🚨🏰 Hit Putin where it hurts? He’s more likely to hurt himself from laughing.

Try harder, Ursula.

The EU is about to unveil its own sanctions plan to wean its own member states off Russian oil. But getting backing from all EU governments might be harder to push it through. Try not to laugh.

💬 Martin Jay writes: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/04/you-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry-eu-now-has-masterplan-hit-putin-where-hurts/

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🗽🌍 Biden’s top and only priority is to shore up a failing U.S. policy of aggression toward Russia, China and Iran.

In a desperate attempt to align Middle Eastern states against Russia, China and Iran, President Joe Biden this week demonstrated with a tour de force – more accurately “tour de farce” – the humongous scale of U.S. hypocrisy and political bankruptcy.

The stench of Washington’s hypocrisy and duplicity was at once stomach-churning while also farcical 👺

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🏰 It’s hard to fathom what is the logic behind the EU’s top diplomat’s statement or what is more shocking – the fact that he is disturbed by its thrust, or that he needs to underline it.

Many G20 diplomats are more concerned with their own national interests than punishing Russia with economic sanctions for attacking Ukraine.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell actually stated this. He then went on to claim the West was being accused of double standards and had failed to win a “battle of narratives” in relation to Ukraine.

“The global battle of narratives is in full swing and, for now, we are not winning,” Borrell wrote on a recent blog post describing his participation in the recent meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Indonesia which was marked by no real breakthroughs and a tantrum from the U.S. secretary of state who refused to be seen with Russia’s foreign minister.

But perhaps Borrell’s answer to solve the wrangle is unsurprising, as it follows the EU’s doctrine on practically everything it fails at.

“If you fail, intensify what you are doing in some vague hope that you will finally succeed” continues to be the EU doctrine, Martin Jay writes.

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☢️ The entire crisis could have been avoided with much less loss of life if the NATO powers had responded to Russia’s long-held security concerns.

Two weeks ago, the Strategic Culture Foundation proposed an urgent, simple test: stop the artillery shelling on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. The ZNPP – Europe’s largest nuclear power station – continues to come under military attack thereby risking a nuclear catastrophe.

It is an incredible siege situation. And one that illustrates – for anyone willing to see it, that is – the profound criminality of the NATO-backed war in Ukraine against Russia. There is nothing that the NATO powers and their lying media will stoop to. In a related illustration, the British would-be next Prime Minister Liz Truss this week said she was willing to use nuclear weapons even if it caused global annihilation.

This is the same psychopathic mentality that the world has to endure from such Western regimes ❌

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⚔️ We’re living in the fog of a war in Europe.

We’re living too, in an economic fog of war, obscuring those who are sound, and in contrast, who it is who can no longer afford themselves, and thus are living on borrowed time.

We’re living too under the fog of a World transitioning to a radically changed way of imagining itself, amid the open sluice-gates of psyops.

And transitioning the World is.

Let’ try to clear the fog a tad 🖖

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

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⏳ To decipher the true potential of President Putin’s recent Valdai speech – for de-conflicting with the West – we must turn to the 15th century.

💬 By Alastair Crooke

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⛓🏰 The EU is beginning to wake up and realise that its relationship with the U.S. has reached farcical levels of master and slave.

And yet, despite the EU’s chief diplomat recently refusing to be drawn into a conflict scenario with China and MEPs pathetically voting to deem Russia a terrorist state, it was not the EU which came to the conclusion. It was the French president Emmanuel Macron 🇫🇷

💬 Martin Jay writes

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🇪🇬⚽️🇹🇷 Football diplomacy brought Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan together in Doha for the opening of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

Years of tension between the two were broken with a friendly handshake 🤝

The big differences between the two large countries centered on Erdogan's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in Egypt, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, but not banned in America.

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#Diplomacy #Egypt #MiddleEast #MuslimBrotherhood #Qatar #Turkey

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🤔 It is becoming irrefutably clear that the United States and its NATO partners have been planning for many years for the current war in the Ukraine against Russia.

That fact makes the prospects for peace all the more elusive. How to negotiate with a mindset that is so deeply invested and ingrained with belligerence?

Western governments and media accuse Russia of “unprovoked aggression” against Ukraine and are clamoring for Moscow to hand over eye-watering financial compensation as well as face war crimes prosecutions.

The bitter irony is that the war in Ukraine, which is dangerously escalating and could spiral into a nuclear cataclysm, was sown by the United States and its accomplices.

It is the West that bears ultimate responsibility for this abysmal situation, not Russia.

As Merkel’s comments reveal, the war mentality in the West against Russia has been extant for over a decade if not longer ⚔️

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👎 Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, whom Merkel led along holding his ‘politically rickety’ hand as if he were her political lapdog in front of Putin’s eyes, carried out a secret operation and deceived everybody 🛑

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳 The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing’s nefarious agenda to end poverty, Matthew Ehret writes.

#China #Diplomacy #IndoPacific #UnitedStates #War

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🇪🇬🇯🇴🇵🇸 The Egyptian parliament met on October 19 and gave President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi the power to declare war against Israel, if necessary. Egypt and Israel have a peace treaty dating from 1979, which has been a success, proving that a neighboring Arab and Muslim country can share long-lasting peaceful relations with the Jewish State of Israel.

Egyptians have watched in horror at the scenes of death and destruction in Gaza as the Israeli government exacts its revenge on Hamas after the October 7 attack on Israel. With the promised Israeli ground invasion of Gaza beginning at any moment, it is expected to be a bloodbath among unarmed civilians.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests. America is the first to teach the lesson: “Treaties are made to be broken.”

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#diplomacy #Egypt #Israel #Jordan #MiddleEast #Palestine

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💢 U.S.-Russia relations have touched rock-bottom; it is worse even than imagined. In discourse with senior Russian officials, it is evident that the U.S. treats the former as clear enemies. To gain a flavour, it is as if a senior Russian official were to ask: “What is it you want from me?”. The answer might come: “I wish you’d die”.

The inherent tension and lack of genuine exchange is worse than during the Cold War when channels of communication did stay open.

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#ColdWar #diplomacy #Israel #NATO #UnitedStates

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