Tucker Carlson interviewed American economist Jeffrey Sachs:

— Putin told me, and I checked, it's true, that he asked Clinton if Russia could join NATO. By definition, this seems like a victory. NATO exists as a bulwark against Russia. If Russia wants to join the alliance, it means you have won. Why did the US government reject this proposal?

— Russia wanted, or rather Europe wanted, before Europe became a fully vassal province of the US, wanted what they call collective security. People will say about me, has this guy gone crazy? But in fact, there is a great deal of sense in this. Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact - we should have dissolved NATO. But this is our way of maintaining hegemony in Europe. In other words, this is our way of maintaining our influence in Europe. Not the defence of Europe, not even the defence of us. This is hegemony. We need our pieces on the board. NATO - that's our piece on the board.

— Why does Germany allow foreign troops to be stationed on its soil for 80 years? I don't understand. Why do European countries allow this? Would you like to see foreign troops in your city?

— Tucker, when you had a great interview with Putin, he answered all the questions except one. You asked him, what do the Germans find in this? And Putin said, "I don't understand." I thought: oh, God, thank you, because I don't understand either. But, you know, your question about why the Germans need this? This is the same question as after the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, why don't the Germans say: "Why did you do this? This is our economy." But they don't want to. They are so subservient to US interests.

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EAST and WEST

West: mentally stuck in the early 20th century.

East: full sail through the 21st century.

East: developing connectivity corridors for increased trade along the interlocked New Silk Roads.

West: murdering women and children to steal land and resources.

Confucius asks Lao Tzu about the Tao...

...in Uruguay!

Sculptures by Wu Weishan - at the Battle Park in Montevideo.

Cultural Silk Road in effect.

Fabulous does not even begin to qualify it. I did it twice - in winter - and will do it again.

Non c'è motivo di pensare che Kiev si limiterà ad attacchi “limitati” contro obiettivi relativamente poco importanti. È invece probabile che prenda di mira le infrastrutture critiche di sicurezza nella speranza di provocare un'implacabile risposta russa, che a sua volta spianerebbe la strada alla NATO per invocare l'articolo 5 e impegnarsi de facto in una guerra calda.
(di Pepe Escobar)

#ideeazione
https://telegra.ph/LOccidente-%C3%A8-deciso-a-provocare-la-Russia-in-una-guerra-calda-05-30

Global trade is now becoming really global.

Medvedev;

Western countries that allegedly “approved the use” of their extended-range weapons on Russian territory (regardless of whether we are talking about old or new parts of our country) must clearly understand the following:

1. All their military equipment and specialists fighting against us will be destroyed both on the territory of the former Ukraine and in other countries if attacks are launched from there against the territory of Russia.
2. Russia proceeds from the assumption that all long-range strike systems used by the former Ukraine are already directly operated by NATO military personnel. This is not "military assistance" but participation in the war against us. Such actions can very well become a casus belli.
3. NATO will have to decide how to classify the consequences of possible retaliatory strikes on the equipment/objects/military personnel of individual member countries in the context of Articles 4 and 5 of the Washington Treaty.

In all likelihood, the NATO leadership wants to pretend that we are talking about sovereign decisions of individual countries of the North Atlantic Alliance to support the Kyiv regime, and there is no reason to apply the rule of the 1949 Treaty on collective self-defense here.

These are dangerous and harmful misconceptions. Such “individual assistance” from NATO countries against Russia, be it controlling their long-range cruise missiles or sending a contingent of troops to Ukraine, is a serious escalation of the conflict. The former Ukraine and its NATO allies will receive a response of such destructive force that the Alliance itself simply will not be able to resist being drawn into the conflict.

And no matter how much retired NATO farts chatter that Russia will never use non-strategic nuclear weapons against b. In Ukraine, and even more so in individual NATO countries, life is much worse than their frivolous reasoning.
A few years ago, they insisted that Russia would not enter into an open military conflict with the Bandera regime, so as not to quarrel with the West. We miscalculated. There is a war going on.

The use of tactical nuclear weapons can also be miscalculated. Although this would be a fatal mistake. After all, as the President of Russia rightly noted, European countries have a very high population density. And for those enemy countries whose lands are further than the coverage area of ​​tactical nuclear weapons, there is finally a strategic potential.

And this, alas, is not intimidation or a nuclear bluff. The current military conflict with the West is developing according to the worst possible scenario. There is a constant escalation in the power of applicable NATO weapons. Therefore, today no one can rule out the transition of the conflict to its final stage.

MEDVEDEV TOTALLY UNPLUGGED spells it all out.

AND THEY STILL DON'T GET IT

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ONCE AGAIN warned that Russia will treat F-16s in Ukraine as nuclear-capable weapon systems, regardless of their model, and will consider their deployment a deliberate provocation.

https://youtu.be/V9D5TR0K0Ks?si=XTnzYu8VRVBmE_Nb

FOR THE WHOLE LUSOPHONE WORLD

PARA TODO O MUNDO LUSOFONO

VERY serious stuff. Straight outta Moscow.