🪆The secret of a perfect psyop is that no one really understands it 🤔

A perfect psyop accomplishes two tasks: it renders the enemy dazed and confused while achieving a set of very important goals.

It goes without saying that sooner rather than later we should see the real goals emerging out of the strategic play in Russia Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics described as #TheLongestDay.

Way more complex is Russia’s internal dynamics. Putin’s current and subsequent difficult decisions may entail loss of popularity coupled with loss of internal stability -depending on the manner Kremlin-defined strategic victories are presented to Russian public opinion.

The Longest Day seems to have galvanized Russians of all stripes into identifying who the real enemy is – and how to defeat it, whatever it takes.

The main problem faced by Russia is not the Hegemon and NATO: it’s domestic, Pepe Escobar writes.

#Wagner #Prigozhin #Russia

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🪤 Although Ukraine is currently at war that, of itself, is no game changer. Once the guns fall silent, then Wall Street can move in in a really big way. As Ukraine is bankrupt and as all of its assets outside of Russian control have been used as collateral for NATO’s loans, peace will see a major transfer of wealth and power from Ukrainian debtors to NATO creditors.

The hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers are not a factor and many millions more will have to sell up what they have at nickels to the dime. Most of the tens of millions of Ukrainians who have fled Westwards will not be returning as there is nothing there for them. Their role will be to help solve the West’s demographic problems, to keep the fires of Russophobia burning brightly and just to survive as best they can. NATO’s new Ukraine has no need of them 💢

Though Ukraine, like Imperial Japan, before it, must accept the unacceptable and embrace defeat, it must go infinitely further if it is to have any worthwhile future.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#Ukraine #war #NATO

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🛑 The Ukraine proxy war against Russia can be increasingly seen as a disastrous defeat for the United States and NATO. That stunning outcome should be making world headlines. Instead, the Western media spin machine is in overdrive about a failed mutiny in Russia, which on an objective scale of important events is relatively minor compared with the colossal U.S./ NATO scandal.

A month-long Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed to make any dent in Russia’s defenses despite billions of dollars and euros in weaponry funnelled to the Kiev regime by the NATO bloc. That is a veritably astounding calamity and scandal. The completely unnecessary death and destruction are obscene – akin to World War One slaughtering by callous armchair generals and politicians.

Even Western officials and the corrupt money-grubbing Kiev regime are coyly admitting that the much-vaunted counteroffensive – that had been hailed for months as an expected hammer blow against Russian forces – is a failure. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers as well as NATO special forces covertly on the ground have been killed. Hundreds of tanks and infantry vehicles have been pulverized by superior Russian firepower.

It is a slaughter and orgy of war racketeering that American and European political elites, along with their media servants, have endlessly promoted.

There will be hell to pay for the American and European rulers who have staked everything on their nefarious ambition for the “strategic defeat of Russia” (under the specious guise of “defending democracy” in a Nazi regime! 😱)

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

#NATO #ProxyWar #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedStates #West

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🇺🇸🇵🇱🔫 White House stays tight-lipped when asked if it’s negotiating with Warsaw about putting nukes in Poland.

Polish PM has already asked NATO to be included in bloc’s Nuclear Sharing Program, which allows US nukes to be deployed in other countries.

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👁 A surveillance court order unsealed last week that details massive violations of Americans’ privacy by the FBI underscores why Congress must end or radically change the unconstitutional spying program enabled by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Greater transparency and more timely disclosures of the government’s mass surveillance programs are sorely needed. At the same time, Congress does not need any more reports or declassified opinions to see what’s really happening here: routine misuse of Section 702 to violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights. Congress can and should put a stop to this.

💬 Read more by Aaron Mackey

#Congress #FBI #Justice #UnitedStates

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🚨 Meet the World’s Most Murderous Killing Machine: the United States of America

If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine’s Jeremy Kuzmarov.

🔗 Follow this link to find the full infographic.

✌️©You are free to repost, reproduce and print this infographic.

#sc_infographic #WarCrimes #HumanRights #imperialism

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🇸🇪🕌 An immigrant in Sweden, Salwan Momika, burnt the Quran on the first day of the Muslim holiday, Eid al Adha. He first stomped on the book, kicked it, wrapped it in bacon strips which is a forbidden food under Muslim laws, and then burnt the book while standing on a stage in front of onlookers outside a Mosque in Stockholm.

Momika has said previously that he believed the Muslim religion had such a negative impact that the Quran should be banned globally.

The United States, Morocco, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and many Muslim countries expressed condemnation of the act. Jewish groups in Sweden condemned the act and recalled a Torah that was burnt by Nazis in Germany in the 1930s which later followed with the Jewish people being burnt alive.

Muslims and Muslim immigrants living in Sweden are feeling they are not welcome, not respected, and not appreciated ⛔️

💬 Steven Sahiounie writes

#Sweden #Quran #MiddleEast #Islam #NATO

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🇷🇺 The chorus of Ya Russkiy, I am Russian, sung here by these beautiful young Russians has, to date, racked up in excess of 8 million views for a number of important reasons that form the core of this article.

Though there is much to unpack in this short video clip, let’s begin with Shaman, aka Yaroslav Dronov, the Russian singer-songwriter and music producer, whose good looks and great talent have helped to propel Ya Russkiy into currently being Russia’s most popular song, with this version having 37 million youtube hits so far, not that far behind his earlier “Rise Up” (Russian: Встанем; romanized: Vstanem) hit, which was dedicated to the war heroes of Russia’s Great Patriotic War.

Though Rise Up and Ya Russkiy have broadly similar themes, the latter song is the more pertinent not only to this article but to the young women confidently and majestically singing along to it. Ya Russkiy states, in its catchy little way, that “I am Russian”, happy and proud in my own skin with it and the world can like it or lump it.

The greater relevance of those lines is that, instead of giving these young women vacuous teenage love crushes as most Western rock singers do, Shaman is instilling true pride and confidence in and of themselves 🤍💙 ❤️

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes

#CultureWar #Music #Russia #Shaman #Society

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🏰 Now the EU finds itself locked into:

💢 forever sanctions on Russia (with China to follow);
💢 a forever subsidy to ‘Kiev’;
💢 a forever cycle of NATO militarism; 
💢 an economy sliding into de-industrialisation,
💢 high energy costs and relative diminishment. 

The EU has not achieved its longer-for ‘global player’ status. By every measure, Europe has a diminished economy, and diminished agency around the globe.

For the last thirty years, neo-cons have dominated U.S. foreign policy. Europe is not ‘America’. The neocon trend represents but one facet to the U.S. that nonetheless has captured and held the commanding heights of U.S. policy-making for decades. 

It has failed in all that it has endeavoured, and has become increasingly detached from (even) the most basic interests of most Americans. Yet the EU leadership has made Europe subservient to this particular current – embracing it, and its inherent authoritarianism, with gusto.

Has this uniform ‘destiny’ benefitted the citizens of Europe? It has not. Have not its results proved unpredictable and different from that which was initially desired or expected? Recall: ‘Destiny can be a b*tch’! ❌

💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke

#EU #Prigozhin #RussianArmy #Putin #Wagner #NeoCons

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🌗 Just as the Alps and the Jordan divide for all time the Cis from the rest, so also in our own time do the mountains and rivers of honesty and truth divide the Creepy Joe Bidens and Mary Robinsons from the great and the good.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#POTUS #NATO #politics #Biden

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