🏚 Europe sinks into being a distant backward province to a falling ‘Imperial Rome’, Alastair Crooke writes.

#Europe #ClubOfRome

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🇬🇧 It’s becoming harder and harder for any British PM to state that the British are not part of the war in Ukraine, Martin Jay writes.

To understand how the British media works and what’s behind the decisions it takes you don’t have to be very bright at all. In fact, you can be really quite dim and still get it, it’s really that simple.

Gone are the days when a Brit would buy a paper, perhaps in the 70s and 80s as he or she wanted to be led by smart people who have strong views about given subjects – and stuck to those principles – the media in the UK has shifted to a more basic model: being led itself by popularity.

Newspaper editors in the UK are not interested in being smart, having prescient views which they share with us, or even being right 🗞

#UK #Ukraine #MSM

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🇺🇿🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇿🇹🇲🇹🇯🇰🇬🇮🇳🇵🇰 "Today, the SCO family is the world's largest regional organisation that unites a huge geographical area and about half the population of our planet. The international legal attractiveness of the SCO lies in its non-aligned status, openness, non-targeting against third countries or international organizations, equal rights and respect for the sovereignty of all participants, refraining from interference in internal affairs, avoiding political confrontation and rivalries". - President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Now who's the boss? The Little King gets a dose of reality.

🪖⛽️ The EU has weaponized the supply of European energy on behalf of a financial racket, against the interests of European industry and consumers.

When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany’s Economy Minister, said earlier this week “we should expect the worst” in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the whole farce is a Made in Germany cum Made in Brussels crisis.

Flickers of intelligence at least still glow in rare Western latitudes, as indispensable strategic analyst William Engdahl, author of A Century of Oil, released a sharp, concise summary revealing the skeletons in the glamour closet.

Everyone with a brain following the ghastly Eurocrat machinations in Brussels was aware of the main plot – yet hardly anyone among average EU citizens. Habeck, Chancellor “Liver Sausage” Scholz, the European Commission (EC) Green Energy VP Timmermans, EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, they are all involved.

In a nutshell: as Engdahl describes it, this is about “the EU plan to de-industrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet” 👌

💬 Read more by Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics

#EU #gas

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🤡 Though Zelensky, like the autistic child he is at heart, can ring all the bells and push all the buttons he wants to, his time is up.

💬 By Declan Hayes

#Zelensky #Europe #NATO

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🇬🇧🇨🇦 The new incoming King of England has taken on the worst traits and dispositions of oligarchism and probably won’t willfully make any positive changes, writes Matthew Ehret @CanadianPatriotPress.

#PrinceCharles #UK #Canada #GreatReset

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⚖️ The forthcoming Ukrainian War Crimes Tribunal is an exciting experiment in dispassionate justice in a still ongoing conflict that from the beginning has been mired in deliberate lies and deceptive hyperbole.

💬 Stephen Karganovic writes

#Ukraine #war

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🇹🇷 In the past, Erdogan vowed to pray in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and that might happen, writes Steven Sahiounie.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters recently that Ankara needs to “secure further steps with Syria.” He added, “You have to accept that you cannot stop political dialogue and diplomacy between countries. There should always be such dialogue.” Ankara’s goal, he added, was not to defeat Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu disclosed previously that he spoke with his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, at a Non-Aligned Movement summit held in Belgrade in October 2021, in the first public high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian government officials since 2011. In that meeting, Cavusoglu reportedly told Mekdad that “we need to somehow come to terms with the opposition and the regime in Syria. Otherwise, there will be no lasting peace”.

Over the past year, Turkey has also mended fences with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Although Turkey backed the deposed Muslim Brotherhood leader of Egypt, former President Morsi, Turkish officials also appear to be working towards restoring ties with Egypt. This comes after several Arab states have restored relations with Damascus and have begun a process of bringing Assad in from the cold.

#Turkey #Erdogan #Syria

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🎵 When all the songs are sung and all the flags and musical instruments are packed away for another year, the truth that the children of Boers, the Syrians and the Palestinians are the true heroes remains.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#UK #Jersalem #history #politics

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🗽🪖 How the U.S. military will find the man power to fill its ranks is a herculean problem that promises to haunt army brass for many years.

Recruitment numbers for the Army are at all-time lows as Americans are either too fat or criminal to defend the nation, an Army general warned. Does this spell impending disaster for the nuclear superpower?

Rome collapsed due to overexpansion of its borders.

America, on the other hand, just might collapse due to the overexpansion of its waistline 🦅

💬 By Robert Bridge

#USArmy #military

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🦗 NATO’s resolve to have us freezing in the dark and subsisting on insect-based concoctions from Bill Gates’ Hell’s Kitchen deserves our urgent attention.

❓Why are German burghurs reduced to foraging for wood in forests and stripping the planks off park benches?

❓Why are Poles, who live in a country with vast coal deposits, paying extortionate prices for coal, whenever they can get it?

❓What about Russophobic Ireland, which has no emergency oil reserves and which depends for its electricity top ups on Britain, which likewise depends on Norway, which has warned Britain that they can no longer support them?

Are we all going to freeze in the dark? 🕸

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes

#economy #food #globalism

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❌ “Though the Russians might look like Europeans, they are, you see, not quite human, not quite kosher, not quite like us.”

#Europe #Russophobia

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🛑 This is an existential war. A do or die affair, Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics writes.

#Kharkov #Ukraine #war

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🇬🇧 Though King Charles might, like George III or the Famine Queen before him, have his own ideas, opinions and concerns, the only channel he may express them is through his weekly meetings with the Prime Minister.

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes

#UK #KingCharles

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⛽️ Russia, along with OPEC and its allies, has cooperated closely on oil production policy in the face of Western-imposed sanctions on Russia following the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine which began in February.

💬 Writes Steven Sahiounie

#OPEC #oil #energy

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It's official: Iran is now a full member of the SCO.

🌏 The SCO summit this week offers much welcome hope for a saner, more peaceful world.

The 22nd summit this week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization explicitly and unreservedly promotes peaceful partnership and multilateralism – in stark contrast to the de facto Western worldview of hegemony and endless conflict.

The SCO summit, held on Thursday and Friday, saw the leaders of 15 nations convening in Uzbekistan, which is hosting the gathering this year. The venue in the ancient city of Samarkand is quite fitting. It is one of the oldest cities in Asia and was a key hub in the centuries-old Silk Roads for trade and human interaction.

But the conference is much more about looking to the present and future than the storied past. Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hailed the event as “the birth of a new stage” in the SCO’s development to “launch a new inclusive dialogue” among nations.

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

#SCO #SCOsummit #multilateralism #multipolarity

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🇪🇺 The EU leadership is resolved to ignore protest messaging, however loud it becomes.

There is a whiff of desperation floating across the Brussels battlespace ⚔️

Forget the Ukraine war – that is a lost cause, and just a matter of time, until its final unravelling; yet the Ukraine – as icon of how the Euro-élite have elected to imagine themselves – could not be less existential.

It is (cynically) seen in Brussels to be key to keeping the 27 member states in ‘lockstep’ that is – and an opportunity for a power grab: ‘We Europeans are ‘victims’, like Ukraine, of Putin’s actions’; ‘All must sacrifice to the newly installed command ‘war economy’’.

Consider the fears (as perceived by Brussels) of abandoning Ukraine to plead with Moscow for gas and oil.

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

#EU #Europe #gas #oil #crisis #Ukraine

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🗽👥 There is no imminent “civil war” coming to the United States between Republicans and Democrats.

There is only one war that has been going on for many years: class war 🎩

💬 By Finian Cunningham

#civilwar #US #classwar

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