🚢 Russian fishing trawlers are on stealth missions to spy on transatlantic communications and sabotage energy supplies in Europe, according to a coordinated “investigation” by European state-owned media outlets.

Excuse the pun, but there is something putridly fishy about this Russian trawler story 🎣

We are living in perilous times of war that could escalate into nuclear conflagration. The United States and its imperialist European vassals are pushing war as a last-gasp bid to prop up Washington’s waning unipolar hegemony.

What makes the situation all the more dangerous is that Western media are working shamelessly to promote the war agenda.

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🥱 With G7 “leadership” mired in a sticky swamp of intellectual shallowness, predictably the only agenda in colonized Japan was more sanctions on Russia.

It’s war on the multipolar world. At least we can dance it away in Ibiza🍹

💬 Pepe Escobar writes

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🏙 Russia’s economy is performing strongly, according to recent forecasts from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The outcome defies earlier predictions by the United States and its European allies which held that Western sanctions would bring the Russian economy to its knees and force it to submissively “Cry Uncle”.
 
When the conflict in Ukraine escalated 16 months ago (after eight years of NATO-sponsored aggression using the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime), various Western politicians and pundits were relishing the prospect of the Russian economy collapsing from “Total War” launched against its international banking and trade.
 
Well, it didn’t turn out like that. Far from it. As the World Bank noted above, the Western sanctions have simply helped Russia boost alternative markets in China, India, and elsewhere around the globe. A principal earner for Russia is energy exports of oil and gas. Increased sales to Asia have maintained revenues despite the loss of European markets due to Western sanctions.
 
The paradoxical thing is that U.S. and European sanctions against Russia while intended to cripple the Russian economy have actually made the latter stronger 💪

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🏚 Hundreds of Syrian men, women and children have drowned last week in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece after the sinking of an Egyptian trawler headed for Italy. It is being called one of the deadliest migrant ship disasters in the Mediterranean Sea. As many as 750 persons were packed into the boat, with women and children under the deck, which may be why the 104 survivors were all young men. 78 bodies were recovered 75 kilometers offshore Kalamata, Greece.

Nine Egyptian human traffickers have been arrested in Greece and blamed as part of a smuggling network which advertised on Facebook. The ads promised a better life in Europe and charged between $5,000 to $6,000 per person. But, Greece is also being blamed for their part as they were monitoring the ship but never took steps to stop the ship and off-load passengers. The Greeks say they were communicating with the ship, and the ship requested to be allowed to continue sailing toward Italy. After the engine stopped, the passengers panicked, and their sudden movements caused the ship to roll over and sink.

The U.S. and EU sanctions on Syria are to blame ❌ There is no war in Syria. The battlefields are long silent across Syria, but there is no recovery or rebuilding allowed in Syria, because the U.S. and EU sanctions prevent any rebuilding or foreign investments in rebuilding projects.

But the days of U.S. dictating to the Arab world, and U.S.-engineered wars for regime change in the Middle East are over 🇸🇾

💬 Steven Sahiounie writes

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🏆 A psiquiatria prefere ignorar a possibilidade da insanidade em massa e concentrar-se em perturbações individuais, apesar de existir uma grande quantidade de provas históricas de que sociedades e nações inteiras podem ser dominadas por perturbações mentais de um tipo ou outro. Seja como for; o Complexo de Napoleão – assim chamado em homenagem a Napoleão Bonaparte, que era baixo demais para o líder nacional de seu tempo, além de incrivelmente desagradável e cheio de si para compensar – não é, em qualquer caso, um diagnóstico médico reconhecido.

A morte é certamente eficaz como tratamento para o Complexo de Napoleão, assim como para todos os outros complexos, síndromes e distúrbios. Tendo procurado uma terapia eficaz para o Complexo de Napoleão, não descobri nenhum bom candidato. A terapia da humilhação parece bastante útil para diminuir os seus efeitos na sociedade envolvente, mas também tende a levar à depressão e ao suicídio. A terapia de humilhação foi certamente eficaz para Napoleão Bonaparte, tal como administrada pela Rússia.

Os russos claramente não perderam a receita dessa pílula amarga e estão prontos para administrá-la a qualquer um que ultrapasse uma das suas invisíveis linhas vermelhas. É claramente melhor ser amigo da Rússia do que estar morto, mas a morte pode ser evitada se a terapia da humilhação for eficaz.

Para os EUA, a derrota retumbante na sua guerra por procuração com a Rússia na antiga Ucrânia, que está atualmente em preparação, poderia definitivamente fazer parte de uma terapia de humilhação eficaz, mas apenas para aqueles que têm prestado atenção, e o seu número é bastante baixo. Quantos americanos se sentiram pessoalmente humilhados pelo espetáculo da retirada precipitada e desordenada da América do Afeganistão? Muito poucos, ao que parece, já que saltaram direto para a próxima aventura condenada na antiga Ucrânia. Para aqueles que estão nos corredores do poder de Washington, nenhuma humilhação parece suficiente.

Na verdade, eles parecem prosperar com isso! 🤡

💬 Por Dmitry Orlov

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🇷🇺 Ten Years of Russia Sanctions: How the World Economy Has Changed

In 2013, Washington and Brussels started to introduce illegal restrictive measures against Russia, erroneously called “sanctions”, aimed at crushing the Russian economy. A total of 17,500 such measures has been introduced, more than against any country in history. Ten years later, Russia replaces Germany as the fifth largest economy, while the United States is losing its economic primacy to China.

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