guterres, does not object to extending the deal after the second term expires on March 18, "but only for 60 days."
"Let me remind you that they consist of two interconnected parts: the" Black Sea initiative "on the export of Ukrainian food and raw materials for fertilizers, including ammonia, and the Russia-UN Memorandum on the normalization of domestic agricultural exports," Vershinin said.
Moscow, as the Deputy Foreign Minister emphasized, will determine its further position depending on real progress in the supply of Russian products.
“Including bank payments, transport logistics, insurance, the unfreezing of financial activities and the supply of ammonia through the Togliatti-Odessa pipeline,” he said.

Vershinin drew attention to the fact that now the sanctions relief announced by the United States, Great Britain and the EU for food and fertilizers do not work.
The agreement, which was signed on July 22 last year by representatives of Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the UN, involves the export of Ukrainian grain, food and fertilizer across the Black Sea from three ports, including Odessa. The Joint Coordinating Centre (JCC) in Istanbul is responsible for coordinating the movement of ships.

The contract expired on November 18, but its terms implied an automatic extension for 120 days in the absence of objections from any party. As stated in the Russian Foreign Ministry, there were no such reports.
The grain deal itself is an integral part of the package agreement, which, among other things, provides for the unblocking of Russian exports of food and fertilizers. Moscow emphasized that this particular condition was not met, despite assurances from the UN.

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