‘Great politicians say what they need to win. And then, once they’re elected, all bets are off. The goal of running for president is ... just to win.' - Shkreli
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Elon Musk's Starlink cutoff controversy | Quick Take | GZERO Media - YouTubeUAW withholds their endorsement for Biden amid historic strikes - YouTube
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First US president to be charged with a crime. Now not just Israel and African countries, but US also does this.
Rico-style case. Racketeering, a crime often charged against mobsters, against 19 defendants including Giuliani (who as a prosecuter also did Rico-cases, sometimes against lawyers). They're
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDkKWCUBRk
being fingerprinted and mugshotted (photos that will make news around the world) and will be put into this big prison house where 6 people have died last year.
The aggreived party is the state of Georgia. Interfering in how a state conducts itself in its elections. 2020.
Trump called it ‘election interference.'
Less than a day and clothing designers started using the mug shot. When your president's are treated as criminals, do people as strongly avoid the possibllity that they could become criminals? (Speaking of the moral condemnation side of criminalizing, not the deprivation/suffering side.)
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Charm offensive against China? "CEOs serving as diplomats."
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“Prime minister Modi's effort to dismantle India's democracy and install a racist Hindu ethnocracy in its place.” - Chompsky, on the head of the opposition party in India being thrown in jail.
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Alberta election. People say the NDP candidate will do whatever Trudeau says, and she's also said she'll raise taxes on job creators almost 40%. Trudeau's government is not popular for a lot of reasons (currently it seems a Chinese scandal for ‘foreign’ interference).
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"The no pay for Congress during debt default Act," joked about on Bloomberg. ... "Who's the sponsor?"Oh wait, that was realNew bipartisan House bill would block pay for members of Congress if U.S. defaults - YouTube
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First of its kind bill, passed in the state.
“to protect individuals from government surveillance in their personal finances through a CBDC." ... “the efforts to impose a central bank digital currency, which would shift purchasing power from consumers to the government.”
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Central Bank of UK said that wages for labor were going to be less than the rising price of things people are buying, so people just have to get used to it and everyone has to 'take their fair share' ie accept that the standard of living was going to declineControversial for someone in such a position to say so. Question of for what then are these institutions?Did Pill mean cyclically, that we'd have a few down quarters and then continue upward? or did he mean that a peak has been reached? How does decreasing population and decreasing globalization factor in?
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Branches of US government doing their own thing?Experts seem to be thinking that Powell/Fed are concerned only with their own issue ie inflation. They don't care about banks, or about the economy, or about the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is a purely political issue, and must be settled by Congress, is how the attitude was framed by Jim Bianco.Does this organization (government departments pursuing their own mission while ignoring other parts of the overall system) contribute to healthier results? or to a fractured overall government which is less efficient?Powell in his department looks at inflation. 57% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and couldn't raise $1000. Prices can't be allowed to raise beyond their ability to pay. So if a bunch of rich people need to suffer to decrease inflation we'll do that. The S&P value doesn't matter. (How Bianco framed it.)The 57% versus stockholders. But a lot more people are stockholders nowadays than before (everyone created a retail trading app account over the past few years). Might be interesting to contrast 2008 'The 1%' or the 10%, versus the current stockholders versus non-stockholders.
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Zeihan vlogged yesterday predicting the next election would go to Biden, after a race between him and Trump. (nothing to do with the arraignment).
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Better competitors, more competition, better issues get used by them. DeSantis.
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Excess deaths, MP calls for urgent and thorough investigation - YouTube Go to 6:40 for the start of Christine Anderson's speech"All these people blindly trusted their governments" "A big lie" "It was never about public health. ... It was always about breaking people."You are a disgrace! Canada PM Trudeau savaged by German MEP at EU Parliament - YouTube (Anderson a few months ago criticizing Trudeau's unconstitutional government violation of citizen's rights)"When members of the EU Parliament asked Pfizer for copies of the contract that Pfizer apparently entered into with the European Parliament, The European Union, this is the level of transparency that they got back." (100 blanked out pages were apparently supplied, said Campbell.
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Global money saturates the globe's leading regulators - title in BMJIn UK 86% of the regulators' money comes from industry. US 65%. Canada 50% (so a lower amount maybe doesn't mean all that much).
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Science?The data it's based on can't be access by us, it's not public domain data. So it can't be peer reviewed, Campbell says.
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Apple is by far the slowest to join the accelerating exodus out of the Chinese system (which began in the last year of Obama), said Zeihan"... taken every instance of trade disputes or genocide and doubled down... "
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Politics are becoming a politics of grievance - Jon AltermanAnd how can you have a healthy society built on that?A constant rallying point, US, Israel, Middle East. Partially driven by social media and by PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO CHOSE individually what they like (they chose what gives them an emotional response)."It's strange that the places we see it most effective (the move away from politics of grievance) is authoritarian states that try not to have politics.
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Trump announced he would run in 2024 last weekHe gave a long announcement speech. Some commented he seemed more tired than last time.
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Democrats did better than expected (past few months expectation)People thought Republicans would take maybe both houses, because of taxes and Biden things, but now people think that because of the Republican pro-life thing, people went out and voted Democrat.Also bad candidates hurt the Republicans.Biden maybe 'caused global inflation', but 'people still have their jobs.' And they vote how they feel.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's political connections. Take this video with a grain of salt. This YouTuber just came across my feed, so I don't know how reliable he is. Later though, I saw quite a lot of YouTubers covering this, including MSM.
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US midterm electionsSummers said he thought it was a step away from extremes toward a stable center holding. People not fighting over the results, losing candidates conceding.
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How many meetings, over what time frame, is average for a significantly solid peace, in this region and in other regions?
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Kanye buying Parler Social Media platform?"Nashville-based Parler, which has raised about $56 million till date, said it expects the deal to close during the fourth quarter of 2022. It did not give a deal value." - ReutersKanye has been blocked from his Insta etc accounts in the past.
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Health uber alles - Dennis Prager"In the name of health, you can do ANYTHING. Anything. You can lie, you can suppress, you can be cruel, you can distort, you can get rid of doctors who dissent, in the name of health."
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Trump's ideas are now sort of the orthodoxy - Victor Davis Hanson"He could say, I gave you this agenda. That everybody seems to agree that we have to restore the industrial capacity of America. We've gotta be tough on China. We've gotta have a border that's secure. We have to have a different foreign policy. We have to have responsible monetary policy. We've gotta pump oil and gas. And people were not talking about it like I was. And now we're all on the same page."Versus the Left's 'Lassaz-faire creative destruction 'They should have learned code' (Left turned on its base who didn't succeed like they had) we need cheap labor from other countries for corporate America so we need an open border.' They substituted White for class. Not just black people, but everybody has grievances (even rich ones) against Whites.Hanson says Trump has to not dwell on himself though, if he wants to be current. Or that he could step aside, allowing his ideas to continue for the party but with someone who won't incite the NeverTrumpers. More easy to focus on the issues.The Left has the money, the influence, the reach, in this new globalized economy. The Right has the middle classes.A Versailles Left that dresses up and plays like peasants, moralistic. A Jacobin Left that doesn't believe people are able to make better decisions than they as government can for everyone. A Maoist Left.
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Breivik attacks were 2011. 11 years ago.
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Russian weapon firms escape punishment with no sanctions by the West | English News | WION - YouTube
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Example: US has tariffs on China for steel and aluminumChinese state actors were basically giving free electricity to aluminum smelters in China to undercut price in America, that took US's capicity utilization of US's aluminum smelters from high 80s to 70 in one year. And when you drop below 80% capacity utilization you end up losing money as an industry. China was acting in an uneconomic fashion to try to put the US's industry out of business so the US would have a further reliance on China's ability to produce aluminum (strategic values for military and industry).So Yellen saying "You could save 8 basis points of inflation if you took those tariffs off" is ignorant of national security. He mentioned that if wall street was making decisions we'd all be speaking Chinese immediately, because they make short term decisions for specific profits, and politicians are required to think long term and consider national security.Kyle Bass' take
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"They gotta stop manipulating long rates. They have to let the free market do that." - Dan MoreheadHe also said that while 30% of Americans are trying to buy a home, 20% of all homes sold last year were sold to institutional speculators with money borrowed from the Fed.
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Petro, first non-conservative president of Colombia in decades, won 50% to 47%Petro takes office from Duque August 7.Like 11m votes for him in a Country of 52m. The choice was between (Petro) a leftist who talks a lot about change, which many of the people want (the two main complaints of Colombians seem to be 'inequality' and 'corruption'), although at a risk of making things worse ('like Venezuela' since Petro is considered to be socialist). And on the other hand a right politician, which represented for voters stability and less risk but not the change many want.Petro has promised several things (which are not largely ideas new to him), but they would require political support beyond his office to pull off. He does not have the majority of Congress.1. Make more use of land. 1.5% of Colombians own 50% of the land. The idea is to tax land in ways that would encourage using it more, and to redistribute some land.2.a. More equality in access to health, ie a universal state system which doesn't depend on the ability of patients to pay. Payed for with 'progressive taxes' and a strong hand with corruption.2.b. Pensions. The offices that currently manage pensions Petro has accused of corruption. Critics say the country traditionally is not efficient as an administrator of money.3. Environmentalism. Colombia's oil wealth he wants to phase out to become a green economy.Because it is such a big change, and people weren't sure it would happen, I think it's fair to say people are excited to see what will happen, whether they are hopeful or dreadful.
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Is it that there wasn't allowed video before? This release of video has been a headline.A few hundred people entered the Capitol building 2 years ago.In the event, one woman died from being shot. During the event, 3 other people had medical emergencies which they died from.
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Biden's approval lowest right now since Carter in 1978
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He's talking about July 4, one of the 3 holidays where Americans spend a ton of money. They buy lots of food and gas. We'll see if they can afford to do it this year like past years.Difference from 2008. 2008 it affected roughly 60% of the population. Today, with inflation, no matter who you are, where you live, how much you make, it will affect you.Trump misidentified the stock market as the thing Americans look to to decide whether things are good or bad. Biden misidentified jobs.33% of Americans blame the war in Ukraine. 25% blame corporations for charging too much (Biden is trying to blame Exxon etc for the reason why gas prices are so high)."The key is not who they blame. The fundamental key is who they think is trying to solve it. And this is where the administration comes up short.""The Biden administration is afraid of the political impact so they're downplaying the personal impact. And the truth is they should be candid."
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US and Canada removed COVID travel restrictions for tourists
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Belgian king expresses regret for what happened in Congo decades ago (post-1880 labor camp)Some want Belgium to apologize, not just express regret, but he didn't do this during his speech during his visit.
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NASA has decided to do a probe into UFO sightingsCost is $100k. 9 month study starting this year.
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US pres Biden invokes Defense Protection Act to get US producers to make more parts for clean energyThey also lifted tariffs on solar powers from (not China but) Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand.US is investigating if some Chinese companies are circumventing US customs duties by assembling parts in poor countries.The same Defense Production Act that Biden used to force more baby food production: Baby formula shortage in USA big plant (Abbot in Michigan) was put on pause by the FDA. After some
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US is going to take 'drastic new steps' flying in baby formula with military jets from other countriesThe FDA commissioner was grilled today by Congress about why it's taken months to investigate the Abbot lab. He said they could have done better.One of the bills passed by congress was to increase funding for the FDA, partially so they can do more oversight.BIden invoked the Defense Protection Act, a wartime tool, to force manufacturers who produce baby formula to prioritize baby food.
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"Africans do not want to be part of your (EU) foreign policy. We want to be free to determine for ourselves whether to condemn or not to condemn Russia." - Halifa SallahSpeech - YouTube
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Disney expected to lose self-governing statusIt's had this status since it opened in the 1960s, so it can do it's own utilities and emergency services and things no the ground it occupies. It made this arrangement with Florida back then.But recently CEOs for Disney there spoke out against a bill (the bill would ban the teaching of gender issues to children kindergarden - grade 3) and said they'd try to have it appealed.Florida politicians didn't like that such a big company can try to effect lawmaking in this way.The bill to take away Disney's self-governing status is making it's way through legal channels very quickly. But Disney has some months before it would take effect anyway, so the matter isn't settled for sure.50m people visit Disney each year.
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Germany is increasing defense spending by $2b"We're seeing an incredible, very interesting shift in German politics not only when it comes to supplying these weapons [to Ukraine] but also on this discourse on this discussion What it means to be a pacifist. And it's just standing by from the sidelines and seeing how Russia continues to attack Ukraine. ... Many are saying that if you want to support peace and you want to actually support Ukraine they need more than just solidarity on social media. They need either this oil and gas embargo or they need delivery of the heavy weapons the Ukrainian president has repeatedly requested." People saying you can still be a pacifist while calling for and supplying these weapons for Ukraine.This activist movement in Germany is reportedly a changed movement, the same movement that in the 60s and 80s called for disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament.Another thing Germans are saying is that one of the reasons this war occurred is because of NATO expansion.
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UK making headlines for plan to send refugees to RwandaPM Boris Johnson also made headlines this week for making an apology for violating mask mandate (and something about a fine).
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Democrats try for new gun legislation, citing 'ghost guns'Guns that can be ordered as a kit and assembled (from 3 or 4 large parts or blocks of parts, it looks like).
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France election coming up, and people wondering if Le Pen (nationalist) is France's Trump
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India and Russian energyIndia has appeared somewhat in Western news over recent weeks with a sort of insinuation that it shouldn't buy Russian oil. However, today an Indian politician noted that India's monthly purchase of Russian oil is less than Europe's daily purchase.
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Iran could teach Russia how to evade sanctions and 'money launder', according to an opinion piece in the WSJ (Dubowitz and Zweig)Of Tehran could serve as Russia's broker, taking a cut of the "illicit" trade it facilitates on Russia's behalf.Iran has a 'money laundering' architecture, a system they could make available to others.US/West kicked Iran of Swift, reduced their oil sales from 2.5b barrels to a few hundred thousand. So Iran has dealt with harsher sanctions than Russia (which still sells gas to Europe and has some institutions on Swift reportedly).
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NJ passes law mandating civics class for all middle schoolers(This happened several months ago. Supposed to be mandatory in 2022/2023 school year)"The insurrection was alarming to many people and served as a wakeup call that we need to prepare future generations about civics and government." - Sen Shirley Turner (D)"So maybe 30 years of not having civics, this is what you get." - Arlene Gardner, President of NJ Center for Civic Education, who is developing the curriculum"One of the areas that we've really started working on is those skills for having a CIVIL discourse when you disagree with people."
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"Note that [the US] cannot simultaneously embargo these three places," Samo Burja said about the US going to try to get Venezuela to produce some oil. The US can't embargo Venezuela, China, and Russia all at the same time.
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US tech giants info-actions against RussiaWithout being forced to, they've taken actions against Russia, Russians, and Russian information sources.Facebook reportedly will allow posts calling for violence against Russia and its president.Wion asked, "Isn't this criminal? Won't this promote hate? Won't this incite hostility against all Russians?"Google barred the Russian government from monetizing content. Apple stopped sales in Russia and cut Russia off from the ApplePlay, and has blocked RT and Sputnik outside Russia. Twitter is labeling all posts that are pro-Russian and adding a label on pro-Russian stories.Wion said that Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon were awarded $44.5b from the DHS and DoD. For aiding the US military, providing them with digital tools that can be used in wars. Including access to databases, cloud computing, surveillance, drone tech and pushing narratives.Wion also pointed out the revolving door for professionals that work in big tech and then in government. And former government who now are controlling big tech companies.
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"Ivermectin use was associated with decreased mortality in patients compared with Remdesevir," according to a newly published paper. But that paper has been withdrawn.AP published an article saying the research article was 'flawed.'Long list of side effects to look out for - YouTube
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Pfizer documents have been made public (UPDATE: This research paper has been withdrawn and reports have it that the report is 'flawed,' so the following is not solid information. Keeping it here and we'll see what happens with this later.)... although some parts seem to be redacted (removed from the document).It was made public finally now, it seems, by court order, after a FOI request by a group called the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.The data covered a 3-month (at most) period, early on in the vaccine between Dec 1 2020 and Feb 28 2021.In that time, there was 42k cases of adverse affects (25k medically confirmed and 16k not). 42k out of how many doses given we don't know, because that figure seems to be redacted. The document says, "It is estimated that approximately (b) (4) doses of BNT162b2 were shipped worldwide" in that 3 month period. So without that number, we can't figure out a percentage of people who had adverse affects to vaccines.There were 1200 fatalities in that period resulting form the vaccine, according to the document.The documents are not new. The last data in it is form like Feb 2021. The report was published on Aug 2021 (but the people in the company would have had access to the data from the time it was complete, like Feb 21).Campbell asked why this information wasn't published before. It is health information, he noted. We weren't able to weigh the effectiveness of the vaccine when we were considering it, but could have done so better if these documents had been available, he said.If we had been aware of the long (several pages) list of medical conditions resulting from the vaccine, hospital staff could have kept an eye for them to better treat them, Campbell noted.Currently, many people (and MSM) are preoccupied with the war in Ukraine). Doesn't seem MSM is going to make much of this story.Campbell referenced Hippocrates, "First do no wrong." He said he thinks this has destroyed the people's trust in authorities.
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"Among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions in the world from 1945 to 2001, 201 were initiated by the US, accounting for 81% of the total number" - Chinese embassy in RussiaThey posted a list on their website.Victor Gao of Soochow U said China believes Ukraine has been used by the US and Western countries. He said what the US and Europe were doing with sanctions were destabilizing for the region.He said US benefits because they want to sell L&G to Europe without competition from Russia, whose LNG is cheaper and more sustainable.
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"Basically, the US regime creates crises, lives off of crises and feeds on various crises in the world. Ukraine is another victim of this policy." - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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US wanted to turn Ukraine into anti-Russia, as the meaning of their existence - Sergei Lavrov
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"Since 2014 the Kiev regime has been fighting its own people." - Lavrov (Russian FM to UN Council)"The ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis who seized power in Kiev after a revolution supported by the West unleashed real terror."It is impossible to remember the terrible tragedy in Odessa on May 2, 2014 without shuddering.... The criminals who committed this crime were known by name. They posed in front of cameras ..."Attempts to draw the attention of the UN human rights council to the atrocities that have been going on for 8 years ran into their indifference." etc. Speech in YouTube link below outlines Russias position.
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FIFA banned Russia from participating in World CupFIFA refused to suspend teams located in Israeli settlements in Israeli occupied lands, which violate FIFA's own rules (teams can't play in the territory of another country), according to Ali Abunimah.
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"What bothers me is how superficial and ill-informed the whole Senate debate was. I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe."George Kennan, architect of US's successful containment policy of Soviet Union, in 1998, after the senate after under Clinton US started to talk about expanding NATO, contrary to agreements made to the Soviets in 1990 as part of the talks to unify Germany."I think it is the beginning of a new Cold War. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely, and it will affect their policies. I think it was a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. ...""... Of course, there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then the NATO expanders will say that 'We always told you that is how the Russians are ...'""NATO expansion was simply a lighthearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs."
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Lots of talk among commentators about promises made by the West in order to have the Soviet Union disbanded... in like 1990 (but over several years, and under several US presidents making having talks). The idea was that in the talks, there was nothing in writing, but it was made clear to Moscow that if the SU allowed the reunification of Germany that NATO would not be expanded. That NATO troops would not be able to enter into the eastern part of Germany (only to West Germany).It wasn't a treaty, but it was (people are saying) the agreement that was made.
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John Meashiemer 2015 said in a lecture,"But I actually think that what's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. And I believe that the policy [of] neutralizing Ukraine, building it up economically, getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side and NATO on the other is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians."What we're doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We're encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the West, because we will ultimately defeat Putin and we will ultimately get our way. Time is on our side. And of course the Ukrainians are playing along with this and ... almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians, and instead wanna pursue a hardline policy."... it would make much more sense for us to work to create a neutral Ukraine."A year after the US-sponsored coup in Ukraine when far-right elements were weaponized by the US to overthrow the government and install what the US thought would be a more pliable one (how Ali Abunimah put it).
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Some draw a parallel between Russia's current invasion and the 2003 US invasion of IraqUS government entered after saying Iran had weapons of mass destruction, and held up that little prop vial on TV.Ideas of Ali Abunimah talking to BreakThrough News:"After 9/11, there was this atmosphere of jingoism, of war fever, of vengefulness, that was directed at other countries and very quickly towards Afghanistan and also toward Iraq. We know how that played out. But also it was internally directed because if you were Muslim, Sikhs, people of color generally lived in terror in this country at that time. ... There was pervasive fear not just of vigilante attacks but of government, monitoring and deportations. ... If you said, "Why did this happen? How did this happen? What led to this point? What are the policies of the US that could have created the conditions for this to happen, you were accused of justifying it. You were accused of justifying it, you were treated as an enemy. You were treated as a traitor. Nothing would be allowed to interfere with the headlong rush into war."The 9/11 attacks happened in September. By late October the US was invading Afghanistan. Then ... in 2003 they started the march to the war in Iraq based on lies. One of the lies was that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. There was absolutely no evidence of that but it was a story they put out. polls ... the majority of Americans believed [that] ... in addition to the question of weapons of mass destruction.""I would ask a lot of people who naively supported the invasion of Afghanistan back then, 'If you knew what you know now back then, would you support it again?' Same with Iraq. Forget about people who say this is immoral, this is illegal, this is a war crime.""People would say, 'But we were attacked.'""That's a fact we can't change. Is the response to escalate more war or is it to seek a different approach?""I get the same responses today. When you say, 'How did we get here?' you're accused of justifying what Putin did. You're taking the side of Russia. ""One of the grievances Putin has is the expansion of NATO."
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Zelenskyy repeats request for Ukraine to become part of EU
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Norway's said it will unwind its $3b worth of Russian holdings from its sovereign wealth fund
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Zelenskyy wasn't popular among many European nations before, but now he's seen as a kind of folk hero, an underdog fighting for his nation... some say. He didn't accept the US invitation for him to come to the States. He reportedly hasn't been avoiding battles, joining the soldiers where the fighting is. And he has demonstrated he can work 24 hours a day.
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"For the first time ever, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack." - EU Commission President Ursula von der LeyenGermany is transferring a bunch of weapons. So is Sweden, the first time its broken its historically neutral stance in 80 years. Other countries also.Challenge in delivery as Ukraine's airports were early Russian targets.
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Video being reported on where a Ukrainian is dipping bullets in pig fat, to use against Chechen Muslim
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Russia-Ukraine peace talks on 5th day of warIn Belarus, on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Delegations from each country which don't include the two leaders.
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